Chamber Of Commerce Story 2, Slow News Week

Moe Ammar Dont Buy American

Make sure businesses are ready for major events that come to Pacific Grove. Refer visitors to events, places and businesses in town. Emphasize environmentally friendly events.

“Now we know who is in charge of what. We’ve met each other. Now we’ve got to work together,” chamber president Moe Ammar said after the two-hour meeting, which had a 27-member panel and 40 people in the audience. The panel included people from the hospitality industry, arts community and city officials.

Ammar, who has led the chamber for 18 years, said he holds the gatherings when the economy slips. The last such event was 10 years ago.

He last held any marketing summit a decade ago and has not noticed the economy since then? The best idea I think is to find a new Chamber Of Commerce leader.

As people described their organization’s events, Frutchey said there were some festivities he wasn’t aware of and suggested a master calendar for Pacific Grove events.

Great, we have a come-here City Manager that does not know about the quirky civic events in P.G., or what resources to turn to and find out.

It is the economy. Need to emphasize value for the dollar, which admittedly P.G. has very little of.

Chamber Of Commerce Story 2, Slow News Week

Mother, Stepson And Two Daughters HBD – You Know Where This Is Going

The Pine Cone’s Police Blotter now includes Pacific Grove.

Entry of the week.

Pacific Grove: Mother, stepson and two daughters had been drinking alcohol. Mother was upset her stepson came into the hotel room. Mother made a statement about her stepson’s deceased mother. An argument ensued. Mother advanced toward stepson. Stepson moved out of the way, and the mother fell onto the couch. During her second advancement, mother was pushed to the couch by stepson in defense. During her third advancement, mother was pushed to the ground by stepson in defense. Stepson’s and two daughters’ statements corroborated each other. Stepson and mother agreed to stay in separate rooms for the night.

Mother, Stepson And Two Daughters HBD – You Know Where This Is Going

Bar & Nighttime Parties Coming To Golf Clubhouse?

PG Golf Parking
When the grave yard Clubhouse was pushed on the taxpayers we were told there would not be hard liquor or evening operation. I’m shocked, shocked that the city would ever turn on the residents and do such a thing.

The city is proposing the use permit for the $4million golf clubhouse at 79 Asilomar Ave. be amended to allow it to operate 6a.m. to 9p.m. rather than the current dawn-to-dusk schedule, allow the club restaurant to serve liquor as well as beer and wine, provide amplified music and erect light fixtures in the parking lot and along walkways.

Former Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck told the council the proposals fly in the face of promises made to neighbors when the clubhouse project was approved in 2003.

Bar & Parties Coming To Golf Clubhouse?

Callin Us All Chowdaheads?

Legal Sea Foods

A Boston-based restaurant chain is planning a dinner featuring seafood it says environmental groups have “brainwashed” consumers to avoid.

Legal Sea Foods owner Roger Berkowitz tells the Gloucester Daily Times that guides such as “Seafood Watch,” published by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, have “no scientific basis,” but intimidate buyers.

Callin Us All Chowdaheads?

Tree Rules Cut Down. You Can Learn A Lot From A Moron

Stump Lighthouse Congress

The changes would allow private property owners to replace cut-down trees with suitable trees listed by the city’s Natural Resources Committee as appropriate, though not necessarily the same species as those lost, and eliminate the “two-for-one” replacement requirement.

They hold the city to a higher standard of replacing trees, Frutchey said, noting Pacific Grove hasn’t kept up with the loss of trees on public property. Schematics included in the ordinance proposal noted a decline in the city’s tree canopy cover from 33 percent to 20 percent of its land area since 1986.

Tree Rules Cut Down. You Can Learn A Lot From A Moron

Full Bar And Parties Good For The Environment, City Planner Says

Throwing up in the bay is not harmful to the environment . . .

Pacific Grove’s residents have until Monday to comment in writing on a report that contends that keeping the city’s Municipal Golf Course clubhouse open in the evening, adding parking lot lights and serving liquor won’t have an impact on the environment.

The report, prepared by assistant city planner Ashley Hefner, covers a proposal to amend the clubhouse use permit to allow it to operate 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. rather than the current dawn-to-dusk schedule, allow the club restaurant to serve liquor as well as beer and wine, and provide amplified music.


Full Bar And Parties Good For The Environment, City Planner Says

New Monterey Police Blotter – December 2010

12/2/10 Towed vehicle on Lilly and McClellan.

12/2/10 Theft from motor vehicle on Withers Avenue.

12/2/10 COVINGTON, LINDSEY was arrested for felony vandalism on Lighthouse.

12/2/10 MCSO was aided in the arrest of COVINGTON, LINDSEY on Lighthouse Ave.

12/3/10 Robbery on the Rec Trail.

12/3/10 DENNY, SHAWN was placed under arrest for the theft and for being under the influence of a controlled substance on Artillery by Pacific.

12/3/10 Traffic accident on Lighthouse and Irving

12/3/10 CONSIGLIO, ERIC was arrested for vehicle burglary on Wave St.

12/3/10 Traffic accident at Lighthouse and McClellan.

12/3/10 Harassing phone calls on Devisadero Street.

12/4/10 Shoplifting on David Avenue.

12/4/10 Individual reports being battered on HWY 68.

12/4/10 FORD, CHRISTOPHER was arrested for battery on Cannery Row.

12/4/10 Suspicious circumstances on David.

12/5/10 Brandishing a knife in the 600 block of Cannery Row.

