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t’s a question of when, not if, a major rupture will occur in the Cascadia subduction zone, unleashing a devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami with potentially catastrophic consequences for a large swath of the Pacific coastline.

Stretching nearly 600 miles from British Columbia to Cape Mendocino, the megathrust fault has a long history of activity but has not revealed its full potential for wreaking destruction near and far in more than three centuries.

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centrate on three main areas: broadening scientific understanding about the slumbering tectonic giant lurking off the coast, working to increase diversity in the field of geoscience and expanding community preparation for the next “big one.”

By bringing together a broad array of scientists in the highly specialized field, the unique partnership is “going to have tremendous long-term benefits” on a number of levels, according to Harvey Kelsey, a research associate in CPH’s Geology Department. Those include understanding and better communicating “the earthquake hazard in our subduction zone,” as well as “training the next generation of earthquake geologists, who we anticipate will include more diversity of backgrounds.”

Much of what is currently known, he says, has only emerged in the last 30 years or so.

Diego Melgar, an associate professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oregon and the director of the new center, agreed.

“The main goal of the center is to bring together the large group of geoscientists working in Cascadia to march together to the beat of a singular drum,” he says in an announcement on the center’s creation.

“The center organizes us, focuses collaboration and identifies key priorities, rather than these institutions competing.”

CPH’s inclusion as an associated institution was a natural fit, according to Kelsey, with research at the campus already contributing to groundbreaking knowledge about the Cascadia subduction zone, as well as the university’s commitment to advancing opportunities for traditionally underrepresented students.

“Humboldt may have been involved because of the science but we also are involved because of our specific interest in the geoscience education inclusion component of the grant,” Kelsey says.

CPH, which he notes was involved in CRESCENT’s inception “from the get-go” by helping write parts of the grant proposal, will have an integral role in those two pillars of the center’s mission.

On the science side, Kelsey says, CPH will be intricately involved with a working group addressing paleoseismology, or the study of past earthquakes in the subduction zone.

One aspect of that, he says, will be a “set of field campaigns over the course of the next five summers to specifically get more data on the type of sea level changes that occur during subduction zone earthquakes, because those sea level changes are the way in which we record history, because a rapid sea level change on a coast will leave a geologic record.”

Another part, Kelsey says, will be based on the work of Eileen Hemphill-Haley, a fellow research associate in the Geology Department, who specializes in single cell organisms called diatoms that live in saltwater, brackish water and freshwater and “have characteristic habitats in the soils” of these different environments.

Analyzing diatoms found in sedimentary deposits left by a seismic event can help reconstruct the impacts of previous earthquakes.

“So when we look at these sea level changes as recorded in tidal mud and tidal marsh deposits, it is the diatoms that tell us how much land vertically uplifted or down dropped, and that will tell us something about the size of that particular subduction zone earthquake,” Kelsey says.

As part of the CRESCENT collaboration, Hemphill-Haley will be putting together an atlas of diatoms that live in different types of environments, which will be available online to further research in the area.

“In some sense, it’s a very arcane and unknown specialty but in another sense, it’s a very useful one … . You read the amount of land level change that happens during earthquakes,” Kelsey says.

An equally important component of CPH’s contribution, Kelsey notes, will be efforts to encourage a new and more diverse generation to take on the seismic research mantle.

That will include offering training courses based out of Humboldt in which students will be able to do field work for a week, followed by another week of lab analysis with some computer modeling.

Those courses, he says, will be focused on engaging students from underrepresented groups, including first generation students and students of color, “who haven’t had these experiences in the past.”

Another program will partner students with a mentor over an entire academic year to research a topic in the field.

What makes the CRESCENT grant special, Kelsey says, is that these education opportunities come with stipends as well as academic support to encourage a diverse group of students to apply, noting “we need that larger representation” in the geosciences.

“The way to move forward in a more representative, fair and diverse way is to fund people who are qualified,” he says.

“That is the part Humboldt is going to be making a new and strong contribution to, as well as the science.” l Kimberly Wear (she/her) is the Journal’s digital editor. Reach her at (707) 442-1300, extension 323, or kim@ northcoastjournal.com.

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erry Venegas struggles to sleep these days, worrying about the 55 children who will lose services once her Humboldt County nonprofit closes an outpatient counseling program in January.

David Mineta gets emotional when he talks about his organization’s decision to close six mental health programs serving about 650 children and adults in Santa Clara County by the end of December.

“Talking about it really makes me want to cry,” he said.

Depending on who you ask, these mental health program closures are either an unfortunate aberration or a harbinger of more to come as the state transforms its Medi-Cal reimbursement system.

Venegas, executive director of Changing Tides Family Services in Eureka, and Mineta, president and CEO of Momentum For Health in San Jose, say their organizations are being forced to cut crucial mental health programs in order to keep the rest of their agencies afloat. They attribute that to CalAIM, a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar overhaul of Medi-Cal that dramatically changes how California’s public mental health care programs are funded.

“I would love to invite Gov. Newsom and his team to come talk about what CalAIM is in an area like ours,” Venegas said. “Instead of making it better, I really think this has made it worse.”

CalAIM’s behavioral health initiative, which Gavin Newsom’s administration began rolling out in 2022, is designed to provide a more integrated approach to care. It offers a “no wrong door approach” so that people seeking help will have an easier time getting it.

This past July, a new payment system kicked in for most counties. The goal?

Increase efficiency, reduce paperwork and offer counties more flexibility.

The problem, some nonprofits say, is their organizations are no longer reimbursed specifically for time spent traveling to see patients or filling out documentation. In addition, the state is giving counties latitude to decide how much Medi-Cal money they pass along to their

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nonprofit behavioral health contractors.

Los Angeles County is passing along about 85 percent of the funds it receives from the state, according to Adrienne Shilton, a senior policy advocate with the California Alliance of Child and Family Services, while others are providing less.

She shared survey data showing nonprofits in a dozen counties told the alliance they worried they might have to close programs.

“There’s still a dire picture,” Shilton said.

“We’re concerned about what this is going to look like in another three months.”

Amie Miller, executive director of the California Mental Health Services Authority, a state agency that works with counties to transform mental health services, said she hasn’t heard of programs closing directly as a result of payment reform.

Some providers are struggling with longstanding financial problems, Miller said, and others are “used to not having to be as attentive to the bottom line.”

“This is the next piece of our evolution,” she said.

Some providers have said they stand to do well under the new model, she added.

Still, some nonprofit organizations have been sounding the alarm since summer that the rates are too low and eventually will lead to program closures.

Dozens of mental health providers in October penned a letter to the state Department of Health Care Services warning of “potentially catastrophic consequences.”

But until recently, programs have not actually closed. That’s beginning to change.

“It’s the end of the year. Folks are looking at the books saying, ‘We’re not going to make it,’” said Le Ondra Clark Harvey, CEO of the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies, an organization that represents some nonprofit providers.

Venegas, of Changing Tides, called the decision to close the program “a knife in the heart.”

“If we had any other choice, we wouldn’t be ending these services,” she said.

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Most everyone agrees the system serving California’s more than 15 million low-income Medi-Cal enrollees was overdue for a change.

“Updating and modernizing how we pay for services in behavioral health is crucial,” said Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the California Behavioral Health Directors Association, which represents county behavioral health departments. “We need to propel ourselves into the 21st century.”

Increased efficiency is one of the desired outcomes of payment reform.

County behavioral health departments are working hard to support their nonprofit mental health providers during this transition, Cabrera said, but nonprofit providers also need to reach more Medi-Cal patients. There are just too many people in need, she said, and the workforce to meet those needs is too scarce.

A survey published this month by the California Health Care Foundation showed that satisfaction with CalAIM is lower among behavioral health providers than other provider types “by a pretty significant margin,” said Melora Simon, associate director of the foundation’s people-centered care team.

“There’s signal there; it’s not just noise,” she said.

Even without the threat of mental health programs closing, the state has struggled to keep up with a growing mental health crisis amid huge provider shortages. A state audit published in November found that children in Medi-Cal already face long wait times to receive behavioral health treatment.

The pandemic threw gasoline on the blaze. Just as mental health needs have spiked in recent years, so has provider burnout.

Mental Health Services in Rural California Prior to payment reform this summer, Venegas, of Humboldt, said her organization already struggled to hire enough clinicians to provide outpatient therapy;

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the therapy program she is closing would have had room for 125 to 130 children if the organization was fully staffed.

Many of the 55 children in the program waited months to be assigned to a provider. Because the county has its own staffing challenges, she said, these children will now likely be put back on waitlists for care.

In the vast rural and forested county, many of the children live an hour or two drive away from services. They are often directly impacted by domestic violence and drug and alcohol use. Some are in foster care. Many are at risk for suicide.

Once payment reform began, the organization struggled to keep the program afloat — transportation and documentation time was no longer directly reimbursable, leading to a significant financial hit. Still, the organization considered the counseling program that serves these children to be so critical that the board allowed it to continue while operating at a deficit, Venegas said: “We stayed with it until we no longer had a choice.”

“Fifty-five clients may not seem like a big number,” she said. “But every one of those is a kid. Every one is a kid in crisis and every one has a story.”

Humboldt County Behavioral Health Director Emi Botzler-Rodgers wrote in an email to CalMatters that the county is gathering data to evaluate the impact of the new rates. She acknowledged concerns across the state about whether the rates adequately cover the cost of services.

The state Department of Health Care Services refused to make anyone available to directly answer questions about the changes; instead it provided a series of answers to emailed questions. The department is “actively engaging” providers and counties, developing technical assistance and monitoring and enforcing the new rules to make sure counties maintain an adequate network of Medi-Cal services and providers, the email said.

The department is continuing to monitor payment reform rates “and will adjust them as appropriate,” the email said.

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Humboldt County’s most impactful stories of 2023 Jeffery Woodke addresses the media after his release in West Africa. File

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has been a year of transition in Humboldt County. On the positive side, after generations of efforts, we’re transitioning into a community that undams its rivers, with news of PG&E’s plan to remove its dams from the Eel River following word that the first of four dams had been removed from the Klamath River. On the scary side of things, we’re also transitioning into a community in which a growing number of our neighbors are hungry and food insecure. Meanwhile, Cal Poly Humboldt, a flagship institution of the county, continues to transition into the state’s third polytechnic university, while Eureka’s effort to transition into a city with less parking but more housing has met fierce resistance. Perhaps most importantly, Humboldt continues to mull a potentially transformative transition into a hub for the offshore wind industry. These are Humboldt County’s most impactful stories of 2023, presented in no particular order.

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Woodke Freed

“Six years, five months, five days and 12 hours, give or take a few minutes, I was a hostage.”

