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M KINLEYVILLE Arcata goal: use Barber’s celebrated 8% less water C

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ARCATA – The Arcata City Council last week tightened restrictions on water use, introducing an emergency ordinance pursuant to a state mandate over the drought-related water shortage in California. The ordinance will likely be adopted by the council and would normally go into effect June 17, but because of the statewide emergency situation, the restrictions are in effect immediately.

While the state goal is a 25 percent reduction, since Arcata residents use fewer than 65 gallons per day of water – 47, to be exact – the city must reduce water usage by just eight percent. That works out to something like 3½ gallons per resident per day. The restriction applies to both individual residents and the city. For its part, the city will reduce vehicle washing and selected landscaping-related irrigation, and will increase leak detection and greywater capturing efforts.

Restrictions for citizens include watering sidewalks and driveways with excessive runoff, outside watering during or up to 48 hours after “measurable� rainfall, watering lawns and landscaping, watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., use of potable water in fountains, automatic service of water in restaurants and more.

Environmental Services Director Mark Andre encouraged citizens to implement greywater capturing techniques, like taking a bucket into the shower and using that water on plants. He said the city will provide outreach and education to help citizens achieve the water use reductions.

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McKINLEYVILLE/ TRINIDAD – Leroy Murrell’s McKinleyville Barber Shop has a new and distinguished customer.

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David R. Oliver Jr. , who moved to Trinidad four months ago, served with “the Father of the U.S. Nuclear Navy,� the unorthodox and highly successful Hyman G. Rickover (19001986).

Oliver was an engineering officer onboard America’s first nuclear subma- MACK TOWN BARBER Leroy Murrell, above, with his rine, the U.S.S. Nautilus collection of hats and hunting trophies. Top, the latest JD | Union (SSN-571), conceived and addition to the hat collection. & Son� barber business in pelled submarine.

A hisbuilt by Rickover. the McKinleyville Shoptory-making precedent in The new Trinidad resping Center that he recently its own right, the Nautilus ident is a former nuclear submarine commander in donated a commemora- established another record his own right. Today he is tive Nautilus cap to Mur- in August 1958 when it an international business rell’s august collection of traversed the North Pole w a l l - m o u n t e d submerged. That was a and management military headgear. singular U.S. propaganda consultant who Oliver and Mur- coup to match the Soviet gives speeches narell, an Army vet- Union’s launch the year tionwide about his eran, are both 73. before of the first earth-orleadership experiThe Nautilus biting satellite, Sputnik, in ences. was the world’s October 1957.

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Like it or not, rates are going up in McK Jack Durham Mad RiveR Union

McKINLEYVILLE – Starting July 1, sewer rates are going up in McKinleyville and will continue to rise for the next four years. By 2019, the rate for an average single-family household will have increased by about 92 percent compared to the current rate.

The rate increase was unanimously approved by the McKinleyville Community Services District (MCSD) Board of Directors at its meeting June 3. The rate increase will help pay for a $17 million upgrade to the district’s sewer plant, as well as the increased cost of running and maintaining the system, and other sewer improvements.

Last week’s meeting included a protest hearing, during which residents had an opportunity to shoot down the increase per the provisions of Prop. 18.

The state law gives customers the opportunity to prevent rate hikes if they can get more than 50 percent of customers to submit written protests. But the Mack Town effort to kill the rate hike fell short, with only 76 protests out MCSD

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Beyond lawns – Sunny Brae yard made into mini-farm

BUTTERMILK LANE BOUNTY This crudely stitched panoramic shot gives an inkling of the majesty of the lawn-to-garden conversion at the house located at Buttermilk Lane and Crescent Way. It also distorted the images of Shane Keller and Linda Peterson, seen in unaltered form at right.

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SUNNY BRAE – When legendary developer Chet Spiering installed his subdivisions on Arcata back in the early 1950s, he helped spearhead the post-war housing boom that gave WWII veterans and their

spouses the start of their American Dream.

Among the iconic features of what was, for many, a first home, were a white picket fence and a gleaming green front lawn.

But times have changed, and with both food purity and security forming rising concerns for many Humboldt residents,

yesterday’s water-sucking, energy- and pesticide-intensive lawns are looking less and less relevant.

An emerging, and much tastier, status symbol for some is an edible landscape – a yard that produces home-grown food. Nowhere are the possibilities more dramatical-

ly demonstrated than at the 1950s-vintage house at Buttermilk Lane and Crescent Way in Sunny Brae. There, homeowner Linda Peterson and sustainability advocate Shane Keller are turning a previously non-productive yard into an elaborate garden – a YARDEN

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oots, Brews, Bites & Bordeaux on SaturDallas and the Death Valley Troubadours. day, May 30 in McKinleyville was alive Chili Cook-Off with nearly 300 people, some from as far McKinleyville was jumping again on Wednesaway as Las Vegas. It was the first beer and wine day, June 3 at this year’s chili cook-off, where walk through McKinleyville. There were 20 host there was live music by Michael Davyd. About H eatHer businesses that paired with breweries, wineries as 300 attendees judged the chili cooks in five difV i Ña well as local food vendors. ferent categories.

McKINLEyVILLE Participants received a commemorative samThis year’s winners were: Fieldbrook General ple glass and had the choice of walking the 1.2 Store in the Best Professional Chili category; Nor mile route or catching a ride on the Wes Green Cal Pet for McKinleyville’s Best Chili in the amLandscape Materials hay ride or the Timber Ridge shuttle ateur category; Timber Ridge chefs took home the award bus. for the best team name, “The Timber Ridge Chippers,” and About 150 people finished off the night at the barn Blue Lake Casino stole the show, winning in two different dance at A&L Feed where they danced to the music of Cliff categories, Best Dressed Team and Best Booth.

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McKINLEYVILLE – McKinleyville Union School District (MUSD) has recently refunded outstanding general obligation bonds, which will save the district’s property owners over $1.2 million in taxes. The refunding bonds, totaling $6,630,000, were originally authorized by more than 55 percent of voters at the June, 2008 election and were used to repair aging classrooms, make energy efficiency improvements throughout the District and build a gym at McKinleyville Middle School (scheduled for completion in August, 2015).

The interest rates on the outstanding bonds from the 2008 authorization ranged between 4.5 percent and 5.25 percent. The interest rates for the new bonds issued May 28 will be between 0.35 percent and 3.43 percent, a difference

that will save property owners $1,202,720.

“Our office is diligent in monitoring our debt obligations and will seek any opportunity to help taxpayers within our district save money,” said District Business Director Jeff Brock.

Superintendent Michael Davies-Hughes added, “Last September we were able to save taxpayers over $21 million by refinancing old bonds and we couldn’t be happier to save another $1.2 million today. Our community has always been supportive of our schools and this low interest rate environment has allowed us to save property owners even more.”

The refinancing of the bonds was authorized by the district board at its May 13 meeting.

Property owners in the District will see a reduced tax rate on future tax bills.

New school chief in McKinleyville MUSD

McKINLEYVILLE – Following an extensive search and selection process, the McKinleyville Union School District (MUSD) Board of Trustees met June 3 and took action to hire Dr. Al Rosell as the new Superintendent.

Rosell is currently the principal at Willow Glen Elementary School in the San Jose Unified School District. He has nearly 20 years’ experience as an administrator at the school and district levels.

Prior to his administrative roles, Rosell taught math, social studies, Spanish and psychology.

Rosell is bilingual (Spanish and English) and helped establish a dual language immersion program in his current school district.

Rosell earned his bachelor of science in Social Science and Spanish at BYU, and his MS in School Administration from National University.

He holds a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from San Francisco State University.

The current MUSD Superintendent, Michael Davies-Hughes, will be working with Rosell on a transition plan for the coming weeks. Rosell will be assuming full responsibility as Superintendent on July 1.

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of 6,000 customers.

Those who spoke at the meeting said they were surprised by the size of the increase, with some expressing frustration over rising costs in general. As one man pointed out, rates aren’t the only thing rising. So have local property taxes to pay for bonds. Taxpayers, he said, have “taken a beating.”

A common complaint was how the rate increase would affect residents on fixed incomes.

“Do you folks have any idea how many fixed income residents are living in your district?” said resident Al Freeman.

Another complaint that came from the five people who spoke against the increase was that many residents were not aware that the MCSD was raising rates.

However, later in the meeting, MCSD Manager Greg Orsini pointed out that articles about the rate increases appeared in the Mad River Union.

There were press releases printed in the Union and the Times-Standard.

Information was posted in the MCSD website, and notices were mailed to each customer. Orsini also appeared on KIEM-TV news programming.

“I truly did everything in my power to make sure the people in this community were well aware of what’s go-

ing on,” Orsini told the board.

As for the sewer upgrade, it’s been in the works since about 2005. It’s been discussed at MCSD meetings.

The district also held special meetings to inform residents about the project.

When it came back to the board for discussion, directors explained that the sewer upgrade needs to be done in order to keep the district in compliance with state water discharge requirements. Failure to do so could result in massive fines.

“I feel your pain,” MCSD Director Dennis Mayo told the audience, “but I think this is a very judicious thing we’re doing and we need to do it.”

Director David Couch, who works for the City of Arcata’s sewer department, said that the MCSD is pursuing a frugal solution to solve the problem.

“We’re not going for a Cadillac, we’re going for a little Chevy economy car,” Couch said.

Director George Wheeler noted that work on designing the sewer upgrade began long before he was elected in 2013. “This board has beat this thing to death,” Wheeler said. “A lot of work has gone into this over many years.”

The first increase will start July 1. A single family residence using 800 cubic feet of water a month will see the sewer portion of its bill go up from the

current $29.40 a month to $36.55, an increase of $7.06. Afterward, the yearly increases will be $6.98 in 2016, $3.75 in 2017, $4.61 in 2018 and $4.77 in 2019.

By July 2019, the sewer portion of the bill will be $56.66, an increase of $27.17 compared to the current charge.

The increases will pay for a portion of a $17 million upgrade to the MCSD Wastewater Treatment Plant at Hiller Park along with the increased operations and maintenance costs. The plant will be transformed from a pond system to a state-of-the-art mechanical treatment system. The purpose of the upgrade is to keep the district in compliance with ever-stricter state regulations. Failure to stay in compliance could result in thousands of dollars in fines for each day the district fails to meet discharge requirements.

The increase will also pay for infrastructure improvements to the rest of the sewer system.

Corrections In a story about the Arcata Chamber of Commerce last week, Harry Scott was misnamed. Also, the California Welcome Center is located on Heindon Road, not Boyd Road, duh.

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County’s budget deficit rises to $3 million Daniel Mintz Mad RiveR Union

HUMBOLDT – The county’s budget for the coming year includes revenue increases, but additional costs wipe out the gains resulting in a budget deficit that is larger than was forecasted last month.

At its June 2 meeting, the Board of Supervisors fielded a report on the county’s $318.6 million budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

A projected $2.2 million budget deficit has increased to $3 million because additional spending is now recommended. The extra costs include a $400,000 contribution to the budget’s General Reserve and state-mandated services.

Measure Z – the voter-approved countywide half-cent sales tax increase – is expected to add $8.9 million in revenue to the budget, but the money is slated to be completely spent on public safety services, including $3.5 million to the Sheriff’s Office and $1.5 million to the District Attorney’s Office for filling frozen positions.

The county’s Probation Department is recommended to receive $600,000 in Measure Z funding to restore previously-cut services.

But the department is losing $700,000 in federal funding, so $575,000 of it is recommended to be covered through a transfer from the county’s lean contingencies or emergency fund and an increase in deficit spending.

County Administrative Officer Phillip Smith-Hanes described the budget as one that sees only a small amount of progress. “The basic story of the budget for Humboldt County is two steps forward and one-and-three-quarter steps

back,” he said.

Measure Z revenue is only “a small portion” of the overall budget and the “general picture continues to be very slow progress in terms of revenues and expenditures continuing to increase as well, basically consuming all of those increased revenues.”

In all, there are $3.8 million of additional funding requests from county departments, a significant increase from last year’s $517,000 of requests. Deputy County Administrative Officer Amy Nilsen said several of the requests must be funded because they are state mandates.

Those include $325,868 of Elections Department funding, $160,000 to cover a General Relief caseload increase and a $100,000 increase in the county’s contribution to the court system for indigent defense.

The coming year’s budget includes an increase of 64.5 positions and the number of frozen, unfilled positions will be reduced by 35 positions due to Measure Z revenue.

The recommended budget also includes a $500,000 loan from the county’s motor pool to the Aviation Enterprise Fund, which has an $826,000 deficit due to lack of fee revenue. According to a written staff report, the loan will be paid back through anticipated revenue through 2025. A $50,000 loan is recommended to cover initial operating expenses for the McKay Community Forest.

The county’s Code Enforcement Unit consists of only one code officer. A Measure Z request for funding another code officer, an attorney and clerical support is not included in the recommendations of a Measure Z Advisory

Committee.

But Supervisor Ryan Sundberg said he will bring up the request during budget deliberations.

“I think it’s getting to the point now where people are seeing how a code enforcement officer ties in to public safety and can really go out and make differences in neighborhoods when we act quickly,” he said.

During public comment, the McKay Community Forest’s logging revenue potential was questioned by Blue Lake resident Kent Sawatsky. Fortuna Mayor Pro Tem Tammy Trent asked the county to fund the addition of a Fortuna officer to the county’s Drug Task Force.

Dr. Sam Kennedy, a member of the county’s Experimental Aircraft Association chapter, said the county’s airports could be more profitable if they have additional hangars.

Supervisors unanimously approved draft resolutions authorizing the loans to the Aviation Enterprise Fund and McKay Community Forest.

The budget is set for adoption on June 23.

ROUND UP FOR RECREATION The McKinleyville Community Services District provides a variety of recreational activities and opportunities for citizens of all ages. In addition to participating in recreation, McKinleyville citizens can also “Round Up for Recreation” on their monthly sewer and water bills. On the bill, customers will see a small square which they can check with an “X” and then round up to the nearest dollar (or any amount above that they wish). That “rounded up” money contributes to the MCSD’s recreation programs.

