November 18th Issue

In This Issue

InsideThe Arts .................................5 Ben Alexander Golf .............11Cop Log .................................3Events ..................................13Food ...............................(dark)Green Page ....................15, 16Health & Well-Being .......... 12High Hats & Parasols .............4Legal Notices .......................14Opinion ...............................14Peeps .............................7, 8, 9Rain Gauge ...........................2Shelf Life ...............................6 Sports ............................10, 11Young Writers’ Club ...............6

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“A Celtic Winter’s Eve”Molly’s Revenge

PG Performing Arts Center835 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove.

6:00 PMReception at Canterbury Woods

651 Sinex Ave.Concert 7:30 PM

$20 general; $15 seniors, students, military. Combination tickets

reception and concert are $50•

Sat. Nov. 19Free E-Waste Recycling

PGHS615 Sunset

Benefits HOPE Services9 AM- 1 PM

831-393-1575•

Sat. Nov. 19The Mirth’O’Matics

Comedy ImprovThe Works

667 Lighthouse7:30 PM

$10•

Sat. Nov. 19 & Sun. Nov. 20Just for Kids Fun Run and

Big Sur Half MarathonSee Page 2 for streets involved

•Sun., Nov. 20‘The Cold Water

of fear: Hitchock arrives in Hollywood’

One-man dramatizationby Howard Burnham

The Works667 Lighthouse

5:30 PM$10•

Sat, Nov. 26Monarch Magic11AM - 3 PM

Pacific Grove Museum165 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove

Free Family Event•

Mon. Nov. 28Cooking workshopsPG Farmers’ Market

4-6:30 PM•

Mon., Nov. 28City Christmas Tree Lighting

On Central in front ofthe Museum and in Jewell Park

5:30-8:30 PM•

Tues., Nov. 29Christmas at the Inns Tour

$20•

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Grads - Page 3 Your next glass of water - 15Scouts - Page 9

This is only a testMonterey Fire Department and Cali-

fornia American Water Co. will conduct fire hydrant flow tests in various areas of Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel and Sand City starting Tues., Nov. 15 through Fri., Dec. 2 between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. There may be some discoloration and tur-bidity of your tap water as a result. Officials assure Cedar Street Times that the condition is only temporary and is not dangerous to your health.

The tests are conducted to ensure that there is adequate water pressure to meed demand should there be an emergency.

If you have questions about your tap water quality, contact Cal-Am at 831-373-3051.

Collins charged inwater conflict of interestArraignment delayedso lawyers can explore chargesBy Marge Ann Jameson

Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo announced Nov. 15 that Stephen Phillip Collins, former director on the Board of Direc-tors of the Monterey County Water Resources Agency, is charged with two felony counts of conflict of interest because he allegedly profited financially from his involvement in making contracts pertaining to the Regional Water Project. The acts of conflict of interest allegedly took place between Jan. 8, 2010 and Dec. 30, 2010.

Collins was due to be arraigned on Nov. 16, but his potential defense attorneys request-ed that arraignment be delayed to give them time to go through the extensive complaint. They apparently have not yet agreed to rep-resent him in this case though they have been representing him through the investigation.

Flippo declined to say how much Collins allegedly received but it has been reported that he was paid more than $160,000.

Collins is also charged with 31 felony counts of grand theft for billing Ocean Mist Farms for services he did not perform, for ex-ample for attending meetings which he did not actually attend. The complaint case states that Collins received at least $950 or more from Ocean Mist Farms in each instance.

Additionally, Collins is also charged with six misdemeanor counts of violating Penal Code section 70, which prohibits public of-ficials from receiving payment other than as authorized by law for doing an official act.

“California government Code section 1090 precludes public officials from being financially interested in any contract made by them in the course of their duties as a public official,” the District Attorney pointed out.

In June, 2011 the District Attorney's Office opened the investigation into whether local government officials violated criminal statutes during the process which resulted in the California Public Utilities Commission's approval of Monterey County's desalination project referred to as the Regional Water Proj-

Vote countupdate

An update of the vote count on November 14 showed a small gain in the percentage of votes in favor of Measure V, but not enough to reach the two-thirds majority required to make it pass.

The number of “yes” votes now stands at 2,897 or 62.25 percent, while “no” votes are 1,757 or 37.75 percent. While there are still some 1400 votes to be counted, they are spread across the county ande would not be enough to affect the outcome.

Five of the seven people on the dais agreed with the City Manager and the City Attorney that an “urgency ordinance” al-lowing the temporary extension of hours at Pt. Pinos Grill immediately and for 120 days was the most solid way the City could gather empirical data as to whether or not extended hours would work out. There would still be no hard liquor, no amplified music and no permanent lighting outside –

matters that will doubtless be taken up by the Planning Commission in February, 2012. But leaseholder Aqua Terra Culinary will now be allowed to test the waters for din-ners and special events during the Holiday season, and golfers who testified that they would have dinner there on a regular basis will be given a chance to do just that.

Pacific Grove City Council approves temporary extension

of hours at Pt. Pinos GrillGolf course dining purveyor gains120-day trial period for new hours

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ect and the subsequent award of the contract for the Regional Water Project's manage-ment to RMC Water and Environment. Collins recused himself in February, 2011 from a voting on the award of a contract RMC was being awarded from the Water Resources Agency. Questions arose at that time as to what role he was playing with RMC while sitting as a member of the board of the Water Resources Agency.

Collins resigned from the board, under pressure, in April, 2011.According to the District Attorney, his inquiry necessitated a review of the history

of the complex water issues and accompanying litigation in Monterey County and review of well over 1000 pages of documents. Investigators approached more than 30 individuals, according to the District Attorney's office. All individuals contacted, including Collins, were willing to provide interviews.

The Fair Political Practices Commission is also undertaking an administrative investigation stemming from the same facts. They are focused on violations of the Political Reform Act, according to their Sacramento office, and when the investiga-tion is complete they will make a decision as to whether or not additional complaints might be forthcoming.

Free E-Waste recycling Sat. Nov. 19benefits HOPE Services

On Nov. 19 from 9:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. there will be a free E-Waste Recycling event at Pacific Grove High School, located at 615 Sunset Drive. The event is a benefit for HOPE Services. Acceptable items include, computers, monitors, computer cables and mice, keyboards, VCRs, fax machines, radios, printers, telephones, televisions, CPUs, stereos, speakers, DVD players, cell phones and recorders. Used clothing in plastic bags will also be accepted. HOPE Services is the area’s largest and oldest provider of services to individuals with disabilities and offers employment and independent living services to people with developmental disabilities. For more information please contact George Molano at (831) 393-1575.

The ninth presentation of the Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay will be held in both Monterey and Pacific Grove on Sat., Nov. 19 and Sun., Nov. 20. The following information pertains to street closures in Monterey and Pacific Grove.

Road closures in the city of Pacific Grove on both Sat., Nov. 19 and Sun., Nov. 20 for the Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay on Sun., Nov. 20, and the accompanying PG Lighthouse 5K and JUST RUN! Just Kids 3K on Sat., Nov. 19:• On Sat., Nov. 19, specific roads in the

downtown area Pacific Grove will be closed to traffic between 8 and 11 a.m. for the PG Lighthouse 5K and JUST RUN! Just Kids 3K. This includes the westbound lane of Lighthouse Avenue and all of Central Ave. from Fountain to Congress, the west side of Caledo-nia, the 600 block of Jewell Ave. and Ocean View Blvd. from Forest Ave. to Asilomar Blvd. (east end near the golf course). The downtown area should be reopened by 10 a.m.

• On Sun., Nov. 20, the entire water-front of Pacific Grove (Ocean View and Sunset) will be closed to vehicle traffic between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. In addition, the downtown area bordered by Fountain Ave., Lighthouse Avenue, Congress Ave. and 17th St. will be closed until approximately 9:30 a.m.

Traffic and parking in Downtown Monterey and the Cannery Row/New Monterey areas will be impacted between 2:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Nov. 20. Many streets will be posted “No parking, tow away” in the event area.

Starting at 4:00 a.m., many city streets and the Rec Trail will be closed to facilitate the running of the half marathon.

Traffic delays should be expected between 4:00 and 11:00 a.m. in downtown and Cannery Row / New Monterey.

The Lighthouse Tunnel, both direc-tions, will be closed from approximately 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. Access to New Mon-terey/Cannery Row will be via Hwy. 1 and Hwy. 68 and access to downtown from

New Monterey/Cannery Row will be via Lighthouse Avenue and the Pacific Street southbound extension.

Participants and spectators are en-couraged to carpool and arrive early.

Major Street Closures in Monterey:

• The southbound Hwy. 1 Del Monte Avenue and Casa Verde Way exits will be closed from 4:00 to 9:00 a.m.

• Del Monte between El Estero and Figueroa and the entrance to Wharf #2 at Figueroa will be closed from approximately 4:00 to 9:00 a.m.

