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Sat., July 27 Men in Grief Wkshp. Westland House 9 AM-Noon, Free 649-7758 • New postmaster - Page 7 PG PONY - Page 12 Weenie Roast - Page 17 Sat., July 27 “Les Misérables” Grand Opening Gala 5:30 PM, $125 646-4213 Pacific Grove’s

• Fri., Aug. 2 Art Reception Sally Griffin Ctr. 5-7 PM, Free 372-2841 • Sat., Aug. 3 Author Theresa Levitt Museum of Monterey 1 PM, Free Times 212-790-4325 July 26-Aug. 1, 2013 Your Community NEWSpaper Vol. V, Issue 45 • Sat., Aug. 3 Stuart Mason & John Weed The Feast of Lanterns is Open Carl Cherry Center 7:30 PM, $20 The Royal 624-7491 • Court has Thu., Aug. 8 Author Cecile Pineda Peace Resource Center Decreed... 7 PM, Free 375-2016 Choices have been • Sat., Aug. 10 Grief Writing Wkshp. made from the lovely 9 AM-Noon, Free 649-7758 Feast of Lanterns • Sun., Aug. 11 Art Work “Doors Live” Film Golden Bough Theatre The entire city is decked out for the 7 PM, $15/$10/$7.50 Feast of Lanterns, and the favorites each year 622-0100 always include artwork prepared on the Feast • of Lanterns theme. This year, the pieces are Wed., Aug. 14 on display at The Works, 667 Lighthouse Tony Seton Ave. in Pacific Grove. Double Nickels + Lunch At the reception for the Royal Court Good Shepherd Church Noon-1:30 PM, $5 held on Fri., July 19, Queen Topaz and her 484-2153 Princesses made their choices. Above: The Royal Court • The Royal Court’s Choice for first place tells the story of the Blue Fri., Aug. 16 was an untitled piece by Wendy Ashby, Willow to fascinated chil- Piano Concert shown below. the piece also was the Queen’s dren at the Museum of Local Favorite Michael Martinez Choice for third place and the People’s Natural History. Children & Steinway Artist Louis Landon Choice for third place. are invited to decorate Canterbury Woods Auditorium lanterns (right) and draw 651 Sinex Ave. Pacific Grove on the sidewalk as well No charge to join us for this as enjoying face painting special evening by the Court. Below, at 6:30 PM the Opening Ceremony RSVP: 657-4193 or [email protected] on Wednesday, the Court • helps Mayor Bill Kampe Sun., Aug. 18 cut the City’s birthday Rolling Stones Film cake. The Pet Parade Golden Bough Theatre takes place on Friday 7 PM, $15/$10/$7.50 and the Pageant and 622-0100 fireworks are Saturday. • Closing Ceremonies are Sun., Aug. 25 Sunday, July 28. Photos by Mary Chamberlin Dinner Peter Mounteer. Beach & Tennis Club 6:30 PM, $150/$195 596-4629 •

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Animal Tales & Random Thoughts..... 14 Arts & Events...... 8, 9 Diggin’ It...... 22 Finances...... 16 Food...... 20 Green Page...... 23 Health...... 19 High Hats & Parasols...... 4 Second place choice of the Royal Court Legal Notices...... 10 Otter Views...... 11 was a piece entitled “Girls Are Gems Light- Peeps...... 7 ing The Way” by N.J. Taylor. The piece was Poetry...... 11 the Queen’s first choice and was also first Seniors...... 18 place in People’s Choice. Shelf Life...... 15 Sports...... 12, 13 See ART Page 10 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013 pART From Page 16 Fiery Decorations The Royal Court chose “Queen Topaz” by Sheree Greek as third place. It was Queen Topaz’s second place choice. People’s Choice for second place is entitled “Feast of Lanterns” and is by Thaleia Widemon. The Host’s Choice, chosen by Leela Marcum of The Works, was a col- lage/multimedia piece by Anita Kaplan. All the works are on display for a few more days and are for sale. Half the proceeds go to the Feast of Lanterns. Right: “Queen Topaz” by Sheree Greek Below: Aided by Board member Shelby Birch, host Leela Marcum, designates her favorite as the court looks on.

On Fri., July 19 a small electrical fire started in one of the city’s decorated trees at the corner of Lighthouse and Fountain. The fire was extinguished by a Pacific Grove PENDING Police Department Officer, but Monterey Fire personnel remained on the scene until Public Works shut off the power to the tree, which was strung with fairy lights and lanterns. Photo by Cindy Angeli.

4079 Los Altos Drive 142 Monterey Avenue House + guestPebble house on Beach over 1/3 acre! Main house: Single level, 3 beds/2.5 baths, Pacific Grove Mayflower Church Offers 2,113 sq.ft., 2-car garage.Guest house Adorable PG cottage. 2 beds, 1 bath, is large studio w/full kitchen and laundry, Your friendly local real 851 sq. ft. Just 1.5 blocks to the beach. 709 sq. ft. Gorgeous backyard w/deck and Easy walk to town, Cannery Row, estate professional born Aquarium, etc. Bamboo floors, double pane tiered brick patios. & raised on the windows, 3 year roof. Vacation Bible Fun School List Price: $1,495,000 Monterey Peninsula. List Price: $575,000 Children entering first through fifth grades are invited to take part in HayDay!, a local Vacation Bible Fun School program taking place at Mayflower Presbyterian Church the weekend of August 2 through 4. Lic. #01147233 Games, songs, projects, Bible adventures and snacks are among the HayDay! festivities offered amidst a barnyard theme. Volunteers from the church will lead the children on Friday 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Saturday 9:00 am to 12:00 noon, and Sunday 10:15 to 11:45 am. Pacific Grove Weekend Forecast Immediate registration is recommended, as spots are limited. Forms are avail- Friday Saturday Sunday Monday able at www.mayflowerpres.org or may be picked up and dropped off at Mayflower 26th 28th 29th Presbyterian Church, located on the corner of Central Ave. and 14th Street (outside the church office on the 14th St. side.) Suggested donation to defray cost is $10 per child or $20 maximum for a family with two or more children. For more information email [email protected] or call the church at 373-4705. Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny August 2-4 Chance Chance Chance Chance Weekend Vacation Bible Fun School at Mayflower Presbyterian Church of Rain of Rain of Rain of Rain 67° 10% 65° 0% 64° 0% 63° 0% Fri. 6:30-8:30 pm, Sat. 9-12 noon and Sun. 10:00-11:45 WIND: WIND: WIND: WIND Register kids entering grades 1-5 WNW at W at SW at SSW at www.mayflowerpres.org or 373-4705 54° 10 mph 53° 10 mph 53° 11 mph 53° 11 mph

Pacific Grove’s Rain Gauge Data reported by Jack Beigle at Canterbury Woods Week ending 07-25-13...... 05 Total for the season...... 08 To date last year (04-20-12)...... 10.86 Cumulative average to this date...... 05

Wettest year...... 47.15 during rain year 07-01-97 through 06-30-98 Driest year...... 9.87 during rain year 07-01-75 through 06-30-76 Feel a Fish Fun AprilJuly 26, 26, 2013 2013 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 3 Correction! Laura Emerson On page 14 of last week’s issue, for July 19-25 (Vol. V, Issue 44) under “New You” we ran a story titled “Does Your Home Need Physical Therapy Too?” on Pacific Grove Cop log Physical Therapist Tim Doyle, who seeks to offer home modification services to elderly persons and other interested customers. The goal of such modifications are to reduce the Naked car risk of falling and injury and possibly extend the time a person has to live in their home. Reporting party states their car cover was removed sometime during the night on We regret to say that we accidentally omitted the name of Doyle’s business venture. Lighthouse Ave. He will be providing home modification services as part of a new business he calls Naked car owner? “AccessAbility.” According to Doyle AccessAbility will be up and running in August Vehicle parked in covered garage on Ocean View Blvd,, had window smashed and or September of 2013. Check for an ad in future issues. Contact [email protected]. garment bag filled with clothes was stolen.

Vehicle traveling westbound on Sinex Ave. struck two parked cars, no injuries. Concerns About Wildlife Safety, Window smashed on parked vehicle on Ocean View Blvd., nothing taken. Vehicle rear-ended another vehicle on Forest Ave., resulting in the need for a tow. Concerns About Human and Pet Safety Hit-and-run on Lighthouse Ave., no suspects or leads. Police say a resident on Union St. reported finding peanut shells on the roadway as A vehicle on Pine Ave was towed for expired registration. A note on the dash said evidence of her neighbor feeding the wildlife. Remember, it’s against the law to feed not to turn the engine over, that there was no timing belt. wildlife as it makes them dependent on human kindness and encourages interaction. According to Pacific Grove Police, a reporting party was driving along Ocean Ave. Injuries and slowed when a young mountain lion walked across the road into the dunes area. Subject fell onto the rocks while taking pictures and sustained an injury to the left Another person called to report a sighting of a young mountain lion walking along side of his head, transported to hospital for treatment. Pico Ave. and heading towards Calle Corte. Keep your pets indoors at night and be aware of your surroundings when walking after dusk. Subject was walking his dog on 17th St. when he encountered another subject walk- ing two dogs who warned that one of the dogs was aggressive and mean. Not heading the warning, the subject walking the one dog allowed that animal to get too close and his dog was attacked. Disaster Response Training with CERT Altered Checks Subject approached by two male juveniles who claimed that proceeds from their Begins September 5 magazine sales would go to wounded veterans, deployed troops and the local youth Community Emergency Response Team is a Federal Emergency Management baseball team. Subject issued a check for $34 that was subsequently altered and cashed Agency program that teaches basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light for $212. search and rescue, team organization and disaster medical operations. Using the Lost & Found...or Not training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist Subject reported losing a blank check and her driver license which were later found their family and others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when and returned to her. professional responders are not immediately available to help. The next Monterey Subject turned in a wallet he’d found outside a sandwich shop at a shopping center. CERT training runs consecutive Thursdays, September 5-October 24, from 6:30 Owner was located and retrieved his wallet. p.m. until 9 p.m. Pre-registration is required. To register, call 646-3416 or email Subject came to the station to report the loss of a small black thumb drive while [email protected]. This training is offered free of charge, and family par- walking between City Hall and Union Bank Pacific Grove. Several unsuccessful attempts ticipation is encouraged. For more information, see www.montereycert.org. were made to locate the drive, meaning that the party to whom it had been entrusted walked back and forth along the route many times. Subject called to report a lost driver license and debit card. Subject came to the station to report losing his cell phone [which was found by owner two days later]. Joy Welch An employee of a local grocery store brought in several pieces of found property, including debit cards. Attempts will be made to contact the owners. Party reports losing wedding ring at Lover’s Point. Wallet lost on Forest Ave. [Another] wallet lost on Forest Ave. Threats A business owner heard from an employee that a customer wanted to come to his house and shoot him. 419 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove Police Play Solomon: It’s Mine, No, It’s Not 12 units A disturbance between a customer and business owner erupted when the customer Very close to town attempted to retrieve stolen property that the business owner was unwilling to relinquish Price: $1,825,000 without the customer reimbursing them the $900 he’d paid for it. Theft of item was confirmed and item was taken for safekeeping as evidence in police case. Party reported that the plum tree in her backyard on Gibson Ave. was stripped “Joy’s quiet strength, persistence and bare of all its fruit. With no signs of a trespasser, it is not possible to determine if the care for her clients is legendary offender was human or beast. No place is safe Lic. #: 00902236 on the Monterey Peninsula.” After leaving a church function on Sunset Dr., reporting party discovered the pas- senger window on her vehicle had been broken and her purse stolen. Next time, come home alone Cell: 831-214-0105 [email protected] Reporting party claims that his wallet was stolen by three “new friends” whom he invited back to his residence. All had been drinking alcohol; RP does not recall their names or descriptions. Cedar Street Times was established September 1, 2008 and was adjudicated a legal Fraud newspaper for Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California on July 16, 2010. It is Victim discovered several charges on her statement from a credit card that had published weekly at 306 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. been stolen. Press deadline is Wednesday, noon. The paper is distributed on Friday and is avail- Four checks written to pay bills and placed in the reporting party’s mailbox on able at various locations throughout the county as well as by e-mail subscription. Syida Dr. were stolen, altered and unfortunately cashed. Editor/Publisher: Marge Ann Jameson Copy Editor: Michael Sizemore Parking News: Marge Ann Jameson, Peter Mounteer, Kacie Clark, Cameron Douglas Subject came to station to leave a copy of a letter he had written to his neighbor Graphics: Shelby Birch regarding the parking situation. Regular Contributors: Ben Alexander • Jack Beigle • Mike Clancy • Dogs Laura Emerson • Rabia Erduman • Jon Guthrie • John C. Hantelman • Kyle Krasa Party reported an ongoing barking dog problem on Fungston Ave. that she has tried • Travis Long • Rhonda Farrah • Dorothy Maras-Ildiz • to resolve by speaking to the neighbor and leaving them notes. Neil Jameson • Richard Oh • Jean Prock • Al Saxe • Katie Shain • Joan Skillman Party reported ongoing barking dog problem at her residence on Forest Ave. where • Dirrick Williams she works from home. Advertising: Rebecca Barrymore Photography: Peter Mounteer, Skyler Lewis Party reported trying to resolve barking dog problem on Shafter Ave. by contact- Distribution: Peter Mounteer, Duke Kelso ing neighbor numerous times whose response was said to be rude and discourteous. A • Website: Skyler Lewis, Duke Kelso follow-up visit to the residence indicated that the dog does indeed bark a lot. Report forwarded to Animal Control. 831.324.4742 Voice Ongoing barking dog problem on Junipero Ave. 831.324.4745 Fax Suspicious Activity [email protected] Upon returning to her deceased brother’s recently-emptied and locked RV, stored Calendar items to: [email protected] in a business facility, the reporting party was startled to find someone else’s belong- website: www.cedarstreetimes.com ings inside.

Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter We don’t repeat reports of sexual violence or domestic violence where the to receive calendar updates name of the victim could be discerned. We do not report on mental illness or dementia. We do not report on deaths by natural causes. Page 4 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013 Jon Guthrie Book Sale to benefit Library Friends of the Harrison Memorial Library 41st Book Sale is being held High Hats & Parasols August 8-9-10 at the Carmel Mission’ Junipero Serra School Gym Carmel. Members Presale is Thursday August 8th from 11am - 4pm (join at the door Please bear in mind that historical articles such as “High Hats & Parasols” present $10.00). Friday and Saturday August 9th and 10th will be open to the Public our history — good and bad — in the language and terminology used at the time. The 10:00am - 4:00pm. writings contained in are quoted from Pacific Grove/Monterey publications from 100 The sale features a “vast and varied collection of donated and well sorted years in the past. Please also note that any items listed for sale in “High Hats” are hard covers and paperbacks as well as CDs, DVDs, audio tapes and video tapes. “done deals,” and while we would all love to see those prices again, people also worked for a dollar a day back then. Thanks for your understanding. Boat to launch Manager Foster of the Pacific Improvement Company has announced that his company will celebrate the finished construction of a new boat. The celebration and Spell Chick doesn’t cache ever thing. launching will take place Thursday afternoon near the point of the lover at the time of high tide. The president of the company will be on hand to syllogize and praise P.I.C.’s progress. Company employees will attend and the public from the Grove-Monterey area That was supposed to read, “Spell Check doesn’t catch are invited. Several speeches, additional to the discourse by the company president, will everything.” How many mistakes do you see? You can be offered. Group games will be enjoyed. The name of the newly-finished watercraft rely on Spell Check to find your mistakes, but it didn’t is be revealed at the launching. find any in that headline. Let me help you polish up your written content. Call Cameron at (831) 238-7179. Salinas man brags of “Big” week Forget your Chautauqua and Feast of Lanterns and whatnot. Of these, Pacific Grove should be rightfully proud. There is one man from Salinas, however, who is really proud Editing/proofreading starting at $25/hour. of the big week in Salinas, which focuses on cows, cowhands, animals, and adjunct events, as things in Salinas should. The editor of the Review encourages you to attend. Grab a bull and ride on over. Perhaps, then, visitors from Salinas will wend their ways here for our plethora of less violent, more esoteric events

Through the Santa Clara Valley Mr. J. K. Paul, one of the Grove’s trustees, took a train to Watsonville then drove in a borrowed auto mobile to Morgan Hill where Paul stayed the night. The next day he rose bright and early to begin touring the width and breadth of the Santa Clara valley where he is considering investing in new railroads. Paul’s only comment concerned how hot the weather was. Paul misses the climate of the Grove and plans to hurry home.

Trustees meet The board of trustees met this week as scheduled. The principal discussion focused Forest Hill United Methodist Church 1 on the direction that should be taken to ensure a prosperous 1914. There is some con- 551 Gibson Ave., Services 9 AM Sundays cern over easy credit and high interest rates. None, however, wish a return to the hard times and piquiuny interest-rates of the 1880s. Money problems at the Pacific Grove Rev. Richard Bowman, 831-372-7956 high school also entered the discussion, but no action was taken on either matter. Pacific Coast Church 522 Central Avenue, 831-372-1942 Speaking (loudly) of Chautauqua Peninsula Christian Center It was ten years ago, more or less, that my wife and I first attended Chautauqua 520 Pine Avenue, 831-373-0431 assembly. The Chautauqua was then a relatively new event. Only one well existed from which to draw drinking water. Food was sparse and high-priced. There was a bounty First Baptist Church of Pacific Grove of nothing save fog. There were only a few tiny cottages for rent and even fewer plots 246 Laurel Avenue, 831-373-0741 on which to pitch a tent. Still they came, including the two of us, from Monterey, Wat- St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church sonville, San Jose, and far beyond. A professor Anderson gave a rousing speech one tsp.h year and said we should all learn to love each other and the Chautauqua. The audience Central Avenue & 12 Street, 831-373-4441 roared its approval. They may prefer roping calves in Salinas, but to my way of think- Community Baptist Church ing you can’t beat a good, old Chautauqua. Monterey & Pine Avenues, 831-375-4311 Notes from here and there… Peninsula Baptist Church Mister Jacob L. Neighborly, with wife and son are visiting here from Centerville, 1116 Funston Avenue, 831-394-5712 staying with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Neighborly of the Grove. The Pacific Improvement Company is offering a special fire inspection with low St. Angela Merici Catholic Church estimates for any and all work needed. 146 8th Street, 831-655-4160 Floyd Taylor and Eaton Stevens drove down from Woodland to play a little golf. Christian Church Disciples of Christ of Pacific Grove 442 Central Avenue, 831-372-0363 And the cost is… Wall paper is guaranteed to improve your home’s interior appearance when pur- First Church of God chased from A. A. Phillips at 174 Forest. $1.25 per rol, embossed. 1023 David Avenue, 831-372-5005 Fresh strawberries from Curnow & Curnow, grocers, where prices are always rock bottom. $1.00 per flat, cleaned. Jehovah’s Witnesses of Pacific Grove Beautiful patterns are on hand for spring and winter suits. Hand wrought by A. A. 1100 Sunset Drive, 831-375-2138 Pullman, tailor. From $24 to $50 with vest. Church of Christ The Hotel Benefit of the pacific is the place for your next holiday. Entertainments during weekends. $2.50 and up per night. Come by and inspect the house. 176 Central Avenue, 831-375-3741 Lighthouse Fellowship of Pacific Grove Notes by the author… PG Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave., 831-333-0636 Early signs of depression were being seen, but for that moment these were indeed boom times. Mayflower Presbyterian Church 141 14th Street, 831-373-4705 Central Presbyterian Church of Pacific Grove 325 Central Avenue, 831-375-7207 Seventh-Day Adventist Church of the Monterey Peninsula New distribution time begins: 375 Lighthouse Avenue, 831-372-7818 Cedar Street Times, which has been available on First United Methodist Church of Pacific Grove Thursdays, will now be on the street on Friday 915 Sunset @ 17-Mile Dr., Pacific Grove - (831) 372-5875 afternoons. Subscribers will continue to receive Worship: Sundays @ 10:00 a.m. their electronic link earlier than the print version. Congregation Beth Israel There will be NO adjustment in deadlines. We 5716 Carmel Valley Rd., Carmel (831) 624-2015 appreciate your ad reservations by Mondays and Chabad of Monterey your press releases by Wednesdays. 2707 David Avenue, Pacific Grove (831) 643-2770 July 26, 2013 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 5

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All trademarks used herein are the property of Hunter Douglas. 34978 Page 6 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013 SPCA Renovations Completed SPCA Advocates Blach Construction Company, a commercial building contractor and construction manager serving for Injured Wildlife Northern California, the Central Coast and Sacramento, recently completed a full campus renovation for the By Laura Emerson SPCA for Monterey County on its 200-acre site on Highway 68. Pacific Grove residents and visitors love their pets. Over the past six years, Blach and its architect partner, Dogs of every size, shape and color regularly accompany Animal Arts of Boulder, Colorado have conducted a their owners who walk or run on our sidewalks, streets multi-phase transformation of the campus, which was and the Rec Trail. Cats can be seen observing the world built in 1968. The comprehensive renovation included a from windowsills – or dashing across a yard or street in new adoption pavilion, a new wildlife center, an equine quick pursuit or escape. At last count, there were five facility, a rebuilt veterinary hospital, a new barn, a care- Above and below: Renovations at the SPCA facility veterinary facilities in Pacific Grove ready and willing taker’s cottage, veterinary clinic and site infrastructure to care for your sick or injured pets. But who takes care improvements and modernization to the administration of the injured wildlife? and shelter buildings. Blach and its design partner also My favorite route home is cruising along Asilomar upgraded site utilities, installed a new water system Beach on Sunset Drive, traveling at approximately 20 mph and demolished several outdated buildings. The project to gaze at the sand dunes, the rocky coastline, the beauti- incorporated sustainable materials such as certified ful ocean and the seagulls who dive and swoop above it lumber, recycled paving and demolition materials and all. You can imagine my surprise early one evening last bio-swales. month when I came upon one of those beautiful birds “Blach Construction was both creative and ac- lying on its back in the road, wings and feet flailing as it commodating in meeting the SPCA’s need to continue struggled to stand up. I stopped my SUV in the road and operating its programs at full capacity during the multi- turned on the hazard lights before getting out to inspect year construction project while still meeting all budget the injured bird. There was fresh blood on the top of its and timing milestones,” said Gary Tiscornia, executive head and a peculiar bend in its neck; but otherwise the director of the SPCA. “It was a pleasure working with beautiful creature was intact. their professional team.” With no previous experience in helping injured wild- life, the only phone number I could think to call was 9-1-1. The new Adoption Pavilion, opened in January tation Center is the only one of its kind in Monterey 2012, features flexible accommodation for dogs and The dispatcher assured me it was not silly to call about County that offers veterinary treatment to a large array injured wildlife, that she would relay my information to cats, natural light and efficient air circulation systems of wild animals, from great horned owls to raccoons, that complement piano music aimed at keeping the the proper source who would be contacting me. from deer to coyotes. These new facilities are enabling About an hour later the confused seagull was resting center’s residents calm. Gone are the days of cramped the SPCA for Monterey County to continue providing cages and noisy hallways; instead, the center’s furry comfortably inside a specially constructed carrier inside cost-effective programs through education, partnerships the specially equipped van on its way to The SPCA guests are housed behind glass along spacious cor- and outreach to the community. In addition, the project ridors, making the area bright, comfortable and quiet. Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Salinas on will enhance existing treatment facilities and allow for Highway 68. I recall feeling assured that the bird had a A new separate lobby provides privacy for families the care of large animals. undergoing the distressing process of giving up pets, good chance of surviving when Jan, the wildlife special- “Partnering with the SPCA for Monterey County ist, quickly but carefully placed the injured bird into the and counseling rooms provide space for prospective has been a highly rewarding experience. We are thrilled adopters to get acquainted with their future compan- carrier and practically ran with it back to the van whose to have been involved in improving the facilities of tires spun for a second on the sandy pavement as she ions. Many dogs are housed in private rooms and such an important community organization,” said John several kennels have outdoor access to a synthetic grass drove away. Haupt, Blach’s Monterey region manager. “The new The SPCA Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Cen- play area via rolling doors. facility ensures that the SPCA will continue to serve the In addition, the new Wildlife Rescue and Rehabili- ter is the only full service wildlife rehabilitation center Monterey Bay community for years to come.” serving Monterey County. They operate under permits from the California Department of Fish and Game and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. They rely solely on donations as they do not receive funding from Global Imports on the Edge of America any federal, state or local government agency. By Peter Mounteer Each year, The SPCA Wildlife Center admits over 2,000 animals for treatment and care. The species of We caught up with importers Don Kyle and Manny Mandapat as they were animals received ranges from large animals such as stocking in some new products. The team of owner and manager, respectively, bobcats, deer, opossums, hawks, owls, and pelicans, to of Global Imports Village in Pacific Grove have just set up shop in a 125 square small animals, including squirrels, turtles, hummingbirds, foot space on 220 17th Street. The scant space is packed wall to wall with various swallows, and more. curiosities from around the globe. Currently, a large portion of their displayed Serving the entire Monterey County area, the Wild- inventory has a distinctly Central and South American flavor. life Center provides a resource for people who encounter Available pieces range from Thai handbags to Mexican handcrafted items wildlife in need while also providing care for exotic pet designed for the Day of the Dead festival, and much more. animals that are lost or surrendered to The SPCA. In The store has been open for roughly two weeks. Part of the goal of the addition to receiving animals brought in by the public, Pacific Grove storefront is to bring in capital to establish a fund for a nonprofit Wildlife Center staff members are on call 24 hours a day, arm of Global Imports Village. The organization would supply small amounts every day of the year, to respond to wildlife emergencies of money in the form of donations to local artists and those with whom Ktle and provide transport and care to animals in distress. ad Mandaoat collaborate with to bring in inventory from around the world. “It would be a way to give back to the people who create these things,” Kyle said. The SPCA wildlife emergency number during the day As it turns outs, the acronym for Mandapat’s business, GIV, becomes fitting is 831-264-5427. For after-hour wildlife emergencies call in that respect. 831-646-5534. Tell them the seagull with the injured neck Kyle has been in the importing business since 2000. Until recently, the asked you to call. pair ran a store in Las Vegas that focused solely on Southwestern folk art. They For more information about the SPCA Wildlife made the move across the California-Nevada border simply seeking a change Center visit http://www.spcamc.org/wildlife-center.html in culture and lifestyles. Additionally, with the new store Kyle and Mandapat seek to offer a broader range of items than those offered in the Las Vegas location. Incoming inventory includes decorative handbags from Norway and miscellaneous Russian handi- Author to speak at crafts. Other pieces soon to be had at Global Imports Village include African drums produced by hand in Peace Resource Center Guinea, on the Western edge Author Cecile Pineda will discuss “Fukushima and of Africa. Its Consequences to the Planet” on Thursday, August 8 Mandepat is also trying at 7 p.m. at the Peace Resource Center. to establish an ambassador Pineda, critically acclaimed award-winning writer, program whereby individuals author of several works of fiction, and long-time anti- affiliated with Global Im- war activist, will discuss her recent book, “Devil’s ports Village would contact Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step,” a somebody in another coun- dissection of the nuclear industry seen through the lens try and inquire if any artists of the ongoing disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear local to the area want to be complex in Japan. It is also a personal journal with represented. reflections upon Fukushima’s scope and consequences. Mandapat says he seeks Pineda’s appearance at the Peace Resource Center to educate others about dif- is part of a tour of Central California cities. Her talk ferent cultures using the coincides with the 68th anniversary of the bombings of material in the store. Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Her book will be available for The tiny shop, with its sale, along with materials on what Fukushima means colors and many nooks and and what can be done about it. The public is welcome; crannies invites browsing donations are appreciated. The evening is sponsored by through inventory different Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom. from any other found in Pa- For information call 375-2016. the Peace Center is cific Grove. located at 1364 Fremont Boulevard, Seaside. July 26, 2013 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 7 Your achievements Peeps New Postmaster Sworn In Rick Swette Receives Degree from Georgia Tech Rick Swette of Carmel has earned a master’s de- gree in Human-Computer Interaction from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He was among ap- proximately 2,700 undergraduate and graduate students who received degrees during the school’s 245th com- mencement exercises. The institute is one of the nation’s leading research universities, providing a technologically based education to more than 21,000 undergraduate and graduate students. It has more than 100 interdisciplinary research centers operating through the colleges of architecture, computing, business, engineering, sciences and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts that consistently contribute research and innovation to American government, industry and busi- ness. For more information, visit Georgia Tech’s website at www.gatech.edu.

