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The Death 01 Redevelopment With agency gone, what will happen now on Eureka's waterfront? By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

7 Predator roams Old Town 11 Hate a billboard? Vote now 27 A doll dances 31 Trade those seeds! 34 Muslims in love 35 Hunger Games tasty

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Mailbox Poem

Chemo Day

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Blog Jammin’ News

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Billboard Blight

On The Cover

the death of redevelopment

19 Home & Garden

30 Calendar 34 In Review

a book and a cd

35 Filmland

Call a Therapist

36 Seven-o-Heaven

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37 Workshops 39 Field Notes

Scott of the Antarctic: Glorious Failure?

Service Directory

22 Table Talk

The Strange Case of Gluten

Godwit Days

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25 The Hum

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28 Music & More!

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Tasty Main Street Editor: I was able to enjoy the delights of the “Taste of Main Street” (“Eight Days a Week,” March 22) last night! I just wanted to say thank you to all of the restaurants that participated, because I would have never tried several of those places and their delicious food! I do want readers and people who didn’t go to know that you should go with an appetite, because you will get full just by sampling.

I do wish that Arcata would do something like Taste of Main Street because there are several places that I don’t know about or haven’t tried.

Jessica Hirsch, Arcata

Bicycle Follies Editor: I awoke Sunday morning with but one goal — to eat brunch as soon as possible, for it was already 10:30 a.m. Having no car, I was about to set off toward the Plaza on my bicycle when I remembered I had left its lock somewhere within the HSU Music Department. Little did I know, as I rode toward campus to collect said lock, what would befall me.

At first, everything was going well — though hungry, I was making good time through the sometimes unpredictable Arcata inner-city Sunday traffic. Then I suddenly noticed a large number of people congregating on the sidewalk ahead of me and a man with a bullhorn yelling, “Get off the road!”

Apparently there was a bike race scheduled, (“Eight Days a Week,” March 22) and I had somehow wandered onto its course. This was, of course, something of a surprise as there were no warning signs posted along the street I had come from.

In any event, though overcome with panic as superhuman cyclists sped by me with Olympian disdain, I tried to keep my composure as the man with the bullhorn repeated his admonitions at increasing decibel levels while a chorus of spectators slowly but surely joined him in their righteous contempt for my very existence. Dismounting, I tried to explain that there were no signs posted, but the crowd was already thoroughly against me. Only with great difficulty was I able to make my way through their glaring mass to B Street so that I might walk in great humiliation up the hill toward the art/music/theater buildings to collect my bike lock.

All in all, I was over an hour late for brunch, narrowly avoided a rampaging peloton, and am now very likely a pariah of the Arcata cycling community. Well, what’s done is done, but I do hope that appropriate signs are put up next year.

John Chernoff, Arcata

Date Norman!

Editor: Thank you for your interesting and insightful article (“Congress: The Dating Game,” March 15). Although the Democratic candidates have a number of similarities, I was struck by their differences, not only in terms of style and experience, but also emphasis and world view. Our challenges are huge and we need leaders with vision, guts and independence. Norman Solomon is the only candidate who has exhibited all those qualities.

Having spent years working to address the problem of poverty — both in the nonprofit sector and as mayor of Eureka — it is important to me that our next congressperson understand and prioritize this issue. After talking to Solomon at length about poverty and economic fair-

Chemo Day The milky savior courses through my veins as I sit in this burgundy padded chair, my war zone.

Snipers sweep through, targeting, eliminating.

No longer chanting, carrying signs for peace, my non-violent nature on leave.

Armed now, I kill, even my self.

Hair screams of the injustice as it falls to the ground.

Insurgents rise, question the collateral damage.

I quell them.

There will be casualties.

I sit in this burgundy padded chair, despite the dangers.

My eyes close, and I pray, here in the midst of the battlefield.

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ness, it is clear that he best comprehends the problems we face and has the experience to be an effective advocate.

As the founder and former executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA), Solomon brings the unique perspective of someone who understands national politics but isn’t a Washington insider. Founded in 1997 with offices in Northern California and the National Press Building in Washington, D.C., IPA’s mission is to facilitate media access “for those whose voices are commonly excluded or drowned out by government or corporate-backed institutions.” Solomon will bring that same approach to Congress.

To excel in the new “open primary” system, candidates will need to appeal to voters outside their party while retaining the support of their political base. This is another reason to support Solomon.

He makes no bones about his commitment to the values that progressives and liberals hold dear, but he also has a strong independent streak. This is appealing not only to Democrats, but also independent voters, Libertarians, Greens and moderate Republicans.

People of all political beliefs are increasingly fed up with politics as usual — the corporate money, the career politicians and the blind partisanship. Norman Solomon understands that many of the greatest challenges of our day are not ideological. His background as a public-interest advocate, media watchdog, author and activist have prepared him to go to Washington, D.C., as a populist champion for the common people.

Peter LaVallee, Eureka

Don’t Anoint Susan Editor: Shame on you, Richard Salzman (Mailbox, “Anoint Susan,” March 22). You told me you wouldn’t do that again and then you went and did it. You agreed that there was a question of ethics, and yet you done went and did it again. You wrote that long letter filled with your reasons to vote for Susan Adams but you left one critical piece of information out.

You wrote that letter like you were just another John Q. Public voicing his free and honest opinions.

But, is it free and honest when you fail to point out that you are Susan Adams’ paid employee, her campaign manager for Humboldt County? I would like to believe that you know the answer to that, but then why did you do it?

I was amused and fascinated by your continued on next page

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decision to sell Ms. Adams by depicting her as safely middle of the road enough to please everyone. Those are the very reasons why most people with progressive values will not be voting for Huffman.

Why is it a virtue for a candidate to be backed by a conservative and by a progressive? What does that say about that candidate?

You say that no one can question Norman Solomon’s progressive credentials, but then say those very credentials make him unelectable in Humboldt County.

I think you underestimate Humboldt County and misread the tenor of the times. I think this county has an awful lot of people who are hurting and who understand that the only way out of this hurt is with a truly progressive candidate who has years of experience in fighting the good fights and that’s Norman Solomon. (I am not now, nor have I ever been, an employee of Norman Solomon.)

We, sadly, live in an era when ethical behavior is critically lacking in government, in business and more. I expected better of you, Richard.

Sylvia De Rooy, Westhaven

The People’s Power Editor: In response to Marcy Burstiner’s column (“Take the Money and Run With It,” March 1), stating only the wealthy and corporations have the power and money to access mass audiences, I couldn’t disagree more. As Erik Black pointed out (“Free Speech? Tweet,” March 15), not only is Twitter a free way to project our voices to our community, other powerful online mass communication tools, like e-mail, websites and YouTube can reach millions.

These are truly mediums where common folk can band together to pressure

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the wealthy, corporations and governments into enacting change that is both ethical and overdue! For instance, the members of a previously “unknown” band, Sons of Maxwell, aired their homemade music video on YouTube, “United Breaks Guitars,” causing such a public outcry that United Airlines not only changed its checked luggage handling policies, but also agreed to pay royalties for the band’s future songs “framing” United as the newly changed “good” guy.

Even more impressive are the three middle-class teenagers who created the YouTube video that would be seen by millions around the world, raising public outcry on the plight of Africa’s Child Soldiers.

Their video, and the masses who viewed it, picketed, sent letters to the government and demanded action, pressured the U.S. government to change its policy on refusing military involvement in war-torn countries where there is no economic or tactical incentive. (See www2.invisiblechildren.com/videos).

For three youths to unite with (currently) over 20 million strangers around the world through a homemade video and demand justice — and for the U.S. government to yield to that — now that, Mrs. Burstiner, is power! Power that’s growing so strong, as a matter of fact, that governments around the world are trying to limit, if not shut down, these mass communication networks through bills like SOPA, ACTA and TPP because they, too, are recognizing the 99 percent’s power to use these mediums for incredible global change. If it’s anything that the above samples have shown us, it’s that the united, outraged, voices of the common people have just as much power as the 1 percent.

Cyndy Phillips, McKinleyville

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Blog Jammin’ sidewalk. Residents are advised not to be overweight, bagel-eating pigeons.

HEALTH, BUSINESS/ BY RYAN BURNS / MARCH 26, 3:03 P.M.

St. Joe’s, Redwood Memorial Lay Off 68

HAWK, 1. PIGEON, 0. PHOTO BY RYAN BURNS

BIRDS, CRIME / BY RYAN BURNS / MARCH 26, 3:16 P.M.

St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka and Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna are laying off 68 employees today and tomorrow, Chief Executive Officer Joe Mark announced this afternoon. At a somber press conference, Mark said the reduction in workforce is necessary after a “significant dip” in the number of surgeries and outpatient services at both hospitals, but especially St. Joe’s.

Hawk Murders Pigeon On 03-26-12 at approximately 1:40 p.m. this Journal reporter encountered an avian assault in progress at the Old Town Gazebo, near the corner of F and Second streets in Eureka. The victim, described as a chubby, partially beheaded pigeon, was alive but did not respond to the blank stares of numerous onlookers. Residents of the area say pigeon gangs are known to frequent the neighborhood.

When the reporter arrived at the scene, the victim was under attack from sharp talons and a hooked beak, likely belonging to the suspect, who is described as a juvenile raptor, possibly a Sharpshinned hawk, approximately 10 inches tall with light brown eyes and a hunter’s build.

Neighborhood residents have reportedly found several mutilated pigeon carcasses in the vicinity in recent weeks, suggesting that the suspect may be a serial killer. It is unknown at this time whether the assault was a hate crime.

The suspect was last seen disemboweling the victim on the cobblestone

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL CEO JOE MARK PHOTO BY RYAN BURNS

Of the 68 layoffs, 62 will come from St. Joseph. The vast majority are nonclinical support staff, though a few are nurses and a few are clinicians, Mark said. He didn’t immediately provide a breakdown on how many nurses or clinicians were involved. Mark attributed the decline in services to both the economy and the recent loss of four surgeons — two general surgeons and two orthopedists — who either retired or found other opportunities elsewhere. Rising continued on next page

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flash fiction contest!

This is The End. But first you must write the beginning and middle.

Yep, it’s the return of the North Coast Journal’s Flash Fiction Contest!

You tell us a story in 99 words or less.

Something sock-stealing, heart-stopping, tearjerking, smile-cracking, brain-whipping. Or maybe a sleepy entrancement.

Then slap a title on it – no more than seven words. We will feature the best entries in an issue of the Journal.

E-mail your entry to the North Coast Journal Flash Fiction Contest, fiction@northcoastjournal. com. Or, if you must, send it by paper mail to: North Coast Journal Fiction Contest 310 F Street, Eureka, CA 95501

Deadline: April 10, 2012

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health care costs have also taken a toll.

“As people have either lost insurance or their insurance has gone with higher co-pays and deductibles, they’ve had to make a tough decision of fixing the car, fixing the roof versus maybe getting my hip replaced,” Mark said.

Calling the layoffs “a very difficult message but very necessary,” Mark said there will be no loss of services associated with the layoffs. The affected employees will receive their full salaries and benefits until May 30, regardless of whether they continue to work during that period, Mark said. After that date they will be given two weeks’ severance pay, plus an additional week for each year of employment at the hospital (up to a max of 26 weeks).

They will also be eligible for unemployment benefits.

AVIATION, BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT /

BY RYAN BURNS / MARCH 23, 5:03 P.M.

Here Comes American Airlines A deal has been struck. American Eagle, a subsidiary of American Airlines, will start direct flights between the Arcata-Eureka Airport and Los Angeles International Airport on June 14. The company is expected to formally announce the deal via press release on Monday.

Details remain sketchy. County staff has been working furiously with the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission (RREDC) to come up with a $1 million revenue guarantee — one of several prerequisites set forth by American Airlines for coming to Humboldt County.

RREDC’s board of directors is scheduled to authorize a contract for the guarantee at its Monday meeting. Public Works Director Tom Mattson was not immediately available for comment.

The deal comes amid labor disputes and merger/takeover talks with US Airways. American declared bankruptcy last November and continues to work through corporate reorganization. That process might eventually lead American to sell off American Eagle, the subsidiary company

that will provide local service.

When the Journal talked to American Airlines Market Development Manager Brett Hooyerink earlier this week he said that, prior to declaring Chapter 11, American was planning to sell off American Eagle by the end of last year.

Those plans are now on hold indefinitely, Hooyerink said, adding that a sell-off would have no effect on the local market. “The reason for divesting is to make American Eagle more competitive,” he explained. As a separate company, American Eagle could provide regional flights for mainline carriers besides American Airlines — in the same manner that SkyWest operates flights locally on behalf of United Express.

At the March 20 meeting of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, Public Works Director Tom Mattson said round-trip tickets to L.A. are expected to cost between $250 and $400.

Memo to SoCal bivalve fans: Your direct 90-minute flights up here start two days before the 2012 Arcata Oyster Festival. Just sayin’.

We’ll pass on more details as soon as we get ’em.

MUSIC, PARKS, REGGAE / BY BOB DORAN / MARCH 23, 12:12 P.M.

Reggae on the River – Still at Benbow There’s something about Reggae on the River that gets the rumor mill grinding. In the last month the Journal has heard from readers that the annual concert put on by the Mateel Community Center was “definitely moving to a new location,” away from Benbow, that everything was in place for relocating to Riverview Ranch, home of the Redwood Run, or that the show might move to Cooks Valley Campground near Richardson’s Grove and next door to the Dimmick Ranch, site of Reggae on the River 2006, and the home of the seemingly defunct renegade concert Reggae Rising.

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talent coordinator, pointed out one advantage of remaining at Benbow for Reggae: The other sites explored were for single stage shows.

As in the previous years, this summer’s Reggae will have two stages, which means more opportunities for local and regional acts.

Acts confirmed so far for Reggae on the River 2012 Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22, includes Toots and The Maytals, Midnite, Oliver Mtukudzi and Black Spirits, Pato Banton and the Now Generation, Yami Bolo, Calypso Rose, Romain Virgo, Nkulee Dube, Duane Stephenson, Tosh Meets Marley, Winston Jarrett and Guidance Band, I-Kronik, Yellow Wall Dub Squad and The Lions, with “more to come.”

While there’s much to do for this year’s concert, Crellin and company are also looking toward next year’s show. A note on the Mateel website says, “We are also thrilled to announce that we recently entered into a contract with French’s Camp, the original venue for Reggae On The River for its first 20 plus years, and are working diligently to see the event return home in 2013 and beyond (pending county and regulatory agency approval).”

Gaining that approval will undoubtedly prove a major task. And you can be sure a lot more unconfirmed rumors will pop up as they work through it. ●

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note on the Mateel’s website announcing that the start of ticket sales would be delayed: Instead of going on sale March 1, as previously announced, the date was pushed back to April 1. They said they were “working on some exciting venue and campground developments that will come to the great delight of our fans.”

When asked for specifics, the Mateel folks simply said they were “exploring some options” and that they’d let us know when plans were firm.

The Mateel board met earlier this week and made its decision. “We’re going to be at Benbow again,” said Mateel General Manager Justin Crellin, explaining that “there were just too many question marks” with the other options explored, which did, in fact, include Cooks Valley and Riverview Ranch.

Not that all questions are answered regarding remaining at Benbow State Recreation Area. The park is one of several dozen slated for closure by the state of California because of budget cuts. While park officials have assured the Mateel that there’s no issue with use of the meadow area along the Eel River for the concert and for the Mateel’s annual Summer Arts and Music Festival in early June, the future of the campground is still in doubt. According to Crellin, park officials have been negotiating with a third party vendor who may take over park management, but that deal is not yet concluded. In the meantime, Mateel staff will handle camping reservations at the Benbow campground for Summer Arts and will open the campground themselves. “We only recently reached an agreement with the park on that,” said Crellin. “We’ll open up to our vendors first, then go to public sales.” The camping setup for Reggae on the River remains uncertain. “The option for camping will be there. We just don’t know how it will work,” he said.

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By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg editor@northcoastjournal.com

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ordering Highway 101, as if inviting a monkey wrench daydream, are 30 or so billboards that block views of Humboldt Bay and its surroundings. They intrude on vistas of shimmering tidal flats where shorebirds poke their beaks into the mud, or on green, gleaming wetlands where cattle graze.

And they endure. Wes Chesbro and Dan Hauser tilted at billboards back in the 1970s, when both men were on the Arcata City Council. No luck.

The North Coast Railroad Authority sued in 2010, trying to get 14 billboards along the bay pulled down.

No luck. In May 2011, just a few weeks before the trial would have begun, authority lawyer Christopher Neary found an old legal settlement that just “blew us out of the water,” he recalled last week. The 1993 document basically acknowledged that many of the billboards are on land owned by Bracut Lumber Co., and Bracut has the right to lease them out to advertisers. The suit was dismissed.

Neary still plans to ask his board next month to take on two billboards not included in that settlement. Both are very close to the freeway on the water side of 101, but Neary isn’t sure what they’re advertising right now.

Caltrans, meanwhile, revoked permits in August for two billboards, one advertising Bailey Mortgage and the other NHS Hydroponics. Caltrans argues that the landowner, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, hasn’t given permission for them to be there. CBS, which owns the billboards on Fish and Wildlife land, is appealing, and an administrative law judge is scheduled to hear that case in May. If people really dislike billboards, there’s a simple solution, according to one landowner who rents space to billboard companies.

“They can buy the property and do whatever they want with it,” says Jim Hoff, who co-owns land along the bay from roughly the Indianola cutoff to a line of eucalyptus trees to the south. His property hosts four or five billboards, by his own count, including ones advertising Applebee’s and the Best Western Humboldt Bay Inn. “If somebody makes me a reasonable offer, I’m certainly not going to turn them down,” Hoff says.

“I’m in business.”

In case you can’t afford that, you can always vote in the North Coast Journal’s Ugliest Billboard Contest. The contestants line Highway 101 where it borders the bay, running from the bridge over the Eureka slough on to the Samoa Boulevard exit in Arcata. You tell us which one of the billboards and other sundry signage — more than any other — makes this an uglier place to live. ●

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The Death of Redevelopment With agency gone, what will happen now on Eureka’s waterfront?

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

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n Jan. 10 in a dark City Hall conference room, Director of Eureka Redevelopment Cindy Trobitz-Thomas clicks through a slideshow of renovated Victorians and storefronts. Her hair is piled in a loose bun on the top of her head. On the screen, a scrubby lot in front of some dilapidated brick buildings transforms into the gazebo fountain. A condemned drug house is reborn as a classic Victorian. A row of teetering stilted shacks along the water is replaced by the boardwalk.

She blinks her eyes.

“Sometimes it makes me emotional,” she says.

Special Projects Coordinator Marie Liscom smiles at her in the light of the projector. The two have been working together long enough to seem like sisters. Today they showed up to work wearing matching embroidered scarves.

“Well, Old Town wouldn’t

look like it does now if it weren’t for redevelopment going in there and making some infrastructure improvements and encouraging people to invest down there,” says Liscom.

The photos don’t lie. Many of the buildings are unrecognizable in their former state, boarded with splintering plywood. As the images come up on the screen, TrobitzThomas and Liscom reminisce as if looking at a family album. They are still reeling from the state Supreme Court’s decision to uphold legislation that eliminated the 425 redevelopment agencies across California. Why are they still smiling?

“Maybe because we’re crazy,” sighs Trobitz-Thomas.

As of Feb. 1,

California redevelopment agencies were officially dissolved. They have until June 30 to settle their affairs and close up shop. In the short term, the end of redevelopment will mean freeing up an estimated $1 billion for the state’s disastrous budget. What it will mean over time is more difficult to say. In Eureka, redevelopment has brought life and commerce back to Old Town and the waterfront area, built underground utilities and helped people buy their first homes. Redevelopment has also

SECOND AND F STREETS, EUREKA: THE GAZEBO IN OLD TOWN WAS BUILT PARTLY TO BLOCK THE VIEW OF A THEN-DILAPIDATED BUILDING BETWEEN IT AND THE WATERFRONT. PHOTO BY DREW HYLAND ON THE COVER EUREKA’S WATERFRONT, TODAY, COMPARED WITH 1995 PHOTOS IN THE LOWER RIGHT. MAIN PHOTO BY DREW HYLAND,

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been a major funding source for the Eureka Main Street program, which runs community events like Arts Alive. A few projects on the waterfront still remain unfinished, and their fate lies not only with the City Council as successor agency, but also with an as-yet-unformed Oversight Committee. Now, when the need for economic stimulus is so strong, redevelopment is gone, and it’s unclear what will fill the void or when.