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Department is leading the probe with assistance as needed from ARCATA – The Samoa wom- district attorney investigators, an allegedly linked to a homi- Cox said. cide and home invasion robbery In the immediate aftermath last month in Arcata has been of Harrison’s death, Steele was ordered to appear promptly for booked on charges of homiarraignment on drug charges cide and robbery, but they were after she failed to show up as dropped pending further investischeduled last week in Humboldt gation.

County Superior Court.

Two local suspects Kimberly Lyn Steele, are in Humboldt County 28, mother of two, told jail on charges of murauthorities that vehicle der and robbery filed problems prevented her

by Arcata Police in confrom attending her arnection with Harrison’s raignment on charges gunshot death. Assisted of possession of drugs by the Humboldt Counand paraphernalia and Kimberly Lyn ty Sheriff’s Office and driving on a suspended the California Highway Steele license.

Patrol, APD arrested Steele has acknowledged she Robert Louis Huntzinger, 34, on was present during a marijua- May 12 without incident at a resna-related home invasion rob- idence on the 400 block of Railbery that led to the shooting road Avenue in Blue Lake. death May 9 of Trevor Mark HarThe next day, APD picked up rison, 38, at a house in the 2000 Billy Joe Giddings, 35, at a resblock of Eastern Avenue, Arcata. idence on the 200 block of BreHe was pronounced dead at Mad nard Road in Loleta. Fortuna PoRiver Community Hospital. lice and sheriff’s officers assisted The district attorney’s office in that arrest, again without inciissued a misdemeanor warrant dent. immediately following Steele’s In a nearly hour-long interfailure to appear last week and view, Steele told the Lost Coast served her in person with a cita- Outpost after she was released tion, Chief Investigator Wayne that Giddings shot Harrison Cox of the Humboldt County from just six or seven feet away.

District Attorney’s crime investi- Harrison immediately slumped gation bureau said in a telephone to the floor, she said, and then interview.

Huntzinger came inside the resiCox, one of the authorities dence of Harrison’s mother, Kay. who interviewed Steele when she Steele, Giddings and Harriwas taken into custody in May, son had driven together to the confirmed that the final investi- Eastern Avenue location, where gative report is still pending on Steele wanted to complete a marwhether Steele will face addition- ijuana transaction she had been al charges stemming from Harri- planning all day with the mother, son’s death. The Arcata Police according to the interview.

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Yarden | Putting cutting-edge sustainability theory into practice tenants had – as was almost and potatoes. Out front of the norm in Sunny Brae just a the house, zucchini, summer few years ago – used the rental squash and strawberries are home to grow cannabis. When bursting forth. they left, the backyard was The utility pole on the left as the usual melee of used corner will be isolated from grow soil and other debris. the garden with a small flow“The yard was a mess,” er garden. Perimeter beds Keller said. are soon to be completed.

Some of the old pot-dirt is Interestingly, there isn’t being used as an amendment really any detailed master to the emerging gardens, but plan for the yard, just crethe key to enriching the soil is ativity and problem solving “biochar.” It’s a form of charas the project proceeds. “As coal which not only traps carwe get thins done, we try bon, but vastly improves the and maximize the season,” fertility of even the poorest SUBURBAN FARMERS Adam Amina and Keller said. Eventually, he Shane Keller as seen through the trans- hopes to install a cistern for soil.

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It turns out that Amazoni- parent fence.

The resulting organic an farmers have used what we and Peterson are in the midst of a now call biochar, along with bone, two-week push to complete the ini- bounty will not only feed the residents, but the community. Some manure and other amendments, tial transformation of the yard. to enrich poor rainforest soil. The They’ve started at both edges of produce will be donated to local resulting nutrient-rich, hyperfertile the yard and are working inward food banks, and a table with free soil was what arriving Europeans toward the street corner. Where veggies will be set out for the called Terra preta, or “black earth.” the wooden fence once stood, a neighborhood.

Neighbors and passersby are “It is the cutting edge of organ- new fence with transparent, polyic agriculture,” Keller said. carbonate “boards” encloses the both intrigued and enthused by The no-till system uses com- garden while allowing in sunlight. the project. Passing cars honk, post as mulch, maximizing water “We keep the sun and get rid of while pedestrians stop and enconservation, weed suppression most of the wind,” Keller said. gage Keller and Peterson in conand nutrient creation.

Exploding from the earth on the versation. Many understand the OLD SCHOOL The Sunny Brae house and yard before it was awakWith the help of an enthusiastic west side are peas, broccoli, onions, potential for societal transformaened with garden life.

GooGle e arth imaGe new crew of young residents, Keller lettuce and other salad greens, kale tion that the project represents.

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yarden, you might call it.

“Urban homesteading” is what Keller and others in the movement call it. His back-to-the-yard approach includes four components: organic food production, rainwater catchment, composting toilets and solar energy.

The approach is heavily influenced, if not guided, by the model presented by Urban Homestead, an urban farm in densely populated Pasadena, not far from Los Angeles. urbanhomestead.org Another huge influence is Karen Litfin, author of Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community. Litfin, a professor of political science and environmental studies at the University of Washington who spoke in Arcata in February, offers a comprehensive vision

of which urban homesteads are but one component. Her overarching philosophy is based on values of ecology, economics, community and consciousness — or “E2C2.” ecovillagebook.org “I’m super-inspired by her work,” Keller said.

The fruits of that inspiration, and no small amount of perspiration, are well on display at the Sunny Brae house. The south-facing front and side yards are burgeoning with freshly planted gardens in raised beds, where for decades had grown only a bedraggled lawn. A tall cedar fence, since dismantled and the lumber repurposed for raised beds, enclosed much of what is now open to the sun. It’s as though the land has been set free from the imprisoning seal of an obsolete paradigm.

Speaking of which, the previous

The family of Glenn Saunders would like to express our deepest appreciation for all the sympathy cards, beautiful flowers, and delicious food, as well as the personal visits, emails and Facebook messages. To all who were able to attend the celebration of Glenn’s life, we thank you. To those of you who were unable to attend, we appreciate you letting us know you were there in spirit. Your outpouring of support during this difficult time is testimony to an unforgettable man and our wonderful father.

Janis, Steve, Larry & Gail Saunders

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ARCATA – On Friday, June 5 at about 8:06 a.m., the Arcata Police Department responded to the 1000 block of 14th Street for the report of a man who had just been stabbed in the throat.

There, officers located the male victim conscious and alert.

He identified the suspect as Lindsay Kaminsky, 25, of Arcata.

The suspect fled the residence prior to police arrival, but was quickly located in a nearby park. The victim was transported to Mad River Community Hospital, where he is in serious condition.

Lindsay Kaminsky was booked at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence.

According to published reports, the Lindsay victim, husband Glenn Kaminsky, said Kaminsky he had been stabbed in his sleep. He said he had detected a change in his wife’s behavior in recent weeks.

He has started a GoFundMe page to raise funds with what is described as medical and legal expenses. It is listed as the “G.H.S Brother Glenn Kaminsky Fund.”

Alleged burgar Tased, arrested after chase Mad RiveR Union The suspect then ran into a nearARCATA – On Friday, June 5 at by trailer park, where he tried to enabout 6:30 p.m., officers from the ter a trailer and was repelled by the Arcata Police Department were dis- resident. patched to the 1000 block of Ninth After jumping several fences, the Street on the report of a burglary in suspect entered the unlocked rear progress. door of another residence The resident of the and confronted an elderly home had returned and couple inside. walked into their upstairs As the elderly female bedroom where they loresident tried to run out cated a male subject in the front door and call the act of taking their for police, the suspect grabbed her and attemptproperty. ed to pull her back inside The suspect closed the the house. Unsuccessful, door on the resident and Russell James the suspect then fled from proceeded to escape the Holt the residence. home from a second story The suspect continued to run window.

The resident followed the fleeing from police even while being placed suspect as officers arrived on scene at both gun and Taser point on sevand a perimeter was established eral occasions.

He was ultimately captured tryaround the neighborhood.

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his career to Rickover, the famous four-star admiral who became the longest-serving naval officer in U.S. history with 63 years’ active duty.

Rickover led the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and was its operations supremo for three decades.

Last year, Oliver published Against the Tide, a distillation of Rickover’s business and management precepts, which the author believes are of major benefit to enterprises big and small, including entrepreneurial ones.

While Oliver was serving on board the Nautilus, 1969-1972, Leroy Murrell was opening his hair-cutting business in 1971. It is a 44-year fixture of the McKinleyville Shopping Center and Oliver appreciates history.

Today, Leroy and son Ken, who joined his father in the business 23 years ago, boast a collection of some 160 military caps from multiple services.

The caps hang neatly on a wall opposite the two barber chairs. Readily visible through the front windows, the display naturally drew Oliver inside.

“I saw all those hats when I was just walking around the shopping center,” he said in an interview at his home last week on Patrick’s Point Drive. “Linda and I have lived in 23 different places around the world and been to about 50 countries. We’ve developed a habit of just wandering around and meeting people, so I stopped by to meet them (Leroy and Ken). Of course I saw that Leroy had been in the military – but I didn’t say I had been, too.

“Not long afterward, though, I gave a speech in Groton, Connecticut where the Nautilus Museum is and I said to myself, ‘Well, I’ll just buy a hat and take it back to him.’ He ought to have it because he’s got some other famous caps on the wall there, which are very interesting.”

Oliver says the Nautilus cap is of note in another way; the Navy commissioned the Walt Disney Company to design the cap’s insignia patch, the famous “atom” with its revolving electrons.

Serendipity got the cap collection started in the same way that serendipity led Oliver into the barber shop to see it. Twenty-two years ago, Leroy recalled, a Navy officer left his cap behind after his haircut. Leroy decided to mount it on the wall while awaiting the customer’s return, but he never came back.

What followed grew out of cen-

turies-old military service rivalry.

Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay was commissioned in mid-1977 at what was then called the Arcata-Eureka Airport in McKinleyville. A Coast Guard officer came by for a cut, took one look at the Navy cap and instantly razzed Leroy about the absence of a Coast Guard counterpart. The Navy was founded in 1775, the Coast Guard in 1790 – a 225-year, seaborne and airborne competition.

Now Leroy had his first Coast Guard cap to match the Navy one.

“There was no decision to start the collection, it just kind of happened,” the Army vet said in an interview at his shop.

Although Admiral Oliver’s Nautilus cap is the latest addition, it is by no means the lone submarine gear.

Leroy says no fewer than 20 submariners frequent his business and no fewer than four served on the U.S.S. Nautilus.

“And of course besides the Coast Guard and the Navy, we have caps from the Marines, the Seabees (construction battalions), the Merchant Marine, the Air Force and the Army,” he adds. “We have an Army cap from a Pearl Harbor survivor and a series of Native American caps, too.”

Leroy’s proud motto is, “We honor veterans 365 days a year, not just one day a year.”

The shop features more than one unique exhibit. Arrayed along the interior near the ceiling are 14 mounted animal heads. They are punctuated at floor-level by a vertically displayed, 350-pound California black bear the father-and-son barbers hunted in the Bald Hills above Orick the day after Christmas 1995.

“We shot everything in here,” Leroy says.

While you wait for a haircut, you can, predictably, browse through a variety of hunting and outdoor magazines; linger by a separate wall-mounted display of Avon model cars; or sit back and watch news or sports on TV. Television aside, the McKinleyville Barber Shop is something of a throwback to one of Norman Rockwell’s most popular and critically-acclaimed covers for The Saturday Evening Post, “Shuffleton’s Barbershop.”

Painted in 1950, the illustration was based on a shop in East Arlington, Vermont named after the owner, Rob Shuffleton.

The McKinleyville Barber Shop’s old-fashioned alcove is “a great place, and the people here are really nice,” says newcomer Oliver.

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Based upon his consistent disregard of officers’ orders and the immediate threat he posed to residents in the neighborhood, a Taser was effectively deployed and the suspect was taken into custody.

The suspect was identified as Russell James Holt, 43, of Eureka.

Holt is currently on parole with the California Department of Corrections for a prior burglary.

After being medically cleared at Mad River Community Hospital, Holt was transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility where he was booked on charges of burglary, false imprisonment of an elder, resisting, obstructing or delaying the duties of an officer and trespassing.

An admiral’s leadership lessons Paul Mann Mad RiveR Union

TRINIDAD – Twentieth-century America’s most illustrious and controversial admiral developed unique leadership and management practices that should be carried forward into the 21st century, says new Trinidad resident and author, Navy Rear Admiral (ret.) David R. Oliver Jr. Oliver, 73, a career submariner and international business consultant, has written a book about that maverick admiral, Hyman G. Rickover, who – eventually – came to be hailed as “Father of the U.S. Nuclear Navy.”

Oliver’s book is titled Against the Tide, because Rickover had to unleash an ocean-sized cultural shift to get a hidebound Navy to move from diesel power to nuclear power. The oldest of the U.S. military services, founded as the Revolution broke out, the Navy had a reputation for obsessive adherence to tradition and willful resistance to change.

Known for being abrasive, demanding, obsessive and opinionated (“Optimism and stupidity are virtually synonymous”), Rickover prevailed over high bureaucratic odds as he conceived and built the nation’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus, SSN 571. It revolutionized naval warfare forever when it was launched in the mid-1950s, not long after the Korean War. Oliver graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1963 and was an engineering officer for several years on board the history-making sub (see story, page 1).

Against the Tide is not a biography of Rickover, the author said in a dining room chat at his home near Patrick’s Point. Rather, the book is a reexamination and analysis of the leadership precepts that Rickover developed in his record-long Navy career, precepts Oliver says not only transformed America’s oldest military service, but also remolded defense industry management and U.S. education.

Following in the footsteps of the Roman poet Horace, who said, “Whenever giving advice, be short,” the hard-bitten Rickover condensed his unorthodox thinking into pithy aphorisms: • Lead from the front.

• Judge results, not people.

• People, not management systems, get things done.

“The reason I wrote the book is that Rickover’s leadership ideas are applicable to everything, from the smallest business to the global corporation,” says Oliver, who went on to command his own nuclear sub and became chief of staff to the Seventh Fleet. Later he was a principal deputy undersecretary of Defense in two administrations and an executive at Northrop Grumman and Westinghouse.

