Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Letters From The Editor – Feast Of Lanterns – Fun Or Racist?

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Every year, right on time come the letters calling the Feast Of Lanterns a celebration of fascist oppression. Followed by rebuttals. Over in Salinas it’s the same at Rodeo season with the animal huggers…

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July 27, Dale writes:

I find the irony of the Festival of Lanterns too much to bear. Living on the Peninsula my whole life, I noticed that strange little festival in P.G. where people parade around in Chinese clothing. Sometimes, to me, it seemed like a “mockery” of Chinese.

July 29, Diana replies:

The festival is not about a group of people who lived on the Peninsula and were, yes, indeed persecuted. As stated at the onset of the evening festivities, the “tale” (that denotes fantasy, does it not?) takes place in ancient China, and is clearly presented as a fantasy tale, much like Cinderella or other fantasy tales.

8/1, Jeffery adds:

The letter the other day that said Pacific Grove is celebrating a tradition of an oppressed people from 100-plus years ago really made me laugh. Tell me who hasn’t been oppressed? I’m half Irish, so should I tell everyone to stop celebrating St. Patrick’s Day because the Irish were sent into slums straight off their ships from Ireland? The Irish were treated as bad as any culture in U.S. history, and they, like the Chinese Americans, have prevailed.

Letters From The Editor – Feast Of Lanterns – Fun Or Racist?

Pollacci Pleads Not Guilty – Drawn Out Process Continues

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Tom Pollacci

Dr Bergstrom was caught, trialed and convicted for sex crimes in less time. What makes Pollacci’s take so long?

A Pebble Beach man pleaded not guilty to a sexual assault charge this morning in a Salinas courtroom.

Thomas Pollacci, 50, is accused of raping a woman in a loft above Ron’s Liquors, his father’s Pacific Grove establishment . . . .

. . . a pretrial hearing for Sept. 3, at which time a trial date will also be set.

Remember, please do not spend your money at Pacific Grove businesses that employ sex offenders or domestic abusers.

Pollacci Pleads Not Guilty – Drawn Out Process Continues

Here’s To You City Leaders

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Stability is crumbling, Arnie is taking our tax dollars, you gave away the Mvsevm, town’s going broke, citizens are turning out in droves over where to park cars so they can walk dogs, and where are they? On vacation.

Corona

The city hasn’t had a permanent city manager since December, and the recruitment has taken months longer than expected. Interim City Manager Charlene Wiseman agreed to extend her six-month term by two months, but has indicated she won’t stay beyond August.

The leadership void was underscored in mid-July, when both Wiseman and Mayor Dan Cort were away on overlapping two-week vacations.

Here’s To You City Leaders

High Crime – DMP Style

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DMP Del Monte Park
DMP – graffiti tag for Del Monte Park turf.

Later stories reported that evidence from burglaries was recovered. Scanner traffic said the victim was not being cooperative.

Officers responded to the area of Montecito and Buena Vista avenues to reports that a citizen was threatened with a knife and assaulted, police said.

Upon arriving, officers said they arrested William Carpenter, 20, of Marina.

Investigators said Carpenter and another man confronted and assaulted a neighborhood resident who was walking home.

High Crime – DMP Style

Feast Of Lanterns Officially Ruined

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Fire Dixie Lane. Appears that the kooks have taken over the last great funky thing in P.G.

“The whole festival represents our heritage in Pacific Grove,” said Feast of Lanterns President Dixie Lane. “It’s a fabulous little multi-cultural festival.”

This is Lane’s inaugural year to preside over the event, though she has been on the board for several years.

As a former student of history and a zealot for all things multicultural, Lane has focused on emphasizing multiculturalism and historical traditions for the 2009 Feast of Lanterns.

Feast Of Lanterns Beach Reserve Sign

Feast Of Lanterns Officially Ruined

The Weakly Shames Pacific Grove

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for not respecting cultures. Can’t even carry on traditions without being told we are all bad, bad citizens.

Coast Weakly

On the left side, a gallery celebrates the Feast of Lanterns, a P.G. tradition since 1905. Though the signs feature an Asian-inspired font and a bamboo trim, they don’t address why white P.G. high school students started enacting a “Chinese operetta” (featuring Princess Yum Yum) only a few years after P.G.’s actual Chinese-American residents were forced out of town. It doesn’t address what originally inspired the festival’s trademark Chinese lanterns, dresses and art styles. It doesn’t discuss Stanford Ph.D. student – and excavator of the Chinese village artifacts – Bryn Williams’ theory that the Feast of Lanterns tradition sprang out of a human need to romanticize, and appropriate, pieces of the very cultures we destroy.

There always was culture, and from the P.G. Chinese community – but not what the P.C. weenies at the Weakly would want . .
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P.G. Tribune, 1974

The Weakly Shames Pacific Grove

Pollacci Goes To Trial

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Click the credit title below to read the whole sick story over at the Pine Cone.

Tom Pollacci

On April 19, 2008, she came to the Monterey Peninsula to visit a friend and, after driving around, went into Ron’s Liquors to buy a pack of cigarettes, according to testimony by retired Pacific Grove Police Cmdr. Tom Uretsky. Pollacci recognized her, the two chatted for a few minutes, and she asked if he could get her through the gate at Pebble Beach. He told her he could and entered his number in her cell phone under the contact name, “Thomas My Love.” The following day, she tried to reach him but couldn’t. Later, he called and invited her to stop by the store, which she did.

Please – do not spend your money at Pacific Grove businesses that employ sex offenders or domestic abusers.

Pollacci Goes To Trial

P.G. School District – Tax, Spend, Beg, Tax, Spend

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Lather, rinse, repeat. Odd that they spend the money on all things except books & supplies to teach our precious fry. Well at least we can play football on artificial grass.

If there were ever a monument to how local public entities waste taxpayers’ money, it is the Pacific Grove Unified School District’s use of the $42 million in Measure D tax revenues.

This money was designated for classroom and school facility repair and construction. Even though the existing stadium was adequate, $6.5 million of this money, 15 percent of all available Measure D funds, was used to build a state-of-the-art shrine to Jockdom under the euphemism of “stadium reconstruction.”

P.G. School District – Tax, Spend, Beg, Tax, Spend

Lattitudes: It’s Hot Hot Hot

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Check out the ad in the BullS**tin this week:
Lattitudes menu

Police said a Molotov cocktail was found on the roof of the restaurant at 631 Oceanview Blvd., near Lovers Point.

Pacific Grove Police and Monterey Fire personnel discovered the incendiary device after they arrived about 5:50 a.m. to find the building’s roof on fire. Crew extinguished the blaze in 10 minutes. Police officials declined to say if an arrest was imminent.

Lattitudes

Lattitudes: It’s Hot Hot Hot