Matthew Ryan earns Honors at Tufts University Tufts University recently announced the dean’s list for the spring, 2013 semester, which included On Friday, July 19 Omar Norzagaray (left) was sworn in as postmaster at the Pacific Grove Post Office by Aron Matthew Ryan of Pacific Grove. Ryan is a member Jones, Manager of Post Office Operations. Norzagaray started his postal career as a distribution clerk at the Pacific of the class of 2015. Grove Post Office in April 2001. In 2004, he was promoted to supervisor of customer services at the Seaside Post Dean’s list honors at Tufts University require a Office, later serving as the acting postmaster there. semester grade point average of 3.4 or greater. Said Norzagaray. “To become a postmaster is a dream come true. I would like to inspire other kids currently living in Tufts University, located on three Massachu- the same conditions I grew up in [East Salinas] to seek their own path to success, and to never give up on a dream.” setts campuses in Boston, Medford/Somerville, and Norzagaray, 36, has two children, Emmanuel, 16, and Isabella, 12. He resides in Seaside. He said he enjoys cross- Grafton, and in Talloires, France, is recognized to country skiing, Iaido (Japanese Sword) classes and travelling. be among the premier research universities in the United States. As Pacific Grove postmaster, Norzagaray oversees 27 employees who process and deliver a daily mail volume of more than 34,000 pieces to 8,682 addresses on 14 city routes and 1,549 post office boxes. Photo by Peter Mounteer

Businesses Invited Miles Cutchin to Enroll at Melissa Woolpert Hampden-Sydney College Named to Dean’s List to Decorate for Miles Taylor C. Cutchin has been accepted by Melissa E. Woolpert, of Carmel Valley has been Hampden-Sydney College and will enroll with an Alumni named to the dean’s list for the spring 2013 semester at Feast of Lanterns Award in August. Miles is a graduate of Pacific Grove the University of Vermont. Woolpert is a senior animal Businesses located in Pacific Grove are invited to High School and is the son of Chief Petty Officer and sciences major in the College of Agriculture and Life decorate their windows or their business in the theme of Mrs. Wally T. Cutchin of Pacific Grove. Sciences. the Feast of Lanterns. “It’s so much fun to see the whole According to Dean of Admissions Anita Garland, To be named to the dean’s lists, students must have a city get involved in the Feast of Lanterns,” said Board “This year’s freshman class is among the most selective grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 member Joni Birch. ever enrolled. The academic and extracurricular talents of percent of their class in their respective college or school. Board members will tour Pacific Grove and photo- these young men are outstanding. All of us at Hampden- Chartered in 1791, UVM was the first college or uni- graph outstanding displays, perhaps with the members Sydney College are looking forward to the matriculation versity in the United States that did not give preference to of the Royal Court. of the Class of 2017.” a religious sect in its charter. The school now has nearly A number of businesses in Pacific Grove and New A college for men, Hampden-Sydney is known for 10,459 undergraduates in seven schools and colleges, Monterey have lanterns for sale. If you wish to be certain its rhetoric program that stresses excellence in writing 1,540 graduate students and 449 medical students. As a your business will be noticed, please email s.birc@feast- and speaking, the Honor Code that stresses individual small, comprehensive university, it blends the academic of-lanterns.org and collective responsibility, and a focus on the education heritage of a private university with service missions in and development of young men. the land-grant tradition.

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CALL FOR DELIVERY 899-0101 880 Broadway Seaside Page 8 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013 Arts and Events Up and Coming ‘Les Misérables’ Offered by MPC Campus Theater Reopens with Central Coast Premiere of Play about Student Uprising

Monterey Peninsula College’s About the director several choirs, including the Monterey also appeared in “Assassins,” “Crazy for Grand Re-Opening production will Gary Bolen joined the MPC faculty Peninsula Voices, Aria Women’s Choir, You,” “Damn Yankees” and “Grease.” feature the Central Coast premiere of in fall 1999, and now serves as the Urban Renewal Vocal Jazz and Pacific Michelle Boulware (Fantine) has “Les Misérables.” MPC will celebrate Chairman of the Theatre Arts Depart- Voices. He conducts choirs and or- appeared in several MPC productions the reopening of its campus theater after ment. He received his B.A. and M.A. chestras regularly at Carnegie Hall and including “Kiss Me Kate,” “Company,” an extensive 21-month renovation, while in Theater from Cal State University Lincoln Center. “Once Upon a Mattress,” “Anything at the same time bringing to stage one of Fullerton and an M.F.A. in Acting from Rob Devlin (Javert) has played Goes” and “Caberet.” She has also been its biggest productions to date. A cast of UCLA where he was the winner of the Cliff in last year’s “Cabaret” and Sky in featured in productions of “Evita” and more than three dozen brings the charac- Jack Nicholson Graduate Award in Act- “Guys and Dolls’ in 2007. Last year, he several Broadway reviews at the Wharf ters of Victor Hugo’s classic novel to life ing and a University Grant Award recipi- also appeared in “Fiddler on the Roof,” Theater. When not performing, Michelle in a saga that spans decades. ent. A working professional actor since in “Spamalot” and in “Disney’s Beauty is in demand as a choral conductor and The play is set in France during the 1979, Gary has appeared on stages from and the Beast” for PacRep. voice teacher/coach all over the central student uprising of 1832. The flawed but L.A. to Houston in addition to dozens of Lori Schulman’s (Cosette) credits coast. She is an associate conductor for noble Jean Valjean (Sean Boulware), television prime time dramas, movies of include Papagana in “Manga Flute,” Ilia Aria Women’s Choir and will be teach- relentless Inspector Javert (Rob Devlin) the week and sit-coms. In 1995 he was in” Idomeneo,” Pamina in “Die Zauber- ing at Pacific Grove Middle and High and the achingly tragic Eponine (Megan nominated and elected to the Academy flöte,” Amore in “La Didone” and Lizzie School this coming school year. Root) and Fantine (Michelle Boulware) of Television Arts and Sciences and has in “BABY.” Concert soloist credits John Daniel (Enjolras, Bamatabois) all pursue love, honor and valor amidst served as an Emmy Blue Ribbon Peer include David Del Tredici’s “Dracula” is teaches French at York School. the pageantry, strife, humor and lust Panel judge. and “Handel’s Messiah.” She holds a Jennifer L. Newman (Madame of this epic musical, accompanied by bachelor’s degree in vocal performance Thenardier) is a teacher by day. One of a 15-piece orchestra. This production About the principles from SJSU. her favorite roles is the Queen in “Once runs July 26 through August 18, with a Sean Boulware (Valjean) has played Hadley Sprague (Young Cosette) is Upon a Mattress.” preview performance Thursday, July 25 roles in “Once Upon a Matress,” “The making her theatrical debut. Megan Root (Eponine) is return- at 7:30 p.m. Producers,” and “Company” for MPC. Chris Beem (Thenardier), previ- ing to the stage after a four-year ab- “I am extremely pleased to bring He is a choral conductor and conducts ously seen at MPC in “Urinetown,” has sence. Some former roles include Hope this musical theater masterpiece to the Cladwell in “Urinetown,” Beth March Central Coast,” said MPC Theatre Arts in “Little Women” and Emma Carew in Chairman Gary Bolen. “With musical “Jekyll and Hyde.” direction by Dr. John Anderson and choreography by Susan Cable, audiences About the design team will experience ‘Les Misérables’ as they The creative team includes Gary never have before.” Bolen, director; D. Thomas Beck, tech- The Grand Opening Gala will be Sat., nical director and scenic design; Charles July 27 at 5:30 p.m. The $125 per person Houghton, lighting design; David ticket price includes a pre-show reception Rigmaiden, sound design; Constance catered by Michael’s Catering, wine from Gamiere, costume design; Kirsten Clapp, Scheid Vineyards, a silent auction, and props design; Susan Cable, choreog- the official dedication of the modernized raphy; Barney Hulse, vocal direction; theater arts building and lobby. John Anderson, musical direction. About “Les Misérables” Tickets are on sale at the MPC Box “Les Misérables,” an operetta style Office and online at https://secure3. musical based on the novel of the same TicketGuys.com/mpc. name, had its world premiere in Septem- A preview performance will be ber of 1980 at the Palais des Sports in Thursday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. The Paris. The production was directed by Grand Opening Gala will be Saturday, filmmaker Robert Hossein and ran for July 27, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Regular over 100 performances. performances are Thursdays, Fridays Following the world premiere run and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays of the original French version, Herbert at 2 p.m. on the Morgan Stock Stage. Kretzmer and James Fenton were given Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for se- the task of adapting the material into niors, $15 for young adults (16-21) and English. This new version, produced by military and $10 for children 15 and un- Cameron Mackintosh and directed by der. Tickets bought 24 hours in advance Trevor Nunn and John Caird, opened are $20. Online tickets are $18 for adults on October 8, 1985 at the Barbican Arts and seniors. Centre in London. The original cast Tickets may be purchased from the included such notables as Colm Wilkin- MPC Box Office Wednesdays 3-7 p.m., son, Michael Ball, and Patti LuPone. Thursdays and Fridays from 3-5 p.m., or On December 4, 1985, the world beginning 90 minutes prior to any per- premiere production of the English ver- formance, or online at www.TicketGuys. sion transferred to the Palace Theatre in com or www.mpctheatre.com. London. It eventually moved once more MPC is located at 980 Fremont on April 3, 2004, to the Queen’s Theatre. Street in Monterey. Parking is plentiful It has become the second longest-run- on the college campus. However, there is ning musical in the world and the second a $2 fee to park on campus on Thursday longest-running show on the West End. evenings. From 5 p.m. Friday, through 7 The original North American tour ran for a.m. Monday there is no charge to park. seventeen years and over 7,000 perfor- Call 646-4213 after 3 p.m. for more mances. information. July 26, 2013 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 9 Arts and Events Up and Coming

Lighthouse Author Speaks at MoM On Sat., Aug. 3 at 1:00 p.m., the Museum of Monterey will host Theresa Levitt, Automobilia Monterey: A Candy author of A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Light- house, for a talk on the fascinating history of the Fresnel lens and how the modern Store for Auto Affecionados lighthouse came to be, followed by a question and answer session and signing of her Automobilia Monterey kicks off its 11th year on Tues., Aug. 13 and wraps up new book. The Fresnel lens played an important role in the history of nearby Point the following day, Wed., Aug. 14. Only at Automobilia Monterey will you find the Pinos and Point Sur Lighthouses. finest pre- and post-war memorabilia, the world’s most extensive inventory of vin- In A Short Bright Flash, Levitt delves into the life of Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827), tage auto posters, a wide range of original classic car accoutrements, vintage books who shocked the scientific elite with his ingenious breakthrough in the physics of light. and documents, original art and photography. Forty vendors have been selected. The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that would make lighthouses Automobilia has been described as a veritable “candy store” for the serious blaze many times brighter, farther and more efficiently and would save countless lives collector by Track Thoughts, a journal about historical racing. The event is great from death by shipwreck. But Fresnel had to battle the establishment, his own poor fun for families and individuals with even the slightest interest in cars. health and the limited technology of the time to achieve his goal of illuminating the The event benefits the Monterey Rape Crisis Center and costs $15 per person entire French coast. The British sought to outdo the new Fresnel equipped lighthouses for one day or $20 for both days. Vendors donate items for a benefit silent auc- as a matter of national pride, while Americans resisted abandoning their primitive tion, as well. lamps and put off acquiring the new technology for years. But the superiority of the This is the only opportunity to see these selected 40 plus top international Fresnel lens could not be denied for long and soon, from Dunkirk to Saigon, shores dealers in a single venue and kicks off Car Week on the Peninsula. The event were brightened with it. takes place at the Embassy Suites in the Main Ballroom at Highways 1 and 218. The Fresnel legacy played an important role in geopolitical events, including the American Civil War. No sooner were Fresnel lenses finally installed along U.S. shores WHAT: Automobilia Monterey than they were drafted: the Union blockaded the Confederate coast; the Confederacy WHEN: Tuesday & Wednesday set about thwarting it by dismantling and hiding or destroying the new lights. Levitt’s August 13 & 14 scientific and historical account, rich in anecdote and personality, brings to life the WHERE: Embassy Suites, Seaside, CA untold story of Augustin Fresnel and his powerful invention that would change the COST TO PUBLIC: world and shape history. $15 for one day Theresa Levitt is an associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi. $20 for both days A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she has a master’s degree in facebook.com/mtryrapecrisis history from Iowa State University and a doctorate from Harvard University. Levitt is twitter.com/mtyrapecrisis the recipient of the Fulbright and National Science Foundation Awards. Call 212-790- 4325 for more information. Cherry Center Hosts a Night Artists in Chautauqua Seeks Artists Artists in Chautauqua, the annual arts and crafts show held in conjuntion with of Traditional Music Chautauqua Days, is set for Sun., Oct. 6 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event, which John Weed and Stuart Mason will present a performance of traditional fiddle is sponsored by the Heritage Society of Pacific Grove and Artisana Gallery, seeks local tunes and songs that explore the musical connections between Ireland and America, artists and craftspeople for both indoor and outdoor table sales. There will also be a with tastes of Scotland, Canada, and more on Sat., Aug. 3 at the Carl Cherry Center silent auction and live music. The event is a fund-raiser for the Heritage Society. for the Arts. On fiddle, guitar, mandola, and banjo they bridge the Atlantic to recre- Application deadline is Aug. 31, 2013. We will continue to accept applications ate a lost magic that resonates with the listener of today. Both are members of the received after this date for consideration to fill the show or add to wait list on a first well-known Celtic powerhouse Molly’s Revenge, the old-time bluegrass group Little come, first served basis Black Train, and the Irish trio Story Road. With Molly’s Revenge, Stuart Mason and INDOOR SPACE & FEES: John Weed have appeared on festival stages from Glasgow, Scotland to Shanghai, 6’X6’ space with one 6’ table (provided unadorned) $65.00 China. 6’x9’ (corner) space with two 6’ tables (provided unadorned) $120.00 Fiddler John Weed has lived in Ireland and immersed himself in the traditional styles of Clare and Donegal. The result is an old-time Irish fiddling style that com- OUTDOOR SPACE FEES: 10x10 (*no tables or canopy will be provided) $100.00 pliments his forays into bluegrass, swing, and other American music. A classically Please reply to [email protected] and we will send you a copy of the trained violinist, John leverages his understanding of the instrument to coax emotion application for this event. Thank you! from every tune. He has returned to Ireland many times to hone his skills and collect tunes at their source. Stuart Mason was born in the hills of West Virginia and has been playing tra- ditional music on stage for over 35 years. He is known for his authentic vocals and driving backing on guitar and mandola in alternate tunings. On banjo he plays in the older clawhammer and two-finger styles. Stuart has won awards for traditional sing- ing (Goleta Old-Time Fiddler’s Convention), mandola (Topanga Banjo and Fiddle “Evenings by the Bay” Contest), and songwriting (West Coast Songwriter’s Association). Deeply rooted in Americana, Stuart’s original songs are the inevitable result of the years he spent im- Summer Concert Series mersed in traditional music. The Monterey Jazz Festival will produce the “Evenings by the Bay” Tickets are $20. The Carl Cherry Center is located at Fourth and Guadalupe concert series in collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium from June streets. For reservations and more information, please call 624-7491 or email cherry_ 29 until September 1. The concerts will be from 6-8 p.m. The series will [email protected]. feature professional jazz musicians from the Monterey area. Admission to the concerts are included with regular admission to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Since 2008, the concert series has brought live music to the aquarium No Audition Required to each summer, transforming an already exciting visit into something special for both visitors and performers. The 2013 concert series will feature saxophonists Paul Contos, Roger Eddy, Gary Meek and Stu Reynolds; Join MPGCC Gospel Choir pianist Bill Spencer; bassist Pete Lips; vocalists Nicolas Bearde and Omega The Monterey Peninsula Gospel Community Choir is seeking new mem- Rae; and flutist Kenny Stahl, as well as the bands Que Caliente Latin Jazz, bers. Interested singers are invited to attend the group’s next rehearsal on Sat., Along Came Betty and the Monterey Bay Jazz Orchestra. July 27 at Monterey Peninsula College in the Choral Room from noon to 3 All concerts will take place on the first floor in the Marine Mammal p.m. No audition is required to join the group. Galleries section of the aquarium, located at 886 Cannery Row in Mon- Founded in 2008, the choir is a non-profit corporation dedicated to terey. promoting gospel training, education and entertainment in the form of local All performances are on Saturdays and Sundays from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. events. The choir rehearses every second and fourth Saturday at MPC and ac- Performances include: July 27, Pete Lips and Friends; July 28, Kenny Stahl cepts all adults willing to train and sing. The choir consists of members from and Friends; August 3, Gary Meek and Friends; August 4, Roger Eddy and the Monterey area as well as from as far away as San Jose. Friends; August 10, Stu Reynolds and Que Caliente Latin Jazz; August 11, John Nash Jr. and David Wells co-direct the choir, which is now preparing Real Time; August 17, Gary Meek and Friends; August 18, Kenny Stahl for its annual concert culminating National Gospel Heritage Month in Septem- and Friends; August 24, Along Came Betty; August 25, Bill Spencer with ber and its Christmas Concert. The choir will also sing at Carmel Mission’s Omega Rae; August 31, Paul Contos and Friends; September 1, Monterey annual Thanksgiving service and participate in a KSBW-TV telethon. Bay Jazz Orchestra. The choir will be featured in a gospel concert on September 28 at First For more information please contact:Timothy Orr at 373.3366 or by Presbyterian Church of Salinas, along with the Edwin Hawkins’ Community email at [email protected]. Choir and Terrance Kelly’s Oakland Interfaith Community Choir. For more information see www.mpgospelcc.org. Page 10 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013