Oliver is given to dark humor about management’s common — and apparently ineradicable — failings.

“Did you ever have a boss who came in and said, ‘OK, this year we’re going to focus on 10 things?’ That’s a person who has no idea what he’s talking about. He’s made a mistake right

from the start because nobody can focus on 10 things; you can focus on a maximum of five and even that’s too many.”

Three are better, two are best, Oliver advises.

Rickover chose two: safety and accountability. “He focused on them all the time because a whole litany of things developed from those two, even though they were always the main point,” Oliver explains. “Good managers understand that focusing on one thing doesn’t mean the other nine things won’t get done.

It’s the manager’s job to keep many things in mind, but he must spare his employees from thinking about them. He encourages them to focus on the task at hand. If your subordinates are worrying about all the things you’re worried about, the job doesn’t get done.”

Recounting his own corporate experience, Oliver said the executives and managers he observed inevitably insisted on overreach, which is almost always counterproductive. A perfect example, he said with a good-natured but mocking laugh, are the encyclopedic job descriptions that companies and universities pointlessly gin up for hiring prospects.

“They are ludicrous, not least because the people who write them are describing themselves — because they know that they’re perfect! So they include every little thing about how wonderful they are. It’s an exercise in vanity and it is all worthless.”

Among Rickover’s other leadership principles, set forth with a patrician air: • Know your people well. This is the Rosetta stone of good management.

• Talk with job candidates yourself, even if you’re the CEO or the general manager. Never mind hiring committees and bureaucracy-clogged Human Resources.

• Weed out early for suitability.

• If a subordinate always agrees with you, s(he) is useless to the organization.

• Minimize rules, which are the lowest common denominator of human behavior; they are no substitute for thought.

• Keep people busy on things they can accomplish.

Rickover chose subordinates who were completely unlike him, recalled Oliver, who reported as an engineering troubleshooter to the admiral from on board the Nautilus. “He was a very unusual person. He chose people who were independent and autonomous, who could tell him ‘no.’ Once he trusted you, when you asked him for something, you got it in a hurry, almost the instant he got off the phone.”

A classical thinker who lived and championed classical discipline, Rickover admonished: • Anticipate obstacles not yet visible and organize for the future.

• Offer a rousing reason for change. Successful managers give employees a new, competing passion to replace the old one.

• Pinpoint what people fear in your workplace and correct it. Fear, especially unacknowledged fear, sinks productivity and corrodes teamwork.

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PUBLIC SAFETY Blithering bloviators boldly blast bawdy blurts • Sunday, May 24 2 p.m. A shoplifter fleeing from a Valley West supermarket utilized his ill-gotten goodies essentially as ablative material as he achieved terminal velocity, shedding the heat of pursuing employees.

5:22 p.m. A drunken man was implicated in “problems.”

• Monday, May 25 12:26 a.m.

A second-hand account held that a man, having struck a woman, next manfully scurried away into a taxidermy-intensive Plaza social estab, there to lose himself amid the glassy-eyed, blank-staring wildlife, wall mounted and otherwise.

2:46 a.m. Audiophiles on Union Street savored the exquisite nuance of their delicate tuneage at volume levels sufficient to raucously buffet adjoining apartments. When a neighbor asked them to dial down the din, they did. But in a cruel twist, they turned the music right back up moments after he left. An officer told the noisies to consider the hour and quit playing games.

8:39 a.m. A camper in the front entrance to a G Street realty office wasn’t having a good Monday, and neither was anyone else within earshot of his spittle-flecked salutations. First he groused at an employee, then started hitting his dog when it “got upset.”

He was next seen at Ninth and H streets railing at his increasingly dismayed dog, which apparently required further yelling at.

11:58 a.m. Free-form lunchtime funsters milled in impressive numbers behind the Plaza bars, a stocked and staffed skeeze-van parked nearby to satisfy any drugly aspirations. Police waded in, diluting the slouchabout density.

12:17 p.m. Two bike locks pro- trespassing and its life-complicattecting a red Ibex X-Ray men’s cy- ing consequences. clocross bike on the porch of a 13th • Tuesday, May 26 9:26 a.m.

Street house cut away like buttah Those happy shiny friends and at the hands of a well-prepared neighbors who smile at you at thief. Think about it: if they can the supermarket and even from cut one lock, and they the pages of the newscan, why couldn’t they paper in do-gooder cut two? So two locks are photos are the same no better than one, and ones who, anonymized one is all but useless in inside a couple tons of Kevin L. Hoover a college town festooned steel and glass, blaze with fancy bicycles for v ARCATA crazy-fast down Butterthe taking. Like buttah!

POLICE LOG milk Lane, slowing nei1:29 p.m. A thief went ther for middle school shopping on 12th Street, harvest- nor street-crossing students. ing a gas cap and a tomato cage.

10:37 a.m. Another adherent of 2:30 p.m. Two men in a van out- the First Church of Garbage was side a 10th Street home conduct- easily spotted along Klopp Lake in ed a rap session, the subject being attention-getting camouflage of a drugs. Their colloquy was so vig- poncho nature amid heaps of holy orous it gained the attention and sacraments; that is, crap. The aroconcern of a resident, then the matic bio-nougat ensconced withpolice, who moved the narcotical in the rancid poncho’s fetid folds rhetoricians along. was arrested on an outstanding 3:32 p.m. A traveling gent said warrant. to be wearing “tight pants” found Noon A Lewis Avenue resident himself a patch o’ land to call his sees contractor bags of cannabis own. A place where a fella might going in and bodies of something spread out his meager belongings, coming out at a nearby home, and behold the deepening shadows doesn’t enjoy having a trim factoof a sunny afternoon in a grassy ry in the ’hood. meadow and enjoy a leisurely • Tuesday, May 26 9:28 a.m. smoke. Unfortunately, this was in Maybe instead of pointing a Redwood Park within billowing snarky finger we could for once distance of the kids’ playground, try and look with sympathy at the a consideration which, it turns thief’s special needs. These inout, eludes today’s weary traveler. cluding an East California Avenue Soon, the tightly-trousered gent’s resident’s mail and the cat bed comprehension of applicable laws from her porch. increased exponentially.

10:04 p.m. Even the police de5:26 p.m. A downtown hardware partment calls it the “D Street store had been ripped off earli- Community Center.” er for a pair of gloves, and so it 1:50 p.m. Devlin Avenue mail was that fresh sketchiness flared resembled confetti on removal when a dubious dude in a yellow from a mailbox. Also missing was hat came in and out of the store, a house key being returned by making frequent stops in Tavern mail.

Alley. He too learned all about 2:23 p.m. A person bought a

nice bicycle from a local shop and set it up to meet their small-town transportation needs, all in the reasonable expectation that they could leave the bike unlocked on their Lincoln Avenue porch. This reasoning proved faulty in one key aspect.

3:52 p.m. Mail went missing on Ross Avenue.

5:02 p.m. All of Rob’s work lovingly preparing tiny Veterans Memorial Park for Memorial Day was sundered by the usual forces of destruction. Flowers, including a recently planted azalea, were ripped out, and all the little flags he set out for the holiday – gone.

8:01 p.m. A man sent his girlfriend a note describing his planned suicide by car exhaust.

8:03 p.m. A man seen spraying water on two Eastern Avenue houses wasn’t known to live in the neighborhood.

10:12 p.m. A bicyclist in a long white robe had a vital message for Uniontown parking lot passersby, something along the lines of “Bleeaaarrrrgh!” Having delivered his scrambled sermon, the mobile messiah rolled away into the night.

• Wednesday, May 27 9:18 a.m. An Ariel Way resident called to report mysterious beeping having infested the neighborhood.

He said two other witnesses were available to corroborate the insidious sine wave bursts.

11:02 a.m. A man wandered into a Plaza store describing himself as a student masseur and offering a woman there a free demonstration. Maybe it was the baggy green jacket, or the endearing knuckle tattoo that read “Fuck You,” but his generous offer to knead the flesh of store personnel was

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If you must pack major meth and pot, be sure and drive dumb in front of a deputy Humboldt County SHeriff’S offiCe required to submit to a search by law enMcKINLEYVILLE – On forcement. The deputy conducted Wednesday, June 3 at about 3:20 a search of Longacre and locata.m., a sheriff’s deputy who was ed approximately 72.6 grams of patrolling the McKinleyville area methamphetamine hidden on his observed a vehicle code violation body. A further search of the veoccur at the intersection of Cenhicle was conducted, and about tral Avenue and Murray Road in one pound of processed marijuana buds was located as well.

McKinleyville.

Longacre was arrested on susThe deputy conducted a traffic picion of various drug violations enforcement stop and contacted Grady and probation violation, and the driver, who was identified as Longacre booked at the Humboldt CounGrady Longacre, 37, of Trinidad.

During the stop, the deputy discovered ty Correctional Facility. Bail was set at Longacre was on felony probation, and was $50,000.

Sophie Northern Arcata High School

CHP stepping up SR255, Old Arcata Road presence during tree trim California HigHway Patrol

ARCATA – At the request of the bicycling community, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) Humboldt Area is increasing patrol on State Route 255 and Old Arcata Road through June 18.

During this time, Caltrans maintenance crews are trimming eucalyptus trees along the southbound

side of the U.S. Highway 101 safety corridor, temporarily restricting bicycle access on the southbound shoulder.

This required maintenance is a preventative measure to keep limbs from falling onto the roadway.

The CHP and Caltrans advise bicyclists traveling southbound to utilize State Route 255 or Old Arcata

Road as an alternate route.

As a reminder, motorists are required to allow a minimum of three feet clearance or slow down when passing bicyclists traveling the same direction – it’s the law!

The CHP will maintain a patrol presence on the U.S. Highway 101 Safety Corridor to ensure the safety of highway workers and motorists.

CR graduating new fleet of police officers College of tHe redwoodS

EUREKA – College of the Redwoods will hold its 115th Basic Law Enforcement Academy graduation on Thursday, June 11 at 1 p.m. in the CR Theater on the Eureka main campus.

Twenty-five cadets will participate in this class ceremony. Of those graduating, 17 have been hired by various law enforcement departments and others are in different stages of the selection processes, some with multiple agencies.

The 115th class started in January.

“These cadets have done an excellent job of learning and demonstrating what it takes to become an outstanding officer. They will serve their communities well after having established a strong sense of communi-

ty policing and the importance of public trust,” said CR Basic Law Enforcement Academy Coordinator Sandi Petersen.

The 116th CR Basic Law Enforcement Academy starts Monday, July 6, and currently has room for those choosing a career in law enforcement. Anyone interested in attending the academy starting in July 2015 may visit redwoods.edu/departments/police1/police-academy/ and click on “Frequently Asked Questions.”

Direct additional questions to the Training Center office at (707) 476-4334.

Representing CR at the graduation will be President/Superintendent Kathy Smith and members of the Board of Trustees, Director Ron Waters, along with Academy Coordinator Sandi Petersen.

turned aside and he wandered off.

11:29 a.m. After a bout of fisticuffs outside a Valley West pizza restaurant, two men repaired back inside to enjoy some hearty slices.

2:52 p.m. A woman who had been ambulanced to the hospital for a drug overdose more than two weeks previous returned to her Valley West campsite to find all her stuff missing.

4:41 p.m. A green-jacketed traffic sprite wandered among passing vehicles at 10th and G streets.

9:55 p.m. The appearance of some unknown substance on a woman’s car mirrors coincided with the arrival of threatening text messages from a male malefactor.

• Thursday, May 28 10:51 a.m. The downtown trash mob migrated to the front area of the tiny row of shops in the 900 block of Ninth Street, befestering the zone with alcohol-fueled bawdy blurts at top volume.

12:14 p.m. A truck reported driving recklessly at Samoa Boulevard and K Street next appeared at an S Street elementary school. A fat, bald guy didn’t trouble himself getting out of his vehicle to rail loudly about his issues with the educational system, then zoomed away down Iverson Avenue.

2:03 p.m. A would-be customer took two shirts and a pair of sandals into the dressing room at a Plaza clothing store, and the merch was never seen again.

4:59 p.m. Something named “Zeke” was said to be disrupting public calm at 11th and H streets.

7:33 p.m. A truck with the keys left in the ignition disappeared from where it had been parked on Cedar Avenue.

Sophie plans to attend Humboldt State University. While she is undecided on a major, she is interested in American History and Athletic Training. By choosing Humboldt State, she is able to continue to represent her home county in NCAA Division II basketball as she plays for the Lady Lumberjacks. Sophie said, “I would like to be a basketball coach for high school, and then one day become a college basketball coach. I enjoy working with kids who have a similar love of basketball.”

Janna will be majoring in Criminology and Business administration at Humboldt State University. She hopes to follow her father’s footsteps in a career in law enforcement. “I want to be the individual who makes a difference in my community. My ultimate goal is to become an FBI agent.”

Janna Rosdahl McKinleyville High School

Lacey plans to attend Humboldt State University and will focus on pre-med. “Traveling around the world to help the less fortunate in places that do not have the medical assistance they require gives me the opportunity to give back to society.”

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Stand in the Sand on Kids’ Ocean Day Friends oF the dunes

LOLETA – On the morning of June 3, nearly 1,000 students took a “stand in the sand” at the Mike Thompson Wildlife Area, South Spit by forming a giant sturgeon and with the message “Unite for the Sea” as part of Kids’ Ocean Day. Local pilot Mark Harris flew over while photographer Patrick Cudahy captured the image.

Friends of the Dunes and the Bureau of Land Management Arcata Field Office organized the Kids’ Ocean Day event locally, with help from the California Conservation Corps and the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

This event was part of the statewide Kids’ Ocean Day education program, a series of children’s cleanups and aerial art displays at five sites along the California coast. Across the state, students received classroom presentations before the event focusing on the ocean, biodiversity and the importance of keeping our coast clean and healthy.

In Humboldt, students had the option to pick up trash or remove invasive plant species to make room for native plants. Each site created an image of a different animal, forming an interspecies united front with ocean conservation messages. Kids’ Ocean Day, leading up to World Oceans Day on June 8, was organized statewide by the California Coastal Commission.

