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airports need safety upgrades Paul Mann Mad RiveR Union

HUMBOLDT – Humboldt County’s Department of Public Works has endorsed a series of Grand Jury recommendations to shore up the county’s six airports.

The Grand Jury recommended a management overhaul and more focused negotiations for a second airline. It also urged an interagency audit, more timely inspections and prompt action to correct airport safety weaknesses and maintenance backlogs.

Despite Measure Z funding, the go-ahead from Public Works Director Tom Mattson is likely to be constrained by rising costs, staff shortages and depleted passenger traffic at Humboldt’s main commercial aviation venue, McKinleyville’s California Redwood Coast Humboldt County Airport (CRCHCA). The department received $79,000 from Measure Z to fix hazards there.

“I agree with most of the [Grand Jury’s] recommendations,” Mattson said last week, “but it depends on time and money.”

Mattson will spell out his department’s response in full at the July 21 meeting of the county Board of Supervisors.

The Grand Jury suggested as a streamlining measure that the supervisors move the Aviation DiviAIRPORTS

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‘A sea change moment’ Marijuana Innovation Zone will ‘encourage an industry to grow’ Kevin L. Hoover Mad RiveR Union

ARCATA – Arcata is planning for an enriching, cannabis-rich

future. A Planning Commission staff report this week calls it “a sea change moment.”

In a stunning turnaround

from recent years’ civic indigestion over the mood-altering, highly lucrative herb, the city this week began setting the table

No vacaNcy FULL HoUSE Guests jammed the lobby, halls and banquet room of the historic Hotel arcata Friday night for its 100th anniversary event. attendees toured a room, beheld vintage photos lining the hallway walls, noshed and heard remarks by owner representative Virgil Moorehead.

Dell’arte-ian Donald Forrest enraptured the crowd with a fascinating history of the Hotel arcata, which appears on page a6. Photos by KLh| Union

for a future banquet of opportunity for cannabis producers.

An amended Land Use Code (LUC) will, if successful, turn a troublesome and resource-draining industry into a sustainable and eco-friendly one that could yield major tax revenue for the City of Arcata. It’s even centered in and near the Aldergrove Industrial Park, whose light industries helped stabilize Arcata’s finances through recent decades.

At the same time, the new laws must balance multiple concerns. The federal government’s attitude toward cannabis – while now somewhat indulgent toward liberalized state law – has been known to shift, sometimes abruptly.

The amended LUC must also enforce existing medical cannabis laws, while being adaptable to the recreational cannabis legal environment expected following next year’s elections.

Another issue is conversion of a largely underground industry, aspects of which have long been cultured in evasion and concealment with links to criminal enterprise, to one that functions openly and above board.

And, given the high-dollar and intoxicating nature of the product, secured locations that are isolated from schools and neighborhoods must be identified in which the business of cannabis may be conducted. Police and city regulators will have to enforce best practices and code compliance.

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Another step forward for trail extension Jack Durham Mad RiveR Union

LITTLE RIVER – An important step in expanding the Hammond Trail north across the Little River was celebrated Thursday, July 9, as a chunk of land needed for the project was transferred from Green Diamond Resource Company to the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust.

The event was marked with a ribbon cutting and short presentation at the cul-de-sac located at the south end of Scenic Drive. That spot may eventually serve as a north-

The Magic of Mary Poppins With Tracey Barnes Priestley & Carol Ryder Take a behind-the-scenes look at Humboldt Light Opera Company’s summer show, Mary Poppins! Discover what’s involved in bringing a production to the stage. Learn about author P. L. Travers, director’s creative decisions; production challenges, and a cast member’s perspective on the production process. Includes a theater tour and attendance at the dress rehearsal and tickets to opening night.

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McKINLEYVILLE – Businesses are moving to new buildings. Other businesses are moving into the recently vacated buildings. And some are knocking down old buildings to make way for the new.

McKinleyville’s business district has a finite road frontage on Central Avenue, but the game of musical buildings expands the opportunities for both new and older businesses.

McKinleyville Ace McKinleyville’s Ace Hardware has moved out of the old Safeway building into a new “two-and-a-half million dollar project,” down the road a piece, almost to Murray Road. The store’s kitchen department is now in a new store across the street called The Kitchen Store. Slated for the future is a sport and work clothing store at Murray and Central. “We’ll have to let the dust settle first,” said owner Kevin Jenkins.

Ace Hardware’s new quarters are open, with customers getting used to where everything is. The parking lot was full last week and regular shoppers were pleased to see that the old popcorn machine had survived the move.

Eureka Natural Foods The old Ace store will soon become home to Eureka Natural Foods, which will take up a portion of the building.

“The northern half of the building will be available,” said Rick Littlefield, president of Eureka Natural Foods.

“There were two buildings originally,” Littlefield said, “the Safeway store and a hardware store. After we go in, there will be 20,000 square feet available. And that could be split into something smaller.”

“It’s wide open,” he continued. “We have not received any proposals yet.”

ACE IS THE PLACE A new sign goes up on the McKinleyville Ace Hardware.

JV | union Whether the McKinleyville store will bear the name “Eureka Natural Foods” has yet to be determined.

Eureka Natural Foods celebrated its 30-year anniversary on Earth Day. “I’m hoping to open this year,” Littlefield said.

Littlefield added that there would be an addition on the building but could not elaborate, “until we get our plans a little more finalized. I think McKinleyville is going to like what we bring. You can keep them in suspense a little longer.”

BMW dealership The BMW dealership bought the old Back and Neck Pain Center and will tear it down to build a new, stateof-the-art showroom. They will make their current showroom into a service center.

Matt Brodhag, sales manager for BMW of Humboldt Bay, who started with the business nine years ago, said that “construction will start later this summer.”

The existing showroom will be the service center and the Back and Neck Pain Center will become “an eight car showroom with lots of office space.”

The firm will keep the two locations, which are located next to each

other. The deadlership started with seven employees and now employs 16 people.

“BMW of Humboldt Bay sells a premium product,” Brodhag said, “and it’s time to give customers a premium place to come get it.”

New CVS Across Central Avenue, the new CVS building is in the finishing stages, with an opening planned for Sunday, July 26. The new 13,000-square-foot store is built on the site of the former Figueiredo’s Video.

CVS will move from its current small location in the former Lima’s building across the street.

“All the current employees will transfer,” said Mike DeAngelis, director of public relations for the national CVS. With new hires, the new location will have a total of 20 employees and be open seven days a week, including the pharmacy.

The pharmacy will have a drivethrough option, which DeAngelis said is “helpful for parents with young children.”

Other amenities at the new store will include a kiosk where customers can print out coupons, digital photo processing and parking for hybrid/electric/low emissions vehicles.

“We’re all about accessiblity and convenience,” he said.

What they won’t have will be tobacco products. “CVS is the first national pharmacy chain to stop selling tobacco products,” DeAngelis said with pride. That change started in September 2014.

Opie’s future?

The fate of Opie’s is, according to one source, “the worst kept secret in town,” but owner Greg Hendricks is waiting for official word before making any announcements. Watch this newspaper.

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ean Gilkerson of entious farmer that she E a r t h - N - H a n d s doesn't eat the good strawFarm grows 90 berries, only the bad ones. kinds of peppers, includ- “It’s tempting,” she said, ing the “hottest pepper in “but I’ve lived on the farm the world, the Carolina my entire life. I’ve eaten so Reaper.” many strawberries.”

That's a lot of hot.

Aliana is an artist who He sold 2,300 bottles of does “a painting a day.” his hot sauce last year and “I paint, I draw, I really he doesn’t even advertise. like to cook,” she said.

It’s only sold at Hot peppers farmers’ markets. don’t intimidate He’ll have anher either. “When other batch later I was two, I’d go in in the season, but the field and pick a Janine until then he’s sellpepper and eat it,” Volkmar ing some mighty she said. “I knew hot pepper starts AT THE which were hot along with tomawhich were MARKET and to and tomatillo mild.” starts.

Gilkerson is a long-time At a recent market he Arcata Farmers’ market was helped by his daughter, vendor. “I've been here 26 Aliana Gilkerson, who will years,” he said. “I was here be in the seventh grade at when there were just eight Kneeland School in the fall. of us on the street.”

She helps “sell stuff, helps His array of vegetables harvest, mainly strawber- – chard, cucumbers, artiries,” said her proud dad. chokes, lettuce, and spinShess such a consci- ach – were selling fas,t

MANILA HOUSE The Humboldt County Planning Commission will consider issuing a coastal development permit at its Thursday, July 16 meeting for a major remodel and enlargement of a house at 1545 Peninsula Dr. in Manila. The commission meets at 6 p.m. at 825 Fifth St. in Eureka. The permit would require the homeowner to remove the third story of the house. The homeowner would add about 1,232 square feet to the house, bringing its total size to 3,760 square feet.

TRINIDAD AREA WATERSHED MEETING The Trinidad Bay Watershed Council invites the public to its quarterly meeting on Monday, July 20 from 6:30 to 8:30 p. m. at Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. in Trinidad. Meeting attendees will have the opportunity to provide input on future watershed projects and priorities during a discussion about updating the Trinidad Bay Watershed Plan. Other meeting topics include a presentation of results of the city’s recently completed Stormwater Project and water quality monitoring in Trinidad Bay and watershed partner

LOOKIN’ FOR SOME HOT STUFF Dean Gilkerson and his daughter Aliana sell hot pepper starts at the Arcata Farmers’ Market.

JV | union but the constant stream of visitors to his booth were drawn to those hot pepper plants.

Gilkerson gave advice on where to plant and how to care for the peppers to

many would-be-hot-pepper growers. Male shoppers, especially, seemed interested in the hottest of hot peppers.

After all, you can never have enough hot!

updates. For information, visit trinidadwatersheds.org, or contact Becky Price-Hall at the City of Trinidad, (707) 499-6454 or via email at rpricehall@trinidad.ca.gov.

MACK TOWN VISIT Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services Mobile Outreach will be at the McKinleyville Family Resource Center on Tuesday, July 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Visitors to the bus can be assisted with CalFresh, MediCal, in-home supportive services, veterans services and child support. Humboldt County Mental Health Clinicians will provide on-board counseling and can link clients up with supportive case management. For information about program services, call (707) 441-4650.

Walter Neuhaus was surprised recently to receive a birthday card from President Gerald Ford. He was 85 on June 16.

– Blue Lake Notes by Dorothy Jackson, published in The Union June 24, 1976

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Pot panel ProsPerity Network

EUREKA – Today, July 15, business and civic leaders will gather to listen to a panel of cannabis farmers about how they are building the regulatory framework for growing cannabis legally, and sustainably.

“The panelists are leading farmers in the industry, who have taken a strong stand for an ethical industry that participates fully in the local economy,” said Jacqueline Debets, executive director of the Workforce Development Board for Humboldt County, one of the series sponsors. “This is a forum for business people to talk to each other.”

The first in a four-part series, sponsored by the Prosperity Network, this Business Leader Luncheon will focus on best farming practices, environmental protections and tax structure.

Today’s luncheon takes place at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, located at 921 Waterfront Dr, in Eureka. Pre-registration is required. For event information contact Susan Seaman, (707) 822-4616 ext. 12, or email susans@aedc1.org.

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But for all the hazards of trekking into new legal and regulatory territory, the new Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone (MMIZ) could foster an industry that capitalizes on Arcata’s name, location and other assets.

The Planning Commission was to get started Tuesday night on the new LUC amendment, guided by a list of bullet-pointed “Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone General Assumptions” submit-

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There’s no timeline for the project.

When it gets built will depend upon the availability of grant funding.

A 2014 feasibility study estimated that the project would cost about $4 million to $5 million to build, with the most expensive portion being the crossing at Little River.

Don Allan of the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust said that the mostly likely option for crossing the river is to build an extension on the west side of the U.S. Highway 101 bridge. The path would have a barrier separating it from highway traffic.

Before advocates for the project could move forward, they needed to acquire 14 acres of property owned by Green Diamond Resource Company at the south end of Scenic Drive. The property, which is now owned by the land trust, rises above the Little River and includes about 1,000 feet of riverfront property.

The land was purchased by the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust from Green Diamond for $80,000. The money came from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which funded the State Coastal Conservancy, which in turn passed the grant funding over to the local land trust.

Allan said that for now, the property will be managed as open space while efforts continue to build the trail.

ted by the Community Development Department. It describes the city’s aspirations as well as the limits under which the Planco must operate. Among them: • The Planco must operate strictly within the law, and limit its the amendment to medical cannabis. Recreational adaptations will be considered separately, when and if recreational use of marijuana is legalized (a is widely expected).

• While current cannabis laws “were designed to keep an industry in check, the MMIZ is intend-

“It’s going to take a lot of patience,” said Emily Sinkhorn of Redwood Community Action Agency, which is working on the trail effort.

When completed, the project would provide bicyclists with a pleasant route extending from Arcata to Trinidad with either minimal vehicles or zero vehicles, depending on what section is traveled on.

From Arcata, bicyclists can now travel on the narrow, lightly trafficked roads that cut across the Arcata Bottom. At the Mad River, cyclists have a dedicated pedestrian/bicycle crossing – the Hammond Bridge – which delivers them to McKinleyville.

The Hammond Trail slices north through McKinleyville, from the Hammond Bridge all the way to Strawberry Creek at Clam Beach. Long stretches of the Hammond are Class I, car-free trails, with some sections sharing residential streets.

At Clam Beach, bicyclists can stay off the highway and travel on the frontage road, which has minimal traffic and extends to the Crannell Road overpass.

That’s where bicyclists have to get on the freeway if they want to continue north, crossing the Little River and exiting at the first Westhaven offramp.

