Carmel Pine Cone 1999-01-22

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CITIZEN POLICE TO PATROL CARMEL THIS SUMMER
By KIRSTIE WILDE or dangerous situations. "Especially along Scenic, to advise people not to trample
According to Chief Don Fuselier, the Citizen's Patrol the slopes, to leash their dogs on the walk arid to park prop
CITIZEN POLICE patrols, working in teams of two,' will provide assistance to visitors, including advice on erly. Also, if they see a kid skateboarding, they can let us
will walk ·the streets of Carmel-by-the-Sea during week parking, maps of the area and tips on pofnts of interest. . know so we can give them a ticket."
ends at the height of the tourist season this summer. They ·will also operate as "ambassadors of goodwill" So far, about 75 people in Carmel have graduated froin
The unpaid volunteers, all graduates of the 40-hour between the business community and the police depart the academy, which was set up by Chief Fuselier in 1996 to
Citizen's Police Academy, will carry police radios and act ment. bring4he citizens cl~r to the officers wh_o watch over the
as additional "eyes and ears" for uniformed officers of the "We hope eventually the Citizen's Patrol will operate at city. Th!! next academy is scheduled for the fall of this year.
Ca!ffiel Police Department, alerting them to any violations the beach," explained Carmel Police Lt. Bill Uretsky. See PATROL page 7A
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Scientists to study raccoon ·d isease in Carmel
By KIRSTIE WILDE and autopsies of study animals will be done at a meeting state" of the victiin. He also said the parasite has an amazing
scheduled for the last week in January, according to Carmel ability to infect other creatures. .
scient~fic
C ARMEL IS about to embark on a City Administrator Jere Kersnar and WiiJiam Murray, D.V.M., "We have documented 75 different species of animals that
.. study of the raceoon population in town, to deter - a microbiologist, veterinarian and expert on raccoon-borne dis have been killed after ingesting raccoon roun~worrn eggs,"
mine if it is out of control and poses a serious threat easef: from San Jose State University who will be directing the Kazacos told The Pine Cone. "The L.A. Zoo had a rampant
of disease to citizens. study. ~ problem with raccoons and lost several exotic species, includ
The final planning for the trapping, euthanizing Peninsula-wide concern about ·an overpopulation of rac ing birds, primates and kaitgaroos. That's an indication of how
coons was sparked last fall when Casey Read, a 12-month-old dangerous this parasite is."
Pacific Grove boy, was permanently disabled after ingesting The death of a California sea otter on a local beach last
ONE RACCOON Baylisascaris procyonis parasites, also known as raccoon year was traced to raccoon roundworm.
roundworm. Carol Glaser, M.D., the pediatrician who treated
the stricken child, described the symJ'loms of the disease as Local governments cooperating
ROUNDWORM CAN
drowsiness, confusion, loss of muscle coordination and The Monterey County Health Department is cOoperating in
decreased head control. It can cause permanent brain damage, the study to be done in Carmel, but is not contributing any
CAUSE BLINDNESS blindness, paralysis and death in severe cases, and there is no money to the effort, according to Monterey County
known cure, except to kill invading larvae with a laser. (See Administr~tive Services Director Kirk Conway. Representa
related story at left.) · tives from the county, Pebble Beach, Monterey and Pacific
By KIRSTIE WILDE
According to veterinary parasitologist Kevin Kazacos of Grove have all expressed interest in the results of the Carmel
Purdue University - who made the diagnosis of Casey Read study, because of the perceived overpopulation of raccoons
SERIOUS DISEASE caused by the rae
and whos~ laboratory is the only one in the country that can across the entire Peninsula.
coon roundworm parasite is far more wide-
rpn the blood test for raccoon· roundworm infection - ·there The number of animals is "far in exc.ess of an.y,u.u.·4.f6~~--·--·
. spread than ptw.iQ~ly. reported by the local
have been 10 cases nationwide whertraccoon roundworm
media, according to the most prominent expert
infection resulted in either death or the 'permanent vegetative See STUDY page 6A
on the subject, veterinary parasitologist Kevin
Kazacos, D.V.M. and Ph.D., of Purdue
University. New member sought
"We know of more than six dozen cases of
roundworm infection causing retinal damage, Gray Steps down from school board
ranging from moderate vision loss to blind
ness," he told T~e Pine Cone this week. "What
people need to realize is that one egg- a sin
gle larvae - if it goes to the eye, can cause By TNMRA GRIPPI election in November, five-year strategic plan for
blindness,'' Dr. Kazacos said. aceording to Carmel Unified the ·school district as anoth
Local health offiCials have said that it takes AFTER 11 YEARS on the Carmel School District Superinten er milestone. "I was one of
an "infectious dose" of more than 40,000 rac Unified School District Board, local dent Joe Jaconette. The dis the people who wasn't per
coon roundworm eggs to cause serious dam attorney Gary Gray announced his resig trict will be accepting appii suaded that that kind of
age in a human. That is the number of parasites nation Jan. 14. cations until Feb. 4. long-range planning was
contained in a pea-sized piece of raccoon Gray, who had already decided not to Gray looked back on the required," Gray said. "But
feces, presumably the amount accidentally seek reelection to a fourth terrn next developments of curriculum to have that kind of template
ingested by the Pacific Grove child who suf November, said "it seemed like a good and work on the school and table of contents is
fered paralysis and severe eje damage from time for a changing of the guard." facilities - including a new absolut~ly invaluable."
