Kiosk In This Issue MONARCH COUNT at Pacific Grove Sanctuary as of Dec. 17, 2016 4,395 Nuclear Disarmament- Below and Helping Santa - Page 4 Page - 12 Christmas Whale - Page 14 Pacific Grove’s Fridays Pacific Groove Dance Jam Chautauqua Hall 8-10 PM Dance to DJs Adults $10/Teens $5 Youth Free • 1st Time Free [email protected] • Saturdays Dance at Chautauqua Hall • Dec. 23-29, 2016 Your Community NEWSpaperTimes Vol. IX, Issue 13 Fri. Dec. 23 Howard Burnham reads Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” 6:30 PM $10 Adv/$15 door We Wish You a Merry Christmas! Carmel Art Assoc. Dolores between 5th & 6th Carmel December 23 - January 2 Pacific Grove City Hall Closed Reopening Jan. 3, 2017 • Dec. 31, 2016 New Year’s Eve Dance 8PM-Midnight Chautauqua Hall, 16th St. at Central Ave Pacific Grove Cost: $10 for non-members, $5 for members. • Thurs Jan. 5 Genealogy Society Monthly Meeting 1025 Noche Buena, Seaside 7 PM • Jan. 13-15 and 20-21 Santa Catalina School Cub Scouts from Pack 125 went caroling in the medical wing at Canterbury Woods, as they do every year, to the delight of “You Can’t Take It With You” residents. There’s more about the Scouts on Page 12. Santa Catalina School Performing Arts Center 1500 Mark Thomas Drive, Monterey Dear Santa... Ticket info page 17 PGHS Senior • Delivers Message of Disarmanent to UN Conference in Japan Eric Cuellar received a rare opportunity recently: A trip to Japan, “Like” us on Facebook with airfare, hotel, and meals paid by the Japanese government, plus where we post short updates, the chance to interact with other students from many countries, as traffic, weather, fun pictures well as foreign dignitaries in a United Nations conference focused and timely stuff. If you fol- on discussing ways to achieve a nuclear-weapons-free world. But low us on Twitter, you’ll also he earned it. get local sports updates and The Pacific Grove High School senior was offered the chance after writing an essay and submitting it to organizers at Middlebury we even tweet tournaments Institute. He was chosen, along with only two others nationwide, to and playoffs. attend the conference in Nagasaki, Japan, one of the two cities where nuclear bombs were dropped in 1945. With him as chaperone was his English teacher, Mrs. Karinne Inside Gordon. “To the Japanese people, nuclear weapons represent an evil that Animal Tales & Other Random Thoughts ................ 8 must never be unleashed upon the world again under any circum- Cartoon ............................................. 2 stances, and the Youth Communicators dedicate themselves to com- Cop Log ............................................. 7 municating the message of hope for a world free of nuclear weapons. Finance ........................................... 10 This is the first year students outside of Japan have been invited to Homeless in Paradise ....................... 18 Keepers of Our Culture .................... 14 help deliver that message, so it truly was a unique honor for Eric to Legal Notices ................................... 19 be included among the accepted applicants,” she said. Otter Views ........................................ 8 Zoey Miller and her brother, Zack found Santa loading toys “I am so incredibly proud of how professionally Eric presented Peeps ................................................. 5 himself. He even read part of the statement the Youth Communicators Rain Gauge ....................................... 2 into the car on Cedar Street when they walked by with their Real Estate ........................... 5, 7, 2016 mother. The next day, she brought a lovely Christmas card (above) and the best ever ginger cookies. See ERIC CUELLAR Page 12 PENROLLMENT From Page 1 Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • December 23, 2016 Joan Skillman ‘A Christmas Carol’ performed by Howard Burnham as Charles Dickens Skillshots PECONOMY From Page 1 On December 23 @ 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM The Christmas classic will be performed by Howard Burnham in the manner of Dickens’ 1867 tour of the USA. Charles Dickens visited America twice, in 1842 and 1867. By an oversight, he failed to come to California on either occasion, but this will be rectified at the Carmel Arts Association on Friday, December 23 at 6:30 p.m. British born actor, Howard Burnham, now of Pacific Grove, will perform his popular characterization of Charles Dickens giving a dramatic ‘reading’ of his most beloved Christmas book. For the past decade, Burnham has been the featured “Mr. Dickens” at the Myrtle Beach Dickens Christmas Festival. He has given this acclaimed show in England and across the nation to standing ovations. He creates a “cast” of 40 characters from the curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge to winsome little Tiny Tim to give a heart-warming, life-affirming and humorous interpretation of the beloved Christmas story. Tickets: $10 in advance (up until 5:00 p.m. on the day of the performance) /$15 at the door. Carmel Art Association is located at Dolores between 5th& 6th in Carmel. 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Many Monterey County government offices will be closed or have limited hours Salinas police arrested Juan Govea, 35, Thursday morning, Dec. 15 at his home in of operation during a Winter Recess scheduled from December 27 - 30. Salinas. Govea faces charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, felony oral This recess is in addition to already designated holidays of December 26 (Christ- copulation of a minor, and misdemeanor mas) and January 2nd (New Year’s). charges of molesting a child under 18, The recess will not close any critical or public safety ‘24/7’ operations. according to Salinas Police. A schedule for all county offices during this time period is available on the county School district officials say they website www.co.monterey.ca.us. immediately notified police when they learned of the alleged relationship. They stressed that Govea’s relationship with the teenager occurred about six months after Santa (and Sparky) Came Early he left his job at Salinas High. He was booked into Monterey County Jail. He had not been arraigned as of press time. At this time there is no evidence that any alleged sex acts took place at school or when Govea was employed by the district, according to Salinas Police. They declined to state how the district learned of the relationship. Govea taught biology at Salinas High. In 2011, he was selected as a Teaching Juan Govea in June, 2015 Ambassador Fellow for the U.S. Depart- ment of Education. In 2015, he participated in the national discussion on “Rethink School Discipline” a roundtable hosted by the White House in Washington, D.C., according to the Salinas Californian. In June, 2016, Cedar Street Times published an interview with Govea who had recently taken a position with the Museum as the director of exhibits and education. Govea was hired to oversee exhibits and run the Museum’s active education department. In an interview with KSBW-TV, the museum’s executive director, Jeanette Kihs, said, “We have no reason to believe this has anything to do with the museum or his role here.” Santa enlisted the help of Sparky the Fire Dog (and some Monterey Fire personnel with their engine) to distribute toys that were donated at various firehouses throughout the Peninsula.