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Inside100 Years Ago in Pacific Grove .......... 6Animal Tales & Other Random Thoughts ................ 8Cartoon ............................................. 2Cop Log ............................................. 7FYI ................................................... 18Homeless in Paradise ........................ 4Keepers of Our Culture ..................... 7Legal Notices .................................. 15NEW! Monterey Mommies................ 4Opinion .......................................... 15Otter Views ....................................... 9Performance Review ....................... 15Rainfall ............................................. 2Real Estate..................... 3, 5, 9, 19, 20Sports ....................................... 16, 17Weather ............................................ 2 YEAR IN REVIEW 2014 ............. 10-12

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site more often to see what we put there between print issues and what may have not made it into the print version. We print on Fridays and distribute to more than 150 sites. And we will continue to do so come rain, snow, or sleet. In between, we update our website at least once/day. Did you have to wait until today to read some of these stories? Please see www.cedarstreettimes.com

The count of the monarchs as of 12/16/14 is 20,305.

Check the Museum website for more information:

http://www.pgmuseum.org/monarchs#monarchcount

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Sat. Dec. 20Howard Burnham’s

Reading of Charles Dickens’A Christmas Carol

PG Art Center568 Lighthouse

$10•

Sat. Dec. 20 at 7 PMSun. Dec. 21 at 2 PM

The NutcrackerSanta Catalina School

Tickets $12-18Call 372-0388

•Sun. Dec. 211:00 to 4:00 PM

Writing Workshopon artwork as inspirationby Dr. Barbara Mossberg

Free•

Sun. Dec. 21Christmas Carol Sing-Along

Mayflower Church2 PM

Corner Central and 14th•

Wed. Dec. 24Christmas Eve Service

Mayflower ChurchCentral and 14th

Children’s pageant 6 PMCandlelight Service 11 PM

•Wed. Dec. 24

Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service

6:30 – 8:00 PM Pacific Coast Church522 Central Avenue

Pacific Grove•

Sat. Dec 27Folksongs from Steinbeck

Countryby Adam Miller

Film: Mystery of Dreams 3DFrom John Harris

Museum of Monterey$20 in advance

Call (831) 372-2608•

Fri. Jan 26PM

Juice N Java Live MusicChrist Bohrman

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So Proud of his Medal

Young ‘Jingler’ shows off his medal after last weekend’s Jingle Bell Run.

Jingle Bell Run Meets GoalAlexandra Fallon, regional manager of the Arthritis Foundation,

has announced that the annual run/walk fund-raiser had more than 1,300 participants and met their goal. Runners and walkers of all ages, some dressed in holiday costumes or wearing reindeer antlers, garnered sponsors and turned out on a brisk -- but dry and sunny -- morning to run the popular event.

Merry Christmas!From all the contributors at

Sen. Monning Appointed Majority Leader Here’s a Happy Christmas PresentFormer PGPD Commander Seeks Plea Bargain in Weapons

CaseMonterey County Announces Winter Recess Schedule for

County OfficesCity Adds New Feature to its Website The Elephant in America’s Living RoomSchools receive $196,430.76 from librarian’s estateChurch of the Wayfarer Opens Scholarship Program for High

School SeniorsFarr, Rohrabacher Hail Medical Marijuana Amendment in

Funding BillNWS rainfall totals for the last stormBreaker Classic: Girls go 1-1, while the Boys go 2-0Pacific Grove Man Detonates ‘Seal Bomb’ Near Gas Station Monterey Fire Storm Statistics as of 12-12-14Cone Zone Report – SCHEDULED road work 12/14-12/21/14Hwy 1 Big Sur Closed – Rock/Mud SlidesStay away from the beach!!!Storm Road Closures

Parking for Houseless Trial Passes First Reading Unanimously

An ordinance authorizing a pilot program to allow permitting of certain locations to allow overnight parking for people living in their vehicles passed its first reading at the City Council Dec. 15. There will be a few changes, for clarity, before the second reading at the next City Council meeting in January, 2015.

It is hoped the program will provide some stability for those in need while they transition to more permanent housing.

The ordinance will allow churches and other entities to obtain a site permit and then in turn to issue permits to sleep overnight. So far, the First United Methodist Church has stepped up and requested to allow five such permits, the maximum church officials feel they can handle. Seven are to be allowed citywide.

Under the program, the City will issue permits to the owners of the property at no charge. Owners then issue permits, following set guidelines, to homeless people who sleep in their vehicles to park

Sidewalk Dining Will Get A 13-Month Try

After much discussion, a first reading was held to allow a pilot program for side-walk dining in downtown Pacific Grove. It passed 5-2, with Robert Huitt and Dan Miller dissenting.

The idea, which has proved extremely popular with the public both in voice and mail comments as well as in a survey taken by the City, still faces opposition and there will be some clarifications in the second reading. Primarily, it seems that Huitt and Miller are

Robert Huitt Re-Elected as Mayor Pro Tem

Councilmembers voted to re-elect Robert Huitt as Mayor Pro Tem, with Rudy Fischer running a close second.

Mayors Pro Tem sit in at council meet-ings and represent the elected mayor if that person cannot be there.

There is no specified term for mayors pro tem.

Huitt pointed out that his institutional knowledge of the dealings of the City made him a good choice.

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

Week ending 12-18-14........................Total for the season ..........................To date last year (12-13-13) ..............Historical average to this date .........

Wettest year .......................................(during rain year 07-01-97 through 06-30-98)

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

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A graduate of Pacific Grove High School, Class of 1937, has bequeathed the sizable sum of $196,430.76 to three schools in the Pacific Grove Unified School District.

Georgia Lyke Shetenhelm died in November, 2014 at her childhood home in Pacific Grove. She was born in Ithaca, NY and was orphaned by the age of 9. Her aunt brought her here by train to live with her maternal grandfather, General Edward Hinkley Plummer, whose regiments built the present Presidio of Monterey.

Georgia Shetenhelm was a librarian all her life. After high school graduation, she obtained her AA degree from Hart-nell College. Her first job was as junior assistant librarian at the Pacific Grove Public Library. She worked there in 1941, 1942 and 1943 according to records at the library. Her starting pay, for 38 hours of work each week, was $65. By the time she left to assist in starting the library at Monterey Peninsula College, she was making the princely sum of $80 per week.

She spent the majority of her work-ing life at the Naval Postgraduate School,

where she was the reference librarian.Georgia first met her husband, Cap-

tain Philip Shetenhelm, when she was a senior in high school. But World War II intervened, and they were not to see each other until 1978. They were married two months later and remained happily married until his death in 2006.

Three schools in the Pacific Grove Unified School District were gifted with checks in the amount of $49,107.69. The will states that Robert Down School and Pacific Grove Middle School are to pur-chase “bound books” with their shares. Pacific Grove High School may use their share for capital improvements, facilities or equipment. The athletic department at the high school also received a check for $49,107.69. It is assumed that Forest Grove Elementary was left out because Mrs. Shetenhelm did not attend that school.

Assistant Superintendent Rick Miller said that librarians and teachers will form a committee to meet and give direction on the spending of the money. There is no deadline specified in the will.

Former Librarian Bequeaths $196,430.76 to Schools

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PCOUNCIL From Page 1

19 & 20

New Feature on City’s Website

It’s the little picture of the rolled up blueprints right above the word “Spotlight.” It may be perceived by some as the biggest improvement to the website so far.

Though the Pacific Grove planning department follows State of California best practices concerning noticing (300 feet) and the length of time set aside before planning action takes place, there are still detractors. This change may help.

Community and Economic Development director Mark Brodeur is constantly seeking ways to make the system work better. “It is rare that our permit workload prohibits us from taking new development proposals immediately to the next Planning Commission meeting. That is due in part to the economy and part of it is due to the water shortage,” he said.

In response to questions about transparency, he said, “I felt it was better to provide total transparency of the permits being processed by the City’s Department of Com-munity Development.” The information, he pointed out, has always been available on the website but the route to find it required “considerable surfing.”

“The Department of Community and Economic Development has amended our website to include a ‘button’ on the home page that is linked to our permitting intake system. Every inquiry, ministerial permit and over the counter permit are there for all to see,” said Brodeur.

Next time you visit the City’s website at www.ci.pg.ca.us, even if you aren’t there to check up on the neighbor’s remodeling project, click on the icon and see what’s go-ing on (or about to go on) in our city.

between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.The program is set to run for 13 months from the second reading and enactment.The city has banned overnight parking/sleeping since 1952. The ordinance still

does not allow for sleeping in vehicles in neighborhoods or other properties, such as beach turnouts.

Recognizing a need for such a program which allows safe sleeping, particularly for women, the City Council in January, 2014 adopted a “Challenge Grant” of $15,295 — based on population — to fund efforts to develop long-term solutions for homeless people who desire assistance. Many other cities on the Monterey Peninsula joined the effort and eventually grants were made to various entities, including $15,000 to One Starfish Parking Pilot. One Starfish raised additional funds and is set to help administer the program.

One of the clarifications Councilmembers requested was that of safe storage for the houseless people’s property.

fundamentally opposed to allowing any restaurant to profit from using a public sidewalk, despite the profit it would bring to the community.

The pilot ordinance, which will last 13 months, affects only downtown restaurants. New safeguards built in include disallowance of logos/advertisement on any umbrellas, appeal to the Planning Commission and City Council, and clarification of the percentage of sidewalk a restaurant can use.

The City will likely tackle the issue of merchants using the sidewalk at a future meeting in the new year.

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Holiday HoursCedar Street Times will go to press one day early for the next two

weeks, on Dec. 24 and 31. Delivery will be as usual on Dec. 26 and Jan. 2.Please have submissions and advertisements in one day early. Thank

you, and have a wonderful Christmas and a safe New Year.

Pacific Grove City Hall will be closed from Monday, Dec. 22 through Sunday, January 4, 2015

Offices will reopen on Monday, January 5, 2015. Public Works will be on reduced hours and available for emergencies. The Police Department and Fire Department will work regular hours.

The Pacific Grove Public Library will be closed on December 24 and 25 and January 1. Hours Monday dec. 22 and 29 will be 2-7 p.m. on Dec. 23, Dec. 26, Dec. 27, Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 hours will be 10-4.

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History will be closed on Dec. 24 and 25 and on January 1.

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Weekly Family Event Round-Up

As we wind down the holiday season, so does our holiday calendar. The week of Dec. 19 marks a joyous coinciding of both Hanukkah and Christmas, as well as general winter activities. There is truly something for everyone this week!

Check out the list below for a sampling of the events this week-and be sure to visit MontereyMommies.com for a full list of family events this and every week of the year, as well as guides to Santa Spottings, Hanukkah services, Christmas Eve Services, Holi-day Trains, Holiday Camps for Kiddos, where to get a fresh tree last minute and more!

December 19, 2014The Wonder of Holiday Memories-American Girl Store – All Day, americangirl.comGabriella’s Snow Day –1:00 pm, teamgfoundation.org/snowday Graphic Design Holiday Cards –3:30 pm, makersfactory.com/Friday Kids Show: “George and Oatmeal Save Santa” – 7:30 pm, hartnell.eduSeason of Light Planetarium Show – 9:00 pm, hartnell.edu

December 20, 2014Breakfast with Santa –8:30 am, e-clubhouse.org/sites/missiontrailcaSaturday with Santa – 10:30 am, 646-3866 Ballet Fantasque’s Nutcracker –7:00 pm, home.comcast.net/~militzaivanovsky/ticket-

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Ballet Fantasque’s Nutcracker –2:00 pm, home.comcast.net/~militzaivanovsky/ticket-ing.html

Monterey County Pops Holiday Concert –3:00 pm, montereycountypops.orgDel Monte Menorah Lighting –4:00 pm, delmontecenter.com

December 22, 2014SPCA Home for the Howl-idays –9:00 am, www.spcamc.orgA Chanticleer Christmas – 6:00 pm, chanticleer.org

December 24, 2014Check out www.MontereyMommies.com for our full list of Christmas Eve services!

