“Belmont doesn’t have an established downtown,” he says. “So the hydrants made it feel like a community. It made me proud to be from Belmont.”
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Capturing Beauty
The worst disaster to hit Belmont California was the day I posted on the Belmont Historical Society Facebook, Cynthia McCarthy confesses to starting a fight with me. On day six, Denny Lawhern makes his grand appearance, and tells me what post he likes, and dislikes. When the smoky bullshitting cleared, neither my sister, the world famous artist, Christine Rosamond Benton, made it into the archive, nor my grandfather, Royal Rosamond, is there. I am not – there! Missioned accomplished!
Both Lawhern and McCarthy understood, if they SPARED CHRISTINE – I would have an eternal foot in the door. So, they historically assassinated my Dead Sister – and the history of the Benton family! It was all too much for them! Oh so grand! It competed with Denny’s Painted Fire Hydrants, his big art happening.
Ten days ago Casey Farrell told me on the phone he had written down the BAD THINGS I said about him.
“For whose edification did you do that? You told me you were not writing anything!”
I suspect Farrell had contacted the powers that be in Belmont, and presented himself as The Sane One, who is forced to take over the Rosamond Family Legacy for the sake of art. He stabbed me in the back four years ago after I told him I was going to sue the Buck Foundation. All of a sudden – he was there – on a bench, waiting to apply for a grant!
Many times Farrell has said it blows his mind why no one has given me millions of dollars. He bugs me to go get my million. Is it possible he invented a Fake Drew Benton, and a Fake Dead Nephew in order to get his foot in the Belmont Door – that likes its Culture – utterly innocuous, and devoid of any real meaning! Not so my poem about the Amazon Fire I sent to Monica Korde to be included in poems about Earth Day. She messaged me back, saying it was not clear what I wanted. Did Cynthia alarm her about me…..THE HUMAN DISASTER? I think so. She knows I discovered Carl Janke’s remains were dug up in the middle of the night – and moved to Redwood City! Guess what? I get to author an epic point about his degradation of the dead, along the line of Walt Whiteman. I will reveal how Farrell attached himself to this defilement of the dead, he claiming his people were Odd Fellows too, I suspect he has been recording our telephone conversations.
I think I can write and say almost anything I want due to Walmart soliciting a revue of the Blue Urn they claim they sent me. I got the DISASTER urn instead.I own two Pandoras Box, snd a Jenn and Muse! I hear voices coming from both urns! How about you? The Blue Urn represend Belmont, and the Black urn…. DESTROYED PACIFIC PALISADES
As I type, thousands of people are asking why there was no WARNING & PREPERATION! Didn’t anyone see this Firestorm coming? Well….I’m going to present the possibility I saw it coming in my poem I sent the Poet Laurate of Belmont/ What did she do with this poem? Conisder Joan of Acre!
I am forced to consider if Casey Farrell has contacted Cynthia McCarthy in order to write another history book employing my copyrighted family history I privately discussed with my Judas. I should be doing paintings! Instead I am beating off vultures hovering over Dead Drew, and Dead Christine!
Here is my defense – and counter attack! Why didn’t Denny Lawhern offer to help me do the genealogy of Christine Rosamond Benton – knowing she was a FAMOUS great, great, great granddaughter of Founder and 49er, Carl Janke? Denny has recorded his expertise in doing genealogies, he helping citizens of Belmont get started with their Family Trees, employing City Spaces. This reeks of CONSPIRACY! How about FRAUD, being, my family history is all but wiped out, while Lawhern’s utterly BORING HISTORY is everwhere. Lawhern and McCarthy LOOTED my family photographs – and used them to make money. Consider the ten thousand victims of the LA fires now saying what I have been saying – for thrity years!
Has Farrell joined the Looters? He too is showing no empathy. I suspect Ghoul and Stalking Parasite, Casey Farrell took lessons from Lawhern, and is trying to attaché Dead Drew to his family tree in order to to exploit her history. Casey is childless, and has been banned form much social media for pushing his Green Swastika Child Learning Method. I see…
GREEN SWASTIKAS IN PARK
There needs to be twenty foot sprinklers in Twin Pines Park At least thirty! Are there smoke and fire alarms? Mayor Reed and his wife built a huge old folks at the edge of the of the park. Is there an evacuation plan?
