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Mental illness claims Arcata’s popular town magician Kevin L. Hoover Mad RiveR Union

ARCATA – Waving from behind the wheel of his sleek white Lotus Elise, he’s the dapper, dashing young wizard in his powder blue stage tuxedo, headed off to dazzle eight-year-olds at a birthday party.

Ask Shantaram the Magician how he made that coin disappear, turned a handkerchief into a flower, or how he could possibly have known what card you picked, and you get a broad, beaming smile.

“Believe,” says the magic man, a twinkle in his eye.

Not any more. These days, Shantaram Jones lives among scattered homeless camps in the windblown badlands at the foot of Eureka’s T Street, underneath the

Samoa Bridge. His ill-fitting clothes are dirty, his beard is long and scraggly and his once-bright eyes are clouded with madness.

The dynamic young man who can still be seen on YouTube performing feats of illusion and amazement now can’t feed himself.

Last week he turned up on the “Humboldt Thieves” Facebook page, caught filling his pockets with stolen peanut butter cups for sustenance at a mini-mart.

It’s a hard fall for someone who rose from unimaginably desperate straits to a vibrant career as Arcata’s town magician, only to fall victim victim to adult onset schizophrenia. Today, Shantaram has lost his car, his home, his business, his career and, by his choice, his family – basically, everything.

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McKINLEYVILLE – The Big Lagoon Rancheria plans to rebuild its 29,000-square foot fitness center, which went up in flames on Betty Court in McKinleyville in an early Sunday morning blaze.

The $5.9 million, two-story fitness center, with an indoor pool, was still under

construction when the Arcata Fire District was dispatched to what was described as a “fully involved structure fire” across the street from the Mill Creek Cinema.

The fitness center – called The Club at Mill Creek – was engulfed in flames, which posed a threat to an office building to the FIRE

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Cole to be re-tried for cruelty Kevin L. Hoover

Extortion or campaign dirty trick?

Email becomes fodder in rent control fight

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ARCATA – Charles Wesley Cole will stand trial – again – for the alleged felony mistreatment of his dog, known variously as Jackpot, Mr. Nobody and Mr. Know Buddy (the name on his local veterinary records).

On the recommendation of the Probation Dept., Humboldt County Superior Court Judge John T. Feeney on Thursday rejected a plea bargain deal proposed by the District Attorney’s Office which would have allowed Cole the return of his dog, which has since been re-homed.

That restores the felony charge against Cole over a Jan. 14 incident in which he allegedly abused his dog in downtown Arcata by picking it up and dropping it, and overburdening it with heavy objects in its dog backpack. The original trial in July ended in a hung jury.

Also withdrawn was Cole’s “guilty” plea to the cruelty charge,

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MCKINLEYVILLE – An email allegedly written earlier this year by the former head of a movement to enact rent control for mobile home parks in Humboldt County states that she would be willing to drop the effort if a park owner would buy her a $100,000 piece of property, pay to move her double-wide home to it and give her a $50,000 zero-interest loan.

However, Hilary Mosher, former chair of the Humboldt Mobilehome Owners Coalition, flatly denies having written the email.

“I will not dignify this scurrilous libel with a response,” Mosher stated in an email to the Union.

The day after an article about the email was posted on the Union’s website, Mosher resigned her position and stepped down from the Yes on V campaign,

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ager of Ocean West Investors, a limited liability company that which is pushing for the rent con- owns McKinleyville’s Ocean West trol ordinance which voters will Senior Village on Murray Road.

Inspire Communities LLC is the decide on Nov. 8.

A press release from the Yes on company that oversees day-today management of V campaign stated “HilOcean West, where ary Mosher is stepping Mosher owns a home. down from an active role Kelly said there is a in the Yes on V campaign non-disclosure agreeeffective immediately.” ment regarding the is“Measure V isn’t sues in the email, and about any one person, therefore he could not and I don’t want efforts comment further on to discredit me to beHilary Mosher its contents. come a distraction,” The situation begs Mosher stated in the the question: Is the email evipress release.

The email was first made pub- dence of a plot to extort money lic Oct. 20 on The Humboldt Con- from a park owner, or is it a dirty fidential, an anonymous blog at trick concocted by the opponents of Measure V? thclive.net.

Park owners are united against Casey Kelly, the chief operating officer of FollettUSA, said in Measure V, while Mosher until a phone interview and via email Saturday had served as the leadOct. 21 that he had received the er and main spokesperson of the email from Mosher. According rent control movement. to Kelly, FollettUSA is the manMOSHER | A2

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Dairymen face challenges

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Farmers, ranchers prodded to unite Paul Mann

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NORTH COAST – California leads the nation in dairy farming and the industry contributed some $21 billion to the gross state product in 2014, according to the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

The sector supports almost 190,000 jobs.

In 2013, the North Coast produced 2.2 percent of total state milk production, based on figures from the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The region accounts for a large percentage of the state’s organic milk producers.

Despite the dairy sector’s multi-billion dollar value and its large role in the Humboldt County economy, agriculture specialists are worried whether the next generation of farmers will be able to enter the industry, owing to large and ongoing economies of scale, low milk prices and the high dollar costs of regulatory compliance.

Farm Sanctuary, a trade group which bills itself as the nation’s leading farm animal protection lobby, says most small dairy farms have been replaced by factory dairies.

They operate on dry lots in huge enclosed areas that confine hundreds or thousands of cows.

The group says, “Dry lot dairies in western states now produce more than half of the U.S. milk supply. Between 2000 and 2006, the number of farms with [fewer] than 200 cows decreased by more than 40 percent, while the number of farms with at least 1,000 cows more than doubled.”

The California Milk Advisory Board reports that the state’s 1,400-plus dairy farms are 99 percent family owned.

Yet, a Farm Journal report last March said state dairy herd numbers are in noticeable decline, owing to continued industry consolidation and “persistently low milk prices.”

The Times-Standard, citing Western United Dairymen trade association estimates, reported last July that Humboldt dairy producers are up against a widespread shortage of employees in competition with cannabis growers who pay more lucrative sums. At least some local dairy farmers are being forced to sell their cows or even shut down.

The Buckeye, a Humboldt farm, ranch and timber caucus, has assembled in-depth figures on the regulatory costs of dairy farming. In its latest publication, the group forewarns aspiring new farmers, “Before you even think of purchasing your first cow, you will need to go through the California Environmental Quality Act process.”

Depending on the consultant needed to take an applicant through the regulatory steps, the upfront cost runs from $30,000 to $50,000.

A state market milk license ranges in price from $500 to $4,000 annually, depending on the value of milk produced.

The annual cost of a state organic production license ranges from $3,000 to $9,000, again depending on income.

The North Coast Regional Water Board imposes an annual fee of $900 to $8,000, depending on the size of the herd. The Buckeye puts the local average cost at $3,000.

Dairy farmers are also required to pay what are called Unsecured Property Taxes, on top of the regular ones. Unsecured levies apply to farm equipment of all kinds, excluding stationary buildings: calf hutches, pumps, irrigation pipes, four wheelers and tractors.

These unsecured tariffs average $1,000-$10,000 a year, contingent on the age, condition and number of machines.

Collectively, these and many other regulatory demands can burden a dairyman with overhead of $25,000-$57,000.

The Buckeye hastens to add that those liabilities do not take into account the expenses of providing dairy employees with a minimum wage, health insurance, workmer compensation coverage and so on.

frankly we don’t know anything about them. Society is disconnected from agricultural values.”

EUREKA – A California farm lobby is bearing down A member of The Buckeye audience, a retired ranchon embattled farmers and ranchers to form a unified er, said one way to overcome this “silo effect” of isolation political front, aimed at re-establishing agriculture as a and mutual ignorance is to invite members of the public prominent voice in society and the state economy. to visit farms and ranches, a practice he followed on a Humboldt native Jack Rice, a lawyer for the Califor- regular basis. nia Farm Bureau Federation, appealed last week to local Rice welcomed the suggestion, but said that headagriculturists to work together to resolve their regional strong, proudly independent farmers and ranchers must and commodity differences and come to grips with in- overcome their ingrained tendency to bicker and squabtramural conflicts over ground water management, ur- ble with each other, to the detriment of their collective banization, regulatory behemoths and environmental is- interest. sues. Rice spoke to The Buckeye, a North Coast One of the foremost examples, he pointed advocacy group of family farmers and ranchers, out, is farmers fighting with each other over forest owners and resource managers. water. He quoted an individual involved in “We as an ag community are losing badly and the interminable conflict over the Klamath, broadly everywhere,” Rice said in remarks at the who told Rice, “Every time agriculture comes Ingomar Club. “We’re losing ground in the pounder attack, we circle the wagons and shoot litical and social battles and the legal battles. We each other.” have to find a strategic way to overcome that.”

The Buckeye audience laughed in recogniIn a speech titled, “Agriculture’s New Narration as Rice lamented, “I cannot tell you how Jack Rice tive,” Rice said there is no shortage of 21st centrue that is. There are not enough of us anytury issues that could become the lightning rod more to be inefficient and yet we remain split for a united agricultural movement. He mentioned in- up, sort of bouncing around without a clear path. We still tensifying consumer interest in food quality and securi- think we’re in the 1800s.” ty, “Buy Local” food movements, home farming and the In the decade between 1992 and 2002, the number spread of popular farmers’ markets. of California farm operators under the age of 35 sank 43 The millennials generation is particularly interested percent. That raises the looming question of where the in new green technologies and environmental solutions next generation will come from and how it will be able to based on technological advances he noted. These are find the capital to invest in agriculture. Specialists such threshold opportunities for farmers and ranchers to ral- as Rice are convinced that monumental policy shifts will ly around, he said. “People do want to know where [their have to be made. food] comes from. They’ve lost their connection to the Kenneth Fulghum, emeritus faculty in Humboldt farm, but now consumers are becoming more interested State University’s Department of Forestry and Wildland in food.” and a member of The Buckeye, said in an email after Of the sector’s need for a 21st century narrative, Rice Rice’s speech, “If the future of agriculture (timber, farmexplained, “We need to come up with a new story about ing, ranching, dairying, etc.) is to be successful, these who we are and a place for agriculture [in people’s lives] different agricultural enterprises must find common that they can understand. We need a different way to tell ground on which to coordinate. people about their food and where it comes from.”

This is one of the key elements of The Buckeye in its The problem in Rice’s view is that today’s farmers and advocacy for sustainable working landscapes. In Humranchers are stuck in a 19th-century view of their stand- boldt County, we face land conversion pressures from ing in society and the economy. They have an out-of-date commercial and residential uses. [Rice is pushing pronotion of their prominence and importance, despite the ducers for coordinated advocacy and education of the fact that their numbers have shrunk dramatically, mak- general public about the various agricultural enterprising agriculture far less visible to the nation. es.”

As the 1800s unfolded, the share of the U.S. populaMore than the regularly publicized agricultural issues tion on farms plummeted from 80 percent to 40 percent. are at stake – groundwater management, drought, food By the year 2000, it was a minuscule two percent. production and capital investment.

Today, U.S. agriculture accounts for 1.1 percent of The Farm Bureau Federation calls attention to the GDP, gross domestic product, Rice said. travails of farmers and ranchers who are being victimThe number of Americans with a memory of the fam- ized by “fly by night” methamphetamine laboratories. ily farm, the Great Depression of the 1930s and wide- They are especially common in remote agricultural areas spread hunger has dwindled to scant levels, he under- like Humboldt County. lined, although there exist serious and spreading pockets In addition to meth manufacture’s health and enviof hunger nationwide. ronment dangers, posed by chemicals and the resulting Agriculture’s value is underestimated and ignored, waste materials, the federation says the costs of cleanwhile it confronts what the Farm Bureau Federation ing up meth labs “is staggering and usually falls on the calls “unprecedented challenges” from drought, water shoulders of innocent property owners.” shortfalls, climate change, invasive species and many The expense runs as high as $150,000. other factors.

“We overestimate our value to society; people do not understand where their food comes from,” Rice emphasized. “They don’t know the hunger of the Great Depression. People don’t really understand hunger” and how on a foundation (likely the one left afFRoM A1 agriculture fits into the social fabric.

The email was allegedly written by ter the current mobile home is gone.)”

“The fact is right now we don’t really matter in many Mosher in January when the proposal The email continues “I of course ways, certainly not as we did in the 20th and 19th cento get rent control on the ballot was realize that this request is about ten turies. I don’t think we’ve fully come to grips with what still in its infancy. times more than you had anticipatthat means. People don’t know anything about us and In the email, dated Jan. 23, Mosh- ed when you made the offer to help er allegedly wrote “To summarize my people move their homes out of the request: FollettUSA/Inspire moves park, but I also realize that if you take my double-wide out of the park six advantage of this offer soon enough, blocks away onto a lot (which will re- you may realize at least 100 times quire taking away the existing trashed more profit than if I continue to push double-wide) on Perini Avenue, through an ordinance... each day you With self-discipline, McKinleyville (which you purchase wait, however, is another day of acfor $100,000) then writes me a zero tivism that I am making progress toalmost anything is possible. per cent interest 10-yr mortgage for wards that end, and another day that $50,000. In exchange, I will cease and makes it that much harder to stop Theodore Roosevelt desist any and all activities related to the downward motion of the growing mobile home housing/parks. This offer snowball... – Hilary.”

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to Mosher “Attached is your Non-disclosure Agreement that you requested that I sign. Please return a fully executed agreement and then give me a call on my direct phone number below when you have a moment to talk.”

The proposed deal, if it ever existed, never transpired.

According to MLS records, Mosher listed her Ocean West mobile home for sale for $55,000 in 2014. Her listing was canceled on Dec. 6, 2014. Just weeks later, on Dec. 17, 2014, Mosher came before the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee with the idea of supporting a rent control ordinance for mobile home parks.

The committee ultimately voted against recommending rent control.

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Arcata City Council Meets first & third Wednesday

Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 6 p.m.

Council Chamber, Arcata City Hall 736 F St., Arcata

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Blue Lake City Council Meets second & fourth Tuesday

Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.

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Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation & Conservation District Meets second & fourth Thursday

Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m.

Woodley Island Marina Meeting Room

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Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District (HBMWD) Meets fourth Thursday

Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m.

Boardroom, Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District, 828 Seventh St., Eureka

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Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Meets every Tuesday

Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 9 a.m.

Board Chambers, Humboldt Co. Courthouse, 825 Fifth St., Eureka

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Manila Community Services District (Manila CSD) Meets third Thursday

Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m.

Room I, Manila Community Center, 1611 Peninsula Dr., Manila

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McKinleyville Community Services District (MCSD) Meets first Wednesday

Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m.

Azalea Hall, 1620 Pickett Rd., McKinleyville

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McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee (McKMAC) Meets last Wednesday

today, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m.

Azalea Hall, 1620 Pickett Rd., McKinleyville

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MRCH cowpocalypse causes $7,000 damage Kevin L. Hoover Mad RiveR Union

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south and homes on Hedge Rose Court to the west.

