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Kiosk In This Issue SEAL PUPDATE As of Thurs. April 20 there were 43 Harbor Seal pups at Hopkins Beach • Fridays Pacific Groove Dance Jam Chautauqua Hall 8-10 PM Dance to DJs Earth Day - Page 5 Honored- Page 10 Good Old Days - Pages 12-13 Adults $10/Teens $5 Youth Free • 1st Time Free [email protected] • Pacific Grove’s Saturdays Dance at Chautauqua Hall • Sat. April 22 14th anniversary Monterey Pen. Art Found.Gallery 425 Cannery Row 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. 30 local artists Free 831 655-1267 • April 21-27, 2017 Your Community NEWSpaperTimes Vol. IX, Issue 30 Sat April 22 Earth Day • Thurs. April 27 Meet the Author City joins Pacific Grove Public Library (550 Pacific Grove Pupperazzi Central Ave., Pacific Grove) 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:20 pension suit Suggested donation to benefit the library is $10 for nonmembers/ refreshments are included. as friend of • Sat. April 29 the court Rotary Invitational Track Meet The City Council of Pacific Grove 10:00AM has agreed to join a Marin County Breaker Stadium lawsuit as a friend of the court, believ- Free to watch ing that it will be a step on the ladder to • pension reform. Sun. April 30 The suit, which has gone to the Cal- Monterey County Composers’ ifornia Supreme Court, would rein back Forum the infamous “California Rule” about “Garden of Song” how pensions are calculated for public at Hidden Valley Music Seminars, employees. 88 West Carmel Valley Road “This gives us more balance, instead $10 suggested donation 3:00 pm of just the highest [amount] ever paid,” • pointed out Mayor Bill Kampe. Sun. April 30 The amicus brief is being coordi- 3 PM nated by former San Jose mayor Chuck “Garden of Song” People -- visitors and locals alike -- line up by the dozens to peek through the fence Reed, long a proponent of pension Hidden Valley Music Seminars at the Hopkins Beach harbor seal rookery, hoping to see the cute denizens of the reform. He believes that the eventual cost 88 West Carmel Valley Road Pacific Grove beach, harbor seals. The seals are in their pupping season right now will be in the area of $30,000 and would $10 suggested donation and almost daily it seems another pup is born. Their very cuteness brings them be split among “cities with the courage” (831) 385-0973 or at danger because, if a visitor should breach the fence and get onto the beach, the to join the brief. [email protected]. seal mothers could flush to the ocean and leave the pups in danger. Photo by Kim There will be a review, and Pacific • Akeman of Bay Net Volunteers, who fought long and hard to get the fence erected. Grove will have the opportunity to opt Thurs. May 4 Story on the update of the season and picture on page 11. out. Our share will likely be $5,000. Genealogy Society ‘Genealogy Road Trip’ 7 PM LDS Church Tide Pool 1024 Noche Buena Mary Adams Reports on her Seaside • Trail Contract Sat. May 6 First 100 Days in Office Monthly Book Sale Awarded 10:00am – 4:00pm Mary Adams, the 5th District's County Supervisor, had completed 100 days when she Pacific Grove Library addressed the League of Women Voters luncheon on April 12. After a site visit by City Council mem- Many treasures! “Well, 93,” she said. bers, they voted to approve the awarding • Adams jumped right in to the job, finding herself selected Chair of the Board as well as of a contract to construct trails through the May 6 & 7 sitting on 10 county committees. She said that senior county staff is struggling to get com- Great Tide Pool Site near Asilomar Beach 48th Annual Garden Show fortable with two new people on the Board, herself and District 2 Supervisor John Phillips. to Monterey Peninsula Engineering, whose Hidden Valley Music Seminars And it was baptism by fire for Mary Adams, facing the horrific Soberanes Fire which bid was the lowest of three received at 104 W. Carmel Valley Road was in her district, and is still part of her daily concern. She recently organized a relief effort $145,000. The agreement will include at Carmel Valley 15 percent contingency. 831 659-9247 or 831 236-7322 See MARY ADAMS page 9 On March 16, 2016, the Council • approved the receipt of grant funds from Sun. May 7 the State Coastal Conservancy for the Tor House Spring Garden Party construction of the trail system, and for ad- 2-5 p.m. at Tor House Largest Marathon Event Will Pack 26304 Ocean View Ave, Carmel ditional public access improvements at the 831-624-1813 Point Pinos Trail/Esplanade Park Site. The Lovers Point For 3K Race grant is for $250,000 with a matching re- quirement from the City of $175,000 which Inside Schools competition draws students from throughout will come from the Reiko Koo Bequest which was received in November, 2013. Animal Tales Monterey County to participate in fun run and earn & Other Random Thoughts .............. 