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Crescent City Christians share message of hope By David Hayes The Triplicate
Ried Powell was inspired by Evangelist Franklin Graham’s idea of leading thousands of Christians in a prayer march around Washington, D.C., March 26. As associate pastor at Four Square Church, Powell wanted to ensure a similar event in Crescent City on the same day was was broad enough to make sure it didn’t matter whether participants were Republican or Democrat, only that they felt
comfortable coming to pray for the country. “The purpose of the event is simply to pray for our country, pray for our leaders and elected officials,” Powell said. “In the bible, it talks about no matter who is in charge, we’re supposed to be praying for them. When a lot of people are unsure what to do, we can all agree on prayer.” Powell put the word out on the Four Square’s Facebook page and then he invited everyone on his contact list to come pray with them. “We thought we might get
anywhere between 10 to 30 people,” Powell said. “We hope Christians feel united knowing there are a lot of things people are divided on right now. We want them to feel like there is more that unites us than divides us.” Officials lost count after 80. One person was overheard asking which churches showed up. Another answered, “I think all of them.” Leaders and representatives attended from several area churches, including Crescent City First
Baptist, Grace Lutheran Church, Smith River Baptist, Hiouchi Fellowship, New Life Community Church, United Methodist Church, Crescent City Church of Nazarene, Home Church, Solid Rock Christian Fellowship, Fort Dick Bible and Gasquet Fellowship. Powell kicked off the march, with a prayer, at Beach Front Park. The procession then made its way up H Street, most in quiet prayer and contemplation, others in joyful song. They made stops along the way for group prayers outside the Del Norte Superior
Court, the Crescent City Police Station, the United Methodist Church and the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office, each with a different guest speaker. Blake Inscore was the final speaker when the group made its way back to Beach Front Park. Inscore shared how these turbulent times during the pandemic have led to frustrations both as pastor at First Baptist Church and as mayor of Crescent City. “I’m not sure I’ve ever entertained the thought of saying I’m done. There’s been nights Please see Hope, Page A5
Sting nabs alleged child predator Sheriff urges guardians to use opportunity to speak about dangers of online predators By David Hayes The Triplicate
Photo courtesy Don Nuss
Don Nuss’s streamliner “Fast Ford” recently sat on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, waiting for its next chance to top 300 mph.
Streamliner will turn heads By David Hayes The Triplicate
Don Nuss has always had a need for speed. As a youth, he raced hot rods illegally. As an adult, he legally drag raced until 1990, his dragster reaching 170 mph on the quarter-mile course. It was still not enough. Then in 1992, a friend invited him to the salt flats of Utah where streamliners were going nearly half the speed of sound. He was hooked. By 1999 he built his own streamliner with only one purpose in mind. “It’s built to go fast,” Nuss said. Seated in what he calls a fuselage without the wings, his “Fast Ford” achieved a top speed of 337 mph over the five-mile
course at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Now 80 and retired from competitive racing, Nuss, the owner of Redwood Welding Service in Crescent City, is hoping his streamliner turns heads as it sits still at the 29th Annual Sea Cruise Oct. 9-10. “People usually have never seen one before. They usually ask lots of questions,” Nuss said. He’s also bringing along another rarity in which he’s half owner — a 1936 Harley Davidson Knucklehead. “A friend in 2006 asked if I’d ever been to Bonneville. He was a motorcycle guy. We got to talkin’ and the next day we built us a motorcycle,” Nuss said. Nuss is one of 80 classic vehicle owners registered for the Sea Cruise, according to Jason Bartholomew, president of event co-sponsors Northern Knights
Car Club. “It’s a little lower than we would like,” Bartholomew said. “We generally get 100-200 registrants by the day of the event. A lot of them hold out for the weather, see what it’s going to be like.” That’s why registration is allowed up until the day of the show. Registration for the Friday night Rolling Car Museum portion of the festivities is $10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Northern Nights new headquarters at 840 H Street. The Shine and Shine is from 4-6 p.m. with cars socially distanced along 3rd Street, allowing visitors to gawk at the vehicles. The Sanctioned Cruise kicks off at 6 p.m. with participants parading their vehicles through other parts of downtown. The Outdoor Car Museum is Oct. 10 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bartholomew said registration is
