The flock of rusty or warped plastic pulp dispensers in front of the post office was replaced back on the 24th of April.
Check out that wrong color post. Accepting such errors is the first step to the ghetto look.
And it didn’t take but a few days before Coast Weakly defaced the side with a big red advertising sticker. Ghetto transformation well advanced . .
(KPIX CBS)
Do your own background checks on anyone you hire.
Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo today announced that Central Coast Senior Services of Pacific Grove has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a false advertising complaint.
Flippo’s office began their investigation in April 2006 after two criminal prosecutions involving Central Coast Senior Services employees stealing from elderly clients.
Perhaps Dan Cort is going convert them into more weekender homes.
Uretsky said the city has two choices. One is to wait for resident complaints and react by investigating and citing property owners. The second is to look for illegal units that pose a potential health and safety hazard, whether through lack of a building permit, a reliance on unauthorized water fixtures or an impact on neighborhood parking.
On Wednesday, the council voted 6-1 to grant an 8 percent raise to police, retroactive to Jan. 1.
Police were allowed to convert their health benefit payments from the city to salaries, which has the effect of boosting their Public Employee Retirement System benefit when they retire.
That part about taking $$ instead of health benefits is just wrong.
(picture from www.morriefisher.com)
Gift shops, galleries and restaurants tempting us with free prizes. There was some amplified music, balloons and a fair amount of people wandering around with diddly bobber antennae (was that the prize?).
To help revive a struggling downtown Pacific Grove, some business owners have come up with a unique idea they’re hoping will draw customers.
Friday night, more than 50 businesses on and around Lighthouse Avenue will take part in the city’s, and perhaps the county’s, first-ever public scavenger hunt, billed as a “Scavenger Hunt with a Twist.”
“It’s a great way for people to get to know downtown P.G. while having a ball and maybe winning a fabulous prize to boot,” said Sally Aberg, one of the event’s coordinators.
The way the game works, Aberg said, is participants will receive a game card with 53 clues and riddles about each participating store, restaurant and gallery. The game will take place April 18 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Meanwhile, up on Forest Hill, Trader Joe has a packed parking lot all day. What do they have that downtown doesn’t? STUFF THAT PEOPLE WANT.
The Monterey County District Attorney recently settled a civil suit that accuses a Pacific Grove elderly care company of false advertising led to placing personal attendants with criminal records in the homes of seniors. Central Coast Senior Services allegedly hired several employees without conducting background checks while, at the same time, advertising that the company screens all employees.
Senior Services has agreed to pay $125,000 in penalties to the district attorney and $50,000 in restitution to Seaside-based Legal Services for Seniors as part of the judgment filed March 26.
Just one question – how do we enforce such a law? Is there going to be a packaging posse kicking in kitchen doors on the hunt for taboo table wares? It could be a cruel way to drive someone crazy – go to Smart’n’Final, buy a package of clamshell to-go plates and stencil the name of an eatery on them and leave at bus stops and such.
Pacific Grove banned food service containers made of polystyrene and plastic utensils at restaurants — cups, plates, bowls and takeout boxes — by unanimous vote of its City Council.
Violations will be punished as an infraction, with a warning the first time and a $100 fine for a second citation. The person paying the fine can use the $100 to buy biodegradable food containers rather than write a check to the city and show a receipt for the purchase to city officials.
I swear, it I didn’t know that that measure U is supported by the Police Officers Association I’d think that the organizers were all smoking some good ganga.
First they forgot the deadline to add arguments for the measure in the voter guide, then they put up a website with eye wrenching colors and misspellings.
(note, the spelling has since been corrected)
It all started way back in yesteryear when the Puritans put their mark on our Piney Paradise. I’m not sure what prompted the City Council to change history, but I suspect it was influenced by the Episcopalians and the Catholics. Somehow communion just wasn’t the same with grape juice.
My mother explained to me that wine in the Bible was not the same as wine today, and even if it was, Jesus said a little wine was good for the stomach.
Now, with a little experience, I realize that Mom was passing on what she had learned from her Congregational heritage and didn’t really know what she was talking about. In later years, she preferred a good Manhattan and there was no mention of that in the Bible. I might add that after 1969, there was very little stomach trouble in Pacific Grove.
Great story, I can vouch very true.
It was part of what kept the town small, and the wino tourists away. I wonder how many votes a council/mayor candidate would get running on a prohibition platform?