Here’s my point, hundreds of Historic Societies have already made the case, that families of Pioneers have show the most interest in preserving what their ancestors made. What happened in Belmont? Lawhern was on the board of developers – who want no restriction in order to attract investors, who probably have much stock in insurance companies – who will not be paying out to victims of the LA fire! Indeed, all of LA is being abandoned by Insurance Fraudsters!
Here is the beggining of your art lesson. What urn is the most dangerous, the incoculus blue urn, or, the urn with the sinking Titanic?
John Presco
Presdient: Royal Rosamomd Press
Dear Monica Korde
I am very impressed with all the work you have done as poet Laureate of Belmont California.
I penned a small poem fpr Poetry Month and the Great Project.
A Poetic Crack
by
John Presco
I penned a small poem
Like the crack
in a famous bell
And the world poured in
I was flooded with a freedom
I never knew
But, this freedom knew me
and had missed me
for how long
only a fellow poet can tell
The Amazons of Yellowstone
by
John Janke
The Amazon forest
burns hot tonight
my love.
Soon
there will be no oxygen
in the air
To breath, my love
my love of air
is no equal
to my memory of you
In the last
of everything
in the consuming sparks
that dance around the moon
I save my last breath
for you
For you
my last sigh
Lawrence Alma-Tadema‘s water-colour of an ambivalent
The Story Behind Belmont’s Painted Fire Hydrants
Two of Belmont’s decommissioned ‘Happy Hydrants.’ (Suzie Racho/KQED)
After Ben Hilmer and his wife, Sarah, had a baby, he began taking daily walks with his daughter around his Belmont Hills neighborhood. He called this trek “dad loop.” And on “dad loop,” a fire hydrant caught his eye. It’s painted as a patriotic character, sporting a fading blue hat, and red-and-white striped pants.
Before long, Ben was noticing more and more of these decorated hydrants around town.
“Belmont doesn’t have an established downtown,” he says. “So the hydrants made it feel like a community. It made me proud to be from Belmont.”
Now he wants to know more about the hydrants. He asked Bay Curious: “Who painted the fire hydrants? And when were they painted?”
The Origin Story
We took Ben to visit his friendly local historian: Denny Lawhern. Denny has lived in Belmont more than 50 years, and he says the story of the hydrants goes back to the early 1970s.
The United States was preparing to celebrate its 200th birthday — the Bicentennial — in 1976. Communities around the country hosted parades, fireworks displays and concerts — and a few towns gave their fire hydrants patriotic makeovers. Belmont was among them.
The idea was inspired by a program called “Paint a Plug For America,” which originated in Indiana.
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Belmont Appoints Monica Korde Poet Laureate
As Belmont Mayor Charles Stone announced the appointment of Monica Korde to the position of Poet Laureate for the City of Belmont, Korde read a poem to City Council titled ‘To Rise’ and shared a preview of the poetry projects she had planned for Belmont.
Korde is a poet and former educator, born and raised in Ahmedabad, India. She has a Master’s degree in English and a Diploma in French language. Her poems have been published in various online literary journals and anthologies, receiving recognition and prizes in County poetry events.
She was also a co-judge for the first annual WordSlam Youth Poetry Contest and has worked with local poets to organize events that amplify youth voices. She has been working as a community volunteer for her local library for many years and has been co-hosting Poets Night, a bi-monthly open mic. She has resided in Belmont for seven years.
Korde focuses on the ability of poetry to connect people with one another. She states, “My goal is to break free from the stereotypes around poetry, to demystify it, and make it approachable for everyone…. Belmont is a mountain carrying many cultures and a multitude of voices with myriad stories to tell. My vision is to unify these diverse voices through poetry by offering creative spaces to celebrate the written and the spoken word, especially to harness the talents of the youth and build out a new canon of poets within the city of Belmont.”
