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Kiosk In This Issue • Fri. July 3 Relocation Celebration Butterfly Gift Shop 623 A Lighthouse 6-9 PM with first Friday • Fri. July 3 First Friday Downtown Pacific Grove 11-3 • Free • 4th of July 4th of July Festivities - 4 & 5 Kicked Out - Page 10 Once Upon a Time - Page 15 Hometown Celebration at Caledonia Park • Free • Pacific Grove’s Fri., Sat., Sun. July 10-12 Annual St. Mary’s Antique Show Lawn: Free $8 admission $12 Lunch Music, Silent Auction, Food, Demos, Tours, Plants 831-373-4441 • Sat. July 11-12 Times Once On this Island Jr. Play at PG Middle School July 3-9, 2015 Your Community NEWSpaper Vol. VII, Issue 42 $10 General Seniors, Children <5 $5 Sat. 2 PM & 7 PM Thank you! Mural at Forest Grove Sun. 2 PM • Same-Sex Sat. July 11 Hootenanny Marriage Ruling PG Art Center 568 Lighthouse Ave. Celebrated in 7-9:30 PM • Pacific Grove Sat. July 11 The United States Supreme Court ruled Car Show on the Wharf that marriage is an institution that should be Benefits Monterey Food Bank Free to the public accessible to all people, regardless of their $50 to enter sexual orientation. The Supreme Court ruled 831-899-2766 in favor of gay marriage by a vote of five • to four and made it legal in all 50 states on Sat. July 11 June 26, 2015. Open House at MBARI Gay marriage was legalized in Califor- Free, Noon-5 PM nia on June 17, 2008. Moss Landing Adrianne Jonson married her partner, Family Fun & Learning Sandy Hamm, that very day. She took with http://www.mbari.org/about/ her two witnesses and an officiant to the openhouse.html courthouse in hopes she and Sandy could • get married as soon as possible. They got Sat. July 18 to the Salinas courthouse around 9:15 that Fashions of the Feast morning and were married under a tree Boutique + Vintage Feast of Lanterns Fashions outside the courthouse. Adrianne and Sandy Asilomar were the first same-sex couple to be married Noon • $25 in Monterey County. • Their photos graced the front pages of Sun. July 19 Forest Grove Elementary School has a new mural, visible when driving on newspapers such as the Salinas Californian, Singing Bowls: Congress toward David. The artist who painted it, Sandy Sanjurjo tells us. “We the Monterey County Weekly and the Mon- A Concert for your Soul recently moved from San Jose to Pacific Grove in February of this year. My son, terey Herald. 7PM Julian, has Aspergers. The first day he attended TK [Transitional Kindergarten] Adrianne said the day after they got Center for Spiritual Awakening, at Forest Grove, he was provided special assistance. Within a week we had a married, they received a card from the Cham- 522 Central Ave, Pacific Grove meeting to discuss his needs and how the staff would rise to the challenge. In a ber of Commerce that was signed by all the $25 advance $30 at the door few short months, with the help of a full-time aid and occupational therapy, my volunteers and officials that worked there. 831-372-2971 “People brought us flowers and they • son was making friends and writing, two things I had desperately hoped for. His Wed. July 22 progress and transformation has been astonishing. The materials for the mural were really excited for us,” Adrianne said. Feast of Lanterns were funded by the generous Forest Grove PTA, and my labor was my gift to the They were also the grand marshals of Opening Ceremonies school, in thanks for helping to unleash my child’s potential.” the Salinas gay pride parade. + Happy Birthday PG The ability for same-sex couples to Cautauqua Hall marry was later repealed by Proposition 8, Noon, Free which was passed on November 4, 2008 by • All The News That Fits, We Print a vote of 52 percent. Pacific Grove voted We post as many as five new stories on our website every day. If you don’t get our Wed. July 22 overwhelmingly against Prop 8, by a vote Facebook updates or our bulletins which go to subscribers, you might want to think Dine Out with Friends of 5893 to 2691. about checking our website now and then. We print on Fridays and distribute to more Benefits Friends Adrianne said she and Sandy protest- than 150 sites. Please see www.cedarstreettimes.com of the Library ed and got very involved in opposing the Fishwife proposition. 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See LUNCHES Page 18 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 3, 2015 Joan Skillman PMARRIAGE From Page 1 Prop. 8 was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge on August 4, 2010. The Supreme Court ruled against a part of 1996’s Defense of Marriage Act in June Skillshots 2013. This act defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. The ruling struck down this exclusively heterosexual interpretation and gave same-sex couples access to all the federal benefits of marriage, such as taxation and federal employee health insurance, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Adrianne said that it was after this she and Sandy were able to file taxes together for the first time, despite having already been married five years. The Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage in all 50 states made marriage an institution that is available to all people. “It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right,” Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the opinion of the court. President Obama spoke in support of the ruling shortly after the court announced its decision. “Today, we can say in no uncertain terms that we have made our union a little more perfect,” the president said in his speech. Even though California had already legalized gay marriage before this ruling, the Supreme Court’s decision is a monumental step, Adrianne said. “It’s a triumph for human rights, a triumph for gay rights and a triumph for hu- manity,” Adrianne said. Taylor Rhyne, a graduate of Pacific Grove High School, served as both vice pres- ident and president of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance. Rhyne said the high school was initially pretty close-minded and there was blatant bullying of both students and teachers. She was amazed by how much of an impact the group made after her friend started it. “It was really nice how the school took to it and it was really nice to be a part of it,” Rhyne said. Adrianne said she has spoken to the Gay-Straight Alliance at Pacific Grove High School and said she enjoyed seeing how accepting the students were. The Rev. Richard Leslie of St. Mary’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church said the court’s stance has not changed the Episcopal definition of marriage, which is exclusively be- tween a man and a woman. Rev. Leslie said there is a possibility that the definition might change, but it has not yet. While St. Mary’s will not perform same-sex marriages, Rev. 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