17 Both the Great Tide Pool and Point Cartoon ............................................. 2 cash awards for schools Pinos Trail/Esplanade Park projects were Crime ................................................ 5 The largest of all seven distance events during the upcoming Big Sur International included in the Fiscal Year 2016-17 Op- Homeless in Paradise ....................... 22 Marathon weekend is, in fact, the By-the-Bay 3K. More than 5,000 elementary school erating and Capital Improvement Budget Keepers of Our Culture .................... 21 which Council adopted on June 15, 2016. Legal Notices ................................... 23 students along with parents, teachers and families have signed up to participate in the Otter Views ...................................... 17 April 29 fun run. This race, now in its eighth year at the Pacific Grove site, is ranked In 2014, the City hired Rana Creek to Outside the Box ............................... 18 among the top five largest kids’ race in the nation. begin restoration of the site by removing Pupdate ........................................... 11 Forty-two elementary and middle schools will be represented at the By-the-Bay 3K. non-native plants and restoring native Rain Gauge ....................................... 2 plants on the dunes. Also planned was a Real Estate ............................. 8, 18, 24 They are eligible for cash awards in the annual Schools Competition based on the level Sports ........................................ 14, 15 of participation from each school. Top school winners can take home as much as $1,500 See TIDE POOL TRAIL See BY THE BAY 3K page 2 page 4 PENROLLMENT From Page 1 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • April 21, 2017 Joan Skillman PBY THE BAY 3K From Page 1 for their school from the $15,000 total purse provided by the Big Sur International Marathon and its sponsors. Skillshots Staging and activities for By-the-Bay 3K will be held at Lovers Point Park, with the race beginning at 8 a.m. on Ocean View Blvd. Runners head west along Ocean View to Coral St. where they turn around for a finish back at Lovers Point. All participants receive a finishers’ medallion, a “Squid Shuffle” t-shirt, and post- race food and entertainment at the finish area. Children’s entertainer T-Bone will perform a pre and post-race interactive show. At 9:15, representatives from the Big Sur Marathon’s JUST RUN youth fitness team will present the cash awards to the schools, along with special plaques to schools that are part of the year-long JUST RUN program. Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe, Superintendent of Monterey County Schools Nancy Kotowski, and Olympian Blake Russell are among the local celebrities greet- ing the audience on race morning. Isaiah Boulware, a sophomore at Pacific Grove High School and a member of the US National High School Honor Choir, will sing the national anthem. Local residents and visitors are welcome to come out and cheer on the thou- sands of kids running, or to sign up for the event and run or walk with the students. Pre-registration is available online at www.bsim.org through April 26, at the Mara- thon Expo on Friday, April 28, or on race morning beginning at 6:30 a.m. Costs are $5 for children 4-17, and $20 for adults. Street closures will be in effect beginning at 6 a.m. on Ocean View Blvd. between Fountain and Coral Streets. The race will conclude at approximately 9:15 a.m. and post-race festivities end in the park by 11 a.m. For more information on the By-the-Bay 3K or the JUST RUN youth fitness program, contact [email protected] or 831-625-6226. Rudy Fischer selected chairman of Water Pollution Control Agency After serving as the city’s representative to the board of the MRWPCA (two years as Vice Chair), Pacific Grove Councilman Rudy Fischer was elected as Chair of the agency’s board at their February meeting. ‘Mostly in this role I will be responsible for running the board’s monthly meetings, getting involved in some of our outreach activ- ities, and coordinating subcommittee roles,” he said. The Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency is dedicated to meeting the wastewater and water recycling needs of our member agen- cies while protecting the environment. Their Vision Statement: The Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency will be a model customer service provider for the efficient, innovative utilization of wastewater.” “I also hope to be a sounding board for the General Managers as the agency goes through an interesting time” said councilman Fischer. The MRWPCA is in the process of ex- panding their coverage area, looking at major capital improvements to make Rudy Fischer the wastewater system more reliable, and is spearheading the Pure Water Monterey project.

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