A eucalyptus with lights on the trunk.Trying to compete with the world’s ugliest Christmas Tree?
How I long for the past when the garlands with colored lights stretched across Lighthouse Avenue.
Rainwater Will Pollute The Ocean?
Sarah Hardgrave. Isn’t she gone yet?
The storm runoff water might be an environmental danger if it is diluted into the Pacific Ocean, but would be safe to spray into the air where people play golf and wildlife live. Can’t come up with anything kookier than that, eco-freaks.
The city is looking at recycling storm water runoff because last year, the State Water Resources Board redefined storm water runoff as waste water for parts of the coastline designated as Areas of Special Biological Significance or ASBS. The city immediately applied for and received an exception that buys it some time.
Hardgrave says, “And the exception says storm water is waste and you can only discharge it if it is not having an effect on the natural water quality of the ocean in the near shore within the ASBS.”
Tests are now being conducted to see if storm water really does pollute the ocean. But even if the tests find the water does not pollute, the city still faces skyrocketing costs of watering its golf course and cemetery.
Kayak Kapsize Off Kannery Row
Might have been those playful otters, tipping over kayaks.
A woman and her husband flipped their kayak off Cannery Row in Monterey on Friday.
The couple were able to right themselves after flipping off the rocks behind El Torito restaurant.
Flipped off the rocks? Is that some form of Rock Rage?
Comcast Drops KTVU
The last SF Bay station left on the cable has been turned off. Making things even better. Better than Mornings On 2 or the 10 O’clock News.
Thank you channel 2 for the memories. Captain Satellite. Charley & Humphrey. Dialing For Dollars. Creature Features. Now, on with the better programming . . .
Canty And Maurquez Salon Closes
Moved to Hollister. 618 Lighthouse Avenue seemed like an odd business for that location. You don’t think that someone else thought it would be “the best thing to happen in P.G”?
Truck Fire On Eighth Street An Arson?
Narrow street, lucky no homes caught fire.
A vehicle fire at 10 p.m. Sunday involving a 2000 Ford F-150 extended-cab pickup is being investigated as a possible arson, according to the Pacific Grove Police Department.
PG Police and Monterey Fire responded to the fire on the 200 block of Eighth Street in Pacific Grove and found the pick-up fully engulfed in flames.
Peppers Mexicali Cafe So Hot It Catches On Fire
Clean those grease filters!
Jim Brown, a division chief for the Monterey Fire Department, said the fire broke out in a flue designed to carry exhaust and grease away from the stove at Peppers.
“Those flues can get a buildup of grease inside, and sometimes the grease catches fire, which is what happened today,” Brown said. “The initial knockdown of the fire was from the outside of the restaurant, and we actually cut the flue pipe open to get to the seed of the fire.”
Crespi Pond Burn Victim Identified
Still don’t know what led up to the deceased man.
Early two weeks after finding a man’s body in flames at the Pacific Grove golf course, police still don’t know why 56-year-old P.G. resident Richard Haffner died, and they’re continuing to treat it as suspicious.
PGPD Sgt. Jeff Fenton was dispatched to Ocean View Boulevard around 7:20 a.m. Nov. 3 on reports of a man and building on fire at the public golf course. He arrived to find the person engulfed in flames lying unmoving on the ground next to the restroom building and a fence on fire, and attempted to douse them with the extinguisher from his car
Mvsevm To Imprison The Monarchs
Since the place was gifted to the fish prison it’s only natural for them to do the same with butterflies. And to do it with nothing more than summer tourists in mind.
“We have a bit of a challenge when tourists come here in the summer,” says Lori Mannel, executive director of the P.G. Museum of Natural History. “They say, ‘Where are the monarchs?’”
But thanks to a $50,000 planning grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Mannel and her colleagues expect that to change: A butterfly pavilion in the museum’s native plant gardens is in the works, an enclosed structure that will be home to a variety of native butterflies in all of their life stages, from caterpillar to chrysalis to winged.
Update On Crespi Pond Burn Victim
Police are saying they’re still investigating the incident and the victim, Richard Haffner, lived alone. Right now officers are in contact with his family and say they’re not investigatig it as a homicide. At this point, they are just trying to see if it was a suicide or an accident.