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LymeTime

This is SO excellent and so is the book (“Bugging Out,” Oct 9).

I can answer some of the confusion and skepticism. (I‘ve written about this elsewhere.) There are other admitted cases of the government exposing citizens to pathogens in the Bay Area. I have not yet seen anyone compare how Borrelia has moved into other ticks around the world, all in the Ixodes genera, including three new species infected in China, Ixodes ricinus in Europe, etc. As to their saying it’s always been here…. including in 5,000-year-old Oetzi in the Alps…. no it hasn’t. It can be very easily traced from creation to now.

Burgdorfer having Parkinson’s is interesting since a lot of it is misdiagnosed Lyme (as is Alzheimer’s, like with Kris Kristoffersen, MS, ALS, etc.).

The EBRPD seems to know more than doctors, including that Lyme is sexually transmittable like its cousin, Syphilis. Most doctors have no idea. There isn’t supposed to be

much here, but I sure know a lot of friends with it.

Those of us who have been around a long time remember when there was no Lyme and no ticks like what we see now, in the East, Midwest, California. When we’re gone, it will be easier to convince people that it’s always been here.

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I couldn’t disagree more with Ms. Gauthier (“Hero & Zero,” Oct. 2).

If Big 5 has managed to sell guns without incident for this long, they should be in the “Heroes” category for being an ethical and responsible gun ownership resource. At a time when brick and mortar businesses are struggling, we should not be going after a store that has done nothing wrong and has provided many local teens with their first job. Ms. Gauthier and the other busybodies should find something else to be outraged over.

Phil Henry, Terra Linda Class of ’94.

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Heroes &Zeroes

By Nikki Silverstein

The Novato Police Department and the California Highway Patrol’s Marin office team up to present Start Smart, a free driver-safety class designed for drivers or soonto-be drivers, ages 15–19, and their parents. This highly impactful interactive traffic-safety program aims to eliminate high-risk driving behaviors that cause accidents, injuries and even deaths.

The two-hour class takes place on Saturday, Oct. 26, from 10am to noon at the Hamilton Community Center in Novato. Teens must bring a parent or guardian and seats are limited. To register, visit eventbrite.com and search for Start Smart Novato.

Some simpletons decided to shoot off fireworks in Mill Valley last Tuesday evening, right in the middle of our dry, hot weather.

The fire started a few minutes later, burning vegetation on the edge of Fern Canyon Road before moving downhill into heavy brush. As the wind blew, fire whirls visible from Highway 101 developed, scaring the bejeezus out of people.

The Mill Valley police and fire departments responded immediately.

Firefighters from Marin County and a special strike team joined them to help battle the blaze. Within 35 minutes, these amazing firefighters stopped the progress of the fire and contained it at one-quarter of an acre. With the fire doused, two fire engines stayed on scene all night to ensure the fire didn’t rekindle. A total of 23 fire resources responded to protect us from a potential out-of-control wildfire.

Mill Valley police and fire personnel determined that used fireworks and sparklers found on Fern Canyon Road were the cause of the fire. Authorities are not amused and wish to pursue criminal charges against the firebugs. If you have info or security camera footage, turn in these hooligans who put us at risk. Call Detective Ryan Smith at 415.389.4100.

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Upfront Unbridled urchins are a menace to aquatic plants and abalone.

Urchin Matters Prickly sea creatures yield gourmet gonads in Bodega Bay By Alastair Bland

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ome breathe through scuba gear, while others hold their breath—and each carries a large rock.

Until several years ago, these recreational divers preferred to spend a weekend visit to the North Coast diving for abalone—the giant, prized sea snails. This last month, though, they spent hours smashing purple sea urchins.

“We’ve been hearing other divers already saying they’re seeing fewer urchins,” says Josh Russo, the president of the Watermen’s Alliance, a diving advocacy group, and the chief organizer of the urchin smashing outings.

Russo’s group represents just one faction of a broader community of divers, commercial fishermen, biologists and state officials hoping to cull a plague of millions of purple urchins laying waste to the North Coast’s once lush and abundant kelp forests, bringing down an entire ecosystem with the iconic macroalga.

Another, very separate and more complex urchin-culling project is still in its planning stages at the Bodega Marine Laboratory, in Bodega Bay. Here, Laura RogersBennett, an environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, helps feed and fatten hundreds of purple urchins,

captured off nearby rocky reefs, in tanks of seawater. Urchins are valued for their richly flavored golden gonads, or uni. But because these urchins ate their own food supply down to the bare rock, they now persist in a semi-starved state; their gonads have shriveled, turning gray and worthless.

But Rogers-Bennett says it takes less than three months to restore them to health, and culinary value, on a diet of dried seaweed pellets. The project is part of an experimental collaboration with a Norwegian company called Urchinomics, which is pursuing a unique business model of making

food source depleted they have starved and died by the millions. Urchins, though, can live for years without eating solid food. For now, the semistarved urchins rule the seafloor, eating any sprouts of kelp that appear and thereby keeping the ecosystem locked in its gray and dreary, barren state.

Red sea urchins have also been impacted by the purple urchin scourge. Larger than the purple urchins, reds were until recently the valuable core of a small but thriving commercial market. Now, like the purples, the reds have little to eat, and their prized gonads have withered into unappetizing strips of gray flesh.

The North Coast’s commercial urchin diving economy has collapsed.

When—and if—all this will change is not clear. Urchin barrens have lasted for decades in other regions, making the future of California’s coastal marine environment look bleak.

“These urchin barrens are very different from the barrens we’ve seen before in Southern California, where they were patchy and very small and the kelp system would often bounce back the next year,” Rogers-Bennett says. “These barrens are much more extensive and long-lasting.”

In Van Damme cove, a few miles south of Fort Bragg, Russo anchored four buoys to mark a large quadrant inside of which he and other volunteer divers smash urchins by the thousands. Russo’s plan, independent of more formally guided initiatives, is to create a clearing in the urchin barrens where kelp can potentially take root and grow.

“It can’t recover if it can’t even start growing,” he says.

The daily recreational bag limit on purple urchins is 35. However, an addendum made this year to state law bumped up the bag limit in Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt counties to 40 gallons per day. Russo estimates this equals 600 to 800 pounds of crushed urchins, with three or four urchins to the pound.

State law prohibits wanton waste of fish and game, but it allows harvested fish or invertebrates to be used for bait.

“We’re baiting with these urchins,” Russo says. “We’re not just smashing them. That would be illegal.” He notes rockfish, surfperch and lingcod swarm around divers as they work.

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In ecologists’ jargon, an urchin barren is the alternative stable state to the lush kelp forest. True to the name, a stable state is very stable. catch what you bait, so we’re just baiting,” he says.

Smashing urchins underwater has helped restore urchinated kelp forests before. It proved successful in Southern California, for one, where concentrated efforts to kill the animals allowed denuded giant kelp groves to grow back.

But the scale of the problem on the North Coast far surpasses anything seen at any other time in California’s history, and the extensive barrens might prove more than hand-held hammers can undo.

Smashing urchins is also controversial because the process can allegedly release eggs and sperm into the water, where the gametes might meet and produce larvae, and eventually more urchins. Russo says so few urchins in the overpopulated areas currently contain viable gonads that the concern is not legitimate.

Rogers-Bennett doesn’t feel that citizen groups without scientific permits should be tackling the restoration effort, partly because of the risk of promoting reproduction.

“Most urchins in a barren are sterile, but you do find some that are reproductive,” she says. “We want to be sure nobody is smashing urchins during the reproductive cycle.” Purple urchins usually spawn naturally in winter months.

However, she believes in the basic concept of creating bull kelp seed banks.

“We need to create small pockets where we can defend the bull kelp,” she says. “This will keep the spore bank alive. If the bull kelp gets totally wiped out, it would make recovery almost impossible.”

Another program to thin out the urchins involved sending the harvested animals to a commercial composting site in Ukiah. The Watermen’s Alliance, in fact,sponsored this project. Russo says

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the organization donated $80,000 last year to support the work of nine commercial urchin boats at several locations, mostly near Fort Bragg.

But efforts like this one require volunteers.

What’s different about Urchinomics’ proposal is that it creates an economic incentive to harvest the urchins.

Proceeds from commercial sales will be used to pay divers, driving a profitable new industry.

Urchinomics’ director of global brand marketing Denise MacDonald explains that the plan is to create a California market for purple urchins.

She describes a dining arrangement where freshly cracked urchins, their golden uni exposed, are served on the half shell to restaurant diners, much the way an oyster bar works.

On a per-urchin basis, proceeds could be substantial—a few dollars per animal—and financially, the model—which is being similarly tested in Japan, Norway and coastal sites in Canada where urchins have taken over the seafloor—looks good.

Whether it will operate at a speed sufficient to reduce urchin densities remains the question.

Uni is in high demand, MacDonald says, and supplies are down, partly as a result of spreading urchin barrens.

But taking on an urchin barren is no easy task, as overpopulated urchins are notoriously difficult to effectively cull.

Mark Carr, a professor of marine ecology at UC Santa Cruz, believes the pace of catching, ranching, selling and serving the urchins may not be fast enough to make a significant dent in the urchin population.