Anna Koch, Belmont’s recently appointed Library Manager, looks forward to collaborating with Korde. “We are truly grateful to have [Korde] as our newest Poet Laureate. She is a huge fan of libraries and the Belmont Library in particular. Her mission using poetry to connect is similar to our mission to connect communities with libraries and all that they offer.”
“The City of Belmont is pleased to continue to encourage the art of poetry in its programs and its parks. [Korde’s] vision for bringing poetry to everyone’s attention will do just that,” said Brigitte Shearer, Parks and Recreation Director.
The Belmont Library and Belmont Parks and Recreation Department will work with and support the Poet Laureate as she introduces her poetry projects to the community.
Becoming Poet Laureate
The Poet Laureate must be a Belmont resident recognized for their poetry and literary contributions who embraces opportunities to make poetry more accessible to the public. They must be willing to serve as an ambassador for the City of Belmont and participate in public events such as readings, workshops, and school presentations. The Poet Laureate contributes to a minimum of three community events annually, works to encourage poetry in schools, opens one City Council meeting with a poem annually, and must write at least one commemorative poem about Belmont during their tenure. Poet Laureates are selected by a committee of local literary experts and serve a 3-year term. When we are accepting applications, we will add a link to the application here. In the meantime, questions may be directed to parksrec@belmont.gov or (650) 595-7441.
Belmont Poet Laureates
- Tanuja Wakefield (2014-2018)
- Jacki Rigoni (2018-2021)
- Monica Korde (2021-present)
Program History
Belmont’s Poet Laureate program was established in 2014 and is administered by
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Press ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Belmont Poet Laureate kicks off her signature initiative ‘Project POETRY 360’April is National Poetry Month, and the City of Belmont is gearing up for it. There will be poetry events and exhibits around the neighborhood for everyone to explore and experience. These poetry exhibits are part of ‘Project POETRY 360’, a community-wide initiative created by Belmont Poet Laureate Monica Korde.From April 1 to April 30, people can engage with two features Korde has designed under this initiative: QR Decode Poetry and Community POETree.QR Decode Poetry is an interactive digital exhibit of poetry in public spaces and gives the citizens an experience of fun in its discovery. Accessible via QR Codes, scattered and installed around the City of Belmont, these colorful signs encourage passers-by into scanning them on their smartphones. Each QR code is unique and reveals a poem from a curated online collection by Korde, featuring poems by local poets who have contributed. People can find joy and meaningful connection in their reading and can share their discovery on social media.Featured poets in this project will read their work at the ‘Poetry Celebration’ organized by Korde with Belmont Parks & Rec, on April 17 at the Twin Pines Senior and Community Center patio. The event is free and open to the public.“I want to raise the visibility of poets, of poetry and demystify the form by removing it from its usual setting. Poetry breathes and lives through its community and I also want to create alternative spaces for it to thrive and connect with all ages, particularly reaching the youth through digital mediums,” said Korde. “That is why, I came up with Project POETRY 360, which aims to cultivate the concept of having poetry all around us, inhabiting our physical & virtual spaces, equally.” As a part of Project POETRY 360, this is also the first time a digital platform for poetry is being launched by the City of Belmont.Community POETree, is a non-virtual feature that will run concurrently. This public art installation at the Belmont Library invites all visitors to write a spring-themed verse in the form of haiku, couplet or free verse on a leaf-shaped paper and string it onto a branch representing the ‘POETree’. People can find inspiration from sample poems written and displayed by Korde. The contributed verses will be later collected by her to create a community poem.“Like spring flowers, poetry will be blossoming soon in all corners of Belmont,” said Korde. Among other events, the poetry month celebrations will continue with a poetry reading party on April 26, honoring winners from the Belmont Poetry Contest of 2022, welcoming all to join in, hosted by the Belmont Library with the Belmont Poet Laureate. |
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Belmont Poet Laureate Monica Korde invites you for a New Year Special Poetry Night. Step into a night of renewal and poetic inspiration at a cozy ‘Fireside Poetry Open Mic’ in Belmont’s historic Twin Pines Manor. This special evening will feature an enchanting musical performance by the student-led Harmony Ensemble. Following the music, the mic is yours! Whether you’re a seasoned poet or stepping up for the first time, bring an original poem or a favorite one to read. Bilingual readings are warmly encouraged & celebrated! Open to all ages & experiences. Warm up with hot chocolate and refreshments, provided for all attendees.