• Del Monte Avenue from Sloat to El Estero will be closed from approxi-mately 6:00 to 9:00 a.m..

• Del Monte from Figueroa and through the northbound Lighthouse Tunnel (going to New Monterey) will be closed from approximately 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. During this time, access to New Monterey and Pacific Grove will be via Hwy 1 and Hwy 68 only.

• Lighthouse Avenue and Pacific Street southbound (from New Monterey and Pacific Grove to Downtown Mon-terey) will remain open.

• The Southbound bore of the Light-house Tunnel (going towards Mon-terey) will be closed from approxi-mately 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. (Maps of course http://www.big-

surhalfmarathon.org)For more info regarding the event,

call the Half Marathon Race Committee staff at 831-625-6226 or visit http://www.bigsurhalfmarathon.org

For more information on street clo-sures in Monterey visit http://monterey.org/Portals/1/pdfs/2011BigSurMarathonStreetClosureNotice.pdf.

For Monterey Salinas Transit bus routes and schedules affected by the Half Marathon, please call 831-899-2555. For any questions regarding this information, please contact Julie Armstrong, 831-521-0704 or the Pacific Grove Police Depart-ment, 831-648-3143.

Half Marathon coming:Road closures this weekend

Until now, the Grill has closed at dusk under the terms of the original use permit, issued in 2003. That was a favor-ite argument among detractors, who said that this method of emergency ordinance, circumventing the Planning Commission and the CEQA process, was illegal. An emailed letter from David Sweigert of the Fenton & Keller law firm threatened legal action, but City Attorney David Laredo refuted Sweigert’s points, saying that it was not about land use or zoning, the emergency ordinance was temporary and time-limited. It would be used to inform the later land use decision, which other-wise could be based purely on conjecture. Laredo said it was about the City Council’s “police power,” and that the original use permit was not granted in perpetuity in that one body cannot bind future bodies.

As for arguments about denying the CEQA process, the attorney argued that it would have negligible effect on the land and that the lights, for example, would be temporary. And the “emergency” aspect? Laredo said that emergency ordinances are allowed if they promote and preserve the peace, health, safety or public welfare.

That rang a bell for Councilmember Ken Cuneo, who said he was elected to make decisions for the entire community, not just a few. Alan Cohen, who moved for passage, agreed and said that the detractors

make him “tired.” He said he respected Laredo’s explanation and is anxious for the results of the trial.

Bill Kampe said, “This is a matter of being friends of the citizens of the city. It’s time to see if this is workable.”

Rudy Fischer voted for the emergency measure, too, and said “You can’t expect never to have change. We don’t know that there will be [bad] effects [until we have the trial].

Robert Huitt wrestled with himself over the legality and asked to be convinced of it, which Kampe and Laredo apparently did because his, the final vote needed, was in favor of the emergency measure. He said that he was all in favor of data-based decision making but was concerned that it might be a ruse to obtain other results than the test.

Dan Miller and Mayor Carmelita Garcia were not convinced of the legality of the idea, and both voted against not only the emergency measure, which takes effect immediately, but also the regular one which takes effect in 30 days.

The council had the extension of the lease with Dory Ford and Aqua Terra Culinary on the Nov. 2 agenda, but when Ford indicated that he felt he could not make a profit unless he was allowed to stay open past nightfall, the emergency measure idea was born.

pPT PINOS From Page 1

Cedar Street Times was established September 1, 2008 and was adjudicated a legal newspaper for Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California on July 16, 2010. It is published weekly at 311A Forest Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950.Press deadline is Wednesday, noon. The paper is distributed on Fri. and is available at various locations throughout the city as well as by e-mail subscription.

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November 18, 2011 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 3

Cop logMarge Ann Jameson

Fourteen people graduated from the Pacific Grove Police Citizens’ Academy on Nov. 10, capping 12 weeks of concen-trated learning about the many facets of law enforcement.

Community members attended the classes for three hours each week, mostly at the station. Some of the topics in-cluded Patrol Procedures; Investigations; Narcotics; Defensive Tactics; Scenarios; D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance and Ed-ucation); Juvenile Law; Animal Control; and of course, Parking. Citizens’ Academy students toured the County Communica-tions Center and the rustic Soledad Prison. The prison tour went inside the walls for a close look at how the system of incarcera-tion works, and how unarmed Correctional Officers maintain order over hundreds of convicted criminals every day.

The primary goal of the Citizens’ Academy is to educate members of the community about police work and the many challenges our officers take on. In this way, it is hoped that people can gain a better understanding of how to interact with police, and the reasons why some situations turn out well and some don’t.

At Graduation Night, students re-ceived certificates from Chief Darius

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Engles, Commander John Nyunt, and City Manager Tom Frutchey. Chief Engles thanked Commanders Miller and Nyunt, along with Officer Jennifer Morais for their extra effort in conducting the classes. Detective Meghan Bliss, along with Of-ficers Angelo Dimarco, Officer Baggett, Sgt. Jeff Fenton, Sgt. Viray, Sgt. Figueroa, Officer Amy Lonsinger, Carmel Police Corporal Steve Rana and Officer Rasul made valuable contributions as well.

All students agreed they had learned a great deal and gained a new appreciation for the job done by our police. Graduates have an opportunity to join the Citizens’ Academy Alumni, which helps out with traffic control for special events in Pacific Grove.

Check in at the Pacific Grove Police station at 580 Pine Avenue for the dates of the next Citizens’ Academy. Require-ments are:

Minimum age of 21 years.• Live or work in Pacific Grove.• No prior felony convictions.• No assault or battery or weapons

convictions within the past 10 years.• No misdemeanor arrests within

three years of application.

DA’s office: Pollacci sentencedto six years in rape case

Thomas Pollacci, age 52 and a resident of Pebble Beach, was sentenced to 6 years in state prison on one count of forcible rape by Judge Adrienne Grover on Nov. 15. This 6-year sentence is to be served consecutively to an 8-year state prison sentence that had been previously imposed by Judge Russell Scott for a total state prison term of 14 years. Pollacci also agreed to waive any appellate rights in the current case as well the previous case in which he had been convicted by a jury of rape.

In this case, Pollacci had met Jane Doe 1 in his liquor store in April 2007. They agreed to go out on a date later that evening. Instead of drinks and dinner, Pollacci took her to a travel trailer his family owned that was parked at the Monterey County airport. There he raped her. Jane Doe 1 came forward after seeing the media reports from Pol-lacci’s first case and said that she wanted to help that victim in whatever way she could.

Pollacci also met Jane Doe 2 when she stopped by the store to make a purchase in October 2008. At the time Jane Doe 2 worked nearby and Pollacci asked her to go to lunch. She agreed and he took her to the travel trailer that was now parked at a pullout in Pebble Beach. Reluctantly, Jane Doe 2 agreed to go inside and he subsequently raped her. Pollacci then began to make phone calls to her house and drive by Jane Doe 2’s office. Afraid Pollacci would never stop harassing her; she went to his liquor store to confront him. There she was raped again. She, too, decided to come forward after hearing about the victim in the previous case and wanted to help in anyway she could.

“The successful resolution of this case was possible because of the courage of all of the victims who came forward and reported the crimes and also because of the work of DA Investigators Adam Sepagan, Ryan McGuirk and Christina Gunter as well the victim advocate Alma Sanchez,” said the District Attorney.

Before he is eligible for release from state prison, the state will conduct an evalu-ation to determine if Pollacci qualifies as a sexual violent predator.

Jacob Miller case continuedThe drug case against Jacob Scott Miller is proceeding through the Monterey

County Superior Court system, after a continuance was granted on Nov. 1.Sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant at Miller’s dwelling on June 28. At the

time, Jacob Miller was occupying an apartment adjacent to a house owned by his father, Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller. The younger Miller was arrested and jailed for possession of methamphetamine for sale, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, narcotics paraphernalia and digital scales. Sheriff Miller stated he was unaware of the warrant’s pending service until deputies had arrived at the scene.

Jacob Miller’s next court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 6.

Lost not foundA mail scanner of the hand-held variety was lost on 19th Street.A wallet was lost at Save Mart on 11/9/11.A satchel was lost at the Farmers Market on 11/8/11.

Found, apparently lostA child’s car seat was found in the 900 block of Ocean Vie. No sign of

the child or the owner of either the seat or the child.

Here’s an example of what is meant by the phrase “falling down drunk”

A drunk man at Lovers Point Park was reported. When officers arrived, they saw him seated on the brick wall, facing the street. When he saw the of-ficers he stood up and promptly fell on his face without even trying to stop his fall ith his hands. He as knocked unconscious and suffered multiple scrapes and injuries to his nose and mouth. He was transported to C.H.O.M.P and his bicycle was locked up for safekeeping.

Breaker, the tree-climbing dogBreaker is a male brown beagle who wears a collar and tags. He as dis-

covered at large on Sunset. When the owners were contacted, they said that Breaker had climbed a tree to get out of the yard. They’re trying to figure out how to keep him from climbing the tree.