the infection last fall. "The district is in extremely good . computer lab at Carmel "The luxury we .have in
And while small children- who play· in shape now - from the classroom to River School and a new roof our district is that we've
the dirt and put their fingers in their mouths - every other aspect," Gray said. "We're at Carmel High - as the presided over-what is essen
are at highest risk, Dr. Kazacos says 'the six·- certainly in good shape financially." · major accomplishments of Gory Gray tially a private school system
The school board will appoint a new his tenure.
See ROUNDWORM page 6A member who will serve until the next Gr~y pointed to the development of. a . See GRAY page~
'Limited ·g rowth' likely theme
Highlights.
SECTION A: NEWS. SPORTS. DPINIQN:
of 2000 Presidential campaign
Strange punishment for a long shower . . 2A
Safe harbors for people and animals. ..... 3A
Police log: covert operations in town .. 4A. SC
These guys didn't go to crime school .... 7 A
New ~river victim in head-on collision . ... . SA II FAlm: 'Other towns want to do
No free rides at CV High .... ·. ..........1 OA
Letters, opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14A.1 OC el--by-the-Sea has done'
Lady Padres battle for soccer titl~. . . . . . 16A
By PAUL MIUER
SECJJ0N.B : ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Learn about life and Jack London. . . . . . . . 18
AN ISSUE familiar to nearly every resident of the
Trumpeter solos with symphony . . . . . . . . . 1 8
Monterey Peninsula___. limited growth and the control of urban
Powerful staging of 'Uon in Winter ...... 28
sprawl - has erupted on the national scene in the last two
The Bookshelf·. ....... . ...... ·. ........ 38
weeks and could be a major issue in the 2000 Presidential elec-·
People & Places .. .................... 48
tion, Central Coast Congressman Sam Farr said this week.
Carmel restaurant evokes Paris ... ...... 58
"In prospetous times like these people tend to focus on
Movies. ........... ... . ............. 78
quality of life issues," Farr said after President Bill Clinton's
State of the Union speech Jan. . 19, "and a lot of communities
SEtnoN C: REAL ESTATE
m are beginning to realize that what they thought was in their best
You' made a lot money in your hOU68 . 4C
interests - runaway growth - is realfy a nightmare." WlDf
Supervi&ora get tough with CV proiects ... BC
In his peech before Congress thi week, Clinton said that
Sam Forr, seen here with his wife. Shof1Y, at his sweoring·in jan.
See FARR page 6A 7, said many towns are having urban sprawl ·nightmares.·
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2A The Carmel Pine Cone January 22, 1999
Australian Lottery ·s cam finds its way to Pebble Beach via Canada
PINE CONE STAFF REPORT The telephone solicitor introduced him Be~ch resident who asked not to be identi . After conferring with the Royal
self as Kenneth Brierly from "Financial fied. "He indicated that he had some con Canadian Mounted Police, Monterey
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PEBBLE BEACH man was target Standards International" in Vancouver, nection with Master Card." County Sheriff's deputies discovered that
ed by perpetrators of a telephone scam who British Columbia, Canada.· "He had me on the phone for 20 to 30 "Financial Standards International" - also
pro'mised $20,000 from the Australian After promising the $20,000, "Brierly" minutes," the man said. "I was going along known as "FinanCial Systems Internation
Lottery in exchange for $1,497. tried to convince the man to give his credit witb what he told me." al" and "Hot Rocket Wholesale" - was
The Monterey Coun~y Sheriff's card number and bank account informa However, when the man's wife heard indeed a fraudulent business.
Dep~ent investigated the incident, and tion. that the investment firm was from Deputies warned residentS against giv
put out a warning to beware of the follow "What made the thing sound credible Vancouver, British Columbia, she immedi ing personal information or credit card
ing sales pitch that nearly victimized the was the fact that he brought in the name ately warned her husband to not give·away numbers over the telephone - especially
P.B. resident: Master Car.~~· ~e long-time Pebble any information. She had ·heard news to anyone promising a large return on a
reports of a Vancouver-based phone scam. small investment.
Punishment for long shower
Hair Cutting
THE
.S tyling & CQloring sends P.B_. man packing
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By TMM.RA GRIPPI told me I couldn't use the washer and dryer
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625-5008 for appointment or consultation
Pebble Beach home, Gary Mercer was in th·e car because she thought it had a gaso:..
Thesday thru Saturday & evenings by appointment
astonished to come home to find that some line engine." !When he displayed his college
Sunset Thrrace • Mission & 8th • Carmel
one had entered his tiouse and cut the cords diploma on the wall, she reportedly told
to his telephone and battery charger. him to take it down and not hang anything
Worried about a prowler, Mercer called else up· until he had been there for two
the sheriff to investigate. Mercer was even years. .
