Letters From The Editor
When will our courts and government tell these people to stop inflicting their views on the rest of us? Their Chicken Little approach to life will make the general public indifferent to such protests, and then someone with a truly evil intent will slide something very bad by us, and as we will be so tired of sweating the small stuff, we will OK it and pay dearly.
Project HOPE should stand for Humans Ought to Protest Everything.
Letters From The Editor
We moved to Pacific Grove less than a year ago to enjoy the small-town atmosphere and great schools and to start a business. What we didn’t expect was an epidemic of off-leash dogs. In June, our dog and family was attacked by a German shepherd in a public space less than a block from our home. It resulted in our dog being put to sleep.
This letter is for the woman in the tan Prius who let two Dobermans off the leash Oct. 1 at the lower Presidio park. You know your dogs chased the deer across the park. What you may not know is that the deer jumped the fence near the Private Bolio Gate and was hit by a car.
What are they thinking? Dogs by nature are predatory, territorial and unpredictable. None of the cutesy-wutesy talk is going to change them. They say hello by sniffing butts and if they do not immediately agree which one is “Top Dog” they settle it with fangs.
Haven’t you heard – Dog owners – keep your canines at HOME.
Another wistful rant against all things fun.
Now, as you consider being lured into the new big-box catastrophe growing along Highway 1, think instead about buying locally from independent retailers. Celebrate “Independents Day” every day and join the nationwide unchained movement.
The new shopping center next to the freeway looks much better than the blight of the former Army base buildings that sat empty for decades with broken windows and covered in graffiti. So blind she is that she never mentions the one building worth preserving – a brick depot-like building that is still standing.
One of the walls in the center memorializes the Seventh Infantry – the brave soldiers that once occupied Fort Ord and kept the population of the peninsula more toward a working class. The view of the Target store with the original Army barracks’ in the background is a sight to see.
Anyway, it’s too late shop local – there’s nothing left in local land for a typical working family. If I had to live only on local independent stores for life’s needs life would be very, very boring, I’d have no clothes to wear and my car would not run. Let’s start a list of things you can’t buy locally. Based on Pacific Grove’s “Historic” Downtown.
From sciencedaily.com
Research in Finland finds sustainable fertilizer in human urine.
In the new study, Surendra K. Pradhan and colleagues collected human urine from private homes and used it to fertilize cabbage crops. Then they compared the urine-fertilized crops with those grown with conventional industrial fertilizer and no fertilizer.
The analysis showed that growth and biomass were slightly higher with urine than with conventional fertilizer.
There was no difference in nutritional value of the cabbage. “Our results show that human urine could be used as a fertilizer for cabbage and does not pose any significant hygienic threats or leave any distinctive flavor in food products,” the report concludes.
Two dozen Pacific Grove city employees may soon be out of a job. City leaders voted unanimously Wednesday night to cut 24 positions, Action News reported.
Did you know that an organic gardening agency approves of the pheromone spraying?
Those who have opposed this spraying program presumably are concerned with issues other than the scientific and economic justifications for controlling the LBAM with pheromones. They have presented two points: federal and state agricultural agencies have not given local citizens and public officials research data to prove that pheromones are safe for humans or a role in the decision-making process.
Such arguments reflect a distrust of federal and state authorities more than substantial concerns. To be realistic, we are exposed daily to numerous chemicals that have not been proven safe for human exposure, and federal and state agencies make countless decisions without citizen participation. Our complex, fast-moving society simply could not function if we require absolute foreknowledge of the consequences of our actions and decision-making at the grass roots level.
Can’t let the cash strapped city control the flow of money to the union . .
A union representing Pacific Grove city employees plans to challenge announced layoffs that will affect its members.
Laborers Local 270 president Tim McCormick, representative for the Santa Cruz-based local’s public employee section, said he plans to attend the Pacific Grove City Council meeting Wednesday to argue that the city doesn’t have the right to cut its members from the staff without negotiating with the union first.
“I pay my dues ahead of time, when the benefits come I’m last in line” – Neil Young
In Joseph Cupita’s last moments, his live-in companion was kneeling on his chest, suffocating him, and smothering his face with a pillow as the 81-year-old man grappled for his life, according to a picture painted by a prosecutor during a preliminary hearing for Lynne Nicole Feurer on Friday.
Prosecutor Elaine McCleaf presented witnesses who said tiny hemorrhages in Cupita’s face and chest areas showed he died of asphyxiation. Bite wounds on his hands and arms and scratches from his own fingernails on his face indicated he was trying to fight off his attacker when he died. There was also blood on his pillow, according to testimony.
About time . .
A Pacific Grove woman accused of suffocating her husband will be unshackled and in street clothes when she faces preliminary hearing Friday.
Judge James Cadle granted the motion by the defense attorney for Lynne Nicole Feurer, 65. Frank Dice argued that forcing Feurer to appear shackled and in orange-and-white-striped jail garb conveys an image of guilt.
Officer Larry Starkey of the California Highway Patrol said Phillip Johnson was westbound on Holman Highway about 11:20 p.m. when his motorcycle and a Nissan pickup collided head-on.
The driver of the pickup, a 43-year-old man from Seaside, apparently lost control just west of Scenic Drive, crossed the center line and continued into the path of Johnson’s motorcycle, said Starkey.
The force of the impact threw Johnson to the road. He died at the scene.