Abandoned vehicle towedAn abandoned vehicle, with registration expired 6 months, was towed

from Piedmont Ave.

What part of electric pedicure tool don’t you understand?A person reported that she had ordered a manicure/pedicure set online

on EBay. Instead, she received a infrared heater. She has tried to resolve the issue ith EBay and PayPal and they required a police report, so there she was at the police station with nice warm feet but no pedicure, filing a police report.

Riding Under the InfluenceA person was stopped for riding a bicycle after dark without a white light.

As he was on probation, he was searched and they found drug paraphernalia, alcohol and meth. He was arrested.

Driving Under the InfluenceStopped for a traffic violation, Abash Asady turned out to be driving under

the influence. He as booked, cited, and released to a sober friend.

VandalismSomeone ran a vehicle on someone else’s lawn on Jewell Ave. leaving

major tire tracks.On Arkright Court, someone sprayed the wall of a carport with graffiti.

AB109 public discussion setIf you missed the discussion about the 2011 Public Safety Realignment at the

Nov. 2 City Council meeting, you may attend a community meeting on Mon.Nov. 28 from 6-8:00 p.m. at Friendship Baptist Church in Seaside. The State is transferring significant responsibilities for the incarceration of inmates and supervision of parolees to the County. Join Supervisor Jane Parker, Assemblymember Bill Monning, Sheriff Scott Miller, District Attorney Dean Flippo, Presiding Judge Timothy Roberts, Chief Probation Officer Manuel Real, Public Defender James Egar, Seaside Police Chief Vicki Myers, Marina Police Chief Edmundo Rodriguez, Director of Social and Employment Services Elliott Robinson, Director of County Behavioral Health Wayne Clark for a discussion about what this means for our community.


Dear Readers: Please bear in mind that historical articles such as “High Hats & Parasols” present our history — good and bad — in the language and terminology used at the time. The writings contained in “High Hats” are not our words. They are quoted from Pacific Grove/Monterey publications from 100 years in the past. Our journalistic predecessors held to the highest possible standards for their day, as do we at Cedar Street Times. Please also note that any items listed for sale in “High Hats” are “done deals,” and while we would all love to see those prices again, people also worked for a dollar a day back then. Thanks for your understanding.

Jon Guthrie

High Hats & Parasols

The News … from 1911.

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 GrovePG Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave., 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.

Advice for Thanksgiving, a word from your editorDon’t spoil Thanksgiving by finding fault. Anyone who is surly on a holiday

deserves nothing but bones to eat. 1Don’t growl because you don’t get all the white meat. The dark meat is considered

better than white by many who are epicureans.Give young ones all the gravy they want, and let them ingest cranberry sauce to

their little stomach’s content.Explain to all who are seated at the table how the anatomical structure of the turkey

makes it impossible for the host to supply them all with wish bones.Be copious of pie to everyone, but sparing to yourself. Remember that pie is

healthiest for you when eaten by proxy.Do not tell your wife, or the cook, about the delicious plum pudding your Aunt

Samantha used to make back when you were a child. Even during a holiday, a woman is a woman and she years for tips of the hat. Give her repast many compliments. Serve the cooking woman a double share of plums.

And may you live to eat Thanksgiving turkey many years in succession, and may each feast be followed by no pangs of indigestion.

Store keeper in accidentMr. S. Wilkins, store keeper for Crocker & Sisson, while returning to the down-

town of Pacific Grove, met Monday evening with a painful accident. While crossing the bridge at Saw Mill Gulch, the horse Wilkins was riding slipped, throwing his rider. The animal then fell in such a manner as to be upon the hapless Wilkins. Several bones were broken. Wilkins will be laid up for several weeks.

Lumber yard to avoid companyThe forthright firm of Patrick Oyer, lumber and supplies, no longer desires to do

business with the Palmer Bros., a construction company. On and after this date, all goods from this other house will be cash on delivery or pick up. All persons having bills against or being owed by the firm will please call at our lumber yard and settle up with us. We desire to close the books of that unscrupulous business.

Man is fraud of the first waterDuring the latter part of October, a young man calling himself H. Redman came to

the Grove and at once began soliciting and collecting for subscriptions for the Overland Monthly. Redman proved a good solicitor, meeting with more than average success.

As time passed and as the valuable journal said to have been contracted for failed to materialize, our suspicions regarding the glib Mr. Redman were aroused. We contacted the publisher regarding the young man. Thursday evening we received the following reply: Editor, the individual in question was at one time one of our subscription agents, but he was discharged after running behind in his accounts. We since learned that he has been taking subscriptions and collecting same. We have already sent out cards warning all sheriffs and constables. If you can assist us in tracing this scalawag, we shall be greatly obliged. Write to the Overland Monthly, 420 Montgomery, San Francisco. 1

Writers: literary help wantedThe literary industries affiliated with the famed author H. H. Bancroft is now

seeking writers interested in become the authors of short, action packed novels and of non-fiction works. Compensation for your endeavors will be based on an assessment of copies sold, less the cost of publication. Books based on history are of real interest. The Literary Industries Company is located at 723 Market street, San Francisco. They would like to hear from you. There is every chance that you may soon be one of their next ultra-rich writers. 2

Snippets from around the area…• Mrs. T. Beach’s cottage is now being raised, enlarged, and otherwise improved.• B. Bradford, editor of the Castroville Gazette, spent a couple of days this week

at the Grove.• Buy your groceries, crockery, cookware, cigars, and tobacco at Norton’s Cash

Store.• G. Bertold’s, the popular boot and shoe dealer, has removed into the large and

capacious storeroom adjoining the Del Monte Drug Store. There you will find the largest and most complete stock of boots and shoes ever brought to the Pen-insula.

And your bill amounts to …• The White House, serving Monterey and Pacific Grove, announces that all who

spend at least three dollars during one shopping trip will be presented with a round-trip ticket entitling the purchaser to free passage anywhere within the two communities. F. Gunzendorfer, proprietor.

• Unimproved lots, beautifully situated, with all the advantages of drainage, pro-tection from wind, etc. Each possess a pleasant water view. $135. One-third cash, balance in payments on the last day of the sixth and twelfth months. Inter-est, 8% on deferred payments. Norton’s Cash Store Real Estate.

• Raise your own poultry. Fertile chicken eggs, guaranteed to hatch. Call at 415 Pine. 15¢ a dozen.

• Free issues of The Youth’s Companion until January with a one-year, paid con-tract at $1.75.

• Mince pies for the holidays available upon one-day advance order. 50¢ per pie. 75¢, extra large. Carmelo bakery. Ask the operator for Main 376.

Author’s Notes1 The Overland Monthly’s first issue was published in July, 1868. In 1923, the

magazine merged with Out West to become Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine. Publication ended in July, 1935. An upright business, the magazine offered to fill at no charge the subscription of anyone sending in a receipt issued by Redman.

2 In 1852, Hubert Howe Bancroft, a bookstore clerk who turned himself into a self-titled ethnologist specializing in the west, opened his own publishing firm in San Francisco. Soon, his works expanded to include books, maps, and printed manuscript documents, and included a large number of narratives dictated by then-living pioneers, settlers, and statesmen. With his hired “writing assistants” hard at work, his output proliferated profusely, but his work became sloppy. His publishing enterprises were under criminal investigation when Bancroft was struck by a streetcar and killed (1919). He is given credit, however, for a body of historical works depicting the history of coastal California.References: Pacific Grove Review, Monterey Daily Cypress, Del Monte Weekly,

Salinas Index, Monterey County Post, Bullions’ Grammar (1890).

November 18, 2011 • CEDAR STREET Times• Page 5

Forest Hill Manor is now accepting Medicare Qualified or Private Pay residents directly from the community-at-large into its Skilled Nursing Center. We typically provide private

suites, at no extra charge, for our Medicare residents receiving skilled nursing care.

The Skilled Nursing Center offers:• State-of-the-art skilled nursing care.• Individualized care plans.• Short Respite or Long Term stays.• Beautiful private suites with private bathrooms,

flat screen TVs.• Resident Select Menu Options and

Medically-Prescribed Diets.

Monterey Peninsula’s newest Medicare Certified Skilled Nursing Center, at Forest Hill Manor, opened in 2009 and garners rave reviews: a daughter of a recently admitted parent wrote the Administrator,“You and your staff have given my sister and me tremendous peace of mind and for that we are truly grateful.”

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On Sunday, Nov. 13, the Pacific Grove Library hosted its own version of a Parisian salon. The event was the opening reception for the art and poetry exhibit cur-rently showing at the library, “I Read the News Today, Oh Boy! Visual Artists and Poets Respond to the News in a Creative Collaboration of New Works.” The recep-tion allowed the members of the public to mingle with some of the poets and visual artists who created this unique exhibit.

The exhibit originated in Benicia with an idea from the Poet Laureate of Benicia, Ronna Leon. Participants, 14 visual artists and 14 poets, were selected from a national competition and paired into 14 teams. Each team then chose a news story for inspiration. In response to the news story, each artist or poet created an original work.

