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Liquor Store Owner Opposes Farmers Market

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What’s behind Ron’s Liquors? A huge free parking lot. People in need of liquor, cigarettes and porn will not be slowed down by a bunch of veggie lovers.

On June 4, the Pacific Grove City Council approved an ordinance allowing public gatherings on Lighthouse, a prerequisite for the farmers market.

But Lighthouse Avenue merchants say the market will hurt them.

“It was supposed to come to town and be something positive for the city,” said liquor store owner David Pollacci.

Instead, he said, it will take business away from merchants.

His business, Ron’s Liquors at 613 Lighthouse Ave., loses 30 percent to 40 percent of its business on days when the street is closed — Good Old Days, the Butterfly Parade, car rallies, the Christmas Parade of Lights and similar events. Pollacci said he doesn’t mind giving up sales from time to time, but shutting down the street once a week would be too big a loss.

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Liquor Store Owner Opposes Farmers Market

Council Picks Iris Peppard As Farmers Market Organizer

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Also up for the job was Joe Aliotti of Community Help Around Monterey Peninsula, who runs two farmers markets in Salinas. His proposals to involve local schools and stakeholders earned him the staff recommendation. “We interviewed both parties and he seemed to be farther along,” says City Manager Jim Colangelo.

Though impressed by both proposals, Councilmember Lisa Bennett made the successful motion to go for Everyone’s Harvest. “The flavor of her market seemed to match my values a little more,” she says. “A little more organic, a little more focused on being local.”

Council Picks Iris Peppard As Farmers Market Organizer

Letters From The Editor

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Vanessa writes to the Hear-Old:

“Why would I shop at a Pacific Grove farmers market when I can find fresh produce at Grove Market

Why would I shop at a cavernous hardware store when I can walk into P.G. Hardware

Why would I shop at an enormous office supply chain when Alpha Stationery

There are so many reasons to live and shop in Pacific Grove, many of them that feed my soul and reassure me of the decision we made 32 years ago to make this our home forever.”

Well Vanessa, some people have to work and don’t have a lot of time to dodge the tourists or find parking downtown. Biggest factor is that the streets once again roll up at 7:00PM and none of those stores are open when working people come home to PG.

Letters From The Editor

Farmers Market? With All These Empty Storefronts?

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Letter From The Editor in the Hear-Old:

Why would Pacific Grove want to have a farmers market when it has Grove Market?

In an easy walk around a few blocks, shoppers can find fresh produce, a butcher shop, farmer’s bread, clothing shops, antiques, art galleries, card shops, stationery, cleaners, paints, banks, health food and the best hardware store and post office on the Central Coast.

I bet Monterey residents would love to take a short bus ride with their shopping bags to shop in a town that provides the basic necessities for locals.

It’s obvious that Barbara bAss Evans rides the short bus. None of those businesses are open in the early evening when working people shop.

Farmers Market? With All These Empty Storefronts?

P.G. Making Plans For A Farmers Market

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Before the City Council proceeds, a June 21 meeting will be held to hash out details, including the location and schedule for a market, said City Manager Jim Colangelo.

Colangelo said if merchants’ concerns can be resolved, a farmers market would be a positive note for downtown, where sales tax revenues have been flat in recent months.

“It’s not a crisis situation,” Colangelo said. “But we’re just concerned that we’re not seeing the type of business that we used to.”

You hit the nail on the head, Jimmy. Locals have quit shopping in downtown P.G. ever since the Carmel crowd moved in. Farmer’s Markets tend to be local centric. And none of the shops that oppose one are ever open when they take place anyway.

P.G. Making Plans For A Farmers Market