PARKER
more surprised to learn that his landlady Then she accused him of killing rac-
admitted cutting the wires, supposedly to coons. .
punish him for taking long showers. Mercer was beginning to seriously re
CONSTRUCTI'ON
Mercer certainly hadn't read anything think his choice of the Pebble Beach pied
about retribution for leisurely. showers in a-terre when the wire-cutting incident hap
his lease. But then, ever since moving· in, pened Jan. 14. The fire danger of the stunt
624-2627 he'd found a lot of curious things that worried him. "The battery charger, which
weren't in his lease. carries a lot of volts, was cut into six
"She has a key and comes in and out as pieces," he said. But instead of pressing
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she pleases," Mercer said;-of the landlady char.ges against his landlady, Mercer decid-
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who lives in an adjoining house. . ed to move out - ASAP.
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"After I'd been here for three days, she Monterey County Sheriff's Deputy Neil
• Shaw said he has been dealing wit~ com
plaints about the Pebble Beach landlady for
some time. ." She's my personal project
right now," Shaw said. "I've been working
closeiy with the lady. I had a little heart-to
heart talk with her, trying to get her not to
rent anymore."
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January 22, J9QQ The Carmel Pine Cone 3A
Will "safe harbor" deals help endangered Species and property owners?
. By TANIARA GRIPPI Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Bonnie said. chapter of the California
Many of those landowners agreed to Native Plant Society. "Each
WHAT SOME environmentalists call drill artificial cavities in their pine trees to (agreement) would have to
a "perverse incentive" of the Endangered attract the threatened birds. be based on l~al conditions
Species Act can result in threatened ani In order for similar safe harbor agree and not be one-size-fits-all."
mals being harmed instead of help. ments to work certain conditions hav~ to Scott Hennessy, director
In fact, the landmark legislation, which fall into place, Bonnie said. J:or instance,' of the Waters he~ Institute .at
imposes strict regulations on private "you need a species that landowners can California State University
landowners when endangered specie.s are undertake activity to benefit," he said. Monterey Bay and a
found on their property, sometimes works Silberstein and others in Monterey Monterey County Planning
in reverse, said Robert Bonnie, an econo County approach the safe harbor model Commissioner explained
mist with the Environmental Defense cautiously. "Let's see how this works,". that safe harbor agreements
Fund. · ·Silberstein said. · should include considera
"There are a 'lot of landowners who "The· idea is worth considering," said tion of all the species as
don't mind having endangered but Gary Patton, executive director of Land well as the habitat at the
~pecies,
who do mind federal restrictions," he said. Watch Monterey County. "The details of outset . .T hat way, if a plant . Scientists will plant and study the rare Santa Cruz Tor Plant
The Environmental Defense Fund and how it works out are critical. We know how · or animal appears on the on private land as port of a safe harbor experiment.
other organizations are experimenting with ~angerous it is to.endangered species if it's endangered list, the
a way to make landowners more comfort not done right." landowner will be protected,
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able with endangered species - "safe har • Others were concerned that that safe Hennessy said. · a~ ~
bor agreements.". harbor programs could be "animal driven" ·While still in the experimental stages - I such agreements went into effect,
Under the agreements, landowners con -· · to the exclusion of endangered plants. locally, safe harbor agreements could come accommodations would be made for ·the
sent to preserve or improve habitats for "We're concerned about saving the into play·w ith two development proposals Snowy Plover, a bird that nests on sand
endangered species on their· lands. In habitat and plants," said Mary Ann - the Carmel River Dam .and· Reservoir dunes, and the $teelhead Trout,. ~hich
return, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service ·· Matthews, conservation chair for the local and beach-front development plans in Sand live.s in the Salinas and Carmel Rivers. '
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·agrees not to increase regu
lations if the number of
endangereq""--
~pedes
increases.
"If you do good things
for endangered species and
more critters show up on
your property, you won't
be penalized," Bonnie said.
Although only ·a few
safe harbor programs have
been set up across the
country since 1995,
already one Monterey
County organization is
e"'perimenting with the
novel approach to protect
ing rare species.
Within the last year, the
Elkhorn Slough Foun
dation put together a pro
gram with the Wildlife
Conservation Board of the
Department of Fish and
Game and a Monterey
County landowner that will
allow researchers to plant
an endangered species on
the private property.
While biologists from
the · University of
California wilJ study the
Santa Cruz Tar Plant, . J
member of the Sunflower
family, the property owner
won't bear any responsibil
ity for the health and care
of the plant. And no new
· restrictions will be placed
on the land.
If the landowner choos
es to develop the proper:ty
in the future, then the biol
ogists will harvest all the .
plants from the property.
"What we're doing is
promoting sound conserva ll_lutilll
Ofll1j ''
••••
tion science on
priva~e
land, but protecting the
Saf a
landowner form any long .•....•.•.•.n..
term constraints that might
be caused by the experi
ment," said Mark Silber
stein, executive director of Q '•
the Elkhorn Slough Foun
dation.
