Good work @downinmonterey. Helen Kingsley was my grandmother who passed away in 1992 in a car accident. She was only 68 at the time. My grandmother was a fine community member and Dave Mora and the city council named a wing at the community center after her.
Ted Thau was a wonderful man and lawyer. He lived around the corner from my grandmother on Amherst Dr. near my grandmothers San Vincente home in S. Salinas. My grandmother's home was a frequent gathering spot for the civic minded and I was there often. My mother was my
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grandmother's right hand and spent a lot of time with Richard, Ted and Helen discussing the $100,000 (a lot of money to raise for #Salinas back then).
My grandmother has a way of getting things done for the benefit of our wonderful community of #Salinas and she inspired me.
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I have wonderful memories from that period of time, when my grandmother was living and your piece is one of those reminders of a time when community worked well together and there was a lot less partisanship in politics - believe it or not.
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Ladies and gentlemen and madame District Attorney @JeanninePacioni, I am proud to report that Jeff Woods has blocked @knowledge1422 and a pseudonym account I have for politics on Facebook. Apparently Jeff took issue with the truth about his buddy - ret. narc Archie Warren.
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Last I remember Jeff Woods made 80 youtube videos solely on Sheriff Scott Miller and his family.
He wasn't acting alone. Woods was encouraged to create many works of fiction at the behest of - fired cmdr. Mike Richards, Archie Warren and a couple other mischievous types.
“In the early to mid-’70s, [real estate developer] Ben Swig, Chief Justice Earl Warren, and former California Governor Pat Brown, among others, owned Cannery Row and at that time they wanted to get rid of it,” Balestreri says.
“The Coastal Commission was being formed and things were getting tougher and tougher to develop. I went up to see Swig who owned huge hotels in San Francisco.