The settlement requires the city to issue Fisher a card entitling him to golf privileges, for which he will pay the annual senior green fees in the amount of $250 for the next six fiscal years, which run July 1 through June 30, starting this year.
Both sides agreed to pay their own legal expenses.
Let’s hope they study the populations of the are and put some thought to what movies they bring to town.
The improvements planned for the 8,500-square-foot building at 525 Lighthouse Ave. include new seats, new carpeting, new curtains, new wallpaper, new sound system, remodeled snack bar lighting, new interior and exterior paint and awnings, he said.
But all that investment comes with some risk, Enea acknowledged.
“The success of the proposed venture will be predicated upon the patronage from Pacific Grove residents,” he said.
North American Cinemas, a Santa Rosa company, which Enea said owns 125 screens on the west coast, is slated to operate the theater.
A KSBW News camera man woke up just before 4 a.m. Monday, police said, and headed outside because he had forgotten to bring his equipment and camera inside. He went to his parked KSBW Jeep Liberty to pick up his things when he saw the fire and called police, Pacific Grove police said.
The rear bumper was on fire and the gas cap was off, they said.
Police said the camera man filmed the emergency teams’ response.
Ah, there’s a media-man all the way. Don’t take a fire extinguisher and put out the fire, pick up the camera and film the burning car . .
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Winos – sheesh. At least they are happy when the fork over $90 for a bottle of cheap wine at a P.G. eatery.
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Stanford’s business school have directly seen that the sensation of pleasantness that people experience when tasting wine is linked directly to its price. And that’s true even when, unbeknownst to the test subjects, it’s exactly the same Cabernet Sauvignon with a dramatically different price tag.
Specifically, the researchers found that with the higher priced wines, more blood and oxygen is sent to a part of the brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex, whose activity reflects pleasure. Brain scanning using a method called functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) showed evidence for the researchers’ hypothesis that “changes in the price of a product can influence neural computations associated with experienced pleasantness,” they said.
After it’s over and the streets are opened, the electricity is back on, the news catches up with last week’s story.
1/13/08
Residents learn emergency preparedness the hard way
“People have got to be prepared at least a bit on their own,” said Dave Leist, an emergency services management planner for Monterey County.
“This isn’t anything new,” Leist said, adding that the recent storm “was predicted well in advance. (People) think there’s a fire truck with their address on it to respond in an emergency, and that’s just not the case. In metropolitan areas — Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach, for example — you get these folks who are unaccustomed to power outages and think there’s a big response out there.”
Too many people, Leist said, mistakenly rely on government response in a catastrophe, large or small.
Must explain the high concentration of government dependent Democrats around here.
1/9/08
Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach residents critical of PG&E
Pebble Beach and Pacific Grove residents who have been without power for five days say their frustration is growing with what they perceive as a lack of communication and services after Friday’s walloping storm.
“This is serious after five days,” said Kathie McAweeney of Pebble Beach.
As of late Tuesday, 3,855 Pacific Gas & Electric customers were without power on the Monterey Peninsula.
McAweeney said that five days without power — or heat — is taking its toll on residents, particularly her older neighbors. She said she accompanied an 85-year-old neighbor to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula on Monday. The neighbor was admitted with pneumonia, she said.
“Planning is everything for events like this,” said Dave Leist, an emergency services management planner. “In today’s society, everybody is hooked to power — e-mail, ATM, phone — and they just demand it be up and running right away and it just can’t happen.”
Learn how to use those trophy kitchens, folks. You’ll be prepared the next time. Oh, what’s that? You eat at Whole Foods 5 times a week and go to happy hour for snacks? Might as well face it – you are hopeless.
John and Jennifer Johnson had been hunkered down in their home for five days. Both were dressed in knit sweaters and caps. “We stayed in bed,” said 82-year-old John Johnson.
He said they are preparing to pack their car and head to the Carmel Mission Inn.
Ah! there’s hope!
1/08/08
7,200 customers still out; PG&E drawing criticism
Some customers, dealing with lanterns for night lights and throwing away food from powerless freezers and refrigerators, expressed raw anger at the utility company.
They accused PG&E of not being prepared for winter, of putting the Peninsula on the bottom of the repair list and of relying on a painfully inadequate customer-service system to provide information updates on outages.
“I’ve been furious the whole time,” said Maureen Girard of Carmel, whose home was without electricity since Friday. “I’ve been here 34 years, and the trouble is always ‘A tree fell on the power lines.’
I believe it, but in all these years you’d think PG&E would have figured it out how to maintain the trees around the lines more effectively.”
Primo Waldsmith of Pebble Beach said: “One night that’s tolerable, but not four of five days. It’s ridiculous.”
Waldsmith – you live in Pebble Beach for cryin out loud. You have no sense of living this close to the nature’s beauty and Earth’s power. Buy a generator. Or move to LA.
Elin Kelsey Writes:
Traffic is the price I pay for living with popular tourist events. The only problem is, unlike Carmel and Monterey, Pacific Grove enjoys all the traffic and almost none of the sales tax and tourist dollars. Outdated liquor restrictions and curfews keep our restaurants and other businesses empty while our neighboring cities rake in the tourism dollars.
If I am sitting in traffic anyway, I would rather be doing it reading a library book.
Elin, please put the book down and drive.
Especially in a ten foot boat.
An amateur sailor trying out a new hobby needed to be rescued by the Coast Guard Saturday afternoon after he capsized his 10-foot sailboat off Lovers Point.
Coast Guard Boatswain’s Mate Russell Howard said the sailor, whom he didn’t identify, apparently misjudged the strength of a stiff breeze and flipped the boat over.
Though he managed to flip the boat right-side up, the sailor couldn’t bail the water out fast enough and needed a tow back to the Breakwater Cove Marina.
Professor Toro, Monterey’s original blogger writes:
On a recent Sunday, Conover retrieved her Labrador, Tuly, from her father’s house when a couple of German shepherds attacked and mauled them.
Conover jumped on her dog and tried to protect it from the dogs and, said her father, Kelley, “screamed bloody murder.”
Given a recent high-profile dog incident, the brutal attack of KION-TV news anchor Olga Ospina’s 2-year-old Maltese in front of the Pacific Grove post office, it appears that sleepy little P.G. might have a dog problem.
More like P.G. has a dog owner problem. Where oh where is Prof’s companion Pilon? Has Pilon been replaced by a dog?
By the end of the day, the cleanup operation over a 300-foot cliff just south of Hurricane Point hauled off the car’s transmission, part of the frame and a few parts from the beach on Blain Deaton’s property.
For a few weeks after the crash, Deaton said he heard unusual sounds that a psychic acquaintance ascribed to the dead man’s spirit expressing thanks for his help that day.
One day while working his way down the cliff, Deaton said, he heard the crystal-clear sound of a car horn and then the sound of a hood or trunk being slammed shut. A few days later, he and his brother approached the wreckage and heard the sound of wind chimes.
“He said, ‘What is that?’ and I said, ‘You tell me,'” Deaton said.
After that, there were no more eerie sounds, just the long effort to get the wreckage removed, he said. Half of the car, which split in two during the crash, washed into the ocean during the long wait.
“I’m happy to see it taken care of … but half of that car is in the Pacific,” he said.
Half of it is still down there. . stay tuned for the sequel.
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