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Andy Ardell moved to Humboldt County in 1989 to finish his education at Humboldt State University, where he earned three degrees. Over the years, Andy has played professional disc golf, drummed for local bands, and owned Humbrews for 22 years. His newest venture is Humboldt Brewing Company, opening soon next to Murphy’s Glendale, where he’ll brew small batches of specialty beers for tasting, revive original Humbrews recipes, and feature larger batches brewed by 6 Rivers Brewing. Andy has been shopping at Murphy’s since 1989, first at Sunny Brae and now at the Glendale location, near his home in Blue Lake where he has lived for the past eight years. “Murphy’s has that small-town feel that I like. They have everything I need and prices are competitive.” He also appreciates the convenience, friendly staff, and 15% Senior Discount on Mondays. Organic produce, Brio Bread, locally made soaps, and the meat department are among his favorites, along with the deli and summer barbecue. “They have great burgers and tri-tip sandwiches,” Andy says. As a local business owner himself, Andy values supporting other locally owned businesses and appreciates Murphy’s commitment to local schools, youth sports, Girl Scouts, and community events. For Andy, Murphy’s is more than a grocery store—it’s a place to see friends and neighbors. “Murphy’s is the community hub. It feels good to support Murphy’s.”
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Editorial The Good Ones
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Mailbox News Changing Lives Through Medicine
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On The Cover Gold in the Cracks
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Get Out Redwood Coast Music Festival 2026
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The Setlist A Nightmare on Main Street
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Nightlife Live Entertainment Grid
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Calendar Screens Digger Devastates
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Sudoku & Crossword Field Notes Thales’ Eclipse and the Saros Cycle
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hen Assistant Editor Kimberly Wear reported on the death of convicted violent sexual predator Richard Stobaugh’s death last week (“‘Ski Mask Rapist’ Richard Stobaugh Dies,” Oct. 1), many women and girls released sighs of relief. State law nearly allowed Stobaugh to be housed in Manila in 2025 and he was appealing the eventual decision against his conditional release when he died. While I’m not an advocate of capital punishment, the death of a rapist, or any abuser, can feel like brief respite, one less vector of vigilance to maintain. The news rolled in with a tide of horrors from Cornell University, where the independently funded student newspaper The Daily Sun’s Cereese Qusba broke the story of a civil suit against members of the Chi Phi fraternity for the alleged 2024 drugging and seven-hour gang rape of a female student. The suit, filed by victim Jane Doe, also alleges the school administration swept aside the crime, expelling only two named participants and assigning essays to the other five. (Daily Sun reporters are still running it down like champs; give them a read.) Not named in the civil suit are the 50 other men in the fraternity text chat, screenshots of which show an invitation to join a clearly questionable if not blatantly nonconsensual act, and not one man intervening. That might shock more if Donald Trump, an admitted sexual assaulter who has been found liable for sexual abuse, weren’t in his second presidential term and if he and others on the list of guests to Jeffrey Epstein’s island weren’t going about business as usual. Our nation is not truly committed to protecting girls and women in any real way against sexual assault. Nor are we serious about seeking justice on their behalf — not enough to dismantle the systems that enable and perpetuate sexualized violence in the first place. By now the statistics are familiar. While vastly underreported, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), 89 percent of sexual assaults over a 20-year span were deemed “founded” by
law enforcement, yet only 8 percent led to convictions. (This, along with fear, re-traumatization and social stigma, is its own deterrent to reporting.) For women and girls (89 percent of the targets of rape, though it can happen to anyone), the threat and the trauma of sexual assault is an electrical buzz in the background of our lives, sometimes sharper or duller but never fully absent. From the time we are children, we are warned how to sit, where and where not to look, how to avoid drawing attention without looking too vulnerable. We are told to cleave to the protection of men — those statistically most likely to harm us — but only the good ones. We’re told to yell “fire” because nobody will help if we yell “help” or “rape.” Sometimes not even good ones. We learn infinite ways to fail at our safety. We’re told to comply to avoid making an attacker angry; we’re told not fighting makes a rape our fault. Where we go, what we wear, what we drink and who we’re with can call down the ever-looming attack that somehow nobody will believe happened or that will make people believe the worst of us. Shifting the message to teaching men not to rape seems like the simplest pivot — raise boys to be good men who know about consent. That’s back on mothers again, but presumably with the aid of good men: fathers, coaches, mentors. Still, it’s doubtful Stobaugh or the men in Cornell University’s chapter of Chi Phi weren’t clear on the rules. The feeling of power from breaking that rule and abusing someone for selfish satisfaction are, after all, the point of rape. Whether the rapist is a monstrous figure of violent compulsion like Stobaugh, or a fresh-faced 20-something opportunist with more access to drugs and lawyers than empathy, the result for women is the same. Look back at those conviction statistics. Consider that Brett Kavanaugh is a U.S. Supreme Court justice despite Christine Blasey Ford’s damning testimony alleging he sexually assaulted her in high school. What are the deterrents rapists are supposed to be afraid of? Meanwhile, many women are playing a
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spaces and conversations is where men can begin to hold each other accountable, to establish what is and isn’t acceptable. In practical terms that ranges from asking, “What do you mean by that?” to calling 9-1-1 like every man who saw that room and that text thread should have, followed by full cooperation. It means not only not harming women but not tolerating or carrying water for men who do. Aspiring good men: Don’t ask yourself what you’d do if it was your sister or your daughter in her place. Ask what you hope someone would do if you were in her place. (Keep in mind one in 10 reported sexual assault victims are men or boys, according to RAINN.) You’d want someone to stand up for your humanity. You’d want them to say something, to intervene. You likely wouldn’t want people in your community cozying up to your abuser or entertaining rape apologists who fret over your attacker’s ruined reputation, either. Innocent until proven guilty is the standard for the courts but it’s not enough to earn a place at my table when I believe someone has committed sexual assault. Is it enough for you? Especially in small communities, we too often choose to sacrifice the well-being of survivors to avoid conflict with abusers. This isn’t peace and it’s no kind of safety. Social consequences — real and lasting ones, unlike the brief media flurries waved off by Hollywood stars and famous authors — and breaking the code of silent complicity between men may be all we have until we can force some meaningful shift in government and law. If we are going to say we believe survivors, we must act like it. If you want to be one of the good ones, then do what a good man does. ●
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Looking for an Explanation Editor: I am devastated by the recent logging next to Murray Road between McKinleyville and Fieldbrook. This stretch of road was once the most beautiful in McKinleyville, a lush tunnel of forest unspoiled by development — unlike the roadway approach from Central Avenue, where commercial timber harvesting and the clearing for the Beau Pre development have been perhaps less shockingly visible. I was told that this is a fire-prevention project by Green Diamond. It’s hard to comprehend the rationale of replacing the normally fire-resistant mature coastal forest typical of our area with the highly flammable Pampas grass and unshaded small-diameter trees which colonize Green Diamond’s cut-over land. Forest management readers, please help explain this. Joyce King, McKinleyville
Ghosted Editor: I enjoyed the Journal’s Sept. 24 cover story on “Local Lit.” Humboldt County is home to a number of fine writers who have, per capita, produced troves of fun and important literature. One selection conspicuously absent from the Journal’s list is Greg King’s 2023 book, The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods. The book provides a breathtaking history of redwood logging and protection efforts in California, from 1850 through the Maxxam era. (King was a pioneer redwood tree-sitter, and his family’s historical roots in the earliest days of redwood logging enrich the narrative.) As a local resource the book is a treasure, but it is also a deeply researched page-
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CareForce Executive Director Cyndi Ankiewicz says she has also noticed an increasing number of patients in need of care at the clinics. She says cuts to Medi-Cal, Denti-Cal and Medicare, due to new federal restrictions and state budget limits, could result in two million Californians losing their healthcare by 2030. Meanwhile, costs for insurance and medical services have increased, compounded with annual inflation, Ankiewicz adds. In Humboldt’s case, there’s even more barriers to care, including the small number of providers, very few of whom are currently taking on new patients. “We saw two years ago a lot of people claimed or said that they had insurance but they just didn’t have a provider to go to, or they had to wait six months to get a filling or something like that,” Ankiewicz says. “Or they had to go 100 miles away to have a provider for insurance. So that’s a specific need for Humboldt County, and it’s a need that we have in California in all the rural communities.” Ankiewicz recommends patients get in line early due to the number of people in need of services, describing how disheartening it was for the staff to turn away 300 patients back in 2024 due to capacity limits. Hoping to offset that, this year’s clinic will include an additional day at a larger facility. Each clinic also includes a priority line for veterans. “By the time we usually get there around 4:45 or 5 in the morning, there was already a line of people sitting in chairs, wrapped in blankets, waiting for us,” Ankiewicz says. “And we didn’t open the doors officially for the public until 7 … which is why we try to be respectful and very cognizant of the timing for the people who are waiting outside. So if it starts to look like we’ve met capacity, we may not be able to see everyone at that point, we try to let them know so they can leave and come back the next day.” Stacy Bragg, California CareForce’s president and an optometrist, emphasized the importance of vision exams at the clinics, saying patients should receive one even if they have never had their eyes checked and their vision seems fine. “There are some eye diseases like glaucoma, so we would be able to check eye pressure, because glaucoma is kind of the silent death of sight,” Bragg says. “You don’t really notice until your peripheral vision’s gone sometimes, if it’s something that’s not routinely checked on. And then looking in the back of the eye, there’s diseases that we can detect as well … it’s not just eye health, it’s systemic health too.”
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How to Help Volunteer: California CareForce is looking for help from healthcare professionals in medical, dental and vision fields. General volunteers are also needed for clinic setup and teardown, line control, patient guides, patient registration and checkout and volunteer check-ins. Healthcare professionals must have malpractice insurance along with current required medical licenses. Medical students also have an opportunity to learn through the clinics. Dentistry students will be coming from the University of the Pacific and Loma Linda University and nurse practitioner students will be visiting from the University of California at Davis. “Our patient experience is really important, but our volunteer experience is super important also,” Natalia Ankiewicz says. “We are a team and we can’t do what we do without them. They are pretty much the heart of our entire
Dental care is similar in how tooth health can impact the rest of the body, according to Ankiewicz. “You could literally die from the infections from your mouth,” Ankiewicz says. “People go to urgent cares or emergency rooms because of infections in their mouth, because of bad teeth that just need to be fixed, which we can do. So it really has so much more impact in a person’s quality of life and just living.” Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator Natalia Ankiewicz notes the clinics can help improve that quality of life in ways many people take for granted. “One patient was able to get a job because she was able to see again with her glasses,” Natalia Ankiewicz says. “And because of that, she’s had a reoccurring job and then she was able to stay in that position and grow because she was able to read the documents, fill out information, which she couldn’t do when she didn’t have her glasses.” This year’s campaign for the Humboldt clinic has raised $65,000 so far. A three-day clinic is estimated to cost $142,000 to run, Cyndi Ankiewicz says, so the campaign has a way to go. Future fundraising efforts include the Pints for Patients event at Paskenta Mad River Brewing on Oct. 15, from 5 to 9 p.m., including live music and a silent auction. The Humboldt clinic is also still in need of optometrists and ophthalmologists to operate the vision care section, along with
clinic. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to have a clinic.” Those who are interested can fill out a registration form at volunteers.californiacareforce.org/ Donate: California CareForce’s Pints for Patients event on Oct. 15 will donate $1 per pint to the Humboldt clinic, along with proceeds from a silent auction. There will also be a local fundraiser with Dutch Bros on Nov. 8. Donations go toward dental and medical supplies, prescription eyeglasses, volunteer support, facility costs and other resources. “In-kind” donations are also being accepted, including food and drinks. Monetary donations can be made at www.californiacareforce.org/Donate. For more information, call (916) 7494170, email info@californiacareforce.org or visit californiacareforce.org/. Updates on clinics can also be found on California CareForce’s Facebook page and Instagram account.
an additional medical doctor for Sunday. Cyndi Ankiewicz describes how rewarding one of their volunteer dentists found the clinic work, a sentiment repeatedly shared by others who lend their time to the effort. “He gets there and after a 10-day session, he’s energized, he’s excited, his soul is full,” Cyndi Ankiewicz says. “And that’s what we hear all the time is that their soul is full, being able to give back and really make an impact, that that’s all that matters. And they don’t have that in their day-to-day life, oftentimes.” Donaldson’s hope for this year’s clinic is that no one will have to be turned away, noting the number of Californians in need of care, even when they have insurance and jobs, was what inspired her to join California CareForce in the first place. “It makes me very sad in the world that we live in today,” Donaldson says. “Here we are in the wealthiest country in the world, and we can’t provide for our own folks — basic healthcare.” l Griffin Mancuso is a California Local News Fellow placed with North Coast Journal, Inc. Reach him at (707) 442-1400, or griffin@northcoastjournal.com. The California Local News Fellowship is a state-funded initiative to support and strengthen local news reporting. Learn more about it at fellowships.journalism. berkeley.edu/cafellows.