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Join us on Tuesday, November 19th for this month’s Virtual Poetry Night with our Belmont Poet Laureate, Monica Korde
In the theme ‘Gratitude! For the Arts’, featuring poet and artist Esther Kamkar.
To sign up for the Open Mic portion of the evening, please email Monica at: monicakorde@gmail.com and write “Open Mic” in the Subject.
For more information and to register, click the link in our bio and select ‘Virtual Poetry Night’.
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Belmont Weekly News for Jan. 10, 2025
City of Belmont California sent this bulletin at 01/10/2025 01:00 PM PST
View as a webpage / ShareJanuary 10, 2025 Wildfire Mutual Aid & Emergency PreparednessThis week, our hearts go out to our friends and neighbors in Los Angeles as they face devastating wildfires. We are grateful to our San Mateo Consolidated Fire Department and their willingness to provide mutual aid to Southern California during this challenging time. Currently, 12 firefighters, one battalion chief, and four fire engines have been sent to the front lines, supporting efforts to contain the fires. Despite their deployment, our fire stations remain fully staffed and ready to serve and protect the communities of Belmont, Foster City, and San Mateo.This week has served as a reminder to continue our efforts in emergency preparedness. Residents can sign up for SMC Alert, San Mateo County’s primary alert and warning system. SMC Alert is used to contact you during urgent or emergency situations, which may include life safety, fire, weather, accidents involving utilities or roadways, or disaster notifications. It’s free, and you can choose your language preference. The County of San Mateo also offers resources to help you create an emergency preparedness plan.We encourage all residents to sign up for SMC Alert, learn your evacuation zone through Know Your Zone, create a “Go Bag” using CAL FIRE’s checklist, and learn about other fire prevention resources. How You Can HelpMany residents have asked how they can assist our neighbors in Southern California. While several relief efforts are underway, we urge you to thoroughly vet any organization before donating to avoid scams. One trusted option is the American Red Cross, which has a dedicated Wildfire Relief Fund. Your contributions can help provide shelter, food, and other essentials to those in need. Thank you for your continued support in keeping our community safe and helping those affected by this disaster. |
Palisades Lost
Days after a devastating wildfire, residents of Pacific Palisades have started sifting through the ruins, and their memories.
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By Billy Witz
Reporting from Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles.
- Jan. 12, 2025Updated 2:36 p.m. ET
This weekend was supposed to be an ordinary one in Pacific Palisades. Boy Scout Troop 223 was planning a weekend camp-out at Malibu Creek. The local youth baseball tryouts were scheduled at Palisades Recreation Center’s Field of Dreams. Sunday morning was a time for the farmer’s market just off Sunset Boulevard, for picking over produce and grass-fed meat while kibitzing with neighbors.
For as long as anyone here can remember, the Palisades have been a bucolic corner of Los Angeles, its houses dotting the narrow roads that meander through the canyons that are tucked between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Those who could afford to live in those homes were drawn by its slower pace, far enough from the freeway hamster wheel to get lost in the Technicolor sunsets over the water.
Now those neighborhoods are hardly recognizable after wind-whipped fire roared through one enclave after another, leaving in its wake homes that were burned to the ground, cars that were incinerated and lives that were shattered.
“There’s nothing left,” said Darby Woods, a local real estate agent who lost her home in the fire. “It literally looks like what you see on TV in Ukraine. It looks like we’re in a war zone and there’s no reinforcements coming. It’s just decimated.”
When the wind calmed down on Thursday and attention began to turn to other areas of Los Angeles where the fires raged, residents trickled in to pockets of Pacific Palisades to see what remained of their homes — and of the lives they’d built there.