December 25, 2014Community Holiday Dinner –12:00 pm, montereycountyfair.com The MeshugaNutcracker! –2:00 pm, goldstar.com

Ongoing:Ice Skating by the Bay –iceskatingbythebay.comSanta House at Cannery Row – canneryrow.comNorthridge Mall Santa –shop-northridge-mall.comDel Monte Mall Santa – delmontecenter.comChristmas Boot Camp: MontereyMommies.comTeddy Bear Tea –pebblebeach.comA Christmas Carol – mpctheatreco.comA Charlie Brown Christmas –arieltheatrical.orgLight Show at McShane Nursery – mcshanesnursery.comKids Holiday Workshop –bellastudiomonterey.comVarious Holiday Trains at Roaring Railroad Camp –roaringcamp.comVarious Holiday Trains, fwry-blog.com

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Wanda Sue ParrottHomeless in Paradise

The Houseless Chef’s Gourmet Holiday Christmas

Wondering what to serve guests over the holidays? Try these tips from the “houseless” cook previously introduced as Ernie in this column. Before proceeding, I’ll serve this caveat.

Reader, beware! If this were a restaurant column, rather than weekly update about homelessness on the Monterey Peninsula, I’d give a rave review. Here’s why.

After sleeping under a tree and claiming he was warm and comfortable under a waterproof sleeping bag, Ernie singlehandedly prepared a day-after-Thanksgiving feast for 25 homeless guests at Laguna Grande Park in Seaside.

He served two turkeys donated by local churches. Rolls, rice, beans and veg-etables were from the Food Bank and mince pie and a pre-cooked turkey were donated by anonymous friends.

Ernie baked his hens in a friend’s oven instead of trying to roast the big birds over a fire due to a rain forecast. As observer, I found Ernie’s rice obviously prepared by a seasoned culinary artist who said:

“Just because you’re houseless doesn’t mean you can’t be healthy. I can get bet-ter food out of a dumpster than from McDonald’s. We have blueberries, pineapple, watermelon, yogurt, steak, sausages. I can make something out of nothing. Cooking is like a science to me.”

His mother let Ernie start cooking at seven. “When I was 20, I worked at Quail Lodge and developed a fine palate for eating—caviar, filet mignon, abalone and Caesar salad made at the table.”

He started his food-industry career as a pantry cook, then “moved to the front of the house because there was more money to be made as a server.”

Ernie eventually went from Quail Lodge to the Highlands Inn and Casanova’s in Carmel. “All were upscale restaurants,” he said. “I left to work at Carmel Bistro, where I was assistant manager, and my last job—I was cooking at CSUMB—ended because the chef was very competitive, but the students loved me.”

Ernie admitted, “I did a lot of meth 10 years ago. It’s a powder you snort or shoot up to feel like you have a lot of energy, but when you come down it feels like you’ve lost your soul. I would never do it again. I was working then. People think you can’t work on meth and cope, but. . .I call it chasing the devil. I can be happy and houseless. I choose to focus on the positive, the solution instead of the problem.”

Ernie recommended pepper for good digestion and cilantro to filter the kidneys. “I make gut water to lose weight by mixing in lemon, ginger, cucumber, mint, cilan-tro and chia seeds. Americans eat their salad the wrong way.They should eat it at the end of the meal after dessert because it is roughage and helps the digestion.”

Ernie smokes organic cigarettes and “weed at night, when it’s right, when I go to sleep to get my peace. The closer I get to God, the more the devil tries to come in.”

Try Ernie’s recipe at your own risk. You might like it. I served it to 50 people as Christmas potluck fare. Not a grain was left!

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this formula: 1 cup dry rice requires 2 cups of liquid and will serve 5–10 people when cooked. )Pour enough cooking oil in a kettle or pot to cover the bottom and stir in 1 cup of dry rice.Continue stirring as mixture heats, until rice turns milky white.Add 1 cup of water and 1 cup of chicken broth. Bring to a boil.Stir in 1 can of tomato sauce or diced tomatoes with chilis.Add onion, garlic, cilantro, chili powder, salt and pepper and other spices to taste.Lower heat to medium, cover pan and let cook until rice is soft.(Optional) Stir in 1 can of corn or beans. Serve hot.

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Writing Workshop, Poetry Readingby Dr. MossbergOn December 21, 2014 from 1:00 to

4:00 p.m. at Chautauqua Hall, a Writing Workshop on artwork as inspiration will be presented by Dr. Barbara Mossberg, Pacific Grove Poet in Residence. Learn about how poetry has been inspired by art, choose a painting to write about and create your own art inspired poetry. This event is free with donations for the Pacific Grove Public Library gratefully accepted.

Then from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Dr. Bar-bara Mossberg reads from her collection of poetry about Pacific Grove and her experience as the city's Poet in Residence for the past five years.

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Legendary folksinger, storyteller and autoharp virtuoso, Adam Miller, will perform a concert of “Folksongs from Steinbeck Country” at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014, at the Museum of Monterey at Stanton Center (formerly the Maritime Museum), Custom House Plaza near Fisherman’s Wharf, in Monterey, California. The evening will open with a presentation by local filmmaker John Harris - co-founder the 812 Cinema and the award-winning Dream Theater - offering a special first-look promo reel introducing his new film, “Mystery of Dreams 3D,” the sequel to his recent film “Steinbeck Country.”

Adam Miller is “One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times,” ac-cording to acclaimed musician George Winston, and Pete Seeger is quoted as noting Miller’s performance is full of “Wonderful storytelling!”

Filmmaker John Harris, who along with his late partner Alan Weber, are well remembered as the owners/proprietors of both the beloved and iconic 812 Cinema on Cannery Row and the Dream Theater on Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey. Harris will introduce the sequel to his recent film “Steinbeck Country,” with a short presentation reel for “Mystery of Dreams 3D.”

“Folksongs from Steinbeck Country” is presented by music promotion veteran David Bean and the Museum of Monterey. Tickets are $20 in advance and at the door. Advance tickets are recommended by calling (831) 372-2608. Parking is avail-able in the Fisherman’s Wharf parking lot at the intersection of Del Monte Ave. and Figueroa St.

Adam Miller to perform folksongs to accompany John Harris film

Marge Ann JamesonCop Log

Why millennials aren’t rushing to buy homes

As the economy continues to recover, the millennial generation is still feeling the longer-term effects of the recession due to underemployment and low salaries combined with high student debt and uncertainty about the future. These factors have affected the housing market, and the renter status of this generation was examined in a new survey by LendingTree.

Only 43.4 percent of college-educated millennials ages 24 to 35 own a home. When asked “What would allow you to consider purchasing your first home?” 67.4 percent said they’d need more income.

Roughly a third want to move somewhere they like better before buying, 28.7 percent want to pay off student loans before becoming homeowners, and 25.7 percent want to put off owning a home until they’ve traveled or invested.

However, only 4.4 percent of non-homeowner millennials have no interest in ever owning a home, thereby showing that homeownership remains an aspiration.

Many millennials are ignoring financial issues. For example, 21.2 percent of mil-lennials said they do not know their current credit score, and another 11 percent said they have never even checked it.

The survey found that 4.8 percent of millennials have less than $5,000 in savings, short of the three to six months of living expenses that financial institutions advise.

Roughly 9.5 percent of millennials cited said they do not have or maintain a sav-ings account, which perhaps reflects their distrust of banks following the recession.

Median household income in the U.S. hit roughly $52,000 last year, according to the Census Bureau, which is well below the $56,400 those households were making in pre-recession 2007 and similarly distant from the all-time high of $57,000 last seen in 1997.

By Kevin Stone, Monterey County Association of Realtors®

Christmas Carol Sing-Alongat Mayflower Church

Mayflower Church will be hosting a Christmas carol sing-along, Sunday afternoon, December 21 at 2 p.m. Familiar holiday hymns will be led by organist Tom DeLay on the historic pipe organ, the oldest in Monterey County.

Neighborhood residents, area visitors and families are invited to attend this festive gathering. A dessert reception will follow in Mayflower’s Fellowship Hall.

The event is free to the public and all are welcome. Additionally, church services will be held on Christmas Eve including a children’s pageant at 6 p.m. and a candlelight service at 11 p.m.

Mayflower Church is located in Pacific Grove on the corner of Central and 14th Ave. For more information contact 373-4705.

Ghost Driver Becomes Drunk DriverOfficers responding to an injury traffic collision instead found a severely damaged

but unoccupied vehicle that had gotten into a contest with a tree. The driver was later located at his home and admitted to drinking, speeding, and having been involved in a collision.

The family that shoplifts together...At County Club Gate. Both husband and wife received trespass admonishment.

She was cited and released

Ammo turned inFor destruction.

Custom Skateboard StolenFrom Short Street.

Fire rescue assistSubject was pulled from an apartment which was filled with smoke. Transported

to CHOMP.

Accidental Alarm ActivationSubject let his dogs out and forgot to turn the silent alarm off. Also couldn’t find

his cell phone to alrt the alarm company.

False AlarmIt was reported that a window had been smashed and that a responsible party was

en route. But there was no broken window.

FoundWallet, on Ocean View.Purse belonging to military person. Unable to reach, message left on Facebook.

Traffic mishapsOn Forest, driver opened his door into traffic. It was struck, and damaged enough

that it had to be towed.Non-injury accident on private property (Lighthouse Ave.)

StolenTwo bicycle locks were cut off and the bicycles stolen on David Ave.Victim reports that an unknown male was trying to steal oil from his vehicle on

8th Street. Stuff was stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Forest Ave. overnight.Christmas ornaments stolen on 6th. Possible suspect leads.

Drunk in the roadA woman was lying in the road. Reporting party thought she was injured but she

was drunk and unable to care for herself. She was turned over to a responsible party after the ambulance crew checked her over.

Ex Co-Worker HarassingThe owner of a business on Lighthouse reported that an ex-employee was making

annoying phone calls to other employees. He requested trespass admonishment as well as information about restraining orders and civil law.

RunoffA person on Glen Lake advised that a home on Ransford has water running off the

back yard and he was worried about a mudslide. The owner of the property on Ransford said it was clear of debris and is rain runoff.

Public intoxication arrestAt Country Club Gate.

On Dec. 11, 2014 at about 9:00 p.m. an officer was on routine patrol in the 1100 block of Forest Avenue when he heard a loud bang and saw a person running toward him from the direction of nearby hardware store and gas station. The wit-ness informed the officer that man had lit and thrown an explosive device near the gas station. When confronted by the witness, the man discarded an unlit device that was retrieved by the witness and given to the officer.

The officer identified the device as a “seal bomb,” which is a small explosive device used by fishermen to scare away seals.

The officer made contact with the man, identified as 28-year-old Michael Harley Henderson of Pacific Grove, who was located inside n adjacent liquor store. The subject admitted to detonating the first device and discarding the second one. The subject was arrested, booked at the station, and transported to the Monterey County Jail where he is being lodged pending arraignment.

The subject was charged with viola-tion of Section 18715(a) of the California

Penal Code – Reckless or Malicious Pos-session of Any Destructive Device – which is a felony. He was also charged with Sec-tion 12679 of the California Health and Safety Code – Discharging an explosive device within 100 feet of location where gasoline is stored or dispensed, which is a misdemeanor.

