The Pacific Grove group that saved one of the monarch butterfly’s favorite West Coast haunts is undergoing a metamorphosis of its own.
Friends of the Monarchs may soon dissolve, because it has become a challenge to attract board members and keep volunteer levels up, group leaders said.
If you can’t collect enough people to be on the board of the symbolic butterfly, how would we ever amass enough people to collect enough compost to be sustainable?
New Monterey listings from the online police log.
6/1/07 Citizen 800 block of Alice reports finding two male juveniles sleeping in her locked vehicle.
6/1/07 Citizen reports losing his wallet on the beach near the Spindrift Inn.
6/1/07 Citizen 500 block Newton reports theft of a light blue 1993 Toyota Corolla.
6/1/07 Citizen reports an unknown suspect to have keyed her vehicle at Lot 21 at Foam and Reeside.
6/1/07 The business located at 635 Lighthouse, reports having a civil disturbance.
6/1/07 COOPERSMITH, RAY was arrested for DUI.
6/2/07 Citizen reports the theft of his rear license plate from 700 David in the parking structure.
6/4/07 MPD towed a 2003 gray VW GTI from Irving and Foam for registration expired for over 6 months.
6/5/07 MPD discovered two large clay pots containing trees smashed in front of 675 Lighthouse.
6/5/07 Traffic accident versus concrete median on David between Lighthouse and Foam.
6/5/07 Hilltop Park reports graffiti to the Hilltop park building. Graffiti was done with black marker on the east wall.
6/6/07 Citizen reports unknown to have stolen her wallet from inside her purse while working an open house at 600 block of Lily.
6/6/07 SCHAEFFER, KENNETH and ROBINSON, TARA were cited for possession of open containers of alcohol in the 800 block of Lighthouse.
6/6/07 COLLINS, ANTHONY was arrested for possession of narcotics paraphernalia at Lighthouse / Drake.
6/6/07 MCSO aided in the arrest of COLLINS, ANTHONY on a no bail felony warrant.
6/7/07 REYNOLDS, LARRY was cited for possession of an open container of alcohol at Lighthouse and Prescott.
6/7/07 Citizen reported her vehicle was vandalized at 600 block of Lighthouse.
6/10/07 City of Monterey Parking Division reports someone to have left a wallet on his parking vehicle while at Wave and Hoffman.
6/10/07 Citizen fell while stepping off the curb in front of 700 Cannery Row.
6/10/07 BOWMAN, MATHEW was cited for possession of less than 28.5 grams of marijuana at Hoffman and Wave.
6/11/07 Citizen reports a tile cutter to have been stolen from his rental property in the 700 block of Spencer.
6/11/07 WEILBACHER, SEAN on an outstanding $10,000 warrant in the 800 block of Irving.
6/12/07 MPD found a black US Navy duffel bag in the 500 block of Laine
6/12/07 Citizen 1700 block David reports an unknown to have broken his door lock, bathroom window and water valve.
6/13/07 CITY OF MONTEREY reports an unknown to have collided with, and sheared off, a traffic signal post on David at Foam.
6/13/07 Citizen reports unknown to have stolen her blue 1988 Honda Accord from 600 block of Lighthouse.
6/14/07 Citizen reports finding three driver’s licenses in the dumpster in the 800 block of Alice Street.
6/15/07 Citizen 800 block of Alice Street reports theft of his Black Sony Vaio laptop.
6/15/07 Citizen 1500 block of Prescott, reports vandalism to her mailbox.
6/16/07 HORTON, CURTIS was arrested for DUI in the 300 block of Dickman. He was additionally charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
6/16/07 ROBINSON, TARA was cited for possession of an open container in public at the intersection of Prescott and Lighthouse.
6/16/07 Citizen reports and unknown suspect to have struck his vehicle and fled the scene while parked in Parking Lot 21 at Cannery Row and Foam.
6/16/07 Citizen reports theft of his Green 97 Honda Civic while parked in the parking garage of 487 Foam. Video surveillance showed the vehicle being driven out of the garage by a Hispanic or Asian male with a black t-shirt, red shorts and shaved black head.
6/16/07 Citizen reports a burglary to his 89 Toyota Camry while parked in the parking garage of 487 Foam.
6/17/07 SHEEHAN, BRIAN was arrested for public intoxication in the 500 blk of Lighthouse.
6/17/07 Citizen reports burglary to her locked 1991 Silver Honda while parked in the 400 block of Foam Street.
