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McKinley statue vandalized Plaza president discolored with unknown substance; Measure M supporters, opponents blame each other for attack as election season grows more acidic
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McKINLEYVILLE – If there’s anything surprising in the race for three open seats on the McKinleyville Community Services District Board of Directors, it is how much the candidates tend to agree with each other. They all support the district’s efforts to build a giant solar array at Hiller Park. They all want to maintain and improve local infrastructure, such as sewer and water lines. They all support a proposed skate park. What does separate them is their experience, knowledge and communication skills. With 26 years of board experience between them, incumbent candidates David Couch, Dennis Mayo and George Wheeler are running to retain their four-year seats, with challenger Erik “Yahmo Ahqha” Rydberg hoping to edge one of them out. MCSD
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SPLATTERED STATUE The attack on the statue of William McKinley left its patina partly removed, giving stance used, with the leading theory being some kind of readily available household cleaning prodshowing up around town. Above right, the Yes on M signs were professionally created, while No on M signs tended to be hand lettered or stenciled. Middle right, chalk messages on sidewalks urged a no “progressive and enlightened leader,”but an anti-Measure M doorhanger listed dozens of organizaPhotos by KLh | Union tions and businesses which oppose Measure M, recommending a no vote.
ARCATA – On Nov. 6, the voters of Arcata will decide the matter of whether the statue of President William McKinley should remain at the center of the Plaza. With the historic decision nearing, campaigns for and against Measure M are ramping up their outreach. Measure M supporters consider the statue part of Arcata’s history and worth retaining, while opponents view it as a symbol of oppression and the genocide committed against indigenous peoples by the settlers who created the town of Union, later Arcata. Last Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, city maintenance workers noticed that the statue had been splattered with an unknown liquid substance, doing no permanent damage but changing its appearance. First suspected to be some form of acid, has discolored the statue. Its dark green patina is now embellished with a lighter color green, the drips and dribbles showing where the liquid was splashed. The substance appears to have been applied repeatedly, from several sides. As Arcata Police tried to find out who defaced the statue, supporters and opponents of Measure M accused each other of committing the vandalism for STATUE
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HUMBOLDT BAY – The Mercer-Fraser Company has lost its appeal of its failed lawsuit against the City of Arcata over the Humboldt Bay Trail North. The company had appealed the October dismissal of its suit, which claimed that the $5 million contract for the project had been improperly awarded to McCullough Construction. It claimed that the city had bungled the bidding process on the project, and asked that it be retroactively awarded the contract for the trail rather than McCullough. In a ruling issued Oct. 9 by Acting
Presiding Judge James Richman of San Francisco’s 1st District Court of Appeal, Division 2, Mercer-Fraser’s appeal was dismissed as “moot,” as had been predicted by Arcata City Attorney Nancy Diamond. The judge found that with the trail now completed, the validity of the project’s contracts is no longer an issue. Though asked to challenge the contract’s award to McCullough Construction, Richman found that there is no benefit to the public in doing so since there isn’t any structural issue likely to threaten the public interest. (Read the ruling at madriverunion.com.) Richman observed that the bid
documents Mercer-Fraser had alleged were faulty have been in use since November, 2016, and that the company hasn’t found any problems with bids before or after the Bay Trail project’s contract was awarded. “Appellant does not point to anything in the record to suggest any confusion or ambiguity about non-collusion 6 affidavits in connection with any bids since the package was updated,” Richman states. “In these circumstances, we cannot say that this case raises an issue that is likely to recur or that material questions remain for our determination,” Richman wrote. “...and that in any event the City did not abuse its discretion in awarding the contract to McCullough.”
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political reasons. Meanwhile, those wishing to remove the statue explicitly deny any involvement. APD Lt. Todd Dokweiler said APD has little to go on. The statue damage, which appears to be superficial, was discovered the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 16. “We have no distinct timeline other than it occurred overnight,” Dokweiler said. There are no suspects. Even the substance used to discolor the statue’s deep green patina is unknown, though city engineers are trying to figure out what it was and what to do about it. “They’ve taken samples and are exploring how to remedy the situation,” Dokweiler said. “It’s patina that occurs with time and age and weather. We can at least lessen the effect.” One option is to polish the entire statue to even up the patina. While originally reported as being acid, Dokweiler guesses that the substance splattered on the statue was probably commonplace, and possibly not even terribly caustic. “Likely it’s some sort of cleaner,” he said. “Something anyone would have in their kitchen cabinet.” Identification of any suspect is hampered by the lack of witnesses, and by the ease and swiftness with which vandalism can occur. Dokweiler said that someone could have been walking by with a bottle of whatever liquid was involved, splashed the statue with some of it, and even others in the area wouldn’t have been aware of the attack. “Like a lot of vandalism, it happens in a second,” Dokweiler said. There is no official City of Arcata camera trained on the Plaza, though some businesses have security cameras that give partial views of the square. APD is well aware of cams which can provide limited visual coverage, and has looked at the video, but to no avail. “From what we have seen so far, we’re not able to locate any video currently,” Dokweiler said. “We’ll continue to poke around.” City Councilmember Michael Winkler, who helped promote the petition that placed Measure M on the ballot, seemed to suggest that statue opponents were involved. In a TV interview, he pointed the finger of blame at “people who just feel like they know what’s right and they know what’s best and that the statue is bad and they have the right to do anything they want to to damage it because it’s a symbol of harm and evil.” Dokweiler affirmed there is no information to that effect, nor even that the vandalism was political in nature. “There’s nothing further to indicate that it was politically motivated,” Dokweiler said. NO on Measure M press release “In light of the recent defacing of the William McKinley Statue, the NO on Measure M group would like to make a statement to the public to be clear where we stand. We did not take part in nor were we aware of the vandalism that was done to the statue on October 16th, 2018. “Although we are working to get the statue removed we are concerned that someone has defaced the statue in order to influence the election outcome. Despite this, we are still confident that the community will not be distracted by this act of vandalism and make the right choice on November 6th. “Remember, vote NO on Measure M to continue the removal process of the McKinley Statue on the Arcata Plaza. “Learn more about the statue and its history at NoMcKinley.com or historicjusticealliance.org.”
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The candidates faced off during a forum Oct. 16 sponsored by the McKinleyville Chamber of Commerce and moderated by League of Women Voters. Held at Azalea Hall, the forum was sparsely attended, with only about 20 people on hand to submit questions and listen to answers. The questions were screened and then asked by Byrd Lochtie of the League of Women Voters. The order in which they answered was randomly selected. ‘A blue collar Democrat’ Couch, who has served on the board since 2009 and is currently its president, began with a short introduction, noting that he came to Humboldt State from Oklahoma over three decades ago to study wastewater, then got a job with the City of Arcata, where he’s now a water/wastewater operator. He’s a founding member of the Friends of the Arcata Marsh and serves as a board member for the nonprofit. “I’m a blue collar Democrat,” Couch said, noting that he’s a member of the local Operating Engineers Union. One of Couch’s strengths is his working knowledge of sewer and water systems, which account for about $5.5 million of the MCSD’s $7.1 million annual budget. Legislative work Mayo, a board member since 2008, was born in Petrolia and has been a McKinleyville resident since 1954. He’s a former Humboldt County planning commissioner and describes himself as a “local organic rancher and horse breeder.” Mayo stressed his contributions to the district in terms of legislative policy work. Mayo is in contact with officials on the local, state and federal levels and routinely advocates for the district in an effort to obtain grants and to change laws in ways that are advantageous to small districts. Mayo attends various conferences and meets with political leaders on a regular basis. “I want to thank the McKinleyville Community Services District Board of Directors for embracing my efforts and allowing me to help craft better policy changes that we have been successful with and continue to work on,” Mayo said at the debate. “I have the energy to represent the ratepayers of McKinleyville one more time and provide you with the service that your deserve.” Five years of hard work Wheeler, who has been a director since December 2013, explained how he got on the board. “I ran for the board the first time because I had a couple issues with what was happening in McKinleyville and pretty much just wanted to get my issues in the paper, but then I won,” Wheeler said at the forum. “So as one of my friends likes to say, ‘If you steal a shovel, people expect you to work.” “It’s been five years of hard work,” said Wheeler, who was an assistant professor at HSU, a “computer jockey” and a
