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In This Issue

Kiosk The count of the monarchs as of 2/10/15 is 6,700.

Check the Museum website for more information: http://www.pgmuseum.org/ monarchs#monarchcount

• Sat. Feb. 21 Steinbeck Sympisium

Limited to 120 tickets Hopkins Marine Talks, Authors, Exhibits, Film 9 AM Lunch Break Painter Benjamin Brode Exhibit and talk for the book In Search of the Dark Watcher 6 PM •

Burning issue - Page 5

Keeping culture alive - Page 12

Pacific Grove’s

Sun. Feb. 22

25th Annual Great Taste of PG The Inn at Spanish Bay 4PM – 7PM $50 in advance, $55 February 1 and at the door www.supportpgpride.com

• Wed. Feb. 25

Snails, Seals & Scientists

Talk & Panel Discussion Boat Works Lecture Hall, Hopkins Marine

By Friends of Hopkins Marine 7:30 PM Free but RSVP needed Call 831-655-6200 to reserve

Feb. 20-26, 2015

Getting in the Spirit of Things

Dine Out with Friends Benefit Friends of the Library Dine at Victorian Corner Restaurant 541 Lighthouse and a percent will go to the Library

• Tue. March 3 Beginning

Tai Chi Classes 12:30-1:oo PM PG Art Center, 586 Lighthouse Ave. PG $12/Session or $40/onth 831-278-6061 •

Wed. March 4

Fri. March 6 First Friday PG Opening PG At Center Downtown Pacific Grove Free

• Sat. March 7

First Saturday Book Sale PG Public Library

• March 7-22

Carmel Jewish Flm Festival Various Venues Tickets www.carmeljff.org 800-838-3006

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Inside 100 Years Ago in Pacific Grove........... 6 Animal Tales & Other Random Thoughts................. 8 Cartoon.............................................. 2 Cop Log.............................................. 5 Finance.............................................. 7 FYI................................................... 19 Homeless in Paradise....................... 11 Keepers of Our Culture.................... 12 Legal Notices................................... 17 Marriage Can Be Funny.................... 16 Opinion............................................. 7 Otter Views...................................... 10 Rainfall.............................................. 2 Real Estate................................... 4, 16 Sports........................................ 17, 18 Weather............................................. 2

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• Wed. Feb. 25

Gentrain Lecture Prehistory of the Monterey Peninsula MPC Lecture Forum 103 Free/Paid Parking •

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Bob from Vinyl Revolution on Forest Ave. was one of thousands of people who posed with a “Flat Clint” to raise money for a favorite charity during the AT&T. Six charities were chosen and as photos were posted on social media and tagged “#flatclint,” money was put into a pool by AT&T to be divided among the charities later. While there is no report yet on the amounts raised, social media and TV were abuzz. Thanks to the wonderful weather we experienced, record crowds were reported and the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce said that the shuttle bus they offer was full to the brim daily.

Vol. VII, Issue 24

City leases Railroad Right-of-Way

The 8.35-acre Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way, subject of much public concern when a “for sale” sign went up in 2008, will be quietly leased by the City of Pacific Grove as soon as papers are signed. There will be no rent charged.

The open space is about 1.4 miles long and stretches to Sinex Avenue, including an area through the front nine holes of the golf links and along the back side of El Carmelo Cemetery.

When the city needs to upgrade existing infrastructure, such as wastewater and stormwater pipelines and the golf course irrigation system, the City would otherwise need to prepare applications and potentially pay encroachment fees. With the lease, golf course staff will now be able to maintain the irrigation system and repair golf cart paths more easily. The City will now have access

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State of the City Talk Will All The News That Fits, We Print Likely Include Did you have to wait until today to read some of these stories? Are there headlines Budget and here that you’d be interested in, but couldn’t find in the print version? We print on Fridays and distribute to more than 150 sites. Please see www.cedarstreettimes.com Revenue Items Sheriff’s Office Warns of Tax Identity Theft Teens and Parents: CHP offering Start Smart classes in Salinas Girls Soccer: Pacific Grove and Greenfield Capture Their First MTAL Title Girls Basketball: Pacific Grove Easily Wins Their Tenth Game in a Row JUST RUN® Wins National Youth Program of the Year Mini Cooper Erupts in Flames (video) Boys Basketball: Seniors Lead the Way for Breakers in Home Finale The Bixby Story!

Boys Soccer: Pacific Grove ties with Stevenson behind Rutger Sperry’s two goals Carmel Parking Workshop Feb. 19 Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce Will Honor City

On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 the mayor will hold a State of the City Talk at the Pacific Grove Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave. Of special interest will probably be the announcement at the Feb. 18 City Council meeting by Patricia Maitland, City Finance Director, that the City’s PERS liability had taken a $1 million “bump” this year, going from about $750,000 to $1,750,000. Investigation into the accounting method used by the State continues, while the City Council begins considering how to grapple with this new problem.

“I will be talking about some recent achievements in our city, progress on last year’s priorities, the council priorities for the coming year, and a couple of topics of current interest,” said Mayor Bill Kampe.

“There will be time for questions from the audience, so please bring any that are on your mind,” he added.

Doors open at 6:00 p.m. The talk starts at 6:30 p.m.

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Joan Skillman

along the trail, heavily used by walkers and joggers, to possibly install a pipeline for reclaimed water as part of the local water project already undertaken.

Back in 2008, a “for sale” sign was erected and the City Council looked into buying it. The price tag then was $1.6 million, and the City couldn't come up with the purchase price. At the time, there was also interest on the part of the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District, and the Coastal Conservancy. Then-Mayor Dan Cort reminded concerned citizens that property with an “O” zone such as the right-of-way would have to remain as it is unless the voters, by a simple majority, approve any change.

A man at the City Council meeting Feb. 4 told the council that he was in negotiations to buy the property. He had previously expressed interest in parcelling off a portion of the right of way at Sinex to recoup the price. City Manager Tom Frutchey said that any plans the potential purchaser had would be subject to City approval. The zoning remains with the property no matter who owns it.

The Pacific Grove Heritage Society has erected a replica “whistle stop” kiosk on the property which recalls a day when the Southern Pacific Railroad made Pacific Grove a stop. Since 1890, it had been used for passenger service, which ended in 1977. The tracks were removed in the 1980's and it became part of the Monterey Bay Recreation Trail, which goes from Castroville to Pacific Grove. Union Pacific Railroad became the owner when it merged with Southern Pacific in 1996.

Skillshots

Heritage Society Annual Meeting and Election of Board of Directors

The Pacific Grove Heritage Society will hold its annual meeting on Sunday, Feb. 22 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

The meeting will be held at Chautauqua Hall.

Phil Bowhay, Pacific Grove native and avuncular author of a popular column in the Monterey Peninsula Herald, will talk on “Recollections of Early Pacific Grove.”

Admission is free for members, but a donation of $5 will be asked of non-members. There will be refreshments served.

Friends Helping Friends

Pacific Grove Weekend Forecast

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The Friends of the Pacific Grove Library is committed to the proposition that the vitality of our town rests on an active and vibrant library and a healthy business community. To that end, we are pleased to announce: Dine Out with Friends. Every month, on the fourth Wednesday, a local restaurant will donate a portion of its take to the Friends to support the Pacific Grove Library.

Dine Out With Friends will continue on February 25 at the Victorian Corner (541 Lighthouse Avenue).

A Friendly Night at the Movies. On the second Wednesday of February, March and April (February 11, March 11, and April 8), Lighthouse Cinemas will donate 10 percent of the ticket price of everyone identifying themselves as a Friend.

Tai chi classes Offered at PG Art Center Sunny

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Beginning Tai Chi class starting March 3, 2015 12:30-1:30pm at the Pacific Grove Art Center, 568 Lighthouse Avenue, Pacific Grove. Cost is $12 per session, or $40 per month. Instructor Jack Dodson 831-278-6061

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Times 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.

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Pacific Grove’s Rain Gauge Data reported by Jack Beigle at Canterbury Woods

Week ending 2-19-15 ......................... .00” Total for the season .......................... 17.80” To date last year (2-14-14) ................. 9.93” Historical average to this date ......... 12.54” Wettest year ....................................... 47.15” (during rain year 07-01-97 through 06-30-98)

Driest year ......................................... 4.13” (during rain year 07-01-12 through 06-30-13)* *stats from NWS Montereys

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Skeptics will meet over dinner

Illia Thompson

Monterey County Skeptics will meet Wednesday, March 11, 7 p.m., at Lopez Restaurante y Cantina, 635 Cass St., Monterey. Talk skepticism, science and more with like-minded people over a casual dinner. Open to the public; held every second Wednesday of the month. Information: www.meetup.com/Monterey-County-Skeptics or MCSkeptics@gmail.com.

Book Review

Mommy, Move the Sun

“Jeanie Gould came to my Memoir Writing Class three years ago, after attempting to write the story on her own.

Her weekly dedication to write and the support of her classmates provided the impetus to continue this effort. We all became midwives (even the men) to this effort. The birth of the book becomes a cause for celebration and an inspiration.”

Illia Thompson Mommy, Move the Sun. This title speaks of a two-year-old girl sitting in her sandbox on a cool day in Pacific Grove while her mother gardens. Jeanie Gould knew that day she would have to wait for the sun to arrive at its own speed where her daughter was playing.

But she strongly felt that she would move all in the universe to be the mother that Nicki needed to lead the life she had been given.

Imagine being pregnant, happily awaiting the birth of your second child.

Without warning, your doctor tells you to make every effort to abort the child, that tests show the fetus had a disease and that the life span, if any, would be short. The name of the disease, Tuberus Sclersosis, was a complete unknown to the young mother. Only later would it become more clearly defined as internal tumors that remain with her child throughout her life time, growing without predictability of position or timing.

With grace and grit, Jeanie Gould refuses to believe that the child within her womb is not meant to be born. Defying the doctor’s advice, Nicki arrives to forever change the dynamics in the Gould household. Mommy, Move the Sun tells the story of a courageous journey, with joys and sorrows, of life with a special needs child. Though the book is targeted as a story about Nicki, it is ev-

ery bit as poignantly viewed as portraits of each family member, as three become one family of four.

