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Council gets breakdown of Measure S impact ing,” City Attorney Martha Rice told the council. “After an absurd amount of time, we did come up with a question.” The question as it will appear on the ballot will read, “Shall the measure to eliminate the one percent sales tax approved by city voters in 2020 (Measure S), which applies within the City of Crescent City, thereby reducing funding available for general city services such as street maintenance/repair, the volunteer fire department, the Crescent City Police Department, the community pool, and other services, be adopted?” City Manager Eric Weir then explained to the council what removing Measure S funding would do. “Measure S is basically creating sustainability and resilience for our public safety needs,” Weir said. “It really all started
BY DAVID RUPKALVIS The Triplicate
If Measure S is eliminated by voters in November, it will cripple progress made at the police department, fire department, city pool and street repairs. That is the message the city council of Crescent City heard during a presentation last week. City Manager Eric Weir told the council if voters eliminate the 1% sales tax, about one-fifth of revenue used to fund basic city services would be immediately removed. That would force the council to decide what to cut to live within the funding the city receives. The presentation on Measure S came just after the council voters to establish the question voters will see on the ballot. “We have spent a considerable amount of time preparing the question so it follows the law and make sense to what we’re ask-
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The Crescent City Fire Department as been perhaps the biggest beneficiary of Measure S, with the department hoping to add three full-time captains to help the mostly-volunteer department have faster response times and better service.
Experienced Warriors expected to compete for the Big 4 BY RAY HAMILL For the Triplicate
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Some of the younger players making a tackle on defense during a recent scrimmage. The Del Norte Warriors open the season tonight.
An experienced Del Norte Warriors team will kick off the new football season at home against Kelseyville under the lights on Friday night. Head coach Nick White has 18 seniors on the roster, including a core group in either their third or fourth year on varsity, and expectations will be high once again for a team that finished 10-2 last year and made it all the way to the North Coast Section Division-5 championship game. “It’s been a part of our program,” White said of the high expectations and winning culture. “The kids expect to compete every single game and they play hard, and that puts us in position to go for a league championship or an NCS championship if we get that lucky. Hopefully we’ll be in the mix this year.” Returning Big 4 Offensive MVP RJ Loftin will be expected to play a key role in the challenge for the league title. The senior standout first broke into the varsity roster as a freshPlease see WARRIORS, Page A2
Mother and son complete long-distance bicycle trek he wanted to do a long-distance bicycle trip with his mother, too. “It was wild, when he got asked what he wanted to do next and he said he wanted to do a bicycle trip with me. I was startled,” Liz said. “I didn’t know it was something he had ever really thought about. But because he said he wanted to, and because he asked, I decided to say yes.” Liz said she has never really been a bicyclist. But she said she was glad to take the lead from her son – who has learned a lot from his experiences with long-distance bicycling. “He was coached last time, and this time he got to be the coach. So, I was able to follow his lead and pay attention to what he says about bicycling – and that was really cool,” Liz said. On the final leg of the trip through Brookings to the California border, Shep said his legs felt like jelly and he stopped for a short break to eat a snack to bring his blood sugar up. In spite of this, he was in good spirits. “My blood sugar is a little bit low right now, but it feels pretty great to say that now I have done this with my mom and one with
BY BREEANA LAUGHLIN The Triplicate
A mother and son duo from Washington completed an adventure of a lifetime last week, cycling across the State of Oregon from Astoria to the California Border along Highway 101. The trip was literally full of ups and downs. Mom, Liz Colver, and her son, 10-year-old Shephard Colver, from Kenmore, Washington peddled up steep stretches of highway while shrouded in fog, cycled through winding mountain roads and trekked over monumental coastal bridges. They were able to complete the full 370 mile route in 18 days – all while managing 10-year-old Shep’s Type 1 Diabetes. It was mom, Liz’s first long-distance bicycle trip. Shep completed his first long ride – pedaling 3,300 miles across the US to New York City – with his dad, James, in 2021. This 18-week trek was a mission years in the making, and it was all Shep’s idea to fulfill a dream of seeing the Statue of Liberty in New York City. After the father-son duo completed that ride, Shep decided
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