Ransom A Car? Right.

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Troy Hill

Troy William Hill. Add your name to the list of those arrested for being stupid: Nicholas Gore , Sean Conners and Kirby Bruno Jr.

The caller told the victim, who was not identified by police, that he would return the vehicle if she brought him $1,000. She was instructed to meet the caller at the McDonald’s in Sand City.

A surveillance and sting operation was conducted at the restaurant with the assistance of Monterey, Sand City, Seaside and Pacific Grove police departments, said Carmel police Sgt. Michael Calhoun.

Ransom A Car? Right.

Granny Apartments Getting Busted

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Perhaps Dan Cort is going convert them into more weekender homes.

Uretsky said the city has two choices. One is to wait for resident complaints and react by investigating and citing property owners. The second is to look for illegal units that pose a potential health and safety hazard, whether through lack of a building permit, a reliance on unauthorized water fixtures or an impact on neighborhood parking.

Granny Apartments Getting Busted

Divers’ Monument Unveiled On Cannery Row

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It’s over on the quiet end of the Row, near the Coast Guard. Another tiny reminder that Cannery Row was once more than the home a Fish Jail and tourist trap. Well done.

Cannery Row Divers Memorial Cannery Row Divers Names

Toiling in thick clouds of fish scales, entrails, muck and silk, usually in zero visibility, was a daily ritual for Nonella, George Fraley, Oscar Lager, Eddie Bushnell and several other divers and tenders who helped make Monterey the “Sardine Capital of the World” between 1927 and 1950, until overfishing and pollutants killed the industry.

Those men, including two who were killed while diving — Tom Pierce and Henry Porter — were honored Friday at San Carlos Beach Park on Cannery Row when The Cannery Row Foundation and the Historic Divers Society unveiled a bronze bust of a vintage diving helmet at a dedication ceremony next to the water.

See also the John Cernry paintings of the ones that avoided work, with style.

Divers’ Monument Unveiled On Cannery Row

P.G. Police Could Get 24% Raises

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PG Cops On Break

On Wednesday, the council voted 6-1 to grant an 8 percent raise to police, retroactive to Jan. 1.

Police were allowed to convert their health benefit payments from the city to salaries, which has the effect of boosting their Public Employee Retirement System benefit when they retire.

That part about taking $$ instead of health benefits is just wrong.

(picture from www.morriefisher.com)

P.G. Police Could Get 24% Raises

Downtown Turns To Scavenger Hunt

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Gift shops, galleries and restaurants tempting us with free prizes. There was some amplified music, balloons and a fair amount of people wandering around with diddly bobber antennae (was that the prize?).

To help revive a struggling downtown Pacific Grove, some business owners have come up with a unique idea they’re hoping will draw customers.

Friday night, more than 50 businesses on and around Lighthouse Avenue will take part in the city’s, and perhaps the county’s, first-ever public scavenger hunt, billed as a “Scavenger Hunt with a Twist.”

“It’s a great way for people to get to know downtown P.G. while having a ball and maybe winning a fabulous prize to boot,” said Sally Aberg, one of the event’s coordinators.

The way the game works, Aberg said, is participants will receive a game card with 53 clues and riddles about each participating store, restaurant and gallery. The game will take place April 18 from 5 to 9 p.m.

Meanwhile, up on Forest Hill, Trader Joe has a packed parking lot all day. What do they have that downtown doesn’t? STUFF THAT PEOPLE WANT.
Trader Joes Forest Hill

Downtown Turns To Scavenger Hunt

P.G. Caretaking Company Had Employees With Criminal Past

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The Monterey County District Attorney recently settled a civil suit that accuses a Pacific Grove elderly care company of false advertising led to placing personal attendants with criminal records in the homes of seniors. Central Coast Senior Services allegedly hired several employees without conducting background checks while, at the same time, advertising that the company screens all employees.

Senior Services has agreed to pay $125,000 in penalties to the district attorney and $50,000 in restitution to Seaside-based Legal Services for Seniors as part of the judgment filed March 26.

P.G. Caretaking Company Had Employees With Criminal Past

Eco-Freak Victory, No Styrofoam Allowed In PG

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Just one question – how do we enforce such a law? Is there going to be a packaging posse kicking in kitchen doors on the hunt for taboo table wares? It could be a cruel way to drive someone crazy – go to Smart’n’Final, buy a package of clamshell to-go plates and stencil the name of an eatery on them and leave at bus stops and such.

Ecofreaks

Pacific Grove banned food service containers made of polystyrene and plastic utensils at restaurants — cups, plates, bowls and takeout boxes — by unanimous vote of its City Council.

Violations will be punished as an infraction, with a warning the first time and a $100 fine for a second citation. The person paying the fine can use the $100 to buy biodegradable food containers rather than write a check to the city and show a receipt for the purchase to city officials.

Eco-Freak Victory, No Styrofoam Allowed In PG

Measure U – Get It Together

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I swear, it I didn’t know that that measure U is supported by the Police Officers Association I’d think that the organizers were all smoking some good ganga.

First they forgot the deadline to add arguments for the measure in the voter guide, then they put up a website with eye wrenching colors and misspellings.

Fair Share PG Com
(note, the spelling has since been corrected)

Measure U – Get It Together

Cannery Row Traffic Going One Way?

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Cannery Row Detour

A proposal to turn Monterey’s Cannery Row into a one-way street has some people concerned over the negative impact on business. The topic will be discussed Tuesday night at City Hall.

Rich Deal, the City Traffic Engineer will recommend the permanent change, following the reopening of Cannery Row in May. The street has been partially closed, and on a one-way configuration for over a year, during the construction of a new hotel.

The Cannery Row Company, which owns 70% of the property, is challenging the city, and requesting the street return to the two-way configuration in May.

Update – City Council Says No

City Manager Fred Meurer recommended setting the matter aside after he learned that Clement Chen, developer of the 208-room Intercontinental The Clement Monterey hotel in the 700 block of Cannery Row, had indicated he may change his mind about supporting the change in traffic flow. Part of Cannery Row has been one-way during construction of the hotel.

In a letter to city traffic engineer Richard Deal, Chen earlier wrote that he was concerned about double-parked delivery trucks in the 700 block of the Row, which he said created gridlock when the two-way street was open and that he felt a one-way routing would solve that problem.

Make deliveries between 7 and 10 AM. Or provide loading zones. No reason to screw up traffic with one-way streets.

Cannery Row Traffic Going One Way?

Tree Kills Woman – In SF

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(KTVU 2 News)

SAN FRANCISCO — A woman is dead following a freak accident in which a fallen branch from a Redwood tree struck her near Stern Grove in San Francisco Monday.

The woman, who was possibly in her 50s, was letting her dog into her Subaru Outback in a parking lot off Sloat Boulevard at Sigmund Stern Grove when the branch fell and struck her and the car around 11:30 a.m.

Tree Kills Woman – In SF