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County acts as pension crisis looms

From ArcAtA to the Arctic

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MANILA – Month after month, meeting after meeting, hour after hour, the Manila town board has wrangled over the future of its family resource center.

Determining the fate of the small program has become an all-consuming task in the sandy outpost, dominating most of the Manila Community Services District Board of Directors meetings so far this year.

Board members squabble and tensions flare at the meetings, which grind on with accusations and counter-accusations. Voices are raised and, during the most recent meeting, there was even heckling from an audience member.

The issue was seemingly resolved at the board’s June 18 meeting after hours of talking when the divided board finally came together and voted unanimously to transfer management of the Manila Family Resource Center to Redwood Coast Montessori. The vote came about after numerous MANILA

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ARCTIC EDUCATION Arcata teacher Greg Gaiera fearlessly plunges into Arctic waters, preceded by airborne class mascot teddy bear Sam, who had his own plastic wet suit. Right, Gaiera and an exhausted Sam dance with a native woman in a Greenland fishing village, where the herring catch is cause for rejoicing and traditional dances.

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Local teacher takes Nat Geo edu-cruise Kevin L. Hoover Mad RiveR Union

EARTH – Teacher Greg Gaiera is back in his classroom after encountering polar bears, fending off attacking birds with a stick and diving into the icy ocean.

While all that might seem like the world’s worst day at the office, to Gaiera it was the opportunity of a lifetime, and an educational experience that will deeply inform

his lesson plans at Arcata’s Union Street Charter School.

The epic adventure was a 17day voyage to Svalbard, Greenland, and Iceland as one of the 2015 Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellows. Bayside resident Gaiera applied last December, and was selected for one of 35 prized slots from 3,000 applicants.

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Abuse case: A ‘she said, he said?’ Paul Mann Mad RiveR Union

EUREKA – Bare bones, the case of alleged child sex abuse against a 62-year-old McKinleyville man appears to be a “she said, he said.�

When she was about nine years old, Jane Doe 1 testified, “he put his hands down my pants and moved his fingers around� while she was lying in bed.

She declared on the witness stand, “He raped me.�

The accused, foster father John Edward Kufner, testified that he slipped a finger into the top of Jane Doe 1’s diaper from time to time to check if she were wet.

She was a chronic bed wetter much of her childhood and sleeping with a wet diaper

aggravated the rashes to which she was prone. Ointment had to be applied; she wet herself at school as well as at home.

But yes, Kufner admitted, he slept together with Jane Doe 1 and her younger sister, Jane Doe 2 (about seven years old), to assuage the girls’ fears of the dark; he comforted them until they fell asleep. They asked to bed down with him.

On at least one occasion, he woke with an involuntary erection while lying next to Jane Doe 1 in the lower segment of the girls’ bunk bed. “I jumped up and got out of there, I was embarrassed as hell,� Kufner testified. “I felt really humiliated, I was ashamed. It was not an appropriate response, it was ABUSE

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HUMBOLDT – Faced with an employee pension liability of $220 million, the county is advancing a plan to pay it down annually to avoid the impacts of continued debt expansion.

At its July 21 meeting, the Board of Supervisors approved a plan for driving down the county’s debt on its growing employee pension obligation.

The plan is to set up a trust fund that would be made up of annual contributions specifically for pension debt payments.

That would allow the county more payment flexibility than another option that was considered and dismissed as being too risky – borrowing money through issuance of long-term bonds. Doing so could generate the funding needed to pay off a larger portion of the pension debt but could also produce a larger liability if interest rates or pension system conditions change.

County Administrative Officer Phillip Smith-Hanes described the funding of the state’s Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) as a “three-legged stool.� County employees contribute to the CRISIS

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t's Thursday and you are jonesing for a freshly picked, aromatic, ripe and juicy tomato. It will be two days before the Arcata Plaza Farmers’ Market is open. What to do?

Don’t panic! The McKinleyville Farmers’ Market is now open with all the goodness of the Arcata market and more.

McKinleyville’s market has been running for fifteen years, every Thursday afternoon from June through October in the parking lot of the McKinleyville Shopping Center. The booths full of picked-that-morning produce are waiting as are the “non-ag” vendors: Wild Oaks Grill and Pizza Gago. It’s open a convenient 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. so marketgoers can stop by on the way home.

An entire dinner Shoppers know that they can get an entire dinner at the market by buying salad greens mixed with fresh flowers from Fog Farm, some beautiful vegetables from any of the other seven farmers, all to accompany Wild Oaks’ tri-tip grilled over a black oak fire.

Wild Oaks has been at the market for eleven years, according to Rob Dunn, who is responsible for the mouthwatering aromas of meats and chicken that draw marketgoers from far down the road. Their brisket and ribs are wildly popular.

To start off this meal, an appetizer from Pizza Gago’s 900-degree oven could be the “Willow Creek” pizza – olive

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Pizza Gago has made a hit at the market with its custom-made mobile oven. Pawel Gago makes his pizzas with Janine “peaches and tomatoes from McIntosh Volkmar Farm, basil from Pierce Valley, and CyAT THE press Grove cheeses.” He’s been in business for a year and a half and his oven MARKET can produce a pizza in two minutes, he said, because of its incredible heat. Look for Pizza Gago at the Mad River Brewery every Saturday in August as well as other locations around the county.

Heidi and Paul Leslie are new to the market this year with their Humboldt Honey Wine booth. “Our blackberry vanilla honey wine is ready to be bottled,” Paul said.

“And our pear-ginger-habanero will be ready in the fall,” Heidi added.

Other new flavors of the honey wine coming out in August will be watermelon and watermelon-mint.

And that’s your farm-fresh take-home dinner. It just can’t get any better than that.

All about the farmers “I’m really tickled that [the market] is there,” said Anne Pierson, owner of the shopping center.

The center’s handyman, Tom Jessup, “has been incredibly helpful,” according to Market Manager Sarah Brunner. “He volunteers to put the cones out early on Thursday to save the spaces for the farmers,” she said.

One big advantage of the McKinleyville market is the ease of parking. There are even places to park in the shade of the big old trees that dot the parking lot.

Another plus is the roomy aisle between the booths, making it easy for those in wheelchairs or scooters to shop. And there’s always music to shop by with local troubadours playing each week.

Last week, farmers included I & I Farms, Fog Farm, Luna Farm, Fieldbrook Nursery, Leo’s Plants, Valley Flower Farm, Rain Fog Farm, Willow Creek Farm, Brunner Family Farm and McIntosh Farm. More farmers participate in peak season when they have an abundance of produce. “Every now and then we get oysters,” Brunner said.

Loren McIntosh mentioned that his farm just celebrated its one hundredth year. His peaches make excellent peach pie and cobbler as this writer’s neighbors will attest.

McIntosh remembered when the market started “on the grass in front of the bandstand.”

Brunner is in her fifth year managing the market. She also manages the Tuesday afternoon market at Wildberries Marketplace, works on her family’s farm and is mom to two children. She wanted to remind shoppers that CalFresh EBT cards are welcome and that there is a bonus match for up to $5 for CalFresh users.

So don’t wait for Saturday. These local farmers await you in McKinleyville.

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Cloney’s pharmisists Richard Spini and Alex Cavalari informed the group of the many services provided by the pharmacy, which include free delivery, compounding and veterinary services to name a few.

Spini and Cavalari answered many questions from the mixer attendees.

The McKinleyville Chamber of Commerce holds monthly mixers the fourth Thursday of every month.

They are free and open to all. Chamber mixers are the perfect vehicle for businesses to make connections and bring more awareness and visibility

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The next chamber mixer will be a MegaMixer held on Thursday, Aug. 27 at Azalea Hall. McKinleyville Community Services District is providing the venue and Mad River Radio will be providing the food and beverages.

The MegaMixer is an opportunity for smaller businesses that do not have a store front, or out-of-town businesses to get more exposure in the community. This is the second year the chamber has held a MegaMixer.

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system under a fixed rate. The county also pays into the system, but its payments fluctuate in accordance with the third and most significant leg of funding – PERS investment returns.

The county’s pension liability has ballooned over the last 12 years partly because investment returns have not met expectations, elevating the county’s contribution rate.

Smith-Hanes said the resulting debt, if left unaddressed, will have increasing influence on the county’s budget.

“Beginning with our next financial statements, we’re going to have to disclose pension liabilities on our balance sheet – and it’s not going to be pretty,” he continued, adding that the liability is in addition to the county’s “normal” PERS benefit costs.

But the “impact on the ground” is of even more concern.

“We are already delaying raises to our employees and service enhancements to our residents and if we do nothing to set aside funding to address this unfunded liability, we will be laying off county employees the next time we face a recession,” said Smith-Hanes.

The county – and other governments across the state – got into this situation when the PERS system and the state’s economy was flush with money. In 2000, the system was considered “super-funded” and retirement benefits here and in other counties were increased.

Since then, the economy tapered and a recession drove down PERS investment returns, making pension costs more of a burden.

The county’s annual PERS contribution now stands at

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If the debt load is not reduced, its annual cost is expected to rise to more than $22 million by 2024.

Smith-Hanes said establishing a trust fund to address the problem has advantages and disadvantages. “Your board would be in the driver’s seat with this – it’s not a long term commitment, you fund it one year at a time and so there’s flexibility,” he continued.

A “significant downside” is that the county will not be able to pay off as big a portion of the debt as it would if it borrowed money, he said.

The county already missed its opportunity to head off the problem years ago. “My preferred solution would be to go back in time and have never enhanced the benefits to begin with, but barring that, I think the (trust) is a pretty good step toward doing something,” SmithHanes said.

Supervisor Mark Lovelace noted that the county usually receives unanticipated revenue or savings that can be worked into budgets sometime during their annual cycles.

He suggested establishing a trust fund and deferring its initial contribution until the middle of the current budget year.

But Smith-Hanes said the state’s payment of money it owes to the county will probably allow a sooner trust fund allotment.

He told supervisors that the state paid the county $600,000 more than what was projected in the current budget and he is “fairly confident” there will be funding to inject into the trust by this November’s first quarter budget review.

Lovelace’s motion to direct Smith-Hanes to arrange the set-up of a trust fund and look at the first quarter budget review as a time for an initial contribution was unanimously approved.

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Supes respond to Grand Jury’s rural fire safety, airport concerns Daniel Mintz Mad RiveR Union

HUMBOLDT – In a response to Grand Jury recommendations on enhancing fire protection services, the Board of Supervisors has affirmed its commitment to assisting with fire district formations but questions the value of creating a director of fire and emergency services position.

Rural safety issues were considered by the county’s Grand Jury, which recommends that a single countywide fire protection and emergency services district be formed. A related recommendation is to have the Board of Supervisors establish a fire and emergency services director position.

Those Grand Jury recommendations and others were considered at the July 21 Board of Supervisors meeting. In response to the rural safety recommendations, County Administrative Officer Phillip Smith-Hanes wrote in a staff report that formation of a countywide services district needs more analysis because “the act of forming districts alone requires extensive time and financial investment, both of which the county is short on.”

The county’s response to the Grand Jury also states that funding such a district is another unresolved issue, as landowners may not agree to property tax increases.

Though supervisors generally confirmed the response, Board Chair Estelle Fennell suggested amending it to indicate that the county is actively working on expanding fire protection districts and creating new ones.

“The county is, in effect, addressing this issue and there are currently several areas that are working on district formation and/or annexation,” she said, adding that Measure Z public safety sales tax funds are being spent to “help with the district formation efforts.”

Funding is also a main issue in the response to the Grand Jury’s idea of creating a fire and emergency services director position. In discussing it, supervisors agreed that such a position would only be worthwhile if a countywide services district is formed.

Following up on supervisors’ comments, Smith-Hanes said that absent a district, the new position might be unnecessary since the Sheriff’s Office already includes an Office of Emergency Services.

The 2014 to 2015 Grand Jury also considered the physical condition of the county’s six airports and the Aviation Division’s poor financial condition.

The Grand Jury found that runway

repairs, tree topping and other work are needed at several of the county’s airports. In its written response, the Department of Public Works (DPW) agreed but indicated that the work can only be done when funding and personnel are available.

The airport system is generating more costs than revenue, and the Grand Jury found that, “the Aviation Division’s fund balance has been in the red since the (fiscal year) 2009-10.”

The DPW “wholly disagrees” with the finding’s timespan but acknowledges that a loan was necessary to prevent the division from becoming insolvent in the upcoming fiscal year.

A main Grand Jury recommendation is to have the county’s Aviation Advisory Committee recommend options for shifting the management of the county’s airport system out of the DPW. Smith-Hanes’ response supports the recommendation. But Supervisor Virginia Bass said she would rather have the Aviation Advisory Committee do research on the financial issues rather than advance recommendations on how to change management.