From there, Scenic Drive offers a spectacular alternative, with traffic remaining light until the entrance to the LITTLE RIVER EXTENSION This map shows the possible Cher-Ae Heights Casino. A short dis- route of the trail, from Crannell Road to Scenic Drive. tance away is the City of Trinidad.

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ed to encourage an industry to grow and be creative.”

• Cultivation, processing and warehousing will take place in the MMIZ. • A broad array of cannabis-related products might be made by niche manufacturers, including edibles, oils, tincture sprays, lotions and numerous other cannabis derivatives.

• The MMIZ should offer adequate space for 20 to 30 businesses of various sizes.

• The MMIZ should include at least four owners, with six or more preferable so as to allow diverse ownership and investment.

Were there to be just a few owners, misbehavior by one resident business could bring punitive action that adversely affects co-located enterprises.

• “Security and containment” are listed as “significant concerns,” with close scrutiny by police and regulatory officials imperative.

• Indoor cultivation at the site can’t mess up Arcata’s greenhouse gas reduction goals, which helped form the premise for the Excessive Electricity Use tax that cleared the town of grow houses. Greenhouse cultivation, solar energy, energy conservation and other harm-reduction techniques should be encouraged.

• Local businesses should be encouraged rather than large, out-of-area outfits that could displace local entrepreneuers.

• Businesses must document that they are supplying product only to legal dispensaries in California.

• Qualifying businesses will require only a ministerial permit to set up shop in the MMIZ. • The MMIZ shall be established within six months.

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ARCATA – Innovation zones aren’t just for cannabis – Arcata’s Creamery District is getting one as well. the Planning Commission was to begin work on that Tuesday night.

Since 2012, the district’s residents and businesspeople have been scoping out improvements to the “art and commerce” neighborhood located in the vicinity of the former Golden State Cremery

building on Ninth Street.

Creation of an innovation zone in the area would relieve new businesses of the requirement for a costly Planned Development Permit, which is considered a deterrent to the district’s evolution.

Desirable qualities for new developments include housing, solar power, low impact development, preservation of historic features, art installations and “harmonious street furniture.”

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Wanted: A couple hundred good candidates Jack Durham Mad RiveR Union

HUMBOLDT – Candidates are needed for more than 200 open seats up for grabs Nov. 3 on the boards of schools and special districts throughout Humboldt County.

There are several races in which the seats held by board majorities are open, meaning that power structures could shift in communities if residents so desire – assuming there are enough candidates willing to run.

For example, there are three open seats on the fi e mem er an la ommun ty Services District Board of Directors. There are also three seats – a board majority – open on the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District. There are many more scattered throughout the county, including the McKinleyville Union chool str ct, h ch has our o ts fi e seats up for grabs.

Special Districts • Big Lagoon Community Services: Three seats are open, including two four-year seats now held by Barbara Halton-Subkis and Jon Spillers. A third twoyear seat, now vacant, is also open.

• Fieldbrook/Glendale Community Services: There are two four-year seats open, now held by James Crowell and Richard Grissom.

• Humboldt Community Services: Four seats on the board are open. Three four-year seats are now held by David Saunderson, Frank Scolari and David Tyson. A single two-year seat is held by Gregg Gardiner.

• Manila Community Services: Three four-year seats are open, which are now held by Janette Bramlett, Joy Dellas and Salena Kahle.

• McKinleyville Community Services: Two four-year seats are open, now held by John Corbett and Helen Edwards.

The MCSD is Mack Town’s de facto city council.

• Orick Community Services: Four out o fi e seats are open n the urly er There are three four-year seats held by Ronald Barlow, Byron Frick and Bobby Secor. There’s a single two-year seat, now vacant.

• Patrick Creek Services: There are two four-year seats open, now held by Jerry

ELECTION SEASON BEGINS! Filing opened: Monday, July 13 Filing closes: Friday, Aug. 7 at 5 p.m.

If an incumbent in a race fails to file for a seat, the deadline for that race is extended to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12.

Where: Humboldt County Elections Office, 3033 H St. Room 20, Eureka. humboldtgov.org/890/Elections-Voter-Registration Fowler and Judy Webb. This little district serves residents on Patrick Creek Road above Clam Beach.

• Westhaven Community Services: Three four-year seats are open, now held

by David Hankin, Gregory Smith and William Verick. The WCSD provides water to residents of the artsy enclave.

• Arcata Fire Protection District: There are two four-year seats open, a Division 1 seat held by Dennis Lindstrom and a Division 3 seat held by Stephen Tyler.

Division 1 is roughly McKinleyville north of Hiller Road. Division 3 is a funky swath that runs from the Arcata Bottom, includes parts of northern Arcata and parts of West End Road. Visit arcatafire.org and click on oard o rectors to find a map • Blue Lake Fire Protection: A total of four seats are open. There are three-four year seats now held by Randal Johnson and Patrick Lynch, with one seat vacant.

There’s also a vacant two-year seat.

• Humboldt No. 1 Fire Protection: There are four open seats. Three four-year seats are open, now held by John Crumley and Joann Gath, with one seat vacant.

There is also an open two-year seat, held by Kirk White. The district represents the unincorporated areas outside Eureka. It has a joint powers agreement with the City of Eureka to operate Humboldt Bay Fire.

• Kneeland Fire Protection: There are four open seats. Two open four-year seats are now held by Michael Davis and Elizabeth Watson. Two open two-year seats are held by Lindsay Green and Robert Phipps.

• Samoa Fire Protection: Three fouryear seats are open, now held by Hal Grote, roy col n and a to ers • Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation: There are three open seats – Division 1, held by Aaron Newman, Division 2, held by Gregory Dale, and Division 5, held by Patrick Higgins. All are four-year terms. The divisions

have the same boundaries as the supervisorial districts.

• Northern Humboldt Parks & Recreation: There are four open seats.

There are three four-year seats now held

by Ron Fritzsche, Michael Morrison and Jan Ross. There is one two-year seat held

by JoAnne Joy. • Jacoby Creek County Water: There are two open four-year seats held by Sam Rich and Bruce Young.

School Districts • Arcata School: There are two open four-year seats, now held by Stacy Atkins-Salazar and Katherine Salinas.

• Big Lagoon School: There are four open seats. Two are four-year seats, one held by Londa Berry, the other vacant.

There are two two-year seats now held by Kristine Mechals and Catherine Munsee.

• Blue Lake Union School: There are two open four-year seats, now held by Lisa Hooven and Alexander Rohn.

• Cutten School: There are two open four-year seats, now held by Dennis Reinholtsen and Rebecca Reece.

• Eureka City Schools: There are two open seats, one in Division 1 now held by Michael Duncan, and one in Division 4, now held by Susan Johnson. Both are fouryear seats.

• Fieldbrook School: There are two open four-year seats, now held by Richard Grissom and Jeremy Sargent.

• Freshwater School: There are two open four-year seats, now held by Dan Diemer and Sue Seely.

• Green Point School: There are two open four-year seats, now held by Berniece Sorrow and Susan Marshall.

• Jacoby Creek School: There are two open four-year seats, now held by Tuan Luu and John Renteria.

• Kneeland School: There are two open seats, a four-year seat now held by Michelle Krupa, and a two-year seat now held by Shayne Green.

Welcome to the club A NEW ROTARIAN Arcata Fire Protection District Chief Desmond Cowan was inducted into the Arcata Rotary Noon Club during its meeting on July 8. Cowan checks out his new member packet while his wife Jeanne Brochard and Arcata Rotarian Edy Vaissade, his sponsor, look on. Matt Filar | Union

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The neighboring communities of McKinleyville and Trinidad have made surveys of their water needs and are considering possible dam sites in the Little River and Maple Creek drainages... The proposal calls for the creation of three large reservoirs by damming three coastal streams and their tributaries. These three reservoirs are referred to as Maple Creek Lake, Little River Lake and Lindsay Creek Lake.

– McKinleyville News, May 24, 1967

TEEN CENTER GROUND BREAKING The McKinleyville Community Services District (MCSD) has announced the ground breaking for the new Teen and Community Center on 1705 Gwin Rd. in McKinleyville.

A ceremony will be held Wednesday, July 22 at 2 p.m. MCSD has been developing a partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of the Redwoods since 2013. Over the last two years, the partnership has collaborated on a number of leadership opportunities for young people in the McKinleyville community, including creating the McKinleyville outh eadersh p oc ety, h ch s ntended to ha e a s n ficant role n the teen pro ramm n o ered at the ne ac l ty Through this partnership, the Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods will have a charter site in the new Teen and Community Center. The Teen Center is an approximately 6,700-square-foot addition to the district’s existing recreation and activity center.

This additional space, dedicated to teen and community activities, was approved by the community and funded by a local ballot measure.

When complete, the community will be able to enjoy a facility that will include a quiet study room, a divisible multi-purpose room, a soundproof music room, a central game room that can be used for multiple activities, a covered outdoor performance area, and a community commercial kitchen to augment an existing area that will seat 450 people for banquets and where cooking classes can be held.

FOSTER GOES BACK TO RREDC The Redwood Region Economic Development Commission (RREDC) has announced that it has hired Gregg Foster as its new executive director. Foster rejoins the agency for the third time, having served as executive director from 1999 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2012.

Foster has spent the previous three years as a vice-president and business lender for Redwood Capital Bank.

RREDC is a collaboration of Humboldt County communities dedicated to expanding economic opportunity in Humboldt County.

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WAY TO REPRESENT HUMBOLDT! Five Humboldt County students who have made the Scholastic Honor Roll Spring term have been announced by Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. To be on the Honor Roll, students must carry at least 12 graded hours of course work. The students included Maxwell G. Schmidt of Bayside, who has a grade point average of 3.5 or better and is majoring in animal sciences; Lynn G. Herrick of McKinleyville, who has a grade point average of 3.5 or better and is studying pre-computer science; Celia A. Hansen of Ferndale, who has a straight-A average and is studying exercise and sport science; Rytann J. Busick of Ferndale, who is studying environmental economics and police and has a grade point average of 3.5 or better; and Grady C. Titus of Ferndale, who is studying digital communication arts and has a grade point average of 3.5 or better.

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• Maple Creek School: There is a single open four-year seat now held by Tina Floyd.

• McKinleyville Union School: There are four open seats. There are two four-year seats now held by Sara Alto and Brian Mitchell. There are two two-year seats now held by Suzanne McCray and Theresa Grosjean.

• Northern Humboldt Union High School: There are two four-year seats open, now held by Dan Collen and Dan Johnson.

• Orick School: There are four open seats. Three four-year seats are now held

by Albert Curtis and Edith-Ann Baker, with one vacant. A two-year seat is held by Linda Seufert.

• Pacific Union School: There are four seats open. Two four-year seats are held by Christopher Emmons and Theodore Weller. Two two-year seats are held

by Karan Collenberg and Dirk Luoma.

• Peninsula Union School: There are three open four-year seats, now held

by Jerry Cotton, Patricia Cotten and David Rominger.

• Trinidad School: There are three seats open. Two four-year seats are now held by Ananda Morehead and Janice West. A two-year seat is held by Shirley Laos.

• Humboldt County Board of Education: There are three open seats – a four-year Division 2 seat now held by Robert Siekmann, a four-year Division 5 seat held by Marc Rowley, and a two-year Division 4 seat held by Karen Hunter.

• Redwood Community College (CR): There are four four-year seats open – a Division 4 seat held by Richard Dorn, a Division 5 seat held by Bruce Emad, a Division 6 seat held by Colleen Mullery and a Division 7 seat held by Sally Biggin.

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CIRCLE JERKS The southeast section of the Plaza’s center flickered as a warmbed of erroneousness in recent unrelated incidents. On July 3, a squad of semi-surly sitabouts smoked, drank and muttered at passersby. As one man succumbed to drunken dreamland, officers arrived and arrested a colleague, then scraped the drunk up off the pavement. Alas, he’d just gotten his bike trailer back the day before after a previous arrest for public drunkenness. As officers out-processed the over-beveraged duo, one of their former co-mutterers from moments earlier circled the Plaza from a safe distance, howling unwholesome things at police.

Two days later, another upwelling of erratic behavior saw a man jumping around, pounding on recycling bins and bellowing nonsensical statements, all of which compelled other Plaza users to give him wide berth. “Five shots for July 5th,” he proclaimed, lining up a set of glasses on the planter’s edge. “Thank you, Jesus!”

When officers arrived, he became more docile, so they had him clear up his shot glass display and leave. But as he headed away to the southeast, he started yelling again and writing with chalk in the busy intersection of Eighth and G streets.

With that, police took him into custody.

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Sound and fury, signifying nothing • Monday, June 29 12:11 a.m. tive, lightly armed variety, pacing Any visitors to Arcata strolling along about with a small bat near the St. its historic Plaza’s colorful Tavern Louis Road overpass, saying words Row would have taken in an en- and walking among passing vehicles. chanting view of a man writhing and 9:44 a.m. A resident near 16th and vomiting on the spittle-pocked side- L streets saw a guy on a bike snatch walk after being punched in up the neighbor’s cat and ride the throat. away. He was described as 1:02 a.m. A mom called wearing a blue helmet, white APD after her son texted her shoes riding a road bike with saying he was going to “blow red bags and a black cat.

Kevin L. Hoover his brains out.” a.m. A five-string v ARCATA 10:16 1:34 a.m. A woman called Nova bass guitar was stolen from I Street with concern POLICE LOG out of a car on N Street. about a disabled friend who 4:17 p.m. Having successlives in a nearby senior housing com- fully snabbed a bottle of booze from plex who was slurredly making dis- a nearby supermarket, a thirsty shopjointed statements. But her principal lifter settled down a block away near a concern was the roving band of punks video store to go to work on the inefwho’d just threatened to decapitate fectual security-lock top on the bottle. her dog.