Struggles include learning sign language in order to communicate with Nicki, whose deafness is not diagnosed immediately. The author describes dealing with medical professionals, from those with no sensitivity to those who care, and difficulties associated with receiving aid from agencies designed to be of service to children with special needs.

With grace and humor and sometimes the harsh voice of near defeat, the progress of attempting to solve the everyday logistics becomes a prime factor.

From times of near loss of this child, to times of sheer glee as when the father and son inexpertly dress Nicki for her night at the prom, moods change dramatically.

Jeanie’s writing becomes a magnet.

In easy to follow language, the reader is taken on an intimate journey. One truth will remain in your memory. Her clear message, “Don’t give up! “ can apply to many readers.

Mommy, Move the Sun is told from the heart to touch your heart, to open it just a bit more widely.

The book is available on at Amazon in soft cover or on Kindle, as well as in local bookshops. http://www.amazon.com/Mommy-MoveThe-Sun-Prognosis/dp/0692316116 Paperback: 204 pages Publisher: Angel Girl Publishing; 1 edition (October 17, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0692316116 ISBN-13: 978-0692316115

Marine sanctuary seeking volunteer docents

The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary is looking for volunteers interested in being trained as naturalists to help others learn about the sanctuary and ocean resources.

An information meeting for anyone interested will be held Wednesday, March 4, at 6 p.m in the sanctuary’s Monterey offices in Building 455, Heritage Harbor, 99 Pacific St., near Fisherman’s Wharf and Custom House Plaza.

The meeting will discuss the two educational docenting programs – Bay Net along the shoreline of Monterey Bay, Team Ocean based in kayaks in Elkhorn Slough and the Monterey harbor. Training and commitments will be outlined with classes to start in late March. The training involves a two-hour class one night a week for eight weeks with some Saturday field trips and trainings. No experience or special equipment is necessary.

More information is available at http://montereybay.noaa.gov, or by contacting Lisa Emanuelson, the sanctuary’s volunteer monitoring coordinator, at lisa.emanuelson@ noaa.gov or (831) 647-4227.

Library Looking for Legos

The Monterey Public Library needs donations of new and gently used Legos for its newly formed Lego program for kids to practice engineering skills and use their creativity to build Lego structures.The second “I Love Legos” Days will be held on Saturday, February 28 at 2 p.m. Kids of all ages are welcome, and admission is free.

On Saturday, February 21, 2:30 - 4 p.m., a special Legos program, “Lego Engineering Group Opportunities for Social Skills” will be presented by Susan Holland, LCSW to show how to use Legos for fun, education, and building social skills, with help for families challenged by ADHA, Asperger’s or behavior issues. This session is for kids 7-up and their parents, and registration is required. For more information call Kristine Russell at 831.646.5660 or visit www.monterey.org/library.

The Monterey Public Library is located at 625 Pacific Street, Monterey.

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Times • February 20, 2015 York School 2014-15 Semester One Honor Roll

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Throughout York School’s distinguished 55-year history, its exceptional academic program has helped students achieve at the highest levels. The Honor Roll celebrates the hard work and accomplishments of the students. Honors and High Honors at York School are granted on the basis of sincere and consistent application to the subjects studied, as reflected both by teachers’ comments and by grades. Honors are awarded to those students taking five or more unrepeated courses with no grade lower than a “B”. High Honors are awarded to students taking five or more unrepeated courses with only one grade below an “A-”, and that grade no lower than a “B”.

HIGH HONORS 12th Grade: Liam Barnard, Haley Bartl-Geller, Yuching Cao, Austin Eaton, Alison Harley, Umar Momen, Audrey Mustoe, Ellie Newman, Victoria Peet, Aaron Ray, Eunice Rhee, Isabelle Roberts, Navid Shamszadeh, Wyatt Stade, Daniel Urquidez

11th Grade: Phillip de Lorimier, Emma Finch, Katie Ishizue, Soraya Levy, Willow Limbach, Benjamin Nikssarian, Theo Palmer, Josh Rhee, Jack Scott, Maria Stanica, Corinne Trachsel, Kevin Zamzow-Pollock 10th Grade: Grace Baker, Kevin Barnard, Kate Baughn, Laura Bauman, Camilla Chesebro, Hana Cooper, Emma Cushing, Connor Goodson, Chanha Kim, Xander Laney, Jill Litman, Emily Mustoe, Alyssa Pompan, Jennie Racoosin, Syd Ragsdale-Cronin, Hannah Ray, Joseph Rhee, Genevieve Roeder-Hensley, Alden Sanford, Isabelle Sanford, Claire Simmons, Betsy Sugar, Rui Wang, Camille Warner, Maris Welch, Justin Wong, Lucy Zicarelli 9th Grade: Kaden Agha, Talia Awerbuck, Joseph Burks, Amy Cho, Lekha Duvvoori, Michael Hein, Mason McCollum, Isabelle Sharp, Madeleine Sharp, Megan Tang

Jessica Matthews admitted to Cornell College and offered a scholarship

8th Grade: Katie Calciano, Tristen Laney, Cynthia Lee, Maddie Litman, Cameron Ritchie, Natalie Sanford, Adam Shapiro, Belle Witt

Jessica Matthews of Pacific Grove has been admitted to Cornell College and offered the Founders Scholarship.

One of the 40 “Colleges That Change Lives,” Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, is a national liberal arts college with a distinctive One Course At A Time curriculum. The One Course schedule provides students the chance to dive into their studies, focus more intensely on the disciplines of their choice, and learn authentically with the unique freedom to shed the confines of the traditional classroom to study off-campus, pursue research, or accept an internship--all without missing out on other classes.

Cornell has been recognized by numerous publications for the value its education offers and for academic excellence. This year it was named of the 100 best values in liberal arts education by Kiplinger’s, one of the “Best Value Schools” among national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report, and one of the 100 Affordable Elite Colleges by Washington Monthly. Ninety-three percent of Cornell graduates earn their degrees in four years. In 2013 Cornell was named one of the 25 colleges with the best professors by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

For more information, visit www.cornellcollege.edu.

HONORS

12th Grade: Kory Campodonico-Lave, William Cushing, Riley Gaucher, Noah James, Nina Lorence, Daniel Massoudi, Jorge Mata, Quinn Murphy, Jackie Prager, Tori Prager, Coleton Rodd, Michael Rodriguez, Will Theaker, Sasha Veliko-Shapko 11th Grade: Tiana Alexander, Denny Baek, Oliver Burke, William Calciano, Amelia Chambliss, Eloise Coly, Marcos Diaz-Infante, Leonie Gray, Ryan Ixtlahuac, Chris Li, Mike Martin, Lea Noguerol, C.J. Paghasian, Geri Pirkle, Morgan Sweeney

Zachary Anglemyer of Pebble Beach makes Dean's List at RIT

10th Grade: Lilly Congo, Alex Davies, Maddie Douglas, Claire Galloway, Emma Griffin-Ortiz, Taylor Jani, Andrew Johnson, Teagan Mauck, Sara Patz, Liem Pham, Alisa Urquidez, John Yeager 9th Grade: Jared Aldape Duron, Audrey Bailey, Finn Barry, Audrey Dost, Chloe Horning, Maddie Jani, Christian Ko, Evan Li, Katie Newman, Hanh Nguyen, Mariah Peralta, Ariana Rodd, Kira Wates-Williams, Jack Whilden, Kyle Worcester-Moore

Zachary Anglemyer, of Pebble Beach, Calif., a second-year student in the mechanical engineering program in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering, made the Dean's List for the fall 2014-2015 semester.

Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for Dean's List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of "Incomplete", "D" or "F"; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours.

Rochester Institute of Technology is home to leading creators, entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers. Founded in 1829, RIT enrolls 18,000 students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, making it among the largest private universities in the U.S. The university is internationally recognized and ranked for academic leadership in business, computing, engineering, imaging science, liberal arts, sustainability, and fine and applied arts. RIT also offers unparalleled support services for deaf and hardof-hearing students. The cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation. Global partnerships include campuses in Croatia, Dubai and Kosovo.

For news, photos and videos, go to www.rit.edu/news.

8th Grade: Cindy Chen, Hadley Sprague, Kaya Von Berg

About York School

Founded in 1959, York School is a college preparatory, coeducational, independent day school for grades 8-12, located in Monterey, Calif. York is an intentionally small school with a distinctive campus culture, exceptional faculty, and a rigorous academic program, drawing students from public and independent middle schools in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties. York is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the California Association of Independent Schools, and is a member of National Association of Independent Schools and the Independent Curriculum Group.

COTA Offers Financial Assistance

Musicians, dancers, vocalists, actors, and artists ages 12-25 in need of financial assistance to further their art. are invited to applu for financial aid. Colleagues of the Arts (COTA) is holding auditions on March 14 for their 2015-2016 funding year. Applications are due Friday, February 27. All students must submit an application and be invited to the auditions. Application information is available at www.colleguesofthearts.org. Please call Jessica Aubuchon at 831-901-0598 with any questions.

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Marge Ann Jameson Cop Log 2/6/15 - 2/13/15

Dog vs. Dog Reporting party was walking his dog on Gibson when a loose pit bull attacked it. Neither dog was injured.

Animal control officer returned and cited the owner of the pit bull and advised the owner and the dog get training.

Lost in Pacific Grove An elderly lady reportedly became disoriented while going for groceries and stopped in the middle of the street.

She was advised to leave her car at the police station and an officer took her home.

Domestic disturbances Lincoln Ave., Grand Ave., Lighthouse Ave., 10th St. Lost, Found, Still at Large A wallet was lost on Forest Ave. A wallet was found on David Ave. A cell phone was found on Pine Ave. A wallet was lost on Sinex.

Camera found on Ocean view Blvd.

A picture ID from El Salvador was found.

Parking Issues A tenant on 9th St. said her lease agreement state that no vehicles are to be parked in the driveway because it blocks her in, but one of the other tenants still parks there. the officer advised that a civil standby would be needed for a trespass admonishment of the person who violated the parking situation.

