Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Vicious Dog Attack At Good Old Days

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Please leave the dogs at home. It could have been a child mauled.

“He is lucky to be alive,” she said. Enns said she took Harry to see the dogs at the SPCA for Monterey County adoption booth when they encountered Heidi, who was also on a leash. Without being provoked, the pit bull suddenly attacked Harry, according to Enns.

The UC Davis veterinary hospital treated Harry, who went back to the facility Wednesday for a checkup. Enns said Harry looks “pretty normal” but that he’s missing
some of his front teeth. She said she is going to look into the possibility of having Harry fitted with dental implants. Meanwhile, Heidi, who was in quarantine
at the SPCA after the attack, was scheduled to be put down Thursday.

Vicious Dog Attack At Good Old Days

“Drunken Rampage” Leads To Arrest In P.G.

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Jay Ballard

Police booked Jay Ballard, 39, into Monterey County Jail on $66,000 bail for felony second degree robbery and making terrorist threats, and misdemeanor spousal battery, willful cruelty to a child and probation violation.

“It was a drunken rampage,” Miller said. Records indicate Ballard has an extensive history with Monterey County Superior Court, including felony, misdemeanor, traffic and family law cases.

“Drunken Rampage” Leads To Arrest In P.G.

P.G. Ends Year In The Black

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Keep the priorities sensible. No $100,000 solar power studies or street closing consultants, ok?

Assistant City Manager Jim Becklenberg said the city will end the fiscal year on June 30 in the black, with money left over to bring its reserve fund to $2.7 million.

But, he said, Pacific Grove has accumulated a $10 million backlog in deferred maintenance and equipment replacement. Residents at recent workshops have identified a number of priorities they would like to see funded, including street maintenance, storm drain repair and sidewalk construction, and more library hours.

Assuming no new taxes, he said, additional money-saving measures and aggressively pursuing service fees to recover costs, possibly contracting with private companies for some city functions and sharing services with other communities and agencies, might reduce that deficit to about $632,000 in fiscal 2015-16.

P.G. Ends Year In The Black

Parking Subject Comes Up Again

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Jean Byrne says any kind of revenue generating parking will drive away spenders. Don’t forget the merchants that take up spaces on Lighthouse all day – Victorian Corner, Hazaras and the like.

At least this one leaves the spaces for the customers and parks in the front of the bank.
Free parking

Mr. Becklenberg said there are a number of options on parking revenue as the staff looks broadly at parking in Pacific Grove. He said they would be meeting with the business community and merchants in the near future.

committee member Jeanne Byrne said, “Pay station systems are not effective and they are a detriment to people shopping.”
chairman Tom McMahon said the difficult issue before the committee was to figure out how best to construct a survey of the business community and solicit their thoughts concerning paid parking.
Mayor Garcia said pay station parking should only be considered at the large parking lots in the community.

Parking Subject Comes Up Again

Diver Rescued From Bay Dies

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A San Jose scuba diver who was brought ashore unconscious and not breathing Sunday off Pacific Grove has become the Peninsula’s third diving-related fatality this month.

Kristina Gomez-Weese, 43, died late Monday at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Gomez-Weese was found by her two diving partners in 70 feet of water between Lovers Point and Point Pinos about 11 a.m. Sunday, said Coast Guard Lt. John Suckow.

Diver Rescued From Bay Dies

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