New Funds Support Investment in Local Communities, Expand Impact of CAC Printmaking Class Offered The California Arts Council is a proud recipient of $2 million in savings from Curious about how prints are made? Barbara Furbush will lead a block the 2013 State Assembly operating budget. The funds, directed to support arts and printing workshop for beginners at the Pacific Grove Art Center on Saturday, arts education programs in California communities, will help enhance local creative August 3 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. economies, fund effective arts learning programs, and support the growth of the state’s Create a linocut block and print your own edition of small prints or greeting creative workforce. cards. Simple techniques for designing, cutting, and printing will be demon- “This investment in the arts shows that Speaker John Pérez and a supportive Gov- strated to launch you comfortably into creating your own image. ernor recognize the importance of the arts to our State’s economy and the needs of our No previous art making experience is necessary. Learn by doing! creative workforce,” said Wylie Aitken, Chair of the California Arts Council. “This Class size is limited, the registration fee for this session is $25 with a is a positive first step to gain support for measures that will increase California’s arts varied materials fee. funding and investment in future budgets.” The California Arts Council is a state agency Contact Barbara at 310-562-3155 or send an email to [email protected] to whose mission is to advance California through the arts and creativity. These one-time register or for further information. Assembly-provided funds will support projects designed to stimulate economic and This session is the second of the Printmaking Sampler workshops. On the social benefits in very specific ways for local communities and schools statewide. “The first Saturday of each month a hands-on workshop will be offered for print pro- Arts Council will leverage these one-time funds to produce the greatest possible impact cesses including Intaglio printing on September 7 and Monotypes on October for Californians ... by supporting a variety of innovative collaborations designed to 5. Workshop fees will vary. advance areas such as improved student achievement, reductions in dropout rates, as Barbara Furbush received an MFA in printmaking at CSULB in 1985. Her well as spur local investment,” Aitken remarked. works have been exhibited regularly in Los Angeles. She opened her print studio The funding will not be used for administrative costs at the agency, but to direct at the Pacific Grove Art Center in 2012. She offers workshops, and individual services for local communities in California and will be leveraged with other funds to session on an appointment basis. prove that the arts is one of California’s premier investments. Legal Notices Legal Notices

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: Petition of VERGEN CELESTE LEON ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: Case No. M124118 Petition of RICHARD HERNANDEZ III, HAILEY HERNANDEZ Filed July 23, 2013. To all interested persons: Petitioner VIRGEN CELESTE LEON filed a petition with this Case No. M123945 court for a decree changing name as follows: present name EVERARDO RAFAEL BUSTAMANTE to proposed Filed July 9, 2013. To all interested persons: Petitioner RICHARD HERNANDEZ filed a petition with this name EVERETT LEON. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before court for a decree changing name as follows: present name RICHARD HERNANDEZ III, HAILEY LYNN this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not HERNANDEZ, BENTLEY JAY HERNANDEZ, DRAKE KAY HERNANDEZ to proposed name RICHARD be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes BYRON, HAILEY LYNN BYRON, BENTLEY JAY BYRON, DRAKE KAY BYRON. THE COURT OR- the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at DERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of hearing date: September 20, 2013 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. 15. changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court The address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Monterey, 1200 Aguajito Road, Monterey, days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition CA 93940. A copy of this Order To Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four consecutive should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in Notice of hearing date: August 30, 2013 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. 14. The address of the court is: Superior Court of this county: CEDAR STREET TIMES. DATE: July 23, 2013 Judge of the Superior Court: Kay T. Kingsley. California, County of Monterey, 1200 Aguajito Road, Monterey, CA 93940. A copy of this Order To Show Cause Publication dates: 07/26, 08/02, 08/09, 08/16/13 shall be published at least once each week for four consecutive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the peti- tion in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: CEDAR STREET TIMES. DATE: ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: July 09, 2013 Judge of the Superior Court: Kay T. Kingsley. Petition of LEANN ADLER Publication dates: 07/26, 08/02, 08/09, 08/16/13 Case No. M123928 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: Filed July 10, 2013. To all interested persons: Petitioner LEANN ADLER filed a petition with this court for Petition of JANET MARIE CROWLEY a decree changing name as follows: present name LEANN MARJORIE ADLER to proposed name DEVIN Case No. M123939 ADLER. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the Filed July 9, 2013. To all interested persons: Petitioner JANET MARIE CROWLEY filed a petition with this hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any court for a decree changing name as follows: present name JANET MARIE CROWLEY to proposed name person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for JANET MARIE KUNOA. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes petition without a hearing. Notice of hearing date: August 30, 2013 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. 15. The address of the the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at court is: Superior Court of California, County of Monterey, 1200 Aguajito Road, Monterey, CA 93940. A copy of the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court this Order To Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four consecutive weeks prior to the date may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of hearing date: September 13, 2013 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. 15. set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: CEDAR The address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Monterey, 1200 Aguajito Road, Monterey, STREET TIMES. DATE: July 10, 2013 Judge of the Superior Court: Kay T. Kingsley. Publication dates: 07/12, CA 93940. A copy of this Order To Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four consecutive 07/19, 07/26, 08/02/13 weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: this county: CEDAR STREET TIMES. DATE: July 9, 2013 Judge of the Superior Court: Kay T. Kingsley. Pub- Petition of MELANIE ROSE ROGERS lication dates: 07/12, 07/19, 07/26, 08/02/13 Case No. M123878 Filed July 9, 2013. To all interested persons: Petitioner MELANE ROSE ROGERS filed a petition with this court FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT for a decree changing name as follows: present name MELANIE ROSE ROGERS to proposed name MELANIE File Number 20131294 ROSE KUNOA. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court The following person is doing business as: MON- at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. ARCH FILM FESTIVAL, 427 Asilomar Blvd., P.O. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons Box 51803, Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA File Number 20131243 for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hear- 93950 and EMBERLIGHT PRODUCTIONS, 427 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT ing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may Asilomar Blvd., P.O. Box 51803, Pacific Grove, The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of hearing date: September 13, 2013 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. 15. The Monterey County, CA 93950. MATTHEW STEVEN Bud of California, 2959 Monterey Salinas Hwy., address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Monterey, 1200 Aguajito Road, Monterey, CA KILPATRICK, 427 Asilomar Blvd., P.O. Box 51803, Monterey, CA 93940, County of Monterey 93940. A copy of this Order To Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four consecutive Pacific Grove, CA 93950 and CRISTIANA LEE Full name of Registrant: Bud Antle, Inc., California, weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in DiPIETRO, 427 Asilomar Blvd., P.O. Box 51803, Pa- One Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362 this county: CEDAR STREET TIMES. DATE: July 9, 2013 Judge of the Superior Court: Kay T. Kingsley. Pub- cific Grove, CA 93950. This statement was filed with This business is conducted by a corporation lication dates: 07/12, 07/19, 07/26, 08/02/13 the Clerk of Monterey County on July 3, 2013. This Registrant commenced to transact business under the business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant fictitious business name or names listed above on commenced to transact business under the fictitious January 1, 1961 (approx.). business name listed above on N/A. Signed Cristiana I declare that all information in this statement is true DePietro. Publication dates 7/5, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/13 and correct. (A registrant who declares as true infor- mation which he or she knows to be false is guilty of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Letters to the Editor a crime.) File No. 20131364 Signature of Registrant: Bud Antle, Inc. The following person is doing business as SHARED Cedar Street Times welcomes your letters on subjects of interest to By: Jeffrey B. Conner NOTES, 3354-A Coffey Lane, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Title: Vice Pres. & Secretary, the citizens of Pacific Grove as well as our readers elsewhere. We prefer County, CA 95403 and RAVE VINES & WINES, This statement was filed with the County Clerk of 3354-A Coffey Lane, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, that letters be on local topics. At present we have not set limits on length Monterey County on June 25, 2013. CA 95403. SONS OF BACCHUS, LLC. 28275 N. Notice - In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section though we do reserve the right to edit letters for space constraints, so Alta Street, Gonzales, CA 93926-0908. This state- 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires ment was filed with the Clerk of Monterey County please be concise. We will contact you to verify authenticity so your at the end of five years from the date on which it was on 07/16/2013 . Registrant commenced to transact filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Except, as email address and/or telephone number must be included as well as your business under the fictitious business name or name(s) provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where listed above on 07/15/2013. Signed: Mark Pisoni, name and city of residence. it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set Secretary, Partner for Sons of Bacchus, LLC. This forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other We will not publish unsigned letters or letters which defame or business is conducted by a limited liability company. than a change in the residence address of a registered slander or libel. Publication dates: 7/19, 7/26, 8/2, 8/9/2013. owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement Cedar Street Times is an adjudicated newspaper published weekly must be filed before the expiration. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize at 306 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Press deadline is Wednes- File No. 20131266 the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in The following person is doing business as BAC- day, noon. The paper is printed on Friday and is available at 138 various violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, CHANT WINES, 28275 North Alta, Gonzales, Mon- or Common Law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business locations throughout the city and on the Peninsula as well as by e-mail terey County, CA 93926: FLOYD-PISONI WINE and Professions Code). COMPANY, 28275 North Alta, Gonzales, CA 93926 subscription and with home delivery to occupied homes in Pacific CERTIFICATION: I hereby certify that the foregoing This statement was filed with the Clerk of Monterey is a correct copy of the original on file in my office. Grove. County on July 1, 2013. Registrants commenced to STEPHEN L. VAGNINI, MONTEREY COUNTY transact business under the fictitious business name Marge Ann Jameson, Editor/Publisher CLERK or name(s) listed above on October 1, 2007. Signed: Phone 831-324-4742 • Fax 831-324-4745 • [email protected] BY: Deputy Mark Pisoni, Secretary. This business is conducted Expires: June 25, 2018 by a corporation. Publication dates: 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 07/05, 07/12, 07/19, 7/26/13 8/2/13 July 26, 2013 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 11

Larry Haggquist Seagulls and Art Thefts Tom Stevens Poetry The Psychologist Otter Views By Lawrence Haggquist

