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6 How NCJ editor almost got arrested 8 Pray by the rules 18 Simple suchness 25 Weary no more 31 The pun is mightier 32 Aliens defeat seniors

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Editor Good Cops Aren’t Afraid of Cameras

Media Maven The Bully Pulpit

9 Blog Jammin’ 12 On The Cover Ferndale Gothic

18 Table Talk The Suchness of Brussels Sprouts

21 Art Beat Zen and Fine Art Photography

22 Arts Alive! Saturday, march 2, 6-9 p.m.

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24 Fortuna First Friday friday, march 1, 6-8 p.m.

25 The Hum Weary No More

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29 Calendar 32 Filmland Aliens Defeat Seniors

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34 Workshops 36 Field Notes Happy New Year!

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Editor: In response to Ryan Burns’ article (“Groupthink,” Feb. 7), I share his concern about supervisors who get their support from “developers.” It has been less than two months since Estelle got on the Board of Supervisors — and the sky has not fallen. We have lived past this apocalypse, and I am not seeing the problem. This new advisory group is made up of folks representing both the developers and environmentalists. It was not appointed by the board. Certainly any additional input will be gratefully considered by the board. The supervisors are embracing a new concept to Humboldt known as democracy. Why weren’t you present when the element requiring democracy was being shot down? This was the 1500 section that the League of Women Voters and the Humboldt County Tax Payers League helped defend. Despite the efforts of planning, it was eventually fixed and passed. Now that we have a democratic process, and since public input process as defined by the existing plan (1984) was ignored, we must live with another pass at the General Plan Update. Remember the General Plan Update is a mess that the new supervisors have inherited. We should support their efforts as we develop a new plan. I should apologize. In speaking to the board, I was somewhat caustic. I guess that I am not used to a board that listens to the public. So, Ryan, do you have a specific complaint? Or are you like Chicken Little claiming the sky is falling? Tom Grover, Redway

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Good Cops Aren’t Afraid of Cameras

So why did a Eureka officer threaten to arrest the Journal’s editor?

hen I last taught news writing, I asked the class to read about a bust in a drug-plagued San Francisco hotel. In their police report, officers wrote that they had knocked and announced their presence before entering. But a videotape showed they had just barged in. For beginning journalists, it was a lesson in skepticism. When two versions of a story conflict, sometimes the uniformed, clean-cut cop is the one who is lying, and the flophouse resident with drugs in his room is the one telling the truth. If we’d hadn’t had the Rodney King footage, would we ever have known that five officers surrounded him, some beating him as he lay on the ground? If we hadn’t had a tourist’s video, we probably would have believed that a bicyclist steered into a New York City police officer back in 2008 — instead of the officer nonchalantly walking over and shoving the cyclist down. (Google “officer pushes man off bicycle video,” and it should pop right up.) Sometimes, people lie. Not all people, not even most people, but enough that Russians have been protecting themselves from fraud and corruption lately with dashboard cameras — the same ones that captured all that great meteor footage. Enough that some journalists have been drummed out of the profession for making shit up. Cops can be just as flawed as the rest of us. And that’s why the best of them should love cameras. The camera is a good cop’s friend. It will show him or her acting appropriately. It will show heroism, restraint, countless wise decisions in a tough job. The camera is a bad cop’s enemy. It will show him or her abusing power or breaking the law. Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman gets it. In disciplinary records that became public last month, he chided Officer Kevin Stonebarger, who had told a candy store owner that he’d be arrested if he didn’t stop recording a dispute over a parking

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space in Eureka. An internal investigation concluded the officer had exceeded his lawful police powers. The chief wrote in part, “Asserting your authority as a sworn police officer to order people to stop engaging in perfectly legal conduct was inappropriate.” About that perfectly legal conduct, the photographing of a cop in public, the U.S. Justice Department wrote this in May 2012: “Officers should be advised not to threaten, intimidate, or otherwise discourage an individual from recording police officer enforcement activities or intentionally block or obstruct cameras or recording devices.” The advice recognizes something fundamental to our freedom: Today, with so many of us packing cameras, the best defense against tyranny may well be the smart phone. That’s why I was stunned by what happened last week in Eureka, not far from the Journal offices. Now, you have to picture this. I’m short and plump, and closer to 60 than 50. I’ve got graying hair, and all my teeth. I do not look like trouble. I look pretty much exactly like what I was last Friday — a library patron, about to return three books and check out one more. A curious passerby, just watching her tax dollars at work. A journalist maybe snagging a blog item there in the library parking lot. There is one more thing about me: Even after nearly two years, I’m still an import to Humboldt. Still new enough to think, “Wow, I’ve never seen that up close” when I spot a couple of freezer bags, pillow-fluffy full of big green buds. They were propped up on a rear fender of an old red car when I drove into the parking lot of the Eureka main library. Three cops were there doing cop things — going through black plastic bags, poking in the trunk, looking utterly ordinary. But those bags, well, they called to the rube in me. After I parked I pulled out my phone for a couple of shots. I walked closer, and in my best friendly voice asked something

Officer Drake Goodale, as he successfully shuts down photography in a public place. Goodale was among the officers quoted in a Journal article last summer about the best place to be a cop (“Humboldt’s Mayberry,” Aug. 8). He said then of his switching from Arcata to EUREKA PD, “Being a redneck Republican from Fortuna, after 14 years it was time for a change from the People’s Republic of Arcata.” photo by Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

like boy, is that what I think it is? One of the cops barked no pictures, grabbed the two bags and tossed them in the trunk, out of view. Hey, I’m with the North Coast Journal, I said, just wondering what’s going on. I offered the officers a business card, still trying at friendly. It was a colossal fail. The officers declined my card. OK. They didn’t want to be interviewed. OK. They told me if I didn’t stop taking pictures I was going to be arrested. No, no, no, no, no. That is not OK. I’ll be arrested, a suddenly much taller and more menacing looking officer declared, for interfering with their investigation. This even though I’m standing well away from their red car black bag green bag business. Even though it’s a public parking lot. I asked for the tall guy’s name, and he refused to tell me. He threatened me with arrest again. The not OKness of this was mounting by the second. But there were three of them, with guns. And one of me, with a library card. I allowed myself to be bullied out of taking more shots. I stepped back toward my car and phoned my husband. He’s a retired public defender, and great moral support. Soon he was at the parking lot. With reinforcements nearby, I walked a wide line around the officers and photographed each of their license plates, in case they continued to refuse to give me their names. Then I grabbed a notebook from the back of my car and cautiously approached another tall scary cop. I’m going to be making a formal complaint, I told him, and I needed his name. I’m going to walk close enough to read his name tag, I told him. I edged nearer,

moving very slowly, very carefully. His name tag said Chapman. I asked for his first name and rank and he refused. I announced to the next cop, the one who threatened me with arrest, that I was going to walk close enough to see his name. It was Goodale. I again announced my next move, and Goodale said he’d tell me the name of the third cop. It’s a name you could spell a few different ways, so I ask him to spell it. “O-f-f-i-c-e-r,” he began. Mr. Goodale was clearly having more fun with this little episode than I was. “M-c-E-l-r-o-y,” he finished. Now, I’m not saying, based on one episode alone, that Mr. Goodale is a bad cop. Maybe he’s a fine cop who was having a really, really bad day and couldn’t resist barking at someone. Maybe he’s a fine cop who has forgotten, or never was given, a basic primer on where crime stops and where civil rights begin. If this was an uncharacteristic slipup, he’ll apologize, a note will go in his file, and that will be the end of it. But even as a relative newcomer here, I’ve heard about the troubled history of the Eureka Police Department. If the department’s top brass believe that threatening a middle-aged lady with arrest for taking a few iPhone snapshots is acceptable, then what else is going on out there? If this wasn’t an aberration, then the City Council needs to ask some stern questions, both of current Chief Murl Harpham and of whomever it hires to be the next police chief. Just what are Eureka police afraid of? What are they doing that they don’t want on camera?

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f you worship the goddess and end up in prison, you may not need to worry much longer. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just took a case that will decide if members of the Wiccan faith have the right to a taxpayer-paid chaplain in California prisons. This story in the Times-Standard caught my eye, because if they do, under the First Amendment protection against the establishment of religion, well, maybe Eureka Mayor Frank Jager needs to find himself a Wiccan bible for the next mayor’s prayer breakfast. I don’t think our First Amendment requires the government to step away from anything that smacks of religion. It just can’t establish religion, and that means it can’t favor any particular one. By extension, neither should the president, Congress or the mayor of a small rural town while in the role of a publicly elected official. You might wonder why I broach this subject in this column, which is supposed to be about local media. Well, that’s because the mayor is media. If you think not, check out the Facebook page for the mayor’s prayer breakfast Eureka. Teddy Roosevelt called the presidency the bully pulpit, and by bully he meant powerful in a good sense, not in the schoolyard nasty sense. By just saying something is important — like exercise or eating healthy vegetables or conserving energy — a president can get millions of people to follow through. It could be powerful in a bad sense. Around the world and throughout history, dictators have used their bully pulpits to get thousands of people to suddenly massacre their neighbors over religious or ethnic differences. Jager held a prayer breakfast Feb. 7 at the Wharfinger Building as part of similar events taking place across the country. That came after Eureka citizen Carole Beaton filed suit against the city of Eureka to stop religious invocations at the start of city council meetings and to stop events like the mayor’s prayer breakfast. Her suit sparked a slew of letters to the Times-Standard. In a column in the T-S, Beaton responded: “If you want to pray,

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pray at church, pray at home, pray before meals, pray to yourself at any time. … Prayer has no place before a government meeting or other activity supported by the government. People of all faiths and no faith attend these gatherings, and a prayer to a particular god for help is not appropriate or legal.” If you use letters-to-the-editor as a measure of community feeling, Humboldt County backs Jager’s stubborn position big time. People here like to pray. But if you look for more empirical data, that’s a different story. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reported in October that 20 percent of all adults in the U.S — and a third of all adults under the age of 30 — have no religious affiliation. In the book Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region, religious studies Professor Tamar Frankiel wrote that California differs from most other states in that its percentage of those unaffiliated with any religion is higher in rural areas. She notes that in “the forest and farmland towns” of Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Modoc and Butte, for example, more than 69 percent of the population is religiously unaffiliated or unaccounted. She explained that it comes from a sense of independence and anti-institutionalism on the part of Californians. Jager told T-S reporter Kaci Poor that he can’t separate the religious citizen Frank Jager from the publicly elected one. “I was elected by the people, and I do my best to represent all of the people in Eureka,” Jager said. “I can’t separate Frank Jager from the mayor. I sponsor a number of things; it’s part of what I am and what I do in Eureka. It’s perfectly acceptable for me to sponsor something like this. You bet I feel what we are doing is fine within the law.” I can’t help wondering how the same people who wrote to support Jager’s stand would feel if he were Muslim or Wiccan. As an agnostic raised in the Jewish faith, public prayer makes me uncomfortable. As does Jager’s statement. He says he represents all the people in Eureka. So that should include those, like Beaton, who believe that prayer belongs only in the church, home, head or heart.

In a Feb. 8 letter to the T-S, Eureka resident Donna Slater proposed a solution for those, like me, who squirm at public meetings that begin with a small prayer. “Earplugs,” she wrote, “are available at any local drugstore.” It’s a good thing that so few people attend council meetings or this proposal could cost the city about $20,000 in taxpayer-funded earplugs. That’s my own calculation based on the Pew Research data. Then you need to pay someone to tap all those people on the shoulders when the prayer is over so they don’t miss the portion of the government meeting devoted to government business. The Eureka City Council and its mayor could offer about a dozen different prayers to that many deities and one extra that acknowledges the possibility of no god. That would acknowledge religion without establishing any particular one. The Ninth Circuit isn’t likely to say toss the chaplains out of the prisons, but it will consider whether we need to hire more types of chaplains as the diversity of religions in the prisons grows. But be prepared for some very long city council meetings. Talk about squirming. In a budget tight environment, I wonder at a city council that will spend money to defend its right to say a public prayer before meetings or to allow the mayor to put his name and title to a religious-themed breakfast. Why can’t people see the First Amendment separation of church and state for its intended purpose — to protect all of our religious rights. That includes the right to not be religious. Mayor Jager, can’t you just pray by the rules?

– Marcy Burstiner mib3@humboldt.edu Marcy Burstiner is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at Humboldt State University. She does know from personal experience that a prayer to St. Anthony could help one find a lost set of desperately needed keys. But that’s a long story.

Blog Jammin’ GOVERNMENT / BY RYAN BURNS / FEB. 26, 3:21 P.M.

Ulansey Appointed to Planning Commission The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors today appointed the politically pugnacious property rights advocate Lee Ulansey to an at-large seat on the Planning Commission. In the pre-vote discussion, several supervisors alluded to concerns from county residents about Ulansey bringing an agenda to the commission. As chairman of the developer-friendly group Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights, or HumCPR, Ulansey has sought to ease zoning restrictions on rural land in the ongoing General Plan Update. Second District Supervisor Estelle Fennell, who served nearly three years as executive director of HumCPR, named Ulansey as her first choice for the position, as did Fourth District Supervisor Virginia Bass and First District Supervisor Rex Bohn. Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace voted no after arguing that the board should appoint someone less divisive. Fifth District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg named Ulansey as his second choice but abstained from voting. Ulansey joins fellow HumCPR alum Bob Morris on the commission, which regulates land use in the unincorporated parts of the county. ● ADVICE, BUSINESS, CURIOSITIES, EUREKA / BY HEIDI WALTERS / FEB. 26, 11:07 A.M.

Business Planning with Zoltar For several years now, a certain fancy foretune-teller has heckled and charmed walkersby in Old Town with his commanding come-hithers. And for a diviner-in-a-box, Zoltar’s been surprisingly mobile. He spent a few years in front of Sea Breeze Candy store down in the Bayfront One complex at the foot of F Street. After that closed, he set up shop in front of Shorelines Gallery. That closed, and now he’s a few paces over, in front of Eureka Books. Indeed, one has to wonder if it truly is good fortune to have such a creature stationed in front of one’s business. One who, to put a finer point on it, dispenses cheap fortunes to those who stand before him while, one by one, the establishments behind him fold up and close. Sea Breeze — closed. Shorelines Gallery — closed. Not a cheery record. Weren’t the proprietors of Eureka Books even a wee bit

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worried about taking on Zoltar? “Before we bought Zoltar, we consulted Zoltar,” said Eureka Books co-owner Scott Brown the other afternoon at the bookstore, with just a twitch of a self-mocking smile. He opened up to a page in a journal where he’d tacked a yellow rectangle of paper: Zoltar’s answer. Key wise phrases — “Now is the time to start that new project” and “This newfound industry pays debts” — leaped out. “We took that as a sign,” said Brown. They bought him for $4,500. (New, he’d be about $9,000). “But then … I hadn’t really considered his closing a business.” Co-owner Jack Irvine quickly flipped the notion. Zoltar brings good fortune. Period. “Matt closed because he was so successful, and he retired,” Irvine said about Matt Butler, who, with his wife, Sherrie, owned both Sea Breeze and Shorelines. Indeed, this is what the Butlers also say on their website: The successive shutdowns of their businesses were part of the retirement plan. Still, one thing seems apparent: Zoltar looks after Zoltar. That bookstore fortune? In one spot, he could be talking about himself: “The time is right to get going. If you are to move the world, first you must move yourself.” ● ARCATA / BY HEIDI WALTERS / FEB. 21, 4:12 P.M.

