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Nov. 26-Dec. 2, 2010 Pacific Grove Community News Vol. III, Issue 10

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Friday Night LightsMeets First Friday - Page 9

Nov. 4 - 21, 2010THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY

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Children’s WinterfestSponsored by PG Adult School

Co-op PreschoolAdmission is free

Gifts for saleSally Griffin Center

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“Big Bands in Concert,”Conducted by Richard Robins

Admission is freeMusic Hall (M-1) at Monterey

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•Now – Jan. 2, 2011

10 AM – 5 PM • Tues-SunGlow: Living Lights

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6-9PM Christmas at the Inns

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Besides its fine selection of second-hand merchandise, the AFRP (Animal Friends Rescue Project) Treasure Shop has a contender for Christmas Tree of the Year. The ten-footer is mounted on a tall stand so it almost reaches the store’s high ceiling. Frank Quilantang, a former Pebble Beach chief floral designer who now volunteers at the store, turned his consider-able talents loose on decorating the tree. Further assistance came from a man who identifies himself as “Doc Halliday.” The AFRP Treasure Shop is located at 156 Fountain Avenue at the corner of Central.

Bringing in the season

Fri., Dec. 1010:30 AM“Living Well with Arthritis”Rheumatologist Dr. UdwadiaCanterbury Woods651 Sinex Ave. Pacific GrovePublic Welcome-No ChargeRSVP 657-4193

Sat., Dec. 184:00 PMI Cantori Di Carmel Choral SingersHoliday ConcertCanterbury Woods651 Sinex Ave. Pacific GrovePublic Welcome-No ChargeRSVP 657-4193

The annual Crime Prevention Officer’s Association of Monterey County (CPOAMC) Toy Drive has begun. Last year, the Toy Drive provided more than 1,400 toys to children in need. Churches and community service agencies throughout Monterey County have identified the needy children and they will help Santa by wrapping all the new toys, so don’t wrap your donations. The officers request unwrapped, new toys. The drive will last until Dec. 17.

The Pacific Grove Police Department is located at the corner of Pine and Forest Avenues in Pacific Grove. Drop-off sites also include Salinas PD, CHP, CSUMB PD, Sheriff’s office, Seaside PD, Presidio of Monterey PD and Del Rey Oaks PD.

Toy drive under way

PG High School seeks a high: A Natural High

New club offers sports, substance, but not substances.

By Christelle Harris

At the Pacific Grove Unified School District’s Nov. 19 meeting, a new club was announced known as Natural High. Natural High is new to Pacific Grove High. It is a drug-free club funded by the Sundt Memorial, an organization started by Jon Sundt in honor of his two brothers who both died due to drug-related problems. Pacific Grove’s local branch was announced at the school board meeting by Marcia Waitt, a Stanford Psychology graduate, and Sean Keller a PGHS English Teacher.

Natural High is meant to inspire young people to avoid

By Marge Ann Jameson

Responding to a call from a taxi driver about an unpaid fare, Pacific Grove Police found instead a grisly scene on Sunday, Nov. 21 at 10:45 p.m.

The cab driver told officers that he picked up a male subject in Seaside and delivered him to the residence at 214 17 Mile Drive. The subject told the cab driver to wait and went inside the residence. When he did not return, the cab driver thought the subject was not going to pay the fare so he called police.

Police knocked on the door, and though no one answered, they heard sounds inside so they went to a side window. Officers reported seeing what appeared to be blood spattered on the wall inside, so they forced entry.

Inside they found, deceased in the floor, Judith Salazar, 46, of Pacific Grove. She was the apparent victim of a stabbing.

Nearby on the floor was 26 year-old Sunny Nguyen, also suffering from knife wounds. Nguyen, of Seaside, was transported by AMR to an air ambulance and taken to a San Jose medical trauma center where he is being treated. He remains in police custody, the apparent suspect in the murder. As of press time, he had been arrested and there is no word on his condition though he is expected to recover. He will, when released by the San Jose trauma center, be transferred to the infirmary at Monterey County Jail.

Nguyen was allegedly the cab customer.

Two small children, an eight month-old boy and a two year-old girl, were found unharmed in the residence. Nguyen is reportedly the father of the two children, while the dead woman, Judith Salazar, is their grandmother. The mother

Domestic violenceends in murder

Pacific Grove grandmotherdead; daughter’s estranged

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Pair gets jail time for elder abuse,identity theft and burglary

Amanda Spears, 22, of Pacific Grove, and Theodore Alexander Lopez, 22, of Pebble Beach were placed on felony probation and ordered to serve 340 days and 240 days, respectively, in Monterey County jail.

Spears had entered a plea to felony charges of elder abuse, possession of stolen property, burglary and misdemeanor theft charges after she stole personal identification information from an elderly victim. Officials said the information was used to open credit card accounts and gain access to the victim’s financial accounts.

Detectives said Spears also forged and unlawfully cashed checks from the Robert H. Down Parent Association.

Lopez, officials said, conspired with Spears to use the victim’s identification to open and use credit cards.

Spears and Lopez purchased home electronics, video games, DVD movies and other items with the stolen funds.

in the care of Monterey County Family and Children Services pending initial stages of the investigation, but have since been released to their mother.

Pacific Grove Police Chief Darius Engles said that police detectives continue to attempt to piece together what led to the stabbing and to determine a motive.

“We have obviously received numerous statements. Motive is a critical piece of the investigation,” he said, and he would not speculate further on a possible motive in the crime.

Salazar was a special education teacher at Alisal High School in Salinas, where grief counseling was being provided to faculty and students.

PG Dog Gone Turkey-Dog ReportAin’t Nothing but a Hound Dog

In the area of Laurel Ave. a hound escaped its yard. While it was on the lam, the hound came across a yellow lab and the lab’s human. The human tried to prevent an interaction between the two canines and fell to the ground. No injuries were reported.

Maybe we should tie this alleged family member to the car and see how they like it.

Officer was dispatched to the Wood St. area for a report about a dog tied to the bumper of a car (yes, really) When the officer arrived the German shepherd was in fact tied to the bumper. The dog was barking (wouldn’t you be) and pulling on the rope. The officer went to the front door and no one was home. For safety reason the officer took the dog and held it. The owner called later that day and stated that they did not leave the dog tied to the bumper that it must have been a family member who had done it. The officer advised the human that if the dog was was found tied that way again, the dog would be impounded and the human would be cited.

Rings Wallets and ThingsA wallet was turned in that was found in the Country Club Gate area,

a Bluetooth ear piece was found on the corner of Pine and Congress Ave. A found cell phone, a found insurance card and a report of a lost phone and Ipod were all reported this week.

$800.00 Sunglass? I think I wouldn’t leave them in my car.A person called in to report that an unknown person ransacked his

unlocked vehicle and stole his $800.00 RX sunglasses. No suspect at this time. ( I don’t know what’s wrong with this picture.)

Out to LunchOfficer was dispatched to the Country Club Gate Shopping center were

a burglary had occurred during the day. No force was used to gain entry and entry was made while employees were “out to lunch”, various personal items were taken no suspect leads at this time. Stolen credit card was used at a gas station after theft.

PGHS Young Writers’ Club

Young Writers’ Corner

November 26, 2010 •CEDAR STREET Times •

By George Laiolo

It was the holiday season, and to celebrate, Jay Gatsby decided to hold a lavish Thanksgiving dinner party at his not-so-humble abode to impress some of his fellow literary figures and of course, Daisy. The characters on the guest list didn’t often have such occasions to speak to each other, so the conversation at the event was hearty. Discussions regarding who was indeed the most memorable literary character, who hailed from the most significant literary classic, and who has since garnished the most hits on SparkNotes brought about some colorful exchanges in the halls of Gatsby’s Hotel de Ville. At one point Jay recalled a recent summer excursion to Bermuda, an ideal vacation locale for relaxation. His trip, however, proved far from relaxing, for Captain Ahab had poured back a few too many Ole’ Fashions and mistook a plump Siddhartha meditating poolside and munching on grapes for Moby Dick. Island security tried to hold Ahab back, but unfortunately for the tranquil enlightened one, Ahab never goes anywhere without his trusty harpoon.

Gatsby knew the risks of bringing together such array of characters, but he felt that the positivity of the holiday spirit would promote a pleasant get together between esteemed acquaintances. He sent out invitations the day after Halloween, and nearly every guest quickly RSVP’d, with the exception, of course, of the Invisible Man who was always missing!