Is it just me, or have the seagulls gotten rowdier and more numerous lately? Night and day, hundreds suddenly form great bickering cyclones in mid-air, The social experimenter cogitates screeching, clattering and barking like dogs, pelting the town with artful splashes over lurking variables of guano. that threaten to slip like shadows They ransack curbside cans and stalk the picnic tables at Lover’s Point, past the fortress of his experimental design. darting in to snatch hot dogs from the unwary. Beachgoers now scan the air nervously as they eat. Their heads swivel like radar arrays lest some swooping gull dive-bomb a sandwich right out of their grasp. Outside the walls of his intellect, Granted, I’ve only been rain soaks sidewalks here a brief time in seagull years, but even in that short span, where students, things seem to have thickened having escaped random selection, up. Walking to church the other scurry along brick walkways, morning, I saw a gull on every light post, and several more on past the ivy beards every roof top. Is this some kind of buildings, of invasion? to their classes. The San Jose Mercury News suggests something weird may be on the wing. The Bay Below, Area reportedly is experiencing in the cool basements of Psychology, a sea gull population boom that teams of rats huddle in cages, has seen counts soar 40 percent in the past two years. An estimated 53,000 of the big white and gray California like prisoners at Auschwitz, Gulls now wheel and squawk where only 24 were counted in 1980. awaiting their assigned torture Wazzup? The Mercury News would only say that scientists are scrambling to by electric shock, or brain lesioning, find an explanation. The report was more forthcoming about the boom’s effects. Apparently the Bay Area gulls have grown so numerous airports are reporting or perhaps starvation. more frequent gull-plane collisions. Landfills, malls, schools and ballparks are Sad to say, under siege. Smaller sea birds and their eggs are vanishing into the gulls’ vora- but maybe they have it better than Zimbardo’s human prisoners, cious maws. Because California Gulls are protected under migratory bird laws, who cower in cells addressing the population boom is a complex process. Simply sending Dick on cold cement floors – Cheney out with a shotgun won’t get it. And the biological clock is ticking. dehumanized, naked, and shackled to one man’s wild hypothesis – California Gulls reportedly can lay up to three eggs a year, and each can live to be 25 years old. If 53,000 gulls now reside in the South Bay alone, the math is or Seligman’s puppy, not encouraging. shivering alone in his corner cage, If PG is seeing more gull activity than usual, I figure it could be a spillover having lost his will to even move. from the boom up north. And befitting their bohemian big city origins, these It’s no wonder invading gulls are highly artistic. PG surfaces beneath popular gull roosts have become sidewalk Jackson Pollocks of inestimable worth. that Harlow’s chimp All of which leads, in a very roundabout way, to the past week’s second doesn’t think his wire riveting report. This one was in Friday’s New York Times, and it was a strange mother loves him. tale indeed. Back in October, a crack team of art thieves broke into Rotterdam’s Kunsthal Museum, disabled the security system, and sped away with seven canvases valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. The entire operation took Still, 96 seconds. the experimenter cogitates over hidden variables, Months of painstaking detective work finally traced one suspect to a small village in Romania, the Times reported. There a middle-aged woman told investi- the ones that sneak up gators that her son, fearing arrest, had asked her in November to hide something from beyond consciousness for him. It was a suitcase containing seven “strangely beautiful” paintings. and attack Transferring the paintings to a plastic bag, the mother reportedly hid them at her sister’s house, then in a garden. Finally, as investigators arrived and started the black mystery of ink blots, combing the village, she reportedly buried the bag in the town cemetery. By stifling all the troubled screams this point her son had indeed been arrested on suspicion of theft, so the pres- that reach out sure mounted. But then, one freezing night in February, the mother reportedly told Ro- from inner-darkness – manian police, “an idea sprang into my mind.” In its way, it was as strangely from beneath layers beautiful as the pictures: without the evidence, her son could not be convicted. of hidden pain. Stoking a big fire in her wood-burning stove, she retrieved the picture sack from the cemetery. “I put the whole package with the seven paintings, without even opening Today, it, into the stove, and then placed over them some wood and my plastic slippers the scientist cannot even be certain and waited for them to fully burn,” the mother reportedly told investigators. that puddles of rain “The next day I cleaned the stove, took out the ash, and placed it in the garden, in a wheelbarrow.” will not, Naturally, the police smelled a red herring. International art thieves sophis- in some unknowable way, ticated enough to swipe from a major museum seven priceless paintings in 96 smear the contours seconds wouldn’t consign them to a simple village matron. Would they? of sadness. Alas, scrupulous forensic analysis of ashes retrieved from the mother’s garden suggests that pictures by Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Gauguin, Lucien Freud and Meyer de Haan might indeed have gone up in smoke. Mauricio’s The Picasso and Matisse were done on paper, so left no trace. But the older Serving Breakfast from 7:30 and Lunch until 3:00 daily paintings left residues of pigment, can- Dinner 5:00 until closing Tuesday - Saturday vas and framing hardware consonant with what the 19th century European 589 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove • 831-645-9051 masters used. It could still be a ruse, of course. The thieves could have gotten old pig- ments, canvas and framing hardware Special - Any Dinner Meal elsewhere. But the detail about the Buy One Dinner, Get One Half Off plastic slippers is troubling. Sic transit Valid Tues. - Sat. gloria mundi. Page 12 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013

PONY’s Bronco Super Regional Hosted by Pacific Grove Team The Pacific Grove PONY Baseball and Softball League hosted the Bronco Super Regional Tournament at the Pacific Grove Municipal Ball Park last weekend. This is an eight-team, double elimination, PONY-sanctioned tournament, with 11 to 12-year-old players in teams from the East Bay Region, Central Region (Sacramento Area), Central Valley Region, and our Coastal Region. The Pacific Grove Red Team opened Wednesday against Los Altos / Mountain View, losing 11 to 4. Our team then won 7 to 5 against Bel Passi on Friday night (pictured here), then lost on Saturday morning to Sierra Valley, 11 to 3. Sierra Valley took silver medals, losing to the winner Vacaville 11-1 in the Championship game on Sunday. Vacaville Photos by Skyler Lewis has advanced to the Western Zone Tournament in Whittier, California, where they will compete for a spot in the Bronco World Series, now held in Los Alamitos, California. Nightly meals included fare from local restaurants and barbecue by volunteers, and proceeds went to support PG PONY’s baseball and softball program — stressing “honoring the game” through respect and sportsmanship — and its efforts in improving local ball parks like the Muni field. Tournament director and PG PONY vice president Staci Consiglio thanked the City of Pacific Grove for their support in improving this park. PG PONY is also looking forward to hosting next summer’s Mustang 9 World Series. They agreed to host this year’s tournament as an “audition” for this position, and the audition was a success. Pacific Grove Red Team 00 Evan Clark 27 Colby Burnell 1 Hunter Hanes 55 Connor Marshall 3 Joshua Cryns 5 Nathaniel Lominario Manager: James Machado 6 Easton Lanclos Coach: Ed Mares 7 Kyle Manuian Business Manager: Mark Hanes 10 Lukas Wujcik 23 Nicole Machado 24 Trevor Heyn 25 Joshua Mares July 26, 2013 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 13 Pacific Grove Sports and Leisure Royal Endorsement: May it Spur the Feeding him dust Giants to Victory

Feast of Lanterns Princess Ruby, Caroline Gruber, found a Chalk Fest entry she liked a lot: “Go Giants!” and a list of someone’s favorite players on the ill-starred team.

Maybe Caroline could teach the Giants a thing or two: She played Pacific Grove PONY Softball for five years and, this past school year, was on the JV Softball team at Pacific Grove High School. She is starting catcher.

This is Caroline’s second year on the Royal Court, a repeat achievement that the Giants don’t appear to be In a deciding moment on his way to victory, Marc Marquez GP championship on July 21. Rossi put the same move able to do. Photo by Peter Mounteer swings wide and then cuts across the shoulder to pass on Casey Stoner five years ago. Valentino Rossi at the top of the corkscrew in the Moto

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Hands Across The Ocean Celtic Trio to Play at St. Mary’s The acoustic trio of guitarist William Coulter, cellist Aria DiSalvio, and fiddler John Weed will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 28 at St. Mary’s By-The-Sea. The trio offers Jane Roland arrangements of traditional and contemporary tunes, fusing folk styles from Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and Spain with modern influences. John Weed, fiddler for Molly’s Revenge, Story Road, and Little Black Train, is a Animal Tales and classically trained violinist who’s spent the last 20 years immersed in various fiddle styles. John lived in Ireland in 2000 and taught fiddle workshops at the Flowing Tide Other Random Thoughts International Music School in Doonbeg, County Clare. He has honed his skills by attend- ing the Frankie Kennedy Winter School in Dunlewey, County Donegal where he studied with Ciaran O’Maonaigh and Dermot Mcloughlin. Having an affinity for American This month is an anniversary for me. Seven years ago I left the SPCA Ben- fiddle styles, John explores the connection between Irish, Scottish, and old time fiddle. efit Shop on Forest Avenue after 20 years; I started writing for Lee Yarborough at the Aria DiSalvio grew up playing her cello in the vibrant musical community of Ann Pacific Grove Hometown Bulletin; and was asked to consider opening a benefit shop Arbor, Michigan. After receiving her BMA in cello performance from the University for Animal Friends Rescue Project. I am still a scribe, now weekly for Marge Jameson of Michigan, she moved to Santa Cruz seeking change and adventure. She found both and her Cedar Street Times. The Treasure Shop has expanded year after year until we as she discovered the wonderful world of Celtic music and joined the growing number were ensconced in our current location on Fountain Avenue. I am heavily involved in of cellists seeking to stretch the limits of traditional cello technique and style. She has the Pacific Grove Rotary Club and enjoy my involvement with the newspaper. Above performed with musicians such as Cape Breton fiddler Andrea Beaton, master Scottish all, I love my job, the cause and the people with whom I work, the volunteers, the staff, fiddler Alasdair Fraser, folk/pop singer and fiddler Laura Cortese, Grammy Award win- the donors and customers. It is a win, win situation. ning trumpeter Roy Hargrove and Roy Malan, concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet. Over the years I have had the pleasure to meet wonderful people and their spectacu- William Coulter has been performing and recording traditional music for over 20 lar animals and, over those same years, have penned tales about them. Here is another. years. His most recent recording, “The Road Home,” is a critically acclaimed solo proj- I met Jerome a few weeks ago, when his parents, George and Mary Bergman, from San ect on the Gourd Music label. In 2005 he was awarded a Grammy for his contribution Francisco stopped by the shop for the first time. I was quite taken with this cheerful to “The Pink Guitar,” a collection of solo guitar arrangements of the music of Henry fellow. I asked his age and his background and was treated to a heart warming story: Mancini. Musical collaborations have been a mainstay of his career and have included “Jerome is a wonderful, former Taiwanese street dog, with a checkered past, who many tours and recordings. “Song for Our Ancestors,” with the great classical guitar is enjoying a serene and good life in San Francisco. Almost eight years ago, the five virtuoso Benjamin Verdery, “Time to Sail” and “One Sweet Kiss,” with Kerry-born month old dog was found in a cardboard box with a broken leg. He had been left starv- Irish singer Eilis Kennedy, “Simple Gifts - Music of the Shakers,” with cellist Barry ing and thirsty to die alone, probably a casualty of dog hunters who did not return for Phillips and others. Since 1997, he has acted as musical director and toured nationally their captured prey. Fortunately, he was seen, rescued and taken to a shelter where a with A Celtic Christmas, a popular holiday show featuring the native Irish storytelling veterinarian successfully mended his damaged limb. of Limerick-born Tomaseen Foley. Another, unknown, kind soul made arrangements for Jerome’s passage to San St. Mary’s regularly hosts Celtic music concerts to promote traditional artists, and Francisco and placement with Wonder Dog Rescue in the Mission District. Although to benefit the church’s community food pantry and Celtic music program for kids and he had, amazingly, become a happy, smart and house-trained seven month young dog, teens. Food, soft drinks, beer and wine will be available for sale. no one would adopt him because he was no longer considered a puppy. Then George Tickets are available through brownpapertickets, http://www.brownpapertickets. and Mary saw him, fell in love at their first meeting and have nurtured and protected com/event/426883 at $20 for adults and $8 for kids under 12, or by calling 818-5021. him ever since. He became a devoted brother to a feral Maine Coon Cat, Kittner. For more information about the artists and their music see www.williamcoulter. Jerome suffered a set back when he was between two and three years old. He was com/ariadisalvio.com. St. Mary’s church is located at 146 12th Street. playing with another dog and received a small bite on the previously broken limb. It manifested into a severe infection that was resistant to antibiotics. After reaching the end of the line with a series of local vets, George and Mary took Jerome to U.C. Davis, where a team of professors and students undertook a multiple step strategy to conquer the problem and save Jerome’s leg. He survived yet again and has been completely healthy, romping on all four legs.” They told me that Jerome is extremely sensitive, intelligent, highly spirited and loyal. He adores his “parents” but is very cautious and wary of strangers (he allowed me to pet him graciously and made friends with one of our doggie volunteers, Bootsie) Boots, if you recall, is a local pup who was found on a road with two broken legs, she was a few months old. AFRP had the legs repaired, Dave Winter walked her, the rest is history, and she became his forever friend and one of our dog greeters. If Jerome is shy and hesitant, he cannot be blamed, somewhere in the back of his mind lingers the memory of the broken limb and being alone with no sustenance. Little did he know that there was hope in sight and his remaining days would be spent in a country across the sea in San Francisco with Mary, George and Kittner. There are many stories of animal rescues and committed nurturers, we see and hear about them all of the time. Even on a much smaller scale those involved with AFRP give their all to save and protect those in need, those that cannot help themselves. We all wish that abusers would be smote with an iron fist or burned for eternity, that being out of our control we do what is possible to repair the damage and bring peace to the beasts that have been abused. There are groups around the world whose mission is to save animals, all animals, all sizes, domestic and wild. They do it with no wish for Celtic musicians will play at St. Mary’s Aug. 3 acclaim, but simply success. Taiwan was known for its abuse of street dogs. The rescue group in the area has gone to all ends to end the practice and offer succor to those whom they are able to save. When Jerome was rescued it was determined that he should be “put down” as his leg was so badly broken. A foster mom took him in; although her house already exploded with cats and dogs. She made certain he received treatment for the limb. He didn’t seem Tea•Coffee•Books to remember the terrible experience of being hurt and left alone with no sustenance. Gifts•Art Gallery There are many stories such as this and those of us who are able should do all we can to help. Animals feel the same pain as humans. We don’t know how they think, it 667 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove • 831-372-2242 is said that dogs have no sense of time. That may be true, but I am sure that the hours suffering in a box seemed like eternity to Jerome. If you have room in your home, abil- Sponsors of the 2013 ity to transport animals, volunteer at a facility, goods or pennies to give. Search your Feast of Lanterns heart and do what you can. We want to save as many Jeromes and Bootsies as possible. Art Competition

Jane Roland lives in Monterey with her husband, John, and their four rescued animal friends, two dogs and two cats. She manages the AFRP Treasure Shop and is an active member of Pacific Grove Rotary Club…[email protected], 649-0657