“The level of production and consumption is likely to have a pretty minimal effect on the vast current population of urchins on the coast,” he says of the Urchinomics’ business plan. “But having said that, »8

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commercial industries out of overpopulated urchins. Scaling up the experiment into a viable business—which could occur over the next few years—will mean building onshore facilities with large tanks and recirculating seawater systems.

It could also represent a symbolic step forward for sustainable seafood.

“It wouldn’t just be sustainable— it would be restorative, where the more you take, the more you help restore the kelp forests of California,” Rogers-Bennet says.

And California is hardly alone as a victim of escalating urchin numbers. In many regions around the world, changing marine conditions—including ocean warming—encourage the spread of urchins, which overwhelm underwater ecosystems when their numbers exceed the environment’s carrying capacity. This happened in Tasmania, Norway and British Columbia, among other regions, where local urchin species proliferated and destroyed oncemagnificent kelp beds and seaweed meadows. In their place are what scientists call urchin barrens—rocky underwater seascapes where little but urchins dwell. Urchinomics is conducting trials in all these regions.

In Northern California, bull kelp grew so thick as recently as five years ago that it posed a real hazard and a logistical consideration for recreational abalone divers.

Often, the kelp was so dense that swimming over the surface became a grueling task—like walking through a thicket of blackberries.

The nuisance became a danger under the surface, where the numerous kelp stalks running to the seafloor like vines in a jungle created a drowning hazard.

But the kelp today is all but gone, as are the prized sea snails that rely on it. In place of prior ecological diversity are chiefly one thing— purple urchins, tens of millions of them in the shallow waters of the North Coast. The animals proliferated starting about five years ago after a mysterious disease wiped out their main predator, the sunflower sea star. Almost simultaneously, a spell of warm ocean water caused a massive dieoff of kelp. Urchins eat kelp, and prevent recovery of the vegetation.

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Urchins «7 any time you create an industry that might be sustainable out of an outbreak like this, you’re creating jobs and income providing an economic alternative in areas where fisheries have been impacted.”

He points to the spread of invasive lionfish in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico as an example; the introduced fish became pests of locust-like magnitude, and while efforts to fish them into submission didn’t work, they created a sustainable—and, one could say, restorative—fishery.

“That just demonstrates adaptive capacity of human communities to respond to these disturbances,” Carr says.

In Tasmania, urchin barrens replaced kelp forests over the past several decades. As in California, increasing water temperatures led to a kelp die-off, while the urchins prevented recovery.

Scientist Craig Johnson, a biologist at the University of Tasmania, closely studied the local urchin barrens and led experiments in which he introduced lobsters into overpopulated urchin barrens. Lobsters are a natural predator of urchins but have been fished to low levels in much of their range in Australian waters. Working in marine reserves where the lobsters could not be fished, Johnson and colleagues studied the predators’ effects on the urchins.

They ate large numbers, he says, but in extensive barrens, the predation was never enough to allow algae to recover.

As Johnson explained to this reporter in 2017, “You can pour in as many large lobsters as you like, and they will eat hundreds of thousands of urchins, but they cannot reduce the urchins enough for any kelp to reappear. Even if you turned all those urchin barrens into marine protected areas tomorrow, you could wait 200 years and you still wouldn’t get a kelp forest back.”

In ecologists’ jargon, an urchin barren is the alternative stable state to the lush kelp forest. True to the name, a stable state is very stable. That is, unless a tremendous environmental upheaval—like a fast change in water temperature, the outbreak of disease or a predator introduced to the system— dislodges the urchins’ grip on the ecosystem, the urchin plague may never go into remission. As Johnson explains, it takes a great number of urchins to turn a kelp forest into a barren.

Thereafter, however, it only requires a relatively small number of urchins to maintain that barren. Put another

way, urchins must be almost entirely eradicated from a barren in order for kelp to reclaim the environment.

“For all intents and purposes, once you flip to the urchin barren state, you have virtually no chance of recovery,” Johnson says.

In Alaska, existing urchin barrens first formed several decades ago, and in Hokkaido, Japan, barrens have lasted for more than 80 years.

Some scientists discuss the potential for reintroducing the predatory sunflower sea star back into the urchin barrens of California. This would mean catching some in the wild and breeding them in captivity.

Since survivors of the sea star die-off of 2013 likely bear genetic resistance to the disease that wiped them out, a newly established population might be able to persist and significantly cull the purple urchins.

But in local water, there may not be any sunflower sea star survivors.

“Unfortunately, we haven’t seen one since 2014,” says research diver Tristin McHugh, the Northern California regional manager for the seafloor monitoring organization Reef Check.

The organization, which uses the help of volunteer scuba divers who count and record marine life, has surveyed California’s coastal ecosystems since 2006. Their data shows the various population trajectories of different species, with bull kelp presence dropping precipitously several years ago as purple urchin counts spiked.

Now, says McHugh, patterns in fish abundance may be starting to emerge, with a recent dip in counted fish after a brief spike from 2013 to 2016. She speculates the abrupt loss of kelp made fish more visible to divers, creating an illusion of greater numbers.

But the recent drop in observed fish suggests declining populations of rockfish, lingcod and other local species—the probable next victims of an ongoing trophic cascade.

Russo says his smashing program is already making a visible difference in the numbers of urchins at Van Damme.

“It’s not just us who see it—other divers have been mentioning it,” he says.

Russo is optimistic about Urchinomics’ strategy, though he notes harvesting for uni creates demand for larger urchins only, leaving sub-adults and juveniles in place.

“But if they go in and take out the big ones, and they let us smash the rest, I think we have a good chance,” he says. Y

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very year, the Pacific Sun staff has the pleasure of reflecting on the accomplishments of those in our community who give of their time and talents to improve the community-at-large.

There are many who make meaningful contributions daily and keep our community vital. This year, these honorees stood out for their collective desire to help those in need with new and innovative ideas. We salute you, our Heroes of Marin!

Susan Farren: First Responders Resiliency, Inc.

By Charlie Swanson Susan Farren has always been in the business of saving lives. After

graduating from the Stanford paramedic program in 1985, she began a career as an emergency medical services provider, cutting her teeth as a paramedic in West Oakland before serving the North Bay as a paramedic, then as a supervisor and a clinical manager.

All that changed in 2016, when Farren was diagnosed with kidney

cancer. “Initially, that diagnosis was terminal,” says Farren. After surgery removed a tumor in her right kidney, the doctor who performed the work said something that propelled Farren down a new path of work.

“The doctor made a comment after my surgery, and said, ‘We see a lot of this in first responders,’” Farren recalls. “I asked him, ‘A lot of what?’”

The answer was organ cancer, and after Farren got out of the hospital, she dived into research on the subject. She found articles about increased risk of cancer for first responders, primarily kidney cancer.

“That’s where your adrenaline is dumped when you’re in a fight-orflight situation, which is common for first responders,” Farren says.

She also discovered that through strokes and heart attacks, first

responders suffered a 15-year drop in their life expectancy versus civilians.

Depression, substance abuse, divorce and suicide statistics were also elevated for first responders.

“Everything I looked at was like alarms going off, because I had worked in this industry my whole life; I’d seen it,” Farren says. “I realized something was happening to us, way beyond being treated for post traumatic stress.”

Farren decided that treating stress after the fact was already too late.

After consulting with experts and developing a proactive program, Farren sold her house to start the nonprofit organization First Responders Resiliency, Inc. Through the organization, Farren and her team lead workshops and conferences with first responders to give them tools to retain their physical, emotional and »10

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Steve Gatlin & Timothy J. Wahle, DDS: V.E.T.S. Mobile Dental Unit

By Charlie Swanson

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Susan Farren of First Responders Resiliency, Inc. offers a variety of training sessions.

relational well-being while they perform their high-stress, often lifeor-death duties.

“We can train them about the impacts that our jobs have on our brains and our bodies and our emotions and relationships,” says Farren. “We can stave off these symptoms of post traumatic stress.”

The group trains first responders in modalities of how to be aware and recognize symptoms of trauma and gives them techniques to help keep their nervous systems calm.

These trainings also boost “rightbrain” thinking that allows for creative and intuitive thinking.

First Responders Resiliency, Inc. offers a variety of training sessions ranging from one to three days long. Their next event, a conference Nov. 18–20 in Sonoma, is already

close to selling out. In fact, all of the organization’s conferences sell out.

“Once I got the word out, people realized the value in it,” says Farren, who notes that these conferences are for first responders only, to allow attendees a safe space among colleagues. The organization’s staff is also entirely comprised of retired first responders.

First Responders Resiliency, Inc. leads events throughout the Bay Area, and with overwhelmingly positive responses from attendees, Farren now receives requests to lead conferences in other states and other countries. “As we continue to grow, we’re going to get this message out to as many people as we can, because we know that what we are doing works,” she says. “We know we are saving lives.” (resiliency1st.org)

For 10 years, Steve Gatlin served in the Marine Corps, first as a military police officer, then as a combat correspondent. When his enlistment ended in 2002, Gatlin quickly made his way into making documentary films and television programs.

“The documentary work got me into humanitarian causes, and I found my niche doing work around a lot of nonprofits,” says Gatlin.

