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Pacific Grove's in This Issue Kiosk “Full Battle Rattle” and Pacific Kiosk In This Issue August 8, 9 and 10 Car week starts Monday morning 47th Annual Book Sale Carmel Mission Gym Rio Rd., at The International! adjacent to Larson Field. Pre sale Thursday August 8 Breakfast starts at 7:30 am. 10 am - 4pm Tour starts at 9:00 am. Public Sale August 9 and 10 10 am - 4pm. A handful of tickets are still available for the • Saturday August 10 and discerning aficionado. Sunday August 11 Please see page 10. Saturday at 7:30 PM at First Presbyterian Church of Monterey (501 El Dorado Street., Monterey) and Sunday Aug. 11, Pacific Grove’s 7:30 PM at Holy Cross Catholic Church (126 High St., Santa Cruz). Free admission Highlights the work of Music Camp International Times For more information call 831- Times 425-3600. • Monday August 12 Local NEWSpaperLocal NEWSpaper for for Pacific Pacific Grove & &the the Peninsula Peninsula Car Week Begins! Garage Style Magazine’s August 9 – 16, 2019 Vol. XI, Issue 52 Annual Garage Tour Your Community NEWSpaper Tour includes breakfast and tours of 4 garages and a subscription to Garage Style Magazine www.garagestylemagazine.com Cultural Appropriation “Full Battle Rattle” • Monday, Aug 12 at the Feast of Lanterns PG Scouts Sign-up Night By Gary Baley and Pacific Grove’s 6:45-8:00 PM Robert Down Field Resident War Hero All kids ages 5-17 Over the past few months three interested parties concerned By Frederick Visser Attend fun and games! about cultural appropriation have been meeting with Kaye Cole- • man, President of the Feast of Lanterns Board of Directors to voice Few people get to call themselves US Special Forces members. Tuesday, August 13 their concerns as to the festival’s lack of sensitivity to the Chinese Of these brave souls, fewer deploy in areas where extreme crisis and 11:00 am history in the area. the threat of violence perpetually loom overhead. Of these souls, PG LIBRARY PreSchool Stories Fred Vermonte is a history professor at CSUMB specializing braver yet, fewer still serve in Operational Detachment Alphas, or (ages 2-5) in Chinese history. Diana Li was a researcher at Stanford Univer- • A-teams, that conduct elite, covert, and highly dangerous operations sity’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove before joining the all over the globe, and in precisely such menacing territories. One Monday, Aug 12 Western Flyer Foundation in April 2019 as education coordinator. World Affairs Council Monterey man has done this longer than anyone else. Fremont resident Gerry Low-Sabado grew up in Pacific Grove and Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji’s 24 years of service for the Bay (WACMB) Discussion Group is a fifth-generation descendent of the first Chinese families that 4:00 - 5:30 PM US Special Forces began in Tehran in 1980. Operating undercover “Universal Health Care Around immigrated to the United States settling at Pacific Grove’s Point in the capital of a country in the midst of a revolution, he observed the World”. Alones in the middle of the nineteenth century. She is principal and reported on the deteriorating situation that was unfolding at the MPC Monterey campus, room 101 organizer of the annual Walk of Remembrance that honors those US embassy, as 52 American citizens and diplomats were being of the Social Sciences Building. original Chinese immigrants. She also was instrumental in pro- held captive by Islamic extremists. He was also returning home. Parking is $3 in Lot D. Born and raised in Iran, Changiz left for the US in his early • twenties (after service in the Shah’s Special Forces) to seek new Wednesday, August 14 opportunities in a country that, “protected individual freedom and 11:00 am Music with MaryLee (all ages) SEE BATTLE RATTLE PAGE 3 PG Library • Thursday, August 15 11:00 am PG Library Baby Rhyme Time (birth-24 months) • Pasta with the Pastors to Support I-HELP (Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging Program) August 29, 2019 • 4:30-7:30PM “Fishing Village in Monterey” photo from Cali- Silent Auction fornia Historical Society Program at 6:00PM • ducing an eighteen-minute documentary about these first Chinese immigrants called “By light of lanterns: an untold history of Friday, August 16 Monterey’s Chinese fishermen.” It can be viewed or checked out Silver Anniversary of at the CSUMB library in Marina (ask for DVD 0050). Pacific Grove Rotary Concours The short documentary outlines the arrival of two Chinese Auto Rally Junks with families at Point Lobos and the establishment of a Phone: 831-372-3861 www. fishing village there which lasted for 25 years before relocating to pgautorally.org pgautorally@ Pescadero in Carmel. In the meantime the U.S. Chinese Exclusion gmail.com Act and other legislation restricted their ability to thrive. From Carmel the village relocated again to Point Alones in Pacific Grove Inside where in 1906 they experienced a fire that destroyed almost the Cartoon ..................................... 