Category Archives: Pacific Grove

P.G. Resident’s Greed Leads To Loss Of Cash

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A caller apparently called the victim and identified himself as a merchant banker for First Caribbean Bank. He told the victim he had won a Publisher Clearinghouse-type sweepstakes, according to police commander Thomas Uretsky.

The solicitor advised the victim to send $2,900 to an address in Texas to pay for the excise taxes on the winnings.

victims are asked to call a phone number with a three-digit area code to collect a prize and the victim assumes they are making a domestic long-distance call. But when making the call, they are connected to a number outside the United States and are charged international call rates.

Uh huh. Send $2900 and call an overseas toll number. Don’t ever believe anyone saying you will win money if you send them yours . . .

P.G. Resident’s Greed Leads To Loss Of Cash

P.G. Motels Robbing The Tourists On MotoGP Weekend

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On Monday, the phones at Monterey Peninsula Reservations were busy with visitors seeking last-minute rooms. The few rooms available were mostly because of cancellations, said owner Donna Ibens.

Two-night minimums are pretty standard, he said, and rates climb as demand increases. So while the county’s average room rate in December and January was $129, the July and August rate average last year reached $180.

“The prices are scaring people a bit,” said Ibens. “I’ve had a lot of calls and they don’t want to pay $300 a night.”

The least expensive rooms were $250 a night in Pacific Grove and Carmel, said Ibens.

These are the hotels opposing a tax hike? $500 to stay in PG for two nights? Ow!

P.G. Motels Robbing The Tourists On MotoGP Weekend

Letters From The Editor

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Vanessa writes to the Hear-Old:

“Why would I shop at a Pacific Grove farmers market when I can find fresh produce at Grove Market

Why would I shop at a cavernous hardware store when I can walk into P.G. Hardware

Why would I shop at an enormous office supply chain when Alpha Stationery

There are so many reasons to live and shop in Pacific Grove, many of them that feed my soul and reassure me of the decision we made 32 years ago to make this our home forever.”

Well Vanessa, some people have to work and don’t have a lot of time to dodge the tourists or find parking downtown. Biggest factor is that the streets once again roll up at 7:00PM and none of those stores are open when working people come home to PG.

Letters From The Editor

Fourth Name For CC Gate Supermarket

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At midnight today, Albertsons in Pacific Grove, Sand City, Capitola and Salinas on South Main Street will close for conversion. They will reopen at 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Save Mart, which opened its first store in 1952 in Modesto, has 252 stores today, including Food Maxx, Albertsons and S-Mart Foods outlets. So far, it has converted 34 Albertsons to Save Mart stores, most recently in the Sacramento area.

Alpha-Beta, Lucky, Albertsons and now Save Mart.

Was there today – the are getting ready for the rebranding. Lots of SM logos on the walls. The checkers should wear leather aprons.

Since they are closing for 2 days, lots of stuff was on sale – meats in particular. Other stuff was scarce, like breads. Dare I say that the bread aisle looked like Safeway, empty on Sundays.

Hope they don’t lose the Groove in the receipt
Pacific Groove

UPDATE! They lost the Groove. Awww nuts! Not even a ‘Grove’.No Groove Receipt

Fourth Name For CC Gate Supermarket

P.G. Business Owner David Stamm Faces More Charges

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David Stamm

From The Salinas Californian

An investigation started when Pacific Grove police arrested Stamm after the victim — now an adult — came forward.

Neighbors said they were not surprised when they learned that Stamm was arrested on suspicion of felony child molestation.

From KSBW

Eight of the counts allege lewd or lascivious acts; one count involves oral copulation with a minor.

Another count charges Stamm with dissuading a witness.

PG Business Owner David Stamm Faces More Charges

Friends Of Monarchs May Flutter Away

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The Pacific Grove group that saved one of the monarch butterfly’s favorite West Coast haunts is undergoing a metamorphosis of its own.

Friends of the Monarchs may soon dissolve, because it has become a challenge to attract board members and keep volunteer levels up, group leaders said.

If you can’t collect enough people to be on the board of the symbolic butterfly, how would we ever amass enough people to collect enough compost to be sustainable?

Friends Of Monarchs May Flutter Away

No Bail Reduction For Lynne Nicole Feurer

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A judge refused Wednesday to lower the bail for a Seaside High School teacher accused of murdering her elderly male companion.

