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Need an idea of what get Mom for Mothers Day? This box was a request for tropical flavors mixed with caramel and vanilla (yeah that thought didn't take long to reach your saliva glands did it?). Message us here on FB and we can set up a box build for you. You can also add a cool "tin sign" to let the world know what kinda Mom you have and love! W2 (Wonder Woman), W3 (Wicked Witch of the West), We can do it!, on and on. Got you covered on the XX chromosome Parental Unit at Rocket Fizz Campbell!

Now it's easy to shop locally online! The all-new Lighthouse District SiP Mall is an online retail guide listing local businesses whose doors are currently closed to foot traffic, but who are selling items on their website and over the phone, offering curbside pickup, shipping, and/or delivery.

Please continue to support our fine neighborhood businesses by viewing and purchasing goods online and over the phone until they can open their doors to you in New Monterey's Lighthouse District. New businesses are added every week!

Hula's Island Grill is now open for carry-out! Favorites like coconut shrimp rolls, fish tacos, and even select tiki drinks, beer, and wine are available to-go. Visit our website to view the entire menu, then give us a call at 831-655-4852 to place your order and pay by credit card.

Hula's is located at 622 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey and is currently open Sunday - Wednesday, 3pm-8pm, and Thursday - Saturday, 12pm-8pm.

Mermaid Spritz from Pearl Hour

Posted on May 6th, 2020 by Pearl Hour

Pearl Hour's Mermaid Spritz cocktail kit is now available for delivery for $50. In this kit, you’ll receive a bottle of Liquore delle Sirene, a beautiful bitter liqueur filled with flavors of citrus, rhubarb, ginger and orange blossom, made by herbalist Elisa Carta in the Lake Garda region of northern Italy. This is paired with our favorite Prosecco which is extra dry, organically grown, and estate bottled by the Bronca sisters in Valdobbiandene in Italy.

Order today for delivery tomorrow! You can phone us at 831-229-4132 or DM us through Instagram @pearl_hour.

Play Full Ground supports everyone's creative journey to discover his/her full potential and inspires the community through creative activities. And here's how you can support Play Full Ground and keep creativity, vibrancy, and socially-engaged art here, creating a joyful, equitable, and sustainable community in the Monterey Peninsula:

1. Purchase colorful sardine pillows as cheerful gifts for yourself and/or others in this difficult time. The fish come in 3 sizes and prices are $30 for small, $50 for medium, and $80 for large (not including shipping). Please leave a message here.

2. Purchase ocean or farm themed items including t-shirts, tote bags, and strawberry and artichoke-shaped pillows. Please leave a message here.

3. Let Play Full Ground owner Mai Ryuno help you develop your creativity. Mai offers online Personalized Creativity-Based Coaching for a fee to individuals who would like to start working on a creative project or who would like to brainstorm with her to decide on a project.

4. Visit Play Full Ground's YouTube page and watch and/or subscribe. Mai Ryuno has created a fun collection of playful videos during Monterey County's shelter-in-place order. The page needs 4,000 public watch hours in 12 months and 1,000 subscribers to be eligible to earn money from the videos!

5. What else? Contact Mai Ryuno through the Play Full Ground website if you have any creative ideas!

Locally owned Pixels Graphic Design is ready to help businesses and families during Monterey County's shelter-in-place order. Special products and services are listed below. For more information, including pricing, please visit our website.

Graduation Signs and Banners
We're now offering yard signs and banners for stay at home graduation celebrations. Show your support with a customized sign or banner for your school and graduate.

Sanitation Notices
We now offer light weight and eco-conscience disposable cards, pre-scored and ready to deploy on freshly sanitized tables and counters in the hospitality industry.

To-Go Menus
Pixels will convert a restaurant's current, full-size menu to a to-go size menu and then print them. We're now offering accelerated turnaround on the conversions, reduced cost to convert, and free color paper upgrades.

Vinyl Floor Stickers for Social Distancing
These durable stickers are plastic with a self-adhesive on the bottom. Simply peel-n-stick to indicate social distancing expectations. Available in multiple colors and various sizes.