L-R: Jerome, Jerome, and Boots

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Visit to the Bodleian Sparks Thoughts of Pacific Grove Library Linnet C. Harlan library card and a willingness to follow the library’s rules. If you have these, you discover the way in which the PGPL is greater than even the great Bodleian. At the Shelf Life PGPL, you have more privileges than King Charles I had at the Bodleian. While a few books at the PGPL are available only for use at the library, for most of the The Bodleian books, you can check them out, take them home, and read them at your leisure. In Pacific Grove, we consider our library, a presence for over one hundred years, to be an important part of the community, the community living room, if New Hours you will. As a student at Oxford University (Merton College) for a short course The library is now open at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Some of you have this summer, I realize our library is only one of the great chain of libraries that, been anxiously awaiting these longer hours. Celebrate, and put them to good use. among other things, hold the wisdom of the past in readiness for use by the pres- ent and the future. Need a Dictionary? Alpha Stationers is now selling gently used dictionaries, thesauruses, and History of the Bodleian encyclopedias to benefit the Pacific Grove Library Book Fund. Most hardcover The roots of the great Oxford library, the Bodleian, stem from a library reference books are priced at $2.00, while the collectible reference books are founded in the fourteenth century (aka the 1300s—insofar as we know, Pacific $10.00 - $40.00. 100% of the proceeds from each reference book sale are slated Grove didn’t have a library then) and included a collection of chained books— for the Pacific Grove Library Book Fund. Pop into Alpha Stationers and see books that were chained to the bookshelves so they wouldn’t be stolen. Between what’s available. 1435 and 1437, the Duke of Gloucester (brother of King Henry V) donated a large collection of manuscripts. Since Guttenberg’s discovery of moveable type StoryTime was in approximately 1450, all the manuscripts were hand-written and precious. Since so many people are on vacation in August, the StoryTime schedule is a During the extended upheaval surrounding King Henry VIII, the struggles little different for the first two weeks in August. The schedule is: with Rome and the separation of the Church of England from papal authority, the No StoryTimes August 7 & 8, 14 & 15. manuscripts were taken from the library, or, as a Bodleian librarian said, “Lost.” Weekly StoryTimes and activities resume August 21: In the late 16th century, Sir Thomas Bodley undertook to personally bear Pre-School StoryTime (Ages 2-5) the cost of supporting a library, even donating a portion of his personal library. Wednesdays at 11:00 am Brilliantly, Bodley also forged a relationship with the Stationers’ Company (the Baby StoryTime (Birth - 2) publishers of the day) to put a copy of every book registered with them in the Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. library. By the estimate of one Bodleian librarian, the holdings now exceed eleven million books. Wacky Wednesday! (Stories, games, science & more for Grades K-2) Wednesdays 3:45 - 4:30 (except on school holidays) A Reference Library The Bodleian is not a circulating library; it is a reference library. The Wish List books do not leave the library. Bodleian librarians delight in telling the story of If you’re looking for a way to express your appreciation to the library for King Charles I who, due to political pressures, had abandoned London and set up all it does, or if you’re looking for a memorial for someone or to honor someone, in Oxford. A servant appeared at the Bodleian with a request from Charles that please consider donating to the library. Cold, hard cash or cool, flexible checks the king be lent a book. Sir Thomas Bodley responded that Charles was welcome are always welcome, but if you’d rather give something specific, take a look at to come along and read it where it would remain, in the library. I’ve run across the library’s wish list on Amazon. com http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/ no further mentions of requests to check out a book. wishlist/16VG0KOOLIWIP This url will take you to the default section of the wish list, the wished-for DVDs, but there are also sections listed along the left The Oath hand side of the page for audio books, children’s books, fiction and non-fiction. Mindful of the earlier loss of the library at Oxford, Bodley had strict ideas There are probably many items you want to read or view once or twice and are about what should and should not happen in a library. So, more than 400 years then content to know you have access to them when you need them. Please take later, if you want access to the library, in addition to meeting certain other require- a look at the Wish List and see if there is something you’d like to donate so you ments, you must either sign a declaration, or, if you are an “external” reader (not and the rest of the PGPL community can benefit from it. attached to the University, e.g. a summer student), orally recite the following oath: I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, nor to mark, deface, First Saturday Book Sale or injure in any way, any volume, document or other object belonging to it or You continue to be generous with your donations of books, CDs, etc. with, in its custody; not to bring into the Library, or kindle therein, any fire or flame, the First Saturday Book Sale and, thus, the library, other readers and bibliophiles and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library. as the beneficiaries. Thank you for your continued support. The First Saturday Book Sale is held on the first Saturday of every month. Bodliean vs. PGPL For August, it will be Saturday, August 3. Since the library now officially opens In Pacific Grove, no such oral undertaking is required, all you need are a at 10:00 a.m., volunteers are happy to sell to early birds beginning at 9:30.

PacRep Announces ‘Buddy Holly and Friends… in Concert’ Pacific Repertory Theatre will present “Buddy Holly and Friends…in Concert,” Aug. 1-Sept. 1 at the Golden Bough Theatre, featuring Travis Poelle as the iconic Buddy Holly and Friends… in Concert PERFORMANCE CALENDAR Buddy Holly in a new tribute concert featuring classic hits of Buddy Holly, Ritchie THU Aug 1 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute (preview) Valens, Little Richard and other ’50s artists, and expanding into the 1960s with the FRI Aug 2 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute (preview) music of Simon & Garfunkle, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Cher, the Rolling Stones, and more. SAT Aug 3 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute (open) PacRep favorites, with performers from the company’s award-winning version of SUN Aug 4 2:00pm GB Buddy Tribute (matinee) The Buddy Holly Story, will include vocalists Davitt Felder (Ritchie Valens, Elvis, THU Aug 8 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute Bob Dylan), Lydia Lyons (Peggy Lee, Cher), and Daniel Simpson (Little Richard, FRI Aug 9 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute Sam Cooke), and the PacRep Band, led by local legend Don Dally on lead guitar, SAT Aug 10 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute with Steve Tosh on keyboard. SUN Aug 11 2:00pm GB Buddy Tribute (matinee) “Buddy Holly and Friends…” starts with two discounted previews Thurs. and Fri., Aug 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m., and opens Sat., Aug 3, at 7:30 p.m. followed by a THU Aug 15 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute matinee on Sun., Aug 4 at 2:00 p.m. Performances continue in August Thursdays FRI Aug 16 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute through Saturdays, Aug 8 through 31 at 7:30pm with Sunday matinees on Aug 11, SAT Aug 17 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute 18, 25, and Sept 1, at 2:00 p.m.. During the month of August, PacRep is offering a SUN Aug 18 2:00pm GB Buddy Tribute (matinee) “Sweet Thursday” 2-for-1 special on adult general admission tickets. Inquire at the THU Aug 22 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute box office for details. All performances are at the Golden Bough Theatre, located on Monte Verde FRI Aug 23 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, Carmel-by-the-Sea. SAT Aug 24 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute Ticket Information SUN Aug 25 2:00pm GB Buddy Tribute (matinee) General admission single ticket prices range from $20 to $39, with additional THU Aug 29 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute discounts available for seniors over 65, students, children, teachers, and active mili- FRI Aug 30 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute tary. 2013 Season FlexPasses are available with plans ranging from 3-play to 10-play SAT Aug 31 7:30pm GB Buddy Tribute ticket packages, and savings of up to 35 percent over single ticket prices. The Pacific Repertory Theatre Box Office is located at the Golden Bough Play- SUN Sep 1 2:00pm GB Buddy Tribute (matinee/close) house on Monte Verde Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, Carmel-by-the-Sea. Business hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Phone (831) 622-0100 or visit www.pacrep.org for more information. tion, The Berkshire Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The S.T.A.R. Foundation, The PacRep is supported by ticket sales, individual donations, special events, and Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, The Chapman Foundation, the Harden Foundation, grants from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Monterey Peninsula Founda- and PG&E Company, among many others. Page 16 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013 Home Office ‘Safe Harbor’ Kyle A. Krasa Named as Deduction: Is It for You? ‘Rising Star’ by Super Lawyers In January, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2013-13 which discusses a new op- tion for calculating the home office deduction. (You may want to clip this article and Local attorney Kyle A. Krasa was recently named by Super Lawyers as a “Rising put it in your tax file as a reminder.) Instead of tracking the actual expenses of operating Star.” From the Super Lawyers website (www.superlawyers.com): your home office such as water, utilities, garbage, repairs and maintenance, deprecia- “Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 tion, etc., you can now elect a safe harbor $5 per square foot of qualified office space, practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional up to 300 square feet ($1,500). It is kind of like taking a standard mileage deduction achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, on your car instead of tracking gas and repair receipts, and calculating depreciation peer nominations and peer evaluations. expense. Unlike vehicles, however, you can switch methods back and forth from one Super Lawyers Magazine features the list and profiles of selected attorneys and year to the next. Travis H. Long, CPA Kyle A. Krasa, Esq. Travis on Taxes Planning for Each Generation is distributed to attorneys in the state or region and the ABA-accredited law school There are a few interesting provisions that will make it a good option for some libraries.” people, and a bad option for others. In other words, when preparing your return you will The selection process for Super Lawyers is rigorous and is typically a year-long need to analyze the short and long term impacts, and determine which method is best endeavor. Once again, from the Super Lawyers website: each year. Since the $5 per square foot figure is not adjusted by region or for inflation, “Super Lawyers selects attorneys using a patented multiphase selection process. individuals living in high cost states like California are at a disadvantage. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research. Each can- If there is more than one person in the house, such as a spouse or roommate, they didate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. can each use the safe harbor as long as they are not counting the same space. If one Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis. person has more than one office in the home for more than one business, the person can The objective is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstand- either use actual expenses for all the businesses, or the person must use the safe harbor ing attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for all the businesses. However, the maximum deduction allowed is still $1,500 for for legal counsel. Since Super Lawyers is intended to be used as an aid in selecting a all the businesses in the home combined, which may have to be allocated pro rata to lawyer, we limit the lawyer ratings to those who can be hired and retained by the public, the businesses based on square footage used by each. If one person has qualified home i.e., lawyers in private practice and Legal Aid attorneys. offices in more than one home, the person can use the safe harbor for one home, but The Super Lawyers patented selection process involves three basic steps: creation must use actual expenses for the other home. of the candidate pool; evaluation of candidates by the research department; and peer When claiming the safe harbor deduction, you are allowed to take your property evaluation by practice area.” taxes and mortgage interest in full as itemized deductions on Schedule A as well as The final published list of Super Lawyers represents no more than 5 percent claiming the safe harbor deduction. On the surface this sounds like a plus, but for of the lawyers in each state. With regard to the “Rising Star” designation, the selection self-employed individuals you are effectively converting expenses that used to be on process is the same except that a “Rising Star” must be either 40 years or younger or in your Schedule C reducing self-employment taxes to itemized deductions which do not practice 10 years or less. No more than 2.5% of the lawyers in each state are selected reduce self-employment taxes, and perhaps do not even reduce income taxes if you as “Rising Stars.” do not itemize. Mr. Krasa is very appreciative of his selection by Super Lawyers. “I am very Another big difference when claiming the safe harbor deduction is that no deprecia- honored and humbled by this prestigious recognition,” said Mr. Krasa. “Even before tion expense is allowed to be taken. Traditionally, any depreciation expense taken on I passed the Bar and became an attorney, I remember seeing Super Lawyers Magazine your home is required to be recaptured at the time you sell your house, and you must pay each year and thinking that it would be an incredible achievement to be selected. Now tax on it. Even the section 121 exclusion ($250,000 tax-free gain for single/$500,000 that it has happened, it is quite surreal.” He quipped, “Now that I am part of the Super for married couples) when living in the house for two out of the last five years will not Lawyers community, perhaps I need to go shopping for a cape!” exempt you from recapture taxes. Occasionally that can produce negative results, but In addition to being selected by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star,” Mr. Krasa it is usually helpful because it often helps people avoid income AND self-employment is certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as a Legal tax which are typically higher than recapture rates. Nonetheless, I regularly see tax Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law. returns where no depreciation was taken on a home office, to "avoid recapture." This Mr. Krasa believes that his accessible, comprehensive, and friendly approach is incorrect as recapture rules require you to recapture any depreciation "allowed or sets him apart and aided in his selection as a “Rising Star.” “I believe that it is important allowable." It does not matter whether you took the deduction or not, you are techni- for attorneys to first remember that ultimately the goal is to address the needs of our cally still on the hook for the recapture. clients and to solve their problems,” said Mr. Krasa. “We are not academics in ivory One other notable exception in the 15 pages of new rules explaining the safe harbor towers discussing legal theories. Our clients have real needs and our task is to help is that carryover expenses are not allowed for safe harbor years. Ordinarily, if your them in a comfortable and understandable manner.” business produces a loss, you are not allowed to create a bigger loss from business See KRASA Page 17 See LONG Page 17

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pLONG From Page 16 pKRASA From Page 16 use of home expenses with the exception of the portion of mortgage interest, property taxes, or casualty losses which would have been allowed as itemized deductions even Mr. Krasa expressed his gratitude to his family (in particular his wife Amanda, if you had no business. The rest of the expenses get carried over to future years until his three-year-old son, Jonah Bing, and his father Peter Krasa), his staff (Marilyn Beans, you make a profit and can use the losses. Using the safe harbor, any loss generated by Caroline McMillin, and Rachel Hunter), his professional colleagues, his friends, and the safe harbor disappears forever. You would be better off in these years using actual most of all his clients for their support. “This is certainly a joint effort and although expenses in order to preserve the losses for the future. I am a solo attorney, this honor would not have been possible without scores of other At the end of the day, you might as well just continue to track the actual expenses, individuals,” said Mr. Krasa. and let your tax professional figure out which method will give you the best benefit KRASA LAW is located at 704-D Forest Avenue, PG, and Kyle can be reached at each year. 831-2240-0594. In two weeks, we will go over the basic requirements in order to claim a home office deduction. Prior articles are republished on my website at www.tlongcpa.com/blog. Did you do something outstanding? IRS Circular 230 Notice: To the extent this article concerns tax matters, it is not intended to be used and cannot be used by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding Have your peeps email our peeps! penalties that may be imposed by law. Travis H. Long, CPA is located at 706-B Forest Avenue, PG, 93950 and focuses editor@ cedarstreettimes.com on trust, estate, individual, and business taxation. He can be reached at 831-333-1041. Page18 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013 Make This a Golden Age Seniors Symphony needs volunteers The Monterey Symphony is seeking volunteers. Please call 646-8511 or visit www. The Perils Of Joint Ownership montereysymphony.org for more information.