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handyman. Wheeler said that when he first got on the board, he questioned why his fellow directors were spending time and district money attending out-of-town legislative conferences, but then he had a learning moment. “I went on my first political junket down there and I was sitting in a bus with some fellas and they were talking to each other and said ‘If we could just get the blankety-blank environmentalists and Indians out of the way we could use that water down here.’” Wheeler recalled. “And I came to realize that if you are not at the table, you’re on the menu. And so I’ve been at the table for five years.” Move away from fossil fuels At the forum, all eyes were on Rydberg, who is new to the McKinleyville political scene and has only attended a single MCSD meeting. “Thank you to the Wiyot people. This is Wiyot land, traditional Wiyot land,” Rydberg said at the forum. “And also I say thanks to Yurok people, because Yurok people traversed this land for generations.” “I’m a former small business owner. I was the operator of a satellite dish installation company. I also did solar installations,” said Ryberg, who is currently a caretaker and community organizer. “I’m running for this seat because I’m very excited to see where McKinleyville is going,” Rydberg said. In answers to questions sent to Rydberg by the Union, he advocates for incorporating McKinleyville, building a solar array at the California Redwood Coast Humboldt County Airport, creating a town center and completing the town’s general plan, which was approved in 2001. These issues were not discussed at the forum because, at the request of the McKinleyville Chamber of Commerce, the moderators only asked questions directly related to the MCSD. Rate increases One topic on everyone’s mind is the proposed rate increase. On Nov. 7, the day after Election Day, the MCSD will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. at Azalea Hall, 1620 Pickett Rd. on proposed water and sewer rate increases. For the average customer, the monthly bill would go up $7 in 2019, $6 in 2020, $4 in 2021, $4 in 2022 and $3 in 2023. At the forum, candidates were asked several questions about why the rates were going up so much. “We have a proposed water rate increase right now,” Couch said. “I haven’t met anyone who really likes it.” Couch explained one of the reasons for the increase. “Most of our water distribution system that was put in in the 1970s was a type of pipe called asbestos concrete pipe, and it has a 40 to 60 year life span, and it’s 40 years old now,” Couch said. “So we’re looking at a multi-million dollar replacement of that system.” The incumbent candidates said that as much as they disliked raising rates, it is important for the district to start saving money for the infrastructure rather than waiting and going in debt. Rydberg agreed that the infrastructure needed to be upgraded, but questioned whether raising rates is the best way to pay for it. “I’d like to see some creative, new avenues... to raise funds from the community to help set aside money,” Rydberg said. The federal government, Rydberg said, should step forward and pay for the infrastructure upgrades like it did during the New Deal. Wheeler defended the rate increase, saying that it was necessary to keep the water system going. The rate increase “is not for hot tubs over at the district offices. It’s to replace pipes in the ground,” Wheeler said. Wheeler said that McKinleyville’s rates are fair, and reasonable in comparison with other nearby communities. A chart made by the MCSD staff shows that when the rates go up next year, combined sewer and water charges will still be less than those in Crescent City, the City of Eureka, City
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O CTOBER 24, 2018 of Arcata and the Humboldt Community Services District (Cutten area). In a written answer to a question about the rate increase submitted to Mayo, he wrote “The MCSD has worked very hard to keep rates as low as possible. I personally have lobbied extensively for relief for low income rate-payers and disadvantaged communities at the state level. I helped defeat the onerous proposed state tax on drinking water.” Street lights At the forum, the candidates received an unusual number of questions about one of the district’s more mundane powers – street lighting. ”How are street lights funded?” the candidates were asked. “They are funded by taxes,” Rydberg answered. When it was Couch’s turn to answer, he explained that most of the lights are funded through lighting districts. When developers create subdivisions, they install the lights and request that the district form street light zones, which put a monthly fee on combined sewer/water bills to pay for the electricity and maintenance. Couch noted that one of the projects the district completed in recent years was to make all the lights LED, which saves energy. Both Wheeler and Mayo said they don’t like streetlights, although they’ll vote in favor of them if people want them. It hasn’t always been that way for Mayo. Years ago he would vote against street light zones. “I always voted against them. I hate them. I like to see the night. I like to see the stars,” Mayo said. But then one day when he was getting coffee, some people asked why he was voting against something they wanted. Mayo said since then, he votes in favor of street light zones, because the issue is not about what he likes, but what the community wants. Solar array All the candidates are gung-ho when it comes to solar energy and the district’s efforts to build a giant energy plant at Hiller Park near the wastewater treatment plant. “I’m happy to say that we are on the downward slope of getting it done,” Mayo said. “We have the land and we have the money,” Wheeler said. The next step, Wheeler said, is to get bids for its design. The solar panels would take up about three to five acres adjacent to the wastewater plant. It will overtake a portion of the dog park. “There’s still going to be a dog park, but it won’t be as big as it was,” Wheeler said. The solar market is rapidly changing and one of the things that the district may need to look at is whether to have electrical storage at the plant. Rydberg said he wanted to make sure that the solar array is built by union labor. Answers to questions The Union submitted written questions to the candidates. Their full answers are available at madriverunion.com. Below are some of the questions and their answers. • What projects would you like the district to pursue? Wheeler: Solar Park to offset our energy expenses. Skate Park. River Park. Mayo: Continue sewer/water line upgrades, look for enterprise opportunities like solar recharging stations, community forest, watch our bottom line. Rydberg: The creation of a Town Center, Incorporation, construction of a solar plant at the Arcata Airport, community gardens and construction of a skate park to name a few. Couch: I like our community forest project, it has lots of work to become a reality. My outlook is to not have the district become too project driven; providing services is my priority for the district. Focusing too much on new projects can be a mission creep that detracts from everyday business. • What are the last two books that you’ve read? Mayo: The Federalist Papers, for the umpteenth time, The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalaian, Circe by Madeline Miller Rydberg: When the Great Spirit Died: The Destruction of the California Indians 1850-1860 by William B. Secrest and Consensus for Cities by C.T. Lawrence Butler Wheeler: Empire of the Summer Moon, Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History [S. C. Gwynne. Currently re-reading A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn. (Should be required reading for every American) Couch: I am reading Boomtown which is about Oklahoma City where I grew up. My other big reading project has been the City of Arcata Predesign Report by Carollo Engineers which is about Arcata’s wastewater treatment plant upgrade and I know it is not a book but it is a 700 page reading assignment that has consumed my reading energies recently.
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department. Volunteering is also a great way to gain experience and improve your chances of getting hired on as a full time firefighter. For more information contact the Arcata Fire District, (707) 825-2000 or arcatafire.org. September 2018 responses • Arcata – 163 • McKinleyville – 100 • Manila – 9 • HSU – 15 • Bayside – 15 • Out of District – 8
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ARCATA – On Friday, Oct. 19 at about 4:37 a.m., APD officers recognized two subjects, Tyrel Brannon, 27, of Eureka, and Krystina Dias, 29, of Eureka, walking into CVS Pharmacy at 600 F St. in Arcata. Both subjects were known to have active felony warrants for their arrest. Brannon was wanted for a Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS) violation and Dias was wanted for burglary. During the investigation, the sub-
jects were found to be in possession of a stolen vehicle out of Arcata, which was located in the parking lot of CVS. The stolen vehicle had two stoKrystina Dias len license plates attached, which were taken from a vehicle in Eureka. The investigation was also able to link the subjects to a commercial burglary in Eureka.
Dias is on probation for burglary and other theft offenses. Brannon is on county probation and PRCS for domestic violence. They were Tyrel Brannon both arrested on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of stolen property, and probation violation and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility.
Some friend of a friend you turned out to be • Thursday, October 4 9:48 a.m. An L.K. Wood Boulevard resident got an unsolicited package of cannabis in the mail. His aunt called police, who neutralized the menace. • Friday, October 5 9:45 a.m. A frenzied raccoon ran in circles at Appaloosa Lane and Quarter Way, alarming the populace. 11:25 a.m. Two women dressed in all black went to the front door of a Haeger Avenue home, threatening to deport the resident’s mother if she didn’t let them in. 1:17 p.m. A man in a gray hoodie-pants ensemble formed his hand into the shape of a handgun, and pretended to shoot at the sky. He couldn’t be located, nor were any injuries to the sky detected. • Saturday, October 6 7:40 p.m. Another bottle of vodka was snabbed by a gray-haired galoot whose apparel was extensively described, but only above the waist – green beanie, glasses, beard and black jacket. This leaves undocumented whether he was, like the previous stolen vodka aficionado, comfort-clad in socks, sandals and PJ pants. 8:45 p.m. A stylish rake clad in pajama pants stole a bottle of vodka from a Uniontown supermarket, making good his escape in an old Honda. 10:38 a.m. A drunken driver parked its car near a Plaza hot dog stand and commenced “ripping Whippits,” the nitrous oxide canisters working their brain-vortexing magic on the already chemically modified motorist. He was arrested on a public drunkenness charge and taken to a steely spot where the spins could settle down.
• Sunday, October 7 3:26 a.m. An Alliance Road resident said that his she-neighbor came into his apartment while he was passed out a few days previous. Though kazonked, the resident was able to detect the woman climbing on top of him and taking his clothes off. He hasn’t seen her since. • Monday, October 8 10:27 a.m. A Dell E6500 laptop computer and Nikon camera were all too easily plucked from an unlocked car on Greenbriar Lane. 10:51 a.m. An unlocked car on Crescent Way wasn’t quite so well stocked, but a slithy tove was $10 richer after scrounging around inside. • Tuesday, October 9 12:15 a.m. A man on F Street said he was stabbed in the hand by a friend of a friend, who left the scene in a limousine. 11:14 a.m. City workers entered a brushy area on Heindon Road, displacing the creatures that reside in the icky thicket. Soon a nearby tourism center was swarmed with slouchabouts, some riding around aimlessly on bicycles. 11:17 a.m. A concerned mom reported her daughter locked inside a Giuntoli Lane storage unit for two days. 3:17 p.m. A woman on G Street was reported “waving her hands over the air” for more than four hours. • Wednesday, October 10 9:04 a.m. A purse laden with credit cards was stolen from an unlocked car on 13th Street. 10:35 a.m. A locked car on F Street surrendered its wallet and purse following window smashage. • Thursday, October 11 3:55 p.m. A woman laid down in the middle
of Valley East Boulevard and took to screaming and pretending to be struck by cars as they passed by. 6:41 p.m. A black-hatted man at a downtown hardware store equipped himself for a project of some sort by shoplifting three cans of spray paint, a glass cutting tool and a grout pick. 11:32 p.m. A man’s ex-boyfriend texted him asking that he send a gunman over to “put him out of his misery.” • Friday, October 12 4:49 a.m. When two men talking too loudly for the hour on I Street were asked to quiet down, they fired off a quick and tangy rejoinder to their self-appointed shusher. “Shut up!” they quipped. • Saturday, October 13 7:33 p.m. A man throwing produce around inside an I Street store argued with employees, then set sail on a course toward the Plaza. 10:28 p.m. Two females of unspecified age paid for some items at a Uniontown supermarket, but placed others inside a Victoria’s Secret backpack and left without paying. • Sunday, October 14 12:18 a.m. A prickly pedestrian in the drive-thru lane at a Valley West burgery harassed customers, then struck the pickup window with his tiny fists, which glanced off the glass, causing no damage. • Monday, October 15 11:42 a.m. The sheer density of skeezoid car doorhandle-tryers concerned a person at 11th and K streets. There, two men in baseball caps tried the doors to a van. 6:16 p.m. A Valley West motel employee was on the receiving end of a jet of hot chocolate, spat upon him by an argumentative individual of unknown description.