Fire Captain Jon Finen arrived and went about protecting the office building.

As soon as Battalion Chief Rick Gomes arrived on scene, he assumed incident command and requested Engine 8215 to report to Hedge Rose Court to provide structure protection to the residential structure to the west and to assist residences with evacuating their homes.

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A BETTER BAYSIDE After three public scoping sessions, a walk along Old Arcata Road and a “pop-up” demonstration of a walkway outside Jacoby Creek School hosted by Natalie Arroyo, left, the Old Arcata Road Transportation Design Project will move on to the planning phase. Up for review and comment were a number of transportation-easing features through the clogged corridor, including roundabouts, sidewalks and other items detailed at cityofarcata.org. The project aims to specify and implement the improvements over a five-year time frame.

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rived and helped douse the fire, which was under control within 30 minutes.

“We believe the fire was active for a while before it was noticed by people in the area. For this size building to be fully involved like it was when we arrived on scene is unusual.” stated Gomes in a press release. “The building was currently under construction, and the cause of the fire is being investigated.”

One civilian suffered a minor injury and transported himself to the hospital for stitches.

The Big Lagoon Rancheria has been working on the fitness club for 13 years.

JANES ROAD – A 32-cow break-in at Mad River Community Hospital’s on-site organic farm resulted in the loss of $7,000 in vegetables.

The bovine burglary evidently began in the wee hours of the night. Farmers arriving in the morning found the hungry herd roaming the fields, trampling crops, noshing on unharvested produce and pooping indiscriminately.

Staff members then set about rounding up the herd and moved them away from the hospital and held them until the owner arrived, according to MRCH Chief Operating Officer Steve Engle.

The cows originated from a field located a half-mile away. They or an offshoot faction apparently hoofed it along Upper Bay Road en route to the unfenced farm, as a resident there reported a cow looking in her bedroom window before it mooved along.

The copious cow manure rendered the crop area unusable for planting for 120 days, Engle said. A claim has been filed with the cow owner’s insurance company.

Engle said the livestock incursion was a first for the farm, which provides 80 percent of the fresh vegetables consumed by staff and patients. Until now, only foxes and deer had been spotted at the farm.

Construction began about a year ago and was scheduled to be completed in early 2017.

Despite the fire, the rancheria plans to rebuild the structure and continue with its original plans of opening a not-notch fitness center in McKinleyville.

A posting on The Club at Mill Creek’s Facebook page stated “We’ve been planning this facility to serve the greater McKinleyville community for almost 13 years. We have had a vision for this project for a long time, and while we are saddened by the setback of this fire, we absolutely intend to rebuild. We thank all of the people and or-

ganizations who have sent us their support over the course of the day. We feel grateful to be part of this community, and we look forward to bringing our state-of-the-art health club and fitness center back from the ashes.” The club will include a large indoor swimming pool, juice bar, stationary bicycles, weightlifting equipment, locker rooms, steam rooms and a large multipurpose room for exercise classes. The center will offer various fitness classes. There will be from 40 to 60 employees.

If anyone has any information regarding this fire contact the Arcata Fire District at (707) 825-2000.

Report warns of ‘unintended consequences’ of Measure V passage trol, Sundberg continued.

The staff presentation didn’t include any recommended actions.

Corrections In last week’s “Heroes or hoodlums” story about the Arcata Community Forest, Environmental Services Director Mark Andre is quoted as saying that illegal trailbuilders will be banned from the forest for five years. He later clarified that he was just joking, and the city has no legal mechanism to block anyone from use of the Arcata Community Forest.

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HUMBOLDT – In an analysis of a Humboldt County mobile home rent control ballot measure, county staff has concluded that there could be unintended consequences that negatively affect renters.

An overview of the Measure V mobile home space rent control ballot measure was presented to the Board of Supervisors at its October 18 meeting.

Measure V asks voters to approve an ordinance that will regulate mobile home rent increases in the unincorporated county area, including tying them to the annual Consumer Price Index (CPI).

County Housing Coordinator Paula Mushrush said the ordinance uses the CPI for Bay Area cities as a basis, which is a standard that’s higher than the statewide level. She added that she’s concerned about “the long term effect on the residents – I worry there may be unintended consequences.”

The CPI is based on the costs of consumer goods. It could work against residents’ interests because it’s a “straight calculation,” said Mushrush.

“So the rent increase could go up for the tenants and I worry about that,” she continued. “This may force people who have not raised it, to raise it.”

She said that when she reviewed mobile home park rents, she found that some parks didn’t change rent amounts from year to year.

A written staff report states that “of mobile homes that have sold, the average space rent increased by $77 over the last three years.” The report adds that “had space rents increased commensurate with CPI, the average rent would have increased by $37 over the same period of time.”

But Mushrush said that the only mobilehome park that changed ownership during the period “somewhat skewed the numbers” because its average rent increased by $134.

If that park is pulled from the analysis, overall mobilehome park rents would have only increased by $48 over the three-year period, she continued.

The county’s costs for administrating the rent control

program could also exceed reimbursements. The measure allows the county to charge a $5 per month administration fee for each mobile home space but the fee is fixed instead of being tied to the CPI like rents.

Another concern is that the ordinance will lead to deferred maintenance “because if I can only get a certain amount of money, I can only do a certain amount of things,” Mushrush told supervisors.

Measure V does allow mobile home park owners to file fair return petitions, which trigger hearings to determine if rent increases are necessary to cover costs and allow enough profit.

Mushrush said her “biggest concern” is that if fair return petitions succeed, “The burden of costs goes to the park residents.” She added that park owners would have the advantage of legal representation and their petitions would likely succeed.

Carrie Peyton-Dahlberg, a volunteer campaigner for Measure V, was the only speaker during a public comment session. She said one of the ordinance’s main purposes is to protect mobile home park residents from drastic rent jumps when park properties change hands.

“We’re seeing these big leaps now, that’s part of the change of ownership that is terrifying some of the people who got this going,” she continued.

The City of Arcata is considering a similar ordinance but is creating it internally and studying potential effects.

Board Chair Mark Lovelace suggested that the city’s approach is wise – and that he and other supervisors should have been proactive and not left the ordinance process for residents to initiate on their own.

“This is an imperfect ordinance,” he said, adding that he and other supervisors had “given up our ability to craft something internally” by not heeding requests to do so.

Supervisor Ryan Sundberg said he didn’t advance the idea of a rent control ordinance because the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee had considered it and concluded that mobile home rents aren’t problematic.

The committee recommended alternatives to rent con-

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Origins Shantaram came to America from India via the International Mission of Hope. He was adopted

by Terry and Debra Jones, now residents of Bayside. They wanted a large family, but Terry is “a zero population growth kind of guy,” so after having two girls, the couple adopted two boys from opposite sides of India.

Shantaram is from Calcutta, and his brother Naranjan is from Bombay. The Joneses moved from Eureka to a comfortable, tree-ensconced home along Jacoby Creek where they raised their four kids.

“It’s been a blessing and a heartache,” Terry said.

Things were rough for baby Shantaram – “Shan,” as he’s known to family and friends. At six weeks old, he weighed just fourand-a-half pounds. “Failure to thrive” was the diagnosis, owing to his premature birth and the harsh circumstances of his infancy.

But the Joneses love and nurturing would save the boy, and give him back the life he almost lost.

Shantaram’s childhood was as rich in bountiful Bayside as any Jacoby Creek School student’s might be. He was an unremarkable but not bad student. He had hobbies and interests, and did fairly well socially.

“He was popular,” Terry said.

“He was always happy and smiling,” said Debra. “In a geeky, goofy kind of way.”

Young Shan was active in the 4-H Club, and liked chickens so much he was briefly known as “Chicken Boy.” Technology was to prove a lifelong interest, thanks in part to Terry, a ham radio enthusiast. He helped Shan put together a crystal radio for a JCS science fair, and it was labeled “Talking Rocks.”

At home, Shan was a busy boy.

He liked to bake, and busied himself with little jobs around the ’hood – mowing lawns, cleaning houses. Basically, he was a good kid. “He was thoughtful and caring, and did little things for people,” Debra said.

In retrospect, though, his parents recognize the seeds of dysfunction emerging as he entered adolescence. It was an obsession with self, and with a certain image he wanted to project. “He became more and more narcissistic,” Debra said. “Looking back on it, we can see it.”

At Arcata High, he was “high energy, but a little short of focus,” his mother said. He had friends who were girls, but no girlfriends.

“He never had a romantic relationship,” Debra said.

Shan attended Humboldt State for a time, majoring in communications. But cognitive impairments, including an auditory issue, stifled his achievement there.

Instead, he found fulfillment in magic. Adept at feats of illusion and great at snappy patter, he

BAYSIDE BOY A typical Bayside kid. courtEsy tErry & dEbrA JonEs became locally popular as Shantaram the Magician.

He parlayed that success into the purchase of Hutchins Grocery in Northtown, and by all appearances was on his way up. He drove a succession of flashy sports cars, getting a new one every year – a Nissan ZX300, a Mazda RX8 and the sexy Lotus.

His father gave him a reliable Nissan Maxima, but it “didn’t fit his image,” Terry said. His dad found out that Shan had sold it, having been taken advantage of by a local car dealership which paid him only $350. Terry went there and demanded that they sell it back to him for the same amount, got the car back, and it remains in use by the family.

“He was impulse driven,” Terry said. “He couldn’t save a penny.

He was talking about buying an airplane.”

Shan’s career was at a fork in the road, which might have led him to the lucrative and glamorous career he wanted. “He had aspirations of becoming a professional cruise ship magician,” Terry said. “Maybe get a job in Vegas.”

Image was everything, but behind the façade, Shantaram’s life was beginning to unravel, personally and professionally. The store was mismanaged and failing.

Hutchins ran out of merchandise, because Shan had no money for it.

“He thought everything in the cash register was his,” Terry said.

“He didn’t think about things like PG&E, or the lease.” The employees were paid though, his father believes.

Terry urged him to take some business classes at College of the Redwoods, but Shan declined for image reasons. “He thought it would make him look stupid,” Terry said.

His dad helped him out by clerking on weekends, but Shantaram limited the assistance. “He didn’t want me in the store,” Terry said.

The decline of Shantaram One day the Lotus’s oil pressure light came on, but Shan ig-

MARKET TO MARKET In 2009, Shantaram used his market to market his magic act.

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nored it and kept on driving and the engine burned up. The credit union later reclaimed the vehicle.

Eventually, Shantaram lost the store, too, leaving him with debt he had no ability to repay.

By 2010, Shantaram’s illness was becoming increasingly serious.

He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and some associated maladies, including Tourette Syndrome. His executive function – the mind’s ability to organize thoughts, reason, problem solve and plan – tested as that of a 13 year old.

“He’s just not able to think things through,” Terry said.

By 2012, Shan was fully in the grip of his illness. He channeled other people, and as is not uncommon among schizophrenics, there was a technological spin to his delusions. He would speak as Nikola Tesla, or Bill Gates, even Adolph Hitler. He said Steve Jobs was his father, and Osama bin Laden his cousin.

“He started pulling away,” Terry said. “Toward the end, he plunged into his illness,” Debra said.

One day in the kitchen, he told his mother that “Obama wants you dead,” and pushed her down.

She struck her head on a granite countertop, lacerating it.

“He was deteriorating really, really rapidly,” Debra said.

He could relate to the parents, but often through the alternate personalities. To communicate

mental illness. “I don’t know why we treat that as a bad thing,” he said. “You don’t get down on someone who has chickenpox.”

The Joneses are but one of many families coping with mental illness. “Unfortunately, we are not alone,” Terry said. “It’s heartbreaking.”

Shan unseen The “Humboldt Thieves” post described Shantaram stealing candy, and Terry thinks he knows why. “I suspect he was caught shoplifting because he spent his money on lottery tickets,” he said.

That’s how Shantaram plans to relaunch himself – through a big lottery win.

Like many of those who live on the wild waterfront, Shan uses the Humboldt County Library for BAKER BOY Shan liked baking. Internet access and probably as courtEsy tErry & dEbrA JonEs a daytime refuge. He maintains tortions. an active online presence, with Terry set his troubled son up in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram a transitional apartment, but that accounts. On the Quora website, didn’t go well either. Transients he posts “Shantaram’s Cryptic took it over.

Tales,” sci-fi/fantasy fiction which “I went to the apartment one he describes as “a unique blend of time and there were all these stories for all ages.” meth-heads in there,” Terry said.

Spotted at the library by an old “I said, ‘Who the hell are you?’ friend last Thursday, Shantaram ‘His friends,’ they said. All his smiled briefly in recognition, stuff had been stolen.” and even extended his hand for a Consistent with some of his fist bump. But his face suddenly previous dealings, Shan was un- clouded over, and he turned on able to distinguish between friend his heel and walked off, refusing and rank exploiter. “He’s so trust- appeals for conversation. ing,” Terry said. “Everyone is his “I don’t talk to anyone,” he said friend.” as he descended the library steps.

“Take it easy.”

Other than in an online rogue’s gallery, Shan’s parents haven’t seen him since June. Driving in Eureka one day, Terry spotted him along the roadside and quickly pulled over and parked. Walking back to greet his son, Shan spotted him and scurried away, refusing contact.

Shantaram won’t let the Public Guardian share information with his parents, who are helpless to give him the aid he desperately needs.

“We would help with clothing and feeding him, but we just don’t know where he is,” Debra said.

“I would like my son to sign a release of information so I know where he is,” Terry said. “He has siblings who love him and care about him.”

Terry and Debra wish Shantaram understood that there’s no need to be ashamed, and that they TECHNOLOGY BUFF When the first iPad came out in 2010, Shan- don’t want to control him. Like taram was an enthusiastic early adopter.

KLH | ArcAtA EyE any parents, they simply yearn to be part his life and help him get by.

One Christmas, family memwith Shan, they had to ask which “I want to continue to be his intermediary was present at the bers from near and far gathered at father, not his inquisitor,” Terry time. “Am I talking to you, or is the Bayside home, bringing prac- said. this Hitler talking?” Terry said. tical gifts of clothing and other Given Shantaram’s current “He’d say, ‘This is Hitler or Bill items for Shan. He stayed away – condition, the Jones’s friends Gates, telling you what to do for probably out of pride – so his fa- sometimes wonder if they regret ther later took the presents down adopting him. “People ask us, did Shantaram’.”

He was getting arrested and to him at Bridge House. “He gave we make a mistake?” Terry said.

“5150’d” – deemed a danger to most of it away,” Terry said.

“No. He did a lot of good.”

