Dang that’s ugly and unsafe.
David Dilworth, 1Hope.org Lose Again
Last night the planes did fly. Once again, superior minds prevailed against uneducated hand wringers.
The environmental group Helping Our Peninsula’s Environment filed suit in Monterey County Superior Court questioning the safety of the spray while contending that the eradication project requires a detailed environmental analysis.
HOPE successfully delayed the second round of spraying on Oct. 10, when Judge Robert O’Farrell issued a temporary restraining order citing concern over the chemical composition of the pheromone spray.
At the center of the controversy was a chemical known as PPI, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said was in the spray. The agency later retracted the statement.
Stamm Enters Not Guilty Plea
A Pacific Grove man accused of 13 felony counts of child molestation and possession of child pornography pleaded not guilty in Monterey County Superior Court Friday.
David Stamm, a former youth athletics coach and owner of Ocean’s 18 miniature golf course in Pacific Grove and Cages indoor batting facility in Monterey, was ordered to stand trial after a preliminary hearing in September. He entered his plea Friday before Judge Terrance Duncan and a pretrial hearing was set for Nov. 27.
TripAdvisor Rates Cannery Row Hotels
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Monterey Bay Inn. #4 of 61 hotels in Monterey
242 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940
Entire outside of building covered in gull/bird excrement, encluding balcony off the room we were shown. Breakfast ok if you like cold hard boiled eggs. Opened the sofa bed to find a mouse that jumped out and started running around the room. Need i tell you what I had to listen to every night? Funny, but not if I had kids.Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa #6 of 61 hotels in Monterey
400 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940
Had the calamari the night before/pancakes tasted the same the next morning. The point of the story is, if you are booking a bayside room, perhaps ask if there are any parties planned for that night. Either that or pray that they play something better than awful gangsta’ rap! stuffy to say the least.You do sometimes feel like you are constantly tipping people. Someone entered our room and stole my wedding jewelry and bouquet. They admitted here were problems with the staff.Holiday Inn Express Monterey #9 of 61 hotels in Monterey
443 Wave St., Monterey, CA 93940
despite the great effort to update the room decor, there was an aura of sloppiness about it. The carpeting had simply been rolled over some rather large lumps in the floor which I kept tripping over. Reminders throughout the room not to steal the amenities a bit tiresome.Spindrift Inn #15 of 61 hotels in Monterey
652 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940
The wine and cheesecake “reception” isn’t really a big deal. Its a very small lobby with a tray of cookies and a wine keg. Sheets had dried up blood on them. Lot’s of pigeon poop. Flies quickly became a problem. The fireplace is a nice touch, but it leaves a permanent campfire smell in the room.Cannery Row Inn #50 of 61 hotels in Monterey
200 Foam St, (Formerly Quality Inn), Monterey, CA 93940
The “ocean view” means looking over the parking lot, over the dumpster, to the right of a large tree, over some shrubs and finally you can see some water. Smelled horrible even after we left the doors open for a few hours to air it out. Would be housing welfare recipients if located anywhere elseOtter Inn #5 of 5 (bb & inns)
571 Wave St., Monterey, CA 93940
Unidentified rustling noises during the night. we were told we were “rude”, they would “sue us” and to “get a life”. seagulls scream and carry on all night. she ran my card for $3032.14? did I mention the wonderful whirlpool tub… that spit out brown water? At 12:15 AM the front office called our room and asked us if we’d been drinking.
eBay Find: Lovers Point Drive-Inn Specials
Abalone for $1.50 wow. What’s the date? 1950s?
Don’t you forget – “Little Pig Sausages Served Anytime”
Postcard – shows that it was where the Tinnery now is.
Deer Dangerous to Drivers
Time to send in the mountain lions to help control the deer population.
When she felt the giant jolt to her car and heard the thunderous thud, Tove Andreassen’s first thought was something like, “Oh, dear.”
“Oh, deer,” would have been equally appropriate.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about 150 people are killed and more than 10,000 are injured in deer accidents every year.
These figures are probably low. Deer accidents are generally under-reported, and besides, as Palmisano noted, the numbers don’t include lots of deer-related accidents.
“Sometimes drivers swerve to miss a deer and end up hitting a tree instead,” she said.
Are The Downtown Buildings In PG Safe?
October 17, 1989 – the Loma Prieta Earthquake took down lots of unreinforced masonry buildings –
In Santa Cruz:
And in Salinas:
Notice that there are warnings on every ‘historic’ building downtown:
Be safe when shopping, stay out of unsafe buildings – shop the big box stores.
Union Members – Are They That Dumb?
A national survey released Monday by the AFL-CIO reports that 49 percent of homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages admit they do not know how their mortgage adjusts and 73 percent do not know how much their mortgage payment will be after the adjustment.
Well, they give away a part of every paycheck and probably don’t know where that goes, they tend to vote Democrat – so not being aware of their mortgage bomb aint surprising.
No Rent Increase For The Aquarium
To avoid what could be a lengthy and costly legal battle, the City of Pacific Grove is giving up the effort to get the Monterey Bay Aquarium to pay rent for the city-owned land it occupies.
“We would be fighting for years in court, even if we won, we might not be able to use the money the way we want anyway” said city manager Jim Colangelo.
That ís because Colangelo said the city could be bound by California State Lands Commission restrictions on how revenue can be generated from businesses that sit on
tidelands. The city’s intent was to use the higher rent from the aquarium for various city services, Colangelo said. About 20 percent of the aquarium complex sits in Pacific Grove, while the rest is in Monterey.
New Monterey House Burns
Billowing smoke from the older, one-story stucco building at 786 Pine St. could be seen from several blocks away along Lighthouse Avenue.
Monterey Fire Division Chief Paul Goodwin said four engine companies responded to the scene from Monterey and Pacific Grove. He said there was “major damage” to the structure.
Did it lower or raise the property values in the area?