Tom Stanton, an artist from Beni-cia, A. Gaul Gulley, an artist from San Francisco, Stephanie Martin, an artist from Santa Cruz, Katya Madrid, an artist from Benicia, Ken McKeon, a poet from Berkeley and Pacific Grove’s own Poet-in-Residence, Dr. Barbara Mossberg, were present representing the poets and artists involved in the project.

One of the highlights of the afternoon was hearing the artists and poets speak about the processes they used. Almost all the speakers indicated initial skepti-cism regarding the process, their assigned partner or both. One pair met at the “all artist” meeting and chose not commu-nicate further regarding their respective responses to their news article. Another pair shared iterations of their respective poems and prints and the changes until their final works emerged. A third pair were wary, but soon realized they could work together well.

Tom Stanton, creator of a kinetic work of art that uses an infra-red sensor to power a miniature oil pump in his visual art, spoke briefly on the process he used to create his artwork. He mentioned the infra-red sensor can sense, from a person’s body temperature, when someone comes near.

The artwork then moves more quickly.Stephanie Martin, the visual artist

paired with Dr. Mossberg, stressed the difference between creating art for this exhibit and other art on which she has worked. Noting some ideas on which she works don’t come to fruition, she said, “This one had to pass the finish line” to be completed and appear in the exhibit.

The next event relating to the exhibit will be held in the City Council Chambers on December 12 at a time to be announced. Local media, print, television and radio will discuss how they decide which news stories merit coverage. At a third event, local poets will be invited to respond with their criteria for how they determine what “stories” to convey through their poetry and to perhaps read some of their work. Those events, like the opening reception and the exhibit itself, promise to be both engaging and unique.

The exhibit was brought to Pacific Grove through the encouragement of Dr. Mossberg and the City’s ad hoc Team Po-etry. With the effort of Head Librarian Lisa Maddalena and support of the staff of the City, it was brought from Benicia intact. Linda and Jim Pagnello, Jim Speacht and Neil Jameson contributed to hanging the exhibit in the library along with Team Po-etry. The exhibit will remain in the Pacific Grove Public Library through January 13.

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As an expression of cultural joy, you can’t top an Irish wake. And what is a wake but a celebration―a toast of appreciation―an expression of love―and a heck of a party?

Wake the Dead was born in 2000 when eight top Bay Area musicians realized they shared as deep a love for the songs of the Grateful Dead as they did for traditional Celtic tunes. Some brand-new music sprang up and everyone started partying. Their first CD contained nine songs originally popularized by the Grateful Dead, each retooled in unexpected ways, blended with Celtic jigs, reels, and airs, and performed all-acoustic but with true rock-and-roll sizzle.

Wake the Dead is a romp that flows seamlessly from rock grooves to hot Irish reels, and from haunting airs to achingly beautiful melodies familiar to Deadheads everywhere. Groove jams to keep the tie-dye swirling. Vocal harmonies that float like clouds. The music takes off, and the band follows, grinning all the way. These aren’t worlds colliding―they’re worlds meshing, coalescing―creating a whole new world of possibility, and true to the spirits of the Grateful Dead and the eternally hopeful Celts.

Coming to Chautauqua Hall Sun., Dec. 4 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 advance, $22 at the door, $18 to members of the Monterey Bay Celtic Society. Call 408-847-6982 to reserve your tickets, get out the tie-dye and wear your dancing shoes.

Wake the Dead on Dec. 4

Z Folio Gallery Hosts Work of Local Jewelers

From Nov. 2, 2011to Jan. 9, 2012 the Z Folio Gallery will showcase the work of 31 jewelers and metal artists of the Central Coast. The exhibit is called “Sacred Geom-etry and Beyond” and features art inspired by the logarithmic spiral patterns found on shellfish and snails; the way lightning forms branches;and the way birds and insects exhibit Golden Mean proportions in their bodies and wings. Each piece of art is handcrafted by members of the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild. The Z Folio Gallery is located on 750 Cannery Row, #112, at Intercontinental the Clement Monterey. For more information please call 655-9891.


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Young Writers’ CornerLibrary to Close

The Pacific Grove Public Library will be closed November 23, 24 and 25 for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Plan your holiday reading ahead and check out enough books to carry you through the long weekend. Also, if the sub-headline gave you a moment of pause, thank your City Council for the extended hours the library patrons have enjoyed since August.

Generous DonationsPG library patrons continue to donate generously to the library, which is dependent

solely on donations for acquisitions. Donating through the Amazon.com “wish list” for the Pacific Grove Library, patrons have contributed over $700 of new material to the library, including books the books “Why Read Moby Dick” and “Double Dexter” and a DVD. “My Brilliant Career.” Many thanks to these donors. If you’re consider-ing donating to the library, please check the Wish List to see what the library needs.

Also, remember the challenge grant from an anonymous donor for the Great Courses. If you donate the money to purchase a course the library wants to acquire from the Great Courses, you will also be allowed to designate another course to be purchased from the funds supplied by the anonymous donor. This might be your chance to help the library obtain those Great Courses you want to see that are not already in the library’s collection. See Reference Librarian Mary Elturk for further details.

Openings on Library BoardThere are currently four openings on the Pacific Grove Library Advisory Board,

two for voting members of the Board and two for non-voting members. The Library Board consists of five members appointed to staggered terms of four years. The Board meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the City Manager’s Confer-ence Room at City Hall.

The board was created by the City Charter to serve in an advisory capacity to the Council and City Manager in all matters pertaining to the operation of the public library. If you are interested in advocating for the library through the Library Advisory Board, please consider joining the Board. Contact the City Clerk’s office at 831-648-3106 for further information on the application process.

Alert for History BuffsPart-time Librarian Denise Sallee has started a project to group all local history

books and materials together in one location in the library. Books have been pulled from reference, non-fiction and the rare book collection and organized in the library’s glass display cabinets. If you are researching a project relating to PG history, this collection promises to be a valuable resource.

Game NightThe first Teen Game Night was a rousing success with 23 teens in attendance. The

Teen Center is quickly becoming one of the most actively used parts of the library.

Need Christmas Cards?When Borders went out of business, our quick-thinking librarians asked it for dona-

tions. As a result, Borders donated, among other things, hundreds of boxes of Christmas cards to the library. Beginning immediately, library volunteers will be selling these cards at the Monday Farmers’ Market for half off the suggested retail price. Come and peruse the wide selection of cards in time to buy them for your holiday letter writing.

First of the Month Book SaleThe monthly First Saturday of the Month book sale in the loggia of the library

will be Saturday, December 3 beginning at noon. The book sale, spear-headed by hard-working library volunteers Frances and Gary Spradlin, features hundreds of books at excellent prices, as well as a selection of puzzles. The selection, fed by the continual stream of books donated to the library by appreciative patrons, changes every month so there’s always something new. Stop by and see what’s on offer this month.

Standing Room OnlyThe children’s presentation on Wednesday, November 9, by visitors to Pacific Grove

from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi was packed. The presenters were all individuals who have started schools or libraries in their native countries, and their rapport with the children was palpable, especially during the music and dancing sections of the presentations. This Storytime was an excellent opportunity for the children of PG to learn about other cultures.

E-Books Now Can Be Loaded on KindlesDue to changes in Amazon.com policies, e-books can now be loaded onto Kindles.

Of the 353 items downloaded by PG library patrons in the month of October, 79 of those were electronic books checked out to and loaded on Kindles.

While many readers prefer books with paper (you’re unlikely to read a Kindle while lolling in a long warm bath), many people also enjoy the freedom e-books provide them. If you have a Kindle or another electronic reading device and are not sure how to load an e-book onto it, stop by the Reference Desk for a lesson. You won’t be alone―nearly every day people are stopping by for a lesson in how to download their electronic read-ing devices. Make the most of both your reading device and your library card.

A Cynic’s Plight by Erika McLitus

It seems like everything I set out to write

Points out the flaws I see

Through my own flawed sight. Even this, which should be a celebration…

I can’t help but want to criticize and analyze,

until it’s not a thanksgiving, but a degradation. I can’t just think of my gratitude,

I am compelled to kill it with reasons,

until my words are tainted with a poisonous attitude. I wish I knew how to explain

what I do feel, that bliss that exists

before my lips render the pure profane.

Mad Dashby Emily Shifflett

Ah, it’s that time of year again.Once more, you’re called onto a battlefield.It bustles about, under fluorescent lightingUntil the general purpose is revealed.The women around prepare themselvesThe goal sits full and plumpYou see the sea of combatantsWaiting, poised to jump.Ever later the hour growsAnd panic seeps withinYou push it down, eyes on the prizeDetermined, only to winAnd, finally, oh finally at lastThe first contender makes her moveAll hell falls forth, a stampede awakensOf obstacles to be removedAnd up on high, it sits, surveyingIt’s gladiators in the ringThe race, the chase, the frenzyAll for one thingLate, late, almost too lateYou think as you draw to the slaughter nearMust get there, must seize itTime prompts ever more fearYou reach the battlegrounds and see the othersTheir plight clumsy and jerkyYou slip past so silentlyAnd, victoriously, claim the last Thanksgiving turkey.