Head over Handlebars A person observed a bicycle rider fall forward over the handlebars of his elliptical bicycle. He was transported to CHOMP by ambulance and the bicycle was collected for safekeeping. Officer advised the reporting party.

Cypress Falls on Car A person on Forest Hill Blvd. advised that a 50-foot cypress tree fell on his car. He was not injured and was ablt to climb from the car. PG&E was notified about the tree.

Tree Takes a Break A tree was observed leaning against a parked vehicle on David Ave., but the officer didn’t observe any damage.

Race Detail Three reserve officers privded security for the Togerther With Love race, providing safety, traffic control, giving directions, helping to set up and tear down the course. Badges and playing cards were handed out to juveniles.

Problem Customer Laundry manager advised that a customer was causing difficulties with an employee, telling her she should go to school and get a better job. Employee said she was hesitant about leaving after closing. The customer came back the next day and complained that printed receipts were killing trees, and said that she was going to take another customer’s jacket. The customer was advised that she was not welcome. Customer said she understood and called the employee “Hitler’s daughter.”

Drug use by Housesitter?

Property owner on Forest had hired housesitters and went on a trip. When she returned, she found burned foil in the bathroom. There was not enough residue to test for illegal substances.

Fender benders, no injury Hit and run on Central.

Hit and run by a beige Camry on Crocker.

Hit and run on Monarch Lane.

False Alarm A poorly latched living room window resulted in the alarm sounding. House was secured. It is registered.

Bothersome customer A Caucasian male in his fifties, wearing a brown jacket and heans, was causing a disturbance at a business in Country Club Gate. He split when he heard the police had been called, but left his backpack. The business owner didn’t want to keep it because they didn’t want the guy to come back, so the police took it for safekeeping.

Past tense sexual assault On 17th St. Involving a child, under investigation.

Authorized ... um ... website visiting A volunteer was reported using the office computer to visit inappropriate websites and printing out obscene material.

Abandoned vehicles Crocker Ave., Monarch Ln., Laurel Ave., Ocean View Blvd.

Neighbor Dispute Reporting party said the other party had been argumentative about a friend showing up as well as cleanliness issues on the patio. Both were counseed on how to live in close proximity.

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Suspicious back pack results in evacuation in Carmel On Thursday, Feb. 6, while restaurants all over the Peninsula were full of celebrities and fans of the AT&T National Pro Am, Carmel Police were forced to evacuate four blocks of downtown Carmel, both businesses and residences because of a “suspicious package.”

At about 1:00 p.m., a man left his camouflage-printed backpack at the offices of an engineering firm, saying he didn’t want to carry it around and would be “right back.” He wasn’t.

At about 5:00 an employee of the firm called police, who made the decision to evacuate the area, cordon it off, and investigate. They called the Monterey County

Sheriff’s Bomb Squad.

Bomb squad technicians x-rayed the bag and noticed mostly clothing and personal effects. But when they noticed some sort of electronics and some wiring, they elected to detonate the back pack. No one was injured.

“They took the steps they needed to take,” said Cdr. Tomasi of Carmel Police.

Some people are understandably upset. One restaurateur, Walter Georis of Casanova, said they had 300 reservations and had 40 employees waiting to go back to work.

The owner of the back pack has been identified and though charges were considered, it was determined that his mental state precluded charges being filed.

New vehicle erupts in fire on Wood St.

On Sunday night at around 9:45 p.m. the fire and police departments sirens alerted neighbrs to the alley on Wood St. (cross street Junipero) in Pacific Grove. The quick response of the fire department saved this car fire from causing anymore damage. When they arrived the flames were scorching the oak tree above. It took them about five minutes to put the fire out, then 40 or so to hack the hood off with an axe to further cool down the engine.

This is the second time in four months the fire department has rescued property in this area. In October, there was a backyard fire across Junipero.

They extinguished that fire as well with no major damage.

“This Mini Cooper was brand new. I noticed it three days before the fire.

Still had dealer plaques,” said Delmar Adams, an eyewitness.

He added that he was impressed with the response of “our great fire department.”

Letters to the Editor Cedar Street Times welcomes your letters on subjects of interest to the citizens of Pacific Grove as well as our readers elsewhere. We prefer that letters be on local topics. Cedar Street Times is an adjudicated newspaper published weekly at 306 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Press deadline is Wednesday, noon. The paper is printed on Friday and is available at 150 locations throughout the city and on the Peninsula as well as by e-mail subscription and with monthly home delivery to occupied homes in Pacific Grove.

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Applications Available for Feast of Lanterns

If you, or someone you know, is interested in being a member of the Feast of Lanterns Royal Court for 2015, know that applications are now available! This is your chance to be a part of one of our community’s oldest traditions. Applications and information on the application process can be found at our website at http:// feast-of-lanterns.org/index.php. Applications are due by 4 p.m., Friday, February 27, 2015.

Jon Guthrie’s High Hats & Parasols

100 Years Ago in Pacific Grove Main line Ladies lose … again

Word has come from the capital city that the submitted bill to legalize the female vote has been rejected. Starting in the 1870s, with attempts to being authorized to determine whether or not to bear children, suffrage has been adopted in such areas as Australia and New Zealand, but has failed to take hold in this nation. Suffragist Marguerite Sanger states that certain decisions, such as the decision to bear children, should not be unilaterally the husband’s. Sanger has sworn to continue working for women’s rights. Local women’s rights advocates have announced a meeting Saturday afternoon, next, to be held in the nave at Saint Mary’s-by-the-Sea. Pre-registration is not required but encouraged to provide a headcount in the preparation of refreshments. Cookies and punch will be enjoyed afterward. If the bill had passed, President Wilson said that he had reached no decision about signing.1

(Very) long distance call

St. Anselm’s Anglican Church Meets at 375 Lighthouse Ave. Sundays at 9:30 a.m.

Fr. Michael Bowhay 831-920-1620 Bethlehem Lutheran Church Pastor Bart Rall 800 Cass St., Monterey (831) 373-1523 Forest Hill United Methodist Church 551 Gibson Ave., Services 9 AM Sundays Rev. Richard Bowman, 831-372-7956 Pacific Coast Church 522 Central Avenue, 831-372-1942 Peninsula Christian Center 520 Pine Avenue, 831-373-0431 First Baptist Church of Pacific Grove 246 Laurel Avenue, 831-373-0741 St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church Central Avenue & 12 tsp.h Street, 831-373-4441 Community Baptist Church Monterey & Pine Avenues, 831-375-4311 Peninsula Baptist Church 1116 Funston Avenue, 831-394-5712 St. Angela Merici Catholic Church

146 8th Street, 831-655-4160

Christian Church Disciples of Christ of Pacific Grove 442 Central Avenue, 831-372-0363 First Church of God 1023 David Avenue, 831-372-5005 Jehovah’s Witnesses of Pacific Grove 1100 Sunset Drive, 831-375-2138 Church of Christ 176 Central Avenue, 831-375-3741 Lighthouse Fellowship of Pacific Grove PG Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave., 831-333-0636 Mayflower Presbyterian Church 141 14th Street, 831-373-4705 Central Presbyterian Church of Pacific Grove 325 Central Avenue, 831-375-7207

Alexander Graham Bell was on hand to demonstrate the power of his telephone device by making another long distance call. The call would extend coast to coast: from San Francisco in California to Cambridge in Massachusetts, imitating a call made twenty-five years ago. Mr. Bell would be on hand at the Massachusetts end.

Mr. Bell’s former assistant, Mr. Tom Watson, would manage things at the western terminus. The call required twenty plus minutes to connect, using five operators stationed along the calling route to create connections. It should be noted that the call was a demonstration. No actual user would be inclined to invest the connection time required.

PG licenses unchanged

The Pacific Grove Board of Trustees met Wednesday with Trustees A. J. Bunker, J. K. Paul, W. J. Gould, and G. G. Finch answering to roll call with present, and being accounted for.

Mr. Noak, representing the Coast Valley Gas & Electric Company, was the first to step forward. Mr. Noak presented the numbers on what the Grove’s board would be charged for electric service during the coming year. The proposed rate was 8ȼ per kilowatt hour per bulb. However, Noak presented the board with the option of paying $1 per day for all of the board’s bulbs, collectively, allowing for the addition of a dozen bulbs over the next year. Mr. Doolittle, who is putting in for himself a wind machine, said that he would be pleased to provide the board with power more cheaply than the company could. Mr. Doolittle said that he was able to transport his power for a distance of about 100 yards. After some discussion, the Trustees decided to say thanks, but no to Mr. Doolittle, on account of the short distance and the irregularity of his power supply. Too, most trustees prefer AC to DC power. Paul noted that on some days there might be no wind at all. Asked about an increase in rates, Mr. Noah said that permission must be gained from the Railroad Commission before any increase could be implemented.2 Trustee Graham said that he had chatted with Mr. T. A. Work, who is installing—at his own expense—a sidewalk on the west side of Grand Avenue. Graham indicated that quite a bit of cash could be saved by hiring the same crew to install the east side simultaneously. After discussion, the matter was referred to the street committee, which was given the power to act.

City clerk C. S. Johnstone, who has been researching the purchase of manhole covers, reported that he has come up with a workable model at a price of $8.75 each.

At present, a PG home sales license costs $20 per year. Tiring after a long night, the Trustees unanimously decided to leave the peddling fee unchanged.

For sale or exchange

A faithful reader, recently widowed, has been forced to put up for sale a seven room home centrally located in Pacific Grove. Newly gassed and electrified, the home is well located and features an indoor bath. Water available at the kitchen sink. Will consider trade for smaller home or an automobile for down, with terms.

Owner is also interested in unimproved acreage. Interested? Leave word with the Pacific Grove Review.

Moose sponsor music

At their last meeting, the Loyal Order of Moose agreed to improve the rather coarse image of their secret society by sponsoring a music event. Last evening, the Moose agreed that the event will be held on a Saturday afternoon, and will feature Mr. Dominic Flemistigo, a well-known soloist. Mr. Flemistigo will perform Beethoven’s First.

