On Friday afternoon, a 36-year-old Capitola resident was pulled from Monterey Bay by his 15-year-old son.
Firefighters arrived within three minutes of the distress call. Coast Guard rescuers were on the scene applying CPR.
Recreation Trail Attack
Monterey police are looking for three men who attacked and robbed a man and his girlfriend of jewelry and money Monday night on Recreation Trail near Window on the Bay in Monterey according to authorities.
One suspect was armed with a small semi-automatic handgun and another had a knife. The suspects approached the man from behind and dragged him off the trail, where he was robbed and stabbed several times in the back and arms.
Dangerous place at night. Don’t go there.
More Torture Protests At Presidio Gate
“He didn’t understand what we are doing,” said protester and Monterey resident Maggy Wilson Boast. “We do support our troops, but we don’t support the use of torture.”
Boast and her sister Janet Louise Wilson, organizer of this weekend’s protest outside the entrance at Lighthouse Avenue and Pvt. Bolio Road, have been fighting the impression that they are anti-American and anti-military since the beginning of the war with Iraq, nearly five years ago, the protesters said.
They should visit Russia or North Korea to protest real torture. Check the website of the “Peace Coalition”, with supportive links to what else but Communist websites.
Pacific Grove Merchant Trivia!!
Remember when Pacific Grove’s downtown businesses where there mostly for the locals? Was it a much better time then?
Where was Crocker Burger?
Where was Crocker Bank?
Which bottle shop was PG’s First?
Name the brand of gasoline that used to be sold:
Where Club Fit is
Where Lighthouse Cinemas is
What did lovers love at Lovers’ Point.
Name the restaurant that occupied the beach before the Old Bath House.
Where was the PG Swimming Pool?
Where was The Fat Cat?
Where was The Golden Egg?
What kind of trading stamps were offered by Holman’s?
Where could you redeem them?
Where was Elsa’s?
Bonus! Name one of the waitresses
What kind of food was served at Tom’s Cafe?
Who was the mascot of a restaurant lonnnng before it was Passionfish?
The Elegant Elephant. What was it?
Space Age _______.
Name a Squid House.
Where could you play Boccie Ball?.
GroveMont. Not a theater, what was it?
They called it Top Hat, but no one wore one there…
VNB, UCB, HSOA, ______
“The Store With So Much More”
Another Restaurant: The Pied Piper. Where?
How ’70s! A CB Radio Shop…..
“Let’s all go to ___________”
Sweets. Candy? No!
DLI Students Arrested In PG Robbery
Sean M. Davis, 19, Thomas C. Hood, 19 and Lee Nixon Jr., 18, were charged in the strong-arm robbery of a 24-year-old Seaside resident that took place at 3:40 a.m. Saturday.
The victim was struck on the head and robbed of his wallet by a man accompanied by two others at an automatic teller machine at the Bank of America branch at 601 Lighthouse Ave., police said.
What does anyone need cash for from an ATM in PG at 3:40AM? Nothing’s open at that time of the day.
Intruder Gets Bit By Police Dog Then Tasered
Salinas police used a dog and a Taser this morning to subdue a suspect accused of threatening his former girlfriend.
The suspect refused repeated police commands to surrender and the police K-9 was deployed, resulting in a bite wound to the suspect. The suspect continued to refuse additional commands, so a Taser was used.
He was lodged at Monterey County Jail on various charges, including domestic violence and false imprisonment. Police said he also had various outstanding felony warrants.
And the suspect lived. Amazing?
Turn That @#$& Down!
Karma is a loud car stereo that gets a young man stopped by police and leads to all 3 people in the car getting arrested.
Salinas Police said they stopped a 20-year-old man in Salinas late Thursday after hearing excessively loud music coming from his vehicle.
Jeremy Jones was arrested on suspicion of having a suspended license about 11 p.m. at North Main Street and Highway 101, police said, but a subsequent search of the vehicle turned up two bags of methamphetamine totaling 10.8 grams and four bags of a total 29 ecstasy tablets.
Passengers Lydia Jones, 18, and Carlos Burgos, 23, were also arrested.
Dangerous Trees To Be Chopped Down
City Manager Jim Colangelo said West Coast Arborists will remove the trees in December at a cost of $65,000. The firm will focus on trees that need to be cut down using cranes, while city employees will focus on less expensive tree-cutting, he said.
Residents who were originally critical of the plan to cut down 200 trees said on Wednesday that they were happy with the process and that the council members went to look at the trees.
Jean Anton, chairwoman of the city’s beautification and natural resources committee, praised the council members for going to the park. In her four years on the committee, she’s never seen that happen.
Business Group Requests Unlimited Parking
Minutes of the Traffic Commission – November 14, 2006
One of the concerns was that employees would take advantage of the no enforcement policy and park their vehicles in front of the establishments where they are employed.
Commission encourages the BID group to . . come back to us next July or August with a plan to implement the extended parking for shoppers and indicate they are going to control employee parking.
Nothing new here – there appears to be little or no enforcement of the 2 hour limits already. Numerous commercial vehicles and personal cars from store owners and workers park all day with no need to move.
Hazaras parks it’s van around Lighthouse and Forest all day.
Victorian Corner workers take up so many parking places and the loading zone all day . . .
That delivery trucks cannot even use the “loading zone” set aside for the purpose and spill over to red zones and crosswalks
Business Slow? Blame The Parked Cars
From the Minutes of the Traffic Commission – November 14, 2006
A group of students from Monterey Peninsula College are developing a marketing plan for four (4) businesses on the west side of Grand Avenue between Lighthouse Ave. and Central Ave. They have observed large vehicles parking all day long in front of these establishments which blocks sight distance to the businesses. Passing vehicles on Grand Avenue have difficulty seeing the stores because of parked vehicles.
Large vehicles parked all day? So the two hour limit is not enforced there either.
So one idea is to extend your store signage to the street, just like Ariana Cafe once did.
Or get the city to make the spaces in front of your business ‘loading zones’. Works for Victorian Corner.
Or join the sandwich board club.
Is it the parked cars? No I think these kinds of shops belong in Carmel anyway. Business success means selling an item or service that people want. Do people come to PG for the Carmel experience?