A Pacific Grove Public Works employee found what appeared to be military ordnance that had washed ashore on Monday.
The object was a Mk 58 marine marker used by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard in training exercises. It contains pyrotechnic candles that produce flame and smoke while floating in the ocean.
January 19, 2009
Update! Another one found!
An Mk 58 marine marker was found Sunday afternoon on the beach near Ocean View Boulevard and Esplanade in Pacific Grove
A person I admire once told me this fable – Pay someone $100 an hour to do a job, but every week you turn up (or down) the thermostat. After two years the workers would not work for any pay under those conditions. Some people would take jobs in their hometown that offer the same 401ks and pensions they have in the private sector just to not commute. Hey, P.G. may not offer the pay and benefits of Oakland, but at least it aint Oakland.
Dropping out of CalPERS also would make it hard to attract or keep employees, according to a report that will be presented Wednesday to the City Council.
Given current economic conditions, if the city opts out of the state retirement system when employee contracts expire on Jan. 1, 2011, it would have to pay the state $8 million to $25 million or more, said Jim Becklenberg, the city’s director of management and budget.
Those costs, he said, would be in addition to the cost of setting up a replacement defined-contribution retirement plan to supplant the current defined-benefit plan based on years of service and other factors.
Some visitors came, enjoyed the beach and attracted the hate from Lee Willoughby. Yep, it is that minority of people going by the name of the Tidepool Coalition that want to fence off the shore and keep us from ever setting foot on a rock again.
I say enjoy it while you can. Global warming is going to put it under water in a few years anyway, right?
. . . have no problem with this sport. But holding this competition in a sensitive area of special biological and archaeological significance adjacent to an irreplaceable rocky intertidal ecosystem is simply incompatible. Furthermore, Pacific Grove already has ordinances protecting its shoreline including the substrate, i.e., rocks.
Pacific Grove’s council must take leadership with the Coastal Commission to preserve these preeminent coastal treasures for future generations. If they won’t do it, then the people will!
One restaurateur who simply couldn’t hang on is Melange chef-owner David Frappiea, who, along with investors, sunk a substantial chunk of change (estimated at around $200,000) into the old Favaloro’s space (closing for seven months during renovation) to bring us Pacific Grove’s best fine-dining restaurant. But in the current economy, high-end restaurants have suffered the most due to lack of corporate events during the holidays, and diners searching for bargain fare.
$18.50 for a plate of noodles. This eatery seemed so out of place in Pacific Grove. Make way for Olive Garden!
The retrial of a former Peninsula businessman suspected of child molestation has been delayed until February. Prosecutor Glenn Pesenhofer said he requested the continuance to allow time to investigate new evidence against David Stamm.
Stamm testified at his first trial that the relationship with his accuser, by then 23, was consensual and did not begin until after the boy turned 18. The jury acquitted him of oral copulation of a person under the age of 18 but deadlocked on all other charges. Pesenhofer said jury selection is now set for Feb. 2, with testimony to begin Feb. 9.
Safeway is becoming our own little crime center on the hill.
Marquise Legaux, 21, and Laura Long, 31, of Seaside were taken into custody Dec. 23 with the help of the Secret Service, and officers of the Monterey County Probation Department, Seaside, Monterey and Carmel police.
Pacific Grove police detective Adam Sepagan said Legaux passed the fake bills by exchanging them for real money from the cash register at a retail store where he worked.
Beware, the recreation loving families are likely to be chased away by the tidepool nazis.
From as far away as Oroville, members of the Nor-Cal RC (radio-controlled) Rock Crawling Club packed their diminutive trucks, controllers and tool boxes for the first competition of 2009 on the rocks just below Ocean View Boulevard near Acropolis Street.
Why there?
“The rocks,” said Rob Taylor-Shaw, a computer systems engineer from Marina, as the bright morning sun began to burn off the morning chill.
Wrapped in jackets and sitting on a couple of beach chairs not far from Sunday morning’s rock-crawling action were Lisa Gammon of Petaluma and Tiffany Heil of Rohnert Park.
Gammon said her husband, Erik, was competing, as was Heil’s boyfriend, Lance Herlund. The two women have been seeing each other at competitions from more than a year.
“It sure is a nice day, and you can’t beat the view,” Gammon said.
Gary Ozuna, owner of the Ice Cream Shoppe in Pacific Grove, says he has been losing his appetite and sleep because of anxiety stemming from publicity over what he considers “a private conversation that happened two months ago” in his business.
Signs in his window advertise a free ice cream cone for servicemen and women, and that military personnel are welcome.
Since the incident, Ozuna said, he has seen a lot of students from DLI come through the door and his business has doubled.
The aquarium announced the deal for county residents as part of the observance of its 25th anniversary next year.
Free admission will be offered the 20th of each month from January through October. Residents must present valid identification and proof of residence at the main entrance. The offer is good during regular aquarium hours.
Never know when the killer whales may come ashore.
The society, he said, has received a $53,000 grant from a bequest of landscaping, and plans to restore some of the look and feel of the lighthouse’s grounds during World War II, when soldiers of the 54th Coast Artillery Regiment (Colored) were posted there with four 155mm guns shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.