Pitchin’ Woo to the Arcata Eye As fans of the Arcata Eye know, its hardworking, break-not-taking, fearsome and fearless founder/leader, Kevin L. Hoover, is goddammit calling it quits next year. He announced his plans to get a life — or

more from life, or a vacation, anyway — a whole two years in advance, and the oneyear-more mark is upon us, as Hoover notes this week in his column, “So-Called Thoughts”: “With this edition, we begin the Grand Countdown to Doom, or not. Unless someone else acquires it, the Eye will end publication Feb. 12, 2014, so you are holding the first issue of the Eye’s last year in existence.” Or, not … as Hoover says. He alludes to offers he’s had from various “suitors” with optimism, while lamenting that none of them have “offered serious compensation” for the paper he’s labored at for 17 years, a creation that’s recognized far beyond the blurry treeline of Arcata and even Humboldt County. “Possibly,” he notes, such compensation “could come in the form of a job with the Eye, under new ownership.” Argh, we can’t stand this anymore — we’ll just blurt it: HSU is one of Hoovers’ suitors, according to an email obtained by the Journal that university President Rollin Richmond sent out earlier this month to Hoover and a dozen-and-a-half university staff and faculty. The president wanted to explore possibilities with Hoover and “faculty from Art, Communication, Business and Journalism and well as IT staff.” But, a couple of questions. How would a newspaper be “independent,” able to cover all of the news fairly, if it’s owned by one of the largest employers in the county and frequent news generator? And, what about the newspaper the university already shepherds — or makes a home for — the student-run The Lumberjack? Hoover, reached by phone this afternoon, deferred “how-would-it-be-run” and Lumberjack-related questions to the university folks. He made one thing very clear, however: He would only hand over the Eye to somebody responsible and dedicated to community journalism. “I’m looking for credible people to take over the paper, whom I would have confidence in sustaining it and probably — hopefully — improving it. Fresh blood, fresh talent, fresh energy. Because I don’t think we’re fully exploiting the paper’s potential at this point.” He also likes the idea of having a job with the paper — a regular, journalist job, absent the business-management side of the operation. UPDATE: On Monday we heard from HSU public information officer Paul Mann,

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who said, in part: One thought is whether faculty and student interns could provide useful technical input or research and analysis in such areas as the Eye’s marketing or more advanced digitization. To the question of how a universityowned newspaper would be able to cover news about the university objectively, Mann responded, “‘University-owned’ is a leap and 100 percent premature.” ● MARIJUANA / BY ANDREW GOFF / FEB. 21, 11:17 A.M.

Watch ‘Weed Country’ and Tell Us How They Screwed Up In case you slept through the inaugural “Weed Wednesday,” we’ve got you a link to the entirety of the first episode of the Discovery Channel’s “Weed Country” which chronicles the battles between marijuana growers and law enforcement in the Emerald Triangle. Woot. (Note: “Weed Wednesday” ended up being 50 percent less weedy than initially scheduled. The debut of “Pot Cops” has been pushed back to April after “Weed Country” concludes its six episode run. Attention spans across the Triangle applaud.) Also, if you happen to notice anything super lame about the episode — oh, the super dramatic build to a grower NOT getting pulled over stands out — let us know! ● ELECTIONS, INDIAN COUNTRY / BY HEIDI WALTERS / FEB. 21, 11:15 A.M.

The Yurok Casino Is ON The Yurok Tribe’s special election closed yesterday evening and the unofficial results are in: There will be a new casino in Klamath. Yurok Tribe members voted 61 percent to 39 percent in favor of a proposal by the tribal council to take $9.6 million of a $27.5 million settlement from the United States government and use it to build a hotelcontinued on next page

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Blog Jammin’ casino on land near existing tribal offices. Another $500,000 will go toward attorneys fees. And the remaining $17.4 million, according to the tribe’s election office, will be divvied among the 5,000 tribal members thusly: Members 60 and older get $4,500 each (a total of $3 million) Members 18-59 get $3,500 ($13 million) Members under 18 get $1,000 ($1.4 million) The settlement came out of a class action suit filed by a dozen tribes in 2006 — Nez Perce, et al v. Kenneth L. Salazar, et al. Another 30 tribes joined the suit in 2008. They accused the federal government of mismanaging tribal resources and revenues. The total settlement was $1 billion. Some Yurok Tribe members opposed to the council’s proposal said a casino wasn’t viable, and they’d prefer the money be distributed evenly to the tribe’s members. (See our story, “The Yurok Casino Wager,” in last week’s issue.) Last year, the Hoopa Valley Tribe received its portion — $49.2 million — and similarly was divided on how to distribute it. The people voted for it to be fully distributed to them. Turnout for the Yurok Tribe’s election was 56 percent; 1,016 voted for the proposal and 642 against. ● GOVERNMENT, HUMBOLDT BAY / BY BOB DORAN / FEB. 20, 5:56 P.M.

Congressman. On the Bay. “You can learn a lot about this community by spending a couple of hours on Humboldt Bay,” said Congressman Jared Huffman, who is here in Humboldt County for a quick President’s Week visit. After meeting this morning with Humboldt State University President Rollin Richmond and others at the college, he took a tour of Humboldt Bay on the Humboldt Bay Harbor District’s new fire boat.

HUFFMAN CHATS WITH HARBOR COMMISSIONERS RICHARD MARKS AND MIKE WILSON. PHOTO BY BOB DORAN

Harbor Commissioner Mike Wilson narrated the excursion, highlighting plans for what the district calls a “National Marine Research and Innovation Park” in conjunction with HSU on the site of an abandoned mill on the bay. HSU is interested in using the site to study harnessing wave and offshore wind power and biomass energy conversion in association with its Schatz Energy Research Center. The new congressman serves on the House Committee on Natural Resources, which, Huffman said, “includes a lot of things very important to this community: our forests, our fisheries; it includes Native American affairs. So I think it’s a great committee for me to serve on for the 2nd Congressional District.” Just last week Huffman had his first opportunity to address Congress on the House floor, and he chose to talk about climate change. He wants more federal action, he said during his Humboldt visit: “That includes some rulemaking under the Clean Air Act, carbon pollution rules for new power plants, probably some things on existing coal-fired power plants as well.” The next stop on Huffman’s Humboldt fact-finding mission today was a meeting with doctors and other practitioners from the Humboldt Bay Medical Society. Tomorrow morning he meets with elected city

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and county officials from Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity counties. ● BIRDS, CURIOSITIES / BY HEIDI WALTERS / FEB. 20, 5:32 P.M.

Parking Lot Monitors It was nothing new. All the cars parked under the row of big Leyland cypresses that divide the parking lot at First and D streets in Eureka were kersplatted in white drips and blops. And the pavement all around these bombed cars was, as usual, devastated. Whitewashed. Just like every day before this. Oh, maybe it was a different set of cars parked there each day — each unsuspecting driver amazed she’d found such a splendid spot so close to her office or the Old Town shops and restaurants. Score! (Pllllop.) A few cars always looked familiar, though, as if they’d been there before and often — look at all the crap on them, plopped on day after day and the driver not caring about the slowmotion and, um, shitty paintjob. Maybe perversely inviting it. Anything to cover that aging Kia fade. It turns out that night herons — much smaller than their blue heron cousins — have roosted in those cypress for at least 10

years, said Tom Coyle, the City of Eureka’s parks and maintenance manager. Sometimes there’ve been a near-dozen of them; lately there are fewer. And yes, the city prune crew — Coyle’s folks — give the herons’ trees (these ones, and a Monterey cypress by the Adorni Center) easy treatment so as not to disturb them. It’s an arrangement they worked out with the state fish and wildlife folks some years back. “Heron nesting and roosting habitat is protected around the bay,” Coyle said. “The only pruning we do on those cypress is we prune them for clearance around the parking lot lights. And then we’ll prune them up a little bit for pedestrian clearance.” Such head-bonk-proofing will not, necessarily, protect a person from a well-aimed heron offering. ● FIREFIGHTING / BY HEIDI WALTERS / FEB. 19, 4:06 P.M.

Not The Fire Hose, Eejits Nobody died in the house fire on T-Bone Lane (near Indianola) early this morning, which Humboldt Bay Firefighters doused within 10 minutes after they began attack. But, dangit, somebody — a firefightersomebody, or two or three or more — could have been seriously injured because of all the dingdongs driving over the fire hose (pinching the water supply) while the firefighters were inside the burning house. The CHP had to be called out to stop people from driving over the thing, said the news release from Humboldt Bay Fire North Battalion. The release notes that it is, in fact, illegal to drive over a fire hose. Someone on the scene recorded the license numbers of the offending vehicles, and their owners could be cited. Damages to the house might amount to $50,000. The full news release is on our website. ●

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Ferndale Gothic

She runs the newspaper. He’s the mayor and the freshly ousted fair manager. It’s messy. By Ryan Burns

CAROLINE AND STUART TITUS PHOTO BY DREW HYLAND

retired carnival owner spoke first, followed by the food booth guy, who operates Lighthouse Cone and Coral Reef Smoothies. After him came the horse guy and a member of the Western Fairs Association Hall of Fame. They all made impassioned pleas at the lectern. But none was as emotional as Ken Johnston, the man who runs the Ferris wheel and the bumper cars. “A lot of you and your kids have rode my rides,” he said, addressing the board of the Humboldt County Fair Association. Nineteen of the board’s 21 members sat in brown metal folding chairs behind long tables arranged in an “L.” The inscrutable board lined two walls inside the Turf Room at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds. Johnston, standing

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under banks of fluorescent lights, said he’s been coming to the Humboldt County Fair with his family since 1958, making the long drive from Sacramento to Ferndale every August. It’s the same drive they made to be here on this Monday evening in January. “One of the reasons we come is the relationship with the [fair] manager. That relationship has never been in doubt here. He’s just one of those guys who, you know he has this fair in his heart.” His voice caught in his throat and he paused to gather himself. The crowd of 60-odd people — this was the best-attended fair board meeting in at least two decades, according to Board President John Burger — waited patiently. Caroline Titus of the Ferndale Enterprise stood at the back of the room, taking notes. News Channel 3 reporter Kelly May kept her tripod-mounted video camera aimed at Johnston’s face, its deep lines framed by iron-gray hair. “Excuse me,” he said in a quavering voice.

AT THIS JAN. 28 MEETING OF THE HUMBOLDT COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS, FERNDALE RESIDENTS AND OUT-OF-TOWN COLLEAGUES URGED THE BOARD TO RECONSIDER ITS DECISION TO REPLACE THE FAIR’S GENERAL MANAGER OF 22 YEARS, STUART TITUS. PHOTO BY RYAN BURNS

Then he continued: “When I heard that [the manager’s contract] wasn’t being renewed I thought, ‘Well, gee, maybe I won’t have to go up there.’ That’s an honest feeling.” He took a breath. “To replace Stu I think would be very devastating to the community; he would be very hard to replace.” “Stu” is Stuart Titus, a Ferndale native who’s been employed as the Humboldt County Fair’s general manager for 22 years. He’s also the city’s mayor, having won a nailbiter election last November by a whopping five votes — 252-247. He, too, sat behind the tables, calmly listening to the speakers while positioned in the middle of a board that, three weeks earlier, voted 13-7 to replace him. The “Victorian Village” of Ferndale (pop. 1,372) has been abuzz ever since. Many locals — not to mention the out-of-town fair workers coming to Titus’ defense — question the wisdom of the move, and the motives behind it. A man named Lucky Henner (he’s the fair hall-of-famer) called Titus “one of the best” fair managers in the state and urged the board to reconsider. Karen Pingitore, president of Ferndale’s Chamber of Commerce, said her agency “question[s] releasing an experienced manager without an equivalent professional on tap.” And Mike Angelini described Titus as the fair’s linchpin. “No Stu Titus, no fair. No horse races. It’s over.” The vast majority of speakers urged the board to reconsider, CARNIVAL VETERAN KEN JOHNSTON, OF SACRAMENTO, CHOKED UP WHILE DEFENDING STUART TITUS, THE LONGTIME GENERAL MANAGER OF THE HUMBOLDT COUNTY FAIR. “TO REPLACE STU I THINK WOULD BE VERY DEVASTATING TO THE COMMUNITY,” HE SAID. PHOTO BY RYAN BURNS

though a few expressed blanket support for the board. Throughout, the Enterprise‘s reporter-editor-publisher Caroline Titus — Stuart’s wife — kept scribbling notes for that week’s edition. The 134-year-old community newspaper, which she purchased in 1998, has been at the center of the Stuart Titus controversy. Indeed, some suggest it’s the source. That was the implication made at a fair association board meeting last April. According to the official minutes, which some board members tried and failed to keep private, board member Cindy Olsen complained to Stuart Titus that some of her fellow board members “felt threatened” when he used a digital voice recorder during meetings. (Titus explained that he just wanted accurate records.) Second, Olsen went on, some also felt threatened when he reminded the board of its legal obligation to follow the Ralph M. Brown Act, California’s open-meetings law. And third — well, let’s just quote the minutes here — third, Olsen said “that Titus, as co-owner of the Ferndale Enterprise, should ensure that board members not be ‘made to look bad’ in any stories which appear in the weekly publication.” As examples she cited the paper’s coverage of a July 2009 incident in which board member and Ferndale’s thenmayor Jeff Farley was arrested in Eureka for driving a milk truck while intoxicated, without a commercial driver’s license, and with his granddaughter seated beside him. (Farley eventually pleaded guilty to a “wet reckless” charge.) Olsen also cited the paper’s coverage of a 15-5 vote last February that gave Stuart Titus a one-year contract extension. She said the paper should not have identified the way each member voted. (She was one of the five voting against.) Olsen continued on next page