When Supervisor Rex Bohn asked if “the system is broken” because of dwindling passenger use, Bass said that there is more to the situation than ticket sales.

“We are actually up 830 people in the last quarter of flying, so we are in an uptick,” she continued. “It’s not just how many people are flying out, it’s a function of maintenance needs in all the airports – it’s not just about the commercial airport.”

Though she agrees that an analysis of the airport system should be done, Bass said she is “stopping short” of asking the advisory committee “to tell us what they think we should do.”

Supervisors agreed to modify the response to reflect Bass’ stance. They also agreed to modify the response on creating a countywide fire protection district by mentioning the county’s efforts in assisting individual districts.

Other responses to Grand Jury items include disagreement with a recommendation for the Board of Supervisors to change the Headwaters Fund charter to allow the Humboldt Area Foundation to manage investments.

In his response, which supervisors affirmed, Smith-Hanes wrote that changing the Headwaters charter would require voter approval, taking authority out of the hands of the board.

Smith-Hanes said other aspects of the Grand Jury’s final report will be taken up in future board meetings.

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McK TEEN CENTER The McKinleyville Community Services District held a ground breaking ceremony June 22 for its new teen and community center. The 6,700-squarefoot building, designed with teen input, will cost the district nearly $2 million. The building should be completed and opened by late spring.

Breaking ground, top right, are MCSD board members (left to right) Helen Wilson, George Wheeler, David Couch, John Corbett, Dennis Mayo and Fifth District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg. Below, master of ceremonies Greg Orsini, also the manager of the MCSD, spoke near a sign showing what the center will look like. “This is a classic McKinleyville event because we’re the little community that can,” Corbett said at the ceremony. The center is being built on the west side of the Activity Center on Gwin Road at Pierson Park.

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Fieldbrook murder trial set for Sept. 8 Paul Mann

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Arreaga has pleaded not guilty to HUMBOLDT – The murder two counts of murder and six special trial of Jason Michael Arreaga, allegations pertaining to the use of a 29, the Lucerne man charged firearm – a handgun – in the killings with the gunshot slayings of of Harley Wayne Hammers Jr., and two Eureka residents in FieldAngel Robin Tully, both 37, of Eureka. brook last September, has been Tully was found dead of a gunshot rescheduled to begin Sept. 8 at wound last September at 4406 Field8:30 a.m. in Humboldt County brook Rd. Sheriff’s deputies found Michael Superior Court.

Hammers suffering from a similar Arreaga Previously slated to start in wound in a red Mazda pickup truck early August, the trial was delayed again in across the street, at 4415 Fieldbrook Rd. He view of additional time required for the fur- died shortly after being transported to Mad ther discovery of evidence, according to Dep- River Community Hospital. uty District Attorney Zachary S. Curtis. He Arreaga faces a maximum sentence of up and defense counsel Heidi Holmquist agreed to 80 years to life.

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The ordinance would regulate marijuana growing in Humboldt. The McKMAC is also scheduled to hear a presentation from Arcata Fire Protection District Chief Desmond Cowan on the district’s funding options and a presentation from county planner Michael Richardson on proposed changes to land use maps.

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not intentional.”

Of this back and forth, Deputy District Attorney Zachary S. Curtis urged the jury not to resort to a minimalist “she said, he said” predicate in reaching a verdict.

“He said, she said” is a tie that goes to the defense and will set Kufner free, Curtis admonished the 12 jurors and three alternates, who began their deliberations late last week.

In legal parlance, the “she said, he said” cliché is a material fact dispute. It is not a dialogue or a misunderstanding; it is testimony in direct conflict.

On that basis, jurors might conclude that the truth is undiscoverable – and Curtis would lose his case. Hence his objections to the reductionist “he said, she said” approach to the evidence.

Curtis is not alone in his concern. In the early 1990s, an appellate court judge in Ohio argued in a dissenting opinion that “he said, she said” testimony is inimical to faithful jurisprudence and should be exiled from the courtroom. It should not be admissible in the first place.

The cliché gained popular currency during the highly contentious Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Senate confirmation hearings in the summer of 1991, when Thomas was nominated for appointment to the Supreme Court. He won confirmation by a narrow margin.

Curtis argued that the truth in the Kufner case is discoverable and he asked the jury simply to weigh the evidence in full: not only to test the character and credibility of the plaintiff and the defendant as revealed in their testimony and their demeanor on the stand, but also to weigh the testimony and evidence brought to bear by law enforcement, medical authorities and child welfare officials.

Kufner is charged in count one with “continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14” at his trailer park home from April 1, 2012 until July 31, 2013. Although the mother resumed custody during a transition following July 31, 2013, Jane Doe 1’s charges were not brought to light until February 2014.

“Continuous” abuse is defined legally as three or more acts of “lewd and lascivious conduct” during a period of at least three months – that is, “willful touching of a child.”

The touching of bare skin or of the genitals is not required under the law. Touching through clothing can be lascivious if aimed at sexual arousal. A foot fetish could qualify for purposes of sexual arousal, Curtis explained to the court.

He underlined that “the testimony of a complaining wit-

ness alone is enough to convict.”

The deputy district attorney reminded the jury that Jane Doe said Kufner had “touched her pee spot” (vagina); she alleged too that during a camping trip “he touched her private part(s) with his private part(s).”

Beyond Jane Doe 1’s testimony, Curtis added, a registered nurse testified that she diagnosed the child with bacterial vaginitis shortly after she stopped living with Kufner. The nurse said that in her professional opinion such an infection almost always results from physical contact, not from bed wetting or wet diapers.

Curtis drove home three other points: • Jane Doe 1 was consistent in her testimony.

• She had no motive to make up accusations. “Mr. Kufner was her shining star,” the man who did everything for her and her younger sister’s benefit: meals, clothing, transportation, toys, parties, camping trips, help with school and homework.

• Kufner’s credibility could not be vouchsafed because he admitted on the stand that he had made a false statement to law enforcement when he denied at first that he had had an erection while lying next to Jane Doe 1. Eventually he acknowledged, “I did do something she thought was wrong,” but not before the defendant denied the erection three times, Curtis said.

In the law enforcement recording, Kufner went on to admit he “rubbed on her” – in his words, “I recall rubbing her, yes.” But then he denied that literally seven seconds later, Curtis noted, telling officers instead, “I remember going in and wrapping my arms around her until she fell asleep.”

At another point, Kufner confessed, “I always had a fear that something like this might happen” – an oblique reference perhaps to a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Categorically rejecting the state’s case, Deputy Public Defender Casey Russo said the prosecution failed to prove its charges beyond a reasonable doubt, the axis of a criminal case.

Jane Doe 1’s testimony cannot be trusted beyond a reasonable doubt because she grew up in a profoundly dysfunctional family, in which general instability was the main fact of life, he recounted. “It’s an understatement to say she’s had a trouble past” – molested at the age of four by an older child “playing doctor”; chronic bed wetting, a condition requiring constant care and maintenance; schooling in special education classes; blatant and prolonged parental neglect and abandonment.

“Who is Jane Doe 1?” Russo asked rhetorically. “Who is her drug addicted mother?” The jury has no full picture because the authorities never bothered to find out, he complained. “Law enforcement didn’t look into the history of

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prior discussions, including two entire Sunday afternoons devoted to what the district called a “visioning” process for the future of the Manila Community Center, which houses both the school and the resource center.

But at the July 16 meeting, the controversy was still very much alive, with board members devoting about two and a half hours to the topic.

In comparison, the board devoted only eight minutes to discussing water conservation measures and 10 minutes to a grant application for a multi-million-dollar water system upgrade at the same meeting. Because the meeting dragged on late due to the resource center talk, other issues were tabled, including the district’s budget and Manager Chris Drop’s employment contract, which expired last summer.

Divided over agenda The discord began right away at the July 16 meeting during the approval of the agenda itself. Director Dendra Dengler asked that the manager’s contract and his list of goals, both slated for approval, be pulled from the agenda until a closed session hearing could be held regarding his job performance.

“I feel strongly there should be a closed session for the manager’s evaluation because of some of the things that have happened in the last three or four months,” Dengler said. Dengler’s motion was seconded by Director Salena Kahle.

Dengler didn’t specify what her concerns were with the manager’s performance, although she has had ongoing conflicts with the manager that, in the past, required mediation. Kahle has also openly questioned Drop’s management abilities.

Chair John Woolley objected to postponing the agenda items, noting that the manager’s contract expired back in August of last year. The board negotiated the contract with the manager in a previous closed session and already agreed upon the conditions, he said.

Dengler said she thought the closed session approval was only tentative. Dengler then suggested that the board may have violated the Brown Act. “We discussed the salary, and that’s not to be discussed in closed session,” Dengler said.

Woolley then corrected her, explaining that the board negotiated a salary in closed session, as is allowed, but was now going to approve the actual contract in open session, as required by the Brown Act. Dengler and Kahle found themselves in the minority, with their fellow board members rejecting the motion to alter the agenda.

Now for an inquisition A short while later, it was time for “reports,” which for most boards is typically a

time for bland updates on various projects.

Not so for Manila.

“Maybe Jan [Director Bramlett] would like to read her letter that she sent to the board last month,” Dengler suggested as she started her report. This caused a moment of confusion.

“Last month? Last month’s meeting?”

Bramlett asked.

“Mm-hmm,” Dengler responded.

“I don’t have it with me,” Bramlett said, referring to a letter she read aloud at the June meeting,”and why would I do that?”

Dengler explained that she wanted to respond to comments made in Bramlett’s letter.

“So wait, before...” Woolley interjected, but before he could finish, Dengler said, “this is part of my...” but was cut off by Bramlett, who asked “Is that on the agenda?”

“It’s my director’s report,” Dengler declared.

Dengler then read from a prepared statement, in which she gave her own account of how the “visioning” process took place, and how an “abrupt” change in management of the family resource center emerged as a goal.

And then began an inquisition of board members to find out whether they agreed with Dengler’s version of the visioning process.

“Now, is this fact? Or is this fiction? I’m going to ask each board member. Jan, is that fact or fiction?” Dengler asked.

“We don’t have to answer,” Woolley informed his fellow board members.

Dengler then moved on to Director Joy Dellas. “Joy, is that fact or fiction?”

“It’s your opinion,” Dellas responded.

“You don’t think this happened?”

Dengler further inquired.

“That’s my response. Thank you,” Dellas said.

Dengler then moved on to Woolley, who responded “I have no idea, the context.

I don’t know what you’re trying to get to here.”

Moments later, Dengler’s voice became louder, and angrier, as she read passages from Bramlett’s letter interspersed with her own commentary, in which she objected to criticisms of Voices of the Peninsula. On it went, with Dengler at one point polling audience members to find out how many of them are members of Voices of the Peninsula who rent homes to low income people. As she invited audience members to stand up, Woolley attempted to bring order to the meeting.

Interrupting Dengler, Woolley said “Dendra, I’m giving you leeway to give a director’s report. This is a political statement.”

“No! This is not a political statement,” Dengler responded.

“Dendra, I’m telling you...” Woolley said.

“I’m not running for office, John,” Dengler said.

J ULY 29, 2015 the mother and the family – who knows what those children saw?”

Instead of establishing a thorough record, investigators took Jane Doe 1’s allegations as gospel, ignoring her comprehensively troubled childhood, blighted by a drug addicted mother with grave mental illnesses, repeatedly abandoned, moved from place to place and exposed to strange men wherever they went.

From that history, Russo said, Jane Doe 1 concocted a sexual fiction born of “accumulated anger and lack of attention,” not of Kufner’s behavior as a foster parent.

Failing to find out more about the child’s past, law enforcement did not even take the time to interview her trailer park neighbors, school officials or others who could have provided clues to her background, upbringing and immediate family circumstances, Russo contended.

What the jury is left with, he emphasized, is an investigation and evidence that are shallow, fragmentary and contrary to reason.

Jane Does 1 and 2 saw child welfare counselors throughout their 14-month stay with Kufner and not even the hint of a red flag emerged, Russo recalled. Not one of Jane Doe 1’s accusations on the witness stand contained specifics and the district attorney’s office and other authorities neither sought to learn what triggered the allegations in the first place nor to pinpoint to whom they were addressed.

“The girls asked to lie down with him,” Russo said emphatically, “and men do wake up with erections. It’s natural; his body betrayed him.”

Children are suggestible, Russo went on, implying that perhaps the mentally unstable mother had colluded in some fashion with the child.