Seventh-Day Adventist Church of the Monterey Peninsula 375 Lighthouse Avenue, 831-372-7818 First United Methodist Church of Pacific Grove

915 Sunset @ 17-Mile Dr., Pacific Grove - (831) 372-5875 Worship: Sundays @ 10:00 a.m.

Congregation Beth Israel 5716 Carmel Valley Rd., Carmel (831) 624-2015 Chabad of Monterey 2707 David Avenue, Pacific Grove (831) 643-2770 Monterey Church of Religious Science Sunday Service 10:30 am 400 West Franklin St., Monterey • 372-7326 http://www.montereycsl.org http://www.facebook.com/MontereyChurchofReligiousScience Manjushri Dharma Center 623 Lighthouse Ave. 831-917-3969 www.khenpokarten.org

Side track Tidbits from here and there…

• Mrs. Dora Beardsley has returned from Watsonville where she has been visiting with close friends.

• The Monterey Emporium has notice of a sale placed on page 4, this issue, that is certain to be greeted with joy by our lady readers. Need to travel? Buy something and the Monterey Emporium will pay for your street car fare.

• Make an appointment to test drive a Maxwell at Culp Bros. Garage. Our 1914 model is discounted to $975.

And the cost is …

• Are you expecting? Haven’t you been expecting to open a bank account? Get your money out from under your mattress and over to the Bank of E. Cooke Smith. The sum of $1 is all that’s required to open an account. Free deposit slips and checks.

While you’re handy, rent a safe deposit box for only $2.50 yearly.

• Need a sign? Saunt & Buchannan can do the work! Standard 3’ X 4’ size, only $2.75.

Odd-shape estimates given free. Connect with Red 275.

• Get real! Grab a real estate loan from Strong & Camp. Our one loan price for all is 4%. Also, cottages for rent starting at $15 weekly.

Author’s notes …

1 Probably the politic thing to say. Neither side gets upset.

2 DC current, Edison’s preferred, can only be moved for short distances. AC, Tesla’s favorite, can be moved long distances.

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Kyle A. Krasa, Esq.

Travis H. Long, CPA

Planning for Each Generation

Travis on Taxes

Treasure in Laundry

Jerry Seinfeld has a very famous routine about the irrational nature of team loyalty in sports. I love the Green Bay Packers, but what am I really rooting for? Seinfeld points out that I’m not really rooting for any of the players because they change teams with frequency. What I’m really rooting for, Seinfeld contends, is laundry. “I want my team’s clothes to beat the clothes from another city.” If a player wears a Packers uniform, I love him. If he signs with another team and comes back to Green Bay, I boo him because he’s now wearing a different shirt! As Seinfeld says: “Laundry. We’re rooting, screaming about laundry!”

Despite Seinfeld’s mockery, sports laundry is very important to me. I love the green and gold uniforms of the Green Bay Packers but my greatest sports laundry weakness is hockey sweaters (true hockey fans refer to hockey jerseys as “sweaters” since the original uniforms were essentially sweaters). My mother purchased my first hockey sweater for me when I was in sixth grade at Pacific Grove Middle School. This was one year prior to the formation of the San Jose Sharks and I picked the New York Rangers as my favorite hockey team (I still like the Rangers, but the Sharks have emerged as my number one hockey team now). I wore my Rangers sweater almost every day. I had visions of collecting a hockey sweater from every team in the NHL. While I do not have a hockey sweater for every team in the NHL, I do have enough hockey sweaters to wear a different one every day of the month. I have sweaters from current teams such as the Sharks, Rangers, and Red Wings but my true passion is collecting sweaters of defunct hockey teams such as the Quebec Nordiques, the Hartford Whalers, and the Oakland Seals. However, my favorite hockey sweaters include a replica gold University of Minnesota Women’s Golden Gophers alternate sweater (one I had to campaign the manufacturer and the school to reproduce) featuring the legendary Amanda Kessel’s number 8, and a replica U.S. Olympic hockey sweater signed by two-time U.S. Women’s Olympic Hockey Silver medalist Kelli Stack.

My wife tries to limit my hockey sweater purchases. My defense is that at least I’m not buying game-worn sweaters which are three to four times as expensive or even more. However, a few recent articles in the news make it seem that spending more for game-used items might make more economic sense in the long run.

Various media outlets, including SB Nation, reported that a couple purchased a vintage West Point sweater at a Goodwill store in the North Carolina mountains for 58 cents. It turns out that the sweater belonged to legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi when he was an assistant coach at West Point. Experts estimate the sweater’s worth to be $20,000.

In a similar story, a recent piece from Antiques Roadshow featured a Chicago Blackhawks sweater from the 1938 season that was worn by Virgil Johnson and is currently owned by his grandson. The sweater is estimated to be worth as much as $10,000.

Unlike the many people who likely discarded the Lombardi West Point sweater over the years, at least Virgil Johnson’s family realized that the Blackhawks sweater might have some value and chose to keep it. How many family members have unwittingly discarded West Point sweaters, Blackhawks sweaters, and other items of tangible personal property from a decedent’s estate?

These stories serve to demonstrate the importance of detailing any item of tangible personal property you think might have unique value that is not obvious on the surface.

Furthermore, in the administration and settlement of an estate, it is important to verify the value of items that might appear to be junk – there could be a hidden treasure!

Although none of my hockey sweaters are worth anything monetarily, I know that they would be equally valuable to my son as they are to me. At four years old, he

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Kyle A. Krasa, Esq. is Certified as an Estate, Planning, Trust and Probate Specialist by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization

704-D Forest Avenue • Pacific Grove

Phone: 831-920-0205

www.KrasaLaw.com • kyle@KrasaLaw.com

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Back to Basics Part X - Schedule F

When the Long family emigrated from Switzerland in 1737, they settled in the colony of South Carolina. At the time, the headright system was in place, and every person received 50 acres of land for making the journey across the Atlantic. The Longs stayed in South Carolina, and the land remained in our family until my dad and his sister-in-law sold the last remaining four hundred acres about 10 years ago.

(Somewhere in our files we still have that original grant paperwork.) Four hundred acres may sound like a lot to native Californians, but the phrase "dirt cheap" actually means something in other parts of the country!

Anyway, my dad grew up on that farm raising animals, picking cotton, and then in high school, packing peaches for another farmer in the area. As time rolled on, farming became tougher for small farms, and the government eventually started paying my grandfather to NOT farm, and plant trees instead! What a deal! That was fine for my grandfather as he also had an architectural practice already dividing his time. I am sure the subsidies he received were part of some government plan aimed at decreasing supply and driving up prices for other farmers, and I am sure he had to report those on a Schedule F - Profit or Loss from Farming.

Schedule F is our topic today. Prior articles are republished on my website at www.tlongcpa.com/blog if you would like to catch up on our Back to Basics series on personal tax returns.

The header section of Schedule F is an information gathering area about the type of farming you do, your participation level in the business, and various other questions.

Similar questions can be found on Schedule C for businesses or Schedule E for rental or other supplemental income activities.

Schedule F is a two page form, and nearly half of that real estate is devoted to gathering income. By comparison most other schedules in the tax return have a tiny section devoted to income gathering. This is due to the wide variety of sources of farming income.

Section I covers income for cash basis farmers. Cash basis simply means you declare income when you receive the money, and you deduct expenses when you pay out the money. Section III on page two covers income gathering for accrual basis taxpayers. This means income is declared when it is earned (not necessarily received), and expenses are deducted when incurred (not necessarily paid).

Farming has been at the root of American lives since the country was founded, and it is not always an easy or a consistent business to run. As a result there are many special programs available to farmers (or non-farmers as in the case of my grandfather) as well as certain tax advantages. Farmers may see income from all kinds of sources, many tied to government programs or insurance, such as direct payments, patronage dividends, counter-cyclical payments, price loss coverage payments, agriculture risk coverage payments, price support payments, market gain from the repayment of a secured Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) loan gains, diversion payments, costshare payments (sight drafts), crop insurance proceeds, federal disaster payments, etc.

Due to the unpredictability of nature, there are even special provisions available to farmers that allow them to average their income over a three-year period. This is done by completing Schedule J. You can imagine being a little upset if instead of having your income spread evenly over two years and being in a top bracket of 15 percent in both years, that you make zero in one year due to a drought and double in year two due to wonderful rain and sunshine, and then wind up in a 25 percent top bracket! Not only did you suffer the hardship of having no income one year, but then you ended up with a bigger overall

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Upcoming Gentrain Society Lectures

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Gentrain Society Lecture: The Prehistory of the Monterey Peninsula Area Monterey Peninsula College Lecture Forum 103 1:30 - 2:30 pm Free; MPC Parking $2.00 Information: www.gentrain.org ; conductor@gentrain.org Dr. Gary S. Breschini has been doing archaeology in the Monterey Peninsula area for over 40 years. Research into the prehistory of the Monterey Bay area has shown that the Peninsula was occupied at least 9,500 years ago—and perhaps as much as 15,000 years ago. Evidence increasingly points to an early coastal migration southward from Alaska that reached southern Chile by about 14,800 years ago, so Monterey or Carmel bays may have also been used or occupied that early. The mountainous interior of Monterey County has a number of important Indian rock paintings or pictograph sites, which the lecture will explore. Finally, Breschini will recent DNA analyses from the Monterey Peninsula that is providing important clues to our local prehistory.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 Gentrain Society Lecture: The History of Wine Grapes and Winemaking in Monterey County Monterey Peninsula College Lecture Forum 103 1:30 - 2:30 pm Free; MPC Parking $2.00 Information: www.gentrain.org ; conductor@gentrain.org Scott Scheid, CEO of Scheid Vineyards, explores his family’s role in Monterey County’s history as one of the premier wine grape growing and wine producing regions in the world. Scheid Vineyards was founded by his father, Al Scheid, in 1972 as the Monterey Farming Corporation, a limited partnership. Scheid Vineyards is now in its 43rd year of farming, with 10 estate vineyards located along a 70-mile spread of the Salinas Valley. They’ve built a state-of-the-art winery with a crushing capacity of 30,000 tons, as well as a smaller Reserve Winery where the small production wines of Scheid Vineyards are crafted, and have wine tasting rooms in Greenfield and in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Science Saturday: Cool Cats

Where: PG Museum of Natural History When: Saturday, February 28, 2015 Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost: Free Can you leap as far as a bobcat or pull as much weight as a mountain lion?