The BottleLox liquor locks are some2:12 a.m. A 99-year-old man fell times found discarded on the ground down and started bleeding. in proximity to Uniontown.

5:27 p.m. A neighbor complained • Wednesday, July 1 10:11 a.m. As about two dogs always roaming free workers toiled in an H Street business in her neighborhood… office, grog-guzzling goodtimers in the 5:51 p.m. …but it was the dogs’ own- alley out back chugged vodka. For this er who did most of the barking, com- they were ticketed. ing over to the neighbor’s yard to howl 11:04 a.m. As workers toiled in an F complaints about the call to police.

Street credit union, garrulous good• Tuesday, June 30 7:24 a.m. An L timers gathered on the west side of Street construction crew didn’t quite the business to bellow and blither at know what to make of the looming top volume, encumbering commerce. crew of galoots who tossed a gun case They were moved along. over the fence, so they called police.

12:04 p.m. Two women at the Ar8:17 a.m. This day’s roadway-roam- cata Marsh granted themselves and ing traffic sprite was of the rumina- their dogs personal exemptions from

the law and let the pooches run free to do as they wish with what’s left of the wildlife.

3:06 p.m. After sending two money orders totaling $640 to someone on that list of Craig’s for a concert ticket, the sender received nothing.

3:45 p.m. A bearded-and-backpacked traffic troller roamed the roadway on G Street, barking at cars to little apparent avail.

• Thursday, July 2 7:36 a.m.

Cattle, some with horns, teemed on a Janes Road schoolyard until mooooved along.

7:47 a.m. Hobos slumbered on the porch of an I Street ice cream shop until awakened and compelled to shuffle.

9:40 a.m. In keeping with the stringent environmental consciousness and community-minded courtesy routinely displayed by the cannabis industry, a large trash bag full of spent butane cartridges used for hash manufacture was found discarded by a K Street car wash next to Janes Creek.

2:11 p.m. A man left his laptop computer at the unlocked home of a friend, the address of which he didn’t know, and it disappeared.

6:15 p.m. An urban traveler set up a campsite along Janes Creek and turned up some attention-getting tunes. He was ejected.

• Friday, July 3 2:41 a.m. A woman called complaining of a pill stuck in her throat-chest area.

Chuckling intruders found in backyard • Monday, June 29 1:07 a.m. A ass lady trousers retail for about $169 resident in the 1400 block of Railroad each, so it was a pretty good haul. The Drive in McKinleyville was awak- pants are still missing, but the Eureka ened in the middle of the night when Police recovered the gun. he heard a loud snapping sound. He • Wednesday, July 1 1:25 p.m. A went to his bedroom window the in- deputy observed probationer John vestigate and discovered two men Lopez walking into Murphy’s Marstanding in his yard. When ket in Trinidad. When Lopez confronted, the two intrudspotted the deputy, he took ers laughed heartedly and off running toward the freetook off running. It turned way. A foot pursuit ensued, JacK DurHam out that the snapping sound during which Lopez tumbled came from a fence board that v McKINLEYVILLE and fell to the ground. When the chuckling duo kicked in SHERIFF’S LOG he tried to get up he was tackto gain entry to the yard. led by a deputy. Next stop: 12:12 p.m. Sheila Brown accused jail. Lopez was booked on suspicion her boyfriend, Joshua Mann, of hit- of resisting arrest and violating the ting her in the face on Archer Road in terms of his probation.

McKinleyville. Mann, in turn, accused • Thursday, July 2 7:19 a.m. Robhis girlfriend of trying to take his wal- ert Garrison was in the gutter – both let from his pants, ripping the pocket literally and figuratively – near Cenin the process. According to the Sher- tral Avenue and Pickett Road. Garriiff’s Office, both of the suspects ad- son struggled to sit up, having conmitted to the counter accusations, so sumed way too many delicious adult they both got a free ride to jail. Brown beverages. He was arrested on suswas booked on suspicion of attempt- picion of being drunk in public and ed robbery and Mann was booked on transported to the jail to sober up. suspicion of spousal battery.

11:48 a.m. A woman on School Road • Tuesday, June 30 7:11 p.m. A in McKinleyville fell for the very comhouse was burglarized on Silverado mon “your grandson is in jail” scam Avenue in McKinleyville. The thief got and lost $15,000. If you get a call away with a gun and six pairs of Rock from someone claiming to be your Revival women’s jeans. These fancy grandson who is in jail, hang up. In

the highly unlikely chance that your grandson really is in jail, let him sit there and sweat. It builds character.

3:14 p.m. Golf clubs and car keys were stolen near a golf course in McKinleyville.

11:35 p.m. A man and woman yelled at each other on Reasor Road in McKinleyville.

• Saturday, July 4 7:39 p.m. Over on Terrace Garden Street in McKinleyville, a man called 911 and made nonsensical statements. He informed the dispatcher that he was hearing voices in his head and had not slept for days. Deputies responded and transported him to the Sempervirens Psychiatric Health Facility in Eureka.

• Sunday, July 5 12:32 a.m. Someone threw a cinder block through a window at the Blue Lake Community Church.

5:09 p.m. For unknown reasons, Mason Wilson allegedly blasted the wall of his father’s barn on West End Road with a shotgun.

• Monday, July 6 4:56 p.m. Juan Palominos was pulled over near the McKinleyville Shopping Center after a deputy noticed that the motorist had a black cover over his license plate.

Palominos was cited and released for allegedly driving without a license and covering his license plate.

Oregon man dies in Trinity River Humboldt Coroner’s offiCe

KIMTU – A 33-year-old Oregon man died on July 4 in the Trinity River near Willow Creek. The victim was identified July 7 by the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office as Justin Russell Lawrence Bennich from Gladstone, Ore. On Saturday, July 4 at about 3:40 p.m. the Hoopa Ambulance responded to the Kimtu area for a reported drowning. Upon arrival, they were informed that a subject had become unresponsive in the water and had been brought to shore by witnesses at the location.

Resuscitation efforts were immediately started and the man was transported to Mad River Community Hospital in Arcata. Prior to arriving at the hospital, the man was declared deceased.

Due to conflicting witness statements, an autopsy was scheduled to confirm the exact cause of death. The autopsy was completed but the results were inconclusive. Tissue and blood samples were taken for further analysis. It will be several weeks before the results of the additional analysis are known.

Though the exact cause of death is pending, the Coroner’s Office does not suspect any criminal activity relating to this incident.

Two firefighters perish in overturned vehicle California HigHway Patrol

WILLOW CREEK – On Thursday, July 9, a citizen reported an overturned vehicle in the Trinity River near Kimtu Beach to a California Highway Patrol (CHP) Willow Creek unit.

The CHP and other emergency personnel responded to the scene and located an overturned black Toyota SUV submerged in the Trinity River with two deceased occupants. A preliminary investigation indicated the vehicle drove off Seeley McIntosh Road sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon.

It was previously reported to the CHP Redding Communications Center that two U.S. Forest Service firefighters left work in Salyer Wednesday night and never showed up for work Thursday morning. CHP and Humboldt County Sheriff Department units searched possible travel routes and were initially unable to locate the missing firefighters or their vehicle.

The two deceased occupants are confirmed to be the two U.S. Forest Service firefighters. They were later identified as 29-year-old Dale Alexander Mendes of Willow Creek, the driver; and 19-year-old Jason Fritz Price, Jr. of Weitchpec, the right front passenger.

$40K damage in Eureka from bad extension cord Humboldt bay fire

EUREKA – Residents used a ladder to escape from a fire in their second-story dwelling early Monday morning on J Street in Eureka. The occupants of the residence had been awakened by the fire and were forced to use a ladder to exit from the second story. All occupants were safely outside when fire units arrived.

Fire damage was confined to one room, but there was smoke damage throughout the entire residence.

No injuries were reported. Damage is estimated at $40,000. The fire was extinguished in 20 minutes with crews remaining on scene for one-and-a-half hours.

During this time, Arcata Fire Protection District covered and handled an investigation call.

The cause and origin investigation shows the fire was caused by a faulty electrical extension cord.

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HOTEL A RCATA _ Then & now D ONALD F ORRES T THIS PLACE MATTERS Donald Forrest was asked by Hotel Arcata owners, the Big Lagoon Rancheria, to give a historical talk on the building’s 100 years of lodging guests on the Arcata Plaza. Above and right in the banquet room, Forrest relates to a rapt crowd the hotel’s tales, at the very place that they occurred. Photos by KLh | Union

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ur story begins just west of present day Weaverville, just 60 miles east of here as the crow flies.

Early the morning of Nov. 5, 1849, Dr. Josiah Gregg convinced eight hungry, threadbare miners to walk to Trinidad on the Pacific Ocean from Rich Bar on the Trinity River. He told them it stood to reason that the Trinity River must flow into the Trinidad Bay named

by Spanish explorers. Whereas the Indians (perhaps it was the Tsnungwa people) claimed it took two weeks to follow the rivers to the sea, however Gregg possessed “state of the art” surveyor’s instruments, therefore they could walk a straight path and be in Trinidad in five days, as the crow flies.

Seven weeks later, starving and broken, the party, including Lewis Keyser Wood, Josiah Gregg, David A. Buck and John Van Duzen had a knock-down-drag-out fight on the north bank of a swollen river. Eventually the river became known as the Mad River.

Christmas day 1849, just west of here on the Mad River slough, they encountered a Wiyot hunter/leader and blurted out the two rudest questions you can ask a Wiyot, “Who are you? Where are we?” – thus obligating their host to explain to them the history of the universe by way of introduction of place and person.

I won’t go that far tonight.

The Wiyot eventually told the party that the water of the bay was called Qua La Wa Loo. The men envisioned a sea port with access to the Trinity mines and vast tracts of timber.

The Union Company was formed. They staked out the Plaza over the Wiyot settlement of

Kori. The men named their settlement Union Town. They built California’s first railroad, a horsedrawn plank system that ran from the outhwest corner of the Plaza onto a wharf extending almost a mile out into the bay, accommodating deep water shipping. The “fireproof” Jacoby’s Storehouse was built in 1857, where it stands today. It became the staging point for pack trains to the Trinity mines.

The barrel-making business was the largest employer in town,

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then came lumber mills, boat builders, stone quarry and dairy farms as the town was becoming respectable in size, reputation and families. The name was changed to Arcata in 1858. The name “Arcata” comes from the Yurok term oket’oh, that means “where there is a lagoon.”

As the gold fields played out, the demand for lumber increased.

Wetlands were drained. The bay was diked. Mills were built. The railroad improved. Word of this labor-intensive boom brought immigrants to Arcata from northern Europe to the west coast. However the only way to travel to and from San Francisco was by ship or horse-drawn stage. The shifting, rocky terrain north of Santa Rosa stopped the Spanish in their quest to build missions from San Diego to Alaska.

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad linking Portland and San Francisco was completed in 1914.

The same year, the Redwood Memorial Highway (Hwy. 101) would begin a 12-year construction. And it was in that year five prominent Arcatans commissioned the famous San Francisco architect W.H. Meeks to design a worldclass hotel where we stand today.

It is interesting that this location has always been home to a hotel. The Eagle hotel was built in 1852 here. After it burned in 1858, the lot was rented to peddlers who stayed in tents and sold their wares. It is the place where Brizzard had his first store with rooms to let.

This is the place where Eureka contractors Elsemore and Jacobs eventually built this “fireproof” three-story brick masterpiece. It took one year to complete. The hotel opened in April of 1915 as

the Sportsman’s Headquarters.

Seventy-five guests registered opening day, paying $1 for a room with a sink and $2 for a room with a bath and toilet. An autobus met guests at the train station and stage line terminal and delivered them to the front door.

People came from near and far to celebrate the grand opening. Arcata residents gathered to see first-hand a building so grand it could boast electric lights and steam heat throughout. There was a pistol range in the basement.

The buzz was created in part by the Arcata Union and Eureka newspapers, which followed the building progress in front-page stories every week for a year.

The celebration unveiled the the interior featuring the finest collection of mounted game heads in California: bear, elk, mountain lion, antelope and wolves, all installed in the vast lobby by the hotel’s first managers, Thomas Bryant and Herman Haumann.

The lobby took up the entire first floor of this building and included a fine dining room and lounge with showrooms for the wares of traveling salesmen, conventions and civic meetings as well as a barbershop.

The hotel served as the permanent residence for prominent citizens, a cultural destination for hunters, fishermen and travelers and practically the whole town would gather to enjoy Sunday dinners here. Because the Hotel Arcata was considered the finest in the county, the film casts of the 1916 Lass of the Lumberlands and the 1917 Valley of the Giants stayed at the hotel. During their stay, dining room business increased as many local citizens

sought opportunities to see the movie stars.

If you have studied the historic photos along the lobby walls, you’ll appreciate how little the hotel has been altered from Weeks’ original plan. From the iron and hammered cooper marque to the cream-colored pressed brick exterior to the verde antique marble facade, the building remains faithful to original. Earthquake and fire damage have forced some alterations. The lobby has been partitioned to allow storefronts. The original 48 rooms are now 32, allowing more space and modern amenities. The gun range is gone; the basement, closed to the public, holds the furnace and a modern infrastructure hub.

But the clean lines of the Craftsman-era exterior remain as does the the Beaux-Arts detailing in the furnishings and woodwork of the interior and one-inch thick white tile covering the lobby floor.

The Hotel Arcata was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in January, 1984. These are some of the significant design elements they found distinctive: The main entrance has sever-

al ornate features: the vestibule walls are covered with Tokeen Alaskan marble, with the floor covered with one-inch ceramic tile and colored border. The original oak veneer door has been replaced with wood frame plate glass doors. At each side of the vestibule entrance is a partial column, constructed of brick, with a Tuscan capital and scroll entablature.