The cycle of commitment, rehimself and others. As the disThey’re not about to give up on ease escalated, he was commit- lease, arrest and re-commitment their tiny baby, the busy, bright ted to Eureka’s Sempervirens has occurred three times now. boy who turned into a talented Psychiatric Health Facility. But Shan’s parents are frustrated. teenager with grand dreams, and “The system doesn’t seem to be who served as Arcata’s own magic that was just a way station, one easy for Shantaram the practiced working as well as it could,” Terry man. illusionist to game by bamboo- said. “There ought to be a better, While mental illness is as real zling the psychiatric staff with his more humane way to do this.” as a fractured skull, the parents He doesn’t mean to finger know the voices it generates are well-practiced patter. “”He can hold it together for 20 point. “I’m not even saying it’s as illusory as the tricks that Shanminutes, a half-hour,” Terry said. their fault, but something isn’t taram the Magician once used to “I don’t know how hard he has to working right,” he said. “It’s a sys- hold children spellbound. tem problem.” work at it.”

“I realize it’s not my son At the same time, Terry trac- talking,” Terry said. “There’s a “It’s a revolving door for psychiatrists at Sempervirens,” Deb- es the deficient state of the pres- fantastic kid in there.” ent-day mental health system ra said.

Believe.

Soon though, his “mental help- back to 1967, when then-Goverers” – the historical luminaries nor Reagan made forced instituwho populate his mind – take tionalization more difficult. As president, Reagan loosened reover again.

After a court hearing, Shan was strictions on state block grants, transferred to Bridge House, a effectively slashing federal fundhalfway house offering support- ing for mental health programs ive living to adults with mental and beginning a long-term trend illness. There, he took classes on toward deinstitutionalization.

Unwell people were left to fend cooking, shopping and other life skills. He was granted Social Se- for themselves on the streets, and curity Disability Insurance, with like Shantaram, swelled the ranks of those processed through the his father in charge.

“I was still his guardian, and criminal justice system.

“Even Reagan said, ‘That was managed his money,” Terry said.

“He didn’t like that.” Shan desig- the worst decision I ever made’,” nated the county Public Guard- Terry said. But the legacy lives on ian’s Office as his payee, taking in today’s system, and in the stigma that hangs over mental illness. his dad out of the loop.

“I think the state needs to reHe was prescribed medication for his problems, but allowed to vamp their programs,” Debra self-medicate. Not uncommon- said. “These are not people who ly, those with mental disabilities choose to use drugs. These are stop taking the meds, and slide people who cannot feed, clothe or back into the abyss. His father be- take medication themselves.”

Terry is dismayed at the shame ON THE STREETS “I don’t talk to lieves the dirty street cannabis he uses exacerbates his mental dis- and blame still associated with anyone.”

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PUBLIC SAFETY Errant motorcyclist convicted Humboldt County distriCt Attorney

ARCATA –On Monday, Oct. 17, a Humboldt County jury found 43-year-old Destry Beargrease Girard guilty of felony resisting an officer and four misdemeanors: driving under the influence, third offense; possession of drug paraphernalia; driving on a suspended license, second offense; and resisting/delaying/obstructing officers.

The charges stemmed from a California Highway Patrol (CHP) investigation that began on March 4, 2015 when a security guard for

the Sun Valley Floral Farm in Arcata called in a possible traffic accident at the south gate of the property.

When CHP Officers and Arcata Fire Department personnel arrived, they found the defendant lying underneath a Harley Davidson motorcycle, unconscious but not injured.

Further investigation led CHP Officers to conclude that Girard drove the motorcycle to the location under the influence of alcohol.

One of the CHP Officers was injured when the defendant resisted arrest.

Arcata Police Department officers assisted with the restraint of the defendant, who was then transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility.

Deputy District Attorney Dave Christensen prosecuted the case with the assistance of District Attorney Investigator Marvin Kirkpatrick.

Judge Marilyn Miles will sentence Mr. Girard on Nov. 14. He faces a maximum sentence of three years for the felony charge; additional time and/or fines may be imposed for the misdemeanor charges.

A bothersome blurt of bad words • Monday, September 26 4:19 p.m.

A leisure-pyro out front of a Valley West Boulevard preschool toted a soda can, contents unknown, and tried to set some brush on fire. He scampered into anonymity.

4:52 p.m. A clerk and the customer at the reg both called police from an 11th Street supermarket. The clerk said the store patron was threatening him, while the customer maintained that he was being charged double for his groceries.

• Tuesday, September 27 12:01 a.m. A man walking on Frederick Avenue was orbited by a hoodied harpie, that is, some dude on a bicycle who circled around him dispensing threats. The rolling blunder pedaled away, its threats unfulfilled.

12:10 a.m.

On Frederick Ave., drum over-drival Imperiled the slumber-survival Of sleepy-time folk Who gave cops a poke But the drum din was done on arrival.

2:33 a.m. A bothersome bleat of blurted bad words befouled 14th and Union streets, where a lad howled obscenities in the night, then disappeared.

3:51 a.m. Either the same howly-growler,

a fellow blatherer or a campaign surrogate ran around a Uniontown shopping center yelling nonsensically. He was drunk-tanked.

7:17 a.m. In an impressive display of performance art or tweaker derangement, a woman at the marsh’s South I Street parking lot was on her hands and knees digging in the soil, while a man rode around on a bike.

8:51 a.m. A white pit bull with a black eye patch provided possible inspiration for a country-western song, but lacked key elements of betrayal and heartbreak. No collar and no tags offered further lyrical potential for the weepy narrative.

11:15 a.m. A little white puppy running loose at 12th and Spring streets sought succor – and certainly wouldn’t turn down treats and pets – in a parking officer’s vehicle.

11:28 a.m. A man’s camouflage jacket malfunctioned, not obscuring from passersby the unwanted sight of him peeing in some bushes at 11th and K streets.

11:39 a.m. A sort of science experiment involved leaving three vehicles unlocked in Myrtle Court. It was just a few days before stuff started disappearing out of them, beginning with loose change and tools.

A shady shyster’s machinations • Tuesday, October 4 12:14 a.m. Richard Lewis was parked in a Chevy Tahoe at McKinleyville’s Azalea State Reserve, where parking is prohibited after 11 p.m. Lewis, who is on probation, didn’t have any indentification and, according to the Sheriff’s Office, his story on why he was there was sketchy.

Deputies determined that he had an expired registration. A search of the vehicle revealed a one-pound bag of marijuana. Lewis was arrested on suspicion of violating probation and possession of marijuana and booked into the county jail.

9:30 a.m. A member of the Mack Town Boys gang in McKinleyville has a pretty sweet – albeit unauthorized – class schedule. He rolls into McKinleyville Middle School at about 11:30 a.m. and leaves by 1:30 p.m., and sometimes he doesn’t go to school at all. The only downside, other than getting written up for habitual truancy, is that he’s going to grow up dumber than a stump.

8:03 p.m. All liquored up and full of rage, Mark Grimes staggered across the McKinleyville Shopping Center, entered a sushi restaurant, punched an aquarium and left. He then wandered over to the Subway, where the Oven Roasted Chicken was the sandwich of the day.

Grimes could have used some absorbent to quell the booze, but instead got a

visit from deputies. Grimes was all slurry, dirty and disheveled. He is on probation, having been arrested for being drunk in public five different times. Next stop: drunk tank.

• Wednesday, October 5 9:34 a.m.

Deputies responded to McKinleyville High School to conduct a threat assessment after school officials learned about a text sent from one student to another in which the kid made statements that he wanted to kill himself, people and animals.

11 a.m. A resident on Railroad Drive in McKinleyville recently had a loan go to collections. A scammer claiming to be part of a debt relief agency contacted the resident through an email and offered assistance in settling the debt.

The shady shyster deposited a $789 check in the victim’s account with instructions that she get $750 in cash and use Money Gram to electronically transfer the money to the scammer’s account. The victim was then told that there was a problem, and that another $789 check was going to be deposited into the account, triggering the need for another Money Gram transfer. The deposited checks, however, were worthless and ultimately bounced as they were processed by the bank. The victim was then notified by the bank that the account was overdrawn due to the cash she withdrew.

The victim then called the phone number she was given and heard the message “Magic Jack customer service is available.”

The victim finally figured out that it was a scam before sending any money.

12:07 p.m. Two males were seen brawling at the boat ramp on the Samoa Peninsula.

7:53 p.m. A deputy pulled over a vehicle near McKinleyville Avenue and Railroad Drive in McKinleyville for not having registration tabs. The three males inside the car were found to have warrants, so they were arrested and booked into the county jail. None of the men owned the car, which was towed. Its owner was notified of the situation.

Later, however, the deputy determined that a mistake had been made. One of the men has the same first and last name of a man who has a warrant, but they have different middle names.

The deputy went to the jail, freed the arrestee and drove him back to McKinleyville. The car was retrieved from where it was impounded and returned to the registered owner without charge.

• Thursday, October 6 2:07 a.m. It was 2 a.m. and a car was driving 10 mph on McKinleyville’s Central Avenue, which has a speed limit of 35 mph.

The car swerved over the white line, then swerved back over the roadway’s center line. A deputy pulled the car over and cited its driver, Susan Wagner, for allegedly driving on a suspended license.

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a separate case involving charges of battery and vandalism over an incident which occurred at the North Coast Co-op.

Deputy District Attorney Carolyn Schaffer said Cole was in the checkout line at the Co-op one day when someone asked him to stop beating his dog. Cole allegedly threw coffee at the cashier, then went out in the parking lot and broke a window on a Co-op van.

Cole said the Co-op incident was not as alleged. He says he “gently yanked on my dog’s collar,” which led to an “assault” by the woman, a person he believes is in league with the animal rights activists. “She’s screaming ‘F this’ and ‘F that’,” Cole said. In the heat of the moment, he says, “I reached for my coffee and knocked it over on the counter.”

A contingent of perhaps two dozen supporters of Jackpot/Mr. Know Buddy turned up Thursday for what had been set as a sentencing hearing. Their interest is primarily preventing a return of the dog to Cole’s custody, where they believe it will again be abused.

Some also feel Cole has earned punishment for the alleged abuse.

The recent incident is just one of many acts of violence against animals that witnesses say they have observed Cole committing over the years.

Schaffer said Feeney “may or may not” allow testimony on the previous incidents. She said she would accept testimonials from witnesses about previous acts of cruelty by Cole, but to be useful, that they would have to include specifics.

Kim Class, director of the Companion Animal Foundation (CAF), said she was pleased with the turn of events, since it could open up

the opportunity for witnesses of Cole’s alleged cruelty who weren’t involved in the first trial to testify this time – possibly in disguise out of fear of retaliation.

“We were disappointed last time,” Class said. “Some people were afraid to speak.”

For his part, Cole had been dead-set on rejecting the plea deal anyway. He expressed a wish to go to jail, and hoped to get the court to set up a special cell for him that would include a yard or space where he could have his dog back. There he would demonstrate that he is capable of relating gently to animals, and instruct law enforcement in his “discipline techniques.” But that was not to be.

Arcata’s most hated man Cole, who lives in a yard off a downtown Arcata alley, believes he is the victim of multiple interlocking conspiracies involving the animal rights community, businesses, the police, the news media and various individuals who have wronged him in the past.

He claims he gets frequent threats on his life from passersby, some acting as agents of his supposed nemeses in the animal rights movement. A nearby businesswoman, he claims, maintains a calendar on which various forms of abuse are scheduled. He has taken cell phone photos of individuals he claims are local animal rights activists standing around in the lot adjacent to his yard. He says they’ve harassed him and blocked his egress.

Cole’s fear has been further fueled by recent media reports. A Lost Coast Outpost video piece on Cole and his dog by Sierra Jenkins has been heavily and anonymously commented on by readers, particularly in its no-holds-barred “Thunderdome” comment sec-

CONVERSATION Wes Cole discusses his issues with animal rescue activist Jan Carr in the yard where Cole lives.

KLH | Union tion. Some commenters quesA follow-up LoCO piece about tioned the legal process, others the Thursday court hearing is expressed hope for the animal’s generating similar comments. well-being, and many urged that “I say we put a 50-lb pack on Cole no longer be allowed to have him, fit him with a gas mask, make animals. him go up and down H Street on a But a number of others sug- hot day with no water and when gested various forms of torture he falls down we drag him across and mayhem be used against him, the pavement and kick him when or even that he be executed. he whimpers,” wrote a comment“That’s why LoCO has a Thun- er named “please educate your derdome choice,” wrote “Kindly kids.”

Mongoose.” “So we can talk about Participants in the “Stop Anthis steenking [sic] no good an- imal Abuse in Humboldt” Faceimal abuser and how he should book page, a rallying center for have his scrotum surgically re- those interested in the Cole case, moved and replaced with a pit strongly disavowed the harsh bull.” comments, stating that none of “Let’s treat Mr. Cole the same the “real” animal welfare activists way he treated his dog,” said would make any statements advo“reo6205.” “Sounds fair to me.” cating violence of any kind.

“Let him get his dog back,” said Personal outreach “mainstack.” “Just so I can jusAt least two people deeply intify picking him up by his neck, volved in animal rescue locally throwing him to the ground and have gone the other way – offerdragging him across the pave- ing Cole compassion and underment by his beard.” standing, and doing so personal“SCUM!! I say KILL him and ly. But to little apparent avail, at feed the maggots to the roaches,” least so far. wrote “Cia Poza.”

Jan Carr, who owns a large

parcel of land in north Arcata, has used it as an unofficial sanctuary for animals she’s rescued – up to 50 at a time – that she calls “Carr Critter Rescue.” Thursday, prior to the sentencing hearing, she visited Cole and heard him out.

Wearing a star-shaped private detective badge, he told her – tearfully at times – of the forces arrayed against him, and of his deep love for his animals.

Carr’s central interest is in ensuring Jackpot/Mr. Know Buddy remains safe and free from abuse.

She’s offered to pay all of the thousands of dollars in outstanding lodging and veterinary fees if Cole will legally relinquish the animal to her.

“He’d have to sign him over to me, and he’d have to believe I will make certain Mr. Nobody leads a healthy, happy life,” Carr said. “ I give him my word. I will see the fees are paid.”

Another hands-on animal savior, Shannon Miranda of Miranda’s Rescue, also attempted outreach to Cole, but with no success.

“He just wanted the dog,” Miranda said. “There’s no rational thinking. It’s like talking to a fence post. It gets to a point where you almost feel crazy yourself.”

Based on his conversation and accounts of Cole’s actions, Miranda believes Cole is unwell, and isn’t capable of owning animals.

He opposes returning Jackpot/ Mr. Know Buddy to him. But he doesn’t question Cole’s love for the dog.

“You’re talking about someone who is mentally ill and doesn’t know what he’s doing,” Miranda said. “What he’s saying is real, in his mind.”

An online petition seeking to prevent the dog’s return to Cole continues to gather signatures.

