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Pollacci Attorney Asks For Change Of Venue

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Jumping in during some time off to bring this update and show the sign mockups mentioned in the media

Wouden said a Google search of Pollacci’s name turned up 13,000 hits. From March 2009 to February 2011, the three local television stations ran 224 stories on Pollacci’s charges. Five local newspapers, including The Herald, ran 174 articles, one of which quoted a judge saying Pollacci is a predator with a “long-lasting and enduring” reputation as a rapist in the community.

Wouden noted that many websites allow the public to post comments about news stories and www.lighthouseavenue.com ran photos that appeared to depict parking signs in front of Ron’s Liquors stating “Parking Only for Rape Victims” and “Parking Only for Registered Sex Offenders.”

Constant Readers of lighthouseavenue.com should know the Admin’s non news peeves. Open dumpsters is one, another is sidewalk blocking signs. It was there that the sign photos began. On March 12, 2009 this claim that public parking was reserved exclusively for Ron’s Liquor was posted:
Pollacci Parking Liquor Patrons Only
Then on March 13, 2009 when the media revealed that Tom Pollacci was a registered sex offender I took the “Liquor Store Only” picture and made this. This website was the first to question “would you show your ID to a sex offender?”
Pollacci Parking Sex Offenders

The latest sign mockup was January 21, 2011 – for the trial of even more rape charges for Tommy. The original picture was taken June 6, 2009:
Pollacci Parking For Rape Victims
Thanks for reading, and I think Tom will be found guilty anywhere in the USA. Hope he’s enjoying the stay in prison.

Pollacci Attorney Asks For Change Of Venue

P.G. Ends Year In The Black

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Keep the priorities sensible. No $100,000 solar power studies or street closing consultants, ok?

Assistant City Manager Jim Becklenberg said the city will end the fiscal year on June 30 in the black, with money left over to bring its reserve fund to $2.7 million.

But, he said, Pacific Grove has accumulated a $10 million backlog in deferred maintenance and equipment replacement. Residents at recent workshops have identified a number of priorities they would like to see funded, including street maintenance, storm drain repair and sidewalk construction, and more library hours.

Assuming no new taxes, he said, additional money-saving measures and aggressively pursuing service fees to recover costs, possibly contracting with private companies for some city functions and sharing services with other communities and agencies, might reduce that deficit to about $632,000 in fiscal 2015-16.

P.G. Ends Year In The Black

Diver Rescued From Bay Dies

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A San Jose scuba diver who was brought ashore unconscious and not breathing Sunday off Pacific Grove has become the Peninsula’s third diving-related fatality this month.

Kristina Gomez-Weese, 43, died late Monday at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Gomez-Weese was found by her two diving partners in 70 feet of water between Lovers Point and Point Pinos about 11 a.m. Sunday, said Coast Guard Lt. John Suckow.

Diver Rescued From Bay Dies

Outgoing Clubhouse Food Operator Didn’t Like The Deadbeat Perception

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Said he cooked with Rachel Ray.

D’Amelio said he owed the city only $12,732 in back rent and $10,264 in equipment leases. The city contended that he also owed $83,264 in “penalties and interest,” but he was advised by legal counsel that was unenforceable.

In any case, D’Amelio said, he left behind $40,000 worth of furnishings he purchased from the city and $33,000 in fixtures. Depreciating the furniture, he said, those items would be worth about $53,000, “a fair deal” for settling $22,996 the city claims is due.

City Attorney David Laredo said the city could have made a claim that D’Amelio owed $83,624 in addition to back rent and leases, and D’Amelio could have filed a counter claim for the equipment he left behind.

Outgoing Clubhouse Food Operator Didn’t Like The Deadbeat Perception

Another Diving Accident Off Pacific Grove Beach

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On the heels of the accident where two teens died.

Frank Sunset

Coast Guard Lt. John Suckow said they were called shortly after 11 a.m. on a report that the woman, diving with two men off a 20-foot boat, was in distress. Her dive mates brought her to the surface, placed her in the boat and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until they met a Coast Guard rescue boat, which brought her to the pier.

Another Diving Accident Off Pacific Grove Beach

April 10th Diver Deaths Investigated

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Article names the divers and reports they were both certified and had been diving days before. Investigators are searching for the scuba tanks in the ocean.

It likely will be a few weeks before investigators can precisely say how two Nevada teenagers died during a scuba diving excursion Saturday off Cannery Row.

Stephen Anderson, 16, and Keegan Aiazzi, 17, were among a group of divers from a Carson City, Nev., high school oceanography class who went into the water from a commercial dive boat about a quarter mile from shore.

After they failed to surface and were reported missing, rescue divers from the Monterey Express charter boat found them on the ocean floor about 70 feet underwater, and they subsequently were pronounced dead at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

The divers’ deaths, which left the tight-knit Carson City community in shock, is being investigated by the Monterey County coroner’s office and the Coast Guard. If foul play was suspected, Monterey police would handle the case.

April 10th Diver Deaths Investigated

Colossus Of Gold House Repairs Start

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Wot, you mean the Nobel prize winning author’s grandmother’s house? OK.
Then:
Cog House

Now:

Cog House Remodel

There is, she said, a legitimate connection between Steinbeck and the house, and he likely visited his grandmother there in the summertime as a child, and noted that Elizabeth Hamilton appears as a character in Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden.”

It’s even possible Steinbeck did some writing there, Trosow said, but that hasn’t been documented.

Steinbeck lived in a Pacific Grove house nearby at 147 11th St. that was built by his father, she said, moving there with his first wife, Carol Brown.

Colossus Of Gold House Repairs Start

Mental Evaluation For P.G. Woman Accused Of Killing Elderly Mother

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Danvers

 

The trial of a Pacific Grove woman accused of killing her mother was again delayed Monday to give her defense attorney time to have the defendant’s mental capacity evaluated.

Danvers, 65, is suspected of beating and kicking her mother to death on Sept. 24, 2009. Police found 96-year-old Charlotte Danvers on the floor of her Forest Hill Boulevard home after Jean Danvers called 911. She died hours later at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Mental Evaluation For P.G. Woman Accused Of Killing Elderly Mother