Test your abilities and learn what makes these cats such cool predators. Compare their differences and similarities, examine skulls and real bobcat fur, as well as other activities! Join us for a fun day of crafts and activities as we explore all about bobcats and mountain lions.

Drop in anytime between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. during this free event and enjoy hands-on science activities. Museum admission is free for all guests on Science Saturday. The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History is located at 165 Forest Avenue in Pacific Grove. Call the Museum at 831-648-5716 for more information.

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wonders why he doesn’t have 30-something hockey sweaters in his collection. I told him that he needs to stop growing before he amasses his own hockey wardrobe, though he’s already up to six hockey sweaters by my last count!

(Recommended reading: The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier, a legendary Canadian children’s story.)

KRASA LAW is located at 704-D Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, California and Kyle may be reached at 831-920-0205.

Disclaimer: This article is for general information only. Reading this article does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Before acting on any of the information presented in this article, you should consult with a competent attorney who is licensed to practice law in your community.

Jane Roland

Animal Tales and Other Random Thoughts

Play Ball and Forget the Rest

A few weeks ago I was speaking to a young friend about an acquaintance who was having a hard time. “She has a tough row to hoe,” I remarked. The response was a baffled stare. Later she said “what did you mean by “she has a tough row to hoe”? Once again I was reminded about the difference between the young and the old. We banded around clichés rather often. I didn’t think much about it at the time but then I read a column in a newspaper written by Esther J. Cepeda of the Washington Post. She wrote “I am an unashamed appreciator of clichés. Maybe it’s because I started out in life as an English Language learner, clinging to familiar idioms, or because I was thrilled to hear the language of school spoke at home when my parents practiced their English.”

Shelly Emling of the Huffington Post states that “…clichés are almost never a good idea. Not only do they indicate laziness, but they are rarely used correctly. Even worse, many clichés make you sound OLD! As in ancient.” She used some examples and these were not clichés, only expressions of the time “hot diggity” and “whoopsie daisy.” I don’t use clichés in writing, or I don’t think I do; however, there are times when some of these trite phrases tell the story in a few words rather than a long explanation. “He isn’t the brightest bulb in the box” tells it as it is.

My mother would describe her feelings when she would go to the wall and use the light switch for the first time. We would stop to use the phone booth if we needed to make a call. There are thousands of people who haven’t a clue about the receptacle that held phones. What about mailboxes? They were once on every corner. We had a friend who was quite a “wag” (you young people: that means a person given to droll or mischievous humor). Alan would stand in front of the mail box at Thrifty (now Rite Aid) in Del Monte and talk to the mailbox. It never failed to send the children into paroxysms of delight.

When I was young there was no television and no information highway as such. I am not sure if all of the immediate information is a good thing. Years ago, in another life, my previous husband was stationed in Germany. He went in September, and I followed a few months later. We had an old stove in the apartment we rented in downtown Stuttgart. There was nothing to determine the heat; although it did go up and down.

I soon learned that my hand could determine the temperature and I was able to bake cakes and cookies. It is amazing what one can do if there is no alternative. Disposable diapers were yet to come. In Heidelberg I washed Jay’s (if you recall, Jay is my son) diapers in water that had to be boiled, and I hung them out on a line or over the radiators in the house. Infant formula hadn’t been invented so it was a mixture of corn syrup and evaporated milk.

Now there are stoves that are self-programming (to say nothing of cars).

The abundance of bad news haunts us. We cannot escape the barrage of bad tidings.

I am quite sure that the atrocities of ISIS have been and are matched by many others, but those involved with ISIS are skilled. They use the Internet with ease and tell us what they want us to know.

I have a serious problem with our countrymen who equate our behavior with the terrorists. Or those who talk about Jeanne d’Arc in the same breath as these modern day fanatics. This is not a religious issue – these people are savages who torture and kill with pleasure. Closer to home we hear daily about shootings in our own area. It seems that every night there have been one or two in Salinas, often gang related, with innocents caught in the middle. We don’t want to know, but we must know.

It has been a sad couple of weeks in the news media. We lost Bob Simon in an automobile crash and Brian Williams to scandal. We have watched Simon for years, specifically on 60 Minutes. He was serious when needed, but had great, good humor at other times. Brian Williams fell on his sword (ah, ha, I used a cliché), but it did no good. It is a devastating loss in both cases. How can I equate the two? It is a loss to the viewing public, no matter the circumstances. Williams needed not to have exaggerated or falsified his involvement in the war, he seemed perfect just as he was. I suspect his career is over and it is a great shame.

On the sports front we learned from Jim Harbaugh himself that he was fired from his coaching job, it was not a mutually agreeble severance. Candlestick is being demolished piece by piece and we will miss the happy years we had. Even if we were able to afford the new venue, it will never be the same.

Thank goodness we have our Giants and, except for the departure of some of our heroes, the team is pretty well intact and the season is about to start. It was a good weekend for The Crosby and Buster was there. All’s right with the world for a few minutes..

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tax bill on the same amount of income.

Another example of a favorable provision says that if you have to sell livestock due to weather-related conditions, such as a drought, you have the option of reporting the income in the year following the sale. So you get to defer the income. Your farm must be located in an area qualified for federal aid due to the weather-related condition.

Part II of Schedule F deals with gathering expenses. Due to the length of time it takes to get many crops or animals into a productive state, there are a lot of very specific rules regarding deducting versus capitalizing farm expenditures.

For example, if a crop takes more than two years growing time before it comes to fruition, you generally must capitalize the costs during the period. In most cases you can make an election to expense the costs, however. The instructions to Schedule F tell us, "you cannot make this election for the costs of planting or growing citrus or almond groves incurred before the end of the fourth tax year beginning with the tax year you planted them in their permanent grove." As you can tell, the rules can get very specific depending on what you are growing, and where!

Similar to a Schedule C business, if an unincorporated farm is owned and operated by a husband and wife in a community property state, such as California, they should split the income and expenses according to the work performed and file two Schedule Fs. This assists with filing two Schedule SEs for self-employment income for each.

Travis H. Long, CPA is located at 706-B Forest Avenue, PG, 93950 and focuses on trust, estate, individual, and business taxation. He can be reached at 831-333-1041.

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Heart Month Lectures at CHOMP

To help prevent heart disease and to increase awareness of its effects, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and its Tyler Heart Institute (THI) are participating in American Heart Month. While Monterey County has a lower rate of death from heart disease than the state of California and the nation, there is still a lot that can be done to save and improve lives.

During February, Community Hospital and THI will host free events focused on helping to identify, prevent, and treat heart disease.

February 28. Marina Healthfest.

A community health fair in Marina from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free screenings and information on diabetes, cholesterol, bone health, breast health, cancer prevention, healthy eating, and more. Rocky Han Community Center, 211 Hillcrest Avenue, Marina.

Community members can make healthy changes to lower their risk of developing heart disease. Controlling and preventing risk factors is also important for people who already have heart disease. To lower your risk: • Watch your weight.

• Quit smoking and avoid secondhand smoke.

• Control your cholesterol and blood pressure.

• If you drink alcohol, drink in moderation.

• Get active and eat healthy.

For more information on heart disease as well as a full list and links to our February heart health programs, visit www.chomp.org/hearthealth.

Refresher Training on Body Mechanics for Volunteers

Mayflower Presbyterian Church is offering one-hour safety training on body mechanics to assist volunteers to be safe in their volunteer activities. As the number of older volunteers increase as the Baby Boomers move into retirement, new challenges to keep them safe and free from injuries have emerged. Younger volunteers also can benefit from training on body mechanics.

Training will include a refresher on body conditioning, lifting, reaching, kneeling, and stooping.

The training will take place on Sunday, February 22 from noon to 1:00 p.m. at Mayflower Presbyterian Church, 141 14th Street, Pacific Grove.

Speaker will be Capp Worley, Physical Therapist. A light lunch will be served.

RSVP: 373-4705.

Libertarian Party Annual Meeting in Seaside The Libertarian Party of Monterey County will hold its annual meeting on Tues., Feb. 24 at Round Table Pizza conference room at 1717 Fremont, Seaside at 5:30 PM. New officers will be elected and delegates to the California LP state convention in Las Vegas will be determined. For more information: www.montereycountyLP.org.

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Julie Capilli Album Launch at PG Art Center

Enjoy a classy evening of live jazz and celebrate the release of Julie Capili’s new album, “Round Midnight,” at the Pacific Grove Art Center, 568 Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, February 21 from 7-9 p.m.

Joining her will be local and international talents of jazz musicians including: Ben Harod on sax, Heath Proskin on bass, and Gino Raugi on guitar.

Tickets are $15 at the door. For additional information contact the Art Center at 831-375-2208 or visit Capili’s website: www.juliesingsjazz.com .

The Lyceum of Monterey County to Hold 31st Annual Monterey County Spelling Bee

Fifty-four fourth and fifth grade finalists from 27 local private and public schools, will compete in the 31st annual Montrey County Spelling Bee on Feb. 21 at San Benancio Middle School, 43 San Benancio Road, just off Highway 68. The event is set for 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The spelling bee is free and open to the public. For information: See.lyceum.org/ events/spelling.php or phone 372 6098

Trying to clean up the swordfish catch

The mile-long drift gillnets the California swordfish industry uses snag and drown so many whales and marine mammals the fishery is considered the “dirtiest” along the West Coast. That will be the topic when Dr. Geoff Shester, California program director for Oceana, speaks to the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society in Pacific Grove on Feb. 26. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Boat Works building at Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Ocean View Blvd. It is free and open to the public.

Shester studied ways to reduce bycatch in nearshore gillnet fisheries while working out of Hopkins Marine Station, earning his doctorate from Stanford University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources.