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Gold in the Cracks Conrad Calimpong rebuilds a lifetime’s work By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill jennifer@northcoastjournal.com
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onrad Calimpong draws a thumb along the gold seam running through his chestnut brown “Pillow Pot Vase” to where it meets three other metallic streaks, fusing a mottled river rock like a jewel or a heart at its center. Like the other pieces in his show Earthquake Trauma: My Path to Recovery in the Anderson Gallery this month, it is a woodfired vessel he rebuilt after it was broken in an earthquake, its breaks limned in gold and a missing shard replaced with stone. Calimpong employs what he calls a “cheating” version of the Japanese kintsugi technique for fusing broken ceramics with lacquer and gold dust — using epoxy and covering the tracks of glue with gold leaf, still a painstaking process all its own. Most of the material in the exhibition, from the rectangular bins of broken vessels to the individual vases and vertiginous towers of assembled pots and paint cans, were smashed in quakes a year apart, a magnitude 6.2 on Dec. 20, 2021, and a 6.4 on Dec. 20, 2022. It wasn’t the first quake for the 73-year-old artist, nor the first time he’d lost valuable pieces. But the broken vessels represented a lifetime of work, and this time he wasn’t ready to toss it away. “I’d already gone through those other earthquakes and I wasn’t so shocked. And so, I said, ‘OK, I’m gonna pick these up and put some of these back together,’” he recalls.
Conrad Calimpong beside a bin of his broken ceramic pieces in the Anderson Gallery. Photo by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
At the sushi counter at Rooftop in Old Town, Calimpong pours a measure of sake for the chef, who thanks him with a low nod. In his other hand, Calimpong idly turns his own small ceramic cup, a rough, russet brown. Born at home in Cupertino, California, in 1953, he grew up in the outskirts of Gilroy, picking garlic for 25 cents a hamper alongside his large Filipino American family in the fields during the summer when he wasn’t in school. He also picked prunes, tomatoes and bell peppers, and sometimes hoed weeds on the weekends. In high school, he and a friend got work cleaning out offices and bars, joints with names like Becky’s Burger Pit, some places where
they’d sweep a carpet of peanut shells straight out the door. One of 10 kids, when Calimpong came back to teach at his old high school after earning his credential, he still had a brother and sister young enough to be in his class. His father Sulpicio had immigrated from the Philippines in the 1920s, working up and down the West Coast, from picking fruit to cleaning fish in an Alaskan cannery, before enlisting in the U.S. Army and serving as a medic in a segregated Filipino regiment. It was when Sulpicio was stationed in the Philippines that he met Pelegia, then only a girl of 15 or 16, whom he married and brought back to the U.S. Pelegia, Calimpong only recently learned, made clay rice pots, bowls and dishes for daily use back then, none of which have survived or he’s ever seen, he says with a slow shrug. Calimpong says he hated high school and started taking classes at the local college to speed his departure. There he landed a job cleaning the ceramic studio. “I was 16 and I wanted to be an artist at that point, but I didn’t know anything about ceramics,” he says, but he watched students working on the wheel and was fascinated. He dropped out of high school, got a job in the ceramics lab, started to learn through a “kind of work study program” and married his pregnant girlfriend, with whom he had a daughter. The marriage didn’t last but ceramics had a hold on Calimpong for life. “I loved it,” he says, smiling at his younger self discovering ceramics. “I got so into it that I would leave a window unlocked … and I would sneak into the studio on weekends. I got to become friends with the night guards,” he says with a laugh. He became “infatuated” with the prunus or meiping vase form, with its narrow base, full body and small opening. He struggled with the shape, throwing vases as tall as 2 feet on the wheel before finding out they were supposed to be made in sections and assembled, difficult as they were, especially in porcelain. But he says the challenge pushed him, and it’s a form he returns to decades later. Continued on page 11 »
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Calimpong’s “Pillow Pot Vase,” broken and remade with epoxy, gold leaf and a river stone. Photo by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Calimpong went on to earn his undergraduate art degree in ceramics and teaching credential at the University of California at Davis and his MA at San Francisco State University. At Davis, he says, “There were a bunch of really good ceramic artists in the program at that time,” Debra Butterfield, her husband Robert Hudson and Robert Arnison among them. One mended piece in the show at the Morris Graves Museum, a salt-fired jar, was made back then under Arnison’s tutelage. He took up a broom again, sweeping and making clay for free at Norstad Pottery in Sausalito until he landed a spot for $5 per hour making tableware and other functional forms at the wheel. Eventually he moved up to bathroom sinks, an education in useful forms that he supplemented by selling his own pieces at flea markets on weekends. By then, he’d remarried and had a 3-yearold son. Calimpong and his wife Donna were looking to move to a safer neighborhood when, on a fishing trip on the Lower Eel River, she decided to head into Ferndale, catch a play and talk to a realtor. The couple
bought a tear-down property and more or less put up their new home from scratch, using creek water on the property until they could install plumbing. The couple are no longer together, but Calimpong will have been on the property for 40 years this fall. His studio and woodfire kiln, which resembles a stone hut, are on the property, too. Woodfire can be a tricky method, but its devotees are unshakeable. “When I first started, if you got 50 percent of your work come out of the kiln, that was good,” says Calimpong. “Some of them got refired and some of them got trashed. … You don’t have full control. You’ve got to give yourself up to the kiln and the process.” Depending on who’s firing the kiln, he explains, conditions can change, altering the appearance of the pieces. The same is true of how the items are placed inside, determining how the flame passes through the kiln, creating markings on the clay. Maintaining the kiln’s fire controls the atmosphere, how much oxygen is in it, thereby affecting the color. Even variables like the moisture in the wood Continued on next page » northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 11
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and the ground make a difference. And you can’t peek inside. After decades of experience, he says, “A lot of it is by feel.” “There’s no way that you can be anal about it at all,” Calimpong says, eyes crinkling. “It’s kind of cool to know that you don’t [have complete control] and things are going to happen that you didn’t know. … The glaze comes out and it drips a certain way or in a pattern you didn’t expect.”
When the April of 1992 magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook foundations in Ferndale, knocking many of Calimpong’s collected pieces, some from other artists, from his studio shelves, cascading onto a cart below and crashing into the work on the floor surrounding it, he was devastated. He says he was too disappointed in the moment to consider what potential those fragments held. So he backed a truck up to the studio door and swept the rubble onto its bed to haul the lot to the dump. “I wish I had saved a few of those pieces and put them together like this time,” he says. “In hindsight. It’s easy to say now.” Ceramic artist Kenkichi Tamimoto, one of Japan’s artists designated Living National Treasures, was a mentor to Herbert Sanders, one of Calimpong’s mentors, and kintsugi had always held some fascination. For Calimpong, it’s not only the aesthetic or the skill, but the symbolism of technique. “We all in our own personal lives have episodes that are traumatic,” he says. “We look at ourselves as being broken and we have to pick ourselves up and put ourselves
back together again … to stand up and face that takes work.” He chuckles, looking into his sake cup. “A lot of us face that challenge.” When the 2021 and 2022 quakes rocked his studio, Calimpong began cleaning up the mess with an eye toward rebuilding. He started with one piece, looking for its kin and separating out other shards, gathering chunks and slivers from other pots in piles as he went. When he felt ready, he’d start gluing one together. Some had been small as sake cups, others vases the size of a large man’s torso. Most broke and settled nearby, but others flew far across the room and ricocheted. He stored larger pieces together and put the rest in bins and buckets. Eventually, he spread those smaller bits out to hunt for missing sections. If none were to be found, he swapped in rocks, coral and chips from other broken items. He identified them by shape, subtle patterns and colors, but also by feel. “Some of these pots I was pretty intimate with from handling them, from having them sitting around. You take them out of the kiln and examine the glaze,” he says. It’s a good thing he likes puzzles. “When I first started, I tried to put too many pieces together and the piece would start to deform,” says Calimpong, adding that once the industrial epoxy set, it was impossible to alter. Working smaller and slower, he found, was the solution, and some pieces took a month. A sake cup took two weeks to glue. Adding the gold leaf to adorn
The woodfire kiln on Calimpong’s Ferndale property. Courtesy of Conrad Calimpong
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It’s Flash Fiction Season the cracks took its own time. Sorting through work he’d created as far back as 50 years ago, Calimpong became a kind of archaeologist of his own life and art, reliving old memories. He says he also discovered the insides of pieces he never saw before. “You get to see some things you would never have seen, that was hidden from you. In a closed neck form, the whole thing was hidden from you. And now that it’s broken you get to see the whole thing inside,” he says. “It’s nice to see some of the stuff that you didn’t know. You could only guess. You didn’t know what it would look like.” The loose bins of broken pieces in the gallery are a good place to examine those interiors, as well as to get a sense of the initial devastation (as do the photos of the disaster in the studio on the walls) and the process of mending and re-creation. “I thought it needed Toppled ceramics in Calimpong’s Ferndale studio to be there because it brought after the 2020 earthquake. home what it was to deal with all Courtesy of Conrad Calimpong those pieces … to take these fragments and make it whole again. you get older and I see I’m at the far end … When you see the pieces all put back of my life cycle. I’m still attached to things. together, you don’t realize how shattered You have to work at detachment.” some of those pieces were.” Recently at a big family reunion, he gave At the opening of the show during Arts away pieces that have been “sitting around” Alive, Calimpong couldn’t resist the unfinhis home and studio. “It was nice to have ished puzzle remaining in the bins. “I stood somewhere to go,” he says, and many of the there at the shards and started putting pots and bowls and cups are functional, to pieces back together and said, ‘Oh I could be used in daily life, destined to be chipped, put this one back together.’” maybe dropped by a soapy hand. Kintsugi, whether applied traditionally or “I don’t feel that anymore, after it’s been patching disparate forms and materials from broken and fixed, it’s like, ‘OK.’ There’s no across years, has a transformative power. more anxiety about it getting broken. I like “I really liked [‘Journey Home’] before it it just as much as before it was broken.” was broken but it’s much nicer now,” says Breaking and repairing have given Calimpong. “It’s no longer a broken piece. the pieces, and Calimpong, something It’s whole again.” It was well received in a perfection can’t. “It’s improving ourselves. show in Sacramento, but he thinks the gold We face the challenge,” he says. “We put changes the viewer’s response. “Now that ourselves back together. It wasn’t a pleasthe cracks have been healed, wow, that’s ant experience, but you came through it. a nice piece.” It’s like the feeling of seeing You’re scarred but you came through it. someone who’s come through something You’re still good.” l and emerged stronger and more beautiful for it, rather than someone simply flawless Conrad Calimpong’s Earthquake Trauma: but untested. My Path to Recovery is on view at the These days, Calimpong says he wakes Morris Graves Museum of Art at 636 F St., up and lies in bed thinking about making Eureka, through Oct. 25. practical planters and more mei ping vases, perhaps carved with figures, then firing Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (she/her) is the them all at home. managing editor at the Journal. Reach her What he thinks of less and less is their at (707) 442-1400 ext. 106, or jennifer@ fragility. “The detachment is something you northcoastjournal.com. Follow her on just have to work through,” he says. “And Bluesky @jfumikocahill.bsky.social.
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he 34th Redwood Coast Music Festival last weekend in Eureka attracted another huge crowd of attendees who faced the pleasant challenge of picking and choosing among 130 sets by amazing talent over four days at different venues. The event began back in 1990 with a traditional Dixieland jazz music genre targeting a somewhat aging audience. Today, the festival attracts a much more diverse and younger crowd, and it includes swing, blues, Americana, Western swing, country, Cajun, zydeco and rockabilly. “With the wide variety of styles that we feature at the RCMF, many of our attendees’ first experience with some of these genres happens here and they hear it from some of the very best musicians available,” said organizer Mark Jansen. “Some might look at Western Swing Allstars and think that they don’t like country, but here they get to see a 12-piece Western swing big band with musicians that are expert at playing that style — it’s a whole different ballgame and, as Bob Wills said, it’s ‘jazz
with cowboy hats.’” In another innovative idea this year, the festival and Eureka Main Street expanded the free Old Town Rhythm & Roots evening on Saturday during Arts Alive to include 24 sets of live music at 10 locations by a mix of local and out-of-area headliners. This increased access to great music for locals and others without having to buy a festival ticket and was supported by the Ink People, Humboldt Creative Alliance and Humboldt County Measure J. “This is an exceptional music festival for such a small town,” said headliner Deke Dickerson, as he opened his Friday rockabilly set with the Whippersnappers. “We don’t have anything like it in L.A. with over 8 million people.” Jansen likes to describe the event as “a musician’s festival where players collaborate with each other. Blues musicians sitting in with jazz musicians, jazz musicians sitting in with Western swing musicians — band combinations you won’t see or hear anywhere else.” “I look for fantastic musicians who are
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looking to improve their dance moves. The festival — in partnership with the Humboldt Folklife Society — also offered three master classes with musicians Elana James, Whit Smith and Jonathan Stout. Visit the festival website for a look back at the schedule and list of artists at rcmf. org. See more photos from the festival online at northcoastjournal.com. l Mark Larson (he/him) is a retired Cal Poly Humboldt journalism professor and active freelance photographer who likes to walk.
