THURSDAY 7/15

PREVENT DRUNK DRIVING | MARINA—Sun Street Centers hosts the monthly meeting of PARTS, Preventing Alcohol Related Trauma in Salinas. Parents, police, teenagers and professionals come together to discuss the issues. Noon. Sun Street Centers, Nancy Dodd Community Center, 3043 MacArthur Drive, Marina. 899-6577. www.sunstreetcenters.org

FIERY DEBATE | SEASIDE—City Council considers joining the Peninsula’s proposed fire department merger. 7pm. Council Chambers, City Hall, 440 Harcourt Ave., Seaside. 899-6737. www.ci.seaside.ca.us

FRIDAY 7/16

CHILD LABOR PHOTOS | SEASIDE—Child Labor in the Global Village exhibit. 6pm. Peace Resource Center, 1364 Fremont Blvd., Seaside. 392-6574. www.peacecentral.org

SATURDAY 7/17

EDIBLE GARDENING | CARMEL—Organic horticulturist and landscape designer Mark Marino teaches you to grow your produce. Enter to win a basket of organic produce. 10:30am. Harrison Memorial Library, Ocean and Lincoln, Carmel. 624-4629. www.hm-lib.org

RODEO PROTEST | SALINAS—Action for Animals protests what it says is the rodeo’s long record of animal injuries and deaths. Organizers ask that participants bring signs. 11am. Main Street entrance to Rodeo grounds, Salinas. 510-652-5603. afa@mcn.org

WEDNESDAY 7/21

HUXLEY ON HUXLEY | BIG SUR—Esalen Institute screens a new documentary about how Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and his psychotherapist wife broke new ground in psychedelic experimentation and drew Orson Welles, Igor Stravinsky and others into their orbit. 8pm. Esalen Institute, 55000 Highway 1, Big Sur. 667-3000. wwwhuxleyonhuxley.com

PROTECTING THE OCEAN | SEASIDE—Surfrider Foundation teaches about marine plastics pollution. 7pm. Peace Resource Center, 1364 Fremont Blvd, Seaside. 392-6574. www.peacecentral.org

P.G. POLITICS | PACIFIC GROVE— City Council meets. 6pm. Council Chambers, City Hall, 300 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove. 648-3100. www.ci.pg.ca.us/citycouncil/agmin.htm