Mr. Toy's Mental Notes

Is anyone besides me having trouble keeping track of the diverse cast of agencies trying to solve our water problems? B ased solely on what I read in the newspapers, here are what I understand to be the major players in the ongoing failure to secure a legal and sustainable water supply for the Monterey Peninsula. The State which decreed that we must stop most of the pumping of water from the Carmel River aquifer by 2016 or else. Voters, who in 1993 and 1995 rejected not one, but two water supply projects which would have solved the problem long ago. A Water Board which has been unable to come up with any significant solutions since voters rejected both of the projects it developed in the 1990s. A neighboring Water District that is still licking its wounds after failing to take control of The Peninsula's water supply by pretending to be the agency that would save The Peninsula from the ineffective Water Board. A County Board of Supervisors which ha...

From the very first days of The Monterey Peninsula Toy Box the following quote has served as our introduction: "In six days God created the Heavens and the Earth. On the seventh He made the Monterey Peninsula." I first heard words to that effect one weekend long ago while watching the Bing Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament (now called the AT&T tournament) on TV. I didn't know if the announcers were quoting someone or had just made it up on the spot. But the words, or at least the general message, stuck in my mind and it seemed appropriate to put it on the Toy Box home page from day one. The quote remained untouched for the last fourteen years and eleven months. It is now touched. A couple weeks ago a visitor to the Toy Box kindly informed me that the original quote was from Cal Brown, and was first written in a Golf Digest article. It was later re-quoted in the 1974 book Great Golf Courses of the World by William H. Davis. The correct quotation is: ...