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Film: “Faith Against Fracking” Incl. Film Interview w/ Anthony Ingraffea Robert Down Elementary Free • 7-9 PM •

Sun. Sept. 18

Celtic Session at Asilomar on the deck or inside Phoebe Hearst Social Hall if wet or cold 1-3 PM • Free

• Sun. Sept. 25

BirchBARK 911 Pet Health Festival 11am to 3pm Carmel Middle School 4380 Carmel Valley Rd, Carmel Free birchbarkfoundation.org Bunny Tavares - (831) 462-6004

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Pacific Groove Dance Jam Chautauqua Hall 8-10 PM Dance to DJs Adults $10/Teens $5 Youth Free • 1st Time Free info@dancejampg.org •

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Sept, 16-22, 2016

• Oct. 1 and 2

Steinbeck & Ricketts Guided Tour with PG Heritage www.pacificgroveheritage.org

• Sun. Oct. 2

Piano And All That JAZZ !

Concert 1:30 PM $10 admission Center For Spiritual Awakening 522 Central Ave. PG michaelmartinezmusic.com 831 372-1942 •

Sat. November 5

Friends of the P. G. Library *Book Sale* Pacific Grove Library porch Plenty of bargains in all genres!

10:00 - 4:00

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Inside Animal Tales & Other Random Thoughts................. 8 Cartoon.........................................Dark Cop Log.............................................. 5 Homeless in Paradise........................ 22 Keepers of Our Culture..................... 12 Legal Notices.................................... 19 Opinion............................................ 19 Otter Views......................................... 9 Rain Gauges....................................... 2 Real Estate.............................. 5, 17, 24 Self Discovery.................................. 18 Sports ........................................ 20, 21 Wine Wanderings............................... 9

Steinbeck and Ricketts’ Pacific Grove

By Dixie Layne

• Wed. Sept. 28

Sat. October 1

Vol. VIII, Issue 50

Heritage Society Tour Upcoming

12-3pm Public is invited to an Open House Gateway Center of Monterey County 850 Congress Ave Pacific Grove

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Your Community NEWSpaper

Mayoral and Council Candidates Meet at Forum

Sat. Sept. 24

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By Dixie Layne

It is safe to say that John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts are seldom, if ever, associated with Pacific Grove. Adjacent to its more famous neighbors, Carmel-by-the-Sea and Monterey on the Bay, this small central coast city located on the tip of the Monterey Peninsula is more apt to evoke images of Victorian homes, a spectacular rocky shoreline, and a downtown of quaint shops and restaurants – and not images of either of its more famous residents.

John Ernst Steinbeck is most often associated closely with Salinas, the place he lived until, at age 17, he left Salinas to attend Stanford University. Or he is associated with Monterey, where he lived but for a few scant months but it is the place where he found some of his most memorable characters for his stories.

But Pacific Grove was his muse. Pacific Grove is where his

It was standing room only for the citizenry of Pacific Grove when they gathered September 8 for the Candidates Forum, presented by Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce. Moe Ammar introduced the moderator of Thursday evening’s Forum from the League of Women Voters, who in turn explained the agenda for the evening’s event and introduced the Pacific Grove Mayoral candidates.

Mayor Bill Kampe and Councilmember Dan Miller were the first to take their seats center stage. After they introduced themselves, the moderator presented questions that were submitted by the audience to the candidates. The questions ran the gamut from the standard inquiries as to where the City stands with CalPERS and how might the City best raise revenue for its ongoing and ever increasing costs of operation to questions on such current topics as Short Term Rentals and Airbnb; Measure Z and Fracking; Admission Tax and Measure P. Each candidate was provided the opportunity to define their position on each of the various topics presented – highlighting their positions to be distinctly different on many of the questions presented to them, thus giving the electorate a real choice to make November 8.

Next up were the six council candidates, who are vying for three open seats on the City Council. They are, in alphabetical order: past PG councilman Alan CohEn, community volunteer Cynthia Garfield, incumbent Robert Huitt, aerospace engineer Andrew Kubica, PG native Jenny McAdams, and attorney Nick Smith. After the candidates introduced themselves, they were presented with a similar set of questions as the mayoral candidates. The candidates expressed a wide range of opinions and solutions to the issues facing the next City Council, leaving the citizenry with real choices on the direction they would like to see charted for Pacific Grove.

Do you recognize these people and where this picture was After closing statements were made by all candidates, the general taken? (Pat Hathaway Collection) feeling expressed by the audience was Pacific Grove is fortunate to have such a talented pool of candidates to select their next mayor father built a small cottage as a family summer retreat and it is where ,from the age of 6, Steinbeck spent his summers and holidays. Paand council. cific Grove is arguably where he enjoyed his most prolific writing period, celebrated life’s triumphs and mourned its losses, developed Mayoral an ardent interest in the natural world and diverse cultures, met his candifriend Ed Flanders Ricketts, and the place he felt most at home. dates He explained those feeling when he wrote about his cottage on Dan Miller 11th Street to his friend and publisher, explaining it was “a good (left) way-stopping place and a good one to come back to – often”. and Bill Ed Flanders Robb Ricketts was born in Chicago and where he Kampe went to school to study marine biology. He moved to Pacific Grove with his bride Nancy Marker and young son, Ed Ricketts Jr. in 1923.

His University classmate and business partner, Albert Galigher, had only moved to Pacific Grove months earlier, and it was in Pacific Grove where they opened a marine biological laboratory business.

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Ricketts lived in Pacific Grove and worked on Fountain Avenue until the City wanted to tear down the building in which his lab was located. It was in Pacific Grove where he conducted his research, collected specimens from the tide pools, developed his cataloguing system, raised his family, and met John Steinbeck. His parents and sister left Chicago to join him in Pacific Grove where perhaps the Great Depression wasn’t so harsh. His father worked in Ricketts lab as an assistant and his sister as his secretary.

Pacific Grove was his home.

Steinbeck and Ricketts shared a friendship and passion for the natural world and it was in Pacific Grove where they devised their legendary scientific expedition aboard the Western Flyer to the Sea of Cortez. It was also in Pacific Grove where they collaborated on their book about the scientific findings from their expedition to Mexico.

The Heritage Society of Pacific Grove will host 90-minute bus tours of Steinbeck and Ricketts’ Pacific Grove. This tour of Pacific Grove will tell the story of Steinbeck and Ricketts’ Pacific Grove from the time Ricketts arrived here in 1923 and Steinbeck returned in 1930 to Ricketts death in 1948 and Steinbeck’s final move to New York in 1954. This is a tour of the Pacific Grove that John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts shared.

The tour will run on Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2. Tickets are available on Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Heritage Society Barn located at 605 Laurel Avenue. Additional information and tickets are also available on their website www.pacificgroveheritage.org

Recognize this part of 1939 Pacific Grove? See anything familiar? (Pat Hathaway Collection)

Sea Otter Awareness Week

Often seen as the mascots of Monterey Bay, sea otters are a common site for those meandering along the seashore, whether you’re doing so in Santa Cruz or Pebble Beach. Beginning Sunday, September 18th, The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History and many other organizations will celebrate Sea Otter Awareness Week with activities, educational opportunities and more.

The Museum has two events in store for Sea Otter Week, beginning with a lecture on Thursday, September 22nd, at 7 p.m. Join Dr. James Estes, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Cruz, for a lecture based on his recently published book, “Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature.” Cost for the lecture is $5 and free for Museum members.

Two days later, the Museum’s celebration of Sea Otter Week continues with Science Saturday: Sea Otters and Friends on Saturday, September 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This free, family event includes a number of activities designed to show just how important otters and their friends are to Monterey Bay. Do you know what began in this modest building? (The Heritage Society collection)

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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 306 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950.

Press deadline is Wednesday, noon. The paper is distributed on Friday and is available at various locations throughout the county as well as by e-mail subscription.

Editor/Publisher: Marge Ann Jameson Regular Contributors: Jan Austin • Mike Clancy • Scott Dick • Rabia Erduman • Ron Gaasch • Ivan Garcia • Kyle Krasa • Dixie Layne • Travis Long • Jim Moser • Peter Mounteer • Wanda Sue Parrott • Jean Prock • Jane Roland • Katie Shain • Bob Silverman • Peter Silzer • Joan Skillman • Tom Stevens Intern: Ryan Nelson • Ella Foster Distribution: Debbie Birch, Amado Gonzales Cedar Street Irregulars Bella G, Ben, Benjamin, Coleman, Dezi, Elijah, Francesca, Jesse, John, Kai, Kyle, Jacob, Josh, Josh, Leo, Luca, Maddelena, Nathan, Tom

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Week ending 09-08-16 at 8:35 AM....... 0.00" Total for the season................................. .35" The historic average to this date is ........N/A" Wettest year.................................................. 47.15" During rain year 07-01-97 through 06-30-98 Driest year.................................................... 4.013" During rain year 07-01-12 through 06-30-13 RAINFALL SEASON BEGINS JULY 1 EACH YEAR

Near Lovers Point Data reported by John Munch at 18th St.

Week ending 09/15/16........................ 0.02" Total for the season (since 7/1/16)........ 0.23" Last week low temperature..................53.7 F Last week high temperature.................71.6 F Last year rain to date (7/1/15-9/08/15)......... 0.30”

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In Case You Missed it in the City Newsletter: No more Chalk Marks

(But probably lots more tickets) The Pacific Grove Police Department implemented a new parking software program, to include a new parking citation processing vendor (TurboData), and new handheld ticketing devices. The new handhelds are actually smart phones that allow enforcement officers to take photographs, add notations, set reminders for timed route areas, connect to a wireless printer, and instantly sync to the new web-based software program. In addition, citizens can pay tickets online, as well as request administrative reviews at: www.pticket. com/pg.

Apparently, so can tourists, even if they’re not citizens! We hope you can work, shop, and dine in two-hour stretches.

Lighthouse needs you

Become a volunteer docent at the historic Point Pinos Lighthouse, 80 Asilomar Blvd. in Pacific Grove. Training is arranged during lighthouse hours, Thursday through Monday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

If you are interested, please leave a message at 831-648-3176.

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Honoring and Thanking Our First Responders on 9-11

Employees from the PG Lucky store visited the Pacific Grove firehouse and police station, next door to each other on Pine Avenue, to honor the first responders who keep us safe and put their own lives and safety on the line for us daily, on the 15th anniversary of 9/11. No sooner had they assembled for the photo than the firefighters had an emergency call. Later in the day, the crew was gathered with AMR duty people. Back row, L-R, are AMR crewmember

Whitney McGovern, Lucky Store’s Dorothy Peck, Capt. Jeff Heyn, FF Dave Meurer, Lucky Store’s Leeanne Hughes and Elizabeth Kaiser, and FF Ken Hutchinson. Kneeling are AMR crewmember John Zurliene and Lucky Store’s Janet Hall. A similar scene played out at the police station, where officers were out on patrol when the tribute arrived. Representing their fellow officers (and dare we say eating all the goodies?) were Cpl. Ami Lonsinger and Stephanie Maniscalco. Staff photos.

Annual Coastal Cleanup Day targets 80 beach and waterway sites Save Our Shores Looks to Volunteers Sept. 17

Annual Coastal Cleanup Day is the world’s largest volunteer effort for the ocean. Every year, hundreds of thousands of volunteers remove millions of pounds of trash from beaches across the globe. Here along California’s Central Coast, marine conservation nonprofit, Save Our Shores (SOS), coordinates one of the state’s largest volunteer efforts. The nonprofit is leading nearly 80 beach, river, and inland cleanup sites—stretching more than 85 miles of coastline from Waddell Creek Beach in Northern Santa Cruz County to the Big Sur Coast in Monterey County. Annual Coastal Cleanup is a one-day event on Saturday, September 17 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Volunteers are needed: saveourshores.org/acc Save Our Shores’ 32nd Annual Coastal Cleanup Day is exclusively run by volunteers and partners who are invested in keeping their local marine environment healthy. Last year, nearly 3,300 volunteers prevented 8.2 tons of trash from entering the ocean and harming marine wildlife.

Among the waste collected: cigarette butts, plastic bags, food wrappers, cans, bottles, as well as mattresses, refrigerators, and tires. This year, Save Our Shores is looking to increase their volunteer participation and remove even more waste from the central coast.

Getting involved is easy and free. Go to saveourshores.org/acc for volunteer pre-registration and select a beach or waterway to help clean in Santa Cruz or Monterey County. The rest of the day is reserved for relaxing with family and friends, soaking up the sun, and getting rewarded with free food and prizes.

What’s New? For the first time in Save Our Shores’ 38-year history, the nonprofit will be unveiling a revolutionary cleanup app designed by Santa Cruz local and pro bono Technical Consultant for nonprofits, Keith Gudger. The ‘Save Our Shores’ app is designed to take the place of traditional data collection cards, improve volunteer data entry experience, reduce paper waste, improve database efficiency, and offer incentives for beachgoers that organize impromptu beach cleanups.