Japanese presence to be discussedA public lecture, “Bridging the Pacific--The Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula”

by historian Tim Thomas will be presented Thurs., Dec. 1 at 7:00 p.m. at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, 165 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove. Cost is $5 for the general public (free to museum members).

Drawing information and images from his recently published book, The Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula, Tim Thomas will examine and celebrate the history of the Monterey Japanese community and the vital role they played in making the Monterey Peninsula what it is today. The lecture will follow the stories of individuals who domi-nated the fish markets and developed the abalone industry in the first quarter of the last century. A book signing will follow.

For further information contact Lori Mannel, Executive Director, 648-5718, [email protected]; or Annie Holdren, Exhibitions Curator, 648-5716 x17, [email protected].


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PeepsShadows, written and

directed by Carmel native and Carmel High School gradu-ate John Penney, has taken a second international film festi-val award. The Bram Stoker International Film Festival in Whitby, England, presented its Best Picture Award on Hallow-een night to Penney’s Shadows, which also won the “Best Horror Film” award in June at the Fantasy Horror Awards festival in Orvieto, Italy. Forty-three films were entered in the Whitby festival, which shows independent narrative features, documentaries, and shorts from around the world. The Bram Stoker International Film Festi-val has been held since 2009.

Shadows is Penney’s sec-ond feature film as writer/direc-tor. He has worked as a screen-writer on thirteen previous feature films. Shadows, starring William Hurt and Cary Elwes, was filmed entirely on location in Thailand and tells the story of a young man haunted by the ghosts of his recently deceased wife and son who travels into the jungle to appease their spirits.

After graduating from Carmel High School in 1977, Penney attended UCLA, where he studied film and received a degree in English. He started his career as a film editor before turning to writing and directing. In addition to his screenplays, he has written short stories

Penney Film Wins Bram Stoker Award in Englandthat have won him an award from the Adelphi Academy in New York and that have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Prior writer-director credits include the thriller Zyzzyx Road (Regent Entertainment) starring Katherine Heigl and Tom Size-more. In addition, Penney wrote the screenplays for such genre films as The Kindred (Vestron/FM Entertainment), Return of the Living Dead 3 (Trimark/Li-ons Gate), Contaminated Man (UFA International/ Promark), Past Perfect (Nu-Image/Lions Gate), and the upcoming Brian Yuzna film Amphibious 3D.

In the action-thriller genre, Penney wrote the films The Enemy (UFA-Promark) starring Roger Moore and Luke Perry, A Breed Apart with Robert Patrick and Andrew McCarthy (Pro-mark Entertainment), In Pursuit with Daniel Baldwin and Clau-dia Schiffer (Paramount/Ende-mol), and Matter of Trust with C. Thomas Howell (Shoreline Entertainment). In addition to screenwriting, Penney served as producer on his films Zyzzyx Road, A Breed Apart, Matter of Trust, and In Pursuit. He is currently at work on his next project, a supernatural thriller entitled Truck Stop.

Penney lives in Los An-geles with his wife Cathy and daughter Lauren. The rest of his family still lives on the Mon-terey Peninsula.

The Doris Day Animal Foundation, a national non-profit organization founded by the legendary actress and animal welfare advocate, has provided a grant to Peace of Mind Dog Res-cue (POMDR)of Pacific Grove in support of their efforts to rescue senior dogs.

“When we learned about the terrific work Peace of Mind Dog Rescue is doing, we knew we wanted to help,” Miss Day said from her home in Carmel. “We fund other charitable 501(c) (3) non-profit organizations that work to help the animals and the people who love them. POMDR specifically has helped over 250 senior dogs in the last two years, and we’re proud to be able to help.”

“The grant will help us pro-vide medical care for the dogs we take into our adoption program,” said Carie Broecker, President of POMDR. “We spend an average of $700 each on the dogs we rescue. Each dog receives a well-ness exam, senior blood work-up, many need dental cleanings and extractions. The majority of the dogs we take in have suffered some amount of neglect with regards to their medical needs as seniors before they get to us. We are so grateful for Ms. Day’s support. This grant will help us reach our goal of over 150 dogs saved in 2011.”

For more information visit www.peaceofminddogrescue.org or call 831-718-9122.

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John Penney has won an international award for his film, Shad-ows. It was presented on Halloween.


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Stevenson Merit Scholars

Eleven seniors from the Stevenson School class of 2012 have been honored by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for their outstanding academic achievement as National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Scholars. Two Stevenson students, more than any other high school on the Monterey Peninsula, were selected as National Merit Semifinalists including Jackie Choi and Hyung Jin (Tom) Kim. Nine Stevenson students were named National Commended Scholars including Farah Abouzeid, Fiona Alfait, Carolyn Bruckmann, Philip James, Anna Miller, Taliesin (Tilly) Namkai-Meche, Kevin Tang, Roman (Christian) Trenka, and Elizabeth Wickersham. Above: From the left: Annie Miller, Fiona Alfait, Farah Abouzeid, Jackie Choi, Phil James, Elizabeth Wickersham, and Christian Trenka.Not shown: Carolyn Bruckmann, Tom Kim, Tilly Namkai-Meche, Kevin TangSaid Michele Grogan, Head of the Pebble Beach Campus, “We congratulate them for their outstanding achievement and commend their high academic standards and willingness to invest the personal effort to achieve their goals.” High school students enter the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), a test which serves as an initial screen of approximately 1.5 million entrants each year. Of these, approximately 1 percent or 16,000 students nationwide are selected as semifinalists in the program, and about 2 percent or 34,000 students are identified as Commended Students recognized for their exceptional academic promise.

Top: Joseph and Jessie Hara, and Sandula Steven Kadewere of Malawi with Pacific Grove Library Circulation Supervisor Linda Pagnella.

Right: Geoffrey Mwewa of Zambia peruses the stacks.

Below: Geoffrey Mwewa and Esther Mkandawire of Zambia get a tour of the Pacific Grove Library from Librar-ian Lisa Maddalena.

Photos by Dorothy Vriend

Delegation from Africavisits Pacific Grove Library

On Wed., Nov. 9, the Library Staff held a tea for seven ministers and educators from libraries and schools in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. For the past year, library staff has been working with "Kids for the Kingdom", a local church group, to collect gently used children’s books to send to our visitors' institutions. The delegation toured the library and later in the afternoon, Reverend Geoffrey Mwewe and his wife Esther Mkandawire shared stories from Zambia with 40 children and adults at the Library's "After-school Storytime".


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At Colton Hall in Monterey last week, ceremonies honoring the most recent graduates of the CERT training were held. Among the graduates was Kevin Zamzow-Pollock, above in red, who is from Pacific Grove. Pictured behind Kevin are (L-R) Monterey Fire’s Division Chief - Fire Marshal David Brown, Chief Andrew Miller, Mayor Chuck Della Sala of Monterey, Roger Reed, instructor Demetrius Kastros, and Monterey’s new Police Chief, Phil Penko.

Other graduates include: Allan L. Abbott, Michael Abbott, Billy Abdill, Louis Paul Arbanas, Tammy Boland, Nick Carter, Eric “Junai” Fincke, David R. Jones, Dawn French Jones, Warren A. Kaufman, Naida K. Mercurio, Daniel Ray Schultze and James C. Tripp.

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) provides community members with the disaster-related know-how they need to be self-sufficient and support others, if necessary, in the case of local and widespread emergency until help can arrive.

CERT is a nationally-recognized program that developed in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The curriculum is well defined, includes terrorism awareness. Communities with established CERT programs receive funding for training and resources. Team members get the same training with CERT no matter where they live and training certification is transferable.

Spontaneous volunteers are always first on the scene to conduct initial search, rescue and first aid. CERTs are trained to communicate effectively, and to participate in disaster response efforts.

Girl Scout Troop 2033, a group of local 5th graders who have been in Scouting together since first grade, paid a visit to Canterbury Woods’ Girl Scouts from years past. Along with marching in parades, camping, and community service activities such as picking up trash on the beach, the young girls work on badges. One of their tasks is to learn about Girl Scouts from the past and from other countries. They were able to do both at Canterbury Woods.

Stories of gatherings around the camp fires led to the realization that many of the songs, crafts, and S’mores handed down over time are still traditions for today’s scouts. Uniforms have changed a bit, but the sash with badges is still worn today.

Canterbury resident Sally Knoles described the honor of having her Golden Eaglet pinned on her by Mrs. Herbert Hoover. One of the girls chimed in that Hoover was one of our presidents, but it was really put in perspective when their leader pointed out that it would be like having Michelle Obama give one of them

a badge. Alice Stoessel shared her memories of being a Girl Scout leader in Paris in the 1940’s, marching in parades as the local girls do, and meeting Girl Scouts of many nationalities. Beth Gallagher shared amusing tales of summer-camp mishaps.