Kufner testified that he believed the mother developed a resentment of him when she observed how attached her daughters were to him. A father in his own right, he claimed he loved the girls as if they were his own daughters.

“He gave them the only stability they have had in their young lives,” Russo concluded.

Rebutting the public defender, Curtis said that the professionalism of law enforcement’s investigation “is not on trial. It is not germane to the issue of whether Mr. Kufner touched her [Jane Doe 1] three or more times during a period of three months,” constituting lewd and lascivious conduct.

The time spent on the investigation is not relevant, nor are the aspersions the defense is casting on it, Curtis retorted.

And in fact there was a red flag, he parried: the nurse’s conclusion that Jane Doe 1’s vaginal infection stemmed from physical contact, not from incontinence.

“Focus on the evidence you have,” Curtis told the jury.

“I’m telling you that you’re way out of line,” Woolley said.

“OK, I’m out of line,” Dengler said.

“I don’t think she is,” said Kahle, coming to Dengler’s defense.

“I don’t care what you think,” Woolley said to Kahle.

“Well, I don’t care what you think either,” Kahle said to Woolley.

“Well, then you can leave,” Woolley said.

“I’m not leaving,” Kahle said.

“Well listen, her ability to speak on the director’s report is limited to how she can handle it. If she’s going to be accusing another board member, that’s not a director’s report,” Woolley said.

As he was speaking, Dengler tried to respond, saying “I’m not accusing,” and “John,” in an effort to get a word in.

“No, I’m not going to listen. You’re out of order,” Woolley said.

Kahle tried to chime in, but Woolley would not allow it.

“You’re out of order,” Woolley repeated.

“No I’m not,” Dengler said.

“We’re here to manage the district, not to talk on all these issues as being presented. We’re trying to manage the district,” Woolley said.

When it was Bramlett’s turn to talk, she defended her letter, which can be found at manilacsd.com under the agenda section.

The letter is posted as an addendum to the June 18 meeting packet. In the letter, Bramlett criticizes Voices of the Peninsula and the validity of a survey it conducted regarding the community center. She also explains her views on why the resource center management should change.

“I stand by whatever I said in that letter,” Bramlett said.

After Bramlett spoke, Woolley said “Let me say this, we’re getting into a debate over two individual perspectives. It’s not really on the agenda. They can come up within the [agenda] items. This is a business meeting.

It’s not a political meeting, so let’s get back to the business of running the district.”

Kahle pleaded for some civility. “We are role models and we need to act with a certain level of composure when we talk,” she said.

With things calmed down a bit, Woolley asked “Dendra, are you going to continue the rant that you have been going on?”

“No, I’m going to civilly read a sentence,” Dengler said.

She then read directly from Bramlett’s June letter, saying “Several of the people whose names appear on the Voices letterhead own property, many of them rent to poor people, for income, and I would venture to say that I am far more economically marginalized than any of them, yet they have persuaded the truly poor in this community that this Board is against their interests. Shame!”

Permitting problems As the staff reports continued, Manager Drop discussed some building permit problems at Redwood Coast Montessori.

The county Planning and Building Department received a complaint regarding interior remodeling at the school, which was done without building permits.

According to the department, propane heaters were removed and replaced without building permits. In one of the classrooms, an L-shaped floor-to-ceiling wall was installed. Doorways were installed, doors removed and a bathroom was built, all without permits.

Manager Drop said that the district hired a contractor to install the heaters.

The contractor, who is now deceased, was supposed to obtain permits, Drop said.

The district has hired an architect to make sure the heaters are properly installed and permitted, Drop said.

The school, meanwhile, is responsible for getting its improvements permitted and will have to cover the costs.

Redwood Coast Montessori Director Bryan Little apologized to the board for making the improvements without obtaining permits. He said that the improvements were done by himself and volunteers, and noted that “none of the things that were added are structural.”

“Obviously that wasn’t the wisest choice to make some of these modifications without pulling permits,” Little said.

“There’s no really defensible reason why I did it,” Little said, adding that he had spoken to a former board member before making the improvements.

“You’re kind of showing a trend,” Kahle said about the school.

Next up for the board was a discussion about the memorandum of understanding that it would enter into with the school to transfer management of the Manila Family Resource Center from the district to school.

Under the proposal, the district would transfer management of the resource center from the district to the school. The resource center would continue to be headed by its single employee, Director Carol Wolfe, who offers parenting classes and resource referral and a food pantry out of two rooms at the Manila Community Center. The funding for the program would continue, with $65,000 coming from the County of Humboldt and $20,000 coming from First Five.

The school, rather than the services district, would oversee the program.

Under the draft memorandum, the school would form an advisory committee to oversee the resource center. District staff will now do an inventory of all resource center assets and bring it back to the board at its August meeting, when the board will take up the issue again and may vote on the final memorandum.

Because the board ran out of time at its July 16 meeting, it will hold a special meeting today, July 29, to consider the manager’s goals and objectives, employment contract and a draft budget. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. with a closed session to evaluate the manager’s performance.

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PUBLIC SAFETY Measure Z funding fresh deputies Humboldt County SHeriff’S offiCe

HUMBOLDT – Sheriff Mike Downey is pleased to announce the swearing-in ceremony for two newly promoted sergeants in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office.

Tony Gomes has been with the Sheriff’s Office for 12-and-a-half years, and Greg Allen has been with the Sheriff’s Office for two-and-a-half years with a total of 21 years in law enforcement.

Sgt. Gomes will work patrol in the Hoopa/Willow Creek area and Sgt. Allen will work patrol out of the Sheriff’s Office in Eureka.

These two sergeants are the direct results of Measure Z funding to increase the staffing levels for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. There are currently five new deputies in the Field Training Program.

Once these five deputies complete their training program, they will be added to patrol staffing levels. An additional three more deputies will be hired by the end of August to go through the Field Training Program.

PRIORITIES Sherriff Mike Downey, center, with his two new sergeants. Photos courtesy hcso

All liquored up with no place to go • Wednesday, July 15 10:04 a.m. for a visit. The son then got into an A deputy was called to Murray Road argument with Loran Macy. Macy in McKinleyville where a woman was then allegedly took out his frustration reportedly talking nonsense and loi- on the mother. Macy allegedly forced tering. The deputy found a woman, her into a bedroom, assaulted her and later identified as Andrea Gerarden. kept her pinned down so she couldn’t The woman’s pupils were dilated and- move. The victim suffered a bloody nose and lip. Deputies arresther speech was slurred. She ed Macy and booked him into spoke rapidly and randomly the county jail on suspicion of and wasn’t making a damn inflicting corporal injury on a bit of sense. She was arrested spouse/cohabitant and false and booked into the drunk JacK DurHam tank on suspicion of public v McKINLEYVILLE imprisonment.

• Saturday, July 18 3:08 intoxication and violation of SHERIFF’S LOG a.m. A McKinleyville woman probation.

• Thursday, July 16 5 p.m. A land- who works with a local police departlord for a property on Underwood ment reported that someone she had Road in McKinleyville gave a tenant tried to help in her professional ca24 hours’ notice that he would be en- pacity was now stalking her. tering a residence to fix a plumbing • Sunday, July 19 4:13 p.m. A problem. When the landlord entered Samoa Peninsula woman went to the apartment, the tenant allegedly the hospital and said she had been drugged and raped. However, when assaulted him.

• Friday, July 17 8:23 a.m. Out in a deputy arrived, the victim was unBayside, a woman’s son came home cooperative due to fear of retaliation

from the suspect, whom she knows.

• Monday, July 20 12:49 a.m. A Toyota pickup truck that was stolen from Titlow Hill was found on North Bank Road in McKinleyville and recovered.

9;34 a.m. On Fox Farm Road, near the artsy enclave of Westhaven, a person was bit by a neighbor’s dog and had to seek medical attention.

7:26 p.m. A deputy heard a loud revving motorcycle on Hatchery Road in Blue Lake. The deputy noticed that the motorcycle had expired tags, so a traffic stop was conducted. The driver was cited for driving on a suspended license, driving a motorcycle without endorsements and without proof of insurance.

10:36 p.m. Someone discovered that a house undergoing a remodel on Cliff Avenue in McKinleyville had been broken into. A window was damaged and someone was using the house as a crash pad.

Angie Dernedde

Anthony Benelisha

Marcus Lillard

Arcata Fire fêtes its finest ArCAtA fire

ARCATA – Arcata Fire personnel with their families and guests recently attended the 76th annual awards dinner in Arcata at the D Street Neighborhood Center.

Included in the event was recognition of new personnel as well as awards for the Rookie of the Year, Career Firefighter of the Year, Volunteer of the Year and Fire Officer of the Year.

Firefighter Anthony Benelisha received the Rookie Firefighter of the Year award in recognition of his outstanding attitude, work ethic, teamwork and commitment to the community.

An active volunteer firefighter, Benelisha was also recognized last year for his quick and professional treatment of a patient on board the RV Coral Sea. Benelisha provided medical care for two hours and coordinated the transfer of the patient to a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter for transport to the hospital.

Firefighter Marcus Lillard received the Career Firefighter of the Year award. Lillard has taken the lead in working with the Humboldt State University Human Performance Lab to increase firefighter fitness and is also part of a team bringing new techniques and training to his peers. Known for his positive attitude and willingness to take on difficult challenges, Firefighter Lillard has also been instrumental in making the building projects a success for our communities.

The Officer of the Year award recipient was Fire Captain Angie Dernedde. With over 18 years in the fire service, Dernedde is known for her role as a mentor and a positive role model throughout the organization. Her desire to help her teammates, supervisors and the department succeed is unmatched.

Captain Alan Davis received the Volunteer Firefighter of the Year award for his outstanding support for Arcata Fire District and many local agencies. Davis dedicated countless hours to improving the local fire service. Sadly, shortly after the awards ceremony, Davis passed away.

Men in ‘pyjamas’ offer indications of questionable judgment • Friday, July 3 9:05 a.m. likes to whip off her shirt and belA bicycle-borne man sporting low was doing so at the 4th of July very long dreadlocks pulled out Jubilee. in front of a McKinnon Court 11:44 a.m. A suicide victim was resident, forcing her to hit the found hanging at a Northtown brakes. With the car stopped, he motel. asked her if she wanted to buy 12:26 p.m. A man threw a rake any drugs from him. or hoe at another man in When she said no, he Valley West. proposed that she sim12:51 p.m. An Oasis ply give him money.

Street resident comWhen she said no, he plained of a neighbor abKevin L. Hoover wheeled away into her ducting her cat and takneighborhood looking v ARCATA ing it into her home. She for more propitious POLICE LOG wanted to know what her business opportunities. options were in this kind 12:03 p.m. After shoving his of situation. girlfriend’s head through a win- • Sunday, July 5 2:59 p.m. A dow, a man made suicidal state- bearded man rather too engaged ments and left the premises. with the garbage cans at the Pla1:05 p.m. Police cleared the za’s center alternately tossed trash Plaza’s Arc of Erroneousness of around and begged for money. Inalcohol annoyances as embodied stead he was arrested. in the liquored-up loudies who • Tuesday, July 7 8:24 a.m. A dominated the McKinley zone multicolored school bus in Valwith brash mutterances. ley West bore a full house of in1:45 p.m. A woman let a friend habitants. couch surf at her place, and when 9:12 a.m. A measuredly less she woke up, she owned fewer groovy but also fully staffed RV at things than before. Gone were Seventh and K streets was occuthree tablets, one smartphone pied by people with school-aged and a jar of change. children, with activity occurring 2:01 p.m. A man brought in from around the clock. the Plaza for treatment was on his 11:34 p.m. A man in “pyjama feet, refusing medical treatment pants” threw a flashlight at somebut refusing to leave. one at 13th and H streets and then • Saturday, July 4 3:22 a.m. scampered away.

A person was deemed unfit for • Wednesday, July 8 2:36 donut shop patronage –which a.m. The downtown public loo admittedly is a pretty high bar to had been locked for a couple of cross – and expelled. hours, and despite its steel walls, 6:28 a.m. A woman who had somehow a citizen surmised or been in a fight with her boy- assumed that the occupant was friend the day before took a call injecting drugs. An officer disfrom him. He said he was head- lodged and moved the languid loo ed back to town and offered two lurker along. pieces of advice: to hide her car, 11:02 a.m. Tools valued at $650 since he planned to vandalize it; disappeared from a Valley West and to answer her door when he business. came around.

11:25 a.m. A vehicle’s window 11:36 a.m. That woman who was smashed by the Veterans Me-

morial Park.

1 p.m. An anti-social climber was seen up a tree near the Veterans Memorial Park, busting off branches.

