Category Archives: Pacific Grove

No Link Between Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying and Reported Illnesses

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And Sam “the sham’ Farr has showed some rare gonads and came out against the spraying. Weird, I’ve always thought Farr was in the AgBiz’s back pocket.

Doctors and scientists from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the California Department of Public Health and the state Department of Pesticide Regulation examined the illness complaints that followed aerial spraying of a pheromone product in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties last year and described their findings in today’s report.
As the LBAM program continues, the state will monitor the safety of any future spraying.

Mothra

No Link Between Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying and Reported Illnesses

Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone

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If the gas prices keeping tourists away don’t kill downtown this will. If I need to leave the car down or up the hill to go to the bank or hardware store, forget it. I’ll just keep driving all the way to Sand City.

Cort floated an idea that came out of the city’s Economic Advisory Committee. Pacific Grove could close several blocks of Lighthouse Avenue to cars, he said, creating the first “pedestrianized” downtown on the Peninsula.

Murmurs grew until the room was buzzing like a poked beehive. The noise drowned out the mayor’s subsequent comments on water storage and solar roofs.
But City Councilman Alan Cohen, who also sits on the committee and owns Lighthouse Business Center, is skeptical. He worries that commercial rents on Lighthouse – which are already at a premium – could be affected. And he doesn’t like the notion of customers walking several blocks to go shopping, then schlepping their packages back to their cars. “It would close off traffic on a street that brings a lot of people to town,” he says.

Rough estimate of the planned no car zones:

Ban Cars Downtown

Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone

Mayor’s Agenda – Redevelop Apartments Into Weekender Condos

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Every politician seems to have an agenda that is not revealed when campaigning. Better name is 7 Morons.
Tic Ommons Moron Manor

It’s called Oceans 7 and gives an impressive presentation from the sidewalk through its broad, open-ended, open-to-the-sky walkway separating the two parts of the two-story building (one side numbered 2-6, the other, 1-7) that are united by patterns made by the mid-century-modern stairway railings. Their clean lines criss-cross as they curve around the landings, recalling the optical rhythms of 1950s functional sculpture. A subdued little square of a garden atop a platform on the far side of the courtyard has a small, glazed spherical fountain with water lazily covering its whole shape.

Mayor’s Agenda – Redevelop Apartments Into Weekender Condos

American Tin Cannery Being Developed? With Housing?

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No April Foolin. I’ve thought this would be a much better hotel/convention site than the Holman’s Building.

ATC

Representatives for the owner,(. . .) Cannery Row Co. envision a model development that would incorporate “green” energy-saving building technology and turn the former factory building into a complex containing condominiums, moderately priced apartments, a hotel “that could compete with Pebble Beach and Carmel,” shops and service businesses.
Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort and City Manager Jim Colangelo agree that the property is underused.
Colangelo said city officials have had talks with Cannery Row Co. representatives during the past several years “trying to figure out a way the city and Cannery Row Co. can generate more revenue” from the site.

American Tin Cannery Being Developed? With Housing?

Does Substainable Mean Bailing Out Failed Businesses, Too?

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Wooden Nickle OOB

A “sustainable” Pacific Grove isn’t just about the environment; it’s economics too, City Councilwoman Vicki Stilwell told her colleagues at Wednesday’s council meeting.

In her case, the economics of the city didn’t sustain her and her husband’s business, the Woodenickel gift shop at 529 Central Ave., which is holding its final closeout sale today.

“We’ve had a wonderful five years,” Stilwell said, “but I don’t know if it’s the recession, the price of gas, the mortgage crisis.”

Business just hasn’t been good enough.

Sorry to sound mean, but first you need to have something to sell that people want. Fewer tourists and fewer people decorating their weekender homes equals less need for phony country charm.

If you are going to pimp the town to tourists, you’ll have to cave and give them something that they will be drawn to P.G for. One suggestion is to get Trader Joe’s to move to the main floor of the Holman building. But that would decimate the all-blessed Grove Market, none of our best bribed politicos would approve it.

Think . . something unique yet familiar to all . .
Holmans Hooters

Does Sustainable Mean Bailing Out Failed Businesses, Too?

Barack Hussein Obama Supporters Marching In P.G.

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Organizers of “BARK Obama 08,” a 10K walk-a-thon to benefit a local animal welfare organization and the Obama ’08 Campaign, encourage all animal lovers, walkers and Obama supporters to join together for a fun morning walk this weekend . . . (from the) Monterey Bay Aquarium and will follow the coastline to Asilomar Beach

Barack Hussein Obama quotes:
“I can’t keep Farrakhan from supporting me”
“I can no more disown Rev. Wright than I can disown my grandmother”
“My grandmother was a Typical White Person”
“I don’t want my daughters punished with babies”
“The campaign is like the Bataan Death March”
“they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion”
Offensive to whites, Jews, mothers, war survivors. Dogs? Nope, has not offended dogs. yet

Barack Hussein Obama Supporters Marching In PG

The Most Sustainable P.G. Thing Is Going Out Of Business Signs

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What a great example of recycling. These businesses would be awarded something for their ‘green’ efforts, if they were not shut down.

First saw the signs at Hallmark.
Hallmark Oob

Then First Noel
First Noel

Now they area in use at Wooden Nickel in a closing gala.
Wooden Nickle OOB

I don’t know anyone that ever spent money at Wooden Nickel. It looked like another store full of phony country charm. Speaking of phony charm, the charm’s the same, but the name is new over at Country Attic, now to be known as Nancy’s Attic.
Nancys Attic

The Most Sustainable P.G. Thing Is Going Out Of Business Signs