Found in the basement. Remember when the house had the huge antennas?
Here’s today’s view:
1250 Pound Sunfish Dies At Aquarium
The 1,250-pound ocean sunfish, one of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s most popular attractions, was euthanized early Thursday.
Aquarium veterinarian Mike Murray said the fish was euthanized after it became listless and stopped eating for a week, spending most of its time at the bottom of the aquarium’s Outer Bay exhibit.
That’s about 10,000 tacos.
Moth Spraying Returns In June
Guess the moth lovers lost that one.
The state’s agriculture department announced Wednesday it plans to resume aerial spraying of pheromones over the Central Coast on June 1.
In a new 2008 “action plan” for fighting the light brown apple moth in California, the state also said it would likely release a stingless wasp in parts of Carmel, Marina and Seaside in hopes of controlling the moth, which officials say presents a threat to agriculture and the environment.
Motels Against Public Safety
Pacific Grove’s innkeepers are crying foul over a signature-gathering campaign by the Pacific Grove Police Officers Association to put an increase in the city’s transient occupancy tax — or room tax — on the ballot.
The city supported an economic advisory committee with an annual $107,000 contribution to the Chamber of Commerce for various city activities and events. With the formation of the Hospitality Improvement District, the city now uses that money to pay part of the Convention and Visitor Bureau dues.
Pacific Grove entered a contract to pay the Convention and Visitors Bureau through 2012, said Chamber of Commerce president Moe Ammar. He and innkeepers met with police association members Monday and emerged with “an understanding that they will consider our request not to pursue a room tax.”
There’s Moammar In The Middle again.
Winos Attract Crime?
At least it stays in Carmel. Guess there are no paintings or wine worth stealing in P.G.
Carmel police are trying to solve what they are calling a bizarre robbery at a cheese shop in Carmel Plaza.
Police said thieves cut a hole in the drywall to enter the shop. Once inside, they went after specific targets that included rare, collectible wines
Pacific Grove Artwalk did say that paintings and wine go together.
Carmel’s art galleries attract crime, now the wine boutiques join the victim list.
John Cerney Art Comes To Cannery Row
Mention of the name may not jog your memory, but if you’ve traveled the highways you have no doubt seen his work. The farmworkers and ranchers on highway 68 outside of Salinas, the baseball game on US 101 or the 55 Chevy with the baseball in the window on Del Monte – now you know who.
This real nice looking piece depicts Mack and the other ‘Row legends that Steinbeck wrote about. A small bit of reality in a seashore of phony creations. Check it out – it’s at the foot of Bruce Ariss way, near the preserved cannery workers homes. Right about where the flophouse would be. Too bad it’s on the notorious rec trail – hope the gang members keep their distance with the persistent taggings.
Mack and the boys, the notorious slackers from John Steinbeck’s classic novel, “Cannery Row,” are lounging on the hood and bumper of a Ford Model A truck, grinning sleepily, with any problems clearly relegated to the back burners of their minds.
the full-color mural by Salinas artist John Cerney that is now on permanent display on the back wall of Mackerel Jack’s Trading Co., along the Recreation Trail between Prescott and Irving streets in Monterey.
That was the location of the Del Mar Canning Co. — and Dora’s Bear Flag Restaurant, Doc Ricketts’ lab, Lee Chong’s Grocery and La Ida’s Cafe were just up the street.
A little explanation for Steve Jobs and others who never read:
The scary rec trail. Don’t go there at night.
Who Runs Pacific Grove? Part II
The city leaders or the labor unions? Looking for day to day representation or benefits and unions are slow to respond. But threaten them with loss of dues and they bump the performance up to “meets expectations”.
Laborers Local 270 in Santa Cruz filed the complaint after the City Council’s adoption on Oct. 3 of a city reorganization plan developed by City Manager Jim Colangelo.
The charges contend that Colangelo’s plan deleted 21 full-time and two part-time employee positions while adding 23 lower-paying full-time and two half-time positions.
The changes were made without prior notice to the union or offering an opportunity for union members to meet and confer with management over the changes. A settlement conference has been set Feb. 26 in Oakland.
P.G. Outdoor Supply Takes A Hike
Seemed that it could have made it with longer hours. Was only open from 11:00 to 4:00. Even with those short hours they never took down the “open” signs.
Suicidal P.G. Contractor Runs From CHP
A Pacific Grove contractor wanted on outstanding warrants slashed his throat with a box cutter after a lengthy police pursuit Thursday morning, the California Highway Patrol said.
Michael T. Kelly, 57, was seriously injured in the apparent suicide attempt and was taken by helicopter to Regional Medical Center in Fresno.
Kelly immediately sped up, the officers said, before losing control and veering off the south side of the road. After traveling some 30 feet, the car came to a stop against a barbed-wire fence, Hall said.
At that point, officers said, Kelly took a box cutter and “began to slash his throat in an apparent suicide attempt.”
Public records show Kelly is a licensed general contractor in good standing with the state and the proprietor of Kelly Home Inspection Services in Pacific Grove.
Court and police records show he has had numerous scrapes with the law, including several warrants in recent years for probation violations.
In one of those cases, in June 2006, Monterey police reported that Kelly’s car had smashed into a residence in the 1300 block of David Avenue. Kelly was arrested for driving under the influence of cocaine, cocaine possession and driving under a suspended license, police records show.
Lighthouse Cinema – Open This Summer?
No real new news, but this sentence brings back memories:
Enea was challenged before he built the Lighthouse Cinema in 1986 by a group opposed to the movie house project, and it was the subject of a citywide ballot referendum, which drew a large majority of votes in its favor.
Mayor Dingbat Flo was an opponent. Said that the theater would bring undesirable people from Seaside to PG.
Moe chimes in
“I am really excited,” said Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce president Moe Ammar. “I believe the cinema will do great, since it will be the most modern movie site on the Peninsula with the latest technology in the safest town.”
Pfft. The Imax in the old Edgewater Packing Company is the most modern. Moe just wants to suck more money from the business community and city. The dude is clueless.