When the day arrived, guests poured into the dining hall. Atticus Finch brought with him his two children, and a fine 1914 cabernet. Hester Prynne arrived alone. She had recently finalized her divorce with Roger Chillingworth, which should have made her exponentially more cheerful than she usually was, but that rigid Puritan ideology stood very strongly in Hester’s demeanor and was reflected in her typical all black attire. The Widow Douglas, Huck Finn, and Tom Sawyer arrived next. The Widow kissed Gatsby on the cheek, for the two had become great friends after a recent steamboat trip down the Mississippi. Tom and Huck ran off to play with Jem and Scout, and the last few guests came through the mansion doorway. There was Captain Ahab, who had just spent a year in jail for the aggravated assault and drunk and disorderly conduct charges stemming from the Siddhartha incident (he was not awarded early release for good behavior). Then there was little Ralph and little Jack, who thankfully had patched things up after a good four months of counseling, though it was apparent that their other friend, Piggy, came to the mansion only for the turkey. Finally, there came Holden Caulfield, still donning his odd red cap. At first glance, he seemed elated, but Gatsby knew that Holden was busy scrutinizing his mansion; contemplating which parts of it he found phony and hypocritical.

The adults helped themselves to drinks and hors d’oeuvres while the children settled at a small table in the living room. As the beautifully prepared turkey made its entrance on an ornate silver platter carried by a servant, Hester quickly volunteered to say grace. The party bowed their heads in silence as the sweet savory scent of turkey wafted past their noses and Hester’s prayer welcomed the meal.

“May God, our holy father, for this one meal, turn a blind eye to all the darkness, evil, iniquity, and moral ineptitude that permeate the earth; and may he ensure that the food doth not carry any sickening pestilence that might disembowel those at this table unfortunate enough to face the Lord’s holy wrath.”

Hester’s prayer evoked somber “amens” from the Widow Douglas, and the always polite Atticus Finch, but Holden Caulfield could not suppress his urge to giggle at her zealous words.

“Gee Miss, great job getting us all in the mood to eat. That speech ‘d surely take first prize in a happiness contest.”

“What do yee know about happiness, ye whiny brat?” Interjected Captain Ahab, who had already knocked back a few too many. “I thought thee prayer was beautiful, Miss Prynne.”

“Beautiful? Ahab you wouldn’t know beautiful if it broadsided your damn boat!” Holden fired back.

“And yee would, Mr. anti-society? Ye can’t possibly have time to recognize beauty when you spend so much time whalin’ and moanin’ about your problems.”

“Speaking of whalin’, how’d that work out for you, Captain?”“Gentlemen, please, that’s enough.” Atticus Finch sought to

keep the peace at the dinner table. “Mr. Caulfield, why don’t you go check on the children? I believe I heard something in the living room.”

“Aye Caulfield, why don’t yee go be with the kiddies. Maybe ye can catch ‘em while they’re still in the rye, eh?”

Holden sprung out of his chair as if he was ready for a fight, but he remembered that the drunken Ahab’s spear was probably somewhere nearby, and didn’t wish to end up like poor Siddhartha. Besides, fighting was for wannabies and phonies anyway. He left the dining table to check on the children as Atticus, an always respectable figure, had requested. As he entered the living room, he noticed immediately that the children were nowhere to be found.

“Nooooo!!! Stop it guys that’s not funny!” Piggy’s high-pitched voice could be heard outside on the patio. “Let me have it, let me have it!”

“Lardo! Lardo! Piggy wants his turkey leg doesn’t he?” Taunted Ralph and Jack. “Lardo! Lardo!”

Holden found it both very immature and a little bit funny that Ralph and Jack were playing keep-away with Piggy’s dinner. He was also curious as to why Jem, Scout, Tom, and Huck were missing from the patio.

Piggy moaned “Why don’t things ever change? We were rescued weren’t we? You guys don’t need to be mean anymore!”

Holden decided to intervene. He intercepted the turkey leg and brought it to Piggy’ but kept it just out of his reach. “I’ll give you this if you tell me where the other young’ns went.”

Ralph interrupted “Young’ns? You’re only a few years older than we are!”

“Yeah!” said Jack. “And we’re way more mentally stable!” “Alright fine, here’s your damn turkey leg.” Holden conceded

and walked in the other direction of the boys from the patio. In the distance he overheard a smooth jazz record playing. He approached the outdoor lounge where the sound came from and saw something that he knew would infuriate Atticus and the Widow Douglas. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, always the trouble-makers, decided to introduce the Finch’s to the peaceful pleasure of a corn-cob pipe. Jem and Scout sat red-eyed and coughing while Tom and Huck looked dumbfounded at the music coming out of a mysterious contraption that neither of them had ever seen before. The children’s good time was interrupted by a pestering knock on the window.

“Is it him again?” a vexed Jem asked.“Looks like it, he’s got that weird scar on his forehead.” Scout

responded. Tom and Huck made silly faces at the boy knocking on the

window who merely wanted to come join the party. They also caught the attention of Ralph and Jack, who were sneaking up behind the boy. They gave the malevolent pair the thumbs up, and the hapless boy with the scar on his forehead experienced the most painful wedgie that was humanly possible.

Jack sneered “Got any spells to get yourself out of a wedgie, Potter?”

Harry implored “I just want to be loved!”Gatsby had come outside to quell the shouting when he noticed

the severely wedgied Harry Potter hobbling towards his doorstep. “I’m sorry Harry, but we’ve been over this. You’re not welcome

here. Please leave my mansion.” It was at this moment that Gatsby decided this would be his

first and last Thanksgiving Party. The Finch’s were smoking, Piggy was being bullied again, Ahab and Holden were on the verge of mortal combat, and Harry Potter, who really wanted nothing more than to fit in, had once again crashed Gatsby’s mansion. It seemed that not even a nice Thanksgiving dinner could postpone egotism and a bitter clash of personalities. One by one the guests began making their way out of the Gatsby mansion. Atticus and the Widow Douglas shuffled their miscreants out the door, and Ralph, Piggy, and Jack, followed behind. Holden bid farewell to his host, and he was about to leave when he recalled that he had hung his hat up in the closet in the entry hall. He opened the doors and, to his and Gatsby’s utter shock, found Captain Ahab and Hester Prynne, both completely naked, sprawled passionately on the floor together. Apparently, the Puritan and the drunkard were the only guests who truly felt the holiday spirit.

The End

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substance abuse through adventure sports such as rock climbing, kayaking, hiking, cycling, skateboarding and surfing. The teens in the club start by watching one of the Natural High videos chock full of famous icons like skateboarder Tony Hawk, musician MYA and Surfer Laird Hamilton explaining their own drug-free lifestyles.

“ It is a club meant to attract the kids who are already partying, whereas the other programs we have in place attract the kids who would never do drugs in the first place.” says Sean Keller. The club replaces the rush of drugs and alcohol with adrenaline, and shows how effective it can be. As the Natural High website www.naturalhigh.com puts it, “Numerous studies have shown that lectures and scare tactic approaches are not only ineffective, but make kids more aware of drugs and curious to try them. If you show kids their drug-free heroes in music, sports, dance, and the arts, students will strive to be drug-free like them.” This club not only promotes being drug-free to students, but sets up a foundation for a drug free lifestyle. As one school board member put it “It promotes a drug free lifestyle, because abusing substances would ruin their ability to do these sports.”

Marcia Waitt wrote the latest curriculum, Natural High Four, for the club, and is piloting the program here in Pacific Grove. She is using the local club as a national prototype, and although she says it is in its early stages, Pacific Grove could set the precedent for clubs all over the country. “It is in its early stages at Pacific Grove High,” says Marcia “All the English students have seen the Natural High Four video, and have responded with personal essays relating to their experiences with drugs and alcohol.”

According to Waitt, it is a tiered process in which the students watch the video, do projects, write essays and finally participate in activities, like hikes and climbing trips. Just this last Sunday the Pacific Grove Natural High Club hosted a hike in Big Sur. Sean Keller said, “We need to keep the relationship going with these kids, from kindergarten all the way through high school.” Most importantly, Sean says “We can’t pass drug use off as a rite of passage anymore. I want all the parents in on this, even the ones who allow their kids to party. Because it’s going to take a village.”

But this club can’t exist at Pacific Grove High without financial backing from the community. Thus far, the school district has not allocated funds to the program, and there has been no formal request made to become a program funded by the district instead of an independent club. This may be strategic, because as a club Natural High has more room to collect donations from parents and supporters. Part of the task of the young participants of this club is to take donations, and sell the Natural High T-shirts. Marcia Waitt has asked that anyone considering helping the program grow in Pacific Grove donate to a student in the club, or purchase a T-shirt. Until then, “We are pleading with the school board to please take us on,” said Keller. For more information e-mail Marcia at [email protected], or Sean at [email protected].