Walt and see.
While safe harbor pro
grams have been up and
running in Texas, North.
Carolina and Southern
California for several
years, the jury is still out
on how well the agree
ments will work.
The first safe harbor
program was put in place
in the Sand Hills of North
Carolina in 1995. Twenty
••
eight landowners with a
combined ~.000 acres - . '
I
of private woodlands,
horse fann and ewn golf
courses - participated in
.
the proj~ to protect the '
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4A The Carmel Pine Cone january 22, 1999
Carmel-by-the-Sea: Juveniles were play fault. He was advised the reasons for naming
ing inside the Carmel Yo.uth Center van. Both him at fault.
Police& were admonished and vehicle secured. Carmel-by-the-Sea: Information
Carmel-by-the-Sea: Unwanted custQmer requ~sted from a male caller whose elderly
at Lincoln and Ocean refused to leave. ··mother was arrested for. being drunk in pub
Sher iff's Log Subject left without incident upon officer's ·tic.
arrival. Taxi called and took the subject home Carmel-by-the-Sea: Brown Acura
to Pacific Grove. Legend towed for having expired tags . on
. · Carmel-by-the-Sea: Yellow Honda Civic license plate. Clothes, papers, books and
towed for expired tags on license plate. swim fins inventoried.
Carmel-by-the-Sea: Report from bar on Carmel-by-the-Sea: Gray Mazda MX2'.
Black- clad agents on the roof Lincoln of drunken patrons fighting. towed for blocking driveway on Lincoln.
. Carmel-by-the-Sea: _Arrest ·of person Carmel area: Highway 1 resident report
who found .wallet with $500 cash and ed unknown person(s) took several items of
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declined to ·tum it over to police. Charged jewelry from her residence.
HERE'S A look at some of the signifi~~ __c alled in regards to someone throwing eggs at
a with resisting public officers, theft of found Carmel Valley: Esquiline resident report
_ cant calls logged by the Carmel-by-the-Sea residential garage door. Close . patrol
property, possession 'of less than one ounce of ed having an argument with her live-in
Police Department and the Monterey County requested.
marijuana. boyfriend. •
Sheriff's Department last week. · Carmel-by-the-Sea: Officers arrested a
Pebble Beach: Rodeo Road resident
·suNDAY, JANUARY 10 subject suspected of misappropriating found
MONDAY, JANUARY 11 reported receiving a phone call from some
Carmel-by-the-Sea: Person on Lincoln property. - one identifying himself as Kenne~h Brierly o,.
Carmel-by-the-Sea: Woman on Dolores
Financial Standard International~ in
reported rocks being thrown at her window.
Vancouver, British Columbia. The caller
Requestc;d close _patrol.
promised the reporting party would receive
Carmel-by-the-Sea: Citizen wanted to -
diseuss an accident where he .was found at See POLICE LOG page 9C
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herds of California are at an aU time low. The increased develop
ment of lands needed for migration or winter and au~DQ~er feeding,
•poaching, depredation, and other facton are resultiO« in deereasing numbers of deer.
· The yearly budgets of the State of California ·Department of Fish and Game, the federal
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By MARGOT PETIT
NICHOLS
CARMEL HAS taken
another step on its long and
winding road to renovation
of the Sunset. Th~ater, and R E A D I N G T H I S
suffered some setbacks that
_caused a six-week delay.
At last week's city coun-.
cil meeting, the council
created the new .Sunset
Theater Project Building
Committee and disbanded
T H R O U G H
the Sunset Theater Project
Steering Committee which
.
had been in place since .. .
~
April 1997.
The new building com
mittee will be composed of
• Mayor Ken White, council
member Sue McCloud,
City Administrator Jere
Kersnar and City Attorney
Don Freeman representing
the city, plus Davis Factor,
. Nancy Doolittle, Richard
Borda and Alan Brenner
r~pre~enting the arts:
A first meeting of the
committee was held Wed
nesday and termed "organi
by Mayor White,
zationa~"
who said meetings will be
held "fairly regularly" and
will be open to the public.
Meanwhile, final plans
for the stage right extension,
community room and the
portion to be demolished -
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which were supposed to be
I
finished at the end of
I
November - were deliv
I
ered Jan. 13. According to
, I
Planning Director Brian
Roseth, those plans were
reviewed and approved by
}
the Cultural Commission
on the same day.
Another delay was
259,999,995
caused when the historic {THERE ARE GALLONS MORE
preservation expert hired •II·~. ·. .... .
by Denise Duffy and
Associates was struck with
WHERE THIS CAME FROM.]
cancer and had to quit the
project. ·
According to Roseth,
"Denise has found a rep-·
utable substitute but her
work must start from
scratch."