So began Jeffery Woodke’s March 31 press conference and his first public remarks since the McKinleyville man had been freed 11 days earlier in West Africa, where he’d been taken captive while doing missionary work in Niger, and retuned with his wife Els. “I was treated brutally and without humanity during my captivity,” Woodke said, identifying Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), the official branch of Al-Qaeda in Mali, as the group that held him hostage. “I was beaten and held continually in chains for 16 hours a day, every day, seven days a week. I was kept

A residence in Rio Dell damaged in the Dec. 20, 2022 earthquake.

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in isolation. I suffered injuries and illness, which were never medically treated.”

A Humboldt State University graduate, Woodke had been doing aid work in Niger for more than 25 years, having found his passion in the ministry, when he was taken from his home in Abalak by armed men in a coordinated attack Oct. 14, 2016. It’s unclear what ultimately led to Woodke’s release, as U.S. officials maintained that no ransom was paid or other concessions made to his captors, and news reports have quoted unnamed administration officials as saying the government of Niger was “central” to the successful effort to free him.

Woodke said he’d lost all faith when on March 20 his captors loaded him and another hostage — French journalist Olivier Dubois — into a truck and drove them to a pre-arranged meeting point “in the middle of the desert,” dropped them off and sped away. Then, he said, he saw special forces from a “third-party nation” coming.

“Then, my mouth was filled with laughter, then my tongue with songs of joy,” he said. “And that day, I danced in the desert.”

— Thadeus Greenson

The elephant in the room, of course, is the inadequacies built into the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief program. Despite damaging 25 percent of the small city’s housing stock and causing nearly $26 million in damage to the city’s vital infrastructure, the total still fell far short of meeting FEMA’s $65 million threshold for releasing aid.

That shortfall has left local and state officials with few options for providing assistance, and most of what is available is geared toward low- and very-low low-income households and require lengthy applications that necessitate navigating a maze of red tape.

In the end, the situation has left many in the county’s hardest hit community feeling, as Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell described during an October update on earthquake recovery efforts, “left behind.”

A community gathering to mark the anniversary of Dec. 20 is set for Jan. 13.

— Kimberly Wear

A Slow Road to Recovery in Rio Dell

And then there were three. The decades-long effort to remove four hydroelectric dams from the lower Klamath River and reclaim hundreds of miles of salmonid spawning territory started to become a reality in 2023 with the nonprofit Klamath River Renewal Corporation announcing it had completed removal of the Copco 2 dam.

In January, crews are slated to begin drawing down the reservoirs behind the Copco 1 JC Boyle dams, coinciding with the river’s natural high flow months to facilitate flushing the sediment trapped behind the dams out to sea. The drawdown is expected to take three to five months, after which deconstruction of the three remaining dams will commence,

On Jan. 1, 2022, a magnitude 5.4 aftershock struck a second blow to already battered Rio Dell, where residents were still reeling from a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that devastated the small town less than two weeks earlier. Many of those impacted are still struggling to pick up the pieces a year later.

According to the latest report in December, 11 of the 90 Rio Dell residences deemed unlivable in the aftermath remain so and another 200 yellow-tagged homes are still in need of a wide variety of repairs.

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Klamath Dams Coming Down

tentatively scheduled to run from May to November, after which the lower Klamath River will flow freely for the first time in a century.

Restoration and replanting work will ramp up with the reservoir drawdowns, with crews working to cover the 2,000 acres of land that has long sat under water behind the dams with native grasses, trees and shrubs. Restoration and replanting work is slated to continue at least until 2030.

Dam removal is coming to fruition while the fish species it’s meant to aid are in crisis. Record low salmon runs in the watershed prompted the closure of California’s ocean fishing season, while the Yurok Tribe canceled both its commercial and subsistence fisheries and held its annual salmon festival without its namesake.

— Thadeus Greenson

Eel River Dams, Too

Not to be outdone by its neighbor to the north, the Eel River apparently decided in 2023 that this whole dam removal thing looks pretty good after all.

Just weeks after Copco 2 came out of the Klamath River, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. filed a 94-page surrender application to federal regulators, formalizing its plan to tear down the two dams that comprise its Potter Valley project on the Eel River, which has blocked fish passage and reduced flows for more than a century.

In the filing, PG&E said deconstruction work could begin as early as 2028, pending environmental review and regulatory approval.

“Dam removal will make the Eel the longest free-flowing river in California and will open up hundreds of miles of prime habitat unavailable to native salmon and steelhead for over 100 years,” said Trout Unlimited California Director Brian Johnson. “This is the most important thing we can do for our salmon and steelhead on the Eel River, and these fisheries cannot

An aerial view of Scott Dam on the Eel River, which PG&E has applied to remove. Photo by Kyle Schwartz/courtesy of CalTrout afford to wait.”

While PG&E’s filing was celebrated in environmental circles, dam removal is unquestionably a hard reality for some.

Currently, there is no agreement in place that would allow continued water diversions into the East Fork Russian River, on which vineyards and other users in Sonoma and Mendocino counties have come to depend. Undamming the Eel will also mean the loss of the popular recreation destination Lake Pillsbury, the 3.5-square-mile reservoir formed by Scott Dam, sending property values for the 300 homes and cabins in its immediate vicinity plummeting.

But while the issues of monetary aid for affected landowners and ongoing diversions of Eel River water south remain open conversations, it now seems the question of dam removal has been answered.

“Either way you look at it, the Eel River dams’ days are numbered,” Friends of the Eel River Executive Director Alicia Hamann said after PG&E’s filing.

— Thadeus Greenson

Students protest Cal Poly Humboldt’s handling of on-campus housing in February. Photo by Mark Larson

knows how far, from their parked vehicle to the safety of their offices. If, on the other hand, the lots are saved, businesses can thrive, customers will be plentiful, and everyone can park safely near their destination.

And so goes the thinking that compelled Arkley and the group Citizens for a Better Eureka to file a trio of lawsuits seeking to nix the city’s planned parking

lot conversions, while bankrolling an initiative that will ask voters in November to block the city’s plans and, at the same time, rezone more than 8 acres of a long-shuttered school campus on Allard Avenue for housing.

The ongoing parking lot kerfuffle gained a new layer of intrigue earlier this month, when Eureka City Schools surprised just about everyone by deciding

not to sell the aforementioned campus to the California Highway Patrol, which had been long negotiating its purchase.

Instead, Eureka City Schools opted to offload it in a $6 million “property exchange” that’s primarily made up of $5.35 million in cash with a mystery developer. Identified only as AMG Communities-Jacobs LLC, a freshly constructed legal entity, who’s behind this developer and what they’re planning remain unclear. Is it Arkley, the citizens group or the initiative proponents? Not according to their spokesperson, but it seems likely we’ll get some sort of grand reveal in 2024.

— Thadeus Greenson

Growing Pains at CPH

Cal Poly Humboldt’s ascent to full polytechnic status hit its stride in 2023 and things got a bit turbulent.

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Parking Lot Wars

It’s odd to think that a handful of cityowned parking lots could be at the center of one of the biggest news stories of the year but here we are. 2023, it turns out, will be remembered in part as the year local businessman Robin Arkley went to war with the city of Eureka … over some parking lots.

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either in private accommodations or in one of more than four local hotels the university was contracting with to house hundreds of students. On-campus beds, the university said, would be reserved for new students only.

Within days, word leaked that the school was also in talks with the city of Eureka about the possibility of housing some 600 students aboard a multi-story residential barge docked in Humboldt Bay. Not only was the barge plan mocked by national late night television hosts, but it also inspired a pointed protest sign that sought the attention of CPH President Tom Jackson Jr.: “Hey Tom! Don’t put us on a fucking prison boat!”

It turned out the boat plans and most of those motel rooms were a bit premature, as the ambitious enrollment growth CPH had projected did not come to be, with the final fall tally showing an uptick of just 123 students on campus. While that may have come as welcome news to students looking to keep living on campus, it puts CPH in danger of missing state enrollment targets, which could lead to lost funding in future years.

CPH stayed in the headlines for other reasons throughout the year, too, with a student suing it for failing to meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, a Title IX audit finding its program lacked staffing, trust and communication, and university administration deciding to crack down on a handful of students living in vehicles on campus just weeks before finals.

But it wasn’t all bad: CPH also announced it will offer the first four-year degree program to maximum security inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison.

— Thadeus Greenson

A Growing Hunger in Humboldt Across Humboldt County, more residents are going hungry.

While poverty has long been an issue here, those working to provide a safety

net have reported a marked increase in community members seeking assistance this year, largely due to a perfect storm of rising costs coupled with the end of COVID-19 emergency allocations through the state’s food aid program CalFresh.

That need was seen acutely as children headed back to school in September, with Food for People putting out a call for community help to meet the large uptick in families looking to participate in the Backpacks for Kids weekend hunger relief program, which provides healthy snacks and easy-to-make meals to help bridge the gaps left on days school is out of session.

Just as the pandemic brought a new wave of community members reaching for a helping hand from the county’s nonprofit food bank — which serves an average 12,000 individuals a month through a network of 17 food pantries and other services — rising inflation did the same, pushing many of our residents already living on the financial brink to the edge.

While an estimated 12 percent of Californians live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data, Humboldt County’s numbers are bleaker, with an estimated 20 percent of households living below the federal poverty line of $30,000 in annual income for a household of four, while the county’s median household income comes in at $53,000 compared to $84,000 statewide.

If there is a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel, food prices are not expected to continue spiking into the new year and may even drop a bit, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Meanwhile, if you are looking for a way to help your neighbors in need, find more information on donating to Food for People at foodforpeople.org.

— Kimberly Wear

Fair Issues

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The fair board spent much of 2023 trying to bring its fiscal books into order while overhauling its financial safeguards to include a system of checks and balances to ensure nothing similar happens in the future, all while working under an interim CEO after the resignation of its former general manager after just a year on the job.

And the hits kept coming. An April 18 inspection of the fairgrounds found its grandstands had been badly damaged in the 6.4 earthquake that rattled the Eel River Valley on Dec. 20, 2022, rendering them unsafe for occupancy. The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors then approved a loan of up to $1 million for a temporary fix that would allow the association to use the grandstands for two weeks of horse racing — believed to be an economic driver of the annual event — and the race was on to get the work completed by the fair’s Aug. 17 opening.

The work went off without a hitch and early reports from the association indicate the fair was economically successful. Planning is already underway for next year’s event, which will feature three weeks of horse racing, while Tafarella has pleaded not guilty to five federal counts of wire fraud.

— Thadeus Greenson

Day of Non-Judgement with flags, speeches and a sing-along beside the town hall.

Ferndale Repertory Theatre hosted an adults-only fundraiser for Lost Coast Pride, albeit with metal detectors at the door, that sold out. And College of the Redwoods stepped up to host the original all-ages drag show with increased security and an added outdoor market-fair in the parking lot. In the theater, attendees got a little drag history, messages of unconditional love and inclusion, as well as song and dance numbers in colorful costumes that brought the house down.