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By Christelle Harris

Remember the “Romero Bill?” It is the bill which has now been given the official name “Open Enrollment Act.” It allows students from lower achieving schools to transfer to higher achieving ones. Pacific Grove is a rare school district, because it does not get its money based on attendance, but from property tax values. This essentially means that if a student transfers to Pacific Grove Unified School District, their attendance is in jeopardy of not being funded. Funding, as we all know, is essential to school performance and well being. Pacific Grove Unified School District revised their board policy 5117.1 once again at this week’s school board meeting, allowing for more consideration of the fiscal impact of this bill on the PGUSD. Ralph Porras, Superintendent announced, and the revision was approved unanimously.

The new policy (as quoted from the PGUSD school board 11/18/2010 packet) provides:

“1. Additional definitions from the Open Enrollment Act, language stating the District’s obligation to notify any District students attending a District “open enrollment” school that they have the right to a transfer,

2. Information about the “aggregated method” for receiving and reviewing Romero Bill transfer applications during the maximum 60-day period from receipt of application to parent notification later,”

3. Added language permitting the District to deny a transfer based on the student’s discipline history, including two suggested bases for such denials,

4. An added provision reflecting language in the pending regulations which states that a District “may allow a pupil who has transferred to and is currently enrolled in a school in the district . . . to matriculate to a middle or high school in the district without having to reapply” regardless of whether the school the student would have matriculated to in the district of residence is on the list of 1,000 Open Enrollment schools

5. Minor changes that streamline and clarify the BP, based on additional information received in the months since the Romero Bill first went into effect.”

At the bottom of the revision, there was also a fiscal impact clause that stated “If implemented as proposed, the policy will explicitly not allow the approval of any interdistrict enrollment agreements to occur that would create any adverse fiscal impact on the district.”

The right of the district to deny a student based on disciplinary history, the sixty day waiting period to allow for “consideration” and the fiscal impact statement may make it much harder for even the best students to transfer into Pacific Grove. Fortunately, we know that our school district is in high demand, and that is a great honor.

Open Enrollment Actupdates from Board

November 26, 2010 •CEDAR STREET Times•

Cross Country Results Central Coast Section Championships

Place Runner Name Grade TimeDivision IV GirlsTeam: 10th place in section 24 Isabella Fenstermaker 11 21:06 40 Kaitlin Alt 9 21:52 49 Stella Park 9 22:36 63 Becky Long 11 23:15 69 Natalie Chambers 12 23:37 76 Mary Modisette 11 23:56Division IV Boys 49 Alex Schramm 12 18:00

Pacific Grove High School Breakers who made it to Sections in the cross country

competition at Toro Park were: (L-R) Alex Schramm, Katie Nuss,

Natalie Chambers, Stella Park, Kaitlin Alt, Becky Long, Isabella Fenstermaker,

Mary Modisette. Photo by Skyler Lewis.

SportsBreakers

The Pacific Grove High School girls cross country team qualified as a team for the first time in five years, competing in the Central Coast Section championship at Toro Park after placing second in Mission Trail Athletic League the previous week. They placed second in MTAL, only two points behind winners Stevenson. And they finished ahead of Carmel.

There were 91 runners in the CCS Championship, running three miles. Breaker girls finished 10th of the 13 teams. Individual finishers were: Isabella Fenstermaker 24th in 21:05, Kaitlin Alt, 40th in 21:52; Stella Park, 49th in 22:36; Becky Long, 63rd in 23:15; Natalie Chambers, 69th in 23:37; Mary Modisette 76th in 23:56.

While the team didn’t qualify, two Breaker boys qualified, Alex Schramm and Addison Miller. Miller came down with the flu, however, and was unable to compete in the CCS Championship. Schramm finished 49thof 105 with a time of 18:00 for the three miles.

“The top five girls are all returning next year, so the team should be even better next season,” said Coach Steve Watkins.

PGHS BreakersCross Country

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High Hats & Parasols

Pacific Coast Church522 Central Avenue, 831-372-1942

Peninsula Christian Center520 Pine Avenue, 831-373-0431

First Baptist Church of Pacific Grove246 Laurel Avenue, 831-373-0741

St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea Episcopal ChurchCentral Avenue & 12th Street, 831-373-4441

Community Baptist ChurchMonterey & Pine Avenues, 831-375-4311

Peninsula Baptist Church1116 Funston Avenue, 831-647-1610

St. Angela Merici Catholic Church146 8th Street, 831-655-4160

Christian Church Disciples of Christ of Pacific Grove442 Central Avenue, 831-372-0363

First Church of God1023 David Avenue, 831-372-5005

Jehovah’s Witnesses of Pacific Grove1100 Sunset Drive, 831-375-2138

Church of Christ176 Central Avenue, 831-375-3741

Lighthouse Fellowship of Pacific Grove804 Redwood Lane, 831-333-0636

Mayflower Presbyterian Church141 14th Street, 831-373-4705

Central Presbyterian Church of Pacific Grove325 Central Avenue, 831-375-7207

Seventh-Day Adventist Church of the Monterey Peninsula375 Lighthouse Avenue, 831-372-7818

First United Methodist Church of Pacific Grove915 Sunset @ 17-Mile Dr., Pacific Grove - (831) 372-5875

Worship: Sundays @ 10:00 a.m.

The News … from 1910.

California Aviator flies biplane from naval shipEugene Ely has set a new standard in aviation. While the U. S. Navy researched

ideas for new ways to make war, Ely used a naval cruiser, the U.S.S. Birmingham, as a landing strip … the first time this has been done. Soon afterward, the aviator was honored by being given the rank of lieutenant in the California National Guard.

Ely flew a Curtiss Golden Flyer, designed by Glenn Curtiss in 1909. The plane is of the type that locates the propeller behind the pilot. Not only does the Curtiss represent new technology, Ely is but the 17th pilot licensed by the federal government.

Behind U. S. Navy involvement in the test flight was Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop. To depart the Birmingham, Winthrop ordered sailors to construct a wooden ramp, 83 feet long, higher at one end than at the other. On November 14, the plane was lifted to the high end, Ely climbed in, and momentum was gained rolling down the ramp. Not quite enough head-speed was obtained to prevent the plane’s wheels from dipping into the ocean, but the day was saved by the roaring engine. After the brief flight, Ely did not attempt to re-land on the cruiser. Instead, he set his plane down on the hard sand of a nearby shoreline. Ely said that he was relieved to be again on land; he does not know how to swim.

Ely is now on the way to San Francisco for a second trial flight. The navy ship, to be anchored in San Francisco Bay, is the U. S. S. Pennsylvania. The same sort of wooden “flight deck” will be constructed and, this time, Ely intends to land on the ship as well as take off from it.

All Grovians are wishing Ely well. *Governor Folk is in Grove

Governor Joseph Folk arrived in the Grove by train this week. He spent the greater part of his time after arrival in viewing the beauties of this vicinity. He was taken by auto mobil to Pebble Beach where he took lunch. He was then escorted around the marvelous beauties of the Pacific Improvement Company’s forest reservation.

Folk was accompanied by his friend John Butler of Cincinnati, Superior Court Judge B. V. Sargent of Salinas, Reb. Dr. W. C. Evans (President of the Pacific Grove Chautauqua), Rev. Dr. Thomas Gilben, W. W. Collin, and J. P. Pryor.

Attacks on JapaneseMost Grovians are very much in favor of the miniscule communities of Japanese

people living in this area. Indeed, the “Japanese tea garden” doing business near Lovers Point is an example of the fine services provided by these erstwhile people who mostly keep to themselves.

However, a self-appointed posse of people living near San Francisco are protesting the planned admission of more Japanese into the United States. “These immigrants, called the Yellow Plague, are said to be subject to the whims and orders of powerful Japanese bosses. Many are Ninja warriors in disguise. Their eventual goal is alleged to be ‘orientalization’ of all California. It is also said that the Japanese are driving up wages by creating a scarcity of labor. No white worker will labor alongside the Asians.”

When challenged to speak out, Grovians are encouraged to support our Japanese communities. **

Notes from around the area…• The Mayflower Congregational Church has taken temporary quarters in

the Work Building. Special Thanksgiving services will be offered. All are welcome.

• Kohler & Chase, San Francisco, has agreed to provide a Weber Grand Piano for use at this summer’s Chautauqua Institute sessions.

