Kick 2020 Goodbye and Have a Wonderful 2021! Inside the Big Picture
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Kiosk In This Issue LIBRARY EVENTS 10:00am Tuesday: LIve Zoom Preschool Stories (Ages 2-5) 3:30pm Wednesday: Recorded Crafternoon! video (Ages 4-14) 11:00am Thursday: Recorded Baby Rhyme video Tiny Art in Carmel Tribute Concert (Ages Birth-2) Christmas Cardinal To Color Page 4 page 6 Page 14 Second Tuesday of the month is Music by MaryLee at 11:00am Please visit https://www. pacificgrovelibrary.org/calendar for Pacific Grove’s details. • Gingerbread House Display Lobby of Spanish Bay Times Opens Dec. 1 • Times Through Tuesday, January 5 Local NEWSpaper for Pacific Grove & the Peninsula Small Treasures Exhibition Local NEWSpaper for Pacific Grove & the Peninsula Carmel Thursdays thru Mondays, 10 am to 5 pm Appointments for gallery access can be Jan 1-7, 2021 Your Community NEWSpaper Vol. XIV, Issue 9 scheduled by calling or texting 831-250-3347 • Thursday, December 31 at the Monterey Fairgrounds Winter Solstice Blessing “The Beat Goes On” Tribute Concert 6:30PM. Pac Rep Theater • New exhibits at Pacific Grove Art Center The show runs from January 8, 2021 through February 25, 2021. 568 Lighthouse Avenue, Pacific Grove, GALLERY HOURS 12-5 pm Wed-Saturday. For more information please contact Kim Moreno: office 831-375-2208, cell 831- 747-0764 • Saturday, Jan. 9 PG Museum unior Naturalist Club: Digital Campfire — Stay in your PJs, put on some fuzzy socks, and build your best pillow fort for our coziest “excursion” yet! Join us virtually as Museum staff share campfire stories. We will play games, sing campfire songs, and show off our indoor forts. For Junior Naturalist members only, or join the club. Thursday, Jan. 14 Create With Us: Seed Bombs, 11 a.m.- noon — Learn how to make a seed bomb of native plant species for your garden. Saturday, Jan. 30 Science Saturday: Amazing Migrations, 10 On December, 2120, we celebrated After the water blessing this year, Photo by Bob Pacelli a.m.-3 p.m. — Join us as we investigate the shortest day of the year, the winter Rinpoche -- joined by the Sangha from solstice, and this was the 27th time that the world of long-distance animal solstice, with a water blessing ceremony all over the world in Zoom -- recited it was done in California. Usually, we Upcoming seasonal events at the Pacific Grove beach. The bless- the Kunzang Monlam, also known as gather as a community and celebrate cancelled due to State ing honors all the earth’s elements, and “The Powerful Prayer of Aspiration.” together by offering group prayers; be- stay-at-home order Rinpoche chanted, burned incense, and This very powerful prayer is recited by cause this cannot be done in large groups The list of canceled events spread flower petals to pray for their Tibetan Vajrayana and Tantrayana prac- at this time, Sangha members were include protection and to heal the environment, titioners on very auspicious events, such encouraged to visit nature while restore balance and harmony to the ele- as solstices and eclipses, when it is remaining socially distant, and to recite Big Sur International Half ments, and to request protection from the said to bring great benefit. the prayers on their own and Marathon and Lighthouse 3K/5K unseen world of spiritual beings called Rinpoche holds a water blessing twice to send good energy out to the world. nagas who care for the waters. per year, every summer and winter To All Our Readers, Contributors, Advertisers, & Friends & Enemies: Kick 2020 goodbye and have a wonderful 2021! Inside The Big Picture ............................ Dark Carmel Valley Report .................. Dark Cartoon ............................................. 2 Measure L Sales Tax Increase Begins Jan. 1 Commentary ............................... Dark Estate Planning ............................ Dark The City of Pacific Grove will enact a 0.5% increase in the City’s sales tax From the Trenches ............................. 5 effective January 1, 2021. This tax is imposed the conveyance of tangible personal Homeless in Paradise....................... 10 property and for payments to store, use, or otherwise consume such property. The tax revenue shall be collected by the California Department of Tax and Fee Admin- Legal Notices .................................... 9 istration and remitted to the City. This tax increase was approved by Pacific Grove Opinion ..................................... Dark voters in the November 3, 2020 general election as Measure L. People ............................................... 3 This measure raises the sales tax levied by the City from 1.0% to 1.5% and the Poetry................................................ 3 total sales tax collected in Pacific Grove from 8.75% to 9.25%, the current sales tax Police Logs ....................................... 9 ceiling according to County regulations. Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • HAPPY January 1, 2021 Joan Skillman Skillshots PACIFIC GROVE'S RAIN GAUGE Pacific Grove, beyond FOREST HILL SHOPPING and below Holman Hwy. Data reported by Bruce & Judy Cowan, residents. Week Ending Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Inches, as of 8 AM, 12/16/20 ...........................0.4" Total since July 1, 2020 .................................1.18" Rain total one year ago to date .................... 6.2" Previous Year Total--July 2019 - June 2020 ...22" PACIFIC GROVE'S RAIN GAUGE $ 95 Pacific Grove, beyond FOREST HILL SHOPPING 10 and below Holman Hwy. Data reported by Bruce & Judy Cowan, residents. Week Ending Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Inches, as of 8 AM, 12/29/20 oºß ..........................................................0.3" Total since July 1, 2020: ....................................................................1.98" Rain total one year ago to date: ..........................................................8.9" _____________________________________________ Previous Year Total--July 2019 through June 2020: ..............................22" PG 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 306 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Press deadline is Wednesday, noon. The paper is distributed on Friday and is available at various locations throughout the county as well as by e-mail subscription. Editor/Publisher: Marge Ann Jameson Managing Editor Webster Slate Graphic Design: Dan Bohrman Distribution Manager: Charbel Samaha Regular Contributors: Bill Cohen Joy Colangelo • Bruce Cowan • Scott Dick Neil Jameson • David Laws Wanda Sue Parrott • Jean Prock • Jane Roland • Katie Ryan Patrick Ryan • Katie Shain • Peter Silzer Bob Silverman • Charbel Samaha • Joan Skillman • Rudolph Tenenbaum All contents copyright 2020 unless otherwise noted. 831.324.4742 Phone [email protected] HAPPY January 1, 2021 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 3 Rudolph Tenenbaum Poetry The diciplined Swimmers The inhabitants of a distant star observe our planet. Specifically. the traffic on our highways, A new telescope! And it delivers! Just look! Can you see Those numerous rivers? And those swimmers, All so trim! And how confidently They swim! Rectangular bodies. You see them now? Bulging eyes. A massive brow. They stop at the red And proceed at the green. They definitely Love the routine. They follow their code of conduct. 2021 Community Blood Drives. The Recreation Department and They always keep distance, American Red Cross have partnered together to offer Community And no contact. Blood Drives at PG Community Center throughout 2021. Visit www. No contact, redcrossblood.org to make an appointment and be a part of the lifesav- No conflict. ing cause. They must be bound By some knd of contract. Library Holds Pick Up. Mary Weyant, Youth Services Librarian at Pacific Grove Public Library, advises “Be polite,” it decrees. that they are now offering Holds Pick Up on Mondays from 3:00pm-6:00pm and “And don’t be mean. Wednesdays from 10:00am-1:00pm at the 550 Central Avenue location. Just stop at the red And proceed at the green.” And don’t4 hurry, And don’t tarry While exiting into Joy Welch A tributary. Remember not even To cherish the dream of ever swimming “Joy’s quiet strength, Against the stream persistence and care for her clients is legendary on the Monterey Peninsula.” [email protected] Lic. # 00902236 Cell: 31-214-0105 eMail: [email protected] Page 4 • CEDAR STREET Times • HAPPY January 1, 2021 TUESDAYS WITH GENE REDUX if they came in sight. Obviously, we couldn’t get rid of our beloved pet, so Many years ago, I wrote this story we watched him carefully. Gene really based on true events . During these Jane Roland wanted him and asked if we could relin- gloomy times I thought a light touch quish him. We gave it some thought, might be in order: One day we were sitting in the Random Thoughts dining room eating brunch with my hus- He was a tumbling black ball, band’s parents who were visiting from squirming his way up to us. I picked Iowa. Mother Roland exclaimed “There him up, his breath still redolent with the is a large man coming to the door” a beautiful animal and very friendly, so sweet puppy scent. Daughter, Ellen, “That’s Gene,” I said, “Beau’s friend.” some unsuspecting dog napper thought pleaded...” Oh, Mom, can we keep him, Gene came into the house and we intro- he had stumbled on riches when he stole please, please…I will…. (Fill in the came over to me. “Is this your dog?” duced him. “I wonder,” he asked “could her. She was a gift that kept on giving. blanks)” The dog had wandered into he asked. “Yes, I replied, his name is Beau come out to the yard with us next Beau would eat anything that the art room at the Monterey County Beau”. “Well, ma’am, he sure is a good week?” wasn’t nailed down. He once was Fair which Ellen was docenting with dog, and really helps us,” It was revealed “We are going on strike and we subject to severe medical ministrations her friend. I oversaw the show but had that for several months our pet had been would like him to walk the picket line to prevent a pierced intestine due to gone home for a much-needed show- joining the team when they entered with us.