P.G. Meets To Put End To Smoking In Public

Lover’s Point in Pacific Grove is where Ryan Roberts goes to catch some downtime and take a deep breath. There’s a smoking ban in place there, so he said he relaxes in his car.

“It’s kind of like discriminating, really, to people that are addicted to smoking and choose not to quit just yet,” Roberts said.

The proposed ban is meant to protect people from second-hand smoke and keep public parks and beaches clear of cigarette butts which contain plastic filters that never breakdown, supporters said.

He relaxes in his car. Do you mean he infects his lungs with carcinogens while simply looking at the clean air?

It’s not just the beaches. Take a walk along Lighthouse from Hazaras smoking rug salesman to Juice N Java’s sidewalk tables down to Pollacci’s liquor store loiterers.

Sidewalk Smoker Juice Java

P.G. Meets To Put End To Smoking In Public

DUI Victim Becoming A Miracle

Amazing recovery. Positive attitude helps.

This week, with the help of a trainer, this once competitive dancer is getting out of her wheelchair and walking. It’s a feat many thought was impossible.

“That’s the best I’ve walked in a long time,” says Chelsie Hill. “I actually started crying after. It gave me so much hope.”

It’s all thanks to Project Walk, a rehab facility in Carlsbad, where Chelsie has spent the last two weeks. There, she’s learning to retrain her body to use her legs again.

DUI Victim Becoming A Miracle

Would You Come To The Aid Of An Injured Golfer?

Old Grumpy Golfers

To some an injured person is something to stop and tend to, to others it’s just another hazard.

While Hughes told the 911 responder where they were and what had happened, Muller tried to keep the injured player’s partners calm and prevent them from moving him. Golf links staff member Nick Watson helped direct the paramedics to the injured player.

The course was busy that day, and Hughes recalls that other groups tried to play around the injured golfer.

“Other people just played through like it was nothing,” he said.

Muller remembers the men that he and Hughes were paired with decided to leave them and keep on playing.

“Yeah, that was a bit shocking,” Muller said.

Would You Come To The Aid Of An Injured Golfer?

Seaside Street Gangs Prowling In P.G.

While everyone watches coyotes or mountain lions, stupid gang members are stealing property from our cars…

Three suspected car burglars ditched their Chevy Blazer in the middle of a Pacific Grove street and ran from the officer who had been chasing them early Sunday morning, police found one of them hiding between two parked cars in Pacific Grove, the second walking on the recreation trail, and the third in his Seaside apartment, PGPD Cmdr. John Nyunt said Wednesday.

Nyunt said the suspects appear to be affiliated with the Norteno gang, due to a T-shirt one was wearing and a five-point star tattooed on another. The shirt, which Rodriguez was wearing inside out, bore the word, “Norteno,” and listed all the area codes in which the gang has a presence.

Seaside Street Gangs Prowling In P.G.

Auction Company Settles

And I was just about to see if I can pick up some painting in Pebble Beach at a good price.

A company that held several estate auctions in Pebble Beach and Pacific Grove over the last four years has been ordered to pay $140,000 for alleged auction fraud.

In May, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office filed a civil complaint against American Wholesale Jewelry, Inc., and president Alon Varsha, doing business as Kingston Auctions, for deceptive marketing claims.

Auction Company Settles

P.G. Cops Responding To Car Ripoffs

If you lock the doors, one burglar may move on. Or the may put a rock through the window to steal an iPod.

In an effort to catch burglars in the act, Pacific Grove police officers, using unmarked cars, recently staked out areas in the city where vehicle burglaries and thefts have occurred.

“We have been able to do some surveillance programs in direct response,” Miller said.

One of the stings netted the arrest of a Pacific Grove man who was going car to car and checking door handles, trying to find an unlocked vehicle, Miller said.

P.G. Cops Responding To Car Ripoffs

Mayor Wants No Smoking In Public

Monterey has an ordinance against smoking on the rec trail. Cuneo, Kampe and Cohen all opposed the action. Kampe said “It’s incredibly rare to encounter second-hand smoke in Pacific Grove.” Kampe has never walked past Juice & Java or Hazara’s I take it.

No Smoking Dogs

Are Pacific Grove’s smoking regulations strong enough?

Mayor Carmelita Garcia doesn’t think so. She proposed Wednesday that the city consider tightening rules about smoking in public places, particularly parks, beaches, recreation areas, outdoor dining areas and sidewalk tables in front of restaurants and coffeehouses.

The motion to ask staff to draw up an ordinance failed 3-3, with Cuneo, Kampe and Cohen opposed

P.G. Mayor Wants No Smoking In Public

Lookout For Cops On Vacation In P.G.

If you can take county cars on vacation I guess it helps well paid cops have 2nd homes in P.G.

A driver was hurt when her car was rear-ended in Monterey by an off-duty Stanislaus County sheriff’s captain in a department vehicle, the woman says in a claim against the county.

Previous reports said no one was injured when Capt. Tim David, driving a sheriff’s Ford Explorer to his second home in Pacific Grove, ran into a Ford Focus on March 26.

The accident caused Sheriff Adam Christianson to issue a policy in April that prohibits taking home a car if an employee lives farther than 35 miles — Pacific Grove is about 120 miles — and will be away more than three days.

Lookout For Cops On Vacation In P.G.

Modesto Bee

Every Election A New Tax

$90.00 a year for 10 years. My vote is a no. Cutback on necessary things during tough times first. I don’t see them trying anything but reducing hours.

Liberry

To supporters, the library parcel tax Pacific Grove residents will vote on Nov. 2, Measure Q, is the one chance the city has to guarantee funding to keep its century-old library open.

To opponents, Measure Q is an unnecessary add-on to the tax burden based on assumptions of facts that have not been discussed in public.

The ballot measure was debated Tuesday in a forum organized by the League of Women Voters. Linnett Harlan and Greta Miller of the Campaign Committee for Yes on PG Library faced former Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck and Jeffrey Flather of the Monterey Peninsula Taxpayers Association.

Every Election A New Tax