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OPINION Forced consensus

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END OF A SCHWILLY ERA The online Urban Dictionary defines “schwilly” as “drunk, stoned, under the influence.” KLH | Union

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t towered lonely as a shroud O’er lowlifes high on drinks distilled But all at once, its branches bowed Where beetles bored, with holes instilled Along its trunk, the Schwilly Tree Split, and buckled dangerously An old Acacia roadside shrine Hosts endless vagabond soirees ’Neath D and Seventh’s leaves and vines A margin for those cast away Invisible to random glance Where passers-through may sprightly dance Or lie amid the plants; but they Nor city workers could foresee

That Schwilly’s stout base would give way And snap in two so suddenly Then need be razed to clear the spot Of fallen branches downed by rot But soft, for those who loved to lie In vacant or in pensive mood Or crash and grab some quick shut-eye Amid the bliss of solitude A big-leaf maple next will fill That Schwilly spot in our foothills.

– Kevworth L. Hoover Note: For the precursor to this tale, see “Of Safeway Slope and the Schwilly Tree” at madriverunion.com, or: wp.me/p3X2BT-3TE. – Ed.

or a couple of years I have been working on various committees of the North Coast Co-op and have spent a few months now as a member of the board of directors. Co-op committees, especially the Member Action Committee where I started my involvement, operates on consensus. All opinions are discussed with the goal of achieving a resolution to which everyone can consent.

This model of decisionmaking works very well because they have shared values and mutual respect. I have also participated in a few mediations. Mediations are not a panacea for disagreements.

Participants may come to understand each other’s goals, but that doesn’t mean they are going to let go of those goals and come up with a compromise.

The Arcata City Council and the Community Development Department are undertaking a forced mediation between the corporate forces of park owners and mobile home manufacturers and a select handful of park residents. They are calling it a “negotiation,” which is very different from a mediation.

The 200 or so park residents are being asked to write in the names of people who will represent them in the negotiations. No one knows where the Home Owners Association stands on this. There’s no campaign underway to get selected. It has to be done quickly. This is a major flaw in the plan.

By using this strategy, I suspect council are hoping that the rent affordability issue in mobile home parks will go away. Perhaps they are also hoping it won’t spill over into rent affordability issues in other housing.

It is very true that many residents of the park would like to speak with the park owners, human to human. They’ve tried but haven’t been able to do it. There is a basic inequality that needs to be recognized. The forces aligned against rent stabilization are wealthy and powerful. The residents of the parks are not. The residents have not been part of the planning process, don’t get to set the agenda or comment on the mediator. The residents don’t have legal representation when they sign leases or agree to meetings. The park owners do.

I believe in consensus but it doesn’t work well in situations of such disparity of power and resources. If this mandate from the council and community development doesn’t pan out, what then?

Mary Ella Anderson is a resident of the Lazy J Mobile Home Park.

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OPINION Apparently there’s some sort of election coming up Yes on Measure F

I am writing this to endorse Measure F and encourage Arcata residents to join me in voting yes on this ballot measure. I sit on the Utility Users Tax Oversight Committee (TUTOC), and I can tell you that without this source of income, we would experience a significant decline in the effectiveness of our police department and a decline in the quality of our streets, roadways, bikeways and pedestrian facilities. The Utility Users Tax contributes many hundreds of thousand dollars to these services.

In fact, without these funds the city would not be able to keep up with basic maintenance of our streets let alone embark on improvements to them. The Oversight Committee was established when the Utility Users Tax was approved and those of us who serve on this committee can verify that the money collected goes toward public safety and transportation infrastructure.

Remember, a yes vote does not create a new tax; it simply extends this revenue source for another 8 years. Please join me and cast a yes vote on Measure F. Steve Cole Sunny Brae

Support Measure V

Is Ordell Murphy really so naive as to think that because his park owner has offered him a long term lease that all 42 of the other park owners in the county will do the same for their park residents?

Is he even aware that the lease his owner has offered him only covers part of what Measure V covers in protecting mobile home park residents?

For instance, if his park owner violates the lease – does it provide for administrative justice, or does he have to hire an attorney at exorbitant rates to represent him in court? I happen to know that he would because I live in his park and have been offered the same lease! Measure V provides for that and more; if Ordell or his heirs sell his home, his lease provides no protections from his park owner jacking up the lot fee for a new buyer, devaluing the home.

Measure V protects all living in all mobile home parks in the un-

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v letterS incorporated areas of Humboldt County, and it provides enforcement should the need arise. Without enforcement, or adequate funding to pay an attorney, those of us in parks are sitting ducks with no protection from exploitation.

Interestingly, the multi-million dollar investment corporation that owns our park never offered a long-term lease until the petition for Measure V got its signatures verified. This is because if they could get away without one, they would, but as soon as they knew for sure an ordinance would be a distinct possibility, they started hustling the leases because the California State Legislature, cow-towing to park owner’s lobbyists, allowed an exemption to municipal ordinances, and that is only if residents sign long-term leases. Many park residents are not aware of this and have signed leases without realizing that they will not get the benefits of the ordinance until their lease runs out.

Hilary Mosher McKinleyville

Hear no evil...

Diane Higgins purports to “correct several disingenuous statements” made by HSU students to the Arcata Economic Development Committee (Union, Sept. 27). She devotes most of her letter to castigating one student in particular over his lament about the lack of hair care products and services in Humboldt County.

Then she proceeds to admonish the students of color for making “unsupported accusations of discrimination and racism,” which she finds “offensive.”

In the coup de grace to this dismissive screed, she opines: “If students can’t handle the slight cultural differences they find in Humboldt County, how will they deal with the vastly different cultures they will encounter in foreign countries? Maybe HSU should provide a course in how to adapt to the environment you are in, rather than expecting the environment to adapt to you.”

Slight? In fact, students of color are facing issues that are all too

real. At the Black and Blue Conference, the students talked about how people have thrown bottles at them out the window of a car, while hurling racial epithets.

Some have been the victims of hate crimes in this county. I have witnessed this myself, and reported one incident to the police.

Students of color have very real issues and concerns about racism, discrimination in housing and lack of job opportunities.

Some end up becoming homeless because certain landlords and property management companies won’t rent to them. They have a harder time finding jobs and acceptance within the community.

Moreover, one in 10 students in the CSU system is homeless.

Food insecurity affects almost a quarter of all students in the CSU. At HSU, 15 percent of students report that they have been homeless at some point in their college careers. And the studies have been done by UC Berkeley and other institutions of higher learning: If you are a person of color, your opportunities for inclusion and success are that much worse. That is not in question.

Yet, we’re admonishing these students to adapt? Perhaps we could take some lessons ourselves.

No matter how welcoming or tolerant we believe ourselves to be, this is the reality for students of color. And no matter what you read in the paper about that meeting, this was what was actually discussed at the AEDC meeting.

Hair care products? Not so much.

If we truly want to be known as a welcoming and tolerant community, we cannot afford to model ourselves after the three monkeys: Hear no evil, See no evil… etc. We should care enough about the very real experiences that Black, Latino, and Native American students are being subjected to, in order to empathize and make a difference.

So please speak out if you see anyone being abused, physically or verbally. Find out how you can be an ally. This community belongs to all of us, and it is up to us to decide what type of community we want to create for ourselves and each other.

Lisa Pelletier Arcata

And now for something completely different

n Facebookland, it’s all so simple.

There’s a deus ex machina for every societal ill – solar roadways, skyscraper farms, pollution-eating robots… and so on. You wonder how these miracle fixes might fare in the real word, and why so few seem to come into common use. Not that I oppose these devices – some of my best imaginary friends are friendly giant robots.

The other day a friend posted a video of the “Silly Crosswalk” in Ørje, Norway. There are others like it elsewhere, too. They seem to work, but it’s the easy alt-reality of the Interwebs, so you never know.

I’d seen this before, but as the comments of “Let’s do this!” piled on, it seemed like something we could at least try here in Arcata. It doesn’t require unproven technology, just some signs and willful silliness.

So I asked representatives of Arcata Main Street (AMS) and Community Pride and Peace (CPP), and they didn’t see any problems. (AMS later stated that they’ll need to take a formal vote before endorsing the project, so they’re out for now, sorry.) Then I went around asking businesses around Eighth and G streets if they had any problems with the idea. Of a dozen or so asked, none had any objections.

Then I took the proposal to the Transportation Safety Committee (TSC), which

advises the City Council on transportation matters, at its regular monthly meeting. Everyone liked the idea in concept, though as I expected, city staff will have to check with the city’s insurance carrier, REMIF, to see if this increases liability in some way. We also have to work out details of the signage.

The best part of the meeting is, unfortunately, lost to history. That was when, after the Silly Crosswalk proposal had been discussed, City Manager Karen Diemer and three other city employees marched through the Council Chamber in incredibly silly fashion. It was the best thing to happen at City Hall since I got the council to “plank” on the dais. Alas, I didn’t have the camera ready, so all we have is memories. That is, until and if we get a real Silly Crosswalk.

I expect we’ll get an update at the next TSC meeting, which takes place Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 4:30 p.m. at City Hall, 736 F St. At right is the proposal presented last week to TSC and local businesses. If you have any comments, send them to the TSC, and/or the Union.

In my wildest dreams, we’d even have silly crosswalking at the designated site, wherever it ends up being, written into the Arcata Municipal Code, with violations subject to a fine. The exemptions to silly walking would be if you can’t or do want to.

But that’s not bloody likely to happen, so I’ll have to content myself with the knowledge that at some point in our future, we might well be able to walk as sillily as we ever wanted to across Eighth Street, in the full knowledge and comfort that it is officially sanctioned and socially acceptable.

It’s fine as it is

We read with dismay today’s front page article in the Union about proposed “improvements” for the Arcata Ball Park/Crabs baseball field.

What’s wrong with it?

We came to live here in Arcata in 2010. We had left Southern California to find a small community with less traffic and more unique events like Crabs baseball, a beautiful Farmers’ Market with live music; a town with tradition and concern for simple pleasures, well worn and maintained.

Every Crabs game was an event with a community feel and appreciation for things like the Crab Grass Band and the national anthem bravely sung by the team itself. We even won the Fifty-Fifty at the final game of the season!

Now we’re to be spared the sight of those cute little toddlers running around because we’ll have child care! We can have luxury boxes! Food trucks! And we can pay more!

In the Southern California school district where I taught.

We had a saying, “They never fix what’s broken, but they always break what’s working.” The Arcata Ball Park is working just fine.

Please don’t try to “Fix it.”

We still have the $400 we won at the Fifty-Fifty. We keep it, rubber bands and all, to remind us of a wonderful time and a wonderful place. But if the city will just leave our ball park alone, we will donate the entire amount back to the Crabs.

Sarah and Ron Edwards Arcata

Support the center

My husband and I attended the meeting Tuesday evening, Oct. 18 at Azalea Hall about the proposed Center at McKinleyville.

This is a proposal to build a facility for staff from the The McKinleyville Family Resource Center, the county Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the Open Door Clinic in one central location so that people in town who need these services can access them more easily. Some services: Child Welfare, Adult Protective services, Nurse-Family Partnership, CalWorks, CalFresh, Medi-Cal, Job Search & Employ-

ment Training, and more.

We were impressed that the planning for this center involved so many different organizations: in addition to the three listed above, MCSD, the Sheriff’s department, and county Public Works were involved.

We see many people in our neighborhood of Calville who are teetering on the edge of poverty.

They may be among the working poor, or just not have jobs; they may have mental, emotional or substance abuse problems (which I believe is largely an effect of poverty, anyway) and many are already living in very poor conditions. I believe that this center could help these people. This would include programs that help with rent or utility bills; there would also be mental health programs, and adult protective services. All these could help people living on the edge from slipping deeper into poverty and homelessness.

We think it is completely appropriate to locate this center in the “center” of town, as proposed.

I believe that it will be a positive place for people to gather, and will not increase crime.

Our reservations: Although this center in McKinleyville is not intended to address homelessness, we would like to see some sort of project that does, as homeless people and transient people are increasingly showing up here.

We also think there might have been more extensive publicity about this project earlier in the planning process.

However this doesn’t diminish the potential value of the center to our community. It’s quite impressive to have the range of agencies that are represented in this planning group. We need more such efforts!

Nancy Correll and Richard Duning McKinleyville Sign your letter to the Mad River Union with a real name and a a city of origin, plus a phone number (which won’t be published) for identity verification. Try and keep your letter to 300 words or so, maybe 500 max. e-mail letters to opinion@ madriverunion.com.

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Services hub stalled over concerns about homeless people Jack Durham Mad RiveR Union

McKINLEYVILLE – Fearing an influx of homeless people, some McKinleyville residents are speaking out against a proposal to locate a social services hub in the middle of town.

Opposition to what’s being called The Center at McKinleyville spurred some residents to go door to door last week and encourage fellow residents to attend a special meeting of the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee on Oct. 19. The outreach was effective, with more than 160 residents filling Azalea Hall to hear a panel presentation on the project, ask questions and provide commentary on the pros and cons of the hub.

The Department of Health & Human Services is proposing to enter into a lease agreement with Cutten-based McKenny Inc. to construct a $2.1 million 13,400-square-foot building at 1615 Heartwood Dr. just west of Burger King. If the proposal is approved by the Board of Supervisors, the department would enter into a 10-year agreement with McKenny Inc. to lease the building, with monthly rent starting at $28,858, increasing yearly based on inflation.

The center would provide a one-stop shop for those needing social services.

Providing services at the building would be Child Welfare Services, Adult Protective Services, the Women, Infants & Children Supplemental Nutrition Program, Nurse-Family Partnership, CalWORKS, CalFresh, Medi-Cal, Job Search and Employment Training and the Children’s Mental Health. The McKinleyville Family Resource Center, now located on Hiller Road, would also move into the new building and provide volunteer opportunities, a food pantry, evening programs and nutri-

been privy to the various planning meetings.

A repeated concern had to do with whether the center would attract homeless people, who some audience members said would loiter around and engage in criminal activities. Others feared that the center would become like the department’s social services office on Koster Street in Eureka, where there’s a nearby homeless camp every night.

But Beck said the situation on Koster Street is not a result of the social services office, but rather a decision by the City of Eureka to allow homeless to camp on the vacant city-owned parcel nearby.

As for The Center in McKinleyville, it will not be providing General Relief, which will remain under the auspices of the Eureka office. A handout provided by the county also states that the center will not provide services specific to homelessness.

That doesn’t mean that homeless people won’t come to the center for services.

Beyer, who runs the McKinleyville Family Resource Center on Hiller Road, said that homeless people may utilize any services that they are eligible for.

Another concern people had was the proposed location of the center. Several people asked why the county had selected the location behind Burger King.

The location is the result of the two proposals the county received after publicly soliciting developers. The county received two proposals – one from McKenny Inc. for the lot behind Burger King, and one from the McKinleyville Family Resource Center for a building near its existing location on Hiller Road. The resource center’s bid was substantially higher. Because of this, the county prefers McKenny Inc. Another wrinkle was brought up at the meeting – it turns out the McKenny lo-

cation is within an area designated as the Town Center in the McKinleyville Community Plan, a document that guides land use in the unincorporated community. What, exactly, this will mean for the project if it moves forward is uncertain.

The McKinleyville Community Plan was painstakingly created by a diverse group of McKinleyville residents over a period of almost 10 years, and finally approved by the Board of Supervisors in December 2002.