· The renovation of
Pebble Beach Company is the REVISED PEBBLE BEACH
Sunset Theater, built in
PROJECT PROPOSAL ·
1932 as an elementary
school auditorium, is Monterey Peninsula's top wakr recyclo: •RUIU¥ DenJity 65%...:.3)6 homes and
expected to cost approxi
a golf course instead of 889 homes that
mately $15.5 million. The Our backing $34 million in
maximum zoning now allows.
latest plan preserves the
majority of the exterior of facility bonds built the wastewater •&~ Water on New Golf Couro~e­
the historic building·a t San
mandatory reclaimed water, WU. drinking
Carlos and Ninth Avenue.
recl~mation plant, recycling more
water. for nearly all irrigation.
than 260 million gallons in 1997. •No New Water Right.! for anything we
CORNELIA EMERY
build. We must live within our current
We're glad to use some of this
NEW MEMBER water rights just like you do. Period.
11WATER IS
OFCAPP . •D-'Uuuio.n Pi4nt .a M Stor~J9e-
savings at our property, but the ' '
TOO IMPORTANT TO
financed by us to benefit the entire
CoRNELIA EMERY,
ONLY USE ONCE."
a technical illustrator, is the maJority will always be there for · community. This means even less
newest member of Car
drinking water consumed by us and
others. Our new plans uJe/ar fM, TeiJ Horton, Vu·e PtYJiJenl, Ruoura
mel's Committee' for Art in
Managenunt, Pehhle Beach Company of~r.1-and more water availa~le for
Public Places.
The Community and water than maximum zoning allows. Peninsula residents.
Cultural Commission's rec
ommendation of Emery to
the city's art watchdog lnt~lligml waUr t~o~e i._, one good ~a."'" the !HI Monte Fn~,t Property Oumer.1 BoarvJ endor,,e,, our plan.
committee was ratified at We h"fN you will joiJ.l our vi.nim for tiN futu~. ~ thti1k il :, the right thin.'! to Jo. For (l'ftymu.
Tuesday's City Council
meeting.
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6A The Carmel Pine Cone january 2 2. 1999
ROUNDWORM STUDY
FroM ptJge JA From ptJge JA
dozen victims of eye damage range from children through reported," according to Dr. Murray, who found n~ighbor­
adults. hoods in Pacific Grove with 13 males per half-acre, while.
He said straw from haylofts where raccoons nest can be one male ra<;coon per three-acres is the norm in the wild.
a vehicle for roundworm infection, because it is often used} In his letter to the city Jan. 9, Murray said "the raccoon sit
as mulch in gardens. Woodpi~es are favored by the animals uation in Carmel is similar to that in adjc~ning Pacific
for use as latrines; when the wood is carried inside to the Grove." ·
fireplace, the eggs can stick to hands. The roundworm eggs All of the animals Murray tested in Pacific Grove were
remain viable for years, and are almost impossible to kill infected with roundworm, he said. They were also carrying
except by burning. Dogs can carry the p~asite and shed salmonella, giardia and cryptosporidium bacteri~. and can .· · . ··:0.· .. ·~. .... .. ...
live eggs also. carry rabies, distemper, encepbalitis, toxoplasmosis, tuber- ~·.
The roundworm larvae do their damage by moving culosis and several oth~r serious diseases. · .
through the body, destroying tissue along the way. "This study is not being done for the illumination of this
According to Kazacos, they get to the tissues via the blood community only, but for the whole Peninsula," said
vessels, and if they happen to go up the retinal arteries, a _ Kersnar. "Depending upon what we find, we may decide to
single larva can wreak havoc with the victim's eyesight. take further action to safeguard peop!e and prop~rty."
PHOTO/COURTESY 5AN)OSE STATE UNIVERSITY
Ophthalmologists have successfully treated some of the
victims of roundworm eye infection with lasers. According One month of trapping Raccoons infected with roundworms Iabove) con shed mil
lions of eggs every day iri their feces.
to the "Journal of Ophthalmoiogy" (1993, volume 10 0), a Murray revealed the parameters of the study in a letter
29-year old Northern California man with transient symp to the county health department Jan. 9. In the letter, he said
FARR
toms of vision loss and mild headaches was found to have the raccoon trapping will take approximately ·one month.
a live larva in his right eye. Dr. Marc Goldberg of the The Carmel Public Works Dept. will lend the biologists a
California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco peered ~ouple of pi~k-u·p trucks for use at night. The Chief of From page JA
through his ophthalmoscope and described what he saw: Police and Beach and Forestry Department have supplied
every day 7,000 acres of farmland and open space are~_ lost
"It's shape changed from a figure eight to a.n S-shaped_ aerial photographs and lot maps of Carmel to help set up
to development across the United States, and that all
appearance, progressing through snake-like slithering the study. Dr. Murray and Dr. Michael Kutilek, a wildlife
American communities face a challenge as
"p~eservation
movements clearly visible." Goldberg successfully killed biologist at San Jose State, _plan to use about 100 plastic
they grow and green space shrinks."
the parasite with a laser, and the patient recovered with box traps and carbon dioxide gas to euthanize the trappe~ To meet this challenge, the President said that he would
only mild vision loss. animals prior to autopsy. ·
propose a _$1 billion "livability agenda" to help communi
. Kazacos performed lab tests on 12 raccoons captured "Finally, we will need to make arrangements for dis
ties "save open space, ease traffic congestion and grow in
near the man's home, and eight of them were infected with posal of the animal carcasses," advised Murray. The local
ways th~t enhance every citizen's quality of life," plus a $1
roundworm parasites. SPCA, which strongly objected to trapping program in
th~ billion "Lands Legacy Initiative" to "preserve places of
Pacific Grove, has refused to continue accepting eutha-
natural beauty all across America - from the most remote
nized raccoon~. · ·
. wilderness to the nearest city park."
