Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Pollution Warnings Ignored At Lovers Point

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Notice that the signs are only in English?
Ocean Water Warning

“They were everywhere the last time we came, but we didn’t see them this time, probably because we didn’t see them in the same places as last time,” Carey said, adding that his family took the warnings seriously.

“But we don’t go all the way into the water. Just to about here,” he added, motioning to his lower leg.

Posted at area beaches by Monterey County Environmental Health staff when beachwater bacteria levels exceed state standards, the 8-inch-by-11-inch signs reading “Warning! Ocean water contact may cause illness” hung at three entrances to the beach on Saturday.

Pollution Warnings Ignored At Lovers Point

Mayor Admits Butterfly Tree Cutting Was Wrong

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Story reached the L.A. Times

Monarch fans are pitching in to bring more trees to the the butterfly trees. Send your donation to the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, marked “Monarch Habitat Trees.” PO BOX 167, Pacific Grove 93950, 584 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA 93950

No trees, no butterflies. Guess this will have to do:
Butterfly Trees Stand In

At a City Council meeting last week, Mayor Carmelita Garcia apologized for the city’s mismanagement of the tree cutting, calling it “a horrible mistake.” In the audience, people who had come to hear about emergency sanctuary repair wore toy butterfly antennae that bobbed up and down as the mayor spoke.

With the first monarchs due in about a month, volunteers have been scrambling for potted trees that can serve as makeshift butterfly shelter throughout the 2 1/2-acre sanctuary. “We’re hoping and praying,” said Moe Ammar, president of the Chamber of Commerce that serves the picturesque, sometimes fogbound town of Victorian homes.

“People who follow the monarchs come from all over the world,” Ammar said. “When we get calls asking if the butterflies have arrived, we have to be honest.”

Mayor Admits Butterfly Tree Cutting Was Wrong

Appalled Parents Call Cops On Skinny Dippers

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At 9 pm on Carmel Beach. Well, it was a full moon in more ways than one.Moons

Carmel Police Sgt. Mel Mukai said a 29-year-old Carmel man and two 32-year-olds from Pacific Grove shucked their clothes and entered the water near Scenic and 10th. The men were naked, and the woman was topless.

Shortly after 9 p.m. Aug. 24, “as they were leaving the water, there was a large family gathering, and one of the parents was obviously appalled and decided to call us,” Mukai said.

Appalled Parents Call Cops On Skinny Dippers

Aaron Corn Preliminary Hearing

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Aaron Corn Headshot

Sad to read the unexpected ending of a party. Speaking of – the whole long article has no mention of Seaside Police Commander Chris Veloz calling his son after he got word of the accident.

Pinkas said when he approached Corn, who was bleeding and drifting in and out of consciousness, he was “unresponsive.”

“I detected that he had alcohol coming from his breath and person … but I didn’t obtain a statement from him,” according to the officer.

Two other passengers, Matt Wheeler and Ahmad Mahmoud, were also injured in the crash. Hill was paralyzed.

Monterey police officer Mark Shell — who interviewed Miller the day after the accident — said Miller told him that before the crash, he was at the home of a classmate, CJ Veloz, on Syida Drive in Pacific Grove where there was a small party.

Aaron Corn Preliminary Hearing

Ocean Rescue! Lifeguards & Police Respond. For A Dog.

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Tax dollars at work. I thought there were no dogs allowed on the beach?

A small, white “Jack Russell terrier”-type dog decided to go for an impromptu swim Wednesday afternoon while walking with its owners on a Pacific Grove beach.

The dog swam out to a rock about 10 feet offshore near Beach Street and Ocean View Boulevard.

The dog didn’t swim back.

The owners called police, who alerted state lifeguards about the pooch on the perch, said fire Capt. Jim Brown.

Ocean Rescue! Lifeguards & Police Respond. For A Dog.

Pacific Grove No Longer A Substainable City

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Pacific Grove is no longer mentioned on any ICLEI member lists at the website. There’s hope yet for our city leaders. Time for Monterey to wake up and quit supporting them with money and compliance too.

Iclei Members

ICLEI methods include infiltrating local government. Organization representatives seek to be hired into local planning departments or they provide “toolkits” to staff. Too many elected officials such as Cool Mayors allow ICLEI to influence policy changes through the use of funding incentives and rewards. While some of these policies sound good on the surface, they result in consequences such as:

* High-density housing scams
* Traffic congestion
* Open space where access is not allowed
* Government “partnering” with favored private businesses and non-profit agencies, using your tax money
* Undermining Constitutional administration of government
* Managed control over your life
* Mismanagement of public utilities
* Prohibitions on natural resource management leading to increased fire hazards, lack of water, and private property restrictions,
* Increased taxes, fees, regulations and restrictions

Pacific Grove No Longer A Substainable City

Pharmacy Robbery At Safeway

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Next time slip them sleeping pills or strong laxatives.

Safeway Prescriptions

After being given the Oxycontin, the man left the store. He might have left the area in a late 1980s or early 1990s dark gray or black Ford Explorer, police said. The SUV was dirty, police said.

The robber was described as Latino, in his mid-20s, 5 foot 7 inches to 5 foot 9 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing a black baseball cap with a DC shoe logo, a blue hooded sweatshirt with white writing on the back, gray sweatpants and white shoes, police said.

Pharmacy Robbery At Safeway