Authors and publishers, Old Capitol Books would LOVE to host your event! We supply a free venue to support local authors, illustrators, and publishers. We have a table and seating area with up to 12 chairs (with an additional 10 stools), which makes for a great intimate space for your event, or we have a cool little back alley which is great for poetry readings and live music.

Old Capitol Books provides: a nice, free, and well-lit space for your event; processing of all sales; free advertisement on our website, our social media, and our newsletter; and a press release sent to all local print publications (Monterey County Weekly, Monterey Herald, etc.).

Old Capitol Books offers our venue for no charge during store opening hours. If you’d like to have your event after hours, there will be a charge to cover staff. Any sales as a result of your book signing must go through the bookstore, which will take 40% of sales. Please note that Old Capitol Books DOES NOT purchase copies of your book in advance of the event. Authors are responsible for bringing copies of their book on the day of the book signing.

Get in touch to discuss what we can do as your local, independent bookstore to get you started. Please contact us at oldcapitolbooks@hotmail.com.

Welcome to Lighthouse District in the News, an occasional post featuring recent news articles on Monterey's Lighthouse District. Please click the link below to watch the video.

Rocky Horror Rocks the Monterey Peninsula
by Lauren Seaver
KSBW, 10/24/15

A message from the City of Monterey: The City of Monterey will begin repairing sidewalks in mid-October thanks to funding from Measure P, the voter approved one-cent increase in the sales tax. Weather permitting, the work will begin in late October and be completed in late December. Sidewalks repairs will begin on Pearl, Tyler, and Adams streets, followed by Foam and Wave streets, and finally Lighthouse Avenue, as follows:

Pearl Street: Abrego to Figueroa
Tyler Street: Pearl to E. Franklin
Adams Street: Pearl to E. Franklin
Foam Street: Lighthouse to Cannery Row
Wave Street: Hoffman to Prescott
Lighthouse Avenue: Reeside to David Avenue

For more information, please contact Lori Lynn Williamson, Construction Project Manager, 831-646-5686.

It's always a lot of fun to have these guys in Downtown Campbell. We made a short mashup video of their performance this time.

Uhmmm... hmmm we seem to have discovered a very clever dancing logo effect! Normally We'd redo the video, but in this case it's a happy accident.

Downtown Campbell is alive with activity and there are many businesses looking for help at a wide range of part time and full time positions. Here's a list known job openings available.

On-Site.com

Client Services Representative
As a client services representative for On-Site.com's leasing tools, you are the expert who solves our customers' most challenging issues. Working directly with customers and cross-functionally with product, document design, account management, sales, and corporate development, you will solve difficult problems, feed valuable insights to cross functional partners, and continually delight our customers. You love great customer support and are driven to make people rave about their great experiences talking to On-Site. You have excellent interpersonal skills and are analytically minded, self-starting, detail oriented and skilled at solving problems and explaining complex issues.

Other On-Site.com Careers

Primrose Body and Boutique

Esthetician / Sales Associate (part time)
If you're energetic and motivated, we're looking for you! Please call Mary Andrews at 408.623.6870

Stripes Children's Boutique

Sales Associate (part time)
Email joline@stripesboutique.com to apply.

Tessora’s Barra di Vino

Line Cook (full or part-time)
We’re looking to add a line cook to work under our head culinary chef in our “new" kitchen that creates our incredible and unique tapas style food and dessert menus (which change seasonally). You have a desire to help create new and fun culinary creations for our menu and will be performing numerous styles of cooking and baking techniques. Enthusiasm, friendly personality, and passion for food, food safety, and sanitation are a must.
Food handlers certification is mandatory. Experience required, culinary education suggested.

The Heritage Theatre

Box Office Staff/Lead Event Staff (part time)
The Heritage Theatre located on the Campbell Community center campus is looking to hire qualified staff that can work in dual capacity as Box Office and Lead Event Staff.

The Box Office personnel and...Read More

Blush Makeup and Skin Studio in Old Monterey is available for all your Halloween makeup needs! Please phone us at the studio, 831-901-3924, or visit our website to make your appointment.

Excellent dental hygiene begins at home. Dental hygiene starts with brushing and flossing, but it doesn’t just end there. We need to take care of our teeth with effective and high-quality tools. There are tons of dental tools out there, so where should you start? We have created a list of the best dental tools for daily use, beginning with the best flossing tools on the market:

Water flosser: Sometimes, typical flossing tools just won’t do the trick. Water flossers are an excellent tool to improve your overall gum health by reducing risk for plaque, gingivitis, and gum disease. Water flossers work by using water pressure to loosen, and ultimately, remove plaque and food particles between our teeth.

Airfloss Pro: An Airfloss Pro is a new way to thoroughly floss our teeth. This tool delivers three bursts of air and liquid microdroplets to improve our gum health and reduce risk of gum disease.

Another tool that belongs in your bathroom cabinet is the Gum interdental brush. This brush is designed to reach the places your toothbrush can’t. It is a clinically-proven product designed to effortlessly remove unwanted plaque and food particles from the tiny areas between your teeth.

There are millions of toothbrushes to choose from. From Oral B Laboratories toothbrushes to Dr. Fresh, the options are practically limitless. To make finding the right toothbrush much easier, we have created a list of the top 3 toothbrushes:

Nimbus Microfine Toothbrush
Oral-B Pro-health Crossaction Toothbrush
Oral-B Pro-Health Clinical Pro-Flex Medium Toothbrush

We can’t forget about mouthwashes. Here are the top 5 mouthwashes on the market:

Best whitening mouthwash: Rembrandt Deeply White
Longest-lasting mouthwash: Scope Outlast
Most refreshing mouthwash: Listerine Ultraclean
Best all-natural mouthwash: Jāsön Healthy Mouth Cinnamon Clove
Best all-around mouthwash: Crest Pro-Health Multi-Protection

Last, but not least: toothpastes. Choose from one of these top 4 toothpastes:

Foamiest toothpaste: Aquafresh Iso-Active Whitening Fresh Impact
Best whitening toothpaste: Luster White 7
Best overall toothpaste: Colgate Total Enamel Strength
Best toothpaste for sensitive teeth: Crest Pro-Health Sensitive Shield

If you have any questions about which dental tools to purchase, don’t hesitate to call Lighthouse Family Dentistry. Contact us at drvankootendmd@gmail.com or (831) 373-0478. We are happy to answer any of your questions.

Win the war over worrying with Miryam! Miryam Mejia, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Crossroads Counseling, is offering a free 30-minute consultation for adults at her office at 801 Lighthouse Avenue, Suite 212. This offer is only valid until November 11, 2015. Please phone Miryam at 831-240-8728 to make an appointment.