Mu-rray and Kutilek are providing their services, includ
With his eye firmly on the next Presidential election,
ing lab work, data collection and analysis, without char-ge.
Clinton then said that these two initiatives "couldY"'~­
Purdue's Kazacos and scientists at the State Health
been developed without the vision.ary leaders
Services Diagnostic Laboratory in Berkeley have to
~greed Vice President."
participate, according to Murray.
AI Gore is likely to be. the Party nominee
Demo~ratic
for president next "year.
Petition drive
"A bunch of us who are interested in the issue have
lt''eaturing. ..
Kersnar said the study is important because, "we need
formed a group called the Livable Cities Caucus, arid we're
)ioo 8 T.V • i~~el...... )ioo P ... A k.idi e.•Ce.f to know what to advise people who call for help with a rac planning to go to the early primary states - like New
Jarwee
~ree• T.V. fer aU M..4a7 . coon infestation in their ho_tnes or businesses." Both ~ayor Hampshire and Iowa - to make sure questions about con
l••itle file Baja tle•e ·••...U.II ..a rte. .. White and Police Chief Fuselier have received numerous
trolling growth are part of the debate," Farr said.
A ..r ltaek.! complaints fr9m locals about raccoon damage to homes
He said that Gore has shown "great leadership" on big
)ioo BBQ- file. .t.l. ~k and businesses. A petition signed by more than 100 people environmental . issues but was relatively unaware of the
i•ei...U.II fri tip. )ioo Tile fe.tiritie. Ma'-· in the Carmel area says the following:
impOrtance of local zoning decisions. "The Vice President
at I P·•·•.tll. .t "Due to the large poPJ.ilatlon of raccoons·i n the Carmel
-~..., -fu. .. has had no experience with local land-use planning," Farr
?
....• -4•..-e! area and the problems associated with this animal, we, the
said. ·
undersigned, urge the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea to rein
)loo E•j_, ~ f.a.• -• )ioo Free HaiRe at lla••U41 1 state animal control officer to resume the duties of pro But 'last week, Gore unv~iled a managed growth pro
·aita•a•~u ti.e fer eeel •t.rf ~n posal aimed at attacking urban sprawl.
tlri.k ·~ial• aU •a7 pri~l tecting the Health, Safety and Welfare of its residents and The plan would provide local governments with $9.5
visitors to contract with a California State Licensed
)ioo Fer •ere ooer.atio• er fer lartee part7 billion in interest-free bonds to encourage "smart growth,"
re.erYatie.• 48 or •ere~ CaD 62.1-22~2 Trapping firm to manage_t ~e population growth." Gore said. ·
Circulators of the petition can be reached at 620-6309
"What's happening is that other communities want to do
or 620-6311.
what Carmel bas done -to set the limits of growth and
stick to .them," Farr said of his hometown. "Here we are
just a $mall town by the sea. that appreeiates its aesthetics,
that says 'here we are, take it or leave it,' and other com
munities are starting to say the same thing," Farr said.
Growth and development have been hot political issues
in Carmel at least since 1922 when author Perry Newberry
campaigned for city council on a platform of keeping the
village's streets unpaved- an idea that would surely have
gotten him laughed out of nearly every other town in
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Downtown post office lot:
Don't even ofp arking -more than 10 minutes
THINK
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By KIRSTIE WILDE control signs on both sides of Fifth Avenue property owners, businesses and residents surprised by a parking ticket on their wind
· between· Dolores and'San Carlos streets. . in th~ area surrounding the post office shield after parking all night close to the
·EFFECTIVE NOW, the 10-mihute The Carmel Police Department is also parking lot, in the hopes that no one will be post office.
parking zones near the Carmel-by-the-Sea drafting a public information letter for all
post office will be enforced 24-hours a day.
Previously, the 10 -minute limit was
PATROL .Police buy new surveillance gear
enforced only betWeen the hours of 8 a.m.
and 6 p.m. ·
From' page JA -
Public Works crews are posting parking
Graduates who are will ~y KIRSTIE WilDE he said the department's
ing to take another eight surveillance equipment
10 hours of training in the use THE CARMEL ' was outdate~ or broken.
ToP SIGNS You'RE BEING oi police radios, communi Police Department has Carmel has no gear
cations techniques, types of $5,000 worth of new to spy on citizens out
RoBBED BY A DuMB GuY
service to be provided and equipment to keep an side the police station,
observational skills will be eye on suspects in their according to Uretsky.