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continued from previous page went on to ask whether law that just seems to Titus understood that thrive here. And there these concerns “could are no consequences impact his future — or they don’t come employment with the for a very long time. It’s association,” according amazing.” to the minutes. She’s sitting in a tall Titus protested that director’s chair — a as a silent partner he gift from Hollywood has no influence over director Frank Darabont what gets printed in the and the rest of the crew paper. Whether or not from The Majestic, the that’s the case, his wife 2001 Jim Carrey movie Caroline does have that that was filmed here influence. In fact, the — and she’s starting to Cindy Olsen, a member of the Humboldt County Fair Association Board paper is practically a assemble the week’s paof Directors, hides her face from the camera of Ferndale Enterprise one-woman operation. editor/publisher Caroline Titus at a Feb. 4 meeting. Photo by Caroline Titus. per on her 27-inch iMac. And her coverage of the The Enterprise office fair board scandal — occupies a small room along with the political at the front of a quaint house downcartoons of Ferndale town. On the wall behind her there’s a artist Jack Mays — has painting that her husband bought her been withering. Her at last year’s Humboldt County Fair. It’s stories have doggedly a portrait of a woman whose mouth is chronicled the board’s covered with tape that reads, “Wellevery Brown Act violabehaved women seldom make history.” tion; she has analyzed Born in England, Caroline Slark the agency’s finances, moved with her parents to Hollywood Cartoons by Ferndale artist Jack Mays frequently skewer local issues and policies and procedures, at age 10. She wrote her first letter to personalities. This May 17 cartoon, which including the incestuous the editor of the San Fernando Valshows Ferndale Enterprise editor/publisher process for selecting new ley News just six year later, protesting members; and she has de- Caroline Titus being wrapped in duct tape development on a field where she by fair board directors Cindy Olsen and manded access to public used to ride her horse after school, Jeff Farley, ran after Olsen suggested that meetings and records. according to a June 2011 profile on The Stuart Titus, the fair’s general manager and The scrutiny has gotHuffington Post. Caroline’s husband, should keep directors ten so intense — or perAfter working on student newspafrom looking bad in the paper. haps annoying — that at a pers in high school and college, she recent meeting Olsen hid went on to graduate from Sacramento her face behind a piece of paper to avoid scheduled to meet in closed State University in 1985 with a governCaroline Titus’ camera. (Olsen also seems session Monday to discuss the ment/journalism major. She met Stuto be hiding from the Journal. After asksalary range and benefits for art Titus soon thereafter, and she says ing that we call her before 9 a.m. or after an interim general manager. If the first time he took her to see his 5 p.m., calls during those hours have not they were hoping that Caroline hometown of Ferndale her response Enterprise editor/publisher Caroline Titus and Ferndale been returned.) Titus would ease off with the was, “‘Hey, cute town, but I could artist/cartoonist Jack Mays stand on the porch in front But none of Caroline Titus’ muckraking, departure of her husband, last never live here.’” She thought it was of the paper’s office downtown. photo by ryan burns nor the praises of her husband’s peers, week’s Enterprise dashed those too small, and besides, by that time managed to save his job. At the end of hopes. In a page one news story she had a thriving journalism career in including the evaporation of state funding the Jan. 28 meeting the board went into she pointed out that this agenda item conradio and television at the state capital. and inter-fair horseracing negotiations so closed session, where members voted 11-8 stitutes yet another Brown Act violation: But when both of her parents died of cutthroat they resemble rugby scrums. If to reject Stuart Titus’ last-ditch contract Salary decisions for public employees can’t cancer within 15 months of each other, Stuart Titus is anywhere near as important offer. His 22-year tenure as general manbe made behind closed doors. she reconsidered. She and Stuart had just as his colleagues elsewhere in the state ager expires Thursday. Now the Humboldt County Grand Jury had a baby, and Stuart had been offered say, there could be trouble ahead for the Two days after the meeting, Board has begun asking questions. The board’s his dream job: general manager of his Humboldt County Fair. President John Burger went on KSLG and new president, Tim Renner, and its second hometown fair. told deejay John Matthews that there’s no vice president, Jeff Farley, were served subWhile raising their three kids, Caroline need to worry about the fair: “You’ve got poenas last Thursday. More on that later. Titus kept her hand in journalism, working the total commitment of the 21 memOf greater concern for residents at the Times-Standard for a while and morning in Ferndale, and Caroline Titus is bers of the fair board that they’re going of Ferndale, along with the rest of the freelancing for the Enterprise. She gradualready annoyed. The school board hasn’t to work like hell to keep things going in county, is what effect all this will have ally took on a more active role and beemailed her its latest meeting agenda, even the right direction.” He resigned five days on the Humboldt County Fair. It’s difcame the Enterprise’s managing editor in though she has a standing request. It’s past later, followed the next day by Vice Presificult to overstate the importance of the 1995. When then-owner Peter Hannaford due and she’s frustrated, but not surprised. dent Don Becker. Burger told the Journal 117-year-old annual event for residents decided to sell the struggling paper in She deals with this type of hassle all the last week that he wanted to spend more of this picturesque town, whose whimsi1998, Caroline jumped at the opportunity. time, she says. time with his friends and family. Calls to cal Victorian buildings are surrounded “I knew I could do a better job keep“It’s really, to me, fascinating the Becker were not returned. by miles of verdant farmland. In recent ing it going financially … and I knew how disregard for normal rules and public The remaining board members were years the fair has faced serious challenges, important it was to the community.”

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When the Journal profiled Caroline Titus 14 years ago, she was already ruffling feathers. Some local businesses stopped advertising over a series of stories that called for municipal review of a local logging project. She also took heat for covering the trial of Ferndale “native son” Stan Dixon, a county supervisor who’d been charged with petty theft. Back then the Enterprise had 3½ employees, but the business has changed a lot. Caroline Titus no longer needs a layout person to cut and assemble copy on the page, paste-up style, because she does it all with computer software. Nor does she need anyone to physically pick up ads, drop off galleys or get film developed; that’s all done digitally, too. And she doesn’t need an office manager to do the books because she now uses QuickBooks software. Caroline Titus even delivers many of the 1,500 copies published each week (with help from cartoonist Jack Mays). She won’t divulge annual revenues, but she says the paper is “holding steady.” In fact, she said that her refusal to pull punches on controversial stories has earned the paper a wider readership and more loyalty from advertisers. While daily newspapers across the country are hemorrhaging money and losing readership to free news online, weekly community newspapers like the Enterprise have fared better. Caroline Titus steadfastly refuses to put most stories online (though she occasionally makes exceptions for “bigger stories”). Each issue, available at local markets and newsstands, costs a dollar, and there’s no discount for subscriptions, which at $55 per year make up about 20 percent to 30 percent of her revenues, she estimates. In the 15 years since she bought the paper it has racked up 30 state and national awards. And her reporting continues to spark firestorms. It doesn’t hurt that, from a reporter’s

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continued from previous page ing order against the Tituses, along with any associates of the Enterprise, saying he was afraid for his safety. The Tituses took him to court, alleging that the restraining order amounted to a strategic lawsuit against public participation (or SLAPP) case. In other words, they argued that Benemann was trying to use the court system to shut them up. They won the case, in part by proving that the information in question had already been made public. Benemann was ordered to pay the Tituses’ legal fees — about $12,000. Caroline Titus admits that covering stories that involve her husband is like walking a tightrope, “but I think I walk it pretty well.” She said that the community can easily hold her accountable. “If anyone wants to check me, on anything, they can find me in two seconds. I am rarely checked on the facts of my reporting.” The complaints are usually vague. A recent scandal erupted when Ferndale football fans were accused, multiple times, of hurling racist taunts at opposing teams. This depressing storyline reached its nadir with a formal complaint filed after last year’s season opener. A player from visiting McClymonds High alleged that a Ferndale fan had shouted at him, “Get up, you fucking nigger, and get your nigger ass back to Oakland.” After an inquiry from the North Coast Section of the state’s Interscholastic Federation, Ferndale High’s football program was placed on probation for this season. Caroline Titus’ coverage was critical of the way Ferndale High School Principal/ Superintendent Jack Lakin handled the incidents. He reportedly denied the accusations of one visiting team before eventually apologizing to the opposing school, and Caroline reported that he misrepresented facts in a KSLG radio interview. Lakin said that Caroline Titus’ stories tend to be unnecessarily divisive. He pointed to her coverage of a move he made last year to ban everyone except coaches, players and student support personnel from Ferndale’s sideline at football games. On Twitter and in the Enterprise, Caroline decried the move as a “media ban.” Lakin considers that a negative slant to a good-faith effort at controlling the situation, and he said Titus has a tendency toward sensationalism. “She seems to present things in a way to antagonize one group and support another.” Ultimately, he said, the problem is that Caroline Titus “fails to recognize the best intentions of people.” Titus contends that she was just reporting the facts, and in regard to recognizing good intentions, she said the Enterprise has written “dozens of stories” on

the high school’s successes and will continue to do so. She also said she’s offered Lakin space in the paper for a regular, unedited column. One of the paper’s longtime columnists is 69-yearold Wendy Lestina, whose aunt and uncle owned and operated the Enterprise for more than 50 years — from 1933 to 1984. In those days the paper was filled with benign gossip like wedding details and news of visiting relatives, Lestina said. That was appropriate for the time. But now the times call for real journalism, and not above Stuart and Caroline everyone appreciates it. LesTitus peruse bound copies of tina doesn’t put much stock the Ferndale Enterprise from years past. The community in complaints that Caroline newspaper is now in its 135th Titus is biased. year. photo by ryan burns “They never say she has lied, misquoted them or fictionalized the account watch televised simulcast feeds of an event, because she in fairground annexes or use never strays from what hap“advanced deposit wagering” to pens,” Lestina said. But that bet from home. doesn’t necessarily mean Caroline Titus assembles each issue of the Ferndale Enterprise on “Fewer and fewer people kept people like it. “None of us computers in the paper’s small office downtown. photo by ryan burns coming to the racetrack,” said look good if our story is Kirk Breed, executive director objectively presented to the Caroline while working on a two-summer of the California Horse Racing Board. public,” she added with a chuckle. “Ferninternship with the state Food and Ag In Breed’s profile picture on the board’s dale people are not used to that because Department’s Division of Fairs and Exposiwebsite, he’s a rosy-cheeked old cowboy they never had a real journalist before.” tions. His job was to audit food vendors at in a pink shirt and shiny bolo tie, offering county fairs, and Caroline signed on for a a jovial tip of his cowboy hat. He recently summer job to help tally the products bespoke to the Journal from his office in ing sold. As she puts it, they met “clicking may be considered a newcomer by Sacramento, and he said this area has corndogs and beers.” Ferndale standards, her husband Stuart’s managed to hold on to horseracing’s glory Stuart went on to a management family has roots that go back 150 years. His days. “Humboldt County has a higher training program, and when Humboldt ancestors came to the region in the 1860s, average of patrons per horse race than any County’s fair manager position opened homesteading on Petrolia property that place in California,” he said. “It’s the old up he jumped at the opportunity. Now, remains in the family. style of racing.” at age 58, he has lost his dream job, along When he was a kid, Stuart’s family Even with strong attendance, though, with an $80,000 salary and $30,000 worth lived just outside of town on Centerville it hasn’t been easy to keep our race dates. of benefits per year. (He earned less last Road. A childhood he remembers as fun The Humboldt County Fair has faced stiff year because he volunteered to take a and carefree was interrupted one August competition from major players such as one-time $10,000 pay cut to help comevening when he was riding his bike and Golden Gate Fields and Bay Meadows, and pensate the fair association for drops in a westbound driver slammed into him at in recent years other county fairs in the state funding.) close to 50 miles per hour. The accident state have joined the tug-of-war. “All of Yet he’s still grateful. “It’s been a great fractured his skull and broke his neck. the fairs have banded together … trying career,” he said. “It’s a great program to be Just 10 years old, he was in a coma for to get those dates [and] put Humboldt a part of where you can bring happiness two weeks and his path to recovery was County out of business,” Breed said. to people’s lives once every summer. And difficult. But he went on to play multiple The reason for this fierce competithis one in particular has always mainsports at Ferndale High — football, bastion is Del Mar, the famous and lucrative tained a lot of charm.” ketball, baseball and track. racetrack in Southern California. Thanks One of the things that makes the “The beauty of going to Ferndale is to simulcasting, bets on the Del Mar races Humboldt County Fair special is the pasthat if you can put your pads and helmet are placed all over the state, and regulasion and excitement that still surround on the right way you can play whatever tions dictate that proceeds from all the horseracing. Fans pack the grandstands you want,” Stuart Titus joked. He played action in “the north” — meaning everyto wager on mules and ponies. Elsewhere, football at College of the Redwoods, too, where above the Tehachapi Mountains the horseracing industry has struggled before going on to earn a business degree near Bakersfield — goes to the venue and lost vitality. Morose gamblers now from Sacramento State University. He met that’s hosting its own races that week.

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boldt County that I don’t know about who’s gonna come in there and tell us all how to do it right,” he said with a chuckle, “but I don’t know who that person is.”