• Cowboy justice may have been swift, but it was not always sure. Nonetheless, cowboy justice played a role in preserving the peace of the old West and has furnished material for many thrilling readings. Now cowboy justice is the subject of an entire reel of films being shown at D’s Theater. Come early to claim the best seats.

• The city trustees have decided that for the coming season the bathhouse, located at Lover’s Point, will be open daily between 8am and 10pm. ***

The cost of living…• Store your summer clothes for the winter. Hampers are available at The Fair,

the Grove’s favorite store. Fancy rush and cane, woven. $2.75.• This hack is built with a “Piano Box” body, extra long. Concord springs. Black

leather cushion on seat. Black. $68.50. See at the Pacific Grove Livery.• Crock “slop” jars. Wire handle for carrying. $3.65. Wright’s Hardware.• Damask doylies. Very pretty and useful all around the home. Your choice of

designs. 35¢ each at the Bazaar store.• Monterey County Real Estate Exchange, located in the Grove, is offering a five-

room house on a graded street. Good view of the bay. Indoor bath. Kitchen, parlor, preacher’s room, and two bedrooms. Purchase this fine property for nothing down and almost that much as a monthly payment. $2,750.

Author’s Notes* On October 19, 1911, while flying at an exhibition in Macone, Georgia, Ely

crashed. The aviator was able to walk away from the wreckage, but his neck was broken. He died a short time later at 32 years of age. In 1933, Ely was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross posthumously by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as recognition of a remarkable contribution to naval aviation.

** Three years earlier, the U.S.-Japanese governments reached a secret understanding in which Japan agreed not to issue passports to emigrants to the United States, except to certain categories of business and professional people. In exchange, President Theodore Roosevelt agreed to rescind an order by which Japanese school children were segregated from white students.

*** The bathhouse was then open as a bath house, not as a restaurant**** The “Pastor’s room” was a room within homes kept inordinately clean and

unused in case there would be an unexpected, sit-down visit by someone such as the pastor.

Readers are advised that the 1910 prices quoted herein are no longer valid, nor are these items / properties available from the mentioned seller.


Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST) is proposing fare structure revisions for its existing transit services. MST will hold a series of public hearings to receive and solicit comments from customers on the proposed fare revisions. The public hearings will be held at the following locations:MarinaTuesday, November 30, 2010, 6:00 PM Marina Library, 190 Seaside Circle

SalinasWednesday, December 1, 2010, 6:00 PMCesar Chavez Elementary, 1225 Towt St.

MST seeks comment on proposed fare revisionsPacific GroveThursday, December 9, 2010, 6:00 PMCouncil Chambers300 Forest Avenue

MontereyMonday, December 13, 2010, 10:00 AMMonterey-Salinas TransitOne Ryan Ranch Road Interested persons who wish to comment but unable to attend the public hearings may submit written

Seaside Monday, December 6, 2010, 6:00 PMBoys & Girls Club of Monterey 1332 La Salle Avenue

SoledadTuesday, December 7, 2010, 6:00 PMCounty Council Chambers248 Main Street

King CityWednesday, December 8, 2010, 6:00 PM Council Chambers 212 South Vanderhurst Avenue

comments to the address below.

MST Board of DirectorsOne Ryan Ranch RoadMonterey, CA 93940

Fax to 831-899-3954 or e-mail: [email protected]

The deadline for submission of written comments is 10:00 a.m., December 10, 2010.

Please visit www.mst.org for more information.


Legal NoticesFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. 20102112The following person is doing business as Hospital-ity Business Brokers, San Carlos & 7

th, 2

nd Floor /

PO Box 4335, Carmel, Monterey County, CA 93921; Peninsula Business Sales, Inc., a California corpora-tion, San Carlos & 7

th, 2

nd Floor, Carmel, CA 93921.

This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on October 4, 2010. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/01/01. Signed: Michael R. Russell, President. This business is conducted by a corporation. Publication dates: 11/5/10, 11/12/10, 11/19/10, 11/26/10

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 20102158

The following person is doing business as California Contractors Resource Services, 2900 San Juan Road, Aromas, Monterey County, CA 95004; Robert King, 2900 San Juan Road, Aromas, CA 95004. This state-ment was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on October 11, 2010. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/01. Signed: Robert King. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 11/5/10, 11/12/10, 11/19/10, 11/26/10

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAMEPetition of TATIANA TESTEVA Case No. M108958 Filed Nov. 1, 2010. To all interested persons: Petitioner Tatiana Testeva filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: present name TATIANA TESTEVA to proposed name TESS TESTEZA. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above myst file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objec-tion is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of hearing date: December 17, 2010 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. 15. The address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Monterey, 1200 Aguajito Rd., Monterey, CA 93940. A copy of this Order To Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four consecutive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: CEDAR STREET TIMES. DATE: November 5, 2010 Judge of the Superior Court: Lydia M. Villareal. Publication dates: 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26/10


The following persons are doing business as KHde-signsinc. at 1265 C Masonic Ave., San Francisco, CA 94117 San Francisco County, CA 94117; Karen Heffernan, 1741 Sunset Drive, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. This Statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on November 01, 2010. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/30//10. Signed: Karen Heffernan. This business is con-ducted by an individual. Publication dates: 11/12/10, 11/19/10, 11/26/10, 12/03/10


The following persons are doing business as Water-mark AC3 Event Producer at 251 Clay St., Salinas, Monterey County 93901: Veronica A. Cruz, 251 Clay St., Salinas CA. 93901. This Statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on November 1, 2010. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on No-vember 1, 2010. Signed: Veronica A. Cruz. This busi-ness is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 11/12/10, 11/19/10, 11/26/10, 12/03/10

Going to the MoviesMary AlbertThis year’s Pacific Grove Holiday

Parade of Lights will be on Thursday December 2 at 6pm. What better way to follow this wonderful home town tradition than to catch Bing Crosby in White Christmas at the Lighthouse Cinema at 7:30? It is a feel-good, heartwarming holiday musical for all ages, up on the big screen in VistaVision and Technicolor. The biggest hit of the year in 1954, White Christmas combines romance, backstage musical and the nostalgia for wartime camaraderie, with Irving Berlin’s songs: It’s an easy movie to love.

Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye star as war buddies turned hard working show-biz partners who find themselves pursuing a pair of singing sisters, played by Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen, to Vermont for a well deserved winter holiday. Irving Berlin’s classic songs are performed throughout, including “Sisters”, “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” “Blue Skies” “Mandy” and of course ÒWhite ChristmasÓ. First performed on a Christmas Day radio broadcast in 1941, the song became popular immediately with servicemen missing their families and those families back home. Crosby sang it the black-and-white 1942 Holiday Inn

May Your Days Be Merry and Bright –White Christmas at the Lighthouse Cinema

and it has been a perennial chart topper ever since. He was the biggest star in Hollywood, so it was inevitable that a Technicolor, widescreen vehicle built around his version of the song would be made, and would be hugely successful.

In 1954 nobody had heard of global

warming, so imagine their surprise as Der Bingle and his pals step off the train in Vermont expecting snow and find nothing but balmy weather. “They must have grass-covered igloos up here. This is warmer than Florida!” “Where’s the beach? We should have brought our bathing suits” “Is this Vermont, New England’s winter playground? Oh -- this must be southern Vermont!” “Where’s the snow?” The station agent tells them, “We haven’t had snow since Thanksgiving. It was 68 degrees yesterday.” As we now know, the economic impact of global warming is severe. No snow means no customers at the Inn where the singing sisters Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen are booked. Why, the inn will have to shut down if enough people don’t show for the holidays, and that would be a real shame, since it turns out that the buddies’ WWII

commanding officer, General Waverly, owns the inn. The incandescent light bulb goes off. Let’s put on a show!

They don’t have Al Gore to explain the inconvenient truth about the warm weather, but luckily they are a song and

dance troop, and in this Vermont, the one that’s located in Hollywood, USA, all that is required to fix any problem is the hard work that it takes to put on a show. Hard work, yes: there’s the calling New York and persuading the head of the company to move the whole show up to Vermont, there’s the building sets and the rehearsing and all that singing and dancing and the falling in love. And then there are the misunderstandings and the separations and the reconciliations. But will it ever snow???

It did snow once at the Crosby Clambake, as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was once called, in the days before corporate sponsorship dictated the tedious naming of events. In 1962 the players woke up on the day of the final round to a snow-covered golf course, but, as they say in show business, the show must go on! and the tournament was finished the next day. Bing Crosby was a local hero here on the Peninsula and singing sensation around the world. Come see him in his biggest hit, and you’ll understand why. Wednesday and Thursday Dec 1 and 2, at noon and 7:30. And don’t forget the Parade of Lights on Thursday! See you there.

Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 at the Lighthouse Cinema.

Check with the theater at 643-1333 or www.srentertainmentgrp.com/lighthouse4.asp to confirm show times.

December 1-2 – White Christmas December 8-9 – It’s a Wonderful Life


The following persons are doing business as KMD En-terprises, 667 Mermaid Ave., Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA 93950; Kimberly Ann Downer, 667 Mer-maid Ave., Pacific Grove 93950. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on November 5, 2010. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 11/05/2010. Signed: Kimberly Downer. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 11/26/10, 12/04/10, 12/11/10, 12/18/10.


The following persons are doing business as All About Business, 1243 Shell Ave., Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA 93950; Cheryl Diane Beller, 1243 Shell Ave., Pacific Grove 93950. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on November 18, 2010. Registrant commenced to transact business un-der the fictitious business name or names listed above on 02/01/2000. Signed: Cheryl Beller. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 11/26/10, 12/04/10, 12/11/10, 12/18/10.

CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTINGMONDAY, NOVEMBER 29............... 5:30 PMThe City’s official Christmas Tree Lighting cel-ebrationat Jewell Park, corner of Forest &Central Avenues. Live music by several schoolgroups. Information call the City at (831) 648-3100 or www.ci.pg.ca.usSANTA’S CHRISTMAS PARTYMONDAY, NOV. 29.......................... 6:00 PMEnjoy holiday refreshments, live entertainment,dance show, school bands and visit Santa inhis village in Chautauqua Hall, corner of CentralAvenue and 16th Street. (831) 373-3304 orwww.pacificgrove.orgCHRISTMAS AT THE INNSTUESDAY, NOV. 30 &WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1.............6:00-9:00 PMVisit 10 Bed & Breakfast and Inns decoratedfor the holiday, with live music at every inn and holiday treats. Twenty dollars per person, both

Chamber of CommerceChristmas events

days. (831) 373-3304 Steve Palumbi, author of Death and Life of the Monterey Bay, will do a booksigning at Seven Gables Inn on Saturday at 3 p.m.HOLIDAY PARADE OF LIGHTSTHURSDAY, DEC. 2........................ 6:00 PMPresented by Keller Williams Realty of Pa-cific Grove. This lighted parade will feature marching bands, holiday floats, dance-teams, equestrian groups, and of course, Santa Claus.After the parade, stores will remain open forholiday shopping, photos with Santa, carolersand a few bands after the parade. (831) 373-3304 or www.pacificgrove.org17th ANNUAL STILLWELL’SSNOW IN THE PARKSATURDAY, DEC. 4, 10:00 AM-4:00 PMTommy Stillwell Court (Behind Post Office) will once again be covered in a blanket of snow! Santa will arrive at noon, joining the Snowman and Snow Queen. Hay rides, pet-ting zoo, and holiday entertainment.

For information on Friday Night Lightsand First Friday, set for Fri., Dec. 3, see Page 9.

Cedar Street Times was established September 1, 2008 and is published weekly at 311A Forest Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Press deadline is Wednesday, noon. The paper is printed on Friday and is available at various locations throughout the city as well as by e-mail subscription. Editor/Publisher: Marge Ann Jameson News: Cameron Douglas • Joe Fabeets • Jon Guthrie • Dixie Layne Contributors: Betsy Slinkard Alexander • Catherine Badin • Guy Chaney Cedric Hunter • Neil Jameson • I. Ada Lott Photography: Cameron Douglas • Skyler Lewis • Nate Phillips • Catherine Badin Advertising Sales: Stacy Loving Distribution: Kristi Portwood 831.324.4742 Voice 831.324.4745 Fax

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Happy Holidaysfrom all of us


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Come to Downtown Pacific GroveARTISANA GALLERYJewelry, Fine Art, Candles, Incense, Statuary, Gifts309 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove(831) 655-9775

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Sale on selecthandbags, jewelry & clothing

Fri-Sun, Nov. 26-28Sale Hours 10-6

The Arts

Now ShowingOngoing

Pacific Grove Art Center568 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove

Art Center Open Wednesday-Saturday 12-5 p.m

The 2010 Patrons’ Show Annual Fundraiser October 29-December 16, 2010

The Work of Studio Artists Mark Farina and Connie Pearlstein, and Students From Julie Heilman’s Adult Watercolor Class

David Henry Gill GalleryThe 2010 Patrons’ Show Annual Fundraiser

The 2010 Patrons’ Show is dedicated to the memory of the late Rollin Pickford, who supported the Art Center for decades with his donations to our fundraisers and solo shows. His family has requested donations to the Art Center in his memory. The Patrons’ Show is one of our major fundraising events, and it could not take place without the generous support of local artists and benefactors, who donate artwork to the raffle. Tickets are sold equal to the number of pieces donated, and the person whose ticket is drawn first will be able to choose a piece from all of the art in the gallery.

Currently, there are 129 pieces of art available. the drawing will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sun., Dec. 12. Ticket holders or their designees must attend the drawing.

Ticket prices are $50 for members and $75 for nonmembers, with a limit of two.

Elmarie Dyke Gallery “At First Glance,” Watercolor, Pen and Ink, and Mixed Media

by Julie Terflinger

Louise Cardeiro Boyer Gallery “Illuminations,” Ink, Oil, and Metal Leaf on Glass by Katherine Moore

Nadine Annand Gallery

Art Classes through PG Art CenterWatercolor Class with Jane Flury 6-9p.m. Tuesdays at the Pacific Grove Art Center, 568 Lighthouse Ave.,Pacific Grove. This is an overview class using the limited palette method and includes the basics to experimental with watercolor printmaking; a super simple method great for holiday cards. Class works from still life on towards a model. Beginners welcome. Six week session $90. Next session starts November 9. For more information call 402-5367 or e-mail:[email protected].

Drawing Class with Jane Flury 6-8p.m. Thursdays at the Pacific Grove Art Center, 568 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove. Class will learn the basics of perspective, shadow and line. Beginners welcome. Four week session $75. Next session starts November 4. Information call 402-5367 or e-mail:[email protected]

Artist Workshop

plannedScott Jacobs, acclaimed area

artist, will present two workshops at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington Street in Monterey. Using acrylic painting, charcoal and graphite, Jacobs will focus on portrait drawing, painting and perspectives. All subjects are welcome. The workshops will be presented on Mondays, Nov. 22 and Nov. 29 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Cost is $20 for both sessions. For more information, contact Scott Jacobs at (805) 248-8589 or on Facebook at Scottjacobsmonterey.

At Artisana Gallery309 Forest Avenue

"The Wishing Tree" by Donna Wobber (interactive installation)

&"The Trees of Life" by Cheryl Kampe

(watercolors and pastels)Come and leave a wish!

Looking for a wonderful holiday gift at a reasonable price? You’ll find treasures to wear and share at the annual Holiday Jewelry Sale at Monterey Peninsula College, presented by the Metal Arts Studio along with Mud People Ceramics and Print Club. One-of-a-kind jewelry, all handmade by metal artists who have studied at MPC, will be on sale Dec. 7 through Dec. 9. Follow the signs on campus to the Almaden Room in the Student Center. Sale hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tues., Wed. and Thurs., and admission is free.

Choose from a sparkling array of jewelry, all showcasing techniques like silversmithing, enameling, chain-making and casting, taught in the metal arts program. All sales support local artists and help purchase tools and equipment for MPC’s Metal Arts Studio.

MPC’s annual jewelry saleto benefit campus metal arts


Join us for an art reception with 2 local artisansFriday, December 3rd from 5-8pm at Artisana Gallery

Cheryl Kampe, "The Trees of Life" original watercolors, pastels, oils & Donna Wobber, "The Wishing Tree" interactive installation & handmade paper

poetry scrollsShowing now through December 31st!

A few words from Donna Wobber: Donna Wobber, poet and artist, expresses what lies deep within the human spirit through the spoken & written word. We invite you to contribute to Donna Wobber’s Wishing Tree - reminicent of Japanese fortune paper strips tied to trees at many temples there. Participate in this tradition and your wish may come true. You are encouraged to utilize this art installation for making wishes for the New Year 2011.

*To serve you better this Holiday Season we will be open 7 days a week 10am-6pm,

Khenpo Karten Rinpoche returns to Carmel by the Sea offering a Blessing Ceremony to the Water, Wind, Earth and Fire.

“Knowing that we are all influenced by the interplay of the elements,” he said, “it is tradition in Tibet to offer prayers of Peace, Love and Harmony to our Great Mother Earth for all that she provides for us.”

