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Verizon's PG Gambit Kiosk In This Issue • Parkinson’s Support Group MPSG meets the second Tuesday of every month except December, 3:00 at the Sally Griffin Center Pacific Grove Contact: 373-8202 http://www. montereyparkinsonssupport.com/ meetings.html • Fridays 4th of July Puzzle - Page 7 Restoring the Family Boat - Page 15 Bye bye! - Page 21 Pacific Groove Dance Jam Chautauqua Hall 8-10 PM • Saturdays Pacific Grove’s Dance at Chautauqua Hall • Through June 29 Patrons’ Show fundraiser Pacific Grove Art Center 568 Lighthouse in PG • Beginning June 15 Lovers Point Music Series 5:30-7:00 Beach House Cafe Times June29-July 5, 2018 Your Community NEWSpaper Vol. X, Issue 36 • Saturday, June 24 Beach House Brunch Fund-Raiser for Feast of Lanterns Forever Blowing Bubbles $55 • Limited Tickets Verizon’s • Free Choral Concert Saturday, June 30 Butterfly Church PG Gambit 915 Sunset Drive, PG 3:00 By Gary Baley • Saturday, July 7 “We’re in a swamp!” lamented Pacific Saturday Book Sale at the PG Grove Planning Commissioner Mark Chakwin Library in the arcade; 10:00am near the end of a two-hour meeting Thursday – 4:00pm. We will feature June 21 to discuss the Verizon Communications RECORDS this time along with proposal to install a small cell tower antenna onto many genres of books. an existing utility pole in the public right of way All proceeds go to support between two single-family homes at 612 and 618 the PG Library. Sunset Drive across from the high school. • Sunday, July 8 Frustration was evident in all commission Obon Festival members and members of the public. It was Exhibits, Entertainment, Food summed up best by commissioner Murphy’s 1186 Noche Buena comment “They [Verizon] picked the most Seaside controversial site in Pacific Grove to place a Noon-6 cell tower.” • It all started on December 5, 2017 when Ver- Sunday, July 8 izon applied for a use permit to place a cellular Free Concert of Spirituals antenna that would be tri-directional with only 4 PM one direction activated—pointed directly at the First Baptist Church Pacific Grove high school in a conical 60-degree 246 Laurel Ave., {acific Grove concentrated 4,070-watt radiation beam with • Saturday July 14 an effective range of about 700 feet. Verizon Hootenanny 7-9:30 PM claimed that the cellular data traffic from the PG Art Center high school would cause the existing cell site that 568 Lighthouse Ave. serves the area including the school to max out at year end, so users in the neighborhood surround- ing and including the school would experience a decline in service. But there were skeptics. Call us at 831- A community workshop at the Pacific Grove Youth Center was held the following April to 324-4742 take questions from about 20 members of the for calendar and public who attended. At the workshop Verizon Summer Reading Program at the library we presented “Bubble Magic” with Tom Noddy, with legal publication over 200 people in attendance! showed a graph of voice and data traffic with a trend line increasing month by month reaching needs. a max capacity by the end of the year for the For more live music events existing cell site that covers the high school and try www.kikiwow.com surrounds. This reporter also attended the work- Ben Jealous Wins Dem Primary in shop and learned that just like the similar Verizon application in Monterey that was rejected, the Governor of Maryland Race proposed small cell site in Pacific Grove would Ben Jealous, who was born and raised in Pacific Grove, served as president of support the new 5G technology when it rolls out the NAACP. On Tuesday, June 5, 2018 in the not so distant future. Inside he won Maryland’s Democratic nomina- The 5G technology aims to provide gigabit tion for governor. Jealous defeated five wireless speeds and support for applications as Other Random Thoughts .................. 12 other major candidates and will take on Aging in the Grove .......................Dark Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in Novem- The Ark Lady ..................................... 4 BaleyWik ......................................Dark ber. Hogan was unopposed for the GOP Cartoons ........................................ 2, 9 nomination. The progressive campaign FYI ................................................... 23 continues. Gray Eminence .............................Dark If he wins the seat, he will be the Homeless in Paradise ....................... 20 state’s first black governor. Keepers of Our Culture .................... 19 Legal Notices ................................... 22 Jealous campaigned heavily for Sen. Opinion ........................................... 10 Bernie Sanders in the recent presidential Planning for the elction. Jealous won support from leading Next Generation ...........................Dark liberals Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey Police Log.......................................... 5 Poetry .............................................. 18 and Kamala Harris of California. Come- Postcard from the Kitchen ................ 23 dian Dave Chappelle and Ben Cohen, a Rain Gauge ....................................... 