Trash data collection from beach, river, and inland cleanups are important and valuable. The work volunteers and community members put in helps track the type of trash harming our ocean. This data is used by SOS to inform marine related policy, education, and science across the Central Coast of California.

The nonprofit’s app will remember users and the cleanup work they’ve put in.

Now, volunteers will be able to track and compare their efforts on the nonprofit’s online Shore Saving Leaderboard. Leaders in each cleanup category will be entered to win awesome prizes!

There Are Prizes!

Lead-up prizes from Patagonia, REI, ChicoBag, BottlesUp, This Tiny Ocean, Earthwise, and more will be announced every day until Saturday the 17th on SOS social media platforms starting on Sept 10th. The prizes are a part of the nonprofit’s 7-day-away-giveaway to increase volunteer pre-registration numbers.

Larger prizes from Patagonia will be awarded to leaders of “Save Our Shores” app entry users after Annual Coastal Cleanup. Prize categories include: (1) most cigarette butts collected; (2) most trash weight collected at a beach site; (3) most trash weight collected at a river site; (4) most trash weight collected at an inland site; and (5) most collected of a single trash item.

Beach, River, and Inland Cleanups are Important Because Wildlife Health: Trash negatively impacts Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary is home to 29 MPAs! These delicate sanctuary zones are essential for the development and protection of marine ecosystems.

MPAs increase fish sizes and population, reduce overfishing, restore marine habitats, support marine diversity, and improve the overall health of coastal ecosystems that sustain life. Remember, trash knows no boundaries. Humans are the only ones that can prevent waste from entering our ocean.

Economic Health: If a beach gains the reputation of being dirty, fewer people will visit it. Lower visitation significantly reduces the amount of money visitors spend at beach communities. The cost of coastal waste management is very expensive. NOAA recently published a study estimating that Orange County could save $67 million alone if they reduced the amount of trash on their beaches by 50 percent! Ever wonder what the counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz could save?

Coastal tourism is number one in Santa Cruz County.

Community Health: The health of a community is largely social and environmental. The more healthy a local environment is, the more its people engage in social and physical activities. When a community is more active, they’re more likely to have better mental, physical, and emotional health. Save Our Shores Annual Coastal Cleanup is designed to bring communities together to actively participate in improving their local environment. SOS is here to benefit every Central Coastal community.

Social Media Fun! Save Our Shores asks all volunteers to share their experience in real-time on social media using the hashtags: #saveourshores and #coastalcleanup. Remember to tag locations! For those not on social media, please share your photos with SOS via photos@saveourshores.org Sponsors and Partners Save Our Shores 32nd Annual Coastal Cleanup is supported by County of Santa Cruz Department of Public Works, New Leaf Community Markets, the California Coastal Commission, the City of Santa Cruz, the City of Watsonville, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, the Resources Legacy Fund, the Community Foundation of Monterey County, Greenwaste Recovery Inc, Whole Foods, Staff of Life, Driscoll’s, PG&E, Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems, Monterey Regional Waste Management System, Waste Management, Patagonia, California State Park Foundation, KSCO 1080 am news/talk radio, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Suggested Caption: Family of Save Our Shores' Annual Coastal Cleanup volunteers pick up trash at Del Monte Beach in Monterey County. SOS photo.

September 16, 2016 • CEDAR STREET

Marge Ann Jameson

Cop Log Allegation not tomato-based A woman reported her soon-to-be ex was in violation of a restraining order by leaving tomato-based food out in order to make her sick. Officers said the allegation was unfounded.

Reporting party grilled Boyfriend and girlfriend were reported to be arguing. Male was leaving when police arrived and girlfriend refused to answer the door. A grill was found thrown on the ground outside.

Alarm activation Chestnut St. Residence secure.

Not my beer Two parties were contacted about sleeping on the ground by a bus stop with open containers of beer. Party One said it wasn’t his beer, Party Two claimed one of the cans. Both were cited.

Loud music, not loud music Someone complained about loud busic coming from a business on Lighthouse.

Officer could hear it upon arrival but when contacted by the officer, there was no music playing.

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Gee, I don’t smell any marijuana Party stopped for running a stop sign at Funston and Patterson. The smell of marijuana was coming from the car so it was searched. Hyrodrocodone was found. Subject said he had a medical marijuana card and that the drugs belonged to his girlfriend.

Nonetheless, he was cited for failure to stop at a controlled intersection.

Fighting in public Two men were fighting in public on Forest. Passersby separated them, One of the parties took a posture as if he was going to attack the officer so he got his bad self tased and cited for battery, fighting in a public place, and obstructing an officer.

Drug paraphernalia found in tree A backpack containing marijuana, hash oil, a rubber cali vape container, a butane torch, a cigarette lighter, two plungers, a pipe, a container of ice breakers, and a Tupperware box containing a blue latex glove and a rolled piece of paper was found hanging in a tree overhanging property on Wood St. Maybe he wanted his rolled piece of paper back A juvenile turned up later in the day and demanded return of his back pack. Because of the juvenile’s demeanor and the circumstances the police were called.

Lost & Found A backpack with a tie and a cloth belt in it (but no drugs) A wallet on Forest Two drivers licenses at the library A cell phone on Cedar St. An ID on Forest Ave.

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Programs at the Library

For more information call 648-5760.

Tuesday, Sept. 20 • 11:00 am Pre-School stories at the Pacific Grove Library, ages 2-5

Center for Spiritual Awakening

• Wednesday, Sept. 21 • 3:45 pm Wacky Wednesday Stories: stories, science and crafts for all ages • Thursday, Sept. 22 • 11:00 am Baby Rhyme Time: rhymes, songs and stories for babies, birth - 24 months.

522 Central Ave. • 831-372-1942

Central Presbyterian Church of Pacific Grove 325 Central Ave. • 831-375-7207

Chabad of Monterey

620 Lighthouse Ave., Entrance on 18th • 831-643-2770

Christian Church Disciples of Christ of Pacific Grove 442 Central Ave. • 831-372-0363

Church of Christ

176 Central Ave. • 831-375-3741

Community Baptist Church

Monterey & Pine Avenues • 831-375-4311

First Baptist Church of Pacific Grove 246 Laurel Ave. • 831-373-0741

Chautauqua Hall Dance Club

Dance lesson by Sera & Richard: Ballroom Tango, Part 3 Sat., Sept 17 6PM Chautauqua Hall, 16th St At Central Ave Pacific Grove Cost: $10 for non-members, $5 for members. Annual membership fee is $10.

Contact: Sera Hirasuna, 831-262-0653 For more information, go to: pgdance.org/index.html or Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PGDANCE/ Chautauqua Hall Dance Club, a non-profit founded in 1926, is dedicated to making dance accessible to everyone. We offer dance classes in over 20 kinds of ballroom, nightclub and specialty dances so that everyone can share in the joy in partnered social dance. No partner needed. Kids 13 and under free with an adult.

First Church of God

1023 David Ave. • 831-372-5005

First United Methodist Church of Pacific Grove Worship: Sundays 10:00 a.m.

915 Sunset @ 17-Mile Dr. • 831-372-5875

Forest Hill United Methodist Church Services 9 a.m. Sundays 551 Gibson Ave. • 831-372-7956

Jehovah’s Witnesses of Pacific Grove 1100 Sunset Drive • 831-375-2138

Lighthouse Fellowship of Pacific Grove

PG Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave. • 831-333-0636

Manjushri Dharma Center

724 Forest Ave. • 831-917-3969 www.khenpokarten.org • carmelkhenpo@gmail.com

Mayflower Presbyterian Church 141 14th St. • 831-373-4705

Peninsula Baptist Church

1116 Funston Ave. • 831-394-5712

Peninsula Christian Center 520 Pine Ave. • 831-373-0431

St. Angela Merici Catholic Church 146 8th St. • 831-655-4160

St. Anselm’s Anglican Church

Sundays 9:30 a.m.

375 Lighthouse Ave. • 831-920-1620 Fr. Michael Bowhay

St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church Central Avenue & 12 th St. • 831-373-4441

Seventh-Day Adventist Church of the Monterey Peninsula 375 Lighthouse Ave. • 831-372-7818

Shoreline Community Church

Sunday Service 10 a.m.

Robert Down Elementary, 485 Pine Ave. • 831-655-0100 www.shorelinechurch.org

OUTSIDE PACIFIC GROVE Bethlehem Lutheran Church

800 Cass St., Monterey • 831-373-1523 Pastor Bart Rall

Congregation Beth Israel

5716 Carmel Valley Rd., Carmel • 831-624-2015

Monterey Center for Spiritual Living

Sunday Service 10:30 am 400 West Franklin St., Monterey • 831-372-7326 www.montereycsl.org

Gentrain Society Lectures

The Gentrain Society of Monterey Peninsula College is sponsoring these free public lectures in September and October, 2016. For lengthier descriptions and illustrations for these talks please see the Gentrain website.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Gentrain Society Lecture: Monterey Area Architectural Resources Archive Monterey Peninsula College Lecture Forum 103 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Free; MPC Parking $2.00 Information: www.gentrain.org ; info@gentrain.org ; 372-0895 Rick Janick and Kent Seavey are working to preserve the Monterey Peninsula’s significant design heritage and architectural history. They are gathering architects’ drawings, photographs, blueprints and correspondence for a local archive now in its early inception, and called the Monterey Area Architectural Resources Archive (MAARA).

The Archive also houses audio tapes, personal papers, business records, furniture, art, and artifacts. With nearly 100 collections, MAARA provides primary source material for scholarly research, teaching support, architectural uses, preservation, publications, exhibitions, and public service. Art and architecture historian and former MPC instructor Rick Janick was instrumental in the early days of the MPC Gentrain lifelong learning classes. Kent Seavey, former curator of the California Historical Society and former director of the Carmel Museum of Art, is now a historic preservation consultant.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 Gentrain Society Lecture: Salvador Dali in the Monterey Peninsula Monterey Peninsula College Lecture Forum 103 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Free; MPC Parking $2.00 Information: www.gentrain.org ; info@gentrain.org ; 372-0895 Hilary Roberts will speak on the recently opened Dali17 Museum, where she is Art & Exhibit Coordinator. Dali17 is a permanent exhibition of art (including original etchings, mixed media, lithographs, and rare sculptures) by one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated surrealist artists, Spaniard Salvador Dali. Dali17 is the first permanent Dali exhibition on the West Coast, and the largest private collection on exhibit in the United States. Monterey was the only place outside of Spain where Salvador Dali lived and painted in the 1940s. Dali and his wife Gala stayed at the Hotel Del Monte in 1941 and 1942, and when the Navy took over during WWII they were moved to Cottage Row at the Del Monte Lodge, now the Lodge at Pebble Beach, where they stayed from 1943 to 1948. The Dali17 showcases his influence locally and the history that ties him to the Monterey region.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Gentrain Society Lecture: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Monterey Monterey Peninsula College Lecture Forum 103 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Free; MPC Parking $2.00 Information: www.gentrain.org ; info@gentrain.org ; 372-0895 Actor and playwright Keith Decker will present “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Monterey,” a slide-illustrated talk on the celebrated author’s time in Monterey during an historically pivotal moment. Chris Quist (Monterey Historic State Parks) has recently discovered images from turn-of-the-century Monterey, which Decker plans to show along with some interjected essays and related materials from Stevenson’s three months in Monterey. Decker is an avid Stevenson aficionado and past president of the RLS Club of Monterey. Decker states of Stevenson, “His time here was so brief, yet this time figured prominently in his career and memory.”

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Lyceum Offers Three New classes in the Arts

The Lyceum still has a few spots left in the upcoming class called “Pocket Sketching And Nature Journaling.” This class is open to ages 12 - Adult, and is a great opportunity for parents to take a class with their child and learn something new together.

The class is an introduction to field sketching and journaling using minimal materials. We’ll venture outdoors to sketch plants, insects and the nearby natural world.

Connect nature, art and science.

All skill levels welcome.

Ages 12 to Adult Two Sundays - Sept 18 & 25 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Instructor: Sharon Nelson Fee: $60 Limited to 8 students Students will use magnifying glasses to see the intricate detail of leaves and then create loose renderings.

Watercolor and color pencil techniques will then be explained and applied. Masking methods and splatter techniques will provide the control and fun. Bring your own favorite leaves or use ours!

Date: Saturday, Oct 8, 2016 Hours: 3:00 - 5:00pm Ages: 8 - 12 Size: Limited to 8 students Instructor: Julie Heilman Fee: $25.00 (includes materials) Questions? Call us at 831-372-6098 or email general@lyceum.org.

Batik

Batik is the ancient decorative art of creating designs on fabric using dyes along with a "resist", such as melted bees wax. The oldest known examples are on silk screens in Japan, from the Sui Dynasty (AD 581-618). Today, batik is mostly associated with Indonesia, which maintains a vibrant culture of batik producers.