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That revenue is the difference between making money and losing money for the Humboldt County Fair, Breed said. And even as the industry gravitates toward SoCal, Breed and others on the state horse racing board have rooted for us. “We have ESPN up there every year; we have national publicity … and it’s fun! You go to these other places and it’s not fun. I mean, they can have dollar beer, dollar this, dollar that, give away a T-shirt and everything else and you still don’t have fun.” Breed credits just one person with keeping the competitors at bay. “Had it not been for Stuart Titus over the last three or four years … if he hadn’t stood, by himself, for Humboldt County, you would have lost those dates a long time ago.” Stuart went to Sacramento each year to lobby the board, managing to build a coalition of allies by highlighting the oldfashioned nature of Humboldt County horseracing. He also talked about the fair’s importance to the local community, a case that was bolstered last year by a fundraising effort from a new nonprofit called Friends of the Fair. It was established by none other than Caroline Titus, along with Karen Pingitore of the Ferndale Chamber of Commerce. The Enterprise donated more than $9,000 worth of advertising for last August’s Fair Bash, a fundraising event that brought in $45,000. When Breed found out that the fair board was ousting Stuart Titus, he was stunned. He doesn’t think very highly of fair boards generally, but he said Humboldt County’s takes the cake. “I’ve never seen such a shortsighted group of people run a fair in my life. I mean this is just a real groundbreaker.” Breed is skeptical that the board can find a replacement who can match Stuart Titus’ education, training, negotiating skills and personal connections. “Maybe they’ve got some secret weapon up there in Hum-

new president, Tim Renner, disagrees. He says that, moving forward, the fair is going to be just fine. And while he wouldn’t address his reasons for voting against Stuart Titus, he said the local paper has it all wrong. “The Enterprise hasn’t covered a single thing that had to do with his contract not being renewed,” he said last week. “Absolutely nothing.” Jeff Farley, who also voted against renewing Titus’ contract, denied that his decision had anything to do with Caroline Titus’ coverage of his 2009 DUI arrest. Both men said the matter was a confidential personnel issue. Jerry Bruga, a friend of Farley’s and a retired resident of Ferndale, said the reason is simple. “It’s just [Stuart’s] failure to get along with his employer, which was the fair board. And that happens throughout the world, doesn’t it? … He wouldn’t be a team player.” “Well,” countered Stuart Titus, “if agreeing to be a team player meant being as corrupt as some of them are, I would have been a team player. But that’s just not how I’m made.” Caroline Titus recently reported that fair board members drink alcohol during closed sessions. When we asked Renner if alcohol has been consumed in closed session he grunted and sighed. “I can’t say never, but I really can’t say that it has, so I really don’t have a comment on that.” Asked if the alcohol was paid for with county funds he said, “You know, I’ve never seen how the checks are written for that, whether it comes from stuff that’s left over from the fair bars … .” If so, it was paid for with public funds. “I think that they are having a very difficult time comprehending that they are a public agency and are accountable to the public,” Caroline Titus said. Stuart Titus believes his dismissal was nothing more than petty retaliation for his attempts — and Caroline’s — to hold board members accountable. The board stated in a public meeting that he’d satisfied all of his goals and objectives for last year. “It’s pretty clear they don’t have a valid reason,” he said. “They’re not in financial trouble; we’re not in regulatory oversight problems. There is nothing they could point to that has any relevance whatsoever.” Another Ferndale resident says he’s had a taste of the board’s retaliation, too.

Richard Hooley, who moved to town in 1999, read in the Enterprise about Cindy Olsen wanting Stuart to control coverage in the paper. Hooley responded with a letter to the board, which he delivered at a subsequent meeting. He defended freedom of the press and called for Olsen’s resignation. A week and a half later, a fair board member named Duane Martin filed a complaint with City Hall about a fence in Hooley’s backyard. It had been there for a decade without a problem, but according to old maps it was technically built across a city street. “It was just a weed-strewn, berry-strewn patch,” Hooley said. Ferndale City Manager Jay Parish confirmed that Martin complained about the fence, as did another unnamed resident the same week. Parish acknowledged that the so-called street is not in use and may never be in use by the city. But the law’s the law. “My hands were tied as far as dealing with the situation.” Martin did not return phone calls. Hooley tore down his fence. He’s convinced that Martin and his pals acted out of revenge, and he thinks they did the same to Stuart Titus. “For a long while, I think, the board just kind of acted like a good old boys club,” Hooley said. “They held meetings and got things done and probably didn’t care one way or the other whether they followed the Brown Act. But Stu was trying to get them to work their meetings in a professional manner. … They resented that terribly.” Stuart Titus said that he’s concerned about the future of the fair. “My greatest fear, not just with the horseracing component but with the overall breadth of it, is that the current board of directors don’t know what they don’t know,” he said. “It’s going to be a very steep learning curve on a number of different fronts.” Meanwhile, the board must deal with scrutiny from the grand jury. On Monday of last week we asked Renner if he’s concerned about the inquiry. “Not at all,” he said curtly. “Most of us have talked to our attorneys and our attorneys have said you don’t have to [respond] unless you’re subpoenaed.” On Thursday, Renner was served with a subpoena at the fair board’s office. Farley was also served, according to the TimesStandard. Both men declined to comment. As for the Enterprise, Caroline Titus is tentatively planning to expand its coverage and distribution this fall to cover the entire Eel River Valley, including Fortuna, Scotia and Rio Dell. And she’s planning to bring on a new worker to help with ad sales, delivery and maybe even coverage of the fair board — her husband, Stuart Titus. l

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Brussels Sprouts with Avocado In our household, the quantities given here serve two and there are no leftovers.

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The Suchness of Brussels Sprouts By Simona Carini

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hen people see me eating, they often think I am on a diet. And maybe I am, depending on the meaning one ascribes to the word. I am in a permanent state of alertness, of mindfulness when it comes to elemental flavors, an attitude that is reflected in my minimalist style of cooking. I don’t want those flavors smothered by condiments or sauces: I like to taste the “suchness” of vegetables, fruit, fish, etc. In his book Peace is Every Step, Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh wrote: “In Buddhism, the word ‘suchness’ is used to mean ‘the essence or particular characteristics of a thing or a person, its true nature.’” In my late teens, I was on a weightloss diet for a period. During that time, I learned to take small bites and savor each one to prolong a meal into a slow, mindful ritual. I steered clear of all but the lightest dressings and sauces and learned to explore the flavor of foods prepared in ways that kept them close to their original

state. This applied particularly to vegetables, too often considered in need of heavy clothing before they are allowed to go out of the kitchen and present themselves on the table. When we lighten what should be the background, we see, smell and taste the foreground more clearly, and in the uncluttered “field of view” of all our senses, observation reveals a richness previously unsuspected. Right now, I am roasting some Brussels sprouts that I harvested earlier today at Redwood Roots Farm in Arcata, as part of my winter u-pick community supported agriculture (CSA) share. Before putting them in the oven, spread in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with a silicone mat, I washed and halved or quartered them, depending on their size. The freshly picked Brussels sprouts made a crisp swishing sound when I cut them. Have you ever seen a Brussels sprouts plant? Large leaves and gemlike sprouts grow on a tallish stalk. Harvesting the sprouts is like going on a treasure hunt

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Ingredients: 1 pound Brussels sprouts Olive oil A medium avocado Sea salt 1 teaspoon fresh squeezed Meyer lemon juice Method: Preheat oven to 350 F. Rinse and trim the sprouts as needed: Cut off the hard end of the stem, remove any wilted leaves. Cut the sprouts in half, or into quarters, if they are large. Place sprouts in a bowl and sprinkle with a bit of olive oil. Toss well then t spread in a single layer on a baking shee ed halv the lined with a silicone mat. Turn sprouts cut side down and the quar-

(rubber boots and waterproof pants are recommended if the hunt occurs after one of the rainy spells for which our county is appropriately famous). When you cut a sprout in half, you see that it is a miniature cabbage, a layered wrapping of ever-smaller leaves. As I write, my kitchen smells of delicately roasted Brussels sprouts. I inhale, and cultivate the expectation of eating them. In some recipes for Brussels sprouts, sauces or dressing are added with a heavy hand, supposedly to make them palatable. But if you drown Brussels sprouts in melted butter, you’ll taste butter, not Brussels sprouts, and you won’t become aware of their “suchness.” Brussels sprouts abhor overcooking, in particular over-boiling, and react to it with screaming sulphur notes. Paying attention to their suchness means cooking them so that they offer the best of themselves, rather than their dark side. Oven-roasting Brussels sprouts reveals their natural sweetness and keeps under control the reaction that produces

the tered ones so that they have one of stir , utes min 20 r Afte n. cut sides dow the sprouts (keeping them still in one to layer) and gauge the time remaining e thre to two ut complete cooking, abo with er, tend and nice l unti minutes. Bake a hint of browning. While the Brussels sprouts are in the e oven, dice the avocado pulp and plac l stee the with tted fi r esso in a food proc salt of h pinc a add der, blen a or blade e and the lemon juice (I prefer the mor ) here n lemo er delicate flavor of Mey ing and process briefly. Empty into a serv ado avoc the dice , ively rnat Alte bowl. the pulp and place in a serving bowl, add well h mas and ts, other two ingredien with a fork. When the Brussels sprouts are cooked, toss them with the mashed avocado until the dressing coats all. Adjust the seasoning and serve.

the unpalatable smell. My current favorite dressing for oven-roasted Brussels sprouts is a ripe avocado mashed with some fresh Meyer lemon juice and a touch of salt. When the sprouts are cooked to my liking, tender to the bite, slightly harking back to their original crunchiness, and with a hint of browning of the lighter parts, I take them out of the oven, add the mashed avocado and stir. The result is a bright green side dish that highlights the flavor of Brussels sprouts — sweetened by oven-roasting — via the creamy texture of avocado. The lemon juice adds a brightening trill. I’ve used the same avocado dressing on other members of the Brassica oleracea species, namely broccoli — of the regular or Romanesco variety — and cauliflower. I take a pound and a quarter of the chosen vegetable, steam the florets and stalks (peeled and cut into coins), let cool a bit, then add to the bowl with the mashed avocado and toss well. I then enjoy the simple suchness of the combination. ●

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TOP TO BOTTOM “SPHERES,” AND “ZEN,” PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILLIAM S. PIERSON

illiam S. “Bill” Pierson thinks big. The photography exhibition he’s hanging in Eureka’s Piante Gallery is a collection of large prints, each one 2 by 3 feet, all new work. The show’s title, “Visions of the Universe,” is as expansive as the print size. Pierson is marking 40 years in photography, most of that time doing his own printing in the darkroom and working exclusively in black and white. “I was all film until something like seven years ago,” he said, settling into a Craftsman-style chair in his spacious studio above First Street Gallery on Eureka’s waterfront. He says he resisted the transition to digital long after the cameras and software like Photoshop became fairly sophisticated, mainly because he wasn’t satisfied with the printing available. High quality gallery-ready digital printing was expensive enough to put it out of reach for most artists. When Epson came out with a large-format semi-pro digital printer, Pierson took the leap. “I was essentially a computer virgin,” he

admitted. However, “after all those years in the darkroom, I knew what I wanted to do. I just had to learn how to do it. The principals were the same: controlling contrast, dark and light, all those things.” Hia major turning point came with a Piante show of large digital prints of photos he’d shot in Italy and tweaked to some degree using Photoshop. Expansive landscapes printed on large sheets of photo paper in various sizes shimmered with golden Mediterranean light. He became a convert. Today, an Epson printer the size of a desk is central in his studio. Artist’s proofs for work for the new show fill the wall behind it. The new show is reminiscent of Pierson’s earlier black and white darkroom work. While all the prints are in color, the palate is mostly monochromatic. Many of the images are of light on water. “It’s all about light. And I’ve been seduced by water for years,” he said. “If I’m not taking photos of water, it’s clouds, which are a form of water.” Pieces include “Spheres,” with postsplash waves in concentric circles. Another photo, “The Center,” parallels it with a combination of time-lapse shots showing the stars and the Milky Way circling Polaris, the North Star. “Now” shows an intriguing cloud formation framed by trees, shot behind his Freshwater home. “We all see the world differently,” he said. “I’m trying to hone in on the energy behind it all, the power behind it all.” The show’s title, Visions of the Universe, came to him in the middle of the night. “It scared me at first,” he said with a laugh. “I thought, that’s a lot to explain. Then I realized I didn’t have to. As I said, we all see things in a different way. Artists try to make that visible, like, ‘This is what

I see.’ It’s always personal. So it’s not the vision, it’s my vision of the universe.” He explained that part of that vision is what’s known as “the Zen view.” The notion was used in a photo class exercise when he cut a square hole in a matt board and essentially used it as a viewfinder. Isolating details makes you focus on the essential. “It’s amazing how much more clearly you see when you eliminate the things competing with something,” said Pierson. His photo “Zen” is a very Zen image of light and shadows on a pair of gentle waves. He says he does not really set out with pre-conceived notions when he takes his camera out. “I don’t steer myself. You just let your perception tell you when the moment is, and then you end up heading in certain directions. In the end, it becomes a show and you hope it’s a step forward.” It definitely is. Visions of the Universe runs March 1 through April 15 at Piante Gallery, 620 Second St. in Eureka’s Old Town. Pierson has been an underwriter for Sue Natzler’s

Piante Gallery for around 10 years. He’s also the patron behind one of Humboldt’s only competitive photography exhibitions, the annual Northwest Eye regional fine art photography competition and exhibition coming up in April at the Morris Graves Museum. Pierson started it with the Humboldt Arts Council because he wanted to see photography get its due and in particular to see photos displayed with the respect shown to other artwork. This year’s 12th annual Northwest Eye show runs from April 3 through May 19 in the Graves’ Thonson Gallery. A $1,000 grand prize winner will be chosen by noted Sonoma County photographer Fred Parker, who will also select five $250 “best of show” winners. Entries will be accepted from noon until 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 28, at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. For further details or to download the call for entries forms, go to humboldtarts. org and click on “juried shows.” Then go out and click that shutter. Capture that essential moment. ●

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continued from previous page 35. EUREKA FABRICS 414 Second St. Quilted silk wall hangings by April Walton. 35a. THE LITTLE SHOP OF HERS 416 Second St. Vector art by Barry Post. 36a. TREASURE TROVE 420 Second St. Jewelry by Rafael Leon. 37. EUREKA BOOKS 426 Second St. Photo book signings: Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties by Katie Tahja and Then and Now: Eureka by Scott H. Brown.. 38. MANY HANDS GALLERY 438 Second St. “Expression In Portrait” acrylics on canvas by R. Mauch. 39. TALISMAN BEADS 214 F St. YOU are the artist. 40. ALIROSE 229 F St. Jewelry by Justine Levy. 41. THE WINE SPOT 234 F St. Art by Sonny Wong and Matt Beard. 42. OLD TOWN JEWELRY 311 F St. Watercolors by Joyce Jonté. 43b. DISCOVERY MUSEUM Corner of F and Third streets. Kids Alive Program Drop off 5:30-8:00; call for reservations 443-9694. 44. AMERICAN INDIAN ART GALLERY 241 F St. Native American art. 44a. OLD TOWN ART GALLERY 233 F St. Annual invitational art show featuring more than 20 area artists. 44b. HUMBOLDT BAY COFFEE COMPANY 526 Opera Alley. Photography of Humboldt Roller Derby by Amy Kumler; music by the John David Young Trio. 45. BON BONIERE 215 F St. Landscape photography by Gregory Beaumont. 46. OLD TOWN COFFEE & CHOCOLATES 211 F St.