In honor of Thanksgiving, the Traditional American Holiday, of Giving Thanks, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche invites everyone to attend this special ceremony of Giving Thanks to the Mother Earth and all her Elements to be held at Carmel River Beach, Friday Nov. 26. Assembly begins at 10:30. Ceremony begins around 11am. Bring flowers and prayers as offerings.

“To participate in such a ceremony awakens the heart to receive all the abundance that the Great Mother provides; in these changing times of uncertainty it

is a wonderful opportunity to receive the bounty of abundance from Mother Earth herself,” said a spokesperson.

Khenpo Karten Rinpoche was born in Nangchen Tibet. He is of the Karma Kagyu Lineage and trained in Nyingma. He teaches the Amitabha Dechen Shindrup, which His Holiness the Dalai Lama, currently his main teacher, has requested he teach over the next 20 years.

Khenpo Karten Rinpoche returns regularly to the Monterey Peninsula, offering teachings on various facets of Tibetan Buddhism. He would like to establish a center here for ongoing practice, if anyone is interested in supporting this venture, with a teaching location that would be able to accommodate a meditation group, Please contact Rinpoche by email through either Debra Lenz, [email protected] or Heidi Feldman, [email protected]

Khenpo Karten Rinpoche offers Teachings through Wave Street Studios at 774 Wave Street, Monterey 831 655-2010.

Blessing Ceremony toGive Thanks to Mother Earth


Molly’s Revenge coming to Pacific Grovefor annual Christmas concert

Molly’s Revenge and their special guest vocalist Moira Smiley will perform their Celtic Christmas Celebration of music, song, and dance associated with the festive season at First United Methodist Church, 915 Sunset Drive, Pacific Grove on Fri., Dec. 3, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. The Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers will also appear at the concert.

The performance will include Christmas songs both old and new, all given a Celtic twist. There will be music from the upcoming Molly’s Revenge release, their tenth CD, which was produced by Aaron Jones, member of Scottish supergroup Old Blind Dogs. The audience will have an opportunity to join in and sing some of their favorite carols.

Winterdance, a new CD featuring music from the show, will be available at these concerts. Ten percent of the profits from Winterdance will be donated to the ALS Foundation (Lou Gehrig’s disease). The band’s last Christmas album, Yuledance, will also be on sale at the concert and has already generated more than $3000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the Aplastic Anaemia and MDS Foundation.

Molly’s Revenge, whose lineup includes bagpipes, fiddle, whistle, guitar, mandola, and bouzouki, have toured extensively in the USA and in Australia, China and Scotland. The band is known for its unique and infectious on-stage enthusiasm. The classic combination of bagpipes, whistle, fiddle, and song — set against a backdrop of guitar, bouzouki, and mandola accompaniment — guarantees an enjoyable experience for all fans of Scottish and Irish music. Their arrangements of traditional jigs and reels always leave audiences shouting for more.

Moira Smiley is an internationally known composer and vocalist who has traveled the world as a performer and appeared at the Lincoln Center and other prestigious fine arts and folk venues in the U.S., Canada and Europe. She is a student of Irish sean nos (old-style) singing and has won the Western USA branch of the All Ireland Singing Championships.

Tickets are available online at www.mollysrevenge,com; Bookmark, 307 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove; The Works, 667 Lighthouse Avenue, and at the Church.

Joyous Elves Holiday Craft FestivalMonterey Bay Charter School presents a make-it-yourself craft festival for

all ages on December 11 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.Silk dyeing, leather stamping, candle making, wool crafting, felt ornaments

and much more will be available. There will also be a latte bar, nutritious lunch and bake sale.

Monterey Bay Charter School is located at 1004 David Avenue, Pacific Grove.See www.mbayschool.org or call 831-655-4638 for more information.

Free Big Band concert Dec. 5The Monterey Community Band presents “Big Bands in Concert,” conducted by

Richard Robins, a concert featuring music by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Woody, Herman, Harry James, Glenn Miller and more – including a few holiday tunes.

The concert will be presented on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 2:00 p.m. Admission is free, and the concert will be held in the Music Hall (M-1) at Monterey Peninsula College.

The Arts

Now Showing

The Monterey Peninsula College String Ensemble, conducted by David Dally, will present a concert Monday, December 6, at 7:30 PM in the MPC Music Hall. Admission is free, but a $10 donation would be appreciated.

The 34-piece string group will perform Brahms Sextet #2, in G Major, and will feature harpist Liyanna Sadowsky in three pieces: Handel Harp Concerto, Grandjany “Aria in Classic Style,” and Vaughan Williams “Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus.”

String ensemble will feature harpist

Elementary!

Howard Burnham presents “The Game’s Afoot -- Dr. Watson recalls Sherlock Holmes.” The year is 1900. Holmes is believed dead and Watson is on a magic lantern lecture tour of the US, talking about his amazing friend. At the Works, 667 Lighthouse, Pacific Grove on Sun., Nov. 28 at 6:30 p.m., $10 at the door.

The annual Model Railroad Show will be held at American Tin Cannery, 125 Ocean View Blvd. in Pacific Grove, on Sat. and Sun., Dec. 11 and 12, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Presented by local members of the National Model Railroad Association and sponsored by the Pacific Grove Chamber of Com-merce, the show features model railroads and displays in many gauges. The event is free of charge and will please all ages.

All I want for Christmas


PeepsYour achievements

Pacific Grove Middle School students were provided with a special screening of the award-winning documentary film “Bag It,’ which examines the problems that plastic create in our society, particularly in the world’s oceans, on Friday, Nov. 19, at the school auditorium. Others on hand for the showing were students from the older grades at Robert Down Elementary School and Forest Grove Elementary School, staff members and parent volunteers. A total of some 600 people attended.

In addition, Jeb Berrier, who portrays the “average guy” in the film who becomes aware of the issues surrounding plastic, answered questions from the students.

“Bag It” won the Blue Ocean Film Festival “Best of Festival” award in Monterey in August. It was shown at the Golden State Theatre on Friday night, Nov. 19, a screening made possible thanks to the generosity of a wide range of local business sponsors, including former P.G. Mayor Dan Cort, author of Downtown Turnaround...lessons for a new urban landscape, The Clement Monterey, Monterey City Disposal Service, Monterey Regional Waste Management District, Pebble Beach Company, Waste Management Incorporated, AGG Recycling, and the Old Monterey Business Association.

P.G. Middle School students, thanks to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the National Marine Sanctuaries Ocean Guardian School Programs, are presented each month with themes such as “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle,” “Pull the Plug” (Energy Conservation), “Getting to Know the Grey Whales” and “Walk Your Watershed.”

-Lewis Leader

Middle school students urged to ‘bag it!’

Monarch Magic Science SaturdayNovember 27 • 11am to 3pm

Celebrate the annual winter return of monarch butterflies to Pacific Grove!AT THE MUSEUM: 11-3

Activities 11-12:30Live music by the 5Ms • Live Monarch butterflies and larvae Monarch face-painting (free!) • Monarchs under microscopes • Arts-and-crafts related to the monarch life cycle • Story-telling at 11:30 am, 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30 pm • Information about the Monarch Alert program • Making butterfly antennae with a representative from MY Museum • Nectar plants for sale by Native Plant Revival • Milkweed plants for sale by Douglas-Michel Butterfly Plants

Monarch Lecture Series 1-3:30• 1:00 All About Monarchs: The monarch lifecycle, Jack Beigle, Museum monarch docent• 2:00, The Forest, the Trees and the Monarchs: a microclimate perspective of Pacific Grove’s Monarch Grove Sanctuary, Stuart Weiss, Ph.D., Monarch Habitat Scientist • 3:00, The Monarch Research Occurring Along the California Central Coast, Francis Villablanca, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cal Poly University

AT THE MONARCH SANCTUARY: 12-3Monarch Viewing Pacific Grove Museum Sanctuary docents will be available in the sanctuary to answer questions and to provide enhanced viewing with viewing scopes.

This event is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Pebble Beach Company Foundation and the Pacific Grove Rotary Club.

At left, Jeb Berrier (right), star of "Bag It," answers questions from Pacific Grove Middle School students following a showing of the film on Nov. 19 at the school auditorium. Buck Roggeman, assistant principal of the school, is on the stage alongside him. Right: Jeb dressed as a “bag monster,” which has become an icon of the movie.

Neal Whitman and his wife, Elaine, just returned from a recital in Point Arena sponsored by the prestigous Poets & Writers Foundation.