“I was covering everything from environmental to special needs causes and everything in between.”

Through this work, the Novatobased Gatlin met Napa dentist Dr. Timothy Wahle eight years ago. “We both have children with Down syndrome and we met through that world,” Gatlin says.

Last year, Wahle approached Gatlin with an idea. For 20 years, Wahle participated in a mobile dental project called Christina’s Smile, that worked in cooperation with the Professional Golfers’ Association to travel to and provide comprehensive charitable dental care to children in need in the communities that hosted a PGA and Champions Tour tournament.

“When the tour would come to Silverado or Sonoma or Pebble Beach, he would go and volunteer for a day or two and do free dental care,” says Gatlin.

That organization, based in Austin, Texas, closed in 2016, shortly after co-founder Dr. Richard Garza passed away in 2013.

Wahle wanted to buy one of the group’s three 50-foot, three-chair mobile dental units in storage and move it to the North Bay. “We started kicking the idea around and started talking about the military-veterans angle,” says Gatlin. “For military veterans, in order to get (free) dental care you have to be 100 percent disabled, have been a prisoner of war or have a service-connected dental

issue. That equates to a very low percentage of veterans.”

This year, Gatlin and Wahle combined their nonprofit and dental experience to form the V.E.T.S. (Veterans Excited To Smile) Mobile Dental Unit nonprofit organization. In March, they traveled to Austin to meet with Dr. Garza’s widow and Christina’s Smile co-founder, Diane Garza.

After speaking to her about her work and their ideas, Garza donated one of the state-of-theDr. Steve Gatlin art trailers to them.

Now, Gatlin and Wahle are finalizing their nonprofit status and preparing the unit for a rollout in early 2020. The V.E.T.S. Mobile Dental Unit’s first clinic will likely be held in association with the Novato Elks Lodge, where Gatlin is a member, and where the nonprofit recently held a massive fundraiser and golf tournament.

“We had a banner year for the Elks Lodge and people got excited,” he says. “The Elks [National] Foundation as an organization supports veterans and communities, so it’s a good fit.”

Gatlin also hopes to hold clinics at the Vallejo ferry terminal and fill needs in Napa and Sonoma County.

“Veterans are everywhere, so the sky's the limit on where we can go; it’s just a matter of capitalizing on the resources we have,” says Gatlin.

While it’s a brand-new nonprofit, Gatlin notes that Christina’s Smile lends V.E.T.S. Mobile Dental Unit 30 years of experience. Diane Garza is even on the board of directors.

“We’ve got a real powerhouse board of directors pulled together; a mixture of veterans, dentists and business people. I’m excited, as executive director, to have a rich pool to pull from just in our board alone,” says Gatlin.

“There’s no end to the amount of veterans we can help with this.” (vetsmobiledentalunit.com)

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ExtraFood Goes the Extra Mile

By Nikki Silverstein What’s the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? Go into the bathroom, turn on the faucet and hop into a hot shower. It’s effortless— unless you’re one of the 1,000 homeless people in Marin County.

Meet the Showers, two mobile shower trailers providing the only place for Marin’s homeless to take a free shower. For people living on the streets, in their cars or on anchor-outs in Richardson Bay, mobile showers are a game-changer.

Hygiene is essential to good health, landing a job and finding a place to live. To the staff and volunteers at the Showers, it’s more than a place to get cleaned up; it’s about bringing dignity to the homeless.

To reach as many people as possible, the shower trailers stay on the move each week, setting up shop in Novato, San Rafael and Sausalito. A mobile trailer contains three modern bathrooms, each equipped with a shower, sink and toilet. Employees greet clients with a fresh towel and assorted toiletries.

After showering, clients receive a bagged breakfast and clean clothing (if needed and available).

Clients find the Showers through outreach and word of mouth.

Case managers visit the 11 large, unsanctioned homeless encampments throughout the county, delivering hygiene kits, packed lunches and information about the Showers. Most of the people they see are from Marin.

In fact, 73 percent of the unsheltered

in our county resided in Marin before becoming homeless.

Outreach is working. The Showers has provided more than 5,000 showers and served 580 people since its inception a year and a half ago.

“We’ve had people that are taking a shower for the first time in months,” said Jesse Taylor-Vermont, project manager for the Downtown Streets Team, the umbrella agency for the Showers. “It’s definitely not uncommon. Now, they can feel comfortable at a coffee shop.”

There are regulars, too. Some who use the Showers have jobs; others want to feel fresh for the day ahead.

“You see people from all walks of life at our shower program,”said Sean Williams, Downtown Streets Team case manager.

Formerly a successful white-collar professional, Michael (who asked that his real name not be used) uses the Showers. He owned a home in Mill Valley and a condo in Sausalito but his life unraveled after he lost his job, a family member embezzled money from him and he had a medical crisis.

Now, at age 63, he lives in his car.

“It’s usually not just a single thing that happens,” Taylor-Vermont said. “It’s too many big things going wrong at the same time. How long could you go without a paycheck?”

The Showers is another touchpoint for talking to the homeless about available services. The goal is to help them get back on their feet, find a job and locate housing. Sometimes taking a shower is the first step.

You can help the Showers by donating new towels, socks, wool caps, coats and sleeping bags. Visit marinmobilecare. org for more information.

By Nikki Silverstein One in 5 Marin residents are at risk of food insecurity. In simple terms, food insecurity means a person doesn’t have enough food to live an active, healthy life. If you live in Marin, you might not realize it, but you probably know someone who’s hungry.

“They’re in our neighborhoods, at our work and in our classes,” said Marv Zauderer, founder and CEO of ExtraFood. “Many people are just one job loss or one health care crisis away from not having enough food.”

Zauderer established the nonprofit organization five years ago after learning the woeful food insecurity statistics and recognizing that Marin has plenty of food for everyone living here. Soon, ExtraFood set up a food recovery system to move excess fresh food from businesses that have it to people who need it.

Restaurants, caterers, farmers’ markets, schools and hospitals donate fresh, perishable food that would otherwise go to waste. Volunteers pick it up daily. To keep the nutritional value high, it’s immediately delivered directly to the recipients—122 local nonprofit agencies that feed 8,000 people each month.

Groups including the Ritter Center, which helps prevent homelessness, College of Marin, Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery and many more now have dependable, fresh food sourced by ExtraFood. It frees up their budgets to go toward their

agency’s mission, rather than to food.

ExtraFood reached an impressive milestone recently when it delivered more than 3 million total pounds of food to the most vulnerable people in Marin. In addition to feeding the hungry, food rescue prevents greenhouse gas emissions by keeping food out of landfill. To date, ExtraFood has kept more than 268,000 pounds of methane gas from warming our planet.

“If global food waste was a country, it would rank third in greenhouse gas emissions, right after China and the United States,” Zauderer said.

Zauderer attributes the success of the program to the power of community.

Despite growing to 600 volunteers, 250 food donors, 10 staff members and hundreds of funders, ExtraFood remains nimble and responsive. During last week’s power outages, for example, ExtraFood picked up fresh food from affected businesses and schools and distributed additional food to those in need without electricity.

“Whenever you need us to pick up food, we will,” Zauderer said.

A new refrigerated truck enables ExtraFood to pick up larger food donations, and the upcoming acquisition of a van will further help the organization fulfill unmet food needs in West Marin.

Zauderer hopes to make food recovery a way of life in the county.

“There’s more food to rescue and a lot more people to serve,” Zauderer said.

All four Whole Foods Market locations will donate 5 percent of sales to ExtraFood on Thursday, Oct. 17. ExtraFood always needs more food donations, cash donors and volunteers. Visit extrafood.org for more information.

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Courtesy of The Showers

The mobile trailer contains three modern bathrooms, each equipped with a shower, sink and toilet.

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THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

San Francisco roots-rockers Front Country perform off their new album, ‘Other Love Songs,’ on Friday, Oct. 18, at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael. See concerts, pg 20.

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Oakland artist David Becker paints with complex overlaid layers of rectilinear, organic and figurative forms in his works.

Within those works he places images of the Buddha, which serve to connect the mindfulness of spiritual practice with that of art making. Opening this week at the new George Lawson Gallery, Becker’s new solo exhibit “Buddhist Paintings” reinterprets the symbolism of the Buddha and gives those tools of interpretation to the audience. The exhibit gets an opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 18 E. Blithedale Ave., #12, Mill Valley. 5:30pm. georgelawsongallery.com.

Just because it’s autumn and St. Patrick’s Day is far, far away, doesn’t mean we can’t have a good, old-fashioned Irish festival.

That’s just what Fairfax is doing in the ninth annual Fairfax Irish Festival of Music And Dance, taking place at several venues throughout town over the course of three days. Festival performers include bands like the Gallowglasses, Culann’s Hounds, Moonshine Jelly and performers like Erin Thompson and Richard Mandel playing an assortment of jigs, waltzes, polkas and more. With every show but one (Peri’s Silver Dollar on Oct. 19) offered free of charge, everyone is welcome to be Irish, Friday–Sunday, Oct.18–20,in Fairfax.fairfaxirishfestival.com.