Celtic art by Ian Herriott; blues by the Jim Lahman Band. 47. OLD TOWN ANTIQUE LIGHTING Corner of Second and F streets. “My Humboldt” photographs by Jon Exley. 48. SISTERFRIENDSJEANS 514 Second St. Jewelry by Jane Copper; refreshments by Spice Catering. 48a. OBERON GRILL 516 Second St. Historic photographs of Old Eureka from Historical Society. 49a. FIVE ELEVEN 511 Second St. Paintings and prints by Shawn Griggs; music by The Delta Nationals. 50. HIMALYAN RUG TRADER 529 Second St. Persian rugs. 51. PARASOL ARTS 211 G St. Paintings by Andrew Daniel, paper cut images by Matt Cooper, and mosaics by Robin Friedman. 51a. BUHNE ART STUDIOS 211 G St. Suite 205 (Upstairs) Work by Brent Eviston; Suite 206: Abstract oils by Rob Hampson. 52. ORANGE CUP CORAL SALON 612 Second St. Electic mix by David Steinhardt. 53. PIANTE 620 Second St. William S. Pierson, latest works, photography. 54. DELIGHTFUL EYE PHOTOGRAPHY 622 Second St. Photos; music by Tripwire. 55. SMUG’S PIZZA 626 Second St. Pen and ink Brandon Garland. 57. ORIGIN DESIGN LAB 621 Third St. Needle felting sculptures and demonstrations by Monica Shell. 58. BIGFOOT COMPUTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHY TOO 905 Third St. Photos. 59. ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront St. Mixed media by Paula Redtfeldt and Rosalie Thompson; photography by Nikaela Walters. ●

“JUNE 2012,” OIL PAINTING BY JIM MCVICKER

JIM MCVICKER PRESENTS NEW WORK: A COLLECTION OF RECENT LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS AT SEWELL GALLERY FINE ART IN THE MONTH OF MARCH WITH MORE THAN 20 NEW PLEIN AIR OILS. “MANY WERE PAINTED OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, ALL ON LOCATION,” SAID MCVICKER OF THE NEW PIECES. “FOR ME, NATURE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE INSPIRATION AND TEACHER. I TRULY BELIEVE NATURE HOLDS ALL THE KEYS TO KNOWLEDGE. AS PAINTERS, IF WE REALLY LOOK TO AND AT NATURE, I THINK WE CAN FIND THE SOLUTIONS AND GUIDANCE TO DO BEAUTIFUL WORKS.” A RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY FROM 6-9 P.M. DURING ARTS ALIVE.!

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FortUna First FRiDAy

Downtown Fortuna’s First Friday, March 1, 6-8 p.m.

Features local artists and musicians. Further information at fortunadowntown@sbcglobal.net. 1. BARTOW’S JEWELERS 651 12th St. Watercolors by Greg Parks. 2. CUDDLY BEAR 751 10th St. Music by Bill McBride. 3. EEL RIVER BREWING COMPANY 1777 Alamar Way. Jewelry by Stephanie Hahner. 4. FORTUNA ART & OLD THINGS 1026 Main St. Elona Engelke’s collection of folk art. 5. HORIZON BUSINESS PRODUCTS 1044 Main St. Fortuna Camera Club photographers. 6. FORTUNA MUSIC MART, 1040 MAIN ST. Leather masks by Stir Fry Willie; music by Dana Christen (piano) and Allen Lessser (violin). 7. KRAFTER’S KOZY KORNER GIFT 1103 Main St. Artist handcrafted birdhouses by Joanne Walters. 8. L’S KITCHEN 734 10th St. Nature photography by Sal Vergas. 9. MAIN STREET GALLERY & SCHOOL 1006 Main St. The Seely Images: Forgotten photos of Eureka 1919-1945. 10. MARIAN’S BEAUTY SALON 741 11th St. Jewelry by Ashley Bones. 11. MOORE’S SLEEP CENTER 1201 Main St. Oil paintings by Sanford Pyron. 12. PRECISION INTERMEDIA 1012 Main St. Art, music and Girl Scout cookies. 13. RAIN ALL DAY BOOKS 1136 Main St. Watercolors and painted silk scarves by Paula Anderson. 14. STREHL’S FAMILY SHOES & REPAIR 1155 Main St. Photos by Diane Williams. 15. TACO LOCO 955 Main St. Paintings by Richard Leamon. 16. TRENDZ 1021 Main St. Robert Slater’s custom cell phone cases. ●

The Preservation

Weary No More

The Preservation, plus Darkside of the Moonshine, Sallie Ford and a healing gathering By Bob Doran

bobdoran@northcoastjournal.com

n October 2001, Humboldt native Mario Matteoli and his friend and bandmate Brian Salvi left Eureka for the bright lights of Austin, Texas. They’d played locally in a rock ‘n’ roll band known variously as The Jacksons and The Jackson Brothers. “We decided to move somewhere and form a country band,” said Mario, calling from his folks’ place in Eureka. “I didn’t know much about Austin — we were thinking Nashville at first, but we’d heard good things about Austin. It turned out to be pretty sweet.” The band they called The Weary Boys quickly found a prominent place in Austin’s fertile music scene playing amped up string music. Mario was the front man and principal songwriter as the Boys put out a series of records and toured relentlessly. Then, at the beginning of 2007, a weary Mario quit the band. “I was burning out from the road,” he said. “We worked ourselves hard and it took its toll. I was just creatively and physically burned out. At some point we were not really getting along so I thought I’d part ways before it got worse.” He’d already recorded a solo album while still with the Boys. He followed that with another record with his new wife, Cayce, providing harmonies. They hit the road working as a duo, but he missed

playing in a band. “I had a band in Austin, but when it’s under your name, it’s different,” he said. “It was too much to handle booking all the tours, writing all the songs. I didn’t like it.” Cayce and Mario teamed up with keyboardist Andy Bianculli to form The Preservation. “He’d just moved to Austin and was looking to play music,” explained Mario. “With Cayce and me, that makes three songwriters and three lead singers. It seemed like we could put a sound behind that, back each other up and make one cohesive thing.” The name is a reference to a 1968 Kinks record: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. “We were into The Kinks, but we weren’t limiting ourselves to that. It was a direction, rock ‘n’ roll that could go anywhere with harmonies and stuff like that. And we expanded from there.” A couple of LPs in, the band is going strong. “We’re putting out an EP right now. It’s being mixed while we’re on the road,” said Mario. “I think we’re coming into our own sound.” They are — and it sounds good. Catch them at Humboldt Brews Thursday night and see for yourself. Added bonus: Huckleberry Flint opens, and that’s a pretty rare thing. You may know S.F.-based stringband Poor Man’s Whiskey for its modern take on old time music. As noted on its online

“Whiskey Chronicles” bio, “Early in this band’s history, we accepted the fact that most of us were bred on rock music. We are not from the Ozarks or from Tennessee, we are a quasi-bluegrass band from California,” one whose members were raised on music by the Dead, Pink Floyd, etc. So a stringy tribute to one of the great psychedelic rock albums seemed appropriate. The current “Darkside of the Moonshine” tour marks the 40th anniversary of P-Floyd’s sonic masterpiece. Performances begin with a normal Poor Man set followed by a Whiskey-soaked Moon tribute. The tour hits Humboldt Brews Friday. Expect Wizard of Oz costumes on the band (I shouldn’t need to explain why). The audience is encouraged to follow suit. Sunday night, Portland’s Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside rock Humboldt Brews, hard. Ford totally killed it with her sexy thrift store take on garage rock when I saw her open for Wanda Jackson not too long ago. She has a brand new album out, Untamed Beast, a title that speaks volumes. My colleague (and KHSU’s music director) Mark Shikuma raves about the record in a review elsewhere in this paper (see page 34). Read it, and don’t miss her show. The Lonesome Roses open. Grease up those handlebars: Blue Lake’s Logger Bar hosts Humboldt’s first ever Mustache Contest Thursday night (at least the first I’ve heard about). Kate promises multiple categories and includes “outfit and attitude” among the judging criteria. I think I know the mustache attitude, but what outfit is most appropriate? The mustachioed barber shop quartet Mirth First! sings a few songs before the judging. The EDM action rolls on, by the numbers. Thursday’s Sound Culture 002 at Jambalaya has Hypha, Rhizae, Tanasa Ras and Jmorg v. AK. The Red Fox Tavern has Zombie Dance Party 2.0 on Friday with Mikey Datablend, Masta Shredda, Kimba v. DJ iWon (aka Touch) plus undead art by Julia F. Zombie makeover artists available. The zombie dance is easy. Who needs life? Same Friday, Guerrilla Takeover takes over the Pearl for another Uptown First Friday. DJ Knutz is back from Ojai for Phat Party 03 Saturday at the Far North Climbing Gym (in Arcata) with Olde Toby, Dr. Foxmeat and MXMSTR KRSHN2N. (Yes, his name is supposed to be ALL CAPS.) At Nocturnum Saturday, it’s 1UP with Razle Dazle (aka Itchie Fingaz), Masta Shredda, Touch and DJ Trey. Tuesday at Nocturnum, Colorado dubstep trio OG Status hits town on its High Rollers tour with Boss Levelz (as in Shredda and Itchie) opening. On the funk/soul/vinyl front you have

DJ Red with Matt ‘n’ Adam for Garage Au-Go-Go Saturday at the Alibi, and Knutz, Rickshaw, Mantease and Jaymorg spinning Monday at Jambalaya for March Fourth and Celebrate. Pressure Anya? They’re everywhere. If you’re more interested in guitars etc., Free Rain is jamming at the Jambalaya Saturday with Helekinetic opening. At the Red Fox that night, alt. rockers Saint Maybe from Tucson offer what they call “anthroposophic hypnotic Western trance — with a dash of poetry.” The Delta Nationals rock out for dancers Saturday at Five Eleven, the new restaurant that took over Hurricane Kate’s former space. And The Trouble plays a post-Arts Alive! set at the Eureka Inn following a couple of hours of comedy by the Ba-Dum-Chh crew with special guest Matt Gubser from S.F. (The Trouble is also doing a (free) Friday show at Blue Lake Casino.) The African Children’s Choir is one part beautiful music experience, one part humanitarian NGO. Founded in 1984 by Ray Barnett, the choir brings together kids ages 7 to 12 from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana — some have lost their parents to AIDS, all come from Africa-grade poverty. Of course the experience of traveling the world singing is uplifting. Bonus: The money the choir raises goes back to Africa to support schools, orphanages and what they call “Music for Life” centers and camps. Music for life, what a concept. The Choir comes to the Van Duzer Tuesday. Saturday’s Gathering of Healing and Love to Benefit Jan Perrone at Redwood Acres will bring together the local midwife/doulas community and many friends in support of a woman who seems to be the godmother of midwifery in Humboldt: not just a midwife but a teacher and a powerful advocate for bringing home birth into the mainstream. As Jan battles cancer, her support network is raising money to help pay medical bills with an elaborate auction, dinner and party. They’ll have music all day by Kenny Ray and the Mighty Rovers (country swing), Likwefi (psychedelic surf jams), Blue Rhythm Review (the name says it) and DJs Starry and Communicakes. Live art by Matt Beard. Babies welcome. Tickets for Reggae on the River‘s return to French’s Camp (Aug. 1-4) are available at local record stores and at the Mateel office starting March 1. That’s the same day tickets go on sale for the Primus show May 10 at Eureka Muni, again at local record stores. And while you’re there, buy a record, or a CD — just buy something. ●

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Blue Lotus (dinner jazz) 6-9pm

DJ Marv Karaoke 9:30-12:30pm

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Story Road (Irish trio) 8pm $12

Lunch w/The Brendas, 12:30-1:30pm

Random Acts of Comedy Doors at 7:30pm $6 All ages

Gangs of New York (2002) Doors 7:30pm $5 Rated R

22nd Almost Annual Pun-off & Benefit Doors 7:30pm $16 All ages

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The Last Match (rock) 9pm

Dr. Squid (rock) no cover 9pm

Rebel Outlaw (rock) no cover 9pm

ARCATA THEATRE LOUNGE 1036 G St. Info line: 822-1220 BAR-FLY PUB 91 Commercial, Eureka 443-3770 BEAR RIVER CASINO 733-9644 11 Bear Paws Way, Loleta BLONDIES Arcata 822-3453 BLUE LAKE CASINO 668-9770 777 Casino Way, Blue Lake

Happy Hour everyday 4-6pm $1 off wells & pints Karaoke with Chris Clay 8pm Open Mic 7pm

Breezy Brice (songwriter) 7pm

Karaoke with KJ Leonard 8pm

The Trouble (rockin’ Americana) 9pm

Pressure Anya (DJ duo) 9pm

The Tumbleweeds (cowboy) 6-8pm

EZ Street (rock, country & blues) no cover 9pm

Blues Jam 9pm

Ba-Dum-Chh Comedy 7pm The Trouble (Americana) 9pm

CHAPALA CAFÉ Eureka 443-9514 CHER-AE HEIGHTS 27 Scenic Dr. Trinidad 677-3611

Throwback Thursday DJ Night w/ Accurate Productions 9pm

CLAM BEACH INN McKinleyville

Kindred Spirits (bluegrass) 8:30pm

EUREKA INN PALM LOUNGE 518 7th St. Eureka 497-6093 FIVE ELEVEN 511 2nd St, Eureka 268-3852 HUMBOLDT BREWS 856 10th St. Arcata 826-2739 HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY JAMBALAYA 822-4766 Arcata LIBATION 825-7596 761 8th St. Arcata

Ladies Night with Presure Anya DJs 9pm Hours Tuesday through Sunday 5pm until everyone’s gone The Preservation (Austin rock) Huckleberry Flint (Best in Humboldt)

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The Delta Nationals (roots rock ‘n’ roll) 9pm

Dark Side of the Moonshine Poor Man’s Whiskey 9:30pm - $15

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Hypha, Rhizae, Jmorg, Ak, Tanasa Ras

Rooster McClintock 10pm

Free Rain, Helekinetic 9pm

Buddy Reed (blues) 7-9pm

Claire Bent (jazz) 7-10pm

Rob and friends (jazz) 7-10pm

Locust Furnace, Miasmic, Sarcalogos. (metal) 10 pm $5

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Mustache Contest: judging 9pm Mirth First! 7:30-9pm

King Foot 9pm

The Movers and The Shakers

The Sierra Rose Band (ountry rock) 6pm

Awesome Dogs food truck

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Mateel Comedy Cabaret 8pm $10

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Experience: Fresh roasted coffee & espresso Guerrilla Takeover (dance music) 10pm

Art’s Alive! Jim Lahman Band (blues, jazz , funk) 7-9:30pm Dance Music 10pm

John and Hall 6-8:30pm

RAMONE’S 2297 Harrison Ave. Eureka RED FOX TAVERN 415 5th St Eureka

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Zumba Toning (Bella) 5:30pm Blues Night w/Brian & Kimberli 8pm

Zumba with Mimi 9:30-10:30am First Friday Folk Dance Party

Tango with Lee & Barbara 12:15pm

REDWOOD RAKS 824 L Street, Arcata 616-6876

Saint Maybe (Ariz. rock) 9pm Karaoke with Chris Clay 9pm

Buddy Reed (blues) 9pm

THE RITZ 240 F St. Eureka 497-6294

Igor & the Red Elvises (rock) 9pm

RIVERWOOD INN Phillipsville ROBERT GOODMAN WINES 937 10th St. Arcata 826-WINE

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Kenny Ray and the Mighty Rovers (country swing) 7:30-9:30pm