The goal of redevelopment agencies was to bring back neighborhoods in decline by improving buildings, roads and public places. This meant restoring historic buildings, fixing or creating affordable housing, cleaning up contaminated areas, and building and maintaining parks and other open spaces. Redevelopment agencies also wanted to encourage private investment in business and downtown districts. The idea was that removing blight made for safer, more livable communities and brought jobs and growth to areas that might otherwise have been abandoned.

People could live and work on Main Street again instead of sprawling further out to the edges of town.

Humboldt State University economics Professor Beth Wilson says that such improvements in business and residential areas can act as “kindling for the fire,” attracting private investors who might not have taken such a substantial risk otherwise and bringing new money into the area in the form of jobs and commerce.

Since the 1960s, cities and counties have had the power

to establish local redevelopment agencies.

After that, the agencies functioned as separate units. Redevelopment agencies identified areas of blight as defined by California law — neighborhoods with physically dangerous or unusable buildings, and/or serious economic problems like falling property values, struggling or nonexistent businesses, crime and overcrowding. Agencies mapped out areas for redevelopment and planned improvements. Then they went into debt.

All agency projects intentionally started out in debt as a way to finance improvements. To get going, new agencies sometimes borrowed public funds, and later they frequently issued Tax Allocation Bonds (TABs). They borrowed money to complete a project, and when the property value for the project area went up, they used the increased taxes, or tax increment, from the project area to repay the loan.

Without redevelopment, any increased

ABOVE IN THE 1970S, BEFORE REDEVELOPMENT FUNDS HELPED MOVE UTILITY LINES UNDERGROUND, THESE LINES WERE NEAR THE BUILDING THAT NOW HOUSES THE LINEN CLOSET. LEFT EUREKA’S WATERFRONT IN THE 1990s, BEFORE THE BOARDWALK WENT IN. FAR LEFT THE INTERSECTION OF SECOND AND F STREETS SOMETIME IN THE 1970S, BEFORE THE GAZEBO WAS INSTALLED, LOOKING TOWARD WHAT IS NOW SNUG ALLEY. PHOTOS COURTESY OF EUREKA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

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Once upon a time, downtown Eureka was a little rough. The fishing and lumber industries kept bars and brothels busy up until about the 1950’s. In a photo of what is now Oberon Grill, Liscom and

and there is even talk of outdoor concerts and the farmer’s market being held in the open square in front of the terminal. The transformation is remarkable, and it didn’t come cheap. City Manager David Tyson estimates the cost of the Waterfront Revitalization Project at about $60 million,

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a strip-steak shaped area spanning the waterfront and downtown area. A photo of the boardwalk area in the 1990s shows a lot at the water’s edge teeming with garbage and abandoned washing machines.

The Waterfront Revitalization Project carried out over the past decade includes the new boardwalk, the Bayfront 1 building, the new C Street dock, the rebuilt boat basin, and the new Fishermen’s Terminal.

“Our waterfront was historically industrial, so people turned their backs on it because it wasn’t pretty,” says Trobitz-

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property taxes in the same area would have gone to schools, community colleges, county governments, and special districts that supported everything from firefighting to libraries to sewer systems.

Over time, the tax money being scooped up by redevelopment agencies grew and grew, reaching more than $5 billion annually before the state killed the redevelopment system.

Now, $1.8 billion of that money is expected to flow back annually to cities, counties, schools and special districts, according to the governor’s office. Another roughly $2.4 billion annually will be used to pay off remaining redevelopment debts. The rest will go to public agencies that had worked out special pacts over the years to snag a share of the redevelopment cash. Each year, those figures will change as remaining debts dwindle.

And the state will be a big winner.

Remember that $1.8 billion to schools and local agencies? Since the state used to replace what schools lost to redevelopment, the state budget at first will get a $1 billion boost annually, because it won’t have to pony up the replacement money anymore. (Schools, essentially, break even — the money just comes from a different source now.)

In Eureka, the redevelopment agency received $4.9 million in tax dollars during the last fiscal year. Almost all of that has been tentatively earmarked to pay various debts and other obligations, according to Eric Neumann, who handles accounting for the redevelopment effort. However, the state and the local oversight committee will make the final decisions about what money goes where.

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Boat basin in the late 1990s …

… compared with the post-2000 marina.

Marina area, in the late 1990s before redevelopment work …

… and post-2000.

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Trobitz-Thomas point out the narrowly spaced upstairs windows — for rooms that only needed to fit a single bed. By the 1970s, when the City Council established the Redevelopment Agency, the brothels were gone, but Old Town was run down and seedy, with vacant lots and vacant storefronts. It was the very picture of blight.

“When we were kids, that was a scary part of town,” says Trobitz-Thomas.

It’s a little hard to believe, strolling past the corner of Second and F streets with a latte on a Sunday morning, that the gazebo was designed partly to cover up what was once an eyesore of a building which is now home to a chocolatier. Liscom and Trobitz-Thomas describe a kind of domino-effect in the area as buildings and streets were improved and businesses moved back in. In April of 1992, when Trobitz-Thomas and Judy Harrison spent a Saturday writing an application for the Eureka Main Street program and riding out the 7.2 quake, the vacancy rate on the bottom floors of the 49-block zone was 14 percent. Now it’s less than 4 percent, Trobitz-Thomas says.

Looks, it turns out, are important. The Façade Program, which was run by the redevelopment-funded Eureka Main Street, provided relatively small loans of about $15,000 each for historical preservation, exterior lighting and storefront signs. The loans were more like grants, as they were forgiven after five years so long as the building owner did not sell the property. This was meant to discourage “flipping” properties and to encourage stability in the area.

According to Executive Director of Eureka Main Street Charlotte McDonald, “It was a small investment that the city had to make, and it really generated a lot of private investment.” Some buildings were simply cleaned, scraped and painted, while others involved “slip-cover removal,” the peeling away of layers of stucco that covered the original facades.

Some 64 building facades have been restored since 1992. So if you stop to admire a building while walking downtown, chances are it’s had a little work done.

Other buildings needed more than a nip and tuck. Liscom and Trobitz-Thomas wince as they recount a heap of a house they visited before it was rehabilitated and sold to a first-time buyer. The vacant house had been taken over by squatters and nearly destroyed.

Liscom waves her hand at the photo of the house. “There were that fires that burned the siding because people were trying to live there,” she recalls.

“You’d go in and there was garbage and bottles filled with pee. … I felt so dirty,” adds Trobitz-Thomas with a shiver. The entire structure was cleaned out, gutted and repaired into a safe, comfortable home. Unlike agencies in other cities, Eureka Redevelopment didn’t have to use the controversial eminent domain laws to condemn and seize property against the owner’s will. Instead, it was able to work out agreements and pay market value for properties. Homeowners, too, were able to make improvements through the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, which paid for painting and repairing 71 run-down homes in redevelopment zones for $1.5 million.

The same fund made 165 first-time homebuyer loans, totaling approximately $9.5 million. The agency even helped place first-

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Gov. Jerry Brown and other

critics of redevelopment saw it as a drain on the state’s budget. The Legislative Analyst’s Office in its report titled “Should California End Redevelopment Agencies?” states that while redevelopment has the potential to improve designated zones and increase affordable housing, those benefits don’t necessarily carry over to the rest of the state. The report also points to the tax money that redevelopment pulls away from schools, special districts and other agencies. California redevelopment has also been criticized for abuses, favoring connected businesses and contract bidders, as well as for stretching the definition of “blight” and not providing enough low-income housing. The Legislative Analyst’s Office also notes a lack of oversight as a serious problem. Professor Wilson of HSU points out that in any government endeavor, “there is

A TRASH PILE IN FRONT OF FISH AND GAME AT THE FOOT OF G STREET — NOW BOARDWALK. PHOTO COURTESY OF EUREKA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

always waste, but what they are trying to do is laudable.” Still, she says, “there really are no good solutions” in a budget crisis this severe, and cutting funding for education or social programs would be just as difficult, “with hugely detrimental effects across the board.”

In Sacramento, Interim Executive Director of the California Redevelopment Association Jim Kennedy says his organization is working to “unfold a train wreck.”

While the agencies are allowed and in fact obligated to repay their debts, or “enforceable obligations,” it’s somewhat

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unclear how that is to be carried out. The statute that’s meant to delineate the process is “inconsistent,” says Kennedy, and he and a crew of lawyers and staffers are struggling to make it work with existing regulations. The Legislative Analyst’s Office has since recommended changes to the Byzantine legislation. Agencies across California are winding down, finishing up what projects they can and preparing to close up shop by June 30. Kennedy estimates that somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 people who work for redevelopment agencies around the state will lose

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their jobs, a figure that doesn’t include the workers who carry out all the renovation and construction in redevelopment areas.

The California Redevelopment Association itself is trying to determine if it will continue.

“The needs have not gone away simply because the tool was eliminated,” says Kennedy. As for what will come next, he expects a further economic slowdown in California without the boost from redevelopment. In his opinion, California needs economic stimulus and affordable housing more than ever. “It was the single largest local financing source for afford-

able housing, so it’ll put a huge dent in the ability to finance those kinds of projects,” he says. Also, the state’s resources for contamination cleanup are now severely limited. “In the next five to 10 years,” he warns, “California will be behind the eight ball in trying to deal with some of these larger issues.” Professor Wilson agrees, noting that for rural communities, the end of redevelopment could be “especially detrimental because so many of those (redevelopment) funds are going toward economic development projects to help a community get themselves onto a path of sustainable development” that could keep itself rolling without further government funding. “It’s not going to happen by itself,” she says, and “five years down the road, it’s very likely we’re not going to like what we see.”

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the mural program, Arts Alive and other community programs, drew $90,600 of its $145,000 budget from redevelopment this fiscal year. McDonald hopes the city of Eureka will help fill that gap for the next fiscal year, which starts in July, so that Main Street can continue. The organization provides the necessary insurance for events like the Fourth of July festival, the summer concert series and Arts Alive. It’s hard to quantify the importance of these kinds of events in a community like Eureka — their value goes beyond the revenues of restaurants, bars, shops and galleries.

Festivals, street fairs and public art feed the soul of a city.

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ends, Liscom and Trobitz-Thomas leave the lights off.

Liscom is disappointed, but not shocked, given the cuts being made throughout the state. “What’s sad is that as budgets get tighter and tighter, the quality of life stuff is the stuff that goes,” she says. “Because you’ve got the basics to provide.”

Trobitz-Thomas nods in agreement.

“This is also a difficult time for developers to get financing. And our involvement made it more bankable. … This is our community and we love it. This is home. I was born and raised here … part of it’s disbelief, but part of it’s just, now what? I’ll probably retire — I mean, I’m older than she is, so.” The women laugh for a second.

Local legend contends that Jack London once brawled here on Second STreet with the owner of Pacific Lumber. Photo by Drew Hyland

“But I wanted to retire when things were a little further along,” she continues.

“There’s more to do, but I think what we’ve accomplished is phenomenal. What the community has accomplished — I mean we have the businesses, the historic preservation. I mean, we have preserved and enhanced a community that is very unusual. It’s just not going to … it’s going to be harder to move forward.”

“And harder for those things to be maintained,” adds Liscom.

“But we don’t know,” says TrobitzThomas.

Over a month and a half later on Leap Day, Cindy Trobitz-Thomas’s office is still full of plants and paintings instead of boxes.

“It takes a while to kill us,” she jokes.

The sign on the door still says “Redevelopment,” but her team isn’t supposed to work under that name anymore. Likely they’ll be called “Economic Development and Housing” as they wind down.

Day to day, the staff of six is still running the Housing and Economic Development programs, as well as finishing up redevelopment’s commitments by the June 30 deadline. The hope is that most or all of the employees will be absorbed into other departments.

Remaining projects are still up in the air, including a stable on a scrap of land by the Fisherman’s Terminal to house the horse and carriage and a hotel on the lot between D and E on the waterfront. There are also grandiose plans for an aqua-park with a swimming pool by the water, the playfully named Mission Swimpossible, which would hold events and swim meets.

Surrounded by water as Eureka is, there are currently few places to swim or learn how. Some of these projects might still happen. The oversight committee will have members from the fire district, College of the Redwoods, the county supervisors, the school district, and other local tax entities.

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That oversight committee can decide whether to complete or abandon current plans for development. The committee could also decide to sell the 10 acres of waterfront property previously owned by the redevelopment agency to highest bidder. And if that buyer chooses to sit on it, the land could lie dormant indefinitely.

“What we’re hoping,” Trobitz-Thomas says, “is that they will not look at the immediate gain, but what’s best for the community.”

In the meantime, the staff members of the former Redevelopment Agency keep working, hoping they’ll be able to sell the committee on their plans.

Trobitz-Thomas is chairing the upcoming California Association for Local Economic Development conference, entitled “Empowering Economic Development to Embrace Opportunity,” and she’s excited about the interest she’s seeing from the redevelopment and economic development community. “People are searching for a place where they can go and be a part of figuring out the solution.” It may take a few years, but they are starting to work on finding ways to get the same kind of work done. Trobitz-Thomas is not hoping redevelopment will be resurrected, but she’s hoping the Legislature will help bring back pieces of it, like some form of tax increment financing. “We’re going to have to be a little bit more creative,” she smiles. “People are not giving up. And that’s a testament to people in this kind of profession in California. They care.” l

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First gluten as Dr. Jekyll: The long molecules of gluten (insoluble in water) make for “resilient and stretchy” dough. “If you are making bread, you want gluten in the dough, so that when it’s baking the walls of the little air pockets formed by yeast expand but don’t burst open,” according to a 2009 Harvard Health Letter.

From the same source, we also get a description of gluten as Mr. Hyde: “In the context of celiac disease, gluten refers to the protein of grains capable of provoking an autoimmune response. Other grains also contain protein, but wheat, barley, rye and spelt contain varieties that aren’t broken down by digestive enzymes.” When the proteins are absorbed into the walls of the small intestine of those with celiac disease, the immune system views them as intruders and unleashes an inflammatory response that damages the intestinal villi, which, as a result, “produce fewer digestive

enzymes and absorb fewer nutrients.” This damage does not occur in people with either gluten sensitivity or wheat allergy. The treatment for celiac disease is a gluten-free diet for life. Once such diet is started, the body begins to repair the existing damage and further damage is prevented.

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Wheat is among the top eight food allergens in the United States, the others being milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, crustacean shellfish and soy. People allergic to wheat usually do not need to avoid other grains, like rye, barley or oats.

As awareness about celiac disease and gluten sensitivity has increased, knowledge about gluten-free options and products tailored to people who need to eliminate gluten from their diet have increased as well. Fruits and vegetables, tree nuts and seeds (e.g., flax, quinoa), fresh fish and eggs are among foods naturally free of gluten and so are rice and corn. While wheat, rye

free desserts (that are also and barley flours are off the nut, egg and dairy free). menu, flours from gluten-free A couple During the class, we foods are in: chestnut, chickmade chocolate chip pea, potato, quinoa, sorghum, of pointers cookies and tartlets with tapioca and teff flours, for For people who a chocolate filling. Divided example. want to learn more into teams, we all used While they may sound about celiac disease: the same recipe and the unfamiliar, these are not new Start with the online same gluten-free flour mix flours. Chestnut flour is the University of Chicago to make pie dough for main ingredient of castagCeliac Disease Center: the tartlets. To make the naccio, a traditional Tuscan www.cureceliacdisease. cookies, on the other hand, cake with raisins and pine org, in particular, the fact each team received instrucnuts, flavored with rosemary. sheets www.cureceliactions to create a different The kind of large, unleavdisease.org/living-withgluten-free flour blend. The ened pancake called socca celiac/guide/fact-sheets. resulting cookies were difin southeastern France and And the University ferent in look, texture and farinata in nearby Liguria of Maryland Center for flavor and provided a sense (Italy) is made with chickpea Celiac Research: www. of the range of options flour. And teff flour is used in celiaccenter.org, in paropen to people willing to Eritrea and Ethiopia to make ticular, the FAQ pages for experiment. the spongy yeasted flatbread celiac disease and gluten Gluten-free flour mixes called injera (which doubles sensitivity. ● for various uses are comas an eating implement). mercially available, but Gluten-free flours and people may develop their starches are interesting inown. To do so, a knowledge gredients not only to people of the characteristics of each type of adversely affected by gluten, but also to flour is needed. A handout on gluten-free those like me, who simply want to broaden baking from the Colorado State Univertheir gustatory horizons. Both groups were sity Extension lists 19 types of gluten-free among those attending a recent class on flours and starches and their characterisgluten-free baking held at the Eureka Cotics. In gluten-free baking, eggs can replace op. Instructors Rosa May Dixon and Milia many of the functions that gluten usually Lando are the owners of Natural Decaprovides in baked goods. Xanthan gum or dence, a local bakery focusing on gluten-

guar gum are used (in small amounts) as thickeners and binders.

While there is not enough space here to go into everything we learned, I encourage you to try some gluten-free flours in your baked goods. Dixon and Lando repeat the gluten-free baking class mentioned above on Tuesday, May 22, at the Eureka Co-op and offer a more advanced class on Thursday, May 31.

To end on a sweet note, here is a glutenfree recipe for biscotti that uses a combination of sorghum, tapioca and rice flour.

Living without gluten certainly does not mean living without the pleasure offered by biting on a biscotto. Even if you don’t need to worry about gluten, you may still want to try the distinctive flavor and texture of these biscotti. I’m glad I did. ●

Gluten-Free Biscotti

Recipe courtesy of Rebecca Burke of Natural Decadence — based on Simona’s version of biscotti

Ingredients:

1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) butter, softened 1/3 cup granulated sugar 3 eggs 1 tsp gluten-free vanilla extract 3 tsp gluten-free anise extract 1 cup sorghum flour 1/2 cup tapioca flour 1/2 white or brown rice flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp xanthan gum 1/8 tsp salt 3.5 oz chopped dark chocolate (optional) 1 cup coarsely chopped almonds (optional)

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs and extracts.

Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl and slowly add creamed mixture. Mix by hand until combined. If using, add almonds and/or chocolate and incorporate. Turn dough out onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper or foil. Shape dough into a log approximately 3/4” high by 4” wide.

Bake log at 350 degree for 20 minutes. Cool for 5-10 minutes.

Transfer log onto cutting board and

cut log at slight diagonal into 1/2” pieces and arrange on baking sheet.

Reduce heat to 300 degrees and bake 40 minutes or until the desired doneness.

Want more chocolate? Try dipping ends in melted chocolate or spreading it on one side and sprinkling it with sliced almonds for a more finished look.

Simona’s note: chocolate and/ or almonds can be omitted, based on dietary requirements. Being free from such requirements, I used both, while omitting the anise extract to satisfy household’s taste.

The household (my husband) really liked these biscotti.

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By Bob Doran

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here’s a good chance you haven’t His latest, Crossing the Path By Torchlight, is a heard of Ensemble Economique, the gorgeous set of ambient sound-sculptures with solo project of Brian Pyle, but that whispering synths and voices and complex name is rhythms. internaHe sees tionally renowned the latest EE in certain alt. tracks (found music circles. Pyle on Soundhas half a dozen Cloud) as EE albums out on another step small but prestiforward: “I’m gious European still using and American the concepts labels (and many of sound more by Starving sculpting, Weirdos, his duo but more with Merrick in a dark McKinlau). synth-pop Pyle took singer mode SW to Europe with lyrics last year, did a and song solo French tour structures, earlier this year exploring and is about that directo embark on tion — but another. “I start I should say, in Paris next week that’s ‘pop’ then go to Spain, in a very back to France, loose, openthen Belgium, Am- Brian Pyle: Ensemble Economique. photo by Bob Doran ended use sterdam, Italy, on to of the word.”

Russia,” he noted, calling from his home/studio That’s the EE sound you’ll hear Thursday at the in Manila. “But first I play Arcata, Thursday Jambalaya where he’ll be joined by local alt. night at Jambalaya.” alt. faves Creepy Marbles, Dr. Fox Meat and Pyle’s nom de band actually came from associates. Be prepared to be amazed.