INSIDE THE LAB This shipping container, singed, burned and scattered with piles of cannabis, was being used as a butane hash lab when it exploded Sunday afternoon in McKinleyville. Submitted photo
Hash lab explodes MAD river Union
McKINLEYVILLE – The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate a hash lab explosion in McKinleyville which resulted in a fire and sent one man with severe burns to a hospital. Deputies were dispatched to the 1200 block of East Bates Road in McKinleyville on Sunday, Oct. 21 at about 2:04 p.m. for a report of a Butane hash lab that had exploded in a shipping container at a home in a residential neighborhood. Cal Fire and the Arcata Fire District responded to the scene and extinguished the blaze. Deputies contacted a man at the scene who sustained severe burns. He was taken to a local hospital, then transfered to an out-of-the-area hospital for further treatment. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the man is in critical but stable condition. “The property did not possess the required county permit and state license to manufacture butane hash oil,” states a press release from the Sheriff’s Office. “While on scene, deputies recovered approximately 52 pounds of cannabis bud and seized one firearm, which did not have a serial number. Dep-
BUD BAG This duffle bag full of bud was found at the hash lab. Submitted photo
uties have identified multiple persons of interest associated with this butane hash oil lab.” “This case is still under investigation,” stated the press release. “Criminal charges, including manufacturing a controlled substance by means of chemical synthesis (HS11379.6(a)), are expected to be filed. The identification of all persons involved will not be released until formal charges are filed. No arrests have been made at this time.” Anyone with information regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
Are you prepared? HUMbolDt brAncH AAUW
EUREKA – The Humboldt Branch of the American Association of University Women holds a meeting on emergency preparedness on Saturday, Nov. 3 starting at 11 a.m. the Red Lion Hotel, 1929 Fourth St. in Eureka. Saroj Gilbert will give a talk titled “Are You Prepared?” Gilbert’s interest in emergency preparedness arose out of her experience in Southwest Virginia in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel in 2004. A very large triple-trunk oak tree fell into the attic of her mother’s house in Virginia, piercing the ceiling in a few places. She had no dependable cell phone service for a week; no landline phone service for two weeks; no power for 10 days; and spent five months sawing up tree limbs and trying to find a builder to repair the roof. Following the Katrina disaster the next year, she decided to find out how to be resilient in the face of earth changes. She is trained to teach community disaster preparedness to adults and children (kids 8 through 11). Her primary volunteer role is managing debit cards given to families to take care of their immediate needs after a house fire or other individual disaster. The meeting at the Red Lion Hotel Dining Room starts at 11 a.m. with Registration and a brief social time. The luncheon, “A Taste of Italy,” includes several main (including vegetarian) dishes, delightful accompaniments and beverages. The fee for the luncheon is $20, with an beverage only option for $6. Members of the areas local communities are invited to attend, but a reservation must be made by calling (707) 442-4643 by the end of the day, Oct. 31. For additional information about the coming meeting or the organization call (707) 443-1291
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A6 Much-maligned, likeable Bill
I like Bill. Bill McKinley, that is, the guy who’s been hanging out in the Arcata Plaza since 1906. People who want him removed try to associate him with various crimes to which he is not connected. He should be removed, they tell us, because in the 1860s indigenous people were being sold in the Arcata Plaza. But in the 1860s young Bill was not selling slaves in Arcata. He was thousands of miles away, fighting to free slaves in the south. A staunch abolitionist, Bill joined the war as a private at the age of 18 and ended it a major. George Zehndner, they go on to tell us, the man who paid for the statue actually indentured a seven-year-old native girl himself in 1860. I know nothing about George Zehndner, but I have taken a good look at the statue pedestal and I can confirm that the statue is of our man Bill, not George Zehndner. Others argue that Bill does not belong in the Plaza because he had nothing to do with Humboldt County. I would point out that Alexander von Humboldt had nothing to do with Humboldt County either, but we have made him our own. Like von Humboldt, Bill has become one of us. At this year’s Oyster Festival, I spotted him cleverly disguised as Poseidon, god of the sea, complete with a flowing beard and trident. A couple of weeks later at the Fairies Festival he carried a magic wand in his right hand. As Bill McKinley did in real life, his statue is always willing to help out. Our Bill has become a part of Arcata, as natural to the Plaza as the two beautiful—and not-at-all native—palm trees that tower so majestically behind him. I’m voting yes on Measure M. Doug Ingold Arcata
v LETTERS No on M and McKinley
I’m writing to urge Arcata residents to vote No on Measure M. As president, Wm. McKinley supported forced Indian assimilation by funding Indian schools including Hoopa Valley Indian School (1896-1946). Children were forced to move away from their parents, forbidden from speaking their language, or practice their religion and cultural ceremonies. McKinley signed the Curtis Amendment in June 1898. Millions of acres of land changed from Indigenous occupancy to white ownership. Indigenous people were required to improve the land for 25 years while white people gained title after only 5 years. The imperialism he supported was beneficial to U.S. sugar investors in Cuba and Hawaii because they no longer had to pay a 20 percent tariff on sugar. The removal of the statue for political reasons is less important to me than removing it to show respect for Indigenous People. Our founding “pioneer” stories don’t reflect the whole story. During the 25 years after the gold rush, California’s indigenous population was reduced by 80 percent. Vigilantes, individuals, local militias and the U.S. Army were willing participants in multiple indigenous massacres which added significantly to losses due to disease and starvation. Bledsoe, in Indian Wars, pages 241-242, recounts a public meeting in Arcata where people called for “a war of extermination, total extermination, of every man, woman and child in whose veins coursed the blood of the Indian race.” The California 1850 law titled Act for the Government and Protection of Indians allowed Indian slavery under the guise of indenture and apprenticeship. Vagrant Indians were required by law to have their uncompensated labor auctioned off to “the best bidder” within 24 hours by justice of the peace. Arcata was Humboldt County seat from 1850-1853. As “prisoners of war,” Indian children could be indentured or apprenticed. Wording of the Act seemed benign, but actual implementation led to the killing of parents to profit from selling the children. Benjamin Madley’s article, “Unholy Traffic in Human Blood and Souls” is available at the City of Arcata website and details information about Indian Baby Hunters. Every Humboldt County Township in the 1860 census lists Indians living in a significant proportion of households. Some names in the census match some of the names in the indenture lists on pages 54-56 in Heizer, R. F. and A. J. Almquist, The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920. University of California Press, 1971. In addition to the 1850 law, the California Supreme Court decision, People V Hall, Oct. 1, 1854, confirmed Section 14 of the law. “No Black, or Mulatto person, or Indian, shall be allowed to give evidence, in favor of, or against a white man.” Removing the statue funded by wealth gained through land grabs, Indian killing and slavery allows recognition of a more complete history of early Humboldt County. Vote No on M and honor the Indigenous People who loved this land first. Walt Paniak Arcata
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OPINION The statue needs McKcontext
Sadly, the past is still with us in our current federal government and in much of the world. The “war on empathy” continues and “scapegoating” endures as a long human tradition. By burning, hanging or removing the scapegoat the people feel vindicated and relieved. The problem being that nothing changes. The predators and social Darwinists in our society are quite happy to see us scapegoating each other instead of making progress by honoring and respecting the people. If McKinley feels like a thorn, perhaps he is a thorn that we need to stimulate our comfortable righteousness. I would prefer an empty space in the middle of the Plaza, but perhaps the presence of that statue has importance. The study of history reveals multiple layers of narratives (not the victor’s history) in contexts which we are far removed from. History should not be an intuitive practice but a scientific one. Its accuracy and value are dependent on original sources reviewed by multiple unconnected observers and severely critiqued. The process is no different than appreciating the science of climate change. Many climate change deniers are still using intuitive attitudes (i.e. God’s plan) for their position, to our collective peril. The late 19th century was a time when the robber barons ruled, and corporations were given personhood. The King of England was thrown out in 1776 but America in 1898 had a hundred kings. The federal government served the industrialists and crushed and exploited workers to the limit. Rulers like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Carnegie played the tunes and Senators and Presidents danced. McKinley was no exception. Industrialists and their backers hoped that building markets abroad would solve overproduction and generate more profit. The Curtis Act which was the third amendment to the Dawes act of 1887, would have taken effect even if McKinley did not sign it. (Congressional laws go into effect 10 days after passage regardless of signature.) In 1898 the U.S. military censored all mail from its soldiers (even punishing soldiers for reporting the facts) in the Philippines and sequestered and expelled journalists in Manila. It took weeks for information to pass between Washington and Manila. Presidential orders to preserve life were defied by ex-Civil and Indian war generals some of whom were punitively relieved of command or court martialed (Otis and Smith). Philippine groups had hundreds of revolts crushed during the preceding 333 years of Spanish rule. Following the end of the Spanish American War and two years after the cruel five-month Philippine-American war, the U.S. Congress passed the Organic Act which established a bicameral Philippine legislature. In so doing we established a pattern of “nation building” following a questionable, yet (in the U.S.) enormously popular war. This pattern of thought and action is well entrenched in our government to this day. In Hawaii in 1900 there were far more Japanese living on the islands than there were native Hawaiians. The Japanese government was becoming a major imperialist power intent on control of the Pacific. Human progress comes in increments and history is not simple or black and white. When McKinley was president, Jim Crow, Asian Exclusion and misogynism were the rule of law. We cannot view the past exclusively with our current enlightenment. And yet those attitudes still sadly continue today. Should McKinley be a symbol that vanishes while the reality of disenfranchisement and plunder thrive or should he be a learning tool to help citizens, officials and opinionators avoid the mistakes and horrors of the past and present? Regardless of the outcome of the statue arguments, the folks who live in this community, as well as the tourists and other visitors to our area, should be prompted to begin to understand the local and U.S. history and its relationship to the background of state, national and world history. We do not need hyperbole. We do need well documented and inclusive understanding. The peaceful Wiyot people of this area suffered greatly at the hands of predatory immigrants. Well-documented murderers with names like Larabee and Kelsey killed with abandon and their names still grace our creeks and towns. Peaceful indigenous people suffered discrimination and humiliation. We must not forget! As Nanette Kelly, an Osage-Cherokee & NDN activist, wrote in a Feb. 28, 2018 opinion piece in the Mad River Union (accessible on the Union web page and worth rereading), “burying history is never a good idea... We don’t have the right to hide this president’s history any more than educational institutions have the right to hide Indian history. We are all part of both sides
to this history, this history which happens to be repeating itself as I type.” We need well-crafted interpretive historical signs (much better than bronze plaques) that describe the suffering and joy of the people. It is a history that should be written from both an indigenous and an immigrant perspective. It should be composed, edited and displayed in a prominent place in Arcata. Ideally the Plaza! If the statue stays, the words should be situated around the pedestal. If the statue goes, they should be placed in a prominent spot on the Plaza. Intial draft language for a nice sign next to the old guy. “This statue by the marvelous sculptor Haig Patigan symbolizes all presidents, legislators, officials, and opinionators of the past and present who have not grasped the lessons of history and have supported profit making and thievery at the cost of millions innocent lives as well as the destruction of our environment. And to a public that is all too easily led by those who push their buttons of fear.” Peace and Blessings to all, Siddiq Kilkenny Arcata
Mayo’s the man for McK
Dennis Mayo has been an important member of the McKinleyville community for many years. His home-grown training has allowed him to see and understand the real needs of our area. There is no substitute for experience and he has more than most. His common-sense approach and problem-solving skills are evident to those who work with him. I have been a member of our Humboldt County Community for over 45 years and have seen a number of elected officials come and go. Dennis is someone that I trust and respect. He is very involved in a number of community organizations and projects. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission, started the MCSD No Drugs and Toxins Down the Drain committee and was a founding member of the Humboldt Open Door Clinic. Dennis is a local organic rancher and horse breeder. He also is very involved in the annual Pony Express Days celebration, McKinleyville Rodeo Association and the California State Grange. Dennis is a hard worker and has earned the right to continue his quest to make this area a great place to live. Please join me in voting for Dennis Mayo for the McKinleyville Community Services District Board of Directors. Thank you. David Enos McKinleyville
Dennis, a man of quality
I have known Dennis Mayo personally and professionally for almost 40 years. I am always impressed with his grounded and logical stands on local issues. He has the courage and the integrity to stand up for his beliefs, and his love of community is without question. I got to know Dennis from the years that I worked at County Planning and then for the Board of Supervisors. He has valuable experience dealing with local, county and state issues, and he definitely does his homework! I most admire and respect Dennis for his selfless volunteer work; and his enthusiasm, intelligence and dedication to important causes are phenomenal! I proudly support the re-election of Dennis Mayo to the Board of Directors for the McKinleyville Community Services District. Lora Canzoneri Blue Lake
Healthcare facts, figures
A recent forum of candidates for Eureka Mayor and Eureka Wards One, Three and Five held last week at the Labor Temple n Eureka revealed evidence of misinformation and ignorance on the subject of single-payer healthcare. While discarding the idea of single payer one candidate said we need instead “something more like the VA.” The Veterans Administration is an example of socialized medicine—probably not what was meant. Another claimed that simply by making businesses prosper we would solve our healthcare crisis by helping employers afford to cover employees. There was the odd claim that “unions would be destroyed because with single payer there would be no reason to join.” An entirely wrong announcement was that “other countries lose 70% of their paychecks to their single-payers systems.” And finally, “We just can’t afford it.” All this points to a pressing need for public information on the concept of single payer. Space constraint allows a quick response only to the question of cost: Jim Wood’s (our Assemblyman) Select Committee on Healthcare has informed us that California today is spending $400 billion a year on health care in the state. The State of California has deter-
O CTOBER 24, 2018 mined that the cost of a universal healthcare system would also be $400 billion. The 90page Pollin report from the University of Massachusetts (PERI, Political Economic Research Institute) finds that the cost of single-payer would be closer to $330 billion. Whatever the truth about cost turns out to be, it is clear that everyone could have access to high-quality health care tomorrow in California costing, at most, what we already spend today. The recent four-page insert in the North Coast Journal (Sept. 5), “What If,” clarifies many single-payer questions. Written by doctors, administrators and healthcare advocates, it is compendium of relevant, and local information. It is available for free at North Town Books, HSU Olli Office, Health Sports, Arcata and the public library in Arcata and Eureka and Ramones on E street in Eureka. It is also available in Willow Creek at the two medical clinics, the public library and The Bead Lady. For additional information go to healthcareforall.org or write healthcareforallhumboldt@gmail.com.`` Thank you, Patty Harvey Director, Health Care for All/PNHP— Humboldt Chapters Willow Creek
Where do the grads end up?
