Interesting – a principal that has more than a few years of experience in P.G. schools. Kudos to the district.
Bell first worked at the high school in 1983 as a math teacher and as the head swimming coach. He moved on to principal at Robert Down Elementary and Pacific Grove Middle School, where he last worked.
Superintendent Ralph Porras says promoting Bell to principal made sense because of his knowledge of and history with the district.
After business owners protested the market for more than a year, the open air market on Lighthouse Avenue will go on every Monday from 4p.m. to 8p.m.
Many shoppers welcomed the farmers market and said it was over due in Pacific Grove.
Meanwhile, opponents of the market say only time will tell what if any affect the market will have on other businesses.
Final vote – two thumbs up. Take care of it and it can be a great thing.
Driver of this car throws cigarette butts out the window.
What? Are there not any craftsmen that work & live in our town.
Checked Google for Norton, one of these days. Working out of Monterey.
Checked Yahoo! for Norton. Still says Monterey.
Let your fingers take a walk (street address blurred – that would be uncool since it’s an apartment). Monterey.
Someone claiming to be Ted Norton called and left a message peppered with F-words. Click to hear – it’s bleeped.
Sicko
Pacific Grove police searched Stamm’s home and seized a laptop after Doe went to authorities in 2007. With the help of a forensic computer expert at the Salinas Police Department, Pesenhofer said, they learned that Stamm used a program called Evidence Eliminator to scrub files from the computer on June 12, 2007.
Despite efforts to erase files from the computer, Pesenhofer said, police found several pornographic photos of teenage boys and a video of two young male teens performing oral sex.
Fliers have been posted in neighborhoods surrounding Monterey High School warning of a mountain lion sighting in early July.
The signs warn residents to be careful if they run into animals.
By a 5-1 vote, the council upheld a previous approval of the farmers market by the city’s Planning Commission and denied an appeal launched by local veterinarian Jennifer Wernsing, who argued that the market would unfairly affect her practice.
Public transit would be impacted by moving the market away from the animal clinic. Who gets impacted more – people that go to the vet’s office between 4:00pm and closing, or people that ride the bus?
Monterey has a weekly farmers market that blocks the entire length of Alvarado street from car traffic and no one complains.
Wednesday, the Pacific Grove City Council will hold a public hearing on the location of the market, after which members are expected to decide the day — Saturdays are also being considered — and location. The hearing will be held in council chambers at 6 p.m. at 300 Forest Ave.
The appeal to change locations was led by veterinarian Jennifer Wernsing who said that keeping the market near 18th Street would affect clients at her Cottage Veterinary Care Clinic at 172 16th St.
“The (city) made a small accommodation,” Wernsing said. “I don’t think that is one that will be satisfactory for providing access for our clients and not enough for the merchants near us.”
Said to be caused by not being able to afford the sewer rates.
From the MRWPCA web pages:
A Bakery pays $25.95 a month.
A Restaurant serving three meals a day pays $1.85 per seat, per month.
At ohhhh 85 seats that would be $157.25.
Then there is a 200% City charge. Total monthly:
Bakery: $77.85
Restaurant: $471.75
So we know that Grove Market opposes the farmers market because it’s competition. Ron’s Liquors opposes it because all of the veggie loving crowd will make the consumers of tobacco, booze & pr0n shop elsewhere, now a veterinarian says nay nay because people would not be able to drive down the one way street . . .
But Cottage Veterinary Care owner Jennifer Wernsing, whose business is on 16th Street, has appealed the planning commission’s approval of the location, requesting instead the market be held between 15th and 13th streets or on Saturdays.
“This street closure would be a terrible obstacle for each of my 3,000-plus local clients and their beloved pets,” Wernsing wrote in her appeal, dated June 26.
Wernsing contends that would require clients and pets to walk several blocks to her office.
For one business hour on Mondays, people would need to walk half a block from Central (or cut through the parking lot across the street). Hardly the “several blocks” she states. Makes it sound like all 3,000 customers would be arriving at 4:05 pm on Monday. Is she related to Grove Market or Ron’s Liquors?