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The acrid smell of smoke hung over the Palisades’ Castellammare neighborhood, up on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. A man on a motorbike was offering burritos to the hungry, and two others in vehicles were delivering water to the thirsty as firefighters scoured smoldering lots for signs of fires not yet extinguished.
A man with a shovel in hand trudged up a hill to his mother’s home, intent on retrieving her medication, family photos and shutting off any water and gas valves that remained open.
The signs of the fire’s unpredictability were inescapable.
Two doors down on Tranquillo Road, a house on the market for $5.35 million had been rendered a smoldering pile of wood, metal and stone — the agent’s sign was the only thing untouched. Nearby, trees outside a house were nothing but charred limbs, while across the street, a lemon tree with ripe fruit stood sentry at a front door.
Wandering the neighborhood looking to help was Randy Stoklos. He was born on Tranquillo, traveled the world as a beach volleyball star and bought the house next door to his parents’ place in 1989 for $630,000.
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“There’s beautiful places all over the world, but this is Shangri-La,” said Mr. Stoklos, 64, who never left his home when the fires hit, waking up at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday to fend off embers with a garden hose. “There’s clean, fresh air — you don’t need air conditioning — and the sunsets are incredible. Until recently, I never locked the door.”
Brendan Armm and his partner Sunshine Armstrong were trying to process it all. Mr. Armm, an acupuncturist, had parked his Tesla on the Pacific Coast Highway and walked up to join Ms. Armstrong in saving his home and others. They also rescued a neighbor’s puppy. But when he returned to his car, it had gone up in flames, as had a condominium he owns.
“We lost a condo and a car and saved a bunch of homes and a puppy,” Mr. Armm said. “I think we’re doing OK.”
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Residents in this area had long considered a disaster like this. The Woolsey fire in Malibu in 2018 had been a warning, as had California’s near perpetual drought.
And yet.
“This is a wealthy town,” Mr. Armm said. “The assumption is it’s not going to happen here. Then I hear from my partner that my home is on fire. There’s going to be a reckoning because of this shared trauma. People are going to adapt their values. How important are those expensive shoes or watch when it’s gone like this? The community is going to change.”
Just then, a vehicle pulled up and Jim McDonnell, the Los Angeles police chief, stepped out to offer his condolences to the couple. He and his officers had been touring the area. They had seen the devastation on television, but now they could feel it.
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“You can’t explain this to somebody unless they see it,” the chief said, staring out at jaw-dropping views of the ocean — views that were only possible because a house that had been there two days earlier was there no longer.
There are two roads into Castellammere — one entrance to the east off Sunset Boulevard, the other to the west from the Pacific Coast Highway. When the evacuation order came on Tuesday morning, Ted Radin, 77, left the home he had bought in 1977 and made his way down to the highway. He crossed the pedestrian bridge to the beach and then turned around and studied the hillside for hours.
He saw embers land on a home, then watched as the flames spread like fingers around a jewel box until it was engulfed. Then another. And another. It felt methodical, almost inexorable. As the sun set, Mr. Radin, a retired actuary who doesn’t use email and carries a flip phone, made another risk calculation.
The Story Behind Belmont’s Painted Fire Hydrants
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Two of Belmont’s decommissioned ‘Happy Hydrants.’ (Suzie Racho/KQED)
After Ben Hilmer and his wife, Sarah, had a baby, he began taking daily walks with his daughter around his Belmont Hills neighborhood. He called this trek “dad loop.” And on “dad loop,” a fire hydrant caught his eye. It’s painted as a patriotic character, sporting a fading blue hat, and red-and-white striped pants.
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Before long, Ben was noticing more and more of these decorated hydrants around town.
“Belmont doesn’t have an established downtown,” he says. “So the hydrants made it feel like a community. It made me proud to be from Belmont.”
Now he wants to know more about the hydrants. He asked Bay Curious: “Who painted the fire hydrants? And when were they painted?”
The Origin Story
We took Ben to visit his friendly local historian: Denny Lawhern. Denny has lived in Belmont more than 50 years, and he says the story of the hydrants goes back to the early 1970s.
