Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Tree Rules Cut Down. You Can Learn A Lot From A Moron

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Stump Lighthouse Congress

The changes would allow private property owners to replace cut-down trees with suitable trees listed by the city’s Natural Resources Committee as appropriate, though not necessarily the same species as those lost, and eliminate the “two-for-one” replacement requirement.

They hold the city to a higher standard of replacing trees, Frutchey said, noting Pacific Grove hasn’t kept up with the loss of trees on public property. Schematics included in the ordinance proposal noted a decline in the city’s tree canopy cover from 33 percent to 20 percent of its land area since 1986.

Tree Rules Cut Down. You Can Learn A Lot From A Moron

Full Bar And Parties Good For The Environment, City Planner Says

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Throwing up in the bay is not harmful to the environment . . .

Pacific Grove’s residents have until Monday to comment in writing on a report that contends that keeping the city’s Municipal Golf Course clubhouse open in the evening, adding parking lot lights and serving liquor won’t have an impact on the environment.

The report, prepared by assistant city planner Ashley Hefner, covers a proposal to amend the clubhouse use permit to allow it to operate 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. rather than the current dawn-to-dusk schedule, allow the club restaurant to serve liquor as well as beer and wine, and provide amplified music.


Full Bar And Parties Good For The Environment, City Planner Says

P.G. Woman Shows Anti Christmas Spirit

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A bit anti American too. Says to give instead to corrupt third world nations. Nah.

If anything at all, look around a little closer to home.

A Pacific Grove woman believes many of the planet’s most daunting problems — world hunger, clean water, treating all AIDS patients, educating the masses and saving the rainforests — could be eliminated if Americans reduce their holiday spending by just 1 7percent and commit that money instead to a humanitarian effort.

She said a spending reduction of $334.20 per person — money that instead could be donated to humanitarian-focused nonprofit organizations — would heal many of the planet’s most-serious maladies.

“I was extremely surprised at what I found,” she said. “About a year ago, a cousin posted a Facebook video that stated that Americans spend $450billion each year on holidays, but only $10billion was needed to provide clean water for everybody on the planet. That really shocked me. Is that all it would take? If that’s the case, maybe these huge problems could actually be solved.”

P.G. Woman Shows Anti Christmas Spirit

Estates On The Bay Lawyer Confident In The Outcome

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Mark. Those. Words.

Update 2015 – they were found guilty.

An attorney for a Pacific Grove real estate company accused by Monterey County prosecutors of fraudulent practices said Thursday the case is without merit.

“We are confident that will be the outcome,” said Bill Daniels, a Monterey attorney representing Estates on the Bay Inc.

The District Attorneys Office this week filed a civil complaint against the company and co-owners Susana Silva and Deanna Gobert accusing them of falsifying loan applications, recommending transactions to pump up their commissions and advising loans without regard to clients’ best interests.


Estates On The Bay Lawyer Confident In The Outcome

Estates On The Bay Sued

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Real estate people – sheeshe.

A civil complaint filed against a Pacific Grove real estate company by Monterey County prosecutors accuses the firm and two sisters who own it of engaging in fraudulent business practices.

The suit, which seeks a permanent injunction, civil penalties and restitution for consumers, was filed Monday against Susana Silva and Deanna Gobert and their company, Estates on the Bay Inc.

Silva continued to solicit clients, negotiate loans and prepare loan applications though the company told state real estate officials that she divested her interests in the firm and was no longer its supervising broker, the suit says.

Estates On The Bay Sued

Letters From The Editor: PG Pothole Patching Poorly Performed

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There’s a real jolting one on the S/E corner of Forest & Sinex. Try going around a left-turning car and BAM you are out of alignment.
Spruce Pot Hole

Ron Russell writes:

Grrrrr! Yes, Pacific Grove has me growling again. Not long ago, I facetiously wrote that P.G.’s road workers must do their shoddy repairs with a butter knife and a ladle. Now it seems they’ve even lost those tools.

What I find incomprehensible is that when a pothole is patched, the workmanship is so substandard that within a month it returns, often worse than before.

Perhaps the city should consider a volunteer brigade of retired contractors or citizens to help out. I’d gladly donate some time to fix some of the potholes in my neighborhood if the materials were provided.

Letters From The Editor: Pothole Patching Poorly Performed

Treasures Of Kalisa Auctioned Off

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Kalisas 1

Other items to be auctioned from Kalisa’s estate include memorabilia from the restaurant, including the hand-drawn wall menu, a rusty ambulance door emblazoned with the words “Dining Out Is Entertainment at Kalisa’s Cosmopolitan Gourmet Place,” and a photo board depicting a four-foot-tall image of Steinbeck, along with smaller pictures of Bing Crosby and Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell.

I remember the old A1 Ambulance that served as a rolling billboard..

Treasures Of Kalisa Auctioned Off

Decriminalizing Tree Removal – Thom’s Tree Posse Loses Their Badges

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Killer Tree

A revised tree ordinance that would do away with criminal penalties could come before the Pacific Grove City Council for approval next spring.

The ordinance would offer incentives for property owners to plant and maintain trees and would allow private property owners to pay to trim city trees.

Decriminalizing Tree Removal – Thom’s Tree Posse Loses Their Badges

Cannery Row IMAX Goes Broke In 3D

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So the owners prepare to sue the source. Out of town owners I may add. A different location may have been better. Many locals avoid tourist traps like the ‘row.

Imax

In a phone interview from his home in Chicago, Weinert said many of the theater’s problems could be traced to Toronto-based IMAX Corp. Weinert operated the theater under the corporate name Bella Cinema. Its relationship with IMAX is similar to a franchise, and Weinert hoped for benefits because of that.

Cannery Row IMAX Goes Broke In 3D

Moe Ammar Pimps Your Business For $600 A Month

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Rent A Moe

The idea came from chamber chairman Henry Nigos of Nigos Investments, who heard about the I Wear Your Shirt company from friends in Los Angeles.

Nigos said Ammar is the perfect candidate to be a walking billboard because he’s so visible.

All the money from Rent-A-Moe will go to the chamber. The prices are $500 a month from January through May, $600 from June through October and $450 in November and December, plus cost of shirts or jackets. He will promote the business and answer questions from people he meets.

If this is so great, can we the taxpayers stop funding the Chamber and let it be self funded?

Moe Ammar Pimps Your Business For $600 A Month