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SICILITO’S PIZZERIA Garberville

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SILVER LINING 3561 Boeing Ave., McK THE SIREN’S SONG 325 2nd St. Eureka Accident Slam w/Jeff DeMark 7pm $5 Brews n’ Blues Jam SIX RIVERS BREWERY 9pm Central Ave. McK. 839-7580 THE SPEAKEASY 411 Opera Alley, Eureka 444-2244

DJ music 10pm Good & Evil Twins Karaoke 8pm Arts Alive w/Shugafoot

Pressure Anya (DJ duo) 9pm

Top of the Hill in McKinleyville Buddy Reed Band (blues) 8pm

Open Sunday-Thursday 4-11pm Friday and Saturday 4pm-2am

ShugaFoot Band (jazz/blues) 8pm Ladies night ($1 off drinks) 8pm DJ music 10pm

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Throwback Thursdays

Friday and Saturday lap dance specials

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DJ music 10pm Joe Garceau (songwriter) 7-10pm

Igor and the Red Elvises Saturday and Sunday at the Riverwood Inn

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Anna Hamilton (songs) 6-9pm

Blue Lotus (dinner jazz) 6-9pm

Fernbridge Country Review noon-4pm Storytelling Workshop 1-3:30pm Monsters, Inc. (2001) Doors 5:30pm $5 Rated G

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Sci-Fi Pint ‘n’ Pizza Night: The Matrix Revolutions Doors 6pm

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Happy Hours 4-6pm $1 off pints/wells Pint Night 6pm-close $2 beer pints

Happy Hours 4-6pm $1 off pints/wells Wing Special 1 lb. for $5 Free pool

Karaoke with DJ Marv 9pm-1am

Enter to win a Dodge Dart

No Limit Texas Holdem Tournament 6:30pm

Sunday Brunch 9am HSU Jazz Ensemble 5-8pm

Quiz Night 7pm

Karaoke with KJ Leonard 8pm

Prime Rib Mondays $14.95 Alice’s Steak & Sushi 5-9pm

Fat Tire Tuesdays $2.00 Fat Tire Pints

Wild Wing Wednesdays: Chicken wings and $8 domestic pitchers 5pm

Karaoke w/Chris Clay 8pm 9-ball tournament 8pm

8-Ball Tournaments at 8pm

Karaoke with Chris Clay 8pm

Chubby Checker & The Wildcats coming Saturday, March 23

Cocktail lounge in the historic Eureka Inn

Mason Matteoli (piano) 6-8pm Martini Mondays $5 house Martini

Mason Matteoli (piano) 6-8pm Top Shelf Tuesday

Mason Matteoli (piano) 6-8pm Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 5-7pm

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Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside The Lonesome Roses 9pm $15 Deep Groove Society: Sundaze

Coming March 9: Motherlode wsg/Fred Wesley

Open Tuesday-Sunday 5pm Food served until 10pm The Green, New Kingston (reggae) 9:30pm $15

Diego’s Umbrella (gypsy rock) 9:30pm $15

Knutz, Rickshaw, Mantease, Jaymorg

African Children’s Choir 8pm Pole Cat 10pm

Masters of Irish Tradition 8pm Liquid Kactus, Farmhouse Odyssey

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Purl and Pour - 6:30pm Come get crafty

PING PONG! 7pm-midnight Tom Smith (guitar) 6pm

Wednesday Open Mic 7-10pm The Spindrifters: Pints For Six Rivers Planned Parenthood 1-9pm

Og Status , Boss Levelz 9pm $10

Whomp Whomp Wednesday (EDM)

Family friendly dining.

JD Jeffries (songs) 5-7pm

Buddy Reed (blues) 8pm

Open Mic 7-10pm

n Rude Lion Sound (reggae) 8pm Now serving beer and wine

Open Sunday-Thursday 7am-9pm Friday/Saturday 7am-10pm.

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Open mic w/ Mike Anderson (music/spoken) 6:30pm

Sunday-Thursday 4pm-2am Friday and Saturday 3pm-2am

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Tequila Tuesdays muchas variedades

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Happy Growler Day! Fill your growler for less $$$

Blue Monday with Buddy Reed (blues) 7pm

It’s Happy Day! The Weenie Wagon is back!

Dry Hop Wednesday Nature’s Serving out back!

Humboldt Family Sing-Along 10:30am Breakdance with Reckless Rex 5-7pm

Live Band Swing Night 7-10pm $5

Beginning Salsa with Jessica & Trill 7pm Beginning Argentine Tango 8:15pm

Zumba with Mimi 9:30-10:30am West Coast Swing 7:30pm

Hot Wings (folky) 8pm

Spoken Word 9pm

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Come have lunch 11:30-4:00

Igor & the Red Elvises (rock) 9pm

Good & Evil Twins Karaoke 8pm Shuga Jam - Open Jam w/Shugafoot Trivia Night 8pm

Karaoke with DJ Marv 9pm w/ sushi

Sunny Brae Jazz 9pm w/ fried chicken

St. John Unplugged (acoustic) 8pm

Sunday Mimosa and Bloody Mary specials

The Lonesome Roses (folk) 7pm

ShugaFoot Band (jazz/blues) 7pm

Wednesday Happy Hour 4-6:30pm

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28 thursday THEATER

The Pitmen Painters. 8 p.m. Redwood Curtain Theatre, 220 First St., Eureka. Based on the triumphant true story of a group of British miners who discover a new way to express themselves and unexpectedly become art-world sensations. $10. redwoodcurtain.com. 443-7688. HATER. 7:30 p.m. Gist Hall Theater, HSU. Is life today a classic farce? Or just high fashion high school? Samuel Buggeln’s 21st century translation of Moliere’s comedy The Misanthrope, directed by Michael Fields. $10/$8 students and seniors. hsustage.blogspot.com. 826-3928. The Imaginary Invalid. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre, HSU. Northcoast Preparatory and Preforming Arts Academy Presents its annual freshman sophomore play, a ’70s themed comedy about a hypochondriac father living with his two daughters. $10. 822-0861.

MUSIC

The Preservation and Huckleberry Flint. 9:30 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. Austin, Texas Americana band (fronted by Humboldt native Mario Matteoli) shares the stage with 2012 NCJ reader-voted “Best Band.” $10. humbrews.com. 826-2739. Story Road. 8 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Celtic trio brings high-energy songs from Ireland and Scotland. Sponsored by Humboldt Folklife Society. $12/$10 members. arcataplayhouse.org. 826-9240.

ART

Collaborate, Create, Communicate. 4 p.m. Reese Bullen Gallery, HSU, Arcata. Features collaborative artworks by members of the HSU community created around the thematic elements of acceptance, diversity, tolerance and inclusion. Through March 14. E-mail RBG@humboldt. edu. 826-5814.

COMEDY

Random Acts of Comedy. 8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Humboldt’s funniest freaks this side of the asylum, local loons and possible pole dancers perform. $6/$10 adv. 822-1220.

SPOKEN WORD

The Irish Are Coming MARTIN HAYES AND DENNIS CAHILL PHOTO BY ERIN BAIANO

Saint Patrick’s Day is still a few weeks off, but the related Irish invasion has already begun. Those who enjoy the music of the green isle have a couple of opportunities to hear some fine traditional Celtic tunes this week. First up is a Humboldt Folklife show Thursday at the Arcata Playhouse with Story Road, a trio from the Pacific Northwest featuring red-headed beauty Colleen Raney from the Seattle Irish music scene on vocals, guitar and bodhran (the Celtic frame drum), along with two-thirds of the Portland band Molly’s Revenge: guitarist/mandola player Stuart Mason and fiddler John Weed. All three musicians have made the requisite pilgrimage to Ireland; while grounded in old world Celtic ways, they describe the band as “tradition forward.” Story Road’s monthlong St. Patrick’s West Coast Tour comes to the Arcata Playhouse

on Thursday, Feb. 28, showtime at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12, $10 for Folklife or Playhouse members. Reservations at 826-9240. “In its purest form, Irish traditional music speaks a universal language,” says fiddler Martin Hayes, artistic director of Masters of Tradition on Tour, a collection of seven players “celebrating Irish music in its purest form.” The American tour is an outgrowth of an annual festival, also known as Masters of Tradition, held every summer in County Cork, Ireland. Joining Hayes are vocalist Iarla Ó’Lionáird from Afro Celt Sound System, fiddler Cathal Hayden, guitarists Dennis Cahill and Seamie O’Dowd, accordionist Máirtín O’Connor and uilleann piper David Power. The musicians play solo, in duets, trios and larger group combinations. Masters of Tradition on Tour play at HSU’s Van Duzer Theatre on Wednesday, March 6, starting at 8 p.m. Admission is $35, $25 for children, $15 for HSU students. Call 826-3928 for reservations. — Bob Doran

Accident Slam. 7-9:30 p.m. Siren’s Song, 325 Second St., Eureka. Poets slam to earn a spot in representing Humboldt in slam nationals. Feature Poet: Jeff Demark. Live art by Otto Portillo. Hosted by A Reason To Listen. $5. E-mail areasontolisten@gmail.com. 530-448-9459.

ETC.

NCMG Planning Potluck. 6:30-8:30 p.m. First planning potluck for the 2013 North Coast Men’s Gathering. RSVP for location. ncmensgathering.org. 387-7091.

friday

EVENTS

Bowl for Kids’ Sake. Noon. Harbor Lanes, Eureka. Form bowling teams and raise money to help local children who are facing adversity. Hosted by Big Brothers Big Sisters of the North Coast. ncbbbs.org. Fortuna First Friday. 6-10 p.m. Downtown Fortuna. Local businesses stay open late for Fortuna’s art walk featuring local musicians and artists. 725-9261.

THEATER

HATER. 7:30 p.m. Gist Hall Theater. See Feb. 28 listing. One Minute Dances. 8-9 p.m. pan arts studio, 1049 Samoa Blvd. Suite C, Arcata. Local choreographers present an array of short dances set to music, silence and spoken word. Floor seating or bring your own chair. $5. E-mail lanativa@ gmail.com. 267-8001.

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BOOKS continued from previous page The Pitmen Painters. 8 p.m. Redwood Curtain Theatre. See Feb. 28 listing. The Imaginary Invalid. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre. See Feb. 28 listing.

MUSIC

World Dance Party. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Begins with lessons, then moves to dancing to music by Chubritza and Musaic. $5. www.humboldtfolkdancers.org. 822-8045. The Brendas. 12:30 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Midday performance by a group of local women made up of Jackie Dandeneau, Siena Nelson, Dharla Curry, Michelle McCall-Wallace and Marla Joy. Nature’s Serving mobile Mediterranean food truck on hand for your lunchtime needs. $10. arcataplayhouse.org. 822-1575.

ART

Golden States of Grace Presentation. 5 p.m. Room 102, art building, Humboldt State University. Rick Nahmias presents a slide show and discusses his approach to documenting marginalized communities at prayer in their own faith traditions. E-mail sarajaye@gmail.com. 601-6619.

COMEDY

Mateel Comedy Cabaret. 8:30 p.m. Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway. Monthly showcase of professional comedians. This month features Rick D’Elia and Oscar Ovies. $10. mateel.org. 923-3368.

Wolves in the Land of Salmon. 6 p.m. Sequoia Park Zoo, 3414 W St., Eureka. Free slide show, talk and book signing by wildlife tracker and photographer David Moskowitz. sequoiaparkzoo.net. 441-4263.

ETC.

Bridge Club. 1-4 p.m. Humboldt Senior Resource Center, 1910 California St., Eureka. Local trick-takin’ gathering. humsenior.org. 443-9747.

2 saturday EVENTS

The Pun-Off. 8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Watch the heavy wits square off in a punning contest of the lowest standards! Music and inappropriate sounds by the Pun-off Banned. Guaranteed home groan fun. Benefit for Making Headway’s brain injury prevention programs. $16. 445-3166. Elk River Hikshari’ Trail Celebration. 2-4 p.m. Foot of Truesdale Avenue, Eureka. Celebration for the new trail that runs along Humboldt Bay. Speakers, activities, refreshments and walking tour. Audubon Society Annual Banquet and Auction. 5:30 p.m. Masonic Lodge, 251 Bayside Road, Arcata. Dr. Julia Parrish speaks on “Life Lessons of an Inveterate Seabird Biologist.” Features a gourmet buffet dinner and no-host social hour. RSVP. rras.org. 442-8862.

Jan Perrone Gathering. 4 p.m. Redwood Acres Fairground, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. Benefit for the local homebirth midwife as she journeys through her treatments for brain cancer. 599-7005. Bowl for Kids’ Sake. Noon. See March 1 listing.

THEATER

HATER. 7:30 p.m. Gist Hall Theater. See Feb. 28 listing. One Minute Dances. 8-9 p.m. pan arts studio. See March 1 listing. The Pitmen Painters. 8 p.m. Redwood Curtain Theatre. See Feb. 28 listing. The Imaginary Invalid. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre. See Feb. 28 listing.

MUSIC

Barn Dance. 7:30-11 p.m. Arcata Veterans Memorial Building, 1425 J St. Calling by Mike Mulderig with the Wild Rumpus Band. Proceeds support sound system upgrades for the Humboldt Folklife Society. $7. humboldtfolklife.org. 269-2061. HSU Symphonic Band and Jazz Orchestra. 8 p.m. Fulkerson Recital Hall, HSU. $7/$3 students and seniors. hsumusic. blogspot.com. 826-3928. Community Dance. 7 p.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. Dance to the music of Austin Alley and the Rustlers. $5.

ART

Arts Alive. 6-9 p.m. In and around Old Town, Eureka. Monthly celebration includes food, music and incredible art. 442-9054. Golden States of Grace Reception. 6-9 p.m. HSU First Street Gallery, 422 First St., Eureka. Closing reception and book signing with Rick Nahmias. The exhibition of black

and white photography aims to give image and voice to nearly a dozen virtually invisible communities on California’s religious landscape. E-mail sarajaye@gmail.com. 601-6619. Night at the Art Museum. 5-9 p.m. Portuguese Hall, 1185 11th St., Arcata. Humboldt Educare Preschool annual art show, dinner and auction. $14/$6 kids. E-mail aristeasaulsbury@gmail.com. 822-6447.

