Stupid Chamber Of Commerce forgot to mention the parade. Too busy having orgasms in the back office.
Pictures from barovelli.com
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Pacific Grove’s annual community event will be April 10 to 11. Good Old Days will feature more than 240 vendors from 12 states displaying arts, crafts and other wares. There will also music, entertainment and 30 food booths at the street fair, the largest arts and crafts gathering in Monterey County.
Orgasms when he screws the Farmers Market out of it’s downtown Monday location.
“We all had orgasms! It was heavenly,” P.G. Chamber of Commerce Moe Ammar jokes. “Like, ‘I can’t believe that this problem is solved.’”
Everyone’s Harvest director Iris Peppard initiated the March 2 get-together with hopes of heading off controversy at the March 3 City Council meeting. Peppard and an Everyone’s Harvest board member squared off with Ammar and two members of the Downtown Business Improvement District, who’d been complaining the market hurt their Monday night sales. They all agreed on moving the market to a city-owned parking lot south of Lighthouse Avenue on Saturday mornings.
And now wants to sweep the Farmers Market someplace else.
Four of five vacant storefronts on Lighthouse are filled – lessee, we have another art gallery, another nail shop and another one of those stores full of stuff no one wants but would buy as a gift to someone. The first ex-Business Center is still vacant but shows signs of something happening. Hallmark has been vacant for like 3 years.
Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, is seeing signs that the downtown economy is turning around.
Since the first of the year, five of the six vacancies on Lighthouse Avenue have been filled, leaving only the old Hallmark location empty.
Four of the five spots were filled by merchants who already have businesses in Pacific Grove, Ammar said.The chamber hired retired banker Michael Adamson last fall as business development coordinator, and he was responsible for filling three of the spots.
Fat Chance. Could be competition for the Wine Walk (with art). Or Moammar can start a new silly event to draw people to P.G., Friday Night Lite-ups.
Retired Pacific Grove Police Chief Carl Miller termed medical marijuana “snake oil.” He said the drug has been a factor in auto accidents and homicides in the city.
Pacific Grove already has “a serious drug problem in our schools,” he said, and opening a dispensary would send young people a message that marijuana use is harmless. He said it would draw customers from all over the county.
He said his experience as a police officer investigating drug use since medical marijuana was legalized showed most patient prescriptions “were self-certifications,” with doctors writing prescriptions based on patients’ demands and claims of health problems.
Marijuana Sellers Making Inroads To A Pacific Grove Location?
About time the users of the high paid city workers pay the price. Of course, developers like Nadir Agha are against anything that deprives them of an extra nickel.
On Wednesday, the City Council adopted recommendations made by city planning staff to require that the city recover 50 percent of costs for all architectural review permits, design changes and administrative approvals effective March 1, rising to 75 percent on Jan. 1, 2011.
The city currently recovers about 35 percent of the cost of processing the applications, said chief city planner Lynn Burgess.
Shocked! Just Shocked!!
Also continues to slam the Farmers Market. Can’t let a day go by without dissing something that benefits the residents.
Ammar said the restaurants in Pacific Grove that are doing the best right now are moderately priced, family places such Holly’s Lighthouse Cafe or Vivolo’s Chowder House, for example.
“I actually heard some tourists talking one day and they said: ‘Instead of going to (higher-end) Fandango, let’s grab some sandwiches at the farmers market,'” he said. “I’ve seen tourists open their trunks to eat out of their coolers.”
The man needs to be fired.
the unpopular water company has a friend in Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar, who praised the German-owned corporation: “Cal Am has been a good neighbor, a good corporate citizen. That is why I drive a Mercedes Benz instead of a GM.”
Moe knows what’s REALLY good for P.G.
In addition, he will ask the council to consider an emergency resolution that would allow new or increased taxes to be put on the Nov. 3 ballot. Those include raising the hotel room or transient occupancy tax increase from 10 to 12 percent, increasing the business license tax by deleting an annual tax limit, imposing a new 1.5 percent real estate transfer tax, and a parcel tax to fund the Pacific Grove Public Library.
The room and business license tax proposals are fighting words to Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar.
“We are opposed to this all the way,” he said. “This one, we’re going to fight. The city has to live within its means.”
Tax The Tourists? Moe Say Don’t Do It, Everything Will Be Fine!
Less resources for residents, says Moammar.
The Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce is proposing that voters re-write a decades old law to help bring in some money to the cash-strapped city.
Victoria Arroyo, the general manager of the Seabreeze Inn and Cottages in Pacific Grove, said their hands are tied when it comes to upgrading their facility. Arroyo said they want to be competitive with their Monterey neighbors, but it’s nearly impossible with Measure C in place.
Yes, lets have more garbage on the ground from Sea Breeze Motel.
Some blame the July 4 schedule, some the economy. But I betcha there’s some bad mojo about those days when the crusty P.G. motels demanded $300/night 3 night minimums…
Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce, said the 1,163 rooms in Pacific Grove are 73 percent sold for the weekend. Hotels are offering rates as low as $99 a night, he said.
Pacific Grove’s hotels were sold out the past two years for the races, when they were later in July; the July Fourth holiday was 88 percent sold last year.
P.G. Motels – Remember When You Could Gouge The Moto GP Fans?