A cast metal and hammered copper marquee, held stationary by turnbuckles, has a shell motif, reed moulding, and is fringed by small square spaces containing glass. The marquee is damaged in a few spots, and the wired glass that formed the marquee roof is no longer there. Above the marquee, a hood projects from the building about 12 inches and is the same width as the marquee.

A fillet and scroll motif molding, which extends around the south and east sides of the building, is continued across the hood.

The hood is topped with a shell crest.

Within the context of the small City of Arcata, the Hotel Arcata has made a major architectural and commercial contribution.

On the historic Arcata Plaza, the Hotel Arcata has been at the hub of Arcata’s commercial district since 1915. Today, the Hotel Arcata appears essentially the same as it did when newly built and in the limelight of Arcata’s commerce and community life.

The Hotel Arcata played a role in that era of expanding commerce by providing elegant lodging and dining for travelers and meeting rooms for civic, business and social organizations. The style, stature, and size of the Hotel Arcata made it a prominent structure in

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1915 and accounts from that era describe the pride and thrill of having such a building and modern hotel business in Arcata.

The Hotel Arcata stands alone in Arcata; there are no other surviving hotel buildings and the only other three-story building in Arcata is the Jacoby Building. The building continues to convey the feeling of community and commercial life of a small city in the early 20th century.

During the ’70s, the grand old building fell on hard times, according to my girlfriend Alison, who resided on the second floor for a time, sharing a hallway bath with other residents until another fire brought a series of renovations and restorations. The City of Arcata bought the building in 1982 using funds from a Community Development Block Grant.

Offering a complete restoration, the Lorenzo family purchased the building in 1986; however with so many rooms empty during the work, the revenue from the occupied rooms was not sufficient to service their debt.

It was at that point one of the major financiers of the renovation assumed the title and management of the Hotel Arcata. Those are the people of the Big Lagoon Rancheria.

The tribe, with respect to heritage, architecture and tradition, have indeed returned this grand place to its original status as a world-class hotel.

I have been part of Dell’Arte International in Blue Lake for 40 years. The Hotel has always been our choice to lodge guest artists and the Rancheria has been financially supportive of our work.

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OPINION A growing Fostrosity

Some weeks ago this newspaper printed a photo of smiling Arcata officials breaking ground for the Foster Avenue extension project. Here in the Sunset neighborhood, along with the noise, dust and mini-earthquakes, we’ve watched a monstrosity grow, and I am not smiling.

This major project is changing Sunset in a big way, in a very vulnerable place. The exit off 101 around a blind curve and cars entering from several other streets, the traffic and parking problems related to the skate park and the high school sports field, plus pedestrians that include Sunset school children, high school and HSU students, have made this a dangerous area. Now the city is adding more traffic right at this spot, including traffic from more and probably larger trucks.

The size of this project also suggests that there is a lot more to come. We’ve heard rumors of an apartment building and a medical clinic soon to follow.

Meanwhile the tranquility of Shay Park is ruined, as it becomes little more than a beauty strip amidst traffic and noise.

I say “rumors” because citizens of this residential neighborhood were not consulted or even informed of this particular plan.

v LETTERS So after more than a decade at this address, I find myself living in a different neighborhood, apparently in a different city.

All I can do is promise the current members of City Council, smiling so contentedly for the camera, that thanks to this project and how they’ve handled it, I will never vote for any of them for anything.

Bill Kowinski Arcata

AFSCME cares

As one of the area’s largest employers, County of Humboldt’s employees are a huge part of our community. Beyond that, AFSCME union members strive even further to play a positive role in the area we call home. We are your neighbors, your friends and family, we pay taxes here and our children go to school with yours. I grew up here and I’ve always had strong ties to the area.

My parents are both teachers locally and my husband and I purchased our home here because we wanted to make roots in this county and raise our children here.

AFSCME members have participated in

and donated to many local causes from Big Brothers Big Sisters to The Eureka Rescue Mission. We make it a point to shop and support Small Business Saturday and keep our dollars in the area by shopping locally first.

When you see us out in our green t-shirts supporting a cause or a locally owned business, please remember: we support you and we ask for your support in return.

There is no “us vs. them,” we are you, we are the community as well. We want safe workplace environments, fair wages and a united, thriving local economy, just like you do.

Courtney Ward Eureka

Help Boys & Girls Clubs

When someone asks me how I chose my career, I explain that I always had a sense growing up that the community was instrumental in how I turned out and I wanted to give back. As I’ve been involved in my work, though, I’ve really gotten to experience how fortunate I was as a child.

There are so many in our community – particularly young people – who have few resources at their disposal. That’s why I be-

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lieve we all have a role to play in creating the kind of community that turns out productive and caring citizens.

One of the ways I’m involved in creating such a community is through the Boys & Girls Club of the Redwoods. While there are many worthy organizations serving our youth and deserving of our support, the Boys & Girls Club reaches nearly 4,000 young people each year. The Club has been fortunate over the past year to be recognized by the local Rotary dlubs, the Humboldt Association of Realtors and the League of Women Voters of Humboldt County, among others. But as is always the case among nonprofits, the Club could do even more work with increased ongoing financial support.

I’d invite readers to visit the Club’s website, bgcredwoods.org, to learn about programs offered by this valuable community institution and find ways to support it. Whether it’s getting involved with t-ball, supporting expansion of services into McKinleyville, or helping raise funds through showing a classic car at Cruz’n Eureka, you can help.

Phil Smith-Hanes, boardmember, Boys & Girls Club of the Redwoods Eureka

Don’t let the cannabis industry write its own rules

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alifornia Cannabis Voice Starting the process with a Humboldt (CCVH) has draft ordinance written by CCVH written a draft ordinance would be like developing a comthat would regulate the marijua- munity plan for McKinleyville na industry and has submitted it starting with a draft written by to the Board of Supervisors. The developers. It’s a stinky way to next step in this process should start. be for the supervisors to Instead, start the protake the draft ordinance cess fresh. Hold public and shove it in a “public hearings. Solicit input input” folder along with from everyone. Have all the other letters and county staff mull it over. emails it has received on Draft an ordinance. Let the topic of marijuana it grind its way through Jack D urham regulation.

Planning Commission reThen the board should v RAMBLING views, then come before direct county staff to JACK the Board of Supervisors. draft an ordinance, startInput is needed from ing from scratch. It’s important all facets of the community, inthat this process gets underway cluding environmentalists, farmimmediately. The convention- ers, ranchers, educators and, al wisdom is that marijuana will yes, even pot growers. California be legalized in the state by the Cannabis Voice Humboldt’s orend of 2016. When this happens, dinance can be used as reference.

Humboldt should have a clear or- There are lots of good ideas in dinance in place dictating where the draft. It could be a useful tool and how farmers can grow can- right up there with other letters nabis. and submissions from members This ordinance needs to be of the public and various public developed through the people’s agencies. democratic process, with full Another reason to develop an transparency, not by the industry ordinance now, and through the itself. county process, is to guarantee But you can’t blame Califor- that the new land use rules are nia Cannabis Voice Humboldt for subject to the California Envitrying. After all, what industry ronmental Quality Act (CEQA). wouldn’t want to write its own As is evident from the thousands rules? That’s smart business, of water-sucking, stream-killing, But from a public perspective, it’s illegally graded grows dotting ludicrous.

Humboldt’s landscape, this in-

News Item: Cannabis industry drafts its own legislation for Humboldt Supes to sign off on. dustry can be an environmental nightmare.

One way to combat an environmentally destructive industry is to make sure that when it becomes legit, it has to go through the CEQA process. This allows for agencies and the public to get involved and to require the industry

to be more eco-friendly and mitigate its environmental damage.

But without the county pursuing its own ordinance, there’s a very real possibility that marijuana-growing laws could completely bypass CEQA. California Cannabis Voice Humboldt could gather enough

signatures to get its ordinance placed on the ballot in 2016. If this happens, the Board of Supervisors could either skip the election and pass the ordinance itself, or leave the issue up to the voters. Whether the supervisors or the voters pass the ordinance, there would be no CEQA review.

Potsters drafting regs for themselves is just as good of an idea as it sounds

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e are somewhat strange bedfellows — the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) is a non-profit based in Arcata devoted to the defense of the North Coast’s forests; the Humboldt Redwood Company is a forestry company devoted to managing its large blocks of forestlands to provide for longterm ecological, social and economic vitality.

Although we don’t always see eye-toeye, we do agree on this: the marijuana “regulation” being forwarded by California Cannabis Voice Humboldt (CCVH) is bad for our forests. And what’s bad for forests is bad for Humboldt County.

Forests are important to California. Not only do they provide us humans with jobs, wood products and recreation, they also provide important habitat for California’s rare and native species, like the Humboldt marten and the northern spotted owl, fight climate change by sequestering carbon and help to supply clean, cool water.

But our forests are at risk. Increased forest fragmentation — the breaking of large intact tracts of forests into smaller clumps — is driven by the desire to make way for new residences or commercial ventures by clearing forest land. And fragmentation poses a serious threat to the values our forests provide.

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To promote the conservation of California’s forested landscape, in 1976 the state ordered counties to identify forestlands where timber management is the “highest and best use of the land” and categorize them as Timber Production Zones or TPZ. By law, use of TPZ land is restricted to timber harvesting and other “compatible uses” — those activities, as defined county-by-county, that do not “detract from the use of the property for, or inhibit, growing and harvesting timber.”

In exchange for limiting the uses of TPZ land, and knowing that sustainable timber management is not a get rich quick scheme, the state offers TPZ landowners significant breaks on property taxes. As a whole, the TPZ system has worked: forest conversion slowed dramatically and responsible landowners could expect a profit from forest management.

While purportedly a marijuana regulation, the CCVH initiative would do more than regulate pot – it would further open our

forests to development. Under the initiative, commercial marijuana cultivation would become a “compatible use” with forestlands in Humboldt County. This little change in the law could have drastic consequences. By opening TPZ land to commercial marijuana cultivation, those growing marijuana — California’s most lucrative crop — on TPZ land would receive a tax break.

In turn, because of this preferential tax treatment for those growing marijuana on TPZ as opposed to other types of land, the price of timberland would jump as more growers flock deeper into the TPZ land in the hills. Therein lies the problem.

Marijuana production and forests don’t mix. It’s simple: trees provide shade, marijuana plants need light. As marijuana grows push further into TPZ land, our region’s forests will become (even more) pockmarked with clearcuts and white greenhouses.

Responsible forestry will suffer. Forestry is a long game, deriving profit off slow-growing trees and long rotation cycles. Inflating the price of TPZ land by forcing forestry to compete with marijuana, a high-value crop with multiple growing seasons possible per year, is a losing game. Further, forest health is potentially threatened as folks who have no interest or knowledge in forest management become negligent neighbors.

Wildlife will suffer. Large blocks of forest will become fragmented as roads and permanent human presence associated with commercial marijuana production plod further into once-wild places. In these areas, the harmful effects of rodenticide and other toxicants, diesel spills, water diversions, sedimentation and nutrient runoff are more acute.

Studies have shown that marijuana production deep in federal forests harm the rare Pacific fisher. Diversion of headwaters likewise threatens the sensitive southern torrent salamander and the tailed frog.

Sedimentation, nutrient runoff and diversions threaten endangered salmon. In short, the proliferation of pot in our forests is bad for Humboldt County.

When environmentalists and loggers agree, it would be wise to listen: the CCVH initiative is bad for our forests and bad for our county. While we believe that our marijuana industry is in need of regulation, letting the industry dictate the rules is not the smart thing to do.

Natalynne DeLapp is the executive director of the Environmental Protection Information Center. Mike Jani is the president and chief forester of Humboldt Redwood Company.

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SCENE On the Prevalence of Evil The ancients believed they knew why the bad guys prosper and evil thrives.

They reasoned that if God is willing to prevent evil but unable, he is impotent.

If he is able but unwilling, then he is malevolent.

If he’s neither able nor willing, then he — it — is irrelevant.

We worship “God,” not because he bestows mercy or eradicates evil — he does nothing of the kind except in man’s terror-filled imagination — but because we invented him.

“God” is the phantom defense we employ against our fear that there is no answer to evil.

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Spiritual & subtle songstress Paula Jones blooms from strong roots

FROM GOSPEL TO JAZZ Paula Jones draws on a musical upbringing and a lifetime of music making when she performs with the RLA Trio this Friday at Westhaven Center for the Arts.

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– Paul Mann NEVER A BRIDE The North Coast Repertory Theatre continues its 31st season with the comedy Always A Bridesmaid by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. The production opens Thursday, July 23 at 8 p.m. at 300 Fifth St., Eureka. In this comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made to always be in each other's weddings… no matter what. More than 20 years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making “the long walk” for each other, determined to honor that vow. If you've ever elbowed a stranger out of the way to catch a bride’s bouquet, seriously questioned the mental stability of the duo saying “I do” or been forced to wear the world’s ugliest bridesmaid dress, this deliriously funny comedy is definitely for you… and your dearly beloved. For ticket prices, reservations, benefit shows and show times and dates, call (707) 442-NCRT (6278) or visit ncrt.net.

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TRINIDAD – Paula Jones is proud of her musical parents.

“Please put in the paper that my father was a graduate of Julliard,” she said.

The Reverend Asbury P. Jones “became a master com-

poser, was a chaplain in the U.S. Army, a chaplain for the California State Senate and a Baptist pastor,” she added.

Her mother, Mary Ellen Saunders, “had a fabulous voice and taught us girls three-part harmony.”