The Bay Area, one of the mostphotographed places on Earth, has earned recognition for dual photographic traditions of elegant landscape imagery and biting social documentation, thanks largely to the work of Pirkle Jones. Now, filmmaker Jane Levy Reed examines the life and times of the famous Bay Area figure in the documentary, Pirkle Jones: Seven Decades Photographed, which incorporates over 150 black-and-white images, archival footage and recent interviews. Reed is on hand for a Q&A when the film screens on Friday, Oct. 18, at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 6:30pm. $10. 415.388.4331.

Marin’s retirees, older adults, their families and caregivers are all invited to attend the annual Marin Senior Fair, the largest event of its kind in Northern California. The 2019 theme is “Viva Marin Seniors” and feature Vegas-style activities, costumes, decorations and entertainment alongside over 130 vendors and informational exhibitions covering a variety of important topics for seniors on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Ave of the Flags, San Rafael. 9am–3pm. Free admission.

415.473.6400.

Buddha on Canvas

Dance All Weekend

Lasting Images

Viva Seniors

—Charlie Swanson

Photo courtesy Front Country

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Oscar-winning director of photography Phil Pastuhov is one of several Mill Valley residents honored at this year’s Milley Awards.

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Outstanding Achievement Annual Milleys recognize Mill Valley’s arts heroes By Charlie Swanson

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f you live in Mill Valley, there’s a good chance your neighbor is an artist. In fact, the town is teeming with creative people, and for over 30 years, the Mill Valley Arts Commission has shone a spotlight on these people.

The annual Milley Awards, presented on Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Mill Valley Community Center, honor five individuals in various artistic disciplines who’ve made Mill Valley a better place to live.

Members of the community nominate, and a panel of judges

selected, this year’s recipients—all of whom are associated with the arts scene in Mill Valley.

First up, the Literary Arts category winner is author and educator Karen Benke, who is the author of a poetry collection and four creative writing adventure books for the young and youngat-heart to explore and expand their imaginations. Benke is also a frequent collaborator with statewide nonprofit organization California Poet in the Schools, which leads classroom workshops

that aim to empower students with creative writing and performing.

Locally, Benke leads writing workshops at the Writer’s Nest in the renovated Mill Valley Lumber Yard. Benke’s work has also gone international, with her books translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and soon Italian.

In the category of visual arts and design, the Milley Award goes to Robert Holmes, the famed photographer who’s made his home in Mill Valley for 40 years.

The British-born Holmes began

his career covering the 1975 British Everest Expedition for the London Daily Mail. The following year, he received an invitation from Ansel Adams to visit California. He ended up settling in Mill Valley in 1979.

His work as a travel photographer is world-renowned, with publications from National Geographic to Life having published his work. His own, award-winning photography books include travel, food and wine photography.

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Singer-songwriter Lorin Rowan, this year’s recipient of the Milley Award for Musical Arts, is one of Mill Valley’s most recognizable figures, and one of the town’s most prolific artists.

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Phil Pastuhov is this year’s Milley Award recipient for Performing and Film Arts. Pastuhov is a director of aerial photography who specializes in drone-powered camera work.

He’s worked on over 120 films and just as many commercials during his life. Any time the camera flies over a car in The Fast & the Furious or scans a mountainside in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, that’s Pastuhov shooting the scene with a drone.

When he’s not making movies, Pastuhov leads small drone-flying workshops at locales like the Utah plains and Norway’s islands.

Singer-songwriter Lorin Rowan, this year’s recipient of the Milley Award for Musical Arts, is one of Mill Valley’s most recognizable figures, and one of the town’s most prolific artists. His time in Mill Valley dates back to the early ‘70s, when he and brother Chris played music with the likes of David Grisman and Jerry Garcia before they signed to Columbia Records as the Rowans and began releasing country-rock albums. In the ‘80s, Rowan turned his attention to the burgeoning ska/reggae scene with his band the Edge, and for the last 30 years he’s released music under his own name and with projects like Deep Blue Jam, a fusion of bluegrass, rock and funk. He also plays with Rattlebox and continues to collaborate with Chris in the Rowan Brothers.

Locally, Rowan is a beloved presence at many benefits and fundraisers, appearing at the annual Wine, Women & Song breast cancer benefit and Blue Star Music Camp events.

Last but not least, the Milleys are honoring Bob Burton and his wife, the late Elza Burton, in the category of Contributions to the Arts Community. Best known as a

founding member of the Mill Valley Center for the Performing Arts (now Marin Theatre Company), Elza served on its initial Board of Directors. Bob’s contributions include supporting many artistic endeavors—including helping approve plans for the original Sweetwater venue back in the ‘70s—during his time working on the Mill Valley Planning Commission and City Council, which included two years as Mayor. Together, the Burtons were patrons and supporters of the Marin Symphony, the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society and many other organizations, and their contributions to Mill Valley span over half a century.

For its part, the 2019 Milley Awards has contributed to the arts scene for 31 years now. Mill Valley Arts Commissioner Abby Wasserman originally founded it as the Mill Valley Awards for Creative Achievement in 1988. For the first several years, it only honored one recipient each year, beginning with Ann O’Hanlon, founder of Sight & Insight Art Center (now the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts).

The awards expanded in 1994 to accommodate the multidisciplinary artists living and working in Mill Valley, and became known as “The Milley.”

To date, over 150 individuals have been given a Milley, and this year’s lineup of recipients is another fine example of the overflowing creative energy that gives Mill Valley its artistic spirit.

The Milley Awards Ceremony and dinner takes place on Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley. 5:30pm. $75. milleyawards.org.

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Singer-songwriter, social activist and doctor Rupa Marya leads the April Fishes in a Marin concert this week.

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Growing Together Rupa & the April Fishes walk the walk By Charlie Swanson

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orn in the South Bay to Indian immigrants, Dr. Rupa Marya’s childhood included experiences living in France and India. Now based in the East Bay, Marya is a medical doctor and busy activist whose work ranges from providing medical care to hunger strikers in San Francisco to creating a clinic in Standing Rock, North Dakota.

When not saving lives, Marya is the forceful frontwoman for longtime Bay Area band Rupa & the April Fishes, which formed in 2005. The band recently released their fifth studio album, Growing Upward, a bombastic and exciting vocalization of Marya’s work that addresses political and social topics with upbeat

rhythms and world-music vibes. Rupa & the April Fishes performs off the album on Friday, Oct. 18, at Sweetwater Music Hall.

“I feel that being a physician allows me to see what I call the bleeding edge of society,” Marya says. “I was inspired by the work I was doing with families impacted by police violence and indigenous people fighting for sovereignty of their land and water. Music is a great medium to tie those stories together.”

Not only was Marya inspired to write songs about these issues, several tracks on Growing Upward were requested of her by those she was helping.

For example, Marya wrote the

album’s track “Frontline” after grandmothers at Standing Rock asked her to write a song to give them courage during the protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Legendary spoken word poet Gil Scott-Heron, whom Marya befriended and shared conversations with over identity and race, requested another track, “Where You From.”

“He asked me to write a song about race in America, and it took me about eight years to get to the point where I could formulate some of these thoughts,” Marya says. “It’s about the intersection between white supremacy and climate collapse. How do we expose those false narratives and heal

the connection between us as people, so we can coordinate our response to the single most threatening thing to human existence?”

For Rupa & the April Fishes, music is the power that heals, and the group spreads positivity and community when they perform live.

“What I’m interested in is creating moments of joy,” Marya says. “I love to see the blending of different kinds of people and different walks of life coming together for a shared moment of music.”

Rupa & the April Fishes play on Friday, Oct. 18, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 8pm. $35. 415.

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Movies

• New Movies This Week The Addams Family (PG)

By Matthew Stafford

Friday October 18-Thursday October 24 The Addams Family (1:27) Charles Addams’ ghoulishly funny family is back, this time in cartoon form with Charlize Theron, Oscar Isaac and Bette Midler supplying the voices.

And With Him Came the West (1:17) Documentary portrait of Wyatt Earp, the Tombstone lawman who went to Hollywood in old age to tarnish his legend and in so doing shaped our mythology of the Wild West.

Aquarela (1:29) Victor Kossakovsky documentary immerses the viewer in the awesome power of water, from frozen Lake Baikal to ferocious Hurricane Irma; music by Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica.

Black and Blue (1:48) Political thriller about a rookie policewoman who captures the murder of a drug dealer by corrupt cops on her body cam.

Brittany Runs a Marathon (1:43) Jillian Bell stars as a dissolute, out-of-shape Manhattan twentysomething determined to run the New York City marathon.

Buddy (1:26) Poignant documentary dovetails between six service dogs and their companions as it explores the age-old bond between person and pooch.

The Cotton Club Encore (2:07) Francis Coppola’s 1984 gangster musical about the legendary Harlem nightspot is remastered and restored with previously unseen footage; Gregory Hines stars.

Countdown (1:30) Horror flick about a nurse who makes the mistake of downloading an app.

Deconstructing The Beatles: Birth of The Beatles (1:28) Filmed multimedia presentation by musicologist Scott Freiman focuses on the Fab Four’s prehistory from Liverpool teenhood to Hamburg nearstardom.