Friends of the Dunes has been organizing this event locally since 2005. “This is our 11th Annual

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Kids’ Ocean Day event in Humboldt County, and we are still really excited to be a part of this statewide program” said Suzie Fortner, Friends of the Dunes education manager. “In the classroom students have learned about our diverse coastal ecosystems, and how human actions are impacting these habitats. But Ocean Day is not just about environmental problems, it is about solutions and taking action. We teach the students that their everyday actions can make a difference, and on Ocean Day the kids are getting their hands dirty and making a difference for our coastal environments by picking up trash and removing invasive species. This year, our theme animal in Humboldt is the Green Sturgeon, which to us is an animal that emphasizes the interconnection of our watersheds, estuaries and marine environments. The take home message, both for students and for everyone who sees the image and the message ‘Unite for the Sea,’ is that we all need to be a part of the solution and work together to protect our coast and ocean.”

“By acting to clean up the beach and participating in the aerial art images, these children are sending a very powerful message to the world,” said Steve Kinsey, chair of the California Coastal Commission. “They’re uniting in their quest to protect the ocean, and they’re sending the message that the rest of us must unite too, and that together we can make a difference. The Coastal Commission is proud of these children and

ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE 1,000 students strong. proud to support this program.” sponsible for the administration The Coastal Commission co- of natural resources, lands, and ordinates the program statewide mineral programs on approxiand provides financial support mately 200,000 acres of public from the Whale Tail License Plate land in Northwestern California.

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The area includes the 60,000 Friends of the Dunes is dedi- acre King Range National Concated to conserving the natural servation Area and the 7,472 acre diversity of coastal environments Headwaters Forest Reserve. through community supported This annual event was started education and stewardship pro- by the Malibu Foundation for Engrams. Projects include the Bay to vironmental Education and the Dunes school education program, California Coastal Commission in Dune Ecosystem Restoration Los Angeles in 1994. With fundTeam and the Humboldt Coastal ing from the Whale Tail License Nature Center. For more informa- Plate, this program expanded to the North Coast in 2002. The tion visit friendsofthedunes.org.

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QUESTIONS FOR UNION READERS Are you as fed up with garbage and debris showing up at Liscom Slough as we are? Would it be better if we dialed back or discontinued the near-weekly photos of slough dumping, such as the stolen car and habitat-degrading fish waste that turned up last week? We’re wondering whether it is, on balance, best to maintain awareness of the continuing abuse of the sensitive aquatic habitat, or if it only advertises the place as a dumping ground. Send any thoughts on either the dumping problem or coverage thereof to opinion@madriverunion.com. But do us all a favor – before you suggest installation of surveillance cameras there, do consider visiting the site along Jackson Ranch Road to identify a viable location where any cameras could be mounted, as well as what type of cam might produce detailed, useful images of culprits at night on the unlit roadway.

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OPINION The ‘Me Too’ clause protects workers Why do Humboldt County’s employees want a “Me Too” clause in their contracts?

The answer is to maintain parity with other workers. The “Me Too” language in the current public employee contracts indicates that elected officials cannot give themselves or their favorites wage increases without sharing the same with their employee bargaining units.

Wages are set based on a job classification’s requirements that include the education and experience demanded by the job and by comparing salaries of workers filling jobs with the same qualifications, duties and demands.

When wage increases are considered, they are generally given as a percentage that maintains the integrity of the assigned pay grade and are in keeping with the cost of living.

In the last four years, Humboldt County’s employees have received a 2 percent wage increase. According to the County budget report, the employees’ wages are residing somewhere about 9 percent below the cost of living. The indignity of stagnant workers’ wages is exacerbated by the continued increase in the need for services delivered by county workers, decreased buying power and workloads that in many

v LETTERS cases have more than doubled.

The “Me Too” clause evens the playing field. It applies to health insurance, holidays, sick pay and wages. It says, in short, if a wage increase is deserved by one group, it is deserved by all. This year, workers have seen the Board of Supervisors cherry pick a favored employee from the Board of Supervisors’ own office and provide her, lacking any supporting documentation, with a 20 prcent wage increase while continually pronouncing that “there is no money.”

When the workers hear that the county does not want to include a “Me Too” clause in their contract, they are rightfully concerned that the county wants to reserve its right to play favorites.

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Why rocket scientists shouldn’t design roads I’m really looking forward to riding my bike on a million dollar green pavement on 0.68 miles of a five-mile road that is already the most-improved section of roadway in our community. Was this designed by the same rocket scientist that designed

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couple of weeks back, local governCouncilmember Susan Ornelas took ments took a stand against a bill to exception to his remarks and pointed out make it legal for people to sleep in that Arcata has built housing for all income their vehicles. groups, like the new Arcata Bay Crossing AB718 was introduced by Assemblymem- project, years in the making. ber Kansen Chu to prevent anyone from It cost a ton of money and will provide being cited or fined for needing to sleep in 40 people with shelter and counseling. their car. The goal is to help homeless peo- It’s true that Arcata has done more than ple who have lost their home but still have any other entity in the county to provide a vehicle and maybe even a job, but housing but this only goes to have nowhere to live or sleep. demonstrate how dysfunctional Sometimes people sleeping in our housing system is. It’s too exMary Ella their cars are arrested or their vepensive, overly complicated and andErson hicle is confiscated to pay fines for doesn’t come near meeting the having violated local ordinances real need. vINTERESTING that don’t allow sleeping in cars.

When I was in the seventh grade Locally, the bill was opposed TIMES at Academy of the Little Flower on the grounds that it was anothmany years ago, I remember Sister er example of the state intruding into local Germaine talking to us about the horrors matters. The Eureka City Council opposed it of Godless Communism, one of them being on those grounds and so did the Arcata City the lack of housing. Just imagine, she said, Council. County and city government have three and four families are forced to share good reason to fear the machinations of the one apartment! state legislature.

Russia being such a cold country, they When it is to their advantage, the gover- couldn’t afford to have people sleeping in nor, the State Senate and the State Assem- their cars, I suppose. Later on they built bly are not above harming local entities. But rows and rows of apartments and things got I’m having trouble buying the argument that better.

Arcata opposed the ordinance based on the In America, landlords wouldn’t allow principle of local control, mainly because no more than one family in an apartment. one proposed adopting a local ordinance to Things aren’t getting better here, even protect those forced to sleep in their cars. though we have lots of cars for people to I watched the Arcata City Council discus- sleep in. sion online. A homeless advocate pointed out the obvious: the increasing number of Mary Ella Anderson believes that allowpeople without shelter and the lack of atten- ing homelessness is criminal. Everybody tion being paid to the problem. deserves a safe place to sleep.

the Fourth Street boondoggle in Arcata?

It shows me why nobody wants to pay to improve our infrastructure when our tax money is spent on stuff like this.

As the second-largest population center in the county, I am appalled at the quality of the rest of Central Avenue. The northern 2.32 miles has no shoulders and the road itself is poorly paved.

What about the two blocks of McKinleyville Avenue north of Murray road and McKinleyville High School? How many people will have to be killed on that stretch to get some action?

Mr. Sundberg, can you help us?

Robert Thoman McKinleyville

ADHC thanks to Redwood Coast Music Fests I would like to take this opportunity to extend a huge thank you to Redwood Coast Music Festivals for their generosity in giving back to seniors in the community through their annual Senior Grants program. Adult Day Health Care of Mad River was recently honored to be the recipient of one of these grants.

Our grant allowed us to purchase a new harness and other accessories for one of our mechanical lifts which we use on a dai-

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ly basis to assist in transferring people in and out of wheelchairs.

As a small non-profit organization operating on a tight budget and with the specialized harnesses we need costing several hundred dollars each, it is very helpful for us that grants such as these are available.

We are very grateful that organizations such as Redwood Coast Music Festivals care so much about the seniors in the community and are willing to give back in this way. Their grant program is a benefit not just to the organization that receives the grant but also directly impacts seniors by helping to provide or enhance services in the community.

Thank you again to Lynn McKenna and all of the members of the RCMF grant committee. Your generosity really does make a difference.

April Joyce, RN, administrator Adult Day Health Care of Mad River Arcata v Sign your letter to the Mad River Union with a real name and include a city of origin, plus a phone number (which won’t be published) for identity verification. Try and keep your letter to 300 words or so, maybe 500 max. E-mail letters to opinion@ madriverunion.com.

Don’t undermine public safety The City Council’s letter regarding car camping

May 20, 2015 The Honorable Kansen Chu California State Assembly State Capitol, Room 2179 Sacramento, CA 95814 AB 718 (Chu) – Removal of Regulatory Authority: Vehicles Used For Human Habitation Notice of Opposition Dear Assemblymember Chu, On behalf of the City of Arcata, I write to inform of our opposition to AB 718, which would prohibit local agencies from enforcing laws and ordinances, or otherwise subject to civil or criminal penalties, the act of people sleeping or resting in a lawfully parked motor vehicle.

While a vehicle may be “lawfully parked” in a residential neighborhood or in the parking lot of a business, that does not mean that it is acceptable to have people live there. The issues raised by AB 718 are less about parking, and more about the use of vehicles for human habitation, including sleeping and “resting” in front of existing homes and businesses.

City parking locations whether on public or private property – other than campgrounds — were never intended or designed for residential occupancy. Such uses raise major issues of sanitation as well as the ability of residents to feel secure in their homes and enable the conduct of business activity.

This measure should be rejected. Cities work hard to balance all of the needs of their communities. It is simply not appropriate for the Legislature to attempt to remove local government authority to appropriately protect the public health, safety and welfare of their residents from issues that arise when people live outside of campgrounds in cars and trucks parked on public and private property.

These are not easy issues to deal with, but they cannot responsibly be ignored.

What is most needed to combat homelessness is funding for affordable housing and emergency shelters. There are several major pending measures that can help restore funds for affordable housing; we encourage legislators to support additional funding for affordable housing and homeless solutions Because this measure would undermine local authority to appropriately protect the public health, safety and welfare of our residents, we must oppose AB 718.

Sincerely, Michael Winkler Mayor City of Arcata cc: Assemblymember Jim Wood, District 2; Senator Mike McGuire, District 1; William Weber, principal consultant, Assembly Republican Caucus Fax: (916) 319-3902; Misa Lennox, consultant, Assembly Local Government Committee Fax: (916) 319-3959; Meg Desmond, League of California Cities, mdesmond@ cacities.org

Navigating the present-day perils of selling and moving

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t’s been 21 years since I sold a house, and the process is a lot different than it used to be.

This is an area where the Internet has made a big impact. Online listings can be viewed in the comfort of home, car or coffee shop.

That saves everybody a lot of time and effort. Photos of the interior, exterior and yard can be viewed up front, making it easy to rule out places that don’t fit the buyer’s needs.

Online maps pinpoint the location – which is sometimes a problem in rural Humboldt – and additional information about schools and neighborhoods is helpful for buyers from out of the area.

Some agents are remarkably sloppy about the photos they use online. I’m amazed at how many of the photos show front doors obscured by overgrown bushes,

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shrubs and trees. It doesn’t take with an asking price $100,000 long for a yard to get out of control more than it’s worth? in our climate, but a welcoming It is also a quick way to get an home must surely sell more easily idea of the market. By scanning than one that resembles lots of listings, buyers a haunted house. can see what is available SIDE MY Putting your best foot in their price range, and OF THE STRE ET forward is always good sellers can gauge the advice when selling a competition.

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Those with caviar alvEs Our agent hired a protastes and tuna-salad fessional photographer v MY SIDE OF pocketbooks can get rewhose equipment in- THE STREET alistic without wasting cludes a tripod with extime and gas traipsing all tensions to raise the camera about around viewing homes in person.

30 feet into the air. He made our Our house sold for the first time house look like a jewel, which has in less than a week, but the buyers to help sell it. backed out. Apparently that’s not Some listings I’ve seen did unusual, and we are trying not to exactly the opposite. The pho- take it personally. A retired agent tos were clearly amateur, with told us about a third of accepted uneven lighting which made it offers fall through. hard to see the messy rooms. One That made me feel better about showed rotting fruit on the kitch- my experience trying to sell my en counter – that will draw flies previous house myself. I had a sooner than it will sell the house. deal, but the buyers didn’t have Online listings include prices the money; his grandmother was and locations, which are essen- supposed to loan them the down tial. Most buyers have a budget payment, and she changed her and know at least what part of the mind. One of the things an agent county they want to live in. Why does is check on financing up waste time on a place which could front. turn out to be 50 miles from work Real estate agents are like lots

of other professionals – a good one is worth more than you pay, and a bad one costs you more than you can afford.

As complicated as the transactions are these days, I wouldn’t even consider trying it on my own again. Our agent is helpful and supportive, guiding us through the maze of regulations and potential pitfalls.

The next offer was just silly, the potential buyers wanted us to take the house off the market for the whole summer – the prime selling season – while they “moved money around.” The price they offered was way too low, as well.

We were planning a counter-offer when a much better offer came in. This one seems really solid, and we are cautiously optimistic about it.

So many things hinge on so many other things. I’ve already moved out, but my co-owner is moving Down Below, and can’t do that until we’re on the verge of closing escrow. It’s been an advantage for me to be able to move lots of my stuff gradually, but it’s still been an upheaval.

It took two weeks to get the

phone service changed over. The Postal Service is hit and miss with forwarding First Class mail, so I ordered new address labels, to make it easy for the new owners to forward the stuff that slips through.

I couldn’t believe how much the labels cost these days – the last time I bought them was also 21 years ago.

Since then, more than I can ever use have appeared, unordered, in my junk mail. I won’t mind getting a lot less of that, at least until the senders catch up with my new address. It might even be worth buying labels myself!

Elizabeth Alves only moved a mile across town, but it’s been a big change. Comments and suggestions are welcome care of the Union or to mysidestreet@gmail. com.

FOR THE BIRDS – I mean I AM for birds in spite of what Tim McKay may think. I love ‘em. Even robins.

