Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Olga Ospina Suing For Emotional Distress Over Dead Dog

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IN A lawsuit that seeks to set a new precedent for damages, a local news anchorwoman is suing the owner of a Labrador for emotional distress after the dog mauled her Maltese last year in front of the Pacific Grove post office.

. . Ospina is also seeking something California courts haven’t awarded before. She wants money for “severe emotional distress” she claims she suffered as a result of her dog being attacked.

Heretofore, “the law limits emotional distress damages to being in the presence of a close human relative who gets injured,” said Ospina’s Monterey attorney, Chuck Warner. “This is unique.”

Courts in most states, including California, view pets as personal property and limit compensation to the fair market value of the pet — including the pedigree of the animal, the purchase price and other criteria.

Noted a year ago – she want’s the other dog dead AND money, money, money

Olga Ospina Suing For Emotional Distress Over Dead Dog

“Old Bath House” Refurbishment Approved

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What, no chili dogs?
Old Bath House Wienerschnitzel

The 60-year-old Bath House perches on some of Pacific Grove’s best oceanside real estate– but the building has been vacant since 2005, when the previous tenant folded under financial troubles.

On Oct. 23, the P.G. Planning Commission approved a permit to improve the landmark and its surroundings at Lovers Point Park. Enea Properties LLC and the city of P.G. plan to remodel and build additions to the Bath House, bring the building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and demolish the shabby restrooms next door.

Those shabby restrooms were repaired for thousands of dollars after a fire in the cinderblock building. Money well spent. The building never was a bath house. It’s always been a restaurant.

“Old Bath House” Refurbishment Approved

Cost Of Running For Local Office

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According to his campaign finance disclosure form filed Oct. 18, Hollister, a retired veterinarian, has received $3,432 in contributions from 19 supporters and made himself a $500 campaign loan. He has spent $1,861.

Cort, the only mayoral candidate listed on the municipal ballot, reported no expenditures and has financed his campaign through a $14,500 self-loan.

· Richard Ahart, $1,355 in cash donated by seven contributors ranging from $20 to $100 each, and a $5,200 self-loan, with expenditures of $5,204.

· Deborah Lindsey, $3,137 in cash, $1,084 in nonmonetary contributions, and expenditures of $5,963.

· Susan Goldbeck, $3,300, including a loan to herself of $925, and expenditures of $2,537.

· Carmelita Garcia, $4,893, including a $200 loan to herself, and $82 in nonmonetary contributions, and expenditures of $5,237.

· Bill Kampe reported $6,578 in contributions, including a $2,000 loan to himself, and expenditures of $3,940.

· Daniel Miller reported a self-loan of $5,753 and contributions of $730 for a total of $6,582, and expenditures of $2,738.

· Ken Cuneo and David Dilworth reported no contributions. Cuneo stated his campaign is entirely self-funded.

No one contributed to Dilworth. ha ha.

Cost Of Running For Local Office

Don’t Sustain The Raccoons

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Of special concern in the Monterey Bay area is humans and domestic animals coming in close contact with raccoons. Besides the fact that raccoons in urban or suburban areas tend to be aggressive and can attack pets and people, they are also carriers of the roundworm parasite called Baylisascaris procyonis.

Raccoons become infected with this roundworm either by ingesting infective eggs from contaminated feces of other raccoons, or by eating infected small animals (rabbits, rodents and birds). Raccoons are asymptomatic carriers, which means that the parasite typically doesn’t cause them any problems, but they shed eggs in their feces which become infective to other animals three to four weeks after they are excreted.

Cover your garbage!

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Don’t Sustain The Raccoons

DIU Driver To Get Second Second Opinion

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Deborah King In Court
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“My client would like an independent evaluator,” she said. “She sees Dr. Fithian and Dr. Finnberg fairly often, and with a split decision, I’m uncomfortable with Dr. Fithian going back again.” (When ordered by the court, the $325 to $500 experts receive for the evaluations is provided by taxpayers.)

She sees both of the these “doctors” often and they do not agree on the woman’s mental health?

Have that third doctor examine the first two doctors while we are at it. Are they fit to prescribe drugs?

DIU Driver To Get Second Second Opinion

Green Spot: Sustainability Enlightenment Or Trash Dump?

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Our own little slice of dirty hippy culture. Hate to say we told you so, but it’s starting to look like a meth-lab/rats nest. Time to call the landlord – Greg Beardsley.

Trash piled up.
Green Spot Trash

Exposed 110 volt wires & dead landscaping. Old plants tossed on the ground is not “composting”.
Green Spot Dump 2

Looking for a toilet tank lid? Or some old flower pots?
Green Spot Toilet Lid

More refuse piled up against building. Lead acid batteries at the bottom of the pile.
Green Spot Hazard

Tiki Torches. With the global warmth petro-chemical fluid leaking out onto the ground.
Green Spot Dump 5

Rusty unmarked containers.
Green Spot Dump 6

Green Spot: Sustainability Enlightenment Or Trash Dump?

Deer Season

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The Hear-old reports a competition for amour resulting in a broken window

The two males were clashing with their antlers, an annual rite of the blacktail deer’s rutting season, on the lawn of the apartment complex about 10:30 a.m.

“They locked those big horns,” she said, then one of the bucks’ antlers pierced the window screen and punched through the window glass, scattering shards all around the living room.

Stoned Deer

Reported in the Pine Cone, a buck with a 2×4 wrapped in rope stuck to it’s antlers:

A young buck who stands out like a sore thumb because he has a 3-foot wooden stake caught in his antlers appears to be healthy, though wildlife officials have different opinions on what to do with the animal.

Amazingly, the deer has been able to drink and eat and get around despite the extra appendage, which the animal acquired in July after getting caught up in construction fencing in Pacific Grove’s Asilomar neighborhood.

“We are fielding 10 calls a day about the deer with the board in his horns,” said Elizabeth Conti-Yeo, P.G.’s animal control officer.

That buck with the extra appendage now has a huge advantage and DOESN’T WANT it removed.

Deer Season

Mayor Cort Dismisses Write In Challenger

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Hollister For Mayor

Mayor Dan Cort this week blasted a last-minute write-in campaign by a longtime city resident to run against him in the Nov. 4 election.

Ted Hollister, who has lived in Pacific Grove for 49 years, announced himself last week as a write-in candidate for mayor, which makes him Cort’s only competition.

“I’ve been overwhelmed with the response,” Hollister told The Pine Cone. “Honestly, it’s very humbling to see all the support.”

But Cort accused Hollister, 77, of not attending a city council meeting in years and questioned the former veterinarian’s motivation for seeking the job.

“We have serious problems facing this city, and if you haven’t been at a city council meeting in four or five years, then really you have no business inserting yourself into something as important as serving on the council,” Cort said.

Our passive and kind mayor is getting a bit testy. He seems surprised that anyone would want question him or take a stab at leading the town,

Mayor Cort Dismisses Write In Challenger

Coyotes Must Read This Site – Come For Free Meals

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Wile E Coyote Appetite

The Pacific Grove Police Department is reporting an increase in coyote activity in Pacific Grove.

In the past several weeks, people have reported a number of coyote sightings and most recently coyotes attacked and killed a dear in the 600 block of Balboa, police said.

According to police, coyotes are prominent in the Central Coast region and it’s important to remember the following:

Do not feed coyotes.

Eliminate sources of water, particularly in dry times of the year.

Secure garbage containers.

Feed pets indoors whenever possible and pick up leftovers if feeding outdoors.

So many free meals – open dumpsters everywhere!

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Coyotes Must Read This Site – Come For Free Meals