Kiosk In This Issue Beginning July 7 Ceramic Classes for Adult & Youth Hilltop Ceramic Center register online at www.monterey.org or call 646-3866 • Wed. July 16 Author Talk 2:00 PM Retirement days - Page 6 Tory Beale and Cynthia Messer The Real Guys - Page 10 Home Sweet Home - Page11 talk about their books featuring Jack and Rugby, two lovable, real life dogs Pacific Grove Public Library 48-5760 • Pacific Grove’s July 18 Opening at Art Center+Art Walk Downtown Pacific Grove No Cost • July 18 Dance Jam DJ Daniel Mollner Chautauqua Hall 8-10 PM with closing circle Times Reg. $10 • 10 Dance Pass = $80 July 18-24, 2014 Your Community NEWSpaper Vol. VI, Issue 45 No Dance Jam July 25 due to Feast of Dance • Wed. July 23 FEAST OF LANTERNS BEGINS Art Center Taps New Director OpeningCeremony Teresa Brown brings a wealth of busi- Noon ness acumen to her new position as Director Elmarie Dyke Open Space of the non-profit Pacific Grove Art Center. • After working with Chartwell School of Thur. July 24 Seaside building a green, sustainable campus FEAST OF FLAVORS for some 20 years, she went out on her own Chautauqua Hll doing strategic plans, accounting processes 11 AM-? and corporate training...dry stuff to some, but $10 a lot of those things are exactly what the Art • Center's Board of Directors was looking for Fri. July 25 when they began the recruitment process. It PET PARADE was done by word of mouth. Gather 2 PM at Caledonia And it helps that Brown is a painter, Park something she began doing 15 years ago. “It Waaay cute! helps to balance me. It affects how I approach • things,” she said. “And I was amazed when Fri. July 26 people started buying my paintings!” FEAST OF DANCING A few years ago, her mother died, leav- 6 PM - 9 PM ing a successful gallery, showing 20 artists, Chautauqua Hall including one who also shows at the Pacific • Grove Art Center, in Half Moon Bay. There Sat. July 26 were three years left on the lease, and Brown FEAST DAY & PAGEANT took it in hand and “sold a ton” of art. She Lovers Point Park and Pier spent weekends in Half Moon Bay and the Children’s activities 11-7 P work week here on the Monterey Peninsula. Flag ceremony & When at the end of the lease the rent was in- entertainment begin 12:30 creased 400 percent, she reluctantly closed it. Sponsors’ Walk & Pageant “But I felt I'd really found my stride,” begin 8 PM she said, and wanted to do something that followed by fireworks combined both business and art. • Brown had worked with the Sea Otter Sat. July 26 Book Publishing 1-2-3 Workshop See ART CENTER Page 2 2-3:30 PM Jacks Restaurant at Portola Hotel $20 Candidate sign-ups open 831-646-4507 Plastic Bag Ban Inches Closer for November election Suddenly realizing that the State of California is breathing down their necks, the • Three individuals have signed up to run Start date Aug 2, 2014 Pacific Grove City Council took another baby step toward a ban of single-use plastic bags for three vacant seats on the Pacific Grove at the Wednesday, July 16 meeting. They voted to have staff return with an ordinance so Tai Chi Classes Saturday morning City Council, and one for the mayor’s seat at Chautuaqua Hall that they can hold a first reading and get it passed before the State steps in with their own Contact 831-622-1994 to pre- -- the incumbent, Bill Kampe. ban, potentially on September 1, 2014. Over the past five or more years, the Council has register Seats up for election include Alan Co- taken up the question on a number of occasions including twice so far in 2014. Each time $10/class hen’s, as he is “termed out.” The seats held by they sent it back to staff. • Rudy Fischer and Ken Cuneo are also open. California is considering Senate Bill 270 which would require local jurisdictions to Sun. Aug. 1 Cuneo has already registered and Fischer enact their own regulations on reusable bags and plastic bags, which could then be amended, Dance Jam states that he will run. Realtor Brian Brooks or face a set of requirements which could not be altered by local jurisdictions which did Live Music with Ryan Herrl anno2unced his candidacy last week, and Ed not have their own in place. Chautauqua Hall Lake -- who currently serves on the Planning 8-10 PM with closing circle Pacific Grove's Council seems to have accepted the inevitability of plastic bag ban, Commission -- has pulled papers as well. The but its version hangs on the question of how much to charge for paper bags. Monterey Reg. $10 • 10 Dance Pass = $80 deadline is August 8 to file papers with the • and Carmel have plastic bag bans, but Monterey charges 25¢ per paper bag while Carmel City Clerk in Pacific Grove. allows merchants