By KELLY NIX
T
HE GROUP calling for a public takeover of
California American Water promises that the move will
drastically lower monthly rates for the Peninsula’s 38,000
water customers, ensure better service and put control of
the water supply into local hands — and that it won’t
delay the effort to build a desal plant.
But with all the purported benefits, pursuing a
takeover seems to have little support from prominent
Peninsula organizations and community leaders.
“We have never felt it made financial sense to the tax-
payers to put [the water supply] into public hands,” Rick
Heuer with the Monterey Peninsula Taxpayers
Association told The Pine Cone. “There is no way you are
going to save money.”
“The voters of the Peninsula have rejected the idea in
the past,” Moe Ammar, president of the Pacific Grove
Chamber of Commerce said. “It is a waste of resources
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Tournament
CEO
was
suffocating at volunteers’ party
By PAUL MILLER
C
OMPETITION IN the first round of the
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am had to
be suspended Thursday morning because of
heavy rains, leaving pros and celebrities idle as
officials scrambled to remake the schedule.
But while that was keeping the event’s CEO,
Steve John, busy at the tournament, another
pretty important thing was on his
mind: The night before, at the
party to honor the tournament’s
volunteers, John got a piece of
cheese lodged in his throat, and
Clint Eastwood saved him from
suffocating by using the
Heimlich maneuver.
“Clint saved my life,” John
said.
The party at the Monterey
Conference Center was in full
swing and performances by
Kenny G, Tom Dreesen and other
celebrities who are playing in the
tournament had just ended, John
said. He was standing and chat-
ting with VIPs and eating some
hors d’oeuvres when, all of a sudden, he was in
a life-threatening situation. “We were just talk-
ing,” John said. “A piece of cheese went in my
mouth, and suddenly I couldn’t breathe. It was
as bad as it could have been.”
“I looked in his eyes and saw that look of
panic people have when they see their life pass-
ing before their eyes,” Eastwood told The Pine
Cone. “It looked bad.”
“Clint came up behind me, and he knew
exactly what to do,” John said. “He did the
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The Monterey Peninsula's big golf weekend is under way, and there's already news from the links, as heavy rain forced play to be suspended for almost three hours Thursday morning. But even bigger news happened the night before, when Clint Eastwood saved the life of the tournament's CEO at a party ... more preview.
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I heard about this today and luckily I found it in a newspaper there.
Here is another source:
- San Jose Mercury News - 2 hours agoClint Eastwood made the day of AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am executive Steve John on Wednesday night, and perhaps saved his life in ...
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