Flush Twice For Tourists, Nothing For Replenishment

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The recycled water plan was a bait and switch.

Dollar Water

 

City Manager Tom Frutchey explained during the October council hearing that it was always the plan to eventually make most of the saved potable water available for city allocation to new uses. He did, however, also note the allocation process can be lengthy and most of the water would remain in the river when the plant opens. The city’s plan calls for construction to begin in the spring and be finished and operational by late next year or early 2017.

Pacific Grove activist Luke Colletti called the city’s maneuvers on the project to make water available for new projects such as the New Bella hotel proposal at the American Tin Cannery instead of offsetting illegal diversions from the river a “major deception.” He argued the city was risking its state funding. Colletti alleged that city officials had lied to the Coastal Commission, which he said believed the recycled water would go back to the river to help the environment.

Flush Twice For Tourists, Nothing For Replenishment

Jacobo Ruelas Conviction Stands

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As it should be.
Kris Olinger Bench 2013

The Sixth District Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Jacobo Ruelas in the 1997 murder of 17-year-old Kristopher Olinger, according to Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo.

Ruelas was convicted in October 2013 of first-degree murder with special circumstances, kidnapping for robbery and kidnapping for carjacking in the death of the Monterey High School senior, who was stabbed and left to die near the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail.

Ruelas was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.

The case went unsolved for nearly a decade before state investigators matched palm prints on Olinger’s car in 2005 to Ruelas and his brother Angel.

Angel Ruelas was also charged in connection with the crime, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without possibility of parole.

Jacobo Ruelas Conviction Stands

Tractor Rape!

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Sexy Tractor

 

A Suffolk man with a bizarre sexual attraction to tractors has been banned from the countryside and forced to sign the sex-offenders’ register.
Ralph Bishop, 53, was found by police with his trousers around his ankles “interfering” with a tractor parked in a field outside Saxmundham.
He was arrested on suspicion of outraging public decency, and admitted to having had sex with around 450 tractors all over the Suffolk countryside.
When officers searched his terraced home they found a collection of more than 5,000 tractor images on his laptop.
The photos showed Bishop had a special desire for John Deere and Massey Ferguson tractors, particularly green ones.
A police insider said: “We couldn’t believe it when we found him in the field. He was wearing a white t-shirt and Wellington boots and very little else. He was clearly in state of high excitement at the rear of the machine.
“Thankfully nobody else was around, but the field is close to a village primary school so we had to arrest him and educate him about the error of his ways.
“He told us he was particularly ‘in to’ axle grease and the presence of this around the back of tractors was all too much for him.”
Bishop, twice divorced, was released without charge on condition he sought psychological help. He was put on the sex-offenders’ register.
“He is also banned from the countryside and is now not allowed to go within one mile of a farm,” the police insider added. “So he has to live and remain in the middle of Ipswich to comply with that.
“However, we are watching him because we are worried about the safety of several street-cleaning machines.”
Another policeman added: “He’ll also need to keep away from the town’s gardens – if he takes a fancy to a lawn mower he might find he loses more than just his liberty.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Three months later, things had not improved for Mr Bishop, who was caught out trying to get a job at an agriculture college, where he wanted to give the farm machinery a vigorous scrub down.

Tractor Rape!

Suffolk Gazzette

 

Fake Solicitors Begging for Money

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Be careful when dealing with solicitors. Or don’t ever give them anything.

On Wednesday, after someone complained, police spoke with one of the solicitors who claimed to be collecting money for “Carepackagecampaign.org.”

Police said they researched the organization and found reports and warnings that the campaign is fake.

Police want residents to be careful when dealing with solicitors, and to always request to see their permits.

Fake Solicitors Begging for Money

Three Hour Parking For Customers Is Over

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But that doesn’t affect the Victorian Corner Crew On Fountain that park all day with no enforced limits

Parking Victorian Corner Cars

The city’s 3-hour pilot parking program, dubbed “park
once,” was designed to give patrons the ability to dine at
restaurants and “still have time to stroll along our sidewalks and make a second purchase.” But city officials found that visitors didn’t park as long as they expected.

Three-hour parking will continue on all other downtown streets and the municipal lots at  Fandango restaurant, the rear of Lighthouse Cinemas and on 15th Street to encourage storeowners and their workers to park in city lots. Though the city had proposed modifying downtown parking limit signs to say “For Customers Only” to discourage shopkeepers from parking in front of their stores, Brodeur said that didn’t happen. “Our consulting traffic engineer and city attorney told us we could not place such language on a regulatory sign because we cannot enforce it,” he said.

Three Hour Parking For Customers Is Over

You Can Tune A Piano But You Cant Tuna Crab

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Must be a feast for the gulls

Red Tuna Crab

Santa Cruz Sentinel Photo

Native to Baja and the Gulf of California, red tuna crabs spend their lives drifting en masse in the water column offshore. Generally, Monterey is too cold for them. But during El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, warm water moves unusually far north, bringing the crabs up with it. ENSO is an irregularly periodical climate change caused by variations in sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean.

You Can Tune A Piano But You Cant Tuna Crab

Stars & Bars WILL Fly At Civil Ware Reenactment

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History does not need to be hidden or rewritten.

civil war

Event coordinator, Tim Reese, with the local chapter of
the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, told The Pine
Cone this week that the confusion originated from a series of email messages from the Presidio pertaining to the flag and this year’s event. Subsequently, Reese said he mistakenly posted on the event Facebook page that the Confederate Battle Flag would be “banned” from the encampment. “In the end,” Reese told The Pine Cone, the Presidio was referring to a ban on the “waving of the Confederate Battle Flag in a political fashion.” The event “has never engaged in such an activity of political rhetoric since [the event] was founded in 2007.”

Stars & Bars WILL Fly At Civil Ware Reenactment

Cannery Row Road Rage Results in Reckless Ruling

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Goofy Road Rage

On October 6, 2014, two vehicles were racing on Cannery Row.

The driver of the second vehicle, the defendant, was driving in the wrong lane on a two-way street and nearly collided with a patrol vehicle.

Officer Richardson initiated a traffic stop on both vehicles and determined the incident was motivated by road rage. Carlo Aiken, 55, was found guilty for reckless driving.

Cannery Row Road Rage Results in Reckless Ruling

Moe Says More Tourists Will Solve Everything

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Never mind the minimum wage workers and those that prey on tourists that follow.

The Holman renovation will include four ocean-view penthouses, eight new stores, and 25 2,000-square-foot luxury condos.

The condos are expected to cost between $550 and $700 per square foot.

“We have never had condos built in this price range on the Monterey Peninsula with the exception of the Inn at Spanish Bay,” Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar said.

Ammar said he believes even though it’s a first for Pacific Grove, the development will be successful.

“We know it’s going to work because the demand is there,” Ammar said. “Everybody wants to live on the Central Coast. Everybody wants an ocean view. And ocean view development just doesn’t exist anymore.”

At the Tin Cannery, a 160-room hotel is being planned across the street from the aquarium.

Still in the early stages of the project, the development needs approval by the Coastal Commission. But first, the city’s voters will have to approve zoning changes that allow for a hotel.

The Chamber of Commerce predicts the hotel could bring in $30 million a year, or 25 percent of the city’s budget.

Moe Says More Tourists Will Solve Everything

Venison Is Low Fat And Calories

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Mountain lions can’t be wrong.

Cougar

In the past week, there have been two reported deer kills and one mountain lion sighting, according to the Pacific Grove Police Department.

The incidents occurred near the golf course and 17 Mile Drive ballpark. Deer frequently graze here and there have been mountain lion sightings in the past.

Venison Is Low Fat And Calories