Kiosk In This Issue Fridays Pacific Groove Dance Jam Chautauqua Hall 8-10 PM Dance to DJs Adults $10/Teens $5 Youth Free • 1st Time Free [email protected] • Saturdays Dance at Chautauqua Hall • Spreading the love - Page 8 Women of Pacific Grove - Page 12- Going for a walk - Page 14 Fri. March 10 Grand Opening “ArtWorks @PacificGrove” 5:00- 8:00PM American Tin Cannery Pacific Grove’s • Fri., March 10 Tibetan Uprising Day 4:30PM to 6:30PM Windows on the Bay • Sat., March 11 Learn to Draw Birds at the Lyceum 3:00 – 5:00 PM Ages: 8 - 12 March 10-16, 2017 Your Community NEWSpaperTimes Vol. IX, Issue 24 Limited to 8 students Instructor: Julie Heilman Fee: $35.00 (includes materials) • Sat. March 11 a capella showcase Jim Gunter feted as Chamber of Commerce’s Community Church 4590 Carmel Valley Road City Employee of the Year Carmel • 7PM Fire inspector Jim Gunter, a Pacific • Grove native and longtime employee of Sat. March 11 the Pacific Grove and Monterey fire service Hootenanny CXVII agencies, is the 2017 Pacific Grove City 7-9:30 PM PG Art Center Employee of the Year. Jim has more than Free event 38 years of combined experience in fire • prevention and suppression on the peninsula. Mon. March 13 A graduate of Pacific Grove High School Marc Del Piero, and Monterey Peninsula College, Gunter on Cal Am’s Problems joined the Pacific Grove Fire Department as 7:00 PM a volunteer firefighter in 1979, citing a desire Unitarian Universalist Church contribute to the community and an interest 490 Aguajito Rd, in serving with the fire department. Carmel Gunter joined the Pacific Grove depart- • ment as a professional in 1981, climbed the Sat. March 18 ranks and held various positions, including Dickens Fellowship Meeting firefighter, fire engineer, lieutenant, and Potluck + discussion 514 Park St., Pacific Grove captain. In 2000, he was made division chief 831-372-7625 fire marshal and worked full time in that • capacity until 2006. Gunter continued to Sat. March 18 work for Pacific Grove until 2008, when the NightOwl at the Museum city contracted fire protection from the City 7-9:30 PM of Monterey and Gunter was absorbed into Jim and his wife with Mayor Bill Kampe Whiskey tasting and Indie rock the Monterey Fire Department, continuing • to work in Pacific Grove. Sat. March 18 In tandem with his direct experience Lions Club eyeglass collection with the fire department, Jim has also served Outside of Grove Market the citizenry of Pacific Grove as the Amer- Monterey Fire to Renew Fire 9 a.m. – noon icans With Disabilities Act Coordinator for • Sat. March 25 the City in the early 2000s and wrote a grant Prevention Inspections in PG to support the city’s residential smoke alarm Celtic Celebration The Monterey Fire Department is resuming conducting fire prevention inspections in 3:00 pm, See GUNTER page 2 the City of Pacific Grove. The Department has recently hired three part -time inspectors Unitarian Universalist Church 490 to assist with this effort. Inspections will be conducted at multi -family residential Aguajito Road, Carmel. • buildings, schools, care facilities, and businesses. Emphasis will initially be on the Sat. March 25 residential buildings as those pose the greatest risk to the safety of people. Big Sur Fun-Raiser Allie is an All Star The Fire Department ceased conducting the inspections in 2012 as alternative meth- 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM ods to completing the required inspections. Inspections have still been conducted by fire Doors open 7:00 PM personnel on a complaint basis and all new construction has been subject to plan reviews Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, 4th and inspections during construction. Only scheduled inspections of existing buildings and and Guadalupe, Carmel businesses were suspended. (831) 624-7491 • “Life safety is our highest priority and an important part of achieving that is to con- duct regular inspections of occupancies,” said Fire Chief Gaudenz Panholzer. According to Chief Panholzer, it is the Department’s goal to work with property and business owners in a cooperative manner to make the community safe. He added, “We work to educate property and business owners on how they can make their properties safe and come into compliance with fire and life safety codes.” Pacific Grove City Manager Ben Harvey said, “Conducting fire prevention inspec- tions is an important function that the city provides to the community to keep it safe.” He has established a goal that all multi-family residential buildings have an initial inspection conducted by the end of 2018. Current records show that there are 258 buildings that are subject to these inspections. Inside The Pacific Grove inspection program will begin in March with the residential proper- Animal Tales ties; other properties will be inspected starting sometime in May. Inspection of residential & Other Random Thoughts .............. 21 properties only covers the common “public” areas of the property. The Fire Department Car Spotter ........................................ 4 will conduct safety inspections of private residences on a request basis as they have no Cartoon ............................................. 