2:26 p.m. A half-dozen or more slouchabouts milled in Tavern Alley, illegally smoking cigarettes without being in an active state of motion as required by the Arcata Municipal Code.

4:54 p.m. A man on Giuntoli Lane said that over his last two water billings, some 1,500 gallons of water had been thieved from his outdoor faucet, which now bears locks.

• Thursday, July 9 10:55 a.m.

Wire valued at $1,200 was stolen from the train trackal area of Ninth and L streets.

11:21 a.m. A caller claimed that the cashier at an I Street store had shortchanged him on an ice cream purchase by $4. The manager later said the cash drawer counted out as just 17 cents short.

4:09 p.m. Red Bull and ice cream bars were the temporary haul of a Uniontown shoplifter.

But handcuffs complicated their ingestion.

4:14 p.m. Another little herd of smokeabouts temporarily infested Tavern Alley, until moved along.

6:38 p.m. A passerby happened upon a battered-looking young woman at a Janes Road bus stop.

She had a black eye and seemed to be in distress, so the person gave her a jacket.

• Friday, July 10 9:18 a.m. The black-eyed girl was still at the bus stop in the morning.

12:44 p.m. A citizen reported a possible hash lab at an undisclosed location.

2:26 p.m. A Samoa Boulevard resident who kept $700 in cash in a can in his dresser reported it

missing. Not the whole dresser, just the can o’ cash.

6:10 p.m. A camper moved in out back of an abandoned pizza restaurant in Northtown, utilizing the handicapped ramp and even putting up fencing around it.

• Saturday, July 11 3:23 a.m. A woman who was asked to leave an all-night Uniontown supermarket mis-heard the request. She apparently thought they said, “Throw a watermelon on the ground and turn on all the outdoor faucets.”

8:37 a.m. A man loitering outside the Redwood Lodge in pajamas wasn’t exactly what parents who signed their kids up for day camp had expected. He wouldn’t leave when asked by the staff, but police were more persuasive.

12:17 p.m. Kids were reported riding bikes on the roof of a Baldwin Avenue elementary school, as kids will do.

6:50 p.m. Three goats ran in and out of traffic on West End Road, as kids will do.

• Sunday, July 12 8:15 a.m.

A citizen picked up a red-haired girl in a purple sweatshirt with a sleeping bag and multiple other bags on Upper Bay Road. She’d already drunk a bottle of vodka, so the concerned citizen drove her to the hospital. There, they sat in the car for an hour until she got out and wandered away.

11:38 p.m. A scruffy man stole cookies from a 13th Street store, then sat down and ate them in front of an adjacent bank. He was told never to return.

• Monday, July 13 2:12 a.m.

Something tried to enter a Union Street apartment, trying the doorknob and rattling both it and the resident. A deadbolt defeated its incursionary ambitions.

2:20 a.m. Someone said Lisa was on meth and puking at the

bus station.

10 a.m. A costly laptop computer was stolen out of an Aloha Way vehicle, helpfully left unlocked for any passing slithy cyber-toves.

12:34 p.m. Redwood Park’s 13th Street parking lot reverted to its nominal badlands state, with muttering millabouts smoking and drinking and encumbering the comfort level of those wishing to park and leave their cars there.

1:49 p.m. A squad of cig-stinky standarounders took up station in front of an H Street store, one of them trying to grab at the store’s owner, a very dumb idea. Badged forces of buzzkill dispersed the grabby goofazoids.

2:30 p.m. A child was knocked from a scooter and bitten by a brown dog on Beverly Drive.

3:24 p.m. An infernal dumbustion vehicle cluelessly squatted in a space at the electric vehicle charging station behind the downtown fire station.

4:09 p.m. Someone has been going through a 12th Street resident’s mail and throwing it in the street for months now.

5:29 p.m. A woman said a restraining-ordered nemesis violated the restrictions by looking at her and laughing. There was no direct contact, but she felt the woman had “mocked her.”

6:32 p.m. Apparently it’s now the Arcata Marsh and Loose Brown Pit Bull Sanctuary.

8:27 p.m. A raccoon was caught in a trap on Palomino Lane, where it was left to languish all day without food or water.

8:28 p.m.

Where loungeabouts make their gyrations Behind the bars, gross violations Some smelly, some lewd Now came to include A loud bongo’s pert palpatations

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Arctic | Climate change affecting wildlife FROM A1

well taken care of,” he said.

His journey began with a trip to Washington, D.C. for workshops covering photography and outreach planning, plus meetings with naturalists and previous years’ fellows.

Then it was on to Svalbard, Norway, and out to sea on the Explorer, whose reinforced hull allows it to access even partly frozen-over areas.

Initial encounters with wildlife started with polar bears, who, attracted by the scent of food wafting from the deck, walked across the pack ice right up to within 20 to 30 feet of the ship. After sniffing the air and peering at the passengers for 10 or 15 minutes, Gaiera said, they “sauntered off across the pack ice.”

That ice was so thick that the planned visit to Greenland was canceled, allowing the vessel plenty of time to rove the waters of Iceland.

Out among the islands of the Svalbard Archipelago, the tourists and teachers were able to

THIS BEARS INVESTIGATION Polar bears checked out passengers of the National Geographic Explorer while they returned the favor.

Photos by GreG Gaiera | Union street Charter sChool visit numerous nature-intensive vironmental educator on Catalina spots as well as local fishing vil- Island. lages. There they met natives The cliffs of Svalbard teem with and came to know their liveli- tens of thousands of birds – Arctic hoods. One visit was to an eider terns, puffins, gulls, razorbills and duck farm, where down is har- many others. vested.

Traveling by Zodiac inflatable Gaiera is no stranger to islands, boat to one tern colony, Gaiera having served four years as an en- and colleagues had to protect

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themselves with sticks to ward off dive-bombing birds protecting their nests from interlopers.

“We had to hold the sticks over our heads, because they won’t fly any lower than the stick,” Gaiera said. “That was really cool.”

Despite their apparent abundance, the bird colonies’ numbers are diminishing. Climate change is warming the sea and disrupting food supplies, while ice formation is also undergoing change.

While impressed with “the tenacity of life” in extreme conditions, Gaiera observed that climate-related changes to the environment are occurring at a rapid rate. “The naturalists said they had seen quite a bit of change,” he said.

Along with analysis of the days’ observations, global warming was integrated into a group discussion each evening. Passengers would gather in the Explorer’s lounge to interact with the eight naturalists on board. “They were very good public speakers,” Gaiera said.

He also networked, just as intended, with other teachers. The educators concluded the voyage with a wealth of vivid memories and observations to share with

TERNING EVASIVE Members of the expedition fend off angry Arctic terns. students.

After his Arctic experience, Gaiera plans to expose his students to more firsthand observations.

“I try to take my kids out of the classroom and into the natural world,” Gaiera said. “Being outside is a great way to learn.”

Learn more about Greg Gaiera’s Arctic learning journey at greggaiera.wordpress.com.

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OPINION Un-Inspired changes

I don’t know Elizabeth Alves, who wrote an opinion article featured in the July 22, 2015 Mad River Union, but she doesn’t live in the Lazy J Mobile Home Park. I’ve lived in the park 20 years.The park has gone downhill since Inspire Communities bought us in November of 2013.

Our yards were kept up beautifully under Carl Johnson ownership. Now only the entrance to the park looks nice, where the yards are well cared for and the grass is green. A little farther into the park, sometimes the grass gets cut and sometimes not, weeds are rampant and most of the yards are brown.

Inspire Communities claim $250,000, has been spent for improvements to the park. I’d like to see a accounting for this $250,000.

New street signs were installed, but the lettering is so small that most seniors can’t read them. The expensive stop signs were purchased, but not installed on corners.

There is no posting at the park entrance of a 15 mile an hour speed limit.

Yes, something has been done to the streets. Again the street looks wonderful at the entrance, but further into the park the work is shoddy and shameful. Why would Inspire Communties approve and pay for this quality of work?

There has been nothng new provided that improves the lives of the Lazy J. res-

v LETTERS idents. There are 220 sites in this park.

Many low-income seniors depend on the parks laundry facility, where at the most two washers and two dryers are in service.

Inspire Communities wants to build a club house in the Lazy J park. A club house is of no importance to the residents who don’t know how they can continue to pay rent, at the currant rate of increases. A better use of the proposed club house money would be to subsidize the lowest income residents, who are at risk of being phased out with no place to go.

Come visit the park and see for yourself.

Nancy Mohney Arcata

A captive community

Although Elizabeth Alves got some things right in her recent column about mobile home park rent stabilization, she got many more important things wrong: 1. The ‘improvements” at Lazy J were purely cosmetic and designed to enhance the resale value of the park for the corporation that owns it – residents do not want them. The one improvement residents do need – immediate repairs in the laundry room, have not been made. The corporation says that will not come for another 18 months, when they spend a couple of

more hundred thousands on a clubhouse that residents have said they don’t want or need. And of course, the rent will have to be raised yet again to pay for that capital expenditure.

2. Inspire Communities has painted a wall, added a thin and already cracking coat of asphalt slurry to the streets, and installed street signs that are difficult to read from a passing car. They have not made any other improvements, but for this, say they must raise the rents to cover over $100,000 of expense. So when these improvements have paid for themselves with the higher rents, will Inspire drop the rents accordingly? NO. This is a very common tactic used by these corporations to justify their need to gouge the poorest and most vulnerable citizens in our county.

3. Mortgage lenders will not finance the purchase of a mobile home that was built before 1981. Most in Lazy J are older than that, so selling is not the option that Alves depicts.

4. Mobile homes are not part of the “free market” of the rental industry that Alves refers to for the following reasons: a. Park residents do not rent their homes, they own them. b. If something needs maintenance in a mobile home, the park owners are not responsible for it (unlike landlords in the rental industry, who are) c. Park residents must pay local, county and state taxes and bonds, just as any oth-

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er homeowner must do, but in addition to that, they must also pay for the park owner’s taxes and bonds on top of the space rent! d. If the park owner raises the rent on the tiny piece of dirt that the home sits on, the park resident cannot just move to a less expensive rental – they are financially responsible for their homes and can’t move them for the reasons Alves cited.

5. No one is asking anyone for free market rental industry rent control.

6. Most mobile home parks in Humboldt County prohibit sub-letting by home owners.

7. There is an obvious solution to outside corporations preying on the elderly of Humboldt County and destroying our affordable housing inventory: Pass a mobile home rent stabilization ordinance as 98 other communities in the state of California have done. Protect our seniors from corporate greed!

8. A mobilehome rent stabilization ordinance will NOT impact the free market rental industry in any way.

I am happy for Alves having an affordable dwelling and confident that if her rent is raised unaffordably, she will find a more affordable place and move there. We mobile home park owners cannot do that – we are captivesAnd that is why we need special protection under the law.

Hilary Mosher McKinleyville

A $500 ripoff reveals a conspiracy, sets off lifelong surveillance

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t has now been more than 15 years since I first found myself on the receiving end of one specific abuse of the Patriot Act type powers, where Federal agents can invade the phones and computers of U.S. citizens.

My experience with abuse of government and corporate trust first occurred in the late Clinton/ Gore Administration. It was a situation that I stumbled into in the form of a major corporate rip-off that enjoyed government protection in their antics against private citizens.

The particular offending corporation I am referencing is Travelers Express, a money order division of the VIAD Corporation. I came to learn of other such rip-off companies. But the VIAD Corporation was clearly among them.

They were regularly making large contributions to both the Democratic and Republican political parties. These contributions continue to play a clear part in how such corrupt corporations are able to scam the people without accountability from government officials or agencies at all levels.

The VIAD (Travelers Express) Corporation put together a rather elaborate scheme in which they are able to steal up to $500 from unsuspecting purchasers of one of their money orders, plus added fees for a phony stop-pay order. It is quite an elaborate scheme. I will attempt to detail how they were able to perpetrate their fraud so successfully.

I personally found myself hustled when I purchased one of their top value money orders in the amount of $500. I purchased the $500 money order at a special window in a supermarket in Fairfield, Calif. I was caused to believe the money order had been placed in an envelope, which was then put in my grocery bag with other items by the clerk. Shortly after leaving that window, however, I discovered no such envelope or money order, so I promptly returned to the window where I had purchased it. The clerk would be quick to sell me a Stop Pay Order, explaining that if anyone found my money order, it could not be paid, and that the full amount would be reimbursed to me at a later date.

That was my introduction to their well rehearsed “routine.” In phone contacts with their home office, I would be told that particular Stop Pay Order supposedly could not be implemented, for reasons that could not be made clear to me. The company next

reported that someone had man- ters of appreciation and copies of aged to cash the money order and their efforts to get these charges Travelers Express only provided investigated.