1. After taking money, asks if you want a signed
eligible-for serving on the booking room, interview Another $3,000 grant
rec~ipt
Citizen Police patrols. room and holding cell. helped set up a Special
2. Knife he's holding bears the "Nerf'' logo.
They will wear "distinctive "If an arrested person Surveillance Overtime
3. In addition to wearing a ski mask, he's got skis
caps, shirts and jackets" claims we beat him.dur Fund, to pay the over
. and poles.
identifying them as vo~un­ ing interrogation, we Lt. Bill Uretsky time costs for conduct
· 4. When he's done, he says, "That was fun, now
teer police, and w.ill be will have the videotape ing covert stake-outs in
you mug me."
expected to work about one to prove that we didn't," explained Lt. high crime areas.
5. When you yell "Stop thief!", he does.
four.-hour shift per month. Bill Uretsky. The new cameras, monitors "We used that last year to catch a
6. Duong a police line-up he waves and shouts, .
Anyone interested is and audio packs were purchased with a man breaking into cars .parked near the
"Remember me?"
Local Law Envorcement Block Grant. . Mission," Uretsky added.
encouraged to. call Chief
7. Accepts lOU's.
Uretsky applied for the grant because
Fuselier or Lt. Uretsky at
8. Allows you to videotape him if _you promise
624-6403.
he'll be on "COPS." .
9. Claims he has a gun in his .pocket, but he's
naked.
10. Take~ y9ur wallet, then -just· ~tands there
admiring your family snapshots.
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ber I wanted to be," he said.
FrompagBlA But as a non-parent board member, Gray found that he
in the public sector. We are blessed with adequate funding was able to "neutral and detached."
and tremendous parent -participation." The district is holding a reception for Gray from 5 to 6
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Carmelites
Treatment helps.
Poetic Portraits
in Highway
with
~others.
68 head-on
AIDS keep their "Painting Pictures With Words"
PINE CONE . ·Unique Poetry·for Special Occasions, People, ·Pets, etc.
babies disease-free
STAFF REPORT
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· Karen Gardenhire Distinctive Ideas [phone]
Carmel girl whose mother
By TMM.RA GRIPPI
says "was really scared of
A
driving" was injured this
NEW treatment for pregnant women infected
week when her 1997
with HIV has made its impact in Monterey County,
Honda was struck head-on
dramatically reducing the chances of babies being
by a 1987 Buick driven by
born with the virus.
84-year-old Edmund Gra
While the Monterey County Hearth departmept
nata, also of Carmel.
doesn't compile figures on the success of the treat
The accident happened
ment for babies throughout Monterey County, some
on Highway 68 near the 17
local doctors specializing in AIDS cases say that the
Mile Drive overpass as .
treatment is already making a big difference.
Caroline Templeton, a stu
Natividad Medical. Center's Steve Saglio,
~.D.,
dent at Robert Louis
who has been handling the largest number of cases of
Stevenson School in
pregnant women infected with HIV ·in the county,
Pebble Beach, was headed
reports a 100 percent success rate for his patients
to Pacific Grove late
Tuesday for help with her
Antiretroviral AZT
math homework.
Women receiving_t he treatment begin taking the
"She was afraid to go
antiretroviral drug AZT during the 14th week of their
and we basically encour
pregnancy. Then during labor, the women receive the
aged her to be more coura
antiretroviral intravenously. After birth, the babies
geous about driving," Jean
receive AZT orally for six weeks.
Templeton said about her
A medical study completed in 1994 by the .Centers
daughter.
for Disease Control showed that giving the AZT treat
According to the CHP, t Great music selection! From 1 selling
ment during and after pregnancy reduced the chances ~e:No.
Now sounds, plus the
of babies being born with HIV from 25 percent to 8 Granata was heading uphill favorites! senes Left Behind
toward Highway 1 when he
percent.
began "swerving his vehi t Christian appare~ To be released Jan. 31st
"The effect was so profound that they had to stop games, videos, toys for ·
cle onto the shoulder" and
the study early on ethical grounds," said Andy kids, and much more. APOLLYON
into oncoming traffic. He
Handler, the senior health educator for Monterey t Huge selection of
barely missed several cars ·
County's HIV program. ~ Christian publications
before colliding with $17.97
Dr. Saglio said that doctors at Natividad were . in a wide variety of 01 I~ I'HH I
aware of the study and actually began administering . Templeton's vehicle, which languages WITH THIS AD
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Spreading the news bruises," according to her • ~ Mon -S4l /0 em 1o Tpm •
mother. Granata suffered a Llght/nlthe Boy, in a new llind of UJay!
. While the treatment stands as a major development
broken wrist, the CHP said.
in.stopping the spread of AIDS from mother to child,
the good· news has been slow to spread outside the
medical community. In fact, advertisements playing
on local radio stations are calling on an· women of
childbearing age to be tested for HlV, so they can be
treated if they get pregnant. All doctors providing pre
natal care are required by law to offer HleV testing to
their pregnant patients.