In the wake of a failed anti-hate resolution (later softened to a “kindness resolution”) by the Ferndale City Council and the open bigotry displayed during public comment at its April 19 meeting, LGBTQ+ community members and allies again made themselves heard and seen.

This year’s Ferndale Pride was the largest the town has seen, with hundreds of rainbow-clad, sign-carrying marchers filling the streets and gathering in Fireman’s Park.

Even after finding themselves in the middle of a national misinformation campaign when the story of a former volunteer (not member) arrested for alleged public indecency went viral, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence stuck to their mission of support. Along with a community picnic and other events, they held a Trans Week of Resistance in November. As Sister Gaia T said at one of the events that week, despite real dangers for LGBTQ+ people today, “We never organize from a place of fear.”

— Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

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In a year marked with bigoted threats, anti-LGBTQ+ protests, legislation and violence — particularly against trans people and drag performers — the local community and organizations did not hide. After a Lost Coast Pride all-ages drag event at Ferndale’s Old Steeple was canceled due to safety concerns, the Eureka chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence held a

Plans to build a floating wind farm 20 miles off Humboldt’s coast continued their slow march from hypothetical to possible reality in 2023, with friction points emerging as the community begins to contemplate the project’s environmental, economic and quality-of-life impacts.

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Humboldt Bay Harbor, Conservation and Recreation District is conducting an environmental review of plans to transform the former pulp mill site on the Samoa Peninsula into a state-of-the-art heavy lift, multipurpose terminal specifically designed to serve the offshore wind farm.

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has begun its environmental review of potential environmental impacts of the farm itself.

In August, the Harbor District approved a project labor agreement — the first of its kind in Humboldt — that will govern who works on the aforementioned marine terminal project, which was hailed as a big milestone for organized labor.

And as work moves forward on the massive project, a pervasive unease remains in some circles, with a variety of local stakeholders and tribal leaders having expressed concerns about the Harbor District’s partnership with the multi-national company Crowley, which has an exclusive right to negotiate the terminal project but has faced allegations of sexual misconduct by executives and a spotty environmental record. Others, meanwhile, continue to push for the finalization of so-called community benefits agreements that would pledge funds for workforce training, investments in Native communities, research collaborations and impacted industries.

The reality of an offshore wind farm and the infrastructure to support it remains on a distant horizon, but, if it comes to fruition, the work done in 2023 (and 2024) will shape what it looks like, as well as what and who it impacts and benefits.

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BONUS! Miss Indian World

For the first time since 2009, a local took home the beaded Miss Indian World crown at the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On April 29, the honor went to 23-year-old Tori McConnell of the Yurok Tribe and Karuk heritage, who impressed judges with her personal interview, essay and letters of recommendation, public speaking, traditional talents, dance and overall character. She’s the first member of the Yurok Tribe to win the title and duties of cultural goodwill ambassador for all of Indian Country and Indigenous communities around the world.

McConnell, who was born and raised in Eureka, already had an impressive resumé, having graduated from University of California at Davis with a Native American Studies degree, after which she worked in the Yurok Tribe’s food sovereignty division and with artist Julian Lang in its master apprentice language acquisition program run by the Advocates for Indigenous Californian Language Survival. At the competition, she sang a song she composed in traditional style, one “of gratitude and respect for the creative energies that define myself and my people.”

McConnell also showed her skill and artistry with traditional basketry, which won her Best Traditional Talent. The skill and artistry of her community was on display, too, as the regalia she wore was painstakingly crafted by family and friends from traditional materials like bear grass, maple bark, pine nuts and abalone shell, some of it handed down through generations. And she did them all proud.

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Top 10 Dick Moves of 2023

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill jennifer@northcoastjournal.com

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umboldt is short on a great many things — housing, OBGYNs, Portuguese restaurants — but 2023 had no shortage of dick moves. Dick moves are by definition avoidable but are they fixable? Can a selfish, malicious and petty act of destruction be undone? Reversed?

Even redeemed?

Last December, thieves snuck in under cover of darkness — and just past the Journal’s Dick Moves deadline — to steal the wooden Rainbow Bridge outside Sunny Brae Animal Hospital, where it had been a sweet memorial, comforting those who lost their pets. The heist was caught on camera, but despite a communitywide search and a promised reward, the hospital had to replace the bridge with a new one.

Then one night last month, the pilfered one was returned by a truck. Was it an act of remorse? The work of a pet vigilante?

We don’t know but it gives us a wee spark of hope for some of this year’s dickery.

10. Nonprofit embezzling.

Sometimes it’s not about what you steal, it’s about from whom you steal it.

Maybe you need the cash for an operation or gambling debts or collecting creepy Victorian dolls — I don’t know your life.

But surely there are plenty of nefarious corporations to target. Siphoning funds from not one but two nonprofits, as Nina Tafarella is alleged to have done at the Humboldt County Fair Association and an unnamed Eureka dance studio, is a countyfair-jumbo-corn-dog-sized dick move.

9. Vandalizing the Jardin Santuario.

In June, hate-crime enthusiasts made a mess of the sunflower-filled sanctuary garden in Arcata. Again. Since July of 2022, bigots have torn down plants, stolen security equipment, padlocked the gate and spray-painted the welcome sign at the community garden. May they reap what they’ve sown: a bumper crop of dickus moveus.

8. Lead Ammo Hunters.

We’ve talked about this, people. Lead ammunition is illegal for hunting in California and has landed people in this column

before. This time, the Elmer Fudds in question left enough lead to poison newly released condor A6, aka Me-new-kwek, (I’m bashful or I am shy), who was treated at Sequoia Park Zoo. The shy one, for flock’s sake. Some of the other condors had elevated lead levels, too. Here’s hoping the whole cohort paints your vehicle from the sky.

7. Toys for Tots Thieves.

In a list such as this, it truly behooves/ one not to forget such a glaring dick move/ as the theft of a semi-truck loaded with toys/ meant for the neediest of girls and boys/ It makes our teeth gnash and our foreheads pinch/ that Toys for Tots was hit by a Grinch/ That’s what we can’t stand, what give us the ick/ It’s ick of the dicks! The dicks! Dicks! Dicks!

6. Cal Poly Humboldt’s sudden parking enforcement.

Did the university have to reverse its longstanding policy of turning a blind eye to students living in their vehicles parked in campus lots? There’s a history of students camping and van-life-ing their way through college in Humboldt to make ends meet, after all. But the timing, just weeks before finals, was more than an inconvenient time to move. It was a dick move.

5. “Housing for All” initiative.

Be serious. If you have to create confusion with the name of your ballot initiative to get people to sign, you know you’re committing a dick move. The so-called “Housing for All” initiative actually seeks to block building low-income housing in Old Town and Downtown Eureka parking lots. And if you notice you’re standing shoulder to shoulder with Dick Moves alum Rob Arkley, well, that’s another sign you might be on Team Dick Move.

4. Wildberries manager cheering section.

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came out to not only laud a grown man’s roughing up of a minor, but to trot out their toxic “spare the rod and spoil the child” takes. Real talk: If you were hit as a kid, that was wrong and you don’t have to justify the abuse you suffered. As much as you say you turned out fine, if you’re out here perpetuating the intergenerational cycle of abuse, you’re not fine. It’s a dick move and you can end it here.

3. Rex Bohn puts the gun in the basket.

The rules for the Rural County Representatives of California’s auction baskets are clear — no guns, no live animals, no weed — and yet, not for the first time, Supervisor Bohn ignored them. Along with some beef, a barbecue grill, a jar of Larrupin’ Sauce and a bunch of other stuff, he tossed in a 9 mm handgun. To represent Humboldt. Which is struggling with stolen guns and historically high rates of gun deaths. And evidently high rates of dick moves.

2. Rex Bohn’s “topless” comment.

Our boy was busy this year, just edging out the auction foul above with a misogynist comment at another fundraiser. This time he was auctioneering on behalf of the Eureka Chamber of Commerce when he suggested that the owner of a restau-

rant might serve topless if the bidding on a dinner she’d donated went high enough. But it was the half-hearted, vague non-apology following the incident that made it a double-decker dick move. Bohn, a frequent flier on this annual list and the first to double dip in a single year, should be better at apologies by now.

1. Anti-LGBTQ+ enablers.

The April Ferndale City Council meeting was like an onion, with layer after layer of dickish bigotry. Public commenters using their time and the council’s platform to spout anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and lies to shout down a proposed “kindness resolution” was only the dusty outer film.

What really drew tears was the cowardice of the council itself, allowing each hateful tirade to pass without pushback. It was a test of leadership the council members failed as spectacularly as they failed the residents and reputation of the town. The people of Ferndale and its visitors (which, of course, include plenty LGBTQ+ folks) deserve better. It’s called the Victorian Village, councilmembers, not the Dicktorian Village. ● Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (she/her) is the arts and features editor at the Journal.

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Spreading a sweet aroma around the house by baking cookies is an excellent antidote to seasonal claustrophobia, when I start feeling caged within the walls of short, wet days.

Guided on one hand by my Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies (“What-if Cookies,” Jan. 13, 2022) and on the other by a recipe in Stacy Adimando’s The Cookiepedia, I experimented with another traditional sweet morsel of goodness, oatmeal raisin cookies, testing various versions, until I settled on the recipe here.

Researching online, I read the first oatmeal cookie recipe in the U.S. can be found in Fannie Merritt Farmer’s The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896).

You can look at the recipe online on page 406 of the 1901 edition of the book via Google Books. These are made with “fine oatmeal” and no raisins. In her later A New Book of Cookery (1912), Farmer published a recipe for Nut Oatmeal Cookies that uses rolled oats, raisins, nuts and spices, including cinnamon — close to how we make these cookies nowadays.

I like looking at old recipes. They provide a list of ingredients with few details so they can be printed in two columns, followed by a few lines of terse instructions. I see them as polished kitchen notes or recordings of oral traditions.

Back to the modern kitchen. My version of the recipe includes four steps to execute ahead of preparing the cookie dough: 1) browning the butter, 2) re-hydrating the raisins, 3) toasting the rolled oats and 4) toasting the sliced almonds.

Additional personal touches include the use of coconut sugar and a variety of flours.

The cookies are tender and sweet enough, with a contrast between plump raisins and crisp sliced almonds, while the rolled oats give them more body. They make up in flavor what they lack in good looks. It’s nice to have one in the afternoon with a steaming cup of rooibos tea. I like them a lot.

Brown Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies I use local flours from Beck’s Bakery and Humboldt Grain Girls: soft white wheat (pastry) and rye flours (available at the Arcata Farmers Market and North Coast Co-op; local quinoa will hopefully be back in 2024). Eggs, especially farm fresh, vary in size. I recommend weighing the egg and using one just over 2 ounces. Makes 11 cookies.