“Los Ensemble Economique,” a radio show he’s Bellingham-based drummer/vocalist Jordan been hosting on KHSU for a decade, playing Rain, aka Yogoman from Planet Yog, returns what he calls “freeform underground music,” for two Yogoman Burning Band shows at an apt description of his own sound.

Humboldt Brews, a double dose of bass-heavy, He says, “Ensemble Economique has taken horn-laden party music with ska/reggae influsome pretty wild turns. My debut record for ences. Being a family-friendly band (Jordan’s Digitalis [At the Foot of Nameless Roads] was dad is the bass player), YBB digs all ages shows, really raw and left-field, kind of Japanese-bent, so, after a gig for grownups at HumBrews Fridark, intense, distorted music with sparse day night, YBB returns Saturday at noon to play drums and free form guitar prog workouts.” for kids, parents, etc. (The Fickle Hill Billies It was the beginning of something he calls rock HumBrews that night.) “soundtracky” experimentation. “MorriconeSaturday marks the third anniversary of esque” is how he describes his Standing Still, the opening of Eureka nightclub Nocturnum, Facing Forward record, with its “serious orand it’s celebrating with Heavyweight Dub chestrations with timpani and big brass sounds, Champion. While Noc is known for dubstep cellos.” Another disc, Psychical, could serve as (Trevor Kelly and Rinsed Krew womp the a soundtrack of some Spanish vampire flick. next Womp Womp Wednesday), HDC is not

a dubstep band — think “sonic shamanistic alchemy” with roots in old school dub, hip hop and electronica. Resurrector is at the controls joined by co-conspirators Sasha Rose and Dakini Star from Goddess Alchemy and Dr. Israel, “pushing out the next phase in their mission to prepare the world for the coming of The Last Champion.”

Arcata Playhouse concludes its version of March Madness Thursday with a pair of mad creative songwriters, Dan Bern and John Ludington. Bern is in the Guthrie/Dylan/ Springsteen tradition, a storyteller who spins tales in song (he’s a novelist too). But he also has a fine-tuned sense of humor, as evidenced by the material he wrote for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the faux Johnny Cash biopic starring John C Reilly. You may have seen Mr. Ludington playing bass for Absynth Quintet, but that won’t really prepare you for the surreal, twisted folk songs he’s crafted on his latest disc, Finn.

Coming up next Tuesday at the Playhouse, another songwriter, Anais Mitchell, this one from Vermont and in the post-folk, borderingon-indie-rock zone. Local sweetheart Lyndsey Battle opens.

The Redwood Jazz Alliance tries something different with Friday’s show at the Graves Museum: a jazz vocalist. San Francisco-based Kitty Margolis is what the RJA folks term “a musician’s singer” with great tone and phrasing, and flashes of Ella and the like in her scat singing. Nice. She’s coming with her usual pianist, Murray Low, bassist John Schifflett and her friend Allison Miller on drums. Warning: come early, as this will likely be SRO. RJA had Miller’s band Boom Tic Boom last October for a truly great show. Allison is here for the weekend and will play a show Sunday at the Arcata Playhouse with her Brooklynbased band, Honey Ear Trio, with Erik Lawrence on sax and flute, Rene Hart on bass and electronics (looping) with extra added very special guest Jenny Scheinman on violin, who, incidentally, is in Boom Tic Boom and is once again a local.

Tribute du jour: The ultimate Grateful Dead cover band Dark Star Orchestra, known for dead-on recreations of entire GD setlists, is fresh from a European tour, back on the bus and headed for the Arcata Theater Lounge for

a mind-bending show on Tuesday, April 3, an evening of hippie nostalgia.

Meanwhile, same Tuesday, across town at Humboldt Brews, it’s 21st century psychedelia from Rubblebucket. Now based in Brooklyn, the octet’s roots lie in the musical union of vocalist/saxophonist Kalmia Traver and trumpet player/band leader Alex Toth, who met while studying music at U-Vermont. After a stint with the reggae band John Brown’s Body, they started exploring the outer edges of indie rock with their own band, drawing influences from all over the map — everything from Bjork to Flaming Lips and African music — to create a sound that does not really fit into any predefined genre. For an advance taste point your browser to www.rubblebucket.com and you’ll find your screen filled with a vid from the band’s new DVD/CD Live from Chicago.

Awesome.

Conscious reggae? Stop by the Jambalaya Saturday where Abja and Danny I from the Virgin Islands hold court backed by The Lions of Kush. DJ Livingearth of Dancing Buddha Sound opens. On Wednesday, the Jam has the legendary Mykal Rose from Black Uhuru backed by Reggae Angels.

Looking for some blues? The Uptown Kings play Friday night at Bear River Casino. The band first came together at Jambalaya jams but has moved beyond that to become the tightest blues outfit in town with bassist Dale Cash out front on vocals, guitarist Andy Widman slipping in tasty licks, Ron Perry wailing on harp, and the latest addition, Bill Moehnke on drums. Good stuff.

Then there’s Ron Hacker and The Hacksaws, house band at the S.F. North Beach blues joint called The Saloon, who head out on a rare road trip including a Saturday stop at that infamous blues roadhouse the Riverwood Inn. Got a call from Stars Tuesday morning: Chris Colland from Eureka Garbage Co. was checking to see if we’d heard about the Placebo show Friday at the Ink Annex. (We had not.) “We’re playing with Chain and the Gang,” said Chris. “That’s the guy from The Makeup, a big-shot ‘90s band. The other band is Bitch Doctor, which is Jesse’s little brother Joel’s band. The whole thing is early, 6-10, because of the cranky guy who lives across the street at the towing yard.” The big brother “Jesse” Chris mentions is his Stars coworker Jesse Pearson (formerly of The Buffy Swayze) who fronts Radios in Caves with John and Jaquinn (ex-The Great Salvation) and Kris Swan (also in EKA Garbage). RiC brings what Jesse calls “that damaged Eureka sound” to the Alibi Saturday night with PDX rockers Radiation City, a band with some unique merch. In the course of creating some new tracks, the guys destroyed an old piano (and videotaped the process a la Burn to Shine). The piano’s keys were then attached to USB sticks holding all the music from the RC EP Cool Nightmare, just the thing for the post-CD generation. ●

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Harmony Sorter as Swanhilda dressed up as Coppelia, and Mark Hapgood as Dr. Coppélius in Coppélia photo by Ken Mierzwa

It Takes a Village Coppélia, Of Time and Rhythm and Dance Ink Day

By Stephanie Silvia dance@northcoastjournal.com

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efore the modern age of nuclear families, human beings lived in closely knit groups of tribes and villages. The seriously committed extended family was a part of everyday life. Today, not so much. It can get lonely. So, we do stuff together.

The pursuits we follow bring us into instant pockets of intentional communities. We forge tribes and find connection in shared interests. We inhabit our own shifting villages as we gather for activities that bring us together. The performing arts serve as a great unifier of kindred spirits; artists become part of an active subculture. In traditional village life, dancing together was integral to the life of the village. In Humboldt there are many small dance scenes. Bringing them together, now and again, is integral to keeping the dance community thriving.

Heather Sorter of the Upper Studio in Bayside founded the Humboldt Dance Alliance, a DreamMaker project of the Ink People Center for the Arts, to serve as a foundation for annual full-length ballets

she directs and produces. Sorter, a mother of two and a stunning dancer whose career includes dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, says she, “wanted to give my experience of ballet training and performance — to recreate it here.” Besides the boon for the audience, it’s a gift to the dancers, who come from many different studios to perform in her ballets. After the success of last spring’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Sorter is tackling Coppélia, a comedic ballet that premiered in 1870.

At rehearsal at the Pan Arts Studio in Arcata, modern dance instructor Bonnie Hossack, at Sorter’s behest, reimagines the Prayer Dance from Coppélia with a quartet of ballerinas. Leslie Castellano of Synapsis is also collaborating on this section with performers who will be hanging from aerial silks above. Anything Castellano is involved in proves to be both physically and emotionally gratifying. So is Hossack’s movement ingenuity, evident as she negotiates “the challenge of trying to incorporate the aerial work with the dance on the floor,” with sweeping floor

patterns that weave cloth and performers.

The ballet dancers rehearsing with Hossack acknowledged the value of working with dancers and choreographers outside of their home studios. “It’s really cool to get exposure to different people,” said Emily Curtis, echoed by 14-year-old Delaney Goodman, who finds it “interesting to see people’s flair,” the personal expression they bring to their dancing. Her older sister, Dakota, says she enjoys “learning why they love to dance,” perhaps broadening her own definition of the art form she’s been pursuing most of her young life. Iris Van Atta, who has danced principal classical roles, said she’s “appreciative of the opportunity and the exposure of being in a big ballet here in Arcata.”

Much of Coppélia is filled with village scenes replete with balletic versions of the traditional folk dances, the Mazurka and Czardas, choreographed here by Sorter’s sister, Holly McGovern. It is such fun to watch art and reality play as the temporary village of 35 dancers step out onto the town square to dance their village dances, keeping it all alive.

Coppélia runs Friday, March 30, and Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m. at HSU’s Van Duzer Theater with a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee. Advance tickets at Threadbare Dancewear in Arcata and Berliner’s Cornucopia in Eureka: $15, $10 for children under 12. At the door $20, $12 for under 12.

21 at Redwood Raks, a marathon dance concert to benefit the Ink People Center for the Arts. Companies, choreographers and dancers from all over the county are converging to raise funds for the Ink People, our local public cultural development organization. This unique concert experience will showcase the talented dance artists of Humboldt in short, backto-back performances running continuously from 4-8 p.m. —$10 gets you a hand stamp with in-and-out privileges. If you’re thinking that sounds like too long a show, you might find out when your friends are performing and drop in then, or come early, come late, or come in the middle. Just be sure to come and be part of the dance village for a day. For more information contact Carrie Maschmeier at the Ink People at 707-442-8413 or carrie.ink.people@gmail.com. l

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The HSU Dance Studies Program presents its spring concert, Of Time and Rhythm, April 11 through April 14 at 7:30 p.m. and April 15 at 2 p.m. at the Van Duzer Theater. Director Sharon Butcher is restaging her hilarious work from a few years back, No Ecosystems Were Harmed During the Making of this Dance, with an able cast of 20. Imagine belly dancing Statues of Liberty gyrating in costumes made from over-lapping layers of plastic bottles and ballerinas with their feet in plastic wastebaskets, trying to be graceful while dancing in buckets. A must-see. The concert also includes Constellations from the repertory of faculty member Erin Fernandez McKeever, a fast-paced piece performed en pointe that challenges its cast with dicey ensemble footwork and nuanced phrasing. Look forward to new pieces by faculty and students to make up the rest of the program. If last year’s‘ concert was any indication, this show should kick some butt. Many of this talented crop of dancers, who can hoof it like mad and choreograph engaging work, were freshmen and sophomores then — they should be back this year in full force. Admission is $10, $8 for students and seniors. For more information call: The HSU Department of Theater, Film and Dance 826-3566.

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Karaoke with Chris Clay 8pm

Quiz Night 7pm Karaoke w/ KJ Leonard 8pm

Karaoke w/Chris Clay 8pm 9-ball tournament 8pm

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Free Pool & $3 Wells Gin & Guitar Stan (country) 5-7pm

Rule #1: Suck it up!

Rule #2: Learn rule #1

Mimosa Mondays $3.00 pints of Mimosas all day long!

Fish Taco Tuesdays $3.50 for one $7.00 for two

Weensday: all Ween from 4:30-10pm AND 10% off your order!

Open at noon every day Happy Hour 3-6pm

Open Mic 8:30pm

Rubblebucket (rock-ro-beat) 9pm $10

Not your average “pub grub!”

World Class in Your Glass

Wine Bar overlooking the Arcata Plaza

We ship wine!

Certified!

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The other Red Lion

Book your band at the Lil’ Red Lion Call 444-1344

Repeat: We got beer.

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Double Dread Imperial Red on tap

Growler refills $3 off

Upside Drown/Mr. Moonbeam 6pm

Pints For Non Profits Dell’Arte (cabaret) 6pm

Deep Groove Society 9pm

Mykal Rose & Reggae Angels 9pm $25

FINE ITALIAN DINING FULL BAR • HOUSE-MADE PASTA On the Plaza in Jacoby’s Storehouse 791 8th Street, Arcata 826-2345 call for reservations

7 Days a Week 5 - 9 p.m.

WWW: Trevor Kelly/Rinsed Krew 9p Rude Lion Sound (reggae) 8pm GLDT/ALLY Open Mic 2:30-4pm

Come sit and sip!

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Open mic w/ Mike Anderson (music/spoken) 6:30pm

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Tequila Tuesdays muchas variedades

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1/2 off pool!

$1 hot dogs

$5 8-ball tourney 8pm

Beer Pong.

Blues Jam 9pm

Break Dancing with REX 5-10pm $10

Tasting Room open Mon-Thu 4-10pm Swing Dance Night 7:30-10:30pm $5

Michael David (acoustic variety) 6-9pm no cover

Spoken Word Night Open mic, 2 pcs/5 min limit 6pm

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Happy Day! Happy hour all day!

Get Growlers filled!

West African Drum/Dance 5:30-7pm $10

Hoop Dance w/ Nicole 5:30-7:30pm, two classes

The fine taste tasting room

Zuzu’s Petals (jazz) 6:30-9:30pm

DJ MXMSTR KRSHN2N 10pm Karaoke 8pm Wallace and Phines noon-3pm Jimi Jeff Open Jam 8pm

Lunchbox’s Karaoke 8pm w/ sushi specials

Sunny Brae Jazz 8pm w/ fried chicken

St. John: Unplugged 8pm

Open Sun-Thu 4-11pm Fri-Sat 4pm-2am

Guess the password: HINT: hot and sweet

SugaFoot (trumpet/guitar duo) 6pm

Wednesday Happy Hour 4-6:30pm

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JAZZ DRUMMER ALLISON MILLER BRINGS HER HONEY EAR TRIO TO THE ARCATA PLAYHOUSE SUNDAY WITH ERIK LAWRENCE (AT RIGHT) ON SAX AND FLUTE AND RENE HART ON BASS, PLUS SPECIAL GUEST VIOLINIST JENNY SCHEINMAN (NOT SHOWN).

THE NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE OPENS A FOUR-WEEK RUN OF SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDY MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING THURSDAY WITH A CHAMPAGNE GALA, A BENEFIT FOR THE CAST AND CREW. DIRECTOR BY CALDER JOHNSON DESCRIBES THE PLAY AS “INCREDIBLY FUNNY, MADCAP, TRAGIC AND ULTIMATELY HEART-WARMING,” ADDING, “IT’S ABOUT LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, FAMILY, PRIDE, HEARTBREAK AND, OH YES — SEX.” AMONG THE CAST: SCOTT OSBORN AS ANTONIO, JAMES READ AS LEONATO AND BOBBY BENNETT AS DON PEDRO.

THE REDWOOD JAZZ ALLIANCE AND THE HUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL JOIN FORCES TO PRESENT BAY AREA JAZZ VOCALIST KITTY MARGOLIS WITH HER TRIO INCLUDING PIANIST MURRAY LOW, BASSIST JOHN SHIFFLETT AND DRUMMER ALLISON MILLER, FRIDAY EVENING AT THE MORRIS GRAVES MUSEUM.

29 thursday THEATER

Much Ado About Nothing Opening Night Gala. 8 p.m.

North Coast Repertory Theatre, 300 Fifth St., Eureka.

NCRT continues its 28th season with the classic comedy

by William Shakespeare. Gala champagne reception after the show. $15. ncrt.net. 442-6278.

Little Shop of Horrors. 7 p.m. Arcata High School, 1720 M St. Arcata High production. It’s time to feed Audrey! Come and watch Seymour struggle with the task! $8/$5 students.

MUSIC

Dan Bern and John Ludington. 7 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. CP Presents hosts a pair of eclectic singer/ songwriters. $18/$15 adv. arcataplayhouse.org. 822-1575.

DANCE

Coppélia. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre, HSU. Humboldt Dance Alliance and The Upper Studio ballet performance about a doll that comes to life. $15. 360-791-4817.

ART

Figure Drawing Group. 7-9 p.m. Cheri Blackerby Gallery, 272 C St., Eureka. In the courtyard. Weekly group. Live model. An Ink People DreamMaker project. 442-0309.

ETC.

Lonesome Wolf: The Life and Times of OR-7. 7 p.m.

Science A Room 135, HSU. Amaroq Weiss of the California Wolf Center on wolf history, biology, behavior, ecology, politics, conservation and the country’s most

famous wolf. 826-4479.

Information Night. 7 p.m. South Bay Elementary School, 6077 Loma Drive, Eureka. Incoming 2012/13 seventh and eighth grade students and parents learn about opportunities at the school and meet the teachers. 476-8549.

30 friday THEATER

Much Ado About Nothing. 8 p.m. North Coast Rep. See March 29 listing. Benefit for Eureka Rotary Club. $25/$12 students and seniors. ncrt.net. 442-6278.

Little Shop of Horrors. 7 p.m. Arcata High School. See March 29 listing.

MUSIC

Kitty Margolis Trio. 8 p.m. Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. The Redwood Jazz Alliance and the Humboldt Arts Council present Bay Area jazz vocalist Margolis with her trio including pianist Murray Low, bassist John Shifflett and drummer Allison Miller. $15, $10 students and seniors. www.RedwoodJazzAlliance.org.

DANCE

Community Kids Dance Party. 5 p.m. Beginnings, 4700 Briceland Thorn Road, Redway. Fundraiser to benefit SkyFish School. Pizza, pasta and salad dinner starting at 5 p.m. followed by dancing with DJ RunDat. $5. E-mail royalrootsclothing@yahoo.com.

Rio Style Samba Dance Workshops. 7:45 p.m. Redwood

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Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Taught by Ana Carla Laidley with live music by Bryant Evangelista. $25. www.sambanmotion.com. 845-3225.

Jammin’ Fridays. 8-11 p.m. Humboldt Capoeira Academy, 865 Eighth St., Arcata. All swing music. Lindy hop lesson with Phillip and Aleisha. $5. loverlipe@hotmail. com. 616-8484.

Coppélia. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre. See March 29 listing.

MOVIES

Local Filmmakers Night: Maria Matteoli. 7-9 p.m.

Access Humboldt Community Media Center, Eureka High School, 1915 J St. Filmmaker Maria Matteoli and her ever-so-romantic works of film. Sponsored by Access Humboldt and filmHUMBOLDT. $5. www.accesshumboldt.net. 476-1798.

Unnatural Selection/Monster Salmon. 8 p.m. Mateel Community Center, Rusk Lane, Redway. The SoHum Label GMOs group presents two anti-GMO films. Doors open at 6 p.m. for petition signing, organic popcorn and GMO-free desserts. 923-3368.

BOOKS

Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar. 7:30-9 p.m. Moonrise Herbs, 826 G St., Arcata. Discussion and book signing to promote her new book Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide. InsideStorey.blogspot.com.

413-346-2153.

ETC.

Roller Skating. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Fire Hall. Every Friday and Saturday. friendlyfortuna.com.

31 saturday EVENTS

14th Annual Humboldt Seed and Plant Exchange. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Community Parkway. Farmers and gardeners swap rare and locally grown seeds, starts and plants. Learn about seed saving, seed starting, backyard breeding, fruit tree grafting, composting and permaculture for kids. Petting zoo. humboldtpermaculture.wordpress.com. 608-957-4829.

McKinleyville Land Trust Annual Dinner. 5:30-8 p.m.

Azalea Hall, 1620 Pickett Road, McKinleyville. Guest speaker USFS ecologist and bat expert Ted Weller on “Bats in Our Midst: Studying their Ecology and Behavior on the North Coast of California.” Wine bar and silent auction. $20. mlandtrust.org. 839-5263.

Sex Bomb. 8 p.m. Redwood Curtain Theatre, 220 First St., Eureka. Ooh La La Girls’ third annual night of fashion, dance, art and food. $25.

THEATER

Much Ado About Nothing. 8 p.m. North Coast Rep. See March 29 listing.

Little Shop of Horrors. 7 p.m. Arcata High School. See March 29 listing.

MUSIC

LoCura. 7:30 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Oakland-based band mixes Latin, flamenco, cumbia and reggae. Benefit for Heart of the Redwoods Volunteer Hospice. arcataplayhouse.org. 822-1575.

