Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Stillwell’s Snow In The Park For The Last Time?

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Businesses that contribute have been shuttered, all we have left are bistros and art galleries. Shows how much they give back to the town. Moe needs to go.

Caledonia Snow In Park

The annual Stillwell’s Snow in the Park event — scheduled from 10a.m. to 4p.m. Dec. 6 — has been a holiday tradition in the city for the past 15 years.

But the cost of putting it on keeps rising, said Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar, and has gone from $4,500 in 1994 to $12,000 this year.

Ammar said the chamber has $7,000 at present. Businesses in the city that normally contribute to Snow in the Park haven’t been as forthcoming this year, he said, because of the economic downturn. If the donations fall short, the event will be canceled next year.

Stillwell’s Snow In The Park – Last Time?

Deputy City Manager To Take The Helm

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Charlene Wiseman
coast weekly photo

Pacific Grove’s deputy city manager, Charlene Wiseman, will take over for top administrator Jim Colangelo on an interim basis when he leaves in mid-December.

“If Charlene wouldn’t have agreed to stay we would have been stuck with no city manager or assistant city manager,” he(Dan Cort) said.

Is that really a bad thing? Let her go.

Deputy City Manager To Take The Helm

Another DUI Arrest – Tourist Hit By Driver

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KSBW is calling it a hit & run.

A Pacific Grove man is in jail after hitting a pedestrian while driving under the influence of alcohol, police said.

Lance Millington, 58, was driving his pickup truck on the 800 block of Ocean View Boulevard when he struck an 82-year-old man.

The Hear-old says he’s 48 and mentions no hit an run. But 6:30 AM? Sheeshe.

Pacific Grove police arrested Lance Millington, 48, and charged him with DUI and causing bodily injury to Texas resident Carlos Broughton in the 800 block of Ocean View Boulevard in Pacific Grove. The accident occurred about 6:30a.m. Friday.

Clownafornian reports:

About 6:30 a.m., police said, Carlos Broughton, 82, of Texas, was struck and left lying in the road at the Sea Palm turnout of Ocean Boulevard. Citizens attended him until emergency crews arrived and he could be taken by ambulance to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Is this the same Lance Millington that is the driver for residents of the Park Lane???

From the Park Lane Classic Residence by Hyatt website:

A day in the life of Lance Millington.

9:00 a.m. I begin to take the residents to their doctor and dental appointments in the Lincoln Town Car. We also take them on group shopping trips to various locations on the Peninsula four days a week and on a tour or activity every Friday afternoon. Friday mornings are reserved for cleaning and maintenance of the vehicles.

Lance Millington

 

And is it the same Lance Millington that was a victim of a DUI two years ago?

Another DUI Arrest – Tourist Hit By Driver

Real Estate Signs Vandalized

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During the Halloween weekend, close to five dozen posts in Carmel Valley, Los Laureles Grade and Pebble Beach were yanked from the ground, according to Dwyer, who fielded calls from many agents requesting the signs be re-erected. She said the vandalism has been occurring once a month for the past half year.

The Dwyers charge $18 to reinstall the signs, unless one client has several down in the same area, in which case the fee drops to $8 per sign.

Hmm. Signs get torn down, someone gets paid to replace the signs, signs get torn down, rise, repeat. A somewhat related issue I have is with real estate barons blocking sidewalks every weekend. Keep it off to the side, or I will stop and move the sign so that the path is clear.

Kelller Williams Sign In Way

Real Estate Signs Vandalized

Raccoons Stepping Up

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Ballard St 080205 Wildlife

“Fall always brings on an increase in ‘coon activity,'” said Pacific Grove animal control officer Elizabeth Yeo, “due to the nature of the animal.”

officials said the trick to keeping raccoons at bay is to make backyards and businesses uninviting: Secure garbage can lids, pick up fallen fruit, avoid leaving pet food and water bowls outside at night, and close off crawl spaces under houses and decks.

Yep. Secure your garbage. This website says it all the time . .

Lighthouse Cafe
Dumpster Hollys cafe 071216

Raccoons Stepping Up

Shoe Game 2008 – Carmel 49, P.G 7

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Carmel PG Shoe

49 to 7?

Carmel and Pacific Grove high schools used to have a ceremonial bonfire before their football teams squared off in the county’s most storied rivalry.

That was until 1952, when Charlie Higuera and some of his fellow Pacific Grove seniors sneaked over to Carmel to light their rivals’ pile of wood — the night before the bonfire was set to happen.

The antic got Higuera into a heap of trouble, but he can laugh about it now.

“And that was the last time they had a bonfire,” he said Thursday at his Pacific Grove grocery store, Grove Market.

While it extinguished a pregame tradition, the prank helped fuel a rivalry that is still going strong more than a half century later.

Shoe Game 2008 – Carmel 49, P.G 7

Water Credits Up For Grabs

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Unused water allocations for businesses in Pacific Grove may be handed over to homeowners on the city’s water waiting list.

The City Council on Wednesday voted 6-1 to approve a resolution allocating unused water credits and introduced a draft ordinance that would allow payment for unused public water credits held by the city.

Pacific Grove has a waiting list of applicants seeking permits to build new homes or businesses or to add bathrooms or other water-using facilities.

Property owners were notified by letter of the city’s intent to assign the credits. In one case, Tibor Rudas — who owns a commercial building at 610 Lighthouse Ave. and holds a 2.5 acre-foot allocation issued in 1996 for development of a 125-seat restaurant — was told to submit a building permit application and complete it in 60 days, and to assign an unused 1.57 acre-feet of water to the waiting list.

Now all you need is some $$ to build those bathrooms and businesses. Businesses? How much water does an art gallery use anyway?

Water Credits Up For Grabs

Election Coverage Up To The Minute

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Politics
No official word yet on Mayor’s race, but can be assumed to be Dan Cort.

Losin’ Susan maintains her record of well, losing. Same with David “no credibility” Dilworth.

CITY COUNCIL
William R. Kampe 3,205 20.69%
Carmelita Garcia 2,160 13.95%
Deborah C. Lindsay 1,942 12.54%
Daniel Miller 1,772 11.44%
Ken Eduardo Cuneo 1,767 11.41%
Susan Goldbeck 1,611 10.40%
David Dilworth 1,544 9.97%
Richard A. Ahart, Jr. 1,486 9.60%

MEASURE X
Vote Count Percent
YES 5,778 75.83%
NO 1,842 24.17%

MEASURE Y
Vote Count Percent
YES 3,227 56.32%
NO 2,503 43.68%

Election Coverage Up To The Minute