2 co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Real Estate ................................. 22, 24 made stops in Maryland to appear with the Reasoning with God .......................... 8 candidate. Sanctuary of the Soul ....................Dark Sports .............................................. 16 Spotlight .......................................... 19 Please see BEN JEALOUS Page 18 Please see CELL TOWER Page 2 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • June 29, 2018 Joan Skillman PCELL TOWER From Page 1 varied as the IOT (Internet of Things), brain. In a later interview, he explained self-driving cars, drones, HD movies, the physics behind it—basically that metal Skillshots computers, cellphones, and much more. It atoms in living tissue amplify microwave is not entirely clear that there is a demand radiation [including cellular frequencies] for these things as much as the industry which causes quantum electrodynamic wants to push them onto the consumer mechanisms to activate thereby inducing to generate sales growth. Most major changes at the molecular then cellular wireless providers are reaching market level. “Every scientist that hears what I am saturation today, each with coverage saying and every medical doctor in Monte- extending to over 300 million consumers rey County ought to be standing in line to out of a US population of 350 million men support denial of these types of small cell women and children. applications and speak up, otherwise they The Planning Commission held a pub- are betraying their own learning system lic hearing on June 7 to review Verizon’s and their own people. If you know, then application which had received 27 written you need to go to the meetings and speak letters opposed and two in favor of the up." Lucas said. project. Verizon was not present, only their Council member Mark Chakwin agents. Faced with strong opposition, the summed up the hearing with “We’re in Commission passed a motion to relocate a dilemma. If we reject now, the govern- the project across the street next to the ment, on Verizon’s appeal, will say it’s high school and continue the application approved because this reeks of health ef- hearing to June 21 for public input and fects. The system is set up this way. We’re discussion. in a bad way. Technically it’s the state and Which brings us to the swamp last federal laws that determine what we can Thursday evening where 25 members of do. Just last month FCC issued notices the public attended the hearing—16 spoke of rule changes further restricting local against the cell tower and none spoke for government control. Shorten the current it. Matt Bell, principal of Pacific Grove shot clock. Wireless to be given special High School was aghast at the notion of a privileges in cities with underground cell tower directed at the school—on any utilities. We’re in a swamp. The [legal] side of the street. He questioned Verizon’s environment is so complex so muddled we contention that the school generates so are put into a bad position here. I am vexed much cellular traffic. “Students aren’t al- that the Planning Commission suggested lowed to use their phones during class,” he something that the School Board opposes. explained. “We have a gigabit fiber optic So we have to say to the residents ‘take network that students use.” one for the team’.” There was also a student who spoke The commission could not vote at against the project. this meeting, so Verizon’s application is Matt Kelly, the director of the school continued until July 26, 2018. district maintenance and operations, chas- tised the City for not conferring with the district before suggesting placement of the cell site next to the school, noting that the district had decided years earlier that no towers would be located on campus. He also stressed that the city and the district had worked hard to build good relations but “You damaged that relationship!” Kelly also noted that the school population has been basically stable for the past 10 years as has been the neighborhood, and Verizon by their own admission has good coverage in the area, so he questioned why this is needed. With that, councilmember Byrne chimed in. “Verizon proposed a tower for the high school which we now know we don’t need.” Former Navy Intelligence Analyst Steven Lucas presented a 1990 chart from the IEEE that shows how non-ionizing microwave radiation has adverse effects on the human body and especially the Pacific Grove’s Rain Gauge Data reported at Canterbury Woods Week ending 06/4/18- 9:00 AM ........... 0.00" Total for the season ............................ 12.87" The historic average to this date is .......N/A" Wettest year ................................................. 47.15" Cedar Street Times was established SeptemberTimes 1, 2008 and was adjudicated a legal newspaper for Pacific YourGrove, Community Monterey County, NEWSpaper California on July 16, 2010. It is During rain year 07-01-97 through 06-30-98 published weekly at 306 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950.
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