DANCE

Rio Style Samba Dance Workshops. 7:45 p.m. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio. See March 30 listing.

Coppélia. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre. See March 29 listing.

OUTDOORS

Audubon Society Arcata Marsh Field Trip. 8:30 a.m.

Meet in parking lot end of South I St. Joe Ceriani leads rain or shine. Bring binoculars for birding. 442-9353.

In Search of Seed

Open Gardens. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Humboldt Botanical Gardens, College of the Redwoods, Eureka. Roam the 44acre fully fenced property. $5. www.hbgf.org. 442-5139.

Nature Writing Workshop. 1-3:30 p.m. Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. HSU Professor Corey Lewis gives tips on nature writing. $5/$3 members. 444-1397.

Friends of the Arcata Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 600 S. G St. Jenny Hanson and Rich Ridenhour offer an introduction to native and non-native plants. Friends of the Arcata Marsh and California Native Plant Society sponsor.

826-2359.

Are you a gardener, casual or otherwise? Planning a vegetable garden or maybe thinking about planting a few flowers now that spring has sprung? If so, the Humboldt Seed and Plant Exchange is the place to be this Saturday.

A dedicated volunteer group of local sustainable agriculture enthusiasts now known as the Humboldt Permaculture Guild has been doing the annual exchange since way back in the 20th century — this is the 14th, and it’s bigger and better than ever.

“For years it’s been at the Manila Community Center,” said workshop coordinator Jared Zystro. “Last year we started ramping things up — it was packed the whole time, so this year we’re moving it to the Arcata Community Center.”

Zystro describes the free event as a form of “controlled anarchy,” a freefor-all give and take for garden enthusiasts. “Basically there’s a series of tables inside and outside, somewhat loosely organized into categories like vegetables and flowers. Everyone sets what they’ve brought on the tables: Seed-saving gardeners and farmers bring seeds they’ve saved from the previous year. Some farmers will bring old seed they may have bought last year and didn’t use.

Gardeners bring live plants they’ve dug up and maybe divided out — those are outside. We’ll have packets and labels and containers. You just come and take what you need.”

While bringing along some sort of seed/plant contribution is encouraged, it’s not required, says Zystro, who hopes that anyone “in search of seed” will feel comfortable. “It’s such a great celebration of spring, and such a great example of local self-sufficiency.”

Zystro is in the seed business in a way: He’s a California rep for a national organization, the Organic Seed Alliance, working with farmers on sustainable agriculture issues especially related to seeds, keeping them protected from GMO contamination for example. He’ll kick off the workshop schedule at 11 a.m. with a discussion of backyard plant breeding. You’ll also be able to share the knowledge of local farm “superstars” like Eddie Tanner of DeepSeeded Community Farm, who will talk about choosing vegetable varieties for Humboldt County’s climate (at 2 p.m.). Mark DuPont of Sandy Bar Ranch and Klamath Knot Permaculture gives tips on fruit tree grafting (also at 2). Sarah Kleeger and Andrew Still from Seed Ambassadors offer demonstrations on cleaning your seeds throughout the day. You can also learn about polyculture, seed starting, composting, window gardens and permaculture for kids.

And speaking of kids, Shail Pec-Crouse of Tule Fog Farm will be there with some baby goats, little lambs and piglets in a grass-fed farm animal petting zoo. All that, plus food (organic of course) and music (starting at noon) by organic local folkies Jim Silva, Trillium, Our Weight in Gold and Jan Bramlett.

The Humboldt Seed and Plant Exchange takes place on Saturday, March 31, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Arcata Community Center. Check humboldtpermaculture.wordpress.com for the entire schedule.

— Bob Doran

ETC.

Annual Fieldbrook Rummage Sale. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Fieldbrook Elementary School, 4070 Fieldbrook Road. All proceeds support Fieldbrook School’s classrooms and sports programs. ngoodeur@sbcglobal. net. 839-3201.

Renovate Jefferson Community School. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Jefferson Community School, 1000 B St., Eureka. YouthServe AmeriCorps and California Conservation Corps join local volunteers renovating the school into a new community center in honor of Cesar Chavez Day. jefferson-project. org. 839-9892.

Humboldt Woodworking Society Router Clinic. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. College of the Redwoods woodworking shop. Bert Hafar, Stephen Baer and Doralee Smith demonstrate dovetail jigs, router table use, template routing, edge profiles and rough slab leveling. 496-5555.

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EVENTS

Crafter’s Material Exchange. 12:30 p.m.-4:30 a.m.

Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. Trade your creative materials with someone who can use them. Bring up to two grocery bags full of fabric, beads, pens, egg cartons, yarn, etc. Sliding scale donation. reusehumboldt.wordpress.com. 444-1397.

MUSIC

Honey Ear Trio. 8 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. New York jazz drummer Allison Miller returns with her trio and special guest violinist Jenny Scheinman. $15. arcataplayhouse.org. 822-1575.

MOVIES

Opera Film Series. 4 p.m. Fortuna 6 Theatres, 1241 Main St. Pianist Lang Lang performs works by Mendelssohn and others on the big screen. 725-2121.

OUTDOORS

Plant it on the Wild Side. 10 a.m. Kokte Ranch and Nature Center, 2182 Old Arcata Road. Plant native riparian plants along Jacoby Creek with friends. Yummy food. 822-0900.

FOOD

Pancake Breakfast. 8-11 a.m. Freshwater Grange, 49 Grange Road, Eureka. Buttermilk and whole grain pancakes, ham, sausages and scrambled eggs. $5/$3 kids. 445-2517.

ETC.

Chick Days 2012. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Fortuna Feed & Garden Center, 126 Dinsmore Drive. Advice and guidance on raising chickens from freshly hatched baby chicks. Runs through April 7. 725-5220.

Redwood Coast Scrabble Club. 1-5 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Community Parkway. Fun with words.

677-9242.

Flea Market. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Redwood Acres Fairground, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. Lots o’ stuff! $0.50. 822-5292.

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EVENTS

Take Back the Night Event. 6 p.m. HSU Founders Hall 163.

“Men’s Story Project Film Screening.” Public performance and community dialogue project that explores social ideas about masculinity and manhood. 209-914-4877.

S POSTER MONKEY BUSINES

DANCE

Friendship Circle Dance. 7-10 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Dancers 50 and older enjoy dancing with live music from the 1930s-50s. $4. 725-5323.

Swing Dance Night. 7:30 p.m. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Swing what your mama gave you! $5. 616-6876.

LECTURE

Acting for Camera Master Class. 6-9 p.m. Arcata Technology Center, 1385 Eighth St. Reviews the fundamentals of the acting process, with emphasis on its organic nature, through exercises, improvisations and scene work. Runs through April 4. $100. redwoodcurtain.com. 845-4772.

FOOD

Mal Voyage

April’s Based on the Book film series

RMS TITANIC

Bake Sale. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Hansen Insurance Agency, 404 N. Fortuna Blvd., Fortuna. Raising funds for Relay for Life. Runs through April 3. www.farmersagent.com/khansen. 725-1125.

On April 10, 1912, the ocean liner RMS Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage. Five days later, the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and foundered. Out of 2,200 passengers, 1,517 died in the icy waters. To mark the 100th anniversary of this maritime disaster, the very successful James Cameron film Titanic is being reissued in 3-D and may well regain its distinction as the highest-grossing film in history. Meanwhile, the Humboldt County Library Eureka branch is commemorating the centennial with Mal Voyage, a collection of films about various catastrophic seagoing journeys.

The series begins Tuesday, April 3, with the classic Marx Brothers comedy Monkey Business, which finds the wild and crazy bros stowing away on an ocean liner and generally wreaking havoc (the ship does not sink). Yours truly, Bob Doran, is host for the evening, introducing the film and leading a post-screening discussion.

Next up in the Based on the Book series, Phillip Wright serves as your captain for an April 10 showing of director Roy Ward Bake’s 1958 British docudrama A Night to Remember. Based on Walter Lord’s book by the same name about the sinking of the Titanic, the dramatic tale of death and survival is lauded by nautical historians as a relatively accurate take on the tragedy.

Librarian (and series coordinator) Michael Logan introduces the April 17 screening of the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure, based on a novel by Paul Gallico, directed

by Ronald Neame and produced by Irwin Allen (who went on to cement his disaster flick rep with The Towering Inferno). The story concerns the fateful voyage of a luxury liner flipped over by a tsunami. The all-star cast includes Gene Hackman as a preacher who tries to lead survivors up to safety.

Concluding the series on April 24 is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 war film Lifeboat, based on a novella by John Steinbeck about a group of passengers stuck together in a lifeboat after a battle between an American ship and a German U-boat. Jan Ostrom hosts the screening.

All screenings take place at the Eureka branch of the Humboldt County Library (1313 Third St.) beginning at 6:30 p.m. There is no charge for admission. Call 269-1900 or go to co.humboldt.ca.us/library for further information.

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3 tuesday EVENTS

Take Back the Night. 5:30 p.m. Founders Hall 125, HSU. Hatred of the Feminine Workshop. Interactive, discussion based workshop on how society teaches and reinforces violence targeting anything that represents or embodies femininity.

209-914-4877.

MUSIC

Temple Bhajana Band. 6-8 p.m. College of the Redwoods, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka. In the Forum Theater. Group of devotional chanters that tours yoga studios, yoga retreats and various social events throughout the world perform mantras and chants from spiritual India. $1. www.templebhajanband. com. 502-2218.

Humboldt Folklife Society Group Sing Along. 7-9 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Community Parkway. Joel Sonenshein leads. 839-7063.

FILM

Monkey Business 6:30 p.m. Humboldt County Library, 1313 Third St. Eureka. April Based on the Book series launches with the Marx Brothers comedy, first of four films about nautical disasters in connection with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Journal A&E editor Bob Doran introduces and leads post-film discussion. 269-1900.

BOOKS

Love, InshAllah. 5 p.m. HSU Library Fishbowl, 1 Harpst Street, Arcata. Co-editors Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi read from their collection of 25 female Muslim-American writers. Topics include: college flirtations, singles’ experiences, arranged marriages, sexual liaisons, same-sex relationships and erotic romances. 826-5656.

ETC.

Humboldt Cribbage Club. 6:15-9:30 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Weekly cribbage tournament. $7. cribbage.org. 444-3161.

Healing Rooms of the Redwood Coast. 6:30-9 p.m. Wood Street Chapel, 1649 Wood St., Fortuna. Non-denominational prayer group. healingrooms.com. 834-5800

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Druid Underground Film Festival. 6 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Traveling clearinghouse for the most bizarre and provocative short films on earth. Hosted by local filmmaker William Burgess. Strong parental guidance is recommended. $5. www. arcatatheater.com. 822-1220.

Opera Film Series. 7 p.m. Fortuna 6 Theatres. See April 1 listing.

ETC.

USA Dance Board of Directors Recruitment Meeting. 6 p.m. Big Louie’s Pizzeria, 1604 Fourth St., Eureka. Love dancing? Redwood Coast USA Dance is a local chapter of a national non-profit that brings social/ballroom dancing and live music to our Humboldt community. Free pizza! Please RSVP. usadances@gmail.com.

694-4908.

5 thursday MOVIES

Ocean Night Film Screening. 7 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Screening surf film Splinters. Sponsored by Ocean Conservancy, Humboldt Surfrider and Humboldt Baykeeper. $3. 822-1220.

First Thursday Film Night: Hell and Back Again. 6-7:30 p.m. Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan.

Wounded in battle, he returns to North Carolina and his devoted wife to fight pain, addiction and the terrifying normalcy of life at home. 442-0278.

BOOKS

Dr. Tiyi Morris and Dr. Emilye Crosby. 1-3 p.m. Kate Buchanan Room, HSU. CR/HSU Book of the Year committee presents Mississippi natives and civil rights scholars to discuss the controversy and context surrounding Kathryn Stockett’s book The Help. 826-3758.

MEETINGS

Parent Information Meeting. 5:30 p.m. Coastal Grove Charter School, 1897 S St., Arcata. Mandatory fall 2012 meeting and open house for parents of children attending or planning to attend the Waldorf education-inspired school. coastalgrove.org. 825-8804.

ETC.

Sustainable Futures. 5:30-7 p.m. Gist Hall Room 218, HSU. National Renewable Energy Laboratory senior scientist Garvin Heath presents “Environmental Impacts of Energy Technologies: A Life Cycle Perspective.” Free. serc@humboldt.edu. 826-4345.

Heads Up…

Turkey Time. California’s 2012 general spring wild turkey hunting season opens statewide on March 31 and extends through May 6, with the archery season extending through May 20. Hunters who have a current junior hunting license may also hunt the weekend before the opener, on March 24 and 25, and the two weeks after the general season using shotguns or any other legal method of take. Go to dfg.ca.gov/hunting for more info.

Got Recipes? Local jam company Mad River Farm is on the hunt for your favorite recipes featuring its jams, jellies, spreads or fruitbased barbecue sauces. Two grand prize winners will be chosen: one for the best savory dish and one for best dessert recipe. The winners will each receive 25 different products (one of every variety the farm makes) over a $160 retail value. For more info, email info@ mad-river-farm.com or call 822-0248. ●

Take It Back Most likely due to the charged political season we find ourselves mired in, 2012 has seen a rise in the discussion of women’s issues and reminded us that we as a society have a long way to go in attaining true gender equality.

So, as is the case every year, we welcome the return of the annual Take Back the Night festivities put on by the fine folks at HSU’s Women’s Resource Center, the North Coast Rape Crisis Team and HSU’s critical race, gender and sexuality studies department. The series of events, spanning 11 days from April 2 to 13, are aimed at raising awareness and ending sexualized violence against women.

Here’s the complete list of proceedings for the fast-approaching month of April: Monday, April 2: Social ideas about masculinity and manhood will be discussed at a film screening of the Men’s Story Project from 6-8 p.m. at HSU Founders Hall 163.

Tuesday, April 3: Eric Rofes from the Multicultural Queer Resource Center leads the “Hatred of the Feminine Workshop” at 5:30 p.m. in HSU’s Founders Hall 125.

Monday, April 9: A memorial for victims of partner violence in Humboldt will be held on the HSU Quad from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.; A T-shirt making workshop for womyn-identified survivors takes place

from 3-5 p.m. at HSU’s Nelson Hall East 106; A sexualized-violence-themed open mic takes place at Redwood Yogurt from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 10: Queer disabled Sri Lankan writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha leads an interactive workshop titled “Art and Practice of Disability Justice” in HSU’s Great Hall from 3:30-5 p.m. Later, Piepzna-Samarasinha gives a keynote address in the Kate Buchanan Room at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 11: Learn to better communicate vulnerable stories at the “Warrior Poets Workshop” in the Mad River Room from 2-4 p.m.; The hard truths of partner abuse and sexual assault will be discussed during “The Revolution Starts At Home” workshop in the bottom of the “J” from 6-8 p.m.

Thursday, April 12: Discussion of domestic violence in the Native American community takes place during “Historical Trauma and Domestic Violence: Unique Circumstances in Indian Country” in the Native Forum from 6-8:30 p.m.

Friday, April 13: The main event of the week. The Take Back the Night Rally at 5 p.m. on HSU’s Quad will feature speeches, performances, music and poetry. The mic will be open to anyone who wants to speak at 6:45 p.m. followed by an empowering

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On Saturday, March 31st we will offer $1 pints of draft beer (limited to 2 per person)

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From April 9-13, an ongoing, collaborative mural project will take over HSU’s Art Quad.

For more info on Take Back the Night events, go to humboldt.edu/events.

— Andrew Goff

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Ongoing Support Groups

book Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women Edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi - Soft Skull Press

Please call the listed phone number for more information. Dates and times are subject to change without notice.

THURSDAY Humboldt Domestic Violence Services. 6-7:30 p.m.

For women experiencing intimate partner violence. Call for more info. 443-6042.

FRIDAY Bereavement Group. 1-2:30 p.m. Hospice Office, Eureka. 445-8443.

Humboldt Domestic Violence Services. 12-1:30 p.m.

For women experiencing intimate partner violence. Call for more info. 443-6042.

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MONDAY Lyme Disease Support Group. 5:30-7 p.m. (3rd Mon.) Church of the Joyful Healer, Mckinleyville. 825-7835.

Caregiver Support Group. 4-5:30 p.m. (2nd & 4th Mon.) Alzheimer’s Resource Center, 1901 B California St., Eureka 444-8254, x3220.

Bereavement Group. 6-7:30 p.m. Jacoby’s Storehouse, 4th floor, Arcata. 445-8443.

Bereavement Group. 6-7:30 p.m. Sequoia Springs, Fortuna. 445-8443.

4Payday Loans n 4ATM n Open Mon.-Fri. 9-6 • Sat. 10-6

1102 5th St. • 445-9022 (Corner of 5th & L)

Nicotine Anonymous. 7-8 p.m. ACS Conference Room, Eureka. 668-4084.

TUESDAY Gynecologic Cancer Support Group. 3-4:30 p.m.

(2nd & 4th Tues.) Humboldt Community Breast Health Project Office, Arcata. 825-8345.

Queer Coffeehouse. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Raven Project, 523 T Street, Eureka. Safe place for queer/questioning youth. 443-7099.

Caregiver Support Group. 10-11 a.m. (1st Tue.) Mad River Community Hospital.

444-8254, x3220.

Caregiver Support Group. 12-1 p.m. (1st & 3rd Tue.) Timber Ridge Assissted Living, Eureka. 444-8254, x3220.

Caregiver Support Group. 4-5:30 p.m. (2nd Tue.) Sequoia Springs Assisted Living Center, 2401 Redwood Way, Fortuna 444-8254, x3220.

Prostate Cancer Support Group. 7-9 p.m. (2nd Tuesday) Eureka. 443-2241.

WEDNESDAY Bereavement Group. 5:30-7 p.m. Hospice Office, Eureka. 445-8443.

Bereavement Group. 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. 1450 Hiller Rd., McKinleyville. 445-8443.

Caregiver Support Group. 4-5 p.m. (2nd & 4th Wed.) St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Ferndale 444-8254, x 3220.

Caregiver Support Group. 6:30-8 p.m. (1st Wed.) Timber Ridge Assisted Living Center, McKinleyville Caregiver Support Group. 1-2 p.m. (4th Wed.) Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice, Garberville.

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What is it like to be Muslim in America? I chose this book because I wanted to know. I wanted my thin assumptions challenged. I got what I asked for.

In this thoughtful collection, 25 women who identify as both Muslim and American tell their personal stories of love, sex, romance and coming of age. They write from cultural backgrounds as diverse as IranianAmerican, Pakistani-American, Egyptian-American and southern Baptist. All hope to find meaningful love, InshAllah (God willing).

Many of the stories take place in the borderland between old-world customs and new world freedoms.

American-born 14-year-old Zahra is about to get out of the family car to meet friends at a Danville, Calif., movie theater when her devout Iranian mother hurriedly tells her, “You have a hole. And for the rest of your life men will want to put their penis in it … even at the movies.” It takes Zahra nearly a decade, and the help of a nerdy college friend, to shed the baggage of that terrifying 15-second crash course in sex ed.

Like the other Abrahamic religions (those would be Christianity and Judaism), the most orthodox communities have stringent codes of rectitude. In “Leap of Faith,” Aisha tells how love grows deeper and deeper within her arranged marriage.

But others defy tradition as they navigate the territory between family expectations and the urgency of the heart. Tanzila is a skateboarding, punk-rock blogger who embraces a road-trip affair with a married man. In “A Prayer Answered,” two orthodox women discover themselves in a very unorthodox relationship.

The social politics of the post-9/11 world add to the challenges for many of these women, who carry the weight of belonging to a suspect minority. But the 21st century has its benefits, including the Internet, which allows the religiously conservative to meet and build relationships with men.

The stories are all well written and easily accessible, although I found that one pushed me up against my own ingrained values. In it, an American convert to Islam contemplates and then embraces the role of second wife in a polygamist marriage. But then, the soul searching that is required to cross boundaries of race, religion and culture is at the heart of this collection.

As with several others, editor Ayesha Mattu’s attraction to a non-Muslim man challenges her to examine the core of her religion. She concludes, “There are as many ways to (God) as there are people on the planet.”