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f you ever find yourself wondering what being haunted or possessed feels like, think about a nightmare. Then wake up and try to move on. Think about a beautiful dream. Then wake up and once again try to get on with your life. If you have ever suffered from privation — a serious deficit of any of the nourishment required for the most basic expression of life — and you have somehow gotten out of that situation, then you have been haunted. If you then had things turn around so much that you are so glutted and fat from good fortune that you can no longer savor the delightful tastes of comfort, but only suffer from a joyless hunger for more excess, you have experienced possession. Wraiths and demons pour out of the gas leak at the junction between material acquisition and spiritual hunger. It’s foul and extremely volatile there, as the terrain between the fears and desires of our sleeping minds cast shadows from shapes whose science we do not understand. If you ever find yourself wandering through the sulfuric clouds of that irrational landscape, you can ground yourself in knowing how old this stuff is. Exorcism is older than the Bible, and ghosts have evaporated like morning dew in the sunlight from suns that no longer exist. It’s the time of year which has been designated — by the western world anyway — as the proper time to write about these things. But these things are everywhere all the time, and you can find macabre traces of deep human expression in some of the most unlikely places. Like an interview with Kurt Vonnegut from the July 1973 issue of Playboy, right after he published Breakfast of Champions. It’s a fun read, and there’s something about his tone that is impossible to replicate. It’s not vacant millennial irony or postmodern absurdism for its own sake. Vonnegut’s bell rings across an eternal present. A circle of time wrapped around a life balancing the joy and gluttony of the economic success of post-World War II America with the impossible scope of horror created by that same war. The munitions that kill millions are converted into the
fertilizer that feeds the new Wonder Bread generation as booms become blooms and boomers and life expands like a mushroom cloud in this closed loop. Time was a cauldron to Vonnegut, one in which everything was cooked and consumed at once so every pleasure also had the flavor of suffering from the tortures of the eternal slaughterhouse. But rather than enjoying the blood-feast by poking his lucky ass out of the fire to drink from the top like many other writers of good fortune, he wanted something different. He wrote about brutality and suffering without being possessed by the indifferent hunger causing it. He used humor in the most humane and human way: by throwing what he called “horseshit” into the mix, ideas so silly but undeniably true they had a chance of ruining the palettes of at least a few drooling ghoulies. A general theme in his work could be expressed as: “You are eating horseshit. We are all eating horseshit. Look at it, it’s shit! Perhaps we should stop eating all this shit, or at least slow down.” If you find yourself in a demon-haunted place surrounded by hungry ghosts, imagine you’re Kilgore Trout and tell those aristocratic vampires to eat shit. And go have some fun.
Thursday Fine Folk is an ensemble of young musicians from Long Beach who play a mix of indie bluegrass, country and folk songs (duh). Led by main singer and guitarist Eva Loona Smith, this mostly acoustic multi-instrumental seven-piece is doing what any good players with an interest in tradition do when forced to live in the fresh wet ribbon of the 21st century: They hold tight to the old without squeezing out the new. Swing by Humbrews tonight after 8 p.m. to hear what that sounds like in practice. Local country-ish singer/songwriter Ruby Ruth George opens things up ($20, $15 advance).
Friday James Zeller and the J-Street Regulars are playing another jazz tribute gig — not on J Street, as the Sanctuary isn’t an option
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currently — but rather at the Arcata Playhouse. Tonight’s gig happens on the eve of the 110th anniversary of the birth of the tributee, a feast for the high priest of bop, Thelonius Monk. Violinist Jenny Scheinman — herself a high priestess of music here and abroad — joins Zeller and crew for a musical encomium that will not be happening ’Round Midnight, but a more reasonable 7:30 p.m. for us rural folk. Tickets are $15-$30, sliding scale.
Saturday Speaking of musical tributes, local genius and keeping departed sounds alive, Barking Dogma is playing the music of the late Kevyn Dymond with a new line-up featuring local drummer and sound -slinger Michael “Tofu” Schwartz. Red Hot Shame is the other half of the lineup at the new-ish Siren’s Song Tavern tonight at 8 p.m., where for a sliding scale $5-$10 you can dig in.
Sunday Live Dead & Brothers is a jam band tribute act dedicated to playing all things Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers. Tonight’s set at Humbrews will be recreating the Merry Prankster era of the former group. At 60 years and counting, these tunes are ready to sail across the cultural alphabet from LSD to AARP, and all points in between. Music starts after 8:30 p.m., and tickets are $40 in advance, $45 at the door.
Monday Most of the folks under 50 who still demand we all celebrate Columbus Day are those grody little culture warriors — mostly Gen Z reactionaries but a few millennials
and X’ers, too — who look like Muppet Baby imitations of Tucker Carlson, from the lamb-soft skin and tousled helmet-hair to the wardrobe of a failed ’80s Yalie trying to win some respect from the Heritage Foundation by auditioning for lead finger puppet in the summer stock entertainment on William F. Buckley Jr.’s favorite schooner. Not my culture, not my costume, not my problem.
Tuesday Once again, tonight is a perfect night to check out the avant-jazz practice space of the fine musicians in Strange Meeting. The session starts at the Basement after 7 p.m., with a mere $5 suggested donation at the door.
Wednesday There are not a lot of indie rock bands from Australia rolling through the county this year, but lightning flashes every so often and tonight is such a night. Last Dinosaurs are a trio from Queensland who have been around in one form or another for two decades and are currently touring on a revisited, rerecorded and reimagined version of their 2015 breakthrough record Wellness. The renamed Wellnxss Tour hits the Arcata Theatre Lounge tonight after 7 p.m. Tickets are available online with packaged deals and other offerings running in the range of $20-$30, but no exact amount for the cost on the night-of as of press time. l Collin Yeo (he/him) ain’t afraid of no ghosts. northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 17
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FRI 1/30
ARCATA PLAYHOUSE 1251 Ninth St. (707) 822-1575 ARCATA THEATRE LOUNGE 1036 G St., Arcata (707) 616-3030 THE BASEMENT 780 Seventh St., Arcata (707) 845-2309 BEAR RIVER CASINO RESORT 11 Bear Paws Way, Loleta (707) 733-9644 BLUE LAKE CASINO WAVE LOUNGE 777 Casino Way, Blue Lake (707) 668-9770 CAFE MOKKA 495 J St., Arcata (707) 822-2228 CALI PLANET 109 Fifth St., Eureka (707) 798-2019 CENTRAL STATION SPORTS BAR 1631 Central Ave., McKinleyville (707) 839-2013 CULTURE SHROOMS SHOP 774 Ninth St., Arcata (310) 562-3498 DOUBLE D STEAK & SEAFOOD 320 Main St., Fortuna (707) 725-3700
RLAD (jazz fusion) 8 p.m. $5
Savage Thursday - Special Festival Show (comedy) 8 p.m. Free
Wave: Buddy Reed & The Rip It Ups (blues rock) 8:30 p.m. Free
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M-T-W 2/2-2/4
The Love Witch (2016) 10th Anniversary (film) 6 p.m. $8, $12 w/poster
[W] Last Dinosaurs (rock) 7 p.m. $28.97
Duchess Burlesque TBA
[T] Strange Meeting (jazz) 7-9 p.m. $5 suggested
[M] Wave: Treat Yourself Karaoke 9 p.m. Free, [T] Wave: Reel Genius Trivia 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free
Wave: NightHawk (dance hits) 9 p.m. Free Squeezebug (accordion and guitar) 7 p.m. Free Karaoke 8 p.m. Free
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[W] Karaoke 8 p.m. Free [M] Pool Tournament 6 p.m. [W] Treat Yourself Karaoke 8 p.m. Free
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[T] Travisty Entertainment Karaoke Night 6-9 p.m. Free Essential Cinema Clue (1985) 40th Anniversary (flim) 7:30 p.m. $10, $5 under 12 The Dumitrescu Family (classical) 7:30 p.m. $15
EUREKA THEATER 612 F St., (707) 442-2970 FORTUNA MONDAY CLUB 610 Main St., (707) 725-7572 THE HEIGHTS CASINO FIREWATER LOUNGE 27 Scenic Drive, Trinidad (707) 677-3611 THE HISTORIC EAGLE HOUSE 139 Ballroom: A Reason To Listen Second St., Eureka (707) 444-3344 Poetry Show 6:30 p.m. $7 HUMBREWS 856 10th St., Arcata (707) 826-2739
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James Zeller and the J-Street David Ambrosio/Russ Meissner Regulars w/Jenny Scheinman Sextet (jazz) 8 p.m. 7:30 p.m. $15-$30 sliding $20, $15 student/senior The Craft (1996) Tricks & Treats Burlesque & 30th Anniversary (film) Drag Show 8 p.m. $20 7 p.m. $8, $12 w/poster Flashback Friday: 2000s Edition The Red Room Presents w/DJ Anya Slayer & Zero One The Vampire Ball 9 p.m. $10 9 p.m. $5, $10 after 10 p.m. Thirsty Bear: Almost Dangerous Thirsty Bear: DJ Statik/DJ (party rock) 9 p.m. Free D'Vinity (club nights) 9 p.m. Free
[T] Karaoke 8 p.m. Free [T] Baywater Blues Fusion 7-9 p.m. $5-$15 Live Dead & Brothers: An All-Star Celebration of Grateful Dead & Allman Brothers 8:30 p.m. $45
Fine Folk, Ruby Ruth George (folk rock) 8 p.m. $20
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"It's A Beautiful Thing" LIL' RED LION COCKTAIL LOUNGE Open Jam (bring band or sit in) 1506 Fifth St., Eureka (707) 444-1344 9-11:30 p.m. Free THE LOGGER BAR 510 Railroad Blue 2 8 p.m. Ave., Blue Lake MINIPLEX 401 I St., Arcata (707) 630-5000
Jazz Bros 4:30-6:30 p.m., Lost Dogs 8 p.m. Abrazo: Words / Film / Music 7 p.m. TBA, Welcome Space Brothers (film) 9 p.m. TBA
Clark Engine Company 5-7 p.m. $5 Creeping Up with The Smiths 9 p.m. . $5-$10, notaflof
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Anna & the Situation (original SPEAKEASY 411 Opera Alley, Eureka rock, blues, swing and pop) (707) 444-2244 7-10 p.m. Free Comedy Festival THE SUMMITT 1507 G St., Rooftop, Savage 5Henry p.m., 7 p.m. $5, Arcata (707) 613-0732 free for members TIME OUT RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR 3502 Broadway, Eureka (707) 440-2222 VISTA DEL MAR 91 Commercial St., Treat Yourself Entertainment Eureka (707) 443-3770 Karaoke 9 p.m.-midnight Free THE WILD HARE TAVERN 915 H St., Arcata (707) 499-2468
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The Beer Scouts 6-8 p.m. Free
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all ages and skill levels. Registration opens at 5 p.m. Games at 6 p.m. Different format each week. Bags are available to borrow. Drinks available at the Canteen. Outside food OK. $15. mike@buffaloboards.com.
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Game Night. 4-7 p.m. Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Court. Drop-in and choose a game to play from the library’s collection or bring your own to share. Open to all ages. Free. blkhuml@co.humboldt.ca.us. humlib.org. (707) 677-0227.