After a snack of Girl Scout cookies of course, and some traditional songs the girls thought appropriate for the ladies, they finished the visit with a penguin dance after a bit of encouragement that one of their silly songs would be just fine―the sillier the better. And lastly they presented paper flowers they had made to give to the elder Girl Scouts. Girl Scouting reached through the generations to connect one and all for a nice afternoon visit.

Above, left: Scouting’s salute and badge sashes haven’t changed. At right, Alice Stoessel and Anne Perrin shared memories of their days as Girl Scouts. Photos by Marley Knoles.

Girl Scouts learn of Scouting traditions, anecdotesfrom Scouts at Canterbury Woods

In fine company The Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District (mprpd.org)

is presenting a series of mid-month nature programs. Details follow. For full information on all fall and winter programs, see the Let’s Go Outdoors! guide or go online at mprpd.org.

Pathways to Poetry Discover your poetic voice as you explore the autumnal

beauty of Garland Park. Walk the trails among the trees and through the meadows to tap into your intuitive language. Become inspired to capture the magic of nature with words. Poetry is the art of a listening heart. Instructor: Laura Bayless.

Ages 12-adult, Saturday, November 19, 1 PM-3 PM, Garland Park Visitor Center, 700 W. Carmel Valley Road, $10 (district resi-dent), $11 (non-district resident).

Cannery Row by Night Explore the magic and mystery of nighttime photography

along the waters of Cannery Row and Fisherman’s Wharf. Buildings, boats, objects and people take on a mysterious look and feel under the glowing lights and unique colors of the night. Bring a sense of adventure and willingness to explore and have fun. Instructor: David J. Gubernick.

Ages 18 and up, Saturday, November 19, 4 PM-9 PM, Fisher-man’s Wharf, Monterey, $150 (district resident), $165 (non-district resident).

Fall Colors Camp (3-day) Discover nature’s bounty in the changing colors, textures and

smells of the fall landscape at the Santa Lucia Preserve. Explore various coastal streams and creek-side trails as plants and animals prepare for winter. Learn through fun interactive games, nature art and activities. This cornucopia of adventures makes for a full vaca-tion. Instructors: Santa Lucia Conservancy Naturalists.

Ages 7-10, Monday, November 21-Wednesday, November 23 (3 days), 9 AM-2 PM (each day), Santa Lucia Conservancy Visitor Center, 26700 Rancho San Carlos Road, Carmel Valley, $90 (district resident), $99 (non-district resident).

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Shoe stays in Carmel for another year

But PG’s JVlooked good

Pacific Grove’s varsity team got on the scoreboard in the first quarter, but it was an all-Carmel game for the most part and Pacific Grove didn’t score again.

The 63rd Shoe Game between the two rivals ended with 63 points for Car-mel, and gave them their fourth straight undefeated Mission Trail Athletic League season, rivaling Pacific Grove’s one-time five-season run.

Fans braved a rainy night at Breaker Stadium to see Pacific Grove’s Junior Varsity take their game and raise hopes, but the evening ended with a Carmel victory.

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A common faultand what to do about it

I just returned from the No Calif Fall Golf Expo and had the great op-portunity to meet Masters Champion, Craig Stadler.. Craig and I were the guest speakers at the golf show. I also gave over 75 individual lessons in the PGA free lesson area and I noticed one common area that many of the players had trouble with. When many of the golfers made their back swing they pulled the club around their body in a circular motion. When the shaft of the club was behind them which is what we call a FLAT swing they were in trouble. The club face was closed when the club was so far behind them and problems can surely start from there.

Here is a good tip not to come so far behind you on your back swing. Find a wall, maybe your garage door. Stand next to the door with your back side touching the door and facing away from the door. Now make a few short back-swings and make sure you DO NOT hit the door.

It will feel like a steeper swing but it keeps the club face square. Try it.

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Impressive results for local teams, individuals in CCS champion meet

Results from Saturday’s (Nov. 12, 2011) CCS Cross Country Championships at the 2.95 mile Crystal Springs course:

The Carmel boys team advanced to state with a second place finish. Senior Sam Hales of King City advanced to the state meet with a 2nd place finish in 15:31, as did Junior Randy Sosa of Greenfield with 4th place in 15:53.

Freshman Michelle Watkins of Pacific Grove finished 9th to advance as an in-dividual with a time of 19:11, Junior Anna Wilcoxon of Stevenson also advanced to state with an 11th place finish in a time of 19:20. Also advancing to the state meet was Camille Herhusky with a 13th place finish in a time of 19:23. The Carmel girls just missed a state team berth with a 5th place team finish. Pacific Grove finished 6th in the girls and 7th in the boys. Stevenson girls finished 9th and the boys finished 6th. Sophomore Lizzy Tardieu of Santa Catalina finished 30th in 20:54.

- Steve Watkins, CoachPacific Grove High School Cross Country Team

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The main intention of Subpersonali-ties is to protect the Child. They start split-ting off from the subconscious at different ages in infancy and childhood. They help the Child develop strategies to avoid pain, and to make sure the Child’s survival will be taken care of.

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people?”If one parent is an alcoholic, the Inner

Rescuer could come forward to take care of the parent, and be nice to everybody, so that the Child’s needs still would be taken care of. “If I give enough, I’ll get my needs met.”

If one parent is very judgmental, and the other parent passive and weak, the Child has to chose which one to sympa-thize with. Either the Inner Judge will come forward saying, ”You should do better. You are not good enough.”, or the Inner Victim will come forward saying, “I can’t do anything right, poor me!”

And then, there is the Inner Rebel... If the Child’s upbringing is very rigid and limiting, it has to chose either to confirm—Mr./Ms. Together— or to rebel—Inner Rebel— against it. The Inner Rebel knows how to say “NO”, stand up for the Child, in an attempt to keep some sense of identity and freedom. If the Rebel gets stuck in saying no, she/he loses touch with a bigger picture, and even though at times when saying “YES” would be a higher choice, it is out of question.

Subpersonalities help us as children survive. Then, we grow up.

By the time we are an Adult, the Sub-personalities are so stuck in their ways, that they fail to see that our situation is entirely different now; we have inner and outer resources we didn’t have as kids, we are physically strong and capable, we have

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American Cancer Society Discovery Shop

presents “Glitter, Glamour, & Gifts”

Come share the holiday spirit with us as we combine our “Festive Fashion” event with our “Santa’s Workshop.” We will be offering a wonderland of glittering holiday decorations, glamorous clothing, and unique gift ideas. The featured clothing will keep you sparkling for the holidays and warm for the win-ter. This fundraising event will open with a Holiday Evening Gala on Friday, November 18th from 4-7pm, and continue on Saturday, Nov. 19th from 10am – 6pm.

While doing your holiday shop-ping, you can feel good about know-ing you are helping those whose lives have been touched by cancer. Your generous donations will help us take the next step in the fight against cancer by supporting research, edu-cation, advocacy, and service.

We appreciate donations, love volunteers, and treasure our custom-ers. Have a meaningful holiday season by getting involved with the American Cancer Society “with style.”

198 Country Club Gate, Pacific Grove. For more information, please call Jeanie Gould at ACS Discovery Shop at (831) 372-0866.

I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!Visual Artists & PoetsRespond to The NewsIn A Creative Collaborationof New Works

A Unique Media Exhibit: November 11, 2011 - January 13, 2012Under the direction of Pacific Grove Poet-in-ResidenceDr. Barbara Mossberg

at thePacific Grove Public Library550 Central Ave.Sponsored by the City of Pacific GrovePoet-In-Residence Program

Twenty-eight highly recognized poets and visual artists, from fourteen California Bay Area and Central Coast cities, collaborate in their creative response to the news.

Participants were selected from a national competition and paired into fourteen teams. Each team has selected one news article and has translated that story into an experience of the human heart.

The poems and visual works of these creative teams will inspire us to ask and revisit questions we hold about the role, value, and consequence of The News in our lives and our society.

Symposium/Panel DiscussionMonday, December 12, 2011 • 6 PM

at City Council Chambers300 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove

Art classes: new sessions begin at Pacific Grove Art Center

Beginning Watercolor Class with Jane Flury 9a.m.-12p.m. Thursdays at Vista Lo-bos, Carmel. Class covers the basics and will work from still life but students may work on their on projects. All skill levels welcome. 10 week session $50. Drop-ins welcome, must pay for whole session. Next session begins Dec. 8. Register through Carmel Adult School 624-1714. For information call 402-5367 or email: [email protected]

Outdoor Painting with Jane Flury- ongoing, 10a.m.-1p.m. Saturdays. Class meets at various locations around the Monterey Peninsula. All media and skill levels wel-come. Lots of instruction available. $20 drop-in fee. For more information or location schedule call 402-5367 or e-mail: [email protected]

Beginning 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 perspec-tive, shadow and line and various media. Four week session $75. Next session starts Dec. 1. Information call 402-5367 or e-mail:[email protected]

NEW! Children’s Art Classes with Jane Flury at the Lyceum, 1073-6th Ave.,

Monterey. Class covers the basics to experimental in watercolor using science based methods for mixing color. Wednesdays starting Nov.30- Dec.21, 1:30-3:30. Must pre-register at the Lyceum 372-6098

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History presents the annual family-orient-ed event, “Monarch Magic.”