4 tablespoons (2 ounces) unsalted butter 1 ½ ounces raisins 1 tablespoon warm apple juice, tea or water 3 ounces rolled oats 1 ounce sliced almonds Coconut oil to add to the brown butter to yield 2 ounces total 1 ounce coconut sugar ¾ ounce light brown sugar 1 large egg at room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ½ ounce whole-wheat pastry flour ½ ounce sprouted pastry flour or wholewheat pastry flour ½ ounce whole rye flour ½ ounce (sprouted) quinoa flour ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon sea salt Before preparing the cookie dough, brown the butter. Cut the butter into pieces and place in a small saucepan.

Melt the butter and continue to stir over medium-low heat. The butter will foam, then quickly turn golden and smell nutty.

Remove the saucepan from the heat, pour the brown butter into a ramekin and let cool completely. It will set and can be refrigerated until ready to use.

Plump the raisins. Separate any clumped raisins and halve large ones. Place the raisins in a ramekin. Pour the tablespoon of warm juice, tea or water over them and stir well. Stir again a few more times.

Toast the oats. Heat the oven to 350 F. Spread the rolled oats on an unlined baking sheet. Toast the rolled oats in the oven

Toasted oats, plumped raisins and local flours give these humble looking cookies a boost of flavor and texture. Photo by Simona Carini

for 4-5 minutes, shaking the sheet halfway through. Transfer the rolled oats onto a plate to cool.

Toast the sliced almonds in a dry skillet over medium heat. Shake the skillet to ensure even toasting and prevent burning.

Transfer the toasted almonds onto a plate.

Make the cookies. Let the brown butter soften at room temperature. Transfer it to a mixing bowl, weigh it and add enough coconut oil to total 2 ounces. Add both sugars to the mixing bowl. Using a spatula or wooden spoon, cream the butter and sugars. Add the egg and the vanilla extract, and stir until combined.

Sift the flours into a small mixing bowl.

Sift in the baking soda, then add the salt and the cinnamon. Add about half of the dry ingredients to the wet ones and stir briefly. Add the rest and mix until just incorporated. Add the toasted oats and incorporate them. Finally, add the raisins and incorporate them.

Cover the mixing bowl and place it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes or so to firm up the dough.

Heat the oven to 350 F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parch-

ment paper.

Take the cookie dough out of the refrigerator. Add the toasted almonds to the dough and stir to incorporate. Weigh approximately 1.2 ounces of dough for each cookie, shaping each piece of dough into a half dome. Tap the top to slightly flatten the dome and place on the baking sheet, leaving 1 ½ to 2 inches of distance between them.

Bake the cookies for 6 minutes. Rotate the baking sheet and bake for another 6 minutes. The cookies will still be soft with golden brown edges.

Remove the cookies from the oven and leave on the baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer them onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Savor and share them, and, in between, store them in a sealed container. l Simona Carini (she/her) also writes about her adventures in the kitchen on her blog www.pulcetta.com and shares photographs on Instagram @ simonacarini. She particularly likes to create still lives with produce from the farmers market. northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL

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SETLIST

Father and Child Reunion

By Collin Yeo

music@northcoastjournal.com

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s a fan of editorial cartoons from years long gone, I can assure you that few themes survive the incomprehensible gulf of time’s effect on human culture and meaning other than a small handful of personifications. These caricatures — the fat cat business tycoon, the resolute but downtrodden worker, the clumsy, vicious and stupid warmongering generals, politicians, or fascist dictators — all have certain lasting and relatable places in the teeming cast of the vast, unrolling human drama. However, two personas have always intoned a certain spiritual, almost supernatural, occluded truth for me since childhood: the Baby New Year and the withered old man of the dying year ushering him into the spotlight. It’s really the same character, whose bell curve of vitality we are never shown, just the bookends of birth and senescence. A little scrutiny of the characters creates a few hints of a larger narrative in the mystery.

Rather than dying, the old man seems to be morphing into the eternal watcher role of Father Time, whose position changes from one of fading old age to wizened agelessness. Meanwhile the “baby” is often not a baby at all — at least not a newborn — but a toddler, perhaps nurtured and cared for by his departing predecessor. We might even see a stork delivering the child into our gaze but, oddly, never a mother, or any women at all. A lot of backstory and mass psychological analysis could be discovered in the edges of the story obscured by the dark frontier outside of the spotlight and beyond the stage curtain.

Regardless, these mystical characters had a lot of press in the last century and still hold a fascination in my mind. However you choose to envision the demise of the old and the birth of the new year, I hope it is good for you. I hope we all find peace in the transition. We can work on the rest later. Happy New Year.

Thursday

Here begins the long weekend to the New Year. I’ll be frontloading these days,

especially the big evening itself, because, as is often the case, there are ghost days in the very start of January.

Not tonight though, as you will find Swingo Domingo at the Basement putting on a free set of jazzy swing and pop at 8 p.m.

On a side note, I’d like to extend a happy 40th (!) birthday to my Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes play the Siren’s Song Tavern on New Year’s Eve, Sunday, Jan. 31, at 9 p.m. younger brother Ian, Courtesy of the artists aka the rapper ruffIAN. A better man than me this duo at work before and can assure party, featuring Marjo Lak, Sage Armby half, if anybody’s you there is definitely truth in advertising strong, Mark Starr, Little John, Devstep, counting. I love you, buddy. with that name ($5). and many more. Dancing will be displayed Friday Finally at 9 p.m., popular funk septet

by Va Va Voom Burlesque ft. Kombouja Front Ear, one of the most promising Diggin’ Dirt starts the first of its two-night and the night runs late until the 4 a.m. and talented new-ish groups around, is residency at the Arcata Theatre Lounge. witching hour. VIP tickets are $55 and a jazz quintet made up of some of the Advance tickets for tonight only are $27, general admission is $35. brightest lights in our local scene, namely $50 for both nights, with advance rockets Speaking of live dance performers, the Shane Fox, Russ Thallheimer, Nicholas for tomorrow night running at $32. KnowVagabond Dancers are all a part of the fun Talvola, Alex Espe and Ian Taylor. You can ing the popularity of the group, I cannot booked by Arcane Artists for its celebracatch the fellas at Wrangletown Cider at 7 guarantee there will be door tickets left, tion at RampArt Skatepark. DJ Henry Fong, p.m., where the $15 cover charge is a steal so plan in advance.

ESCH, PRETZZ, SPeNNY and DJ Zera will for an earful of the fruits of the frisson be providing the EDM-friendly tunes, Sunday, New Year’s Eve generated by these talented players. while Los Giles will be setting up shop and As I mentioned before, tonight is the slinging food outside all night. Advance Saturday big bang before the deafening silence next tickets run $30 and $40 for the door, and The Arcata Playhouse is presenting a week of the Newborn Year, so I’m loading $60 VIP. New Year’s Eve Eve Party tonight at 7:30 it up with lots of options. I only ask that If it’s all funk and no frills you’re in for, p.m. The evening starts off with a variety you party safe and drive sober. Let’s get check out Humbrews for a scorcher of a show featuring some of the regular Playtwo rock gigs going first. The Siren’s Song show featuring Object Heavy and Boot house players, including but not limited to: is hosting Lxs Perdxdxs, Think Tank, and Juice. This is live, heavy funk music done Jackie Dandeneau, Julie Fulkerson, David Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes at 9 p.m., right, with a great dance floor to help you Ferney, Peggy Martinez, James Zeller and which is a good start time for every gig stomp it all out of your system ($25, $20 others. After that, it’s a dance party amid featured further down the column. A $10 advance). the cabaret seating, featuring music by the bill gets you in the door and on the dance Folks, that’s all she wrote for this week.

RLAD Quartet: Tim Randles, Ken Lawfloor. Over in Blue Lake, The California I’ll see you next year with the proviso rence, Ben Aldag and Doug Marcum. There Poppies are throwing a free party for the that January is often dry in more than a will be drinks and refreshments for sale, ages at the Logger Bar at 10 p.m. (best arfew ways. However, I promise you I’ve got and this is a fundraiser for Playhouse Arts, rive at 9 p.m.), hot off the heels of a good some goodies coming down the turnpike consider the $25 ticket price to be fully year with some very successful taped to keep the lights on, the ears happy and invested in a good cause. shows in some of Arcata’s more beloved the blood flowing. Happy New Year. l A half hour later at the Basement, DJs venues.

Dacin and Pandemonium Jones are throwBack in Eureka, the Eagle House is Collin Yeo (he/him) is ready for some ing a Funky Vinyl Dance Party. I’ve seen hosting the seventh annual Palace of Love change. He lives in Arcata.

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Calendar Dec. 28, 2023 – Jan. 4, 2024 You’ve been wearing sweatpants for three days — it’s time to glam it up and hit the town.

Whether you’re into glittering galas or cozy bar vibes, Humboldt’s got a spot for you this New Year’s Eve (check out the Setlist and our Nightlife Grid for the full rundown).

On the eve of New Year’s Eve, bid adieu to 2023 a day early at the Arcata Playhouse’s NYE Eve Extravaganza, happening Saturday, Dec. 30, at 7:30 p.m. ($25). The first half of the evening features a variety show, followed by a dance party with music by the RLAD Quartet and guest singers. Drinks, snacks, cabaret seating with tables and the Playhouse’s open dance floor round out the party.

Families looking for a fun way to celebrate the new year together can attend the All Ages New Year’s Ball, Sunday, Dec. 31, from 6 p.m.

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Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. With a live model. Bring your own art supplies. Call to contact Clint. $5. synapsisperformance.com. (707) 362-9392.

Nov/Dec Art Show. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Photographs by Dana Utman.

Weekly Preschool Story Time. Eureka Library, 1313 Third St. Talk, sing, read, write and play together in the children’s room. For children 2 to 6 years old with their caregivers. Other family members are welcome to join in the fun. Free. manthony@co.humboldt.ca.us. humlib. org. (707) 269-1910.

EVENTS

Peaceful Rally for Gaza Ceasefire. 4-6 p.m. Humboldt County Courthouse, 825 Fifth St., Eureka. Weekly vigil, rally and march for a ceasefire in Gaza until there’s a ceasefire. Bring a sign. Free.

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Board Member Information Night. 6 p.m. Arcata Library, 500 Seventh St. Join the Friends of the Arcata Library to learn about becoming a board member and supporting the Arcata Library. free. friendsofthearcatalibrary@gmail.com. friendsofthearcatalibrary.org.

707-840-5308.

OUTDOORS Nature Quest. 2-5 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. Wilderness immersion program for teens and adults. Explore trails and share mindfulness practices, group conversation and other eco-therapeutic activities. Adults meet Thursdays, teens meet one Saturday a month. Transportation provided for Eureka residents.

Please pre-register. Free. swood2@eurekaca.gov. eurekaheroes.org. (707) 382-5338.

ETC Out 4 Business. Last Thursday of every month, 5-7 p.m.