An area on both sides of Central Avenue, from Railroad Drive to Heartwood Drive is part of what was designated as the Town Center.

The idea was for the town center to be like a village – walkable and pedestrian friendly, with trails and ample open space, with a mix of commercial buildings and apartments.

The exact details of how this vision would be realized was supposed to be spelled out in an ordinance, which would include building standards and requirements. This ordinance was never created.

Supervisor Sundberg said that the county will need to do some research to find how being in the Town Center would affect the project. The next step is for the project to come before the Board of Supervisors, which has the final say on whether The Center in McKinleyville gets built. The board may decide in November whether to enter into lease negotiations with McKenny Inc. Sundberg said that one option for addressing community concerns is to have language in the lease or have a memorandum of understanding that puts requirements on the center with regard to the services it offers and the activities that would be allowed.

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All of these services are already provided to McKinleyville residents, a third of whom use one or more of the programs. However, the Department of Health & Human Services is based in Eureka. Its employees drive to and from McKinleyville, spending a considerable amount of time driving.

Connie Beck, the director of health & human services, told those in attendance at the meeting that the center would allow the services to be provided more efficiently. The time counselors and case managers spend driving could be used to deliver actual services.

Beck said the reduction in driving time would reduce motor pool costs and staff time, resulting in a savings of $8,104 a month even after paying the monthly rent on the building.

But Beck and others on the panel – including Fifth District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg, Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Miller, and McKinleyville Family Resource Center Executive Director Hillarie Beyer – faced a skeptical crowd.

Asked about how the size of the building was determined, Beck said that planners took into consideration the 45 employees that would be housed there, along with the number of programs. “It was a joint decision with the family resource center, health & human services, Open Door [Health Centers]... and the community, what you all wanted in the center.”

The audience immediately began rumbling in protest, with a woman saying “nobody ever gave us any say so” while several people could be heard deploying the sarcastic “Hello?”

Lack of communication with the public was a common theme through the night, with people saying that they had not heard about the proposed center and had not

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S cream Lab of horrors, haunted ship & more fun stuff EUREKA – The Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum and the Humboldt Bay Air-Sea Naval Museum will present a seaworthy scare this Halloween Season during the “Haunted 1091 Ghost Ship” aboard the Air-Sea Naval Museum’s landing craft vessel docked at the Foot of Commercial Street in Eureka.

In its fourth year of taking the science of fear very seriously with a simple goal of scaring guests, the vessel has been transformed from giving military enthusiasts weekend history tours to a horrifying gore tour for Halloween thrill seekers.

Three decks and seven compartments of the 72-yearold steel navy vessel are designed with an array of hair-raising sights, sounds and chilling skits to evoke the participant’s memory of their worst nightmares.

Nearly 30 deathly and spine-chilling actors make up the volunteer cast for this interactive experience and are aboard to scare teen and adult audiences, not children younger than 12.

The terror begins from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 29 with $10 tickets sold at the dock. Flat shoes are suggested as patrons will travel through the ship via stairwells and bulkheads.

All proceeds benefit the restoration and upkeep of the Maritime Museum historic vessel Stephanie and the Navy Museums Landing Craft 1091. For more information visit facebook.com/haunted1091 or humboldtbaymaritimemuseum.com Kinetic Lab of Horrors The freaks and geeks from the Arcata Kinetic Sculpture Lab invite the public to tour the Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors, the annual FUNdraiser that helps keep the Kinetic Lab up and running.

Guided tours run Friday, Oct. 28; Saturday, Oct. 29; FUN STUFF

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he holidays are upon us. As we begin our stumble toward the new year, we find one reason or another to celebrate, to forget our troubles and to remember we’re alive. Kicking things off we have Halloween, an Americanized version of All Hallows’ Eve, day one of Allhallowtide, three days where Christians remember the dead, including saints (aka hallows), martyrs and the “faithful.”

We celebrate with a holiday party that borrows a lot from Samhain, an ancient Celtic pagan harvest festival that has somehow evolved into going out trick or treating, dressing up in costumes and decorating everything with tons of fake cobwebs.

As you may guess, a lot of money goes into all this. According to the National Retail Federation, Americans will spend a record $8.4 billion on Halloween this year. NRF Prez Matthew Shay tells us, “Retailers are preparing for the day by offering a wide variety of options in costumes, decorations and candy, while being aggressive with their promotions to capture the most out of this shopping event.”

So you’re all dressed up, jacked up on sweets and looking for something to do on the extended Hallows’ holiday weekend. You could start with a

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scary scenario.

The Blue Ox folks have been running a Haunted Mill Tour for weeks with some sort of gory “all new story of passion, deceit and obsession.” That’s Friday and Saturday evening with a grand finale Halloween on X Street in Eureka.

Flatmo and fiends are back with The Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors in Arcata. Expect seriously gruesome stuff, with a musical soundtrack by Dub Cowboy on Friday, then The Dead Drops Saturday, Sunday and Halloween.

Or, one night only, Saturday, at the Sequoia Conference Center (off Myrtle Avenue in Eureka), the Rotary

Club of SW Eureka presents Cirque de Soulless: The Illusion, “Where dreams become real and nightmares come alive … and the face of the clown slips to reveal the dark night of the soul.” Think Cirque Humboldt-style.

For classically kinky sci-fi/horror with song ’n’ dance, the Eureka Theater has a “Frightful Friday Flix” screening of 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Dress up and BYO toast (cocktails etc. available). Or there’s the live in-the-flesh version, The Rocky Horror Show that’s at the end of its run at Ferndale Rep with shows Friday though Sunday. “Audience participation and cosTHE HUM

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ARCATA – The Alibi has donated before to the Breast and Gyn Project. And last week they held an extravaganza with female DJ’s, belly-dancing, and other entertainment “that brought in almost a $1,000 at the door,” according to Catlin Conlin, a waitress at the popular bar.

But The Alibi is hoping to outdo even that on Thursday, Oct. 27 when they will be donating a whopping 25 percent of the day’s proceeds to the project. It’s part of the month-long event called Sales for Survivors.

“We tried to make sure we did it on a day that would be the best benefit for them,” said Justin Ladd, The Alibi’s owner. ‘Halloween weekend is always busy for us so it should be good.”

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EUREKA – As its final production of its highly successful 2016 season, Redwood Curtain presents Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrews, adapted and directed by Peggy Metzger. One of Shakepeare’s most enigmatic comedies, Shrew’s contentious love story continues to engage and surprise. This adaptation features a cast of eight, highlighting the hilarious and fiery love story of sharp-tongued Katharine and the swaggering Petruchio that supposes: just who is taming whom?

Metzger’s approach turns “taming” on its head. “I’ve always thought Petruchio was a swaggering braggart,” said Metger, “and wondered: who really is the shrew? I believe they are meant for each other. It’s really a love story between these two strong-willed people.” Asked if she made changes to the text, Metzger replied, “Aside from trimming and simplifying, I made just a few changes – but the way we are playing it is, I think, very different than how it is usually played. I think those who know the play will be surprised, and everyone will be entertained.”

Metzger trimmed the play so it could be performed by a total of eight actors playing approximately 20 roles – Kate and Petruchio, and six “players” who play all the other parts. James Hitchcock plays the swaggering Petruchio and Natasha White plays the fiery Katherina. The players are Gary Bowman, Bradley Harrington, Charlie Heinberg, Jessi Shieman, Gary Sommers and Greta Turney.

Jared Sorenson created the scenic design, Michael Burkhart the lighting, Bethany Lamoreaux the costumes, and Jon Turney the sound. Yvette Faust stage manages.

The Taming of the Shrews previews on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 27 and 28 at 8 p.m., with $10 tickets; open-

where two raging fires meet together the answer may surprise in redwood Curtain’s adaptation of the Bard’s classic tale, starring Jessi shieman, gary sommers and natasha white. Photo by Evan Wish PhotograPhy ing night with gala champagne reception is Saturday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m., with tickets at $20. Performances continue Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. through Nov 19.

Cheap date Thursdays on Nov. 2, 9 and 16, with two tickets for $20. A 2 p.m. Sunday matinée takes place Nov. 13, with tickets at $15. Ticket price on Friday and Saturday (except gala) nights is $15.

Redwood Curtain is located at 220 First St. (between C and D streets) in Old Town, Eureka, with the main entrance through Snug Alley. As the theatre is intimate with only 80 seats, reservations are highly recommended, and there is no late seating.

Tickets can be reserved or purchased securely at redwoodcurtain.com. You may also reserve tickets by emailing boxoffice@redwoodcurtain.com or calling (707) 4437688.

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tumes encouraged.”

Thursday night at The Jam, Absynth Quartet will probably get dressed up in some strange garb (there’s a skull scarecrow on the poster anyway), but Ryan Roberts is more excited about introducing a new local Americana band, Rogues’ Gallery. The lineup: Michael Walker and Mike Bynum on guitars and vocals, Aleister Paige on pedal steel, Rudy Clark-luera on stand-up bass and Sam Kaplan-Good (from The Trouble) on drums. Michael and Mike, both Georgia boys, share the songwriting and singing duties on the all original songs.

At the Arcata Theatre Lounge Thursday it’s KIMOCK, an augmented duo with Steve on guitar and his son John Morgan Kimock on drums. You might have seen Steve dropping in his liquid licks on Colbert last week behind Bob Weir. This week he’s fronting an eponymous lineup including Leslie Mendelson keys, guitars and vocals and Bobby Vega on bass. Steve has a new album, Last Danger of Frost, and more new songs written with John Morgan and Leslie. Sounds intriguing.

Freaky Friday It’s is another one of those nights where there’s way too much going on.

Local “twang noir” band Moon Pine celebrates a new release, End County Road, at The Sanctuary with Strix Vega opening the show. Check The Setlist for more details. (The Strix bassist writes that column.)

At Humboldt Brews, it’s “cosmic honky tonk” from Edge of the West on tour with Bear Tread, one of those bands with weblike connections to the Dead world. (For some unknown reason, the tour plays The Playroom in Fortuna Thursday.)

Or you might want to check out the pre-Halloween Club Triangle Friday at The Jam. (I predict great costumes.)

It’s classic space rock that night at the

Miniplex with Nik Turner’s Hawkwind backed by Hedersleben from SF. (BTW, a band called Hawkwind, seminal in the nascent UK psych/space rock scene in the ‘70s, still tours with original founder, guitarist and songwriter Dave Brock out front.

This is NOT that band. Nik was the spacey woodwind player.) Openers Los Bears are local and new (to me anyway).

There’s a big reggae show at Blue Lake Casino billed as “Trick or Treat with Anthony B,” which might just mean they’ll have candy and people in costumes.

Openers: Kool Johnny Kool from JA and Humboldt homegrown Irie Rockers.

Meanwhile over in the Wave The Get Down is throwing a funky b-day party for B-Swiz, the keysmaster and all-around funky mover ’n’ shaker. HBD Swiz!

Helleborus, brings psychedelic black metal from Colorado to the Lil’ Red Lion with like-minded locals Burning Hash and Bonewalker adding more heaviness.

KMUD has a big weekend starting with the annual Halloween Boogie at the Mateel on Friday with Trulio Iglesias, a funkadeliska band fronted by bassist Norwood Fisher of Fishbone and reggae toaster King Yellowman with the Sagittarius Band. Then on Saturday, KMUD hosts a Humboldt Halloween benefit at Portuguese Hall (in Arcata) featuring hip hop heavies Dilated Peoples and just about every bass/EDM DJ/producer in Humboldt playing one of three stages (if Silent Disco counts as a stage).

Scary Saturday Saturday Six Rivers Brewery has it’s semi-annual visit from The Pine Box Boys, a fine band playing dark country murder ballads and music appropriate for Hallows along with Lester T. Raww’s Graveside Quartet, which is basically the same band but even more rockin’ and with the banjo replaced by an accordion.

Out at the Blue Lake Casino’s Wave, that dark night, Naive Melodies plays mostly (but not all) Talking Heads music.

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Sunday, Oct. 30; and Monday, Oct. 31 from 7 p.m. until midnight. Tickets are $12 at the door and the minimum age is 13. The lab is located at Eighth and N streets in Arcata. (707) 822-4805 kineticsculpturelab.com Harvest Festival Saturday It will be a bigger and better Harvest Festival Saturday, Oct. 29 at the Arcata Farmers’ Market this year. Not only will there be five categories in the pumpkin contest but there will also be face painting, arts and crafts activities for kids, a bounty basket raffle, and an education area focusing on healthy Halloween ideas.

The festival will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the north side of the Plaza, but the market itself will be open regular hours from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Halloween Parade in McK In celebration of Halloween, McKinleyville Shopping Center will be holding its 32nd Annual Halloween Costume Parade on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 11 a.m.

Children are invited to visit the McKinleyville Shopping Center for a safe and fun trick-or-treating experience. Children should meet by the signs in the parking lot at the Shopping Center before 11 a.m. to join in the fun. The parade starts promptly at 11 a.m. for all participants.

Trick-or-Treating in arcata Arcata Main Street invites families to Trick-orTreat in Downtown Arcata this Halloween, Monday, Oct. 31, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Streets will be closed so families can safely enjoy treats from participating stores and free cider from Arcata Main Street and Wildberries Marketplace. Get your picture taken with Shoshanna, the Halloween Fairy, sponsored by

WandeRing Reel Wandering Reel Traveling Film Festival makes its return to Arcata with a collection of films sure to stir the consciousness of the local community. This year’s program, Mobilize, is a collection of inspiring short films that delve deep into some of our current problems and show that human compassion, curiosity, and a little mobilized action can go a long way to making the world a better place.

Mobilize plays Thursday, Oct.

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Get funky Saturday at the Jam with Lovebush, a big horny band that mixes James Brown funk with Fela’s Afrofunk.

Does that sound like Motherlode? Yes, with only slightly different personnel. (I always thought Motherlode would be a better name for a country band.)

Missing Link Records presents Soul Fright 5 at Humboldt Brews. You know the drill: DJs spinning funk and soul 45s, Halloween themed music, great costumes and “more.” I think five years makes it officially a local institution.

The Trouble has its “5th Annual Halloween Special” at the Palm Lounge. Yes, we’re talkin’ another local institution. Fiddler Rosalind Parducci and the Stringtown Ambassadors share the bill.

Saturday at the Arcata Theatre Lounge the reggae “legend” Don Carlos (of Black Uhuru fame) is in town backed by the Dub Vision Band. You might remember some time this summer I mistakenly reported that Mr. Carlos was playing at the ATL. I was tricked by ReverbNation, a music listing site that allows for what is known as “user submitted content” and suffers from user errors. My apologies for repeating a mistake. This time it’s for real. Really.

Messenjah Selah and the Fyah Squad Band share the bill with DJ Unite from San Diego opening.