Contact Pixels
The Pixels team is now available by telephone or virtual appointments during Monterey County's shelter-in-place order. Requests should be sent via email or phone, 831-333-0174. Orders can be picked up by scheduling a time/window. Please inquire about delivery. Pixels is located at 730 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey.

Now it's easy to shop locally online! The all-new Old Monterey SiP Mall is an online retail guide listing local businesses whose doors are currently closed to foot traffic, but who are selling items on their website and over the phone, offering curbside pickup and/or shipping/delivery.

Please continue to support our fine neighborhood businesses by viewing and purchasing goods online and over the phone until they can open their doors to you in Downtown Old Monterey. New businesses are added every week!

This Sunday, May 10, Rosine's Restaurant will be serving delectable Mother's Day Brunch Specials for take-out / pick-up from 9am-2pm. Delivery will also be available by using the Online Ordering link on their website. They will be also be offering their regular menu from 11am-7pm.

Brunch specials include the popular Crab Avocado Benedict, Salmon Florentine Benedict, Steak and Prawn Benedict, Seafood Omelet, Bacado Omelet, Garden Vegetable Omelet, Fresh Strawberry Pancakes, Lemon Cream Pancakes, and Bananas Foster French Toast. Select breakfast items will also be available upon request!

Mimosas, Champagne and Prosecco by the bottle will also be available.

*And it's not too late to order your Mother's Day cake for that special someone!

Join poet and nonfiction author and workshop leader Patrice Vecchione for a writing burst of energy, a kickstart to your creative self. Get the juices flowing! My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Writing Workshop will be held in virtual, online space on Saturday, June 6, 9:30am-1pm. Fee is $80 - sign up here.

Sure, we’re living through one hell of a time and writing is a fail-proof way through. Calm the overwhelm brought on by fear and uncertainty. When words find their way to the page, you’ll get a bit of breathing space. This workshop is for writers of any and every genre.

Old Capitol Books, an independent, family run, beloved bookstore is in need of funds to stay afloat, and we need bookstores now more than ever! This is a bookstore that hosts poetry readings, experimental art performances, and offers both new and used books.

50% of the workshop fee goes directly to Old Capitol Books and the other 50% helps support an author (also challenged)!

Sovino Wine Bar and Merchant is here for your quarantine wine needs! We're pleased to offer complimentary local delivery, including same-day local delivery for orders placed by 6pm. Please visit our website to view our selection and place your order.

Sovino, a small business owned by local sommelier Claire Sutton, is located at 241 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey. For inquiries, please call 831-641-9463.

Just in time for Mother's Day, Grace Lifestyle Boutique is offering beautiful, 100% soy candles by Capri Blue, hand-poured in the U.S. There are three fragrances available: Pineapple Flower, Volcano, and Coconut Santal. Prices are $24 for the smaller candle with a 40 hour burn time, and $32 for the larger candle with a 65 hour burn time.

Brittani Reid-Bristol, owner of Grace Lifestyle Boutique, is sheltering in place at home locally, but she has candles from the shop and she wants to share them with you! Please e-mail her or DM Grace Lifestyle Boutique on Instagram for a secure invoice you can pay online. Britanni is offering free local delivery to Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, Carmel Valley, Seaside, and Marina. She's also happy to ship your order.

Pineapple Flower
Close your eyes and feel the island sun! Sparkling pineapple with a hint of plum mixed with tart lemon flower and sweet sugar cane make the perfect blend of paradise.

Volcano
This fragrance is the perfect blend of citrus and sugar notes. Like the excitement and energy of a summer night rendezvous, it is simply unforgettable.

Coconut Santal
With flowering hibiscus, lime coconut, and hits of amber, this fragrance transports you to good times and gives you ultimate smooth sailing vibes.

Alvarado Street Brewery presents All Together. This beer represents a worldwide collaboration spearheaded by our friends at @otherhalfnyc to raise awareness for hospitality workers affected by the pandemic. This hazy IPA is loaded up with Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, and Cascade hops and delivers all the fruit laden juiciness.

A portion of proceeds from purchases of this beer will go directly to the 100+ staff at all three Alvarado Street / Yeast of Eden locations. At the end of the day, we’re all in this together! A limited number of cases remain for shipping in California, as well as four packs for drive through pickup at our Salinas location at 1315 Dayton Street.