2 Allie Patton has been selected to play authority to require them. Anyone having questions regarding the inspection program, a Crime ................................................ 7 specific inspection, or wishing to schedule an inspection of their home should contact the Homeless in Paradise ....................... 18 in the upcoming 10th Annual Salinas Keepers of Our Culture .................... 16 Steinbeck Rotary North-South High Fire Department at 831-646-3900. Legal Notices ................................... 19 School All-Star Basketball Classic. The Monterey Fire Department provides fire protection and prevention, rescue, and Otter Views ...................................... 21 Rain Gauge ....................................... 2 The Classic is scheduled for Friday, emergency medical services to the cities of Monterey, Sand City, Pacific Grove, and Carm- Real Estate ................................. 20, 24 March 31 at Everett Alvarez High el-by-the-Sea, as well as to the Presidio of Monterey, Naval Postgraduate School, La Mesa Sports ........................................ 10, 11 School in Salinas. This is a senior Village, and the Monterey Regional Airport. class all star game! - Kathleen Battaglia, Fire Prevention Technician PENROLLMENT From Page 1 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • March 10, 2017 Joan Skillman Pacific Grove Pops Orchestra Skillshots Continues Fourth Season with a stellar concert By Zach Goodwin The crowds filed in at the Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center last Saturday as the PG Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Barbara Priest, delivered a six piece concert for their second concert in the orchestra’s fourth year of existence. Carolynn Walker started the afternoon off with a beautiful concert prelude with her rendition of “Brian Boru’s March,” a traditional Irish tune, played on a harp that she built herself. Following Walker’s impressive performance, the orchestra began their repertoire with “Romeo and Juliet Overture” by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Like many composers of the time, Tchaikovsky drew heavily from Shakespeare, and also composed pieces based on “The Tempest” and “Hamlet.” The piece, showing the contradiction between the tender meeting of Romeo and Juliet and the violent feuding of the Montagues and Capulets, featured a strong contrast between the violins and the brass sections. The group’s second piece, “Music from The Chronicles of Narnia,” an arrangement based off of the movie soundtrack composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, featured an excellent flute intro in addition to prominent parts from the percussion and trumpet sections. Following the musical rendition of C.S. Lewis’ famous novels came a classical piece, “Pavanne,” originally composed for piano in 1899 but rearranged for a full orchestra by French composer Maurice Ravel in 1910. In the piece, Ravel aims to replicate the slow pavanne style of dance popular in France and Spain during the late 19th century, creating a detached, almost dream-like tone through the extended use of pizzicato, a musical style in which the string players forgo bowing in favor of plucking their strings. The next piece, “Cello Concierto, mvt. 1” by Edward Elgar, featured soloist Michael Blackburn, who in the past has also played violin and clarinet for PG Pops. Blackburn delivered, nailing the solo, showcasing the mastery of such complex skills as vibrato and fluid movement between various different, difficult cello positions. “Somewhere in Time” (composed by John Barry/arr. Calvin Custer), the orchestra’s fifth piece, also featured a soloist - Eugene Loh on the piano. A founding member of the PG Pops Orchestra, Loh has featured for several seasons as a percussionist, playing timpani, bass drum, and mallets, though piano is his preferred instrument. From the 1980 romantic drama film of the same name, the piece also showcased the violin and cello sections. The orchestra concluded their concert with a rendition of “Symphony No. 1, Se- lections,” originally composed by the musical great Gustav Mahler, but arranged and conducted by PG Pops’ own Scott Seward. Seward, a music instructor himself, plays trumpet for the orchestra but also acts as an assistant director for PG Pops, having conducted several PG Pops songs in the past. Seward, who called Mahler’s piece the “guiding star” of his musical life, made sure to include an impressive offstage trumpet solo, strong and aggressive percussion parts, and a chaotic finale meant to fully capture the powerful energy manifested in Mahler’s music. At the conclusion of the concert, conductor Barbara Priest was overjoyed. “I founded PG Pops back in 2014,” said Priest. “It’s meant to be a truly intergenerational orchestra. I want to include amateurs and students as well as professional musicians. It’s open to everybody.” “Our orchestra is based on true community,” Priest continued, “We have parents and children playing music side by side, and our concerts are always free to the public.