Mattu and co-editor Nura Maznavi will read from Love, InshAllah and talk about their book on Tuesday, April 3, at 5 p.m. in the HSU Library Fishbowl. Copies are available in advance at Northtown Books and the HSU Bookstore.

— Carolyn Lehman

cd Ekstasis

By Julia Holter RVNG Intl.

LA-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and performer Julia Holter drew critical attention in 2010 with the release of her mostly ambient, full-length debut Tragedy. It didn’t prepare anyone for her new release, Ekstasis, meant to be a companion piece (home recorded roughly in the same period as Tragedy), contrasting vastly from its predecessor, exhibiting a pop sensibility and accessibility.

Holter is a graduate of CalArts, where avant-garde composers/musicians such as Vinny Giola and Wadada Leo Smith are longtime faculty members and “Experimental Sound Practices” is a music department section.

She uses spare instrumentation and employs “lo-fi” electronics as she creates a complex structure of interweaving vocals lines. Drawing influences from wide sources, including Asian Pacific pop, Robert Wyatt, Ornette Coleman, Deerhoof and ’80s Vangelis soundtracks, Holter creates wholly unique aural arrangements, placing her among exemplar experimentalist contemporaries such as Julianna Barwick and Juana Molina.

Holter’s aesthetic, in a sense, shadows Phil Spector’s “Wall-of-Sound,” where individual instruments are indiscernible — all blending to create a singular symphonic sound. Holter’s version of this method is ingenious (and probably based on limited funds). She keeps the instrumentation spare while building the vocals as rhythmic, as well as a melodic, instrument.

Ekstasis brims with a sense of being outside of oneself and of fun play. Its opener, “Marienbad,” delivers floating dual vocals (and a dual set of treated and intertwined lyrics) over a synthesized harp and organ riff. As it builds with added percussion, the composition evolves into a march with all of the “parts” falling into place, contributing to an intricate whole.

Holter leans toward melodies that once flooded Asian Pacific pop, especially in the ’70s and ’80s, employing them in “Our Sorrows” and “Four Gardens.” What sets her music apart from simply emulating this style is a deconstruction: sounds are broken, cut-up and rearranged. Holter does so in a fluid fashion that sounds startlingly as if it was a lost track from the Blade Runner soundtrack. As with many of Holter’s compositions, the sound is otherworldly, linking sounds of the past with futuristic ones.

As opposed to Tragedy, which was entirely performed by Holter, Ekstasis includes contributions by a handful of musicians who add organic elements, allowing for an oddly organic feeling to the entire album. Though she employs lyrics, the words are not necessarily used to incite meaning; rather, it’s the collective sound that seems more important. As opposed to vocalists such as Björk, tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus or Kate Bush (especially Bush’s ’82 release, The Dreaming), Holter’s vocal power doesn’t draw from a theatrical or dramatic base — it doesn’t draw attention to itself. Instead, it sublimates itself into a larger work, evoking surprise and humor, with a distinct combination of intelligence, innovation and craft.

— Mark Shikuma

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Reviews

THE HUNGER GAMES. The juggernaut is upon us! Based on its gargantuan opening-weekend box office, The Hunger Games seems poised to knock the Twilight “saga” off the top of the money mountain. I’m glad because The Hunger Games is actually a good movie. Not great, but very good.

The titular games serve as a kind of comeuppance to the rebellious districts of a dystopian future state. Having quelled their uprising, the fascist central government demands a “tribute” from each district. Two adolescents, a boy and a girl, volunteer or are selected by lottery to enter into televised blood-sport from which a single champion will emerge. From the Matewan-esque 12th district comes our heroine, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who volunteers to save her young sister from certain death in the games. I won’t spoil it beyond saying the ending is something of a foregone conclusion (there are several more installments in the works), but the movie still manages to be tense and enjoyable all the way through.

Lawrence has garnered a lot of praise in her brief career, and rightfully so. She’s called on here to provide an emotional center for a story that could easily lose itself in combat sequences and visual

design. And she does it: There is a quiet intensity to her performance that grounds the story’s fantastical universe. As in Winter’s Bone, she plays it subtle and naturalistic, completely without histrionics or actorly indulgence. It doesn’t hurt that she’s surrounded by a pretty stellar supporting cast. Woody Harrelson plays a boozy, long-haired former winner, and does it with a winning combination of humor and pain. Wes Bentley, who seems to have been lost in the wilderness in recent years, does a convincing turn as the designer/director of the games, complete with wildly stylized facial hair.

Donald Sutherland does his usual Donald Sutherland thing, but with the addition of a huge Santa Claus beard. Stanley Tucci is a standout as always, playing the blue-haired and awesomely named Caesar Flickerman, the games’ emcee and main color commentator. Even Lenny Kravitz is warm and genuine as Katniss’ aesthetician.

Visually stylish without being distracting, Games draws us in with a combination of handheld camerawork and thoughtfully composed stationary shots. The set design, costuming and hair dressing are over-the-top impressive, but director Gary Ross’ technique is nuanced in such a way that they don’t distract from the storytelling. As I haven’t read the books, I can’t speak to whether or not the movie

is faithful to them. (Author Suzanne Collins co-wrote the screenplay.) Regardless, the film has a life all its own, avoiding the stilted, page-by-page feeling of so many adaptations.

One of the most impressive aspects of The Hunger Games is that the onscreen violence has emotional gravity without being gratuitous. There is more than a little blood, but the horror of the scenario is more often conveyed through compelling performances and smart film-craft.

(Film-nerd fun fact: Steven Soderbergh is listed as a second unit director). PG13.

142m.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN shares a few superficial attributes with The Hunger Games: archery, teen violence, and Soderbergh in the credits (as an executive producer). It’s also a model of cinematic restraint wherein director Lynne Ramsay evokes horror and dread as much with what she doesn’t show us as what she does.

Ramsay trained as a camera operator, and that influence is clear in the movie’s visual construction. From the opening frames, the color palette is dominated by ominous crimson. Whether in violent slashes or diffuse glowing, this thing is all red and all dread. continued on next page

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Movie Times

* = EARLY SHOWS

Film times reflect the most current listings as of Tuesday afternoon. As schedules at individual theaters sometimes change, we recommend calling ahead to avoid any inconvenience.

Broadway Cinema

707-443-3456 1223 Broadway Street, Eureka Times are for 3/30-4/3 unless otherwise noted.

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D 1:45, 3:00, 4:20, 6:55, 8:10, 9:30 WRATH OF THE TITANS 2D 12:25, 5:35 MIRROR, MIRROR 11:45, 1:00, 2:20, 3:40, 5:10, 6:20, 7:40 9:00 HUNGER GAMES *11:30, *1:30, 2:45, 5:00, 6:00, 8:25, 9:15 JOHN CARTER 3D 2:25, 8:40 JOHN CARTER 2D 11:25, 5:25 THE LORAX 3D *12:50, 3:25, 5:55, 8:25 THE LORAX 2D *12:00, *2:35, 5:10, 7:40 21 JUMP STREET *1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 ACT OF VALOR *11:35, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 PROJECT X 4:45, 9:40 WANDERLUST *1:40, 6:25 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 2D 4:15, 9:05 SILENT HOUSE 4:10, 8:50 THE VOW 2:10, 7:05 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 2D 1:25, 6:30

Mill Creek Cinema

707-839-3456 1575 Betty Court, McKinleyville Times are for 3/30-4/5 unless otherwise noted.

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D *12:25, *1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 8:10, 9:30 WRATH OF THE TITANS 2D 3:00, 5:35 MIRROR, MIRROR 12:55, 3:35, 6:10, 8:50 HUNGER GAMES *11:40, 1:40, 2:50, 5:05, 6:00, 8:20, 9:10 THE LORAX 2D *12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:00 21 JUMP STREET *1:05, 3:45, 6:25, 9:05 JOHN CARTER 3D 3:15, 9:20 JOHN CARTER 2D *12:10, 6:20

Minor Theatre 707-822-3456

1001 H Street, Arcata Times are for 3/30-4/5 unless otherwise noted.

HUNGER GAMES JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME FRIENDS WITH KIDS

*1:30, 4:45, 8:00 *1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25 9:30 *1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10

Fortuna Theater

707-725-2121 1241 Main Street, Fortuna Times are for 3/30 -4/2 unless otherwise noted.

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D *1:15, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 MIRROR, MIRROR *12:15, *2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 THE HUNGER GAMES *12:00, *12:45, 3:15, 4:00, 7:15, 9:45 THE LORAX 3D *12:05, *2:10, 4:15, 6:15, 8:30 21 JUMP STREET *12:30, 4:00**, 6:50, 9:40

**no showing on Sunday

Garberville Theater 707-923-3580

766 Redwood Drive, Garberville

JOURNEY 2:THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3/30 - 4/2: 7:30

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The story starts after a school spreekilling committed by 15-year-old Kevin Khatchadourian, chillingly played by Ezra Miller. His mother, Eva (Tilda Swinton), is trying to survive the aftermath, selfmedicating with red wine and pills and enduring the hatred of her community.

The narrative then begins shifting back and forth between her present-day reality and the events that led up to it. We see the early days of her courtship by Franklin (John C. Reilly), then watch as her dreamlife turns nightmarish with the birth of her son. From infancy it’s clear that there’s something wrong with Kevin, but Franklin refuses to believe it. Eva is trapped in her own house with a tiny sociopath, and it gradually grinds her down to nothing.

At first I was frustrated at the simplicity of the premise. We know from the beginning that Kevin is capable of terrible things, and there isn’t any explanation or greater context given: We only see his behavior in the vacuum of his family life.

There are hardly any outside characters or interactions with the larger world. Instead we get painful, methodically constructed vignettes of mother and child, constantly escalating to the awful catharsis of the climax.

Some will criticize this movie for not assigning blame or examining contemporary culture. But hopefully they’ll realize, as I did, that’s not the point. Rather than an indictment, this is an impeccably acted, painstakingly crafted domestic drama that happens to be about a killer and his mom.

R. 112m.

Previews

WRATH OF THE TITANS. Two years after clashing, the titans of ancient Greece are ready to get their wrath on. Demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington) has to rescue his full-god dad, Zeus (Liam Neeson), from angry CGI beasties. PG13. 99m.

MIRROR, MIRROR. The first of two Snow White reboots this year (Snow White and the Hunter arrives in June), this version is a family-friendly comedy from visual showman director Tarsem Singh (The Cell), starring Julia Roberts as the evil queen. PG. 106m.

JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME. From the wonderfully oddball writer/director Duplass brothers (Cyrus) comes the story of a 30-year-old adolescent (Jason Segal in the title role) who emerges from his mom’s basement to help his brother (Ed Helms) spy on his possibly adulterous wife. Comedically. R. 83m.

FRIENDS WITH KIDS. After seeing how kids can douse the spark in relationships, the last two singles in a group of

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friends decide to have a baby together without getting romantically involved. The ensemble comedy stars Adam Scott, Jon Hamm and Bridesmaids stars Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph. R. 107m.

That beloved mouth-breathing high schooler Napoleon Dynamite (2004) dances into the Arcata Theatre Lounge Friday at 8 p.m. PG. 82m. On Sunday, The Brave Little Toaster (1987) leads a gang of household appliances from their owner’s summer cabin back home. Based on a true story. Not rated, but it’s Disney. 90m.

Next week’s Sci-Fi Pint and Pizza Night is something of a special event: the Druid Underground Film Festival, described as “a traveling clearinghouse for the most bizarre and provocative short films on earth.” The theatre’s website says, “Strong Parental Guidance Suggested.” 6-10 p.m.

On Tuesday, April 3, the Eureka main branch of the Humboldt County Library will screen the Marx Brothers’ Monkey Business at 6:30 p.m. See Calendar for details.

Continuing

21 JUMP STREET. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as cops who go deep undercover, inside the plot of a 1980s sitcom starring Johnny Depp. R. 109m.

ACT OF VALOR. Active-duty Navy SEALs star as active-duty Navy SEALs in this fictionalized account of Navy SEALs on active duty. Paid for with your tax dollars. R. 101m.

CHRONICLE. Three high school guys develop superpowers after touching an underground glowing thing in this smart and thrilling sci-fi adventure. PG13. 83m.

JOHN CARTER. A hunky Civil War vet gets transported to Mars, where, with the help of some four-armed green dudes, he must save a princess. PG13. 132m.

THE LORAX. The tree-hugging Dr. Seuss character now shills for SUVs and flapjacks. What a sellout! Also, this movie is not good. PG. 86m.

PROJECT X. You know the party is off the hook when the angry dwarf gets stuffed in the oven and the drug dealer grabs a flamethrower. Sigh. R. 88m.

SILENT HOUSE. A young woman becomes trapped inside her family’s lakeside house, which is, like, totally giving her the silent treatment. Cuh-reepy! R. 85m.

THE VOW. After a car accident, a woman loses all memory of her husband, so he has to woo her anew. PG13. 104m.

WANDERLUST. Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play a Manhattan couple who join a free-love commune in this comedy from director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer). R. 98m. ●

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Arts & Crafts CAN’T BELIEVE I’M CROCHETING WITH KC. Thurs.s, Noon-2 p.m., with Kelly Card of KC Made It. $25. Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of crocheting! Designed for complete beginners. Learn most of the basic stitches: how to chain, single crochet, and double crochet, how to work flat and in the round. We will talk about gauge, what hook goes with what yarn and how to read a pattern. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab. com. (AC-0329) CROCHET FLOWER CLASS. Fri.s, Noon-2 p.m. $25, with Kelly Card of KC Made It. Make a variety of flowers to adorn any kind of handwork! Explore several methods of construction, and leave with a bouquet of new skills. Basic crochet skills required.

Bring a few hooks and scraps of yarn. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329) FREE EUREKA BUTTON CLUB. 2nd Sun. of the month, 2 p.m. We are mad about buttons old and new. Our meetings are fun and educational. Come and learn more about all of those buttons in your button box. Guests are welcome any time. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329) INTRO TO WET FELTING. Thurs.s, 6-8 p.m. $35 +$10 material fee. Learn basic wet felting techniques using warm soapy water and wool roving. Create felted balls, felted beads, pin cushions, coasters and flat felt. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab. com. (AC-0329)

LEARN TO KNIT SOCKS AT YARN! Thurs.s, April 5-26, 5:30-7 p.m. Step up your knitting with socks. We’ll learn the short row method of turning the heel. Beg. knitting level required. Call 443-YARN for more info. and to register. (AC-0329) OPEN CRAFT NIGHT. Fri.s, 6-9 p.m. FREE. Come craft with us and get creative and crazy, bring your project and a snack (and your fun hat!). Free to all (adults please) and a great way to explore new projects and get to know your fellow artist. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab. com. (AC-0329) STENCILING ON FABRICS. With April Sproule. Sat., March 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $80. Using April’s collection of original textile stencil designs perfectly suited for a wide variety of fiber art applications such as wearable art, quilting projects, and home decor. Class covers: Basic stenciling technique, Image placement: borders, all over patterns, and central motifs, layering and shading color mixing. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329) VERY BEGINNING SEWING Wed.s, 6-8 p.m. with Jodi Lee. Learn to use and care for your sewing machine. We will have you sewing a straight line in no time, then on to fancier stiches. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab. com. (AC-0329)

Communication

LIFETREE CAFE: JOIN THE CONVERSATION. “Why Did I Survive?” offers participants eyewitness glimpses into the Haiti disaster and a chance to share stories of their own brushes with natural disasters. Sun., April 1, 7 p.m. Lifetree Café, 76 13th St., Arcata. Free Admission.

Questions, Contact Bob Dipert 672-2919, bobdipert@ hotmail.com. (CMM-0329) SIMPLIFY. Six class session based on the book Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne. Learn how making simple changes to your child’s room, schedule and the information they take in can impact the health and happiness of the whole family. Six Sun.s 2-4 p.m, April 22 - June 3. Cost $175 and includes an interactive workbook. Payable $25 per class, 25% discount for couples. Other payment and scheduling options are available. Contact Diana (707) 445-4642 consciousparentingsolutions.com (CMM-0419)

ADVANCED FACILITATION. Discover a faster, less frustrating and more effective technique to speed up group decision-making and arrive at better solutions.

With Janet Ruprecht. Fri., April 13, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $100 (includes materials). Pre-registration required.

Call HSU Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/extended. (CMM-0405) INSIDE OUT PARENTING. Five part series following the Conscious Parenting process: Awareness of the Self, Care of the Self, Awareness of the Child, Care of the Child $125 payable $25 per class Tues’s 6:30-8:30 p.m, begins April 24, Contact Diana for more info and to register (707) 445-4642, consciousparentingsolutions.com (CMM-0419) HAPPIER HEALTHIER KIDS. Learn what vital aspects of childhood are missing for many of today’s kids and how you can help. A fun and empowering workshop for parents, teachers, grandparents and anyone who loves a child. Workshop is offered at a sliding scale donation $10-$25. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Wed. April 18 6:30-8:30 p.m. Contact Diana (707) 445-4642 consciousparentingsolutions.com (CMM-0412)

Computers

INTRO TO ADOBE INDESIGN. Fast-paced, hands-on exploration of Indesign page layout software. Demonstration of tools, menus, palettes, page set-up, master pages, guides and margins, color and more.

With Annie Reid. Tues./Thurs., April 10-24, 6:30-9 p.m. $125. Call HSU Extended Education to register, 8263731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/extended. (C-0329)

Dance, Music, Theater, Film

DISCOVER ARGENTINE TANGO! Beginning lessons Sun., 5-5:45 p.m. Practica 6-6:45 p.m., $6 Studio of Dance Arts, Eureka. 445-2655, 822-6170. (DMT-0329) LEARN 2 HOOP DANCE. Foundational Hoop Dance series starts every few weeks in Arcata. Ongoing int/ adv. workshops. Private lessons. Hoops/collapsible hoops for sale. www.chakranation.com (DMT-1227) STUDIO OF DANCE ARTS. # 7 5th St., Eureka. (707) 442-1939. Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Irish Step, Hip Hop, Middle Eastern, Tango, Pre-School Dance, Pilates Mat. All levels & ages welcome. Register this month and perform in our June 19 performance at the Arkley Center For The Performing Arts. (DMT-0419)

BURLESQUE, BALLROOM & BALANCE: Guest instructors Jenica and Eric Zimmer share their unique talents at North Coast Dance. April 13-15. Fri. Ladies only Burlesque, Sat. Ballroom, Sun. A Dancer’s Workout and Arm Styling. Like us on Facebook and search WCS Workshops with Jenica & Eric Zimmer! www. ericzimmer.com, www.jenicazimmer.com. Call (707) 464-3638 to register. Sponsored by dancewithdebbie. biz! (DMT-0405) WEST AFRICAN DANCE WITH ALSENY SOUMAH! All of March, Tues./Thurs., 5:30-7 p.m., at Redwood Raks, Arcata. All levels welcome. Live drumming. Dulce, 832-9547, Christina, 498-0146. (DMT-0329) DANCE WITH DEBBIE’S: Ballroom, Latin, Swing, and Yoga group and private lessons at North Coast Dance Annex, Eureka. Drop in on our Fri. Night Swing 7:30-9:30 p.m. Contact (707) 464-3638 or debbie@ dancewithdebbie.biz. (DMT-0426) TRILLIUM DANCE STUDIO PRESENTS: Salsa Lessons with Ozzy Ricardez and Miss Julie. All levels Welcome. Ongoing, drop-in Fri. nights, 7-8:15 p.m.

1925 Alliance Rd., in Arcata (x st. Foster) $7 single $10 couple. (DMT-0531) GUITAR/PIANO LESSONS. All ages, beginning and intermediate. Seabury Gould 444-8507. (DMT-1227) SAXOPHONE/FLUTE LESSONS. All ages, beginneradvanced, jazz improvisation, technique. Susie Laraine: 441-1343. (DMT-1227) PIANO LESSONS. Beginners, all ages. Experienced.

Judith Louise 476-8919. (DMT-1227) BELLY DANCING WITH SHOSHANNA. Feel fabulous in classes for all levels in Arcata at Redwood Raks.