In this workshop, the student will learn how to use traditional batik dying methods to create a contemporary, personalized work of art on cotton cloth. The workshop will focus on the following skill building processes: Focus on simple designs that exploit the spontaneous and organic nature of batik.

Learn the essential ordering of building the design from lightest to darkest color.

Build your individual style with the use of color and the unique effects available to you with this ancient decorative method.

Ages: 12 - Adult Dates: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 Hours: 10:30am - 3:30pm Location: The Lyceum Instructor: Kate Warthen Class Size: Limited to 8 Students Fee: $50 (materials included)

Preschool still has space for new students this fall

College Essay Workshop at Harrison Memorial Library

Join us for a free College Essay Workshop on Tuesday, Sept. 20 from 6-7 p.m. at the Harrison Memorial Library on Ocean and Lincoln in Carmel. Many great kids write average college essays—essays about “life lessons learned from football” or “how my trip to Europe broadened my cultural horizons.” Better tales are there for the writing. This workshop will show you what admissions officers really look for in great college essays, and offer suggestions for finding and sharing your best stories. Marisela Gomez from Collegwise will also discuss how to approach the new UC insight questions.

Poetry in the Grove: Meeting on Oct. 1

We will read William Stafford’s poetry when we meet on Oct. 1, 2016. This Midwest farm boy speaks of life with a succinct and gentle voice. Delightful reading for a Saturday afternoon together. Please see the attached flyer for more information about the October 1 gathering.

How These Words Happen In winter, in the dark hours, when others were asleep, I found these words and put them together by their appetites and respect for each other. In stillness, they jostled. They traded meanings while pretending to have only one.

Monstrous alliances never dreamed of before began. Sometimes they lost. Never again do they separate in this world. They are together. They have a fidelity that no purpose of pretense can ever break.

And all of this happens like magic to the words in those dark hours when others sleep.

From The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems by William Stafford PLANNING AHEAD: When we meet on Nov. 5, Laura Cooper will guide us in a “poetry dive” and interactive workshop on learning poems by heart. As always, there is no charge for participating in Poetry in the Grove. Donations for the Pacific Grove Library gratefully accepted.

Lecture on Mexican Era in Alta California, Monterey

Join historian and City of Monterey’s Museums, Cultural Arts, and Archives Manager, Dennis Copeland, for a slide-illustrated lecture on the Mexican era in the Alta California capital at Monterey, on Saturday, September 24, 1 p.m. This program “When We Were Mexico; A Frontier Province and Its Capital - Monterey” is part of “The Big Read” project, in cooperation with The National Steinbeck Center. The book being read widely read in the community is Sun, Stone, and Shadows; 20 Great Mexican Short Stories

by Jorge F. Hernandez. For adults and mature teens. Admission is free. For information call (831) 646-3933. The Monterey Public Library is located at 625 Pacific Street, Monterey.

Free Pony Rides at Marina Lbrary

Pacific Grove Unified School District’s State Preschool is open for enrollment for children 3 or 4 years old, as well as Transitional Kindergarten children. The school offers morning and afternoon sessions, with a play-based curriculum and emphasis on hands-on learning. There are art, music, dramatic play, writing practice, outdoor classroom, block building, story time, circle time and more in the curriculum. These are experiences which will prepare children for kindergarten.

Classes are offered Monday through Friday.

The school honors the family culture and home language of each child.

The preschool is located at 1004 David Avenue in Pacific Grove Please call 6466547 if interested. Classes can be free with eligibility determined by family size and gross monthly income.

Harrison Memorial Library 5th Annual Teen Photo Contest

The theme of this year’s Teen Photo Contest is “Celebrate Carmel’s 100th birthday with Historic images of Carmel.” Teens between the ages of 13 and 18, attending school in Monterey County, may submit one original photo by September 21, 2016.

Photos can either be dropped off as an unmatted 8” x10” print at the Reference Desk at the Main Library on Ocean & Lincoln, or emailed as a jpeg or tif with a minimum of 900 x 720 pixels to: hml.reference@gmail.com All entered photos will be displayed at the Carmel’s Main Library. Winners will be announced in late October. The People’s Choice Award will win a $50 Del Monte Center Gift Card and the Judge’s prize winner will receive a $100 Del Monte Center Gift Card.

Any questions? Call Harrison Memorial Library (831) 624-4629 or www.hm-lib.org

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Free pony rides will be offered at the Marina Library on Saturday, September 17 from 12-2 p.m.

The ponies are sponsored by the Michelle Lang Children’s Rom Committee and the Friends of the Marina Library in conjunction wth the gigantic used book sale scheduled for September 14-18.

Jazz Worship

On Sunday, Sept. 18 at 11 a.m., there will be a worship service featuring jazz music at First Presbyterian Church of Monterey, 501 El Dorado St., Monterey. Jazz enthusiasts are invited to attend the service and then enjoy a reception afterwards.

Events are free.

Jazz Church will feature local jazz saxophonist Roger Eddy. The Roger Eddy Quartet will at times be accompanied by the choir from First Presbyterian Church, performing jazz numbers. This service coincides with Jazz Weekend in Monterey and takes its inspiration from Psalm 150: “Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness. Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre.”

For more information: office@fpcmonterey.org phone 831.373.3031 Fpcmonterey.org

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Second Hand Dreams Part Two

Jane Roland

Animal Tales and Other Random Thoughts I will continue my saga about the shop on Forest Avenue; however, I must throw in thoughts about Bruiser the pot-bellied-pig who has elicited such a furor. I cannot take sides as I have no idea about the true circumstances. It is akin to a divorce, “There’s two sides to every story and then there’s the truth” which is somewhere in the middle.

I do, however, sympathize with the Haines. As I am sure most animal lovers will.

Our pets are our family and sending one away is akin to having a youngster ripped away. But if the stench is really overwhelming then I must feel sorry for the affected neighbors. A sad story all around. Bruiser might have been happy on the farm, but he and Bacon didn’t get along, perhaps that situation will improve, the Haines will have visitation rights and Bruiser will be happy.

In 1986 Forest Avenue by Lighthouse was quite different at least as far as storefronts were concerned. If I get things wrong don’t hesitate to tell me. I am working with a memory which has been impaired by time. On the corner was Pacific Grove Drugs, where Ron dispensed pharmaceuticals and advice. Next door on Forest was Steve’s junk shop, which was always heavy with cigarette smoke and one would see Steve playing cards with anyone available. Then there was Roy the barber, a mainstay, who would happily regale us all with tales about baseball and his young son’s prowess (Roy is still going strong in the Grove building and the son is now working for the San Francisco Giants – or was when last I heard). There was a big bike shop in between Roy and the SPCA Benefit Shop and Maury Fisher held sway at Monterey Savings and Loan, the bank on the corner by Grove Market parking lot. Across the street was Alpha Stationers, Greens Camera Shop, a very nice kitchen store, Grove Florists and the bank on the corner. Up on the southwest corner of Laurel and Forest was a dry cleaner and vacuum repair shop. Mum’s had opened but on Lighthouse. The Holman building was no longer a department store. Holman’s closed, Ford’s came in and lasted only a few years. The wonderful old store that had been the mainstay of everyone on the peninsula was no more.

We reopened the SPCA Benefit Shop sometime in the spring of 1986. Bonnie Baker who was on the board of the parent organization came over to help and stayed for years to volunteer. If you don’t remember Bonnie, some will recall her husband John and son, Michael who ran Midwest Publications in the professional building behind us on 16th. Millie Brown, who served with me on the SPCA Auxiliary Board, said she would be willing to assist for a bit. I think both were involved for 10 years or more.

However, we had a skeleton crew, the three of us and the five volunteers who had stayed on board. Do any of you remember – Erna (who married Dr. Morris later), Julie Brew, Florence Wilbur, and Maj. Fagan? People were working double and triple shifts. Soon Georgia Hollister stepped in to assist and remained until the store closed in 2006. Vicki Vittitoe, and Wendy Homes came aboard. Actually Wendy had priced clothing for years but had taken a leave of absence when she gave birth to Nicole (who is now in her thirties and about to get married).

I was standing at the check-out counter when a tough looking woman came in.

She put her elbows on the counter and glared at me. “I would like to volunteer” she almost scowled. “I was a truck driver and did other things but not anything like this, I don’t suppose you would want me” and she almost walked out before I could respond.

I assured her that I didn’t care about a helper’s qualifications if they were dedicated and loved animals. That she did, she would have had a houseful but her apartment owner would allow only the parakeet, Tweetie Bird. Later, a sad story, Beth came to work one day in tears. I mentioned that she was a big, rather raw-boned woman with a demeanor which appeared to be as thick as leather. But she wasn’t, she was a real softy, who loved two creatures above all else. Her son and her bird. She had let Tweetie out of his cage, and he flew around for a time as he always did in the evening, but then he was attracted to a light in the mirror and flew right in to it, breaking his neck. Beth sobbed. She was a dedicated volunteer for many years, probably 15, until illness caused her to retire. Her son, Dean, who was young, unattached and somewhat lacking direction now has one of the most successful shops in Carmel, Chapman Gallery which he and his wife, Joanna, have owned for 14 years. A little aside: He is a founding member and active participant in the Sherlock Holmes society.

There are so many recollections and too much time has passed so they will be completely out of context, but I will love it and you might enjoy it if you take a little step back with me for a couple of weeks. By the way, the Chapmans have had as their assistants for many years, beautiful Borzois and the current staff member is Marisa…

Jane Roland manages the AFRP Benefit Shop at 160 Fountain Avenue – If anyone has some extra time we are looking for volunteers..please stop by and we can chat… gcr770@aol.com

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Termites and Mangos Tom Stevens

Otter Views

Cowgirl Winery Jim Moser

Wine Wanderings As the end of summer approaches, the weather in the Monterey Peninsula hits its yearly high with sunny days and cool nights till Thanksgiving. Tasting rooms that offer an outdoor experience become de rigeur and today, I decided to visit the Cowgirl winery tasting room in Carmel Valley to enjoy the wine and weather on a quiet Friday afternoon.

My guide today was Shelby. While tastings at Cowgirl are relatively self-guided, Shelby described each wine in the flight before leaving me to enjoy my four samples.

Since it was the lightest wine on the menu, I began with the 2013 Cowgirl Pinot Noir.

This is an elegant wine with a medium body and a dry finish. It has the classic flavors of other pinot noir wines from Carmel Valley. This wine did not have the minerality associated with the Santa Lucia Highlands, but the velvety fruit will make you think twice about valley pinot. Serve pork tenderloin with an apple chutney the next time you want to drink this wine. My second taste was of the 2013 Cowgirl Red. A blend of the classic Bordeaux grapes makes this a flavorful experience with notes of dark fruit and an appropriate acidity for any dish other than seafood. Whether you love steak, poultry, or pasta, this wine will work will anything you can dish up. For the price, be sure to buy two bottles.

The second half of my tasting consisted of two of the most popular varietals in the world. The third taste was the 2012 Cowgirl Cabernet Sauvignon. This wine is surprisingly affordable compared to its Napa Valley counterparts. Ripe dark fruit with an earthy finish is the classic profile for cabernet. While the climate of Carmel Valley may temper the potential of this wine, this is an excellent attempt at celebrating what may be the finest wine grape in the world. Think red meat when you serve this wine at your next dinner party and your guests will love the combination.

The final act of the menu was the 2013 Cowgirl Malbec. Based on sales worldwide, malbec is in the top five wines so it is no surprise that so many winemakers are offering a malbec as part of their portfolio. With an inky violet color along with rich flavors of dark fruit, this may not be the malbec you have tasted from Argentina, but this was an exciting finale of my tasting. My favorite of the four wines was definitely the malbec. The luxurious body was the perfect choice for the last wine on the menu. I was able to enjoy each wine without any interference from the other three. The Cowgirl Malbec demands a heavy dish to complement its flavors. This heavy sauces and rich meats. Even a slow-cooked brisket from your favorite barbecue restaurant would be a perfect companion. Save some to accompany your dessert, if there is any left. Go to cowgirlwinery.com to find out more about their wines and tasting room.

Library will celebrate National Parks with fine art exhibition

The National Park Service was created in 1916 to “protect the wild and wonderful landscapes” that already included 35 National Parks.

The Pacific Grove Public Library

is hosting a fine art exhibition with special events celebrating John Muir and the centennial of the National Park Service from October 2016 to January 2017.

The appearance of ever-growing mounds of termite frass on carpets, tabletops and kitchen counters has prompted the owners to tent my apartment complex. That means all living things and their foodstuffs must exit.

Pets are disallowed on the premises, so that simplifies things. Unfortunately, I have a small forest of botanical pets that require relocation. Some are “rescue plants” recovered from various dire straits, but there’s also a quarter ton of potted fruit trees.

The rescue plants are easily rationalized: it’s painful to see an uprooted rose bush poking from a dumpster (and even more painful to pull it free). The fruit trees, though, attest to a murkier pathology: the longtime apartment dweller as fantasy fruit tree grower.