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Ferndale knows how to do October. The Victorian village that once stood in for Salem’s Lot (the spectacular 1979 miniseries), leans into its spooky side with two after-dark trips into local history. Ferndale Cemetery Guided Walking Tours depart at 5:30 p.m. from the Old Steeple on select Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays starting Oct. 9-30, leading visitors through the hillside cemetery and stories of generations past ($30, $15 kids 5-12). Wear sturdy shoes — the residents may be resting, but the terrain is not. Then head to the Ferndale Museum on Sunday, Oct. 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. for Candlelight Tours & Ghost Stories, a family-friendly, self-guided walk through the museum by flickering candlelight, with appearances from a few particularly “Ferndale” spirits ($20, $15 kids). More candlelight tours at the museum happen Friday through Sunday, the last three weekends in October. Cemetery tours require advance online reservation. Museum tickets are sold at the door. Pleasant screams.
Embrace your growler spirit and head to Sequoia Park Zoo for the second annual OktoBEARfest, happening Saturday, Oct. 10, from 4 to 7 p.m. ($25 advance, $30 gate, 21 and over). The adults-only fundraiser features special animal feedings and keeper talks, a scavenger hunt, education stations, a tree-climbing demonstration, live music, seasonal food, beer and cider, and pumpkin carving by master carver Mike Craghead. Proceeds support conservation and animal programs, including improvements to the flamingo habitat and a new covered cabana. Fat Bear Week may be over, but you can still raise a pint to the chunky champions and do a little seasonal bulking of your own.
The Greeks have been feeding people well for a few thousand years, so you know you’re in good hands at Saint Innocent Orthodox Church’s annual Taste of Orthodoxy Festival, Saturday, Oct. 10, from noon to 4 p.m. (free). Dig into homemade Greek and Eastern European foods, sample imported spirits, international sweets and loose-leaf teas while listening to the lively Balkan and Eastern European sounds of Chubritza. And maybe do a little Tsamiko if the ouzo moves you. There’s also a Byzantine choir performance and guided tours of the church’s historic 1883 temple, Eureka’s oldest standing church building. Opa, indeed.
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ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. With a live model. Bring your own art supplies. Call to contact Clint. $5. synapsisperformance. com. (707) 362-9392. Margins in Red - Kirk Maynard Exhibition. 12-6 p.m. Reese Bullen Gallery, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. The artist brings together two bodies of work, Periphery and RED, exploring how marginalization appears on both the body and the built environment. Free. brb24@humboldt.edu. humboldt.edu/art-film/galleries/reese-bullen-gallery/ margins-red-artwork-kirk-maynard. (707) 826-3629.
DANCE
Line Dancing with Kim O’Quinn. 12-1 p.m. McKinleyville Senior Center, 1620 Pickett Road. Join Kim and the crew for an hour of fun and exercise. Donation. (707) 839-0191.
LECTURE
Humboldt ERFSA Lecture: Cutcha Risling Baldy. 12-1 p.m. Baywood Golf & Country Club, 3600 Buttermilk Lane, Arcata. Risling Baldy discusses how the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab at Cal Poly Humboldt creates real-world solutions that support both people and the environment, engaging sustainability, Indigenous leadership, climate action and community-based research. Free. kw1@humboldt.edu. humboldt.edu/emeritus-and-retired-faculty. (530) 601-1032. Humboldt Handweavers and Spinners Guild Program. 6:45 p.m. Wharfinger Building Bay Room, 1 Marina Way, Eureka. “Woven to be Worn” by Adriane Nicolaisen. Adriane will show photographs from her recent book that documents her work. She will also show her recent woven, felted and stencil printed art textiles. Free.
SPOKEN WORD
A Reason to Listen October Poetry Show. 6:30-8:30 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Featuring author Jeff Woodke reading from his book
All the Way Home. Copies available for purchase and signing. Plus DJ Goldylocks and live art with Dre Meza. Open mic signups start at 6 p.m. $7 cash or Venmo only. eurekapoetlaureate@gmail.com. historiceaglehouse.com/ live-music-events. (707) 444-3344.
THEATER
The Minutes. 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. Redwood Curtain Theatre presents a dark, satirical comedy set during a small-town city council meeting, where newcomer Mr. Peel inquires into missing minutes and a missing member, yielding revelations about the town’s grisly history of Native genocide. Through Oct. 10. $10-$25. ncrt.net.
ELECTIONS
“Youth-led Movements and the Future of Democracy” w/Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones. 5-7 p.m. Goodwin Forum, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. Community organizer, public theologian and Tennessee Representative Justin Jones will speak on youth-led movements and the future of democracy in this pre-election public talk. Free. ca3@ humboldt.edu.
FOOD
Henderson Center Farmers Markets. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Henderson Center, Henderson near F Street, Eureka. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, baked goods, eggs, plants and more. Enjoy music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers can receive market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/hendersoncenter. html. (707) 441-9999. McKinleyville Certified Farmers Market. 3-6 p.m. McKinleyville, 2165 Central Ave. Fresh fruits and vegetables, hot cacao and more. Enjoy music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers receive a market match at every farmers market. Visit the market info booth for more information. Free. info@northcoast-
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growersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org. (707) 441-9999.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Fortuna Pumpkin Patch. 2-6 p.m. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch, 1815 S. Eel River Drive. Visit piglets and goats while you browse pumpkins for carving, eating or decorating. Cash preferred, but Venmo, credit cards and Apple Pay are accepted with an added service fee. Free entry to patch. tableblufffarm@gmail.com. tableblufffarm.com/#/ pumpkin-patch/. (949) 338-0490. Frightfully Fun. City of Ferndale, Ferndale. A month of special events, from historic cemetery tours to a Monster Mash Block Party, haunted Scaregrounds, family-friendly Spooktacular, live music and more. visitferndale.com/ upcoming-events. U Pick Pumpkin Patch Organic Matters Ranch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. Over 50 varieties of squash to choose from. Plus, sunflower maze, hay playground and visit the farm animals. The Falloween Fair happens two weekends: Oct. 10-11 and Oct.17-18 with over 30 local vendors, petting zoo, face painters and more. info@organicmattersranch.com. (707) 798-3276.
MEETINGS
Toastmasters International Public Speaking Club. Second Thursday of every month, 12-1 p.m. Adorni Recreation Center, 1011 Waterfront Drive, Eureka. Build confidence and sharpen your public speaking skills with Lunch Bunch Toastmasters Club. Meetings feature prepared speeches, impromptu speaking, and friendly, constructive feedback in a supportive setting. Visit as a guest on the second or fourth Thursday of each month. Holidays excluded. Free. toastmasters@humboldt.io. ci.eureka.ca.gov/depts/ recreation/adorni_center.asp.
SPORTS
Lost Coast Cornhole League Night. Second Thursday of every month, 6-10 p.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. Monthly league nights are open to
Floyd Bettiga Gallery Reception: Faculty and Staff Exhibition. 5-7 p.m. College of the Redwoods, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka. View the artwork of CR faculty and staff. Refreshments served. Free. art-gallery@redwoods.edu. redwoods.edu/about/bettiga/index.php. (707) 476-4155. Life Drawing Sessions. 10 a.m.-noon. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. Hosted by Joyce Jonté. $10, cash or Venmo. redwoodart.net. Margins in Red - Kirk Maynard Exhibition. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Reese Bullen Gallery, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. See Oct. 8 listing.
THEATER
The Minutes. 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing. Wusatoumuduk: We Make It Burn. 7:30 p.m. Highland Park, 100 Highland Ave., Eureka. A new play about cultural fire and time-honored land stewardship practices. Featuring local Native cast members, Native director Tara Moses and traditional Wiyot stories told through shadow puppetry. Bring camping chairs, blankets and flashlights, and dress warmly. Free. wemakeitburnwiyot@gmail.com. wemakeitburn.com.
EVENTS
TCIL Disability & Senior EXPO. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sequoia Conference Center, 901 Myrtle Ave., Eureka. Supporting independent living for people with disabilities and older adults, featuring community partners, resources, games and prizes. sequoiacenter.net. Autumn at the Acres. 4-9 p.m. Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. Live music, local vendors, kids’ scavenger hunt, kids’ craft table, sip and shop. Free. acreseventcoordinator@gmail.com. redwoodacres.com. (707) 834-1672. Bugs After Dark: A Walking Tour and Exploration. 6-7 p.m. Ferndale Library, 807 Main St. Learn to identify and observe beneficial insects and discover the important roles they play in local ecosystems and gardens. Bring a UV light if you have one and see what comes to life after dark. Book Sale. 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Eureka Library, 1313 Third St. Friends of the Redwood Libraries hosts a two-day event. Friday is members only (memberships available at the door). Saturday is open to all. Cookbooks, military and science, fiction and children’s books. Cash and credit cards accepted. Benefits the Humboldt County Library system. $1 hardbacks, $0.50 paperbacks, $0.25 media. friends@ eurekafrl.org. eurekafrl.org. (707) 269-1995.
FOR KIDS
Kid’s Night at the Museum. 5:30-8 p.m. Redwood Discovery Museum, 612 G St., Eureka. Drop off your 3.5-12 year old for interactive exhibits, science experiments, crafts and games, exploring the planetarium, playing in the water table or jumping into the soft blocks. $17-$20. info@discovery-museum.org. discovery-museum.org/ classesprograms.html. (707) 443-9694. Weekly Preschool Story Time. Eureka Library, 1313 Third St. Talk, sing, read, write and play together in the children’s room. For children 2 to 6 years old with their caregivers. Other family members are welcome to join
in the fun. Free. manthony@co.humboldt.ca.us. humlib. org. (707) 269-1910.
FOOD
Garberville Farmers Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Garberville Farmers Market, Garberville Town Square. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers, crafts and more. Enjoy music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers can receive a market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/garberville. html. (707) 441-9999.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Ferndale Cemetery Guided Walking Tours. 5:30 p.m. The Old Steeple, 246 Berding St., Ferndale. A local guide shares secrets of generations past, history and culture. One-hour tours start and end at the Old Steeple. Arrive 5-10 minutes before departure time, prepared for a hill and uneven ground with comfortable walking clothes and shoes. Registration required, tickets online only. $30, $15 ages 5-12, free for under 5. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch. 2-6 p.m. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch, 1815 S. Eel River Drive. See Oct. 8 listing. Frightfully Fun. City of Ferndale, Ferndale. See Oct. 8 listing. U Pick Pumpkin Patch Organic Matters Ranch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing.
MEETINGS
Language Exchange Meetup. Second Friday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Speak your native language. Teach someone a language. Learn a language. brightandgreenhumboldt@gmail.com. (925) 214-8099. Parkinson Support Group. Second Friday of every month, 3-4 p.m. Immanuel Lutheran Church Eureka, 3230 Harrison Ave. A gathering where individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers can find insights and connect with others facing similar challenges. Free. humboldtparkinsons.com. (707) 298-9972.
OUTDOORS
McKinleyville Botanical Garden Volunteer Workday. Second Friday of every month, 2-4 p.m. Hiller Park, 795 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Help maintain a small community-driven botanical garden which features pollinator- and bird-friendly plants. No experience needed. Rain cancels. Go west on Hiller Road to parking lot for Hammond Trail/soccer/dog park. Garden is adjacent to children’s playground.
ETC
Public Skate. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. Roll over to the Fireman’s Pavilion in Rohner Park. Public Skate sessions may close early if there is no one in attendance. $5.50 ages 6 and older, $3.50 ages 5 and younger, bring skates for a $0.50 off (rules online), $2 non-skater minor. friendlyfortuna.com/departments/ parks_recreation.
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Margins in Red - Kirk Maynard Exhibition. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Reese Bullen Gallery, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. See Oct. 8 listing. Second Saturday Family Arts Day. Second Saturday of every month, 2-4 p.m. Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. A monthly event featuring hands-on art projects and activities for youth and families inspired by current exhibitions. Create monochromatic scratch art inspired by William Peirson’s exhibition Transcendence. humboldtarts.org.
DANCE
Renegade Revue Presents: Tricks and Treats. 8-11 p.m.
Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. A monster mash of Humboldt’s best as well as a few special appearances from beyond the fog veil. $20. renegaderevue@gmail. com. arcatatheatre.com. (707) 613-3030.
MOVIES
Essential Cinema: Clue 40th Anniversary. 7:30 p.m. Eureka Theater, 612 F St. Based on the popular board game, Clue follows six mysterious guests who gather at a remote mansion for a dinner party that quickly turns deadly. Part of Tim Curry October at the Eureka Theater. $10, $5 under 12. theeurekatheater.org.
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David Ambrosio/Russ Meissner Sextet. 8-10:30 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. New York-based sextet opens the 21st season of the Redwood Jazz Alliance, and revisits their 2016 album “Moments in Time.” $20, $15 student/senior. rja@redwoodjazzalliance.org. redwoodjazzalliance.org/events/ambrosio-meissner. (707) 633-8385. The Dumitrescu Family. 7:30 p.m. Fortuna Monday Club, 610 Main St. Adrian (violin), Jolene (piano) and their son Quentin share a lifelong passion for classical music. Featuring works by Bach, Schubert, Dvorak and Kreisler, this inspiring family performance closes the season, followed by refreshments and a chance to meet the family. $15.