Oh What a Beautiful Sunday Morning It’s All Hallows’ Eve Eve or whatever, and you could take a break from partying in your sexy-this-or-that costume, or you could workout at a Zumbathon benefit for the Breast & GYN Health Project (formerly known as Humboldt Community Breast Health Project). It runs noon ’til 2 p.m. at the Bayside Grange and I promise your favorite Zumba leader will be there. They have a Dutch raffle and a silent auction and they insist in all caps, “WEAR A COSTUME,” if only one of those bright-colored spandex things. There’s a special guest appearance by Grrrlz 2 Men, and you know they’ll be in costume.

the Arcata Chamber of Commerce.

Entertainment includes a parade. Please gather at the corner of 11th and H streets at 4 p.m. Halloween music will be provided on the Plaza by KRFH 105 DJs, with dance performances of Thriller at 4:15 and 6 p.m. There will be a Merchant Costume Contest, Giant Puppets from the Arcata Playhouse, police and fire department photo ops, live music, jugglers, bubbles, and much more.

Halloween Carnival The members of Dow’s Prairie Grange in McKinleyville are sponsoring their annual free community Halloween carnival for youth under 12.

From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, Halloween night, Grange volunteers will run games such as the ring toss, duck pond, and Go Fishing so children can win small prizes and candy.

A costume parade and contest will be held at 8:30 p.m. The Dow’s Prairie Grange is located at 3995 Dow’s Prairie Road in McKinleyville opposite the elementary school. dia de los Muertos Arcata Main Street and Los Bagels invite the public to a Celebration of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 6 p.m. on the Arcata Plaza.

Daniela Vargas will guide attendees through this Mexican tradition with spoken word, special guests and other surprises. Bring photos and mementos of deceased loved ones to add to the community ofrenda (altar). Pan muerto and drinks will be served, and candles will be provided, but you can also bring your own.

For information call (707) 822-4500 or visit ArcataMainStreet.com. Los Bagels in Arcata and Eureka have a fresh supply of materials for setting up altars.

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HOTel TRanSylvania The McKinleyville Library, 1606 Pickett Rd., is having a spooktacular family movie day and storytime Friday, Oct. 29 starting at 1 p.m. It all starts with Halloween

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stories, crafts and spooky snacks followed at 2 p.m. by screenings of Hotel Transylvania I and II. Monthly Family Movie Day is sponsored by the Friends of the McKinleyville Library.

BOO aT THe zOO The Sequoia Park Zoo and Foundation invite the community to the annual spooktacular Halloween celebration, Boo at the Zoo, Saturday, Oct. 29 from noon to 4 p.m. Enjoy frightfully delightful crafts in

The ‘Real’ Halloween Monday is the last day in October, which means time for the real deal. It seems like parents now mostly forego door-to-door trick-or-treat in the ‘hood in favor of going store to store. Every business in Arcata, Old Town and the McKinleyville shopping zones will have candy for kids who are dragged around while getting jacked up on sugar. On the Plaza you’ll also find Shoshanna in a Halloween Fairy costume posing with kids Santa style, or maybe you’d prefer the Creamery Giant Skeleton if that’s your style. It’s fun. I promise.

Later that night, when the babysitter is watching your worn out little ones, Booty Shakin’ Productions presents a Humbrews Halloween Party featuring The Human Experience aka EDM musician David Block, a one-man “electronic symphony” from L.A. The lineup also includes psychedelic saxophonist Boa and Amae Love, with The Beat Vixens, a burlesque troupe in some sort of sexy-this-or-that costumes.

At the Jam, Halloween eve is day one of a two-night run by the young, local Grateful Dead tribute Rosewater. It’s a fine way to celebrate Allhallowtide, where we remember the dead, including saints (like Jerry) and the “faithful” (like Deadheads).

Day two is Tuesday night.

Bringing us back to the Christian roots of the holiday, you have Arcata Main Street and Los Bagels, in collaboration with Daniela Vargas, helping you celebrate El Día de los Muertos,, aka The Day of the Dead. Central is a community altar, in Spanish an ofrenda, with “mementos of your deceased loved ones,” photos or other offerings for the Dead. The ofrenda starts in the Arcata Main Street office down the hall from Libation on Tuesday, Nov. 1, and will be brought out on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 6 p.m. on the Arcata Plaza for stories, poetry and appropriate food and drink. Raise a glass or some other biodegradable vessel and toast the dead, who are gone but never forgotten.

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Employees will wear pink and the bar will be serving “silly drinks, like Pink Squirrels and Pink Ladies,” Ladd said.

If you haven’t had the chance to try the watering hole’s great breakfasts, now’s the time to do just that and support the Breast and Gyn Project at the same time. The extensive menu features more than 10 different types of eggs Benedict and this writer has been carefully working her way through the list in order to test each one. So far, they are all delicious, especially the Blue Lake Bennie. Daily specials are listed on the blackboard and the coffee is specially roasted by Kinetic Koffee for the bar. Best of all, breakfast is served all day.

Lunch is also a possibility with French dip and the huge homefries always a great choice.

For those who like to drink their salad, the bar makes a Bloody Mary complete with pickled green beans, celery, and enough other veggies to qualify as a salad bar in itself.

For dinner, friends rave about the blue cheese burgers. the Bat Cave, games, face painting and the animal pumpkin stomp and feed. Creepy snacks and hot apple cider will be available.

Show off your wild side and join the Costume Parade & Contest at 2:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded to children and adults for Tiny Terror (3 years and under), Most Awesome Animal, Most Spooktacular, Most Original, Frightful Family and more … Activities are included with general admission.

Zoo members join the fun for free.

Conlin is glad to be supporting the Breast and Gyn Project.

“I really think they are an amazing organization,” she said.

And she was speaking from personal experience.

“It’s hard when a nurse calls you and tells you that you have cancer and you are left hanging until your appointment with a surgeon, weeks away, Sandy, who owns Ernie’s, said to go to Breast Health,” she said.

“I went there and they got the results from the radiologist faxed over in 10 minutes and went over them with me. I knew I wasn’t going to die.”

Conlin has worked at the bar for three years and also teaches school. She grew up in Arcata.

“They loaned me a book and called me every week. They were really kind,” she said. “It calms you down.”

Connie Jackson, another waitress, echoed her support.

“All of my family has been touched by cancer,” she said.

The Alibi is located at 744 Ninth St, on the Plaza, serving food from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m. with the lounge open until 2 a.m.

HaRveST FeSTival The community is invited to celebrate the fall harvest season at Studio 299, 75 The Terrace in Willow Creek, Saturday, Oct. 29 from 1 to 5 p.m.

Presented in conjunction with Creekside Arts and Education, the Harvest Festival is a free all-ages event that will feature the opening of the gallery’s new art exhibition; an open house for Studio 299’s new Community Kitchen; and food, beer and wine available for purchase. studio299.tripod.com

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M AD R IVER U NION SOUNDS OF SCOTLAND Bagpiper Kevin Moe from Wyoming brought the droning tones of bagpipes to the Plaza recently. Even though he's only "a little Scottish," the bagpipes speak to his inner self.

"I get a feeling in my chest when I hear the music," he said. He plays the pipes in towns for spare change as he travels, and was told that Arcata is "a different city," and "just wait till you get to Arcata."

That proved true. Within minutes of each other, one passerby asked, "You ever get freaky with that thing?" Alas, he didn't define what he meant by "freaky."

Another guy who had been listening nearby expressed gratitude to Moe, saying, "Thanks for encouraging us to have a revolution." Said Moe, "It gets people's attention. I see them drive by and smile, and it makes me happy."

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'Understanding Islam' talk at HSU Humboldt State

ARCATA – On the evening of Tuesday, November 1, the Humboldt State University Religious Studies Department will host a panel discussion and community conversation on the topic of “Understanding Islam.” The event will be held on the HSU campus, in the Kate Buchanan Room. Doors will open at 5:45 p.m., and the evening’s programming will begin at 6 p.m.

Three panelists will speak, each for approximately 20 minutes. Professor Emeritus William Herbrechtsmeier of the Religious Studies Department will begin the evening by providing an introduction to and overview of the basic tenets of Islam.

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Herbrechtshmeier teaches Introduction to Islam, and has presented on topics of Islam and Islamophobia, both on campus and in the community, for over 20 years.

Professor Leena Dallasheh of the History Department will then address the regional history of the Middle East, exploring questions of geography, politics, and colonialism.

Prof. Dallasheh is a recent addition to the HSU faculty, having received a law degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a PhD in the joint History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program at NYU. The evening’s final presenter will be Professor Emeritus Saeed Mortazavi of the HSU School of Business. Professor Mortazavi will discuss political Islam, especially in the Iranian context. He has been a frequent contributor to campus and community discussions about Islam, Shi’ite religious and political thought, and the structure of the government of Iran.

Following presentation, the panelists will take questions from the audience. While the initial individual presentations will help to orient the discussion, this event is dedicated primarily to providing the campus and community with an opportunity to ask questions, in order to increase our collective religious literacy on Islam, a tradition about which there is a great deal of misunderstanding.

On May 1 of this year, the RS Department and the Eureka Interfaith Fellowship co-hosted an event, also titled “Understanding Islam,” which was held at Eureka’s First Congregational Church.

HSU Religious Studies Program Leader Sara Hart says, “The May 1 Event was attended by over 250 people. Clearly, there’s great community interest in the topic, and it’s part of the University’s obligation to the community to make sure that we’re answering to this kind of interest.

Knowing the importance of religious literacy to contemporary voters, we’ve scheduled this follow-up event to take place a week before polls open.”

“Understanding Islam: A Community Conversation” is being held as an event in the RS Department’s Freed Peace and Justice Series, dedicated to mobilizing the combined resources of Religious Studies scholars and faith communities in the interest of fostering peace and justice in our world. Information on the Eric Freed Peace and Justice Award will be available at the event. This event also coincides with HSU’s Campus Dialogue on Race, which has scheduled events from Oct. 31 through Nov. 4, with the goal of fostering racial, social, and environmental justice.

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Thanksgiving Dinner needs you ARCATA – A Community Thanksgiving Dinner open to everyone is being planned for Arcata. Volunteers and business sponsorships are needed to ensure its success.

There are many ways to volunteer, both on Thanksgiving Day and in the days and weeks leading up to the event. Volunteer opportunities include: cooking food for the event, decorating, and food preparation.

Additional opportunities on Thanksgiving Day include set up, serving, kitchen support, door greeters, and clean up.

If you are interesting in volunteering or helping to sponsor the Community Thanksgiving Dinner, call (707) 822-4528 or email arcatahouse3@gmail.com.

Sponsors include United Methodist Church, St, Mary’s Catholic Church, Arcata Presbyterian Church, Humboldt Friends Meeting, Step-Up from HSU, Arcata House Partnership, City of Arcata, Arcata Zen Group. Additional organizations and businesses will be listed with sponsorship.

MEET REYNA GRANDE The HSU English Department Visiting Writers Series presents a reading

by Reyna Grande, award winning novelist and memoirist, on Thursday, Oct. 27 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Goodwin Forum in

ed of an era RADIO WAVES GOODBYE KHSU-BBC Manager Ed Subkis, with Brandi Easter, above, was feted on his retirement from Humboldt State's Diverse Public Radio station last Thursday in the Plaza View Room. Subkis and his wife, Bunny, are moving to Sarasota, Fla., where her family resides. KLH | Union

Nelson Hall at Humboldt State University. Grande’s memoir, The Distance Between Us, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican

immigrant experience.”

The event is free and open to the public. Grande’s books may be purchased at Goodwin Forum on the day of the reading, courtesy of Northtown Books. (707) 8263758, englasa@humboldt.edu.

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HUMBOLDT – Humboldt Sponsors is a volunteer group best known for its killer annual rummage sale every October.

What lots of delighted shoppers don't know is that the group gives over $100,000 a year to youth activities in Humboldt County.

This year the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Youth Choir was blessed to receive a grant from the organization to fund 10 scholarships for youth choir members.

“I’ve been scrambling to get money for kids who need it,” Lorien Sanchez, youth choir director said.

The youth choir is an offshoot of the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir, a group started in 1992 to sing Black gospel music.

“It’s for fun and to have a safe place. I don’t allow anybody to say anything negative about anybody,” Sanchez said.

Prospective youth choir members don't have to be able to read music.

“It’s taught by ear,” she said.

Rehearsals are 45 minutes long, on Thursday nights, at the Arcata Presbyterian Church, 11th and G Streets, starting at 5:45 p.m.

“I ask every kid to come and observe a rehearsal to see if it's something they want to be a part of,” she said. "If they want to join immediately, they are wel-

come," she added.

Rehearsals have started for a season that will include five performances but Sanchez is still happy to take new members. And the Humboldt Sponsors grant may make that possible for children whose families have not been able to afford the $100 yearly dues.

The youth choir has been directed in the past by Bristol Martin, Tosh Martin, and Valetta Molofsky.

Sanchez became involved because her son, Gabe, sang in the choir and “loved it.” She is in her sixth season directing and also sings in the adult choir.

Gabe plays bass in the youth choir band and his younger brother, Tobias, sings in the choir.

“We'd love to have more youth instrumentalists join us, too,” Sanchez said.

Lorenza Simmons is the youth choir's accompanist on piano but Sanchez said she'd “like to have a youth pianist to work with Lorenza, or another guitarist.

My goal is to have an allyouth band.”

Kids from 5 years of age up to 17 can join the choir.

However, 5-year-olds must have a parent stay for the entire rehearsal time.

Besides Sanchez and Simmons, Debbi Kallish and Yemaya Kimmel, members of the adult choir, volunteer to help with the youth choir.

“I think of it as family,”

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Orchestral favorites HUMBOLDT STATE – Welcome cellist and conductor Dr. Garrick Woods to the HSU Department of Music faculty by joining him and the Humboldt Symphony for a concert featuring the familiar and satisfying second movement of Beethoven’s “7th Symphony,” Edvard Grieg’s “Symphonic Dances,”and “Deep Summer Music”

by American composer Libby Larsen.

The concert takes place Saturday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. in Fulkerson Recital Hall. Admission is $8 General, $5 Senior/Child, Free for HSU students with ID. (707) 8263531, patrick@humboldt.edu Sanchez said.

She's grateful to the Humboldt Sponsors for the chance to add new members to the choir.

Those interested in learning more can call (707) 822-4444 or visit the AIGC website, arcatainterfaithgospelchoir.com.

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a humboldt honey No man is an island, entire of itself. – John Donne

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rom wild roots grow gentle flowers, in darkest caves lie gleaming gems, when spent alone, how cold the hours, in light of friendship, said flower stems.

The woods are forgotten, a cage is found, in walks a cat.

Civilization is a difficult place, such faith to trust any but the self, yet irresistible is a familiar face, our guarded nature we learn to shelf.

A lonely chapter ends, a companion-filled one begins, in walks Honey.

Friends; food; faith; we flourish, absorbing energy, one begins to glow, she’s glowing as we continue to nourish, What a home will do, only you can know.