This fantasy started with a peach pit that sprouted in a compost box at a former apartment. When I found the baby tree, I felt a rush of quasi-parental tenderness. I nestled it into a garden pot, kept it watered and proudly watched it grow.

When the tree outgrew its first home, I repotted it to a larger container and stood back. Soon the little trunk thickened, new branches sprang outward, and soft green leaves formed a whispering canopy in the breeze. Before long, I had a lovely bonsai peach tree!

Then winter came and all the leaves fell off. Not having grown a peach tree before, I didn’t understand about their deciduous nature, and was bereft. But a friend advised me the tree was just dormant and would in time revive.

When the first buds appeared on my tree the next spring, I was so thrilled I started chucking peach, plum and apricot pits into the composter with abandon. Nature did its work, and soon I had several bonsai stone fruit trees in several pots. With little help from me, these flourished and moved into larger buckets. And on it went.

Then I wondered if apple seeds would also grow. A friend had loaned me a little seed starter box that looks like a miniature plexiglass house. Its hinged roof can be lifted off to water the seed beds inside. Setting this little house beside the kitchen window, I lifted off the roof and sprinkled in seeds from each morning’s apple.

Soon little apple sprouts rose from the potting soil, stretching their fragile stems toward the daylight outside. What else could I do but lift them gently from the starter box and give them new, bigger homes out on the deck? To keep the apple trees company, I added a pair of citrus starts from the nursery.

You see where this is going. When the termite notification arrived, I had many saplings growing in many pots. I was an urban fruit farmer at last, with my own fantasy orchard. My first tree had even produced a single perfect peach, which a squirrel ate before I could get to it. I’m guessing I won’t see plums, apricots, lemons, limes or apples just yet.

Of course I was heartsick when the termite letter came. It meant the orchard must move, just like that Birnam Wood the three witches warned Macbeth about. Borrowing a toy wagon, I have started farming out the fruit orchard and the rescue plants to temporary shelters. I’m about halfway finished, in both senses.

In tracing this strange pathology, I probably have to go back to the mangos of my childhood. The next door neighbors had a sturdy Hayden tree that produced every summer a bounty of large, sweet, colorful and delicious mangos. Its proud limbs borne down by fruit, the tree practically begged us neighborhood surfer kids to ease its burden.

The mangos were so plump and juicy they were best eaten not on land, but in the ocean. Standing in the shallows with the sun on our shoulders and mango juice trickling down our chests, we felt as close to heaven as we would probably get. In a spirit of mango-nimity, we left the peels for the fish and the pits for the crabs. A final dive washed the evidence from our bodies.

In gentler hands, mangos are the currency of summer in the tropics. They are the gift over the fence; the bagful left at the door or shared to the job site. As with bananas, their sheer bounty precludes hoarding. Mangos are the training wheels of generosity.

They have to be circulated.

Because of their beauty, mangos got more respect than some other fruits of our childhood. I remember guava fights, rotten breadfruit fights, fig fights and even ginger root wars. But for some reason we never pelted rotten mangos at each other, although they throw well and make pleasing, Jackson Pollock-type splatters.

No, mangos had a higher calling: to inspire future apartment dwellers to become orchardists.

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In Solidarity

Join us for a tour of Steinbeck and Ricketts’ Pacific Grove

The Heritage Society is introducing an exciting new event this October – a Heritage Tour of Pacific Grove. This guided 90-minute bus tour will introduce sightseers to John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts’ Pacific Grove, from the exuberant 1920s to post-war 1950s suburbia.

Tours are scheduled for Saturday, October 1 and Sunday October 2 . Tour times are: Saturday at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m; Sunday at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at The Barn any Saturday between 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. beginning August 27. Tickets will also be available online every day beginning August 27 at www.pacificgroveheritage. org. Tickets are limited for each tour time.

Although Salinas and Cannery Row are most closely associated with Steinbeck and Ricketts - Pacific Grove was Steinbeck’s muse and it is where Ricketts discovered the universe. The tour will show you where these men lived, worked, and loved.

Sightseers will also hear about their circle of friends and adventures, as well as how the city blossomed and grew during this era. And, of course, it will point out many of the locations Steinbeck included in his books “Cannery Row” and “Sweet Thursday.”

This tour is sponsored in part by J.R. Rouse & Jan Pratt of Sotheby’s International Realty and Maureen Mason of Sotheby’s International Realty.

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Family Day at Kernes pool Coming October 2

Citizens from the Monterey Peninsula met to show solidarity with Native Americans (Sioux) who are protesting the construction of an oil pipeline through their ancestral lands in Dakota. Photo by Mary Ann Carbone

Tuesdays with Stories

Come help us celebrate the publication of our book, “Tuesdays with Stories.”

Members of the Creative Writing Group at Sally Griffin Senior Center have published an anthology of short stories, poems and memoirs. We meet weekly (Tuesdays!) at the Sally Griffin Senior Center at 1:30 p.m. Anyone can attend and there is no cost.

We will join the monthly birthday party held at the Sally Griffin Center on Fri., Sept. 23 at 11am. A copy of our book will be given to the Sally Griffin Center, Patricia Hamilton of Park Place Publishing, and the Pacific Grove Heritage Society. Come join us for lunch to help us celebrate. Members $3 and non-members $6.

Below, left: L to R, standing: Lenore Perez, Jane Foley, Jacquie Jones, Lois Carroll Seated: Maggie Barlow, Antoinette Lojkovic, Jin Forinash and Marion Petersen

Kernes Adaptive Aquatics will hold its 25th annual SPLASH-a-thon and Family Fun Day. BBQ, Raffle,Children’s Activities and optional Swimming to benefit children and adults with special needs. The date is Sunday, Oct 2, 2016, from noon-3 p.m. At Santa Catalina School, 1500 Mark Thomas Drive, Monterey.

The public is invited to splash with us or sponsor a swimmer. 831-372-1240 or www.KernesPool.org. Free admission-donations welcomed. Kernes Pool provides warm water exercise programs for people with disabilities.

(831) 626-4426

The Carmel Foundation Presents

New Medicare Wellness Assessment and Chronic Care Management Program Presentation On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 2:30pm, at The Carmel Foundation’s Diment Hall Join Michael Hendricksen, PhD., President/CEO of Monterey Bay Center for Integrated Health with 35 years of career/medicine experience, Sr. Research Scientist and Professor at USC, UCLA, and UCSF, as he introduces you with the Comprehensive “Whole Person” Wellness Care Plan that is 100 percent Medicare covered. Learn how to access a digital health care plan and care management services with TeleHealth; their Geriatric team, Nurse Practitioners, and Care Managers work with you, and your current doctors, to help meet your healthcare goals. This presentation is free and open to the public.

The Carmel Foundation is located on the SE corner of 8th & Lincoln. For more information, please contact Leticia Bejarano,

Director of Support Services at 831.620.8705 or lbejarano@carmelfoundation.org.

About The Carmel Foundation The Carmel Foundation is an organization that serves members 55 and better in the Monterey County area and beyond. The Foundation is located in Carmel on the southeast corner of 8th and Lincoln. The Carmel Foundation gives seniors an opportunity to live productive, enriching lives by offering a luncheon program, homebound meal delivery, free medical equipment loans, in-home services and respite grants, free lending library, Saturday movie, Technology Center, low-income housing, and more than 50 classes and activities each week. For more information, contact Kimberly Willison, Director of Development at kwillison@carmelfoundation. org, www.carmelfoundation.org, or 831.620.8701.

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BirchBARK911: Third Annual Pet Health Festival

By Jan Austin

BirchBARK911 will put the focus on first responders and pet health education at their third annual festival on Sunday, September 25. This event is free and open to the public and takes place from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Carmel Middle School.

“Our whole mission is to help people be the best health advocates for their animals that they can possibly be,” said Bunny Tavares, Executive Director of BirchBark Foundation. “This is both a festival to provide pet health education and also a festival to have fun.”

“The name BirchBARK911 is born from concept that we are an organization that provides financial and medical care for medical and life-threatening emergency situations,” said Tavares. “Our festival is a way for us to acknowledge that.”

Using this day to reinforce the human and animal bond, BirchBARK911 will highlight and celebrate the work of our first responders.

Dog demonstrations will take place throughout the day by K9 Units, Monterey Bay Search Dogs and Salinas-Monterey Agility Training.

Local police and fire teams will be on hand all day (schedules permitting). For the first time this year, BirchBARK 911 will offer agility instruction for dogs and their humans.

Vendor booths will include pet first aid from Carmel Fire Department, pet-related health, fitness and medical information, BirchBark’s Associate Member veterinary hospitals and novelty pet items.

Herding demonstrations will also be taking place throughout the day.

Games with prizes, a photo booth, a silent auction and delicious food from Spice it Up, Zameen and Green Pedal Organic Smoothies are also to be found.

Rosie Chalmers, host of Good Morning Monterey Bay on KSCO-AM 1080, will be the emcee for the day’s festivities.

Well-behaved pets on leashes are welcome.

The non-profit BirchBark Foundation serves both Monterey and Santa Cruz counties and has helped save the lives of 120 pets and kept them in their loving homes since their launch three years ago.

BirchBark Foundation was formed when local veterinarian, Dr. Merrianne Burtch, realized that many pet owners couldn’t afford the treatments that could save the lives of their pets. When unexpected veterinary costs to save a pet’s life are more than owners can afford, they often have little choice but to consider ‘economic euthanasia,’ or to surrender their family pet for adoption.

BirchBark Foundation was created to address this heartbreak and help soften the financial burden.

Using established criteria, BirchBark provides financial grants to animal owners who are unable to partially or fully cover the cost of their pet’s emergency or critical care in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.

With a goal of keeping pets with their families, BirchBark Foundation was the

Above: Lola guards ‘her’ fire truck Below: Sharonm Search & Resuce, is pulled from a tube

Agility tests, above Below, Officer Lauritz with his K-9

Coping With the Death of Pet is Never Easy Most people have the wonderful experience of caring for pets at some point in their lives. Pets can be our guardians, helpers, and even our best friends. They light up a room with a simple wag of a tail or throaty purr. Together we form an inseparable bond. A clap or whistle has them barking and meowing at our feet, awaiting approval. A knock at the door puts them on alert, ready to protect us, or maybe lick the guest to death. Nonetheless, we love them and they love us. But what happens when they pass?

Typically, the owner outlives the pet. When the time comes to say goodbye, it’s always hard to let go. No matter the cause, it seems to come as a surprise, even when we know the end is near.

Speaking from personal experience, it can be hard letting go. Just recently, my 16-year-old cat, Smoothie, passed away. Although it was shocking and sad, the way in which she went seemed appropriate to the way she lived. After

first of its kind on the Central Coast.

“All of the lives that we have saved have come from donations made by private individuals,” said Tavares. “We received a couple of small grants, but the majority of our funds come from private individuals.

We always welcome any donations. We rely solely on donations.”

BirchBARK 911 is sponsored in part

by IDEXX Laboratories, Diggidy Dog Carmel, Westside Animal Hospital, Pacific Veterinary Specialists and Emergency Service, Santa Cruz Veterinary Hospital and Annie’s Blankets.

“Because we cover both Monterey County and Santa Cruz County, we have rotated having the festival in Monterey County and Santa Cruz County,” said Tavares. “This year we’re back in Monterey County. We’re a non-profit, so this is a fundraiser for us as well as an opportunity for people to explore pet health and pet-related organizations.”

Ellah Foster

Teen Talk a lifetime of being a badass, despite old age and fragility, she left in the middle of the night. She spent her last remaining hours in the wild, a place she loved.

We woke up to the front door slightly opened, a gift of a dead gopher placed at the threshold and Smoothie nowhere to be found. Later that morning, my dad found her body in our backyard woods.

In the months leading up to her death, we had already been considering putting her down. But we didn’t get those plans in action by the time nature decided. However that door opened, it gave her the choice to walk into the night. It was not the decision that I

would have made, but I’d like to think that she would prefer that over being put down. She always liked to be in charge.

Something I wonder about often is why we form such a connection with these animals. Why do dogs bark when we come home and cats playfully bite at our hands? Part of it is that we are dependent on one another, just in different ways. They need us to survive; we feed them, take them on walks, clean their litter boxes, and show them our love. As far as the other way around, we adopted them for a reason. They are affectionate and sweet, there for us when we’re feeling down, some can even be our

protectors.

Naturally, we feel sad after anything consistent leaves our lives. Even positive changes can leave people feeling uncertain, just because it was unexpected. Most people don’t like sudden change, especially one that leaves a feeling of loss.

Dealing with the sudden passing of a pet definitely takes time to adapt.

Over time, pet owners adjust to not having their furry friend in their lives.

At first, it’s very difficult, for they have been worked into your daily routine. You go on walks together, spends nights with them curled up at your feet, and undoubtedly love and cherish one another.