616-6876 or Shoshannaland.com. (DMT-1227)

Fitness

AIKIDO. Aikido is an innovative, dynamic, and noncompetitive self-defense martial art. Six-week class, starting Apr. 3, Tues.s & Thurs.s, 5:30-7:00 p.m. At CR main campus on Tompkins Hill Road. $69. Information or to register, call College of the Redwoods Community Education at 269-4000 or www.redwoods.edu, visit Community Education link. (F-0329) ZUMBA FITNESS. Sat.s, 10-11 a.m. Lose weight, get fit, have fun. Sun Yi’s Academy, 1215 Guintoli Ln., Arcata. $5 class. Michele, 445-2355. (F-0517) continued on next page

FAIRY G ARDENS

Compassionate Listening Workshop

with Danielle Hewitt

Tuesday, April 17th & Wednesday, April 18th 9am to 5pm $350 General Public, $300 Cascadia Leadership Program Graduates

Learn the ancient process of wet felting making your own shoes. u Make light weight felted fabric using a hand dyed silk scarf.

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Come share the magic with

Carin Engen at NorthCoast Knittery on 4/21& 4/22. Space is Limited!

Call 442-YARN or come by

NorthCoast KNittery

320 2nd St. between D&E, Eureka

Humboldt Area Foundation’s Community Center Registration deadline: Tuesday, April 3rd Please visit cascadialeadership.org or call Heather Equinoss @ 442-2993 for details

North Coast Academy

Learn what plants to use and techniques needed to create a miniature garden

Fencing (with swords!).

Improve your mind and body in a fun, intense workout, and a very chill environment. Ages 8 and up.

Contact Justin (707) 601-1657 Text or Phone.

1459 M. St. Arcata. northcoastfencingacademy@gmail.com

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Sat., March 31st • 10:30 am • FREE! Call 839-1571 x5 to reserve your spot.

1828 Central Ave. • McKinleyville

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continued from previous page KUNDALINI YOGA & MEDITATION. Learn the ancient practice that uses posture, mantras, mudras, breathing techniques and relaxation to create a specific physical and mental state. Leave feeling centered and reconnected to the true beauty of your being. With Anne Marie Tse. Mon., April 16-May 21, 7-8:30 p.m. $60. Pre-registration required. Call HSU Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www. humboldt.edu/extended. (F-0405) HUMBOLDT CAPOEIRA ACADEMY. Spring Session: Feb. 1-June 15. Classes: Beginner Basics, Tues.s & Thurs.s, 6-7:30 p.m. Advanced Adults, Mon.s & Wed.s, 6-8 p.m. All Ages All Levels Community Class, Sat.s, Noon-2 p.m. Arcata, (707) 498-6155. www.humboldtcapoeira.com. HSU Students First Class Free. (F-0329) NIA. Nia has arrived in Humboldt County! Dance fusion fitness program blending healing arts, dance arts, and martial arts. Weds at the Bayside Grange, 6:30-7:30pm., 2297 Jacoby Creek Rd. Starts Feb. 1. Your first class is always FREE! Regular fees $6/$4 Grange Members. Pauline Ivens 707-441-9102, waterpolly@ gmail.com (F-0412) AIKIBOJITSU. Get your black belt in stick! New beginning classes in Aikibojitsu, The Art of the Staff, taught by Tom Read Sensei, Chief Instructor of Northcoast Aikido, with over 40 years of experience in martial arts. Classes meet Sat.s 9 a.m- 10 a.m., at Northcoast Aikido, 890 G Street, Arcata (entrance in back, by fire station). $20 per class, Visit www. aikibojitsu.com (F-1206) NORTH COAST FENCING ACADEMY. Fencing (with swords!). Improve your mind and body in a fun, intense workout, and a very chill environment. Ages 8 and up. 1459 M St., Arcata, contact Justin (707) 601-1657 text or phone, or email northcoastfencingacademy@gmail.com (F-1206) ZUMBA. Latin-inspired fitness program using international music and various dance styles including Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue and Reggaeton for a great cardio workout. Every Mon. and Thurs. at the Bayside Grange 6-7 p.m., 2297 Jacoby Creek Rd. $6/$4 Grange members. Every Wed. 6-7 p.m. in Fortuna at the Monday Club, 610 Main St. Every Tues. at the Trinidad Town Hall 12 p.m. and every Thur. at the Eureka Vets Hall 12 p.m. Marla Joy 707-845-4307. (F-1227) ZUMBA WITH MIMI. Put the FUN back into your workout! Latin & Pop music, sure to leave you sweaty and smiling! Wed. & Fri. 9:30 a.m. at Redwood Raks in the Old Creamery Building, Arcata. Tues. & Thurs.

9:30 a.m., Fri. 5:30 p.m., Humboldt Capoeira Academy, Arcata. (F-1227) NORTH COAST SELF DEFENSE ACADEMY. Come learn your choice of Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Lau Kune Do Kung Fu, Muay Thai, Stand-up/Kickboxing & MMA. Group and private sessions available 7 days a week for men, women and children; all experience and fitness levels welcome. Call or visit (707) 822-6278 or 820 N St., Building #1 Suite C, Arcata www.northcoastselfdefense.com (F-1227) SUN YI’S ACADEMY OF TAE KWON DO. Classes for kids and adults, child care, fitness gym, and more.

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, 825-0182. (F-1227) DANCE-FIT. Dance, aerobics & strength training all in one class ! Mon., Wed. & Fri. 9-10 a.m First class is free. Drop in for $5 per class or 14 classes for $55. No Limits tap & jazz studio, corner of 10th & K st. Arcata.

825-0922 (F-1227)

NORTHCOAST AIKIDO FOUNDATION. Instructing non-violent martial arts since 1978. Mon.-Fri., 6-7:30 pm. Adult Beginning Special: 6 weeks for $99, enrollment ongoing. Children’s classes Mon. or Wed., 4-5 pm, $40/month. Visitors welcome! 890 G Street, Arcata, entrance around back. 826-9395. www. northcoastaikido.org. (F-1227)

Garden

FOUNDATION CLASS. Fri. & Sat., April 7-8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. $275. Full Weekend beginning level class. Participants will leave understanding: Law: The many faces of Cannabis, from history to the ever changing current law. Health: The many reasons and ways to use medicinal cannabis safely. Horticulture: Effective techniques from soil preparation through to harvest and storage. Key elements of this class focus on knowing how to start, grow, harvest, dry/ cure and store their own medicine. We will address small indoor soil systems but have a focus on outdoor organic practices. 707 Campus, 1881 Barnett Ct., #4, Redway Meadows Business Park. 707 Cannabis College, www.cannabiscollege.com, (707) 672-9860.

(G-0405) PURE ANALYTICS WITH SAMANTHA MILLER. FREE, Session 3 of 3 series on medical cannabis. Fri., April 6, 6:30-8 p.m. Introduction to High CBD and THC strain development, medicated edibles and dosage information. 707 Campus, 1881 Barnett Ct., #4, Redway Meadows Business Park. 707 Cannabis College, www. cannabiscollege.com, (707) 672-9860. (G-0401)

Kids & Teens

BOYS TO MEN RAVEN WEEKEND, AGES 9-12. Packed with fun, games, adventure, mystery and stories. We celebrate each boy’s unique truth and gifts, and his relationships to family, community and society, while assisting him to decipher his own feelings and reflect on his life. May 11-13. For more info: (707) 633-4855 or www.boystomenredwoodcoast.org. (K-0419) CREATIVE CLOWNING. Be a Clown! Play big! For kids ages 7-9, April 9-13, 10 a.m.-Noon, at the Arcata Playhouse. Call 822-1575 to register. (K-0405) HIP HOP DANCE CREW, AGES 5-9. Learn the art of hip hop dance. Four-week class at John Ryan Youth Center, 1653 J St., Mon.s, 6-6:45 p.m., starting April 9. $25. Call 441-4244 or visit The Adorni Center, 1011 Waterfront Dr. (K-0329) KIDS ON THE MOVE! Latin inspired youth fitness class. Four-weeks, Mon.s, 4-4:45 pm., starting April 9, at Adorni Center. $15. Call 441-4244 or visit The Adorni Center, 1011 Waterfront Dr. (K-0329) ZUMBA FOR TWEENS & TEENS. Great music in a fun, fast paced dance environment. Wed.s, 4-4:45 p.m., starting April 4. $20. At The Adorni Center, 1011 Waterfront Dr. Call 441-4244 or visit The Adorni Center. (K-0329) SEQUOIA PARK ZOO’S SCHOOL’S OUT CAMP. For 8-12 year olds. April 10-13. Join us for a wild adventure. Call 441-4263 or visit sequoiaparkzoo.net for info. (K-0329) SPRING BREAK CAMP. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation.

Join us for roller skating, arts and crafts, sports and more at Blue Lake Spring Break Camp for 5-13 year olds. Mon.-Fri., April 9-13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Perigot Park. Full-day or half-day option. Extended care hours available. Register today as space is limited!

Register at Blue Lake City Hall, www.bluelake.ca.gov or call Kara Newman, 668-5932, for more information. (K-0405)

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CAPOEIRA KIDS. Spring Session 2012: Feb. 1-June 15.

Classes: Beginner Kids (Age 5-7), Tues.s & Thurs.s, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Beginner kids (Age 8 & up), Tues.s & Thurs.s, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Toddler Tumblers (Ages 3 & 4), Tues.s, 2:30-3:15 p.m. Advanced Kids (Ages 5-7), Mon.s & Wed.s, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Advanced Kids (Ages 8 & up), Mon.s & Wed.s, 4:30-6 p.m. Arcata, (707) 498-6155. www.humboldtcapoeira.com. (K-0329) ACTIVE KIDS = HAPPY KIDS. Come learn selfconfidence, discipline and respect while gaining true life skills through martial arts. North Coast Self Defense Academy is offering two introductory lessons for only $14 with this ad. Call or visit- (707) 822-6278 or 820 N St, Building #1 Suite C, Arcata www. northcoastselfdefense.com (K-1227)

Lectures

LIVING ON SHAKY GROUND: How to Survive Earthquakes & Tsunamis in Northern California. A free class. Mon., April 9. Two sessions offered at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., River Lodge, Fortuna. Pre-registration is required: Call (707) 499-0754. Presented by HSU Regional Training Institute, Community Disaster Preparedness (www.humboldt.edu/rti). Funding provided by the Calif. Emergency Management Agency Earthquake and Tsunami Program. (L-0329)

Over 50

OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE (OLLI). Offers dynamic classes for people age 50 and over. Call 826-5880 or visit www.humboldt.edu/olli to register for classes. (O-1227) BRIDGES & FERRIES OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY. Examine some of the more exciting river and creek crossings in a PowerPoint program featuring old photos, postcards and maps. With Jerry and Gisela Rohde. Sat., April 21, 1-3 p.m. $30/OLLI members, $55/ nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0412) FINGERPAINTING ON YOUR IPAD. An introduction to iPad painting using the ArtStudio app, with local artist Claire Iris Schencke. Thurs., April 19-May 10, 6-8 p.m. $50/OLLI members, $75/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0412) LEAVING A LEGACY. Living a Life of Significance.

Identify your strengths and stories, consider your audience, and learn the basic steps to leave a purposeful legacy. With Scott Hammond. Thurs., April 19-26, 6-8 p.m. $35/OLLI members, $60/nonmembers.

OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0412) PILATES PLUS. Designed for those over 50. Improve your posture and balance, create stronger abdominal muscles, and improve flexibility, which is essential as one grows older. Six-week class, starting April 3, meets Tues.s & Thurs.s, 9-10 a.m., at CR McKinleyville. $45. Information or to register, call College of the Redwoods Community Education at 269-4000 or www.redwoods.edu, visit Community Education link.(O-0329) COAST GUARD. A Tour of the Past and Present.

Visit the Coast Guard facility in Samoa and the Air Station Humboldt Bay in McKinleyville. Meet boat and helicopter crewmembers and learn about their missions. With Maggy Herbelin. Tues., April 17-May 1, 10 a.m.-Noon. $45/OLLI members only. OLLI: 8265880 (O-0405) BEYOND TOURS. Freewheeling, Independent Travel for All Ages. You may remember traveling easily and effortlessly in your youth. Do you think traveling has become more dangerous and difficult in a post 9/11 era? Learn how today’s travel can be freer, lighter and more open than ever with world travelers Louisa Rogers and Barry Evans. Tues., April 17-May 1, 1-3 p.m. $50/OLLI members, $75/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0405)

ART FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART. Intro to Watercolor.

Mon.s, 5:15-7:15 p.m., April 2-June 11. Instructor Maureen McGarry. $100. Arcata Elementary School, Room 7, 2400 Baldwin. More info, call 826-1738. (O-0329) PORTRAIT DRAWING. Learn the basic fundamentals of portrait drawing with Tim Clewell. Wed., April 18-May 16, 4-6 p.m. $60/OLLI members, $85/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0405) SCOTIA AS IT WAS, IS & WILL BE. A comprehensive study of the community of Scotia, originally a Pacific Lumber Company town that is on the edge of great change. With Ray Hillman. Thurs., April 12, 2:30-5:30 p.m. and April 19, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Course includes a field trip. $55/OLLI members, $80/nonmembers.

OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0405) SOUL COLLAGE©: DISCOVERING YOUR MULTIPLICITY. Make a collage from cut-out images out of magazines and other sources and access the many different parts of yourself in the process. With Janet Patterson. Tues., April 17-May 22, 1-3 p.m. $50/ OLLI members, $75/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880.

(O-0405) SPRING WRITING WORKSHOP. Write, reflect, confer, revise, edit and think in this 6-week workshop with Emily Gibson. Join this group if you want to continue a writing project or want to get started on an idea. Wed., April 18-May 23, 10 a.m.-Noon. $70/ OLLI members, $95/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880.

(O-0405) WRITING ON THE BAY. Learn some of Humboldt Bay’s natural and human history on fieldtrips and then share your investigations through writing short paragraphs and poems. With Jerry Martien. Tues., April 17-May 15, 3:30-5:30 p.m. $55/OLLI members, $80/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0405) THE FOUR STORIES OF EPHESUS: Sources of the Modern World. Discover Ephesus, a city derived from Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Muslim cultures.

With Tom Gage. Thurs., April 5-26, 3:30-5:30 p.m. $60/OLLI members, $85/nonmembers. OLLI: 8265880. (O-0329)

Pets/Animals

PUPPY & BASIC DOG OBEDIENCE. Classes start Wed., April 4. Basic: 6-7 p.m. Puppy: 7-8 p.m. Preregister at Adorni Center 441-4248. For more info, call Mette Bryans 443-1183. (P-0329)

Spiritual

SHAMANIC RITUAL HEALING CIRCLE. A welcome gathering of participants with song, prayer, drumming, movement & dance in this journey of personal integration and World-wide Healing. For more info call Scott Sherman 445-1018. Suggested donation $10-15 per participant. Sat. April 7, 8:30 p.m-10 p.m, Bikram Yoga Humboldt, 516 5th. St, Eureka (S-0405) SACRED RE-PARENTING. At the age of 27-29 we are called to awaken to our Sacred Parents, to begin the process of letting go of the stories of our family of origin and to begin the journey of reparenting ourselves through our understanding, relationship, and experience of the Universal Source of all Things: God/Spirit/Creator. Eight week journey into that liberating and empowering process. Class begins April 3- May 22. Shakati Walsh, M.A. M.S. Visit website: Jupiterslight.com, email shakatiwalsh@yahoo.com or Call 707-826-0734 or 707 616-3163. (S-0329) TAROT AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PATH. Classes in Eureka and Arcata. Private mentorships, readings.

Carolyn Ayres, 442-4240, www.tarotofbecoming. com. (S-0517)

Field notes ARCATA ZEN GROUP MEDITATION. Beginners welcome. Sun., 8 a.m. North Coast Aikido Center, on F St. between 8th and 9th in Arcata. Wed., 6-7 p.m. at First Christian Church, 730 K, Eureka, ramp entrance and upstairs; newcomers please come 5 minutes early.

Sun. contact, 826-1701. Wed. contact, barryevans9@ yahoo.com, or for more info. call (707) 826-1701. www. arcatazengroup.org. (S-1227)

Sports/Recreation

ADULT SOFTBALL. Form a dream team with your friends, family and co-workers. $600/team plus $10 non-resident fee. Find out more on Wed., April 11 at the Adorni Center, 1011 Waterfront Dr. Women’s meeting 6 p.m., Men’s 6:30 p.m. Call 441-4245. (SR0329) ROLLER SKATING. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation Fri./Sat. 6:30-9:30p.m., Sun. 2-5 p.m. Theme Skate: Fri. April 6. Easter theme, Dress in pastel colors and receive $1 discount! Adult Skate Sun., April 8, 6:309:30 p.m. To schedule birthday parties, call 668-5932 or find us on facebook at parks-rec@bluelake.ca.gov.

(SR-0405) MEN’S SOFTBALL LEAGUE. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation. April 28- June 9. Games on Sat’s, 11:30, 2:30 or 5 p.m. at Perigot Park, Blue Lake. $400/team. Winner receives Championship T-Shirts! Register at Blue Lake City Hall, www.bluelake.ca.gov or call Kara Newman, 668-5932 for more information. (SR-0419) WOMEN’S SOFTBALL LEAGUE. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation. April 9-May 7. Games on Mon.,Tues., and Wed. at 5:30 and 6:45 p.m. $350/team + $5/nonresident. Winner receives Championship T-Shirts! At Perigot Park, Blue Lake. Register at Blue Lake City Hall, call Kara Newman, 668-5932 or visit, www.bluelake. ca.gov , for more information. (SR-0405)

Therapy/Support

SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS ? Confidential help is available. saahumboldt@ yahoo.com or 845-8973 (T-1227) JOLENE HAYES. Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist will guide you to uncovering and resolving whatever is blocking you from fulfilling your greatest potential so you can experience a life of creative expression, peace and joy. Call 707-499-9207 or email jolenehayes@sbcglobal.net to make appointment. (T-1227)

Vocational

SERVSAFE ESSENTIALS CERTIFICATION. One-day workshop assists restaurants and other food handling businesses in complying with AB 1978/Campbell.

CR McKinleyville site, Wed., Apr. 18, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Information or to register, call College of the Redwoods Community Education at 269-4000 or www.redwoods.edu, visit Community Education link. (V-0329) CHILD ABUSE MANDATED REPORTER TRAINING. With Cara Barnes, M.A. Fri., April 13, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $30 fee includes lunch. $25 additional for nursing or education academic credit or MFT/LCSW CEUs. Pre-registration is required. Call HSU Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/ extended (V-0405)

Wellness/Bodywork

TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE & WOMEN’S HEALTH. Learn how TCM (including acupuncture and herbal medicine) is well suited to helping women stay healthy and vibrant from birth through old age. With Lupine Wread. Thurs., April 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $20. Preregistration required. Call HSU Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/ extended. (W-0412)

START YOUR CAREER IN MASSAGE THERAPY! Evening classes begin Sept. 4, 2012 at Arcata School of Massage. 650-Hour Therapeutic Massage Certification will prepare you for Professional Certification in California, and the National Exam. Our comprehensive program prepares your body, mind and heart to become a caring, confident professional massage therapist. Call 822-5223 for information or visit arcatamassage.com (W-1227) TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE. Curious about acupuncture? Want to know how Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) works and what conditions it might benefit? This 2-hour class will explore basic TCM theory and tools of the medicine, including acupuncture, herbs, dietary therapy and more. With Lupine Meredith Wread. Thurs., April 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $20.

Pre-registration required. Call HSU Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/ extended. (W-0405) BEGIN YOUR LIFETIME COMMITMENT TO LIVING WELL. Qigong Workshop: Sun.s, 9-10:30 a.m., April 22-June 3 (no class 5/13), Arcata. misty-mountain@ hotmail.com, 498-1009. (W-0531) HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK. Full day workshop in Arcata. May 12. Contact Martin 498-1080. holotropicbreath@yahoo.com (W-0503) SHAMANIC SPIRITUAL SUPPORT. For problem solving, health issues & supporting well-being with Michal Mugrage. Divination, soul-retrieval, energy clearing, heart-centered spirit release, or space clearing. Also offering spiritual mentoring and classes. www.thankful-heart.com, (707) 407-7192. (W-0329) T’AI CHI WITH MARGY EMERSON. Three programs: T’ai Chi for Back Pain and Arthritis, Traditional Long Form (Wu Style), and The 42 Combined Forms (all 4 major styles). 11-week session starts the week of March 26. Begin as late as the third week. At the martial arts academy in Arcata’s Sunny Brae Shopping Center. Visit a class with no obligation to pay or enroll. Morning and evening classes. Fees for the 11-week term: $95 for 1 class per week, $150 for 2 or more classes per week. See www.margaretemerson. com or call 822-6508 for schedules. (W-0329) DANDELION HERBAL CENTER. Classes with Jane Bothwell. EAT LOCAL! WILD FOODS BANQUET, May 5, 2012. Learn to positively identify and prepare many wild delicacies with numerous recipes being shared.