not to charge at all. Grocers pay 35¢ per bag on average and would be Candidates for Schools and Special allowed to keep whatever fee the city settles on. The fee for paper bags is not meant to District Offices file with Monterey County increase grocers’ profits, according to staff, but to incentivize customers to bring their Inside Elections. The Pacific Grove Unified School own reusable bags. District plans to present a tech bond to the Results of a survey presented by Vicki Pearse of Sustainable PG showed that reusable voters this fall which will aim for a parcel bag use increased dramatically when the higher fee was charged: In Capitola, usage went 100 Years Ago in Pacific Grove ......... 10 tax of $18. Animal Tales from 53 percent to 89 percent; in Santa Cruz from 46 percent to 80 percent; and in the & Other Random Thoughts ................ 7 Any registered voters interested in unincorporated part of Santa Cruz County it went from 10 percent to 85 percent. Cop Log ............................................. 5 running for office in the November 4, 2014 Still, Councilmembers Miller, Huitt and Cohen opposed the draft even when amended Food .................................................. 5 Consolidated General Election can find more to require only 10¢ per paper bag. Miller expressed concern that reusable bags are unhealthy. Legal Notices ................................... 12 information about this election, including Councilmember Cuneo mused that, if Pacific Grove were to charge only 10¢, shoppers Marriage Can Be Funny ................... 12 available seats, at www.MontreyCountyElec- Opinion ........................................... 13 might come here instead of shopping in Monterey. Otter Views ...................................... 10 tions.us or call (831) 796-1499 toll free at Potential exemptions include food stamp customers, plastic bags used to protect Sports ................................................ 9 (866) 887-9274. produce, meat, ice cream or other wet items, paper bags used to weigh candy or protect greeting cards, among others. Page 2 • CEDAR STREET Times • July 18, 2014 Joan Skillman PART CENTER From Page 1 Classic bicycle race and “asked the universe” to put her to work in something with both Skillshots a creative environment and a place where she could use her business sense. She had lived in Pacific Grove as a child, and always remembered it as a special place. She and her husband honeymooned at Asilomar in 1984, and after a brief stint in Idaho, they moved back here in 1986. “The Art Center was on my radar,” she said. “There are great processes already set up here,” she said. “But there's an evolu- tion that needs to happen. It needs a little more current thinking.” She wants to have a financial audit done so that the Art Center will become eligible for large funding grant and opportunities. “We're supported generously by many local people and organiza- tions,” she said, but added that with more funding the Art Center could do more, for example in terms of classrooms and galleries and promotion of the shows and classes. She wants to promote the sales of art, for example, and become a bigger part of the Pacific Grove community. “Dream big,” says Teresa Brown. The Pacific Grove Art Center is located at 568 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove. Phone/Fax: 831-375-2208. Hours are Wednesday - Saturday, 12 to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. The Art Center is closed Monday and Tuesday. A new show opens approximately every six weeks, and an opening is set for July 18 for a show of paintings by Barbara Codd, photographs by Meredith Mullins, and a show of Art Center Studio Artists. Got an idea for something you’d like to see on the Green Page? Email us: [email protected] Pacific Grove’s Rain Gauge Data reported by Jack Beigle at Canterbury Woods Week ending 07-17-14........................ .04” Total for the season .......................... 0.12” To date last year (07-05-13) .............. 11.65” Historical average to this date ......... 0.04” 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) Pacific Grove Weekend Forecast Friday Saturday Sunday Monday 18th 19th 20th 21st Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy AM Cloudy Partly Cloudy Chance Chance Chance Chance of Rain of Rain of Rain of Rain 65° 10% 66° 10% 67° 0% 69° 0% WIND: WIND: WIND: WIND: WSW at WSW at WSW at WSW at 56° 13 mph 57° 11 mph 56° 10 mph 55° 10 mph Times Cedar Street Times was established September 1, 2008 and was adjudicated a legal newspaper for Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California on July 16, 2010.