Letters From The Editor, Skating 68

No fun allowed. Someone has to have that on video..

Driving toward Pacific Grove on Holman Highway at the top of the road where the S curves begin, I almost ran into a black SUV with hazard lights flashing. It became apparent that this vehicle was driven by the mother of two school-age children riding their skateboards down the highway. She was following them to ensure vehicles wouldn’t run into them.

Letters From The Editor, Skating 68

World Government Of Our Locality?

AMBAG is drinking the Agenda 21 kool aide. Don’t buy into this harmless sounding feelgood stuff. Sustainable Development means population reduction, travel restrictions, loss of rights and other fascist progress.

I recommend this local group to get the other side of the story: www.FreedomAdvocates.org

It is close to the anniversary of that well known socialist experiment called Jonestown, isn’t it?

The report suggests that coordinating regional land-use and transportation policies can reduce congestion by cutting back on personal vehicle use, conserve valuable open space and farmland by clustering development, and provide a variety of housing and transportation options.

Employing “sustainable growth patterns” would focus new, compact development in already populated areas, with jobs within walking distance of mixed-use public transit and neighborhood centers, according to the report.

World Government Of Our Locality?

Dope Hope? Um, Nope

No Pot Club

The council initially approved the moratorium at its Jan. 19 meeting for a 45-day period in response to the opening of a medical marijuana club, MyCaregiver Inc., at 554 Lighthouse Ave.

Other factors included uncertainty about federal and state laws, lack of specific mention of such facilities in Monterey’s municipal code, and increases in crime in cities where the dispensaries are permitted, particularly burglaries,robberies and illegal sales related to marijuana transactions.

Dope Hope? Um, Nope

Ding-A-Ling Run

Another run faire to block the roads and keep you from sleeping in on Saturday.

To celebrate the holiday season, the Arthritis Foundation welcomes friends and families to tie jingle bells to their shoelaces, don festive holiday costumes and join friends and neighbors in support of the Arthritis Foundation’s mission to prevent, control and cure arthritis and related diseases.

Ding-A-Ling Run

Eco-Friendly Shopping Bags Contain Lead

Not only do they sustain bacteria, they contain lead.

Scrape off the trendiness and a popular “green” choice is actually “gray” underneath; some reusable shopping bags contain lead.

The Tampa Tribune commissioned an independent lab to test the reusable shopping bags of the plasticy, painted-on graphic variety, sold by Winn-Dixie and Publix supermarkets.

In the first batch of tests, Winn-Dixie’s bag had lead levels at 121 parts per million and Publix had 87. In the second, there were 117 and 194 parts per million, respectively.

(The Cosumerist)

Eco-Friendly Shopping Bags Contain Lead

P.G. DUI Gets Just Two Years

Driving with a BAC of .37 that’s beyond drunk. And had 3 prior DUIs.

After pleading guilty to driving drunk and nearly plowing down several children, Duke Kelso was sentenced to two years in prison.

Over the summer 29-year-old Kelso was driving drunk down Buena Vista Avenue when he parked his car on someone’s front lawn. Parents called police to report that someone almost hit numerous cars and children playing in the area.

P.G. DUI Gets Just Two Years

Coastal Commission Working Hard To Save Us From The Dreaded Mini Golf Course

That home on 17 Mile drive with the nice lawns in the form of a golf course is once again under fire. Property rights? Ehhhh what rights?

“At all times since the finality of the order, the Feduniaks have continued to maintain the unpermitted golf course on the property, including watering and mowing the grass in violation of the orders,” the lawsuit says. And their noncompliance has been “knowing and intentional,” it alleges.

Failure to remove the tiny golf course harms the public because it “damages natural resources … interferes with the coastal commission’s attempts to uniformly and fairly enforce and administer the Coastal Act” and encourages other people to flout the coastal commission’s rules, the lawsuit says.


Coastal Commission Working Hard To Save Us From The Dreaded Mini Golf Course