Downton Abbey (1:30) The veddy British cult TV series hits the big screen with the household in a dither over an upcoming visit by King George and Queen Mary their bloomin’ selves!

The Elephant Queen (1:30) Documentary explores the complex matriarchal society of the African savanna elephant and how poaching and climate change threaten the world’s largest animals.

End of the Century (1:24) Mystery-laden romance about a seemingly random encounter between a German and an Argentine in photogenic Barcelona.

Gauguin in Tahiti: Paradise Lost (1:24) Documentary traces the great postImpressionist painter’s search for inspiration in the lush, pure pigments and textures of Polynesia.

Gemini Man (1:57) Ang Lee thriller stars Will Smith as a professional assassin targeted for elimination by a techno-killer.

The Great American Lie (1:34) Jennifer Newsom documentary focuses on the U.S.’s embrace of “masculine” values and their negative effect on socioeconomic equality.

Jexi (1:24) A loveless smartphone addict reinvents himself thanks to a sexy new app who gets spookily possessive when the geek starts to embrace the real world.

Joker (2:02) R-rated comic-book flick stars Joaquin Phoenix as an especially gritty and

freaked-up version of the once-jovial Batman supervillain.

Judy (1:58) Biopic stars Renee Zellweger as larger-than-life showbiz icon Judy Garland, putting on a show in Swinging London at the twilight of her career.

The Last Waltz (1:57) Martin Scorsese’s legendary concert film captures The Band’s 1976 farewell concert at SF’s Winterland, featuring star turns by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and many others.

The Lighthouse (150) Existential nightmare about two 1890s lighthouse keepers on a remote New England isle; Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star.

Lucy in the Sky (2:04) Natalie Portman as an astronaut who finds the earthbound life unsatisfying after experiencing the beauty of the cosmos.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (1:58) Angelina Jolie is back as the vengeful fairyvillain.

Mountaintop Sessions (1:26) Neil Young and Crazy Horse head to the Rockies to make music in the studio and in performance.

Obit. (1:33) Documentary focuses on the art and craft of celebrating passed lives as practiced on the pages of the New York Times.

Pain and Glory (1:53) Pedro Almodóvar drama stars Antonio Banderas as an acclaimed film director reflecting on his past as he grapples with age and mortality.

Parasite (2:12) Bong Joon Ho’s acclaimed dark dramedy about the symbiotic relationship between two Korean families, one wealthy, the other not so much.

QT8: The First Eight (2:00) Retrospective look at Quentin Tarantino’s raging, rambling oeuvre features chitchat with Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh and many others.

The Reliant (2:20) Survivalist saga about a God-fearing family who take to the woods packing heat when rioting and chaos threaten their home.

Snoopy Come Home (1:21) Charlie Brown’s bumptious beagle heads across the country to visit his first owner in Charles Schulz’s 1972 Peanuts cartoon.

The Sweet Requiem (1:31) A Tibetan exile living in Delhi is haunted by the harrowing Himalayan journey she and her father endured 18 years earlier.

Under African Skies (1:48) Documentary follows Paul Simon to South Africa for a tumultuous 25th anniversary Graceland reunion concert; Harry Belafonte, Paul McCartney and Quincy Jones share insights on art, politics and commerce.

Western Stars (1:26) Introspective look back at the life and career of Bruce Springsteen features the Boss performing songs from his latest album.

Where’s My Roy Cohn? (1:37) Insightful documentary dissects the life of the brash, ruthless shyster/fixer from Joe McCarthy panderer to Donald Trump mentor.

Zombieland: Double Tap (1:34) It’s 10 years later and undeads Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin are still shambling around despite White House shenanigans and a whole new breed of zombie.

Fairfax: Fri-Sat 11:40, 2, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35; Sun-Wed 11:40, 2, 4:20, 7:10 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:40, 11:55, 1, 2:20, 3:35, 4:50, 6:10, 7:20, 8:35, 9:50 Playhouse: Fri 4:35, 6:50, 9:20; Sat 12, 2:20, 4:35, 6:50, 9:20; Sun 12, 2:20, 4:35, 6:50; Mon-Wed 4:35, 6:50 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:30, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Rafael: Wed 7 (filmmaker Mike Plante in person) • And With Him Came the West (NR) Aquarela (NR) Lark: Sun 7:15; Tue 2:30; Thu 8:30 Northgate: Thu 7, 9:50 • Black and Blue (NR) Brittany Runs a Marathon (R) Lark: Fri 8:15; Sat 10; Mon 2:15; Thu 4 Regency: Fri-Sun 10:30, 4:15; Mon 10:30, 4; Tue 10:30, 5:15; Wed 10:30, 1; Thu 4:15 Lark: Fri 4:10; Sun 5:30; Mon 6:10; Tue 7:45; Thu 2:15 • Buddy (NR) The Cotton Club Encore (R) Rafael: Fri 7:45; Sat-Sun 7:30 Northgate: Thu 7, 9:30 • Countdown (PG-13) • Deconstructing The Beatles: Birth of The Beatles (NR) Rafael: Sun 4:15 Downton Abbey (PG) Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:20; Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:45, 5:45, 8:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:35, 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10: Sun-Wed 10:30, 1:25, 4:20, 7:20; Thu 10:30, 1:25 Rowland: Fri-Wed 2:20, 7:30 Sequoia: Fri 4:15, 7, 9:45; Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45; Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7; Mon-Wed 4:15, 7; Thu 4:15 Rafael: Fri, Mon-Thu 8:15; Sat-Sun 1:45 • The Elephant Queen (NR) End of the Century (NR) Lark: Fri 2:15; Sun 9; Mon 4:20; Tue 4:15 • Gauguin in Tahiti: Paradise Lost (NR) Lark: Sun 1; Thu 6:30 Gemini Man (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:10, 3:15, 6:30, 9:30; Sun-Wed 12:10, 3:15, 6:30 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12, 2:50, 6, 9 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:25, 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:35, 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10 Rafael: Mon noon (free screening; ticket required; producer • The Great American Lie (NR) Amanda Mortimer in person) Jexi (R) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:20, 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12, 5:15, 10:25 Joker (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 7, 9:45; Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 7 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:15, 11:50, 1:15, 2:50, 4:15, 5:50, 7:15, 8:50, 10:15 Playhouse: Fri 4, 7, 9:45; Sat 1, 4, 7, 9:45; Sun 1, 4, 7; Mon-Wed 4, 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 10:55, 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35; Sun-Thu 10:55, 1:50, 4:40, 7:40 Rowland: Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:50, 4:45, 6:15, 7:40, 9:10; Mon-Wed 10:40, 12:20, 1:50, 3:20, 4:45, 6:15, 7:40, 9:10 Judy (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 11, 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25; Sun-Thu 11, 1:45, 4:45, 7:30 Sequoia: Fri 4:35, 7:20, 10; Sat 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10; Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:20; Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:20; Thu 4:35 Lark: Wed 7:30 • The Last Waltz (PG) Northgate: Thu 7, 9:50 • The Lighthouse (R) Lucy in the Sky (R) Regency: Fri 1:20, 7:10, 9:45; Sat 1:10, 9:45; Sun 1:20, 7:10; Mon 1:10; Tue 7:50; Thu 1:20 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (PG) Cinema: Fri-Wed 12:55, 7, 10; 3D showtime at 4 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:25, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55; Sun-Thu 11:30, 2:25, 4:50, 7:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:30, 11:45, 1:20, 4:10, 5:30, 7:05, 10; 3D showtimes at 2:35, 8:25 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 6:45, 9:35; Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:35; Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:45; Mon-Thu 3:30, 6:45 Rowland: Fri-Sun 10:50, 12:10, 1:40, 3, 7:20, 10:10, 3D showtime at 4:30; Mon-Thu 10:50, 1:40, 7:20, 10:10, 3D showtime at 4:30 Mountaintop Sessions (NR) Rafael: Tue 7 Lark: Tue noon (panel discussion follows; lunch options available) • Obit. (NR) Rafael: Fri 3:30, 6, 8:30; Sat-Sun 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30; Mon-Thu 6, • Pain and Glory (NR) 8:30 Regency: Thu 6 • Parasite (R) Regency: Mon 7 • QT8: The First Eight (R) Regency: Thu 7 • The Reliant (PG-13) Lark: Sun 10; Tue 6 • Snoopy Come Home (G) Rafael: Fri 4, 6:15; Sat, Mon-Thu 6:15; Sun 4:30 (filmmakers in • The Sweet Requiem (NR) person at Sunday show) Lark: Sat 7:30 (with live music by Amikaeyla Gaston & Her • Under African Skies (PG-13) African Music Ensemble) Regency: Sat 7; Wed 4, 7 • Western Stars (PG) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Sun-Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7 • Where’s My Roy Cohn? (PG-13) Zombieland: Double Tap (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 9:40; Sun-Wed 12, 2:15, 4:35, 7:15 Larkspur Landing: Fri, Mon-Wed 7, 9:50; Sat-Sun 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:50, 12, 1:30, 2:40, 4, 5:20, 6:40, 8, 9:20, 10:35 Rowland: Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8, 9:30, 10:30; Mon-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8, 10:30 We have omitted some of the movie summaries and times for those that have been playing for multiple weeks.

Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm.