2, 8, 9 entire village. Prohibited from rebuilding, the survivors began to disperse. Some went to MacAbbe Beach in Monterey and started Carmel Valley Report ......................... 4 another village and others moved inland to work in agriculture. Dunn Rovin’ ...................................... 7 At the 2019 Feast of Lanterns Pageant, Coleman announced From the Trenches ........................... 10 that changes are being considered to include sensitivity to the Homeless in Paradise ....................... 15 Chinese history in the area. Many interpreted her comments as Kydd’s Renaissance .......................... 12 planning to drop the Legend of the Blue Willow love story from Legal Notices ................................... 13 the pageant. But she didn’t say that was the case even though Obituary ............................................ 3 the story is not Chinese—it is English (see Cedar Street Times Poetry ................................................ 8 SEE FEAST APPROPRIATION PAGE 3 Police Log........................................ 14 Puzzle ............................................. 11 Pacific Grove City Council has approved funds Random Thoughts ............................ 14 to record and broadcast Planning Commission Real Estate ............................ 7, 13, 16 meetings, beginning probably in September Reasoning with God .......................... 9 Rudy Fisher The Big Picture ............... 9 and happening the first and third Thursdays of Changiz Lahidji displays his book, “Full Battle Rattle.” He Spotlight ............................................ 6 each month on AMP TV. served 24 years in Special Forces and is now retired in Pacific Grove. Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • August 9, 2019 Joan Skillman MPC District Board of Trustees Skillshots Seeks New Trustee to Serve on Governing Board The Monterey Peninsula Commu- election. To be eligible to serve, individu- nity College District Board of Trustees als must be at least 18 years old; a resident is soliciting applications from residents of, and a registered voter in, Trustee Area within Trustee Area 1 (Seaside/Sand City) 1; and they may not be an employee of the to serve as an appointed member of the Monterey Peninsula Community College board until the next regularly scheduled District or be disqualified from holding election in November 2020. The deadline civil office by the Constitution or any law for submission is 10:00 a.m. on Friday, of the state. August 23, 2019. Information regarding the application Trustee Area 1 was previously rep- process, including trustee responsibili- resented by Natalia Molina. Ms. Molina ties and the steps to apply, is available submitted her resignation as a member of via the MPC webpage: www.mpc.edu/ the district’s board of trustees, effective trusteeappointment. Individuals able to Tuesday, July 9, 2019, after accepting a fulfill the responsibilities of the position career opportunity in the state of Arizona. should submit a cover letter and complet- California law requires that governing ed application to the office of the MPC board members reside in, and are regis- superintendent/president. Applications tered voters in, the trustee area they serve. may be submitted online (www.mpc.edu/ “One of the many messages I shall be trusteeapplication) or by mail to: Monterey threading from my experience at Monterey Peninsula Community College District Peninsula College is the power of com- Board of Trustees, c/o Mr. David Martin, munity colleges to transform the lives of 980 Fremont Street, Monterey, CA 93940. people from poverty to possibility. Thank All application materials must be received you for this opportunity and for the mem- no later than Friday, August 23, 2019 at ories,” stated Ms. Molina. 10:00 a.m. Ms. Molina’s replacement will be appointed to serve Trustee Area 1 until the The board of trustees will make an next election for governing board mem- appointment to fill the vacancy during a bers in November 2020, at which time the special meeting of the board on Thursday, appointed trustee may choose to run for August 29, 2019. $1095 PACIFIC GROVE'S RAIN GAUGE Pacific Grove, beyond FOREST HILL SHOPPING and below Holman Hwy. Data reported by Bruce Cowan, resident Week Ending Thursday Morning, August 8, 2019 Inches, as of 8 AM, 7/25/19: .02” Current season’s total since 7/1/19: .03” (drizzles) ____________________________________________________ Previous Season--July 2018 through June 2019: 26” Pacific Grove Rain Gauge Cedar Street Times was established September 1, 2008 and was adjudicated a legal newspaper for Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California on July 16, 2010. It is published weekly at
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