– Monica Hadley, Party Line column, The Union, June 24, 1976

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of the silkscreen NOT AFRAID OF COLOR Beth Kabat, above, finishes one of her iconic Humboldt silkscreens on a handcranked sewing machine, a new purchase she will take to her booth at the Oregon Country Fair. Top, the “Matisse Leaf” is her newest design, “big and bold and simple. As my eyesight gets a little challenged, I just enjoy some of the simple bold patterns.” Below, a handmade sign proclaims the secret behind her technique. Photos by JV | Union Janine Volkmar Mad RiveR Union

McKINLEYVILLE – Beth Kabat wields a mean squeegee. The colors she’s squeezed onto the silkscreen seem to blend and flow just as she’d like them to, creating a vibrant print of her own design.

Kabat hand painted on fabric from 1980 to 1994. Her lovely designs were sought after and cherished, reflecting the beauty of our coast and the natural world we live in. Visit a long-time home in Humboldt and you’ll likely see one of her pillows gracing a couch, perhaps a bit faded with time, but still evocative. Egrets stalk a beach that merges with a distant coastline and sky. Cats curl their colorful selves around each other and look as if they were reclining on the pillow themselves.

But the constant and time-consuming brushwork of painting on fabric took its toll.

“I got carpal tunnel pretty badly,” Kabat said.

“I thought I’d have to duct tape the brush to my hand.”

She turned to silkscreening as a way to produce enough of her work to keep up with the demand at art shows and craft fairs.

“People had been telling me to silkscreen,” she said, “but part of my problem was I researched it a bit too much. Finally, one day, I just said, ‘I’m going to try it,’ and it was a success.”

Much of what Kabat does to produce her immediately recognizable T-shirts and bags is prep work, before the actual silkscreening.

“I buy 12 ounce canvas by the 100 foot roll,” she said of her bags. “I tear off 100 inch sections, serge the edges, wash the heck out of it and dry it so it’s all preshrunk. I don’t want to end up with a crumply little disappointing mess.”

Her T-shirts take as much preparation as well.

“I wash all the shirts and dry them.

I don’t want people to be disappointed by the size they’ve chosen.”

Kabat irons all the canvas before printing on it, but does not iron the T-shirts. “I just smooth them,” she said.

Recently, she’s been experimenting with printing on vegan suede. “I’m excited about it,” she said.

After she prints her original designs on canvas, she sews large tote bags and small zippered bags on one of her more than a dozen sewing machines.

She’s been selling her bags and T-shirts at the North Country Fair for more than 20 years, the Humboldt Artisans Fair for 30 years, and other shows such as Fourth of July Jubilee on the Arcata Plaza.

Kabat is also in her “15th or 18th” year at the Oregon Country Fair. This year, she has been selected by a jury to be one of the logo artists for the fair and her design is colorful and full-spectrum. She’s taking her newest sewing machine, a hand-cranked model, to the fair to do minor alter-

ations for shoppers.

But to see her designs sooner, just visit her during North Coast Open Studios, this Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Kabat always has a silkscreen going, both to demonstrate the art, and to let visitors try their hand at it.

Joining her will be her friends Linda Parkinson, known for her watercolors, prints, and cards of birds and other nature subjects, Robin Friedman with dichroic glass jewelry and mosaics, and Elaine Benjamin, of Blue Chair Press fame. Benjamin has closed her Blue Chair Press and now concentrates on pyrography, wood burning on “beautiful slabs of wood,” according to Kabat.

They will all be at Kabat’s large studio, Thimbleberry Threads, 4460 Dow’s Prairie Rd. in McKinleyville.

Call (707) 839-3831 for directions.

Kabat named her business after the native Thimbleberry plant because she lived “for 10 years in a little cabin, 12 foot by 12 foot with no electricity, no plumbing, no phone, surrounded by thimbleberries.”

Unlike the thimbleberry, she’s not a native, having been an “army brat” born in Cincinnati, lived in Texas, Maryland, Hawaii and California, but she’s lived in Humboldt County since 1975, “the longest I’ve lived anywhere.”

But Kabat is as resilient and as beautiful as the thimbleberry, which is sometimes called the “Queen of Berries” for its thornless, fall-into-your-hand red berries. She’s made her place on Dow’s Prairie, where she’s lived since 1987, into a garden spot where art grows.

A Lot of Blue in Blue Lake BLUE LAKE – This Saturday, June 13, marks the fifth Blue Lake Art Night. From 6 to 8 p.m. every second Saturday of the month, visit the Peaceable Hamlet to enjoy art and music by various local artists. For more information contact bluelakestudio239@gmail.com.

Blue Lake Studio 239 Railroad Ave. – New exhibit by Margaret Kellerman, “A Lot of Blue Paint.” Tim Breed will provide original folk tunes. Wine tasting benefits Blue Lake Parks and Rec., with bottles donated by Blue Lake Winery. Blue Lake Studio is also open for North Coast Open Studios on June 13 and 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Logger Bar 510 Railroad Ave. – Motherlode plays at 9 p.m.

Mad River Brewing Co. 101 Taylor Way – Blue Lake resident and artist Judy Oszman shows mixed media works.

Frogbite plays some rock ’n’ roll tunes.

MAD RIVER ESTUARY “A Lot of Blue Paint” exhibit by Margaret Kellerman at Blue Lake Studio.

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MYSTÉRIEUSE Brisa Roché returns to Humboldt County via Paris for a rare one-night-only show at the Arcata Playhouse this Saturday, June 13.

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You have one chance to catch this international woman of mystery Janine Volkmar Mad RiveR Union

CREAMERY DISTRICT – Describing Brisa Roché is difficult. She’s like one of those prisms you hang in a sunny window to delight in colorful reflections that change and flit across a white wall.

Here’s a woman, born in Humboldt County and raised without electricity, who has transformed herself into a Parisian. Her French is fluid and excellent, as befits someone who has lived in Paris for a dozen years.

But she sings and records in English.

She’s acted in French films, most recently in the biopic Yves Saint Laurent. She played a jazz singer and also wrote and recorded two tunes for the film.

To watch her on YouTube as she’s interviewed on a French talk show is to watch a typical French woman.

Her facial expressions, idioms and charm are all French.

Then, cued by the interviewer, she fronts a jazz band and sings in a charming sort of English, her diction and accent not quite American, not quite French, but something in between, perhaps from the asteroid inhabited by Saint-Exupéry’s beloved Le Petit Prince.

Roché writes compositions “that resemble standards,” she said. “For One Moment,” the song she wrote for the Saint Laurent film, was chosen as a single for the soundtrack and was single of the week on iTunes. But she feels “so much less free doing my own compositions,” by her own account.

She names Peggy Lee, June Christie, Ella Fitzgerald, Kay Starr, Billie Holiday and Chet Baker as influences.

“My style is quite vintage,” she said. But she’s really a force unto her own self.

“Brisa is a Renaissance woman,” said her mother, Jeannie Fierce. “She’s a determined person. She’s been a performer all her life and she’s honed her craft.” Fierce herself sings with the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir.

Roché has sung all types of music and recorded albums The Chase, Takes and All Right Now, with other releases in the works. But her jazz concert at the Playhouse will be a return to “mystery.”

“I would like to say that doing jazz is like this mysterious thing in my life,” she said. “It’s different from all other kinds of singing for me. Jazz is mysteriously spiritual for me.”

Experience the mystery of Brisa Roché for yourself when she plays a rare gig at the Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St., on Saturday, June 13 at 8 p.m. Roché will perform jazz standards of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, including such well-known tunes as “Just One of Those Things” and “Lover Come Back to Me” with Baron Wolfe and Steve Smith.

General admission is $15/$13 for students and Playhouse members; tickets are available at Wildberries Marketplace, online at arcataplayhouse.org or by calling (707) 822-1575. brisaroche.com

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pints for nonprofits Spend today, June 10, at Redwood Curtain Brewery’s beautiful new tap room at 550 South G St., Arcata, sampling the many fizzy delicacies on the expanded beer menu, all to benefit the Redwood Community Action Agency – Family Services.

McK farMers’ MarKet Get your fresh local vegetables, fruit and flowers straight from the farmer, plus enjoy barbecued meats and live music Thursdays from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the McKinleyville Safeway Shopping Plaza on Central Avenue.

ZeBra Heads Help create lifesized, papier-mâchÊ zebra heads for carrying in local parades, all to promote zero waste. All materials will be provided, including refreshments, at SCRAP Humboldt, 101 H St., Arcata, Thursday, June 11, from 4 to 7 p.m. (707) 442-3763 World dance Humboldt Folk Dancers sponsor teaching and request dancing Friday, June 12, from 8 to 10 p.m. at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 1675 Chester Ave., Arcata. Admission is $3; all ages welcome. (707) 839-3665 paWs for a cause Ancient Arts tattoo & piercing studio at 1065 K St., Arcata, holds its second Paws for a Cause event, Friday and Saturday, June 12 and 13 from noon to 8 p.m. All the proceeds of paw print tattoos these two days will benefit the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center. (707) 826-TAT2 (8282) Music at tHe MarKet The mighty Jim Lahman Band plays the Arcata Farmers’ Market this Saturday, June 13. The market runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Arcata Plaza. dreaM & dance Dream Quest Youth Ballet offers a free performance of The Little Red Hen, Saturday, June 13, at noon at the Willow Creek Library, Highways 299 and 96, Willow Creek. (530) 629-3564

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lection of classic, collectible and vintage books for pre-readers to young adults. There are also tables full of good condition fiction and non-fiction books for all ages and in most genres. The expanded scifi/fantasy table incudes a box of old Ray Bradbury Star Trek paperbacks, and the mystery and other fiction tables are nearly overflowing. It’s a good time to stock up for summer reading. Most books cost $1 or less. Outside, the sidewalk sale tables have hundreds of books for $2 per bag. All book sale proceeds support programs and projects of the McKinleyville Library.

Donations of used books in good condition are appreciated. Due to space limitations, donations must be reviewed and not all books can be accepted.

BooK signing Author Sarah Isbell signs copies of The Book of Green Goo, Saturday, June 13, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Old Town Coffee & Chocolates, 211 F St., Eureka.

(707) 445-8600 faMily art WorKsHops Join artists Paul Rickard and Patricia Sundgren Smith for a free family friendly art workshop. Learn about specific watercolor and printmaking techniques while creating your own watercolor still life and block print, Saturday, June 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. (707) 442-0278 nature story tiMe Join a naturalist for stories geared toward kids ages 3 to 6 Saturday, June 13, from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. (707) 4441397 olyMpus Trillium Dance Studios presents Olympus, featuring Trillium Dance Ensemble and Junior Ensemble with choreography by artistic director Erin McKeever and Trillium instructors. There are two shows on Saturday, June 13, at 2 and 6 p.m. and one on Sunday, June 14, at 2 p.m., all at the Van Duzer Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. (707) 822-8408 WilloW creeK art opening Studio 299 Center for the Arts, 75 The Terrace in Willow Creek, presents a collection of student art for their June exhibition. The WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10

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suMMer at tHe sanctuary Join in a benefit for the Humboldt Folk Music School featuring Kinetic Paranormal Society, Belles of the Levee, Mad River Rose, Bayou Swamis and Norton Subtonic at the Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata.

The potluck starts at 6 p.m. and performances at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 13. The show is suitable for all ages; admission is $5 to $20 sliding scale. (707) 834-2957

HoW dads sHape us The impact of fathers on children will be examined at Lifetree CafĂŠ on Sunday, June 14 at 7 p.m. The program, titled “A Father’s Power: How Dads Shape Us — for Better or Worse,â€? includes a filmed interview with former gang member and current father Mark DeEzparza. Lifetree CafĂŠ is a free conversation cafĂŠ with snacks and beverages on the corner of Union and 13th streets in Arcata. (707) 672-2919

all ages Metal Buckshot Possum, Naganaga, Scar Agenda and Imperial Destructo play an all-ages metal show at E&O Bowl, 1417 Glendale Dr., Blue Lake, on Saturday, June 13, at 8 p.m. (707) 8259160

rose sHoW The Humboldt Rose Society presents its 49th annual show of blooms and arrangements, featuring vendors, demonstrations and drawings. The free show is at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, 375 Harris St., Eureka, on Sunday, June 14 from 1 to 5 p.m. (707) 839-2684 at tHe ligHtHouse grill Dee Hemingway and Eric Hann play at the Lighthouse Grill in Saunders Shopping Center, Trinidad, Sunday, June 14, starting at 5 p.m.

tHe Movers and tHe sHaKers Dance to rock, blues and funk at this free show with The Movers and the Shakers at The Forks, 38998 Hwy. 299, Willow Creek, Saturday, June 13, at 8 p.m. (530) 629-2679

punK & Hardcore Dead Tree Presents brings to Humboldt County Boston’s mutant freak punk outfit Sadist, plus Santa Rosa’s Acrylics and Chain Hex, Komatose, Dead Drift and Shit Rag with DJ Larry Houdini filling in the gaps. Your night of war punk and hardcore is Monday, June 15 starting at 5 p.m. at Eureka Vets Hall at 10th and H streets. Admission is $5 and the show is all-ages, with a bar for those 21 and over. deadtreepunx@gmail.com

trinidad artisans’ MarKet The Trinidad Artisans’ Market continues Sunday, June 14 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit the market at Main Street and View Ave. in downtown Trinidad every Sunday for arts and crafts, live at noon, plus delicious barbecue!

locavores’ deligHt Find fresh vegetables and fruit from local producers, food vendors, plant starts and flowers every Tuesday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Wildberries Marketplace’s Farmers’ Market, 747 13th St., Arcata. (707) 822-0095

electric car sHoW Check out various electric cars and talk to the owners at Mad River Brewing Company & Tap Room, 101 Taylor Way, Blue Lake, Sunday, June 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring your electric vehicle (EV) if you have one; a prize will be awarded to the EV driver traveling the greatest distance. Food will be available and children are welcome. (707)

taco tuesday dance party DJs Gabe Pressure and Zero Juan spin cumbia, salsa, reggaeton, & tropical bass, with favorite fusion food truck Taco Faktory parked out front of Richard’s Goat Tavern & Tea Room, 401 I St., Arcata, every Tuesday starting at 8 p.m.