CinéArts Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 388-1190 Century Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 924-6506 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax, 453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur, 461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael, 491-1314 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon, 435-1251 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda, 479-6496 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato, 898-3385

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Past & Present Tense MTC’s latest leans heavy on history By Harry Duke

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ew plays explore Native American history or the modern-day social and political issues that continue to challenge that community. Mary Kathryn Nagle’s

Sovereignty, running at the Marin Theatre Company through Oct. 20, attempts to do both in about two hours.

Sarah Ridge Polson (Elizabeth Frances) returns to the Cherokee

Nation in Oklahoma seeking a position with Attorney General John Ross ( Jake Waid) with the hope of enforcing the Violence Against Women Act on tribal lands and perhaps getting the

‘Sovereignty’ runs Tuesday–Sunday through Oct. 20 at Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley.

Tues–Sat, 7:30pm; Sat & Sun, 2pm. $10– $60. 415.388.5208. marintheatre.org.

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Kevin Berne

Sarah Bird Northrup (Ella Dershowitz) and John Ridge (Robert I. Mesa) make plans for their future in ‘Sovereignty.’

opportunity to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1978 Oliphant decision. That decision declared that Native American Tribal Courts had no criminal jurisdiction over non-Native Americans.

Family history complicates things. Sarah’s ancestors were part of the Cherokee Nation, who agreed to the Treaty of New Echota, which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi to the United States and led to the Trail of Tears. Ross’s ancestors considered those who supported the treaty traitors and put many of them to death.

So begins the back and forth between the two centuries that tells the story of the Cherokee nation, the abuse they suffered (and continue to suffer) at the hands of the United States government, the two families and how the decisions of the past continue to haunt the present.

Playwright Nagle is also an attorney, which would explain the very legal approach she took to her script. In her zeal to enter all the facts of her case, she enters all the facts of her case, through reams of expository dialogue in which her characters come off more as court clerks citing cases than co-workers and family members engaged in conversation.

It’s not the fault of director Jasson Minadakis’s talented cast (the majority of whom are Native American) that the dialogue they’re given to deliver often seems straight out of a History Channel reenactment or that one character leaps from charming goof ball to vicious thug in a seemingmillisecond.

I left the opening night performance thinking that audiences might be better served by a series of plays (à la August Wilson) that tone down the legal-ese and up the humanity quotient rather than by two centuries worth of history crammed into a single play.

There’s a lot of good work on stage and the information imparted by Sovereignty is important (and sadly little-known), but theater needs to be more than just a staged legal brief.

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hose who remember Ged Robertson’s Small Shed Flatbreads will be pleased to know he’s also behind Watershed in the newly built-out Mill Valley Lumberyard.

A handful of retailers, a glutenfree bakery and Watershed were lucky enough to snag some of the coveted real estate in the reimagined Mill Valley Lumberyard that dates back to 1892. The welldesigned market plaza now boasts brick-red structures and outdoor eating spaces complete with a fire pit and strings of lights for evening lounging. Oh, and the attractively designed complex is also situated

right over a creek, with views of Mt. Tam. It oozes charm.

Watershed, the yard’s anchor restaurant, is bright and airy and filled with natural light from the large windows that comprise most of the wall space. The rustic, open room features a welcoming bar (wine and beer only) and plenty of two- and four-top tables— along with a tan banquette that stretches alongside the back wall. A communal table allows for larger groups, and an outdoor patio encourages al fresco dining.

A wood-burning grill is front-andcenter at Watershed, and a rotation of pizzas—including Margherita and

calabrese salami versions—appear on their daily changing menus, along with Stemple Creek burgers, squid skewers and grilled corn.

Count the bacon, lettuce, avocado and tomato sandwich— served on a basil aioli–slathered, toasted, tangy sourdough from Stinson Beach’s Parkside Bakery— among the recent, tasty offerings on the lunch menu.

Chef Kyle Swain, a veteran of some of San Francisco’s most celebrated restaurants including the recently shuttered Jardinière and Saison, brings some serious cooking chops to his new post. While he has fine-dining training, this food is

simple, clean California; prepared with local and fresh ingredients and not too fussy.

The thoughtful layout of the Mill Valley Lumberyard seamlessly combines the historic nature of the property with a hip, modern and lively vibe. Watershed appears to be the perfect tenant to span (literally – it’s on the creek) the multi-century property with its simple California menu and rustic modern design.

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Lying in the Las Gallinas Valley is what residential and business community of Marin County, whose name means “pretty land”?

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Many homes in this community were built in the mid-1950s by what renowned architect?

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JOHN LITHGOW

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During the epidemic in 2009, scientists claimed the H1-N1 virus was responsible for what deadly human disease with an animal name?

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The Ito Sisters Documentary Film New Century Chamber Orchestra

32-year-old single woman decides to take control of her life, by keeping a written record of all her activities. This is the plot of what 2001 comedy, starring what actress?

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The number 10 is what percent of the number one?

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Calendar Concerts Front Country Progressive roots-rock band out of San Francisco performs with openers Victoria George & the High Lonesome. Oct 18, 8pm. $20. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Mill Valley Philharmonic New artistic director and conductor Dana Sadava leads the orchestra in a program of “Epic Romance” classical works. Oct 18, 7:30pm and Oct 19, 4pm. $20. Mt Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave, Mill Valley, millvalleyphilharmonic.org.

Redwood Highway Band comprised of Mill Valley students play a fundraising concert for nonprofit Kiddo! Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation. Oct 22, 7:30pm. $5-$10. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Oct 17, Deborah Winters. Oct 22, Lady D & the Tramps. Oct 23, Rusty String Express. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael, 415.457.3993.

Papermill Creek Saloon Oct 18, the Tom Finch Band. Oct 19, Darren Nelson & the 421’s. Oct 20, 6pm, Jeremy D’Antonio fundraiser. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls, 415.488.9235.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Oct 17, Flytrap. Oct 18, Vinyl. Oct 19, Culann’s Hounds. Oct 20, Ancient Baby. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Oct 18, Sweet City Blues. Oct 19, Stompy Jones with Annette Moreno. Oct 20, 5pm, Johnny Allair. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse Oct 17, flamenco show. Oct 18, Reed Fromer Band. Oct 19, Mario Salomon & Timbekero.

Oct 20, 4pm, Louie Romero & Mazacote. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Oct 19, Blonde Toledo. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Clubs & Venues

Station House Cafe Oct 20, 5pm, Paul Knight & Friends. 11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1515.

HopMonk Novato Oct 17, Kris Allen. Oct 18, Liz Longley & the Young Fables. Oct 19, Malcolm Holcombe.

Oct 20, Chris Pureka and Laura Gibson. Oct 21, Don Gallardo and Darren Nelson. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Strawberry Recreation Center Oct 18, Bulgarika Balkan Band. 118 E Strawberry Dr, Mill Valley, 415.485.5500.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Oct 23, Lorin Rowan Trio. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax, 415.485.1005.

Iron Springs Public House Oct 17, Jerry Draper & Friends band with Martin O’Neill. 901 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.457.6258.

Mantra Wines Oct 17, Dawson & Clawson Music Showcase.

Oct 19, Fairfax Social Club. 881 Grant Ave, Novato, 415.892.5151.

Marin Country Mart Oct 18, 6pm, Tod Dickow with Charged Particles. Oct 20, 12:30pm, Michael La Macchia. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5700.

19 Broadway Nightclub Oct 17, Victor Little’s Big Hit. Oct 18, 10pm, the Young Dubliners. Oct 19, 5pm, Agents of Change. Oct 20, 4pm, Dale Alstrom Jazz Society. Oct 22, Eddie Neon Blues Jam. Oct 23, Blues Champions. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Oct 17, Michael La Macchia Band. Oct 18, Michael Aragon Quartet. Oct 19, Chris Saunders Band.

Oct 21, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito, 415.332.1392.

Osher Marin JCC Oct 19, “Sing the Beatles” with the Quarry Persons. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, 415.444.8000.

Osteria Divino Oct 17, David Jeffries Jazz Fourtet. Oct 18, Ken Cook Trio. Oct 19, Ian McArdle Trio. Oct 20, Eric Rodgers. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.331.9355.

Sweetwater Music Hall Oct 17, Cubensis & Zach Nugent’s Disco Dead.

Oct 18, Rupa & the April Fishes. Oct 20, the Quebe Sisters. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

The Tavern on Fourth Oct 18, Hop Sauce. Oct 19, Johnny & the “B” Goodes. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.4044.

Terrapin Crossroads Oct 18, Top 40 Friday with Garrin Benfield and friends. Oct 19, the Casual Coalition. Oct 20, Midnight North. Oct 21, Grateful Monday with Zach Nugent Band. Oct 22, Featprints tribute to Little Feat. Oct 23, Big Butterfly. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael, 415.524.2773.

Art Opening George Lawson Gallery Oct 17-Nov 17, “David Becker: Buddha Paintings,” exhibit features works of of rectilinear, organic and figurative painting.

Reception, Oct 17 at 5:30pm. 18 E Blithedale Ave #12, Mill Valley. georgelawsongallery.com.