OUTDOORS

Annual Aleutian Goose Fly-off and Family Fun Weekend. 5:30 a.m. Meet at the Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitor Center, Loleta. Observe thousands of Aleutian cackling geese leaving their night time roost at sunrise. Family activities include bird feeders building, bird silhouettes painting and stamp making. 733-5406. Audubon Society Marsh Field Trip. 8:30-11 a.m. Meet at the parking lot at the end of South I Street. Led by Carol Wilson. Bring binoculars and have a great morning birding. Trip held rain or shine. 442-9353. Trail Stewards Work Day. 9-11 a.m. Meet at the west end of Murray Road. Clear and brush the trail south toward Hiller Park. Dress for work. New volunteers always welcome. E-mail sbecker@reninet.com. 826-0163. Lanphere Dunes Guided Walk. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School, 3001 Janes Road, Arcata. Tour with trained naturalist Jenny Hanson. friendsofthedunes.org. 444-1397. Friends of the Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 600 S. G St. Meet leader Milt Boyd for a 90-minute walk focusing on the history and ecology of the marsh. 826-2359.

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category “Animals Indigenous to Australia.” A man in a shirt reading his stage name — “Attila the Pun” — confidently steps to the mic and proclaims: “If you are going to have a bear, it doesn’t matter the quantity of bear, it’s the koala-ty.” There you have it, folks. Can you put up with that for several hours? The evening continues as contestants are eliminated by finding themselves stumped by their category. The winner of the evening receives the coveted jar of, ugh, Pepto Dismal. Music for the evening will be provided by, geez, the Pun-off Banned. You get the picture. Tickets for the 22nd Almost Annual Pun-off are $16. For more info, contact Pun-off creator Jeffrey Smoller at jsmoller@suddenlink.com. —Andrew Goff

Humboldt County Historical Society Program. 1 p.m. Humboldt County Library, 1313 Third St., Eureka. Aviation expert and author Marc Matteoli presents “North Coast Aviators and the History of Aviation.” Free. 445-4342.

FOR KIDS

KEET’s Kids Club. Noon-2 p.m. Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. Free monthly workshops for children, families and childcare providers comprised of viewing a segment of PBS Kid’s programming, reading short stories and doing art activities. Each family receives the book I Know Live. 442-0278. Where I Live

ETC.

Humboldt Grange #501 Annual Flea Market. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Humboldt Grange, 5845 Humboldt Hill Road, Eureka. Over 25 tables with a wide assortment of lightly used items like books, tools, clothes, kitchenware and plants. 268-3806. Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. 11 a.m. Arcata Holistic Health Center, 940 Ninth St. Lama Ani Kunzang Drolma leads meditation sessions. E-mail structuralthomas@gmail.com. 825-1088. Dementia Seminar. 2 p.m. Timber Ridge McKinleyville, 1400 Nursery Road. Presentation introduces different types of dementia, behaviors of dementia, demographics, medication and assessement tools. E-mail mfs21@att.net. 839-1160.

3 sunday EVENTS

Casino Royale Dinner/Dance. 5:30 p.m. Cher-Ae Heights Casino. Trinidad School Education Foundation event features rib/veggie dinner, live and silent auctions and performances by Trinidad Jazz Project and Blue Rhythm Revue. Benefits student programs at Trinidad School. 677-3631.

THEATER

The Pitmen Painters. 2 p.m. Redwood Curtain Theatre. See Feb. 28 listing. HATER Matinee. 2 p.m. Gist Hall Theater. See Feb. 28 listing. The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife Auditions. 5 p.m. North Coast Repertory Theatre, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. Open auditions for the comedy by Charles Busch, directed by Scott Malcolm. Roles for two men aged 20 to middle age, and three women middle aged to 80 years old. ncrt.net. 672-6021.

MUSIC

Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside. 9 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. Portland indie rock ‘n’ roll darlings bring their high-energy to Humboldt. Lonesome Roses open. $15. humbrews. com. 826-2739. Four Trombones. 3 p.m. Holy Trinity Church, Trinity. Church celebrates 140 years of existence with four talented trombone players. $15 suggested donation. 845-1125.

ART

Art Talk Sunday. 2 p.m. Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. Features artist Lyn Risling discussing her involvement in the current River as Home museum-wide exhibition. $5. E-mail janine@humboldtarts.org. 442-0278.

OUTDOORS

Annual Aleutian Goose Fly-off and Family Fun Weekend. 5:30 a.m. See March 2 listing.

ETC.

Flea Market. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Redwood Acres Fairground, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. Lots o’ stuff! $1. 822-5292. Freshwater Grange Breakfast. 8-11 a.m. Freshwater Grange, 49 Grange Road, Eureka. Monthly pancake breakfast. $5/$3 kids. 445-2517. Free Storytelling Workshop. 1-3:30 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. For people interested in crafting an oral story around the theme of “community.” Guided by local storyteller Ali Freedlund. E-mail ali@mattole.org. 822-4477.

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thursday

THEATER

HATER. 7:30 p.m. Gist Hall Theater. See Feb. 28 listing.

MUSIC

THEATER

Los Lonely Boys. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre, HSU. Special acoustic show featuring the three brothers from San Angelo, Texas, who exploded onto the musical scene with their multi-platinum debut CD. $35/$15 HSU students. humboldt.edu/centerarts. 826-3928. Humboldt Folklife Society Group Sing Along. 7-9 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway. With host Joel Sonenshein. Sing along to many of your favorite songs from the ’60s, ’70s and beyond. www.humboldtfolklife.org. 839-7063.

DANCE

Collaborate, Create, Communicate. 4 p.m. Reese Bullen Gallery. See Feb. 28 listing.

MOVIES

Annual International Latino Film Festival. 6 p.m. Minor Theater, 1013 H St., Arcata. Screening of ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990). Half hour presentation before the film moderated by CR Spanish professor Julie Raich. Sponsored by College of the Redwoods. $6. 476-4118. The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife Auditions. 7 p.m. North Coast Repertory Theatre. See March 3 listing. Friendship Circle Dance. 7-10 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Dancers 50 and older enjoy dancing with live music from the 1930s-50s. $4. 725-5323.

5 tuesday MUSIC

African Children’s Choir. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre, HSU. With dramatic choreography, layered rhythms and gorgeous call-and-response vocals, a vibrant cast of young performers brings to life the sounds and movements of East Africa. $35/$15 HSU students. humboldt.edu/ centerarts. 826-3928.

MOVIES

Annual International Latino Film Festival. 6 p.m. Minor Theater, 1013 H St., Arcata. Screening of Mujeres al Borde de una Ataque de Nervios (1988). Half hour presentation before the film moderated by HSU Spanish professor Russell Gaskell. Sponsored by College of the Redwoods. $6. 476-4118.

ETC.

Humboldt Cribbage Club. 6:15-9:30 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Weekly cribbage tournament. $7. cribbage.org. 444-3161.

6 wednesday THEATER

The Pitmen Painters. 8 p.m. Redwood Curtain Theatre. See Feb. 28 listing.

MUSIC

Masters of Irish Tradition. 8 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre, HSU. All-star line-up features fiddle virtuoso Martin Hayes along with some of the finest Irish musicians in solos, duos, trios and full group collaboration. $35/$15 HSU students. humboldt.edu/centerarts. 826-3928. Diego’s Umbrella. 9:32 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. San Francisco’s ambassadors of gypsy rock bring the party. $15/$12 adv. humbrews.com. 826-2739.

ART

MOVIES

Annual International Latino Film Festival. 6 p.m. Minor Theater, 1013 H St., Arcata. Screening of Solas (1999). Half hour presentation before the film moderated by HSU Spanish professor Francisco de la Cabada. Sponsored by College of the Redwoods. $6. 476-4118.

SPOKEN WORD

Accident Slam. 7-9:30 p.m. Siren’s Song, 325 Second St., Eureka. Poets compete for a spot on the Humboldt Slam National team. Feature Poet: Slam Champion Wil Gibson. Live music by Goldylocks! Hosted by A Reason To Listen. $5. areasontolisten@gmail.com. 530-448-9458.

ETC.

Human Rights Commission Meeting. 5 p.m. Humboldt County Courthouse, conference room A. Items on the agenda include a report on the meeting between members of the commission and Supervisors Lovelace and Bohn to consider Ordinance 2488. 668-4095.

Heads Up…

Plant. Keep Eureka Beautiful will be celebrating Arbor Week, March 7-14, by offering sidewalk trees throughout Eureka. While trees and materials are free, there is a charge of $75 per tree to offset the cost of cutting tree holes in the concrete. Call 443-5195 for more info. Apply. The Humboldt Branch of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, WILPF, is seeking applications for the annual Edilith Eckart Memorial Peace Scholarship. It will award $300 to a project that promotes peace. For more information contact WILPF@humboldt1. com or 822-5711. Applications will be accepted until April 1. Write. Poets & Writers, College of the Redwoods’ literary magazine, is currently accepting submissions of original poetry and fiction through March 27. To submit entries or for more info email david-holper@redwoods.edu or call 476-4370. Versify. Veterans For Peace is seeking submissions for its fourth annual Redwood Coast Peace Poetry Contest from all high school students of Humboldt County. Entries must be received no later than 5 p.m., Monday, March 4, 2013. For more info go to vfp56.org or contact Jon Reisdorf 822-4595. Volunteer. Help is needed for the 23rd Annual Redwood Coast Jazz Festival, March 22-24. Take tickets, merch sales, watch doors, set-up, tear-down; Contact Jacky Owsley 445-9685 or admin@redwoodjazz.org. ●

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Aliens Defeat Seniors

Sci-fi invasion proves more exciting than elderly Brits. Who knew? By Dev Richards

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Reviews

DARK SKIES. I can ruin a horror movie for pretty much anyone. I’ll sit next to you, basking in my jaded glory, ripping apart every delicately laid tidbit of foreshadowing. Years of sitting through formulaic spine-tinglers have left me numb to most attempts at thrills and chills. But every once in a great while, when everything is aligned just right, a horror movie will catch me off guard and put me in my place. Dark Skies was one of these delightful surprises. From the writer/director of Priest (Scott Stewart), Dark Skies centers on a suburban family and its very own slew of metaphysical mysteries. This theme has become all too familiar since the release of Paranormal Activity in 2007, but Stewart manages to keep it fresh by building actual tension and letting the audience stew in it for a good 30 minutes before offering any release, with the attendant screams and shouts. The real kicker, though, is that Stewart manages to build this tension and follow through with the horror gut-punches all with the use of some rather cheaply rendered CGI aliens. Like a cinematic “screw you” to M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, Stewart takes the twists and turns out of that film’s story and lets fear speak for itself. Kerri Russell (Felicity) and Josh Hamilton (The House of Yes) are parents struggling to make ends meet while raising two children in middle class America. Though the actions of Russell and Hamilton’s characters drive the plot, the story really focuses on their two children, Jesse (Dakota Goyo) and Sam (Kadan Rockett). By keeping most of the action (save for the climax) off screen and focusing on the eerie tension of the younger brother, Stewart is able to create a steady momentum of screams and gasps. That momentum is the key to the success of Dark Skies. There are no boring lulls

between the action, no pointless sex scenes between horrible actors, no false starts, no creepy music that leads to nothing; the film moves from one freaky occurrence to another, each one weirder than the last. Dark Skies is not perfect: The ending leaves a little to be desired, and J.K. Simmons (Spider-man, Juno) needs more screen time. For the most part, though, Dark Skies delivers what it promises and proves there are still horror stories worth telling. PG13. 95m. QUARTET. I’ve enjoyed more than my fair share of witty, dry British films. I gravitate toward them like a moth to wry and muted flame. But even by my standards — as someone who watched all six hours of PBS’s Pride & Prejudice in one sitting — Quartet is excruciatingly boring. It’s the sort of boring that awakens the toddler in you, urging you to fidget, groan and kick the seat in front of you. Based on the play by the same name, Quartet is a simple love story set in Beecham House, a home for retired musicians and performers. I know, I know. How could that be boring? With the house bustling with rehearsals for the annual Verdi Gala, Jean Horton (Dame Maggie Smith) arrives to take up residence. She’s welcomed warmly by all of the residents save her ex-husband. The estranged pair work to reconcile their differences while reuniting their former quartet. The first layer of boredom lies in the foundation. The play was adapted for the screen by the original author, Ronald Harwood (The Pianist), and I use the word “adapted” in the loosest sense. The play is actually a delightful depiction of aging with grace, dignity and love. But in fiddling with it for film, Harwood ruined it. He seems to have transferred the script directly from one medium to another, ignor-

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"Oops, I swallowed the flashlight!" Keri Russell in Dark Skies.

ing the narrative possibilities film can offer. What’s more, he has done away with those delightful quirks and rhythms that come from staging a comedy theatrically: the flourish of hilariously timed entrances and exits, the dynamic attention-grabbing of scene stealers, and those playful asides that break the barrier between actors and audience. The next lethargic layer is in the basic structure, the framing. Dustin Hoffman is one of the world’s greatest character actors, but his talents do not extend behind the camera. Oddly, this is Hoffman’s first directorial accomplishment (not including his failed attempt to direct the 1978 crime drama Straight Time); we can only hope it will be his last. Every scene is flat, frustrating, dull and completely static. You could blame this, in part, on the septuagenarian-filled cast, but that would require denying the talent at work, including that of screen veterans Smith (Downton Abbey), Billy Connolly (The Boondock Saints) and Michael Gambon (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Their years of masterful experience are muted by Hoffman’s direction. It’s easy to imagine Quartet on stage, to envision it as something heartfelt and dynamic. Perhaps an experienced director could have formed a decent relationship between the emotions on stage and in the audience. The themes of love and opera could have echoed through every scene, instead of occasionally fluttering lackadaisically in the background. PG13. 97m. — Dev Richards

Previews

21 AND OVER. The dudes who wrote The Hangover make their directorial debut in this comedy, which seems to recycle the same premise (drunken morons breaking stuff). But the main characters are now barely legal. R. 93m. JACK THE GIANT SLAYER. An effects-

laden adaptation of the old Cornish folktale about a young farmhand who scales some overgrown vegetation, unwittingly unleashing a race of overgrown fellas, aka giants. PG13. 114m. THE LAST EXORCISM PART 2. So, wait. Are you telling me that the first Last Exorcism was really the second-to-last exorcism? That rascally devil! Anyhoo, young girl gets possessed, contorts and curses, etc. PG13. 98m. AMOUR. Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, the latest from Austrian director Michael Haneke (Caché, The White Ribbon) examines the love of an elderly couple dealing with the aftermath of a stroke. PG13. 127m. PHANTOM. Ed Harris, David Duchovny and William Fitchner star in this Cold Warera submarine suspense thriller. R. 97m. Running next Tuesday through Thursday, the Minor Theatre will host the 15th annual Latino Film Festival, presented by College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State University. Each night of the fest will feature a half-hour speaker’s presentation (in English) followed by a film screening at 6 p.m. (the movies are in Spanish with English subtitles) and a panel discussion. Enrolled students get credit if they write a position paper; the rest of us can buy tickets at the door for $6. The movies featured this year will be ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990) on Tuesday, Pedro Almodóvar’s (excellent) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) on Wednesday and Solas (1999) on Thursday. Martin Scorcese’s 2002 historical drama Gangs of New York, which features a scary-brilliant performance by three-time Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, will show this Friday at 8 p.m. at the Arcata Theatre Lounge. R. 137m. Sunday is family-friendly with Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. (2001). G. 72m. And next Wednesday, during Sci-Fi Pint and Pizza Night, catch the befuddling conclusion of Keanu’s techno-Christ trilogy with The Matrix Revolutions (2003). R. 129m.