PETROLIA SEAWEEDING WEEKEND, with Allison Poklemba. June 23-24, 2012. Learn how to identify, ethically harvest, and prepare local sea vegetables.

Register online www.dandelionherb.com or call (707) 442-8157. (W-0426) NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING/FERTILITY AWARENESS. Safe, effective, fun, women & men, all ages.

For class call Marla Joy (707) 845-4307, marla_joy@ suddenlink.net (W-0426) DANCING FOR BIRTH: PREGNANCY/ POSPARTUM FITNESS. If you can walk you can dance! Classes are fun and casual, no experience needed. It’s a feel-good workout with world dance movements that will help you have a more satisfying birth experience. Babies are welcome. Two classes available: Sun.s, 2-3:30 p.m. with Sarah Biggs doula and educator, phone, 8404617, pacificbirth.com, and Wed.s, 11-12:30 p.m. with Jyesha Wren, aspiring midwife and dancer, phone: (831) 428-9647, www.jyesha-dfb.com). $10/class & first class free in Arcata at the Humboldt Capoeira Academy. (W-0705) ●

Scott and companionS at the South pole, Jan. 18, 1912, the day after they diScovered they’d been beaten by amundSen. l-r: lawrence oateS, henry bowerS (pulling String to operate the camera Shutter), Scott, dr. edward wilSon, edgar evanS. Scott later wrote, “we are Showing that engliShmen can Still die with a bold Spirit, fighting it out to the end.” public domain

Scott of the Antarctic: Glorious Failure?

By Barry Evans

fieldnotes@northcoastjournal.com

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rowing up in Britain in the 1950s, during a time when my native country was hungry for inspiration, I learned about the heroes of what was still (erroneously) called “The Empire.” One of the most prominent was Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), better known as “Scott of the Antarctic.” Scott vied with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen to win the race to the South Pole, but when Scott’s fiveman expedition arrived there on Jan. 17, 1912, they realized they’d been beaten by five weeks. Amundsen and his men may have been the first to reach the pole, but most of the glory went to Scott. Although he and his men all perished of exhaustion and starvation on the 800-mile return journey, Scott’s “Message to the Public,” found a few months later by a search party, became the stuff of legend. In this poignant document, Scott’s version of the fate of his expedition claimed that he and his men died, not because of any lack of leadership ability, but due to chance and bad luck.

This heroic version of Scott’s saga was current when I was a schoolboy. Scott’s standing as a stalwart leader — brave-butprudent, fated by circumstances beyond his control — kept him in the public eye as the very model of a British gentlemanexplorer. True, a few rumblings occasionally challenged that unstintingly positive assessment, but in general his reputation was secure — until the 1979 publication of a joint biography of Scott and Amundsen

by Cambridge historian Roland Huntford, who concluded that Scott was a “heroic

bungler” and “one of the worst polar explorers.”

Both sides can make a good case.

Almost certainly, Scott did a terrible job of planning his return journey from the pole by mismanaging the location of food depots (he and the remaining two survivors were only 11 miles from “One Ton” depot when they died, but 24 miles beyond the original intended location); and, unlike Amundsen, Scott failed to take advantage of the tremendous strength and endurance of huskies as sled dogs. On the other hand, a new analysis of weather conditions for the two months following his arrival at the pole determined that the weather on the “Barrier” through which the party was trekking was about as bad as it ever gets, and that Scott was more unlucky than incompetent. The argument continues to this day.

Scott’s reputation may have more to do with what historian Stephanie Barczewski calls “current cultural forces.” That is, 1912 was another world, a time when the public had different expectations for its heroes. Back then, a tendency to recklessness — which does seem to apply to Scott — might have been seen as more of a positive attribute than is the case today.

Perhaps Scott was both a champion and a bungler, depending on how you look at it.

For this British schoolboy, Scott’s reputation is safe: He’s my hero of the Antarctic, and always will be. l Barry Evans (barryevans9@yahoo) will be toasting R.F. Scott on the centenary of his death this week.

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED DECEMBER 12, 2008, UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER

TS. NO. 139712-AH ON April 11, 2012 at 9:00 o’clock A.M. in the lobby of Humboldt Land Title Company, 1034 Sixth St., Eureka, CA County of Humboldt, State of California HUMBOLDT LAND TITLE COMPANY, a Corporation, as Trustee under the Deed of Trust executed

by Gerald McGuire, a single man recorded on recorded December 24, 2008 as Instrument No. 200829779-4 and re-recorded January 30, 2009 as Instrument No. 2009-1852-6 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Humboldt County, California by reason of default in the payment or performance of obligations secured thereby including the breach or default, notice of which was recorded November 15, 2011 as Instrument No. 2011-23567-3 of said Official Records, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in lawful money of the United States, without covenant or warranty, express or implied, as to title, possession, or encumbrances, for

the purpose of paying obligations secured by said Deed of Trust, the interest conveyed to said Trustee by said Deed of Trust in property situated in the County of Humboldt, State of California and described as: That portion of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of section 3, Township 5 North, Range 1 West, Humboldt Meridian, described as follows: Parcel 2 of Parcel Map No. 2122 filed in Book 18 of Parcel Maps, Page 123, Humboldt County Records.

ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO. 400131-011-000. The unpaid balance and estimate of costs, expenses and advances as of March 12, 2012 is $70,892.36; said amount will increase until date of sale. The street address or other common designation, if any, of the real property described herein is purported to be: 1535 Peninsula Dr., Arcata, Ca. 95521. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Dated: March 12, 2012 Beneficiary: Steven W. Sellers, Telephone: (707) 822-1866, Address: 110 Essex Lane, McKinleyville, CA 95519.

HUMBOLDT LAND TITLE COMPANY, a Corporation, Trustee Address: 1034 Sixth Street, Eureka, CA 95501, Telephone (707) 443-0837.

By: /s/ Sue E. Bosch, President 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-87)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mid/Town Storage intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property under the California Self-Storage Facility Act (Bus.& Prof.

Code 21700-21716).

Mid/Town Storage will sell property belonging to those listed below to satisfy an Owner’s Lien on stored property at public sale. Property will be auctioned by auctioneer Don Johnson, 707-443-4851, Bond# 9044453, on Saturday April 7th at 9:30 A.M. Sale will take place at 1649 Sutter Road, McKinleyville, CA 95519. Items to be sold but not limited to: Household furniture, misc housewares, plastic totes & boxes, fish tank, lap top, flat screen TV, misc. electronics, toolbox, weights, toys, ladder, bicycles, camping equipment, musical instruments, speakers, generator, motorcycle helet, wheelchair and much more!

Jacqueline Anderson, Unit # 183 Chris Cyphers, Unit # 413 Amy Dees, Unit # 293

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Jeff Gier, Unit # 446 Jeff Gier, Unit # 469 Jeff Gier, Unit #424 Jeff Gier, Unit # 547 Travis Hash, Unit # 558 Caleb Johnson, Unit # 578 Sarah Jones, Unit #130 Jennifer Kline, Unit # 179 Eleanora Lanzo, Unit # 225 Peace Light a.k.a. Paul Ingle, Unit # 751 David Love, Unit # 2 Cassie Milligan, Unit # 431 Leanna Morrow, Unit # 285 Devora Norman, Unit # 601 Devora Norman, Unit # 462 Devora Norman, Unit # 426 Lonny Owsley, Unit # 545 Lana Pulver, Unit # 621 Raylynn Robinson, Unit # 618 Christy Sparacio, Unit # 34 Patty Stejskal, Unit #238 Purchases must be paid for at the time of the sale and must be paid in CASH ONLY and a deposit is required.

Anyone interested in attending must sign in at the office prior to 9:30 A.M. on the day of the auction, no exceptions. All purchased items are sold as they are, where they are, and must be removed at the time of sale.

Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obliged party. Sale will take place rain or shine. Bring flash light and pad lock or locks…

For further information, please call (707) 839-1555 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-93)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00148

The following person is doing business as SWEET SPRINGS WATER RESOURCE CO. at 1720 11th Street, Arcata, CA 95521, P.O. Box 453, Orleans, CA 95556.

Joel Bear Rosser 1720 11th St. Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Joel Bear Rosser.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 07, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19/2012 (12-101)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00174

The following persons are doing business as THE KITCHEN STORE at 452 Main St., Ferndale, CA 95536, 2197 Central Ave., McKinleyville, CA 95519.

North Bank Assoc. Inc 2197 Central Ave. McKinleyville, CA 95519 1966595 CA The business is conducted by A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Kevin Jenkins, President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 15, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19/2012 (12-97)

UNMET TRANSIT NEEDS PUBLIC HEARINGS City of Arcata City of Blue Lake City of Eureka City of Ferndale City of Fortuna City of Rio Dell City of Trinidad County of Humboldt

May 2, 2012 April 10, 2012 April 17, 2012 May 3, 2012 April 2, 2012 April 3, 2012 April 11, 2012 May 8, 2012

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The Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG) and its member entities will conduct Public Hearings to solicit transit needs input for the seven cities, and the unincorporated area of Humboldt County. For those unable to attend, comments may be delivered in writing.

For more information contact: HCAOG 5611 I Street, Suite B, Eureka CA 95501 (707) 444.8208 Debra.Dees@hcaog.net

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00178

The following person is doing business as SALTY DAWG at 245 Splendor Ln., Kneeland, CA 95549.

Morgan Oliver 245 Splendor Ln. Kneeland, CA 95549 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Morgan Oliver.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 19, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19/2012 (12-96)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00180

The following person is doing business as HUMBOLDT LAND RENOVATIONS at 2596 Maple Lane, Arcata, CA 95521, P.O. Box 5097, Arcata, CA 95518.

Scott Elcan 2596 Maple Lane Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/21/2012. /s Scott Elcan.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 20, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19/2012 (12-98)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00181

The following person is doing business as RUNAWAY KITE at 414 2nd St., Apt. C, Eureka, CA 95501, P.O. Box 5861, Eureka, CA 95502.

David Malcolm Desoto 414 2nd St., Apt. C Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to

3/29/2012 (12-102)

transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/21/2012. /s David Malcolm Desoto.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 21, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19/2012 (12-99)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00138

The following person is doing business as ROSES AND CREAM STUDIO at 3017 L St., Eureka, CA 95501.

Anna Duffy 3017 L St. Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Anna Duffy.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 02, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12/2012 (12-90 )

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00145

The following persons are doing business as WHIPLASH CURVE at 423 First Street, Eureka, CA 95501.

Eleanor Mae Mattingly P.O. Box 334, 133 Acacia Dr. Blue Lake, CA 95525 Bonnie Lee Stephens P.O. Box 334, 133 Acacia Dr. Blue Lake, CA 95525 The business is conducted by State or Local Registered Domestic Partners.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/15/12 /s Bonnie Lee Stephens.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 06, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12/2012 (12-91 )

The following person is doing business as MIKKI MOVES REAL ESTATE, INC. at 805 7TH St., Eureka, CA 95501.

Mikki Moves Real Estate, Inc 6215 Marge Ct. Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/15/2012. /s Michelle Cardoza.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 13, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12/2012 (12-89 )

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00171

The following person is doing business as MIKKI MOVES REAL ESTATE at 805 7TH St., Eureka, CA 95501.

Michelle Cardoza 6215 Marge Ct. Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/4/12. /s Michelle Cardoza.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 14, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12/2012 (12-88 )

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00132

The following person is doing business as NATUWALL at 2351 Scenic Drive, Trinidad, CA 95570.

Steven Simoes Regalo 2351 Scenic Drive Trinidad, CA 95570 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/29/2012. /s Steven Simoes Regalo.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 29, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-82)

3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-80)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00142

The following persons are doing business as TAMALII COMADRES at 455 Bayside Ct., Apt. B, Arcata, CA 95521.

Megan Maire Davis 455 Bayside Ct., Apt. B Arcata, CA 95521 Michael Anthony Horcasitas 455 Bayside Ct., Apt. B Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by Copartners.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/5/2012. /s Megan Davis.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 5, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-81)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00149

The following person is doing business as ARCATA HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTER at 940 9th St., Arcata, CA 95521.

Thomas Kent Edrington 2475 Redwood St., #3 Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Thomas Edrington.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 8, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-84)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00104

The following person is doing business as tHats FABULOUS at 645 Elizabeth Dr., Arcata, CA 95521.

Trillium Smith 645 Elizabeth Dr. Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Trillium Smith.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00118

The following person is doing business as LATTE LOVE at 2228 4th St., Eureka, CA 95501, 1240 Mason Way, McKinleyville, CA 95519.

Shanell Beyzade 1240 Mason Way McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/22/12. /s Shanell Beyzade.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 22, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2012 (12-78)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00131

The following person is doing business as DOWN UNDER/ACQUISITIONERS LIMITED at 265 Idlewood Lane, Trinidad, CA 95570, P.O. Box 12, Orick, CA 95555.

Ronald Stanley Plotnick 265 Idlewood Lane, #4 Trinidad, CA 95570 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Ron Plotnick.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 29, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2012 (12-73)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00137

The following persons are doing business as SO MANY DEALZ at 1926 C Ave., Mckinleyville, CA 95519.

Hilary Morse 1926 C Ave. McKinleyville, CA 95519 Cornelius Van 1926 C Ave. McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by Copartners.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Hilary Morse.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 2, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2012 (12-77)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF HAROLD WALTER TAYLOR CASE NO. PR120068

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be inter-

legal NOTICES ➤ continued on next page

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00169

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The following persons are doing business as OLD TOWN ANTIQUE LIGHTING at 203 F St., Eureka, CA 95501.

Kenneth Bruce Norman 3025 Stover Rd. Blue Lake, CA 95525 Sara Debora Norman 3025 Stover Rd. Blue Lake, CA 95525 The business is conducted by A Married Couple.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Sara D. Norman.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 5, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 15, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

Solution, tips and computer program at

The following person is doing business as REDWOOD ORGANICS/ CELEBRATIONS at 100 Ericson Ct., Unit 130, Arcata, CA 95521, P.O. Box 5108, Arcata, CA 95518.

Elizabeth Nester 802 Hiller Rd., Unit A McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Elizabeth Nester.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 12, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00140

CROSSWORD By David Levinson Wilk

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00161

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is my fictitious Business name statement good forever

?

Y

our fictitious business name statement will expire five years from the date it was last filed with the County Clerk. You have 40 days from the expiration date to renew your FBNS with the County.

A new statement does not need to be published unless there has been a change in the information required in the expired statement. If any changes occur then you must file a new FBNS and have published again.

Within 30 days from the stamped refiling date, you must begin publishing the statement in the newspaper. If you publish it in the North Coast Journal for the required four weeks, on the last day of publication a “proof of publication” will be sent to the County Clerk to complete the filing process.

The cost for running your ficticious business name in the North Coast JourNal is a flat $50 fee.

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Employment continued from previous page. ested in the will or estate, or both, of: HAROLD WALTER TAYLOR aka HAROLD W. TAYLOR. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHERIE TAYLOR in the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHERIE TAYLOR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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 April 19, 2012 at 1:50 p.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept. 8.

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code Section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

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: DOUGLAS D. KABER, SBN 227193 Kaber & Kaber, Attorneys at Law 730 7TH STREET, SUITE E EUREKA, CA 95501 (707) 441-1100 MARCH 22, 2012 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 3/29, 4/5, 4/12/2012 (12-100)

Looking for fun and friendly people to fill a variety of positions.

Current job opportunities: Line Cook, Guest Room Attendant, Slot Attendant, Player’s Club Supervisor, Sushi Roller and more!

Come join our dedicated team of professionals who are committed to compassionate care.

RN CLINIC COORDINATOR, 1 F/T Arcata Oversee the daily patient flow and medical component of the clinic, this includes responsibility for the supervision of the medical assistants and the triage process. RN Clinic Coordinator is responsible for assuring that clinic practices adhere to state and federal guidelines and regulations.

Requires current CA RN license and 2-4 years of supervisory experience in a medical facility as well as strong computer skills, EMR preferred MEDICAL ASSISTANT, 1 F/T Eureka Assists in examination and treatment of patients under direction of Physician or medical provider. Must have injection certification, CPR certification, strong computer skills and 6 or more months experience.

MEDICAL RECORDS CLERK, 1 F/T Willow Creek Prepares medical records information and maintains appropriate patient records. High school diploma or GED, strong computer skills and some experience in a medical office setting preferred.

REGISTERED NURSE, 1 P/T Willow Creek Nurse provides general nursing care to patients in the clinic.

Degree in nursing leading to license as Registered Nurse State of California. Current RN license for State of California.

Open Door Community Health Centers offers great benefits, competitive compensation and a rewarding work environment.

Application may be downloaded from: www.opendoorhealth.com PLEASE submit complete applications (EOE) To: Carolyn Webb, Human Resources Manager Open Door Community Health Centers, 670 Ninth Street, Suite 203, Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 826-8633, ext. 5140, FAX (707) 826-8628 cwebb@opendoorhealth.com

To apply, simply visit the Human Resources office at the casino.

For directions, current listings and other information visit www.bluelakecasino.com/careers.

HUMAN RESOURCES DATA ADMINISTRATOR Dynamic international organization seeks to fill full-time, fully-benefitted position managing personnel data, performing HR generalist duties and supporting global recruitment Ideal candidate has: • 3+ years administrative support experience, preferably in Human Resources • Strong experience working with relational database programs required, preferably an HRIS • Proven ability to handle confidential information and Strong written communication skills

For more details and to apply, visit www.internews.org/about/employment No Calls Please. EOE M/F/D/V

LIBRARIAN II County of Humboldt

$3,011 - 3,865 Monthly Plus Excellent Benefits

Perform professional librarian work involving the selection, cataloging, circulation and reference use of County library materials, serving all age groups; plan and direct the work of paraprofessional and support staff.

The current open assignment is for the Arcata Branch Library. Qualified candidates will possess a Master’s degree in Library Science and have at least one year of experience working as a professional librarian. Must be willing to work evenings and weekends.

did you know?

Hiring?

that the North Coast Journal’s website includes governmental public notices?

Find out when County public hearings FinalHumboldt filing date: April 11, 2012.

Applications Post your job opportunities in there are available at Humboldt County Personnel, 825 by clicking on “Legal Notices” 5th Street, Room 100, Eureka, CA, or apply

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Rentals

Employment PLANNING & BUILDING DIRECTOR

(INTERIM APPOINTMENT) County of Humboldt Salary for interim appointment commensurate with qualifications

Regular Appointed Salary: $9,024 Monthly Excellent Benefits Under general policy direction from the Board of Supervisors, the incumbent will have department head level responsibility for accomplishing the goals and objectives of current planning, advanced planning, GIS development and maintenance, and building inspection and permit assistance activities. The Board of Supervisors intends to make a regular appointment for this position by mid-to-late August 2012, after the completion of a statewide recruitment. The person serving as the Interim Director will be encouraged to apply and compete for the regular appointment.

Qualified candidates will have experience and education that demonstrates possession of the skills and abilities necessary to effectively administer and resolve complex planning and building related matters.

Applications available at Personnel, 825 5th Street, Room 100, Eureka, apply online at www.co.humboldt.ca.us/jobs. AA/EOE

SENIOR HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALIST County of Humboldt

$3,751 - 4,813 Monthly Plus Excellent Benefits

Under general supervision, plan, coordinate and conduct the activities of a specialized health education program; assign, direct and review the work of assigned program staff.

Desirable education and experience would include the equivalent to possession of a Master’s degree in a health education related field and three years of experience performing health education related activities. Valid CA driver's license is required.

Final Filing Date: April 9, 2012. Applications available at Humboldt County Personnel, 825 5th Street, Room 100, Eureka, CA. 24 hr.

