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By David Hayes Staff Writer
t was a “bittersweet” evening Nov. 1 during the Live From Downtown - It’s Friday Night event. Billy Kaye and Jim GavinTygart used the 15th anniversary of their business, 6 Degrees of Celebration, to announce their plans to close next June. Before the gathering of
members of the Crescent City/ Del Norte County Chamber of Commerce could register their shock, Billy Kaye Gavin-Tygart continued with the second part of the couple’s announcement. They would be opening a delicatessen in place of their current store. “It’s very bittersweet, as we close out 2019 and ring in 2020, that 6 Degrees of Celebration will be officially going
out of the retail business,” Gavin-Tygart told the crowd assembled in her store. “We are going to keep the rentals. We have a new focus and will keep things in the pipeline with that. But our most exciting news is, we will be opening in the back Charleston’s Delicatessen and Wine Bar.” She added that the deli will have both takeout and dine-in
options, with locally sourced stock when available. It will also feature wine tastings, charcuterie and cheese. “I’m all about the cheese,” Billy Kaye Gavin-Tygart said. Starting in January 2020, 6 Degrees of Celebration will begin “blowing out” the rest of its stock of 51,677 items through
On Nov. 1, Billy Kaye Gavin-Tygart announced to a crowd inside her 6 Degrees of Celebration that the party store will be closing June 20, 2020. In its place, she and her husband, Jim, will be opening Charleston’s Delicatessen and Wine Bar.
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By Linda Pinkham Staff Writer
ou’ve seen those bikes with the big balloon-looking knobby tires. Why would someone ride a bike like that? Here’s why … Meet the fat-tire bike. Before making their way to Oregon and the coast, the bikes were very popular in Colorado. They even have a beer label named for them. The fat bikes originally were developed in Alaska a number of years ago for riding in the snow on the Iditarod routes. Which is what makes them perfect for riding in the sand - as on California and Oregon beaches - according to Erin Kessler, owner of Pineapple Express Adventure Rides in Port Orford. “I like getting off the road,” Kessler said. “We’ve got great beaches. We live in a place where we can just access the beach, and we’ve got all these public lands and everything.” The Pilot caught up with Kessler at Live Culture Coast on Oct. 25 to find out more about the bikes including trying one out. The bikes look big and clunky, but they’re
not necessarily more difficult to pedal, Kessler reassured. “It takes a bit to get going, but they float over the sand,” Kessler said. “It’s like a snowshoe, and floats over the surface. You can have less air pressure with the bigger platform of a tire, creating a wider surface.” The gearing is pretty easy, making them also good for mountain trail rides, towing trailers and taking longer excursions, she said. “They’re really stable,” she said. “They are very good for older riders, who may not have perfect balance, and you ride upright like a mountain bike.” The upright posture is more comfortable for most riders compared to the street bikes that predated mountain bikes, which are also upright. The fat bikes turned out to ride exactly as Kessler had said: easy to pedal but hard to get started, especially with the slightly inclined slope of the parking lot where she was set up. The ride was surprisingly smooth, though, especially considering the knobby tires and stiff
Sophie Traub’s fat-tire bike glides across the sand without sinking. Photo by Linda Pinkham.
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Changes coming to The Triplicate next Tuesday O
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regon-based Country Media Inc. purchased The Triplicate, and the Curry County Pilot in Brookings, out of bankruptcy on July 1. Now, four months later, The Triplicate’s subscribers will see changes in how and
when it’s delivered. Beginning Nov. 12, the twice-weekly newspaper serving Del Norte County will arrive in the mailboxes rather than on subscribers’ doorsteps. “We’re changing our delivery system, from adult carriers to the U.S. Postal
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Service, primarily because of legislation passed recently by the State of California,” said The Triplicate’s publisher and co-owner, Carol Hungerford. “Bob Berkowitz, a member of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors, summarized why we probably
would need to make this change in a recent Triplicate guest opinion.” Wrote Berkowitz: “(Assembly Bill) 5, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales of San Diego, would treat newspaper carriers as employees rather than independent contractors.
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As employees, they would get employee benefits like health care, retirement, sick leave, etc., benefits that are extremely costly to their employer. “It’s no secret that thousands of newspapers have gone bankrupt, or just ceased publishing, because
they could no longer absorb their increased costs. Let’s face it, we almost lost The Triplicate. “If this bill passes and is signed by the governor, it could mean the end of many more newspapers.” AB 5 inMore Changes on Page A3
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