At this free event, participants are in-vited to: See live monarch butterflies in all stages of their life cycle, including egg and chrysalis; Listen to live music―for kids and adults; Make monarch butterfly crafts; Get your face painted like a monarch but-terfly; Find out about current research on migrating monarchs; Purchase milkweed (monarchs’ host plants) for inland gardens

Monarch Magic will be held on Sat., Nov. 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.At the Pa-cific Grove Museum of Natural History, 165 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove. There is no cost to attend.

‘MonarchMagic’Nov. 26

Pacific Grove Art Center’s, 2011 Pa-trons’ Show Fundraiser Exhibit

This exhibit is made up entirely of donated artwork by predominantly local artists. You may purchase a ticket for the raffle of this artwork for $75 (or $50 if you are a PGAC member). Many of the pieces in the show are worth several hundred dol-lars. The person whose name is drawn first can choose from 151 pieces. The second person chooses from what remains after the first person has taken a piece and so on. Only 151 tickets will be sold to ensure everyone leaves with an original piece of

work. Beautiful work by Rollin Pickford, Shirley Holt, Mark Farina and many others may become yours.

The works are currently on exhib-it and remaining until the raffle drawing on Dec 11 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and until the drawing.

Gallery hours are Wed.-Sat. 12-5:00 p.m. and Sun. 1-4:00 p.m.

The drawing will take place at PGAC, 568 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove. The exhibit is free; the raffle tickets cost $50 for members of PGAC, or $75 for non-members. An annual membership for PGAC costs $30 for an individual.

This annual fundraiser is an enjoyable way for the community to come together and support local art, local artists and art education. All proceeds benefit the Pacific Grove Art Center and the goal to connect the community through creativity.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 20112210

The following person is doing business as RIDDELL & RIDDELL ADVERTISING, AAA PRINT PLUS, and PACIFIC GROVE DIRECTORY, 611-19th St., Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA. 93950; Craig A. Riddell and Rebecca A. Riddell, 611 19th St., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Oct. 19, 2011. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Craig A. Riddell and Rebecca Riddell. This business is conducted by a husband and wife. Publication dates: 10/28, 11/04, 11/11, 11/18/11.


The following person is doing business as THE CHOP SHOP SALON, 8071 Moss Landing Rd., Moss Land-ing, Monterey County, CA. 95039; Angelica Pelissier, 8340 Dolan Rd., Castroville, Ca 95012. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Oct. 26, 2011. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on 11/2006. Signed: Angelica Pelissier. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 10/28, 11/04, 11/11, 11/18/11.


The following person is doing business as CASTY TRUCKING, LLC, 1821 Windsor St., Salinas, Mon-terey County, CA. 93906; Casty Trucking, LLC, 1821 Windsor St., Salinas, CA 93906. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Oct. 19, 2011. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Cleofas C. Zarate, member. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Publica-tion dates: 10/28, 11/04, 11/11, 11/18/11.


The following person is doing business as Cafe Ari-ana, 543 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA. 93950; Marie Frances Favaloro, 470 Toyon Dr., Monterey, CA 93940. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Oct. 25, 2011. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Marie F. Favaloro. This busi-ness is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 10/28, 11/04, 11/11, 11/18/11.


The following person is doing business as THE MON-TEREY WELLNESS CENTER, P.O. Box 5431, Car-mel, Monterey County, CA. 93921; Katie Shain, 24210 San Pedro Lane, Carmel, CA 93923. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Oct. 10, 2011. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Katie Shain. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 11/04, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25/11.


The following person is doing business as GROVE TREASURES, 1120 Forest Ave. #111, Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA. 93950; Grove Treasures, LLC, CA, 1120 Forest Ave. #111, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Nov. 7, 2011. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on 11/7/11. Signed: Jennifer Peery, Owner/Manager. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Publication dates: 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/02/11.

Legal NoticesORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME AND GENDER:

Petition of MICHAEL JOHN BOOTONCase No. M114784 • Filed Nov. 2, 2011.

To all interested persons: Petitioner MICHAEL JOHN BOOTON filed a petition with this court for a decree chang-ing name as follows: present name MICHAEL JOHN BOOTON to proposed name EMMA BOOTON. Petitioner has also filed a petition for a decree changing petitioner's gender from male to female and for the issuance of a new birth certificate reflecting the gender and name changes. 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 should not be granted. Notice of hearing date: Dec. 16, 2011 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. TBA. 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 peti-tion in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: CEDAR STREET TIMES. DATE: Nov. 2, 2011Judge of the Superior Court: Thomas W. Wills. Publication dates: 11/04, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25/11

Mayor congratulates Jeanne ByrneEditor:

Congratulations to Jeanne Byrne for her successful win of the November 8, 2011 election to the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Board. The margin by which she won indicated that the voters in District 4 recognized her leadership and sent a clear statement for change. Jeanne will bring the common sense balance that has been lacking for years on the MPWMD so current projects can continue to move forward and expand in a timely manner to help prevent the full enforcement of the CDO.

I look forward to working with Jeanne, as we all remain focused on what lies ahead, keeping in mind what is in the best interest of the Monterey Peninsula as a whole.

Carmelita GarciaMayor, City of Pacific Grove

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Poetry and art exhibit is profoundEditor:

Everyone should experience the profound and unique media event titled, “I Read the News Today, Oh Boy” being held at the Pacific Grove Public Library through January 13, 2012.

After attending the opening reception last Sunday, I was in awe that a small town had an exhibit of such high quality and impact. It compels you to revisit it again and again. Under the direction of the extremely talented Pacific Grove Poet-in Resident, Dr. Barbara Mossberg, and sponsored by the City of Pacific Grove, the exhibit was brought to us from Benicia. Twenty-eight artists were selected from a national com-petition, then paired and asked to select and respond to one news article. The results are astounding and not to be missed!

Bonnie ClarkCarmel

It’s time to stay out after darkOK, it seemed like a pretty flimsy way to go about it,

but we were convinced it was legal and so were five of the seven members of the Pacific Grove City Council who passed an emergency ordinance to allow the dining pur-veyor at the Pt. Pinos Grill to remain open after “nautical twilight.”

To echo the sentiments of many at the meeting, if not most people in town, “It's time.”

There's only one way to find out if people who eat dinner at the golf course after dark are going to tromp on your daisies, throw up in your yard, urinate on your tires, drive their cars into the Lighthouse and generally thrash around in the cemetery, as the detractors repeatedly allege, and that's to try it out on a temporary basis. Empirical data. A grand experiment. I'm all for proving that people can behave themselves, having been raised near the golf course at Almaden Country Club.

I look forward to sitting on the deck at Pt. Pinos Grill and watching the night fall and the lights come up, holding a cup of tea after one of Dory Ford's excellent meals.

The Pacific Improvement Company deeded that prop-erty over to the City for the good of all the citizens, not just a few. As Chamber President Moe Ammar said, “Don't be intimidated. It belongs to all of us, not just those who bought or inherited property on the golf course.”

Oh, and let's not have students with flashlights escorting people to and from their cars. Let's have some real, ADA-approved lights, even if they're temporary and solar-pow-ered and have to be taken in each night to keep people from stealing them, the way they did the flowers in the butterfly sanctuary. But that's another subject for another editorial.

– Marge Ann Jameson


The Green Page

By Peter Mounteer

Is water recycling a better option for the peninsula than regional desal? The folks at the Monterey Regional Water Pol-lution Control Agency (MRWPCA) seem to think so. Now more than ever, the penin-sula faces an unprecedented water supply crisis, facilitated in part by a cease and desist order leveled on California Ameri-can Water (Cal Am) by the California State Water Resources Control Board, ordering the company to reduce pumping from the Carmel River to 30 percent of the current level by the year 2016. This mandate has forced Cal Am to find alternative sources of water to maintain its current water out-put, and meet the peninsula’s water needs, which amounts to “10 million gallons of fresh water every day” according to Keith Israel, General Manager of the MRWPCA.

Recently, RBF Consulting and Cal Am produced 11 water supply alternatives to explore the best option for meeting the peninsula’s needs without having to depend on the Carmel River.

The current favored project, alter-native #1, is called the Regional Water Supply Project, and is centered solely on a proposed 10 million gallons per day desalinization plant, based in Marina, to serve the Monterey Peninsula’s water supply needs. The plant would extract sea water from Monterey Bay and remove the salt, and other compounds, to make the water drinkable.