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On Saturday, June 12, 2004, Dragged by Horses, who had only recently emerged on the local music scene to knock The Hitch off of their heavy-rock throne, opened for the Japanese psych-blues band DMBQ to celebrate the one-year anniversary of live music.

Roshawn Beere and Steve Bohner, former members of The Hitch, and Pablo Midence, former front man for Dragged by Horses, are now three-quarters of Lord Ellis (with Andy Sorter filling out the band on electric piano), who will open the 12-year anniversary celebration at The Alibi this Saturday, June 13.

Arising from the ashes of MooM/Rasper, Strix Vega (with a lineup of Colin Begell on guitar and vocals, Andy Powell on bass and Brian Godwin on drums) made their Alibi debut on Saturday, June 25, 2005.

Strix Vega (with Jay Forbes now on drums)will close out the 12-year anniversary celebration.

Humboldt Free Radio presents the 12th Anniversary of Live Music at The Alibiwith Strix Vega (psychedelic folk-rock from Arcata) and Lord Ellis (Humboldt heavy rock) at The Alibi, 744 Ninth St., Arcata, on Saturday, June 13 at 11 p.m. Cover is $5; no minors.

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he folks at Companion Animal Foundation want community help in celebrating the lucky 13th anniversary of this organization!

In 2002, Kim Class opened the doors to the Sunny Brae thrift store and the rest is history… Thousands of happy shoppers have sponsored over 1,500 cat, dog and “other” adoptions, not to mention assisting with 6,000 spays and neuters of owned animals and feral cats.

Octavia To say thank you, storewide sales are s treMPle in effect for the whole month of June.

COMPANION At the Sunny Brae store, shoppers will ANIMALS enjoy 30 to 40 percent off everything in the store. For the last day of June, a Tuesday, enjoy 50 percent off everything in the store!

The Blue Lake store will be having sales as well.

CAF kittens awaiting visitors and forever homes are currently residing in the adoption room in Sunny Brae, at Arcata Pet Supply in Arcata and at PetCo in Eureka.

Bella the bunny is a new arrival at CAF. She’ll be looking for a home at the end of July, after helping out with the kid’s summer camps.

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

ThriLL Of The GriLL Food for People and the North Coast Co-op team up for the 10th annual Thrill of the Grill barbecue benefit on Friday, June 12 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the Co-op’s Eureka location at Fourth and B streets. Lunch is only $5 and includes choice of Humboldt Grassfed Beef burger or Tofu Shop burger plus organic green salad, chips and choice of drink. Dogbone will provide jazzy sounds. All proceeds benefit Food for People’s Child Nutrition Programs, which include Backpacks for Kids, Children’s Summer Lunch Program and the After School Snack Program, working to ensure that every child, every day, has enough to eat in Humboldt County.

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he 58th Annual Trinidad This annual community event Greater Chamber of Commerce brings out the best in community Fish Festival is coming up on spirit. All humans invited, but please Father's Day, Sunday, June 21 from 11 leave dogs at home. a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Trinidad School Big Day on the Land June 12 grounds.

The Northern Region Council Festival director Melissa Zarp an- (NRC) together with Trinidad Coastnounced that the festival will feature al Land Trust, McKinleyville Land more fish options, with local food Trust, Northcoast Regional Land vendors in addition to the tradition- Trust, Jacoby Creek Land Trust and al barbecued fare. Expect shorter fish Friends of the Dunes will hold tours dinner lines and more time to enjoy of land trust properties throughout music, art and other attracthe county on Friday, June tions.

12 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The A pre-festival guided tide day will begin in Trinidad pool walk will begin at 10 with a tour of Saunders Park a.m. on Trinidad State Beach. and the new Trinidad CoastP atti Trinidad Lighthouse will be al Land Trust office at 9 a.m., Fleschner open for tours hosted by the followed by visits to Mad RivTRINIDAD er Bluffs, Freshwater Farms Bureau of Land Management. The HSU Marine Lab Reserve, Jacoby Creek Kokwill be open for aquarium te Ranch and ending at the viewing and touch tank visits.

Friends of the Dunes HumThe Kids Zone will feature a Trin- boldt Coastal Nature Center. idad Skate Park Alliance surf and Members of the NRC and land skate park on the school track, and conservation professionals will join to there will be ocean-themed arts and share successes and opportunities for crafts, face painting and balloon art. collaboration. The mission of the CalThe Trinidad Rancheria Indian ifornia Northern Region Council of Community will host an installation land trusts is to improve conservation to share cultural information about of land and water resources. their past, present and future. The For information about Trinidad Trinidad Museum will be open to vis- Coastal Land Trust and the Big Day itors from 12:30 to 4 p.m. The Trini- on the Land, contact Susan Elliott at dad Civic Club will offer delicious des- tenakoe40@gmail.com or Ben Moreserts at Town Hall. head at benm161@yahoo.com.

There will be free filtered water Visit Mexico at Trinidad Library bottle fill-ups courtesy of The WaterThe very popular Armchair Travel shed Council and New World Water.

Series continues on Thursday, June A free shuttle to the Fish Festival 18 at 7 p.m. at Trinidad Library with will be available at Cher-Ae Heights a presentation by Andi Castillo on her Casino. recent trip to Mexico. She’ll show pic-

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Trinidad Artisans Market Browse the Trinidad Artisans Market each Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. outdoors next to Murphy’s Market through the summer. Local art, crafts and music draw in visitors and residents alike.

North Coast Open Studios North Coast Open Studios continues its Trinidad to Rio Dell artist studio tour on Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Susan Stephenson has ten of her recent works on view at Trinidad Art, at the corner of Trinity and Parker streets. Westhaven Center for the Arts, 501 South Westhaven Dr., continues its Members Exhibit. Kathrin Burleson’s studio was part of last weekend’s scheduled stops, but you can make a special arrangement to view her watercolors, acrylics and drawings featuring work from her new book, The Soul’s Journey: An Artist’s Approach to the Stations of the Cross by emailing her at artist@ kathrinburleson.com.

A complete list of open studios is available at northcoastopenstudios. com.

At the Lighthouse Grill Singer Dee Hemingway and guitarist Eric Hann will be featured at the Lighthouse Grill on Sunday, June 14 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Otto Knobetter is scheduled for June 21 and JD Jeffries and Michael Stewart will perform on June 28.

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The people that I worked with could not have been more respectful and appreciative of the help. It is such a good feeling to be able to do this! We cannot provide rabies vaccines, as that needs to be done by a vet, but helping to prevent parvo and distemper and reducing unplanned breeding are ways to make a big difference to this community. Many loMara cal veterinarians have been offering lows egal cost rabies clinics and we refer our new DOGTOWN friends to them.

Back on the home front, we are still looking for foster homes for the dogs in our rescue. If you have considered adding a dog to your home, either as a first dog or a companion for your companion, fostering can be a good way to see if that is a fit for you. Redwood Pals covers medical expenses and will arrange training assistance for foster dogs. Our hope is always for a “foster failure,” where the foster family falls in love with the dog and decides to keep them, but all help is appreciated!

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We have a lovely young dog at the Humboldt County Animal Shelter. Addie is a one year old hound and border collie mix. She is such a favorite with our volunteers! Her mild manners and unusual coloring (white and gray) lead visitors to mistakenly think that she is a senior dog. Honestly, I think that is why she is still there.

Says one of our volunteers: “Addie is one of my favorite inmates. I fell in love with her instantly. Addie is a gentle, happy and very responsive girl. After some initial enthusiastic leaping and wagging when she gets out of the kennel, she settles and is very good on the leash. She is very focused on her human, responsive and pretty obedient for such a youngster. She is very affectionate with me, and will flop over for belly rubs and lick your face at any opportunity. I think she'll make a wonderful part of a family, with or without kids.”

Addie is playful, fine around other dogs and has not been tested around cats, though her gentle manner makes me think that she would probably be fine with them also.

Addie is smaller than she looks in her pictures – probably under 50 pounds on her lean frame.

Addie can be seen at the Humboldt County Animal Shelter at 980 Lycoming Ave. in McKinleyville. She is spayed, microchipped and current on vaccinations. More information is available at (707) 840-9132.

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SCENE Fresh crops of art & music at Arts! Arcata

An invitation to Aurora’s Wedding BEAUTY’S WEDDING Trinity Ballet of McKinleyville celebrates its 16th year with its production of Sleeping Beauty on Saturday, June 13. Directed by Trinity Ballet Academy's Greta Leverett, dancers ages 4 to adult perform in this abridged adaptation of the classic ballet that features Aurora's Wedding, at which beloved storybook characters Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, the Lilac Queen and her fairies celebrate the marriage of Princess Aurora to her Prince after her awakening from 100 years of sleep. Adora Stebbins, left, stars as Sleeping Beauty. The performance is at 3:30 p.m. at the Arkley Center for the

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Arcata Exchange 813 H St. – Mixed media by Jay Brown and wine pour to benefit by the Breast and GYN Health MUSTARD Botanical illustration by Emily Project, who will be announcing the Torquemada at Moonrise Herbs. winners of their annual vacation givecan Burgess, guitarist. away. Your last chance to buy a ticket Moonrise Herbs 826 G St. – Botanical for your chance to win one of four difillustrations by AAI’s Emily Torquemaferent vacations. da.

Bubbles 1031 H St. - Music by bluegrass Moore’s Sleep World 876 G Street – Art band Clean Livin’.

by Sandford Pyron and Sarah Mitchell Fatbol Clothing 1063 H St. – Fatbol Cywith music by The Yokles. Wine pour phers, hosted by NAC ONE and featurbenefits The Ink People. ing DJ M. This is a monthly community Plaza 808 Ninth St. – Monotypes by Paevent dedicated to keeping the art of tricia Sennott. hip hop alive. All emcees and lyricists Redwood Curtain Brewing Company are welcome to come up, freestyle, and 550 South G St. – Paintings by Casey recite verses with live DJs. Shannahan.

Fire Arts Center 520 South G St. – Par- Redwood Yogurt 1573 G St. – Art by Adticipating with North Coast Open Stuvanced Placement students from AAI. dios with over 50 artisans showing a Stokes, Hamer, Kaufman & Kirk, variety of local work including planters, LLP 381 Bayside Rd. – Wire and clay vases, bird feeders, bowls, jewelry and sculptures by Andrew Hamer and asmuch more. semblages of found objects by DanFolie Douce 1551 G St. – Quilts by Ann iel Lazarus. Music by Jeffrey Smoller Anderson. on solo guitar. Wine pour benefits the Hot Knots 898 G St. – Digital images American Cancer Society — Relay for

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Born and raised in Arcata in a household full of music, Armin-Hoiland sang before she talked and began performing in choirs and musical theatre shortly thereafter.

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annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. At age 18, she began collaborating with local musicians such as Darius Brotman and Aber Miller to play regularly at clubs, weddings, theatres and benefits.

Since moving to Oakland, ArminHoiland has fulfilled her childhood dream of joining the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (OIGC), a 65-voice multicultural, multiracial and multi-faith choir and participated in the Lost American Jazz Book, an ongoing concert series of original jazz music by Albert Greenberg and Dan Zemelman.

Having now been a member of OIGC for three years, Armin-Hoiland says she is incredibly excited to participate in OIGC’s three-country European tour this July. “Gotta Have a Song� is her main fundraising event for her trip.

Armin-Hoiland performs Friday, June 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $15 to $20 sliding scale and are available at Wildberries Marketplace and at the door.

DUCK, DUCK, EGRET Wildlife and landscape photographs

by Andrew Smith will be on display at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center, 569 G St., during June. All photographs in the show, such as the male wood duck above, were taken at the Arcata Marsh. Smith, a self-taught photographer, has lived in Arcata for the last 24 years and mainly photographs wildlife and nature, particularly birds. Friends of the Arcata Marsh sponsors free monthly art/photography shows at the Interpretive Center, open to the public Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Monday between 1 and 5 p.m. (707) 826-2359

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This week in Crabs Wednesday, June 10 – Crabs v. Seals Baseball The Humboldt Crabs take on Seals Baseball for a second time this season, starting at 7 p.m. The Humboldt Masonic Lodge will provide bat-wrangling services.

Friday, June 12 – Cowboy Night Yee-Haw! Bring your boots and cowboy hats to the yard as the Crabs face off against the Seattle Studs at 7 p.m.. Between innings, see who is the best line dancer down the third base line, to tunes by the Crab Grass Band. Cowboy night is sponsored by 92.3 Big Red Country FM. Arcata Little Learning Center will be batboys and batgirls.

TIE DYE DAY The Humboldt Crabs wore specially-made tie dye jerseys Sunday, which was Tie Dye T-Shirt Day. Left, Andy Burschinger on the mound. Right, Dan Deely makes his way home for a score, as Bobby Schuman, behind, lands on third.

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‘Cardiac’ Crabs win nail biters Erik Fraser Humboldt Crabs

ARCATA – Cardiac Crabs has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

The Crabs finished the second weekend of their season with a perfect 7-0 record, thanks largely to their ability to come through in the clutch when trailing late. In three of their five wins last week, the Crabs trailed heading into the bottom of the eighth, only to rally with multiple runs to pull out the victory.

Quite an accomplishment for a group of guys who haven’t even known each other two weeks.

“I think it says a lot about the programs they come from, to begin with,” said Manager Tyson Fisher. “The groundwork for us has been laid, and I think that’s huge. These

guys, sometimes they jell a lot earlier than expected and this is one of those groups. They come out and work hard every day – they beat the coaches to the ballpark – you can’t say enough about a group like that.”

On Tuesday, June 2, against former Crab Alex Crosby and the Novato Knicks, Humboldt was down 5-4 when Ryan Dobson reached on an error, stole second and scored on a double by Allen Smoot. Smoot moved to third on a single by Jesse Medrano, and scored on a fielder’s choice by Beau Bozett to give the Crabs the lead for good. Bozett came in on a double by Dillon Kelley for the game’s final run in a 7-5 win.

