Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Fool Others That You Are Going Green: Get Help From PG Restaurant

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Passionfish owner Cindy Walter and the California Restaurant Association, Monterey County Health Department, Environmental Health Division Stormwater & Education Alliance will present a free “Green Business and Storm Water Education Workshop,”

Walter’s Pacific Grove restaurant is Monterey County’s first certified green restaurant, with a strict purchase policy that includes sustainable, organic, reusable, and recyclable products. The business has also instituted a number of economical and environmentally-friendly business practices that include creative reuse of business supplies and the use of natural, chemical-free cleaning supplies.

I call B.S. You should see the mountains of landfill-destined garbage and rubbish that this restaurant generates. Look at the grease encroaching the sidewalk leaking from their overflowing dumpster. See the other trash cans blocking the sidewalk. This “green” business practices is a farce.

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Fool Others That You Are Going Green: Get Help From PG Restaurant

Sunny Kavil In Court On Sex Charges

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(Gilroy Dispatch)

Pervs at the American Tin Cannery
Noted about a year ago, one month before David Stamm was arrested.

Sunny Kavil Court

According to court documents, on May 19, 2007, a then-16-year-old girl was working at Sunnyline Clothing, a store owned by Kavil in the city of Pacific Grove, near Monterey. Though the girl had only been working in the store two days, she had on multiple occasions felt uncomfortable with Kavil, Pacific Grove police officer Angelo DeMarco testified in a preliminary hearing held Nov. 5, 2007.

About an hour after unloading the van, Kavil told the girl he needed to show her how to turn off the lights using the electrical breaker box, police said. She went into a back room, went up to the breaker box and Kavil stood behind her.

He then grabbed her across the chest and waist, pressing his hips up against her and reaching up under her sweatshirt and shirt, police said. Despite her pleading for him to stop, he made several remarks about his arousal and, during the course of the incident, he turned off the lights, police said. The girl said she heard him unzipping his pants, police added.

The girl managed to get out of Kavil’s grasp, grab her purse and run out of the store and the building, police said. She then called her mom, who called police and picked up the sobbing girl from a nearby parking lot.

Sunny Kavil

Sunny Kavil In Court On Sex Charges

The Ugly Less-Ugly News Racks Get Ugly

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“We will pay for a maintenance program if they become damaged or have graffiti,” she said. “The maintenance fee for each site is about $500 per year.”

Ugly News Rack

Last year these ugly steel news racks were in the planning phase. The first one arrived and now blocks the morning sun from the coffee place. Now it starts sliding back into ghetto news rack chic – thanks to Coast Weakly sticking it’s bumper stickers all over it. That should cost the bad tabloid a $500 maintenance fee, and lose 4 of it’s plastic boxes elsewhere in town.

Lisa Bennett pointed it out in the council meeting, attorney Laredo confirmed it was the same as graffiti.

The Ugly Less-Ugly News Racks Get Ugly

Eco-Freaks Giving Away Stash Of Trees

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Sustainable Pacific Grove, a volunteer group undertaking projects to help the city become more self-reliant and sustainable, and Trees for PG plan to erase the carbon footprint of the city’s annual Good Old Days celebration with trees — seedlings and adults — planted around the city after next month’s festival.

This does not sound like a good idea.

They will block the sun from the solar panels!

Ronald Reagan said they cause pollution!

Police will run innocent suspects into them.

They are killing the tourists.

Sustainable PG Firewood?

Eco-Freaks Giving Away Stash Of Trees

One For You 8.25 Percent For Me

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Sales taxes only produce revenue when there are taxable things being sold.

The City Council voted unanimously March 5 to put the measure on the June 3 ballot to meet a March 7 filing deadline with the county Registrar of Voters.

Measure U, if approved, would raise the sales tax from 7.25 percent to 8.25 percent, with the additional cent on the dollar going to the city general fund.