THEATER
The Minutes. 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing. Wusatoumuduk: We Make It Burn. 7:30 p.m. Carson Park, H and Buhne streets, Eureka. A new play about cultural fire and time-honored land stewardship practices. Featuring local Native cast members, Native director Tara Moses and traditional Wiyot stories told through shadow puppetry. Bring camping chairs, blankets and flashlights, and dress warmly. Free. wemakeitburnwiyot@gmail.com. wemakeitburn.com.
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Bike Valet at Lumberjack Weekend Block Party. 3:309:30 p.m. Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. Check in your bike with the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities to have them watch it behind the event at Lot G11, Cal Poly Humboldt. $20, free for CPH students and staff. forever@humboldt.edu. humboldt.edu/ homecoming1/events/lumberjack-weekend-block-party. (707) 826-3132. North Coast Co-op Annual Owner Meeting. 12-3 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Celebrate community ownership. Enjoy free coop hot bar selections and live music by Lizzy Moonbeam and JazzBros. Must be a co-op owner to attend. Free. northcoast.coop/rsvp. Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s – Humboldt County. 9 a.m. Adorni Recreation Center, 1011 Waterfront Drive, Eureka. Walk and Promise Garden ceremony. During the ceremony, walkers will carry flowers of various colors, each color representing their personal connection to the disease. alz.org/humboldtwalk. Autumn at the Acres. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. See Oct. 9 listing. Boots & Birkenstocks. 5-9 p.m. Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive. Live and silent auction, dinner, drinks, music and more. North Coast Regional Land Trust’s annual fundraiser. $125. Taste of Orthodoxy: Eureka Eastern European andGreek Festival. 12-4 p.m. St. Innocent Orthodox Church, 939 F St., Eureka. A celebration of Eastern European and Greek culture on historic church grounds featuring music, dance and homemade Eastern European and Greek food, imported spirits and visit international sweets paired with a variety of loose-leaf teas. Free admission. info@ Continued on next page » northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 21
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saintinnocenteureka.org. saintinnocenteureka.org. Book Sale. 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Eureka Library, 1313 Third St. See Oct. 9 listing. Lumberjack Weekend Block Party. 4-9 p.m. Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. Featuring music by Durand Jones & the Indications, Thee Sinseers, The Altons and HISpanic! at the Disco. Plus food trucks and more. Register online. humboldt.edu/homecoming1/events/ lumberjack-weekend-block-party. OktoBEARfest. 4-7 p.m. Sequoia Park Zoo, 3414 W St., Eureka. Special animal feedings and keeper talks, education stations and scavenger hunt, tree-climbing demonstration, beer tent, live music, seasonal food, local vendors, pumpkin carving by master Mike Craghead and more. Food and drinks available for purchase. Ages 21 and over with valid ID required. $30, $25 advance. redwoodzoo.org. Witchin’ for the Kitchen Bingo. 5-9 p.m. Eureka Woman’s Club, 1531 J St. Bingo, costume contest, raffles, pork plate dinners (V/GF options) and adult beverages available for purchase. Raffles will be held throughout the night, providing many fun chances for everyone to win some free prizes. $35, $25 advance. info@eurekasisters.org. eurekasisters.org.
FOR KIDS
Lego Club. 12-4 p.m. Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Court. Drop-in to use the library’s Lego pieces or bring your own to share. Open to all families. Free. trihuml@co.humboldt. ca.us. humlib.org. (707) 677-0227. Take A Child Outside Day (TACO Day). 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Nature-based activities, games and information throughout the Arcata Marsh. Kids are invited to fill their “eco-passport” by adventuring around the Butcher’s Slough and Log Pond. Free. AMIC@cityofarcata.org. (707) 826-4479.
FOOD
Arcata Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Year round, offering fresh produce, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers and more. Live music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers receive a market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org. (707) 441-9999. Bread and Cookie Stand. 10:05 a.m.-3 p.m. Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. Half Dollar Holler bake sale to help to support Dell’Arte International. A dozen kinds of scratch baked bread and cookies. Located at the Center of the Universe behind Dell’Arte International, First and H St. in Blue Lake. Hearts and Harvest Brunch and Auction. 10-11:30 a.m. United Congregational Christian Church, 900 Hodgson St., Eureka. $5 mimosas available for purchase. Tickets available online @ unitedeureka.org, or at the door. $10 Adults, $5 children 12 and under. Children under 3 free with paid adult. Humboldt Dockside Saturday Seafood Market. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Madaket Plaza, Foot of C Street, Eureka. Fresh local fish and seafood every Saturday through Oct. 31 at Madaket Plaza. EBT accepted. On-site fillet services available. Community Pancake Breakfast. Second Saturday of every month, 9 a.m.-noon. Salvation Army, 2123 Tydd St., Eureka. Fundraiser to benefit the local community. Pancakes, sausage, eggs and coffee. $8, children/seniors $5. stephanie.wonnacott@usw.salvationarmy.org. (707) 442-6475.
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HOLIDAY EVENTS
Falloween Fair at Organic Matters Ranch Pumpkin Patch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. More than 30 local vendors with food, drinks, treats, arts, crafts and more. Petting zoos, face painters, pumpkin carving and U-Pick pumpkin patch. Free admission. info@ organicmattersranch.com. (707) 798-3276. Ferndale Cemetery Guided Walking Tours. 5:30 p.m. The Old Steeple, 246 Berding St., Ferndale. See Oct. 9 listing. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch, 1815 S. Eel River Drive. See Oct. 8 listing. Frightfully Fun. City of Ferndale, Ferndale. See Oct. 8 listing. U Pick Pumpkin Patch Organic Matters Ranch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing.
MEETINGS
Woodturners Meeting. Second Saturday of every month, 1-3 p.m. Almquist Lumber Company, 5301 Boyd Road, Arcata. Beginning and experienced turners exchange ideas, instruction and techniques. Themed project demo, show-and-tell opportunities and Q&A. The topic for this month’s meeting: “Resin and Voids” by Tom Kingshill. Free. redcoastturners@gmail.com. (707) 633-8147.
OUTDOORS
Dune Restoration Volunteer Day. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. Restore the biodiversity of the coastal dunes with the team. Snacks and tools provided. Meet at the center a few minutes early. Free. info@friendsofthedunes.org. friendsofthedunes.org. (707) 444-1397. FOAM Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Meet leader Gail Coonen at 2 p.m. in the lobby of the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute, rain-or-shine walk that will focus on “signs of fall.” Free. (707) 826-2359. Habitat Improvement Team Volunteer Workday. Second Saturday of every month, 9 a.m.-noon. Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 1020 Ranch Road, Loleta. Help remove non-native plants and maintain native plant areas. Bring drinking water and gloves if you have them. Wear long sleeves, long pants and closed-toe shoes. Tools, gloves and snacks provided. Meet at the Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitor Center. Free. denise_seeger@ fws.gov. fws.gov/refuge/humboldt-bay. (707) 733-5406. Playscape Work Parties at HUUF. Every third Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon. Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 24 Fellowship Way, Bayside. Help mainatain the grounds at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. connect@huuf.org. huuf.org/home-2/upcoming-events/ engagement/. Volunteer Trail Stewards Workday. Second Saturday of every month, 9-11 a.m. Hikshari’ Trail, Elk River Wildlife Sanctuary, Eureka. Focus on trash cleanup and invasive plant removal on the second Saturday of each month at the parking lot at the end of Hilfiker Lane. vtscoordinator@humtrails.org. (707) 601-7809.
SPORTS
Fortuna Recreational Volleyball. 10 a.m.-noon. Fortuna High School, 379 12th St. Ages 45 and up. Call Dolly. In the Girls Gym. (707) 725-3709.
ETC
The Bike Library. 12-4 p.m. The Bike Library, 1286 L St., Arcata. Hands-on repair lessons and general maintanence, used bicycles and parts for sale. Donations of parts and bicycles gladly accepted. arcatabikelibrary@riseup.net. Public Skate. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See Oct. 9 listing.
Thursday-Friday-Saturday Canteen. 3-9 p.m. Redwood Empire VFW Post 1872, 1018 H St., Eureka. Enjoy a cold beverage in the canteen with comrades. Play pool or darts. If you’re a veteran, this place is for you. Free. PearceHansen999@outlook.com. (707) 443-5331.
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Sweet Harmony. 4-5:30 p.m. United Methodist Church of the Joyful Healer, 1944 Central Ave., McKinleyville. Women singing four-part harmony a capella. Now welcoming new members with all levels of experience. umc-joyfulhealer. org. (707) 845-1959.
THEATER
Sunday! Matinee! Open Mic! Cabaret! 2-4 p.m. Redwood Playhouse, 286 Sprowel Creek Road, Garberville. A community-created variety show featuring short performances by seasoned artists and newcomers in any medium. Free. samantha@boneyardtheatre.com. boneyardtheatre.com. Wusatoumuduk: We Make It Burn. 7:30 p.m. Windsong Park, Maria Ct, Arcata. A new play about cultural fire and time-honored land stewardship practices. Featuring local Native cast members, Native director Tara Moses and traditional Wiyot stories told through shadow puppetry. Bring camping chairs, blankets and flashlights, and dress warmly. Free. wemakeitburnwiyot@gmail.com. wemakeitburn.com.
EVENTS
Autumn at the Acres. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. See Oct. 9 listing. Eureka Chinatown Monument Celebration. 1-4 p.m. First Street Plaza, Foot of 1st St., Eureka. Join community organizations, listen to invited speakers, and enjoy a handful of food vendors and local performers. Blessings with Lion Dancers. Inquire at the “Ask a Historian” Table. Purchase a copy of the new children’s book, “Yung Stands Strong,” or one of our commemorative tea tins. Humboldt Repair Cafe. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Free repairs by skilled volunteers of computers, small appliances, lamps, electronics, clothing, and other items. Sharpening with a limit of two items. Free. humboldtrepaircafe@ gmail.com. facebook.com/photo?fbid=122189560772807 159&set=pb.61574214775147.-2207520000. (707) 845-2466. Indigenous Foods Festival. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wiyot Plaza, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. Food festival focusing on uplifting Indigenous food sovereignty. Tabling, presentations, discussion panels, film screenings, music, workshops and more. Food sales by Frybread Love and Los Giles. Free. humboldt.edu/food-sovereignty/indigenous-foods-festival.
FOOD
Bread and Cookie Stand. 10:05 a.m.-3 p.m. Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. See Oct. 10 listing. Food Not Bombs. 4 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Hot food for everyone. Mostly vegan and organic and always delicious. Free. Jerry J. Colivas Memorial Scholarship Italian Dinner Fundraiser. 5-6:30 p.m. St. Bernard Church, 615 H St., Eureka. Pasta dinner and raffle with many prizes. $10, $5 children under 12. fjb504@gmail.com. (707) 445-5799.
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Volunteer Workday. 10 a.m.-noon. Trinidad Museum, 400 Janis Court. Help maintain the native plant garden located behind the museum and library. Serious rain cancels.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Hocus Pocus Broomsticks & Brews. 3-5 p.m. Ferndale Visitor Center, 580 Main St. Presented by Ferndale Repertory Theatre. Passport stops include Red Front,
Buttercup Coffee, the Haunt Shop, Tuyas, Ferndale Repertory Theatre, Abraxas Jewelry, Golden Gait Mercantile, the Milk House, Sitka Wine Lounge, the Blacksmith Shop, Hotel Ivanhoe and the Victorian Inn. Passports available in advance online or at the Ferndale Visitors Center on Oct. 11. Ages 21+. $16 passport, $10 in costume. ferndalerep.org. Candlelight Tours and Ghost Stories. 6-9 p.m. Ferndale Museum, 515 Shaw Ave. A family-friendly, self-guided tour by flickering candlelight with visits by ghosts that are particularly “Ferndale.” Tickets only at the door. $20, $15 children, free under 5. ferndalemuseum@gmail.com. (707) 786-4467. Falloween Fair at Organic Matters Ranch Pumpkin Patch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. See Oct. 10 listing. Ferndale Cemetery Guided Walking Tours. 5:30 p.m. The Old Steeple, 246 Berding St., Ferndale. See Oct. 9 listing. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch, 1815 S. Eel River Drive. See Oct. 8 listing. Frightfully Fun. City of Ferndale, Ferndale. See Oct. 8 listing. U Pick Pumpkin Patch Organic Matters Ranch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing.