Maybe you don’t have the responsibility of tending to them anymore but that is overruled by the amount of love and affection you shared. By the end, the animal is less of a task and more of a member of your family. And losing a friend like that is something you will never forget.

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Otter Researcher to Lecture at Pacific Grove Museum

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Monterey Library Literary Circle will discuss Lusitania book

The Monterey Public Library’s Literary Circle will discuss Erik Larson’s Dead Wake: the Last Crosssing of the Lusitania on Monday, September 26, at 6:30 p.m.

Read the book and come prepared to participate in the lively, congenial discussion.

For adults. There is no cost, and newcomers are always welcome.

The Library is located at 625 Pacific Street, Monterey. For more information email mccombs@monterey.org.

Previous editions of Cedar Street Times can be found at www.cedarstreettimes.com Back issues are located under the tab “Past Issues” Marc Maritone

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, 165 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove will present a lecture: “Serendipity - An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature” on Thursday, September 22, 7- 8:30 p.m.

Cost is $5 and free for Museum members Join Dr. James Estes, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, for a lecture based on his recently published book, “Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature.”

“Serendipity” is an exploration of the ideas and beliefs underlying ecology’s most fundamental objective—to understand the distribution and abundance of species—based on a lifetime of research on one particular species (the sea otter) and its associated ecosystem (coastal kelp forests of the North Pacific Ocean).

Dr. Estes will talk about the research he has done over the past half century; explain how the science was actually done; and recount some of the more personal dimensions to his life’s journey—the thrill of adventure, the excitement of discovery, and the despair that inevitably accompanies these high points from the bumps along the way. http://www.pgmuseum.org/museum-events/2016/9/22/lecture-the-connection-between-sea-otters-and-sequestering-carbon

East Garrison Site of Artists Open Studio Tour Activities

On September 24 and 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the East Garrison Sales Office, 13130 Chamberlain Ave., East Garrison (Former Ft. Ord) the 26th Annual Monterey County Artists Open Studio Tour will offer a free, self-guided tour of artists’ studios and exhibition spaces throughout Monterey County.

Meet the Artists, Tour a Model Home, Make a Solar Print, All at East Garrison East Garrison is the future home of Arts Habitat, organizer of the 26th Annual Monterey County Artists Open Studio Tour. Sixty-five units of affordable live/ work space for artists, plus fifty thousand square feet of day-use studio space, will be built in Phase 3 of this developing community. Come explore the neighborhood, make a little art, and talk with the artists exhibiting there.

Diane Grindol, Rose Mello, and Pacific Grove Adult School art students will present their work at East Garrison during the Studio Tour. Meet artists Grindol and Mello; their work will be displayed at model homes in the development.

Arts Habitat will offer an art-making activity to the public in an event tent adjacent to the model homes. CSUMB Visual and Public Arts Lecturer Normi Burke will help you make a solar print—it’s easy, free, open to everyone, and all materials are provided.

With an undergraduate degree in studio art, including drawing, painting and printmaking, and a master’s degree in education, Burke combines her diverse range of interests to work in mixed media formats. She received two consecutive Seidneck Scholarship Awards in conjunction with an internship at the Monterey Museum of Art, an Outstanding Achievement and Contribution in the Field of Visual Arts Award by the Pacific Grove Arts Commission, and several student-nominated Great Lecturer Awards. For the past 11 years, she has been a lecturer in the Visual and Public Art Department where she teaches arts education, studio, and art history courses.

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Hair Stylists, Drivers, Masseuses, and More Needed as Hospice Volunteers

Learn about volunteering with hospice at open house September 27 From playing an instrument to cutting hair to driving to medical appointments, volunteers are needed to provide a range of services to patients of Hospice of the Central Coast. Prospective volunteers can learn more at an open house on September 27 with current volunteers.

Operated by Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Hospice of the Central Coast provides services and support to people near the end of life and their families. Volunteers are matched by skill and interest with patients’ needs and can provide as little as two hours a week of service. Opportunities include: · Sharing musical gifts, playing an instrument or singing at the bedside • Driving patients to and from medical appointments and errands · Making friendly visits, including reading to and playing games with patients · Providing therapy pets visits, with a dog or cat · Providing professional services such as massages, Healing Touch, or Reiki, or hair cuts and beard trims · Vigiling - sitting at the bedside at the end of life · Offering grief support for adults and children · Greeting visitors to Westland House, Community Hospital’s hospice and skilled nursing facility Community Hospital is also looking

for volunteers for its Transitions program, which provides support and services to people with serious, life-threatening illnesses.

The open house is from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 27 at Westland House, 100 Barnet Segal Lane, Monterey.

For information and to register, please call (831) 622-2746.

ABOUT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, established in 1934, has grown and evolved in direct response to the changing healthcare needs of the people it serves. Its parent company is Montage Health, the umbrella for entities that work together to deliver exceptional care and inspire the pursuit of optimal health.

Community Hospital is a nonprofit healthcare provider with 220 staffed acute-care hospital beds and 28 skilled-nursing beds, delivering a continuum of care from birth to end of life, and every stage in between.

It serves the Monterey Peninsula and surrounding communities through locations including the main hospital, outpatient facilities, satellite laboratories, a mental health clinic, a short-term skilled nursing facility, Hospice of the Central Coast, Montage Wellness Centers in Marina and Salinas, and business offices. Find more information about Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula chomp.org

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Times • Page 15

Join the International Day of Peace, September 21, 2016

By Jan Austin September 21st is celebrated around the world as International Day of Peace with the intention and hope of fostering peace in the world.

Established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly, the day is designated as a period of non-violence.

All nations and people are invited to honor a cessation of hostilities and to commemorate the day with education and public awareness on issues related to peace.

The United Nations is asking everyone to take a moment at noon on September 21 for prayer or meditation or thoughts about peace and how you can create peace in your heart and move that out into the world.

Pacific Grove commemorate the day beginning with a moment of silence at Jewell Park at noon. This will be followed by a gathering at City Hall for a welcome

by Mayor Bill Kampe and a talk by First Nation speaker, Maria Maldonado. A Judith Roth in Japan with a Peace flag Peace Parade will leave City Hall at 4:30 and progress to the Sally Griffin Senior Center where a celebration of peace will take place.

Two Pacific Grove women, Gwen Marie and Gina Puccinelli, are tirelessly promoting the day and envisioning peace around the world. Combining their skills and visions with their long-time friend Judith Roth, three years ago they created Instruments of World Peace flags with the intention of having them fly around the world symbolizing connection, community and the need and desire for peace.

“We’ll be carrying our peace flags while we march through town,” said Puccinelli.

Judith Roth, who runs a yoga temple in the village of Yelapa, Mexico, first felt the prompting to create the flag.

“I was in a yoga class and a voice inside me told me I had to make a peace flag,” she said. “It took me by surprise. I like to listen to that voice so I went upstairs and, I’m not an artist, but I wanted to see what I could do. A few months later I saw Moeko Nakayama visited Pacific Grove in April from Hiroshima, Japan, Gwen and told her I really needed to make and returned home with a Peace flag. Photo at the Hiroshima Peace Park a peace flag. She went to town on it. She created this absolutely beautiful flag. I September 21 think we give our attention to so many Noon different things in life and I believe that if A moment of silence at Jewell Park we want peace in our lives, we have to also Gathering at City Hall give attention to peace and bring it into the welcome by Mayor Bill Kampe forefront of our minds. We need to see it around us and we need to have activities Talk by First Nation speaker and events that show that we value peace Maria Maldonado and that it is important to us.”

4:30 Peace Parade will leave City Hall The trio estimates that they have sold and given away about 4,500 flags Sally Griffin Senior Center since their creation. They also have SpanA celebration of peace will take place. ish-translation flag with “Paz” the Spanish word for peace.

“I think people are hungry for a symbol of peace,” said Gwen Marie. “The idea of peace is so big to grasp, but people can start right where they are in their little corner of the world and have a flag and make a statement that their hearts are open to peace. The flags have been well received.

People want them because they make the Friends of the Pacific Grove Library present the latest in the Meet the statement they want to make. We were Author Series, with a visit from Lindsay Hatton, whose freshman novel like the three peace sisters who were want“Monterey Bay,” will be discussed on Thursday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m. ing to spread our vision about the ability of communities to connect around this issue Lindsay Hatton is a graduate of Williams College. She holds an MFA of peace and dialogue.” from the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She currently “I’m grateful to be one of the peace resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and two daughters, sisters,” said Gina Puccinelli. “I have enbut was born and raised in Monterey, California, where she spent many fasjoyed this journey with Judith and Gwen cinating and formative summers working behind the scenes at the Monterey with the Peace Flags. I put out a Peace Flag Bay Aquarium. Lindsay has been touring the country this summer talking when I teach my yoga classes. It reminds about her life in Monterey and her experience of completing and publishing people that we’re seeking peace and if we her first novel. can each tap into that, it has a ripple effect Her novel, “Monterey Bay,” takes the reader back to the Monterey and on the world. The flags are a reminder to Cannery Row of the 1940s. Hatton will talk about the real people who provided stay in that place. The flags are a wonderful inspiration for her characters and the challenges of setting a work of fiction visual demonstration of what I think all in a location that is both personally meaningful and internationally beloved. of us really want. What Gwen made is a Free for members of the Friends, suggested donation of $10 for non-membeautiful representation of world peace. bers; refreshments included. Books available through The Bookworks. SponIt’s been fun for me to see how they have sored by Friends of the Pacific Grove Library with the support of Jan Pratt and expanded through communities and to J.R. Rouse, Sotheby’s International Realty. Light refreshments will be served. different countries. I enjoyed being able to go to Agape International Spiritual

Meet The Author Series Offers Lindsay Hatton, Author of ‘Monterey Bay’

Center and hand a flag to Michael Bernard Beckwith. Marianne Williamson has one and the spiritual leader, Amma, has one.”

“The more we do things like this, the more peace can grow,” said Roth. “When we contribute more energy towards peace, we have no idea how that will ripple out and manifest in the world.”

Peace flags will be available for purchase on this day for a discounted price of $10 each. Flags are regularly priced at $15 each or 5 for $70. They can also be purchased in bulk at a discount for groups who want to generate money for their needs.

Instruments of World Peace Flag

Gwen Marie (left) and Gina Puccinelli in Ojai, CA, with a Peace Flag

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Times

• September 16, 2016

Time Sure Goes By Fast When You’re Having Fun This week’s guest columnist, Rita Firestone Seger, demonstrates the truth of the familiar saying about time flying when you’re having a good time in this essay about her life in Carmel and her spiritual journey over the years.

Ignoring What ‘They’ Tried to Tell Them I know it’s true but hard to believe that Bob and I moved to Carmel in January of 1979. So much is different and so much is the same.

“They” told us it was hard to make a living here and we probably wouldn’t be able to stay. No, no, we were determined.

So what did we do? We came to flip houses and that was happening a lot, as we found out. So architect Bob opened the first kitchen and bath showroom in Carmel, Seger’s Kitchens and Baths. I , being an interior designer, opened The French Collection in the Barnyard. That was not our intention, but you do what you gotta do.

Never Taking Living Here for Granted We never took for granted living here. We would go out to dinner and say, “A lot of these people in this restaurant have to leave. We live here” To this day, the mountains, the ocean and more are a beautiful sight to behold.

In 2005, we moved to Palm Desert.

We had been going there for a couple of months every year and when I retired we decided to go to a different climate but with the caveat we would return to Carmel for the summer. This went on for a few years and then Bob was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. He eventually developed dementia along with it, was in a facility for two years, and passed in January of 2013.

I continue to come to Carmel in the summer, but only for three months. It’s not quite the same. My son Eric, daughter in law Ziona and my granddaughters Rachel and Becca live in Carmel and I have been so fortunate to be able to visit and be with the girls as they grow up. Now Rachel is

Keepers of our Culture

By Patricia Hamilton and Joyce Kreig Guest Columnist: Rita Firestone Seger off to Cal Poly and Becca is a junior in high school. They work in the summer and are not as available to Nana as they used to be. Nothing is permanent.

Returning to Carmel, Finding Inspiration In the meantime, I did a book in six weeks this summer, “My Carmel.” I arrived here and was inspired. My inner voice told me to go to the ocean, start taking pictures and do a book. Patricia Hamilton and I worked tirelessly at Park Place Publications. I couldn’t believe

the stairs I climbed in P.G. to get to her office. Only through grace did I do that over and over.

I ended up with 55 photos in the book that include all the landmarks and some of the stores, the ocean, the trees, etc. I interspersed the photos with spiritual quotes. I now look at this book and truthfully I love it! I am giddy and laugh when I look at

Rita Firestone Seger has been a “Carmel girl” for 37 years.

Rita was recently inspired to publish, with the assistance of Patricia Hamilton, a book of photographs of local landmarks and spiritual quotes, “My Carmel,” available at Pilgrim’s Way and on Amazon.

it over and over. This person Rita, in the outer form, did not create this book. Spirit just led and I just went with it.

