The Weekly Tally 09.01.16

WHO’S IN TOWN?

Many students at the Middlebury Institute come up with all kinds of business ideas that have international potential. This week, Anna Schlegelcomes to town to speak to graduate students about her new book, Truly Global: The Theory and Practice of Bringing Your Company to International Markets, with ideas on what a business needs to do to succeed in other countries. Schlegel is the senior director of globalization and information engineering at the Fortune 500 company NetApp Inc., which provides software and systems to store and manage data – some of the behind-the-scenes details that she says can help cultivate success.

Noon-1:15pm Tuesday, Sept. 6. McGowan building, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, 411 Pacific St. Free; not open to the public. 647-4100, www.miis.edu.

WHAT’S UP WITH THAT

A reader wanted to know what was up with all the tree-trimming in Marina recently, at Imjin Parkway and Abrams Drive (across from Ord Market). There’d been overgrown trees dangerously blocking visibility between cars coming around the bend and pedestrians crossing the street. The city of Marina hired an inmate work crew from Gabilan Camp near Soledad, on their way to fighting the Soberanes Fire, to do some urban trail clearing and trim back the obstructing tree branches.

OVERHEARD

“You said you wouldn’t eat all the croissants.”
“That’s your own fault. You know I’m a liar when it comes to carbs.”
Two 20-somethings in the food court at Northridge Mall in Salinas

GOOD WEEK / BAD WEEK

Good:

It’s been a good week for Selka the sea otter, who became the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s newest resident of the sea otter exhibit. Things have really come full circle for the tough otter. Four years ago, when Selka was just a week old, she was rescued by aquarium staff after she was found abandoned in Cayucos. She was nursed back to health and released into the wild. But eight weeks later, she was found in Moss Landing Harbor with shark bites, and she joined the Long Marine Lab at UC Santa Cruz. In her new home at the aquarium, the hope is that she will become a surrogate mother to five otter pups already in the Sea Otter Program.

Bad:

It was a bad week for 47 drivers in Salinas who failed to yield to pedestrians – and the pedestrians they endanger. Salinas police officers staged an operation to identify and cite such drivers. Officers set up at crosswalks located at Natividad Road and Sorrentini Drive and at North Main Street and Chaparral Street for five hours on Aug. 25 and stopped a total of 61 drivers, nine of whom were using a cell phone. Police said they could’ve written even more tickets, but there were times when all officers involved were busy writing tickets for others. The locations were chosen because of their history with traffic collisions, at least one that resulted in a pedestrian being killed. Police Sgt. Gerry Ross hopes “this sting operation will teach drivers to slow down and stop for pedestrians.”

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