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Saturday, June 13 – Humboldt Hometown Heroes Night A night to celebrate local heroes (fire, police, Coast Guard, sheriffs, EMTs, medical, etc.) and all the brave women and men in uniform, with the Crabs playing the Seattle Studs a second time. The Eureka Police Dept. will be in the right field picnic area, left field will be closed off and occupied by Mad River Community Hospital Surgical Services. The Humboldt Bay Honor Guard will present the colors and flags before the game.

Plus, in honor of the Seattle Studs, Old Town Coffee & Chocolates have donated some of their delicious hot java for all the coffee drinkers. Free cups of joe at the concessions stand, so bring your own koozie. It all starts at 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 14 – Crabs v. Seattle Studs Third time’s the charm as the Crabs and Studs play at 12:30 p.m. The Crab Grass Band will be on hand with Paula Humphrey starring as batgirl.

Tuesday, June 16 – Crabs v. Auburn Wildcats The claws are out as the Crabs meet the Wildcats in the first of three games this week, all starting at 7 p.m.

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BROADCAST BUDDIES The Professor and Hoke Holcomb in the broadcast booth at the Arcata Ball Park.

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For the last 17 years William “Hoke” Holcomb oing to a Humboldt Crabs game is the best.

But for those who cannot go, listening to and Benjamin “the Professor” Shaeffer have been Hoke and the Professor broadcast the radio announcers for the Crabs. Fans can hear them on 1480 KGOE AM. game can be a wonderful second best.

Now, KGOE’s parent company, BiSome might even prefer it. coastal Media, provides streaming audio Nothing says summer like working in as well, at kgoe.com. the garden and listening to the ball game “The nice thing about streaming,” on a mud spattered radio. Bliss.

Shaeffer said, “is that the players’ parents Or, as my elderly neighbor did for who live far away can listen.” years, sit in his car, parked at the curb in Janine Home states for this year’s players infront of his house, listening to the game V olkmar clude Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, on the car radio while eating a sandwich v CRAB and all over California. and drinking a beer. Heaven.

Even Holcomb’s wife listens to the Baseball on the radio is enthralling GAB broadcasts. and exciting.

“My wife had a hip replacement this year,” Enthralling because the listener gets so much interesting background on the players, woven Holcomb explained. into the play by play commentary.

So for each game, Holcomb and Shaeffer climb Exciting because the announcer’s voice rises the metal rungs of an old ladder set into the wall and falls in volume when something happens and of the ballpark. Then, they maneuver over an the background noise of the fans and the band open hatchway and onto a landing to get into the just adds to the ambiance.

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Graduation time Read to the Rhythm at McKinleyville Library

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i there, Panthers! This is your final Panther Report of the school year. It has been an incredible honor and experience informChesiree ing the community of all things Mack K atter High, and I hope that your summer is filled with more excitement and anticiPANTHER pation for the next school year.

Things are coming to a close. Thursday, June 11, is the Finale Rally. This rally is the famous closing of the year, where the entire school says goodbye to the seniors.

During this rally, McKinleyville High’s Staff Member of the Year will be recognized, Mack High’s Polynesian Culture Club will perform a hula dance called He Mele no Lilo, and the Senior Tunnel will be formed – an entire segment dedicated to hugging every senior goodbye.

This rally will be full of tears, smiles and good memories.

It will begin at 11 a.m. in the McKinleyville Main Gym and end at 12:30 p.m. following this there is a barbecue being held for all who wish to attend after the rally. That afternoon, the Class of 2015’s Graduation Ceremony will commence. It will be held at the McKinleyville High Football Field and begin at 2 p.m.

After the ceremony, the Class of 2015 has a short break to let graduation settle in – and then it’s time for the Safe and Sober party! This is the event so many high school students look forward to.

Seniors will enjoy a night filled with activities, attractions and non-stop fun at Harbor Lanes in Eureka. And then it’s summer time!

The Class of 2015 has left a great paw print on Mack High. It has been an incredible year. I have no doubt that the Class of 2016 are just as anxious to make their marks.

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Prime Time Connection at 9 a.m.

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Can you catch the Fly Ball?

A Fly Ball has landed in the pages of the Mad River Union! Look carefully and you’ll find the Fly Ball on the ad of one of the businesses supporting the Union’s Crabs coverage. Find an entry form in the editions of May 27 or June 3 (or pick one up at the Union office) and every week write down the name of the business where the Fly Ball landed in the space provided.

At the end of 10 weeks, return your completed form to the office of the Mad River Union, 791 Eighth St., Ste. 8, Arcata, CA, 95521 and you will be entered in a drawing to win restaurant gift certificates, hot tub tickets, Police Log books, subscriptions to the Union and many other great prizes!

The deadline for returning forms is Wednesday, Aug. 5 at noon. Only paper copies are accepted; no emailed entries will be eligible. No purchase is necessary; pick up your FREE copy of the Union at the Arcata Ball Park! Game on!

two Crabs batters to load the bases for big Bobby Schuman.

Schuman made Irwin pay for his lack of control, ripping a double just over the Expos’ right fielder, and just like that the Crabs led for the first time in the game. Austin Root came in for the ninth and was perfect to earn the save in a 4-3 win.

The next night was nearly a carbon copy. The Expos scored two unearned runs in the first while some fans were still looking for their seats, and added another in the third for a quick 3-0 lead. The Crabs got one back in the bottom of the third, but that was all the scoring in the game until, you guessed it, the bottom of the eighth.

Smoot led off the frame with a double, and would eventually score on an error that extended the inning. That error would be the Expos’ undoing. One batter later, with the bases loaded, Deely singled in the tying and go-ahead run. Kelley followed that up with a two-run knock of his own for a 6-3 lead.

of Reginald the Rotten to steal your party supplies! To get a free pizza, you will need to read 22 books. For readers over the age of 13, there is a separate program, in which those who read 2,700 pages and write a review of their favorite book will win prizes like gift certificates for Blake’s Books, HealthSport and more! Reading rocks, so read to the rhythm together this summer.

Read week’s Mad River Union for more about upcoming library events.

Two plucked from beach by Coast Guard U.S. CoaSt GUard

TRINIDAD – Sunday afternoon, June 7, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued two people, one with injuries, from the base of a cliff near Indian Beach between Moonstone Beach and Trinidad.

At the request of CalFire, at 3:30 p.m. the Coast Guard diverted a MH-65D helicopter that was already in the air on a pre-planned training mission to assist two stranded people near Indian

Crabs | Stellar bullpen aids in Crab victories 3 with a 4-2 victory, the Crabs again found themselves trailing late in their opener against the California Expos, this time by a 3-1 score. Expos starter Hilario Tovar had suffocated the home team’s offense for six innings and left in a position to pick up the ‘W.’ But against reliever Tanner Irwin in the eighth, the Crabs’ bats finally work up.

Medrano and Bozett both singled, and Dan Deely reached safely trying to sacrifice them along. Medrano scored the first run of the inning on a double play, but that left just one runner on base. However, Irwin couldn’t close out the inning, walking the next

It kicks off on Saturday, June 13 at 1 p.m. in Azalea Hall with Sean Powers and his shadow puppets. They will also have arts and crafts activities and light refreshments.

Starting that day, you can get signed up for this year’s game, Party at the Palace.

This game is intended for readers under the age of 13 and follows your quest to put together a magnificent party despite the efforts

A potential seventh run was denied when Kelley was thrown out at home trying to score on a double

by Blake Edmonson.

Perhaps tired of the dramatics, the Crabs jumped out to a big lead in Sunday’s series finale, scoring seven times in the second, but saw their lead immediately trimmed to 7-5 the very next half inning. The Expos closed the gap to just one run in the fourth, but that was as close as they would get, as Smoot doubled in two runs in the bottom of the fourth.

The Crabs bullpen, which has been stellar so far this season, shut the Expos down the rest of the way, combining for 6 1/3 innings of one-run ball.

“We had to use the bullpen a little bit more than we wanted to (on Sunday),” Fisher said. “Burschinger got off to a pretty good start and then had that rough inning there, but the bullpen did a good job, like they’ve done all year, throwing strikes and pitching to contact, and let the defense make some plays behind them.”

After a day off Monday, the Crabs are back in action Tuesday and today, June 10 against Seals Baseball, and then welcome in the Seattle Studs over the weekend.

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Beach south of Trinidad.

A 16-year-old female and her older sister were traversing rocks near the water when the younger girl slipped and fell approximately 15 feet on to a small rock outcropping, possibly breaking her arm and suffering from severe abrasions.

Hampered by injuries and unable to successfully extract themselves due to impassable cliffs, the sisters used a cell phone to call for help. Once on scene, CalFire first responders located the females but were unable to remove them due to the steep terrain and precarious location and relayed the call for help to the Coast Guard.

The crew of Rescue 6558, piloted by Lt. Keith Roberts and Lt. J.J. Briggs, maneuvered the helicopter under thick fog and slowly searched the shoreline north of Moon-

RESCUED One of stranded beachgoers is lifted into the helocipter.

Screen Shot of U.S. coaSt GUard video stone Beach. They located the survivors clinging to the rocks in a knee deep rising tide. Unable to hoist from directly above because of overhanging cliffs, the crew decided to move the survivors away from the cliffs.

Flight mechanic Aviation Maintenance Technician Matt Lawrence lowered rescue swimmer Aviation Survival Technician Chief Neil Cahoon into the water adjacent to the

women where he carried each through the rising surf. Both were then hoisted to safety. Upon landing at the Mad River Community Hospital, both survivors were treated for their injuries and hypothermia.

Lt. Roberts said, “This was a multi-agency team effort in that CalFire located the survivors and provided an on scene weather assessment to our crew, enabling us to hoist the survivors to safety.”

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“The late Jerry Nutter joked that we were going to get the first escalator in Humboldt County,” Holcomb said. “A couple of years later he said that if not an escalator, how about a catapult?”

(Your Crab Gab columnist tried it, got all the way up the ladder just fine, but gave up at traversing the open space with nothing but concrete below.

Heights aren’t scary, but widths are.)

They settle in to the booth where “actually the inside is nice,” Holcomb said. “We have a little refrigerator and they send food up.”

“Hoke does the first two innings,” Shaeffer said. “I do the middle if he hasn’t gone home or fallen asleep.”

Shaeffer is also the

scorekeeper. “Benjamin, in addition to doing the announcing, is the official scorer,” Holcomb said. “He also considers himself the fourth umpire. Sometimes he’ll tear off his headset and yell out comments at the umpire. He thinks no one can tell who it is,” Holcomb said, laughing.

The give and take between the two is an obvious plus to the job.

Shaeffer said, “If I couldn’t work with Hoke, I wouldn’t do it. We just have a really good rapport, as far as playing off each other. We have a ball.”

Holcomb echoed those thoughts in a separate interview. “And, of course, it’s a lot of fun to work with Benjamin. He’s a really easy guy to work with.

We’re in fairly close quarters for a couple of months, so it’s good that we get along.”

There are other pluses about the radio gig.

“The best thing is getting the best seat in the ballpark and each season turning 12

again,” Holcomb said.

“One of the things I think is particularly wonderful about going to a ball game at the Arcata Ballpark is that it is one of the few venues where you see multi-generation enjoyment. So often we are age-segregated in recreation,” he explained.

Hoke and the Professor also interview guests in the booth. “Don Hofacker comes up two or three times a season and gives us an umpire’s perspective,” Holcomb said. “Last year we interviewed the son of a man who played with the Crabs in the early ’50s. In those days, players came from pro teams. This was a guy who had played with the Yankees.”

So if you can’t make it to a game, tune in and listen to Hoke and the Professor.

They keep you informed and entertained, as they’ve been doing for years.

As the Professor quipped, “After 17 years, it’s longer than some marriages.”

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O BITUARY Rob (Habib) Sadler

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n May 8, 2015 the life drum of Rob (Habib) Sadler played its final beat.

He left this world the same way he spent so much of his time in it, surrounded

by love and forever sharing his light.

Rob was a man who touched the heart of everyone he met. Whether he made you smile one time in the grocery store or you spent hours discussing the wonders of life, chances are Rob left you with a fuller heart than you ever thought an old bearded hippie could.

Rob was a man who always had time, even though he spent his almost 72 years on this earth being told that he wouldn’t live much longer, wouldn’t get to be much older. But through each health crisis, he prevailed; he’d pull what has come to be called “a Rob,” continually showing skep-

tical doctors that he was not just a statistic, he was a miracle.

And he was a miracle. In his final weeks in this body, he dined with good friends, got down on the floor and played with his great-grandchildren, talked with loved ones and danced. He danced after years of living in a body that couldn’t quite move the way he wanted to; he found it in himself to dance, to party on and once again feel the music, the rhythm of the drum as it beat through his heart and moved his body.

Rob leaves with us a wide array of family brought to him both by blood and by destiny. He will be remembered by many friends from both past and present, each knowing their unique connection to him and carrying a piece of his light into the fu-

ture. His loving daughter Hannah Sheklow remains, and his partner Noor Walsh, as do three of his granddaughters, Mara Green, India Broadbent and Abigail Sheklow, and his two grandsons, Justin Green and Noah Sheklow. He is also survived by his sisters Christie Radcliff and Patty DeRanzo as well as his brothers Tom Sadler and David Sadler.

A memorial will be held for Rob on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 4 p.m., with prayer/ drum circle at 6 p.m. at Beginnings in Briceland, Calif. The family encourages all who knew him to attend and bring a potluck dish, a musical instrument (if you’d like to play) and your best memories. It will be a night of remembrance and a celebration of a full and unique life.

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ArCATA, CA 95521 gAry g. lOggINg, INC. C0913294 75 rOBErT CT. wEST ArCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: A Corporation S/gAry gIANNANdrEA, PrESIdENT This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on MAY 27, 2015 KELLY E. SANDERS M. MOrrIS DEPUTY 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/1 NOTICE OF PETITION TO AdMINISTEr ESTATE OF wESlEy gEOrgE SMITh AkA wESlEy g. SMITh AkA wESlEy SMITh CASE NO.: Pr150122 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WESLEY GEORGE SMITH AKA WESLEY G. SMITH AKA WESLEY SMITH A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DARREN SMITH in the Superior Court of California, County of HUMBOLDT. The Petition for Probate requests that: DARREN SMITH be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: jUNE 15, 2015 Time: 8:30 AM

Dept.: 2 Address of court: Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, CA, 95501.