$55 the day of the event to get a spot stretched along Beach Front Park. Judging of the entrants is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the award ceremony to follow. In between there will be music, raffles, food and vendors. Although registration numbers are down as of Sept. 30, Bartholomew said he has a feeling this year’s Sea Cruise could be something special. “We’ve had more inquiries than the last couple years because everything else has been cancelled,” he said, pointing to the state’s restriction’s on public events due to the pandemic. “Also, we moved it to the three-day weekend so people can stay a little longer. I’ve got a gut feeling — people have been trapped in their homes for three months. This will be a great
Please see Cruise, Page A5
City seeks final input on Beachfront Park options By David Hayes The Triplicate
After six months on the back burner due to the pandemic, Crescent City staff are ready to pursue the next round of state dollars to expand Beachfront Park and they want the community’s input. To get a piece of the $395 million available in Proposition 68 grants for park projects, Crescent City must first complete its master plan for Beachfront Park. Voters approved Proposition 68 — the Park, Environment and Water Bond — in June 2018, which allocated $4 billion in
general obligation bonds for park, environmental, water infrastructure and flood protection projects. “We were set and primed to have this Beachfront Park master plan update starting in March of this year,” City Manager Eric Wier told the City Council Sept. 21. “Unfortunately this year didn’t go as planned. COVID hit right about the same time and turned everything upside down for the city including a lot of projects we had underway at that point.” For the first phase in updating its master plan, the city sought recommendations from
the community last September for a non-competitive $200,000 Proposition 68 grant. Atop the list from those meetings were a labyrinth, bike pump track, expansion of Kidtown and a Bankshot Basketball course. The next phase was hiring Bay Area landscape architect PGAdesign to develop the public’s ideas into a finalized master plan. Wier said the original plan was to have PGAdesign present three proposed designs to the Crescent City Council in May and the Councilors adopt a finalized master plan in July to submit to the state. The new plan is to have
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PGAdesign’s three alternatives laminated and posted on large boards and placed in Beachfront Park, likely near Stamp’s Way and KidTown, Wier said. “The community will be able to go, view key concepts while having the atmosphere and ambiance in the park to envision what that might look like,” Wier said. “There will be a Google survey on the city’s website with the master plan’s concepts and we’ve scheduled a public meeting, Zoom style, on Oct. 7.” The link to the Zoom meeting will be published on the city’s website the day of the event for
The Del Norte Sheriff’s Office arrested a suspected child predator Sept. 26 in an undercover sting operation. Spearheaded by Deputy Sarah Asbury, of the DNSO’s Investigations Unit, and with the assistance of an undercover decoy, the DNSO Jason Walton apprehended Jason Walton, 39. Del Norte County Sheriff Erik Apperson called the arrest “quite disturbing.” “As all suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, the purpose of this post is to encourage parents to have a discussion with their children about the risks involved when associating with unknown people, especially via the internet,” Apperson wrote on the DNSO Facebook page. According to the DNSO, Walton began conversing over the web-based app MeetMe with an individual who claimed to be a 14-year-old female. At the time of his arrest, Walton had no criminal history, according to the DNSO. “He was less than honest about where he lived and his age,” Apperson said. “He encouraged the decoy to leave ‘her’ house once her mother left for work. He specified a particular beach location to perform sexual acts at a scheduled time. He also brought specific items, that we would rather not mention, to utilize and give to the decoy.” Instead of the decoy though, the suspect met several DNSO deputies, including Asbury. Walton was arrested without incident, evidence was collected and the case has been forwarded to the District Attorney for review. Walton is being held at Del Norte County Jail on three charges: - Harmful matter sent with intent of seduction of a minor; - Contact with a minor with intent to commit a sex crime; - And arrange meeting with a minor for sexual purpose. Walton is being held on $100,000 bail. “We understand that putting out information like this could potentially alert other predators in our area, but we believe that in these particular circumstances, prevention outweighs the need to wait and catch people in the
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