Plug: The book is available at Pilgrim’s Way and on Amazon. I think the spirit within did a very creative piece of work. Thank you, God. So in total I have been a “Carmel girl” for 37 years. What the future holds is beyond me. Will I be back? Don’t know.

I don’t worry about the future and what will be, will be. At least I can say I had the best of both worlds now, the desert and Carmel. Bob and I were blessed to live here. See ya when I see ya. Namaste and with love, Rita.

Tell Your Story in ‘Life in Pacific Grove, California’ “Keepers of Our Culture” has launched an exciting new project, Life in Pacific Grove, California, a book of stories by local residents and visitors, to be published in 2017 by Park Place Publications to benefit the Pacific Grove Public Library.

Everyone is welcome to contribute a story, but to enhance your experience, w invite you to participate in the FREE monthly memoir classes sponsored by Park Place Publications and the Pacific Grove Public Library. At the conclusion of the monthly sessions in May of 2017, we will publish your stories in a lovely book illustrated

by Keith Larson. Stories contributed from the memoir class and other stories sent in will be augmented by interviews with people in the community. The next session is Thursday, Oct. 20, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Little House in Jewell Park. The theme will be exploring the joys and trials of your home in Pacific Grove.

If you can’t come to the class but would still like to contribute a story to the book, please send a Word doc of 500 to 700 words and a high-resolution photo to: keepersofourculture@gmail.com.

To learn more about the writing and publishing services offered by Park Place Publications, and for a free consultation, contact Patricia Hamilton at 831/6496640, publishingbiz@sbcglobal.net.

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Option “A” Recyclers for California Redemption Value

Below is an up to date list of all the beverage retailers in Carmel, Monterey, Pacific Grove, and Marina that have returned Option A affidavits.

These retailers will redeem CRV containers in the store during the hours they are open.

PACIFIC GROVE Forest Hill Shell 201 Forest Ave Cork N Bottle 1112 Forest Ave Grove Market 242 Forest Ave P G Liquor Store 229 Grand Ave Trader Joe’s Market 1170 Forest Ave PG 76 Smog and Auto Repair 1140 Forest Ave Forest Hill Gas Station & Food 1152 Forest Ave CARMEL The Cheese Shop Ocean Ave & Junipero Ave Chevron 3645 Rio Rd Unocal 76 Svc Station 544 Carmel Rancho Blvd MARINA El Rancho Market 346 Reservation Rd Food Corral 298 Carmel Ave Dollar Tree 215 Reservation Rd Hongs Oriental Market 302 Carmel Ave Penny Saver Market 267 Carmel Ave

MONTEREY Troias Market 350 Pacific St 7-Eleven 381 David Ave Trader Joes Market 570 Munras Ave Bottles N Bins Liquors & Deli 898 Lighthouse Ave International Market & Deli 580 Lighthouse Ave Daney's Mini Mart 701 Lighthouse Ave Valero 700 Lighthouse Ave 7-Eleven 2301 Fremont St Rite Aid Pharmacies 1301 Munras Ave Chevron Food Mart 351 Fremont St Corner Store Co 398 Lighthouse Ave Walgreens Drug Store 416 Alvarado St

Times • Page 17

Pacific Grove Short Term Rentals Patrick Ryan

Local Real Estate So you are thinking about investing in a home to use as a vacation rental in Pacific Grove. Before you put down your hard earned money, make sure you understand the rules or you could be stuck with a home that you cannot rent. There are three types of short term rental licenses, Type A, Type B and Home Sharing License.

Type A short term rental allows one to rent their home for more than 90 days per year. The property owner cannot stay in the home as it is being rented. There is a total of 250 Type A rental licenses available. If your home is zoned R-1 or R-2 there are 104 licenses available. If your home is zoned R-3 or R-4 there are 146 licenses available. Key to it all is that no more than 15 percent of the homes on any block may be a vacation rental and only one unit per parcel may get a license.

Type B short term rental allows renting for less than 90 days per year. Once again the property owner cannot stay in the home while it is being rented. Type B’s are not subject to the cap and density limits of Type A. Both Type A and Type B are limited to 2 adults per bedroom, plus one additional person per site. The maximum

size event or group gathering at the site shall not exceed 1.5 times the maximum number of renters.

A Home Sharing License allows the property owner who resides in the home to rent a bedroom on a short term basis. A maximum of one bedroom may be rented to two adults and a second bedroom rented to children. Home sharing is not subject to cap and density limits.

All three types are subject to the Transient Occupancy Tax of 10 percent that is payable on a monthly basis. The best course of action is to take a look at the City of Pacific Grove website for starters and then call the Planning department at 831-648-3190 with questions. They are very helpful. Pacific Grove is a popular place for vacation rentals and homes can acquire repeat customers over time.

Before purchasing a house that you want to use as a vacation rental, make sure to do your homework. See the city website for additional rules and regulations on vacation rentals.

Patrick Ryan Sotheby’s International Reatly, 831.238.8116, patrick.ryan@sothebyshomes.com

MBARI will celebrate annual open house Oct. 15

Lectures, videos, hands-on learning and more are in the offing

PGMNH Volunteer Opportunity!

What: Volunteer Information Meeting When: Wednesday, September 21st, at 6 p.m.

Where: Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, 165 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove Cost: Free Details: Staff at the Museum will host a Volunteer Information Meeting on Wednesday, September 21st, at 6 p.m. At this meeting, staff members will talk about available volunteer opportunities at the Museum and Monarch Sanctuary, and the responsibilities and commitment for each position. www.pgmuseum.org/museum-events/2016/9/21/volunteer-informationmeeting

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Adorabilia Opisthoteuth “Flapjack The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) invites the Bay Area and local community to its annual open house. This event is FREE and open to the public. The date is Saturday, October 15, 2016 from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing.

MBARI’s open house highlights the cutting-edge science and technology that have made MBARI one of the country’s leading oceanographic research institutions.

MBARI staff, scientists, and engineers will share their excitement about ocean research and discovery.

Visitors can talk with marine researchers and engineers, learn about the latest discoveries in marine science, see amazing underwater videos, and get close-up views of deep-sea robots and oceanographic research vessels. Kids will enjoy handson science activities, crafts, and building ROVs (underwater robots).

The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s (MBARI’s sister institution) gift store will have selected items available.

MBARI encourages visitors to “go green” and use carpools or public transit to our event.

For more information, maps, and directions see: http://www.mbari.org/about/ openhouse.html or call 831-775-1700.

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Times

• September 16, 2016

Can You Learn From Your Mistakes?

Have you made any mistakes in your life? Are you still judging yourself for the mistake you made last year, two years ago, five years ago, 10 years ago? Are you also judging others for the mistakes they have made last year, two years ago, five years ago, 10 years ago?

We are raised in a very judgmental culture: “Once a mistake, always a mistake.”

Growing up, you have learned very young that mistakes are bad, that you should not be making any mistakes, and you will be punished if you make a mistake. Imagine the tension that this conditioning has created in you, your mind, your body, your nervous system as the innocent child that you were back then. As that child you didn’t have choice but to believe what you were told by the grown ups, the “Authorities” in your life.

Remember going home from school after an important test, not knowing whether you are going to get a good grade or a bad grade? You knew your mom, your dad were going to ask how the test went. The tension in your body, the fear, insecurity, doubt you had to repress and couldn’t share with them.

And at times, when you did get a bad grade, going home with the fear of getting judged, getting punished for it.

Having to hold back your true feelings, pretend to be okay. How sad...

You are raised in a culture that believes in “You are what you do. You do something bad, you are bad. You do something good, you are good.” which is a lie.

All our lives we have been told this lie, which has created deep tension about making a mistake. The truth is that mistakes are natural. As human beings, we very likely will make mistakes when learning something new. Imagine you are raised in the United States, and as a teenager have learned how to drive. Then, one day, you find yourself in a car in London,

Rabia Erduman

Self discovery

Oops!

England. Obviously you don’t know how to drive on the opposite side of the road.

It is natural that it will take you some time to learn this new skill, and that you will make some mistakes along the way.

When we realize we made a mistake, apologizing is the key. A simple and clear “I’m sorry” clears the air between you and the person or people involved.

Look at your life, find any mistakes you have made that included other people in your life. Chose one situation, imagine that person in front of you. Then, simply apologize for the mistake you have made. Like; “I was 30 minutes late to our appointment and didn’t let you know. I’m sorry.” No excuses needed. This simple apology is an acknowledgment that you both are equal adults, having equal rights, and you made a mistake.

How about the other way - when your friend was late and didn’t contact you?

Same procedure. Imagine looking at your friend and say; “You were late to our appointment, and didn’t contact me. This was a mistake. I forgive you.”

As a child we got trained to take things personally. When someone made a mistake that affected us, we learned to believe that we aren’t good enough, we don’t deserve good things. As an adult today, step into the knowing that you are lovable, good enough, you have equal rights with all adults, and mistakes happen. That your friend in our example was late had nothing to do with you. She/he got stuck in his/her trauma pattern from childhood conditioning and made a mistake by not letting you know. You both are equally good enough and lovable.

You are not supposed to be perfect. Perfection does not exist, is not

When we were learning about newspaper design, we were advised never to make a mistake in the crossword puzzle. We could make mistakes in the largest size on the front page, but if we messed up the crossword, we’d never hear the end of it!

Well, last week we inadvertently printed the solution from an earlier puzzle We have not yet yeard the end of it.

Sorry. And here is the correct solution. This was not Peter Silzer’s mistake: We take complete responsibility.

a natural state. Mistakes do happen. Realize now that it is natural for you to make mistakes. Give yourself permission love yourself and to learn from your mistakes.

Biography Rabia Erduman was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and later spent ten years in Germany before arriving in the United States in 1983.

Rabia is a Transpersonal Hypnotherapist, a Craniosacral Therapist, a Reiki Master, a Polarity Practitioner, and a Massage Therapist.

Rabia assists individuals and groups in their process of self-discovery, by supporting them to heal their negative beliefs about themselves and life.

To those wishing to understand her work, she says, “I have found working with the combination of mind, body, emotions and energy to be highly effective in reaching optimum balance. My life and work are about being in the moment, free of fear and the feeling of separation.

Deep joy is a natural expression of this process.”

An inspiring lecturer, Rabia has given talks on the Chakras, Tantra, Hypnotherapy, past life regression. She has also been interviewed on radio and television shows and has facilitated workshops throughout the years.

Rabia is the author of “Veils of Separation - Finding the Face of Oneness,” and has four Guided Imagery CDs: “Relaxation, Meditation, Chakra Meditation, and Inner Guides.”

Following her vision, Rabia is taking the steps necessary for her book to be made into a movie or a television series.

The screenplay is complete. Now she is looking for a producer.

Lecture on ‘When We Were Mexico’ as Part of Big Read Project Join historian and City of Monterey’s Museums, Cultural Arts, and Archives Manager, Dennis Copeland, for a slide-illustrated lecture on the Mexican era in the Alta California capital at Monterey, on Saturday, September 24, 1 p.m. This program “When We Were Mexico; A Frontier Province and Its Capital - Monterey” is part of “The Big Read” project, in cooperation with The National Steinbeck Center. The book being read widely read in the community is “ Sun, Stone, and Shadows; 20 Great Mexican Short Stories” by Jorge F. Hernandez. For adults and mature teens.

Admission is free. For information call (831) 646-3933. The Monterey Public Library is located at 625 Pacific Street, Monterey.

Participate in National Indie Author Day at the Harrison Memorial Library in Carmel

Saturday, October 8 from 9:30 a.m.noon at the Carmel’s Harrison Memorial Library on Ocean and Lincoln will be National Indie Author Day. Gain exposure to local and national industry leaders in the Indie Book Movement.

9:30-10:30 a.m.

Local, in-person Panel, featuring indie authors, publishers and booksellers. 10:30-11 a.m.

Q&A from audience.

11:00-12:00 National Digital Gathering featuring Q&A with writers, agents and industry leaders from across the country.

There is no charge to attend.

Pulitzer Prize Winner Jane Smiley to speak as Guest of Friends of the Monterey Library The Friends of the Monterey Public Library present Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley speaking on “The Most Important Question” in the Irvine Auditorium, McCone Building, MIIS, 460 Pierce Street, Monterey on Sunday, October 2 at 5:30 pm.

Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Golden Age the final volume in her Last Hundred Years Trilogy. She is also the author of five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.

Ms. Smiley will autograph books after the presentation. Copies of Ms. Smiley’s latest work will be available for purchase through local Jane Smiley. Photo by Derek Shapton bookseller Pilgrim’s Way. The event is the first in a series of author lectures sponsored by the Friends of the Monte- nation of $10 for non-members would rey Public Library. Admission is free be appreciated. All proceeds benefit to members of the Friends of the Mon- Monterey Public Library. For informaterey Public Library. A voluntary do- tion visit http://www.mplfriends.com

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Opinion

A Primer on Measure P, Admissions Tax Measure P Is Not The Answer Editor:

Editor:

There has been a lot of debate concerning Measure P, the Admissions Tax. Some of the information rings true. However not everything being placed out there is valid.