I appreciate this effort to encourage Humboldt County youth to consider a college education (“Get Ready Humboldt,” Union, Oct. 17). I am the sole tenured faculty member in Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils at Humboldt State University (in the Forestry & Wildland Resources Dept.) Our Range & Soils students have been highly successful in obtaining federal Pathways internships as Rangeland Management Specialists. Our graduates hold key positions with U.S. Forest Service, BLM, Natural Resources Conservation Service in the local area. They have also started or are employed by numerous local businesses; Dirty Business, Samara Restoration, Deep Seeded Farms, etc. Here is my question: Why doesn’t Humboldt State University perform a survey of graduates to discern where they end up? Such as location, employment in chosen field of study, etc. We did this through the Career Center when Barbara Peters was on staff, but to my knowledge, it has not been done since. I attended a town hall meeting on campus last year where outside consultants included this as a recommendation. Thanks for entertaining this question, Susan Edinger Marshall, professor Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils Forestry and Wildland Resources Department Arcata
Unchain democracy
I just finished watching the movie RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and I can’t help but juxtapose Kavanagh to Ms. Ginsburg. She grew up in a low-income, working-class neighborhood in New York. She worked in a factory to pay for her brother’s college. (In those days girls didn’t go to college.) During her college years her husband became sick so she attended class, took notes for both of them, took care of her ailing husband and young daughter and still graduated top of her class while being the first female member of the Harvard Law Review. She pleaded and won numerous cases before the Supreme Court. She fought for equal rights for both men and women. Now contrast that with Mr. Kavanagh. He grew up the son of two lawyers in the Washington, D.C. area where he attended elite Georgetown Preparatory School. He graduated from Yale (where his paternal grandfather attended) with only academic distinctions. He was a lead author on the Ken Starr team that spent $70 million investigating Bill Clinton. He lost his single argument before the Supreme Court in the Swindler & Berlin v. US. where he asked the court to abandon attorney-client privilege. He was Staff Secretary and later Council to George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. In that time we got The Patriot Act, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Abu Ghraib, the waterboarding controversy and Guantanamo. All of his legal history is about taking civil rights away. While I agree that the Ford/Kavanagh testimony before the Senate is a “He said. She said.” scenario, the way he handled himself during his speech before the panel clearly showed his innermost feelings. His attitude towards his entitlement and how put upon he felt to be subjected to questions of his suitability was on full display. Clearly he is a member of the entitled class and an entitled Washington insider. It was a foregone conclusion that he would get the appointment. The time limitations forced on the investigation (remind you of our 2000 elections?) and missing documents are clear proof. If you read the book Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean, an award-winning history teacher at Duke University, you will begin to grasp the whole picture. Kavanagh is just a small wheel in a much larger campaign to scuttle Democracy in lieu of full blown Capitalism. I honestly fear for my grandchildren and their rights as humans. I urge you to take a few minutes each day to read and talk to your children. Above all else, get out and vote in November. Patti Rose McKinleyville
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Knowledge still matters
Once Arcata’s most prominent historical symbol is scrubbed from sight...
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efore asking residents to vote for them to serve on the McKinleyville Community Services District Board of Directors, candidates have a responsibility to do their homework. They need to attend numerous meetings, read the monthly board packets and become familiar with the district’s mission and what it actually does in the community. Of the four candidates running for three open seats on the board, George Wheeler, David Couch and Dennis Mayo have the advantage of being incumbents with years of experience on the board. They’re clearly schooled on the district, its functions and the challenges it faces.
v EDITORIAL On the flip side is their challenger, Erik Rydberg, who by his own admission has only attended a single meeting. Rydberg may, someday, make a fine board member, but first he needs to learn the basics. Some of Rydberg’s goals, if elected to the MCSD, are to create a town center and build a solar array at the California Redwood Coast Humboldt County Airport. Asked what the district’s biggest failure has been in the last five years, Rydberg stated “The continuing lack of movement on the completion of the McKinleyville Community Plan and ideas set out in the Humboldt General Plan from years ago.” While some of these are worthwhile projects, they have nothing to do with the MCSD, which oversees sewer, water, streetlights, open space maintenance, parks and recreation in the unincorporated community. It’s a CSD, not a City Council. The town center is a planning issue under the purview of the County of Humboldt. Also, not to get too wonky, but there’s no need to actually create a town center. It already exists. The zone extends from Pierson Park to McKinleyville Avenue, and from Railroad Drive to an area just south of Hiller Road. It also includes the commercial area north of Heartwood Drive where the Burger King and other businesses are located. What must be created is not the town center, but a town center ordinance, as called for in the McKinleyville Community Plan, approved in 2001. That ordinance would dictate town center development standards, which would mostly apply to the undeveloped properties behind the McKinleyville Shopping Center and along the south side of Hiller Road. That ordinance would be entirely a county matter, with input from the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee and approval by the Humboldt County Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors. Likewise, the solar array at the airport is a county matter, as is the McKinleyville Community Plan, which is already completed. Voters in McKinleyville would be wise on Nov. 6 to give Couch, Mayo and Wheeler four more years on the board. Rydberg, meanwhile, should prepare himself for future openings on the MCSD board – attend the monthly meetings, read the board packets, give the board input on issues, and apply for openings on the McKinleyville Recreation Advisory Committee. Given the choices, OJT as someone learns the work isn’t much of a value proposition for the people of McKinleyville. If he studies up, Rydberg could adequately fill a seat on the board in a future election or if there’s an unexpected vacancy.
...Where does the busy history eraser go next? Vote yes on Measure M.
Vote no on Measure M – bring peace, justice to the Plaza
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o understand why the statue of President William McKinley on the Arcata Plaza is problematic, we need to confront some unpleasant truths about our nation’s past and present. Namely, the white supremacy which scarred our past and haunts us to the present day, distorting our society. The European people who colonized America had a blithe disregard for people of color, who were massacred, enslaved and mercilessly subjugated. It was a massive act of theft and genocide, from coast to coast. As American Indians were being killed or rounded up and placed on reservations, plantation owners were importing boat loads of slaves. By 1860, the year before McKinley enlisted to fight for the Union in the Civil War, there were nearly 4 million slaves in the United States, according to the U.S. Census.
v UNION EDITORIAL Given his position of power, McKinley could have led an effort to help dismantle the racist system. He could have introduced reforms. He could have spoken out against the lynchings and the ongoing reign of terror. He didn’t. Instead, McKinley gave speeches and made some minor appointments of minorities. His vaunted civil rights progressivism didn’t go very far beyond lip service. As a thought experiment, think back on the prime ministers of South Africa during the latter part of the last century, during a time when the country’s system of apartheid was violently enforced. Would you give that country’s pro-apartheid prime ministers a pass? “They were admirable fellows, except for that little
IMAGINE an oppression-free Plaza. It isn’t hard to do – vote no on Measure M. Image by Terry Torgerson | UnIon McKinley, to his credit, was a lifelong abolitionist and risked his life fighting to end slavery in the Civil War. That is incontestably admirable. But slavery was just one highly visible part of a profoundly unjust system. What followed the Civil War was the Jim Crow era. This was a system in which people of color were not only denied basic rights, but they were subjugated, harassed, terrorized and denied economic opportunity – all to the benefit of the majority race – white people. The racism wasn’t simply a disease of a few corrupted minds. I was institutionalized, legalized, enforced and backed by the United States government, the states, the counties, the police and the judicial system. Our political and justice systems are still riddled with this racist legacy - in some places, defined by it. White males elected McKinley president of the United States in 1897, making him the leader of America’s apartheid system.
