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Looking for a carpet sale? Carpets and Floors, Inc., located at 471 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey, has a great one going on now through November 8, 2016. What could be better? It's a Karastan sale! Celebrate fall with a brand new carpet to warm up your home.

Karastan is well known for the quality and beauty of its broadloom carpeting. For years it has been known as a leading maker of wool carpeting, featuring wools imported from New Zealand. More recently, it's leading the way in the development of man made fibers that resist stains. Their Smart Strand, Smart Strand Forever, Smart Strand Silk, and Smart Strand Ultra brands offer some of the best soil and stain carefree products (including pet stains) on the market. Durable nylon has taken on new life with ground breaking variations. If you're looking for a silky or cashmere touch, come feel Karastan's nylon Kashmere.

The Lighthouse District's own A Sparkling Event wedding and event planners would like to introduce our fabulous team to you. Check out our blog every Saturday to meet each of our staff members!

Sam is one of our Associate Planners who is makeup artist extraordinaire, fashion stylist, and Snapchat educator. She comes from a big family that loves to celebrate and entertain, and she always loved being a part of the planning and seeing the vision come to life. Before the days of Pinterest, she would create her own boards with cutouts of magazines and newspaper articles and would plan full weddings and birthday parties all on a 12 x 12 poster board. Being able to do the same thing now and actually bringing it to life is something she's always dreamed of. She loves learning from events and thinking of all the ways to make a bride and groom's day even more special.

Montrio Bistro welcomes Christian Adams as our new Restaurant Manager and Wine Director. A Monterey local and a German citizen, Christian managed Bernardus Lodge's guest services department in the mid-2000s where he became accustomed to higher levels of service. After Bernardus, he became Assistant General Manager
of L'Auberge Carmel for two years.

In 2012, Christian moved to Germany to manage a restaurant and banquets department at Castle Johannisburg in his hometown of Aschaffenburg. While there, he studied German wines and assisted in harvests in the Satzenberg Vineyard in the lower Franken region. While in Germany, Christian was also hired by Rudy Weist, a top German wine importer to do wine education and sales. He then moved to San Francisco and managed Les Clos for Mark Bright, owner and wine director for Saison while continuing his wine sales gig for Weist for another 2.5 years.

Christian is excited about the opportunity and looking forward to familiarizing himself with Montrio's wine program and begin to stamp his own brand on it.

Throughout the month of October 2016, Om Studios is offering complementary membership for breast cancer survivors and fighters! Please call us at 831-204-7949 or stop the studio for details.

Om Studios will donate $1 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for every barre student in attendance in the month of October, and each of our barre students in October will receive a raffle ticket for every barre class you attend. A prize winner will be drawn on November 1.

In town for a special event or just feel like being pampered? Through the month of October 2016, Spa on the Plaza is offering a wash and blow dry for only $25 with any 50 minute service (regular price: $55). Come and meet Jessica Overstreet, our new Master Hair Technician, with over 15 years experience! Book your appointment today.

The City of Monterey will be doing sewer work on Prescott Avenue between Lighthouse Ave and Foam St this Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, (September 26, 27 & 30).

That block of Prescott Avenue will be closed during work hours. A traffic control plan will be in place. Foam Street will be reduced to one lane in the area. Traffic and parking will be impacted including on Lighthouse Ave near the Prescott intersection. This project includes work on a man hole that extends into Lighthouse Ave.

The Lighthouse District's own A Sparkling Event wedding and event planners would like to introduce our fabulous team to you. Check out our blog every Saturday to meet each of our staff members!

We're delighted to introduce you to Janeen Bond, our Associate Planner, who brings years of experience with weddings and events. She will be expanding our brand into the Santa Cruz market where she has many contacts and lots of love for the area. Janeen has over 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry, and possesses a certificate from the accredited ACPWC, Association of Certified Wedding and Event Professionals.

During the week of September 19, 2016, daytime construction work will continue on the Holman Highway 68 Roundabout. Crews continue the earthwork stage of construction and it will be noticeable from the road as you drive through the construction zone. During construction, expect increased delays traveling through the crossing of Holman Highway 68 and Highway 1.

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