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I often see older people with other which the son was not aware when he peoples’ names on their property as co- allowed her name to be placed on the owners. There are many reasons why title to the house. In attempting to col- an individual would add others’ names lect the woman’s tax liabilities, the IRS to the title of his or her property. Except found the recorded quit claim deed. The between spouses, joint ownership can be IRS asserted that the quit claim deed a bad idea, as illustrated by the follow- was avoidable as a fraudulent convey- ing real-life examples. ance, and asserted a nominee lien in the Our NEW reception room, café and catering options (1) Joint tenancy of a bank or house. The matter was litigated, and the mean one less thing our families need to think about. financial account facilitates embezzle- U.S. District Court held, that the mother ment. Each joint tenant to a bank ac- owned a one-half interest in the house, count has full right to make withdrawals and that the Federal tax lien against her from the account. In one case, after an attached to her interest in the house. elderly woman added her son’s name (4) Joint tenancy can produce un- as a joint tenant to her bank account, intended results. In yet another case, a mysterious withdrawals of $300-$400 brother and sister each inherited several each began appearing in the account million dollars from their mother. Each every couple of weeks. As the son was of them established a joint bank account Mission Mortuary a legal co-owner of the funds, he did in joint tenancy with right of survivor- nothing illegal in making withdrawals. ship with the other, and deposited their FUNERALS, CREMATIONS, MEMORIAL If the son was only on the account as a inheritance into the account. The years CELEBRATIONS and RECEPTIONS “convenience” to the mother, then she went by. The brother and sister became should have properly added him only estranged, and developed hostility to- 450 CAMINO DEL ESTERO as a “signatory” and not as an account ward one another. On his death bed, the owner. brother executed a will bequeathing all MONTEREY (2) Once a person’s name is added of his property to his wife. But the bank to the title of property, it can be undone account was not part of the brother’s 831-375-4129 only with his or her consent. In another estate. By reason of the survivorship FD 814 case, after a woman’s husband died, she provision, the bank account passed to the added her two sons’ names to the title sister by operation of law. of her house. When the woman was dying, and getting her affairs in order, These scenarios illustrate the possi- she concluded that one son did not need ble unintended consequences of creating the house, and attempted to remove his joint tenancy ownership interests without name from it. He balked and court later consulting an attorney. It is natural and held that placing the sons’ names on the often desirable to have our loved ones “Dad Couldn’t Remember How Totitle Get to the propertyHome.” was a completed gift assist us with our finances as we age, but to each of them, and their names could we need to do so in a prudent way that An estimated 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer’sbe removed disease. from the property only with ensures that we still have control over their consent. our assets during our lifetime and can The number of Americans with Alzheimer’s has more(3) Property than doubled held in joint tenancy leave assets to our chosen beneficiaries since 1980. is immediately subject to claims of each under a valid Will or Trust. joint tenant’s creditors. In yet another The number of Americans with Alzheimer’s diseasecase, a man will bought continue a house and rented it Susan L. Alexander is a local estate to his mother. Their names were on the planning and elder law attorney with of- to grow — by 2050 the number of individualstitle with to theAlzheimer’s house as joint tenants. Later fices in Pacific Grove. She is a passionate could range from 11.3 million to 16 million. the woman attempted to quit claim her advocate for seniors and their families interest in the house to the son. It turned and is a member of the National Academy lexander Half of all nursing home residents have Alzheimer’sout that thedisease woman or had long-standing, of Elder Law Attorneys. Susan can be substantial Federal tax liabilities of law office, p.c. a related disorder. reached at 644-0300. ACompassion • Care • Commitment A person with Alzheimer’s disease will live an average of eight years and as many as 20 years or more from the onset of symptoms. The average cost for nursing home care is over $50,000 per year but can exceed $70,000. oncentrating on legal counseling, (Source for all statistics: Alzheimer’s Association, assistancewww.alz.org) and advocacy for seniors. The answers to the legal and financial challenges posed by Alzheimer’s disease can only be answered on an individual basis by an attorney whose practice is Elder Law practice areas: Long-Term Care Issues concentrated on elder law, Medi-Cal planning, and estate planning. Special Needs Planning Powers Of Attorney Early 20th Century Handpainted At the Alexander Law Office, we provide the honest ways to protect your home, Medi-Cal Planning For Skilled Nursing Benefits European Console, excellent condition loved ones and independence. Guardianships and Conservatorships 50”W x 20” D x 38 1/˝ H Healthcare Decision Making 1 Elder Abuse and Neglect 19th Century French Urn, artist signed, 22 /˝ H Qualify for Medi-Cal Sooner! 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Rabia Erduman was born in Istan- We are raised in a very judgmental bul, Turkey and later spent 10 years in culture: “Once a mistake, always a mis- Germany before arriving in the United take.” States in 1983. All our lives we have been told How about the other way - when your Growing up, you have learned very Rabia is an Alchemical Hypno- this lie, which has created deep tension friend was late and didn’t contact you? young that mistakes are bad, that you therapist, Craniosacral Therapist, Polarity about making a mistake. The truth is that Same procedure. Imagine looking at should not be making any mistakes, Therapist, and a Reiki Master. She assists mistakes are natural. As human beings, your friend and say, “You were late to our and you will be punished if you make her clients and students in their process of we very likely will make mistakes when appointment, and didn’t contact me. This a mistake. Imagine the tension that this self-discovery. Rabia also teaches Tantric learning something new. Imagine you are was a mistake. I forgive you.” conditioning has created in you, your and spiritually oriented workshops. raised in the United States, and as a teen- As a child we were trained to take mind, your body, your nervous system Rabia is the author of Veils of Separa- ager have learned how to drive. Then, one things personally. When someone made a as the innocent child that you were back tion - Finding the Face of Oneness, and has day, you find yourself in a car in London, mistake that affected us, we learned to be- then. As that child you didn’t have choice four guided imagery CDs: “Relaxation,” England. Obviously you don’t know how lieve that we aren’t good enough, we don’t but to believe what you were told by the “Meditation,” “Chakra Meditation,” and to drive on the opposite side of the road. It deserve good things. As an adult today, grown ups, the “authorities” in your life. “Inner Guides.” is natural that it will take you some time to step into the knowing that you are lovable, Remember going home from school She has also been interviewed on ra- learn this new skill, and that you will make good enough, you have equal rights with after an important test, not knowing dio and television shows and has lectured some mistakes along the way. all adults, and mistakes happen. That your whether you are going to get a good grade extensively throughout the years. When we realize we made a mistake, friend in our example was late had nothing or a bad grade? You knew your mom, To those wishing to understand her apologizing is the key. A simple and clear to do with you. She/he got stuck in his/her your dad were going to ask how the test work, she says, “I have found working “I’m sorry” clears the air between you and trauma pattern from childhood condition- went. The tension in your body, the fear, with the combination of mind, body, emo- the person or people involved. ing and made a mistake by not letting you insecurity, doubt you had to repress and tions, and energy to be highly effective in Look at your life, find any mistakes know. You both are equally good enough couldn’t share with them. reaching optimum balance. My life and you have made that included other people and lovable. And at times, when you did get a bad work are about being in the moment, free in your life. Chose one situation, imagine You are not supposed to be grade, going home with the fear of getting of fear and the feeling of separation. Deep that person in front of you. Then, simply perfect. Perfection does not exist, is not judged, getting punished for it. Having to joy is a natural expression of this process.” apologize for the mistake you have made. a natural state. Mistakes do happen. Real- hold back your true feelings, pretend to be For example: “I was 30 minutes late to our okay. How sad... appointment and didn’t let you know. I’m You are raised in a culture that be- sorry.” No excuses needed. This simple lieves in “You are what you do. You do apology is an acknowledgment that you Transform your negative beliefs. . . something bad, you are bad. You do some- both are equal adults, having equal rights, thing good, you are good,” which is a lie. and you made a mistake. transform your life.

Rabia Erduman, CHT, CMP, RPP, CST Pacific Grove Poetry Collective celebrates Author of Veils of Separation 831-277-9029 www.wuweiwu.com Transpersonal Hypnotherapy • Reiki The Poetry of Pumi Craniosacral Therapy • Polarity Therapy Nervous System Healing • Trauma Release Saturday CDs: Chakra Meditation, Relaxation, Meditation, Inner Guides Dance, when you're broken open. August 3, 2013 Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. 4-6 PM Dance in your blood. The Little House Dance when you're perfectly free. - Rumi Jewel Park, Central between Grand & Forest

Bring something to read share your thoughts or just come to listen as we celebrate. There will be a reading in the poet’s native Farsi and a presentation by our Poet In Residence, Dr. Barbara Mossberg. As space is limited please reserve at 831-658-0663.

The event will kick off Pacific Grove’s monthly interactive poetry forum set for the first Saturday of each month. The second event is set for September 7 when we will explore the works of Gary Snyder. Free/donation. Page 20 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013 Summer’s Bounty May Mean Summer Surplus Refrigerator Dill Pickles and Chow Chow From Your Garden (Or the Neighbor’s) Neil Jameson You can do this same recipe with In the old days, the City of San Jose string beans, green tomatoes, zucchini purchased an entire city block in each of and a few other vegetables with the same various neighborhoods and built a fire- degree of success. Cut or quarter whatever house on the corner (for easy egress) and The Retired vegetable you’ve chosen so that the brine/ then a police substation, and on the other pickling solution will act on them in the corner a library. So most of the fire sta- Firehouse Cook two days. Using red onions or red peppers tions and libraries happened, but the police will add color to the jar. substations never did. The fire fighters then If you want to break it down into made vegetable gardens out of the police quart jars or smaller, it’s easy to do by just substation lots. The flavor of a vine-ripened, organic style. Here is a recipe for refrigerator dill proportioning out the vegetables and brine. Eventually, they were turned into tomato is unbeatable by anything a grocery veggies: community gardens where everyone got a store can offer. Do you ever get up the morning after small plot and could grow fresh, organic But what do you do with all of this a barbecue and wonder what to do with the vegetables for their home use. I saw them Refrigerator dill veggies excess produce? Pickling and canning For the firehouse I would use a one leftover corn on the cob? Reheated it’s not as more of a social gathering and a place is the solution of course. The common gallon jar very good, if you ask me. to exchange ideas and produce, a great ingredients of these gardens always led to Ingredients: My mom used to make picalilli and “modern” version of the World War II salsa or dill pickles, which leads into the 3 lbs. cucumbers (approx.) serve it as a relish, sometimes with fish in- “victory gardens.” Everyone got a plot and subject of this column. 1 head of garlic, peeled and smooshed stead of tartar sauce (a biggie in the 50’s). could grow whatever they wanted, within Most all fresh produce can be pick- large handful of fresh dill (available in Stand your leftover corn on the cob on end reason. The barter system thrived. And of led – green beans (“dilly beans”), green the produce department if you didn’t and cut it from the cob. Leftover grilled course, there was always an overabun- tomatoes, either in the traditional can- grow any) corn on the cob is great. In the absence of dance of zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, ning process or my favorite – refrigerator 1 white or yellow onion, cut into eighths corn, use the canned variety. and peppers. 10 jalapenos (optional) (amount to be You can vary the “heat” by removing determined by your personal taste) the seeds from the jalapeño or leaving it 4 Tbsp. coriander seeds out entirely. Central Coast Artists exhibit 4 Tbsp. peppercorns Central Coast Art Association artists a wide array of vivid images in various 4 Tbsp. sugar Picalilli (Chow Chow) Ingredients Lynn Ackerman, Rhett Owings and Peter media including watercolor, acrylic, oil, 5 Tbsp. kosher (sea) salt 1 cup white wine vinegar Parker will host a reception to exhibit pastel and ink. The exhibit is open from 4 cups white vinegar 1/2 cup sugar and offer their work from 5 to 7 p.m. on 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday 4 c. distilled water (Pacific Grove water 1/2 cup water Friday, August 2 at the Sally Griffin Center at the center through September 6, and is has too much chlorine in it to make good 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt at 700 Jewell Avenue near Lovers Point. sponsored by the Central Coast Art As- pickles) 1/4 teaspoon black peppercorns, crushed Refreshments will be served. Admission sociation. For further information, contact Directions: 1 bay leaf is free and open to the public. Harry Wareham at harrywareham@com- Sterilize the jar and lid and let them 1 1/2 cups fresh corn kernels (about 2 ears) Together, these three artists present cast.net or 372-2841. air dry. 1 cup diced red bell pepper Add all the veggies to the gallon jar 1/2 cup diced green tomato as you go along. Quarter the cucumbers 1/2 cup diced tomatillo lengthwise. Peel and smoosh the garlic 1/2 c. shredded cabbage cloves. Add the dill to the jar. Slice the 3 tablespoons minced green onions peppers in half lengthwise and add to the 2 tablespoons minced jalapeño pepper jar. In a pan or a bowl, combine coriander Directions seeds, peppercorns, sugar, salt, vinegar and 1. Place the spices, vinegar, sugar and water. Stir until the salt dissolves. water (all but the vegetables) in a medium Pour the brine mixture over the veg- saucepan; bring to a boil. Add corn and the gies in the jar and tap or shake to make sure remaining ingredients; simmer 15 minutes. the cucumbers are covered with liquid. Remove and discard bay leaf. Serve chow Put the lid on the jar tightly and place it chow chilled or at room temperature. in the refrigerator for 48 hours, shaking You can also do the quickest pickles “Old Potato Boat” – occasionally or at least turning it upside ever by saving the juice from the last jar ink by Lynn Ackerman down a few times. of Vlasics and filling it with cucumber or Voila! The pickles are probably ready zucchini spears. My new favorite brand: after two days and should last for a month, Mt. Olive at Safeway. There’s the added refrigerated, if you don’t eat them all right attraction of the jar being ready to go, too. away. “Yellow Roses I” – acrylic by Peter Parker

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If I hadn’t given them all away as hostess gifts and barbecue contributions, this is what my refrigerator dills would look like, only in a larger jar. July 26, 2013 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 21