apartheid thing.” Of course not. They were complicit in a grossly unjust system. Should their statues stand in town squares and loom over the people they subjugated? No. So how is McKinley any different? He’s not. McKinley cannot be separated or even distinguished from our nation’s ugly past, in which he was a participant and an enabler. It wasn’t until the 1960s that many of those Jim Crow era laws were finally shot down, but their legacies are still with us today. White supremacy still looms over the nation, which is still ruled, overwhelmingly, by white men in government and industry. While statue supporters often point out that many of its opponents are not Arcata residents, that’s a specious point and another structural injustice. Arcata actively entices people from other communities to come here to work, to eat, to recreate and spend. Some of these people on whom our civic life
and economy depend have a very hard time enjoying themselves around a super-sized statue that symbolizes the worst forms of oppression. While there is no legal way to give non-residents a vote, there’s no reason we shouldn’t acknowledge their deeply held views as valid, and act constructively on them. Are we really so attached to a thing that it merits more consideration than human beings? There may have been a recent or current president of whom you aren’t so fond, perhaps even detest. Imagine that loathed individual’s oversized effigy dominating the Plaza’s center. Now do you get it? There’s also a practical, physical reason for removing McKinley – doing so will free up a large space in the center of the Plaza. When the statue is gone and the base removed, the city should create a new plan to enliven the town center. Perhaps a simple concrete pad, decorated with appropriate indigenous emblems, can replace the statue, thereby giving townsfolk a wide-open area for concerts, dances and other events. Temporary stages could be erected in the center, or booths for special events. As for McKinley, his statue could be relocated to some alternative spot in the city where he can be displayed with contextualizing plaques and other informational items to place him in a proper context. This would make the artwork educational and useful to those who want to understand history, rather than having the menacing metal man placed a pedestal and elevated above everyone. But even relocating the statue to another public spot is problematic. Redwood Park, which has been mentioned as a new site, is also Wiyot territory. So is J Street, where the Veterans Memorial Building is located. To their credit, the veterans there have raised this very issue, and have suspended discussion of receiving the statue until after the election. We’ve been arguing about the statue for decades. It’s an endless source of division and anger. In an age of increasing awareness of injustice in all its many forms, the arguments from tradition in favor of retaining this divisive symbol are becoming less and less persuasive. Our delightful little town of Arcata, so steeped in progressive values, has never fully acknowledged the violent, unimaginably tragic events which surround its founding. The genocide of the Wiyot people and their culture is inextricably woven into Arcata’s history. We have to own that, and doing so goes far beyond removing the most prominent symbol of Manifest Destiny. If we genuinely desire a more equitable future, we need to at last confront our past and take concrete steps to break down an unjust system. It’s long, long overdue. Removing McKinley from the Arcata Plaza is one small, symbolic step in the right direction. Let’s get started. On Nov. 6, vote no on Measure M.
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HUMBOLDT - A major wind power project will produce enough energy for almost 40,000 Humboldt County homes and is on what its proponents describe as “a very intentional schedule” for operation in 2020. Proposed by the San Diego-based Terra-Gen LLC company, the project was described to the Board of Supervisors at its Oct. 16 meeting, one of several public meetings that have featured presentations from the company. The project’s benefits are measured in megawatts and dollars. Nathan Vajdos, Terra-Gen’s director of wind development, said the plan is to install up to 60 wind turbines on Monument Ridge in the Scotia/ Rio Dell area and generate
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up to 155 megawatts of renewable power. Terra-Gen estimates that in its first 10 years, the project will pay out $25 million in property taxes and $5.3 million in sales taxes during its construction phase. Vajdos told supervisors that the build-out will create as many as 300 jobs. The project is now in an environmental review phase and Vajdos said it needs timely progress to deliver return on a range of investments. “We are on a very intentional schedule – this is a business,” Vajdos said, adding that a completed project will make Terra-Gen the county’s second-largest taxpayer and “with the county’s assistance, going at an intentional pace, we can achieve this.” He said the project will “become very financially
difficult if we’re not online by the end of 2020.” Later in the presentation, he said that “this is not a project we can afford to wait to happen.” But the environmental review phase is complex and includes analysis of potential biological, visual and transportation-related impacts. The large wind turbine equipment would be barged into Fields Landing and trucked south on U.S. Highway 101 to the Jordan Creek area just south of the entrance to the Avenue of the Giants. It’s a four-mile stretch to the top of Monument Ridge and Vadjos said new roads will have to be built to accommodate the transport. Over the last year, Terra-Gen has used eight radar stations to track bird flights and Vajdos said his compa-
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ny has extensively studied the project area’s conditions, particularly for Marbled Murrelets. A wind power subsidiary of the Shell Oil Company unsuccessfully proposed a similar project for the Bear River Ridge area and Vajdos said that the “quality and quantity” of the bird data Terra-Gen has collected is almost four times more than what Shell took several years to collect. Shell had proposed a 50-megawatt project which was dropped in 2012 after being in planning stages for several years. The company spent millions of dollars to advance the project but it ran into opposition due to its visual and traffic impacts. The company ultimately concluded that the wind project wasn’t financially doable. Supervisor Estelle Fennell, the county’s representative on the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, said the Terra-Gen project’s emergence is “very exciting” and “it’s going in the right direction.” Supervisor Mike Wilson acknowledged the potential for biological and visual impacts but he said a collective switch to renewable energy will reduce the severe impacts related to carbon emissions and global warming. Vajdos downplayed impacts on birds particularly. “There’s this predisposition that we’re going to kill birds – I challenge that,” he said. When Wilson indicated he didn’t say the project will necessarily be a bird-killer, Vajdos added, “You didn’t say that, but residents of the county have said that, they’re presuming that we’re going to kill birds.” “And I’m going to start with that presumption, always, in the way that we do things – but a two degrees (Celsius) rise in the temperature of the planet will kill birds,” Wilson said. He added that many other impacts will result from climate change and “this is a really serious thing that we’re trying to address and (the project) is only one small piece of that.” During the presentation, Vajdos said that “if citizens of this county believe in global warming and want to materially have a role in affecting global warming and climate change, you can do that by supporting this project.” He also said that there’s potential for reducing residents’ energy bills and after describing the project’s tax revenue benefits, Vajdos highlighted the importance of meeting the 2020 operation target. He told supervisors, “It’s not every day that one of these types of businesses shows up at your door, saying ‘I’d like to do business in your county.’” MCKMAC CHANGES With the terms of three members of the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee having expired, Fifth District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg has reappointed one member and selected two new members. Barbara Georgianna will continue to serve on the committee, but members Craig Tucker and Otto van Emmerik are being replaced by Nina Surbaugh and Stephanie Weldon. Their terms are good through Oct. 23, 2021. The committee advises county officials on matters affecting McKinleyville.
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Joellen Clark-Peterson How many years in your position? I’ve been here as operations director since we opened in 1992. I graduated from HSU with a Recreation Administration and Business degree. Susan Jansson was a fitness teacher at Valley West Fitness Center where I worked out, and she ended up purchasing it and hiring me. Not long after, the city connected with Susan about wanting a business to fit in with the overall health complex scheme they were planning. Here we are, 26 years later, and
the community has embraced us. How many members do you have? At the Arcata club it’s just under 5,000 – out of a population of around 18,000 that’s pretty good. Our McKinleyville club has about 1,000. The total we serve including Fortuna, By the Bay and Eureka is about 9,500. The trick is that each of the 9,500 bring a different personality. One percent are elite athletes. But 99 percent are regular people wanting to be healthy. How would you describe your competition? The real true competition isn’t The Club or Planet Fitness; the real true competition is the people sitting on their couches. In a way Planet Fitness helps us. People who don’t want to spend the money will try health club life out at Planet Fitness, get comfortable with it, want more, and they’ll try us out. The difference between Planet Fitness and HealthSPORT is that we want to be more than give you access to equipment. We realize that most HEALTHSPORT
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...AND THE BEAT GOES ON Friends of David Ferney are throwing a very special and fun evening to raise money to help cover medical expenses for David Ferney, aka Guapo of Los Payasos Mendigos, left, and Co-Artistic Director of the Arcata Playhouse. “... And the Beat Goes On: An Evening of Laughter and Dancing to Benefit David Ferney’s Heart” will be held at the Arcata Playhouse, Saturday, Oct. 27 from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Cocktails and light food fare available. The evening will begin with a cabaret featuring Dell’Arte luminaries Joan Schirle, Michael Fields, Donald Forrest, and Sarah McKinney, aka Velvet Q. Jones. The second half of the evening, dance to the saucy backbeat of Home Cookin’, featuring Joyce Hough, Tim Gray, Gary Davidson, Mike LaBolle and Fred Neighbor, pictured above. Come on out and shake your groove thing! Tickets are $25 and are available at guapo.brownpapertickets.com, at Wildberries Marketplace, or reserve by calling (707) 822-1575. To volunteer, contact the event organizer at (707) 499-0740. Submitted photoS
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ARCATA – Mike Craghead has been an iconic sight on the Arcata Plaza, carving pumpkins in the 300-pound range. And his carvings aren’t just huge – they are amazingly grotesque and sculptural. Each one is a character, a character out of your nightmares. Craghead was chosen to be one of the carvers last October on the Food Network’s Halloween Wars. It was a great experience and he made some great connections. Tator Edwards, one of the other carvers, invited him to a carving event in Harrison, Ohio at a big festival that started in 1984. He flew there last weekend but not before making enough carvings to fill the entrance to the pumpkin patch at Organic Matters Ranch. “They’ve been kind enough to let me carve and play with them. I like to leave them enough carved pumpkins while I’m gone,” he said. But the most exciting Craghead news is that he’s written a book on how to do three dimensional carvings on pumpkins, so that we can all have the fun he does.
