Category Archives: Pacific Grove

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

Union Disturbs Peace In Name Of What?

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Last round the workers got 90 cents an hour over the term of the contract.

Union Work

scores of union members armed with whistles, drums, placards, megaphones and leafets shouted bilingual phrases and taunts as they circled the historic center.They were not pleased with concessionaire Aramark’s proposal for a five year freeze on wages! This action, if implemented, would keep the pay of Asilomar’s house keeping employees at $12.74 an hour until 2016!

Are! They! Happy! To! Have! Apostrophes Exclamation Points! At! The! Bulletin! Or! What!

(thanks to Ted for the proofreading, even if he was technically wrong, the message got through!)
Union Disturbs Peace In Name Of What?

Olinger Murder Suspect To Represent Himself In Court

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Hope he fails at defense. Fail hard.

Roberts cautioned Ruelas that he would have to prepare for trial without assistance of an advisory counsel and with no greater access to the jail’s law library than any other “pro per” defendant, which Ruelas said was one hour a week.

There are 14 weeks remaining before his Sept. 6 trial.

“I can tell you right now there isn’t a lawyer in the state who would take this case” with only 15 hours of library research, Roberts said.

“I understand, however I really want to represent myself. Honestly, I’m ready to move on,” Ruelas said. “I plan to follow all rules (and) laws and conduct myself in a very, very, very professional way.

Olinger Murder Suspect To Represent Himself In Court

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

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

Good Old Days 2011 – Moe Said WHAT?

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Thai Stick?

“It’s the largest arts and crafts show in the tri-county area,” Ammar said. “We have top-name bands and entertainment. Look at downtown on Lighthouse. It’s a zoo.”

A throng of people walked along the noisy, smoky Lighthouse Avenue surrounded by the smells of cooking corn dogs, bratwurst, garlic fries, Thai sticks and calamari. The food vendors shared space with arts and crafts booths, children’s face painting, bounce houses and rides.

Some Good Old Days vendors’ wares show real class:
GOD No Skinny Bitches

Good Old Days 2011 – Moe Said WHAT?

More Hearings For Deborah King

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Give it up and take what you get.

For the fifth time since she drove into a Pacific Grove father killing him in front of his son, a judge has appointed a psychiatrist to evaluate the mental competency of Deborah King.

Defense attorney Heather Rogers told Judge Russell Scott this morning she can’t move forward with a motion for a new trial because she doubts her client’s ability to assist in her own defense.

A jury convicted King in February of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the death of 35-year-old Joel Woods, who was struck and killed outside Pacific Grove Middle School on Sept. 2, 2008. Because she has five prior drunken-driving convictions, one resulting in a prison term, the former correctional officer faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

More Hearings For Deborah King (Contra Costa Times)

Canterbury Woods Wins In Property Use Dispute

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NIMBYs on Spazier lose that one.

Canterbury Woods

Citing common sense, a judge Thursday settled a long-running dispute between the city of Pacific Grove and Canterbury Woods, ruling three off-site cottages owned by the retirement community did not violate residential zoning laws.

Judge Tom Wills said residents who lived in the homes did not use them in a manner that differed from their neighbors on Spazier Avenue and 19th Street.

“I really think it turns on whether it’s a commercial use,” he said after listening to lengthy arguments from both sides, “and based on the way the ordinance is drafted and to some extent the historical treatment of these properties, and just common sense, I don’t consider these to be commercial uses.”

Canterbury Woods Wins In Property Use Dispute

Man Trapping Cats In P.G.

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He thought they were feral strays. Right.

The man trapping cats and turning them in may have run afoul of a Pacific Grove ordinance prohibiting the trapping of domestic cats, said Elizabeth Yeo, city animal control officer. His case has been referred to City Attorney David Laredo for review.

The law does not allow domestic cats to be trapped, but does allow trapping of feral cats by the city if authorities are notified first, Yeo said.

She said the trapper in this case did not appear to be acting maliciously, thought he was trapping feral cats, and was unaware of the municipal ordinance.

Man Trapping Cats In P.G.