For nearly 20 years, a local group of poets there has been hosting this “Third Thursday of the Month” program with a guest poet. Neal jokes that this year he was “Mr. November,” though you will not find a staple in his belly button. On the evening of November 18, Neal stood in front of a dozen “locals” in an art gallery on Main Street in Point Arena and opened with a poem about Monterey Bay. Neal offered the group a bonus when Elaine played her Native American flute to accompany his poem about a wood nymph living in a hollowed-out redwood tree on Big Sur’s Pfeiffer Falls Trail.

Neal read haiku, as well as what a friend calls “regular” poems. Haiku is based on a Japanese form that uses only three lines. It looks easy, but as Neal explains, “The challenge is to say a lot with so little.” Two haiku he read in Point Arena had just earlier in the month won awards. One haiku had won honorable mention in the 2010 Haiku Society of America annual contest that received 525 poems from writers in seven countries:

my blind date disarming the alarm she invites me in

The other haiku won honorable mention in the annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival:

a cherry tree branch broken off by the storm― the boy’s magic wand

Whitman drives around town in his little white hatchback with the license plate PG POET. He took up writing poetry when he retired from teaching in 2005. Neal had been a “teacher of teachers,” which he explains has been a big help when he presents his poetry in public. Whitman splits his time pretty evenly between Western forms, with over 100 poems published, and haiku, with over 200 of these now in journals and anthologies. His opening poem in Point Arena was the first poem he ever published.


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Among recipients of awards as Distinguished Honorees for Philanthropy Day 2010 was Marcia Stearns, owner of Bookmark Music, pictured with the President of Camerata Singers, Pacific Grove attorney Michelle Welsh.

Pacific Grove’s Poet-In-Residencewill celebrate Emily Dickinsonin Library benefit performance

On Thurs., Dec. 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the Pacific Grove Library, 550 Central Avenue, Friends of the Pacific Grove Library Pacific Grove’s Poet-In-Residence, Dr. Barbara Mossberg, will present a tribute performance to Emily Dickinson to benefit the Friends of the Library. The performance is free, but donations to benefit the library will be most welcome.

My holiday shall be That they remember me;

My paradise, the fame

That they pronounce my name—Emily Dickinson

. . . And so Emily Dickinson imagines us coming together to celebrate her. “Come make her holiday,” with Professor Barbara Mossberg, international and prize-winning Dickinson scholar, and Pacific Grove’s own poet in residence. For more than thirty years, wherever she has been, Dr. Mossberg has given a tribute performance on Dickinson’s birthday for her community in locales ranging from Helsinki, Finland to the Phelps Chapel in Washington, D.C., Goddard College in Vermont, New Zone Gallery in Eugene, Oregon, California State University in Monterey, and The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel. Dr. Mossberg will reflect on Dickinson’s life and poetry. The evening will conclude with homemade gingerbread from Dickinson’s own recipe (think: homemade molasses!) and sherry, for reasons the reading will make clear. Come laugh with a wicked and joyous Dickinson. Experience sorrow and grief, wild defiance, and humble grace, for all that life gives to a person who lives life to its fullest. Dr. Mossberg says, “Dickinson’s birthday is a gift to us, showing us ecstatically how one bold and bashful ‘nobody’ expresses the gift of consciousness of being alive.”

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By Cameron Douglas

A Pacific Grove property owner and his tenant are taking issue with mosquitoes breeding in an antiquated, underground storm drain near Jewell Park. The complaint stems from standing water in the drain, which is designed to catch water, but has no outlet.

Scott Partridge and his tenant Carolyn Balfe contacted Cedar Street Times with a plea to look into the matter. The drains in question are located at the corner of Grand and Park. There is a high side drain adjacent to the park and a low side drain in front of a residence on the ocean side of Park. Water flows in, but there is no exit. The design is called a “bubble-up,” and its apparent purpose is to regulate the flow of storm water running down the street. City Wastewater Supervisor Vince Gentry describes the bubble-up as being “like the ‘P’ trap under your sink.” During periods of heavy rainfall, water churns through the drain, clearing it.

In dry weather, it’s a different situation. A basement pump coming out of the Museum of Natural History sends water from an underground spring into the gutter. That water goes into the storm drain on Park; and unless it is properly vacuumed out, the water will stand in the drains and under the street. Mosquitoes breed in standing water. Judging by the smell, the bubble-up can hold a significant amount of brackish, standing water: prime breeding conditions for mosquitoes.

Two months ago, Balfe and Partridge sent letters to council member Bill Kampe detailing the history of the drain/mosquito problem. Kampe visited the site and contacted City Manager Tom Frutchey. Frutchey states that the drain is pumped regularly. The city is limited in the actions it can take due to environmental and monetary constraints.

Around this time, Balfe placed calls to Monterey Environmental Health, and to Dennis Boranda at North Salinas Valley Mosquito Abatement. Boranda went over to take a look, even though Pacific Grove lies outside the normal boundaries of his office. Knowing that the Pacific Grove community is “conscious of what’s used” to control pests, Boranda opted for the most benign method available to him: a synthetic growth hormone known as Altocid that prevents the mosquito larvae from maturing. The Altocid comes in the form of a briquette that is set down in the water and works for about 90 days. The briquette was placed in mid-October.

The duration from egg to adult mosquito varies anywhere from 5 to 42 days. Adult females will lay their eggs wherever water collects, including lakes, puddles and artificial containers. During development, larvae breathe through a siphon at the end of their abdomen and so must frequently come to the surface, making them easy to find. Male mosquitoes are ready to mate a few days after they are born, and will swarm together, usually around dusk. Females fly into the swarms to mate. Most mosquitoes will avoid the heat of day and rest in a cool place until evening.

Given this information, the bubble-ups of Pacific Grove must be extraordinarily inviting to mosquitoes. According to Boronda, “not very many” other municipalities have bubble-up drains like Pacific Grove does. A planning map of PG shows dozens of these drains scattered around town.

Gentry and his staff vacuum the Jewell Park drain at least twice a year. “I’ve had no complaints from the people above me,” Gentry says. Partridge says it’s not enough, and has expressed health concerns. Mosquitoes are known carriers of disease, including yellow fever, dengue fever and malaria. In recent years, they have been identified as carriers of West Nile virus, although so far in Monterey County only four chronic cases have been found in birds and one human case last year, according to Boronda.

Cedar Street Times went down to investigate the Jewell Park drain on Nov. 16. Mosquito larvae were taken from the lower drain, where the water level stood above the grate. New mosquitoes were seen buzzing around the upper drain at around 2 pm that day.

As long as water has anywhere to collect and stand for a week or more, mosquitoes will be born and have to be dealt with. Besides the use of synthetic hormones and prevention of stagnant water, there are certain predators that feed on mosquitoes. The dragonfly nymph eats mosquitoes in all stages of development and it quite effective in controlling populations.

Senior Planner Sarah Hardgrave reports the city is currently seeking grant funding to make improvements in PG’s storm water system. Details on those proposed improvements will be described in a future issue of Cedar Street Times.

Water stands above the grate of a storm drain near Jewell Park.

Pain in the drain: Residents, city work to get bugs out


The Green Page

By Cameron Douglas

Col. Robert Lucius’ Kairos Coalition mission in Vietnam took a big step forward this month as he launched a series of workshops aimed at fighting cruelty to animals.

On Nov. 1, Lucius and 2 other trainers flew to Hanoi to begin a 9-month “Humane Edutainment” pilot project in partnership with IOGT-VN, VietPet.com, Live & Learn, Green Network, Fauna and Flora International and the Vietnam Veterinary Medicine Club.

Humane Edutainment is Lucius’ method of getting his message across, by using living theater and other tools within the existing culture to encourage humane treatment of animals. In Vietnam, dogs are frequently tortured before they are killed and served up as food. Lucius hopes to influence young people towards an end to this practice.

The 6-day workshop provided training in Forum Theater techniques, and various humane education exercises designed to stimulate critical thinking, perspective learning, conflict resolution and divergent thinking skills. More presentations came from the World Society for the Protections of Animals, Animals Asia Foundation and Education Nature Vietnam to enhance participant awareness of animal-related issues.

More than 35 Vietnamese youth attended the first workshop, which culminated in a practice Humane Edutainment performance featuring vignettes created by the participants. These vignettes covered such topics as:

• How to help a chained dog in need.• Dealing with conflict at home over rescued kittens.• Refusing to use traditional medicine products made from endangered animals.• Not participating in bullying behaviors.Such presentations are the core of the Humane Edutainment approach.Another humane education presentation was given at the U.S. Embassy’s American

Center in Hanoi. More than 80 Vietnamese youths attended this one. Many subsequently volunteered to be part of the pilot project, which will be planned and led by Vietnamese youth with mentoring by Kairos Coalition and others.

