Category Archives: Pacific Grove

P.G.’s Mountain Lion Lunches At Bleachers

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Lion Bleachers

Mountain lion warnings have been posted at Pacific Grove High School and nearby Forest Grove Elementary School after the carcass of a deer apparently killed by a big cat was discovered on campus last week.

The slain deer was found under the visitors’ bleachers at Breaker Stadium at 4 p.m. Thursday, said high school principal Stan Dodd.

No lion was seen, he said, but an animal control officer and state Department of Fish and Game warden confirmed that the carcass was likely a mountain lion kill.

“We’ve alerted everyone,” he said. “We’ve informed everyone to take precautions at the school at night and before dawn. Luckily, the time they’re active is when the kids aren’t here.”

The deer was removed by the Department of Fish and Game to prevent the lion from returning to finish its meal, said Police Chief Darius Engles.

OK, so let’s tick off the lion and steal it’s food. Will it leave or just look for something else to eat?

P.G.’s Mountain Lion Lunches At Bleachers

P.G. Public Works Commits Herbicide

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Dead Ice Plant

Dead brown dirt surrounds Washington Park’s picnic benches and tables in Pacific Grove. Weeks earlier, groundskeepers doused sprouting weeds with such a wash of Roundup that passerby Ximena Waissbluth thought they were watering the ground.

“It’s never really occurred to me why there is no grass there, until I saw the enormous quantity of chemical they use,” she said.

Ximena makes it sound like they are pouring straight DDT on the ground. Roundup is diluted with water.

Would you rather have tall brown weeds amongst the picnic areas that could easily catch fire?

Roundup Vs Ice Plant

P.G. Public Works Commits Herbicide

P.G. Going Solar? Mayor Dan Cort Says Yes

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Mayor Dan Cort wants to install solar panels on the city’s buildings and schools, which he said would reduce energy use by as much as 80 percent and set an example for other small California cities. I want Pacific Grove to be a totally energy sustainable, green city, Cort said. Representatives from Honeywell, a multinational corporation that specializes in energy efficient systems, were in town last week and visited several buildings to determine what’s necessary to retrofit them for solar energy.

Once known as the foggiest city in the USA. Has the climate changed to Arizona conditions over the last 100 years?

P.G. Going Solar? Mayor Dan Cort Says Yes

Council Warming Up To John Denver Memorial

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John Denver Plane

A permanent tribute to musician John Denver may soon be built on the shoreline near where his plane plummeted into Monterey Bay nearly 10 years ago.

The Pacific Grove City Council has been asked by the California Friends of John Denver and Denver’s family to place a memorial rock between Acropolis Street and Asilomar Avenue near Point Pinos.

Moe Ammar, executive director of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, said at least two people a week call or come by his office searching for the site of the crash. Some want to say prayers.

John Denver Memorial Map

Council Warming Up To John Denver Memorial

Lighthouse Cinema Owner Looking To Open OBH

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Robert Enea, a Danville developer who owns the old Lighthouse Cinema in Pacific Grove, has proposed to lease the property for 30 years at $60,000 annually, remodel it and bring in a new restaurant.

One option would be to have a restaurant that specializes in one style of food requiring a smaller kitchen, creating more table space. He’s also evaluating whether he could add a deck to the building.

He said his company, Enea Properties Company LLC, is considering specialty restaurants, like a sushi bar or an upscale restaurant that does take-out. He didn’t exclude bringing in a chain restaurant, but said there weren’t many that would consider such a small location.

Hmm – specialty food, chain . . .Old Bath House Krispy Kreme

More upscale than a McD
Old Bath House Arbys

Should attract the families
Old Bath House Hooters

My fave – chili dogs
Old Bath House Wienerschnitzel

Lighthouse Cinema Owner Looking To Open OBH

As Griggs Nursery Goes, Mini Mansions Move In

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Bare it Bennett would rather see substainable housing.

Griggs Nursery Homes

Griggs said a five-year sales slump and his desire to retire are the reasons he wants to sell the land. He hasn’t said when he’ll close shop, but said it could be in 2009.

Lisa Bennett said she wanted to support the general plan amendment but couldn’t because she would rather see affordable housing on the land. “I do have some problems with the single-family residential model which is a pattern in our community, but hasn’t been a successful model in California for affordable housing or transportation,” Bennett said.

As Griggs Nursery Goes, Mini Mansions Move In

P.G. City Council Votes For Layoffs

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Also remember that Unions do not make one immune to layoffs.

As part of the reorganization, the city’s public works director, an account clerk and a part-time office assistant will be laid off in early April. The responsibilities and titles of four other employees will change, and three new positions — a principal analyst, a management analyst and a senior accountant — will be added.

Tim McCormick of Laborers International Union Local 270A, the union that represents 41 nonpublic safety city employees, said they had been told during the last budget cuts that they were safe from layoffs. Colangelo’s plan caught them off guard.

“It wasn’t reasonable notice,” said McCormick. Announced on Feb. 14, the reorganization has been dubbed by some employees as the St. Valentines’ Day Massacre.

One member of the union will be laid off as a result of the reorganization, he said. For the remaining employees, the sudden announcement has made them feel vulnerable and question their loyalty to the city, McCormick said.

P.G. City Council Votes For Layoffs

P.G. City Department Heads On The Block

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Makes sense to centralize common tasks and put department leaders to work in their departments.

Departments affected include recreation, community development, public works and the city’s golf course, library and museum.

“I don’t think this is a massacre,” Colangelo said. “This is something necessary to move the organization forward. This is a relatively small step we are taking.”

City department heads spend “too much time doing administrative tasks instead of providing the services we need to be providing,” he said.

Under Colangelo’s plan, tasks burdening department heads would be shifted to city administrators. Department head posts would be eliminated. Senior departmental staff members, who are paid less, would run the departments.

“I have to support my city manager,” said Recreation Director John Miller. “Changes have to be made, and this is his vision.”

Miller, who worked for the city as a teenager and started full time in 1979, said past city managers talked about reorganizing, but he has never seen any action.

“This is actually the first time in my 28 years that a plan has come forward to move in the direction of centralizing everything,” he said.

P.G. City Department Heads On The Block

Susan Goldbeck’s Daughter Arrested

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Police said Mary Goldbeck, 18, and two 15-year-old boys were taken into custody in connection with a house burglary in the 900 block of Fountain Avenue.

Investigators found stolen property in Goldbeck’s possession, police said, adding that some of the recovered items were taken from unlocked vehicles in recent weeks.

When will they leave? Please, do us a favor and leave.

Susan Goldbeck’s Daughter Arrested