6/17/07 Citizen 500 block of Hawthorne reports theft of her pearl necklace, pearl earrings and diamond ring.
6/17/07 The Victorian Inn, 487 Foam reports a suspicious red 1990 Toyota Corolla parked in the parking garage.
6/23/07 MCSO was aided in the arrest of HAMILTON, RYAN on an outstanding traffic warrant at 700 Cannery Row.
6/24/07Hit and run on Lighthouse and Dickman.
6/24/07 REYNOLDS, LARRY was cited for open container of alcohol in public at Prescott and Lighthouse.
6/24/07 Citizen reports the burglary to his vehicle, located in the parking lot along the 500 block of Cannery Row.
6/25/07 Barking dog problem on Hawthorne.
6/25/07 Citizen 200 block of Hawthorne reports theft of his blue Cannondale mountain bike from his carport.
6/26/07 Citizen reports the theft of three credit cards from 400 Cannery Row.
6/27/07 City of Monterey Public Works employee reports finding a men’s 18-speed Mongoose mountain bike in the Cannery Row Garage.
6/27/07 Citizen 400 block of Spencer reports an unknown to have entered her Gold 1992 Mercedes 190E while parked outside her residence and stolen several items.
6/27/07Citizen reports his dark blue 1994 Honda Accord stolen from the parking lot located at Hawthorne and McCellan.
6/28/07 Citizen 1100 block of McCellan reports the theft of several power and hand tools from his unlocked pickup
6/28/07 Citizen 600 block of Taylor reported theft of a pinewood stained armoire from the carport.
6/28/07 Citizen 800 block of Lily, reports an unknown to have stolen his wallet and checkbook from his unlocked pickup.
6/28/07 Traffic accident, PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL versus a parked vehicle in the 400 block of Irving. PAWLOWSKI was subsequently arrested for DUI.
6/29/07 SHANKAR, VINAY was arrested for public intoxication on Prescott at Newton.
6/29/07 Citizen reports an unknown to have spray painted graffiti on the rear awning of his business, located in the 200 block of Lighthouse.
6/29/07 Smoke House Restaurant reports embezzlement of about $500.
6/30/07 CARROW’S RESTUARANT, 300 David MTRY, reports four unknown white female juveniles to have not paid for $48.92 worth of food.
A judge refused Wednesday to lower the bail for a Seaside High School teacher accused of murdering her elderly male companion.
Visiting Judge Arjuna Saraydarian rejected a bail-reduction motion by the attorney for Lynne Nicole Feurer, 65, who was arrested by Pacific Grove police late last month.
Feurer is accused of killing Joseph Cupita, 81, at the couple’s home May 29. She has been held in jail on $1 million bail since being charged with Cupita’s death.
Defense attorney Frank Dice argued that her bail be lowered, citing her background in the community. He presented several letters from community members who said she is a good person.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium was ranked No. 8 on the list of the 10 top attractions for travelers in the United States today by TripAdvisor — the world’s largest travel community.
The list of top attractions is based on both the evaluation of TripAdvisor editors and traveler popularity as reflected in online opinions posted by TripAdvisor’s 6 million members.
It beats the San Diego Zoo, that’s surprising. And a fountain in Vegas, no surprise. Not as good as a rooftop in New York or a closed down prison though.
From Yahoo! News, The List:
1.Orlando, Florida
2.Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Nevada
3.Hana Highway, Maui, Hawaii
4.Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
5.Central Park, New York City, New York
6.Alcatraz, San Francisco, California
7.Top of the Rock Observation Deck, New York,New York
8.Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay, California
9.Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas, Nevada
10.San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California
Letters From The Editor:
Calling P.G. a green town is admirable, but this will not build up businesses. Most people simply don’t care, and are shopping for a bargain or an exceptional piece of art. Don’t wish for a tourist town. Wish for a town tourists enjoy visiting, a place that reminds them of a place long forgotten.
Say it louder. Cater to and take care of the locals and the tourists will want to be part of it. Take care of just the tourists and you lose the locals that may carry you through off season times.
Worried about gang activity and public health, the Watsonville City Council on Tuesday put off lifting a decades-old ban on body art shops.
Councilman Antonio Rivas said tattoos would “bring a certain element into town,” namely gangs and white supremacists.
“It’s important to me not to see that kind of thing come to our city,” he said.
He argued for more stringent restrictions on the location of shops.
Make the shops photograph and register every tatt.
Developer Robert Enea is now considering bringing a Paul Mitchell School to the old Lighthouse Cinema, where projectors were shut off in September.