It is not an exaggeration to rea poor quality photo-copy of a money order with no recognizable port that I have never been alone numbers, or transfer codes, and on any computer connected to the no record of where the money or- Internet since. I am not any kind of terrorist and have committed no der was paid or to whom.

At this point, Travelers Express internet crime, but federal agents could simply pocket the money and have been able to take control of act like this was everyday business, my computer and phone 24/7, the normal routine, and nothing from that time through the present. could be done. The local police saw At least one of the federal no irregularities. The poor quality photoMENACE TO SOCIETY copy provided them Dave Goggin at last no leads. Nobody Friday evening’s seemed to underPlaza peace stand anything about D ave GoGGin vigil. KLH|Union electronic transfer codes or how easily traceable a money order should have been. I should simply accept that I was out $525.

I tried to elicit elected officials and government agencies to look into this scam wherever I could, but to no avail. I sent extensive mailings to elected officials at every city, county, state and federal level that I could, only to confirm this congame was permitted without inter- agents assigned to me has made ference from government agencies little effort to conceal his presence. and officials at all levels.

It has long been my practice to folThe political contributions low progressive radio talk shows were such that all would turn and often become a regular in their their heads and look the other chat rooms. These chat rooms way. During these efforts I stum- would soon be visited by other bled into another pertinent fact; personalities that might appear toTravelers Express did business tally out of place in such a setting. in cities and countries throughInitially, I was a regular on Mark out much of the world; to other Levine’s RADIO INSIDE SCOOP. world governments that were not Certain new members in that chat made up of members of a couple room appeared to be in considerof bought off political parties. able disharmony. A couple of them I began acquiring email address- appeared quite angry with me; one es of members of parliament and was prone to making threats. government officials in cities in One day a particular chatter was countries all over the globe, and be- blatantly posting statements about gan a mass mailing on the internet. how much he hated being assigned I informed these elected officials to me and that he could speak for about how Travelers Express might others who shared his anger. Some also be doing business in their of us entered into a chat with the countries, and about how Travel- talk show host (Mark Levine), ers Express apparently was getting about this abusive fellow, and Mark away with their scam in the United shared our concerns. Mark had the States. These officials had been paid ability to trace a chatter back to his off to look the other way. Many, in ISP location, and found that this response to my email message, be- particular ISP was located in the J. gan calling for investigations.

Edgar Hoover building. Other susSome of these overseas officials pect visitors to the chat room would sent requests to the FBI, to con- use fictitious email addresses. sumer affairs agencies and even Soon thereafter, that same hot to the office of the U.S. Secretary headed fellow in question posted of State. Many of these other na- a very blatant threat to my person, tion officials provided me with let- informing me that I would soon

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suffer a horrible death at his hands.

(This on a national public blog). I was able to highlight and copy that particular post and promptly included it in an email to then-Vice President Al Gore, who I learned would then go visit the FBI. That would end the direct threats and, as I recall, Mark banned him from that chat room, though I believe he returned with a different identity.

Since then, when using any computer, anywhere, I found the federal hackers to be there.

I understand they have their high-tech methods of finding and following most any person’s location.

One or more of these hackers is a religious fanatic and another is obsessed with pornography. Most all of them make it quite obvious that they are monitoring, and largely controlling my computer and email. I believe they were assigned to ensure that I might never again make contact with any elected government officials in any other country at any time, by blocking my mail.

The federal hackers assigned to me largely found their task to be a boring job. They still join me daily in the Thom Hartmann chat room. Some reveal good common sense and some let it be known that they are not in harmony with those retaining their services, but many topics are still taboo to them. Whether they like their duties or not, it appears they are well paid, and clearly they don’t want a corrupt FBI all over them as well should they stand up to them. A couple of them, the Fed Hackers just remain angry and abusive by nature, and appear to enjoy finding ways to invade and disrupt at any opportunity.

I am of an earlier generation and have never been all that skillful in my computer literacy. Now, attempting to reconstruct much of their daily activities on my computers all these many years would soon prove to be insurmountable.

Still, they have not found me to be one who gets easily discouraged or intimidated. I had learned that all government police agencies that might be contacted were also counted on to look away and play their part in this wide scale con-game. This particular, rather massive fraud is being perpetrated against private citizens, most

of whom find themselves hopelessly ill equipped to deal with the sting they would find themselves caught up in.

Most often I am only able to share this particular story in bits and pieces. Some find it hard to believe, asking why would federal agencies tie up so many agents for so long, just to hassle one harmless senior citizen on the North Coast of California, which I would normally consider to be a fair question to ask.

The whistleblowing efforts by Ed Snowden has proved somewhat consistent with my predicament, but many choose not to believe his reports regarding how the Patriot Act allows our government to misuse and abuse their technological powers. A most serious matter.

Others report similar experiences and at least one friend has asked me to sit down at an old manual, and to attempt to reconstruct this story. So here I sit at a 70-year-old Olympia portable typewriter without wi-fi or modems. Hopefully we will some day convert it to some sort of word processor.

I conclude this chapter of my life by sharing an observation: Many of our elected and appointed government officials are not in the business of fighting crime, but are rather in the business of committing crimes; invading all of our electronic devices for all the wrong reasons. They can clearly become accomplices to frauds directed against the people.

For those still with me, might I suggest that they take a second look at electronic voting with modems, which allows easy access to many of these same folks which I have come to observe rather directly. I find myself often posing the question of how, in a democracy, a fraction of one percent manages, regularly, to acquire some 51 percent of elected offices.

It remains my hope that some surviving members of a once free press will find time to explore a real part of what is happening in and to our country.

Dave Goggin is an Arcata resident and member of Veterans for Peace.

Note: we contacted the company formerly known as Travelers Express, now called MoneyGram, but didn’t hear back before press time. The company admitted complicity in money laundering and fraud in 2012, and is under a five-year corporate monitoring program involving regular reports to the U.S. Department of Justice. –Ed.

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Buddy Brown’s living legacy of blues in Blue Lake

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BLUE LAKE – The Buddy Brown Blues Festival is the best festival of the summer.

What's not to love: great blues musicians, shade trees and Blue Lake’s ubiquitous sunshine, good food, local beer and wine, grass so smooth and level that it’s a pleasure to dance barefoot, and friends who meet every year.

You can have your Reggae on the River, says the writer who went to the very first one, now with its heat, crowds and reports of violence against women. You can have all your far-away great gatherings. Sure they have an amazing assortment of mu-

sical talent. Friends come back from Kate Wolf inspired and happy.

But small and close to home is the best.

And the festival is in honor of a man who lived music, until his death in 2001.

Buddy Brown was born Richard Dugbuddy brown blues FesTIVAl where: Perigot Park, Blue Lake when: Saturday, Aug. 1 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Admission: $10/$8 advance/free for kids 12 and under Tickets: The Works, People’s Records, Wildberries Marketplace humboldtfolklife.org

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gins in 1945. He hosted the blues nights at the Jambalaya with his band, Buddy Brown and the Hound Dogs, bringing together musicians from all over Humboldt County. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddy Brown was a very influential blues musician for many of us, and it is fitting that we keep his memory alive with this festival right in his own hometown,â&#x20AC;? said Patrick Cleary, co-organizer for the Humboldt Folklife Society, which puts on the festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a great reminder that we have so many talented blues musicians living right here.â&#x20AC;?

Brown grew up in New Jersey, according to an obituary written by Bob Doran in the North Coast Journal. He settled in Humboldt County in the 1980s, eventually buying a home in Blue Lake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1986,â&#x20AC;? Doran wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddy put together a rhythm and blues band with harmonica/sax player Doug Crumpacker. Bassist Dale Cash joined soon after.â&#x20AC;?

He was to make three albums with that group, the last called New Tricks.

Charles Horn, host of The South Side, the Friday night blues show on KHUM, engineered on that album. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddy was a magnanimous host at the Jambalaya,â&#x20AC;? he remembered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And he was a really good cook and wine aficionado. His horn player, Doug Crumpacker, could tell some spine-tingling stories about those times.â&#x20AC;?

Brown played at the first Blue Lake Blues Festival in 2001, just a few months before he died. The festival was renamed in his memory.

Brown brought people in. Festivalgoer Debbie Dew, of Westhaven, received a personal invitation from Brown himself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to the Jambalaya the very first night I came to Humboldt County,â&#x20AC;? Dew said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddy Brown and the Hound Dogs were playing. Buddy gave me a T-shirt and said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;this is the place to come and hear musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been going to the Buddy Brown festival every year since the beginning.â&#x20AC;?

Headlining this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival is the Jim Lahman Band. The rest of the lineup features local blues favorites Buddy Reed and the Rip It Ups, The Uptown Kings, with bass player and Hound Dogs alumnus Dale Cash, Black Sage Runners, The Secret Club, and The Overstimulators.

The festival benefits the Humboldt Folklife Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Folk School program.

dAZZlInG dAImo International soloist eriko daimo will display her dazzling virtuosity during a concert at the Arcata Playhouse, 1251 ninth st., on Thursday, Aug. 6 at 8 p.m. doors open at 7:30 p.m. The Japanese musician with captivating charisma and numerous prizes has given solo concert performances around the world. she is a force among todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generation of players of marimbas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; large percussion instruments similar to xylophones but with keyboards crafted out of Honduras rosewood. she is playing an instrument crafted by marimba one, based in Arcata. It has been the choice for years of daimo, who says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The instrument itself seems to create a variety of gorgeous, deep, warm, glittering and profound sounds... I can feel my emotion flowing through the instrument.â&#x20AC;? daimo plays solo with special guest Pius Cheung.

Tickets are $15/$12, available at wildberries marketplace or at the door. Photo coUrtesy MariMba one

Good TImes dancers, above, swing out to the blues at a previous buddy brown blues Festival. below, debbie dew, in green, and the late Pamela lyall enjoying the smooth grass. Photos by JV | Union

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FERNDALE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A fabulously fun award-winning musical based on the much-loved movie, Legally Blonde the Musical follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotyping, snobbery and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. This action-packed musical explodes on the stage with memorable songs and dynamic dancing. In equal parts hilarious and heart-warming, this musical is so much fun it should be illegal!

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Drawn from the novel by Amanda Brown as well as the popular MGM film, the catchy, high-energy score features music and lyrics by Laurence Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keefe and Nell Benjamin, and book by Heather Hach.

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Sci Fi Pint and Pizza night Ogle Freaks (1932) and other psychotronic weirdness, trailers, short films and strange giveaways today, July 29 at Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the main feature starts at 7:30 p.m. Circus performer dwarf Hans (Harry Earles) falls in love with long-legged trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova). Discovering that Hans is heir to a fortune, Cleopatra inveigles him into a marriage, all the while planning to bump off her new husband and run away with brutish strongman Hercules (Henry Victor). What she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reckon with is the code of honor among circus freaks: â&#x20AC;&#x153;offend one, offend them all.â&#x20AC;? Admission is free with $5 minimum purchase of food or beverage. Parental guidance is suggested. reggae on the river Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the 31st anniversary of the longest running reggae festival in the U.S from Thursday, July 30 to Sunday, Aug. 2 at Frenchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Camp in Garberville. reggaeontheriver.com Mck FarMerSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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. bill noteMan & the rocketS Eureka Main Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Summer Concert Series this Thursday, July 30 at 6 p.m. at the C Street Market Square, Eureka features rock and blues with Bill Noteman & The Rockets. (707) 442-9054 at the goat Portland dream-pop trio Appendixes plays with Float Foreward and Venus Milk on Thursday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Richardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Goat Tavern & Tea Room, 401 I St., Arcata. There is a $5 cover. hiroShiMa hiStorian All are welcome to attend â&#x20AC;&#x153;My God, What Have We Done?: The Nuclear Age & the Rise of Peace Consciousness,â&#x20AC;? a presentation by Professor Roy Tamashiro of Webster University on Friday, July 31. The event begins with a potluck dinner at 6 p.m., followed by a talk at 7 p.m., both free of charge. Tamashiro will relate how he was moved by the profound messages of Hiroshima witnesses in oral history interviews. He will describe the rise of peace consciousness visible in pilgrimages, including the recently launched Veterans for Peace-Golden Rule Project in Humboldt Bay, reawakening the call to abolish nuclear weapons. This talk is at Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 22 Fellowship Way, Bayside. (707) 839-0313 Seattle Singer-Songwriter Aaron English plays the Fieldbrook Family Market, 4636 Fieldbrook Rd., on Friday, July 31, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. alwayS a brideSMaid The North Coast Repertory Theatre, 300 Fifth St., Eureka, presents the comedy Always A Bridesmaid through Aug. 15. The play runs every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. There is one remaining Thursday evening performance on Aug. 13. Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. on Aug. 2 and 9. (707) 442-NCRT (6278), ncrt.net

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Attendance is free for spectators. Enter your 20 year or older VW for $20, and this includes the barbecue. Join the club for $24, and this includes the barbecue along with discounts on various products. For more information visit the Humbugs VWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook page. at blMc Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Neighbors kick out the songs at Black Lightning Motocycle Cafe, 440 F St., Eureka, on Saturday, Aug. 1 starting at 6 p.m. dJ d at MgMa DJ D sets the scene for the opening of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Empire Squared Strikes Backâ&#x20AC;? at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. DJ D spins an eclectic mix of rare and obscure music from an incredible collection of vinyl that transports audiences to another dimension. See DJ D Saturday Aug. 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. for Arts Alive! This performance is sponsored by Redwood Capital Bank. giFt oF Peace All are welcome to attend â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tribute to Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Emanating the Gift of Peace,â&#x20AC;? a presentation by Professor Roy Tamashiro of Webster University at Sunday Worship Service on Aug. 2 at 11 a.m. Tamashiro will deliver a tribute to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and its citizens for evolving from places of profound suffering to sacred spaces emanating peace and compassion. This service is at Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 22 Fellowship Way, Bayside. (707) 839-0313 trinidad artiSanS Market The Soulful Sidekicks play the Trinidad Artisans Market Sunday, Aug. 2 at noon. Visit the market at Main Street and View Ave. in downtown Trinidad every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Sept. 13. art talk Join printmaker and book artist Barbara Milman for Art Talk at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka, Sunday, Aug. 2 at 2 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sea Change,â&#x20AC;?

Milmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibition of original printmaking works and artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books, invites the viewer to enter into conversation with the artist centered on the topic of climate change. Milmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sea Changeâ&#x20AC;? exhibition runs Aug. 1 to 30 in the Anderson Gallery. Art Talk is included with museum admission: $5/$2 for students and seniors/free to museum members and children. druid underground FilM FeStival On Monday, Aug.3, enjoy an evening of subversive cinema featuring cuts from amateur monster movies, propaganda and rowdy short films at Richardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Goat Tavern & Tea Room. 401 I St., Arcata, starting at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 (707) 630-5000 locavoreSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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 Marketplaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market, 747 13th St., Arcata. (707) 822-0095 THURSDAY, JULY 30

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Don Quixote de la Mancha mistook thirty windmills for giant monsters.

A bold knight errant, he declared, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a great service to God to wipe such a wicked brood from the face of the earth!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;What giants?â&#x20AC;? asked Sancho Panza. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is quite clear,â&#x20AC;? his master retorted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that you are not experienced in this matter of adventuresâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not experienced, that is, in Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Magic Kingdom.

For man is the animal who wishes upon a star, the conjurer who lives in, by and for illusion.

He insists on enlarging life and making it over.

He spends $250 billion on cosmetics, $275 billion on jewelry, $2.6 trillion on clothing, fashion and luxury goods.

Appearances and make-believe are everything, â&#x20AC;&#x153;realityâ&#x20AC;? nothing but trouble. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heaven itself we seek in our folly.â&#x20AC;?

Man mistakes his volition for free will, insists there is a reason for everything, devises one where none can be found.

Permanently in denial, he will not â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he cannot â&#x20AC;&#x201D; admit that accident, chance, confusion and uncertainty rule human affairs, even as entropy rules the universe.

Man is in charge, life is a control drama, top to bottom, beginning to end.

Governed by and beset with illusion, we believe countless things that are not true.

Suppose each of us has fifty or so illusions.

World population, 7.3 billion, multiplied by 50 illusions per capita, equals a boundless phantasmagoria.

No wonder we cannot make sense of ourselves.

Sanity is a pretense, history is a warning.

When the muse comes to me, I want her and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want her.

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The show features a cast full of local favorites, including Jessie Rawson (recently seen in NCRTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spring Awakening) as Elle, Sarah Blair Seidt as Paulette, Chris Hamby as Warner, Dave Fuller as Professor Callahan, Haley Katz as Vivienne and Michael Enis as Emmett. They will be joined on stage by a talented ensemble of actors, singers, dancers - and two dogs! â&#x20AC;&#x153;This season, we have had an amazing level of support from the artists who have worked with us, and audiences have loved their work,â&#x20AC;? said Satlof. â&#x20AC;&#x153;FRT also has been able to make some important improvements, including renovating our womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bathrooms and implementing a new online ticketing system that charges no added fees and allows patrons to print tickets at home, saving time in line.â&#x20AC;?

A $5 preview of the musical will be offered on Thursday, Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. All other performances are $18/$16 for students and those over 60. Performances run Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m., and Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. from Aug. 13 through Sept. 6. There is a benefit performance for cast and crew on Thursday, Aug 27. Tickets are available at ferndalerep.org or by calling (707) 786-5483.

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Meet Apollo, Aries, Atlas and Want to support CAF in other ways?

Artemis, four striking Siamese kit- How about attending our upcoming tens that arrived at Companion An- fundraising event? Contribute to our imal Foundation to dazzle us with numerous animal-oriented programs their sweet, playful personalities. while you enjoy a cool, refreshing pint These kittens arrived very at Mad River Brewery’s Pints shyly, but after tremendous for Nonprofits on Wedneslove and affection in our day, Aug. 5. CAF staff and adoption room, have come volunteers will be present at to be wonderful kitten com101 Taylor Way in Blue Lake panions. Just ask our newest Octavia from 6 to 8 p.m., when you employee, Tovara, who has StreMple can also meet a few of our volunteered at CAF for the companions, envCOMPANION adoptable past year. Tovara says she joy live music, purchase enANIMALS graved name tags for only came to CAF because of her lifelong love for animals and know- $4 and browse through a collection ing that “these animals are extremely of beautifully unique art and jewelry well cared for.” items in our silent auction.

Please feel free to come and meet next on our event itinerary are these special animals, as well as many plans for an enchanted Animal other charming kittens and puppies, Walk, to be held this fall. We are at our Sunny Brae facility at 88 Sun- currently in search of singers/musiny Brae Center. The adoption room cians, costumes, crafts, puppetry for is open Tuesday through Saturday children and theatrics. If you’d like from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. As custom- to contribute, please email cafvolunary, all animals at CAF are spayed/ teers@gmail.com, visit cafanimals. neutered and up-to-date on routine org, check out Companion Animal vaccinations prior to adoption. To Foundation on Facebook or call start the adoption process, fill out an (707) 826-PeTS (7387).

Beer for Balls benefits bowwows dogs came in at once when an owner was unable to care for them.

Understanding the need for funding, McKinleyville’s Six Rivers Brewery partnered with nor Cal Pet Rescue Center in June for Beer for Balls. The monthlong fundraiser for nor Cal Pet’s Spay and neuter Fund included a mountain bike raffle along with donating $1 for each pint of Hammond Trail Altered Ale sold. In all, Six Rivers Brewery raised $2,000 for the cause.

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Take children on walks around Trinidad Head, Patrick’s Point State Park, Fort Humboldt State Historic Park and many other places with a Quest map in hand and you and your child or grandchild or friend can learn new facts about nature and history.

Pick up a brochure at Trinidad Mup atti seum, the State Parks or go to redFleSchner wood-edventures.org to find Quest v TRINIDAD locations. When you’ve finished the edventure, the child signs a Quest book and receives a colorful patch. Last week, two young ladies visiting Trinidad Museum showed over a dozen patches sewn onto their jeans from summer adventures they’ve enjoyed so far.

The program is part of a California State Parks, Humboldt County Office of Education and HSU Environmental education and Interpretation Practicum class.

State Parks Youth Art Contest The California State Parks Foundation (CSPF) has announced its first Youth Art Contest. Californians aged four to 18 can show their artistic side after a State Park outdoor adventure by entering the contest, which is open to all California youth. The CSPF is asking for poster submissions. The poster should be no smaller than eight by ten inches and no larger than eleven by seventeen inches. Any kind of paper can be used, and the artwork can by done with ink, chalk, marker, photography or paint. visit calparks.org/whatwedo/advocacy/youthartcontest/ to find out more.

HSU Marine Laboratory visit the HSU Fred Telonicher Marine Laboratory and view the fascinating aquarium exhibits of beautiful live creatures and detailed digital interpretive signs above them.

The Touch Tank, with sea stars, anemones and other sea creatures children can gently touch, is located in the back of the marine laboratory.

Trinidad Head Lighthouse Open Trinidad Head Lighthouse will be open with Bureau of Land Management and Trinidad Museum interpreters on Friday, Aug. 7 from 3 to 6 p.m. before the regular first Friday Trinidad Art Night event from 6 to 9 p.m.

Park at the bottom of the Trinidad Head Trail and walk up to the lighthouse.

Music at the Trinidad Artisans Market Trinidad Artisans Market, open each Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. through the summer, features live music from noon to 3 p.m. On Sunday, Aug. 2, the Soulful Sidekicks (Laura Hennings and Ginger Casanova) will play.

The Fabulous Bluejayz play Sunday, Aug. 16. Karrie Wallace plays guitar and harmonica and sings. Maria Bartlett plays bass. The duo is always a crowd-pleaser.

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eady to add a new member to Her volunteer friend Meghan deyour family? Look no further scribes her as “an old soul and pretty than the Humboldt County mellow for a pup. She still likes to play Animal Shelter or its related rescue and be goofy. She already knows sit, organization, Redwood Pals Rescue. stay and walks very well on leash. She Both of these organizations work to wants to meet all the other dogs.” find homes for dogs from Humboldt Mona has a lovely red and white County that have ended up coat and beautiful, thoughtwithout an owner for one ful eyes. She has been tested reason or another. with a cat, and though she We have some great dogs appeared interested in chasavailable from both groups! ing, it did not seem like she This week I’ll feature two wanted to hurt the cat, only Mara that have received special to play with it. She responded S egal notice from our hard-workwell to being called away from ing volunteers. cat. The shelter has a nice vDOGTOWN the From the shelter, we handout on introducing a new have sweet Mona. I dare any dog into a home with cats. dog-lover to meet this young dog and Mona would most likely do fine in that not be won over in the first few minutes! situation with the proper protocol.

Mona is only about 10 months old Mona has been spayed, vaccinated but is very gentle and well-behaved. and microchipped, all of which is covShe is quite a compact little dog, ered in the very reasonable adoption weighing in at only around 40 pounds. fee. She is at the Humboldt County She is very affectionate with everyone. Animal Shelter at 980 Lycoming Ave. in McKinleyville. Information is available at (707) 840-9132.

Heathcliff is a two year old Labrador Retriever mix. He may have some Sharpei or Shepherd in him as well. Heathcliff is a medium-large dog, not very tall but a solid build at around 65 pounds.

Heathcliff is a friendly dog that loves to get out for a walk, play ball or romp with other dogs. He is familiar with some obedience commands and would easily learn more as he is motivated both by praise and treats.

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Mona with other dogs, both male and female and large and small. He would probably do better in a home without cats, unless he had an adopter that was willing to train him in appropriate cat relations.

One of our Redwood Pals volunteers took him out for a day and said that he was so nicely behaved on their hike, in the car and at the beach. He is yet another dog that has some lovely manners that aren’t always immediately visible when viewed through a kennel.

Heathcliff is a little shy around new people, but once he knows you, he is a very loyal companion! He could use either a foster or adoptive home, as he needs to get out of the shelter soon.

Heathcliff has been neutered and is current on all vaccinations and can be micro-chipped at adoption. For more information or to meet Heathcliff, please contact us at redwoodpalsrescue@ gmail.com or call (707) 839-9692.

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The center is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Monday between 1 and 5 p.m. View more works by both artists at jodybryanart.com and paulrickard.net. For more information, call (707) 826-2359.

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This week in Crabs Wednesday, July 29 – Crabs Super Fan Appreciation Night The Crabs play the Valley Bears at 7 p.m. in the last regular season game. Special prizes for our fans who have supported the Crabs for 71 consecutive years! The Crab Grass Band will play. US Bank will lob the first pitch and Cole Ayala will don the BB jersey.

DeRBY NIGHT The Humboldt Crabs enjoyed the company of Humboldt Roller Derby, and vice versa, last week during Derby Night.

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That loss came at the hands ARCATA – Stop me if you’ve of Healdsburg starter Torgen heard this one before: Allen Soderland, who confounded the Smoot doubles in a run to give the Crabs over six shutout innings.

Crabs an early lead and extend his Only Smoot’s unearned run in the hitting streak. ninth prevented the team from That was the play-by-play in being shut out for the first time all the first inning on both Saturday, summer.