Marin Center Bartolini Gallery Oct 16-Nov 22,“Dia de los Muertos,”exhibit focuses on the holiday’s theme of transformation through life and death.10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.marincounty.org.

Dance Downtown Fairfax Oct 18-20, Fairfax Irish Festival of Music & Dance. Free, Bolinas Road, Fairfax .fairfaxirishfestival.com.

Knights of Columbus Hall Oct 19, 5:30pm, Swing Dance Party, lessons

and live band included. 167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo. jasmineworrelldance.com.

Events Bioneers Conference Event includes keynote speakers, films, interactive performances and more to find transformative solutions to pressing challenges. Oct 18-20. Marin Fairgrounds, Marin Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, bioneers.org.

Fall Harvest at Slide Ranch Mingle with farm animals, make cheese and crafts, dance to live music and more. Oct 19, 10am. $35-$40. Slide Ranch, 2025 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach, 415.381.6155.

Fall “Trash to Treasures” Flea Market Shop for unique, second-hand treasures. Oct 19, 9am. Margaret Todd Senior Center, 1560 Hill Rd, Novato, novato.org.

Festival Musica Marin Three-day music and culinary festival combines renowned chamber musicians with Michelin Star chefs. Oct 18-20. $75 and up. St Stephen’s Episcopol Church, 3 Bay View Ave, Belvedere, festivalmusicamarin.org.

Marin Senior Fair Vendors, activities, information, services and entertainment for retirees, older adults, their families and caregivers. Oct 23, 9am. Free.

Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.473.6400.

The Milley Awards Awards ceremony and dinner honors those who have shown achievement in the arts.

Oct 20, 5:30pm. $75. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, milleyawards.org.

Thrive Alive Interactive program improves brain health and increases longevity with music, movement and relaxation. Wed, Oct 23, 1pm. $15-$30. St Columba’s Episcopal Church, 12835 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Inverness, 415.669.1039.

Film Novato Green Film Series City of Novato’s Sustainability Program screens the popular doc, “The Biggest Little Farm.” Pre-registration required. Oct 17, 6:30pm. Free. Novato City Hall, 901 Sherman Ave, Novato, 415.899.8900.

Outdoor Movie Night Head out to the park and see “Top Gun” under the stars. Oct 18, 6:30pm. Free.

Gabrielson Park, Anchor St, Sausalito, 415.289.4152.

Pirkle Jones: Seven Decades Photographed Documentary on the influential Bay Area photographer screens with filmmaker Q&A. Oct 18, 6:30pm. $10. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.4331.

Food & Drink A Taste of Ethic Ciders Ned Lawton, founder of Ethic Ciders, pours

selections and offers an apple-to-glass talk. Oct 23, 7pm. Free. Driver’s Market, 200 Caledonia St, Sausalito, 415.729.9582.

Yoga & Wine Practice yoga with Jocelyn Jyoti and enjoy wine and food. Oct 21, 5:30pm. $35. Mantra Wines, 881 Grant Ave, Novato, 415.892.5151.

Lectures Californians & Their Gardens: 1800-1950 Illustrated talk by author Judith M Taylor.

Oct 21, 10:30am. Free. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera, 415.924.3515.

Is There Life After Death?

A near-death survivor shares their experience and insight. Oct 18, 7:30pm. $25. Unity in Marin, 600 Palm Dr, Novato, 415.475.5000.

What Regenerates Us First in a series of enlivening conversations with local thought leaders. Oct 17, 6pm. $10.

Strawberry Hill Studios, 14 Commercial Blvd, Suite 115, Novato, 415.702.0343.

Work Smarter Two-day workshop helps you get a hold of your life. Oct 23-24. $45. The Indie Alley, 69 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, theindiealley.com.

Readings Book Passage Oct 17, 7pm, “Red Dove Listen to the Wind” with Sonia Antaki. Oct 18, 7pm, “San Francisco on Instagram” with Dan Kurtzman. Oct 19, 7pm, “The Man with No Borders” with Richard Morais. Oct 20, 4pm, “The Memory Keeper” with Jennifer Camiccia. Oct 21, 7pm, “Running with Sherman” with Chris McDougall. Oct 22, 7pm, “Without Her” with Rosalind Brackenbury. Oct 23, 7pm, “The Secrets We Kept” with Lara Prescott. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Novato Copperfield’s Books Oct 18, 6pm, Words Off Paper, hosted by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder. 999 Grant Ave, Novato 415.763.3052.

Point Reyes Presbyterian Church Oct 18, 7pm, “A Primer for Forgetting” with Lewis Hyde. 11445 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station 415.663.1349.

Theater Sovereignty A young Cherokee lawyer fighting to restore her Nation’s jurisdiction confronts the ghosts of her grandfathers. Through Oct 20. $25-$52.

Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.5208.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147620. The following individual(s) are doing business: SOL SISTER, 35 BUENA VISTA AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: CRISTINA JENNINGS, 35 BUENA VISTA AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 18, 2019.

(Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 25, OCTOBER 2, 9, 16 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147640. The following individual(s) are doing business: TQ SOLUTIONS, 1687 HILL ROAD, NOVATO, CA 94947: TINA M QUINTANILLA, 1687 HILL ROAD, NOVATO,

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(Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 25, OCTOBER 2, 9, 16 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147485. The following individual(s) are doing business: MODICA HOME, 15 E. BLITHEDALE AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: CHERYL MODICA, 13 SKYLARK #1, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 26, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 2019147544. The following individual(s) are doing business: JC TOWING, 5 SAINT PAUL CIRCLE, NOVATO, CA 94947: JOSE D GUZMAN CASTILLO, 5 SAINT PAUL CIRCLE, NOVATO, CA 94947.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 6, 2019.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 2, 9, 16, 23 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147622. The following individual(s) are doing business: AMANDA MATHSON, 62 CHESTER AVENUE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: AMANDA LOREN LEE, 62 CHESTER AVENUE, FAIRFAX, CA 94930:. This business is being conducted

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Terra Linda, the northern part of San Rafael

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About 900 homes were built by Joseph Eichler

2 Jam 3 Swine Flu 4 White Christmas 5 Bridget Jones’s Diary, starring Renee Zellweger. Thanks for the question to Kevin Brooks from San Rafael.

6 Hedonism 7 M: Bailey / F: Bella 8 Jack Nicklaus, the Golden Bear 9 Napoleon was 5’7” (170 cm) 10a. One thousand percent

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10 is 900 percent greater than one.

BONUS ANSWER: Nevada and Utah; ends when it hits Wyoming.

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PublicNotices Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 18, 2019.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 2, 9, 16, 23 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147657. The following individual(s) are doing business: POINT MARIN, 6 CREEKSIDE COURT, NOVATO, CA 94945: POINT MARIN, LLC, 6 CREEKSIDE COURT, NOVATO, CA 94945:. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 24, 2019.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 2, 9, 16, 23 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147521. The following individual(s) are doing business: BRIDGE TO BRIDGE APPRAISERS, 8 LUISA CT., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: BRIDGE TO BRIDGE ENTERPRISES INC., 454 LAS GALLINAS AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on AUGUST 29, 2019.

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OCTOBER 9, 16, 23, 30 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147703. The following individual(s) are doing business: DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH CONSIGNMENT BOUTIQUE, 448 MILLER AVE, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: SYBIL ALIZA MAYFIELD., 316 MESA VERDE WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903., ZACK CECIL MAYFIELD., 316 MESA VERDE WAY, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by A MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on OCTOBER 03, 2019.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 9, 16, 23, 30 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—File No: 147684. The following individual(s) are doing business: RINKOR TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, 2600 MENDOCINO AVE #C, SANTA ROSA, CA 95403: ACME SECURITY CENTER, INC., 2600 MENDOCINO AVE #C, SANTA ROSA, CA 95403. This business is being conducted by A CORPORTATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on SEPTEMBER 30, 2019.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 9, 16, 23, 30 of 2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT—FFile No: 147722. The following individual(s) are doing business: OUT VAN ABOUT, 16 SALINAS AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: ELISABETH RHEA IRGENSBERNALES., 16 SALINAS AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960., MARQUES JOAQUIN BERNALESIRGENTS., 16 SALINAS AVENUE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted

by CO-PARTNERS. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on OCTOBER 08, 2019.

(Publication Dates: OCTOBER 16, 23, 30, NOVEMBER 6 of 2019) OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1903502 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Layli Adelstein, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Ted Barry Adelstein to Proposed Name: Teddy Dov Adelstein 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition

for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 11/14/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: B, Room: B. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin.

DATED: September 13, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (SEPTEMBER 25, OCTOBER 2, 9, 16 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1903725 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Tiffany Jeanne Skau, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Tiffany Jeanne Skau to Proposed Name: Tiffany Jeanne Jourdain

2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 11/22/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: A, Room: A. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin.

DATED: September 27, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (Published October 16, 23, 30, November 6 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1903605 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner

(name of each): Dolores Seraphina Freund, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Dolores Seraphina Freund to Proposed Name: Seraphina Dolores Freund 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 01/08/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: A, Room: A. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin.

DATED: September 19, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (October 16, 23, 30, November 6 as of 2019)

By Amy Alkon

Q:

I’m a single man in my 30s, and I don’t want a relationship right now.