Phatsy Kline’s Parlor Lounge, 139 Second St., Eureka. An LGBTQ+ professionals networking mixer for LGBTQ+ community, friends, allies and business professionals who value diversity and inclusivity. Food and drinks. trex@historiceaglehouse.com. fb.me/e/2i5gvvdKT. (707) 407-0634.

Restorative Movement. 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 2-3 p.m.

Virtual World, Internet, Online. SoHum Health presents classes focused on strength and mobility (Tuesday), and on relaxation and breath work (Thursday). Contact instructor Ann Constantino for online orientation. $3$5 donation per class, no one is turned away for lack of funds. annconstantino@gmail.com. sohumhealth.org.

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EVENTS

FOR KIDS Kid’s Night at the Museum. 5:30-8 p.m. Redwood Discovery Museum, 612 G St., Eureka. Drop off your 3.5-12 year old for interactive exhibits, science experiments, crafts and games, exploring the planetarium, playing in the water table or jumping into the soft blocks. $17-$20. info@discovery-museum.org. discovery-museum.org/ classesprograms.html. (707) 443-9694.

Weekly Preschool Storytime. Eureka Library, 1313 Third St. Talk, sing, read, write and play together in the children’s room. For children 2 to 6 years old with their caregivers and other family members. Free. manthony@ co.humboldt.ca.us. humboldtgov.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=8274. (707) 269-1910.

GARDEN Sea Goat Farm Garden Volunteer Opportunities. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Help with animal care, weeding, watering, planting and occasional harvest help on Saturday mornings. Volunteers get free produce. flowerstone333@gmail. com. (530) 205-5882.

HOLIDAY EVENTS New Year’s Eve Weekend. Blue Lake Casino & Hotel, 777 Casino Way. Ring in the new year with three nights of concerts at Blue Lake Casino. Friday, Dec. 29, the Undercovers present A Tribute to Queen, Saturday, Dec. 30, catch Hell’s Belles, a female AC/DC tribute w/Midnight Mass, and Sunday, Dec. 31, don’t miss the all-female Led

a.m.-1 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. See Dec. 29 listing.

to midnight at Redwood Raks World Dance Studio ($10/person, $20/family). Shake a leg to live music with the College of the Redwoods Jazz Band, nosh on snacks, enjoy non-alcoholic drinks available for purchase and a balloon drop at midnight. There will be a special event for families with young children with music, dress-up and a balloon drop at 9 p.m.

It’s a new year for you and it’s A New Year for Trinidad. This end of year celebration takes place Sunday, Dec. 31, from 8 p.m. to midnight at Trinidad Town Hall ($25, $20 advance). Make your Fitbit scream for mercy dancing to live music from local bands Heaven’s Taint and Soul Trip, nibble on generous hors d’oeuvres, whet your whistle at the cash bar, which will be open all night, and welcome 2024 with a complimentary Champagne toast at midnight.

Zeppelin tribute band, Zeparella, with Thundercloud.

Tickets online.

Zoo Lights: Holiday Extravaganza. 5:15-7:15 p.m. Sequoia Park Zoo, 3414 W St., Eureka. Enjoy 16,000 lights along the pathways and Sky Walk, appearances by Santa, treats from the Ecos Cafe and signature libations poured by the Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation. $4. sequoiaparkzoo.net.

SPORTS Rumble at the River III. 7:30-10 p.m. Bear River Casino Resort, 11 Bear Paws Way, Loleta. Comeback of Tuff Man amateur boxing for cash prizes with three weight classes in the Tish-Non Ballroom. Ages 21 and up. northcoasttickets.com/events/rumble-at-the-river-iii-12-29-2023.

HOLIDAY EVENTS Diggin’ Dirt: Night 1. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Humboldt’s funky seven-piece band. $50 both nights, $27 advance. info@arcatatheatre.com. arcatatheatre.com. (707) 613-3030.

New Year’s Eve Weekend. Blue Lake Casino & Hotel, 777 Casino Way. See Dec. 29 listing.

NYE Eve Extravaganza. 7:30 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Variety show, followed by a dance party with music by the RLAD Quartet and guest singers. Specialty drinks, local beer on tap, fresh popcorn, chocolate chip cookies, and cabaret seating with tables and an open dance floor for the second half of the show. $25. info@playhousearts.org. playhousearts.org/events/ new-years-eve-eve-extravaganza/. (707) 822-1575.

Zoo Lights: Holiday Extravaganza. 5:15-7:15 p.m. Sequoia Park Zoo, 3414 W St., Eureka. See Dec. 29 listing.

OUTDOORS FOAM Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Meet leader Barbara Reisman in the lobby of the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute, rain-or-shine walk focusing on Marsh plants and/or ecology. Free. (707) 826-2359.

ETC Adult Skate Night. Last Saturday of every month, 6:309:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. Ages 18 and older only. IDs checked at door. Alcohol and drug-free event. $5.50 includes skate rental.

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Food Not Bombs. 4 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Free, hot food for everyone. Mostly vegan and organic and always delicious. Free.

HOLIDAY EVENTS

ETC Tabata. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Virtual World, Internet, Online.

SoHum Health presents online classes with short, high intensity cardio workouts. Contact instructor Stephanie Finch by email for a link to the class. Free. sfinch40@ gmail.com. sohumhealth.com.

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Fair Curve Farm Stand. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Fair Curve Farm Stand, 600 Main St., Ferndale. Seasonal, certified organic vegetables and flowers from Fair Curve Farm, plus local eggs, bread and more from local Eel River Valley producers. Cash, card and EBT accepted. @faircurvefarm on Instagram and Facebook. faircurvefarm@gmail.com. faircurvefarm.com.

Farm Stand. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Table Bluff Farm, 101 Clough Road, Loleta. Regeneratively-grown seasonal veggies, flowers, meats and other items made by Humboldt County locals and small businesses. Cash, card, Venmo, Apple Pay and soon to accept EBT payments. info@ tableblufffarm.com. TableBluffFarm.com. (707) 890-6699.

Sea Goat Farmstand. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Fresh veggies grown on site, local eggs and sourdough bread. Work from local artists and artisans. flowerstone333@gmail. com. (530) 205-5882.

GARDEN Sea Goat Farm Garden Volunteer Opportunities. 9

All Ages New Year’s Ball. 6 p.m.-midnight. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Dance swing, Latin, blues, fusion, top 40, and live music with the College of the Redwoods Jazz Band. Snacks and non-alcoholic drinks available for purchase. Balloon drop at 9 p.m. $10/person, $20/family. rakscollective@gmail.com. redwoodraks.com.

(707) 816-2809.

Diggin’ Dirt NYE Show. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Dance to Humboldt’s funky seven-piece band. $50 both nights, $32 advance. info@ arcatatheatre.com. arcatatheatre.com. (707) 613-3030.

NYE w/DJ Statik ft. DJ Pressure. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Bear River Casino Resort, 11 Bear Paws Way, Loleta. Celebrate New Year’s Eve with DJ Statik and DJ Pressure, party favors and a countdown to the balloon drop. In the Thirsty Bear Lounge. Free. Marketing@bearrivercasino.com. bearrivercasino.com/thirsty-bear-lounge/. (707) 733-9644 Ext. 2161.

A New Year For Trinidad. 8-11:59 p.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. Ring in the new year with live music from local favorites Heavens Taint and Soul Trip, hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, and complimentary champagne toast. $25, $20 advance. chamber@exploretrinidadca. com. exploretrinidadca.com/event-details/a-new-yearfor-trinidad-1. (707) 677-8645.

New Year’s Eve at the Jam. 9 p.m. The Jam, 915 H St., Arcata. KRTMS /Special Guest DJ. Free Champagne toast at midnight. $10. thejamarcata.com.

New Years Eve Ball … Welcome to the Palace of Love.

9 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka.

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New 2023

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Dress to the nines and say goodbye to 2023. Ballgowns and fantasy costumes welcome. Live music, midnight balloon drop, two stages, five bars, VIP, Tea Lounge. Party goes until 4 a.m. $25-$65.

New Year’s Eve Weekend. Blue Lake Casino & Hotel, 777 Casino Way. See Dec. 29 listing.

NYE Dance Party w/DJ Sovern-T. 9:30 p.m. Richards’ Goat Tavern & Tea Room Miniplex, 401 I St., Arcata. Ring in the New Year with DJ Sovern-T. Champagne cocktails and bottle specials, a street food pop-up from Chef Drew Gugin and a midnight countdown. Ages 21 and up. $5. info@miniplexevents.com. miniplex.ticketleap.com/ nye-2024/. (707) 630-5000.

NYE with Henry Fong. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. RampArt Skatepark, 700 South G St., Arcata. Electronic, Caribbean and Latin music. The DJ and producer will be joined by ESCH, ZERA, PRETZZ and SPeNNY. $20-$75. info@arcaneartistes.com. tickets.vemos.io/-MLoivRPo0aPx8oeX3JK/ arcane/-NjTsF4O8O70sigFXRVM/gatsbys-galaxy-withhenry-fong. (916) 207-6208.

Through the Decades Dance Party. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. The Basement, 780 Seventh St., Arcata. Celebrate with DJs Anya Slayer, Red, and Zero One as they take you on a trip through the decades and count down the minutes to midnight. $10. info@basementarcata.com. (707) 230-6451.

Zoo Lights: Holiday Extravaganza. 5:15-7:15 p.m. Sequoia Park Zoo, 3414 W St., Eureka. See Dec. 29 listing.

pop songs of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Songbooks provided. $3. (707) 407-6496.

SPOKEN WORD Word Humboldt Spoken Word Open Mic. 6-9 p.m.

Northtown Coffee, 1603 G St., Arcata. Sign up list goes up at 6 p.m., and the open mic kicks off at 6:30 p.m. Two rounds of open mic poetry and a featured poet. Everyone is welcome, especially new performers. LGBTQ+ friendly.

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Entrepreneur’s Club of Arcata. First Monday of every month, 4-5 p.m. Arcata Chamber of Commerce, 1635 Heindon Road. Share your ideas. Learn business skills.

Network. Open to all. Free. arcatachamber.com. (925) 214-8099.

OUTDOORS New Year’s Day Walk. 10 a.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Join Paul Johnson, Lynn Jones and Barbara Reisman for Friends of the Arcata Marsh’s annual 90-minute, rain-or-shine leg-stretcher. Meet at 10 a.m. in front of the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center on South G Street. Free.

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ETC Homesharing Info Session. 9:30-10 a.m. and 1-1:30 p.m.

This informational Zoom session will go over the steps and safeguards of Area 1 Agency on Aging’s matching process and the different types of homeshare partnerships.

Email for the link. Free. homeshare@a1aa.org. a1aa.org/ homesharing. (707) 442-3763.

Tabata. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Virtual World, Internet, Online.