July 25 and Sunday, July 26, as But you can’t keep an offense like that down for long. Helped the Crabs took two of three from out by a very porous Prune Packthe Healdsburg Prune Packers on ers defense, the Crabs counterthe last weekend of the 2015 regupunched with a 16-3 victory on lar season.

Saturday night, then took the se“The guy’s unreal,” said manager Tyson Fisher. “He’s having pRuNe pACKeR Matt LoCoCo, center- ries with a tidy, hard-earned 5-1 just an incredible summer. He’s a fielder from the Healdsburg Prune Pack- win on Sunday.

“Our guys did what they needvery even-keeled guy; he’s a great ers, narrowly misses a hit by Allen Smoot. ed to do,” Fisher said. “Obviously teammate, he works his butt off a 26-game hitting streak, 24 doubles, just like all the great ones do, and he’s and a sparkling .437 average. Even Friday Healdsburg came and beat just been outstanding for us all sum- in the Crabs’ only loss of the week, us, they beat us pretty handily, and mer, getting timely hits and big hits.” Friday’s opener against Healdsburg, our guys bounced back Saturday and The Crabs first baseman now has Smoot went 3-for-4 and scored the CRABS C2 Humboldt Crabs

Thursday, July 30 – Humboldt Invitational Tournament Day 1 On the first day of this round-robin tournament, the Auburn Wildcats play the Solano Mudcats at 2 p.m. and the Humboldt Crabs take on the Pacific Union Financial Capitalists (PUF Caps) at 7 p.m. A coin flip will determine the home team during the first three days.

Season passes and leftover ten strip tickets will be honored for the tournament. One ticket gets you in to both games for the day. Get a Crabs stamp at the front gate to go in and out.

Friday, July 31 – Humboldt Invitational Tournament Day 2 The Auburn Wildcats take on the PUF Caps at 2 p.m., and the Solano Mudcats face off against the Humboldt Crabs at 7 p.m.

See Thursday, July 30 listing above for details.

Saturday, Aug. 1 – Humboldt Invitational Tournament Day 3 The PUF Caps play the Solano Mudcats at 2 p.m., and the Auburn Wildcats take on the Humboldt Crabs at 7 p.m. See Thursday, July 30 listing above for details.

Sunday, Aug. 2 – Humboldt Invitational Tournament Day 4 There will be games at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and the Championship Game at 6 p.m.

Teams will be seeded after Saturday, with the Crabs playing the 2 p.m. game. See Thursday, July 30 listing above for details.

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hey were there to be inducted into the Crabs Hall of Fame. Former Crabs players were honored on July 18 with a ceremony on the field and a barbecue before the game.

Family and friends gathered early to celebrate these players: Fred Papini, Doug Clayton Cather, Lute Barnes, BilJanine ly Olson, Paul Ziegler, V olkmar CRAB Shane Turner, Scott Eskra, Joe Gerber, Adam GAB Karr and Nick Giacone, as well as the entire 2003 Crabs team.

Former Crabs players get a lifetime pass for Crabs games, but many live far away. So it was an event of reunions for many.

That 2003 team had 43 wins and only five losses. Five players went on to play professional ball: Bobby Andrews, Brandon Marcelli, Brett Pill, Brandon Reddinger and Adam Carr.

Carr was enjoying being back in Arcata.

After eight seasons with the Washington Nationals, he now lives in San Jose.

Carr played first base and pitched for the Crabs from 2002 to 2005. He graduated from Oklahoma State and was drafted by the Nationals.

In his first year with Washington, he hit and pitched. Then, “they turned me into a pitcher,” he said, “but hitting was my pas-

sion.”

Watch Carr’s batting practice on the Crabs’ Facebook page to see what he’s talking about.

Carr loved playing for the Crabs. “Coming up here, I really felt at home. The Crabs do such a fantastic job of taking care of their players. They dig deep,” he said.

Eskra listened while Carr talked, interjecting comments here and there. Eskra played third base for the Crabs in 1995, leading the crabs in runs (50), hits (53), homeruns (9) and RBI (39).

“Our team was a lot of local kids, seven or eight locals,” he said.

Eskra played for College of the Redwoods, Lassen Community College and Ole Miss.

He works as a general contractor in Eureka and has a 9-year-old daughter, Ari, who plays softball.

“I’d love for her to play for the Crabs,” he said. “Being the first girl to play for the Crabs would be cool.”

Giacone, who played first base and outfield for the Crabs for four years, was at the park with family. His son, Kyle, and daughter, Kaitlin, play “everything from soccer to baseball and basketball.”

Kaitlin sorted baseball cards while her dad talked. Giacone was born and raised in Eureka and now works for UPS. “I grew up with a core group of guys who

THRee GeNeRATIoNS Nick “The Stick” Giacone, his son, Kyle, and his father, Mike.

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all played together since we were eight,” he said. “We’d play whiffle ball in the backyard until it was dark and you couldn’t see anymore.”

Giacone is one of four boys in the family.

His brother coaches at Eureka High School and Nick is the pitching coach.

“I wish that there was more local talent to fill the (Crabs’) roster,” he said.

Giacone met his wife, Nancy, at the ballpark. “She came down from Crescent City,” he said, “and we met up after the game.”

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More homeless counted in Humboldt this year than in 2013 Dept. of HealtH & Human ServiceS

HUMBOLDT – The 2015 homeless Point in Time (PIT) count report has been finalized, showing a total of 1,319 homeless, including 32 children – 265 more homeless people than were counted during the 2013 PIT. More than 30 agencies and 100 trained volunteers assisted in this year’s PIT count, which showed Eureka having the county’s largest homeless population, followed by

Arcata and Southern Humboldt.

The biennial PIT count, conducted by the Humboldt Housing and Homeless Coalition (HHHC), documents the number of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons. The count takes place in communities across the U.S. on a single night in January. For Humboldt County, this year it was Jan. 27.

Starting the morning after and throughout the week, volun-

teers connected with homeless people throughout the county to administer voluntary surveys with questions about age, physical and mental health status and where they had slept on the designated night.

The count is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requirement.

Information gathered during this count is used by local planning departments and by county non-

profit agencies in applications for grant funding and planning.

The count is not scientific, but provides a picture of the homeless population at a specific point in time. “It provides a snapshot of our homeless on a specific night,” said Karen “Fox” Olson, executive director at Arcata House Partnership and co-chair of the HHHC. The 2015 PIT Count committee included the North Coast Veterans Resource Center, Arcata

House Partnership, DHHS, Redwood Community Action Agency, Redwood Teen Challenge, the Humboldt County Office of Education and two at-large community members. The count was funded in part by First 5 Humboldt County, the North Coast Grant Making Partnership, St. Joseph Health System and the CCRP. For more information about the HHHC, visit humboldthousing.org/about-the-hhhc.

FILL ’ER UP As Sunny Brae Center filled up with new stores and the surrounding subdivision with new homes, right, the community’s full service gas station, above, was already up and running. Below, the shop’s new logo. Photo above courtesy Michelle Greenway; Merle shuster Photo croP at riGht courtesy huMboldt state library sPecial collections; Photo below by Klh | union

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new furniture and a retro-themed renovation.

“It took me three years to save up the funds and work out the floor plan,” Greenway said. But most important to her is maintaining high standards for the Coffee Break’s fare – organic Kinetic Koffee, freshbaked pastries and now, grab-and-go sandwiches and salads from the Co-op.

“Now you can pick up a pastry that we make, plus lunch,” Greenway said. “I just want to provide a good product for the community, in a good atmosphere.”

After work, you can still swing by for a beer. Now, you can savor a mimosa as well.

The new approach is embodied in the shop’s new slogan, “Fueling Your Day,” coined by Greenway.

It builds on the host structure’s historical roots, all the way back to the 1950s, when it was Sunny Brae Chevron.

Greenway knew it had first become a coffee shop in the 1990s, when the Java Garage was installed in the defunct filling station, later to be succeeded by the original Coffee Break in 2000.

But to reach further back in time, a group of experienced gentlemen who gather at the coffee house on Fridays helped Greenway contact a relative of the Sunny Brae Chevron’s former owner.

She learned that Roy Macklin had been the proprietor, and even obtained photos of him and the station from the days when

Sunny Brae was still rising up out of what had been cow pastures.

In an undated shot, Macklin, in his pristine white attendant uniform, is standing near what is now the Coffee Break’s drivethru window. Behind him are some partially seen children who may have just had their bike tires filled, while a gas pump appears to display the price of a fill-up: $5.45.

Another photo shows the station when it was new, amid the emerging shopping center.

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and Sunday to get the W’s and win the series, with their backs up against the wall. It says a lot about the team and what these guys are made of. I couldn’t be happier.”

On Saturday night, all they really had to do was take what the Prune Packers gave them. And what they gave them was 10 extra outs. Those 10 extra outs resulted in 10 unearned Crabs runs, which was more than enough with Justin Mullins on the hill. Mullins had one rough inning in the third when Healdsburg scored three runs to briefly tie the game, but otherwise cruised through six innings to earn his fourth win.

On Sunday, on a spec-

tacular Humboldt summer afternoon, Fisher gave the ball to Donald Robinson, and in what Fisher called “the biggest Sunday game that we’ve had all season,” Robinson delivered his best performance of the season.

“Donald was outstanding, best start he’s had all summer for us,” Fisher said. “We needed a big start, and it was a big outing for him – six strong and he was really locating pitches I think the best that he’s been all summer.”

And the team behind him was stellar as well. The defense turned two slick double plays – one actually started by Robinson – and the offense cashed in on its chances.

Smoot doubled in a run in the first and drove in

the Crabs second run with a sacrifice fly in the third, and Brad Pluschkell drove home two runners from third with less than two outs, one one grounder and one on a sac fly.

All of which pleased Fisher to no end.

“For the guys to put on the show that they did,” he said, “it might have been our best game that we played all summer.”

And what a time to have it – as they head toward the season-ending Humboldt Invitational Tournament.

“Going into this final week, we’ll have some momentum, have some confidence” Fisher said. “Our bats are back to where we need to be.”

After one last midweek series, against the Bay Area Tides on Tuesday and Wednesday, the four-team tournament begins Thursday. It’s a round-robin style format Thursday through Saturday, and then the teams will be seeded based on those games for elimination games starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday (the Crabs will play at 2 p.m. regardless of the seeding).

The winners of Sunday’s first two games play for the championship at 6 p.m.

See the schedule on page C1 for details.

The Vukonichs, Big Joe, Little Joe and Frank, were the genial hosts Saturday for the open house held in the new headquarters of McKinleyville Auto Supply at 2197 Central Avenue, next door to Safeway. Friends came from far and near to join in the day long celebration, to inspect the enlarged store space and added stock and to express their good wishes.

- McKinleyville News May 24, 1967

remembers her mother getting gas for the family car there. “My mother would always say to the attendant, ‘Fill it with ethyl’,” she recalls.

Former Arcata City Councilmember Paul Wilson recalls the station moving to Westwood Center in the early 1970s, and the Sunny Brae Chevron then morphed into a Shell station. With the service side shut down during the new era of self-pumped gas in the 1980s, Helen Atkins, a relative of Wilson’s, served as cashier at the walk-up window.

The old Sunny Brae Chevron photos will be framed and become part of the remodeled shop’s retro decor.

“What a good way to tie the old in with the new, and with the history of Sunny Brae,” Greenway said.

That history is still being written, with the Coffee Break’s grand re-opening set for this Sunday, Aug. 2 at 7 a.m. It had been scheduled for this past Sunday, but construction complications pushed things back a week.

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REPUBLICAN PICNIC Humboldt County’s Republican Party will hold its 21st annual picnic at the Moose Club, 2348 Campton Rd., Eureka, Sunday, Aug. 2 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. “All Republicans are invited,” according to Annette DeModena, county chairwoman. Grilled hamburgers and hot dogs will be served, along with coffee, tea, water and soft drinks. There is no charge, but picnicgoers are asked to make it a “potluck” event by bringing salad or vegetables (for last names names beginning A-N) or dessert (O-Z). Guest speaker will be Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey. Reservations may be made by calling (707) 499-6310.

NONPROFIT MIXER The Northern California Association of Nonprofits and HSU’s Extended Education invite you to the free event, Networking with a Purpose: A Mixer for Nonprofit Fundraisers and Those in Donor Development, on Wednesday, Aug. 12 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Richards’ Goat Tavern & Tea Room, 401 Samoa Blvd. in Arcata. Take a moment to connect with your colleagues over drinks and snacks. Share your successes from the last year and what you are excited about working on this season. Meet others from the field and swap stories, share resources, and commiserate over lessons learned.