Current estimates place the cost of the

Option #2

Recycling water to meet Peninsula needsproject at a total of $404 million, according to the project website, which also states that the cost of building the desaliniza-tion plant alone would total $134 million dollars.

Alternative #2 includes a lower capac-ity (6.5 million gallons per day) desaliniza-tion plant coupled with the Ground Water Replenishment Project (GWR), an option designed to recharge the Seaside Aquifer using recycled water. That’s right, recycled water. The cost of GWR alone would total $144 million at the most, and $104 million at the least, with construction costs rang-ing from only $40-$60 million. Add the low capacity desal plant and the total cost of alternative #2 comes to $316 million, according to a study conducted by RBF Consulting.

But what about recycled water? What is it?

Water recycling is the process of taking wastewater and recycling it into potable water, suitable for drinking. If that sounds disgusting, don’t turn the page yet. Water recycling has been providing astro-nauts on the International Space Station with drinking water for the last decade. It’s also been done on the regional level in Orange County since 1976. If that’s not good enough for you, recycled water from the MRWPCA has been irrigating crops in the Salinas Valley since 1998, and the farmers there depend on that recycled water for 60 percent of their total water usage. “We’ve provided over 53 billion gallons of recycled water to [farmers in the Salinas Valley].” Israel commented. “That’s 53 billion gallons not taken out of the ground. Safety is our number one priority and many of our customers feel more comfortable with our water rather than their own wells.”

But how safe is it? Currently, all of the peninsula’s waste-

water is transported to MRWPCA’s Marina recycling facility 12 months a year. The facility treats the water on three levels, using multiple filters, microbial digesters, trickling filters and bioflocculation basins to eliminate any solids, and aeration and chlorine gas to disinfect the final product. Under the Groundwater Replenishment Project, the current treatment plant would treat that already disinfected water with three additional levels of treatment, before sending it to recharge the Seaside Aquifer.

Currently, for eight months out of

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From top left: These grey buildings house wastewater clarifiers, which filters the incoming wastewater gravi-tationally, allowing solids to sink to the bottom leaving the liquid on top. This is the first level of treatment. Natural methane gas released during this process is burned as a fuel source to power certain sections of the plant. The liquid product is then transported to the secondary clarifiers.Secondary Clarifiers: The treatment plant contains six of these secondary water clarifiers, which uses mechanical filtration and natural microorganisms to further purify the water. This comprises the second level of treatment.Chlorination Tanks: The water treated on two levels (secondary effluent) is transported to the chlorination tanks where it spends two hours being aer-ated by chlorine gas to disinfect the product.Chlorination Filter Room: Within these pipe flows disinfected chlorinated wa-ter, which is forced through sand filters to filter out any remaining solids that may still be present in the water. This and the two hour chlorination process comprise the third level of treatment.

Right, top: Every winter, this valve is opened and approximately 8,000 acre feet (approx. 2.6 billion gallons) of secondary effluent water is pumped into the Monterey Bay from a pipe two miles out to sea and 100 feet below the surface. Right, bottom: This holding site is ca-pable of storing 20 million gallons of water. It holds the disinfected water for up to two months before being pumped to Salinas Valley.

The Green PagePage 16 • CEDAR STREET Times • November 18, 2011

Monarch Alert’s Monarch CountMore than 12,000 monarchs at the SanctuaryCounts are up all over the region

It really is a great year for the monarchs, and we haven’t even reached the peak yet! Erica Krygsman (Monarch Alert Field Coordinator for Monterey County) conducted this week’s monarch counts with the assistance of volunteer Kelly Surgalski on November 9 and 10.

Erica reports that on Wednesday, temperatures were warm and skies were clear with light winds; on Thursday, temperatures were warm with calm winds and mostly cloudy skies. The average number of monarchs counted at the Pacific Grove sanctuary was 12,460.

The average number of monarchs counted at Andrew Molera State Park was 4,025 and at the private property site in Big Sur was 8,539. The only other site with clusters found was the southernmost site, Plaskett Creek Campground with an average of 287 monarchs counted. Thanks to Kelly for volunteering this week, next counts are scheduled for November 18 and 19.

The Monarch Alert website is updated with the latest numbers: http://mo-narchalert.calpoly.edu/html/current_trends.html

– Jessica Griffiths

Monarch Alert is funded in Monterey County in large part by Helen Johnson. To learn more, visit ClogBusters.org or call 831-648-5722Funded by the City of Pacific GroveTo learn more, visit ClogBusters.org or call 831-648-5722To learn more, visit ClogBusters.org or call 831-648-5722

These belong in the TRASH:Cleaning Wipes • Grease • Condoms

Disposable Diapers, Nursing Pads & Baby WipesHair • Facial Wipes • Tampons & Pads • Dental Floss

Disposable wipes and other products areclogging our sewer lines and damaging

pumps and other equipment.

Not only are these problems expensive to fix, they can also cause raw sewage overflows into homes, businessesand the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Monterey Bay during the winter months. According to Keith Israel, the “eventual goal with GWR is to reduce ocean dis-charge by 100 percent,” not because that discharge is environmentally harmful, but because it “could be easily recycled, so why waste it?” Israel said. “Let’s apply it to the peninsula.”

Logistically speaking, recharging the Seaside aquifer with this water would keep the existing treatment facilities operating all three levels of treatment year round. An additional three facilities would be added to the current wastewater treatment plant. Those additions would be responsible for another three levels of treatment, for a total of six levels of treatment, to further purify the water before it’s sent to recharge the aquifer, and distributed to the peninsula via Cal Am. Under this project, the aquifer would only be recharged during the winter months, when the water recycling plant is not serving farmers in Salinas Valley, so the MRWPCA’s new facilities would only operate in winter time.

Those new facilities would include (1) a micro-filtration building to filter out any-thing bigger than, and including, bacteria; (2) a reverse osmosis chamber to eliminate viruses, pharmaceuticals and salts; and (3) a system that treats the water with ultravio-let light and hydrogen peroxide to break down any remaining organic compounds that may still be present in the water. After six levels of treatment, the water would be “near distilled” quality, more than safe enough for drinking.

All of that simply concerns the Groundwater Replenishment Project as-pect of Cal Am’s alternative #2. Alterna-tive #2 also involves a 6.5 million gallons per day desalinization plant in Marina, to be coupled with the Groundwater Replen-ishment Project. According to that study by RBF Consulting, the capital cost of Alternative #2 is $316 million, meaning that with the total costs of Ground Water Replenishment ranging from $104-$144 million, building the lower capacity Marina desal plant could cost anywhere between $172-$212 million.

But why bother with water recycling 4 months out of the year plus a smaller desal

plant if Alternative #1 includes a bigger desal plant anyway?

According to Keith Israel, there are a number of reasons. “[Regional] desal should be considered a last resort,” Israel commented. “It should be considered only after water recycling and conservation ef-forts fail to work.” Israel stated further that Groundwater Replenishment uses “half the energy of [regional] desal,” therefore making Groundwater Replenishment and a Marina desal plant (Alternative #2) a more energy efficient option than a regional desal plant (Alternative #1).

The Groundwater Replenishment Project is due to be completed no matter what alternative Cal Am selects, according to Israel, simply because Cal Am and the MRWPCA are two separate entities work-ing with the same commodity. “We think it [Groundwater Replenishment] is a good environmental option, safety is our num-ber one priority and we have an excellent track record with operating our [current] treatment plant and we’re cost effective.”

Would the peninsula’s water bills be effected?

Keith Israel stated that “any new wa-ter source would affect water bills anyway. Water bills may double no matter what happens.” Therefore, the state’s mandate to Cal Am to find a new water source may mean higher water bills anyway. Israel further commented that water rationing may continue depending on when a given project is completed.

Israel estimates that the Groundwater Replenishment Project could be online as early as January of 2017. RBF Consult-ing estimated that alternative #2 could be completed as early as July 2017. Similarly, according to RBF Consulting’s study, al-ternative #1 could be completely as early as October 2016.

These two options represent the two fastest solutions that Cal Am has to work with for meeting the peninsula’s water supply needs by the 2016 deadline. It is unclear what will happen if Cal Am does not meet that deadline in time. In any event, a resolution to the water crisis is currently underway, exactly how it will play out remains to be seen.

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every year, all of that recycled water is piped to the Salinas Valley to irrigate crops. In the winter, the farmers have no need for that water because they are not planting, growing or harvesting, so the treatment plant shuts down the chlorina-tion and sand filtering part of the facility and opens a valve, where 8,000 acre feet of water--approximately 2.6 billion gallons--being treated on two levels is piped into

the Monterey Bay, with permission from the State of California.

So where does meeting the penin-sula’s water needs fit into all of this? The proposed Ground Water Replenishment Project (GWR), designed to recharge the Seaside aquifer, will initially use 2,700 acre feet (879.8 million gallons) of the 2.6 billion gallons of recycled water that would otherwise be discharged into the

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