PG Man Detonates ‘Seal Bomb’

Church of the Wayfarer Opens Scholarship Program

Church of the Wayfarer has opened its Annual Scholarship Program for graduat-ing high school seniors in the Monterey Peninsula area. The scholarships are open to students from Carmel HS, Marina HS, Monterey HS, Pacific Grove HS, Santa Catalina, Seaside HS, Stevenson, Trinity Christian HS, or York School who plan on attending a 4 year college or university and who are active members of a Christian church.

Over the past 32 years, Church of the Wayfarer has awarded more than $600,000 in scholarships to deserving, local high school seniors.

Applications and complete instructions can be found in the Scholarship section on the Church of the Wayfarer website at www.churchofthewayfarer.com/community. Applications must be received by the church by Thursday, February 6, 2015 at 1pm. For questions, please contact Nancy Pesce, the Scholarship Chairperson.

About Church of the Wayfarer:Church of the Wayfarer celebrated its 110 birthday this year and is part of the

Carmel walking tour. Located at the corners of Lincoln and 7th, the church is situated in the geographic center of Carmel-by-the-Sea. The church welcomes visitors of all Christian faiths to its sanctuary.Scholarship Contact: Nancy Pesce, 831-372-3845

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

Fr. Michael Bowhay 831-920-1620Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Pastor Bart Rall800 Cass St., Monterey (831) 373-1523Forest Hill United Methodist Church

551 Gibson Ave., Services 9 AM SundaysRev. Richard Bowman, 831-372-7956

Pacific Coast Church522 Central Avenue, 831-372-1942

Peninsula Christian Center520 Pine Avenue, 831-373-0431

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

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

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

Peninsula Baptist Church1116 Funston Avenue, 831-394-5712

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

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

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

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

Church of Christ176 Central Avenue, 831-375-3741

Lighthouse Fellowship of Pacific GrovePG Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave., 831-333-0636

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

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

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

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

Worship: Sundays @ 10:00 a.m.Congregation Beth Israel

5716 Carmel Valley Rd., Carmel (831) 624-2015Chabad of Monterey

2707 David Avenue, Pacific Grove (831) 643-2770Monterey Church of Religious Science

Sunday Service 10:30 am400 West Franklin St., Monterey • 372-7326

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Jon Guthrie’s High Hats & Parasols

100 Years Ago in Pacific Grove

the Grove. Whether or not the availability of the amusements center influenced the postmaster’s decision as to where to meet is not known. Area pundits allege that it did. Should the Grove consider such a park along our beautiful coastline?1

Nevada teacher hereMiss Sylvia Howe, a teacher from Yerrington, Nevada is in town. It is being whis-

pered that Miss Howe is being sought as a teacher at Pacific Grove high school. Her father teaches at a private academy in Nevada where he is considered an authority on all matters educational. Miss Howe was escorted by Mrs. F. M. White on a trip around the Seventeen Mile Drive. If that inducement doesn’t work, nothing will. Miss Howe said that she enjoyed the drive in an open-air auto mobile. Far fewer Nevadans than Californians own this newfangled transportation.

Royal Arch quitsFrom several sources, including the Pajaronian newspaper, has come word the

Watsonville chapter of the Golden Arch has folded. The charter has been returned to the national office after the few remaining members voted the secret society out of business. All physical assets remaining will be turned over to charities such as the YMCA. After outstanding bills are paid, cash on hand will be passed along to the national office, as required by charter.

Captain disappearsCapt. Harry Shields, dispatched to Vera Cruz to participate in peace talks, has

disappeared. Shields was said to have been last seen headed south by train. Shields was thought to have crossed the border at El Paso, then boarded at the depot in Juarez. Juarez serves as a hot bed of military activity by Generalissimo Pancho Villa. Shields may have been wrested from the train by members of Franco’s rebel army and killed or secreted elsewhere for questioning about American intentions. The disappearance is thought to be related to the Tampico affair which motivated the landing of a contingency of U. S. marines. The President has sent word to Villa that he expects an immediate apology and the return of Shields or his body. This incident may make a U. S. invasion of Mexico more likely.2

Is it difficult to follow?A young man stopped by our livery stable to apply for work. Thinking the youngster

looked promising and being in need of a hand, the livery manager hired him. The fel-low’s first assignment was to trim and polish the horse’s hoofs, a job the chap finished in an astoundingly short time. After the manager went to have a look-see, he noticed that only the front hoofs had been done. Declaring the job only half finished, the man was asked why. He replied that the front hoofs were the only important parts. “Where the front ones go, the back ones has got to follow.”

Monterey County idealA resent assessment of Monterey County has revealed this region as the perfect

watershed with plenty of water for irrigation. The report encouraged newcomers to consider the county’s interior rather than crowding around the coastal rim. See Monterey County Real Estate Exchange for information on buying a farm or under- or undeveloped land. As low as $5 per acre. Terms can be arranged with ten percent down. Trades for city property available.

Side trackTidbits from here and there

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Author notes …1 A theme park? Not likely. The Grove was too laid back and reticent to seriously

consider a theme park. The old Santa Cruz & Fenton Railway railway still operates as a tourist train, steaming back and forth along an eight miles course.

2 Traveling south clear to Vera Cruz, located near the coast of central Mexico, by rail would have been difficult, at best. Sailing ships were readily available. Did the event occur? Was it a put-up deal to worsen relations between Mexico and the United States? The truth will never be known.

U. S. marines occupied Veracruz for several months, allegedly to protect peacemak-ers.

With the increasing use of embalming, bodies were often placed on public display for weeks.

Main linePostmasters at Santa Cruz

Your mail should arrive in orderly fashion this week! That’s because all third and fourth class postmasters of California are gathered nearby, namely at Santa Cruz. That community had previously been announced as favored over a southern-site runner up. Why Santa Cruz? That’s an easy question to answer. The Boardwalk and theme park. Opened on Beach Street nearly three decades ago, the Santa Cruz amusements park was created as a magnet for visitors and conferences. The old Santa Cruz & Fenton Railway, now known as Pacific Coastal, still runs across the Santa Cruz Mountains to make connections with Southern Pacific. Postmasters can thus travel around the bay to Pacific Grove. It is hoped that at least several of the postmasters will choose to visit

Plan for Certification Classes at the MuseumThe cultural and natural history along the central coast of California is worth

a lifetime of exploration.Certification classes for the popular California Naturalist Program, offered

by The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History and the California Cooperative Extension, begin Monday, March 2, and end on Monday, May 11. Classes will be held Monday evenings at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, from 6-8:30 p.m. Four Saturday field trips will also be scheduled. Registration for the classes is now available on the Museum’s website at www.pgmuseum.org.

Classes cover the natural and cultural history of California, with an in-depth look at local ecology. Through field trips, classroom instruction and hands-on exercises, participants observe and learn about the varied plant and animal com-munities along the central coast.

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Berry-Picking BonanzaBy Patricia Hamilton

“On summer breaks in high school I earned spending money by taking a farm bus with other pickers to strawberry fields spread around the coun-tryside. Out all day in the hot sun, bending over picking, carrying the heavy, berry-filled trays down long rows to the cashier, slogging through irrigation mud—hard work for a kid and not much fun. One morning as I entered the first row with my empty tray of baskets I saw two girls straighten up from their work and cheerily wave at me. It was Sandra and Margie, the prettiest and best-dressed girls in high school. I had never talked to them, having as-sumed they were stuck-up, little rich girls who didn’t have to work. As we picked and talked, I learned their parents were poor and they had to work to be able to buy their school clothes AND they were happy for the opportunity. I made two new friends that day and learned the relationship of work, money, and nice school clothes (and about assumptions). My money, however, was spent on my own copy of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

I wasn’t trying to be funny – honest! It was the third week of class to be-

come a Guided Autobiography instruc-tor, and our assignment was to write a two-page essay about the role of money in our lives. I could have spun a tale about opening a savings account back in fourth grade … or the thrill of getting a paycheck on my first “real” job as a newspaper reporter … or finally receiv-ing a credit card at age 24 – thank you, Joseph Magnin! – after being turned down by countless other institutions for being a young, single female.

But for some reason, I kept being drawn to a more recent money-related memory, a low point in my life when nothing seemed to be working out when it came to earning and keeping green-backs. So that’s what I wrote about.Asking Myself, “Is That All There Is?”

I started my tale by relating how, like so many other people, I reached that birthday known as the Big 4-0 feeling restless and unfulfilled. In the words of the old Peggy Lee song, “Is that all there is?”

In that moment of vulnerability, a book fell into my lap called Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow. A huge bestseller at the time, it seemed like everyone I knew was reading it and rav-ing out it. The message was basically a variation on Joseph Campbell’s concept of following your bliss. If you discover your true calling in life and pursue it 100 percent, the universe cannot help but shower you with rewards – including money.

I read, I believed, and I lived ac-cordingly – with disastrous results.

The way Guided Autobiography works, you write your story on the as-signed theme in private, then bring it to class and read it aloud to the other participants. After the reading, your classmates share their thoughts about feelings about your story.Suddenly Everyone Is Laughing

So here I am, reading what I thought was a serious and somewhat tragic tale of a time when my financial life was bottoming out – and the other students in the class are laughing.

They first began chuckling when I described how my cat had chewed the cover of Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow, adding the observation that Cinnamon had obviously been a much better judge of the value of the book than I had been. They were giggling and guffawing when I got to this bit:

“When you think about it, Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow is the ultimate non-sequitur. What if there’s no commercial market for what you love? I mean, if I just did what I love, I’d be

Understanding the Value of Sharing Our Stories

eating chocolate, playing with my cat, and writing fan fiction. What that book should have been called is Do What You Love … If You Have a Trust Fund.”

I finished my essay with:“And yet … something interesting

has been happening lately. A wonder-ful business partnership came my way, totally by serendipity. It involves writing and editing, things that I’m good at and like doing. After a very long time in the desert, I feel like I’ve stumbled onto the right path and am entering greener pastures.

“So what’s going on? Maybe I final-ly learned to relax enough around money to let it flow into my life. Maybe I finally came to accept that our skills and talents are gifts to the world to be shared freely, without necessarily expecting that we’ll be rewarded with money. Maybe it’s just finally my turn.

“Or … could it be? Is Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow maybe kinda sorta right after all?”

When I finished and the other participants in the class made their comments, I was astounded. “It’s so great you can laugh at your situation” … “Good for you for rising above it with humor” … “You’ve obviously moved on if you can make jokes about it.”

Seriously?Not Therapy, But Still Powerful

But then I slowly realized – they’re right. I have moved on. This painful episode in my life really is over. If I can find the humor in the situation, then I didn’t just survive it, I triumphed over it.

Before this, I’d heard about how powerful Guided Autobiography can be. Even though founder Dr. James Birren stresses that it is not therapy, many par-ticipants report therapeutic-like results, powerful breakthroughs from past pain. But up until this moment, all that had just been words on a piece of paper.

But now I got it. This process actu-ally does work. And the reason it’s effec-tive is because we’re sharing our stories with other people and receiving feed-back. It’s one thing to keep a journal … or to fill out workbooks … or to secretly write a memoir. But if we’re keeping all these written words to ourselves, they’re of limited value.

The group setting and the sharing of stories is what makes Guided Autobiog-raphy unique and powerful. We’re all in this together.

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Jane Roland

Animal Tales and Other Random Thoughts

The Story of Sandy

Christmas is around the corner. No longer are there parties every day and festive dinner events. We are all older and entertaining is not something that comes easily. It was once a more peaceful time. Christmas Eve was spent, for close to 30 years, at the home of my cousin, Mary Shaw, who entertained the family in this manner until the numbers became too large and many of us spread for our own celebrations.

