Pacific Grove Feast Of Lanterns # 103

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FOL 2006

Pacific Grove’s 103rd annual Feast of Lanterns started with cake at the official opening ceremony and cake cutting Wednesday in Chautauqua Hall. (The cakes celebrated the festival’s 103rd and the city’s 119th birthdays.)

The Feast of Lanterns actually got started a few days earlier at the Tea and Fashion Show Saturday at Chautauqua Hall, where the court of eight “princesses” and the “queen” modeled vintage Feast of Lanterns costuming.

Street Dance on Lighthouse Avenue tonight. Entertainment & Fireworks on the beach tomorrow. More information at www.feastoflanterns.org

Pacific Grove Feast Of Lanterns # 103

Why Teachers Need More $$

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To pay their attorney. Another sick-o gets busted for kiddie porn.

The teacher, Craig Dinwiddie, 52, of Gonzales was arrested on seven counts of possession of child pornography, two counts of distributing child pornography, two counts of annoying or molesting children and possession of marijuana, police Chief Paul Miller said.

Why Teachers Need More $$

Illegal Rentals Appear Safe For Now

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If our code enforcement can’t see obvious things like the uncovered garbage and accumulated bird poo – and police are blind to merchants that park in 2 hour parking spaces all day, it looks doubtful that your rental unit will get busted.

A resolution adopted by the City Council on July 16 calls for training the city’s code enforcement officer, building inspector and other staff members about identifying potential housing code violations while conducting routine city business and report them for investigation and abatement.

An earlier version of the resolution called for including police and fire personnel in such training. That was removed from the final version..

Illegal Rentals Appear Safe For Now

Mr. Bell – New P.G.H.S. Principal

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Interesting – a principal that has more than a few years of experience in P.G. schools. Kudos to the district.

Bell first worked at the high school in 1983 as a math teacher and as the head swimming coach. He moved on to principal at Robert Down Elementary and Pacific Grove Middle School, where he last worked.

Superintendent Ralph Porras says promoting Bell to principal made sense because of his knowledge of and history with the district.

Mr. Bell – New P.G.H.S. Principal

Farmers Market Finally Lands Downtown

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farmers market organic

After business owners protested the market for more than a year, the open air market on Lighthouse Avenue will go on every Monday from 4p.m. to 8p.m.

Many shoppers welcomed the farmers market and said it was over due in Pacific Grove.

Meanwhile, opponents of the market say only time will tell what if any affect the market will have on other businesses.

 

  • Needs:
  • More prices posted – don’t like to haggle over carrots.
  • More variety – more than carrots
  • Lower prices – some were higher than Savemart
  • Trash cans – some were overflowing into the street
  • Some open stores – the merchants that oppose the market should open and offer Farmers Market night specials. Artsy postcards, appetizers, whatever.
  • Don’t need:
  • Preachers (green or other) – don’t preach to me about green, sustainables, Obama, Jesus, whatever.
  • Different location – perfect location.

Final vote – two thumbs up. Take care of it and it can be a great thing.

Farmers Market Finally Lands Downtown

Photos – The Dumpsters Of Commerce

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or “Why is there so much bird poo on the city?”
White highlights on brown wall (PG Juice & Java)
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Gulls and pigeons. Crows. Rats. Raccoons. Scavengers finding a free lunch and using Pacific Grove as a toilet. When will the merchants show that they care about P.G. more than for the money they rake in? If this is how they take care of their trash, how clean do you think the kitchens are? Are the food storage containers covered? Is the floor clean?

Pictures are totally unrehearsed. Examples are exactly as they were found. No laws were broken obtaining the pictures.

Passionfish – Overflowing trash & grease on the sidewalk:
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American Tin Cannery.
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Lighthouse Cinema
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Lighthouse Cinema – Rats at work on the popcorn.
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Fandango
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Grapes Of Wrath Catering
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Grapes Of Wrath Catering
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Hollys Cafe
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Dumpster behind Holmans.
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Dumpster behind Holmans – open to the air & contains garbage.
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Juice & Java (the place where the walls are being streaked)
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Pacific Thai – trash outside of the dumpster cubby
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Pacific Thai – grease on the sidewalk
Pacific Thai Greasy Sidewalk

Pacific Grove Plaza
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Seabreeze Motel (2nd time . .)
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Zocalo
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Garbage uncovered at Zocalo
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Grease spills at Zocalo
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Latitudes
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Rons Liquor doesn’t even have a dumpster – the sidewalk is his trash can.
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Small Update – A citizen turned this matter over the Monterey County Health department, who said that in the week of the 7th the businesses will be visited. Did it happen? If it did, it made little difference.

American Tin Cannery (for the commenter below that dismissed the original photo)

Fandangos did close the lid, but the gulls take advantage of sloppy housekeeping.
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Photos – The Dumpsters Of Commerce

P.G. Chamber Of Commerce Painted By Painters From Monterey

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What? Are there not any craftsmen that work & live in our town.
Norton Painting Coc

Checked Google for Norton, one of these days. Working out of Monterey.
Norton Painting Google

Checked Yahoo! for Norton. Still says Monterey.
Norton Painting Yahoo

Let your fingers take a walk (street address blurred – that would be uncool since it’s an apartment). Monterey.
Norton Painting Yellow

Someone claiming to be Ted Norton called and left a message peppered with F-words. Click to hear – it’s bleeped.


P.G. Chamber Of Commerce Painted By Painters From Monterey

Stamm Trial Proves You Cannot Hide Porn

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Sicko

David Stamm

Pacific Grove police searched Stamm’s home and seized a laptop after Doe went to authorities in 2007. With the help of a forensic computer expert at the Salinas Police Department, Pesenhofer said, they learned that Stamm used a program called Evidence Eliminator to scrub files from the computer on June 12, 2007.

Despite efforts to erase files from the computer, Pesenhofer said, police found several pornographic photos of teenage boys and a video of two young male teens performing oral sex.

Stamm Trial Proves You Cannot Hide Porn