City Manager Colangelo said he’d prefer to see the spot go to a retailer that will generate sales tax for the city. The only revenue the city would get from a cosmetology school would be from “students spending money here and patrons coming in to get beautified,” he said.
What happened to the discount liquor store idea? What about an Outback Steakhouse? Bring some REAL revenue. Or are there too many mediocre PG merchants that cannot even match the service of a formula chain establishment brown nosing the council these days?
I’m all for common sense to reduce waste, but this crap is ridiculous. This sounds like hippies that sold to the man out are back, and now they are broke and looking for handouts, or at least a reason to not find real work. “Dude, lets grow organic herbs and sell them, like, to the hardware store for some nails”. “Yah, man – we can also have a fashion show with garbage. We can get a far out grant from the city and score some bud, man.”
From the website.
Are you having a gathering where you want to use biodegradable food service items? Want to spread the word on how to help organizations become more sustainable?
Click here to see a page of sources for biodegradable goods.
http://www.sustainablepg.org/green/bio_goods.php
That source contains NOTHING LOCAL. Links to buy stuff from sustainable Cleveland. Aint that stupid?
Got a lot of time on your hands and don’t want to use modern disinfectants or cleaners? They recommend solving world problems with vinegar. Does not work.
Then lets change some more. After a few tokes they come up with this fantasy:
Residents walk throughout town finding the goods they need and new stores open to showcase locally manufactured products. A local bike store houses a bike-lending library, and citizens ride scooters and bikes down our roads. A tool-lending library and a fix-it shop opens to allow residents to share tools and knowledge.
Problem is, the town does not cater to residents. This stuff is useless to tourists and generates little to no tax revenue. To really sustain, you need money. Unless we move toward living in communes . . .
More Fantasies:
Rail, transit expansion, bicycle and walking,
Speed limit reduction, self limitation of non-essential driving
Hah! “limitation of non-essential driving” They want to take away your driving privileges.
Telecommuting, compressed work week, worker relocation closer to job sites.
Workers in PG cannot afford to live here. Will they set up tents in the “open spaces” like street medians?
More . . some of the group’s ideas include
A green job corps, in which high school students could learn skills such as converting businesses or houses to solar energy
Solar in PG? Named the foggiest town in America.
Growing community gardens and selling the produce at a weekly farmers market now in the works
Let’s not pay income or sales taxes.
Creating a local mutual fund with money going to community projects.
Where does they money come from? Compost Sales?
Widening bike lanes and bringing electric bikes to town
Electric bikes. Ooh, more wasteful energy. Streets in PG are too narrow to share – so see the part about taking our cars away.
Reclaiming common spaces, such as traffic medians, for community art projects and gardens.
Or tents for the people that have to live closer to their minimum wage jobs.
Holding community-building events such as a soup night or projecting movies against a building
Ooo boy. Yah, let’s all gather for showings of “Loose Change” and other leftist propaganda. Don’t drink the kool aide.
Someone tell me this is all a joke.
When people near and far imagine Pacific Grove, there isn’t necessarily one image that comes to mind. And that’s a concern to business owners who want to draw more visitors and boost sales in America’s Last Hometown.
Another issue that came up repeatedly was the fact that the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau no longer promotes Pacific Grove.
Nancy Holland, owner of Reincarnation Vintage Clothing in Pacific Grove, said she went to the bureau’s kiosk at El Estero on Sunday to investigate because she hadn’t heard a single foreign accent in her shop this summer.
She asked the person behind the counter whether there were any “cute little antique shops in Pacific Grove.”
“She goes, ‘I’m sorry. They don’t want to participate. I can’t tell you anything. I’ll tell you how to get to the border (of Pacific Grove),'” Holland said, adding, “Talking about these idea are all well and good, but if people don’t come here, we’re going to die.”
It these businesses sold something people wanted in the first place, they would be found.
When I tell business associates that I live in Pacific Grove, the image is one of beaches and hotels, not antique stores or even restaurants. Tourists come to P.G. for a quiet hotel room, and then go to Carmel or Monterey to vacation. Give P.G. back to the locals. Or pimp the town and build a casino or music hall.
Some business owners tell us they’ve seen a 20 percent drop in sales lately compared to past years. Business owners say that’s because they’re feeling the effects of not being a part of the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
You may remember last year the city decided not to renew its membership because the city didn’t have the funds.
So businesses want the city to pay for their advertising? If they are so darned smart why don’t THEY pay to be included in Visitors Bureau?