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ART

Tacos and Art Night at the Sanctuary. 6-9 p.m. The Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata. Potluck tacos from 6 to 7:30 p.m. We’ll make fresh tortillas, you bring a taco topping (or donation), share a meal and everybody cleans up. Art from 7 p.m. Bring a project or join one, supplies provided. $5-$10. together@sanctuaryarcata. org. sanctuaryarcata.org.

MUSIC First Tuesday of the Month Sing-Along. First Tuesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Join Joel Sonenshein as he leads a sing-along of your favorite folk, rock and

FOR KIDS Look Closer and Make Connections. First Tuesday of every month, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Natural History Museum of Cal Poly Humboldt, 1242 G St., Arcata. Explore new exhibits and activities, including marine science, a bear, discovery boxes, microscopes, puzzles, scavenger hunts and more. Tuesday through Friday. $3 youth, $6 adult, $15 family, free for members. natmus@humboldt.edu. humboldt.edu/natmus. (707) 826-4480.

MEETINGS Humboldt Cribbage Club Tournament. 6:15-9 p.m.

Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Weekly six-game cribbage tournament for experienced players.

Inexperienced players may watch, learn and play on the side. Moose dinner available at 5:30 p.m. $3-$8. 31for14@ gmail.com. (707) 599-4605.

Monthly Meeting VFW Post 1872. First Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m. Redwood Empire VFW Post 1872, 1018 H St., Eureka. Calling all combat veterans and all veterans eligible for membership in Veterans of Foreign Wars to meet comrades and learn about events in the renovated Memorial Building. Free. PearceHansen999@outlook. com. (707) 443-5331.

ETC English Express: An English Language Class for Adults.

Virtual World, Internet, Online. Build English language confidence in ongoing online and in-person classes. All levels and first languages welcome. Join anytime. Pre-registration not required. Free. englishexpressempowered. com. (707) 443-5021.

Restorative Movement. 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 2-3 p.m.

Virtual World, Internet, Online. See Dec. 28 listing.

3 Wednesday

ART

Art Club. First Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Redwood Retro, 211 G St., Eureka. Come for the conversation and bring your own project or get materials and instruction for an additional fee. Sign up and this month’s project online. $22. stainedghost.com.

Figure Drawing. 6-8:30 p.m. Blondies Food And Drink, 420 E. California Ave., Arcata. Practice your artistic skills. $5. blondiesfoodanddrink.com.

MOVIES Sci-Fi Night: Dark Star (1974). 6-9 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show 6 p.m. Raffle 7:30 p.m. Main feature at 7:35 p.m. All ages. In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong. $5, $9 admission and poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. facebook.com/ events/331924279638021/. (707) 613-3030.

GARDEN Sea Goat Farm Garden Volunteer Opportunities. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. See Dec. 29 listing.

MEETINGS 350 Humboldt monthly meeting. First Wednesday of

SCREENS every month, 6-7 p.m. Local grass roots climate action group monthly meeting. Come join us to take action to address climate change. https://us02web.zoom. us/j/82415260158?pwd=SHY0dENuZ3o5MXFSRExLd3kxeE9iQT09 dwchandl@gmail.com. us02web.zoom. us/j/82415260158?pwd=SHY0dENuZ3o5MXFSRExLd3kxeE9iQT09.

Mother’s Support Circle. First Wednesday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon. The Ink People Center for the Arts, 627 Third St., Eureka. Mother’s Village circle for mothers with a meal and childcare. $15 to attend, $10 childcare, sliding scale spots available. (707) 633-3143.

ETC Tabata. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Virtual World, Internet, Online.

See Dec. 29 listing.

4 Thursday

ART

Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See Dec. 28 listing.

OUTDOORS Nature Quest. 2-5 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. See Dec. 28 listing.

ETC Restorative Movement. 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 2-3 p.m.

Virtual World, Internet, Online. See Dec. 28 listing.

Heads Up …

Volunteers are needed to help the Eureka Emergency Overnight Warming Center. Sign up at us11.list-manage.

com/survey?u=ec8e886b7cc3cc023d2beee76&id=c54604c013&e=ad03f624d3.

EXIT Theatre’s 2024 Short Play Festival seeks play submissions open to writers worldwide Dec. 1-31. Submissions should be original works no longer than 10 minutes.

Guidelines are available at theexit.org. Deadline is Dec. 31.

Teen Court Adult Mentor volunteers needed. Volunteers needed in Fortuna and Eureka. Help student advocates prep for cases and assist with the hearing process. You do not have to be an attorney, just a caring community member. Volunteer in Fortuna on Wednesday afternoons or in Eureka on Thursday afternoons. Contact hcteencourt@bgcredwoods.org or (707) 444-0153.

College of the Redwoods’ multilinugal literary journal Personas is accepting submissions of original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays and art reflecting the experience of multilingualism. Writers need not be multilingual to contribute; writings may be multilingual, bilingual or monolingual. Submission period closes at midnight on March 16, 2024. For more information, email jonathan-maiullo@redwoods.edu.

Area 1 Agency on Aging seeks volunteers to help with rides to medical appointments, educate and assist people to make informed decisions about Medicare options, advocate for residents in nursing homes, assist with matching home providers and home seekers, or teach technology training to older adults. Apply at a1aa. org/volunteer-interest-form/.

Become a volunteer at Hospice of Humboldt. For more information about becoming a volunteer or about services provided by Hospice of Humboldt, call (707) 267-9813 or visit hospiceofhumboldt.org. l

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What’s Under the Hood Anyone but You and Ferrari

By John J. Bennett

screens@northcoastjournal.com ANYONE BUT YOU might have been titled Shakespeare for Dummies, Starring Sydney Sweeney’s Decolletage. Earlier this year, a couple of studio comedies (Joyride and No Hard Feelings) threatened to revivify the genre with new perspectives and insightful, pointed writing in service of jokes that are actually funny; it felt like a moment. This, on the other hand, seems distinctly regressive. It reads like a reaction to a reaction that, despite its gossamer attempts at self-awareness and topicality, is woefully out of step and out of touch.

Worse yet, it offers precious few laughs.

The missteps start right out of the gate, with the script misguidedly presuming that a meet-cute can become the sum-total of a story. When Bea (Sweeney), confronted with a bathroom emergency and confounded by a churlish barista, is rescued by the gallant Ben (Glen Powell), romance, in inevitable screwball fashion, seems imminent. That promise continues to loom as they spend a charmed evening getting to know each and falling asleep in each other’s arms. But then a preemptive escape leads to some needlessly harsh words and the idyll is rather precipitously ruptured. The movie then insists on a couple of unimaginative exchanges between the two to belabor the idea that they’ve come to hate each other.

She, an aimless law student pressured by helicopter parents, leans rather gracelessly into her struggle to establish her sense of self. He embraces his inner dirtbag stockbroker.

Some time — years? — later, the two of them are surprised by entirely unsurprising invitations to a destination wedding in Sydney (a little on the nose).

Both are further shocked to reencounter former paramours, for whom they may or may not still harbor feelings. Meanwhile, their friends and family hatch an idiotic and even more poorly executed plan to bring Bea and Ben back together (that’s the Shakespeare part). This rather impressive cast is capable of better work than this, Sweeney and Powell not least among them. But any sense of true attraction or antipathy between the two of them is notably, almost cruelly absent.

The movie’s sense of sexiness is weirdly abstruse, couched in sophomoric leering

to such an extent that its one sex scene, for all its misplaced earnestness, is neither erotic nor romantic. And the whole notion of the elites at play smacks of an attempted throwback that only comes off as tone deaf. R. 103M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK. FERRARI. If asked to draw an automotive analog for the work of grandmaster Michael Mann, I would have likely have leaned more Teutonic than Romantic.

Mann, a more detail oriented American filmmaker than perhaps any other, has spent the last half century building a body of work defined by study and precision, seemingly of form following function. His movies, so often defined by an exquisite, industrial brutalism, are studies of masters at work, usually thieves and warriors. They are beautiful to look at, certainly. But not in the lusty, fiery way one might gaze at a curvaceous, blood-red race car; or so I thought.

With Ferrari, adapted from Brock Yates’ biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine by Troy Kennedy Martin, Mann has created another masterpiece and, at 80, again advanced the language of cinematic storytelling.

And he has done so by also engaging with complex emotional themes in a way that feels new and timeless.

Set in 1957, with Ferrari’s (Adam Driver) company and marriage to business partner Laura (Penelope Cruz) in similarly dire straits, the movie succeeds equally as a domestic drama suffused with inescapable grief and a thrilling depiction of automobile racing in perhaps its most lethal period. All but estranged by the death of their son the year before, Enzo and Laura struggle to find common ground in the salvation of their company. Meanwhile, he carries on a long-term affair with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley), a union that has produced a son who doesn’t share his father’s name. It’s a messy, distinctly mid-20th century bit of Italian business, but Mann and director of photography Erik Messerschmidt find a visual way into the narrative that grounds it in its place and time while transcending nostalgia.

There are techniques on display here, as is Mann’s trademark, that belie the granular attention to detail required to create their Continued on next page »

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SCREENS

CROSSWORD by Matt Jones

Continued from previous page

Always that one couple on the hike. © 2023 MATT JONES

Anyone but You

WHOLE ‘NOTHER LEVEL ACROSS

1. Hair-covering garment 6. Tennis shot 9. Room-reading readings, so to speak 14. Vinegar-heavy marinade 15. Umbrage 16. Empathetic comment 17. Drink that necessitates a sleeve 19. “The Color Purple” protagonist played in 2023 by Fantasia Barrino 20. Stubborn animal 21. Went astray 23. Goal 24. Singer Reed 25. Judicious attribute 34. Egg-shaped 35. Actress Chabert of Hallmark’s

“Crossword Mysteries” series 36. Preschool activity 37. Singer Simone 38. Shopping conveniences 39. Southern cornbread 40. Ending for graph or favor 41. Indie rock band Yo La ___ 42. “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Pompeo 43. Startles, maybe 46. Slithery sea creature 47. Posts pics on social media, perhaps 48. Lacking cordiality 54. Hot tub locale 57. Monopoly purchase 58. What all the theme answers are ... or aren’t? (Sorry/ not sorry for the confusion!)

60. “The Thin Blue

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Line” director Morris 61. King, in Cannes 62. Bring down a notch 63. Hair entanglement 64. “Rocky III” costar 65. Fallon Sherrock’s pro sport

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1. Chuckling sound 2. Altar agreements 3. Notates hurriedly 4. “The Golden Bachelor” network 5. Got down on the floor?