“WOLF PUMPKINS start out normal and all of a sudden the stem gets really thick. They are super heavy and thick and great for carving,” Mike Craghead said. Submitted photo Titled Pumpkin Skulls and Other Silly Things, the book is profusely illustrated and written with wit and humor. Reading it is similar to talking with Craghead who is, by turns, funny, quirky and insightful. I know be-
cause I’ve had the fun of interviewing him three times now for the Mad River Union. (Will our local pumpkin king be crowned? Oct. 25, 2017 and Great Pumpkins, Nov. 1, 2017). His book is far more than a carving manual although it is a great carving manual. It’s an incitement to a pumpkin-squash-gourd riot. It’s a primer for the budding artist and the accomplished carver. It’s just so much fun to read and to look at the fantastic photographs! The book blurb reads, in part, “If you can get your hands on the right tools and a great pumpkin, this book just might help you execute an idea that’s sufficiently weird to justify squandering your valuable time on something that’s destined to become mush. But first it just might make someone smile. Or vomit. And that, dear reader, is a truly noble cause.” Craghead has a unique writing style, just sayin’. He did his research and he credits many friends who took the manuscript home to copyread. Craghead will be carving at the Organic Matters Pumpkin patch all this weekend, Saturday, Oct. 27 and Sunday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. CRAGHEAD
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lue Lake is the place to be this coming weekend for fun family and spooktacular events! Blue Lake School PTO will have its annual Halloween Carnival at Blue Lake School on Friday, Oct. 26. This event will start at 5:30 p.m. with a free community dinner in the Chuck Wagon Cafeteria. Games and haunted house will begin at 6 p.m. There will be games, booths and an outdoor “haunted house” for the whole family to enjoy! Admission is free, but there is an extra cost for tickets to partake in booths, games and the haunted house. Blue Lake Parks and Recreation will be putting on the first Prasch Hall Haunt on Saturday, Oct. 27 starting at 6 p.m. This event will include a spooky haunted house, pumpkin carving contest, live music, food and beer. Admission is free, however there will also be an extra cost for tickets for the haunted house and some activities, and food/beer will have an additional charge too. This event is sure to be fun for the young and young at heart! The Blue Lake Casino and Hotel is hosting the Haunted Hayride. Come out for the scariest ride of your life. This special event is for those ages 13 and up, and tickets are limited. Tickets are $10, and the Haunted Hayride will take place, rain or shine! Tickets can be purchased online through the Blue Lake Casino website, and you have a variety of dates to choose from – Friday, Oct. 26, Saturday, Oct. 27, Sunday, Oct. 28 or Wednesday, Oct. 31. And let’s hope for nice weather, because during the day this coming weekend, we have not one, but two fun runs! On Saturday, Oct. 27, the North Bay Rotoract will be hosting a Halloween fun run, starting and ending at Perigot park. The run will begin at 10 a.m. and there will also be games, a barbecue and more! On Sunday, Oct. 28, the annual “Monster Dash” will take place, starting and ending at the Blue Lake Casino at 10 a.m.. All proceeds benefit the Blue Lake School Running Program – so come on out! Dress up in your favorite costume, and run through beautiful Blue Lake! Lastly, if you are a comic book or anime fan, the Blue Lake Casino will be holding an anime comicon over this weekend as well, Saturday and Sunday, October 27-28. This is a kid friendly event, and you can dress up in your favorite cosplay. You’ll have to look online for more information on cost and the tentative schedule.
COMPOSER NIGHT Join the Humboldt State University Department of Music for a great evening of original music, composed by the HSU composition students, on Friday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. in Fulkerson Recital Hall. The repertoire will include new works by HSU students Sandee Castaneda, Adam Erickson, Logan Johnson, and Eric Tolfa. The music will be performed by an exceptional group of musicians, comprised of current students, alumni, and faculty, including Loren Acosta, Kevin Blake, Sam Boyle, John Chernoff, Gil Cline, Mi-
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BOO AT THE ZOO The Sequoia Park Zoo and Foundation invite the community to the annual spook-tacular Halloween celebration, Boo at the Zoo on Sunday, Oct. 28, with activities from noon to 4 p.m. Enjoy frightfully delightful crafts, games, and face painting, take a stroll down the extinction trail, and witness the animal pumpkin stomp and chomp! Show off your wild side and join the Costume Parade & Contest! Prizes will be awarded! Creepy snacks and hot apple cider will be available in addition to a special Zoo Café menu. HALLOWEEN CONCERT The City of Arcata’s Recreation Division’s All Seasons Orchestra will celebrate the autumn season with a Halloween Concert on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 5 p.m. at the D Street Neighborhood Center, located at 1301 D St. in Arcata. The event is free and open to the public. Festivities will include an evening of scary music including the Ghostbusters Theme by Ray Parker, Jr., Danse Macabre by C. Saint-Saens, music selections from the films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them composed by James Newton Howard, selections from Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, the Stradella Overture by F. von Flotow and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Fugue in G Minor (The Lesser). The orchestra will perform in costume and en-
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courages concert attendees to wear a Halloween costume to the event. In addition to the concert, a Halloween costume parade will take place at intermission and guests are encouraged to bring a carved or decorated pumpkin to enter the orchestra’s Jack-O-Lantern Contest. Plus, sweet treats, snacks and apple cider will be served following the performance. For more information, contact Dick LaForge at (707) 443-2626, Jeremy R. Cotton at (707) 832-8888, the Arcata Recreation Division at (707) 822-7091 or visit cityofarcata.org/rec. SPOOKY DUNES Get outside and explore on Halloween with Friends of the Dunes on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 1 to 3 p.m during their Spooky Dunes event. During this Halloween event for kids and their adults, tour guides will lead you through the dunes where you will meet spooky and silly dune characters. Come dressed in costume and be prepared for a short hike in the sand. One hour tours will start at the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Ln., every 30 minutes from 1 to 3 p.m. There is a suggested donation of $5 per child, or $3 per child for members and Manila residents. Space is limited, please call (707) 444-1397 or email info@friendsofthedunes.org with your name, phone number, party size and preferred tour time. GRAVE MATTERS Friends of the Fortuna Cemetery District presents the annual production of “Grave Matters & Untimely Departures” on Sunday, Oct. 28, beginning at 2 p.m. at Fortuna’s Sunrise Cemetery (above Newburg Park). The last tour (dubbed the “flashlight tour”) leaves at 6 p.m. With eight new stories, this year’s “Grave Matters” includes a Rio Dell woman who murdered a neighbor in a land feud, a young mother who died to save her child, a Pacific Lumber Company worker killed in a shocking woods accident in 1905, a freak accident during construction of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, and one of the two Fortuna men who died during their World War I service. Directed and researched by Dr. Alexandra Service (curator of the Fortuna Depot Museum), the cast of “Grave Matters” includes some of the area’s finest actors, many of them returning for another engagement at Sunrise Cemetery. Tickets for “Grave Matters” are $15 and can be purchased in advance at Green’s Pharmacy (1058 Main Street, Fortuna), at Grocery Outlet (Strong’s Creek shopping center, Fortuna) or on the day of the performance in the Newburg Park parking lot. The first tour begins at 2 p.m. and the final tour will start at 6 p.m. Tours leave every 10 minutes. Each tour runs approximately 50 minutes and will take place rain or shine. Comfortable shoes are encouraged.
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oin the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust and the Pac Out Green Team for a Land Stewardship Scenic Drive volunteer clean up morning on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 9 to 10 a.m. Meet at 9 a.m. at Upper Luffenholtz parking area. Last time the volunteers took this on they hauled out over 500 pounds of garbage and recyclables. Another volunteer Land Stewardship day is planned for Saturday, Nov. 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Baker Beach. Trail work, ivy and Pampas-Jubata grass removal and beach clean up are planned. Call TCLT Executive Director Ben Morehead at (707) 677-2501 for more information. Halloween Carnival and Parade Trinidad School invites ghosts, witches, goblins of all ages to participate in the Halloween Carnival on
Friday, Oct. 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the cafeteria. The traditional Halloween Parade will take place Wednesday, Oct. 31 starting at 10 a.m. at Trinidad School. All of the classes will snake through Trinidad’s streets in costume...teachers and staff often are the most frightening of the ghouls. Find a place to stand along Trinity or Main Street and enjoy the spectacle. Wag the Dog at WCA Fourth Friday Flicks at Westhaven Center for the Arts presents Wag the Dog (1997) on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m., 501 South Westhaven Dr. Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman star in the film which was nominated for two Oscars. Admission is $5 to $10 on a sliding scale. Lions Club Breakfast Friendly Lions serve pancakes and eggs or biscuits and gravy with ac-
companiments on Sunday, Oct. 28 from 8 to 11 a.m. at Trinidad School. Delicious food and affordable too. There’s a book sale as well. Lioness Martha Sue Davis says that this is the last Lions Club Breakfast of 2018. The members take a November and December break. Ladies Fine Arts Salon Plan to attend a Ladies Fine Arts Salon, Friday, Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. in Trinidad, sponsored by the Inner Center Fine Arts Institute. Further institute information can be found at icfineartsin.org. This salon topic is “Drawing On Dreams” and will be presented by Institute co-founder Donna Haddock. Light Refreshments will be provided. A tax deductible donation of $10 is suggested. Seating is limited, please call (707) 496-5350 for reservations. Email Patti at baycity@sonic.net
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KINETIC LAB OF HORRORS Grab your loved ones and prepare to be scared! The 13th annual Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors is back the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Oct. 26-28 before Halloween and on Halloween night from 7 p.m. until midnight. This fundraiser has been frightening and delighting Humboldt County fans of the Kinetic Grand Championship for over a decade with all proceeds benefiting the Kinetic Sculpture Lab in Arcata. The Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors, typically built in about a months’ time, brings in the revenue to pay rent and expenses for the building each year. What you can expect is tour guides bringing groups of 4-6 patrons through the lab at a time, drawing attention to the creepiest, scariest corners of the lab. It’s an elaborate production with approximately 10 synchronized “stages” designed to stimulate and terrify even the bravest of souls. Lighting, sound effects, special effects, and dark humor all add to the experience. Live music by The Dead Drops will be heard nightly and a food truck by La Bonita will be parked out front creating a vibrant scene for those waiting in line. Tickets are available at the gate for $12, and it is recommended for those 13 years and older. The Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors is located at the end of 8th Street (at M Street) in Arcata’s Creamery District. For more information, visit kineticsculpturelab.com.
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people here are not experts in fitness; they have their own careers and family lives, so we aim to align each member with the right plan to help them to achieve their goals. That’s our job. Competition is good for the community and the customer. The key is not to fight one another, but to attract people who aren’t engaged in any type of exercise routine. As a company, what values do you hold dear? Speaking of the competitive advantage, it used to be you heavily invest your time in numbers. We still do that of course, but now we have flipped it around
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where we focus on the staff. We want to hire the right people, take the time to let them know what’s in it for them, what skills they can learn and walk away a better person. The Millennial generation tends to be more nomadic so the more we can grow them, the more we give them opportunities to give back the better; we want to help our staff develop and be involved, we are looking for people who want to be leaders. What unique challenges do health club businesses face? When we go to IHRSA [International Health and Racquetball and Sportsclub Association], many health clubs are facing or have faced something we don’t face here, and that
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is tax-exempt businesses that come in like a YMCA. If YMCA came to town we’d have to really dig deep. But every club sees people who have a New Year’s resolution joining in January. All clubs put a plan in place to retain them, but it’s hard for people to sustain their commitment. How have health clubs changed over the years? For one thing, now, over 90 percent of the people are listening to their own music. How do you see the health club business changing in the future? Everything is big on wearable technologies. I’m not the target – I’m 55 years old. But the new generation wants to be able to track how they’re doing. We have a program called Myzone and you can see on the big screen TVs what level you’re working at. It’s interesting right now – the big thing are these boutique clubs – very focused, small facility, like cycling or yoga. This is the “in” thing and you never know if these are fads or they’ll stay in.