MEETINGS
Urantia Book Discussion. Second Sunday of every month, 2:30 p.m. Northtown Coffee, 1603 G St., Arcata. Delving into the deeper meanings of life and navigating through the complexities.
OUTDOORS
Second Sunday Cafe Ride w/C St. Cyclists. Second Sunday of every month, 9:30-10:30 a.m. C St. Bicycle Blvd, C St., Eureka. This inclusive community event welcomes cyclists of all ages and abilities to join in a group ride to a local café, starting from Harris and C streets and stopping at Cafe Familia in Old Town before returning along the bike boulevard. facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582818254381.
ETC
Humboldt Flea Market Arcata. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Vintage, collectibles, antiques, furniture, art, handmade, clothing, records, instruments, toys, pottery, jewelry and more. $3, kids free. humfleamarketarcata@gmail.com. (707) 572-6463. Public Skate. 1:30-4:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See Oct. 9 listing.
12 Monday ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 6-8 p.m. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. See Oct. 9 listing.
FOOD
Harvest Box Deliveries. Multi-farm-style CSA boxes with a variety of seasonal fruits and veggies, all GMO-free and grown locally. Monday: serving Blue Lake, Arcata, McKinleyville and Trinidad. Tuesday: serving Eureka and Fortuna. $30/box, $15 for EBT customers. harvesthub@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. humboldtharvestbox.org/. Miranda Farmers Market. 2-6 p.m. Miranda Market, 6685 Avenue of the Giants. Fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers and more. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. info@northcoastgrowersassociation. org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/miranda.html. (707) 441-9999.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Fortuna Pumpkin Patch. 2-6 p.m. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch, 1815 S. Eel River Drive. See Oct. 8 listing. Frightfully Fun. City of Ferndale, Ferndale. See Oct. 8 listing.
U Pick Pumpkin Patch Organic Matters Ranch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing.
MEETINGS
Shut Up & Write. 7-9 p.m. Dead Reckoning Tavern, 815 J St., Arcata. Join fellow writers each week to show up, sit down and get words on the page. No critiques. No sharing. No pressure. Just focused writing time alongside others doing the same. RSVP online. Free. d.i.y.art@inkpeople.org. shutupwrite.com/series/id2uK2PJwf00. (707) 969-7490.
ETC
Homesharing Info Session. 9:30-10 a.m. and 1-1:30 p.m. This informational Zoom session will go over the steps and safeguards of Area 1 Agency on Aging’s matching process and the different types of homeshare partnerships. Email for the link. Free. homeshare@a1aa.org. a1aa.org/ homesharing. (707) 442-3763.
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It’s Flash Fiction Season
Here’s the story in 99 words: NCJ’s 99-word Flash Fiction Contest is on. Send up to three entries in the body of an email (no attachments or links) to fiction@ northcoastjournal.com with your name and contact information (no pen names) by midnight Oct. 31. Dainty dramas, bite-sized adventures, flits of fantasy, micromysteries, half-pint hauntings, brief romances and scraps of science fiction are all welcome in 99 words or fewer (title not included). We’ll read your original fiction and run the winner and top tales in the Dec. 3 issue. No poetry and — sorry, robots — no AI-generated copy. Get typing, Humboldt.
Baywater Blues Fusion. 7-9 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Learn how to dance to a variety of music. Every Tuesday in the ballroom. All ages welcome. $5-$15. eventlead.eaglehouse@gmail.com. historiceaglehouse.com/live-music-events. (707) 407-0634.
MUSIC
Redwood Interfaith Gospel Choir Practice. 6-8 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. The RIGC sings gospel music and practices from mid-August to mid-December and from mid-January through May. No auditions. Join this wonderful group of welcoming singers. Free. redwoodinterfaithgospelchoir.com. (415) 418-4434.
FOOD
Fortuna Farmers Market. 3-6 p.m. Fortuna Farmers Market, 10th and Main streets. Offering fresh fruits and vegetables, crafts and more. Enjoy music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers can receive a market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org/fortuna.html. (707) 441-9999. Harvest Box Deliveries. See Oct. 12 listing. Old Town Certified Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Old Town, F Street between First and Third streets, Eureka. Fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods, jam, crafts and more, plus live music. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals are welcome. CalFresh EBT customers are able to receive a market match at every farmers market. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org. (707) 441-9999. Shelter Cove Farmers Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Shelter Cove Farmers Market, Gyppo Ale Mill Parking Lot, 1 661 Upper Pacific Drive, Whitethorn. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, flowers and more. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/sheltercove. html. (707) 441-9999.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Fortuna Pumpkin Patch. 2-6 p.m. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch, 1815 S. Eel River Drive. See Oct. 8 listing. Frightfully Fun. City of Ferndale, Ferndale. See Oct. 8 listing. U Pick Pumpkin Patch Organic Matters Ranch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing.
MEETINGS
Humboldt Cribbage Club Tournament. 6:15-9 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Weekly six-game cribbage tournament for experienced players. Inexperienced players may watch, learn and play on the side. Moose dinner available at 5:30 p.m. $3-$8. 31for14@ Continued on next page » northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 23
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gmail.com. (707) 599-4605. Marine Corps League Meeting. Second Tuesday of every month, 6-6:30 p.m. The Cutten Chalet, 3980 Walnut Drive, Eureka. Planning upcoming events. billj967@gmail.com. (530) 863-3737.
ETC
English Express: An English Language Class for Adults. Virtual World, Internet, Online. Build English language confidence in ongoing online and in-person classes. All levels and first languages welcome. Join anytime. Pre-registration not required. Free. englishexpressempowered. com. (707) 443-5021. Scrabble Club. Second Tuesday of every month, 2-3 p.m. Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Court. Come join the club for the classic word game. Free. trihuml@co.humboldt.ca.us. humlib.org. (707) 677-0227.
14 Wednesday ART
Margins in Red - Kirk Maynard Exhibition. 12-6 p.m. Reese Bullen Gallery, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. See Oct. 8 listing.
DANCE
Line Dancing. 6-8 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Enjoy music and dancing in the ballroom. $10. eventlead.eaglehouse@gmail.com. historiceaglehouse.com/live-music-events. (707) 407-0634.
LECTURE
Pando: Life on the Boundary of Discovery and Imagination. 6:30-7:30 p.m. D Street Neighborhood Center, 1301 D St., Arcata. Lance Oditt discusses “Pando clone,” the world’s largest tree, the largest aspen clone, ranking among Earth’s oldest living organisms, and the work the organization does to care for this ancient wonder. Doors open at 5:45. Socializing and snacks at 6 p.m. In person or register for Zoom online. Free. northcoastcnps.org/.
MOVIES
Coexistence, My Ass (2025). 7 p.m. Minor Theatre, 1001 H St., Arcata. The film follows Israeli activist-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she creates a comedy show shot over five Build to edge of the document tumultuous years between 2019 and 2024. Sponsored by Margins are just a safe Shine a Light onarea Palestine. $10-$20 sliding scale.
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MUSIC
The Joy of Singing Choir. 5:30-7 p.m. Jefferson Community Center, 1000 B St., Eureka. Singing circle that focuses on singing in harmony through improvisation as well as repertoire, including resistance songs. All level drop-ins welcome. $10-$20, no one turned away for lack of funds. hello@bynieves.com. Song Circle with Seabury Gould. Every third Wednesday, 3-5 p.m. Trinidad Heart Center, 426 Trinity St. Bring your voices and songs to this monthly sing-along. All ages welcome. Folk songs and others conducive to group singing. $10-$20 sliding scale. seaburygould.com. trinidadheartcenter.com/. (707) 845-6231.
EVENTS
Story Time at the Park. 10-11 a.m. Da’ Yas Park, 2605 Pine St., Eureka. Ages 2-6 with caregivers are encouraged, but all are welcome to play, learn, sing and dance at preschool story time. Seating is outdoors. Bring a chair or blanket. In the event of rain, this program will move to the Eureka Municipal Auditorium. Free. eurekaca.gov/1104/StoryTime-at-the-Park. (707) 441-4248.
GARDEN
U-Pick Flowers. 2-6 p.m. Freshwater Farms Reserve, 5851 Myrtle Avenue, Eureka. Pick flowers at the farm. Park in the large gravel parking lot and follow the signs to the u-pick area. Donations support u-pick and community compost programs. $5-$30. mdrummond@rcaa.org. ncrlt. org/what-we-do/conserved-properties/. (707) 269-2071.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Fortuna Pumpkin Patch. 2-6 p.m. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch, 1815 S. Eel River Drive. See Oct. 8 listing. Frightfully Fun. City of Ferndale, Ferndale. See Oct. 8 listing. U Pick Pumpkin Patch Organic Matters Ranch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing.
MEETINGS
McKinleyville Memory Cafe. Second Wednesday of every month, 1-2:30 p.m. McKinleyville Senior Center, 1620 Pickett Road. Stigma-free social gathering for people experiencing memory loss, dementia, or cognitive changes, and their caregivers. Held in the Hewitt Room in Azalea Hall. sbinder@mcksenior.org. (707) 599-5623. Prostate Cancer Support Group. Second Wednesday of every month, 6-7 p.m. St. Joseph Hospital, 2700 Dolbeer St., Eureka. In Conference Room C3 (south side). (707) 839-2414.
15 Thursday ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing. Margins in Red - Kirk Maynard Exhibition. 12-6 p.m. Reese Bullen Gallery, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. See Oct. 8 listing.
DANCE
Line Dancing with Kim O’Quinn. 12-1 p.m. McKinleyville Senior Center, 1620 Pickett Road. See Oct. 8 listing.
LECTURE
The Best Birds in the World. 7:30-9 p.m. Six Rivers Masonic Lodge, 251 Bayside Road, Arcata. Ram Papish gives a talk about the island of New Guinea and its birds, including Birds of Paradise, Bowerbirds, Pittas and Paradise Kingfishers. Free. rras.org.
FOOD
Henderson Center Farmers Markets. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Henderson Center, Henderson near F Street, Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing. McKinleyville Certified Farmers Market. 3-6 p.m. McKinleyville, 2165 Central Ave. See Oct. 8 listing.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Redwood Genealogical Society Speaker Luncheon. 11:30 a.m.-12:40 p.m. Locha’s Mexican Restaurant, 751 S Fortuna Blvd., Fortuna. Denise Seeger, director of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, talks about the wildlife refuge and the outdoor events it offers. The optional lunch is two tacos, chips, and beverage. All are welcome. Free, $15 optional lunch. becdave@aol.com. facebook.com/redwoodresearcher. (707) 407-5853.
Fortuna Pumpkin Patch. 2-6 p.m. Fortuna Pumpkin Patch, 1815 S. Eel River Drive. See Oct. 8 listing. Frightfully Fun. City of Ferndale, Ferndale. See Oct. 8 listing. U Pick Pumpkin Patch Organic Matters Ranch. Organic Matter Ranch, 6821 Myrtle Ave, Eureka. See Oct. 8 listing.
FOR KIDS
Lost Coast Cornhole League Night. Third Thursday of every month, 6-10 p.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. See Oct. 8 listing.
Nature Story Time. 2-3 p.m. Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. Nature Story Time is geared for ages 0 to 5 and features a short story, movement activity and art project for children and their caregivers. Free. info@friendsofthedunes.org.