Mary is my first cousin on my mother’s side; we are the last of the second generation of the George W. Morses of Boston. There is a genetic love of ani-mals in our background. Mary epitomizes those who go to any end to help or save a creature in need. Yet, there is no fanfare, she is modest, beautiful, kind, diligent, humorous, and (would you believe it) shy. She said, “After I lost Sally, my standard poodle, and Ruggles, a fine fellow of indiscernible ancestry, I felt very alone.” She went to the SPCA and found a dog with a cute face “a ragged long-haired animal with a beautiful fluffy tale. He greeted me with un-diluted joy, wiggling from nose to tale tip, saying, ‘Take me please.’” The rest is history. He has been with her through difficult and happy times, is now 16 or 17, deaf but enjoys his walks and playing with his toys.

When I returned to the Monterey Peninsula Mary decided that she would like to start an Auxiliary for the SPCA. With a few other women with whom we met regularly, we asked Sean Flavin to lead us and commenced an opera-tion that brought a considerable amount of money to the organization. For those who think that our endeavors were those of pampered society women, think again. Many of us were certainly not affluent; those who were didn’t think about it. We had two parties a year, one in the summer one in the winter; we cooked all of the food and, initially, did the clean-up, including dishes and floor washing. As the popularity increased we saved a little of our income to pay for kitchen people but still did all of the cooking. Mary was the driving force and later, when we published a cookbook, she and Joyce Nicholas were the workhorses, testing every recipe, finding publishers, artists and marketing. The stock room was in Mary’s garage. She handled all of the bookkeeping and, when necessary, shipping. Ultimately the Auxiliary ended, as did most hands-on groups. When they existed it was the halcyon days of fund raising.

Mary has housed animals of all kinds, many times thanks to her children. There have been reptiles, birds, rodents, chickens, horses, and, of course, cats and dogs. I remember many of them, back to the days when my mother lived at the River Ranch in the fifties and the Osborne and Morse families moved out for the summer. There were creatures all over the place, joining the four legged permanent residents. When Will, Mary’s husband, was living, there were great characters, even a cat (not Mary’s favorite species), there were Fuzz and Sally, standard poodles, Sharky, who always carried a ball in his mouth, left in Mary’s care by Polly; Mozart, a fabulous yellow lab; Ruggles, another SPCA special and several others. There are animals of yesterday and today who would not have survived had it not been for this good woman, whom I am proud to claim as my closest relative. Sandy left us a few years ago, but we know he is flying with the angels, looking down and wishing all a blessed Christmas.

I hope that all are having a peaceful and blessed Christmas. A reminder: Think of the animals in your holiday donations. Animal Friends Rescue Project operates on a shoe string, out of a store front; animals are fostered by those devoted to the need of those unable to care for themselves. Dogs such as Sandy and the animals in our home were all rescued critters. Donations will enable organizations to save more and care for them. Visit the website or on Face book Jane Roland, Manager

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Calendars and Bubble LightsI see by my Sierra Club engagement calendar that it’s Dec. 19 – time to start the

Christmas shopping. The calendar made me think of this as much as the date. Calen-dars make useful gifts, especially if you get “behind” at Christmas, as I do, and have to shop defensively.

I was born a month behind, so defensive shopping comes naturally. Usually I go to a nearby place and buy many units of the same thing. One year I bought “Darth Vader” soap bars, with Darth’s helmeted head scowling from a little cellophane window in each box. Last year’s gift was corduroy footballs in school colors.

That’s what I call “preemptive strike” shopping. You lay down a strafing run of small, quick-hitting presents and then leave the area at high speed. It’s good to be far away when the gifts are opened, and everybody realizes they got the same thing.

If you’re close up, as with the immediate family on Christmas morning, it’s unwise to give everyone the same thing. I’ll never forget my parents and grandmother gazing in dismay at their coal-black Vader soap bars, just holding them loosely on their laps and not knowing what to say. And I don’t think Uncle Dave ever did use his plush football.

Some years the family got to puzzle over things I made myself: stapled booklets of articles; crude block prints stamped from carved potatoes; photographs of dark, artsy scenes. These gifts embarrassed the family, who once hoped I would find a nice job in a bank.

But at least those presents were out front – I made or bought them ahead of time and disbursed them by Christmas. This year, as the line at the post office suggests, I’ve waited too long. This may have to be a calendar year.

Calendars make good defensive gifts because you can slip them to the recipients the week after Christmas without terminal guilt. And because they don’t kick in until January anyhow, calendars aren’t so much late Christmas presents as early New Year presents. Also, they slide right into the mail – perfect for faraway giftees who might otherwise expect something costly and thoughtful in a box.

Some people scoff at calendars, but I find them indispensable. Ever since the squir-rels got my watch – the one that told the day, month and year – I keep a calendar handy at all times. I’ve found that people are pretty impressed when I know what day it is.

That said, I didn’t need a calendar to know the holiday season was upon us, because colored lights began appearing. I had saved three strings from last Christmas, so I busted them out and hung them around the apartment. Once hung, they formed a loose triptych of loopy smiles that lent needed whimsy to dark December days.

If I forget to unplug the lights at bed time, I might awaken from some fever dream of loss or moral failure to see spots of color glowing mysteriously on the walls. It’s like a scene from “Close Encounters.” Comforting in a night light sort of way, the colors remind me of something from early childhood.

Around Christmas, I used to wake up in the middle of the night. Cradling my blue rabbit, I’d tiptoe from the room I shared with my brother and pad silently down the hall into the living room to admire the tree. Everybody else was long asleep, but the tree remained lit.

Clipped to its branches were two kinds of Christmas lights, both doubtless inflam-matory by today’s cautious standards. One type was bulbous and vaguely tear-shaped. These wore baked-on coats of paint that would chip off gradually, like fingernail polish.

I don’t know what was in those coatings – some radioactive intoxicant, probably – but they made odd, rich and beautiful colors.

Equally lovely and even more ingenious were tall, graceful “bubble lights” that sent trickles of air rising through slender glass rods of colored fluid. Lit by a bulb in the lamp base, the bubbles would dance and flicker merrily up the tube, like firelight seen through champagne.

To a child, patience is one of the Christmas lessons. The bubble lights were part of that, because they didn’t just fizz up. The candle-shaped tubes lit at plug-in, but they didn’t bubble until a certain temperature had been reached. The wait alone was rapture.

When the bubbles finally started, they made a tiny trickling sound as they wobbled up the tube. If you drew close, you could hear that sound, feel bars of warmth on your face, and see dashes of color racing up the tubes. It was heavenly.

If I can find one, this year’s gift might be a calendar showing bygone bubble lights. Who wouldn’t want one of those?

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2014 Year in ReviewApril 4-10, 2014

The 2014 Royal Court of the Feast of Lanterns was presented at Canterbury Woods on March 27. They are, Olivia Caine (Princess Pearl), Caroline Gru-ber (Princess Turquoise), Ashley Lyon (Princess Garnet), Kimberly Huynh (Princess Ruby), Minhee Cho (Queen Topaz), Catherine Gruber (Princess Amethyst). They will be in the Good Old Days Parade, along with the 2013 Royal Court.

•The Monterey Bay Officers’ Spouses

Club hosted its Spring Craft Sale Satur-day, April 12 at the Las Mesa Elementary School. Admission is free and door prizes will go out to participating attendees. There are currently booths available for any interested vendors. Please contact our Craft Fair committee at craftfair@ montereybayosc.com for booth rental and more information. Shop for original, hand-crafted items from local artisans and select goods from home based-business owners. This is the perfect opportunity to find Easter, Mother’s Day, and graduation gifts. Proceeds from this event will go to the MBOSC Scholarship Fund and the La Mesa Elementary PTA.

•Ceramic art classes started up at the

Hilltop Ceramic Studio in Monterey for youth and adults. The exciting news is that more potters wheels have been delivered! Explore the wonderful world of clay with instructor and professional ceramic artist, Dana Goforth. Learn hand building tech-niques or work on the wheel. Discover unique decoration and glazing methods. Emphasis is on developing your personal sense of form using fundamental skills. This is great fun for creative minds with or without clay experience. Beginning Monday, April 7, classes are twice a week for six weeks. The Lattitudes site at Lovers Point

has been sold. A buyer from out of the country, Ostrich Inc., has purchased the Lattitudes building and land from the Elves family, who have owned it for more than 40 years. According to the seller’s agent, the buyer paid $2.5 million cash fand intends to operate it as a restaurant.The nearly 6,700 square foot building has been vacant for more than four years after Lattitudes closed in 2010. Before Lattitudes, the building house The Tinnery. At one time, “It was the Lovers Point drive-in and had the best onion rings in the world,” according to a local.

•The Friends of the Marina Library

hosted a concert by the Monterey County Chapter of Guitars Not Guns on Sat., April 12, 2014 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Marina Library Community Room, 190 Seaside Circle, Marina. Since 2009, the Monterey

County chapter of Guitars Not Guns has taught more than 445 young people to play guitar. Students are between the ages of 8 and 18 and are from throughout Monterey County. Classes are free. The organization provides guitars for students to use during the eight week class session. Those stu-dents who complete the series of weekly lessons are able to keep their instruments.

•At its last two meetings, the Pacific

Grove High School Alumni Association has reviewed and approved five grant requests from various organizations at the high school, authorizing more than $3,750 for sports, academic, and other activities. Grants include $300.00 to the high school’s softball team for new arti-ficial turf, $1,000 to the lacrosse team for helmets and other equipment, $1,000 to the school’s award-winning Mock Trial Team for its upcoming competition, $1000 to the school’s Sober Grad Night event, and $450 to the Pacific Grove High School Choir for registration for a high school choir competition in Anaheim.

April 11-17, 2014

Ruth Welch is a member of quilting, wearable art and writing groups. Wall-hung quilts display her prowess as a needlewoman. Ruth shows draperies, pillow. She exhibits the sunshine and enthusiasm of her youth not only in her art, but in every aspect of her life.

•Pacific Grove’s mayor, Bill Kampe,

had four-way heart bypass surgery Tues-day, April 8. The mayor, who bicycles and walks daily, said blockage was found during routine checkups in recent weeks and the surgery was scheduled. He told us that he feels the “city is in good hands” between the Mayor Pro Tem Robert Huitt, City Manager, staff, and the rest of the City Council. His wife, Cheryl, said that the surgery went well.

Mayor Kampe, 69, said that the re-covery could be as long as eight weeks, but that he hopes to be at the May 5 City council meeting. As of April 4, he was walking around and beginning physical therapy, as well as entertaining visitors.

•More than 25 harbor seal pups have

been born on Pacific Grove beaches in the past few weeks and it looked like there would be many more soon. And there were. By the end of the season, there was a record of more than 80. On the main pupping beach at Hopkins Marine Station, there were more than 20 births by April 11since the first successful one on March 24. In the spillover area at the bottom of 5th Street, there were at least five since the first one.

•Cedar Street Times published our first

Summer Camp Guide.•

PGHS hosted the first annual VAPA (visual and performing arts) during the week of April 14-18. The campus was closed at lunch every day so students could engage in art/music related activities. The Student Voices talent showcase took place on Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. in the Student Union; an art expo was held in the library from 3:30-6:00 p.m. on Thursday; and the Collaboration of the Arts featuring state runner-up poet Haley Walker closed our the week long celebration.

•Community Hospital introduces its

new plug-in station for electric vehicles with a gas pump hose “cutting” ceremony. The station can accommodate five vehicles and includes the first “fast charger” in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties. The station is open to Commu-nity Hospital staff and volunteers as well as the public and will be the charging spot for Community Hospital’s newest vehicle, a Nissan LEAF. Nissan North America do-nated the fast charger and will have LEAFs available for viewing and test drives.