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One For You 8.25 Percent For Me

Letters From The Editor: P.G. Bad For Cell Phone Signals

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It’s a fact. Cell receptions totally stinks in PG business areas.

Thank you, Pacific Grove elders, for allowing me to spend several hundred dollars in your beautiful city, but not allowing me to use my cell phone due to your poor reception.

It’s a shame you are so resistant to any new technology allowing cell towers, but you will gladly take my money.

From now on, I will spend my dollars down the street in Monterey where I can use my cell phone and buy a Starbucks. Your city may be beautiful, but it is the 21st century.

Letters From The Editor: P.G. Bad For Cell Phone Signals

Glenn Blevins Declared Competent

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Blevins was once from P.G.

State doctors have decided a mentally ill Monterey man charged with beating a day laborer on Fort Ord is now competent to face trial.

Judge Timothy Roberts said Glenn Blevins would be transported to Monterey County Jail from Atascadero State Mental Hospital. Doctors at Atascadero informed the court Blevins’ competency had been restored through treatment, the judge said this morning.

He is charged with an Aug. 10 attack on Artemio Santiago Garcia, 30. According to Marina police, Blevins chose Garcia from a group of day laborers in Seaside on the pretext that he needed some work done. He then allegedly drove his white pickup to an abandoned area of Fort Ord, where he beat Santiago Garcia to the point of unconsciousness.

Glenn Blevins Declared Competent

More Moth Arguments

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“Bug Experts”? Is the Hear-Old taking lessons from David Dilworth? They are Entomologists.

Mothra

A top state bug expert threw cold water Friday on a report suggesting the light brown apple moth has been kept in check in New Zealand without an aggressive pesticide program.

The report’s shortcomings, in Hoffman’s view, include:
· Overlooking financial and environmental costs of New Zealand’s pest management program.
· Giving short shrift to possible pitfalls of introducing non-native species to prey on the light brown apple moth.

It is unlikely the moth’s natural enemies would be allowed in the United States, Hoffman said.
· Ignoring the potential impact if the light brown apple moth becomes established in other parts of California, other states or Mexico and Canada.

“The authors display a lack of understanding about the purpose of classifying (the moth) as a regulated pest and the necessity of implementing actions to restrict its movement,” Hoffman wrote.

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What Kind Of Green Is The Mayor Thinking?

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“The green and sustainable movement is ignored at our own peril,” Cort told chamber members who gathered for a lunch of fillet Mignon or vegetarian lasagna at the Inn at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach. “It’s like taking yourself off the Internet. We’re not going to be left behind.”

Pacific Grove can’t compete with the big box stores of Sand City, the shopping centers of Monterey, or the high-end boutiques of Carmel, he said. So it has to offer its own unique appeal for shopping and tourism.

One proposal by the city’s economic advisory committee is for conversion of the portion of Lighthouse Avenue in the old part of downtown to a pedestrian-only area, making Pacific Grove “the first pedestrian-only city on the Peninsula” he said.

He talking out of two mouths. One says to be sustain, recycle, solar and the other says let’s worship those hydrocarbon emitting cars that are so despised by the likes of Joy Colon-Jello.

The March 5 agenda pitches a once a month gathering of cars, old ones – the most polluting of all:

The City Council will consider adding the “Pacific Grove Old Town Classic Car Show” sponsored by Rats to Riches, Inc. a non-profit to the City’s Special Events Calendar.
Reference: City Manager Colangelo
Recommended Action: Approve addition of “Rats to Riches” Car Show to the City’s Special Events Calendar

In the same agenda is a reconsideration of another auto-worship event taking over the city’s golf course:

The City Council will consider the creation of a Council Subcommittee of Council Members Miller and Nilmeier to negotiate with Concorso Italiano, Inc for an exotic car show at the Pacific Grove Golf Course.
Reference: Council Members Nilmeier and Miller
Recommended Action: Direct Staff to negotiate formal agreement for future Council consideration

What Kind Of Green Is The Mayor Thinking?