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Spinach Poisoning People Again, Gets Recalled

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popeye spinach

A Salinas Valley spinach grower issued a voluntary recall late Tuesday for bagged spinach after lab tests confirmed the presence of salmonella. The recall involves 8,118 cases of bagged spinach distributed by Metz Fresh LLC of King City and processed by a contract facility in Watsonville.

Sold under the Metz Fresh label, the spinach was sold to retail outlets and food service providers across the United States and Canada in 10-ounce and 16-ounce bags, as well as in 4-pound cartons and in 2.5-pound four-pack cartons, with tracking codes 12208114, 12208214 and 12208314.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, salmonella bacteria live in the intestinal tracts of humans and animals, including birds. Undercooked eggs, poultry or meat are the most common sources of salmonellosis in humans, although other foods, such as vegetables, may be contaminated.

WHAT? AGAIN? After all that money the Sam “the Sham” Farr took from taxpayers to ensure safe veggies?? Where did that money go anyway?

Farr Piggy

Spinach Poisoning People Again, Gets Recalled

Letters From The Editor

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Sam Farr has been our representative more than 14 years now. Under his leadership, Salinas has become overwhelmed by gang violence, King City High School and Hartnell College have lost accreditation, and we have endured our third and fourth decades of water rationing.

But don’t be too critical, folks. Sam Farr is working hard to impeach our president, cure global warming and serve his jury duty.

. . and spend lots of your tax dollars while doing it

Farr Piggy

Letters From The Editor

No Composting In Palm Beach Florida

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State officials accused a man of having 15-foot-high mounds of horse manure on his property without a permit.

Walter Duque, 22, is estimated to have stockpiled enough manure on his 5-acre property in Loxahatchee Groves to fill 1,000 dump trucks, the Department of Environmental Protection said. He was cited for illegal manure composting, said department spokesman Steve Webster.

Mr Duque was only trying to be substainable . .

Laughing Horse

No Composting In Palm Beach Florida

Graffiti Attracting Attention In Carmel

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It was about a six foot stenciled gentleman holding a camera, and he’s wearing shorts, it said, “Do movie stars live here.”

The graffiti vandal hit two other locations, including the Carmel Plaza with the written phrase, “where’s the beach.”

Carmel city hall was also hit, with a statement, “Thanks for taking care of tourists, before citizens.”

A $1 thousand dollar reward is being offered for information that leads police to the vandal, who they believe is a local person.

Graffiti Or Art

This might be drawing valuable tourists away from PG. Let’s invite the creator to PG and welcome the paintings. Maybe even have a Graffiti Walk, with wine sipped out of a brown bag wrapped bottle.

Graffiti Attracting Attention In Carmel

Tsunami Of Tax Hikes – Seaside too!

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Also on the Seaside City Council agenda tonight, city officials will be discussing a ballot measure that would ask Seaside shoppers to vote on an increase in the city’s sales tax. City officials say they are facing a potential shortfall in the general fund.

They say more money will be needed to help pay for an anticipated increase in services when Fort Ord is developed

Tsunami Of Tax Hikes – Seaside too!

Lieing To The Police Is Bad. Duh

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On Tuesday morning, Michael Scott Beckman told a 911 dispatcher he had just escaped from three captors who held him at gunpoint and robbed him downtown. At 10:05 a.m. police raced to the corner of Pacific Avenue and Laurel Street — where the freed man was waiting — and for three hours a dozen officers pulled over cars and stopped people for questioning.

Then Beckman recanted his story. The kidnapping was an excuse for missing work, police said Beckman later told them.

It’s not something we see all the time, but we do see it,” prosecutor Dave Genochio said.

In March, a Scotts Valley woman claimed a $5,000 winning lottery ticket was stolen out of her hand outside the Scotts Valley Safeway. Police later determined Adriana Bartch, 35, had made up the theft story and never had a winning ticket. She was arrested on suspicion of filing a false police report.

Also in March, a teenage girl lied to authorities when she said a masked man stabbed her at San Lorenzo Valley High School, prompting a 2 1/2-hour campus lockdown. The Sheriff’s Office decided not to pursue charges against her because of her age and the problems she was dealing with, deputies said at the time.

Reminds me of our own local story from 2003 – the drug deal gone bad

Lieing To The Police Is Bad. Duh.

Salinas Bans “Business Graffiti” Signs

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Good move.

Letters From the Editor:

They are dangerous when you are trying to get out of a parking lot. They look tacky when driving through town. They line every main thoroughfare in town. One business on Main Street even has 4×8 signs.

I was in business for 35 years in Salinas, my first location being in the same strip mall that Kerr is located. I got business by advertising in the newspaper, direct mailings and word of mouth.

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Salinas Bans “Business Graffiti” Signs

Hiker Loses Sense Of Direction Trying To Find Self

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Gerald Horne went into the woods June 26 to find himself. He nearly met his maker.

The 38-year-old Berkeley man is recovering at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula after being rescued at Sykes Camp in Los Padres National Forest, where he went to fast and “reflect on who I am and what I have to do to move forward.”

He took a queen-size air bed, a “giant” tent, pillow, other heavy or bulky equipment and his dog.

By June 28, after two days in the back country, he said he ran into other hikers who said he didn’t look good. They told him they would go for help.

Personnel from the Monterey County Urban Search and Rescue, the California Highway Patrol, Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, the Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade, and Westmed were dispatched.

Rescuers were lowered by a CHP helicopter, which airlifted Horne to a waiting ambulance at Post Ranch. He was then transported to Community Hospital.

Who pays for this lost dudes rescue – especially after he quit his job?

Hiker Tries To Find Self Then Loses Sense Of Direction

Even Little Ol Watsonville Gets It

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Worried about gang activity and public health, the Watsonville City Council on Tuesday put off lifting a decades-old ban on body art shops.

Councilman Antonio Rivas said tattoos would “bring a certain element into town,” namely gangs and white supremacists.

“It’s important to me not to see that kind of thing come to our city,” he said.

He argued for more stringent restrictions on the location of shops.

Make the shops photograph and register every tatt.

Even Little Ol Watsonville Gets It