What was your trigger into fitness? If we asked 10 people out here what triggered them into fitness, everyone would have a different answer. My trigger – a bully in seventh grade. I was late to class and I clipped his arm on accident and knocked his books out of his arm and for months he was going to fight me after school. So, I constantly avoided him, and I started thinking, “I’m going to learn karate or lift weights so I don’t have to be scared.” And I got into it and I saw the benefits – I could hit the baseball farther. At HealthSPORT we want to hit the bull’s eye with our members – what is their trigger? Why do they want to do this? We want to uncover their true motivations. What do you do for exercise now? I very much practice what we preach. Three days on three days off; upper body one day, lower body routine, and a cardio routing. I do half my workout at HealthSPORT and half at home. I’m a very disciplined person.
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Jean Harriet Mortensen Doran, 1920 - 2018
s the seasons changed and summer turned to fall, Jean Harriet Mortensen Doran died Sept. 24, 2018 in McKinleyville, Calif. after leading a very long and full life. She was 98 years old, but forever young. Jean was born April 14, 1920 in Fairfield, Calif. Her father, Harry Mortensen, ran a grocery store in Fairfield and her mother, Leslie, was a former school teacher active in community social life, while raising Jean and her younger brother, Jack. They spent summers in a cabin her father built on Cobb Mt. and she always loved the pine forests and mountains of her childhood. Jean graduated from Armijo High School at age 16 because she’d skipped two grades in school. She went to University of California at Davis two years as an English major, but discovered her love of science. Her brother, Jack, died of kidney disease when she was in college, and she continued to tell stories and grieve for him throughout her life. In her junior year, she transferred to UC Berkeley. That was where she met John Denby Doran, her future husband. They both lived in the student co-op dorms, he caught her eye when he was leading a sing-along of On Top of Old Smokey. Soon after, they had a not-so-blind date and they were a couple from then on: Den and Mort. Jean earned her teachers credential and graduated with a degree in chemistry in 1940. Her first job was teaching science in a junior high school in Vallejo, Calif. Meanwhile, Denby was finishing up a degree in Landscape Architecture. Pearl Harbor changed things dramatically. After grading papers in a closet during a blackout, she sent Denby a telegram that said, “To hell with my folks! Let’s get married!” They did, Jan. 21, 1942. They lived in Berkeley where she became a substitute teacher until Den finished his degree. For a time, they worked in the shipyards in Richmond. While he was a crane operator, she was “Rosie the Chemist,” inspecting asphalt, asbestos and other materials. As the only woman in her department she suffered much harassment and resentment. Denby enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943 and Jean followed him to Nebraska where he was in training. She got a job in the food service so she could at least see him when he came through the line for meals. (They must have been able to meet elsewhere because that was where their first child was conceived!) She wasn’t always able to join him as he moved around from station to station. He wasn’t there for the birth of their first child, Michael Lynn (Micki), but they were together as a family in Merced, and in Victorville, when the war ended. After some post-war limbo, Denby was finally mustered out of the Army Air Corps and got a job as a draftsman at Shell Development in Emeryville. The family lived in Codornices Village, in west Berkeley, an integrated housing development originally built for Kaiser shipyard workers. While living there, Jean organized a co-op nursery school, and her second child, Kathleen (Kathy or Dorio) was born. Facing a housing shortage after the war, in 1948, four families, friends from their days in Berkeley co-ops, bought land in the Berkeley hills and joined forces to build their own houses in a cul-de-sac they called Rochdale Way after the founder of the co-op movement. They hired contractors, but
did most of the work themselves. There was a community playground and a co-op nursery school. The family’s third child Robert (Bob) was born while they lived on Rochdale Way, but in 1951, seeking more sunshine, they moved to Walnut Creek in the Diablo Valley, where Jonathon (Jon) was born in 1953. Following the birth of her sons, Jean suffered what was then called a “nervous breakdown.” It was more than just postpartum depression, and she was later diagnosed with manic-depression, which is now labeled bipolar disorder. She did have periodic manic episodes and some depression throughout the time her kids were growing up, but most of the time she lived the life of a typical stay at home mom of the era, with a group preschool, volunteer work in PTA, Girl (and Boy) Scouts, the neighborhood Walnut Knolls Association, the Weavers Guild, and Democratic politics to fill up her time and utilize her talents. She was a weaver and a stitcher, played piano, and gave her family a love of music and the arts. She loved camping and being in nature, and knew the botanical names of most plants. She lived a relatively normal life in spite of her mental illness, but in 1966 things got worse and she was committed to Napa State Hospital. At some point she was given the drug Lithium, which was a “miracle drug” for her and other bipolar people. She said it gave her back her life. After being released from Napa in 1970, she went on to live a full life without manic episodes except when she briefly went off her meds. Denby retired around the same time she got out of the hospital, as Shell Development moved their operation to Texas. After a hot year in Houston, the couple shifted gears to become semi-professional volunteers with the Walnut Creek Civic Arts Association. Jean used her teaching skills as a docent for the Bedford Art Gallery for over 20 years, while Den served on the organization’s board and also installed shows at art galleries around the Diablo Valley and Oakland. They attended local theatre productions and were judges for the “Shellies,” the local equivalent of the Oscars. They camped and backpacked all over California, traveled to see their kids who were all over the country, and also traveled to England, Scotland, Japan and even Australia. They hosted Japanese students, teachers and visiting artists in their home. They still made time for their hobbies of gardening, weaving and jewelry and mobile making, and also explored pottery, stained glass, leatherwork , papermaking and bookmaking.
When she was in her 70s, Jean self-published a book “Off Went Fuzzy Wuzzy,” the evolution of a story she had made up for her children years earlier as a preschool teacher. She had it translated into several languages and gave proceeds to UNICEF. As Denby developed health issues in his later years, Jean became his caregiver. She once again took up driving so she could chauffeur him around. He outlived his prognosis by 8 years. After 60 years of marriage, he died in 2002 following a stroke, and she began a new chapter in her life. She moved to Humboldt County and shared a house in Arcata with her son Bob and his wife Amy. Jean loved the “granny flat” attached to their house, and enrolled in arts courses at Humbodlt State University. She walked all over town and her student pass rode the buses for free. She was able to go to many cultural events with Bob, who was culture editor of the weekly paper and went to many things happening in the arts. She entered art shows, became a Raging Granny and stood in Friday vigils with the Women in Black protesting the Iraq War. Still craving adventure, and with boundless curiosity and her camera in hand, she continued to travel. She toured France and Italy with Bob and Amy. She made three additional trips to Mexico with Kathy, twice to Baja and a tour of the Copper Canyon. Her last international trip was to Guatemala with a foray into Honduras. After suffering her first broken bones at age 90, she moved to Timber Ridge Assisted Living Facility in McKinleyville. She regretted curtailing her independence, but adjusted and made good friends there, especially her best friend, Millie, and she still kept as active as possible in the community. She acted in a Dell’Arte play, Exit 101, wrote songs for the Raging Grannies and went on many outings with Bob and her other children when they visited. As Jean’s health and mobility declined, so did her quality of life, and she finally left us to go on to new adventures. As it says in Ecclesiastes, “To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” Jean “Mort” Doran lived a long, full and purposeful life and touched so many people in her 98 years on this earth. She will never be forgotten by those who knew and loved her. Jean was preceded in death by her brother Jack Mortensen, her mother-in law Vera Alsen, her parents Harry and Leslie Mortensen, her great-grandson Siva Kilpatrick, and her son-in-law John Perry. She is survived by her daughters Micki Perry (Kennewick , WA), and Kathleen Kilpatrick and her partner Woody Rehanek (Watsonville, CA), and her sons Bob Doran and his wife Amy (Arcata, CA) and Jonathon Doran (Wilmington, DE) and ten grandchildren: Beth, Becki, Jeannette, Jessie, Spencer, Tree, Tai, Andy, Jessica, Heather, and eleven great grandchildren: Natalie, Madeline, Timber, Fallon, Joelle, Landon, Oliver, Essine, Mirren, Talisen and Ariana, and numerous nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren. She will be greatly missed by her family and her extended family of friends and fans. A celebration of her life was held Oct. 20 at the D Street Neighborhood Center in Arcata. There were stories, songs and joy.