Lucius reports some interesting discussions around the “touchy subjects” of dog and cat meat and the relative perceived importance of cultural traditions. “I did get some pushback [resistance] on the notion that the dog meat trade was somehow intrinsically cruel,” Lucius reports, “but they almost universally agreed that dogs destined for the dinner table should not be mistreated [intensive confinement, beatings, etc.] and that mistreatment should be addressed.” The discussions expanded as Vietnamese veterinarians and veterinary students shared ideas on how to shut down backyard dog breeders.

Graduates of the workshop presented a Humane Edutainment performance for 30 students at the Hanoi University of Agriculture — which includes the College of Veterinary Medicine — on Nov. 16. Several veterinary students took the lead for setting up this performance and running it. During the next several months the team will visit several different high schools and universities throughout Hanoi.

After meeting with representatives of VietPet.com, Lucius’ team decided to go ahead and support an initiative designed to facilitate the operations of a homegrown animal rescue club in Hanoi. VietPet.com currently carries out very limited and informal animal rescues. Lucius hopes to send some of their members to other countries to connect with other such organizations that could mentor the Vietnamese. “I was really impressed with this informal group [VietPet.com],” says Lucius, “and their ability to solve issues by creatively working within existing laws and relying extensively on volunteers and their extensive networking.”

Lucius’s group has just received a grant from an organization called, “A Well Fed World,” [awellfedworld.org/] to produce and publish a Vietnamese language vegan cookbook with an environmental and animal-friendly agenda. It will be written and published in Vietnam by Vietnamese, for Vietnamese, and distributed for free.

Watch for more updates on this worthwhile project. Log on to: www.kairoscoalition.org/

Top: Robert Lucius, right, helps with a presentation in Hanoi, Vietnam. Above, participants in Humane Edutainment workshop. Below, workshop students act out the roles of frightened animals. Below, right: Bracelets say “Live Humane.”

Forging aheadAnimal advocate makes progress oversea

SPG is looking to identify apartment units in PG that lack recycling facilities and might need assistance to establish recycling bins and pick-up, so that residents who wish to recycle can easily do so.

If you live in PG apartments that lack recycling bins, or know of any set of apartments where residents might like this capability, please let us know. The name and contact info of the apartment manager could also be useful.

Write to: [email protected]

PG apartments already on the list include:17 Mile Dr VillageOlympia Grove AptsShangri-La AptsVilla Del MarDel MarOlympia West AptsSunset ApartmentsArkwright AptsEden Roc Villa“If you live in any of the apartments already on the list, and would like to assist the on-going efforts, that could help, too,” said a spokesperson.


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This week’s Monarch AlertTo report tagged monarchs: 877-897-7740

http://monarchalert.calpoly.edu/From Erica Krygsman, Monarch Alert, Cal Poly:

Weather during past counts was beautiful, temperatures were quite cool in the morning, but warmed up quickly with clear skies and light breezes. All sites were surveyed by two counters. Monarchs were finally found at Point Lobos, several small clusters at the margins of a clearing and in the more dense stands of pine. They were found in the immediate area that I have been checking in past weeks, so I’m confident these monarchs are recent arrivals to the site.

Numbers continue to climb at Pacific Grove and larger clusters are forming, especially dense on pine trees. The average number of monarchs counted at the Sanctuary on November 14 was 4,136. Next counts are scheduled for Sunday-Monday, 21-22 November.

By Cameron Douglas

A controversy is brewing around an energy industry practice of tapping natural resources deep below the earth’s surface, a method known as “fracking.”

Fracking is a term developed by the media for hydraulic fracturing of underground formations as a system of drilling for hard-to-reach reserves of oil and natural gas. It is used to restore or increase the rates by which these materials can flow from underground.

The fracturing is done from a wellbore drilled into reservoir rock formations to enhance oil and natural gas recovery. Fracturing fluids commonly include water, gels, foams, nitrogen, carbon dioxide or air. Radioactive proppants are sometimes used so the fracture trace along the wellbore can be measured.

Hydraulic fractures of rock formations can occur naturally through volcanic activity and other means. A man-made hydraulic fracture is formed by pumping the fracturing fluid into the wellbore at a rate sufficient to increase the pressure to a value that exceeds the fracture gradient of the rock formation. The pressure causes the formation to crack, allowing the fracturing fluid to enter and extend the crack farther into the formation. To keep this crack open, a solid proppant, usually sieved round sand, is added to the fluid. The propped fracture becomes a high permeability conduit through which formation fluids or gases can flow.

This process has been in use for more than 60 years in more than one million wells. Horizontal, high-volume slickwater fracturing has existed since 1990; however, that practice has seen a sharp increase in the last few years.

The potential contamination of aquifers with chemicals and byproducts of hydraulic fracturing has raised concern by environmental groups. Events came to a head when companies such as Halliburton engaged in more aggressive pursuit of natural gas trapped in shale formations as deep as two miles underground.

Things heated up more in September, when the EPA asked nine companies that practice hydraulic fracturing to disclose which chemicals they use in the process. According to the EPA, all but Halliburton gave the necessary information.

On Nov. 9, the Reuters news agency reported that the EPA had subpoenaed Halliburton to answer. This, says the EPA, is necessary to issue preliminary findings for a Congress-commissioned report due in by the end of 2012.

Halliburton is the world’s second

largest oilfield services corporation, operating in more than 70 countries and employing more than 50,000 people. It is headquartered in Houston, Texas and in Dubai. Erle Halliburton founded it as the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company in 1919. He invented a revolutionary cement jet mixer, which eliminated hand mixing of cement for oil wells; and the measuring line, a tool used to guarantee cementing accuracy. By the end of 1922, the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company (HOWCO) had cemented 500 wells.

In 2005, the administration of George W. Bush passed the so-called “Halliburton loophole,” which exempts fracking companies from regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. The SDWA is the principal federal law in the U.S. to ensure safe drinking water for the public. Currently, more than 160,000 public water systems answer to the Environmental Protection Agency, which is required to set standards under the SDWA. Private wells and bottled water are not answerable to the SDWA.

Halliburton claims “sand and water typically comprise more than 99.5 percent of the fluid system used in fracturing...” They have set up a disclosure website with information:

www.ha l l ibur ton .com/publ ic /projects/pubsdata/Hydraulic_Fracturing/index.html

The disclosure website is a bit convoluted. By digging through it, one can find a list of formulations that are currently in use in Pennsylvania, with a promise that information from more states will be coming soon. The Pennsylvania list includes small amounts of hydrochloric acid, gelling agents and corrosion inhibitors.

On Nov. 15, the company announced it has developed a new, eco-friendly fracturing chemical “sourced entirely from the food industry.” It goes by the trade name, “CleanStim™.” These substances include: enzyme; Exthoxylated sugar-based fatty acid ester; inorganic acid; maltrodextrin; organic acid; organic ester; partially hydrogenated vegetable oil; polysaccharide polymer; and sulfonated alcohol. They are used in a wide variety of common applications from fruit juice to toilet cleaners.

Halliburton contends it has a seismic monitoring system to verify the fracking chemicals are confined to the formations and kept out of underground water. Environmental groups are still clamoring for more details about how these chemicals are being used in close proximity to drinking water supplies.

In pursuit of natural resourcesDrilling methods questioned

‘Tis the season for turkey. Many residents are frying their turkey this year. After the Big Day, they are left with gallons and gallons of used oil. What are they supposed to do with it? Pouring it down sink drains will clog sewer pipes. In fact, grease is the leading cause of sewage spills in many cities. It builds up in sewer lines like arterial sclerosis.

Here is the environmentally sound solution for turkey fryer oil: residents may take up to 10 gallons to their local landfill’s Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility - free of charge. The used oil is then recycled by the Salinas Tallow Company.

Collection times and locations are as follows: Monterey Regional Waste Management District 14201 Del Monte Blvd., Marina M – F, 8 AM – 5 PM, Sat, 8 AM – 4:30 PM 384-5313 DO NOT MIX WITH MOTOR OIL Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority 139 Sun St., Salinas M-Sa, 9 AM - 4 PM 424-5520 DO NOT MIX WITH MOTOR OIL Residents that roast their turkey should dispose pan drippings into a

resealable container such as a can and place it in the trash for disposal. It’s a simple recipe for fat-free sewers.

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Wild turkeys in Big Sur. Photo by Cameron Douglas

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