No need to RSVP; contact (707) 442-2993 or norcan@ hafoundation.org for more information.

STUFF THE BUS In cooperation with the McKinleyville branch of Coast Central Credit Union, Kmart and other local businesses, the Kiwanis Club of McKinleyville will collect school supplies for students and teachers at McKinleyville elementary schools, McKinleyville Middle School and McKinleyville High School. The Kiwanis’ mini school bus will be accepting donations in the lobby of the McKinleyville Coast Central Credit Union, 1968 Central Ave. from 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., from Tuesday, Aug. 11 until Thursday, Aug. 13. It will be in front of Kmart from 9 a.m. until noon on Saturday, Aug. 15. Watch for the bus around McKinleyville during August at other partner businesses.

Please stuff the bus with pencils, pens, notebooks, erasers, backpacks, binders, pencil boxes, rulers, glue sticks and other student/teachers supplies. Kiwanians will distribute the collected items to the schools throughout the 2015/2016 school year. Without your assistance, many of these supplies would have to be purchased by the teachers themselves out of their own pockets.

PRIDE PREP Join Humboldt Pride and the Mad River Brewing Company for another wonderful Pints for Non-profits Wednesday, Aug. 19. Roll into the tap room at 101 Taylor Way in Blue Lake any time between 11:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. and $1 from each pint of sudsy brew sold will benefit Humboldt Pride. And if hanging out with fine folks of all ages and enjoying some great music is your groove, come by from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and experience the solid sonic sounds of Goldylocks spinning old school vinyl records. humboldtpride.org NAR ANON Do you have a friend or family member with a drug problem? NarAnon is there to help; meetings are Thursdays from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. at Arcata United Methodist Church, 1761 11th St., Arcata.

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The following couples were recently issued marriage licenses by the Humboldt County Clerk: Mister Blue and Kristin R. Lofstrom Jeremy T. Toews and Abigail F. Grebe Amanda H. Clarke and Sean R. Burns Tylene R. Musser and Bradley S. Bazor Charles Garcia and Nicole A.Flosi Jarod W. Proffitt and Lauren E. Hastings Kathleen A. Dodd and Galen N. O’Toole Nora A. Lamebear and Justin K. Schmidt April N. Day and James M. Chambers Leo P. Chea and Iliana Chase Austin C. Collister and Caleb J. French Frank W. Grunert and Brenda L. Gifford Bryan D. Roundebush and Regina F. Adams Larissa D. Nellessen and Joseph S. Conlin Willie F. Saracino and Kate A. Helgesen Shakota M. Kennedy and Leeann M. Gaskill Hannah S. Ziadeh and Steven M. Ward William J. Nichols and Kiana M. Pitzer Eric J. Hall and Kacie E. Borquez Frank K. Anderson and Ada J. Simmons Meghan M. Uruburu and Oliver P. Hazard Tammy L. Picconi and Tracy D. Smith Peter J. Mikos and Tiffany R. Benton John R. Brady Jr. and Cheryl A. Alejandre Melissa R. Reneski and Kenneth T. Lindke Leila M. Brown and Daniel M. Foster Tanya L. Stacy and Kenneth L. Foxx Amanda M. Loftis and Christopher S. Olson Eric C. Tomczak and Claudia G. Gonzalez Davila Athena R. Edwards and Michael J. Frank Martin D. Abshire and Elizabeth A. Jessop Julie D. Thomas and Andre J. Steinle James B. Willer III and Kristine N. Ferguson Nicholas G. Painter and Kelly L. Grow Aubrey D. Hagmann and Daren M. McClary Kyle J. McKeown and Jamie D. Henson Cara L. Olsen and Jared M. Figas Rondall W. Horn and Birdena L. Williams Taylor C. Turner and Trey C. Dixon Jennifer L. Thompson and Brenden T. Askay Charlotte M. Dunn and Gerald R. Johnsen Daniel V. Williamson and Julie A. Fitzpatrick

Amanda D. Wahlund and Brandon D. Emerson Kelly R. Reed and Jennifer A. Spore Gregory P. Plo and Carrie M. Erickson Jesse N. Buffington and Joleen R. Moll Rick W. Kern and Rebecca L. Keener Miguel A. Godinez Sr. and Megan R. Quinn Karina D. Calderon and Steven M. Corbera Robert J. Hughes and Sally S. Williams Mark L. Thom and Alyssa E. Bowles-Martinez Michael D. Stevens and Ariel D. Thompson Christine P. Holland and David B. Emigh Amanda J. DeMarzi and Mason R. Bergenske Jordanlyn S. Sallis and Jason L. Osborn George J. Davis and Donna L. Davis Louis J. Amato and Paula E. Cunningham Mariah C. Ball and Jacob J. Trover Terry R. Semore and Karen L. Wilson Hope C. Austin and Evan E. von Werlohf Benjamin H. Weed and Nina L. Diehl Ashley C. McBroome and Dennis R. Cameron Garrett A. Barnes and Samantha G. Lallier Cory M. Stone and Lindsey D. Goodner Jennifer M. Singleton and Timothy M. Utterback Sarah S. McKenna and Joshua D. Cahill Alison C. Graham and Michael M. Black Cynthia M. Velazco and Francisco J. Pena Jr. Mark A. Smith and Samantha F. Levine Jeremiah Burger and Maria D. Garcia Cruz Rose O. Wynne and Clinton R. Hooper Bethany K. Hughes and Joshua N. Goodrich Kenneth J. Anderson and Sarah M. Estrem Chloe E. Magneson and Sean R. Weikel Robert E. Fessler and Jerrica K. Rose Matthew K. Russell and Ashley A. Wright Cynthia A. Medeiros and Martin L. Ashton Michelle L. Ashworth and William T. Burton Mickelle L. Flockhart and Travis W. Ammer Steven R. Traut and Margaret S. Mallan Ezekiel A. Currier and Susan A. Pescar Quintana Jordan S. Free and Hugo C. Urbinba Nicholas L. Hardison and Carol J. Thompkins

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alker Owen Greacen died on Saturday, July 18 in an all-terrain vehicle accident at his grandparents’ land in northwestern New Mexico. The son of Greta de la Montagne of Bayside and Scott Greacen of Arcata, and Clary’s beloved younger brother, Owen was a student at Jacoby Creek Elementary School, where he was to have entered the fifth grade this fall.

For 10 years, Owen lived and loved with passionate intensity. The last words he was heard to speak were “this is so awesome!” Owen was full of curiosity, hungry for adventure, yet deeply rooted in his native northwestern California.

Owen touched many with his kindness, infectious joy, and love of laughter. His tragic death has sent waves of grief through the local community, his extended family and his parents’ far-flung networks of friends and colleagues.

A memorial for Owen will be held at the Bayside Grange on Friday, July 31 from 5 to 8 p.m. To offer support to Owen’s family in their grief, please see Lotsa Helping Hands at goo.gl/5PBYFh.

Small, Feathered Consolations Two baby barn swallows wobbling on the wire outside my window.

It’s their first day out of the nest.

They’ve been flying around after the parent birds, a little unsteady, unfamiliar with their wings. Occasionally, almost by accident, catching something to eat.

Now they’re tired, want to be back in the nest.

When an older bird lands on the wire they beg for food. It flies off, leaves them there. Big mouths, pale fluff, scared and hungry.

In a few days they’ll be soaring over the garden. Hard to tell which are the older birds, which are the young.

It happens that fast.

In a few weeks they’ll all be gone. Some will be back next year, some won’t. Not all of us will be here to meet them.

Life seems designed to break us open. With beauty and fear, joy and grief, love, any one of its thousand ways. To send us out into nothing but faith and air.

Earth is a nest of broken shells. – Jerry Martien

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ed by: A Corporation S/DOUG SHAw, PRES. This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 09, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS M. MORRIS DEPuTY 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00413 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: wIllOw CREEK SIx RIvERS MEDICAl ClINIC 850 HIGHwAY 96 wIllOw CREEK, CA 95573 P.O. BOx 4388 ARCATA, CA 95518 AMERICAN HOSPITAl MANAGEMENT CORP. 304295 3800 JANES ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: A Corporation S/DOUG SHAw, PRES. This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 09, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS M. MORRIS DEPuTY 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00414 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HUMBOlDT FAMIlY MEDICAl ClINIC 1733 CENTRAl AvENUE MCKINlEYvIllE, CA 95519 P.O. BOx 4957 ARCATA, CA 95518 AMERICAN HOSPITAl MANAGEMENT CORP. 304295 3800 JANES ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: A Corporation S/DOUG SHAw, PRES. This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 09, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS M. MORRIS DEPuTY 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00415 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

MAD RIvER COMMUNITY HOSPITAl 3800 JANES ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 P.O. BOx 1115 ARCATA, CA 95518 AMERICAN HOSPITAl MANAGEMENT CORP. 304295 3800 JANES ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: A Corporation S/DOUG SHAw, PRES. This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 09, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS M. MORRIS DEPuTY 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12

7/29, 8/5, 8/12, 8/19 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00439 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: REDwOOD AUTOMOTIvE 513 J ST. ARCATA, CA 95521 SAMUEl w. EllSwORTH 513 J ST. ARCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/SAMUEl w.

EllSwORTH, OwNER This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 23, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS S. CARNS DEPuTY 7/29, 8/5, 8/12, 8/19

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00418 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EUREKA TRAvElODGE 4 FOURTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501 SBBM PROPERTIES llC 201322710174 3150 DE lA CRUz BlvD., STE. 220 SANTA ClARA, CA 95054 This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company S/MURAlIDHAR GUDAlA, MANAGING MEMBER This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 10, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS A. JOHNSTON DEPuTY 7/29, 8/5, 8/12, 8/19

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00394 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: wOlFE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 5460 ERICSON wAY ARCATA, CA 95521 APRIl l. SCHNEIDER 441 HIlTON lANE ARCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/APRIl SCHNEIDER, OwNER This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 1, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS A. ABRAM DEPuTY 7/29, 8/5, 8/12, 8/19

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00434 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CAFFE ORA 791 8TH ST. ARCATA, CA 95521 NICOlE (COCO) D. MAKI 2130 THIEl AvE. MCKINlEYvIllE, CA 95519 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/NICOlE MAKI, OwNER This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 21, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS M. MORRIS DEPuTY

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 15-00425 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: STICKS-N-STONES ENvIRONMENTAl ARTISTRY 1755 TIMOTHY RD. MCKINlEYvIllE, CA 95519 GORDON E. TRUMP 1755 TIMOTHY RD. MCKINlEYvIllE, CA 95519 TANYA z. TRUMP 1755 TIMOTHY RD. MCKINlEYvIllE, CA 95519 This business is conducted by: A Married Couple S/GORDON TRUMP, OwNER

This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on juL. 16, 2015 KELLY E. SAnDERS A. ABRAM DEPuTY 7/29, 8/5, 8/12, 8/19

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

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CITATION FOR PUBlICATION UNDER wElFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 Case Name: GORDI STOCKHOFF Case No.: Jv150110 1. To Raelee Childers and Timothy Stockhoff and anyone claiming to be a parent of Gordi Stockhoff born on 6/1/2015 at St. joseph Hospital, Eureka, Humboldt County, California.

2. A hearing will be held on October 28, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 6 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: juLY 15, 2015 Clerk, by Kerri L. Keenan, Deputy 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12 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.

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THE ALLURE OF ORCHIDS Intricate, beautiful and diverse, orchids have a special allure. Join botanist Tony LaBanca on a guided tour of the Lanphere Dunes on Saturday, Aug. 1 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to find native orchids along the forest and dune trails. Not all orchids are big and showy; bring a magnifying lens if you have one. Meet at Pacific Union School, 3001 Janes Rd. in Arcata, to carpool to the protected site. Space is limited, so reservations are recommended. For more information or to reserve a spot, contact Friends of the Dunes at (707) 444-1397 or info@ friendsofthedunes.org.

FOAM MARSH WALK Friends of the Arcata Marsh (FOAM) is sponsoring a free tour of the Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday, Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. Meet leader Elliott Dabill at the Interpretive Center on South G Street for

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KEEP OFF THE GRASS Volunteers are needed to help maintain the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center by removing annual grasses on Wednesday, Aug. 5 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. 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. (707) 444-1397, info@ friendsofthedunes.org

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MADAKET BIRDING TRIP On Sunday, Aug. 23, join expert birders David Fix, Rob Hewitt and Gary Bloomfield on one of two fundraising tours on the Madaket. Proceeds of the one-hour narrated bird-watching cruises around Humboldt Bay will benefit the nonprofit Godwit Days organization.

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