The United States was preparing to celebrate its 200th birthday — the Bicentennial — in 1976. Communities around the country hosted parades, fireworks displays and concerts — and a few towns gave their fire hydrants patriotic makeovers. Belmont was among them.
The idea was inspired by a program called “Paint a Plug For America,” which originated in Indiana.
Denny says Belmont was also marking 50 years of cityhood when residents came together to decorate more than 300 of the city’s hydrants.
“When you decided what colors you needed, you came to my house and I gave you little baby-food jars of three colors, or 20 colors, or whatever you needed,” says Judy King, a longtime volunteer with the Belmont Historical Society.
The hydrants even got a plug on KQED’s television show, ArtBeat:
At Belmont’s History Room in Twin Pines Park, Denny shows us three big photo albums documenting the hydrant project.
“I did a Betsy Ross,” Denny says. “And there are probably four to five Betsy Rosses around town, but all of them are different.”
In the albums are a few designs that definitely wouldn’t get the OK today, including a Chinese man in a coolie hat with a Fu Manchu mustache, and a Native American character called “Chief Running Water.” But Denny says, for the most part, the designs focused on the patriotic.
The Hydrants Today
Over the years, due to age or damage, the army of painted hydrants has shrunk. They were almost wiped out completely in the ’90s, when the 1991 East Bay Hills Fire changed state law. All fire hydrants had to be painted in uniform colors to identify water capacity. But Belmont’s “Happy Hydrants” were saved thanks to SB 1437, a bill signed in 1998. It allowed Belmont to use color-coded reflector buttons and curb markings near the decorated hydrants, instead of covering over their dapper duds.
Today, Denny thinks there are only about 50 to 60 of the more than 300 original painted hydrants left. And most are in rough shape. He says that a lot of the painted hydrants were in front of people’s houses, and that upkeep dried up as families moved away.
There have been a few Independence Day paintings after the Bicentennial, but nothing official. Denny hopes they can get enough interest to repaint them for Belmont’s 100th anniversary in 2026.
Not Worthy To Bury Our Dead
Posted on December 23, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
“So in that setting the contentiousness amongst family members, once again able to hate each other face to face as they had not in years, boiled to the surface.”
Tom Snyder ‘When You Close Your Eyes
Greetings! My name is John Gregory Presco, and, I might be the last Presco standing come this season of Joy. I was disqualified from knowing if my brother, Mark Presco, is still alive, because Sydney Morris ruled the head of our family should be Stacey Pierrot. The partner of Robert Brevoort Buck claimed Pierrot can better handle our family information, and to prove it, she had Tom Snyder disqualify The Prescos in his biography ‘When You Close Your Eyes’. This slander hurt my reputation as an artist, and, caused others to see me as a criminal lunatic – and looter! Ho! Ho! Ho!
Even Nazis convicted of war crimes were told their family members were dying – and dead. I was not told my father was dead, my sister Vicki was dead, my mother was dying, and, the whereabouts of my brother. But, this is O.K. This is a celebrity family, and the world gets to do hideous things to famous people and their family. What can they do? They are helpless to defend themselves. However, some are fighting back employing powerful attorneys – for a pretty penny! I wish Santa would bring me a big bag of money! I would give most of it away to a – LAWYER! Merry! Merry!
Below are two pages from Sydney’s report. He says my family fought, and Christine had not paid taxes in many years. How about Garth Benton? Did he get stuck with the IRS audit? Morris FAILED TO END THE FAMILY HATE by anointing honorary family members. WHAT? This is an attorney! Divorce Attorneys make a Trillion Dollars a year off family chaos and discord. Family argument are a good thing – if you have a law degree!