6. Elevate 7. Double Stuf cookie 8. Feud 9. Win 10. Post-winter river thaw 11. ___ Cynwyd, Penn.

12. “Spamalot” creator Idle

13. Look for 18. Constantly-wantsto-belong anxiety, for short 22. Swatted insects 23. Tuva’s continent 25. Fast-food chain with carhops on skates 26. “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” musical 27. Ninesome 28. Custard desserts 29. FX series whose fifth season features Jon Hamm 30. Words before Congress or kindness 31. “___ Holmes” (2020 Netflix mystery film) 32. More grounded 33. Make purchases 38. “Forget You” singer Green 39. Ed Sheeran’s debut album

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41. Farmer’s place, in a kids’ song 42. Brainy-sounding “Batman” villain 44. Bleep out 45. Finance-related, for short 48. “___ All That” (1999 comedy) 49. Undecided 50. Glow 51. IRS document 52. 1973 Orson Welles docudrama “___ Fake” 53. “___ Makes You Happy” (Sheryl Crow song) 54. Yelp rating unit 55. Annoying animal 56. Greek god of war 59. Org. of Kings and Warriors

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effect. The interiors and dialog sequences achieve an ultramodern intensity of focus set against Renaissance chiaroscuro, while the racing (and crashing) is staged and shot to truly, viscerally represent the breathless, telescopic feeling of a machine hurtling through space. It’s all humanity on the ragged edge and it has never looked so good. Which would all seem like a neat trick, if not for the depth of performance by the cast. Driver has established himself as one of the most devoted and versatile, if unlikely leading men of a generation, largely because he adroitly dispenses with any notion of self-aggrandizement in his selection of roles and execution thereof.

He depicts Ferrari as a man very much in possession of himself, but fully aware of the greater forces and emotions that have compelled such a level of composure and resolve. And Cruz, giving one of the best, most startling performances of the year (century?), makes Laura every bit his equal and his foil. R. 124M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.

NOW PLAYING

AQUAMAN. Momoa dons his trunks for his last dip in the DC franchise.

BROADWAY, MILL CREEK. THE BOY AND THE HERON. Hayao Miyazaki animated adventure about a boy who travels beyond the veil to see his mother. PG13. 125M. BROADWAY (DUB), MINOR. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT. True-story drama about a university crew team

headed for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. PG13.

124M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK. THE COLOR PURPLE. Film adaptation of the book-based Broadway musical starring Fantasia Barrino and Taraji P. Henson.

PG13. 140M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK. GODZILLA MINUS 1. The kaiju origin story goes back to its roots in postwar Japan for intense horror with emotional weight. In Japanese. PG13. 125M. BROADWAY. THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES. Prequel to the dystopian juggernaut series. PG13.

157M. BROADWAY. THE IRON CLAW. True life tale of pro-wrestling brothers and their father/ coach. R. 130M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK, MINOR. MIGRATION. Animated duck adventure voiced by Elizabeth Banks, Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key. PG. 92M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK. TROLLS BAND TOGETHER. Animated musical sequel with a boy band plot and wow, good luck, accompanying parents and guardians. PG. 91M. BROADWAY. WAITRESS: THE MUSICAL. Hometown girl Sara Bareilles reprises her starring Broadway role in the film adaptation full of songs she wrote. 144M. BROADWAY. WONKA. Timothée Chalamet brings his bone structure to the candy man’s origin story. With Hugh Grant in Oompa-Loompa mode. PG. 112M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK, MINOR. Fortuna Theatre is temporarily closed.

For showtimes call: Broadway Cinema (707) 443-3456; Mill Creek Cinema 8393456; Minor Theatre (707) 822-3456.

The Journal would like to wish David Levinson Wilk, our crossword puzzler of many years, a happy retirement and welcome aboard Matt Jones.

WORKSHOPS

LEGAL NOTICES

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JOHANNES MARTINES SPEK aka JOHANNES SPEK aka HANS SPEK CASE NO. PR2300356

List your class – just $4 per line per issue! Deadline: Friday, 5pm. Place your online ad at classified.northcoastjournal.com or e-mail: classified@northcoastjournal.com Listings must be paid in advance by check, cash or Visa/MasterCard.

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Tae Kwon Do Mon−Fri 5−6 p.m., 6−7 p.m., Sat 10−11 a.m. Come watch or join a class, 1215 Giuntoli Lane, or visit www.sunyisarcata.com, (707) 825−0182.

50 and Better TAKE A CLASS WITH OLLI. New! Registration for OLLI classes closes 3 business days before the class start date. Anyone can take an OLLI class. Join OLLI today and get the member discount on classes.

Non−members add $25 to the class fee listed. humboldt.edu/olli/classes

Spiritual EVOLUTIONARY TAROT Ongoing Zoom classes, private mentorships and readings. Carolyn Ayres.

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Therapy & Support ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS. We can help 24/7, call toll free 1−844 442−0711.

SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATION− SHIPS? Confidential help is available. 707−499− 0205, saahumboldt@yahoo.com

FREE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASS visit https://www.redwoods.edu/adulted or call College of the Redwoods at 707−476−4500 for more information and to register.

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INSTRUCTORS NEEDED: Bookkeeping (Quick− Books), ServSafe Manager’s Certification & Cannabis Business Training. Call College of the Redwoods Community Education at (707) 476− 4500.

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOHANNES MARTINES SPEK aka JOHANNES SPEK aka HANS SPEK A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner GERALD SPEK The petition for probate requests that GERALD SPEK be appointed as personal represen− tative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the dece− dent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for exam− ination in the file kept by 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 many 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 on January 4, 2024 at 1:31 p.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept.: 4 Online Video Hearings: https://ww w.humboldt.courts.ca.gov/

attorney knowledgeable in Cali− fornia 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 Request for Special Notice (form DE−154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Jeffrey Slack/Frank Martin 730 − 5th Street Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 445−2071 Filed: December 6, 2023 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Continued page Section 17913 ofonthenext Business and» Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Trillian Schroeder, President This November 17, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by sg, Humboldt County Clerk 12/21, 12/28, 1/4, 1/11/2024 (23−441)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23−00675 The following person is doing Busi− ness as ADDISON LAW

12/14, 12/21, 12/28/2023 (23−430)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23-00648 The following person is doing Busi− ness as REDWOOD FLEA MARKET Humboldt 3750 Harris Street Eureka, CA 95503 2904 T Street Eureka, CA 95501 Grant D Pingree 2904 T Street Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by an Individual.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Grant Pingree, Owner This November 7, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by sc, Humboldt County Clerk

Humboldt 2830 G Street, Suite D−4 Eureka, CA 95501 Shelley Addison 2233 H Street Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by an Individual.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on December 12, 2018 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Shelley Addison, Owner This November 21, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by sg, Humboldt County Clerk 12/14, 12/21, 12/28, 1/4/2024 (23−433)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23-00680 The following person is doing Busi− ness as EUREKA LAUNDROMAT

Humboldt IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of 3800 Little Fairfield the petition, you should appear at 12/7, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28/2023 (23−410) Eureka, CA 95503 the hearing and state your objec− tions or file written objections with Makhan/Badjit Inc. the court before the hearing. Your FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME CA C3273473 appearance may be in person or by STATEMENT 23−00667 3800 Little Fairfield your attorney.

The following person is doing Busi− Eureka, CA 95503 IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a ness as contingent creditor of the dece− LOST COAST LOGISTICS, LLC The business is conducted by a dent, you must file your claim with Corporation. the court and mail a copy to the Humboldt The date registrant commenced to personal representative appointed 112 W 3rd St transact business under the ficti− by the court within the later of Eureka, CA 95501 tious business name or name listed either (1) four months from the above on October 16, 2012 date of first issuance of letters to a Sisu Extraction, LLC I declare that all information in this general personal representative, as CA 201723710547 statement is true and correct. defined in section 58(b) of the Cali− 112 W 3rd St A registrant who declares as true fornia Probate Code, or (2) 60 days Eureka, CA 95501 any material matter pursuant to from the date of mailing or Section 17913 of the Business and personal delivery to you of a notice The business is conducted by a Professions Code that the regis− under section 9052 of the California Limited Liability Company. trant knows to be false is guilty of a Probate Code. Other California The date registrant commenced to misdemeanor punishable by a fine statutes and legal authority may transact business under the ficti− not to exceed one thousand dollars affect your rights as a creditor. You tious business name or name listed ($1,000). may want to consult with an above on Not Applicable /s Makhan Purceval, President attorney knowledgeable in Cali− I declare that all information in this This November 28, 2023 fornia law. statement is true and correct.

JUAN P. CERVANTES YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept A registrant who declares as true by jc, Humboldt County Clerk by the court. If you are a person any material matter pursuant to 12/7, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28/2023 (23−422) interested in the estate, you may Section 17913 of the Business and file with the court a Request for Professions Code that the regis− Special Notice (form DE−154) of the trant knows to be false is guilty of a filing of an inventory and appraisal misdemeanor punishable by a fine • Thursday, Dec. 28,dollars 2023 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL of estate assets or ofnorthcoastjournal.com any petition not to exceed one thousand or account as provided in Probate ($1,000).

Code section 1250. A Request for /s Trillian Schroeder, President Special Notice form is available This November 17, 2023

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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501

LEGAL NOTICES Continued from previous page FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23-00684

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23-00696

The following person is doing Busi− ness as BEST WESTERN ARCATA INN

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23−00714

The following person is doing Busi− ness as HARMONY HOLISTIC SKINCARE AND WELLNESS

The following person is doing Busi− ness as AGHAIDH

Humboldt 4827 Valley W Blvd Arcata, CA 95521 46560 Fremont Blvd Ste 111 Fremont, CA 94538 Arcata Properties LLC CA 202359312080 46560 Fremont Blvd Ste 111 Fremont, CA 94538

Humboldt 427 F St, Suite 207 Eureka, CA 95501 3344 Gross St Eureka, CA 95503 Heidi S Horner 3344 Gross St Eureka, CA 95503

The business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Harpreet Sidhu, Member This November 29, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by jc, Humboldt County Clerk

The business is conducted by an Individual.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on December 1, 2023 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Heidi Horner, Owner This December 5, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by jc, Humboldt County Clerk

12/21, 12/28, 1/4, 1/11/2024 (23−440)

12/21, 12/28, 1/4, 1/11/2024 (23−438)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23−00693

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23−00712

The following person is doing Busi− ness as SOLID CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR

The following person is doing Busi− ness as SCURFIELD ELECTRIC HEATING AND SOLAR

Humboldt 1813 Ashdown Ave McKinleyville, CA 95519

Humboldt 550 South G Street #14 Arcata, CA 95521

PO Box 3149 Eureka, CA 95502

Scurfield Solar and Heating CA 04096773 550 South G Street #14 Arcata, CA 95521

Ryan D Benz 1813 Ashdown Ave McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by an Individual.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on February 28, 2012 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Ryan D Benz, Sole Proprietor This December 5, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by sc, Humboldt County Clerk 12/14, 12/21, 12/28, 1/4/2024 (23−431)

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The business is conducted by a Corporation.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on December 13, 2023 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Benjamin Scurfield, President CEO This December 14, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by jc, Humboldt County Clerk 12/21, 12/28, 1/4, 1/11/2024 (23−439)

Humboldt 215 Burns Ct Whitethorn, CA 95589 Manoa R Sayers 215 Burns Ct Whitethorn, CA 95589 The business is conducted by an Individual.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Manoa Sayers, Owner This December 14, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by sg, Humboldt County Clerk 12/21, 12/28, 1/4, 1/11/2024 (23−443)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23-00717 The following person is doing Busi− ness as BIGFOOT WINDOW WASHING Humboldt 1690 Marilann Ct Arcata, CA 95521 Scott L Rogers 1690 Marilann St Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by an Individual.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Scott Rogers, Owner This December 8, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by sg, Humboldt County Clerk 12/21, 12/28, 1/4, 1/11/2024 (23−442)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME JERICO DEMARCO RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ CASE NO. CV2301833 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501

PETITION OF: JERICO DEMARCO RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ for a decree changing names as NORTH COAST JOURNAL • Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023 • northcoastjournal.com follows: Present name JERICO DEMARCO RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ

PETITION OF: JERICO DEMARCO RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ for a decree changing names as follows: Present name JERICO DEMARCO RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ to Proposed Name JERICHO HODGE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objec− tion 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 objec− tion is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 9, 2024 Time: 1:45 p.m., Dept. 4 Room 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501 To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for informa− tion about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/ find−my−court.htm.