I keep meeting women online who say they only want something casual. Then, on the first or second date, it becomes obvious they want a relationship, not just fun and sex. What’s with the bait and switch?—Annoyed

A:

Women who bait and switch like this reflect what evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt call men’s and women’s conflicting “sexual strategies.” These are best summed up as “happily ever after” for women versus “hookupily ever after” for men.

These differences in sexual strategy trace to differences in “obligatory parental investment.” This refers to how a man can bolt after sex, while a woman can get pregnant and stuck with a kid.

Accordingly, Buss and Schmitt explain that women typically benefit most from a “long-term sexual strategy,” vetting men to see if they’ll stick around to invest in any children that might come out of sex. Men, however, benefit most (that is, leave more descendants carrying their genes) from a “short-term sexual strategy”—having casual sex with a variety of hot-erellas.

This doesn’t mean men never want to commit or women never want to hook up. But because men and women coevolved, they are at least subconsciously aware of each other’s intentions and shade the truth to put themselves in the most “marketable” light. So, men often act more interested in commitment than they actually are (in hopes of getting sex) and women often act less interested, in hopes of ensnaring Harry Hookup and turning him into Harry the Husband.

It probably makes sense to err on the side of assuming a woman will want commitment, whether she knows or articulates that or not. My advice for first and second dates: Meet for happy hour drinks or coffee for an hour or two, max.

You still might get women who said they just want casual fun going gooey on you at the end of date two. At least you won’t have shelled out for filet mignon and fine wine only to hear the no-strings-attached sex version of “First 100 callers get a free TV!” … “Oh, sorry, sir … you’re caller 101.”

Q:

My girlfriends are all writing out their visions for a partner, as if they’ve met him already (“Thank you, universe, for bringing me this man … ”).

They claim they’ve gotten boyfriends because of it. Is this just New Age crap, or is there something to writing down what you want?—Boyfriend-Seeking

A:

This apparently is a thing, women writing a letter about the man of their dreams and then feeling like they ordered online from the universe: “My man’s on his way. Just waiting for the tracking number!”

Once they get a boyfriend, the belief that their letter writing made it happen comes out of a common cognitive bias called the “illusion of control.” This term, coined by psychologist Ellen Langer, describes people’s tendency to believe they have control over outcomes that they obviously do not. An example of this is gamblers blowing on dice.

Ironically, the fact that it’s irrational to do this doesn’t mean it’s unhelpful. Research by psychologists Michael I. Norton and Francesca Gino finds that a ritual, a “symbolic activity” a person performs in hopes of making something happen, tends to increase their “feelings of control” over situations in which outcomes are uncertain. This, in turn, decreases the stress they feel.

In other words, it’s possible that the ceremonial act of writing a “Dear Santa” letter to the universe makes a woman more appealing to men by calming her down and getting her to act less crazy and desperate. It’s like putting in an order at a restaurant.

You have faith your dinner is coming; you don’t stalk the waiter on Instagram and text him 30 times, alternating pictures of your boobs with plaintive questions and abuse: “Is the chef okay? ... Are you on a smoke break? ... I bet you gave my steak to a prettier girl. ... You’re a terrible waiter. ... I hate you.”

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave. #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email adviceamy@aol.com. @amyalkon on Twitter. Weekly radio show, blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

Astrology

For the week of October 16

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We can’t change

anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently,” wrote Aries psychologist James Hillman. I agree. And that’s very good news for you Aries people. In my view, you are more attracted to and excited by fresh ideas than any other sign of the zodiac. That’s why you have the potential to become master initiators of transformation. One of my favorite types of plot twists in your life story occurs when you seek out fresh ideas and initiate transformations not only in your own behalf, but also for those you care about. I bet the coming weeks will bring at least one of those plot twists.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Metaphorically

speaking, Taurus, you are now crossing a bridge.

Behind you is the intriguing past; in front of you, the even more-intriguing future. You can still decide to return to where you came from. Or else you can pick up your pace, and race ahead at twice the speed. You might even make the choice to linger on the bridge for a while; to survey the vast vistas that are visible and contemplate more leisurely the transition you’re making. Only you know what’s best for you, of course.

But if you asked me, I’d be in favor of lingering on the bridge for a while.

By Rob Brezsny

poetic inspiration and the ability to solve any riddle. One of its ingredients was honey. In Slavic folklore, raskovnik is an herb with the magic power to unlock what’s locked and uncover hidden treasures. It’s not a four-leaf clover, but resembles it. I invite you Libras to fantasize about using these three marvels. To do so will potentize your imagination, thereby boosting the cosmic forces that will be working in your favor to enhance your awareness, confer inspiration, solve riddles, unlock what's locked and find hidden treasures.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Inventor

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was a visionary genius in numerous fields, including architecture, design, engineering and futurism. In the course of earning 40 honorary doctorates, he traveled widely.

It was his custom to wear three watches, each set to a different time: one to the zone where he currently was, another to where he had recently departed and a third to where he would journey next. “I know that I am not a category,” he wrote. “I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb.” I recommend his approach to you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Be a verb! Allow your identity to be fluid, your plans adjustable, your ideas subject to constant revision.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As I write this, I’m sitting in a café near two women at another table.

One sports a gold, cashmere headscarf and pentagram necklace. The other wears a dark blue pantsuit and a silver broach that’s the glyph for Gemini the Twins. HeadScarf shuffles a deck of Tarot cards and asks PantSuit what she’d like to find out during the divination she is about to receive. “I would very much like you to tell me what I really, really want,” PantSuit says with a chuckle. “I’m sure that once I find out that big secret, I’ll be able to accomplish wonders.” I hope the rest of you Geminis will be on a similar mission in the coming weeks. Do whatever it takes to get very clear about what you want most.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place,” said actress Tilda Swinton. How about you, Sagittarius? What reminds you that you have a soul in the first place?

Beloved animals? Favorite music? A stroll amidst natural wonders? Unpredictable, fascinating sexual experiences? The vivid and mysterious dreams you have at night? Whatever stimuli bring you into visceral communion with your soul, I urge you to seek them out in abundance. It’s Soul-Cherishing and SoulEnhancing Time for you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ancient Greek

weeks will be a favorable time to arrange a series of high-level meetings between your body, mind and soul. You might even consider staging an extravagant conference-like festival and festival-like conference.

The astrological omens suggest that your body, mind and soul are now primed to reveal choice secrets and tips to each other. They are all more willing and eager than usual to come up with productive new synergies that will enable each to function with more panache and effectiveness.

philosopher Socrates was meandering through an Athenian marketplace, gazing at the appealing and expensive items for sale. “How many things there are in this world that I do not want,” he exclaimed with satisfaction. I recommend you cultivate that liberated attitude. Now is a perfect time to celebrate the fact that there are countless treasures and pleasures you don’t need in order to be charmed and cheerful about your life. For extra credit, add this nuance from Henry David Thoreau: People are rich in proportion to the number of things they can afford to let alone.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I invite you to try this

exercise. Imagine that one springtime you grow a garden filled with flowers that rabbits like to nibble: petunias, marigolds, gazanias and pansies. This place has the sole purpose of giving gifts to a wild, sweet part of nature. It’s blithely impractical. You do it for your own senseless, secret joy. It appeals to the dreamy lover of life in you. Got all that, Leo? Now, in accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you actually try to fulfill a fantasy comparable to that one in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My Virgo friend Lola

got a text message from her Scorpio buddy Tanya.

“Why don’t you come over and chill with me and my demons? It’ll be entertaining, I promise! My inner jerks are howlingly funny tonight.” Here’s what Lola texted back: “Thanks but no thanks, sweetie. I’ve been making big breakthroughs with my own demons— giving them the attention they crave without caving in to their outrageous demands—and for now I need to work on stabilizing our new relationship. I can’t risk bringing extra demons into the mix.” I suspect this is an accurate description of what could be happening for you, Virgo.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In ancient holy texts from India, soma was said to be a drink that enhanced awareness and alertness. According to modern scholars, it may have been a blend of poppy, ephedra and cannabis. In Norse mythology, the beverage called the Mead of Suttungr conferred

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I believe in inhabiting contradictions,” writes Aquarian author and activist Angela Davis. “I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or choosing both.” I think Davis’s approach will work well for you in the coming weeks. It’s not just that the contradictions will be tolerable; they will be downright fertile, generous and beneficent.

So welcome them; honor them; allow them to bless you with their tricky opportunities and unexpected solutions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean pianist

Frédéric Chopin (1801–1849) was a poetic genius whose music was full of sweetness and grace.

“Without equal in his generation,” said more than one critic. Today, more than 170 years after his death, his work remains popular. Recently an Italian sound designer named Remo de Vico created an original new Chopin piece that featured all 21 of the master’s piano nocturnes being played simultaneously. (You can hear it here: tinyurl.com/NewChopin.) As you might imagine, it’s a gorgeous mess, too crammed with notes to truly be enjoyable, but interesting nevertheless. I’ll counsel you to avoid a similar fate in the coming weeks, Pisces. It’s fine to be extravagant and expansive and mulitfaceted; just don’t overdo it.

Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888.

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