April 18-24, 2014

In the face of attacks and criticism of Pacific Grove Police Chief Vicki Myers, City Manager Tom Frutchey – her super-visor – brought an item to City Council on April 16 which expressed support for the embattled chief. It passed, with one abstention by Dan Miller. Casey Lucius said that she didn’t believe it was a matter for the particular forum of a city council meeting, but supported it. Regarding attacks by some media outlets and two retired employees, Frutchey said, “The information is distorted, outdated, or simply inaccurate.” He sought to set the record straight, especially for those who apparently “believe what they have read and heard.”

•Pacific Grove Community High

School has been quietly celebrating Earth Day every day of the school year, and beyond. They’ve outlasted other, larger programs and show no signs of slowing down. In fact, they are stepping up their efforts.

In 2012, students planted native Monterey pines in protective shields. The trees outgrew the shields, so the students replaced the shields with wire and tree poles hoping to provide protection from deer and foot traffic for a few years. The protective shields were wisely saved as the students began their own tree nursery.

•The Monterey Peninsula Water Man-

agement District (MPWMD) held a Rain-water Harvesting Class on Sat. May 10 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. The free class covered general rainwater harvesting informa-tion in addition to recommendations on water management and available rebate programs.

April 25-May 1, 2014The Easter Bunny goes out to Rip Van

Winkle Park (the dog park on Congress near Forest Grove School) and hides plas-tic Easter eggs filled with doggie treats for the patrons to find. This year there were 46. Debbie Newell Foord posted, “The Easter Bunny does this every year! At least for as long as I have had Rocky, who is 7 years old!” The Easter Bunny is anonymous, and so is the photographer, and we’re told they may be related to whomever it is that decorates a tree in the dog park at Christmas time.

•District Attorney Dean D. Flippo

announced April 24 that once-popular retired Pacific Grove Police Commander John Nyunt has pled guilty to charges of making death threats against his estranged wife, Kristin, burglary of a business, and being an accessory after the fact to a crime. Nyunt received a three-year prison sentence.

Kristen Nyunt was arrested in 2012 and charged with 43 counts of identify theft, burglary, and fraud. She stands ac-cused of burglarizing three homes and stealing the identities of several people. She alleged soon after that John Nyunt had put her up to it, but a judge at the time said that the accusation was not an excuse for her own culpability.

•Peace of Mind Dog Rescue (POMDR)

will be bringing a dog from Sochi, Russia to the Monterey Peninsula to go up for adoption. The dog’s name is Cherry and she is a 22 pound, 5-year-old mixed breed.

Cherry was trapped to be destroyed during the culling of the dogs in Sochi, Russia to make way for the Olympics. Luckily a kind-hearted citizen sprung her from the trap and took her to a makeshift animal shelter. Rescue groups from around the world are being called upon to help take in these displaced dogs.

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The Chamber of Commerce’s Good Old Days was bigger and better than ever.

Sally Baho wrote about earth-colored Easter eggs.

Just Run! Just Kids 3K welcomed 3,500 young runners to the annual event, part of the Big Sur Marathon.

Dana Goforth’s column, Diggin’ It, sometimes takes a tongue-in-cheek bent. She wrote about garden gnomes in April, 2014.

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May 2-8 2014Pacific Repertory Theatre, the only

professional theater on the Monterey Peninsula, held its annual Monterey Bay SpringFest Arts and Crafts Faire on May 17 and 18 fat the Monterey State Historic Parks Custom House Plaza, at the top of Fisherman’s Wharf, in downtown Mon-terey.

•The SPCA for Monterey County’s

19th Annual Wag n’ Walk was Saturday, May 3. Walk to end pet homelessness in Monterey County by supporting your lo-cal, independent SPCA. The annual walk started at Shoreline Park in Monterey, near the Coast Guard Pier. The 2- or 4-mile walk began at 9:30. The event included great prizes, fun games, entertainment, and lots more. Best of all, every step taken and every donation raised helped all animals in need right here in Monterey County.

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The Hootenanny, a community sing-along and open jam celebrated its one hundredth session and played favorites from folk, blues, gospel, country, and clas-sic rock. They dedicated this night to Pete Seeger, and his efforts to bring harmony to the world.

May 9-15, 2014The Pacific Grove City Council has

discussed a ban on single-use plastic bags a number of times, and once again, on May 7, failed to reach a decision. The County of Monterey had offered technical assistance to prepare a ban ordinance, but it was declined.

Instead, and similar to results after the March 6, 2013 City Council meeting, di-rection was given to staff to come up with a draft ordinance for a ban on the bags, along with a fee for paper bags similar to those charged by Monterey, Carmel, or even the County as a whole.

•The same year, 1886, when Andrew

Carnegie began making grants, which eventually totaled more than $55 million through 1919, Pacific Grove established a circulating library and community center at 165 Fountain. For $1 a year, patrons could gather to read and play parlor games. It became a free library in 1905, and in 1906 the City applied to Andrew Carnegie for a $10,000 grant to match its own $5,000 and a grant of land from the Pacific Improvement Company.

On Sunday, May 4 at the launch of the new Pacific Grove Library Foundation, current head librarian, Steven Silveira told how recently uncovered papers show the correspondence between the Carnegie people and Pacific Grove was almost comical, with the city insisting that it de-served a bigger grant than Carnegie was offering. Pacific Grove won.

The Pacific Grove Library was be-gun in 1907. It is the last of the Carnegie Libraries still in use as a public library in Monterey County.

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What started as an attempt to keep a bunch of her “restless kids” busy one summer grew into one of the Feast of Lanterns’ most popular events, the Pet Parade. In 1952, Ruby Nodilo was activities director at Caledonia Park when a larger group of kids than in past years were spending their sum-mer afternoons at the Park.Looking for an activity that would keep kids of all ages occupied, Ruby, with the help of the children organized a pet parade. They made ribbons out of construc-

tion paper, mapped a parade route, and set a date. Children and their pets parading around the park seemed an innocent enough adventure.

May 16-22, 2014

•Dogs were left in this parked vehicle

in Pacific Grove on Tuesday, May 13 and were noticed by our photographer. Even though it was in partial shade and the window was cracked about three inches, it was a possibly lethal situation for the dogs. A thermometer on the dashboard showed just how hot it was: at 100.7 degrees outside the hot windshield, it was 120.6 degrees inside.

•On Wednesday, May 7, The SPCA for

Monterey County rescued 14 dogs, four very young, tiny puppies and two cats from shocking, inhumane conditions in a Pacific Grove house in the 400 block of Fountain Ave. According to the SPCA, the small residence, inhabited by the owner and her adult son, was dangerously cluttered with piles of clothing, trash and garbage. The house was found by first responders to be filled with feces and urine.

All 18 dogs, including four very young puppies, were locked in three small back rooms, where the overwhelming stench of ammonia from urine caused difficulty breathing and made humane of-ficers’ eyes burn. The toxic conditions of the home were so extreme and unsafe that Pacific Grove Fire Department personnel recommended that animal rescuers not return inside the house without protective equipment due to high levels of ammonia gas. During the search of the home some doors had to be forced open by rescuers because they were blocked by deep piles of feces and garbage.

•Harbor seal pupping along the Pacific

Grove shoreline has a few weeks to go, but it’s already being listed as the most

successful season since the births started alongside the coastal recreation trail in 1998. There were 90 living pups on one day this month in the two rookeries that are closely watched, a record that surpassed the 87 in 2011.

There are still 60 to 80 pups seen on almost any day, depending on the time, the level of the tide and the strength of the surf. Most of those are on the permanently fenced beach at Hopkins Marine Station, where 30 pups were still nursing one day this week while more than 30 others were already weaned and on their own. In the temporarily fenced spillover rookery in the 5th Street Cove, there were six nursing pups and their moms on the sand and rocks at that time, along with about 10 juveniles and adults, a couple of them still looking pregnant.

May 23-29, 2014On Monday, May 19, at a special

assembly at Robert Down Elementary School, Miztli Corona proudly presented a certificate of appreciation, made out to Robert Down School, to Mrs. Linda Williams from President Abel Torres, the village president of El Limón in Jalisco, Mexico recognizing the both Robert Down and Pacific Grove communities’ generous support for Miztli’s project to rebuild the walls of a local kindergarten.

Pacific Grove Heritage Homes Pres-ervation Award was bestowed on 520 Ninth Street. Owner: Christine Crozier. Designer/Contractor: Mark Travaille, Travaille Brothers and Others

•On May 14, a Pebble Beach security

guard was conducting a vehicle check on 17 Mile Drive when he noticed his own property in the back of a pickup truck. It had apparently been stolen from the Car-mel Valley area. He attempted to detain the two people in the truck, the female driver backed into him and drove away.

The security guard was not seriously injured and was able to identify the female driver. The Sheriff’s office is now seeking the female, Rosamaria Best, age approxi-mately 40, of Prunedale. She is 5’4”, 200 pounds, with brown eyes and green hair. The male passenger ,about 30 years old, is about 5’7”, 180 pounds, with black eyes and brown hair. The vehicle is a 1995 Ford pickup truck, tan in color, license plate number 16820F1.

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•Imagine chatting it up with Steven

Jobs, like Pacific Grove Unified School District Superintendent Ralph Porras got to do (right) when fourth graders at Robert Down School set up their annual Famous Persons Day. Who would you choose to talk with? More importantly, who would

Gary Kildall was a tech genius who lived in Pacific Grove. His innovations skyrocketed to millions in sales and the devotion of masses for his innovation and vision to see what will be the basic way computers operate even today. Unfortunately, Gary passed away in 1994 and never saw the wonders of Wi-Fi, true tablet computers, and smart phones that distract us for hours with Flappy Birds and Angry Birds.April 25 a commemoration of Kildall’s development with an unveiling of a commemorative plaque at 801 Light-house Avenue site was held.

Ken Krings is part of the neighborhood group which, each spring, cleans up the Magic Carpet on Ocean View Blvd. Trash and landscape maintenance, including pulling weeds and edging the ice plant is all part of the job, along with a healthy dose of fellowship. The ice plant at Perkins Park is world-famous; less so is Hayes Perkins, the self-effacing man who originall less so is Hayes Perkins, the self-effacing man who originally planted the seaside garden when he retired here in 1943.

Panetta Lecture: Role of Governmentin Dealing with Depressions, Wars,Equality and Poverty L-R Senator Alan Simpson, Mrs.Sylvia Panetta, Con-gressman Barney Frank and Secretary Panetta.

Robyn Hutman, filming in Aiselukhar-ka, Nepal for her feature-length docu-mentary, “Searching for Nepal.” She used a “Kickstarter” campaign to get started.

50 years ago a few ladies in the Mon-terey area wanted to get together to sing…..just for fun. They met in eachother’s homes for a while. Then they began to grow in numbers and popu-larity. Eventually the City of Monterey Parks and Recreation Department took them on and became the spon-sor of The Monterey Choraleers. Now numbering over 250 gals through the years, the current group consists of about 25 ladies that still meet on Monday afternoons at Monterey’s Hilltop Center. They range in age from 50 to 90.

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you choose to study, and then portray, even if it’s only for one day?

Students chose a famous person, dead or alive, and learned about them so that they could share with others as fel-low students and others got to see them in action. Whether it was a sports hero or a favorite guitarist, a Supreme Court Justice or an actress, they worked hard and deserve acclaim.

