Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Senator Considering Law That Would Bar Sex Offenders From Seeing Your Personal Information

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Write to the Senator and express your support! Abel Maldonado email

State Senator Abel Maldonado said he’ll consider proposing a bill that would prevent registered sex offenders from working in liquor stores and other businesses where they can check IDs and have access to customers’ personal information.

“Allowing registered sex offenders to view a person’s driver’s license, thereby allowing them to obtain important contact information like the person’s address, is extremely dangerous,” Maldonado said.

Maldonado made the comments to The Pine Cone after learning that registered sex offender and liquor store worker Thomas Pollacci, 49, was charged with three felony counts of rape stemming from an April 2008 incident. Pollacci’s family owns Ron’s Liquors in Pacific Grove, and he has worked there for years.

From the Internet in 2004 . .

Pollacci Megans Law Sex Offender

Senator Considering Law That Would Bar Sex Offenders From Seeing Your Personal Information

P.G. Woman Comes To The Rescue Of Sick Coyote

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Wile E Coyote Help

“I haven’t been able to get help,” said Jill Durward, a 69-year-old retiree who lives near Asilomar. “The last time I saw the coyote was five days ago, and it’s really sick, you can tell. I guess a lot of people don’t love coyotes.”

Durward said the animal, which is gray with patches of fur missing, surprised her near her home on Crocker Avenue. She had seen the animal before and surmised it may have been in the area of Sunset Drive, possibly crossing the road in an attempt to scrounge dead fish on the beach.

“I tried to give it its space,” she said.

She said repeated calls to local wildlife officials went unanswered. She went door-to-door asking people to help her find the animal and get it treatment. She said she received an indifferent response.

“Some people told me, ‘If the animal is sick, it should just be left to die,'” she said. “But that isn’t fair. The coyote has a right to live, just like we do. It’s like a sick dog, and it needs help. People just don’t seem to care if an animal is suffering.”

P.G. Woman Comes To The Rescue Of Sick Coyote

Where DID All The Pine Cones Go?

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Issue that broke the news about Tom Pollacci is flying off the racks. In bundles of 100.Squirrel Pine Cone

Someone driving a blue pickup truck was spotted at numerous locations around Carmel taking large stacks of Pine Cones. Under California law, it is a misdemeanor to take multiple copies of a free newspaper for the purpose of stopping someone from reading it.

One employee, who didn’t want to be identified, said she confronted a man who appeared to be in his 30s, who took a bundle at a Carmel Rancho business.

“I said, ‘You can’t take all of those,’” the clerk said, “and he really didn’t turn around. I said, ‘Excuse me, you can’t take all those; you can only have one.’ I said, ‘Why do you want all of them?’ And he said, ‘Just to have them.’”

Was all over the Peninsula, not just P.G.

Where DID All The Pine Cones Go?

Aint No Money In Our Wallet, Broke Again Is What We Call It*

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Red House Sidewalk

Pay Rent for the sidewalks?

“We’ll have about a 1.3 million dollar shortfall”, said Pacific Grove Budget Manager Jim Beckenberg.

That makes up approximately ten percent of the City’s annual budget and now everything is on the table, meaning City Hall could decrease the hours that it stays open, furloughs will also be considered as well as layoffs.

“We have to look at recreating services, library services, anything where we’re charging a fee for a service to make sure that we collect as much as we can so that general tax dollars can be saved for basic services like police and fire” said Beckenberg.

Small offering: $25 a month per square yard of sidewalk used by restaurants and sidewalk spam signs.

Bigger offerings: The Asilomar Flamingo hotel/casino.

*Hayes Carl

Aint No Money In Our Wallet, Broke Again Is What We Call It*

Chamber Of Commerce Gives “Best Motel” Award

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Tripadvisor reviews for Pacific Gardens Inn  say “dog friendly – pack your earplugs”.

“I wanted to hit the boards running,” he explained. “So I decided and it was agreed that I could first spend time at the lodge as an employee, learning the business on-site from the ground up. I did this undercover. None of the 13 staffers there knew that I was the future owner. For eight months I did just about everything, manned the front desk, served breakfast, swept floors and cleaned up, whatever.”

When Boerner took possession of the inn, the facility was ranked No. 13 in customer service by Tripadvisor.com, a hospitality Web site. Today, Pacific Gardens Inn has achieved a No. 1 ranking.

Chamber Of Commerce Gives “Best Motel” Award

P.G. Mothers Calling For Boycott Of Ron’s Liquor

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Like boycotting the “We Don’t Serve Your Kind Here” ice cream shoppee, it’s an attention getter in P.G.
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The anonymous group called Peninsula Mothers United to Protect our Children sent out emails to the news media on their cause. They say, “We demand that the Pollacci family sell the business. And we also demand that Tom Pollacci stay out of Pacific Grove.”

Pollacci calls the Pebble Beach area home.

The email from the concerned mothers continues on, claiming, “He hangs out on the sidewalk harassing girls who walk by.”

P.G. Mothers Calling For Boycott Of Ron’s Liquor

When Moe Gives Advice, Ignore It

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Moe Ammar Dont Buy American

Chamber Of Commerce is actually discouraging people to take advantage of all the empty stores? Yet something as out there as a picture frame shop is thriving..

Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar said the business climate is particularly challenging, and he discouraged more than a few would-be entrepreneurs from launching a business because of timing.

Still, there are small-business owners such as Gobel who are finding ways to flourish. Some are launching first-time ventures. Others with established businesses are finding opportunities in expansion and acquisition.

When Moe Gives Advice, Ignore It

Would YOU Show Your I.D. To A Registered Sex Offender?

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Think about it ladies – a registered sex offender could be looking at YOUR name & address when you buy alcohol or tobacco at Ron’s Liquors.

Pollacci Parking For Rape Victims

Police tracked down Pollacci after he reportedly left the woman at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula with a head injury. In the following months, they gathered evidence — including having forensics specialists sweep the Lighthouse Avenue liquor store where he works — and interviewed the victim, who is not from the area.

Neither officers, nor the district attorney’s office, would reveal any further details of the case. Pollacci, who police said is a registered sex offender, is set to appear in a Salinas courtroom at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, for his arraignment

Interesting screenshot obtained via email. One does get to wonder what the circumstances are to have this removed from the Megan’s Law pages.

Tom Pollacci Sex Offender

Would YOU Show Your I.D. To A Registered Sex Offender?

Annual Passionfish “Green Business” Report

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It is there sustainable approach to serving delicious seafood, which protect our oceans and satisfies our appetites.We are serving fish that are harvested in a manner that is not impacting the environment or another species. We purchase a lot of alchoculture products that are in contained ponds on the land that are not impacting the environment, no pesticides no herbicides,” says co-owner Cindy Walter.

The same not-news article about this restaurant’s “green” pitch ran one year ago in the Hear-Old..

You should see the mountains of landfill-destined garbage and rubbish that this restaurant generates. Look at the grease encroaching the sidewalk leaking from their overflowing dumpster. See the other trash cans blocking the sidewalk. This “green” business practices is a farce.
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Annual Passionfish “Green Business” Report