Jones is number four of six girls and grew up in the Sacramento area. She started in musical theater at age 11.

From age 19 to 24 she traveled “in Old Mexico and all over the United States, evangelizing.”

She was the lead vocalist in Sparrow, a Sacramento based “total funk” band.

In her late twenties, she was at a recording studio in San Rafael. “The Police were recording there and they asked if they could use my song, ‘Keepa-Dancin’.” It ended up being in the film Rumble Fish, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Jones moved to Humboldt County in 2009. She has sung at the Arcata Playhouse, with the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir, and loves “singing jazz with the RLA Trio.”

The RLA Trio is Tim Randles on piano, Mike Labolle on drums, and Bobby Amirkhan on bass.

Jones will guest with them on Friday, July 17 at the Westhaven Center for the Arts at 7 p.m.

“It’s a mixed pot,” she said. “The focus is on ’40s jazz but it kind of evolves from there, all the way to Marvin Gaye, ‘What's Going On’ – we really stir a lot of things in and it makes it exciting for me.”

Randles said, “Her style mixes the spiritual intensity of gospel with the subtle creativity of jazz, always entrancing audiences wherever she performs.”

Admission is $5 to $10 sliding scale and refreshments will be sold. Westhaven Center for the Arts is located at 501 S. Westhaven Dr., two miles south of Trinidad. For more information, call (707) 677-9493.

French globetrotter to talk at Trinidad travel series

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TRINIDAD – Marceau Verdiere is the international studies coordinator and a visual arts teacher at Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy (NPA). He goes to his native France, specifically the Alsace region, every year. And he’s a brave man who has led groups of teenage NPA students to Russia, Vietnam, Ghana, Burkina-Faso and many Eu-

ropean countries.

He’ll be talking about both types of travel experiences in the ongoing travel series at the Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Ct., on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. The event is free. Seating is limited, so arrive on time.

Verdiere says that Alsace “is a magnificent region that is often overlooked by visitors. It has the longest wine-producing season in France.”

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of his abstract photographs to the event but he cautions that he’s not a travel photographer. “I don't take snapshots,” he said.

Verdiere said that “it's much easier to travel with adolescents when they are in a difficult country. In Northern Africa, they trailed me like little ducklings. But in European countries they feel more confident and are more likely to want to go off on their own.”

He’ll talk about his adventures travelling with the NPA students at the event.

He’s originally from Boersch, which he describes as “a small town the size of Blue Lake,” in Alsace.

“Alsace is the smallest region in France but it’s the wealthiest,” he said. “It’s nestled between the Black Forest and the Rhine River.” He's been in the United States since 1991, the last 13 years in Humboldt County.

So whether you are looking for a different part of France to visit, or just hoping for tips on managing teenagers when traveling, the Trinidad Library presentation will prove interesting.

The Trinidad Travel Series is an ongoing program of presentations at Trinidad Library. For information about upcoming presentations, read Patti Fleschner’s weekly Trinidad Tidings column in the Mad River Union.

For more information about this presentation, call (707) 677-0227.

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rocK the MuseuM Bad Kitty presents The Phenomenauts – think rockabilly meets Devo at a Ramones concert – at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka, on Thursday, July 16 at 8 p.m. The opening act is Arcata’s own Small Axe Ensemble.

Doors open at 7:30 and $7 tickets are sold only at the door for this all-ages show.

Pints for nonProfits Celebrate wild and working lands with friends, family and colleagues at Pints for Nonprofits, all day today, July 15 at Redwood Curtain Brewery, 550 South G St., Arcata. $1 of every pint directly benefits the Northcoast Regional Land Trust’s important work in land conservation, conservation planning and building community for conservation. Live music by Kingfoot from 8 to 10 p.m.

oPera under the trees Experience a wonderful evening of music from the best European opera has to offer, all performed by some of the best singers and musicians on the North Coast Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18 at 7 p.m. in Arcata’s Redwood Park. Watch selections from classics such as La Boheme, The Marriage of Figaro and La Traviata, all interspersed with scenes from Il Matrimonio Segreto, Cimarosa’s famous comic opera of scheming and amorous intrigue. There are also performances Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12/$10 for students and seniors ($2 off for pre-sale), available at the Arcata Recreation Division office in City Hall. playsinthepark.net

ready to quit tobacco? Join a free quit tobacco workshop, today, July 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the American Cancer Society Office, 2924 F St. in Eureka. Tobacco users interested in giving up tobacco will have the opportunity to reflect on their tobacco use, understand what motivates them to quit, and create a personalized plan to help them stay tobacco free. Call to (707) 442-1436 option 3 to sign up. sci fi Pint and Pizza night Beware Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) and other psychotronic weirdness, trailers, short films and strange giveaways today, July 15 at Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the main feature starts at 7:30 p.m. The film was written, directed and produced by American fertilizer salesman Harold P. Warren as a result of a bet he made with scriptwriter Stirling Silliphant in a bar. Warren intended to make a successful horror film on a shoestring budget. The result, filmed entirely on location in El Paso, Texas, is a movie that is considered among the worst films ever made. Admission is free with $5 minimum purchase of food or beverage.

Music at the MarKet Pan Dulce steel pan orchestra plays the Arcata Farmers’ Market on the Arcata Plaza this Saturday, July 18. The market runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. quilt shoW Join the celebration of the art of quilting at the 2015 Heart of the Redwoods Quilt Show on Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19 at the Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, 3750 Harris St. Eureka. With over 300 quilts, from traditional to modern and wall size to king size, there will be something for everyone. The show includes a marketplace, quilts for sale, vendors, an opportunity quilt, a bed turning event, and featured quilters, Mary Hall and Jean Avant. The admission price for a two day pass is adults $8, seniors 60-plus $6, children under 12 are free. The Redwood Empire Quilters guild works hard making quilts for community service groups as well. Come join them and enjoy the art and help support the community. For more information visit reqg.com.

McK farMers’ MarKet Get your fresh local vegetables, fruit and flowers straight from the farmer, plus enjoy barbecued meats and live music Thursdays from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the McKinleyville Safeway Shopping Plaza on Central Avenue. chad bushnell Eureka Main Street’s Summer Concert Series this Thursday, July 16 at 6 p.m. at the C Street Market Square, Eureka features the hot country of Chad Bushnell. (707) 442-9054

dnb outdoors Unless it rains, Don’s Neighbors will be playing on the corner of Fifth and F St. in Eureka at the awesome Black Lightning Motorcycle Cafe on Saturday, July 18, starting at 5 p.m.

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Wine and jazz Join Bill Allison and Friends for wine and jazz Sunday, July 19 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. Allison (vocals and trumpet), Michael Curran (drums), Lee Phillips (electric and acoustic bass), Dave Wilson (guitar) and Steve Smith (piano) explore emerging and established be-bop and progressive classics. Allison adds original vocals on many tunes and pays homage to jazz legend Eddie Jefferson’s wonderful vocalese lyrics on seminal instrumental solos.

Wine and Jazz is included with regular admission to the museum: $5/$2 students and seniors/free for museum members and children under 17. does Prayer really WorK? On Sunday, July 21, the Lifetree program “How Does Prayer Work? Exploring the Mystery of Connecting With God,â€? features filmed interviews with Nathan Matz and Tosha Williams, two people who pray daily, but in very different ways. Lifetree CafĂŠ is a free conversation cafĂŠ with snacks and beverages on the corner of Union and 13th streets in Arcata. (707) 6722919, bobdipert@hotmail.com, lifetreecafe.com. locavores’ delight Find fresh vegetables and fruit from local producers, food vendors, plant starts and flowers every Tuesday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Wildberries Marketplace’s Farmers’ Market, 747 13th St., Arcata. (707) 822-0095 FRIDAY, JULY 17

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FERNDALE – The Ferndale Repertory Theatre (FRT) is seeking volunteers to help make patrons welcome at the theatre. Volunteer positions include house manager, usher, concession sales and ticket collector. Some limited training is required and anyone with a love of theater is welcome to apply. Volunteers are eligible to receive complimentary tickets for their work.

This is a fun and easy way to get involved with FRT. Just a few hours can make you a part of the team that is the talk of the town, with high quality productions and sell-out crowds.

These coveted jobs are expected to fill quickly for the 2015-2016 season, which begins in October. The deadline to submit an application for consideration is Aug. 31.

To obtain a volunteer application form, visit ferndalerep.org/support-the-rep/volunteer, phone the office at (707) 786-5483, or send an email to info@ferndalerep.org. summer youth theater Workshop Spaces are still available in the FRT summer musical theater workshop for children ages 8 to 18.

The goal of the FRT Summer Youth Theater Workshop is to allow students of various ages and backgrounds to experience a variety of music theatre activities, culminating with a performance showcase. Students ages 8 to 18 will be instructed by California and Arizona Music and Theatre Educator Brandon Day, assisted by actors, dancers and musicians who have performed at FRT and other local theaters.

The following topics will be covered: 1. Music: vocalization, vocal technique, pitch/ear training, ensemble and solo singing; 2. Theatre: stage presence, basic blocking, improvisation, group and individual skits and monologues; 3. Dance: body flexibility/movement, jazz, basic swing and contemporary dance styles for groups and individuals.

The Summer Workshop runs for 11 days over a twoweek period, Monday through Friday, July 27 to Aug. 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with a preview performance on Friday, Aug. 7, and a culminating performance on Saturday, Aug. 8 , at the Winema Theater in Scotia, which will be followed by a cake and punch reception.

The fee for the two-week session is $100. Scholarships and easy-payment plans are available through FRT. Registration forms are available at ferndalerep.org/educate or by calling (707) 786-5483. Registration forms must be received no later than Friday, July 24.

Ferndale Repertory Theatre strongly believes in the importance of the arts in education and its ability to promote social growth and self-awareness, problem-solving, independent and creative thinking, social skills, teamwork, motivation, self-confidence and self-expression. We encourage all youth to participate in the arts, in any way they can, and experience the joy and pride of accomplishment that comes from working together to produce art. ferndalerep.org SUNDAY, JULY 19

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hird Friday Jazz hosted by the RLA Trio will feature singer Paula Jones on Friday, July 17 at 7 p.m. at Westhaven Center for the Arts (WCA). Jones is a featured soloist for the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir and performs regularly with the RLA Trio. Her style mixes the spiritual intensity of gospel with the subtle creativity of jazz.

WCA is located at 501 South Westhaven Drive. Admission is on a sliding scale of $5 to $10. Call (707) 677-9493 for information.

Fourth Friday Flicks P atti The Ox Bow Incident (1943), starring Fleschner Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn, will be shown on Friday, July 24 at 7 p.m. at TRINIDAD WCA. The film received the best picture Oscar in 1944. Admission is $5 and refreshments will be available.

WCA Rummage Sale The annual WCA Rummage Sale will take place on Sunday, July 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the center. Call Joli at (707) 834-2479 if you would like sale space or if you have gently used items to donate. Please do not drop off items without making prior arrangements.

53rd Annual Blackberry Festival The Westhaven Volunteer Fire Department and the Westhaven Women’s Club will hold the annual Blackberry Festival on Sunday, July 26 starting at 11 a.m.

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One of the best ways to support CAF is to become a volunteer. Lately, there is a particular need for enthusiastic organizers to keep the thrift store looking great. A couple hours a week dusting shelves, organizing merchandise or sorting books can make a big difference!

Octavia s treMPle The latest litter to arrive at CAF is of the canine variety! Come visit all five COMPANION 10-week-old border collie puppies at ANIMALS the Sunny Brae adoption room.

The kitten room continues to bustle with kittens. Several find forever homes each week, making room for new litters seeking rescue, care and families. The adoption room is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at the Sunny Brae thrift store at 88 Sunny Brae Center.

All animals at CAF are spayed/neutered and up-todate on routine vaccinations prior to adoption. Please look online, send an email or stop by the store to pick up an adoption application. For more information, email cafanimals@gmail.com, visit cafanimals.org, check out Companion Animal Foundation on Facebook or call (707) 826-PETS (7387).

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ARCATA – Jessiah Class loves police dogs. He’s raised hundreds of dollars in support of the Arcata Police Department’s canines.

On the Fourth of July, when other kids were running around or going to a Crabs game, Jessiah was selling his home-baked cupcakes at a table in the center of the Plaza. He was sharply dressed in a police uniform shirt, complete with badges and cop-style sunglasses. “He bought the outfit himself,� said Ginger Campbell, a volunteer with both the APD canine program and the Arcata Chamber of Commerce. “I’m up to $163 today,� Jessiah said, indicating his donation jar, stuffed with bills and coins.

He’ll be in the seventh grade at Coastal Grove this fall. He’s been doing fundraising for the police dogs since he was in the fifth grade.

Jessiah was inspired by a book “that I found at my mom’s store, Companion Animal [Foundation]. I was looking through it and I saw on this page that police dogs work really hard. I thought, ‘Huh, what about if I donate to the dogs?’�

Jessiah is the son of Kim Class of the Companion Animal Foundation and Doby Class, head of Arcata’s Public Works department. “Jessiah’s an incredible boy,� said Lt. Ryan Peterson of the Arcata Police Department. “And he loves the police canines. He’s done so much to raise money and show his support. We can’t even express how much we appreciate his efforts.� “I’m so impressed,� he continued, “that somebody that young has the ambition to do something so positive.�

This is Jessiah’s fourth time doing this fundraising. He raised $350 last year, which was enough to buy a new bite sleeve for training. “We went to a training on Old Arcata Road,� Campbell said. “He had this enormous jar of cash. The sleeve they had was so bad and a new one would cost around $350. Dave Witmer, the trainer, is a rough tough guy.