Britannia Arms of Monterey is happy to announce that we've reopened for takeout meals, Thursdays-Sundays, 11:30am-7:30pm. We're serving up everybody's favorite fish and chips, burgers, and appetizers, plus beer, wine, and cocktails to go. View our takeout menu here.

Britannia Arms is located at 444 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey. If you wish to phone in your order in advance, our number is 831-656-9543.

Code Ninjas Monterey is asking our community to nominate a high school senior and tell us that person's greatest high school accomplishment. Submissions are due via e-mail by May 18, 2020.

Code Ninjas will be raffling off 10 gift cards to local businesses for 10 of these seniors, and winners will be announced June 1, 2020. Let’s give back to these hardworking students!

A mother’s love (and patience) has been on full display in recent weeks, and Mother's Day is May 10. Comanche Cellars encourages you to show her you appreciate all she’s done with wine and chocolates. We are now offering a special wine and chocolate combination pack called "We Love You, Mom!" for only $50 (reg. $86). Place your order on our website.

Comanche Cellars, which now offers curbside pickup by appointment, is located at 412 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey.

Ocean Sushi Deli Reopens!

Posted on May 5th, 2020 by Ocean Sushi Deli

Ocean Sushi Deli is excited to have reopened our Monterey location for take-out and pick-up! We're now open daily, 12pm-6pm. Walk-ins are welcome but phone orders are preferred, 831-645-9876. (Please try to call 1-2 hours in advance to avoid waiting in-house and to help maintain social distancing.) View our menu online.

Ocean Sushi Deli is a family-owned restaurant that's been serving the Monterey Peninsula for more than 30 years. Located at 165 Webster Street in Downtown Old Monterey, we look forward to seeing you again!

As we all know, the quarantine has been extended for another month. This is a major life (and lifestyle) change for all of us. Coach Masha at Boxing Strong wants to help you structure your workouts at home with a weekly, authentic Boxing Training Plan.

Check out the free Boxing Training Plan for this week. If this seems longer/harder than you are used to, feel free to only stick to boxing rounds 1 through 6, gradually adding on Agility and Conditioning work.

And if this is the kind of workout routine you're looking for, new Boxing Training Plans are available weekly for $10. They come with a demo video on combinations and drills. If you have any questions, you can reach out and Coach Masha can help you power through your workout. To sign up, please e-mail Masha or give her a call at 831-200-3392.

Give the best full body workout in the South Bay a try while you're sheltering in place! The Bar Method in Campbell has daily live stream classes led by one of our certified barre instructors for only $45.

Want to get in on the fun? Sign up online and purchase the 2 Weeks Unlimited class package. We can’t wait to ‘see’ you!

Get Results with The Bar Method

The Bar Method’s signature technique is the fastest and most efficient way to reshape the entire body. Precise isometric exercises keep students working “in the muscle,” followed by active and passive stretching to lengthen and elongate the area just worked. The result is a graceful, strong dancer-like body, including sculpted arms, flat abs, a lifted seat and elongated thighs, as well as improved posture and body alignment. Students see remarkable results within just a few weeks.

Why it's Different

The Bar Method technique stands apart because it is safe, smart and personal. It was created under the guidance of physical therapists to ensure it is safe and effective for students spanning a wide range of abilities including those with physical limitations and injuries. It’s a workout that is safe and sustainable for life!

Need a custom Mother’s Day basket?

Carol at Tessora’s is taking orders to create the perfect size basket for you for your Mother’s Day gifts this year! Baskets include wine, olive oils from The Olive Bar, and treats from Le Chef Sucre by Jenni. Tell Carol what the mom in your life enjoys and she'll put together a basket just for your special mama!

Bored with staying at home? Finished all of Netflicks and played all your old games?

Why not let Rocket Fizz Campbell introduce you to some new Games! This box has it all, 4 sodas, 2 bags of gummies, 4 Theater boxes of candy, and a box of Red Vines for munching. Plus you can get your choice of a brand new Mini Game from Iello!

Check out the selection in pic 2! Great snacks, a cool game and loads of entertainment for the next week! All for just $55.

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