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

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. you may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. you may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petittion or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for the petitioner: DENNIS C. REINHOLTSEN jANSSEN MALLOY, LLP 730 FITH STREET, P.O. BOX 1288 EUREKA, CA 95501 (707) 445-2071 5/27, 6/3, 6/10 SUMMONS ON FIrST AMENdEd COMPlAINT CASE NUMBEr: dr150078 NOTICE TO dEFENdANT: KENNETH WAYNE VINCENT, individually and as Trustee of the Kenneth Vincent Revocable Trust dated October 8, 2012 yOU ArE BEINg SUEd

By PlAINTIFF: STOKES, HAMER, KAUFMAN & KIRK, LLP NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you.

If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services

Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: HUMBOLDT COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 825 Fifth Street Eureka, CA 95501 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: Chris johnson Hamer (SBN 105752) 381 Bayside Road, Suite A Arcata, CA 95521 STOKES, HAMER, KAUFMAN & KIRK, LLP 707-822-1771 phone DATE: MAY 04 2015 Clerk, by Natasha S., Kerri L. Keenan, Deputy 5/20, 5/27, 6/3, 6/10 SUMMONS CASE NUMBEr: dr150066 NOTICE TO dEFENdANT: TERRA LYNN LOCHNER AND DOES 1 THROUGH 20 yOU ArE BEINg SUEd

By PlAINTIFF: BONNY BELLE HERSHBERGER jONES NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The Complaint is to quite title of the affected real property located in Humboldt County, California, commonly known as 14581 West End Road, Arcata, CA 95521, Humboldt County Assessor’s Parcel Number 313-081-018, further described as follows: That portion of the North Half of the West Half of the East Half of the Northeast

Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 31 in Township 6 North, Range 2 East, Humboldt Meridian described as follows: BEGINNING at the Northwest corner of said North Half of the West Half of the East Half of the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter; and running thence South along the west line of said North Half of the West Half of the East Half of the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, to a point 185 feet south of the existing fence, which runs along the south side of the county road, as said road existed on August 18, 1965; thence east parallel with the north line of said section, 110 feet;thence north parallel with the first course to the north line of said section; and thence west on the section line 110 feet to the point of beginning.

The name and address of the court is: HUMBOLDT COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 825 Fifth Street Eureka, CA 95501 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: Ryan Hurley 2850 Harris Street Eureka, CA 95503 GALE & NIELSEN (707) 269-0167 DATE: FEB 13 2015 Clerk, by Morgan P., Kerri L. Keenan, Deputy 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17 SUMMONS CASE NUMBEr: dr140520 NOTICE TO dEFENdANT: DAVID ASTRY, an individual; and DOES 1-100, inclusive yOU ArE BEINg SUEd

By PlAINTIFF: SECOND ROUND SUB, LLC NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you.

If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: HUMBOLDT COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 825 Fifth Street Eureka, CA 95501 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: EDIT ALEXANDRYAN/ SBN 249323 The Resolution Law Group, APC 9301 Winnetka Ave. Ste. B Chatsworth, CA 91311 (818) 543-3126 DATE: SEP 19 2014 KERRI L. KEENAN, Clerk,

by Bob B., Deputy NEW ADDRESS: 9301 Corbin Ave., Suite 1650, Northridge, CA 91324 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/1 CITy OF ArCATA lEgAl NOTICE INTrOdUCTION OF OrdINANCE NO. 1460 I hereby certify that at a special meeting held on june 3, 2015, the Arcata City Council introduced Ordinance No. 1460, summarized below, An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Arcata Approving Amendment No. 1 to the Mad River Parkway Business Center Development Agreement, at which time the reading in full thereof was unanimously waived and approval granted for reading the ordinance by title only. Motion to introduce Ordinance No. 1460 was passed by the following vote: AYES: Winkler, Pitino, Ornelas, Pereira.

NOES: None. ABSENT: Wheetley.

ABSTENTIONS: None.

Bridget Dory, City Clerk, City of Arcata Summary of Ordinance No. 1460 If adopted, this ordinance will: 1) amend the development agreement for the Mad River Parkway Business Center to remove the requirement for seven affordable housing units; 2) establish February 17, 2010, as the effective date for regulatory documents; 3) clarify the standards and conditions by which the City accepted the drainage and other improvements; and 4) exempt all projects in the development from City Design Review Permits as long as they are in compliance with the project’s adopted design guidelines.

The full text of Ordinance No. 1460 is available for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk, Arcata City Hall, 736 F Street, Arcata, California, Monday through Friday, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Ordinance No. 1460 may be considered for adoption at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Arcata City Council to be held on june 17, 2015, and, if adopted at that time, will take effect july 17, 2015.

Bridget Dory, City Clerk, City of Arcata 6/10 CITy OF ArCATA lEgAl NOTICE INTrOdUCTION OF OrdINANCE NO. 1462 I hereby certify that at a regular meeting held on june 3, 2015, the Arcata City Council introduced Ordinance No. 1462, summarized below, An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Arcata Amending the Arcata Municipal Code to Implement Emergency Mandatory Water Conservation Measures, Title VII—Public Works, Chapter 3—Water, at which time the reading in full thereof was unanimously waived and approval granted for reading the ordinance by title only. Motion to introduce Ordinance No. 1462 was passed by the following vote: AYES: Winkler, Pitino, Ornelas, Pereira.

NOES: None. ABSENT: Wheetley.

ABSTENTIONS: None.

Bridget Dory, City Clerk, City of Arcata Summary of Ordinance No. 1462 If adopted, this ordinance will implement on june 17, 2015, the State Water Resources Control Board’s Emergency Regulation regarding water use prohibitions and restrictions.

Accordingly, the ordinance spells out 12 Mandatory Water Conservation Measures. The following uses of potable water will be prohibited: 1) The application to outdoor landscapes in a manner that causes runoff such that water flows onto adjacent property, non-irrigated areas, private and public walkways, roadways, parking lots, or structures; 2) The application to outdoor landscapes and turf during and within 48 hours after

measurable rainfall; 3) The application to outdoor ornamental landscapes and turf more than 4 days per calendar week, except for commercial nurseries; 4) The application to outdoor landscapes and turf between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; 5) The application to outdoor landscapes and turf by hose, except where the hose is fitted with a shut-off nozzle or device attached to it that causes it to cease dispensing water immediately when not in use, or to meet the initial watering requirements of newly planted landscaping and newly seeded lawns; 6) The irrigation of ornamental turf on public street medians, except where necessary to protect trees; 7) The irrigation of landscapes outside of newly constructed homes and buildings in a manner inconsistent with regulation or other requirements established by the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development; 8) Use via a hose to wash a motor vehicle, except where the hose is fitted with a shut-off nozzle or device attached to it that causes it to cease dispensing water immediately when not in use; 9) The application to hard surfaces including, but not limited to, driveways, sidewalks, patios, parking lots, streets, or similar surfaces except as necessary by the City for street sweeping and to otherwise protect the public health or safety; 10) The use in a fountain or other decorative water feature, except where the water is part of a recirculating system.

The ordinance further prohibits: 11) The serving of drinking water other than upon request in eating or drinking establishments, including but not limited to restaurants, hotels, cafes, cafeterias, bars, or other public places where food or drink are served and/ or purchased; and 12) The failure of hotel and motel operators to prominently display in each guest room, using clear and easily understood language, a notice of the option for guests to choose not to have towels and linens laundered daily.

The full text of Ordinance

No. 1462 is available for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk, Arcata City Hall, 736 F Street, Arcata, California, Monday through Friday, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Ordinance No. 1462 may be considered for adoption at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Arcata City Council to be held on june 17, 2015, and, if adopted at that time, will take effect immediately.

Bridget Dory, City Clerk, City of Arcata 6/10 CITy OF ArCATA lEgAl NOTICE NOTICE TO BIddErS Sealed quotes for purchase of 300 (three hundred) MBF of FSCã Certified timber, 250 (two hundred fifty) MBF of redwood and 50 (fifty) MBF of Douglas fir, will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 736 F Street, Arcata, California, until 4:00 p.m. on Thursday june 25, 2015 at which time they will be publicly opened and read: The successful purchaser shall: • Purchase 250 MBF of redwood timber and 50 MBF of Douglas fir harvested from a 110 year old stand of timber from the Arcata Community Forest NTMP 1-99-033HUM • Pay State Board of Equalization Timber Yield Taxes.

Each sealed envelope containing a quote must be plainly marked on the outside as “TIMBER SALE BID 2015.” Specifications may be obtained from the Contract and Procurement Specialist, 736 F Street, Arcata, California. The City reserves the right to reject any and all quotes.

The award may be made at the regularly scheduled City Council Meeting of july1, 2015.

A field “show-me” trip is scheduled for june 19th at 9:00 a.m. Interested parties can meet Mark Andre, Director, Environmental Services Department, at the Arcata City Hall/Library parking lot; the entrance is east of F Street on 7th Street, Arcata, California.

To make an appointment for a “show-me” on an alternative date, call 8228184, cell 707 845-5804 or email mandre@cityofarcata.org.

6/10

CITY OF ARCATA NOTICE OF ARCATA PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING(S) ON THE CITY’S LOCAL COASTAL PLAN UPDATE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Arcata Planning Commission will conduct a series of public scoping meetings beginning on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. (or as soon thereafter as can be heard) in the City Council Chambers, Arcata City Hall, 736 F St., on a variety of topics relating to the Local Coastal Plan Update that is currently underway.

Meeting Description and Schedule. The following items will be discussed at regularly scheduled Planning Commission meetings on the following dates: June 23 – Potential Coastal Zone Boundary Adjustments & Voluntary Owner-Initiated Annexations affecting the following properties in the Coastal zone: 1 2 3

Address 3330 Janes Rd 1706 Giuntoli Ln 1730 Janes Rd

Owner Babich, A& S Graham, D & C Roman Catholic Welfare Corp (St. Mary’s Church) Windy Acres Co.

Assessor Parcel No. 507-291-052 507-141-032 505-171-001

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1480 Janes Rd

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Potential Action Annexation Annexation Coastal zone boundary adjustment Coastal zone boundary adjustment Coastal zone boundary adjustment Coastal zone boundary adjustment Coastal zone boundary adjustment Annexation Annexation

July 14 – Samoa Business & Creamery Districts zoning and overlay discussions July 28 – Sea Level Rise and Marsh District – zoning discussions August 11 – Zoning and overlay discussions/recommendations (continued) August 25 – SLR and zoning and overlay discussions/recommendations (continued) August 27 – PC Study Session with the City Council on the Local Coastal Plan Update NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that anyone desiring to attend these meetings and present testimony regarding the aforementioned items, including property owners located in the Coastal zone and adjacent to the City boundary interested in annexation, may do so prior to or at the public scoping meeting noticed herein.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the information regarding the items to be presented at the meetings may be reviewed at the Community Development Department at Arcata City Hall, 736 “F” Street, Arcata, on weekdays between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., or on the City’s website up to four (4) days prior to the meeting at: http://www.cityofarcata.org/government/commissions/planning-commission-meetings.

Please contact Alyson Hunter, Senior Planner, in the City of Arcata Community Development Department, if you have additional questions, comments or concerns regarding the City’s LCP Update process. Ms. Hunter can be reached via email: ahunter@cityofarcata.org or by phone: 707-825-2040.

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CONSTRUCTIVE CAMPERS The Arcata Playhouse is sponsoring 10 AmeriCorps volunteers from all parts of the country to help beautify the Creamery District.

The volunteers, left, have set up an encampment behind the Tomas building, below left, complete with tents and kitchen/food prep area, where they will stay through June 29.

HealthSPORT is providing showering facilities. The group is doing restoration work on the Janes Creek at the corner of Ninth and K streets, and is painting the drab storage lockers at the same location, below, with vibrant colors donated by local paint vendors. Watch this space for updates on the AmeriCorps Creamery District beautification project.

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AUDUBON MEETS Redwood Region Audubon Society holds its monthly Conservation Meeting today, June 10 at the Golden Harvest Restaurant in Arcata at noon. For more information, call Jim Clark at (707) 445-8311.

FOAM MARSH TOUR Friends of the Arcata Marsh (FOAM) is sponsoring a free tour of the Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday, June 13 at 2 p.m. Meet leader Barbara Reisman at the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute walk focusing on the ecology of the Marsh.

Loaner binoculars available with photo ID. (707) 826-2359.

FIRE ECOLOGY TALK Learn about fire ecology on Friday, June 19. Friends of the Arcata Marsh sponsors a free public lecture by Jeff Kane, director of Humboldt State’s Wildland Fire Lab, at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Centeron South G Street, starting at 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Kane will present regional examples of native plants and their different strategies to persist in fire-prone ecosysJEff KANE at a controlled tems. He will also burn.

Photo courtesy Foam explain how changes in fire regimes due to past land management and current climate change issues pose challenges to many northern California ecosystems. For more information or to guarantee a seat, call (707) 826-2359.

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REDWOOD PARK IMPROVEMENTS ARE DISCUSSED Three topics were discussed when the Arcata Community Forest Commission met in the City Hall.

The commission discussed development of a trunk road network throughout the forest, based on plans submitted by the city engineer.

They will tour the suggested roadways Feb. 22 to determine feasibility.

Commissioners were concerned with stumps remaining at the arboretum site, and placed stump removal as number one priority. The final topic discussed was continuation of thinning operations in the forest.

The commission is concerned with lack of control over contract loggers, and will recommend that the city retain a consultant to supervise operations and mark trees slated for cutting.

– Arcata Union, Feb. 7, 1964

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G, H STREETS WILL BE ONE WAY HERE AS OF NEXT SUNDAY Arcata’s initial experience with one-way streets in the downtown area will begin Sunday at 10 a.m. on G and H streets.

G Street will become one way northbound between Fourth and Seventh streets, and H will become one way southbound between Seventh and Fourth streets.

– Arcata Union, Feb. 21, 1964

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