He broke down into softness when he talked with Jessiah.� “He gave the trainer his cash,� she continued, “and Witmer asked if he wanted to go into the building where the training was happening. Jessiah said ‘Yes!’�

FUTURE K-9 OFFICER Jessiah Class sells cupcakes for canines. JV | Union After the retirement of one dog, the Arcata Police Department’s only dog now is Zari.

Some day Jessiah hopes to be like Zari’s handler, Sgt./K-9 Handler Ron Sligh, working as a partner with a police dog.

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s of this writing, 25 more dogs from homeless camps have been vaccinated against rabies! Redwood Pals was able to coordinate a vaccination clinic in Eureka, with the indispensable help of Sarah Green and Bill Wood of Healing Spirit. Rabies vaccinations allow these dogs to be licensed, as well as helping to keep the pet population healthy and safe. We are thrilled to have been able to make this happen and look forward to more opportunities in this direction.

Redwood Pals also made another appearance at the Companion Animal Foundation’s kids’ camp this week and were impressed by the dedication of these teens to helping animals of all varieties.

Mara This little bundle of cuteness, Pumps egal kin, got to go along with me to the camp.

DOGTOWN She is staying at our house while a yeasty skin condition clears up. She will be available through the shelter when she can be spayed, but interested parties can contact Redwood Pals Rescue now to meet her.

Pumpkin is 4 or 5 years old, a whopping eight pounds of indeterminate breed, and lots of fun. She might have a little poodle or terrier in there, but it’s hard to tell. She loves to cuddle up, but is equally happy just being in the vicinity of her favorite person. Currently that is me, but I’m sure she will easily transfer her affections to another Pumpkin kind person.

Pumpkin is fine with other dogs and cats. She is interested in playing with the other dogs, but cautious as the smallest at our house outweighs her by thirty pounds! This dog is no shrinking violet though; she Proud supporter of Dogtown and animal rescues

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Email Patti at baycity@sonic.net.

Huckleberry will sound the alarm when she thinks there is an intruder.

Pumpkin has lovely silky hair that appears to be of the hypo-allergenic variety. If you would like to meet Pumpkin, please contact us at redwoodpalsrescue@gmail.com or call (707) 839-9692.

At the shelter, we have this lovely Hound mix, Huckleberry. Huckleberry is just about 1 year old and ready for a forever home. He is a typical hound in that he loves to use his nose to follow a scent and likes to sniff his way through a walk!

Huckleberry is great around other dogs and very friendly with people as well. He would require an active owner and a secure yard, due to his young age and the way hounds like to get out and smell what is outside. He will make a very loyal companion though and is a smart boy, easy to train.

Huckleberry is a staff pick at the shelter! If you would like to meet this handsome boy, please visit the Humboldt County Animal Shelter at 980 Lycoming Ave. in McKinleyville. They are open Monday through Friday. More information is available at (707) 840-9132.

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Presentation by Jerry Rohde Historian and author Jerry Rohde will present a program on his recent book, Both Sides of the Bluff on Friday, July 24 at 7 p.m. at the Trinidad Museum, 400 Janis Court off Patrick’s Point Drive.

His history presentation, with wonderful old photographs, tells the story of what it was like to get food from Eureka to Arcata in the Eel River Valley and Humboldt Bay using ferries, boats, roads and trains when Table Bluff was in the way.

The Rohde talk is sponsored by Pierson Building Supply. Another of his talks in the Pierson Series will be presented on Friday, August 7 at 7 p.m., also at the Trinidad Museum. It’s called “Wish You Were Here,� a postcard tour of Humboldt County from Richardson Grove to Prairie Creek.

Trinidad Library Travel Series France is the destination in the armchair travel series set for Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. at the Trinidad Library.

Frenchman Marceau Verdiere will lead the tour of his country.

Artisans Market Each Sunday through the summer, handmade crafts from local vendors are shown outdoors next to Murphy’s Market from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Music is part of the fun at the Artisans Market.

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ARCATA – Where's Waldo? In Arcata, of course.

The famous children’s book character in the striped shirt and black-rimmed specs is visiting 25 different local businesses throughout our community again throughout the month of July. Those who spot him can win prizes, including buttons, book coupons and more.

Find Waldo Local is a great summer vacation activity, and a wonderful way for residents to support local businesses and the Shop Local movement. Anyone who wishes to participate can pick up a “Find Waldo Local in Arcata!” passport at any of the participating businesses and get their passport stamped or signed for each Waldo they spot.

The first 125 Waldo seekers to get their passports stamped or signed at 10 or more sites can bring their passports back to Northtown Books, 957 H St., Arcata, to collect prizes. Collecting store stamps or signatures at 20 or more businesses will entitle diligent seekers entry into a grand prize drawing on Friday, July 31, with the top prize being a six-volume deluxe set of Waldo books.

In celebration of Waldo’s longevity and popularity, his American publisher, Candlewick Press, is once again teaming up with the American Booksellers Association and 250 independent bookstores all across the country, including Northtown Books here in Arcata, for some hide and seek fun as well as to encourage communities to patronize their local businesses.

There is no charge to participate, and the hunt lasts for the entire month of July.

For more information about hunting for Waldo in Arcata, call Northtown Books at (707) 822-2834.

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WALDO IN ARCATA Waldo figures will be well hidden in these local business establishments in Arcata: Adventure’s Edge All Under Heaven Arcata Artisans Cooperative Gallery Arcata Exchange Arcata Scoop The Art Center Bang! Bang!

Bubbles Caravan of Dreams Daisy Dry Goods Fabric Temptations The Garden Gate Global Village Gallery Heartbead Hot Knots Humboldt Outfitters La Dolce Video Moonrise Herbs Morning Star Apparel Northtown Books Pacific Outfitters of Arcata People’s Records Plaza Recycled Youth Rocking Horse Solutions Threadbare Dancewear Tin Can Mailman Zen

Patton to judge photography exhibit Entries for the exhibition will be taken EUREKA – A CSU-Chico art professor with 35 years of photography experience at the gallery from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturwill judge the 2015 Humboldt Photogra- day, July 18, and a meet the judge session phy Exhibition to be held July 22 to Aug. will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, July 20.

There will be 10 prizes valued at $1,500 21 at the Redwood Art Association Gallery, awarded to winners. The 603 F St., Eureka. grand prize is a one-year AdoHe is Tom Patton, who has be Creative Cloud subscripbeen a photographer since tion worth $600.

1970, when he was in BurlinThe photo exhibition is game High School.

Humboldt County’s largest Patton graduated from the and is presented by the RedSan Francisco Institute of Art wood Art Association, Eureka with a BA in Fine Arts and Photoshop Group and Redreceived a Fine Arts Masters wood Camera Club and underdegree from the University of written by Pierson Building New Mexico. He also was a Center. Entry is open to all visiting professor at the UniTom Patton Humboldt County residents versity of Tasmania.

Patton has received an NEA fellowship and membership in any of the groups is as well as numerous university grants. His not required. Information and an entry work is in several museum and gallery col- form can be found at eurekaphotoshop. lections, including the Australian National com or redwoodart.us/exhibitions.htm or Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Mod- by dropping by the gallery.

Gallery hours are Wednesday through ern Art and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. He has had solo shows Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. The gallery in Japan, Australia and the United States also will be open from 6 to 9 p.m. during Arts Alive! on Saturday, Aug. 1. as well as Europe.

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Adventure abounds as she day, July 27. For a full de- The course culminates with whisks them away to meet scription of the contest and the opening night perfordancing chimney sweeps, entry guidelines, visit hloc. mance of Mary Poppins. A shopkeepers and an array org/mary-poppins-writ- ticket for opening night is of colorful characters. Fea- ing-contest.html. included in the course fee. turing an irresistible Instructors are TracHumboldt Light Opera Company’s story, eye-popping cosey Barnes Priestley and Mary Poppins Carol Ryder. Priestley tumes and sets, excitJuly 31 - 16 Van Duzer Theatre www.hloc.org ing dance numbers and is a life coach, writer, beloved songs, Mary blogger and cast memtakes us all on a jourber of Mary Poppins. ney where anything can She’s even tried her happen. hand at writing a play The show opens Fri(A Lively Look at Life day, July 31 and runs at After Fifty). She began the Van Duzer Theater performing in comon HSU campus for munity theater over three weekends with 20 years ago and has a Friday and Saturday special interest in the evening shows at 7:30 process of transformp.m. on July 31, Aug. 1, ing the written word 6, 7, 14 and 15 and Suninto live theater. day matinees at 2 p.m.

Ryder holds a masTheRe’s sOmeThINg AbOuT on Aug. 2, 9 and 16). ter’s degree in theater mARy Find the full size coloring Tickets are $13 to $19 and is the artistic direcpage at hloc.org. ($1 discount for seniors tor of Humboldt Light over 62 and students and Coloring contest Opera Company and the children under 18) and are Those too young to director of Mary Poppins. available now at hloc.org. write, or of a more visual- During her career she has Mary at the library ly artistic bent, are invited directed over 40 musical HLOC hosts a children’s to enter the coloring con- productions. Retired from book reading at the Eureka test. The winner will also the HSU Department of Library, 1313 Third St., to receive four tickets to the Music, she continues to help advocate the impor- opening weekend of the teach voice at College of the tance of reading in young show. The coloring con- Redwoods and privately. children’s creative develop- test deadline is Saturday, The class takes place ment as well as to promote July 25, with winners an- Saturday, July 25, from 10 their upcoming production nounced Wednesday, July to 11:30 a.m. at HLOC’s of the musical version of 29. Download the PDF of S.P.A.C.E., 92 Sunny Brae the beloved classic, Mary the image to color at hloc. Center, and Sunday, July Poppins. Katri Pitts, local org/coloring-contest.html. 26 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., award-winning music eduLearn all about Mary !

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Humboldt Crabs on a winning streak

This week in Crabs

Erik Fraser

On Friday, July 10, the Crabs welcomed the ARCATA — As we head into California Storm to town, the final few weeks of the Crabs though it may not have season, Allen Smoot is putting seemed a particularly together quite a case to be named warm welcome to the visthe team’s 2015 Most Valuable itors. Drew Weston greetPlayer. ed them with seven strong Smoot has been solid the innings of one-run ball. whole season, but lately, his numSmoot went 5-for-5, and bers are just plain gaudy: From was in the middle of every July 5 to 12, Smoot hit .720 (18Crabs rally in a 5-1 win. for-25) with 11 RBI, five runs and Saturday the 11th was five doubles, sending his season Mustache Night, but it YOU’RE OUT! Allen Smoot puts a Merchant out average soaring above the .400 could have been called Ofwith a step.

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“He puts a good swing on the the Alameda Merchants on Tuesday, The Crabs hit season ball,” Manager Tyson Fisher said of July 7. The Merchants had scored highs in both runs (15) and hits (22), Smoot. “He’s on time, more often four times in the first against Donald and every starter had at least two hits than not, and when you swing the bat Robinson, but that would be all they in a 15-1 win. Almost lost in the outwell it’s pretty fun as a hitter.” would get in that game as Robinson burst was another sterling start from And with Smoot leading the charge, and relievers Scott Parker and Tyler Justin Mullins, who gave up just two the Crabs have put together a six- Bennett shut the Merchants down the hits in six innings. game win streak and sport a tidy 26-7 rest of the way.

On Sunday, July 12, Fisher decidrecord.

And the early 4-0 hole was quickly ed to give the ball to Bennett, whose Of course, it hasn’t been all Smoot, erased when Ben Petersen crushed a eight prior appearances all came out not even close. The Crabs are getting home run to left center with two on in of the bullpen. Bennett made the contributions from just about every- the bottom of the first and Beau Boz- move look like wise one, turning in one during their current run. The of- ett did the same with one on in the an efficient five-inning performance. fense has turned up the power to the second. Petersen nearly hit another Only two Storm batters reached base, tune of six homers in six games after home run in the third but had to set- and both stalled at first. amassing just seven in the first 27 tle for an RBI-double off the wall. By “It was a good step for him,” said games of the season. And the pitching the time the game was over, the Crabs Fisher, who is starting to eye the postis settling into a solid groove, allow- had scored 13 unanswered runs and season tournament as he juggles the ing six TOTAL runs over the last 44 cruised to an easy win. arms at his disposal. “He wanted to go innings.

The next night, simply was Andy another one, but he threw 68 pitches “There was a lot of good this week- Burschinger’s night. The big right- in five innings, one-hit baseball, he end, all week long,” Fisher said. “The hander from Chico State spun up did his job. He hadn’t gone that far in starting pitching’s been really, really the team’s first complete game of the a long, long time.” good. I think that guys are starting to season, scattering seven hits, strikBases-loaded hits by Petersen get their arms in shape, to where they ing out eight and walking none in a in the first and Smoot in the fourth can go deeper and deeper into ball- 7-2 victory. A five-run fourth keyed provided most of the offense for the games.”

by Brad Pluschkell’s first home run of Crabs as they completed the sweep That run dates back to the second the summer accounted for most of the with a 7-2 win. inning of the Crabs opener against Crabs’ offense. humboldtcrabs.com

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Wednesday, July 15 – Crabs vs. Bercovich Baseball The Crabs play the second of two games against the Bercovich Baseball at 7 p.m., with the Crab Grass Band playing. Faith Center Church is throwing the first pitch and Ben Lukens is picking up bats.

Friday, July 17 – Pirate Night & Mystery Giveaway Night Aaargghh! Dress up in your pirate attire and the best looking pirate will win some loot and booty! Enter to win at the souvenir stand.

Fans will win a mystery prize from the Crabs and Dead Reckoning Tavern, while supplies last. Oh, yeah, and the Crabs will play the Redding Colt 45s at 7 p.m. The Crab Grass Band will supply sea shanties. Shafer’s Ace Hardware will lob the first ball, and Jackson Rankin is batboy.

