Big Ideas For All of Us
MCGives! launches its 2011 season of giving.
It’s a great thrill to be introducing Monterey County Gives! 2011. Last year’s campaign was a clear demonstration of how all of us, working together, can support critical programs around the county – we raised ...
Monterey County Gives! 2011 - Pt. 1
Animals
Animal Friends Rescue Project Year Founded: 1998 Staff: 11 paid, 401 volunteers Budget: $868,200 333-0722 www.animalfriendsrescue.org The Big Idea: More than 6,000 dogs and cats were euthanized in Monterey County last year. AFRP wants to ...
Monterey County Gives! 2011 - Pt. 2
Arts & Culture
Alisal Center for the Fine Arts Year Founded: 1986 Staff: 11 paid, 60 volunteers Budget: $133,000 758-5715 www.alisalcenterforthefinearts.org The Big Idea: A recent study by IBM asked more than 1,500 CEOs and public sector leaders ...
Monterey County Gives! 2011 - Pt. 3
Community & Social Services
Access Monterey Peninsula Year Founded: 1998 Staff: 6 paid, 103 volunteers Budget: $524,000 333-1267 www.ampmedia.org The Big Idea: Providing a platform for First Amendment rights and promoting transparency in government by broadcasting city council and ...
Monterey County Gives! 2011 - Pt. 4
Education & Youth
ARIEL Theatrical Year Founded: 1986 Staff: 7 paid, 375 volunteers Budget: $435,000 775-0976 www.arieltheatrical.org The Big Idea: Every year, ARIEL provides an opportunity for elementary and middle school kids from Monterey County to attend a ...
Monterey County Gives! 2011 - Pt. 5
Environment & Sustainability
Elkhorn Slough Foundation Year Founded: 1982 Staff: 30 paid, 60 volunteers. Budget: $2.2 million ($1 million funds the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve) 728-5939 www.elkhornslough.org The Big Idea: The Elkhorn Slough Foundation’s award-winning Visitor ...
Monterey County Gives! 2011 - Pt. 6
Health, Wellness & Food
Ag Against Hunger Year Founded: 1990 Staff: 5 paid, 750 volunteers Budget: $453,000 755-1480 The Big Idea: It’s farmers and volunteers, working together to feed Monterey County – and beyond. Ag Against Hunger collects and ...
Issues / 2011 / Nov 17
Twihards Rejoice
The next installment drops this week, and the one after that, next year.
Forget about Kate Middleton and Prince William. The wedding of the century took place in Squamish, Canada, when Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) tied the knot with vampire beau Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). As fans of ...
Butterfly Food Fight
Nectaring experiment at P.G.’s Monarch Grove Sanctuary creates quite a flap.
As monarchs alight on the eucalyptus and pine trees of the Pacific Grove Monarch Grove Sanctuary, Bob Pacelli digs into the black soil. He removes a shrub in a plastic pot from one of many ...
Different Perspectives
Quotidian Reconsidered stirs at MPC; MMA-Pacific braces for avalanche of mini masterworks.
“Everything has its beauty,” Andy Warhol famously declared, “but not everyone sees it.” MPC Art Gallery’s latest exhibit, Quotidian Reconsidered, aims to help more people (if not everyone), see it, by way of the works ...
Brezsny's Astrology Nov 17-22, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. Why? ...
Intense Treats
Lula’s Chocolates adds new shop in the midst of the annual holiday surge.
Super fresh cream. Real butter. Himalayan sea salts. Smaller, softer macadamia nuts from Hawaii. Very spendy 10-pound bricks of Peter’s Swiss chocolate, for which the minimum order is 500 pounds. There is no shortage of ...
Squashing It
Three ways to make cooking with winter squash more glory, less chore.
Winter squash – along with turkey, eggnog, and perhaps your crazy aunt Bertha – has a place at most holiday tables. But unlike the others, there is a seasonal reason for the inclusion of winter ...
Letters To The Editor 11.17.11
Doesn’t The Monterey County Herald print your paper the Monterey County Coast [sic] Weekly? (“Squid Fry,” Nov. 10-16). Well, then why are you in bed with a company that is outsourcing?! - ginamonterey | via ...
The Skin I Live In
Cutaneous Moves: Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In tackles the mad-scientist genre, Banderas style.