SPORTS
ETC
Game Night. 4-7 p.m. Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Court. See Oct. 8 listing. l
SCREENS
Digger Devastates By Sasha Senal screens@northcoastjournal.com
DIGGER. The truth is that I didn’t think I would enjoy Digger. Even more than that, I had assumed that it would disappoint me: a stickler for the psychological battery that characterizes the realist landscapes of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s pre-2010s catalogue. I saw the trailers and was quick to write the movie off as another auteur turned sellout when given a big budget. Even his multi-award-winning Revenant (2015), with its stunning photographic direction and nuanced portrayal of life in the colonial “frontier” struck me upon first watch as an alienating stylistic departure into mainstream aesthetics. (This despite massive commercial success and my own enjoyment of the film.) Am I the problem? Watching Digger has confirmed that, indeed, I am the problem and Iñárritu always wins. Firstly, it must be said that this movie, and ones besmirched before it, contain superior technical execution. The cinematography alone of this film — with long takes of impassioned monologues, calculated low angles of farcical villains, sickly pale lighting and dynamic tracking shots of chaos — is enough to make a cinephile foam at the mouth. Opulent set designs (within set designs) of verdant, bureaucratic and apocalyptic landscapes are posed to highlight the surreal and interrogate sustainability. The score designed by Cosmo Sheldrake — son of the eccentric parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake, known for his theory of morphic resonance — seems to invoke his father’s concept for the way it embodies the film’s existential reckoning with the interconnected decisions of the most empowered that pull everyone into the worst outcomes of the climate crisis. Tom Cruise works double time as the film’s lead in a performance unlike anything I’ve encountered from this actor. Whether typecast or simply lacking range, Cruise rarely delivers a performance distinguishable from his other characters: Cruise playing Cruise. However, Digger shows a side of Cruise only comparable to his performance as the character Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder (2008); when lost in the opacity of
a costume and given the tools of comedy, Cruise disappears into a role that is humorous and uncomfortably lifelike. As both a convincing caricature and a revelation of a gerontocratic belief system, Cruise’s role goes beyond cheap laughs. All of the above could not be actualized without Iñárritu’s vision. Without doubt, this director demonstrates command over every element of the filmmaking craft. Particularly his writing (and that of the three other credited screenwriters Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Nicolás Giacobone) is what distinctly impressed me. Though Digger appeared to be one thing in its theatrical trailer — a kind of rehashing of the central themes of Dr. Strangelove with a climate-focused spin — it ventured far beyond where I thought it would go. Admittedly, I felt that the first half was ham-fisted in its messaging, enough so that I jotted in my notes that a certain monologue before the European Parliament in the movie’s second act recalled the feminist generalizations of America Ferrera’s monologue in Barbie (2023). This is to say that at first glance, its satire was too blatant to contain depth. However, by the time I reached the triple whammy of monologues delivered in succession by Cruise, Sophie Wilde and Jesse Plemons, I felt sure I was watching something distinct and calculated if the viewer allowed themselves to map the less obvious parts of the film’s world over their own. This was only heightened by the eerie familiarity of the film’s uncanny final shot which left me and my friends silent as we left the theater. There comes a time when every cinephile must eat crow, and this is my moment. Digger encapsulates (some of) Iñárritu’s best filmmaking qualities. It tells a story warped across time and generations about worlds not so unfamiliar from our own. It offers dense visual and auditory landscapes that assume a nearly anthropomorphic quality alongside the writing. The same could be said of his Babel, my favorite film of all time. If there is one thing Continued on next page » northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 25
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Actual footage of the United Nations right now. Digger
I know about this filmmaker, he hopes his audience leaves devastated. Whether you leave riveted by the horror of gluttonous apathy and climate consequences or simply disappointed, Digger is sure to devastate. R. 128M. BROADWAY, MINOR . ● Sasha Senal (she/they) is a writer, environmental educator and aspiring farmer. She can be found exploring Humboldt forests (not unlike her home redwoods on the Sonoma Coast) and considering Black eco-feminism.
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ANGEL AND THE BADMAN. Western about an outlaw saved by the love of a good woman. PG13. 105M. BROADWAY. AVENGERS ENDGAME (2019). The Marvel mega-cast assembles with a few minutes of extra footage for the strong of bladder. 181M. PG13. BROADWAY. COYOTE VS. ACME. Animated and liveaction shenanigans as the coyote gets his day in court. PG. 101M. BROADWAY. FORGOTTEN ISLAND. Animated adventure about besties stranded in a magical world. PG. 109M. BROADWAY. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939). Four hours of the life and loves of the messiest woman ever to enslave people and make a dress from draperies. G. 238M. BROADWAY. HEART OF THE BEAST. Brad Pitt fights for survival in the Alaskan wilderness with only his combat dog because Lord knows his kids aren’t talking to him. PG13. 101M.
BROADWAY. OTHER MOMMY. Jessica Chastain gives us all issues as a creepy doppelganger emerging from a girl’s closet and making ball pits even scarier. R. 93M. BROADWAY. PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006). Re-upping the dark Guillermo del Toro coming-of-age fantasy to remind you he can make you sad and terrified at the same time. R. 118M. BROADWAY, MINOR. PRACTICAL MAGIC 2. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as witchy sisters trying to break the family curse but like, could they also, you know? PG13. 110M. BROADWAY (3D), MINOR. PRIMETIME. Drama about the To Catch a Predator guy (Robert Pattinson), who seems to have missed a few in and around the White House. R. 110M. BROADWAY, MINOR. RESIDENT EVIL. Director Zach Cregger takes a shot at the zombie action franchise with a medical courier (Austin Abrams) headed for Raccoon City. R. 93M. BROADWAY, MINOR. THE SOCIAL RECKONING. Drama based on the Facebook whistleblower who revealed the company’s dirty secrets to the Wall Street Journal. R. 112M. BROADWAY. VERITY. A writer (Dakota Jackson) takes a job ghostwriting the end of a book after an accident leaves its bestselling author (Anne Hathaway) comatose. R. 114M. BROADWAY. For showtimes, visit catheaters. com and minortheatre.com. ●
FIELD NOTES
“… just as the battle was growing warm, day was on a sudden changed into night. This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the very year in which it actually took place. The Medes and Lydians, when they observed the change, ceased fighting, and were alike anxious to have terms of peace agreed on.” — Herodotus, writing about 130 years after the battle in 450 BC
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cience began on May 28, 585 B.C, according to the late polymath Isaac Asimov. That’s the date of the Battle of the Eclipse, when a solar eclipse so scared the Medes and Lycians on the sixth year of their war that they made peace. The story is that the eclipse was predicted by Thales of Miletus (c. 622-546 B.C), known to us as the first “natural philosopher” who used empirical data — science! — rather than ancient myths to understand the world. For at least 400 years, astronomers have understood the mechanics of eclipses based on the moon’s orbit around Earth and Earth’s orbit around the sun. So when Herodotus, so-called “Father of History,” writes that a battle in present-day northern Turkey was interrupted by a solar eclipse, and since we know the approximate year the battle took place (from lists of kings), we can calculate exactly when and about where it occurred: late in the afternoon of May 28, 585 B.C, on the Halys River. But Herodotus said that Thales only got the year right, not the date. Which calls his account (along with many of Herodotus’ other tall tales) into question. Thales lived a couple generations before ancient Greek philosophers figured out that solar eclipses happen when the moon comes between the sun and Earth. So the only way he could have made the prediction would have been from Babylonian records showing that eclipses occurred on a regular basis and thus could be predicted. And there’s the problem. We have baked clay cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamian cities, including Babylon itself, showing that they had figured out the socalled “Saros” cycle” of approximately 6,585.3 days, from hundreds of years of observations of lunar and solar eclipses. Solar eclipses from the same Saros cycle repeat in the same
Eclipse of May 28, 585 B.C. Note that it ends near the supposed site of a battle between the Medes and Lycians, near the Halys River in northern Turkey. Image by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus, NASA GSFC
geographic region every 54 years and 34 days, that is, every three Saros cycles. Assuming this is how Thales made his prediction, he would have known the actual day on which an eclipse would occur. Surely Herodotus, while giving credit to Thales, would have mentioned that? Another problem is that the eclipse of 585 B.C. happened near sunset, an unlikely time of day for a battle, based on ancient records. Was Thales prediction dumb luck? Or did Herodotus, writing over a century later, confuse fact and fiction? (On other occasions, he attributes the outcome of wars to the will of the gods.) My guess is that he heard a vague account of a prediction by Thales and, good storyteller that he was, co-opted the Battle of the Eclipse to make a tale worthy of Dr. Asimov’s bold assertion. In the event, he gives the story a happy-ever-after ending, with the Lydian king’s daughter Aryenis marrying Astyages, son of the Medean king. Back to the Saros cycle, which, in addition to being about 6,585.3 days long (18 years plus 11.3 days), is exactly 223 synodic months, a synodic (or lunar) month being the time between one full moon and the next. This was known to the designer of the Antikythera Mechanism, the fabulous “computer” dated to about 100 B.C. found by sponge divers in 2001 (“The Antikythera Mechanism,” April 22, 2010). One of the few easily discernable inscriptions include the Greek letters ΣΚΓ′, where Σ = 200, Κ = 20 and Γ = 3, i.e. 223. (The prime symbol ′ indicates that this is to be read as numbers, not letters.) So the mechanism used the Saros cycle to predict solar and lunar eclipses, representing it on an engraved spiral dial on its back panel together with a large gear wheel having (you’ve guessed it) exactly 223 teeth. l Barry Evans (he/him, barryevans9@ yahoo.com) has a lot of chutzpah challenging Isaac Asimov, author of more than 500 books.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00474 The following person is doing Business as Professional Cleaning Humboldt 3525 Kilgore St Eureka, CA 95503 SLP Assets LLC CA 201520810141 3525 Kilgore St Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by a limited liabilty company. The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 5/1/2016. I declare that all information in this
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statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Sandra Price, Managing Member This August 10, 2026 by JC, Deputy Clerk 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8 (26-372)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00481 The following person is doing Business as Costa Distributors Humboldt
2905 Hubbard Lane, Suite A Eureka, CA 95501 R.L. Roberts Inc CA 2478235 2905 Hubbard Lane, Suite A Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Lisabeth Kristin Roberts, Chief Financial Officer This August 11, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8 (26-373)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Nona Lyubenova Mineva-Demireva CASE NO. CV2601905 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501 PETITION OF: Nona Lyubenova Mineva-Demireva for a decree changing names as follows: Present name Nona Lyubenova Mineva-Demireva to Proposed Name-Demireva THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 2, 2026 Time: 8:30 am, Dept. 8 For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/ SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501 Date: September 2, 2026 Filed: September 2, 2026 /s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8 (26-374)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JOHN ROBERTS DAVIS, JR. CASE NO. PR2600241 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOHN ROBERTS DAVIS, JR. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
filed by Petitioner HUMBOLDT COUNTY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. The petition for probate requests that HUMBOLDT COUNTY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR 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 October 15, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept.: 4 For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/ IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a 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: Natalie Duke, Acting Assist. County Counsel, SBN 269315 825 Fifth Street, Suite 110 Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 445-7236 Filed: September 18, 2026 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 9/24, 10/1, 10/8/2026 (26-381)
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00510 The following person is doing Business as This ‘N’ That Upholstery County of Humboldt 1302 Union Street Eureka, CA 95501 Growth Chart Solutions LLC California 202109110566 966 Hayes Rd. McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 08/18/2026 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Natalie Parchman, Managing Member This September 3, 2026 JUAN P. CERVANTES by JR, Humboldt County Clerk 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15/2026 (26-382)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00518 The following person is doing Business as Suz’s Sweets County of Humboldt 3680 Dows Prairie McKinleyville, CA 95519 Suzanne L Gonzaga 3680 Dows Prairie McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by an Individual The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 9/11/26 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Suzanne Gonzaga, Owner This September 11, 2026 JUAN P. CERVANTES by jc, Humboldt County Clerk 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15/2026 (26-378)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00514 The following person is doing Business as Startline Agility Training County of Humboldt 3615 Old Arcata Road Bayside, CA 95524 Marlene E Jurkovich 3615 Old Arcata Road Bayside, CA 95524 The business is conducted by an Individual The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 12/09/2011 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section
17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Marlene E Jurkovich, Owner This September 9, 2026 JUAN P. CERVANTES by sc, Humboldt County Clerk 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15/2026 (26-380)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00486 The following person is doing Business as Sohum Nursery County of Humboldt 3551 Redwood Dr Redway, CA 95560 Sohum Farms LLC CA B20250316758 1575 Sprowel Creek Garberville, CA 95542 The business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Jesse Jeffries, Owner/Manager This August 19, 2026 JUAN P. CERVANTES by JR, Humboldt County Clerk 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15/2026 (26-377)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00495 The following person is doing Business as Live Loud Design & Marketing County of Humboldt 1903 O St Eureka, CA 95501 Casey A Vaughn 1903 O St Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by an Individual The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 12/09/2011 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Casey Vaughn, Owner This August 21, 2026 JUAN P. CERVANTES by JR, Humboldt County Clerk 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15/2026 (26-379)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00528 The following person is doing Business as Lost Coast Dentistry Humboldt 920 Rio Dell Ave Rio Dell, CA 95562 Adrian Dumitrescu DDS, Inc CA 2869043 920 Rio Dell Ave