•Chapman Caddell, a sophomore at

Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, par-ticipated in the 2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF) and emerged with the Physics and Astronomy “Best of Category” Award. Caddell com-peted against 1,800 students from more than 70 countries, regions and territories. He interacted with students and scientists, including Nobel Laureates, and underwent eight hours of interviews with 21 judges, most of whom were physicists from around the world.

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•One of the nation’s top marine biolo-

gists, Steve Palumbi, will discuss his new book, The Extreme Life of the Sea, when he speaks to the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society on Thursday, May 29. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. in The Boat Works building at Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Ocean View Blvd., Pacific Grove. It is free and open to the public.

June 6-12, 2014“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” as Yogi

Berra said, but even though some 22,969 mail ballots and ballots delivered to poll-ing places remain to be hand-counted, it’s probably over for Measure O. Supporters of the initiative, which would require a study into public ownership of water for a great portion of Monterey County, are looking at the figures and conceding defeat.

Public Water Now co-founder George Riley, the driving force behind Measure O, said that he and Ron Cohen, Public Water Now’s president, are likely going to close it down soon and will not pursue public water for a while yet. “We made a sizable impact,” he said. “There’s a legitimate question on public ownership” he added, and said that there will continue to be a watchdog faction. keeping an eye on

California American Water.Wednesday, June 4, at about 2:15 p.m., a 1997 Lincoln Town Car driven by Bert Mendelsohn of San Diego ran into the Coldwell Banker Real Estate office at 650 Lighthouse Ave. It appears he lost control, jumped the curb, struck a pole and crossed the sidewalk, coming to rest several feet inside the building. The passenger, Lottie Mendelsohn, 93, had minor injuries and was trans-ported to CHOMP as a precaution. Neither Mr. Mendelsohn nor their blind dog, which was in the car, was injured. It is not known when the business will reopen. Monterey Fire, Pacific Grove Police, and an ambulance responded.

A fund-raising brunch to benefit the Feast of Lanterns was set for Sunday, June 22, at the Beach House restaurant at Lovers Point. The $50-a-person brunch was the kick-off to the Feast of Lanterns season. Only 100 tickets were sold for the event, which also included silent and live auctions. Tickets and more information are available at Pacific Grove Travel, 593 Lighthouse Ave., 373-0631. The Feast of Lanterns is always the last weekend in July, this year July 23-27.

June 13-19, 2014The Pacific Grove Unified School

District held two discussions and public hearings on the 2014-2015 school district budget on Tuesday, June 3 and Thursday, June 5, finally passing the budget without fanfare at the June 5 meeting. No public comments were offered at either meeting.

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Dr. Karin Forney, research biologist with the Marine Mammal and Turtle Divi-sion of NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Sci-ence Center in Santa Cruz, discussed the latest attempts to reduce human impacts on whales, dolphins and porpoises on June 26, when she spoke to the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. The program was free and open to the public.

Federal scientists have surveyed

marine mammals within the California Current ecosystem since 1991 to estimate populations and monitor trends. They have developed methods to assess localized impacts from naval activities, ships, fish-ing bycatch and energy development, and have provided models to the U.S. Navy and other ocean users to try to mitigate potential harm.

June 20-26, 2014At their budget meeting on Tuesday,

June 10, the Carmel City Council made Carmel the fourth city to sign on to the Pacific Grove Homeless Challenge Grant. Carmel joins Pacific Grove, Monterey, and Sand City in allocating money to identify and fund longterm programs to reduce homelessness on the Monterey Peninsula.

The 2013 Monterey County Homeless Census and Survey concluded that there are 2,590 homeless people in Monterey County. Of that amount, 1,244 of them (almost half) live in the Peninsula cities.

•Downtown business owners, by

and large members of the Business Im-provement District, met in an informal atmosphere on June 17 to discuss issues they confront which are peculiar to doing business in downtown Pacific Grove. They also offered suggestions as to what, if any-thing, the City could or would do to make downtown more successful. Present were a mix of restaurateurs, merchants, office and gallery owners as well as the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, the motorcycle museum, and this newspaper, as well as Mayor Bill Kampe, Mayor Pro Tem Robert Huitt, City Manager Tom Frutchey and Moe Ammar of the Chamber of Commerce.

• A citizen phoned in a suspicious item

they saw in a flower bed on the bike trail along Ocean View Blvd., near the intersec-tion with 10th Street at about 7:00 p.m. on June 17. Officers were dispatched and found what appeared to be a homemade explosive device. The area was cordoned off from Monterey Street to 8th St. on Ocean View Blvd.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad retrieved the item using a remote controlled robot, which fired a charge and destroyed the possible bomb. Fragments were collected and will be analyzed, ac-cording to Pacific Grove Police Depart-ment Cdr. Cassie McSorley. That may take several weeks. Cdr. McSorley said that all indications are that it was, in fact, a pipe bomb.

•Tom and Ali Radcliffe are living their

dream right here in Pacific Grove. The owners of Stone’s Pet Store are opening their first Stone’s Pet Wash now on David Avenue, right around the corner from their shop. Complete with five washing bays, pet shampoos, towels, Earth Bath products, blow dryers, all eco-friendly and

Skye-Marie McKenna Jensen of Pa-cific Grove was presented with her ap-pointment to the United States Coast Guard Academy. From left to right are: Paul Tanks, MHS NJROTC Senior Naval Science Instructor; Carl Morello, Coast Guard Academy Admissions Partner; and Master Sergeant David Duffield, MHS NJROTC Naval Science Instructor. The awards ceremony took place at Monterey High School on May 23, 2014.

non allergenic... and ready for your pets. The grand opening is scheduled for June 28 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and will feature a “doggie ice cream social” plus treats for every pet wash. There will be giveaways and special promotions announced during the day of celebration.

June 27-July 3, 2014

Judge Thomas Wills has found for the City of Pacific Grove in its countersuit to the suit brought against it by Sally Jean Aberg, Frances Grate and Daniel Davis (Aberg, et al v. City of Pacific Grove) concerning the “Citizen’s Initiative Pe-tition,” which attempted to rescind the City’s adoption of an ordinance in 2002 which gave “3 @ 50” retirement to safety personnel.

On Jan. 21, 2014, the judge had ruled that the City was bound to place the initia-tive on the November, 2014 ballot but he made it clear that he would not resolve the entire matter until the question of the City’s request for a declaratory ruling as to the legality of the recession of “3@50” was settled. Also taken into consideration was the related Pacific Grove Police Of-ficers Association suit against the City in which Judge Wills had ruled that contrac-tual rights to a pension are vested.

•The Carmel City Council has entered

into an agreement with Green Waste Re-covery of San Jose for collection of solid waste, recycling and organics in the city for a 15-year term beginning July 1, 2015. Council members unanimously approved the contract during a special single-issue City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 17, in the City Hall council chambers. Waste Management Inc., which was the other fi-nalist in this process, has held the contract with Carmel for many years.

•A four-day police crackdown on

drunk and drugged drivers starts on Thurs-day, July 3, and continues until midnight Sunday, July 6, in Monterey County and San Benito County.

California Highway Patrol command-ers in the Gilroy-Hollister, King City and Monterey squads will send out all avail-able officers during the entire Indepen-dence Day weekend.

•Kevin Phillips, partner at The Beach

House on Lovers Point, found himself in the midst of royalty of the Feast of Lanterns sort as he hosted a brunch and silent/ live auction to benefit the Feast of Lanterns. Babz Sayer, featured artist at Tessuti Zoo, along with Emily Owens, Tessuti Zoo owner, enjoyed the festivities with other friends in appropriate headgear. Feast of Lanterns execs Joni Birch, current president, and Marabee Boone, past presi-dent. Sold-out crowd applauded auction activities. The Beach House also brought in acoustic guitar players and donated a coveted “ringside” table for the night of the Pageant, July 27 to be auctioned to lucky bidder Debby Beck of Sotheby’s.

On Friday, May 28, 15 students gradu-ated from Pacific Grove Community High School. They are, in alphabetical order: Arturo Acevedo Diaz, Eric An-thony Amorin, Timothy Edward Avila,Jasmine Erlinda Bixler, Edison Hiroto Cho, Zachary James Daubs, Ashley Morgan Dinkel, Molly Jean Han-son, Trina Corinna Mamaia, Johna-thon Daniel Mares, Steven Jonathan Moore, Juan Daniel Morales Martinez, Alexander Dean Clark Paulsell, and Joseph Mario.

Brandt’s Cormorants are currently nesting near the Coast Guard Pier in Monterey, where this mother bird was photographed by Marge Brigadier. Cormorants feed on small fish and can dive some 40 feet to the sea floor in search of dinner. This bird exhibits the blue throat of breeding season.

Pacific Grove residents Linda and Jim Pagnella and Susie Joyce were among more than 80 CERT members who responded to a drill on Sat., June 21.

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Wednesday, December 24 • Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. led by Pacific Coast Church Senior Pastor, Dr. Bill Little ~ Christmas Music ~ Joyous Carols ~ Refreshments. Lift your spirits ~ include your family and friends ~ celebrate the holidays with spiritual community. Bring your favorite holiday treats to share after the service. Pacific Coast Church, 522 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove. Contact 831.372.1942 or www.pacificcoastchurchpg.org for more information.

Wednesday, December 31 • Annual Burning Bowl Ceremony. 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. An evening of chanting and music as we prepare to release all that does not serve our spiritual path. Each person will have the chance to symbolically “Let Go & Let God” by burning their written thoughts to release and affirming intentions for 2015. There will be light refreshments afterwards so you can center in your new thoughts before driving home. Pacific Coast Church, 522 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove. Contact 831.372.1942 or www.pacificcoastchurchpg.org for more information.

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Former PGPD Commander Pleads Guilty in Weapons Charge

On Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 former Pacific Grove police commander John Nyunt pleaded guilty to charges four days after being charged with possessing firearms stolen from Monterey Peninsula College, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The assault rifles, shotguns, and semi-automatic pis-tols belonged to Monterey Peninsula College. The college was planning to close the police academy and offered them to Pacific Grove Police Department through Nyunt. Knowing that PGPD did not want the weapons, Nyunt – an instructor at the academy – falsely stated that he was accepting the guns on PGPD’s behalf as a donation. He then consigned 17 Glock semi-automatic pistols and five Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistols to a dealer and they were sold off.

Nyunt, 52, admitted to keeping five of the Glocks and either selling them himself or giving them to other people.

Nyunt’s consolidated sentencing hearing for both cases is scheduled for April 7, 2015. The maximum statu-tory penalty for the violation is 10 years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution. Pursuant to the binding plea agreement, if accepted by the court, the par-ties have agreed that the defendant should be sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment, to run concurrent with his sentence in case CR-00235-BLF. However, any sentence will be imposed by the court only after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence, per the U.S. At-torney’s report.

The retired Pacific Grove police commander was first arrested in March, 2014 for threatening to kill his ex-wife, Kristin Newell Nyunt, who was being investi-gated for wire fraud and extortion. The threats had been captured on tape.

Additional charges against Nyunt and Kristin Newell Nyunt were added as the investigation continued.

The Nyunts defrauded victims, including some relatives, of thousands of dollars by diverting criminal complaints from the Police Department to an investiga-tions business they had formed, according to Monterey County prosecutor Steve Somers. Nyunt would order investigations that implicated his ex-wife as a suspect to be closed, according to the District Attorney’s office.

Nyunt also allowed his ex-wife access to the confi-dential Police Department computerized data base system which she used to steal numerous individuals’ identities.

In April, Nyunt pleaded guilty to second-degree commercial burglary, threatening a witness and being an accessory after the fact in the state case. He was im-mediately sentenced to three years in prison.

He was charged in May, 2014 with wire fraud and extortion in U.S. District Court. He pleaded guilty.