L EGAL N OTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 18-00607 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MISTY MOUNTAIN FLORA FARM AND DESIGN 536 WARREN CREEK ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT MARCIA F. DAVIS 536 WARREN CREEK ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: AN INDIVIDUAL S/MARCIA F. DAVIS OWNER This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on OCT. 3, 2018 KELLY E. SANDERS SE DEPUTY CLERK 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 18-00576 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ELISA’S GOURMET SERVICE 100 ERICSON CT. ARCATA, CA 95521 2460 SONNENFELT RD. BAYSIDE, CA 95524 COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT ELISA J. MILLER 2460 SONNENFELT RD. BAYSIDE, CA 95524 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: AN INDIVIDUAL S/ELISA J. MILLER OWNER This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on SEPT. 20, 2018 KELLY E. SANDERS SE DEPUTY CLERK 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 18-00585 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PRO CYCLE SERVICE, LLC 550 SOUTH G ST. SUITE 8 ARCATA, CA 95521 COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT PRO CYCLE SERVICE, LLC CA 201826310661 550 SOUTH G ST. SUITE 8 ARCATA, CA 95521 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: A LIMITED LIABITY COMPANY S/KIMBERLY E. ROSSIG OWNER This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on SEPT. 25, 2018
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THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY S/ALLEN WHELESS CEO This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on SEPT. 27, 2018 KELLY E. SANDERS KT DEPUTY CLERK 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 18-00611 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DDT 791 8TH STREET SUITE 11 ARCATA, CA 95521 COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT DISC DOWN TRAVEL LLC CA 201823610198 791 8TH STREET SUITE 11 ARCATA, CA 95521 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY S/ALLEN WHELESS CEO This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on OCT. 5, 2018 KELLY E. SANDERS KT DEPUTY CLERK 110/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 18-00563 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ALTUM MIND 5655 WEST END ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 P.O. BOX 117 TRINIDAD, CA 95570 COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT HUMBOLDT PARTNER GROUP INC. 5655 WEST END ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: A CORPORATION S/JOHNNY NGUYEN CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER This statement was filed with the Humboldt County Clerk on SEPT. 12, 2018 KELLY E. SANDERS SC DEPUTY CLERK 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31 MCKINLEYVILLE COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS TO WATER AND SEWER RATES
McKinleyville, CA – The McKinleyville Community Services District (MSCD) will hold a public hearing on November 7, 2018 at 7:00PM at Azalea Hall, 1620 Pickett Road, McKinleyville, CA, to consider the new rate structure and proposed revenue increase. At the hearing, the Board will consider oral and written testimony regarding the proposed adjustments. Any owner or customer of record of a parcel subject to the proposed rates may submit a written protest against the proposed rate revisions. A written protest must contain the street address or Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) for the parcel(s) with respect to which the protest is made. The protest must also be signed by the owner or customer. Protests may be mailed to P.O. Box 2037, McKinleyville, CA 95519 or hand delivered to the District’s offices at 1656 Sutter Road, McKinleyville, California 95519. Protests may also be delivered to the District Secretary at the public hearing. To be valid, a signed written protest must be received by the Board Secretary at or before the time of the protest hearing. The Board will not adopt the proposed rate revisions if, upon the conclusion of the hearing, written protests are filed with respect to a majority of the affected property parcels. If you have questions about this notice or the proposed adjustments, please contact Gregory Orsini, General Manager at (707) 8393251. 10/24 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS FOR ARCATA CONCRETE WORK The City of Arcata is soliciting bids for the ARCATA CONCRETE WORK. The WORK consists of furnishing all labor, materials, equipment, incidentals and implementing all work required to perform site improvements at the Arcata Sports Complex for
the future Arcata Futsal Court. This work includes, but is not limited to: clearing and grubbing, excavation and grading, sidewalk, modification of existing irrigation infrastructure, drainage swales, concrete court, and CMU wall, futsal goals, and revegetation of surrounding field. Engineers Estimate for this project is $253,000. A pre-bid meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 8, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. Attendance at the pre-bid meeting is not mandatory. The meeting will begin at Arcata City Hall in the City Council Chamber (736 “F” Street, Arcata, CA 95521), and will be followed by a project site walk-through. Sealed bids will be received by the City Manager’s Office, 736 F Street, Arcata, CA 95521, until 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday November 28, 2018, at which time they will be transferred to the City Council Chambers where they will be publicly opened and read aloud by the City Engineer or his designated representative. Said bids will be referred to the Arcata City Council for consideration at their next regularly scheduled meeting on or after December 5, 2018. Bids received after the specified opening time will not be considered. The bidder is solely responsible for the timely delivery of his bid. CONTRACTOR shall possess a Class “A” license at the time this contract is bid or a combination of classes required by the categories and type of work included in this contract. This CONTRACT is subject to State contract non-discrimination and compliance requirements pursuant to Government Code, Section 12990. PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, AND PROPOSAL forms for bidding this PROJECT will be available after October 9, 2018; • For download from City Website www.cityofarcata.org under “Bid on a Project”. • For purchase at City Manager’s Office, 736 “F” Street, Arcata, CA 95521. A printing charge of $40.00 shall not be refundable, plus a shipping and handling fee of $35.00 for mailing of PLANS and SPECIFICATIONS. Checks payable to the City of Arcata and shall be mailed or delivered in person to the Property and Special Projects Manager.
• For viewing at City Manager’s Office, 736 “F” Street, Arcata, CA 95521 and at the Humboldt Builder’s Exchange, 1213 5th Street, Eureka, CA 95501. The successful bidder shall furnish a payment bond and performance bond. The City of Arcata hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, or national origin in consideration for an award. The above PROJECT is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. Each contractor or subcontractor listed on the bid proposal must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1 (a)]. Pursuant to Section 1733 of the Labor Code, the Director of California Department of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rate of wages. Bidders should contact the Department of Industrial Relations at (415) 703-4281 for General Prevailing Wage Rates on specific job classifications. Future effective wage rates, which have been predetermined, are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations. Bidders are advised that if they intend to use a craft or classification not on file in the general wage determinations, they may be required to pay the wage rate of that craft of classification most closely related to it as shown in the general determinations. The above PROJECT is subject to uniform construction cost accounting procedures as set forth in the California Public Contracts Code, Section 22000 et seq., the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act. All bidders shall be licensed in accordance with the laws of the State of California. Katie Marsolan, Property and Special Projects Manager October 5, 2018
10/10/ 10/24 CITY OF ARCATA LEGAL NOTICE ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 1509 I hereby certify that at a regular meeting held on October 3, 2018, the Arcata
City Council introduced Ordinance No. 1509, summarized below, An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Arcata Amending the Arcata Municipal Code Pertaining to the Use and Regulation of Cannabis, at which time the reading in full thereof was unanimously waived and approval granted for reading the ordinance by title only. Ordinance No. 1509 was passed and adopted at a regular City Council meeting held on October 17, 2018 by the following vote: AYES: Pereira, Watson, Ornelas, Pitino, Winkler. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. ABSTENTIONS: None. Bridget Dory, City Clerk, City of Arcata Summary of Ordinance No. 1509 This ordinance amends the cannabis regulations in the Municipal Code to allow outdoor cultivation of cannabis for personal use at residences in locations that are not readily visible from the public right of way and are not in the side and rear setbacks. The full text of Ordinance No. 1509 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. The ordinance will take effect November 16, 2018, BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCATA. Dated: October 17, 2018. Bridget Dory, City Clerk, City of Arcata 10/24 CITY OF ARCATA LEGAL NOTICE INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 1510 I hereby certify that at a regular meeting held on October 17, 2018, the
Arcata City Council introduced Ordinance No. 1510, summarized below, An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Arcata Adding Chapter 5, Safe Firearm Storage, to Title II, Public Safety, of the Arcata Municipal Code, at which time the reading in full thereof was waived and approval granted for reading the ordinance by title only. The motion to introduce Ordinance No. 1510 was passed by the following vote: AYES: Pereira, Watson, Pitino, Winkler. NOES: Ornelas. ABSENT: None. ABSTENTIONS: None. Bridget Dory, City Clerk, City of Arcata Summary of Ordinance No. 1510 If adopted, this ordinance will require firearms at all times when in a person’s residence to be stored inside a locked container, disabled with a trigger lock, or be carried on the person or within close enough proximity thereto that the person could retrieve and use the firearm as if carried on the person. The full text of Ordinance No. 1510 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. 1510 may be considered for adoption at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Arcata City Council to be held on November 7, 2018, and, if adopted at that time, will take effect December 7, 2018. Bridget Dory, City Clerk, City of Arcata 10/24
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ach week I debate which dogs to feature. I know that some people think that every dog at the shelter is some sort of Pit Bull mix (they’re not). Do I feature the cute fluffy puppies and the specialty breeds to help correct that image? Or do I feature the dogs that get overlooked at the shelter, Pit Bull or otherwise? I usually try for something in the middle – enough of the crowd favorites to remind my readers that they are also at the shelter and profiles of some of the longer residents to show what it is about them that we find special. We have had more opportunities lately to take our long-timers out to events and it’s nice to be able to report on their great behavior outside of the shelter! Katie is our second longest resident at the shelter. She has been there since February. Some dogs show increased stress when they have been at the shelter for a long time and others adapt to the routine and get better and better as the volunteers work with them. Katie is definitely in the latter category! She came to the shelter with a bad case of missing fur. Her pretty dark brindle fur is mostly back now and she has no ongoing skin problems. Katie went to the
adoption event at Coldwell Banker a week ago and conducted herself very nicely. She and our big Bubba made a lovely couple and received lots of attention from everyone. Katie has become our go-to dog for socializing the other dogs. She has a long list of friends on our dog buddy board and everyone loves the chance to play with her in the yard! Katie loves to play fetch and can even share her ball if there is another dog around. Not all dogs can do that. Like most of the shelter dogs, she could use continued training for nice leash manners, but she’s not unruly, just happy to get out and get going. Katie is about 4 years old and has been spayed and microchipped and is current on her vaccinations. She would make a great addition to a home with another dog as she is so nicely social. Come meet Katie today.Our third longest dog is Porsche and she also got to go to the adoption event recently. Though she would probably be happiest to have the opportunity to be the only dog in the house, she still behaved very nicely at the event with quite a few other dogs around. Porsche is also about 4 years old. She has had the chance to go home with one of our volunteers for some over-
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Bubba night visits and he says she is just the best! Unfortunately his housing has dog size restrictions and he cannot take her permanently, but this is what he says about her sleepovers: “We went for a long walk on Moonstone Beach. A couple of dogs came around but she only seemed curious about them, not aggressive towards them. She had a great time taking things in as well as enjoying having a little more freedom than she has been used to. She was on a leash the whole time and on her best behavior. Went to my place after that where she quietly went from room to room checking things out. She really seemed to unwind when she jumped up on the bed, lying on her back and stretching. She was always calm and attentive, following me around the house wanting to be close at all times. Our time together was all too short. What a great little dog! I would adopt her if not for the size restrictions where I live. I
Porsche hope she can find permanent happiness with some lucky human.” If you think Porsche might be a fit for you, please come to the shelter and meet her! She is also spayed, microchipped and vaccinated. She is also not that big; just bigger than the 25 pound limit at our volunteer’s residence. The shelter is at 980 Lycoming Ave in McKinleyville and more information is available at (707) 840-9132. Redwood Pals Rescue is always happy to help with introductions of the shelter dogs also. Contact us at redwoodpalsrescue@gmail.com.
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ARCATA – Drummer and composer Allison Miller and her band Boom Tic Boom will perform at the Arcata Playhouse on Friday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. as part of their North American tour, ahead of the release of their new album. Glitter Wolf, the new studio album, will be released by the Royal Potato Family on Feb. 1 of next year, and Miller and the band are visiting
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BARN DANCE A Barn Dance will be held at Redwood Raks, 824 L St. in Arcata on Friday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. Leap and twirl to the sizzling fiddle of Blake Ritter, along with Sam McNeil. SPAGHETTI DINNER Pacific Union School is hosting its annual Eighth Grade Spaghetti Dinner on Friday, Oct, 26 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Pacific Union School’s multi-purpose room, 3001 Janes Rd. in Arcata. This event helps raise funds for the 2019 graduating eighth grade class annual trip to San Francisco. The cost is $20 for a family, $6 for adults and $4 for students and seniors.
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