Our door closes, your door opens, in walks your newest friend.

Honey is a female, young adult, seal-point cat currently honey staying at the Companion Animal Foundation thrift store in Sunny Brae.

Honey was found abandoned on woodland property where we humanely trapped her and brought her to CAF. Honey was very thin and shy around people and spent her first few days with us hiding underneath blankets in her pen and eating very little.

However, with patience, she has grown in health and personality, and now roams around as a very beautiful and affectionate store cat who charms every customer she meets. We feel she is ready to leave our care and finally find a permanent, loving home where she can live up to her name every day with her new family. She is spayed and in wonderful health!

To learn more about Honey (or our many other cats and kittens) call (707) 826-7387 or visit our thrift store at 88 Sunny Brae Center in Arcata, or email cafanimals@ gmail.com, visit cafanimals.org, or check out Companion Animal Foundation on Facebook.

W - -W PAWHumboldt Pet Supply, 145 G St., south of Samoa Boulevard in Arcata’s Marsh District, invites you and your furry friends to a Howl-o-ween Paw-ry Sunday, Oct. 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. Enjoy a costume contest for both dogs and cats, tricks for treats, harvest games, a chance to win a fabulous Big Shrimpy bed and partake in goodies from Main Street Barkery as well as refreshments for all. A portion of proceeds benefit Companion Animal Foundation’s new Mobile Unit.

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arilyn MontgomCzarnecki will take place on 7:30 p.m. at Trinidad Library. Merle ery will present a Saturday, October 29 from Shuster shot thousands of stunning free, open-to-all 2 to 4 p.m. at Trinidad Li- aerial photographs of Humboldt lecture on “The Neuroscibrary.

County from the 1940s to the 1960s. ence of Meditation” at TrinCzarnecki structures his The Rohdes will show the images and idad Library on Thursday, memoir writing class on a consider the history they depict.

November 3 from 7 to 8 method used by Japanese It’s an OLLI class ($30 for memp.m. This talk will be an inwriter Yasunari Kawabata bers and $55 for non-members. Call troduction to the practice of called “Palm of the Hand” (707) 826-5880 to register. meditation, with its proven which helps focus the writ.S. oast uard Women benefits for relieving stress er’s energy into completing al at rinidad i ic lub and promoting overall health and short individual pieces about one’s Trinidad Civic Club’s Thursday, well-being. Ms. Montgomery, an RN own life.

November 3 guest speaker is Elizaand midwife, has been teaching mindThe workshops have been success- beth Jones of the U.S. Coast Guard. fulness and meditation practices She’ll present a program at 11 for over 30 years. a.m. on life for U.S.C.G. womAttendees who wish to exen in this important coastal plore this subject further can sign service. up for Marilyn’s course “HardThe business meeting comwiring Happiness” which starts mences at 10 a.m. Tonda Feron Monday, November 7 and rando will preside. Liz Thatchcontinues each Monday through er, Penne O’Gara and Martha November 28 at Trinidad LiSue Davis are hostesses. brary from 2 to 4 p.m. Course allo een Parade registration is through the HSU ctober 1 OLLI program (826-5880). Cost The entire student body and is $65 for OLLI members, $90 staff from Trinidad School will for non-members. parade in costume to the deMarilyn Montgomery studied light of all viewers at about 10 with a number of teachers, in- The Brae Back in The day a Merle Shuster a.m. on Halloween. cluding Jon Kabat Zinn, Thich photo of ancient Sunny Brae. Photo by MerThe parade starts at the Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama. le ShuSter | huMboldt State library SPecial collectionS school and commences down Since becoming a senior, her exTrinity to Main to Saunders perience of the power of these prac- ful in helping people to writing about Plaza and then back to school via tices in bringing a deeper sense of life experiences whether for family View, East and Edwards Streets. inner peace, self acceptance and well members or a wider audience.

Don’t miss this annual spectacle of being inspires her to share them with The Poets and Writers series is the latest in frightening or funny Halothers. supported in part by grants from The loween garb. o More rinidad ranch James Irvine Foundation and the Lions Club treats children to apple ibrary ents Hearst Foundation. cider and popcorn at the Club Room, “Palm of the Hand Memoir Writ“Shuster Shoots Humboldt Coun- Town Hall, starting at dusk during ing Workshop” facilitated by poet, ty” with Jerry and Gisela Rohde is Trick or Treating excursions around publisher and oral memoirist Michael set for Wednesday, Nov. 2 from 5 to town.

O BITUARIES iann . o ran Diann E. DoBran passed away Oct. 21, 2016. She was born in Columbus, Ohio on Oct. 28, 1941 to Paul and Hedwig Elliott. She was married to Michael C. DoBran on Dec. 31, 1960 and was just shy of celebrating their 53rd Anniversary before his passing on Oct. 20,

2013.

Diann was a feisty 4 foot, 9 inch grandma who loved her family unconditionally. She loved to roller skate and, as a youth. was a member of the 1958 San Bernardino, Calif. semi-pro roller skating team. She would embarrass her kids

by chaperoning their class field trips to the roller rink and be the only parent to do the Hokey Pokey with great joy! She proudly retired as a Postmistress of the US Postal Service in 2000. Boy she’d better never catch you calling third-class mail “junk mail”!

She is survived by her three daughters, Paulanne Oakes of Elyria, Ohio, Lola (Jerry) Alto of Arcata and Diann A. DoBran of Arcata and five grandchildren Issac Oakes, Amanda (Craig) Speicher of Ohio and Scott, Sarah and Shayla Alto of Arcata.

Vi ian arson ie ler Vivian Larson Ziegler, aged 96, passed peacefully at her home Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the company of family after a life filled with grace, kindness and concern for those around her. She enjoyed a life-long passion for people, history, art, travel, politics, and especially her family and friends.

Born in 1920, Vivian was the fifth and last child born to Anna Elizabeth and Louis Larson at the family home in Bayside. Louis arrived on the North Coast in 1888 from Varmland, Sweden, and was followed by Anna who was from Smaland, Sweden in 1900. The family hosted Swedish relatives and friends as Vivian was growing up on Fickle Hill, and continuing visits of relatives over many decades were among her great joys.

She attended Arcata schools, graduating in 1937 from Arcata High School and played clarinet in the marching band at the dedication of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. Vivian then went on to Humboldt State Teachers College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a teaching credential, graduating in 1941.

While a student, she directed a drama production at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition at Treasure Island in 1939. Vivian’s teaching career began that year at Patrick’s Point School and continued at Pacific Union School where her great passion was teaching kindergarten and exploring new educational techniques until she retired in 1975.

Vivian met her husband of sixty years, William (Bill) E. Ziegler, at Humboldt State and they were mar-

ried in 1942. Bill died in 2002. Together, Bill and Vivian enjoyed many common interests together including gardening, art – sketching and painting together - and they traveled extensively across the United States and around the world. Over the years, she earned many awards for her flower arrangements and cultivation of beautiful rhododendrons. She and Bill especially enjoyed friendships around gardening, politics and travel. They shared an active passion for Democratic politics throughout their lives, and Vivian fondly remembers seeing President Roosevelt in Colorado Springs in 1942 – voting for him as her first vote, and some 50 years later also met President Clinton at the White House. She cast her last vote for Hillary Clinton.

She was preceded in death by her siblings Rudolph, Laverne, Juanita and James Larson. She is survived

by three children, Jeffrey and Joel of Arcata, along with Jay, and her daughter-in-law, Carri Ziegler of Davis, California. She is also survived by nephew Lincoln Steffens of Calgary, Canada and his family along with seven Ziegler grandchildren: Milo of Seattle; Morgan and his wife Jennifer, and great grandson, Jordan of Olympia; Amelia and William of Davis; Erin and Sianna Ziegler; and Dulce Ziegler of Eureka, her fondest companion in recent years. She enjoyed her last visit on Monday with Dulce, second cousin Julie Villegas and her husband Richard.

As Vivian passed, she noted, that she feels quite grateful that there are people she remembers dating from 1888 in Arcata’s colorful local history – especially from Fickle Hill and Arcata.

Benefitting from a remarkable memory and style to her final days, she recently documented her family’s migration from Sweden and has articles pending publication in the coming months in the Humboldt Historian. She – and our family - are very grateful for the loving care of her caregivers in the past year.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be directed to Hospice of Humboldt County, the Humboldt County Historical Society, the Humboldt County Library Foundation, and the Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation.

We will miss Vivian tremendously and a celebration of her life is planned for the Thanksgiving weekend in Arcata.

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ARCATA – The community is warmly invited to The Lutheran Church of Arcata’s Oktoberfest German Dinner Saturday, Oct. 29. Lovers of German cuisine give this dining experience high marks for food quality and authenticity, and tickets to the event have been quick to sell out since the congregation’s inaugural Oktoberfest in 2009. Those interested in attending are encouraged to make reservations post haste.

Oktoberfest 2016 features an authentic seasonal German menu showcasing Sauerbraten pork roasts marinated for a full week in a traditional wine-vinegar-spice brine; rich gingersnap gravy; homemade Spätzle (German pasta sautéed in butter); sweet-and-sour red cabbage (Susssaures Rotkraut); crisp and tangy German-style green

salad with a sharp Bavarian vinaigrette and garden-fresh bacon-pear green beans (Birnen, Bohnen und Speck).

Accompanying this meal will be two freshly-baked German breads, Vollkornbrot and Sonnenblumenbrot, prepared especially for the dinner by Arcata’s Beck’s Bakery, and crafted from regionally grown and locally ground grains.

The breads, based on traditional German recipes, will be baked the very morning of the event, and, in addition to being served with the meal, loaves will be available for sale, while supplies last.

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The Oktoberfest meal is served tableside, family-style.

Bavarian and fall-themed décor plus live accordion music complete the event’s festive Old World atmosphere. The reservation-only dinner will be presented in three seatings: 3, 4:30 and 6 p.m.

The cost is $18/$9 for students and kids. After expenses, funds raised at The Lutheran Church of Arcata’s Oktoberfest 2016 will be dedicated to Christian service and outreach in the greater Arcata community.

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L EGAL N OTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 16-00586 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ThE BIg BlUE CAFE 846 g STrEET ArCATA, CA 95521 jEFF l. kUNklE 399 TANglEwOOd rOAd ArCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/jEFF kUNklE, OwNEr This statement was filed with the humboldt County Clerk on OCT. 4, 2016 kEllY E. SANdErS SC dEPUTY ClErk 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/02

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 16-00591 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ThE COMMUNITY CUPBOArd 839 NINTh STrEET ArCATA, CA 95521 P.O. BOx 1034 ArCATA, CA 95518 AlEC M. hOwArd 1166 h STrEET ArCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/AlEC hOwArd, OwNEr This statement was filed with the humboldt County Clerk on OCT. 6, 2016 kEllY E. SANdErS gw dEPUTY ClErk 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/02

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 16-00578 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OFF ThE grId 2346 wOOd ST. EUrEkA, CA 95501 jENNIFEr d. kOOPMAN 2346 wOOd ST. EUrEkA, CA 95501 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/jENNIFEr kOOPMAN, OwNEr This statement was filed with the humboldt County Clerk on SEPT. 28, 2016 kEllY E. SANdErS SC dEPUTY ClErk 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/02

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 16-00598 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: IN gOOd hANd 2928 MACk rd. #A ArCATA, CA 95521 lISA j. rOBINSON 2928 MACk rd. #A ArCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/lISA j. rOBINSON, OwNEr This statement was filed with the humboldt County Clerk on OCT. 12, 2016 kEllY E. SANdErS SC dEPUTY ClErk 10/19, 10/26, 11/02, 11/09

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 16-00583 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MYSTIC rOSE 50 SCENIC drIVE TrINIdAd, CA 05570 EMIlY M. CASSElMAN 50 SCENIC drIVE TrINIdAd, CA 95570 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/EMIlY M. CASSElMAN, OwNEr This statement was filed with the humboldt County Clerk on SEPT. 30, 2016

kEllY E. SANdErS gw dEPUTY ClErk 10/19, 10/26, 11/02, 11/09

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 16-00600 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: rOrOBOT 1470 SPEAr AVENUE ArCATA, CA 95521 rAChEl V. CONrAd 1470 SPEAr AVENUE ArCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/rAChEl CONrAd, OwNEr This statement was filed with the humboldt County Clerk on OCT. 12, 2016 kEllY E. SANdErS AA dEPUTY ClErk 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 16-00615 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: COASTlINE SUPPlY COMPANY 1785 lAZZAr lANE MCkINlEYVIllE, CA 95519 PAdrE A. rOTh 1785 lAZZAr lANE MCkINlEYVIllE, CA 95519 This business is conducted by: An Individual S/PAdrE A. rOTh, OwNEr This statement was filed with the humboldt County Clerk on OCT. 20, 2016 kEllY E. SANdErS gU dEPUTY ClErk 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16

OrdEr TO ShOw CAUSE FOr ChANgE OF NAME IVY MAThENY SUPErIOr COUrT OF CAlIFOrNIA COUNTY OF hUMBOldT CASE NO. CV160816 TO All INTErESTEd PErSONS: 1.

Petitioner IVY MAThENY has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: IVY jOSEPhINE MAThENY to Proposed name IVY jOSEPhINE MAThENY NOrTh. 2. ThE COUrT OrdErS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court, located at 825 5th Street, Eureka, California, at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the application should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. date: November 14, 2016 Time: 1:45 p.m. dept.: 8 3. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this

county: Mad river Union. date: SEP. 26, 2016 dAlE A. rEINhOlTSEN judge of the Superior Court 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26

OrdEr TO ShOw CAUSE FOr ChANgE OF NAME jUlIE SlATEr SUPErIOr COUrT OF CAlIFOrNIA COUNTY OF hUMBOldT CASE NO. CV160815 TO All INTErESTEd PErSONS: 1.

Petitioner jUlIE SlATEr has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: jUlIE NIChOlE SlATEr to Proposed name jUlIE NIChOlE SlATEr NOrTh. 2. ThE COUrT OrdErS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court, located at 825 5th Street, Eureka, California, at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the application should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. date: November 14, 2016 Time: 1:45 p.m. dept.: 8 3. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Mad river Union. date: SEP. 26, 2016 dAlE A. rEINhOlTSEN judge of the Superior Court 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26

OrdEr TO ShOw CAUSE FOr ChANgE OF NAME jASON COlE BEhlEr SUPErIOr COUrT OF CAlIFOrNIA COUNTY OF hUMBOldT CASE NO. CV160845 TO All INTErESTEd PErSONS: 1. Petitioner jASON COlE BEhlEr has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: jASON COlE BEhlEr to Proposed name jASON COlE dANIElS. 2. ThE COUrT OrdErS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court, located at 825 5th Street, Eureka, California, at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the application should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written

objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. date: November 21, 2016 Time: 1:45 p.m. dept.: 8 3. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Mad river Union. date: OCT. 05, 2016 dAlE A. rEINhOlTSEN judge of the Superior Court 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9

rEQUEST FOr OrdEr MOdIFICATION ChIld CUSTOdY SUPErIOr COUrT OF CAlIFOrNIA hUMBOldT COUNTY CASE NO. Fl110286 Petitioner: Tom Belisle resondent: Ashley Soza 1. TO: Tom Belisle 2. A hearing on this request for Order will be held as follows: date: 5-02-16 Time:1:30 p.m. dept. 6 at Superior Court of California, County of humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, CA 95501. rEQUEST ANd OrdEr TO CONTINUE hEArINg ANd ExTENd TEMPOrArY EMErgENCY (Ex PArTE) OrdErS 1. Name of person making the request: Ashley Soza.

