Kiosk In This Issue The count of the monarchs as of 10/22/14 is 3,200. Check the Museum website for the most recent count information: http://www.pgmuseum.org/ monarchs#monarchcount Sat. Oct. 25 Science Saturday: Spiders & Snakes 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Witches Brew- Page 7 Art Walk Finale - Page 14 My Career as a DJ - Page 18 PG Museum of Natural History • Sat. Oct. 25 Read-A-Thon Noon - 10:00 PM PG Public Library Pacific Grove’s $1/Hour Sponsirship Sign Up at the Library • Sat. Oct. 25 DowntownTrick or Treat 10 AM - 4 PM Downtown Pacific Grove No Cost • Sun. Oct.26 Times Jonathon Lee 10 Year Memorial October 24-30, 2014 Your Community NEWSpaper Vol. VII, Issue 7 Piano Concert With Pianist Michael Martinez Lovers Point Park, PG 2:00 – 4:00 PM Halloween Decorations: Or are they? FREE EVENT • Tue. Oct. 28 Spiders Lecture by Richrd J. Adams PG Museum of Natural History 7 PM Free to members $5 public • Tues. Nov. 4 “End-of-Campaign Community Celebration” 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm Masonic Lodge, 130 Congress Ave, PG Hosted jointly by the Mayor and all Council Candidates • Fri. & Sat. Nov. 7 & 8 Carmel Orchid Society Fall Orchid Festival Residents on Buena Vista can be relied upon to go all out for Halloween...or are they like that all year? These images, sent Community Church by Bruce Cowan, are in the 1000 block. On Saturday, October 25, children accompanied by adults are invited to trick-or-treat Free Admission downtown, where merchants will be on hand to give out treats. The downtown has been decorated in fall regalia with lively 831-625-1565 scarecrows, pumpkins and foddershocks on display. • Sat. Nov. 8 St Marys Bazaar 146 12th St., PG 9 AM - 3 PM Arts & crafts Lunch and Bake Sake City’s Local • All The News That Fits, We Print Tue. Nov. 11 There are stories that only appear online due to space considerations and stories Veterans’ Muster so hot they have to go out and not wait for the print version. We print on Fridays and Water Project Pt. Pinos Lighthouse distribute to more than 150 sites. Please see www.cedarstreettimes.com and which 10:30 AM which category these stories belong in: The City Honors Its Veterans on Target to • Joan Fontaine leaves an estate for SPCA for Monterey County Fri. Nov. 14 Shoe Dinner Dance and Auction The Clark Foundation Awards $20,000 in Fellowships Replace Some Chautauqua Hall Carmel to Celebrate its Birthday Oct. 25 Cocktails 6:00, Dinner 8:00 The Panetta Institute Announces Recipients of Fifteenth Annual Cal-Am water Followed by dancing Currently, the City of Pacific Grove's Info: (831) 236-5257 Jefferson-Lincoln Awards To Be Awarded On Sat. November 8 demands for irrigation for the Municipal or (831) 521-3045 Cop log 9/13/14 – 9/19/14 Golf Links and the El Carmel Cemetery have • been met using potable water from Califor- Sat. Nov. 15 Suspect Arrested by Monterey PD for Multiple Vehicle Thefts Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County Launches Adopt-A-Fam- nia American Water Company (Cal-Am) Hootenanny The City has been seeking its own sources PG ArtCenter ily for the 2014 Holiday Season 7-9:30 PM to relieve cost of and dependence on Cal- Free Sellout Event: Flavors of Pacific Grove Am, especially as Cal-Am approaches the Vic Selby, 375-6141 “The Servant of Two Masters” awaits at Pac Rep deadline of a Cease-And-Desist order with no project of its own having broken ground. Pac Rep presents Monterey Bay HarvestFest Arts & Crafts Faire There has been significant progress in Swimming with the sharks planning and engineering a recycled water Inside Carmel will hold a public workshop on pilot parking project project, known as the City of Pacific Grove 100 Years Ago in Pacific Grove ........... 6 Master of the mbira celebrates melody, harmony in African music Local Water Project. Phase I of the Local Animal Tales Water Project will replace dependence on & Other Random Thoughts ................ 8 at CSUMB Concert Cal-Am for approximately 125 acre-feet / Cartoon ........................................... 10 Cop Log .................................... Online Water Mgmt. Dist. Launches Water Conservation Ed. Initiative year (0.25 million gallons per day) of irri- Diggin’ It ........................................... 7 Commotion in the Ocean! Carmel’s Sand Castle Contest gation demands with non-potable supplies, FYI ................................................... 17 Cone Zone Report through Oct. 19 according to a recent staff report. Legal Notices ................................... 16 Cal-Am is under court order to find a Obituaries ......................................... 8 Fire Department Improves ISO Rating new water supply to reduce its withdrawals Opinion ........................................... 10 Otter Views ...................................... 18 Breakers Cross Country from the Carmel River Aquifer and Seaside Rainfall ............................................ 11 Three in a row for the Pacific Grove girl’s golf team Groundwater Basin. In 2009, the State Water Real Estate ....................... 2, 15, 19, 20 Resources Control Board (SWRCB) adopted Sports ........................................ 15, 16 Breakers girls’ tennis team loses, but McDowell shines Board Order WR 2009-0060, also known Weather ............................................ 2 Carmel City Council Action 10/07/14 See LOCAL WATER Page 12 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • October 24, 2014 Asilomar Neighbors Arts & CraftsFair is Nov. 8 Pacific Grove Weekend Forecast The annual Asilomar Neighborhood Arts & Crafts Fair will happen Nov 8 (Nov. Friday Saturday Sunday Monday 9 if it rains) at 1150 Pico Ave. in Pacific Grove. The event will begin at 9:00 a.m. and 24th 25th 26th 27th end at 3:00 p.m. All bake sale proceeds will go to support Tailwaggers animal welfare. 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COLDWELL BANKER 110 Monterey Ave. Cell (831) 901-5575 Del Monte Realty New Construction Direct (831) 622-2565 BRE#00977430 $1,750,000 walkpacificgrove.com [email protected] October 24, 2014 • CEDAR STREET Times • Page 3 In Southern California, new homes are rare and costly new highs this year. In January, the gap between median-priced new and resale homes By Kevin Stone, Monterey County Association of Realtors® in Southern California peaked at $151,000, a 41 percent premium for a new house. Several factors contribute to the widening price gap between new and resale homes, New home prices have soared in recent months in the Southern California region, housing economists say. For example, competing bids drove up the cost of land in prime with the median for the six-county region peaking at $538,000 in June, according to areas in 2012 and 2013, which means higher prices today. CoreLogic DataQuick. And in affluent ZIP Codes, builders are bidding up already-high Some builders have made a conscious decision to move upmarket because they land values. Overall, new homes have become all too rare and costly for the average see more profit and upside in catering to wealthier consumers. KB Home is among the buyer. builders moving upmarket. The Los Angeles builder, long a specialist in entry-level A surge in higher-end projects has pushed new home prices above their pre-recession homes, has shifted to more affluent, “land-constrained” neighborhoods. peaks, even as prices for existing homes remain one-fifth below their bubble-era highs. In Orange County, the median new home price has topped $800,000. Builders have piled in to pricey ZIP codes — bidding up land costs there in the ‘Flavors of Pacific Grove’ will sell out process — and polished their projects to a high gloss to woo wealthy buyers with cash On Saturday, November 15, the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce will showcase or good credit.