12/5/10 Stolen air compressor from Irving.

12/5/10 Vehicle burglary on Prescott.

12/6/10 Traffic accident at David and Hawthorne.

12/7/10 Graffiti on Lighthouse.

12/7/10 Found wallet on the Rec Trail at Prescott Avenue.

12/8/10 Stolen sports equipment and school items from an unlocked vehicle on Hawthorne.

12/8/10 Traffic accident at David and Oak.

12/8/10 Vandalism on Wave.

12/8/10 Transient was the victim of a battery in the vicinity of Lighthouse.

12/9/10 CITY OF MONTEREY reports unknown to have stolen 4 exterior box lights on Archer.

12/9/10 Suspicious circumstances in the 500 block of Lighthouse.

12/11/10 Towed vehicle from Lighthouse Tunnel.

12/12/10 Citizen contact in the 600 block of Cannery Row.

12/14/10 Traffic accident at Prescott & Spencer.

12/14/10 GARCIA, CALISTA was cited for driving on a suspended license, unsafe speed through the tunnel, and unsafe lane change from Foam and Cannery Row.

12/14/10 GARCIA, CALISTA was arrested for a warrant at Foam and Cannery Row .

12/14/10 GARCIA, JOHNNY, was arrested for DUI on Lighthouse.

12/15/10 Longley, Kaitlyn was arrested for DUI in the 300 block of Drake.

12/15/10 Found property on Laine Street.

12/15/10 Graffiti to the retaining wall of the harbor

12/15/10 LAMB, ALAN was arrested for public intoxication and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana on David Ave.

12/16/10 MCDANIEL, TERESA, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol at Lighthouse and Drake.

12/16/10 Hit and run collision at Foam and David.

12/18/10 Lost wallet in the 600 blk of Cannery Row.

12/19/10 Commercial burglary on Lighthouse.

12/20/10 Vandalism on Irving Ave.

12/21/10 Towed vehicle on 428 HAWTHORNE ST.

12/21/10 Towed trailer from the 700 block of Archer Street.

12/21/10 Automobile accident in the 700 block of Lighthouse.

12/23/10 BALLIN, MITCHELL and JUVENILE were arrested for public intoxication at Cypress and Hoffman.

12/23/10 Lost credit card in 700 block of Hawthorne .

12/23/10 Theft by use of credit card on Lighthouse.

12/23/10 Gordano, Lance, was arrested for public intoxication on Lighthouse.

12/23/10 LAMB, ALAN was arrested for public intoxication at Irving and Lighthouse.

12/24/10 Theft of a purse on Lighthouse.

12/25/10 Davis, Divioka, was arrested for DUI at Eardley and 4th.

12/25/10 Theft from vehicle on Oak St.

12/26/10 Vandalism on Lighthouse Avenue.

12/27/10 HARE, TIMOTHY, was arrested for public intoxication on Archer.

12/28/10 Vehicle vandalism on Wave.

12/28/10 WARNICK, Daren was placed under citizen’s arrest on Cannery Row.

12/28/10 Fall of person on Drake at Hawthorne.

12/28/10 BISHOP, CAMERON, was arrested for providing false information on Cannery Row.

12/28/10 MCSO was aided in the arrest of BISHOP, CAMERON on warrants on Cannery Row .

12/28/10 LLOPIS, STEVEN, was issued a citation for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana on Foam St.

12/29/10 Theft on Cannery Row.

12/29/10 Found wallet on Cannery Row.

12/30/10 Traffic accident on David and Cannery Row.

12/30/10 MILLER, JACOB SCOTT was arrested for DUI at Irving and Lighthouse.

New Monterey Police Blotter – December 2010

Lighthouse Lodge Fails To Pay $231,602 In Taxes

Hasn’t made a mortgage payment since March ’09?

Lighthouse Lodge

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According to bankruptcy documents filed Dec. 15, Lighthouse Lodge LLC, employed 35 workers and in the last fiscal year had $3.2 million in gross revenues. It owed about $8.7 million on a to Orix Capital Markets, had $291,000 in “priority” unsecured debt and $5.7 million in other debt, owed to more than 175 suppliers and other vendors. Court records show the property was valued at $18.5 million and the company had $213,000 in cash.

The owners apparently stopped making payments on the mortgage sometime before March 2009, when Orix declared the loan in default. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Johnson ruled Dec. 28 the inn should be sold to pay off creditors.

Lighthouse Lodge Fails To Pay $231,602 In Taxes

P.G. Woman Shows Anti Christmas Spirit

A bit anti American too. Says to give instead to corrupt third world nations. Nah.

If anything at all, look around a little closer to home.

A Pacific Grove woman believes many of the planet’s most daunting problems — world hunger, clean water, treating all AIDS patients, educating the masses and saving the rainforests — could be eliminated if Americans reduce their holiday spending by just 1 7percent and commit that money instead to a humanitarian effort.

She said a spending reduction of $334.20 per person — money that instead could be donated to humanitarian-focused nonprofit organizations — would heal many of the planet’s most-serious maladies.

“I was extremely surprised at what I found,” she said. “About a year ago, a cousin posted a Facebook video that stated that Americans spend $450billion each year on holidays, but only $10billion was needed to provide clean water for everybody on the planet. That really shocked me. Is that all it would take? If that’s the case, maybe these huge problems could actually be solved.”

P.G. Woman Shows Anti Christmas Spirit