2. The court has issued emergency (ex parte) orders on my request for Order (form Fl-300) on: 3. I request that the court continue the hearing date of the request for Order (form Fl-300).

4. I request the continuance because a. The papers could not be served as required before the hearing date on Petitioner.

5. The request to continue is grANTEd. The hearing on the request for Order and temporary emergency (ex parte) orders is continued as follows: date: 11-14-16 Time: 1:30 p.m. dept. 6 at the street address of the court shown above.

6. The temporary emergency orders expire on: 10/5, 10/12, 10/29, 10/26

MONTANA 11Th jUdICIAl dISTrICT COUrT FlAThEAd COUNTY OrdEr TO ShOw CAUSE Cause No.: dr.08.022A In re the Parenting of: minor child(ren); Tressa l. Schutter, Petitioner and richard l. jones jr., respondent.

Based on the Petitioner’s Motion and Supporting Affidavit, this Court finds good cause for hearing the Motion to Amend Parenting Plan.

This Court orders: 1. A hearing on this matter is scheduled for: • Date: 10/27/16 • Time: 8:30 a.m.

• Place: Flathead County Courthouse 2. To the person who did not file the Motion to Amend Parenting Plan in this case: You should go to the scheduled hearing and tell the Court if there are any reasons why the

other parent’s Proposed Amended Parenting Plan should not be granted. If you do not appear, the Court may grant the other parent’s motion by default judgment.

3. To the person who filed the Motion to Amend Parenting Plan: You must go to the hearing and tell the Court why your motion should be granted. You must also personally serve a copy of this Order to Show Cause on the other parent at least ten (10) days before the hearing. date: 10/4/2016 s/Amy Eddy district Court judge 10/12, 10/19, 10/26

lEgAl NOTICE NOTICE IS hErEBY gIVEN that the undersigned, STANwOOd A. MUrPhY, jr. and PAMElA j.

MUrPhY, as the Trustors, created the “BAhAMA MAMA NEVAdA TrUST,” dated September 21, 2016, which is a self-settled spendthrift trust, pursuant to Nevada revised Statutes 166.010 through 166.170.

STANwOOd A. MUrPhY, jr. and PAMElA j. MUrPhY, the Trustors of the Trust have transferred property to this Trust on or about the date that this Trust was created, and will make additional transfers of property in the future. All inquiries in relation to this Trust shall be directed to jEFFrEY BUrr, lTd., 2600 Paseo Verde Parkway, henderson, Nevada 89074. dATEd this September 21, 2016. s/STANwOOd A. MUrPhY, jr. s/PAMElA j. MUrPhY Inquiries should be delivered to: jason walker, Esq. jEFFrEY BUrr, lTd. 2600 Paseo Verde Parkway henderson, Nevada 89074 Attorney for Trustee 10/12, 10/19, 10/26

CITATION FOr PUBlICATION UNdEr wElFArE ANd INSTITUTIONS COdE SECTION 294 Case Name: jAMES T. hASTINgS Case No.: jV150223 1. To james hastings, aka james hastings, jr. and anyone claiming to be a parent of james T. hastings born on 11/19/2009 at St. joseph hospital, Eureka, CA. 2. A hearing will be held on december 19, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. in dept. 7 located at Superior Court of California, County of humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, CA 95501, juvenile division, 2nd floor.

3. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

4. The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

5. You have the right to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be repre-

sented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford to hire one, the court will appoint an attorney for you.

6. If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final.

7. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

ATTOrNEY FOr: ChIld wElFArE SErVICES jEFFrEY S. BlANCk, COUNTY COUNSEl #115447 dEBrA AVENMArg, dEPUTY COUNTY COUNSEl #271366 825 FIFTh STrEET EUrEkA, CA 95501 (707) 445-7236 dATE: OCT O4, 2016 Clerk, by kim l. Bartleson, deputy 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/02

OrdEr ON rEQUEST TO CONTINUE hEArINg CV160436 Filed: Oct. 14, 2016 Superior Court of California, humboldt County PrOTECTEd PErSON: diane dolores Tracy rESTrAINEd PArTY: Trinity Mabry PArTY SEEkINg CONTINUANCE: I am the protected party. diane dolores Tracy P.O. Box 1396 hOOPA, CA 95546 OrdEr ON rEQUEST FOr CONTINUANCE The hearing on this matter was scheduled for Oct. 11, 2016 at 1:45 p.m. The request for the continuance was granted as set forth below.

OrdEr FOr grANTINg CONTINUANCE ANd NOTICE OF NEw hEArINg The court hearing on the request for Civil harassment restraining Orders continued and rescheduled as follows: Nov. 28, 2016 at 1:45 p.m. in Superior Court of California, humboldt County, 825 Fifth St., Eureka, CA 95501 The extended Temporary restraining Order (form Ch-110) expires at the end of this hearing. rEASONS FOr ThE CONTINUANCE: The continuance is needed because Trinity Mabry was not served before the current hearing date. An Order on Ex Parte Application for Order for Publication was filed on Oct. 11, 2016.

ExTENSION OF TEMPOrArY rESTrAININg OrdEr. Extension of the Temporary restraining Order issued May 24, 2016 until the new hearing date is: grANTEd. There are no changes to the TrO except the expiration date.

SErVICE OF OrdEr: Pursuant to the Order on Ex Parte Application for Publication filed herein on Oct. 11, 2016, service of this Notice of New hearing date and Order on re-issuance shall be served by publication, MANdATOrY ENTrY OF OrdEr into CArPOS through ClETS date: 10/13/16 dale A. reinholtsen Judicial Officer 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16

NOTICE OF PETITION TO

ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DORIS ALLEN-LANDAY CASE NO.: PR160297 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: dOrIS AllEN-lANdAY. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ShErrY ANN rIChTEr & APrIl S. AllEN in the Superior Court of California, County of hUMBOldT. The Petition for Probate requests that: ShErrY ANN rIChTEr & APrIl S. AllEN be appointed as personal representatives to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: date: dec. 1 2016 Time: 2:00 PM dept.: 8 Address of court: Superior Court of California, County of humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, CA, 95501.

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

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form dE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petittion or account as

provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Filed Oct. 19, 2016 in Superior Court of California, humboldt County.

Attorney for the petitioner: ArThUr NIElSEN gAlE & NIElSEN 2850 hArrIS STrEET EUrEkA, CA 95503 (707) 269-0167 10/26, 11/2, 11/9

Mad river YSl Annual general Meeting 11/8/2016 6:30 pm At little learners, 5050 Valley East Blvd, Arcata CA Nominees for directors and bylaw amendments: visit www.mrysl.net 10/26

CITY OF ArCATA lEgAl NOTICE INTrOdUCTION OF OrdINANCE NO. 1479 I hereby certify that at a regular meeting held on October 19, 2016, the Arcata City Council introduced Ordinance No. 1479, summarized below, An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Arcata Amending the Arcata Municipal Code, pertaining to Flood hazard Mitigation Standards, at which time the reading in full thereof was unanimously waived and approval granted for reading the ordinance by title only. The motion to introduce Ordinance No. 1479 was passed by the following vote: AYES: Pitino, Pereira, winkler, wheetley. NOES: None.

ABSENT: Ornelas. ABSTENTIONS: None. kara Newman-Ferdolage, deputy City Clerk, City of Arcata Summary of Ordinance No. 1479 If adopted, this ordinance will amend the City of Arcata’s Flood hazard Mitigation Standards, to include minor mapping changes clarifying the flood hazard zones and making a change in the flood elevation bench mark. Additionally, some areas incorrectly included on the flood hazard areas are being removed, and areas which have been modified through the flood plain alteration process, letter of map revision (lOMr) are being added.

The full text of Ordinance No. 1479 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. 1479 may be considered for adoption at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Arcata City Council to be held on November 2, 2016, and, if adopted at that time, would take effect November 2, 2016.

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CITY OF ArCATA lEgAl NOTICE AdOPTION OF OrdINANCE NO. 1477 I hereby certify that at a regular meeting held on October 19, 2016, the Arcata City Council

adopted Ordinance No. 1477, summarized below, An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Arcata Amending Arcata Municipal Code Title Ix – land Use Code, Section 9.12.020, Zoning Map, to rezone the lima Property, 25 California Avenue, APN 503-291-009, at which time the reading in full thereof was unanimously waived and approval granted for reading the ordinance by title only. The motion to adopt Ordinance No. 1477 was passed by the following vote: AYES: Pitino, Pereira, winkler, wheetley.

NOES: None. ABSENT: Ornelas.

ABSTENTIONS: None. kara Newman-Ferdolage, deputy City Clerk, City of Arcata Summary of Ordinance No. 1477 Ordinance No. 1477 amends the land Use Code to rezone a portion of the following property from Natural resource-Timber Production (Nr_TP) to residential Very low density (rVl): lima Property, 25 California Avenue, APN 503-291-009.

The full text of Ordinance No. 1477 is available for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk, Arcata City hall, 736 F Street, Arcata, CA, Monday through Friday, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Ordinance No. 1477 will take effect November 18, 2016. kara Newman-Ferdolage, deputy City Clerk, City of Arcata 10/26

PUBlIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANCY ON ThE TrINIdAd PlANNINg COMMISSION ThE CITY OF TrINIdAd IS CUrrENTlY SEEkINg INdIVIdUAlS TO FIll (2) VACANCIES ON ThE TrINIdAd PlANNINg COMMISSION. TErM: Through dECEMBEr 2022 SENd A lETTEr OF INTErEST, INClUdINg QUAlIFICATIONS, TO ThE CITY ClErk AT: CITY OF TrINIdAd P.O. BOx 390 TrINIdAd, CA 95570 Or YOU MAY dElIVEr ThE lETTEr IN PErSON TO: TrINIdAd CITY hAll 409 TrINITY STrEET TrINIdAd, CA Or YOU MAY EMAIl IT TO: CITYClErk@TrINIdAd.CA.gOV ThE dEAdlINE FOr FIlINg IS 2:00 PM, FrIdAY, NOVEMBEr 04, 2016, Or UNTIl POSITIONS ArE FIllEd. QUAlIFIEd APPlICANTS MUST lIVE wIThIN ThE CITY lIMITS Or grEATEr TrINIdAd ArEA. FOr AddITIONAl INFOrMATION Or QUESTIONS, PlEASE CAll 677-0223. gabriel Adams - Trinidad City Clerk 10/26

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HUMBOLDT – Earlier this month, 24 local individuals representing 16 different public and private workplaces completed the U.S. Zero Waste Business Council’s Zero Waste Business Associates course, organized by Zero Waste Humboldt.

The all-day training at the Humboldt Area Foundation included volume-weight conversion resources and calculations, standard metrics, monitoring tools and templates for establishing baseline data to track waste reduction, materials reuse, recycling and composting progress over time. Trainers Gary Liss and Marialyce Pedersen also presented scorecard and validation procedures used for facilities applying for formal Zero Waste certification.

Staff from Humboldt State University, the cities of Blue Lake, Arcata and Eureka, North Coast Co-op, Open Door Clinic, Clearwater Sciences, Compost Revolution, Hospice of Humboldt, Cali Cubes, Six Rivers Brewery, Blue Lake Casino & Hotel, Northcoast Horticulture Supply, Juliette P. Bohn Consulting, Los Bagels and HSU Housing & Dining Services participated in

MORE PEOPLE WORKING FOR LESS WASTE Program graduates, trainers and organizers from a recent Zero Waste Humboldt training. Submitted photo this training. Zero Waste Humboldt will follow up to support their waste reduction work with online information exchange and regular opportunities for Zero Waste professional development and socializing.

Zero Waste Humboldt will invite the public to join the group in an upcoming quarterly movie night series. To learn more about Zero Waste training opportunities and technical assistance for your workplace, events planning or school, email contact@zerowastehumboldt.org or visit Zero Waste Humboldt’s Facebook page for regular announcements.

COOL & CREEPY Come and join the HSU Natural History Museum, Saturday Oct. 29 from noon to 3 p.m. for a Cool and Creepy Discovery Day! There will be several hands-on games and activities for kids of all ages including making slime, paper bats, and a “Cretaceous Critter” mask.

See a real human skeleton and stick your hand in a “box for the brave.” Enjoy preserved spiders, exotic skins and skeletons, glow in the dark minerals, and much more to view!

Everyone is encouraged to come in costume. $3 for each participant. Accompanied adults and members are free.

(707) 826-4479, humboldt.edu/natmus maRsh tOuR Friends of the Arcata Marsh sponsors a free tour of the Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary Saturday,

CAMP JACOBY The Jacoby’s Storehouse gazebo hosted emissaries from Redwood National Park during October’s Arts! Arcata. Lead Park Guide Carey Wells, left, and Park Guide Juana Anzada, right, offered arts and crafts for children and a faux campfire for everyone to warm themselves on the chilly fall night.

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the National Park Service this year, the nearby wilderness features the world’s tallest trees, hiking, camping and more. nps.gov/ redw KLh | union

Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. Meet leader Jane Wilson at the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute walk focusing on the history or ecology of the Marsh. Loaner binoculars available with photo ID. (707) 826-2359 sIERRa CLuB hIKE The North Group Sierra Club invites the public to a Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park hike on the Hobbs-Saddler-Trestle Trails on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Meet at 9 a.m. at Ray’s Valley West parking lot or 10:30 a.m. at the trailhead at Mill Creek Campground Road gate (off U.S. Highway 101, 7.6 miles north of Wilson Creek.)

This moderate, six- mile hike has 800 feet altitude variation. Starting within a ridgeline swath of old growth, the hike will enter maturing second-growth, descending even-

tually to lush creek side flats. The trail broadly skirts the campground, fords Mill Creek, then returns upwards via switchbacks (some steep) through rugged forest to close the loop. Bring water, lunch, hiking footwear. Steady rain cancels. No dogs. For more information, contact leader Melinda at (707) 668-4275 or mgroomster@gmail.com.

DEaD BED? It’s frightening that some folks are still sending their old mattresses to their final resting place – a grave in the local landfill. But there’s good news for those dead beds! The Bye Bye Mattress program will recycle it for free and it can come back to life as new, usable raw material.

Give your mattress its rest at Humboldt Recycling LLC, 2585 Central Ave. in McKinleyville. ByeByeMattress.com

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