Saturday, July 18 – Crabs Hall of Fame and Alumni Night The Crabs will induct several former Crabs players and a historic Crabs team into the Hall of Fame. All the Crabs alumni will be honored, celebrated and treated to a barbecue in right field while the current Crabbies take on the Redding Colt .45s for a second time at 7 p.m. Ben Aldag is batboy.

Sunday, July 19 – Crabs Mystery Giveaway Day Free stuff for Crabs fans, sponsored by Cherae Heights Casino! Get to the ballpark early to receive a special prize while supplies last. The Crabs play the Redding Colt .45s for a third time at 12:30 p.m., serenaded by the Crab Grass Band. MaiLi Scher will wrangle bats while Arcata Presbyterian Church throws the first pitch.

Tuesday, July 21 – Crabs vs. Seals Baseball The Crabs play the first of two games against Seals Baseball at 7 p.m., with the Crab Grass Band playing. St. Joseph Hospital will throw the first pitch, Sagan Sarchet will clear the field of tripping hazards.

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he Bulldogs, Arcata’s super Little League team, had its end-of-the-year party at a Crabs game.

There was pizza and other food. There were parents and siblings.

But there were no cheesy trophies “to get broken in the back seat of the car on the way home,” according to their coach, Justin Kelly.

TRIPLE THREAT Champion baseball players, from left, Braden Meadows, Jackson Kelly and Kyler Truesdell, attend a Crabs game.

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Kelly, who is in his second year as coach, plays first base,” said. arranged something more meaningful than “He’s good at first,” one of his teama trophy for each player. mates chimed in.

Instead, the Little Leaguers shad“Because he’s big,” another said. owed the Crabs players, each run“No, because he can throw,” the ning out to their positions to stand first one said. in place for the National Anthem.

Assistant coaches were Erik As the Crabs announcer called out Janine Fraser, Chad Meadows and Tim the Crabs player’s position, name V olkmar Warner. and hometown, he also called out v CRAB Warner said that “they did rethe name of the Little League playally well. They are the youngest er. Then the two ran together to GAB team, age-wise, of any team in the stand on the field, one tiny guy and one big guy, until all the positions were filled. league. Everyone got a chance to play.”

“We held our own against the older It was quite a sight.

After the singing of the anthem, the Lit- kids,” Coach Kelly said. “I’m really proud tle Leaguers ran back in from the field, each of them.”

The Bulldogs will play again this fall. clutching something better than a trophy: a “Arcata does fall ball as well,” Michelle signed baseball. They took off their jerseys and went back to the party spot on the third Briggs explained. She’s the mother of “Number 20, Jake.” baseline.

The team is sponsored by Arcata Pizza The Bulldogs had a good season where & Deli. every player got field time.

The party continued with happy kids “We beat almost every team that played, at least once,” said Finn Warner, who plays reveling in their moment of fame.

So much better than a broken trophy. “shortstop or anything in the infield.”

For more information, visit arcatalittle- CHAMPS The Bulldogs enjoyed a Crabs “I’m really happy that I got to play with game as a reward. these guys,” Caleb Constancio, who “always league.com.

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The Bombers end tough week with victories Jessica E. Ayala-Pimentel Humboldt b-52 bombers

HUMBOLDT – The Humboldt B-52 Bombers had some stiff competition last week hailing from south of the Redwood Curtain.

First up, last Sunday, July 5, the Bombers started a two-game series against the Alameda Merchants. The top half of the Bombers lineup started off hot against the visiting Merchants, putting up four runs in the first five innings.

Third basemen and Arcata High alumnus Spencer Duggan, as well as shortstop and McKinleyville High alumnus Juston Frazier lead the charge, each driving in a run while also scoring a run of their own.

However, the early lead would prove to be too little to hold off the Alameda Merchants bats once they got going. The Merchants dropped one run in the sixth inning, two runs in the seventh and capped it off with a three-run rally in the top of the eighth inning to take lead. At that point, it was too late for the Bombers to mount the comeback. The final was 6-4 in favor of the visiting Merchants.

On Monday, July 6, the Bombers tried to redeem themselves with local favorite Zach O’Hanen getting the start as pitcher against the Merchants. It was a hardfought, close game with both sides pitching quite well.

The Bombers pushed one run across the plate in the third inning and that proved to be the only offense for most of the game. Then, finally, in the sixth inning, the Merchants answered with a run of their own to tie the game. Not to be outdone, the Bombers answered right back with two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to make the score 3-1.

It was in the top of the seventh inning that the B-52s got into some trouble and allowed two runs to score to tie the game at three runs apiece.

Eureka local Bryan Baretto came into the game in the ninth inning and struck out two Merchant batters to extend the game into extra innings. However, the Merchants needed only one extra inning to break the hearts of the Bomber fans in attendance

as they drove across three runs in the top of the 10th. With the home team unable to respond in the bottom of the 10th, the Merchants won the game as well as got a clean sweep of the series.

On Friday evening, July 10, the Bombers looked to rebound against the visiting Santa Rosa Rosebuds with Kyle Kornigay from Pierce College in Washington on the bump as the starting pitcher. Kornigay threw well and his compatriot from Pierce College, Rayven Kahana helped him out, adding three hits and two RBIs including a double and a triple. Shortstop Juston Frazier and first basemen and team captain Jeff “Giaco” Giacomini each added three hits to allow the B-52s to get themselves back in the win column with an 11-5 victory.

On Saturday afternoon, July 11, Arizona State University alumnus and recent Eureka transplant Brian Meyer got the start against the Santa Rosa Rosebuds. Meyer needed only 86 pitches to record the complete game shutout

against the visiting team.

Meyer struck out four Rosebud batters while Kahana and Frazier stayed hot and each batted in a run. Meanwhile, centerfielder Jaymes Potts from College of Marin added two hits while leadoff hitter EJ “Edge” Reyes and Giacomini (this time playing catcher) each added three hits to keep the Bombers moving on the base paths. The final was 6-0 in favor of the Bombers.

The Bombers start another three-game series against the talented Berkovich Baseball squad from the East Bay area. All games have a 7 p.m. start time this week and will be played at Bomber Field at Redwood Acres.

CASA Kid’s Night Come join us for the B-52s First CASA Kids Night coming up this Saturday, July 18, when 25 percent of all our proceeds will benefit CASA. We’re hosting tailgating from 2 to 7 p.m. at Bomber Field at Redwood Acres. We encourage members of the community to come decked out in their B-52s gear and colors.

The car with most spirit will even win a beautiful custom made B-52 trophy!

People are encouraged to bring their families, because not only do you get to tailgate with your friends, barbecue and sponsor your favorite team, but we also have face painting, a petting zoo and a bounce house!

Throughout the game, beginning at 7 p.m., we’re going to be giving out prizes like signed baseball bats, gift certificates and more.

The first 120 attendees will even receive kazoos so they can play along to Take Me Out To The Ball Game, led by Roberta Duggan.

But the fun doesn’t stop there!

We will be inviting the kids to put their handprints on a custom made sign, in Spirit of CASA Kids Night.

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Humboldt’s airports slack on safety, repairs Paul Mann mad river union

HUMBOLDT – Murray Field’s used landing beacon is not adjusted to the correct angle and it can momentarily blind pilots as they land at night.

Pilots and neighboring homeowners have made the Humboldt County Department of Public Works aware of the danger, but the beacon has not been replaced.

Murray’s runway edge lights are out, another threat to operational safety.

California’s Division of Aeronautics issued orders late last year for the removal of trees (25 to 30 feet tall) and bushes northeast of the Murray runway. Further, runway, taxiway and ramp pavements are in disrepair and preventive maintenance is needed to stave off further deterioration.

These are among the findings and recommendations of a recent Humboldt

County Grand Jury investigation of Humboldt’s five general aviation airports, Murray Field among them, plus the commercial California Redwood Coast Humboldt County Airport in McKinleyville.

The Grand Jury faulted Humboldt’s Department of Public Works, led by Director Tom Mattson, for failing to share the results of Division of Aeronautics annual reviews with the county’s Airport Advisory Committee, which reports to the county Board of Supervisors.

In its May findings, the Grand Jury stated “it could not find evidence, through observations or interviews, that issues identified in the Caltrans Division of Aeronautics inspection notification letters have been addressed at any of the [county’s] five general aviation airports.”

Hence, the importance of Mattson’s agency sharing the Aeronautics Division’s

reports with the Airport Advisory Committee.

Garberville Airport, used heavily by the state’s Department of Fire Protection (CalFire) during the regular fire season, suffers from crumbling asphalt, faded runway holding position markings and hazardous trees that compromise operational safety.

Rohnerville Airport, just south of Fortuna, also used extensively by CalFire, has cracking runway and taxiway asphalt and obstructive trees at the end of the runway that constitute a risk to heavily loaded firefighting aircraft.

Kneeland Airport, a CalFire Helitack base, is short of runoff area at both ends of the runway. Likewise, numerous trees both east and west of the runway, and several more to the northwest of the runway’s approach end, should be topped or removed

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sion, which is in the red, out of the Department of Public Works. The jury found “a duplication of services in many areas” between the Aviation Division and the department’s General Services Division, including accounts payable and receivable, budgeting and grant applications.

Supervisors should solicit realignment proposals from the county’s Airport Advisory Committee, the Grand Jury said. It called for the board to direct the County Administrative Officer to audit the internal procedures between the two divisions to ensure the overlaps are eliminated. There was no mention of how much money that might save.

Apart from the reorganization, the Grand Jury’s May report — 15 findings and 15 recommendations — zeroed in on the failure to attract a second airline to the McKinleyville facility.

A single point person who can provide “a rapid response time is imperative”

in dealing with the highly competitive commercial airline industry, the panel concluded. That person should have full negotiating authority with “a direct line of communication to the Board of Supervisors.”

“A process with the least bureaucracy possible is needed,” the jury added, rebuking county leaders for failing to deliver. “To date, no new offers have been presented to the county even though various county officials routinely attend nationwide airline recruitment meetings” and Fly Humboldt, the grassroots lobby for expanded air service, has raised more than $1 million in seed money.

A serious lack of offi-

cial foresight was also to blame for the loss in 2012 of American Airlines’ offer of local service to Los Angeles, the grand jury found.

“The county spent millions of dollars at CRCHCA to renovate the terminal and improve the runways and yet, when air service was reduced to one airline (United Express), there was not a mechanism in place to secure MRG (minimum revenue guarantee) funds for negotiations to recruit additional air service.”

The failure has been calamitous for air traffic.

Between 2007 and 2013, McKinleyville enplanements plunged to 56,682 from 105, 969, costing vital federal dollars, which are apportioned by a formula linked to the number of annual enplanements.

The loss of passenger traffic sets off a fiscal chain reaction: sharply reduced ticketed passenger fees, parking fees and fuel sales.

The airport’s fuel revenues sank further when the Coast Guard installed its own tank in fiscal year 2011-2012.

There is another cost

to shore up operational safety.

An Aeronautics Division inspection last January found that Dinsmore Airport, some 82 miles southeast of Eureka and a CalFire bivouac with a lone wooden storage building, has no landing beacons (preventing night use) and numerous trees south of the runway that should be removed or enhanced to meet airport design obstruction standards.

All five of the county’s general aviation airports warrant tree topping or removal, the Grand Jury found.

Pavement repairs are needed at Murray Field and at Garberville and Rohnerville Airports.

The Department of Public Works should verify hangar rent income and institute revenue recovery from delinquent tenants at Murray Field and Garberville Airport, the jury recommended.

impact from reliance on a lone airline. The Aviation Division pays $32 an hour for airport security services provided by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department. The federal Transportation Security Administration reimburses at $20 an hour.

The division subsidized the difference of about $85,000 in fiscal year 20142015 alone. The Grand Jury recommended that Sheriff Mike Downey and the division work out ways to limit the differential, but the Grand Jury did not outline a strategy for the parties to consider.

The Aviation Division has fallen short of a balanced budget for fiscal year 2015-2016, owing in part to an unanticipated $145,000 expense for tree topping services in the CRCHCA’s flight path — a cost which the county’s small-scale, general aviation airports also face. All of them need trees topped or removed.

The division’s past is budgeting prologue: its overall fund balance has been in the red since fiscal year 2009-2010, the year Delta abandoned the McKinleyville facility.

The Aviation Division

has 19 budgeted positions, but seven are frozen — notably including the Airport Manager. Mattson oversees the agency, which finances a mere 16 percent of his salary — self-evidently neither a budgeting nor a management priority.

The Grand Jury learned that the division’s responsibilities and operations had not been reviewed since 2005 — some 10 years — and the only airport investigated at that time was the then-named Arcata/Eureka Airport.

Not one of the five general aviation airports was examined, where the jury found a series of safety hazards and maintenance backlogs. Murray Field needs a new landing beacon, for example, and its runway edge lights don’t work.

The panel pointedly called on Mattson and the Department of Public Works to deal “in a timely manner” with enhancing the operational safety of each general aviation airport, as mandated in the annual inspection and notification letters issued

by California’s Division of Aeronautics in the Department of Transportation.