Visiting Judge Arjuna Saraydarian rejected a bail-reduction motion by the attorney for Lynne Nicole Feurer, 65, who was arrested by Pacific Grove police late last month.

Feurer is accused of killing Joseph Cupita, 81, at the couple’s home May 29. She has been held in jail on $1 million bail since being charged with Cupita’s death.

Defense attorney Frank Dice argued that her bail be lowered, citing her background in the community. He presented several letters from community members who said she is a good person.

Nicole Fuere Court

No Bail Reduction For Lynne Nicole Feurer

Substainable P.G. Will Not Solve #1 Problem

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Letters From The Editor:

Calling P.G. a green town is admirable, but this will not build up businesses. Most people simply don’t care, and are shopping for a bargain or an exceptional piece of art. Don’t wish for a tourist town. Wish for a town tourists enjoy visiting, a place that reminds them of a place long forgotten.

Say it louder. Cater to and take care of the locals and the tourists will want to be part of it. Take care of just the tourists and you lose the locals that may carry you through off season times.

Substainable PG Will Not Solve #1 Problem

A Beauty College Downtown?

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Lighthouse Cinema

Developer Robert Enea is now considering bringing a Paul Mitchell School to the old Lighthouse Cinema, where projectors were shut off in September.

City Manager Colangelo said he’d prefer to see the spot go to a retailer that will generate sales tax for the city. The only revenue the city would get from a cosmetology school would be from “students spending money here and patrons coming in to get beautified,” he said.

What happened to the discount liquor store idea? What about an Outback Steakhouse? Bring some REAL revenue. Or are there too many mediocre PG merchants that cannot even match the service of a formula chain establishment brown nosing the council these days?

A Beauty College Downtown?

Empty Headed Eco-Nuts – Sustainable P.G.

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I’m all for common sense to reduce waste, but this crap is ridiculous. This sounds like hippies that sold to the man out are back, and now they are broke and looking for handouts, or at least a reason to not find real work. “Dude, lets grow organic herbs and sell them, like, to the hardware store for some nails”. “Yah, man – we can also have a fashion show with garbage. We can get a far out grant from the city and score some bud, man.”

Hippies

From the website.

Are you having a gathering where you want to use biodegradable food service items? Want to spread the word on how to help organizations become more sustainable?
Click here to see a page of sources for biodegradable goods.
http://www.sustainablepg.org/green/bio_goods.php

That source contains NOTHING LOCAL. Links to buy stuff from sustainable Cleveland. Aint that stupid?

Got a lot of time on your hands and don’t want to use modern disinfectants or cleaners? They recommend solving world problems with vinegar. Does not work.

Then lets change some more. After a few tokes they come up with this fantasy:

Residents walk throughout town finding the goods they need and new stores open to showcase locally manufactured products. A local bike store houses a bike-lending library, and citizens ride scooters and bikes down our roads. A tool-lending library and a fix-it shop opens to allow residents to share tools and knowledge.

Problem is, the town does not cater to residents. This stuff is useless to tourists and generates little to no tax revenue. To really sustain, you need money. Unless we move toward living in communes . . .

Waco Utopia

More Fantasies:

Rail, transit expansion, bicycle and walking,
Speed limit reduction, self limitation of non-essential driving

Hah! “limitation of non-essential driving” They want to take away your driving privileges.

Telecommuting, compressed work week, worker relocation closer to job sites.

Workers in PG cannot afford to live here. Will they set up tents in the “open spaces” like street medians?

More . . some of the group’s ideas include

A green job corps, in which high school students could learn skills such as converting businesses or houses to solar energy

Solar in PG? Named the foggiest town in America.

Growing community gardens and selling the produce at a weekly farmers market now in the works

Let’s not pay income or sales taxes.

Creating a local mutual fund with money going to community projects.

Where does they money come from? Compost Sales?

Widening bike lanes and bringing electric bikes to town

Electric bikes. Ooh, more wasteful energy. Streets in PG are too narrow to share – so see the part about taking our cars away.

Reclaiming common spaces, such as traffic medians, for community art projects and gardens.

Or tents for the people that have to live closer to their minimum wage jobs.

Holding community-building events such as a soup night or projecting movies against a building

Ooo boy. Yah, let’s all gather for showings of “Loose Change” and other leftist propaganda. Don’t drink the kool aide.

Jim Jones Kool Aid

Someone tell me this is all a joke.

Empty Headed Eco-Nuts – Sustainable PG