Mandatory testing, however, could be problematic,
Dr. Saglio said. "When they started mandatory HIV
·testing (for marriage licenses) in Illinois, people
wouldn't get married in the state of Illinois," he said.
"If we required it, a lot of women might avoid prena
tal care."
Dr. Saglio said most of his patients have agreed to
be tested for HIV. And according to Handler, all preg
nant women in Monterey County who are HIV-posi
tive are voluntarily taking the AZT treatments.
The medicine's only side effect on bat:Hes is mild,
temporary anemia, Dr. Saglio said.
While AZT helps the baby, it is not enough for the
mother if she also has a weakened immune system.
Dr. Saglio says those women often n~ more drugs,
called antiretroviral "cocktails" w't\.ich have not
caused side-effects for the babies,
eith~r.
Cutting edge
With o~going research about newborns contracting
HIV from their mothers, doctors are hopeful about
further reducing the spread of the disease.
. A study completed in France last summer with
2,000 participants showed that women undergoing the
AZT treatment who decide to have a caesarean sec
tion reduce the chance of transmitting the vinis to the
babies to .1 percent. "That's very dramatic data," Dr.
Saglio said. "It's the standard of care in Europe to
offer AZT and elective C-section."
However, the physician noted, the study also
showed that women who have to undergo an emer
gency C-section actually h·ave a higher rate of trans
mission to their babies - 13 percent, compared with
the 8 percent during normal deliveries.
In light of the -new information, Dr. Saglio said, "
HIV-positive women may want to choose elective C-
sections. ·
"Havi~g readily available trea~ent that drops the
risk of a baby being born sick to this low level is
excellent news," he said. "Elective C-section can drop
it even lower.':
However, he noted, those healthy babies still are at
ri k of losina their mothers to the AIDS virus, because
we are a long way from curing the disease in adults.
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C a r m e l Valley: ·t h·e h i d d e n liigh school
Story and photos CVHS is an answer to the observation that convention
By MARY BROWNFIELD , al schooling doesn't give every student the education he or
Holt:
she needs, .according to English teacher Leslie Holt. Holt,
SoME PEOPLE think of "Valley" as the place where who has been teaching at the school for the last three years,
the bad kids go, while others don't even says it fills a void that some students feel '
know it exists. · But few know what at larger schools. • 'We take them
Carmel Valley High School is really "They've had problems with atten J
with.a clean slate
a.b9ut, especially now that higher state dance, don't like the big school setting, or
mandated standards no longer let stu have discipline problems," she says. and work with
dents just "skate through." "They do well with us because we take them one-on-one.'
Carmel Valley High School (CVHS), them with a clean slate and work with
known to some simply as "Valley," is a them one-on-'one. It relieves the pressures
continuation school located off Schulte of a larger school."
Road in Carmel Valley. The tiny school <;ontinuation schools have been part of .
offers .alternative education to those who the educational system since 1919. They
have chosen to leave their large public serve 70,000 students in California each More hours and more work
schools, those who w~t to complete year, roughly 10-15 percent of the student Since its creation three decades ago, Valley has suffered
their required high schOQI education as population. According to Fuessenich, each a reputation as a lax school for kids who want to skate
quickly as possible and those who have been .forced out of . sehool has its own style and distinctive traits. At Valley, through hjgh school or who have been banished from the
.. . their prior schools. CVHS PrinCipal Blake Fuessenich classes are held five days a week, from 8 to 11:45 a.m. standard high school system. That perception has changed
says, "We have provided a program that deals with kids Students take five classes per day, and are invited to stay with the recent drive towards improved public education,
who are disaffected - often very bright but underachiev through the afternoon, to work on independent studies and says Holt, whp ·also taught at" the school in the late '70s.
ing- where there's a threat of just leaving school.'~ other projects that will enable them to earn their required "Now there are more hours and more work required to get
. credits more quickly. the same number of credits. The state-wide movement
Sydney Edwards, a 17.:year-old who moved here with towards higher standards in education has filtered down to
her mother from San Jose last year, came to CVHS in us," she says.
August as a junior, after Carmel High told her she was As a result, CVHS earned its accreditation from the
short on credits. Though technically a junior in .terms of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the organi
time she's spent in school, Edwards has now earned zation responsible for accrediting all of the high schools
enough credits to be a senior. "[Being sent to Valley] and colleges in the western states. "They tell you where·
turned out to be a better thing for me," she says. you should be as far as your standards go," Holt says. "lt's
According to Holt, the school serves mostly older stu been a huge change. Finally, students at Carmel High are
dents, though some freshmen and sophomores occasional hearing that it's different, that it's not as easy as they
ly enroll. Many come to CVHS because they are falling .thought it would be."
behind or need to make up a failed class. "When they fin Fuessenich $ays the school avoided taking the accredit
ish; they get a regular diploma, just like the one at the high ed route for a while, due to the organization's tende!lCY to
school." be prescriptive in its recommendations. "The accreditation
was viewed as something that was necessary to show our
top accountability," he says. "We wanted to show our students
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