Date: December 11, 2023 Filed: December 11, 2023 /s/ John T. Feeney Judge of the Superior Court 12/14, 12/21, 12/28, 1/4/2024 (23−436)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME JUSTIN MICHAEL DONNELLY CASE NO. CV2301847 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501 PETITION OF: JUSTIN MICHAEL DONNELLY for a decree changing names as follows: Present name JUSTIN MICHAEL DONNELLY to Proposed Name JUSTIN MICHAEL VANDENACK THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objec− tion 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 objec− tion is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 2, 2024 Time: 1:50 p.m., Dept. 4 Room 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501

show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objec− tion is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objec− tion is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 2, 2024 Time: 1:50 p.m., Dept. 4 Room 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 2, 2024 Time: 1:45 p.m., Dept. 4 Room 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501

To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for informa− tion about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/ find−my−court.htm.

To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for informa− tion about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/ find−my−court.htm.

Date: November 29, 2023 Filed: November 29, 2023 /s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court

Date: December 4, 2023 Filed: December 4, 2023 /s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court

12/14, 12/21, 12/28, 1/4/2024 (23−429)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME LEZLIE ANN CURTIS CASE NO. CV2301857 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501 PETITION OF: LEZLIE ANN CURTIS for a decree changing names as follows: Present name LEZLIE ANN CURTIS to Proposed Name URSULA BLACK THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objec− tion 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 objec− tion is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

12/14, 12/21, 12/28, 1/4/2024 (23−435)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 23-00731 The following person is doing Busi− ness as D.B. BUILDERS Humboldt 4985 Meyers Ave Eureka, CA 95503 Doug V Boltzen 4985 Meyers Ave Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by an Individual.

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti− tious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the regis− trant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Doug Boltzen, Owner This December 22, 2023 JUAN P. CERVANTES by sc, Humboldt County Clerk 12/28, 1/4, 1/11, 1/18/2024 (23−444)

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 2, 2024 default Time: 1:45 p.m., Dept. 4 Room 4 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 PLANNING FIFTH FORTUNA COMMISSION STREET EUREKA, CA 95501

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fortuna Planning Commis-

willremotely, hold a public Tosion appear check inhearing on January 9, 2024, at 6:00 P.M. advance the hearing for informa− at CityofHall, 621 - 11th Street in Fortuna, California to consider tion about how to do so on the approval of a conditional use permit application to allow resicourt’s website. To find your court’s dentialgouse in the Retail Commercial (R-C) zone. Location: 557 website, to www.courts.ca.gov/ find−my−court.htm.

9th Street; Zoning: Retail Commercial (R-C); APN: 040-182-007; Applicant: Justin and Holly Nally. You are invited to come to the Date: December 4, 2023 Public Hearing to ask questions or comment on the proposed Filed: December 4, 2023 /s/project.

Timothy A.The Canning meeting is scheduled to stream live on Access Judge of the Superior Court Humboldt.

Information on the project is available for review at 12/14, 12/21, 12/28, 1/4/2024 (23−435) the Community Development Department at City Hall, 621 11th Street, on weekdays between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. To submit public comments prior to the meeting, please email comments to Katey Schmidt at kschmidt@ci.fortuna.ca.us by noon on Monday, January 8, 2024. To provide public comment during the meeting either attend in person at City Hall, 621 11th Street, Fortuna, CA, or phone in: 1-669-900-9128.

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CITY OF FORTUNA

ESSENTIAL CAREGIVERS Needed to help Elderly Visiting Angels 707−442−8001

TREATMENT PLANT OPERATOR Full Time

TPO OIT/I: $42,392 - $51,577 per year TPO II: $44,710 - $54,397 per year.

Under the general supervision of a senior operator, to perform a variety of operations, control, and maintenance functions in the City’s water and wastewater treatment systems; to perform laboratory testing and sample collection; to perform a variety of semiskilled, and skilled work in the maintenance, repair, and construction of wastewater treatment facility; and to do related work as required. Applicants must possess valid CDL, and be at least 18 years of age. Please apply online at governmentjobs. com Applications must be received by 4 p.m. on Friday, January 19, 2024. default

City of Arcata

COLLECTION SYSTEM OPERATOR I/II I - $44,233.00 - $56,453.74/yr.

II - $46,496.01 - $59,342.00/yr.

Apply online by 11:59pm, January 9, 2024. Performs a wide variety of duties related to the inspection, diagnosis, repair, service, and maintenance of the City’s wastewater and stormwater collection systems and equipment. An ideal candidate is an adept problem solver, clear communicator and thrives in a teamoriented environment.

Apply and review the full job duties at: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/ arcataca or contact Arcata City Manager’s  (707) 822-5953. EOE.

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Redwood Coast Regional Center

RECREATION PROGRAM SUPERVISOR

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LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

$39,497 – $48,054 PER YEAR - FULL-TIME.

Under the general direction of the Director of Parks and Recreation, to plan, direct, create, promote and conduct recreation programs for the City’s Parks and Recreation Department; to supervise and train other recreation staff; and to do related work as required. Please apply online at governmentjobs.com. Applications must be received by 4pm on Friday, January 5, 2024.

INK PEOPLE CFO (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER) The Ink People is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to join its leadership team. Salary range: $35−$50. Hrs/week: 24. Send resume & cover letter to Executive Director Leslie Castellano at Leslie@inkpeople.org

FT position in Eureka, CA provide clinical svcs & support for people w/dev & intellectual disab. Salary range $7879$11087/mo + exc. benefits. EOE Visit www.redwoodcoastrc.org for more info & required docs. default

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Apply online by 11:59 p.m., January 15, 2024. Performs a variety of technical and specialized Clerk duties, including preparation and management of meeting agendas, minutes, ordinances, resolutions, and other historic records; coordinates City responses to public records requests  records; administers the City’s portion of municipal elections and provides excellent customer service. An ideal candidate is highly organized and detailoriented, excels in managing competing priorities and has exceptional grammar and proofreading skills.

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Redwood Community Action Agency is hiring!

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7711 MYRTLE AVENUE, INDIANOLA

$1,395,000 Serene multi-family property centrally on ±2.3 lush, stunningly landscaped acres. All living units have been recently remodeled, beginning with the tranquil 4/3 farmhouse with a contemporary design, custom large plank hardwood floors, entertainer’s kitchen, and simple yet upscale finishes throughout. Additional 1/1 unit and duplex tie into the clean and modern design while offering space for family, guests or lodging opportunities while the meditation/art studio tower presents a space for all types of creative expression. A truly all-round property ready for your vision, from a family compound to an income producing rental to special event facility and everything in between.

645 7TH STREET ARCATA

Charlie Winship Owner/ Land Agent BRE #01332697

707.476.0435

Kyla Nored

410 BEACH DRIVE, MANILA

Owner/Broker BRE #01930997

$185,000

707.834.7979

Barbara Davenport Associate Broker BRE# 01066670

707.498.6364

Dreaming of stepping out your front door to take a sunset beach walk? Then consider this NorCal undeveloped coastal property adjacent to a stretch of ten uninterrupted miles of public dunes and beaches. The parcel offers wild and wonderful open space with a dynamic and panoramic sky. The zoning is single family residential and will require a coastal development permit from the county. Seller has completed some of the necessary legwork and requirements. Owner may carry with 50% down.

167 JOHNSON LANE, CARLOTTA

33 & 39 KINGSTON ROAD, FIELDBROOK

Realtor BRE # 02084041

$290,000

916.798.2107

Realtor BRE# 02070276

707.601.6702

Tyla Miller Realtor BRE 1919487

707.362.6504

Zipporah Kilgore Realtor BRE #02188512

707.497.7859

$485,000 ±51 Acre homesteader’s dream overlooking beautiful Larabee Valley!

Property features a well-built and cozy cabin with a wood stove, a loft bedroom and quality workmanship and upgraded finishes throughout. Water is plentiful with a well, catchment tanks, and registered water rights from the seasonal creek that flows through the property. Also includes a metal shop building with attached bathroom/laundry room and another well- built unfinished home/storage building with wood stove that would make another nice cabin. Bonus cannabis permit can be included in sale!

Mike Willcutt

Ashlee Cook

±51 ACRES HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, LARABEE VALLEY

Come check out this this home in sunny Carlotta with so much potential. This property features just under an acre of privacy and seclusion in your very own forest like setting. With redwoods and existing garden the possibilities are endless.

REDUCE

$475,00

Two units on an oversized double lot offering a unique opportunity for versatile living arrangements or investment potential. The 3/1 main residence features a functional floor plan, wood fire and forced air heat, and carpet and linoleum flooring. With a little bit of elbow grease, the additional approximate 800 sq ft 1/1 back unit provides flexibility for guests or rental potential. With ample space for hobbies or animals, this property invites a lifestyle of versatility and potential.

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774 LARABEE CREEK ROAD, SHIVELY

$615,000 Fantastic ±19.18 acre riverfront retreat featuring a 2/2 house, large shop, open meadow, mature orchard, redwood trees, boat and fishing access, and decommissioned train tracks running through the parcel! End of the road location with all the privacy you could ask for!

2027 SUNSET RIDGE ROAD, BLOCKSBURG

$299,000 Premium hunting property boasting a newly drilled well end of the road privacy and beautiful rolling meadows. The 1,000 sq. ft. open concept cabin with a full bathroom and loft was just completed last year with new electric, septic, and a large deck with stunning views. Plenty of space for gardening, animals, and great solar energy potential! Cannabis permit for 10k sq.ft. can be included in sale.

northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL

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