Kristen Nyunt pleaded guilty to one count of resi-dential burglary, two counts of forgery, two counts of computer network fraud and five counts of identity theft. She was sentenced in July to eight years and four months in prison, but can be released on mandatory supervision after completing three years and eight months in prison.

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Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay) wishes to remind his con-stituents that the below new laws that he wrote will take effect on January 1, 2015.

Streamlining Government and Increasing TransparencyAB 2119 – ImprovIng County In-

frAstruCture: This new law will help counTies improve infrasTrucTure which They are responsible for mainTaining. iT will allow a counTy To inTroduce a sales Tax balloT measure for unincor-poraTed areas. if The qualified voTers from The unincorporaTed areas of The counTy approve The balloT measure, The revenues could be applied To road main-Tenance, sewer and waTer pipe improve-menTs, and oTher infrasTrucTure needs. all exisTing sTaTe and local balloT measure passage requiremenTs would apply To sales Tax measures placed on The balloT as a resulT of This new law.

AB 474 – CoAstAl CommIssIon CommunICAtIons: This biparTisan new law amends The ex-parTe communicaTion requiremenTs in The coasTal acT To include disclosure of all parTicipanTs of such meeTings. currenT law only requires disclosure of The individual who requesTed The meeTing and when or where The meeTing was held.

AB 467 – unused phArmACeutI-CAls: This new law ensures ThaT indi-genT paTienTs can receive medicine from counTy disTribuTion cenTers ThaT accepT donaTed, unused pharmaceuTicals. This law is a modesT clarificaTion To make iT easier and more cosT-effecTive for counTies To provide needed medicaTion To paTienTs. noTe: This measure wenT inTo effecT on april 9, 2014.

AB 1732 - honest Auto deAler AdvertIsIng: This modesT measure clarifies and updaTes currenT law in Three ways: 1) iT allows dealers To adverTise governmenTal and oTher rebaTes To consumers, such as cash for

Commander Rory Lakind (right) and Administrative Services Manager Jocelyn Francis, (center) were sworn in by City Manager Tom Frutchey on Wed., Dec. 15 as the newest members of the Pacific Grove Police Department.Commander Lakind has a Bachelor of Science in administration of justice from Rutgers University, a Master of Arts in criminology from the University of Houston – Clear Lake, and is a graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy. He has more than 21 years of experience as a police officer, retiring from the Houston Police Department, Homicide Unit as a Lieutenant and Master Peace Officer, where he successfully managed an elite team of murder investigators. Com-mander Lakind’s long history of service includes various assignments, such as patrol, traffic enforcement, special events, corrections, and investigations. He has also earned numerous awards including a Chief of Police Citation for successfully managing a Burglary Apprehension Team; a Chief of Police Cita-tion for responding to, investigating, and apprehending a dangerous fugitive who killed an innocent bystander and a police officer; and a Chief’s Citation for “Exceptional Performance of Duty.”Administrative Services Manager Francis has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from San Diego State University and a Master’s of Public Administration Degree from California State University Fullerton. Administrative Services Manager Francis is a resident of Pacific Grove and brings with her extensive experience in the public sector, to include working for the Santa Ana Police Department in Human Resources and Homeland Security; the Seaside Police Department in Support Services; and the City of Monterey Public Works Department in capital projects. In each position, she was highly regarded for streamlining processes and improving efficiencies.Photo by Rudy Fischer

PG’s Finest Welcomes its Newest Stone Bills Become Law January 1clunkers and The clean vehicle re-baTe program; 2) iT codifies a provision ThaT is currenTly only in regulaTions ThaT prohibiTs a car dealer from adver-Tising a vehicle’s prior use or ownership hisTory in an inaccuraTe manner; and 3) iT clarifies ThaT a rebaTe musT noT be adverTised if iT conflicTs wiTh anoTher adverTised rebaTe.

Protecting California’s Most

Vulnerable ResidentsAB 2236 (Maienschein/Stone) –

Protecting Patients in Community Care Facilities: This bipartisan measure will better protect children, seniors and the developmentally disabled who are served by licensed community care facilities. This new law will help priori-tize the safety and wellbeing of people served by these facilities by substantially increasing fines for major violations.

AB 1614 – EBT Card Consumer Protections: This critical measure will help families who receive public ben-efits avoid bank and ATM surcharges, ensuring that they can take care of basic needs. AB 1614 improves consumer protections for families who access public benefits, such as temporary cash aid and nutrition assistance, through the use of electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards. The measure requires that county social workers provide CalWORKs recipients with the information they need to maximize cash aid. Specifically, social workers will inform recipients about surcharge-free ATM locations and will discuss how to opt out of EBT card usage and instead receive cash aid through direct deposit to bank accounts. This measure ensures that $19 million in taxpayer dollars go to help families receiving CalWORKs rather than banks’ ATM fees.

AB 1579 - Healthy Babies Act of 2014: The measure will help low-income pregnant women prepare for the arrival of their new babies. The new law helps ensure that poor pregnant women are healthier and more financially secure by allowing eligible pregnant women who do not have any other children to access CalWORKs benefits at the begin-ning of the second trimester of their pregnancies. The measure does not ex-tend the number of months that a woman can access benefits; it simply moves the date for receiving benefits up by three months. Note: This measure does not get implemented until July 1, 2015.

Improving Public SafetyAB 1512 - County Jail Sunset:

This law extends until January 1, 2018 a sunset provision that allows county jails to send some inmates to jails in other counties. This is important for Mon-terey County Jail, which currently sends inmates to Alameda County Jail where they have access to space and rehabilita-tive services while the Monterey facili-ties are updated. While this law helps ensure that Monterey County inmates better receive the services they need, this one-time sunset extension is intended to provide a specific period of time under which county jails, stressed from realignment, can improve their facilities and rehabilitation programs.

AB 2308 - Identification Cards for Released Prisoners: This new law requires that eligible state prison inmates be issued current California identifica-tion cards (ID) upon release. This will assist men and women in their transi-tion to post-release life and help reduce recidivism, since identification cards are needed for myriad transactions, includ-ing access to healthcare, prove residency requirements, and meet eligibility re-quirements for state social services. The state budget signed into law by Governor Brown included $2.175 million dollars to fund AB 2308.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:Petition of MONICA ESPINOZA GONZALEZ

Case No. M130166Filed NOV. 25, 2014. To all interested persons: Petitioner MONICA ESPINOZA GONZALEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: present name MONICA ESPINOZA GONZALEZ to pro-posed name MONICA GARCIA-GONZALEZ. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objec-tion that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of hearing date: Jan. 30, 2015 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. 15. The address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Monterey, 1200 Aguajito Road, Monterey, CA 93940. A copy of this Order To Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four consecutive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: CEDAR STREET TIMES. DATE: Nov. 25, 2014 Judge of the Superior Court: Thomas W. Wills. Publication dates: 11/28, 12/5, 12/12, 12/19/14

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The following person is doing business as ENGRAFFT, 514 7th St., Pacific Grove, Mon-terey County, CA 93950. DEREK WIJNAND HANNEMAN, 514 7th St., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Nov. 14, 2014. Registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-tious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Derek Hanneman. This business is conducted by an individual. Publication dates: 12/05, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/14

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By Dirrick Williams

Recently, during a conversation regarding the events of Ferguson, Missouri, a white friend asked, “Why do YOU GUYS always do that?”

A hurtful question. To me a stupid question. I have come to realize questions such as these cannot be answered but must be addressed and overcome. This ques-tion is in line with questions like, how does it feel to be black? What do “you guys” like to be called? How come black people can’t swim? Can “you guys” get a tan?

I was stuck on what he meant by “you guys.” I wondered if he truly indentified with this sense of separation and implied superiority. And I was offended by his use of the word “always.” “Always” means in the past, in the present, and in the future. “Always” is an extremely powerful word; and in this case it is filled with judgment and condemnation.

I wanted to reply belligerently, “Yeah, you’re right WE always do that,” “WE” always behave “that” way. Instead, I politely re-directed our conversation. I am sure he was completely unaware or too insensitive to consider the full impact of his ques-tion.

With this in mind, I did what he could have easily done to answer his own question (if he actually cared enough to do so). I googled ‘race riots in America,’ and damned if he wasn’t right. As far back as 1866 (I could have gone back further but I didn’t have the time) African Americans have displayed what has been deemed repulsive and criminal response against what were/are the norms of social behavior and government-sanctioned policies. As far back as 1866 and it seems not much has changed.

A few days later, I sought out my friend and re-opened our conversation. I asked him, “Why do YOU GUYS always do that?”

“Do WHAT?” he asked. “Why do YOU GUYS always ask why WE always respond the way WE do,

rather than ask WHAT it is WE are responding to?” He stood there and said nothing. I continued. “After the Memphis riots of 1866, a time when lynching African

Americans was a legal and common practice, through the Reconstruction period, during Jim Crow, throughout the Civil Rights era, in the midst of the LA riots of the 60’s, after the beating of Rodney King, the death of Trayvon Martin, the death of Mi-chael Brown, and now after the death of Eric Garner, Why do YOU GUYS always do that?”

“Do WHAT? Enforce the law?” He asked forcefully.“No.” I said. And then I repeated the question; “Why do YOU GUYS always

ask why WE always respond the way WE do, rather than ask WHAT it is we are responding to?”

I could see the wheels turning in his head. His brow wrinkled up like a Shar Pei puppy, eyes staring at the floor, his mouth shut in silence . . . just standing there.

I said, “If we agree that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, then the elephant in the room is not what WE always do but rather WHAT WE are responding to.”

He replied, “Oh there you go, gonna play the race card!”I was dumbfounded, confused, and angered by his response. I was dumbfounded

because of a growing feeling inside me that wanted to slap him upside the head, after all, all I did was ask him the same question he asked me a few days ago. I was con-fused because of the emerging realization that I needed to further explain the reason for asking, and I was angry by his defensive attempt to dismiss my concerns and reasonable dialogue. But I have come to realize this is what happens when “they” are pinned between the rock of accountability and the hard place of privilege and entitlement.

The Elephant in America’s Living Room

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The following person is doing business as SUN-FLOWER STUDIO, LLC, 301 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA 93950. CLAIRE PHIL-LIPS, 601 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County on Dec. 15, 2014. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name(s) listed above on N/A. Signed: Claire Phillips. This business is conducted by a limited liability com-pany. Publication dates: 12/19, 12/26/14, 1/2, 1/9/15

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My choices are to knock some sense into his head or thrust more black history data points into his imagination, both of which would only cause him to clam up or walk away. Instead, I risked asking this simple but very direct question, “When will YOU GUYS stop killing black people?”

With some angst and even more anger, he looked me in the eyes and said in a loud voice, “Dude, I haven’t killed anyone!”

To which I calmly replied, “Dude, I have not rioted.” Check. Willful ignorance and stupid question addressed. Checkmate if I turn

and walk away. But this is a friend (?) whose vulnerability presented us with oppor-tunity, so I made a move. I took the chance that he might listen if I revealed a little of my own black history.

I began with the story of my grandfather whose land was taken from him. How my mother and her siblings posted shotguns at their doors and windows. As chil-dren, to save their own lives they were told, “If the riders come, shoot to kill.” I told him of my father, a right-handed black man found with a white sheriff’s bullet hole in the left side of his head, his death listed as suicide. I told him about my Uncle Andrew, a black man given a position of authority in a Louisiana shipyard but was eventually murdered by white subordinate workers.