Here are some things to review before you make up your mind and vote.

Measure P Admissions Tax is proposed to allow you the voter to decide if your City can raise needed funding for essential city services to include Library, Museum, street repairs, recreation for our youth and seniors, and Public Safety (Police and Fire).

Thirteen California Cities currently use an Admissions Tax to support services.

An Admissions Tax is levied upon the visitor or attendee. It is not levied against the Aquarium itself or any Non profit. Despite what is being put out there, the Admissions Tax is not meant to harm any non profit nor force them into difficult financial positions The tax itself is quite modest.For example a Senior Movie Ticket currently $7.50 would add $.38 cents as the Tax. The movie house would still get $7.50. As another example, an adult ticket to the Monterey Bay Aquarium currently costs $50. The Admissions Tax would add $ 2.50 to the price. The Aquarium would still get $50.

The Admissions Tax Measure is designed to help PG provide services. It is by no means a referendum on the value or benefit of any activity or non profit. It is not a popularity contest.

As you probably know if your City has revenue you can expect services and activities to be funded. Less revenue equals less service.

Feel free to enquire and engage your friends and neighbors about Measure P Admissions Tax. The City Council will honor your decision that you will make in November.

Measure P is ill-conceived, fundamentally unfair and, if passed, would create a dangerous precedent. The measure proposes an admissions tax on all forms of entertainment, amusement, recreation, education or exhibition, including “special events.”

The tax would apply to fees collected by businesses and non-profits, including annual memberships and the fundraising activities of organizations like the PTA, Rotary Club and PG Museum.

The city has budgetary challenges but the proposed admissions tax is not the answer.

Balancing the budget on the backs of non-profits that provide community service and more benefit than burden to the city is fundamentally wrong. The city needs structural solutions to its long-term funding problems, not a supposed quick fix.

The primary target is the Monterey Bay Aquarium, an organization with an important social mission: inspiring conservation of the oceans and our increasingly fragile planet.

The aquarium conducts important conservation, research and educational activities including teacher training and free visits for more than 80,000 students annually. MBA attracts many visitors to the area that benefit local businesses yet the aquarium occupies a minuscule portion of Pacific Grove and therefore has limited impact on city services.

In fact, only a small portion of the aquarium lies within the city limits. Eighty percent of the aquarium, including the entrance, is actually in Monterey. For this reason, Measure P would have questionable legality and the city could become embroiled in years of expensive litigation. The claim that aquarium visitors create a significant drain on city services is over stated. The city will get far more benefit by working constructively with the aquarium and other non-profits than by taxing them.

Smaller non-profits, many of which are run entirely by volunteers, would be more profoundly impacted, burdened with expensive accounting and reporting requirements.

Some of these might decide to relocate elsewhere. An admissions tax is not a simple pass-through to the end user with no effect. It impacts the services any organization can provide. Finally, the city would have to set up a complex bureaucracy and hire additional employees to handle monitoring and collections. In short, Measure P is no free lunch and, if passed, would do more harm than good.

Larry & Marcia Hulberg Pacific Grove

Most Sincerely, Ken Cuneo Pacific Grove

Measure Z would mean dependence on Midde East oil Editor:

Measure Z will enforce a ban on all oil and gas production in the county. The proponents of Measure Z have used deceptive and deceitful wording in order to ban production. As a result, the U.S. will lose another source of domestic production and will become more dependent on oil from the Middle East. I do not understand why people think this is in our best interest. At best, our relations with the Middle East are tenuous and it is not smart to rely on them for a vital resource we can produce ourselves. We need to ensure the safety of our economy and oil production. I am writing this letter to urge my fellow community members to vote NO on Measure Z in November. It has terrible consequences and should not be passed.

Valerie Schultz King City

PG Resident Association Reactivated; Members Invited The Pacific Grove Residents Association has been re-activated. Founded in 1993, the purpose of the association was to preserve and enhance Pacific Grove’s unique quality of life for all residents by supporting the Charter of Pacific Grove, which states “…by the determination of the people that Pacific Grove is primarily a city of homes and that business and industry shall be compatible with its residential character.” Today, the association still supports this purpose.

We are working on sharing more information with residents of Pacific Grove and in the meantime we would like to hear residents’ concerns, suggestions, comments and questions. Like us on Facebook or email us pgra93950@gmail.com.

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Legal Notices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20161818 The following person is doing business as BRYLIND REAL ESTATE SERVICES, 202 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel, Monterey County, CA 93924 or P.O. Box 717, Carmel Valley, CA 93924; SHANNON NICOLE JAMES, 202 W. Carmel Vlley Road, Carmel Valley, CA 93924. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on 09/01/16. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on September 1, 2016. Signed: Shannon N. James. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20161818 The following person is doing business as BRYLIND REAL ESTATE SERVICES, 202 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel, Monterey County, CA 93924 or P.O. Box 717, Carmel Valley, CA 93924; SHANNON NICOLE JAMES, 202 W. Carmel Vlley Road, Carmel Valley, CA 93924. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on 09/01/16. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on September 1, 2016. Signed: Shannon N. James. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20161817 The following person is doing business as MONTEREY COASTAL REALTY, 211 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA 93950; SHANNON NICOLE JAMES, 202 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, CA 93924. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on 09/01/16. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on September 1, 2016. Signed: Shannon N. James. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20161907 The following person is doing business as PENINSULA ASPHALT & CONCRETE, 412 Dela Vina Ave. #29, Monterey, Monterey County, CA 93940; FRANK HUMES, 412 Dela Vina Ave. #20, Monterey, CA 93940. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on 09/13/16. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on n/a. Signed: Frank A. Humes. This business is conducted by an individual.

Publication dates: 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10//16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20161848 The following person is doing business as TRANQUILI-TEAS, 2434 N. Main St. #F, Salinas, Monterey County, CA 93906; JAZMIN M. JONES, 2434 N. Main St. #F, Salinas, CA 93906. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on 09/07/16.

Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Jazmin M. Jones. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20161798 The following person is doing business as B. TUCKER, ARTIST, 568 Lighthouse Ave., Studio #1, Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA 93950; BONNIE L. TUCKER, 2131 Pembroke Dr., Ft. Worth, TX 76110.

This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on 08/31/16. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Bonnie L. Tucker. This business is conducted by an individual.

Publication dates: 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20161855 The following person is doing business as PROJECT BUDDY, 383 Berry Rd., Royal Oaks, Monterey County, CA 95076; VICTOR RUBEN RODRIGUEZ, 383 Berry Rd., Royal Oaks, CA 95076. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on 09/07/16.

Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on 09/07/16. Signed: Victor Rodriguez. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10//16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20161787 The following person is doing business as MEDERI, 1026 Benito Ave., Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA 93950; DANIEL BRODELL-LAKE, 1026 Benito Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on 08/20/16.

Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Daniel Brodell-Lake. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/16

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• September 16, 2016

Admissions Day Reunion Celebration for RetiredCity Employees

The 2016 Admissions Day Golf Outing carried on a nine-year tradition as seven retired and one current city emplyee gathered at Pacific Grove Golf Links to ply a leiurely round of golf. Above, they are: Donald Mothershead, Jim Gunter, Tom Gunter, and Darian Houde and Walt Matteson, Larry Esquivel, Sal DiFranco. and Al Borges

Seminar Event: New Trends in Beautiful Homes and Estates: Interior Design, Solar, Roofing and Fine Woodworking Learn from the top experts on the Monterey Peninsula -- Free

The community is invited to an outstanding free seminar event, “New Trends in Beautiful Homes & Estates – Interior Design, Solar, Roofing and Fine Woodworking” on Tuesday, September 20 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at Dority Roofing & Solar Showroom, 2106 Sunset Dr. in Pacific Grove (a half mile from the Pebble Beach gate entrance near Inn at Spanish Bay).

This informative event will feature three outstanding experts: Pam Meyer, ASID, CID of Design Works, Ltd, Kasey Dority of Dority Roofing and Solar, and Susana DeFatima Silva and Don Whitaker of Test of Tyme, LLC. All three of these high end firms enjoy decades of experience and have worked on hundreds of the finest homes and Estates in Carmel and Pebble Beach as well as many other areas on the Monterey Peninsula and beyond. At the event, Don Whitaker, an award-winning wood artisan, will also do a fine woodworking demonstration.

In addition to the seminar, come and see beautiful samples of the outstanding Old World Design work done by the Test of Tyme artisans and a great array of top quality innovative roofing materials and solar solutions available from Dority Roofing & Solar.

After the seminar, do a “Meet and Greet” with Pam Meyer of Design Works, Ltd., Don Whitaker and Susana DeFatima Silva of Test of Tyme and Kasey Dority of Dority Roofing & Solar. Ask all of your questions and learn more about Old World Design and the latest high quality roofing solutions.

Ask Pam Meyer about the latest design trends or what your next step could be in your design project.

Attendees will enjoy complimentary light appetizers from Jeninni Kitchen + Wine Bar in Pacific Grove.

Independent Ambassador Carrie Schulte and Personal Wine Expert of the Boisset Wine Collection has generously donated several bottles of red and white wine for a drawing at the event. With the Boisset Wine Collection, Ambassadors provide access to exceptional limited selection wines direct to the consumer. For more information, go www.roamingwino.com.

Gallery Sur is a valued sponsor of the event Space is limited. To RSVP and for more information, email tot@tes-

Experts with combined decades of experience will present the newest trends in beautiful homes and estates and enjoy light appetizers from Jeninni Kitchen.

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Gallery Sur is a valued sponsor of the event.

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Track: Sept. 9 North Tahoe invitational

By Steve Watkins

Pacific Grove High School participated in the 41st Annual North Tahoe Invitational Friday, Sept. 9, Thirteen runners from Pacific Grove participated in the meet in Tahoe City, CA. The Breakers fielded a complete team in only one race, the boys varsity. Even though Pacific Grove was missing their 2nd and 3rd best varsity boy runners they were able to win the second place plaque.

Below are individual results for Pacific Grove runners and a link for complete results. Freshmen and sophomores ran 2.8 miles, Varsity ran 3.3 miles.

Thomas Jameson, boys freshman, 11th place, 22:27 (medal winner) Tyler Smithro, boys freshman, 35th place, 25:47 Taylor Biondi, girls frosh-soph, 21st place, 26;52 (medal winner) Rebecca Raschulewski, girls frosh-soph, 52nd place, 30:59 Alana, Henden, did not finish due to injury Hayden Staples, boys sophomore, 47th place, 25:22, huge improvement from last year Henry Loh, boys varsity, 8th place. 21:54, (medal winner)

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Pacific Grove’s Kate Daniel to Perform National Anthem at Friday’s Giants Game Bob Silverman

San Francisco Giants Updates Everett Millette, boys varsity, 18th place, 22:56 (medal winner) Jacob Hoadley, boys varsity, 28th place, 23:45 Luca Lauritzen, boys, varsity, 23:50, 32nd place Fiorin Ballerini, boys varsity, 24:00, 38th place (first meet as a varsity runner) Shey Gibson, boys varsity, 25:15, 62nd place Cameron Reeves, boys varsity, 27:34, 117th place Next up for the Breakers is a home meet vs. Soledad and Gonzales Thursday, September 15 http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=119883#

Pacific Grove’s Kate Daniel has been selected to perform the National Anthem at the Giants’ home game on September 16 at AT&T Park when the Giants host the visiting Saint Louis Cardinals in what could be the most important series of the 2016 regular season.

Kate Daniel is a member of the outstanding local singing group and band named the Firefly Band.

Daniel said on September 13 that she was born and grew up in Pacific Grove and that she started singing at the age of four. She is a graduate of Santa Catalina School and has been performing with the Firefly Band since 2004.

Daniel explained that her niece, Laura Wardell of the San Francisco Fire Department, sent her an announcement that the S.F. Fire Credit Union was holding auditions on September 7 for singers to audition to perform the National Anthem at the Sept. 16 Giants game at AT&T Park. Daniel and 7 others auditioned and Daniel was selected.

The S.F. Credit Union will be donating $1000.00 to the San Francisco Fire District and an additional $1000.00 to the Fire Fighting Unit named by the winner. Daniel said that her selection will be the Big Sur Fire Department.

Daniel advised that some 35 family and friends from the Pacific Grove area are going to attend the game to see her perform and enjoy the game.

NFL Pepsi Punt, Pass and Kick Pacific Grove Results

Kate Daniel with Firefly

Name School

6/7 Year Old Girls

Punt Ft. In.

Pass Ft. In.

Kick Total Score Ft. In. Ft. In.