Rio Dell, CA 95562 The business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Adrian Dumitrescu, Owner This September 23, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22 (26-391)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00519 The following person is doing Business as Lieben Yoga Humboldt 919 Driver Rd Trinidad, CA 95570 Frank A Aguirre 919 Driver Rd Trinidad, CA 95570 The business is conducted by an individual The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 9/10/26. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Frank Aguirre, Owner This September 11, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22 (26-390)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00498 The following person is doing Business as Emerald Realty Humboldt 122 Holly Ln Miranda, CA 95553 1297 Atteberry Ln Fortuna, CA 95540 Emerald Realty CA 5088065 122 Holly Ln Miranda, CA 95553 The business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 9/1/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Marcus Schaible, Owner/CEO This August 26, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22 (26-392)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00539 The following person is doing Business as Glam2U Humboldt 522 F St Eureka, CA 95501 Maria D Brandon 19683 Hwy 36 W Red Bluff, Ca 96080 The business is conducted by an individual The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Maria Brandon, Owner/Operator This September 23, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22 (26-389)
0FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00548 The following person is doing Business as Trinidad Self Storage Humboldt 380 Patricks Point Dr Trinidad, CA 95570 Jan M Hill 5850 Mountain View Dr Redding, CA 96003 The business is conducted by an Individual. The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Jan M. Hill, Owner This September 24, 2026 by SC, Deputy Clerk 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 (26-398)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00553 The following person is doing Business as Estie Besties Humboldt 413 5th Street Eureka, CA 95501 3839 Glenwood St Eureka, CA 95501 Mary B Clementz 413 5th Street Eureka, CA 95501 Trista Killingsworth 413 5th Street Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by Copartners The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 9/29/26. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any
material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Mary Clementz, Co-Owner This September 29, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 (26-394)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00513 The following person is doing Business as Humboldt Strings Humboldt 1932 Campton Rd Eureka, CA 95503 Korinza E Endsley 1932 Campton Rd Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by an Individual. The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Korinza Endsley, Owner This September 9, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk
transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 9/21/26. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Elizabeth Thurston, Business Owner This September 21, 2026 by SC, Deputy Clerk 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 (26-396)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00424 The following person is doing Business as Casas Playa Saladita Humboldt 60 Beauchamp Rd Eureka, CA 95503 Gregory T Colyar 60 Beauchamp Rd Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 2/2/2002. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /s Gregory Colyar, Owner This July 17, 2026 by SG, Deputy Clerk
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00565 The following person is doing Business asP Stuff N Things Market Humboldt 426 6th Street Eureka, CA 95501 1784 Tony Drive Fortuna, CA 95540 Elizabeth J Lapple 426 6th Street Eureka, CA 95501 7/23, 7/31, 8/6, 8/13, 10/8 (26-300) The business is conducted by an PUBLIC NOTICE individual. NOTICE OF PETITION The date registrant commenced to TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF transact business under the fictitious CHRISTINA ROSE PASTERIS CASE business name or name listed above NO. PR 2600248 on n/a. I declare that all information in this To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any who may otherwise be interested in material matter pursuant to Section the will or estate, or both, of 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 (26-395) 17913 of the Business and Professions Christina Rose Pasteris Code that the registrant knows to A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME be false is guilty of a misdemeanor filed by Petitioner, Vicky Ann Pasteris STATEMENT 26-00560 The following person is doing Busi- punishable by a fine not to exceed and Michael J.Normington In the Superior Court of California, one thousand dollars ($1,000). ness asP County of Humboldt. The petition for /s Elizabeth J Lapple, Owner Pasta nel Bosco probate requests that A PETITION FOR This October 2, 2026 Humboldt PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, by TH, Deputy Clerk 1106 Lloyd St 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 (26-399) Build to edge of the document Vicky Ann Pasteris and Michael Eureka, CA 95503 Margins are just a safe area Bpomponi LLC CA B20260131558 1106 Lloyd St NOTICE OF CURRENT PROPERTY TAXES DUE Eureka, CA 95503 I, Amy Christensen, Humboldt County Tax Collector, hereby announce that The business is conducted by a limited regular secured tax bills will be mailed on or before October 10th, 2026, to liability company. all property owners, at the addresses shown on the tax roll. If you own The date registrant commenced to property in Humboldt County, and do not receive a tax bill by October transact business under the fictitious 25th 2026, contact the tax collector’s office, at 825 5th Street, Room 125 business name or name listed above Eureka, CA 95501 or call 707-441-3020. on n/a. Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve the taxpayer of the I declare that all information in this responsibility to make timely payments. statement is true and correct. The FIRST INSTALLMENT is due and payable on November 1, 2026, A registrant who declares as true any and will become delinquent if not paid by 5:00 p.m., or the close of material matter pursuant to Section business, whichever is later, on December 10, 2026; thereafter a 10% 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to penalty will be added. be false is guilty of a misdemeanor The SECOND INSTALLMENT is due on February 1, 2027, and will become punishable by a fine not to exceed delinquent if not paid by 5:00 p.m., or the close of business, whichever is one thousand dollars ($1,000). later, on April 10, 2027; thereafter a 10% penalty will be added plus the cost /s Michael Bayless, Managing Member to prepare the delinquent tax records and to give notice of delinquency. This October 1, 2026 Both installments may be paid when the first installment is due. by JR, Deputy Clerk Payments may be made by electronic funds transfer at www.humboldtgov. 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 (26-397) org/tax or by mail to Humboldt County Tax Collector (or HCTC) 825 5th FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Street Room 125, Eureka, CA 95501. STATEMENT 26-00534 Mailed payments must be POSTMARKED BY THE DELINQUENT DATE The following person is doing Busito avoid late penalties. Payments also may be made in person at the ness as County Tax Collector’s office 825 5th Street Room 125, Eureka, CA 95501 Seaside Cherokee between the hours of 8:30am -noon and 1pm- 5pm, Monday through Humboldt Thursday, holidays excepted. 3027 Little Pond Street I certify (or declare), under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is McKinleyville, CA 95519 true and correct. Elizabeth Thurston Humboldt County Tax Collector State of California 3027 Little Pond Street Executed at Eureka, Humboldt County, California, on September 21, McKinleyville, CA 95519 2026, Published in North Coast Journal on October 1st & October 8th, 2026 The business is conducted by an 10/1, 10/8 (26-385) Individual. The date registrant commenced to
J.Normington be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION request the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take 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.
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A HEARING on the petition will be held on October 29, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept.: 4 For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/ IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or
personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a 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: Alan B. Cox 1824 West St., Suite 2 Redding, CA 96001 (530) 242-6025 Filed September 23, 2026 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 10/8, 10/15, 10/22 (26-393)
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K’ima:w Medical Center, an entity of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, is seeking applicants for the following positions. We are pleased to announce the implementation of a 32-hour work week, paid for 40 hours.
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HOUSEKEEPER, HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT – Regular, F/T, Salary: ($21.00-DOE) OUTREACH COORDINATOR, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT – Regular, F/T, Salary: $26.11DOE. Revenue Cycle Director, Administration Department, Regular, F/T, Salary: DOE. MEDICAL ASSISTANT (4), NURSING DEPARTMENT – Regular, F/T, Salary: (MA: $26.11 - DOE; CMA: $29.57 - DOE). DENTAL HYGIENIST, DENTAL CLINIC – REGULAR, F/T, SALARY: $46.72 – $58.36/hr. REGISTERED NURSE – NURSING DEPARTMENT – FT/Regular ($60.39-$66.68 DOE) LICENSED VOCATIONAL NURSE – FT/ Regular ($46.46 - $51.98 per hour) PHYSICIAN – FT/Regular, Contractual ($310K-$350 K. DOE) MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN – FT/Regular (DOE licensure and experience) LMFT, LCSW, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist DENTIST – FT/Regular, Contractual ($ 190 K-$240 K) All positions above are Open Until Filled unless otherwise stated. For an application, job description, and additional information, contact: K’ima:w Medical Center, Human Resources, PO Box 1288, Hoopa, CA, 95546 OR call 530-625-4261 OR apply on our website: https:// www.kimaw.org/ for a copy of the job description and to complete an electronic application. Resumes/ CVs are not accepted without a signed application. northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 29
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132 PEPPERWOOD LANE, ARCATA
495 LYNN STREET, ARCATA
$835,000
$439,000
645 7 TH STREET ARCATA
Kyla Nored Owner/Broker BRE #01930997
707.834.7979
Enjoy the lifestyle this neighborhood offers, with close proximity to Arcata Community Forest and Cal Poly Humboldt. Priced for an As-Is sale, this 4 bedroom home awaits a new owner and some TLC. Main living space level sits above the surrounding homes allowing southern light and unobstructed views. The lower level has its own entrance and might be ideal for rental income, or an extended family living arrangement. NEW LIS
Barbara Davenport
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BRE# 01066670
Mike Willcutt Realtor BRE # 02084041
916.798.2107
Located in the desirable Jacoby Creek School District, this exceptional 0.86-acre property offers privacy, flexibility, and abundant usable space just minutes from Arcata. The main home features 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms plus a 1-bedroom, 1-bath mother-in-law unit. A separate 2025-built 2-bedroom, 2-bath unit provides additional living or rental potential. A circular driveway, dedicated RV parking with hookups, and oversized detached shop/garage complete this versatile property, ideal for multi-generational living, guests, or investment.
Tyla Miller BRE 1919487
Realtor
707.497.7859
Rita Clair Realtor BRE #02240388
707.498.8606
Just steps from Cal Poly Humboldt, this well-maintained 4-bed, 4-bath home boasts a strong rental history. Each spacious bedroom has an ensuite bath, newer flooring, and fresh paint. The bright upstairs living area features vaulted ceilings, skylights, a modern kitchen, laundry, and a deck with campus views. A charming 1-bed, 1-bath ADU includes a small office and private deck—ideal for owner occupancy or added rental income. A prime investment opportunity in an unbeatable location.
Realtor BRE #01934408
707.499-2335
Amy Donathan Realtor
$325,000
Discover ±80 private acres in the Lost Coast featuring two well-built off-grid homes, a 2BR/2BA main residence and a 1BR/1BA guest home with loft and beautiful woodwork. Both enjoy independent solar and abundant gravityfed spring water. A year-round creek, additional cabin, outbuildings, gardens, and wood-fired hot tub add to the appeal. Surrounded by oak, madrone and Douglas fir with views toward Kings Peak and the Kings Range, this is a rare opportunity for self-sufficient living.
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40777 HIGHWAY 36, BRIDGEVILLE
1163 CHELSEA WAY, MCKINLEYVILLE
Prime industrial opportunity in Eureka, just one block from Highway 101 and two blocks from Old Town. Highly visible location near the bay offers excellent access and flexibility for commercial or industrial uses. Two adjoining parcels may be combined, potentially allowing application for multiple cannabis license types, subject to approvals.
Here’s your chance to own a true mountain retreat on 40 forested acres with a pond and 1,920sf, 3-bedroom home. At 4,200’ elevation near Six Rivers National Forest, enjoy panoramic views of Buck Mountain and snow-capped Black Lassic. The well-built home features a durable metal roof and is ideal for solar power.
Unique hilltop retreat near Dinsmore featuring an ecoconscious straw home, solar and hydro power, spring water, and a 500K-gallon pond. Includes an upgraded 18,000 sq. ft. greenhouse, approved shop plans, and concrete pad, offering endless potential for sustainable living, agriculture, or a private homestead.
Build your dream home on this 0.13acre lot at the end of a quiet deadend street in McKinleyville. Enjoy southern exposure with open southfacing views, plus utilities available at the street. Conveniently located minutes from Highway 101 and just five minutes from the airport, this parcel offers privacy, accessibility, and excellent potential.
$150,000
BRE #: 02390039
707.672.2862
000 MATTOLE ROAD, HONEYDEW
20 W 3RD STREET, EUREKA
$199,000
Shannon McKinnon
Nestled on ±2.13 private acres in sunny Willow Creek, this custom estate blends luxury with outdoor living. The 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home features cherry wood finishes, porcelain tile, JennAir appliances, hydronic heat, fireplaces, a spacious primary suite, and an entertainment room with a custom bar. A detached pool bath and two guest bedrooms provide added flexibility. Enjoy an oversized pool, lush gardens, mature fruiting plants, and private Trinity River access for fishing, swimming, and relaxing.
$724,900
707.362.6504
BRE #02188512
$969,000
429 EVERGREEN AVENUE, ARCATA
Realtor
Zipporah Kilgore
344 PATTERSON ROAD, WILLOW CREEK
1651 OLD ARCATA ROAD, BAYSIDE
$1,725,000
Associate Broker
707.498.6364
Tucked among the redwoods on a private 2.5-acre lot, this custom twostory home built by Ray Wolf offers four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. Vaulted ceilings enhance the spacious interior, while the main-level primary suite features an oversized closet and private bath. Enjoy an attached three-car garage, expansive concrete patio, and hot tub. With easy access to the Arcata-Mad River trail system, outdoor recreation is nearby, all while remaining just minutes from downtown Arcata and Cal Poly Humboldt.
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