I told him about my mother’s family who fled the heat and hatred of Mississippi for a better life in California. I spoke of the insults I endured in the late 70s for be-ing black while wearing a United States military uniform. I told him about the jobs I suspected were not given to me based on the color of my skin. I vented about OUR prison system… a SYSTEM where 75 percent of the people imprisoned are people who look like me, because they broke laws specifically written against people who look like me. And I asked about the practice of not selling homes to, and the denial of standard education for people who look like me.

On and on I could have gone, but I stopped because his burden seemed too heavy to bear.

That’s when he lifted his head and looked at me, part amazement part disbelief. For a brief moment, I think he actually began to understand . . . something.

He said, “Dude, I’m sorry.”I said, “Thank you for the apology but there is no need. In many ways, you had

nothing to do with this. However, there is one thing you can do that would make me feel better.”

“What is that?”“Stop asking stupid questions.”I could see he understood what I meant. I was certain in this moment he felt the

pain, denial, and judgment of racism that I and many others like me feel every day. I think he understood that for people who look like him it might be time to start ask-ing better, different questions… better questions about the hard-earned histories and daily lives of those who do not look like him.

Dirrick Williams was born and raised in Pacific Grove and graduated from Pacific Grove High School. He served in the Air Force. For many years he wrote a motivational column for Cedar Street Times, and is currently on a haitus to write another book. His first book, Principle Living, is available at http://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781609578121. It is about Christian spirituality.

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Box Score

1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Final

Hilmar 8 15 12 18 7 60

Pacific Grove 16 16 12 9 11 64

Stats –Pacific Grove FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A REB AST STL BLK PTSBrad Sendell 6-18 1-5 5-6 1 1 2 0 18Noah Dalhamer 1-4 0 0 2 0 1 0 2Guarav Gurung 1-1 1-1 0 0 0 0 0 3Sean O’Sullivan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Chip Wagner 2-10 0-2 6-8 9 0 2 0 10Apollo Marquez 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0Zack Miller 3-5 0 1-1 4 0 0 2 7Daniel Harrington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Sam Fenstermaker 3-3 0 3-4 3 4 0 0 9Josh Wren 5-11 0 0-4 9 0 1 0 10Tyler Poppino 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Uche Ebo 1-3 0-1 3-6 8 0 0 0 5

The other boys’ basketball game of the night featured Palma (2-1) against Ipswitch of Australia. Palma was able to hold on at the end and win 59-54.

Day 2 – GirlsAfter a good start to the season, the Breakers were 4-1 and looked primed to have

a good game against the undefeated Mustangs of Monte Vista Christian.However, the Breakers quickly found out just how good this Mustangs team is

when they fell behind 16-2 after the first quarter. It didn’t get any better in the second quarter for the Breakers as MVC was up 30-7 at the half.

MVC did a good job of holding Jessica Matthews and Ali Patton in check, who on the night before scored 27 combined points in their win over Hilmar. Patton had 2 points, while Matthews had 5 against the Mustangs. Lela Hautau had the most success for the Breakers, as she finished with 4 points and 8 rebounds.

The Breakers held MVC to only 14 second half points, but they could only muster 10 points themselves.

Box Score

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final

Monte Vista Christian 16 14 5 9 44

Pacific Grove 2 5 8 2 17

Stats -Pacific Grove FGM 3PM FTM-A REB AST STL BLK PTSJoslyn Morgan 1 0 0-2 0 0 0 0 2Abby Burnell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Christina Lucido 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Lela Hautau 1 0 4-6 8 0 0 0 6Mackenzie Bell 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2Allie Patton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2Jessica Matthews 2 0 1-2 0 0 0 0 5Sophie Lowell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Natali Baratashvili 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Elena Doss 0 0 0-2 0 0 0 0 0Jade Greathouse 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

The other girls’ basketball game on Saturday featured Santa Catalina (3-2) against Hilmar. Santa Catalina moved to 4-2 after defeating the Yellow Jackets 72-46.

The Breakers (4-2) will play next against Las Lomas in the West Coast Jamboree on Saturday, December 27, 2014, at 5:00 p.m.

Boys –“It’s crazy,” sophomore Brad Sendell said after hitting the game winning shot in

Saturday night’s game against Ipswich of Australia. For the third game in a row, the Breakers went into overtime. Again, they found a way to win and improve to 3-0 on the season.

Chip Wagner had a strong first quarter for the Breakers while putting up 7 points. The Breakers got off to a quick start with back to back 3-pointers from Brad Sendell and Chip Wagner. The teams traded baskets throughout the rest of the first quarter with the Breakers holding on to a 14-10 lead.

Ipswitch picked up the intensity in the second quarter and turned it into an 18 point quarter, while the defense held the Breakers to only 8 points. Ipswitch was able to take the lead and go into the half with a 28-22 lead.

Going into the fourth quarter, the Breakers were down 36-32. After Sendell drove to the hoop, he had his shot blocked, but it was knocked out to a waiting Chip Wagner who drained the 3-pointer for the Breakers. Sendell would then add two more baskets, to give the Breakers their first lead since early in the second quarter. An Ipswitch basket ended the 8-0 Breakers run and made the score 42-42. With less than 30 seconds left in the game, Ipswitch was up 46-45 and at the free throw line. Ipswitch would only make one of two though, and gave the Breakers a chance and only down by two. With 6 seconds left in the game Sam Fenstermaker got fouled and got to go to the line with a chance to tie it. After making the first free throw, he missed the second, but the Ipswitch coach called a timeout just before the shot and he was given another opportunity. This

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- Jon Charron

The Breaker Classic featured a little bit of everything over the weekend from a couple of blow outs to two overtime thrillers. [12/12/14-12/13/14]

Day 1 – GirlsThe Breakers were able to handle the Hilmar Yellow Jackets on the way to a 45-31

victory Friday night.Pacific Grove jumped out to a quick start against the Yellow Jackets, scoring the

first 6 points of the game. “On Tuesday against Notre Dame, we were put back on our heels, but we battled back and won,” head coach Ken Ottmar said after the Breakers victory over Hilmar. “I told the girls that we can’t take anything lightly.” Ottmar was describing how the adversity the team faced against Notre Dame helped them come out fast and not give Hilmar anything.

The tandem of Jessica Matthews and Ali Patton were everywhere in the first half for the Breakers. Patton led the way with 9 points, 2 steals, and 5 rebounds, while Mat-thews chipped in 7 points, 3 rebounds, and 1 block. Matthews and Patton combined for 16 of the Breakers 20 first half points. The Breakers ended the quarters strong with an Ali Patton basket at the end of the first quarter, and a Joselyn Morgan put back at the end of the third.

The Yellow Jackets tried to mount a comeback in the second half, but would never get closer than the 7 point deficit they faced at halftime. The defense was aggressive and effective for the Breakers, and as a team, they had 16 steals and 3 blocked shots.

“Last year was a surprise for most people, but this year everyone knows about us,” coach Ottmar added.

Box Score

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final

Hilmar 8 5 8 10 31

Pacific Grove 10 10 12 13 45

Stats -Pacific Grove FGM 3PM FTM-A REB AST STL BLK PTSJoslyn Morgan 3 0 0 3 0 1 0 6Abby Burnell 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0Christina Lucido 0 0 0 2 4 1 0 0Lela Hautau 1 0 0-2 6 1 1 1 2Mackenzie Bell 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 4Allie Patton 4 0 4-6 6 4 6 0 12Jessica Matthews 7 0 1-3 6 1 2 1 15Sophie Lowell 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0Natali Baratashvili 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 4Elena Doss 1 0 0-2 0 0 0 0 2Jade Greathouse 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0

The other girls’ basketball game on Friday night featured (3-0) Monte Vista Christian and (3-1) Santa Catalina. After a close first quarter, MVC cruised to an easy victory, winning 56-23.

Boys –“A resilient and tough minded group,” is how Breakers head coach Dan Powers

described his team after defeating Hilmar in overtime on Friday night. After taking a 9 point lead into the fourth quarter, the Yellow Jackets used the 3-pointer to make the comeback and force overtime.

In the first quarter, the Breakers looked nearly flawless with a well balanced of-fensive attack. The Breakers had six different people score in the first quarter on their way to a 16-8 lead.

Chip Wagner kept things a float for the Breakers in the second quarter, as he picked up 8 of the teams second quarter points and two rebounds. Hilmar finally started to get things going on the offensive side of the ball by making three 3-pointers.

The Yellow Jackets would make five 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to help them erase a nine point lead. With only 10 seconds left and the Breakers up by 3, Chip Wagner had a chance to seal the game at the line. However, he missed the free throw attempt, giving Hilmar one more chance. One more chance was all they needed, when with 3 seconds left, they were able to drain the 3-pointer and tie the game. With the game tied at 53-53, Brad Sendell attempted one last shot at the buzzer, but it hit the back of the rim and the game went into overtime. “The kid made a great three at the end to put it in to overtime,” coach Powers said.

Brad Sendell started things off on the right foot for the Breakers in overtime with a 3-point basket. Hilmar countered right back though, with a 3-pointer of their own. It seemed like whenever the Breakers needed a big play in the game, either Sam Fen-stermaker, or Josh Wren stepped up and made it. Fenstermaker got the crowd amped up when he took the ball to the hole and completed the three point play after he was fouled. Wren also had a couple big rebounds in overtime to help them secure the vic-tory over the Yellow Jackets.

Wren, who finished the game with 10 points and 9 rebounds “played his best game of the season,” according to Powers. Adding, “He’s had good practices, and I’m proud of him.”

2014 Breaker ClassicGirls Go 1-1, Boys Go 2-0

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time Fenstermaker made it and tied the game up at 47-47.Ipswitch came out quick in overtime and jumped out to a 50-47 lead over the

Breakers. After a Chip Wagner miss, Noah Dalhamer was able to grab the rebound and put it back in. Ipswitch would make another free throw to stay ahead 51-49. Two huge free throws from Brad Sendell tied the game up at 51-51, and after an Ipswitch miss, the Breakers had the ball again with less than 50 seconds to play. Chip Wagner was then able to find Sam Fenstermaker underneath the basket for the layup. Ipswitch then quickly went down the court and scored again to tie the game back up at 53-53. Sendell though, was able to get the ball with 15 seconds left to play. He dribbled the ball right to the top of the key and banked in the game winning 3-pointer.

“We played so hard all game and they were close to one of the best teams in our league, Palma, and just to beat them feels great,” Brad Sendell said after the game. It wasn’t just Sendell who made a big play at the end of overtime though. If it wasn’t for Sam Fenstermaker’s two clutch free throws at the end of regulation, the game would have never even made it to overtime. “We love his hustle and he gets us energized when we don’t have the energy,” Sendell said of Fenstermaker. Adding, “He’s really a big part of our team.”

Box Score

1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT FinalIpswitch 10 18 8 11 6 53Pacific Grove 14 8 10 15 9 56

Stats –Pacific Grove FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A REB AST STL BLK PTSBrad Sendell 5-22 3-7 7-8 5 2 2 0 22Noah Dalhamer 1-4 0-1 1-4 5 0 0 0 3Guarav Gurung 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0Sean O’Sullivan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Chip Wagner 7-16 2-5 0-1 12 1 0 1 16Apollo Marquez 0 0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0Zack Miller 1-5 0 0 7 0 0 0 2Daniel Harrington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Sam Fenstermaker 2-6 0 2-2 2 1 0 0 6Josh Wren 1-7 0-1 2-2 5 0 2 0 4Tyler Poppino 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Uche Ebo 1-5 0 1-2 5 0 0 0 3

The other boys’ basketball game featured Palma (3-1) against Hilmar (3-4). Palma easily dispatched the Yellow Jackets 72-33.

The Breakers (3-0) will next play on the road at Gilroy (1-5) on Saturday, December 20, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.

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