Working out of the Monterey office for Oceana, he’s looking for ways to reduce bycatch in gillnet and trawl industries, as well as protecting forage species in the California Current ecosystem, and restoring endangered Pacific sea turtle and shark populations. Oregon and Washington have banned the drift gillnets, but California has not. Oceana has proposed transitioning away from drift gillnets completely with alternate fishing methods, such as legal harpoon gear.

Details of the program can be found on the cetacean society’s Web site at www. acsmb.org.

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• February 20, 2015

Chair Lifts and Alpenglow II the bleached skeletons of other beginners, I wondered, their tattered parkas lifting in the breeze? I leaned, planted, swiveled, unweighted and turned. Funny how those little skills come back to you when your life flashes before your eyes.

Finally, shaky but happy, we reached the main ski lodge at the base of the mountain. The restaurant and the huge indoor bar roared with après-ski festivity, and a fire blazed merrily in the big stone hearth.

Mike and I carried our coffees outside to the deserted deck.

Above us, the day’s last light kindled the peaks with the mysterious mountain light called “alpenglow,” turning the snow canopies deep pink, then rose, then crimson. At last, the final flickers of daylight leaped off the highest peaks into a starsparked cobalt sky.

Tom Stevens

(Last week we were skiing at Lake Tahoe, or, one of us was. The other was not so skilled. We take up the tale at the moment of impact).

Otter Views

I became a one-man avalanche, tumbling and clattering downhill like something ejected at high speed from a trash compactor. I finally skidded to a halt on my belly, skis hopelessly entangled, my arms outstretched. I lay like that for some time, taking slow, raspy breaths, intent on milking the scene for its dramatic possibilities.

“Great fall!” my brother Mike shouted. “You didn’t even lose your skis!”

Indeed, the skis were still attached to my legs, which were still attached to my body. I could see my arms out in front of me, so I knew my head was still attached, too. Amazingly, I didn’t hurt. That would come later.

“That was fun!” I grunted, ratcheting my skis around. “I want to do that again!”

“I’m sure you will,” Mike said. “But first, let’s run through ‘the snowplow’ one more time.”

Ah, yes. The “snowplow.” How could I have forgotten this simple survival stance: body in a fetal crouch, arms akimbo, knees bent inward, ski tips angled toward each other?

Planting my poles in the slope uphill, I heaved myself onto my feet. Then Mike demonstrated the snowplow, showing how a transfer of weight from one ski to the other would enable me to make primitive turns and thus control my rate of descent.

Or something like that.

At length we pushed off again. Soon Mike was flying over moguls and slashing through the deep powder that lay in pockets beneath stands of pines. The sun winked off his poles as he flicked off down

the hill.

I crept downward in my hunched snowplow position, crabbing across the flank of the hill, then turning wildly and crabbing back in the other direction.

“Lean, plant, swivel, unweight, turn!”

I recited my brother’s mantra-like instructions, executing a “snowplow turn” without great bodily harm. If the hill steepened and I got moving too fast, I would simply crash-dive to the side, kamikaze-style.

This method worked well so long as I skied “intermediate” slopes like Weasel and Sherwood Forest. But at the end of the day all the skiers on the mountain had to go down something called the “Valley Run.” This was a steep, narrow road of snow into which all the other ski runs funneled.

Roughly two miles long, it snaked from the mid-mountain lift stations to the main ski lodge at the head of the parking lot.

For accomplished Tahoe-area skiers, the Valley Run is the perfect ending to a vigorous day on the slopes – a long, fast glide with a full lake view and the fellowship of hundreds of happy companions.

But to a displaced islander, it was a different kettle of ice entirely. I called it the “Valley of the Shadow of Death Run,” because I feared some evil.

“OK, we’re going down the Valley Run now,” my brother said solemnly.

“Your kamikaze crash dives won’t work on this one. Just stay in the snowplow and take your time.”

As we stood at the crest of that final run, I gazed out upon God’s white earth.

Most of the mountain was in shadow, but

Last Week to See ‘Conservation Is’ at PG Art Center the highest peaks burned with a clean, gold fire. The sky behind them ached with color.

The forests were dark and still. A full moon floated over the lake. I didn’t want to leave.

“Time to go,” Mike said. We pushed off and were soon hurtling down the snow freeway with hundreds of other skiers, some white-haired, some barely out of kindergarten, all more skillful than I. “Passing on your right,” they would call before rocketing past, or “Watch out to the left!” But nobody yelled: “Use the chairlift, flatlander!” I was grateful for that.

Locked into a rigid fearplow, I skirted the sheer drop-offs on the downhill side of the run. Were those ravines littered with

If you haven’t seen the “Conservation Is…” art exhibits at the Pacific Grove Art Center, 568 Lighthouse Ave. in Pacific Grove, drop by soon – they will close February 26.

Exhibiting artists include Marte Thompson, Gene Anderson, Larise Baker, Ethan Estess, the Santa Cruz Oil Painters, and the Pacific Grove Community High School and includes paintings, photography, basketry, and recycled art, with an emphasis on conservation.

The nonprofit Art Center is always free and open to the public from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and from 1-4 p.m. on Sundays.For more information, call the Art Center, 831-375-2208, www.pgartcenter.org

Programs at the Library

For more information call 648-5760 Wednesday, Feb. 25 • 11:00 am Pre-School stories, ages 2-5.

Wednesday, Feb. 25 • 3:45 pm “Wacky Wednesday” presents Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss: stories, science and crafts for all ages.

Thursday, Feb. 26 • 11:00 am Stories for Babies and Toddlers ages birth-2.

Thursday, Feb. 26 • 3:00 pm “Tales to Tails”: Children can read out loud to certified therapy dogs in the children’s area of the Pacific Grove Library.

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Wednesday, March 4 • 3:45 pm “Wacky Wednesday” after-school program presents What Should I Wear?: stories, science and crafts for all ages.

Thursday, March 5 • 11:00 am Stories for Babies and Toddlers, ages birth-2.

Thursday, March 5 3:00 pm “Tales to Tails”: Children can read out loud to certified therapy dogs in the children’s area of the Pacific Grove Library, 550 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove 93950. For .

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Where Have All the Bodies Gone?

Counting Graves along Monterey County’s Homeless Trail of Tears Enumerating live homeless people in Monterey County is difficult; counting the dead is not impossible. The 2015 Pointin-Time Homeless Survey indicates 7000 homeless children now live in Monterey County, but no one knows exactly how many homeless died here over the past decade.

According to Detective Sergeant Archie Warren of the Monterey County Sheriff’s Dept., “Our computer system can track homeless individuals when this box is checked in our SIRRON program, but it goes back, I believe, until 2007 when the program was purchased.”

Sacramento County has an exemplary homeless-tracking record. According to reporter Cynthia Hubert in The Sacramento Bee (12/20/13), there were at least 500 homeless deaths in Sacramento County between 2003 and 2013.

More than 2,000 people were homeless on any given night. Deaths per season were: spring–24 percent; summer–26 percent; fall–24 percent; winter–26 percent.

In Seaside, two dead homeless people were found last year in Laguna Grande An autopsy for an unattended homeless person’s death costs taxpayers about Park. Michael Paul Verga, 55, was dis- $1000. covered July 25. His body was so badly decomposed in a shallow grave that cause Homelessness is costly to taxpayers. A tion. of death could not be determined. He big chunk of the Monterey County CoroDet. Sgt.Warren says, “If a person is had a record of alcohol-related crimes. ner/ Sheriff’s budget goes for contracts indigent and (has) no next of kin, they are Charlene Leslie, 58, was found on Sept. with medical examiners and forensic cremated and their remains are spread at 15 floating under the park’s foot bridge. A pathologists. In 2012, County Supervi- the county cemetery.” veteran, she turned to alcohol and became sors approved establishment of a separate The Monterey County Cemetery homeless after her own son was killed in Medical Examiner’s unit, a plan not yet in (Potters Cemetery) is located at Natividad military service. operation. The sheriff picks up the tab for Road and Laurel Road, Salinas. As part of Verga and Leslie were identified post- both the medical examiner/forensics inves- the online California History & Genealogy mortem. What might have happened if tigators and disposal of remains of indigent Archives, Tim Reese reviewed Monterey they remained unidentified? Are indigents’ decedents like Michael Paul Verga.

County Cemetery as a place “where the organs harvested for medical transplants, Money played a key role in shortening homeless/transient dead whose bodies or their bodies donated as cadavers on the career of Monterey County’s long-term were never claimed by loved ones are which medical students practice dissec- medical examiner, John Hain, M.D. Dr. buried” along with unidentified victims tion?

Hain served as ME for nearly 25 years of crimes and prisoners who died while Section 102870 (s) of the California when a contract dispute that came to in jail. He calls it a 20-30 acre droughtHealth and Safety Code regarding Uniden- light in 2011 forced him to work for three cracked lot with “cracks that span an avertified Persons mandates that if the coroner months without pay. age of 1 to 2 inches wide” and “the dead or medical examiner, with the aid of dental When Dr. Hain finally retired in 2012, are marked with a 2-FT by 2-FT concrete examination and other identifying find- average cost per autopsy was $1,000 and square with a metallic number affixed or ings, is still unable to establish the identity his annual income was $360,000. Accord- stamped to the center.” of a human body or other remains, dental ing to Sheriff/Coroner Steve Bernal’s pubTo match identities, Reese says, “… examination records shall be forward to lic information office, Dr. Hain remains on go to the County Records Dept. on 168 the Dept. of Justice and the DOJ shall call as needed.

West Alisal St. in Salinas to look at the act as a repository or computer center, or If efforts fail at identifying a decedent, names buried there, then match it to the both, with respect to dental examinations an alias might be assigned by investiga- number block.” Reese found only two and final report of investigation specified tors who use familiar tags like Jane Doe graves among an estimated 250-350 that in Section 27521 of the Government Code. for adult females and John Doe for adult had actual names on them. Reese conThe jaw is not be removed until im- males. However, Monterey County also cludes, “This is the lowest form of burial mediately before the cremation or burial. uses numbers for cross-match identifica-

Wanda Sue Parrott

Homeless in Paradise

cemetery sites that I have ever seen in Monterey County, or anywhere else.”