Pierrot, Snyder, and Sidney fail to mention Garth and Drew Benton were not and Christine’s funeral. Perhaps that infamous and tortured look on my sister’s face was caused by the absence of her daughter – Drew Benton? Shannon was admonished in Snyder’s Book of Woe – for being late. Drew was at her mother’s house – a hour after the funeral. She needs to be put on a witness stand and asked if she saw any looting. Garth was not there. I never lay eyes on my brother-in-law who is dead. Morris says Christine and Drew were walking on a beach when the “rogue wave” struck. There is no beach at Rocky Point. A ten year probate was held – WITH NO REAL DEATH SCENE! The recording of our family fighting that Buck and Morris commissioned is – SCIENCE FICTION! There was no looting. My family acted like normal people due when they lose a loved one. Tom snyder – STARTED FIGHTS – in his book. He never knew us. He is a PAID ghost writer. Stacey Pierrot got to read the rough draft.
“Look! Over there Mr. Tax Man! See the Prescos fighting. I just want to save the art!”
Is it possible that Morris made Garth the SECRET HEAD of the Prescos because he and Christine had a EVIL DIVORCE that was just finalized when Christine drowned. Garth had the Child Heir in his corner. Everyone hated Shannon. Pierrot and Belford offered to buy the estate – before the funeral! Of course they had to get Benton’s O.K. Was Garth headed to the Fed Lock-up for tax evasion? You need the poor tragic child survivor as a human shield – AND DECOY!
So, in their need to evade the IRS, Tom Snyder carries on the hateful family tradition thanks to Morris – who may have known about the original offer by Jacci – Pierrot’s best friend in High School – who was the General Manager of the Rosamond Gallery, and thus it was her job to make sure the taxes are paid. Jacci got Stacey hired at the gallery after she inherited some money – that might have been invested in Rosamond Women Images. Did Pierrot want to keep Jacci our of prison? Who would want to keep Stacey out of prison? Meet the very wealthy father of Stacey who might want to get the best attorneys money can buy – in on the game of musical tax evading chairs. Christine’s autobiography – was disappeared! Were her lost words – her entry into the Tax Fraud Game? In the place of first hand knowledge – we get a fucking evil SMOKE SCREEN!
Alan Pierrot – Artist | Rosamond Press
Here is our woeful tale that is right out of Charles Dickens. Have yourself a Un-happy Dickenish X-Mas
John Presco
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Jacci and Brian Pflieger | Rosamond Press
Published: Dec. 31, 2010
THE OWNERS of one of Pacific Grove’s best known inns owe more than $200,000 in back taxes, according to the city, which is in the process of trying to recoup the lost revenue as the inn’s owners make their way through federal bankruptcy court.
According to city officials, the operators of Lighthouse Lodge and Suites, Jacci and Brian Pflieger, owe $231,602 in transient occupancy tax — the 10 percent tax innkeepers in Pacific Grove collect from visitors and are required to pay to the city every quarter, the city’s budget director said.
“And that expression was not on her face in the casket. Instead, what I saw there was totally freaked me out. Because it was utter fear. Even with all the cosmetics, they hadn’t been able to erase that look.
So in that setting the contentuousness amongst family members, once again able to hate each other face to face as they had not in years, boiled to the surface. Everyone seemd furiously self-righteous about something. If it is possible for the recently departed to have a final glimpse, Christine would have had a sardonic chuckle at the characters on stage. Karen Snyder Colby, a friend from days on San Sebastian Avenue, and close to vicki for years, had done part of the euology. Now like everyone else, was missing the essence of Christine, the child-woman she had grown up with.
I could imagine what her comments would be.” Karen recalls. “And she would say it very quickly, in a breathy voice with little pauses. And then she’s laugh that laugh of hers, which would take everyone else with her on the ride.”
“Before the service, Vicki had taken the trouble to go through Christine’s
bedroom, putting her jewelry and intimate belongings out of sight. As matters
turned out, it did little good, for the funeral was not long over before family
members and others were ravaging Christine’s house, taking whatever could be carted away. The artist’scloset, a veritable mother lode – took the worst
beating. World-class spender that Christine had been, much of the clothing had never been worn. So whatever still bore price tags was hauled off to be
exchanged for money. Jewelry disappeared, as well as other personal belongings. Gallery employees and close friends of the family, along with Vicki, were doing their best to staunch the flow – the estate had not yet been inventoried – but to no avail.”
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