Category Archives: Monterey Herald

Moammar Talks Stupid . . again

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I’ve little issues with the rehab place (except maybe the resulting fewer residential units as a result . .) But “Neighbors”? Moe Ammar needs to be muzzled. Moe lives nowhere near Central & 2nd. My guess is that the residents are performing work for the COC which the COC collects money for.
Baghdad Moe

At the corner of Pacific Grove’s Central Avenue and Second Street sits a lemon-yellow house.

The people in the house all have troubled pasts. Their histories include run-ins with the law, and problems with cocaine, alcohol, painkillers and more.

Moe Ammar, president of Pacific Grove’s Chamber of Commerce, has strong feelings about these people.

“I cannot think of a better neighbor,” he said. “I wish we had more neighbors like them.”

The yellow Victorian is the new site for the Bridge Restoration Ministry, a Christian-oriented residential drug rehabilitation center for men. The center relocated to Pacific Grove from Seaside in May.

The Bridge offers a rigorous, yearlong treatment program that teaches residents the skills to mend lives that have been shattered by drug addiction.

Moammar Talks Stupid . . again

Prison Doctors Fraud – One Was From P.G.

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Part of what causes insurance rates to go up – and services go down.

Dr. Charles Lee, 69, of Salinas, is charged with approving the false claims.

Also named are doctors Randy Sid, 42, of Pacific Grove; Pedro Eva, 43, of Soledad; David Hoban, 65, of Santa Cruz; Wade Exum, 60, of Las Vegas; and Mark Herbst, 48, of Honolulu.

The indictment accuses Hoban of overbilling the state more than $60,000 between April 2007 and June 2007. Exum is charged with similarly taking $13,570; Sid, $16,750; Eva, almost $30,000; and Herbst, nearly $45,000.

Prison Doctors Fraud – One Was From P.G.

Stillwell’s Snow In The Park For The Last Time?

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Businesses that contribute have been shuttered, all we have left are bistros and art galleries. Shows how much they give back to the town. Moe needs to go.

Caledonia Snow In Park

The annual Stillwell’s Snow in the Park event — scheduled from 10a.m. to 4p.m. Dec. 6 — has been a holiday tradition in the city for the past 15 years.

But the cost of putting it on keeps rising, said Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar, and has gone from $4,500 in 1994 to $12,000 this year.

Ammar said the chamber has $7,000 at present. Businesses in the city that normally contribute to Snow in the Park haven’t been as forthcoming this year, he said, because of the economic downturn. If the donations fall short, the event will be canceled next year.

Stillwell’s Snow In The Park – Last Time?

Deputy City Manager To Take The Helm

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Charlene Wiseman
coast weekly photo

Pacific Grove’s deputy city manager, Charlene Wiseman, will take over for top administrator Jim Colangelo on an interim basis when he leaves in mid-December.

“If Charlene wouldn’t have agreed to stay we would have been stuck with no city manager or assistant city manager,” he(Dan Cort) said.

Is that really a bad thing? Let her go.

Deputy City Manager To Take The Helm

Pebble Beach Lays Off 29 Employees

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Occupancy rates have been slipping since mid-September, and while November through late January are typically slow for tourism, the current slowdown is more pronounced, said Bill Perocchi, chief operating officer

On Friday, the company cut 24 management positions and five hourly jobs from its payroll.

Pink Slip
Can’t be all that bad news. Visitors may be stepping down to 2nd rate locations like Sea Breeze motel or Favaloro’s.

Pebble Beach Lays Off 29 Employees

Raccoons Stepping Up

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Ballard St 080205 Wildlife

“Fall always brings on an increase in ‘coon activity,'” said Pacific Grove animal control officer Elizabeth Yeo, “due to the nature of the animal.”

officials said the trick to keeping raccoons at bay is to make backyards and businesses uninviting: Secure garbage can lids, pick up fallen fruit, avoid leaving pet food and water bowls outside at night, and close off crawl spaces under houses and decks.

Yep. Secure your garbage. This website says it all the time . .

Lighthouse Cafe
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Raccoons Stepping Up

Woman Pulled From Water By Divers

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Hear-old says nothing about why she was in the water. Diver? Swimmer? Fell in? Check back for updates.

The divers who were bringing her in were making good progress, doing a great job,” Perkins said. “When we got her up on the beach, she was breathless and pulse-less, so we initiated CPR.”

Perkins said the fire department received “great assistance” from bystanders, including a registered nurse who was on the beach, off-duty firefighters, a state park lifeguard, the Coast Guard and the Monterey Police Department.

San Carlos Beach
San Carlos Beach

Woman Pulled From Water By Divers

Shoe Game 2008 – Carmel 49, P.G 7

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Carmel PG Shoe

49 to 7?

Carmel and Pacific Grove high schools used to have a ceremonial bonfire before their football teams squared off in the county’s most storied rivalry.

That was until 1952, when Charlie Higuera and some of his fellow Pacific Grove seniors sneaked over to Carmel to light their rivals’ pile of wood — the night before the bonfire was set to happen.

The antic got Higuera into a heap of trouble, but he can laugh about it now.

“And that was the last time they had a bonfire,” he said Thursday at his Pacific Grove grocery store, Grove Market.

While it extinguished a pregame tradition, the prank helped fuel a rivalry that is still going strong more than a half century later.

Shoe Game 2008 – Carmel 49, P.G 7

Water Credits Up For Grabs

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Unused water allocations for businesses in Pacific Grove may be handed over to homeowners on the city’s water waiting list.

The City Council on Wednesday voted 6-1 to approve a resolution allocating unused water credits and introduced a draft ordinance that would allow payment for unused public water credits held by the city.

Pacific Grove has a waiting list of applicants seeking permits to build new homes or businesses or to add bathrooms or other water-using facilities.

Property owners were notified by letter of the city’s intent to assign the credits. In one case, Tibor Rudas — who owns a commercial building at 610 Lighthouse Ave. and holds a 2.5 acre-foot allocation issued in 1996 for development of a 125-seat restaurant — was told to submit a building permit application and complete it in 60 days, and to assign an unused 1.57 acre-feet of water to the waiting list.

Now all you need is some $$ to build those bathrooms and businesses. Businesses? How much water does an art gallery use anyway?

Water Credits Up For Grabs