8/9 Year Old Girls Mackenzie Thomas Robert Down

33 1

23

2

25

6

81

9

10/11 Year Old Girls Kennedy SchoenauerBurnett Academy, SJ Landry Schoenauer Burnett Academy, SJ Ava Ries Los Alamitos, SJ

68 3 56 0 23 10

59 28 29

10 6 10

71 62 20

5 9 3

199 147 73

6 3 11

12/13 Year Old Girls Tianna Ballistini PG Middle School Zoe Gleason PG Middle School

73 4 0 0

76 37

1 5

68 56

4 5

217 93

9 10

6/7 Year Old Boys Andrew Nimri Heath Schnipke Refeus Hermosillo Ronan Mayer

Robert Down Forest Grove JC Crumpton, Marina Home school, Monterey

47 30 10 4

53 30 16 5

2 11 1 8

15 35 6 3

5 10 6 10

115 96 33 13

11 9 4 10

8/9 Year Old Boys Phinn Thomas Braeden Ries DeAngelo Anton

Robert Down 48 10 Los Alamitos, San Jose 52 8 Mty Bay Christian, Marina 17 9

40 30 46

8 4 11

22 27 29

11 112 5 110 4 94

5 5 0

4 0 9 4

10/11 Year Old Boys Tayden James Phillips Hoover, SJ Anthony Nimri Robert Down Evan Woods PG Middle School Roman Nardone PG Middle School Patrick Sullivan Ocean Grove, Seaside

58 68 64 54 7

5 9 4 9 4

88 56 70 67 53

2 8 8 2 10

77 52 25 22 20

8 9 3 0 9

224 178 160 143 81

3 2 3 11 11

12/13 Year Old Boys Dominic Ageyenkov PG Middle School

20 3

87

11

1

8

109

10

14/15 Year Old Boys Aeden Rolaud PG High School

72 10

101 9

82

1

256

8

The Giants ended their last road trip with a sweep of Arizona followed by losing the first two home games against San Diego on Sept. 12 and 13. The starting pitcher for the Giants on Sept.12 was Jeff Samardzija. The losing pitcher on Sept. 13 was reliever Hunter Strickland.

RHP Albert Suarez started for the Giants on Sept. 13 against San Diego and it looked like a Giants win until the top of the 9th inning. San Diego scored five runs in the top of the ninth. The Giants had a comfortable 4 -1 lead after eight innings.

Relievers Strickland and Okert gave up 5 runs to lose the lead and the game. Strickland hesitated to cover first base allowing the San Diego player to make it into first safely in 9th inning action and that probably sealed the win forSan Diego by a ending score of 6 to 4.

The Giants said in a post game press release that “The Giants have blown six of their 10 save opportunities in the month of September.” Angel Pagan hit his 11th home run of the season.

The Giants lost by a score of 4-0 against San Diego on Sept. 12. The starting pitcher on the 12th, Samardzija, gave up his second home run in his last 7 starts. The Giants had a winning streak of 11 consecutive home wins against San Diego broken by the loss on Sept. 12.

- Bob Silverman

Giants’ Starting Pitcher Jeff Samardzija on June 12, 2016 (©2016 S.F. Giants)

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• September 16, 2016 Part Three

Trolling with Stickers, Fishing with Bait Monterey Workshop Addresses Affordable Housing Solutions

Using colored stickers is like luring fish with bright objects, as fishers who troll for their living know. If trolling succeeds, baited hooks and nets can complete the catch.

Since Monterey’s fame and fortune began when its sardine fishery employed up to 8,000 people in two dozen smelly canneries, credit goes to author John Steinbeck for his novel “Cannery Row” which immortalized the peninsula.

Indirectly, Steinbeck inspired entrepreneurs to redevelop the former Italian-American fishing village into today’s tourism mecca after sardines declined in the 1950s.

The little silver fish eventually returned, but again were put on the endangered list last year when the Pacific Coast sardine fishery was shut down and anchovies prevailed.

Problem is today, for many who consider the peninsula their home, it’s no longer affordable to live or work here regardless of which fish occupy the sea. Nor is it clear whether many concerned citizens are the symbolic fish or the fishermen!

Not that Steinbeck can be blamed for today’s homelessness/near homelessness, but one can see how one man’s fame can influence multitudes for better or worse.

Little Fish, Big Fish or Fisherman?

The City of Monterey’s Planning Department hosted an Affordable Housing Workshop Aug. 31 to troll for public input about various aspects of the Housing Element issues that will result in suggested actions to be made to City Council.

Colored-sticker metaphors for trolling were evident in charts that asked: “What do you think about second units in Monterey?” Attendees were to express their preferences by placing colored stickers on the charts.

Those who need them would be for them, so let’s call them the little fish.

Landlords who want to keep them out in order to keep rents high, or limit available units in order to sustain rental income, would be against them, so let’s call them the big fish.

One was a nurse, one a journalist and one a science writer; they range in age from early 70s down to late 50s.

An 84-year-old who recently ended a 3-year stay in her van was former buyer for a chain of sporting goods stores; she once owned a home on a golf course.

A few years ago, Dr. Tia Sukin was inspired by the legend about starfish dying in droves on the beach, except for one lone starfish which a kind stranger threw back into the ocean. She kicked off the One Starfish Safe Parking and Support Services Program that now provides overnight parking for mostly single women who live in their vehicles and who, one by one, have been rehoused.

One Starfish is now under the direction of Pass the Word Ministry, sponsor of “Harvest for Hope” fundraising brunch, to be held on Sunday, Oct. 23, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Elks Lodge, 150 Mar Vista Dr., Monterey. Tickets are $25.

For reservations and information, contact Sara Myers at 931-324-4624.

Wanda Sue Parrott

Homeless in Paradise

Jenny Sturm The in-betweens are everyone who neither knows nor cares.

The City of Monterey, as metaphorical fisherman, must evaluate its catch by separating the sardines, anchovies and starfish from bigger fish, then act to protect and promulgate the best interests of the whole city.

Since in real life big fish generally devour smaller fish, this hypothetical exercise in sticker voting raises the question: Who wins?

If you live on the peninsula and want to express your opinions online, there is

Carmel Public Library Free Public Program Wed., Oct. 5 at 7 pm

Carmel Public Library (Harrison Memorial Library) and the Carmel Public Library Foundation invite the public to a free program, Community Night at the Library: Central Coast Architect John Thodos.

Speakers: Carmel Architect Erik Dyar Date and Time: Wed., Oct. 5 at 7 p.m.

Sunset Center, Carpenter Hall, 9th & Mission, Carmel FREE and open to the public Seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Join Carmel Architect Erik Dyar for a talk celebrating the work of famed Central Coast Architect John Thodos. John is recognized worldwide for his unique, poetic interpretation of modernism characterized by open, light-filled spaces created through inventive use of materials, proportion and form inspired by his own heritage, creativity and “Sense of Place.” Erik Dyar worked closely with John on almost all of his most important buildings. He will explore John’s history, creative process and many of his greatest works.

John Thodos was Carmel Public Library Trustee.

Library Background Carmel Public Library (Harrison Memorial Library) has been a treasured resource on the Central Coast of California for longer than 111 years. Some 112,000 library cardholders and visitors walk through the library doors annually. The Carmel Public Library Foundation raises funds for the library’s collections, services, equipment, archives, and programs.

For program details, questions about donations or sponsorship opportunities, contact Amy Donohue, Executive Director of the Carmel Public Library Foundation at 831-624-2811.

still time. See details below.

Like Starfish on the Beach This column predicts that homeless men, women and children may soon start turning up, not like sardines but more like starfish, on the beaches of the Monterey Peninsula. Why? Disparate income. One round of golf at Pebble Beach costs about half the average monthly Social Security income of several retired senior women who now sleep in their cars, in tents, or on friends’ couches because local affordable housing is unavailable. Who are they?

Scads of homeless starfish on the beach in Monterey? Hopefully not.

The City of Monterey would like your input on short-term rentals, second units, adaptive reuse of existing hotels/ motels, and the unbundling of parking costs for new residential development within the city.

The issue of a homeless shelter will be covered separately in a future column.

Next week’s column will include results of the Affordable Housing survey.

Please take a few moments to share your thoughts and opinions by completing this short online survey, deadline for which is Mon., Sept. 19, at www. Monterey.org, Housing Opportunities Survey .

For 24-hour suggestions: (831) 6463799; Fax: (831) 646-3793; Email: montereysuggest@monterey.org. Contact: Elizabeth Caraker, Principal Planner, (831) 646-1739, caraker@monterey.org .

No colored stickers are required.

Contact Wanda Sue Parrott at amykitchenerfdn@hotmail.com or leave a message with The Yodel Poet at 831-899-5887.

Annual Gospel Concert planned

National Gospel Heritage Month is September and it's coming soon. In honor of National Gospel Heritage month, Monterey Peninsula Gospel Community Choir (directed by John L. Nash Jr.) will present our FREE annual concert at Greater Victory Temple Church in Seaside from 5-7:30 on Saturday, September 24.

This year's confirmed guests include: Oakland Interfaith Gospel Community Choir (directed by Terrance Kelly); Peace United Church of Christ choir (directed by Dr. Cheryl Anderson); Monte Vista High School choir (directed by Dr. David Dehner); Ms. Tammie Brown (Recording artist); Robin J. Williams & Peace (Recording artist); Other surprise guests may appear. Hope to see you there.

“Intro to Ecological Design” Class Now Offered at Pacific Grove Adult School

A new class will be offered at the Pacific Grove Adult School which will cover topics such as Solar Energy, Drought Tolerant Landscaping, Greywater, Permaculture, Documentary films and Democracy at Work.

Instructor Daniel Brodell-Lake has degrees in M.Sc. “Integrative Ecosocial Design” from Gaia University, B.A. ‘Ethnography & Photography’ from UCSC, NABCEP cert solar energy practitioner, Permaculture Design Certified from UPISF and Sunrise Ranch. He speaks Spanish.

Your lighthouse needs you

Become a volunteer docent at the historic Point Pinos Lighthouse, 80 Asilomar Blvd. in Pacific Grove. Training is arranged during lighthouse hours, Thursday through Monday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

If you are interested, please leave a message at831-648-3176.

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National Drive Electric Day at Del Monte Shopping Center

Hundreds of community members are expected to attend National Drive Electric Day – Monterey on September 17 from noon-3 p.m. where there will be dozens of electric vehicles on display and available for test drives. This event is one of more than 180 across the country as part of National Drive Electric Week. This is the first time we’ve had a National Drive Electric Day in the City of Monterey.

Special event highlights include: Electric vehicle display: View all types of electric vehicle models and talk with the owners about their experiences.

Test Drive area: Get behind the wheel of some of the most popular electric vehicles on the market today.

Model Electric Car Parade: Richard Tavener of Carmel worked with hundreds of school children as part of science education, building small toy cars powered with solar strips. The children will be at the event, showing off their cars in a

model car parade. Model kits will be available for sale; assembly takes 1-2 hours.

National Drive Electric Day – Monterey is brought to you by the Monterey Bay Electric Vehicle Alliance and Ecology Action. National sponsors include Plug In America, the Sierra Club and the Electric Auto Association. For more

information visit mbeva.org Plug-in to the future with National Drive Electric Day – Monterey Bay! According to the EPA, motor vehicles are responsible for nearly half of the toxic air pollutant emissions in the U.S. and account for 75 percent of carbon monoxide emissions. Since 2011, President Obama has invested billions of dollars in electric vehicles and created discounts, manufacturers’ rebates, federal and state tax credits, and more. Plug-in electric vehicles, which require no gasoline and have no tailpipe emissions thereby helping us address one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, climate change. Electric vehicles also provide one critical way to significantly decrease air pollution, reduce our dependence on oil, create American jobs, and improve national security. Join us to learn more about the benefits, savings and trends of driving electric. http://mbeva.org/events/20/national-drive-electric-day-monterey-bay/

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Gala Event to Benefit Earthquake Retrofit of Mission The Campaign for the Preservation of Mission Antonio will host a Gala Event on October 1, 2016 at the Allegretto Vineyard Resort in Paso Robles to raise funds for the earthquake retrofit and restoration of Mission San Antonio. The event includes a cocktail reception, dinner, music and a live auction.

RSVP is required and limited to 200 tickets. All proceeds from this event will benefit the earthquake retrofit and restoration project currently in progress.

Tickets are $150 per person. To RSVP mail a check to P.O. Box 450, King City, CA 93930. The check should be made payable to “The Campaign for the Preservation of Mission San Antonio de Padua”.

Allegretto Vineyard Resort offers special room rates for event attendees. For more information about the event or the earthquake retrofit and restoration project call 831.386.0599 or visit: www.preservemissionsanantonio.org

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• September 16, 2016

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PACI FI C GROVE 769 Lighthouse Avenue | $2,500,000 Bill Bluhm 831.372.7700

OPE N SAT URDAY & S UNDAY 1-3 Pacific Grove | 39 Coral Street | $1,575,000 Clancy D’Angelo 831.277.1358

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MONTEREY 7825 Monterra Oaks Road | $1,095,000 Mike Jashinski 831.236.8913

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