Moved over to Forest Ave, empty since Green’s Camera closed in September 2008. The namesake street is looking very vacant. The Cottage Style next door in the old Grove building shut down July and is still empty.
Rearranging The Deck Chairs – Lighthouse Business Center Moved
(American Chronicle)
Interesting viewpoint that is not normally found..
I located Sgt. Williams, and he told me the name of the eatery, that it was an ice cream shop and he had been called a “baby killer” by the owner. Professor Toro´s column was carefully crafted to not disclose the exact nature of the eatery, and my e-mail to the columnist asking for the business´s name was never answered.
So the liberal local press and Chamber of Commerce are circling the wagons to protect the ice cream shop owner mostly from himself, I suspect. The owner needs sensitivity training on how to treat soldiers the same way liberals would have conservatives do when they say something politically incorrect about minorities, gays or militant Muslims.
The store is a shrine to the far left leaning views of the owner – what do you expect?
Ozuna has a very different account of what happened that day. “Those are all lies,” he said, after reading a Monterey County Herald report of the incident.
This week, the parties told The Pine Cone very different accounts of what transpired that Veteran’s Day.
Derek Williams, who served in Iraq from November 2006 to November 2007, said that as they were leaving the shop, he heard Ozuna say he didn’t want to serve military personnel. Derek then told his wife, who confronted the shop owner.
“I turned around and said, ‘Excuse me, what did you say to us?’” Courtney Williams said. “And he said, ‘I wasn’t speaking to you, I was speaking to my customers.’”
“Semi-heated” words were then exchanged, the Williamses said.
“I kind of went off on a tangent,” said Courtney Williams, who is studying Arabic. “I said he [Ozuna] wouldn’t have his freedom if it wasn’t for my husband. It kind of hit a soft spot in me.”
At some point during the exchange, the couple said Ozuna included their daughter in the argument.
“He said we were baby killers and murderers,” Derek Williams recalled. “And that we were raising the next generation of killers.”
“I couldn’t believe this guy was attacking us in broad daylight in front of customers,” Courtney Williams said.
Beware, the recreation loving families are likely to be chased away by the tidepool nazis.
From as far away as Oroville, members of the Nor-Cal RC (radio-controlled) Rock Crawling Club packed their diminutive trucks, controllers and tool boxes for the first competition of 2009 on the rocks just below Ocean View Boulevard near Acropolis Street.
Why there?
“The rocks,” said Rob Taylor-Shaw, a computer systems engineer from Marina, as the bright morning sun began to burn off the morning chill.
Wrapped in jackets and sitting on a couple of beach chairs not far from Sunday morning’s rock-crawling action were Lisa Gammon of Petaluma and Tiffany Heil of Rohnert Park.
Gammon said her husband, Erik, was competing, as was Heil’s boyfriend, Lance Herlund. The two women have been seeing each other at competitions from more than a year.
“It sure is a nice day, and you can’t beat the view,” Gammon said.
As the city of Pacific Grove figures out how to end its PERS contract, recruit a new city manager and squeeze water from concrete, freshly minted Councilwoman Carmelita Garcia is starting her term with a whinny. On the heels of her Dec. 3 swearing-in, she asked City Attorney David Laredo to expand residents’ rights to keep chickens, ponies and monkeys.
With All Of P.G.’s Problems Solved, Carmelita Works To Keep Service Monkeys
Gary Ozuna, owner of the Ice Cream Shoppe in Pacific Grove, says he has been losing his appetite and sleep because of anxiety stemming from publicity over what he considers “a private conversation that happened two months ago” in his business.
Signs in his window advertise a free ice cream cone for servicemen and women, and that military personnel are welcome.
Since the incident, Ozuna said, he has seen a lot of students from DLI come through the door and his business has doubled.
Soldier Darrick Williams, who was unavailable for comment Monday, told the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce that he and his wife walked into the Ice Cream Shoppe — formerly known as Rocky Coast Ice Cream — on Lighthouse Avenue but decided to leave when they noticed the ice cream was over their budget.
As they were leaving, Williams was allegedly told by the store’s owner that he wouldn’t serve soldiers at his business, and the two exchanged words, Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar told KSBW Action News 8.
“He was referring to the fact that this guy is a soldier and this specific owner has anti-war, anti-Bush sentiments and these have been expressed in the location,” Ammar said.
The incident has spurred an uproar, with some residents writing letters to the editors of local newspapers and others boycotting all Pacific Grove restaurants until the location of the dispute was revealed.
The Chamber of Commerce said that pro DLI groups are planning to boycott the ice cream shop next week.
We Don’t Serve Your Kind Shoppe Sets Off Flurry Of Spin Doctors
Never know when the killer whales may come ashore.
The society, he said, has received a $53,000 grant from a bequest of landscaping, and plans to restore some of the look and feel of the lighthouse’s grounds during World War II, when soldiers of the 54th Coast Artillery Regiment (Colored) were posted there with four 155mm guns shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Not even new, it’s another rearranging of the deck chairs.
Good News! A New Store Is Opening – oh, it’s just more used clothes
Like any fries with that?
An employee was arrested Saturday on suspicion of stealing $1,800 from a McDonald’s restaurant in Pacific Grove business, police said.
Police said Veronica Antoinette Smith, 28, was taken into custody after police observed her driving in the city of Seaside.