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Hinks, Robert Wayne, of Arcata, March 11, 1941 – May 8, 2015 Harrison,. Trevor Mark, of Arcata, Dec. 2, 1976 – May 9, 2015 Kirkner, Michael James, of McKinleyville, Aug. 8, 1954 – May 12, 2015 Freeman, Billie Jean, of Arcata, May 12, 1927 – May 18, 2015 Thurber, Ashlyne Faith, of McKinleyville, May 24, 2004 – May 19, 2015 Armstrong, Shirley Marian, of Arcata, Feb. 22, 1918 – May 25, 2015 Hutchison, William Patterson, unknown, Feb. 18, 1939 – May 26, 2015 Crouse, Ruby Lola, of Arcata, Sept. 3, 1932 – May 28, 2015 Bagnell, Webster, of Arcata, Jan. 28, 1930 – June 1, 2015 Jones, Richard Owen, of Trinidad, Jan. 18, 1928 – June 4, 2015 Beeson, Joseph Paul, of Hoopa, May 15, 1937 – June 5, 2015 German, Darlene Annette, of Arcata, April 8, 1947 – June 7, 2015 Lyman, William Gordon, of McKinleyville, Jan. 15, 1917 – June 7, 2015 Braver, Betty Schild, of Trinidad, Aug. 20, 1944 – June 9, 2015 Robbins, Darrel Arthur, of Willow Creek, July 23, 1937 – June 11, 2015 Abbott, Steven James, of Willow Creek, July 23, 1959 – June 12, 2015 Naill, Evelyn Janice, of Arcata, March 20, 1936 – June 14, 2015 Potter, Diane Lee, of Arcata, July 25, 1964 – June 15, 2015 Haats, David Lynn, of McKinleyville, Nov. 30, 1943 – June 16, 2015 Hersey, Mark M., of Willow Creek, Nov. 24, 1947 – June 17, 2015 Johnson, Leah Rae, of Weott, Jan. 4, 1934 – June 20, 2015 Heck, Jane Elizabeth, of Blue Lake, June 17, 1953 – June 27, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00372 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: prISONEr rOCk ChArTErS 505 wEST ST. UNIT A TrINIdAd, CA 95570 p.O. BOx 224 TrINIdAd, CA 95570 jASON l. rAU 505 wEST ST. UNIT A TrINIdAd, CA 95570 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/jASON rAU, OwNEr This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on jun. 22, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS M. MOrrIS DEPuTY 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00375 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: hUMBOldT hAMMONdS 2771 FICklE hIll rd.

ArCATA, CA 95521 jOhN A. ChApMAN 2771 FICklE hIll rd.

ArCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/jOhN ChApMAN, BUSINESS OwNEr This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on jun. 23, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS A. ABrAM DEPuTY 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00378 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: hUMTrAC 670 10Th ST. ApT. 4 ArCATA, CA 95521 p.O. BOx # 788 ArCATA, CA 95518 jESSICA E. AyAlA 670 10Th ST. ApT. 4 ArCATA, CA 95521 EdwArd p. hUNTEr 1667 BUTTErMIlk lANE ArCATA, CA 95521 jOhN M. hUNTEr 1675 SOTOgrANdE Blvd. ApT. 207 hUrST, Tx 76053 This business is conducted by: A General Partnership S/jESSICA AyAlA, pArTNEr/FOUNdEr This statement was filed with the Humboldt County

Clerk on jun. 24, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS M. MOrrIS DEPuTY 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00369 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FOx STUdIO 4390 ChAFFIN lANE MCkINlEyvIllE, CA 95519 SUSAN l. FOx 4390 ChAFFIN lANE MCkINlEyvIllE, CA 95519 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/jSUSAN FOx This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on jun. 19, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS M. MOrrIS DEPuTY 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00368 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TypEOh prOdUCTIONS 1007 AdkINS rd MCkINlEyvIllE, CA 95519 jUSTIN M. BErg 1007 AdkINS rd MCkINlEyvIllE, CA 95519 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/jUSTIN MIChAEl BErg, OwNEr This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on jun. 19, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS A. ABrAM DEPuTY 7/8, 715, 7/22, 7/29 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00408 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ArCATA lIqUOr 786 9Th ST. ArCATA, CA 95521 jEFFrEy w. NAgAN 786 9Th ST. ArCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/jEFF NAgAN, OwNEr This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 9, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS z. hAlMAN DEPuTY 715, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00409

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ThE hUTCh 1644 g ST. ArCATA, CA 95521 jEFFrEy w. NAgAN 786 9Th ST. ArCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/jEFF NAgAN, OwNEr This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 9, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS z. hAlMAN DEPuTY 715, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00416 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: hUMBOldT hArvEST EdIBlES 600 F ST. SUITE 3-900 ArCATA, CA 95521 hUMBOldT hArvEST INC. 3786049 732 5Th ST. EUrEkA, CA 95501 This business is conducted by: A Corporation S/ESThEr BENEMANN, prESIdENT This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 9, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS S. CArNS DEPuTY 715, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 OrdEr TO ShOw CAUSE FOr ChANgE OF NAME gEOrgE rANdy STEwArT hIlTON SUpErIOr COUrT OF CAlIFOrNIA COUNTy OF hUMBOldT CASE NO. Cv150376 TO ALL InTERESTED PERSOnS: 1. Petitioner GEORGE RAnDY STEWART HILTOn has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GEORGE RAnDY STEWART HILTOn to Proposed name RAnDY STEWART HILTOn. 2. THE COuRT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court, located at 825 5th Street, Eureka, California, at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the

application should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Date: juLY 31, 2015 Time: 1:45 p.m.

Dept.: 8 3. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Mad River union.

Date: jun 20, 2015 DALE A. REInHOLTSEn judge of the Superior Court 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22 OrdEr TO ShOw CAUSE FOr ChANgE OF NAME kEllI A. dElSMAN SUpErIOr COUrT OF CAlIFOrNIA COUNTy OF hUMBOldT CASE NO. Cv150429 TO ALL InTERESTED PERSOnS: 1. Petitioner KELLI A. DELSMAn has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KELLI Ann DELSMAn to Proposed name KELLI Ann CARLIn-DELSMAn. 2. THE COuRT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court, located at 825 5th Street, Eureka, California, at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the application should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written

objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Date: AuGuST 31, 2015 Time: 1:45 p.m.

Dept.: 8 3. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Mad River union.

Date: juL 08, 2015 DALE A. REInHOLTSEn judge of the Superior Court 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5 CITATION FOr pUBlICATION UNdEr wElFArE ANd INSTITUTIONS COdE SECTION 294 Case Name: BABy gIrl wAlkEr, AkA: kAdENCE MArIE ANdrEwS, AkA: kAdENCE wAlkEr Case No.: jv150091 1. To joe Andrews, III and anyone claiming to be a parent of Baby Girl Walker, aka: Kadence Marie Andrews, aka: Kadence Walker born on 4/17/2015 at St. joseph Hospital, Eureka, Humboldt County, California.

2. A hearing will be held on October 5, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 7 located at Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, CA 95501, juvenile Division, 2nd floor.

3. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

4. The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

5. you have the right to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford to hire one, the court will appoint an

attorney for you.

6. If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final.

7. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

ATTORnEY FOR: CHILD WELFARE SERVICES jEFFREY S. BLAnCK, COunTY COunSEL #115447 KATIE BACA, DEPuTY COunTY COunSEL #188031 825 FIFTH STREET EuREKA, CA 95501 (707) 445-7236 DATE: junE 23, 2015 Clerk, by Kerri L. Keenan, Deputy 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22 CITATION FOr pUBlICATION UNdEr wElFArE ANd INSTITUTIONS COdE SECTION 294 Case Name: AUSTIN ASBUry Case No.: jv150037 1. To Edward Hamline and anyone claiming to be a parent of Austin Asbury, aka: Baby Boy Hogdgen born on 2/6/2015 at Mad River Hospital, Arcata, Humboldt County, California.

2. A hearing will be held on October 5, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 7 located at Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, CA 95501, juvenile Division, 2nd floor.

3. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

4. The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

5. you have the right to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford to hire one, the court will appoint an attorney for you.

6. If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final.

7. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

ATTORnEY FOR: CHILD WELFARE SERVICES jEFFREY S. BLAnCK, COunTY COunSEL #115447 SETH LICHEnSTEIn-HILL, DEPuTY COunTY COunSEL #266108 825 FIFTH STREET EuREKA, CA 95501 (707) 445-7236 DATE: junE 23, 2015 Clerk, by Kerri L. Keenan, Deputy 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22 pETITION TO AdMINISTEr ESTATE OF AMIE hAAS lABANCA CASE NO.: pr150151 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: AMIE HAAS LABAnCA A petition for probate has been filed by: AnTHOnY LABAnCA, jR. in the Superior Court of California, County of HuMBOLDT. The Petition for Probate requests that: AnTHOnY LABAnCA, jR. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows

good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: juLY 31, 2015 Time: 8:30 AM Dept.: 4 Address of court: Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, CA, 95501.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. you may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. you may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petittion or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for the petitioner: DEnnIS C. REInHOLTSEn jAnSSEn MALLOY LLP 730 FITH STREET, P.O. BOX 1288 EuREKA, CA 95501 (707) 445-2071 7/15, 7/22, 7/29

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NEW HSU RECYCLING BINS Humboldt State is one of 37 colleges and universities across the country to receive support from the Recycling Bin Grant Program, made possible by Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and the Coca-Cola Foundation. The program awarded HSU with 50 recycling bins, which will be used to expand waste reduction efforts at outdoor events such as football games, concerts and club fairs. The campus community should expect to see new recycling bins starting this fall semester. bingrant.org PINTS FOR NON-PROFITS Celebrate wild and working lands with friends, family and colleagues at Redwood Curtain Brewery’s Pints for Non-Profits today, July 15 from noon to midnight. $1 of every pint directly benefits the Northcoast Regional Land Trust’s important work in land conservation, conservation planning and building community for conservation. All ages welcome. (707) 8222242, s.pilkington@ncrlt.org, ncrlt.org WEED THE ROOF Volunteers are needed to help maintain the native landscaping around the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center on Wednesday, July 15 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Help with weeding on the green roof is especially needed. Participants will be trained to recognize native and non-native plants, and can then come out during times that best fit their schedule. Bring gloves if you have them and come dressed for the weather. Meet at the center, 220 Stamps Lane in Manila. (707) 444-1397, info@friendsofthedunes.org AUDUBON MARSH TRIP Redwood Region Audubon Society is sponsoring a free public field trip at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday, July 18. Bring your binoculars and have a great morning birding! Meet leader Rich Ridenhour in the parking lot at the end of South I Street (Klopp Lake) in Arcata at 8:30 a.m., rain or shine. Trip ends around 11 a.m.

FOAM MARSH TOUR Friends of the Arcata Marsh (FOAM) is sponsoring a free tour of the Arcata Marsh & Wild-

life Sanctuary on Saturday, July 18 at 2 p.m. Meet leader Betsy Elkinton at the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute walk focusing on the birds and ecology of the Marsh. Loaner binoculars available with photo ID. For more information, call (707) 826-2359.

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INTO THE WILD Discover the wilderness in our own backyard on Sunday, July 19 from 11 to 1:30 p.m. at Into the Wild: A Nature Walk for Families. This event is open to kids of all ages and participants will be looking for animals, plants, and really big hills of sand while exploring the Ma-le’l Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Meet at the Ma-le’l north parking lot, off of Young Lane in Manila. For more information or to reserve a spot, contact Friends of the Dunes at (707) 444-1397 or info@friendsofthedunes.org

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MARSHSIDE PERCH A bench at Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary. Image courtesy mIchael harrIs

HBNWR GRANDPARENTS/GRANDKIDS DAY Explore the habitats of Humboldt Bay with the staff and Friends of Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge during the fifth annual Grandparents/Grandkids Day Sunday, July 26 at the Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitor Center, 1020 Ranch Rd in Loleta. Bring your smartphone and help launch the “Discover Humboldt� app along the Shorebird Loop Trail from 1 to 3 p.m. The app is free; simply search for “Discover Nature Apps� on iTunes or Google Play. From 3 to 4 p.m., meet up on the WildWing Deck for Freshwater Pond and Frog Habitat Exploration. Create your “Personal Geographies� art journal and include your notes on the app. At 4 p.m., the Friends of Humboldt Bay will kick off the first of four art journaling workshops at the Visitor Center beginning with Seasons of the Refuge: Art Journaling the Habitats of Humboldt Bay during which children ages 7 and up and their adults can create their own art journals and learn to work with polymer clay. All art and clay materials and snacks will be provided. RSVP for the workshop appreciated at info@ refugequest.com. (707) 733-5406, fws. gov/refuge/humboldt_bay/

ARCATA MARSH – Workshop your nature photography with local landscape photographers Michael Harris and Andrea Pickart at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center, 569 South G St., Arcata.

Harris and Pickart share samples of their expressionist and documentary Humboldt Bay landscape photography during this free, two hour workshop. They focus on how to find and express what inspires you in nature with less emphasis on the technical aspects of cameras and post-processing.

Michael Harris has been photographing nature since he put his hands on a Brownie camera at five years old.

Andrea Pickart is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plant ecologist specializing in dunes and estuaries.

Bring samples of your work to share. This workshop

is sponsored by the Arcata Environmental Services Department. Space is limited so

call the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center at (707) 8262359 to make a reservation.

Help the Wren-O-Meter rise for the Marsh Amphitheater! $10,500 $10,000 $9,500 $9,000 $8,500 $8,000 $7,500 $7,000 $6,500 $6,000 $5,500 $5,000 $4,500 $4,000 $3,500 $3,000 $2,500 $2,000 $1,500 $1,000 $500 0

MAKE THE MARSH MORE MARVELOUS The Friends of the Arcata Marsh have advanced $4,500 to the City of Arcata, which, along with $6,000 in other funds, will pay for a new audiovisual system for the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center plus an outdoor amphitheater for the Marsh. To help FOAM fund either or both of these projects, send a check payable to“FOAM� to P.O. Box 410, Arcata CA 95518, with “Capital Campaign� noted in the memo line. If your donation is at least $500, you can request that your funding be applied to the amphitheater. The amphitheater will be completed in October, 2016.

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