An elaborate puzzle box of a film that continuously confounds expectations in the grandest of ways, this tricky masterpiece from Spain’s maestro of madness and desire attracts and then dominates every iota of your attention ...
Love Struck
Former Sleepy Sun singer finds solace with her new all-girl group Rachel Fannan.
Nearly one year ago, Rachel Williams left the popular psych-rock outfit Sleepy Sun, abandoned her acoustic solo project Birds Fled From Me, and moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles’ hip Echo Park. Over ...
Country Road
The Johnny Clay Band focuses its music on the USA and the troops who support it.
Johnny Acuña named his group the Johnny Clay Band because he used to live on Clay Street in Monterey and felt the name sounded “more Hollywood” than his own. Earlier this year, though, the Marine ...
Party Activists
Ozomatli, the house band for global grassroots activism, re-ignites the Central Coast.
While the Henry Miller Library’s musical season has gone into hibernation for the winter, in Watsonville, the Henry Mello Center (Henry J. Mello, if you want to be compulsive), a 770-seat indoor performance space, is ...
Under Fire
Officials suggest sprinklers could have stopped Marina blaze.
As hundreds bowed their heads for five developmentally disabled adults killed in a fire at their home-care facility, Marina Mayor Bruce Delgado addressed the mourners with a mix of sadness and second-guessing. “So many of ...
Signs of the Times
Monterey cracks down on Fisherman’s Wharf signs; businesses cry foul.
Several veteran property owners on Fisherman’s Wharf are locking horns with the city over what they see as a scheme to squeeze money out of merchants. “It’s out of control,” says Cafe Fina owner Dominic ...
Road Rules
Lawsuit challenges a parkway through Fort Ord, and the projects it would serve.
A recently approved road through the former Fort Ord is moving to the courts. The Eastside Parkway would create a shortcut between General Jim Moore Boulevard and East Garrison, providing an artery for anticipated population ...
Jeopardy! cluemaster makes a cameo in a Seaside classroom.
The fifth-graders at Seaside’s Ord Terrace Elementary had a celebrity visitor Nov. 15: Jimmy McGuire, of Jeopardy!’s Clue Crew. Wearing an argyle sweater and a dimpled grin, McGuire led Jennifer Alexander’s class through a game ...
Public Citizen 11.17.11
ONGOING DEALING WITH ALZHEIMER’S | VARIOUS LOCATIONS – The Alzheimer’s Association offers a variety of programs. Caregiver Strategies, 1-3pm Fri Nov. 18, Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific St. Monterey. Family support group, Mon Nov. 21, ...
Desal Déjà Vu
Pajaro Valley water district smells scandal potential with DeepWater Desal.
The conflict-of-interest charges hobbling the Regional Desalination Project are spooking other local agencies in search of a new water supply. Now, Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency is holding a private desal company at arm’s length ...
Chemical Chess
Opponents of strawberry fumigant methyl iodide push supes for county action.
Fumigation season in Monterey County came and went without an application of methyl iodide. But just as growers prep fields for winter plantings, the controversy over the fumigant is factoring into local political calculus. The ...
Idyllic Happy Valley built on the suffering of children.
These things should be simple: 1. When, as an adult, you come come across another adult raping a small child, you should a) do everything in your power to rescue that child from the rapist, ...
Collins faces slew of felony counts, most not desal related.
Just when you thought the Regional Water Project conflict-of-interest debacle couldn’t get much weirder, former county Water Resources Agency board member Steve Collins finds himself on the receiving end of a 20-page criminal complaint, courtesy ...
Squid Speaks
THE RACE CARD… Squid’s well aware of the climate differential between sunny Seaside and chilly Carmel-by-the-Sea. So when Squid heard about the upcoming presentation, “What Does Carmel Have That Seaside Doesn’t?” Squid was sure of ...
Street Talk 09.22.11 (asked @ Peppers Mexicali Cafe in Pacific Grove.)
What would be a good symbol for P.G. besides the monarch?
Follow-up: If you could be any insect, what would you be? ZOE FILBIN | Waitress | Monterey A: A walker with wedding bells. People always say, “You’re either a newlywed or nearly dead” if you ...
By The Numbers 11-17-11
Real Estate
$500,000 Recent Sale 1310 Lincoln Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 1962 Size: 1,900 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, hardwood flooring, fenced yard, skylights Seller: Afriyanti Crossman and Concetta McBride Buyer: ...