Jobline (707) 476-2357. Apply on-line at www.co.humboldt.ca.us/jobs. AA/EOE

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ACCOUNTANT/CONTROLLER F/T. In McKinleyville. This position is responsible for all accounting and financial reporting functions for a thriving local business. Applicant should have experience in all aspects of accounting and must be self motivated with a desire to work in a fast paced ever-changing environment, while exuding a team player attitude. Applicant should possess a minimum of a Bachelors Degree in either Accounting or Business Administration/Management. Duties and responsibilities to include: Supervise and manage staffed departments in HR, Payroll , Bookkeeping and Inventory, Coordinate the preparation of corporate annual reports, budgets and forecasting, Proficiency in QuickBooks, Word and Excel and experience in POS software a plus, Maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures, Manage outside support staff, Ensure that the organizational structure of the Finance Department is adequate for achieving the department’s overall goals and objectives. Minimum of 5 years experience. Wages will be based on education and experience. Local references a must. Please send your resume for prompt consideration to: 95519CA@gmail.com. Post will be removed once position is filled. (E-0329) REPOSSESSOR WITH OWN TRUCK. (888) 300-3635. (E-0329)

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(E-0329) THE HSU DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS. Seeks applicants with the qualifications and ability to teach a variety of economic courses, but particularly History of Economic Thought. Applications must be received by April 1, 2012. For more information visit: http://www.humboldt.edu/aps/ employment/pool.html. (E-0329) HELP WANTED!!! Make money Mailing brochures from home!

FREE Supplies! Helping HomeWorkers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity! No experience required. Start Immediately! www.theworkhub.net (AAN CAN) (E-0607) FULL TIME HOUSE CLEANING POSITION. Available with Dependable Cleaning. Mon.-Fri. No evenings or weekends. Bi-lingual a plus.Valid license and reliable vehicle required. Call 445-1094 and leave name, phone number and best time to call. (E-0419) PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1,000 a Week mailing brochures from home! Guaranteed Income! FREE Supplies! No experience required. Start Immediately! www. homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN) (E-0607) $$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 http://www.easywork-greatpay. com (AAN CAN) (E-0614) HOME CAREGIVERS PT/FT. Nonmedical caregivers to assist elderly in their homes. Top hourly fees. 442-6102. (E-1227)

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Annual Income Limits: 1 pers. $20,300; 2 pers. $23,200; 3 pers. $26,100; 4 pers. $28,950; 5 pers. $31,300; 6 pers. $33,600; 7 pers. $35,900; 8 pers. $38,250.

Business Rentals

Openings soon available for HUD Sec. 8 Waiting Lists for 2, 3 & 4 bedrm apts.

EHO. Hearing impaired: TDD Ph# 1-800-735-2922. Apply at Office: 2575 Alliance Rd. Arcata, 8am-12pm & 1-4pm, M-F (707) 822-4104 EUREKA DUPLEXES. 3108 Glen St., #A & #B. Reduced Rent! Pets Considered! Available Now. Immaculate, spacious townhouse style duplex near shopping with 2.5 baths, range, refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave. w/d hookups, private fenced ground floor patio, upper deck has view of bay. Garage & off street parking. Six month lease. Rent $1195/$1245 with pet Deposit $1700/$1900 with pet. Nonsmoking units. Cross St is Harris. Professional Consolidated Property Management, 3109 H St., Eureka. www.ppmrentals. com, Rental hotline (707) 4449197. (R-0329) EUREKA ROOM FOR RENT. 314 E St., Apt #23. Available April 20. All utilities included. Super affordable room puts you in the heart of Old Town! Located in a secure building with shared laundry, kitchen and baths. On site manager. No pets. Cross St. Third. Month to month. Rent $350, Deposit $525. Professional Consolidated Property Management, 3109 H St., Eureka. www. ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-0329) FORTUNA TOWNHOUSE. 2 BEDROOM 1.5 BATH, appliances, garbage paid, carport, w/d hookup, patio. $800 mo., plus sec. deposit. No pets, (707) 725-6293 (R-0412) WILLOW CREEK 2BD/2BA. On riverfront acreage, beautiful quiet setting. $950/month, (360) 7904428. (R-0329)

BY THE BAY & OLD TOWN. Eureka 1BD/1BA Apartment. $650/month, $1000/deposit. No Smoking/Pets.

W/S/G paid. References required.

445-4679. (R-0405) BLUE LAKE SHARE. 1 room, $350per person; $700-deposit per person. Walk to fishing, swimming, hiking. Near Dell’Arte. 668-4041.

(R-0329)

ARCATA SPACIOUS HEALING ARTS STUDIO. Quiet and beautiful, for rent part time. Call Alexandra, 822-5395. (BR-0614) DANCE STUDIO RENTAL. Humboldt Capoeira Academy offers rental space for the performing arts, beautiful 2800 sq. f.t dance space offers hardwood floors, wall-to wall windows, full length mirrors, and dressing rooms. Convenient location is visible from the plaza, and will help you to promote your classes. Check with us for rates and availability. Contact Sarara at (707) 498-6155, or sararacdo@hotmail.com. (BR-1227)

Real Estate TRINITY VILLAGE 1.3 ACRES WITH CREEK. 3BD/2BA main house. PLUS: Guest House, Art Studio/Workshop, Pool, Sauna, 2 Car Garage, Amenities Galore. $385,000. Call Gale Packard Realty, Owner/Broker, (530) 6294181. (RE-0329) OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS. Come to the quaint town of Rio Rico Arizona to make your dreams come true. This hill top 2.2 acre lot situated in a residential area is a perfect haven to build a small eco-friendly home, grow fruits and vegetables year round and live a sustainable life. Make this the bridge to your future.

Offered at $28,000.00. Deborah Van De Putte, Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, (520) 282-1111deborah.vandeputte@ russlyon.com (RE-0426) MANUFACTURED HOME. 14 wide, 2bd/1ba, in Azalea Park, 2637 Hidden Terrace, McKinleyville. Lot 80x70. $26,000. (707) 838-7653.

(RE-0329) WILLOW CREEK PROPERTY. 1.33 acres, Willow Creek Community Service District Water, underground power & phone at property. R-2 soils report and perk tested. Approved septic system design by Trinity Engineering.

Property is zoned RST. Property is located off Highway 299 on private road one mile east of Willow Creek. Ready to build. $99,900 will consider offers. (530) 629-2031 (RE-1227) Place your ad online at northcoastjournal.com or call 442-1400 .

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Buy/Sell/Trade STOREWIDE CLEARANCE SALE. Come and check out clearance racks and tables throughout the store. Great Deals! March 27-31.

Dream Quest Thrift Store in Willow Creek. Helping Provide Opportunities for Local Youth.

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BUYING COIN COLLECTIONS. Big or Small. I will come to you. Private and Confidential.

Call William (707) 845-7420 or email goodsign111@yahoo.com.

(BST-0621) OLD WEST WOODEN ORE CART. Displayed on two railroad tracks.

In very good condition . Very Rare. More Items. (707) 725-3228.

(BST-0329) THE BEAD LADY. For all your needs in beads! Glass beads, leather, shells, findings, jewelry.

Kathy Chase Owner, 76 Country Club Dr Ste 5, Willow Creek.

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PAWS OFF MY HERBS. 8% OFF SALE! Bulk herbs aren’t taxed and Buster still gets a break. It’s a dog’s life. Dot’s Vitality, Dot’s Veggie Vitality and Dot’s Arthritis. Find Dot’s at: Moonrise Herbs, Arcata, Humboldt Herbals, Eureka, or order online at wwwhumboldtherbals.com (P-0223)

Services IPHONE REPAIR + PRO CAR AUDIO. Humboldt Screen Savers, Humboldt’s new iRepair service!

Affordable & fast iPhone, iPad repair. Pro car audio services also available! (707) 362-9853, facebook.com/HumboldtScreenSavers. (S-0405) HOUSEHOLD MOVERS. Local moving company available to move several items, or an entire household to any destination. We have over 30 years experience. Free estimates, local references upon request.

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Contact Sean Denmark, owner at (978) 501-6953, email: northbridgemanagement@yahoo. com. (S-0329) MAKING MEMORIES VIDEO. Personalized Videos, Personal Oral Histories. Pamela Hinrichs, 839-0231. (S-0405) HOUSE CLEANING BY JEANNIE. Residence $15/hour, Move-outs $20/hour. Call 445-2644. References Available. (S-0426) SPECIALIZED HANDYMAN & MAINTENANCE. Anything that needs to be repaired, replaced or maintained around your yard or home. Call Lance, 601-6507.

(S-0329) DEANNA’S CLEANING SERVICE. $15 hr. Residential, $20 hr. MoveOuts, Rentals & Estates, 2 hr.min. lic #8132, call 445-3610 (S-0517) AMUSING GAMES & AMAZING PERFORMANCES FOR ALL AGES. Events, Birthdays, Festivals, Kidszones. I’ll Juggle, Unicycle, & bring Toys. aokayClown.com, (707) 499-5628. (S-1227)

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Experienced, Reliable & Efficient to meet your needs. 668-5205, 499-1536. $15/hour. (S-0426) TAI CHI GARDENER. Maintaining balance in your yard. Well equipt.

Maintenance + Projects 18 yrs experience. Call Orion 825-8074, taichigardener.com. (S-0426) CATCH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY’S 25th Anniversary sale, 25% off all Weddings, Portraits and Events. (707) 845-4160 www. catch-light.com. (S-0913) HUMBOLDT HOUSE CLEANING. Rentals, Estates, Residential. Gift Certificates Available! Licensed & Bonded #3860. 707-444-2001.

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ERIC’S SERVICES. Home Repair, Maintenance, Affordable Prices (707) 499-4828. (S-0809) ALLIANCE LAWN & GARDEN CARE. Affordable, Dependable, and Motivated Yard maintenance. We’ll take care of all your basic lawn and garden needs.

Including hedging, trimming, mowing, and hauling. Call for estimates (707) 834-9155, (707) 825-1082. (S-0524) SEWING SERVICE. Stitch in Time repairs & alterations. Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. 1038 11th street, Arcata. 707-496-3447 (S-1227) A-1 STEAM CARPET CLEANING. Ask us about our $99.00 2 room special. Also now offering Green Guard 442-3229 ext 13 (S-1227) ARCATA CLEANING COMPANY. The non-toxic cleaning solution for your home or office. 707822-7819. (S-1227)

CLARITY WINDOW CLEANING. Services available. Call Julie 8391518. (S-1227) DISORGANIZED? HIRE A PRO! Paper, clutter, kitchens, closets.

A.D.D. specialist. Experienced, Affordable, Friendly. Claire Josefine 268-8585. www.clairejosefine. com. (S-1227) MCKEEVER ENERGY AND ELECTRIC. Residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural. Electrical contracting and design.

Renewable energy. Energy efficiency and sustainability.

Energy consulting, documentation and field verification.

Contact Nate McKeever at 707-822-0100 or info@mckeeverenergyandelectric.com or visit www.mckeeverenergyandelectric.com. Lic. # CA C10 876832 (S-1227) WRITING CONSULTANT/EDITOR. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry.

Dan Levinson, MA, MFA. 443-8373. www.ZevLev.com. (S-1227)

Music M-AUDIO PROKEYS 88. Premium stage piano. Custom wood stand. Sony speakers. $700 OBO, 677-9410. (M-0329) ROAD TRIX ENTERTAINMENT. Live Music. Private Parties, Bars, Gatherings of all Kinds. Bookings, Bradley Dean, 832-7419. (M-0510) MUSIC LESSONS. Piano, Guitar, Voice, Flute, etc. Piano tuning, Instrument repair. Digital multitrack recording. (707) 476-9239.

(M-0524) PIANO LESSONS. Beginners, all ages. Experienced. Judith Louise 476-8919. (M-1227) SAXOPHONE/FLUTE LESSONS. All ages, beginner-advanced, jazz improvisation, technique. Susie Laraine: 441-1343. (M-1227) GUITAR/PIANO LESSONS. All ages, beginning and intermediate. Seabury Gould 444-8507.

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Community BECOME A FOSTER PARENT. Provide a safe and stable environment for youth 13-18 for them to learn and grow in their own community. Contact the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Foster Care Hotline at 441-5013 and ask for Peggy. (C-0726) SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS ? Confidential help is available. saahumboldt@yahoo.com or 845-8973 (C-1227)

Community LIFETREE CAFE: JOIN THE CONVERSATION. “Why Did I Survive?” offers participants eyewitness glimpses into the Haiti disaster and a chance to share stories of their own brushes with natural disasters. Sun., April 1, 7 p.m. Lifetree Café, 76 13th St., Arcata. Free Admission. Questions, Contact Bob Dipert 672-2919, bobdipert@ hotmail.com. (C-0329) TICKETS ON SALE FOR 32ND ANNUAL RIVER NIGHT. If a hillbilly/ charity event tickles your fancy, then River Night is the place for you! Summer LEAP, a program of the Boys and Girls Club, Annual River Night Sat., April 21, 7 p.m- 1 a.m., Portuguese Hall, 1138 11th St. Arcata and will include a benefit drawing, drinks, music and dancing. Beer provided by Mad River Brewery and dancing will be to the musical stylings of the Bret Harte Breakers, Steel Standing, Small Axe Ensemble and DJ Max Michael. Tickets available at Adventure’s Edge and Center Activities, 2 for $10 in advance. At the door, tickets will be $10 per person unless you arrive in your best hillbilly get-up, where tickets will be $8 per person.

PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866-413-6293 (Void in Illinois) (AAN CAN) (C-0329)

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ManifestPositivity.com. Helping the YOUniverse conspire on your behalf. (MB-0329) PAST LIVES, DREAMS & SOUL TRAVEL. A spiritual discussion to help you: recognize past lives, experience yourself as eternal Soul, and gain spiritual freedom and joy in this lifetime. Thurs., March 29, 7 p.m., at the Arcata Library Conference Room, ( behind City Hall). Contact, (707) 442-6526.

(MB-0329) CERTIFIED IN MASSAGE THERAPY & FOOT REFLEXOLOGY. Reidun Olsson, (707) 822-7247.

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REBECCA PORTEOUS, LCSW. (LCS #18459) is opening a private therapy and counseling practice at 3135 Boeing Ave., Suite A1, McKinleyville. Experience working with a broad range of issues.

Appointments, call 633-6145.

(MB-0503) EXPERIENCE YOUR OWN WISDOM. Approach relationships, illnesses, & life challenges from the inside out. Discover the spiritual guidance embedded within your everyday experiences and/or dreams. Dream recall not necessary. With AnaLora Garrard, author of Your Dreams: Spiritual Messages in Pajamas. www. analora.com, 826-2647. (MB-0329) HOLISTIC HOUSECALLS. Acupuncture, Massage and Lifestyle Consultations in your home or office. Specializing in Pain Management, Sports Medicine, Women’s Health and Internal Medicine.

Custom Chinese herb prescriptions available. (707) 267-7789, Lauren.L.LAc@gmail.com, www. wayoflifechinesemedicine.com.

(MB-0329) FEELING STRESSED? ANXIOUS? DEPRESSED? OR JUST UNSURE? Maybe therapy can help. Let’s talk.

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Sarah Goldberg, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Lic #47032 (707) 205-9005, www.mysilverlaketherapy.com (MB-0531) SHAMANIC SPIRITUAL SUPPORT. For problem solving, health issues and supporting well-being with Michal Mugrage. Divination, soul-retrieval, energy clearing, heart-centered spirit release, or space clearing. Also offering spiritual mentoring and classes. www.thankful-heart.com (707) 407-7192. (MB-0426)

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(MB-0726) NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING/ FERTILITY AWARENESS CLASS. Safe, effective, fun, women & men, all ages. Call Marla Joy (707) 845-4307, marla_joy@suddenlink. net (MB-0426) NEEDING SOME SUPPORT RIGHT NOW? Experienced counselor & therapist Linda Nesbitt, MSW, LCSW (Lic#18830) is expanding her practice and welcoming new clients. Focusing on stress/anxiety, depression, grief/loss, trauma recovery, relationship challenges and postpartum support. EMDR Advanced Trained. (707) 268-0929.

(MB-0426) TAROT AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PATH. Classes in Eureka and Arcata. Private mentorships, readings.

Carolyn Ayres, 442-4240, www. tarotofbecoming.com. (MB-0517) COACHING FOR PERSONAL EVOLUTION WITH REBECCA OWEN. Access your wholeness by cultivating your Presence in the Now and learning to clear old patterns. 822-5253. (MB-0920) THE SPINE IS YOUR CONDUIT FOR LIFE-FORCE ENERGY. Open to the Alignment of Your Whole Self: Chiropractic by Dr. Scott Winkler, D.C. and Energy Work

by Rebecca Owen. 822-1676.

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MOSAIC MASSAGE. Customized pressure and style by Heather, Massage Therapist with 10 years experience. Swedish, Deep Tissue, Prenatal, Reflexology. Located at Om Shala Yoga, Arcata, (707) 3622821 (MB-1227) CERTIFIED MASSAGE THERAPIST. Samantha Dudman-Miller, (707) 616-6031. (MB-0726) HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT. Bachelors, Masters, D.D./Ph.D., distance learning, University of Metaphysical Sciences. Bringing professionalism to metaphysics. (707) 822-2111 (MB-1227) ZUMBA. Latin-inspired fitness program using international music and various dance styles including Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue and Reggaeton for a great cardio workout. Every Mon. and Thurs. at the Bayside Grange 6-7 p.m., 2297 Jacoby Creek Rd. $6/$4 Grange members. Every Wed. 6-7 p.m. in Fortuna at the Mon. Club, 610 Main St. Every Tue. at the Trinidad Town Hall 12 p.m. and every Thur. at Eureka Vets Hall 12 p.m. Marla Joy 707-845-4307. (MB-1227)

NORTHCOAST AIKIDO FOUNDATION. Instructing non-violent martial arts since 1978. Mon.-Fri., 6-7:30 pm. Adult Beginning Special: 6 weeks for $99, enrollment ongoing. Children’s classes Mon. or Wed., 4-5 pm, $40/month.

Visitors welcome! 890 G Street, Arcata, entrance around back.

826-9395. www.northcoastaikido. org. (MB-1227) ARCATA ZEN GROUP MEDITATION. Beginners welcome. Sun., 8 a.m. North Coast Aikido Center, on F St. between 8th and 9th in Arcata. Wed., 6-7 p.m. at First Christian Church, 730 K, Eureka, ramp entrance and upstairs; newcomers please come 5 minutes early. Sun. contact, 826-1701. Wed. contact, barryevans9@yahoo. com, or for more info. call (707) 826-1701, www.arcatazengroup. org. (MB-1227) DANCE-FIT. Dance, aerobics & strength training all in one class!

Mon., Wed. & Fri. 9-10 a.m First class is free. Drop in for $5 per class or 14 classes for $55. No Limits tap & jazz studio, corner of 10th & K st. Arcata. 825-0922 (MB-1227)

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Sunny Brae •Glendale Trinidad • Cutten • Westwood

Prices Effective March 28 through April 3, 2012

Meet our Neighbors Evidently geologists like beer.

Kat and Steve met in geochemistry class at Humboldt State University in 1990. That is where Steve received his geology degree. Kat completed hers at both HSU and University of Oregon.

Steve works in HSU’s geology department and Kat volunteers at McKinleyville Family Resource Center. They love to backpack, fish and hike on their road trips to Death Valley, Mojave National Preserve, Hat Creek or the Trinities, usually in search of exposed rocks. Of course they gear up for the road trips at Murphy’s Market in Sunny Brae. “Murphy’s has the nicest checkers in town and great beer sales which are very important to geologists.” says Kat. She and Steve often walk to the market which takes them two very short minutes. Steve says, “Murphy’s is so close we think of it as our very own pantry.”

Boneless

Pork Shoulder Roast or Country Style Spareribs

2

49 lb.

Super Jumbo Size

Prawns

6

lb.

Santa Cruz

56 Oz.

Selected Varieties 32 Oz.

3

Ea.

28

99

¢ lb.

Lemonades

3 4

Crystal

Westbrae

Gallon

15 Oz.

2

$

For

Ea.

Lowfat 1% Milk

31-40 Count

99

Crystal

99

Organic Cameo Apples

Easy Peel

ee Tillinghast

Premium Ice Cream

Artichokes

1

Steve & Kat L

Organic Canned Beans

99 Ea.

5 7 $

For