Film at Peace Center WACMB Discussion Based on the 1976 novel by Manuel Group on ‘Arab Spring’ Puig, The Kiss of the Spider Woman (El World Affairs Council of Monterey Beso de la Mujer Arana) is a drama direct- Bay will discuss "Revisiting the Arab The Carmel Valley Kiwanis Club proudly hosts ed by Hector Babenco, written in Spanish. Spring…Egypt, Syria, and Beyond." Jailed for immoral behavior in Bra- The discussion group is free to the the zil, Molina — a flamboyant homosexual public. It will be held Mon., Aug. 12 at played by William Hurt — passes his time 4 p.m., MPC Room 102, Social Science 24th annual Carmel Valley Fiesta be detailing scenes of favorite romantic Building, 980 Fremont St., Monterey. films for his cellmate, a serious political Lead by moderator Larry Johnson. Park- activst. The cellmate, Arregui, is played ing $2 in Lot D. www.wacmb.org by Raul Julia, the famous Puerto Rican July 26 actor. He is at first disgusted with Molina but slowly the two form a bond based on WACMB Luncheon “Golf Tournament for Champions” mutual understanding and respect. Carmel Valley Ranch Golf Club The film ends dramatically, at a time Lecture: ‘Egypt’ Proceeds benefit Kiwanis Youth Scholarship Fund when Brazil was in political uproar. "Egypt Against Itself: Officers, The film will be shown at the Peace Islamists, and ‘Liberals’ in an Un- Center 1364 Fremont, Seaside from 7-9 stable Menage à Trois" is the subject p.m. (doors open at 6:30). Admission free/ of a lecture at World Affairs Council of Friday, August 2 donations welcome. Gratis/Donaciones Monterey Bay on Wed., Aug. 21 at 11:30 apreciados. For more information call a.m. - 2 p.m. The event will be held at Hoopla BBQ 899-7322 or 375-7754. Rancho Canada Golf Club, 4860 Carmel Carmel Valley Trail & Saddle Club Valley Road, Carmel. Music: John Michael from 6:00 – 7:30 pm The Egyptian army has deposed Tony Seton to the elected president, Mohamed Morsi, John Sherry & Laura Price Band (RUST & Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been ROSEWOOD) from 7:30 – 9:30 pm speak at Double arrested, and an interim technocrat government is being formed. NPS Proceeds benefit CHS Scholarships Nickels lunch Professor Robert Springborg, Depart- Tickets available through the CV Kiwanis Members Award-winning journalist Tony Seton ment of National Security Affairs, will CV Business Service, Meg’s Chevron, will be guest speaker at Episcopal Church highlight the roles of the military and of the Good Shepherd’s “Double Nickels the Muslim Brotherhood. The Professor and Do Re Mi Music. Plus” lunch and lecture from noon to 1:30 was formerly the Director of the Middle p.m. Wednesday, August 14 , at 301 Corral East Institute in London, Director of the de Tierra Road, Salinas. American Research Center in Egypt, and Saturday August 3 Seton has conducted more than 2,500 a Middle East consultant to USAID and interviews over his 40-year career and cur- the United Nations. Carmel Valley Fiesta rently writes profiles for the Carmel Pine RSVP by August 16. Auditors (lec- Community Park – Carmel Valley Rd just past Ford Rd Cone in his regular column “Great Lives.” ture only) free at 12:50 p.m. Luncheon “Double Nickel Plus” is a regularly- $25 Members and $35 Non-members. Pancake Breakfast • 8:00 am scheduled activity for those 55 and older. MC/VISA($2 extra) or Check; veg- Rave Reviewed Fiesta Classic Car Show, Suggested donation is $5 but not required. etarian meal optional. RSVP (831) 643- For information call 484-2153 or visit 1855. Registration: www.wacmb.org Kid’s Games, Art & Crafts, Food Booths, goodshepherdcorral.org. and the Carmel Valley Kiwanis Train Music: International Film Festival to Bryon Diamond Solo 10:00 – 11:30 am Inbetween 12:00 – 2:00 pm Feature Documentary Films The John Michael Band 2:30 – 6:00 pm The 14th Annual International Film country. In addition to the film festival and Festival, presented by the Monterey Bay other community events, it has held two Chapter of the United Nations Associa- successful Adopt-a-Minefield Campaigns tion, will be held Friday through Sunday, for Bosnia and Afghanistan and works Sunday, August 4 November 1 – 3. As in past years, the with student groups at various local high festival will screen diverse international schools, colleges and graduate schools. Fiesta Continues documentary films, all designed to raise UNA-USA is one of the country’s largest Ever Popular Dog Show • Registration 10:30 awareness and to educate and mobilize grassroots foreign policy organizations, the community about critical global issues. and a leading center of policy research Begins 12:00! All sessions will take place in the on the United Nations. It is a nonprofit, Continuing with music and all the featured Golden State Theatre at 417 Alvarado in nonpartisan group designed to educate downtown Monterey. More information Americans of every age about critical is- activities about the festival will be made available at: sues tackled by the U.N. With a national Music: Vibe Tribe 10:00 – 12:00 www.unamontereybay.org under “Future membership of thousands and more than Events.” 100 affiliated organizations, UNA-USA Ike & Martin 12:30 – 2:30 The Monterey Bay Chapter of UNA sponsors programs and events designed Casey Frazer Band 3:00 – 5:00 is an all-volunteer organization of more to encourage participation in global issues. than 700 members and is one of the larg- For more information please visit www. est and most active UNA chapters in the unamontereybay.org. The Fiesta concludes with the raffle grand prize drawing for a week’s vacation in Hawaii on the island of Molokai or $1,500 Abandoned Musical in cash, winner’s choice. Instruments Requested All proceeds are returned to the Community in a variety of ways through the to Loan to Students Dixieland Monterey is introducing a new program, the Instrument Res- CV Kiwanis Foundation. cue Project, to collect, repair and recondition donated instruments to benefit aspiring music students in the Monterey area. Music teachers in Monterey Peninsula schools have been asked to identify aspiring, worthy junior and For more information and event forms senior high music students who can only participate in music programs if please visit there is an instrument to borrow. Persons with an instrument to donate may send an email to [email protected] with a description and photo www.cvkclub.org or call 644-6180 if possible, or call 659-0436. Once the donation has been confirmed, pick-up will be arranged and documentation provided. Instrument donations are tax-deductible, as allowed by law. President Doug Pinkham stresses “Music Come enjoy some fun in the sun! lovers who don’t have an instrument to donate but love the idea, may make a donation to help pay for the instrument rehab.” Call 659-0436 for more information. Dazzling, young, internationally acclaimed jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding got her musical start at a very young age with an instrument loaned to her through such a program. The goal is to refurbish instruments for the start of the 2013-2014 school year. Page 22 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 26, 2013 The Green Page

Healthy Plants + Beneficial Bugs = Happy Gardeners Pesky Business : Part 1 messed with, as seen in the childhood soccer match. Sowbugs, however, will not. When a sowbug molts, their shell will turn a lovely shade of purple blue. The butterfly, a cabbage-white, Dana Goforth Like earwigs, they will chew around the (His honest idiocy of flight) edge of a young leaf or munch through Will never now, it is too late, fruit on the ground. Master the art of flying straight. Diggin’ It Control: Make sure it is actually one of these scaly creatures that is causing - - - Robert Graves the damage. Often times, they will begin feeding on fruit that a snail or slug has taken the first bite out of. As with con- I’m a passionate advocate of the artemisia family, including wormwood place such as under garden debris or trolling the earwigs, clean debris from least harmful methods to control plant- or southernwood, or any of the thyme dense foliage. If that doesn’t work, a the garden and raise all vegetables off munching pests in the garden. Least or mint families. For a more localized shallow dish filled with about ¼” veg- the ground. Because they need moisture harmful means not killing them either protection, soak cotton balls in lavender etable oil and left over night might catch to survive, water early in the day to by a search-and-destroy method or by oil or tie lavender flowers in a bundle them. Another old standby is a damp, avoid damp soil overnight. Spreading the use of toxic chemicals. A really, and suspend them from sticks placed loosely rolled newspaper left close to food grade diatomaceous earth around really good garden can be balanced near the infected plant. where you’ve seen them. Toss it into the seedlings, especially peas and beans, with healthy plants and happy bugs that Natural Predators: The chalcid recycle bin every couple of days and may also prevent destruction. provide beneficial services. It takes dili- wasp (Pteromalus puparum) on the pupa replace it with another one. Natural Predators: Precocious and gence and patience to make it all come and trichogramma, or stingless wasps, Natural Predators: There has been creative seven-year-olds. together. . . and an understanding of on eggs; both are available online. Or, some success with a parasitic fly, but it’s what the little buggers actually to. like Alice, try a butterfly net! not a reliable means to control earwigs. Flies As I was writing this column and Little White Cabbage Moth Earwigs Sowbugs and Pillbugs wondering if I should include a section My 85 year-young friend, Alice, Honestly, I’ve met more people “Roly-Polies” were fun to play with on flies, a notice popped up on Face- has an amazing, organic garden. Noth- scared of these little suckers than of as a kid. Pester them until they roll into ing, I mean, nothing, in a spray bottle most any other common garden bug. a perfect ball (they stun easily), then gets near her veggies. When she recently Perhaps it’s the old wives tale that flick them through a goal post made of had a problem with little white cabbage earwigs will crawl into your ear and twigs. Bobby Travis’s pet hamster was moths, she whipped out her trusty but- bore into your brain. Despite their fero- the goalie. It was great fun until the roly- terfly net and chased them through the cious appearance, there has never been poly unfurled its armadillo-like body and cabbage patch. When she caught one, a report of an earwig attack on a human. disappeared into the grass. The hamster she squished it -- vicious, but effective. was fairly useless as a The white cabbage moth itself is not the goalie, too. problem; it’s their caterpillar offspring Not only are pillbugs that munch through young leaves. entertaining, but they are The white cabbage moth, Pieris also beneficial to the garden rapae, is actually a butterfly that was in much the same way as book: a Natural Fly Deterrent method introduced to the United States in the earwigs. Sowbugs, (porcel- with numerous testimonials was shared mid-1800s from Europe. Now, it is lio laevis / p. scaber), and by a friend. Place four pennies in a clear, common throughout the states. While pillbugs, (Armadillidium zip lock bag and partially fill with water. nasturtium is a common host plant, the vulgare), are not insects but Hang this near a window or door that cabbage moth, as its name says, prefers are the only crustaceans the flies prefer and they will not come the members of the brassica family. that live outside the water. inside. Sounds interesting. Let me know These include many common greens Similar to their aquatic if it works…. such as cabbage, broccoli, kale, and brethren -- crabs, shrimps, Brussels sprouts, which are abundant Earwigs get their name from an old An- and crayfish -- they are bottom-feeders in Alice’s garden. I’ve also had several glo Saxon word earwicga, which means of the garden and important in breaking Pesky Business, Part 2 will discuss buddleja (or buddleia) plants become “ear creature.” When people actually down organic matter. They will, howev- snail and slug control. infested with the cabbage-white’s cater- slept on the floor or on straw mattresses, er, eat fruit or vegetables that rest on the pillars, almost to the point of complete this may have contributed to the myth. ground, such as strawberries, pumpkins, decimation. Despite common belief, earwigs and zucchinis. During heavy watering or Dana Goforth lives in Pacific Grove Identification: The cabbage moth (Forficula auricularia) are actually ben- rains, the bugs will move from debris to with 5 long haired cats and an awesome worm chews on plant leaves causing eficial to the garden. As night foragers, fruit in a heartbeat. In cool, moist, and vacuum cleaner. She is a writer, artist, large, irregular holes. It also bores into they eat aphids, mites, and eggs of other foggy weather, they will thrive in any and gardener. Her latest book, Hollow the heads of vegetables and leaves dark, insect larva as well as tender plants. type of garden. fecal pellets. It’s about 1 1/4” long, Reed Reiki I, was published last year. They are scavengers who feast on decay- Identification: Pillbugs and sowbugs You can find out more about Dana at fuzzy, and light green with a faint yellow ing organic matter but are also known to are fairly indistinguishable from one www.danagoforth.com. stripe down the back and sides. (Not to eat flower petals. Similar to earthworms, another, unless of course you are one. be confused with the inch-worm [Tricho- earwigs add nutrients to the soil during Pillbugs will roll into a tiny ball when plusia ni], which is smaller and has a their lifecycle. distinctive looping movement. Its feed- Identification: Unless you believe ing habits are similar to the pieris and that migrant crustaceans have emerged may be controlled in a similar fashion.) from the bay, earwigs are pretty distinc- Deterrents: Most strong aromatic tive with their forceps-like pinchers at herbs planted throughout the garden will the rear of their small, brown bodies. deter the white cabbage moth. Try the They may chew around the edges of delicate leaves or leave irregular holes between the veins. Controls: First, be certain that any damage is indeed caused by an earwig; they often are blamed for other insect damage. By making sure to mulch with a nutrient- rich compost, earwigs will forage on this rather than on the young seedlings. Their preferred habitat is any cool, dark, moist July 26, 2013 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 23

Hopkins Marine Publishes Study on Great White Shark Feeding Habits Great white sharks rely on food from coastal California to fuel long migrations

By Skyler Lewis

Great white sharks spend the warm months along the coast of California, feeding on elephant seals and other prey. Come winter, they migrate out to the subtropical ocean waters between Baja California and Hawaii in journeys reaching 2,500 miles each way. We once assumed that these sharks, formidable predators as they are, feed throughout their migratory journey through the open Pacific Ocean. But a team at Pacific Grove’s Hopkins Marine Station, including lead author Gen Del Raye who began studying great white swim patterns as an undergraduate summer intern, just proved that this is not the case. To fuel their journey, great white sharks rely in- stead on fats and oils stored in their livers. Fats and oils are dense in energy and can be made in the body from any food. While tagging migrating great white sharks to measure their swim pattern over time, the researchers determined that the sharks sink faster in the water later on over their migration course. (As sharks travel, they periodically stop actively swimming and glide through the water, sinking slightly as they go.) Because fats and oils are less dense than water and help sharks stay afloat, these results indicate that the sharks deplete their liver oil stores over the course of Gen Del Raye studied the swimming patterns of this young great white shark, which stayed in the Mon- the migration, burning it as fuel instead of relying on terey Bay Aquarium for 4 and a half months before being released back into the ocean. Photo by Alan Moore, feeding and foraging during their journey. The linear Creative Commons path taken by the sharks once away from shore also suggests that they do not take time to search for food during their travels. determine fat and oil stores in the liver. Great whites rely on intact ecoystems in Monterey Del Raye also looked at the movements of a cap- The study, entitled “Travelling Light” and pub- Bay in order to find the food necessary to fuel their tive young great white who lived at the Monterey Bay lished in the London journal Proceedings of the Royal winter migration journey. Thanks to this new research, Aquarium for four-and-a-half months in 2006 to 2007. Society B, not only furthers our understanding of the we now understand the great extent that local harbor The regulated feeding conditions in the tank allowed physiology of the great white shark, but also empha- seals, sea lions, and elephant seals — and the environ- him to calculate how the shark’s buoyancy changed as sizes the importance of our coastal region to the shark’s ment in which they live — are key to the survival of it fed, and showed that buoyancy can indeed be used to survival. the great white shark. Save Our Shores Seeks Beach Captains for September Cleanup Save Our Shores is seeking beach and river site on Coastal Cleanup Day to set up, sign-in volun- out http://saveourshores.org/acc. cleanup captains for the largest cleanup of the year, An- teers and hand out materials. Over the last 30 years, SOS has been locally nual Coastal Cleanup Day.in Santa Cruz and Monterey SOS will host a brief training Thursday, August 29 responsible for key accomplishments such as helping to counties, to help expand this effort to over 80 local from 6-8 p.m. at Simpkins Swim Center in Santa Cruz establish the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, beach, river and inland sites. and a soon-to-be announced location in Monterey to preventing offshore oil drilling and cruise ship pollu- Annual Coastal Cleanup Day is one of the big- go over logistics, hand out materials and talk about the tion and bringing together diverse stakeholders to find gest volunteer events in the world, and site captains significance of the event. common solutions to ocean issues. Today the group’s play a very important role. Site captains maximize the Contact Marina Maze by Aug. 1 at marina@ focus is on educating youth about local watersheds, volunteer efforts of thousands of people. They guide saveourshores.org with a first and second beach or river tackling marine debris on our beaches and rivers and volunteers in safely participating in the cleanup while site choices and contact information. For a refresher on supporting habitat conservation efforts. For more infor- collecting valuable data. Captains arrive early to their Monterey or Santa Cruz County cleanup sites, check mation visit www.saveourshores.org or call 462-5660. The Green Page is sponsored this week by:

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