If a dead body is unidentified, the coroner, medical examiner or other agency performing a post-mortem examination must submit dental charts and x-rays to the DOJ within 45 days of date the body or remains were discovered; if identified, a final report must be submitted within 180 days. The jaw shall not be removed until immediately before the cremation or burial.

Alternatives to burial or cremation are explained by Det. Sgt. Warren: “Generally we look at the time frame after death and, depending on the type of death, we will determine if there will be a transplant conducted on the decedent. It is a case-by-case decision regarding transplanting organs.”

Twenty-seven percent of Sacramento County’s homeless deaths were documented cases of drug and alcohol abuse.

Ten percent were veterans. Seventy-seven percent had jail records. Half died on weekends, mostly downtown and along transportation corridors. Average age at death for homeless women was 47; for men, 50.

While awaiting publication of vital statistics hypothetically titled “Deaths along Monterey County’s Homeless Trail of Tears,” consider how Charlene Leslie’s homeless friends identified her final resting place: They marked the place she died instead of her permanent obscure grave.

Visitors strolling across the footbridge in Seaside’s Laguna Grande Park witness more than adorable ducks paddling in the lake. They discover these hand-painted eulogies on the rail: Charlene Leslie 6-4-51 to 9-15-14 Will miss you and always have a special place in my heart.

Love, Deanna and John

Charlene, my dearest friend, I miss your laughter. You are missed.

See you at the Cross Road.

RIP, Gloria C-YA on the Other Side. Kimberley

Contact Wanda Sue Parrott at Books for Beds by leaving a message with The Yodel Poet at 831-899-5887 or e–mail amykitchenerfdn@hotmail.com . : .

30th Annual Together with Love Run/Walk Braved the Rain Despite rainy weather before and after, the 30th Annual Together with Love 5/10K Run/Walk was a huge success raising over $36,000. 1031 competitive runners, joggers, and walkers crossed the finish line and 54 kids participated in the 1K kids’ Fun Run, with many coming from Boys and Girls Club of Monterey County and the Community Partnership for Youth.

One hundred percent of the money raised goes directly to the Rape Crisis Center’s various programs. Our Rape Prevention Education Program which provides classroom Rape Prevention Education presentations to middle and high school students, 10 weekly rape prevention education clubs for young men and women in six high schools around Monterey County, and presentations at our county higher education campuses.

Our Crisis Intervention Program provides a 24-hour crisis line for sexual violence survivors, accompaniment to the hospital during the forensic exam after an assault, support through the criminal justice system, as well as therapy for survivors.

The Rape Crisis Center is currently looking for volunteers for our Spring Sexual Assault Advocate Training which begins March 3. Bilingual Spanish-speaking volunteers are highly needed.

All participants in the 10K/5K received a long-sleeved performance running T-shirt with the official 2015 “Together with Love” logo designed by CSUMB graphic design student Diana Mejia. Join us next year on Valentine’s Day for the 31st Annual “Together with Love” 5/10K Run/Walk. If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence, call (831) 375-HELP or (831) 424-HELP for support.

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• February 20, 2015

‘The Wrath of John Steinbeck’ Plus Cho Qosh Auh’ho’oh

By Patricia Hamilton, with Gary Karnes John Steinbeck lived in Pacific Grove in the late 1930s and is one of the catalysts for many activists in Monterey County featured in the book, “The People’s Oral History Project” (http://www.peoplesoralhistoryprojectmc.org/). Although Steinbeck was an introvert and shunned publicity, he attempted to effect social change through his subjective view of the plight of migrant farm workers and their families, in his book The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940—and was burned in Salinas and in Kern County in 1939. Steinbeck received death threats and as such was given a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

At the time the photograph below of burning The Grapes of Wrath was taken, Pruett had not read the novel. Years later, after he read the book at the behest of Rick Wartzman, Pruett declared that he had no regrets about burning it.—photo courtesy of the Kern County Museum.

Steinbeck’s writing is a standard of the activism of the liberal left and the three famous social critics who lived on the Peninsula: John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Henry Miller. “The Wrath of John Steinbeck or St. John Goes to Church,” written by Robert Bennett and illustrated by Artemis, is about Steinbeck’s life of activism.

Native Indian Activist: Judith Monroy Activists wear many guises: envelopestuffer, picket line marcher, flag waver, organizer, orator or patron.

In August 1985, Judith Monroy, a Na-

Patricia Hamilton

Keepers of our Culture

Judith Monroy (Cho Qosh Auh’ho’oh) tive Chumash Indian GrandMother and activist who lived in Pacific Grove, bravely stood up in a packed Carmel Mission during the celebration of Serra’s birth and disrupted the ceremonies attended by all 28 Catholic bishops in a filled-to-capacity church, to say, “You should not canonize Father Junipero Serra. He did bad things to our people.”

Local Native Americans criticize Father Serra’s brutal treatment of their ancestors and associate him with the suppression of their culture and the forced labor of so many local Native Americans. Later Pope John Paul II came to the Carmel Mission and, at his side were President and Nancy Reagan and Clint Eastwood, said, “Well Below: Clell Pruett burning a copy of “The Grapes Of Wrath” as Bill Camp and another leader of the Associated Farmers stand by.

done, Father Junipero Serra. Well done for God, well done for the United States of America.”

Recently Pope Francis announced he was reconsidering the canonization of Junipero Serra.

Monroy, now known as Cho Qosh Auh’ho’oh, AKA the Big Mamooo, hosted her own show on KAZU in the 1980s and taught for years at Cabrillo College and the University of California at Berkeley.

Cho Qosh was chosen for inclusion in the People’s Oral History Project because of her bravery in challenging authority and the manufactured history provided by the Catholic Diocese campaigning for Serra’s ascension to sainthood, which included the production of a comic book for children.

Other local Native Americans such as Louise Ramirez continue their activism providing leadership of the Ohlone/ Costanoan–Esselen Indians of the Greater Monterey Bay Area (http://ohlonecostanoanesselennation.org/). Presently Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation represents over 600 enrolled tribal members of both Esselen and Carmeleno descent from at least 19 villages from a contiguous region surrounding Monterey Bay. They work for reaffirmation as a Federally Recognized Tribe to regain ownership of tribal lands.

John Steinbeck and Judith Monroy are just two of the activists who live or have lived in Pacific Grove that are written about in the “Peoples Oral History Project.”

Please help this story collecting effort by making a tax-deductible contribution for project materials: www.indiegogo.com. Join them on Facebook.com/groups/OralHistory. Email PeoplesOralHistory@gmail.com, Phone: 831-402-9106.The People’s Oral History Project (POHP) is a program of the Monterey Peace & Justice Center (MPJC), which is a 501(c3) nonprofit corporation.

IRS ID # 56-2554581. MPJC’s primary objective and purpose is to educate the public about peace, social justice, nonviolence and democracy.

Joyce Krieg and Patricia Hamilton are the instructors of Pacific Grove’s popular series of Guided Autobiography classes. You may sign up now for new GAB 6-week sessions, beginning March 26, at http://keepersofourculture.com. For more information e-mail publishingbiz@ sbcglobal.net or call 831-649-6640.

Legal Notices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20150234 The following person is doing business as DVI COMPUTERS LLC, 9331 King Rd., Salinas, Monterey County, CA 93907. DVI Computers LLC, P.O.Box 6221, Salinas, CA 93912. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Jan. 29, 2015.

Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on 1/29/2015. Signed: Cary Daniel Palmer, Manager. This business is conducted by a limited liability company.

Publication dates: 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20150228 The following person is doing business as ALTO PALMIER, 18499 Northridge Dr., Salinas, Monterey County, CA 93906. Paul G. Morales, 18499 Northridge Dr., Salinas, CA 93906. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Jan. 28, 2015.

Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on 1/1/2015. Signed: Paul G. Morales. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20150176 The following person is doing business as INNER SPACE DESIGN, 259 Viking Lane, Marina, Monterey County, CA 93933. HOLLY NICHOLE NUTT, 259 Viking Lane, Marina, CA 93933. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Jan. 22, 2015. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on 1/1/2015. Signed: Holly N. Nutt. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20150263 The following person is doing business as MONTEREY PREMIER and QUIROZ.CO, 287 Hibbing Cir., Marina, Monterey County, CA 93933. EUGENE QUIROZ, 287 Hibbing Cir., Marina CA 93933.

This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Feb. 02, 2015. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on 1/1/2013. Signed: Eugene Quiroz. This business is conducted by an individual.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20150358 The following person is doing business as KAMADOWORKS, 100 Dolores St., Carmel, Monterey County, CA 93923. JAMES BAIREY, 963 Coral Dr., Pebble Beach, CA 93933. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Feb. 12, 2015.

Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on n/a. Signed: James Bairey. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13/15

Call 831-324-4742 about placing legal notices

5th Annual Carmel Jewish Film Festival Program

The fifth annual Carmel Jewish Film Festival (CJFF), featuring eight awardwinning movies from six countries, as well as speakers and panel discussions, will be held March 7-22. Programs will be presented at Congregation Beth Israel, on Carmel Valley Road near the mouth of Carmel Valley, the Golden Bough Playhouse in Carmel and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

Tickets may be purchased through the CJFF website, www.carmeljff.org, or by calling 800-838-3006.

“Our mission is to celebrate the artistry of film and to educate viewers with film offerings conceived and created through a uniquely Jewish lens,” says Susan Greenbaum, event co-chair. “We hope that our festival will help bridge cultural and religious differences and contribute to solidarity and peace within our greater community.”

Films are from Macedonia, United States, France, Israel, Germany and Canada.

Among the highlight of the festival: On Opening Night, Saturday, March 7 at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Macedonian film, “The Third Half” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. A true story of love, football, and the Second World War, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish banker and a poor soccer player elope and ultimately elude the bitter destiny of her people. At the conclusion of the movie there will be a panel discussion featuring MIIS and CSUMB faculty members on the topic, “Identity: What Makes Us Who We Are?” A rare appearance by world-renown Israeli psychiatrist Ilan Kutz will follow the showing of “Dolphin Boy” on Sunday, March 8 at 5:00 p.m. at the Golden Bough Playhouse in Carmel. Dr. Kutz, who appears in the film, specializes in trauma therapy. Over a four-year period, the film tracks the progress of Morad, an Israeli Arab boy who was severely beaten, by employing the use dolphin therapy.

A panel discussion on the topic of race relations and civil rights featuring Ann Todd Jealous (Civil rights activist and author), Brad Herzog (Pacific Grove author) and Rabbi Bruce Greenbaum will follow the film, “Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent.” The film will be shown at Congregation Beth Israel on Tuesday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m.

The showing of U.S. film “Above and Beyond” will precede a Q & A with film producer Nancy Spielberg, sister of Steven Spielberg. The film and discussion will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 14 at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Irvine Auditorium.

The film portrays World War II veterans from the U.S. who volunteered to defend the new country of Israel, turning the tide of the War of Independence.

On Closing Night, March 22, 7:30 pm at Congregation Beth Israel in Carmel, SFSU professor and Jewish historian, Marc Dollinger, will speak after the showing of “American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco.” This epic story portrays the role of the pioneering Jews who settled in San Francisco beginning with the Gold Rush.

Additional information about all films and events can be found on the Carmel Jewish Film Festival website: www.carmeljff.org

Times • Page 13 Benjamin Brode Shows at Steinbeck: Art of Fiction Exhibit February 20, 2015 • CEDAR STREET

Sketches and paintings from his collaboration with Thomas Steinbeck

“Steinbeck: The Art of Fiction,” an exhibit of sculpture, photography, and paintings featuring artistic interpretations of the author’s fiction opened recently in Pacific Grove at the American Tin Cannery, Suite 201 (upstairs) to celebrate the author’s enduring talent. In addition to the permanent exhibit, the show will include one-day showings and lectures by featured artists during its run.

On Saturday, February 21, painter Benjamin Brode will join the exhibit to show a number of his original images that are a part of the artistic collaboration between author Thomas Steinbeck and artist Brode for the book: In Search of the Dark Watcher. At 6:00 Brode will discuss his process and work included in this collaborative work with his friend Thomas Steinbeck, who wrote the prologue and epilogue that created the perfect context for Brode’s landscape paintings of Big Sur. A wine reception will follow the lecture.

Come see the story of the Dark Watchers in Brode’s work.

The Cannery Row Foundation In Association with THE HISTORY COMPANY Presents the 2015 debut of our CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM At the Hopkins Marine Station “Monterey Boat Works” Auditorium 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, February 21, 2015 Open to the Public • $25 per person admission, limited seating Special Exhibit Benjamin Brode and Tom Steinbeck at 6:00 at American Tin Cannery, Suite 201

Student Production Steals the Show

Did you hear the

Sound of Music at Pacific Grove Middle School?

Photos by Daniel and Karen Levy

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Pacific Grove

Sports

Annual Breast Cancer Bowl-A-Thon

Local women with breast cancer who have young children will rceive muchneeded financial assistance from the annual Breast Caner Assistance Group of the Monterey Peninsula’s annual Bowl-A-Thon. The event will be held at Montery Lanre, 2161 N. Fremont in Monterey. The event is set for March 14.

Donations, sponsors and team sign-ups are sought. Silent Auction or raffle items could include products, gift cards, or services, for example.

Sponsors are sought at various levels: Adopt a Bowler, $50 Be a Bowler, $50 Adopt a team, $250 Add my Team of 6, $300 Spare some change, $75 Strike it Rich, $100 Pink Pin Sponors (Banner recognition), $500 For more information about the event, contact Jane Sullivan at 831-595-3707, email sulljane@aol.com. The BCAG office is at 831-649-6365. You may also visit the BCAG website at http://bcagmp.org to learn more.

Pacific Grove Golf Links New Year Lesson Series

Did you make a resolution to take a few strokes off your golf game? PG Professionals Ben Alexander and Gavin Bucher, with the assistance of Pacific Grove Golf Links, are here to make golf fun and improve your score.

Whether you are brand new to the game or have played for years, we will improve your golf game.

This series of three sessions will give you a look at the game from a different part of the golf course -- the ground up. This series is designed to improve your score and teach you to play Pacific Grove Golf Links, bringing a distinct advantage to your friendly golf game.

Join us February 22, March 1 and March 8 from 4:00-5:30 p.m.!

February 22: “Bump and Run” To Have Some Fun (1.5-hour session) Learn to play the shot that is meant for Pacific Grove Golf Links the bump and run - with all the clubs in your bag. You will find the game is easier when played on the ground!

March 1: Tips & Tricks - The Back 9 at Pacific Grove Golf Links (1.5-hour session) On-course training to better prepare you to score on the back nine holes March 8: Tips & Tricks - The Front 9 at Pacific Grove Golf Links (1.5-hour session) On-course training to better prepare you to score on the front nine holes Cost: $75/person Three sessions with PGA Professionals Includes a $25 gift card redeemable toward golf, merchandise, range balls, or golf lessions Sign up by Feb. 21! See the Pro Shop at PG Golf Links or call 831-648-5775

Girls Soccer: Pacific Grove and Greenfield Capture First MTAL Title

By Jon Charron Pacific Grove, who started out the season 7-0-2 in MTAL League play, lost three of their final 5 games, including, a 5-3 loss to Santa Catalina in the season finale. [02-17-15] It was not all bad for the Breakers though, as they entered the final day of girls’ soccer with the same record as Greenfield, who were tied with Pacific Grove for first place. Greenfield finished off their season with a loss as well, losing to Soledad 4-2 on Tuesday night, and giving the Breakers and Bruins a share of the MTAL. This is the first time that the Breakers or Bruins have won a league title in girls’ soccer.

Meetings will take place this weekend to determine the seeds for the CCS playoffs. With the playoffs starting next week MTAL Final Standings

League Overall Greenfield 8-3-3 10-5-3 Pacific Grove 8-3-3 8-6-3 Soledad 8-4-2 8-6-2 Santa Catalina 7-5-2 7-7-2 Carmel 6-4-3 9-5-3 King City 5-5-3 5-8-4 Stevenson 3-8-2 4-8-2 Gonzales 0-13 1-15

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Golf Tips Ben Alexander PGA PGA Teaching Professional, Pacific Grove Golf Links, Bayonet Golf Course PGA Teacher Of The Year, No Cal PGA 831-277-9001 www.benalexandergolf.com

Well, the ATT was a busy week. We can all learn so much from the pros this week.

When I teach lessons each day I notice one common problem new players have.They have poor balance with their feet. As they hit a shot they fall back from the target. The pros finish facing the target with their, chest, belt buckle and right knee facing the target. This will allow the arms to work together with the body turn. Here is a great tip: Hold your finish facing the target for four seconds. Count one, two, three, four out loud. This will help you create better balance for a basic golf swing.

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MORTUARY

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PAINTING

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G n d

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PETS

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TAX SERVICE

Travis H. Long, CPA

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FAVALORO CONSTRUCTION Is your home ready for winter?

I can help, call Joseph

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UPHOLSTERY

Expert Furniture Repairs All Types of Furniture Welcome Free Quotes 831-324-3388 831-521-8195

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WINDOW CLEANING

INC.

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831.655.3821

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Mike Millette, Owner 831-277-8101 mikejmillette@gmail.com

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ENTERTAINMENT

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FLOORING/WINDOW COVERING

HAULING CLEAN-UPS R E PA I R S

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KITCHEN & BATH DESIGN

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(831) 624-5615

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PLUMBING

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PUBLISHING

Full Service

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WINTERIZING WEDDINGS

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Kevin Robinson 831.655.3821

831.655.3821

INC.

Power Washing Chandeliers Discounts Available

INC.

230 Fountain Ave. Suite 8 Pacific Grove 93950

Home Town Service Since 1979

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PIANO LESSONS

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AREA RUGS • CARPET • CORK • HARDWOOD • LAMINATE • VINYL UPHOLSTERY • WINDOW COVERINGS

KAYMAN KLEAN WINDOWS

HAULING

YARD MAINTENANCE

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Whatever it takes to keep your property looking great!

Call for a FREE estimate 831-917-4410 Bordwell33@gmail.com

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PACIFIC GROVE | $2,675,000 Nestled on a corner in the desirable Beach Tract, this 3BR/ 4BA home is just a stone’s throw away from Coral Street Beach.

PACIFIC GROVE | $2,498,000 The ultimate ocean front getaway to enjoy the sound of the white water with awesome views of the rocky coastline, & 18th tee.

MONTEREY | $2,295,000 In Peters Gate is this 4BR/3.5BA, 4,000 sq. ft. oasis. Exquisite details, three levels with a gourmet kitchen, a pool and spa.

Amber Russell 831.402.1982

David Bindel 831.238.6152

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OPEN SAT 1-3

PEBBLE BEACH | $1,399,000 3BR/3BA home with vaulted ceiling, formal dining room and oversized great room with fireplace. Oversized 4+ car garage.

PACIFIC GROVE | 201 3rd Street PACIFCI GROVE | $895,000 San Francisco style 3BR/2.5Ba home with Wind-swept Cypress trees adorn this sensational views of the Monterey Bay from every room. lot, located near the ocean. Simply stunning. $1,348,000

Debby Beck 831.915.9710

Amber Russell 831.402.1982

Dave Randall 831.241.8871

OPEN FRI 4-6, SAT 12-4, SUN 1-3

MONTEREY | $675,000 Vaulted ceilings, new exterior paint, low maintenance yard, open kitchen and master suite with open views.

PACIFCI GROVE | $650,000 Two vintage 873 sq. ft. storefronts with showrooms and storage areas in prime location by the bay.

MONTEREY | 1 Surf Way # 127 Sensational 2BR/2BA Condo right on the Monterey Bay. Close proximity to all the attractions features a large storage room. $595,000

Mark Trapin, Robin Anderson 831.601.4934

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