ARGO. Ben Affleck helms a thrilling and surprisingly funny account of the 1979-80 Iran hostage crisis — winner of Best Pic Oscar. R. 120m. ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH. A nerdy, risk-averse alien must save his heroic astronaut brother in this poorly reviewed CGI cartoon comedy. PG. 89m. A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD. Bruce Willis is back for the fifth time as wisecracking supercop John McClane, this time going to Russia to rescue his son. R. 98m. HANSEL AND GRETEL WITCH HUNTERS. An effects-laden action/horror/comedy about grown-up versions of the Grimm fairy tale characters? In 3D? Why? Rated R. 88 m. IDENTITY THIEF. Broad comedy in which a long-suffering everyman (Jason Bateman) hunts down the crazed throat-puncher who stole his identity (Melissa McCarthy). R. 111m. SAFE HAVEN. Another treacly adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks romance novel (see A Walk to Remember, The Lucky One). This one stars Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel. PG13. 113m. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence deliver Oscar-nominated performances (Jen won!), with a twist of mental instability, in this bipolar dramedy. R. 122m. SNITCH. Dwayne Johnson stars in this action-thriller as a man who goes undercover with the DEA in order to save his son. PG13. 112m. WARM BODIES. Teen rom-com based on the Bard’s Romeo and Juliet- with zombies. Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer are R and Julie, the star-crossed lovers. PG13. 97m. — Ryan Burns

Broadway Cinema

707-443-3456 1223 Broadway Street, Eureka Times are for 3/1-3/7 unless otherwise noted.

21 And Over JACK THe GIAnT SLAYer 3d JACK THe GIAnT SLAYer dArK SKIeS SnITCH A GOOd dAY TO dIe HArd IdenTITY THIef SAfe HAven eSCApe frOm pLAneT eArTH 3d eSCApe frOm pLAneT eArTH pHAnTOm WArm BOdIeS LAST eXOrCISm pArT II SILver LInInGS pLAYBOOK ArGO

1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 3:10, 8:55 12:20, 6:05 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 12:40, 3:20, 6:10, 8:50 12:50, 3:25, 6:00, 8:35 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:05 12:15, 3:05, 5:50, 8:40 2:55, 7:50 (except 3/7) 12:30, 5:25 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:05 4:05, 9:20 (except 3/7) 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 12:00, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30 1:15, 6:30

mill Creek Cinema

707-839-3456 1575 Betty Court, McKinleyville * = frI.-SUn. OnLY Times are for 3/1-3/7 unless otherwise noted.

A GOOd dAY TO dIe HArd 12:50*, 3:30, 6:05, 8:40 (except 3/7) eSCApe frOm pLAneT eArTH 3d 3:00, 8:00 (except 3/7) eSCApe frOm pLAneT eArTH 12:25*, 5:30 IdenTITY THIef 1:00*, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 LAST eXOrCISm pArT II 2:05*, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 21 And Over 2:00*, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 JACK THe GIAnT SLAYer 3d 3:20, 9:00 JACK THe GIAnT SLAYer 12:30*, 6:10 dArK SKIeS 1:45*, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 SnITCH 12:35*, 3:15, 5:55, 8:35

minor Theatre 707-822-3456

1001 H Street, Arcata * = 3/5-3/7 Times are for 3/1-3/7 unless otherwise noted.

ArmOUr 12:30, 3:15, *5:10, 6:00, *8:00, 8:50 QUArTeT 2:00, *3:50, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 SILver LInInGS pLAYBOOK 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00

fortuna Theater

Feb. 28Mar. 6 Thurs Feb 28 -Random Acts of Comedy Doors at 7:30 p.m. $6 All ages Fri Mar 1 - Gangs of New York (2002) Doors at 7:30 p.m. $5 Rated R Sun Mar 3 - Monsters, Inc. (2001) Doors at 5:30 p.m. $5 Rated G Wed Mar 6 - Sci Fi Night ft. The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Doors at 6 p.m. All ages Free

707-725-2121 * = SAT.-SUn. OnLY 1241 Main Street, Fortuna Times are for 3/1-3/7 unless otherwise noted.

JACK THe GIAnT SLAYer 4:15, 6:55 JACK THe GIAnT SLAYer 3d 1:10*, 9:30 21 And Over 12:30*, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 LAST eXOrCISm pArT II 12:00*, 2:30*, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 dArK SKIeS 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:00, 9:15 eSCApe frOm pLAneT eArTH 3d 12:15*, 4:30, 8:45 eSCApe frOm pLAneT eArTH 2:25, 6:40 IdenTITY THIef 1:10*, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20

Garberville Theater 707-923-3580

766 Redwood Drive, Garberville

HAnSeL & GreTeL: WITCH HUnTerS arcatatheatre.com • 822-1220 • 1036 G St.

3/1-3/7: 7:30 (eXCepT 3/6: 6:30)

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cd Untamed Beast By Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside - Partisan Records

The last time Sallie Ford and her Portlandbased band The Sound Outside performed locally (opening for Wanda Jackson at HSU’s Depot), I asked Ford about the new material she was recording. “Well,” she said, “we’ve been listening to The Cramps a lot lately.” The bespectacled singer-songwriter also professed admiration for Partisan label mate John McCauley, leader of Deer Tick. These two elements play interesting roles in Ford’s superb sophomore release, Untamed Beast. Since the band’s 2011 debut, Dirty Radio, The Sound Outside has toured relentlessly. The roadheavy experience provided Ford and company with added muscle and confidence. Untamed Beast‘s lead cut “They Told Me” opens with reverb-laden guitar chords setting a heavy, dense and dark tone, while leaning toward the rough-edged, swampy sound of garage-surf rock, reminiscent of, yes, The Cramps. “Never have I had a rational mind; never have I been rational inside,” belts Ford with soulful conviction. “Jealousy is an untamed beast, and that untamed beast lives inside of me.” It’s that “untamed” spirit that Ford seems to channel into her style of rock ‘n’ roll, injecting the sense of reckless danger and frenzy that once caused parents to worry about their children listening to the stuff. The blatant barroom rocker “Party Kids,” powered by guitarist Jeff Munger’s killer lead line, dives head-first, unashamed into a type of machismo, with the roles reversed. “Things are getting crazy in a violent night,” sings Ford, addressing her partner. “I know you’re getting antsy when you touch my thigh. Honey, I can handle it.” On Dirty Radio, Ford occasionally tapped a raw sexuality to fuel her narratives and execution, the type exuded by ’50s-era female R&B singers such as Big Mama Thornton. Now, it’s proudly bared. The tight rhythm section of drummer Ford Tennis and bassist Tyler Tornfelt lays down a sexy, hypnotic backbeat for “Shivers,” allowing Ford to let loose her more soulful side. When she sings, “Won’t you give me more shivers, my sweet pea?” her sincere delivery hits its target dead-center. The production team of Justin Collins and Adam Landry, who recently worked with Deer Tick, captured the dynamic live sound that Ford has cultivated for the past several years. With a kind of swagger that is more closely associated with outfits such as Deer Tick and The Replacements, Untamed Beast shows how a good band can reach a level of confidence while still leaving things a little unhinged, unpredictable and untamed. This “beast” feels anxious to bolt out of the gate. Note: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside perform at Humboldt Brews in Arcata on Sunday, March 3. — Mark Shikuma

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I AM… SAFE ZONE LGBT ALLY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING. Friday March 22, 9-5 p.m, Six Rivers Planned Parenthood, Eureka. Min of 10 people for this session $75 register, Sliding scale scholarships available. at www.iamsafezone.com. Want to better serve your LGBT clients and community? Join local resident and nationally recognized trainer, Jessica Pettitt, for this local training to learn about Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender stereotypes, power and privilege dynamics, and how your own life can make you the best ally ever! Reduce stigma, misunderstanding, and isolation and increase collaboration, advocacy, and empowerment. CEUs are available. Sliding scale scholarships available. Got ?’s jess@iamsocialjustice.com or (917) 543-0966. (CMM-0314)

Computers

MICROSOFT WORD. Introduction to basics of Word 2007 to create common business documents. With Ali Ware. Mon., March 4-25, 6-8 p.m. $75. Preregistration required. Call HSU Distance & Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/extended (C-0228)

NORTH COAST SELF DEFENSE ACADEMY. Come learn your choice of Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai Techniques, Filipino Kali, Jun Fan Stand Up Kickboxing, & Muay Thai/MMA Sparring. Group and private sessions available 7 days a week for men, women and children; all experience and fitness levels welcome. Call or visit (707) 822-6278 or 820 N St., Building #1 Suite C, Arcata www.northcoastselfdefense.com (F-1226) AIKIDO. Is an incredibly fascinating and enriching non-violent martial art with its roots in traditional Japanese budo. Focus is on personal growth and pursuit of deeper truth instead of competition and fighting. Yet the physical power you can develop is very real. Come observe any time and give it a try! The dojo is on Arcata Plaza above the mattress store, entrance is around back. Class every weeknight starting at 6 p.m., beginning enrollment is ongoing. www.northcoastaikido.org, info@northcoastaikido. org, 826-9395. (F-1226)

ANATOMY FOR THE ARTIST. An introduction to studying the human body from a drawing perspective. Learn the essential concepts of the skeletal and muscular systems and immediately apply them in your drawings. Fri. evenings, March 15-May 3, 5-6:30 p.m. $100. humboldtarts.org, 442-0278. (AC-0307)

Dance, Music, Theater, Film

AIKIBOJITSU. Get your black belt in stick! New beginning classes in Aikibojitsu, The Art of the Staff, taught by Tom Read Sensei, Chief Instructor of Northcoast Aikido, with over 40 years of experience in martial arts. Classes meet Sat.s 9 a.m- 10 a.m., at Northcoast Aikido, 890 G Street, Arcata (entrance in back, by fire station). $20 per class, Visit www. aikibojitsu.com (F-0328)

WATERCOLORS. Sat.s, March 16-April 27 (no class March 30). 9:30 a.m.-Noon. $74. College of the Redwoods Downtown Site @ 333 6th St. Plan and complete one or more paintings over the 6 weeks of class. Both beginning and experienced painters are welcome in this class. View more at www.redwoods. edu, visit Community Education link. Call (707) 2694000 to reserve your seat. (AC-0228)

LEARN 2 HOOP DANCE. Foundational Hoop Dance series starts every few weeks in Arcata. Ongoing int/ adv. workshops. Private lessons. Hoops/collapsible hoops for sale. www.chakranation.com (DMT-1226)

NORTH COAST FENCING ACADEMY. Fencing (with swords!). Improve your mind and body in a fun, intense workout, and a very chill environment. Ages 8 and up. 1459 M St., Arcata, contact Justin (707) 601-1657 text or phone, or email northcoastfencingacademy@gmail.com (F-0606)

INTERMEDIATE KNITTING CLASS AT YARN. Sat.s, March 16 & 23, 3-4:30 p.m., $30, plus materials. Go beyond the basics - learn to read patterns, textured stitches & lace. Beginning knitting level required. Call 443-YARN to register and for more info. (AC-0307)

PIANO LESSONS BEGINNING TO ADVANCED ALL AGES. 30 years joyful experience teaching all piano styles. Juilliard trained, remote lessons available. Nationally Certified Piano Teacher. Humboldtpianostudio.com. (707) 502-9469 (DMT-0606)

LEARN TO KNIT SOCKS AT YARN. Thurs.s, March 14-April 4, 5:30-7 p.m., $60, plus materials. Hand knit socks are fun to make and a joy to wear. Beginning knitting level required. Call 443-YARN to register and for more info. (AC-0307)

PIANO LESSONS. Beginners, all ages. Experienced. Judith Louise 476-8919. (DMT-0606)

Arts & Crafts

Communication

COMMUNITY MEDIATOR TRAINING. Presented by Humboldt Mediation Services. Learn to facilitate meaningful discussion, reconcile differences, reach workable agreements, and help create a peaceful community that resolves conflict constructively. Five weekday evenings and two full Sat.s, April 1527. Regular Tuition: $375. 10% Discount for Seniors, Students, and Groups. $285 in exchange for 10 hours of volunteer service. Register by March 15, by phone: (707) 445-2505; mail: 517 Third St., Suite 3, Eureka, CA 95501; or online at www.humboldtmediationservices. org (CMM-0314) MAKING TOUGH DECISIONS. How to make difficult decisions will be explored at LifetreeCafe this week, Sun., March 3, 7 p.m. 76 13th St., Arcata. 672-2919, www.campbellcreek.org for more info. (CMM-0228) PROBLEM SOLVING FOR TEAMS. Learn techniques to help your team solve problems objectively. With Janet Ruprecht. Fri., March 8, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $85 (includes materials). Pre-registration required. Call HSU Distance & Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/extended (CMM-0228)

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BEGINNING STEEL DRUM. 4 week class, Mon. evenings, 7-8 p.m., March 4-25, Pan Arts Network, 1049 Samoa Blvd, Suite C. $50, (707) 822-PANS, info@ panartsnetwork.com to register. (DMT-0228)

REDWOOD RAKS WORLD DANCE STUDIO, ARCATA. West African, Belly Dance, Tango, Salsa, Swing, Breakdance, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Zumba, Hula, Congolese, more! Kids and Adults, 616-6876. (DMT-0228)

WEST AFRICAN DANCE. Tues.s, Thurs.s, 5:30-7 p.m., at Redwood Raks, Arcata. All levels welcome. Live drumming. Dulce, 832-9547, Christina, 498-0146. (DMT-0228) GUITAR/PIANO/VOICE LESSONS. All ages, beginning and intermediate. Seabury Gould 444-8507. (DMT-0606) SAXOPHONE/FLUTE LESSONS. All ages, beginneradvanced, jazz improvisation, technique. Susie Laraine: 441-1343. (DMT-1226)

Fitness

HUMBOLDT CAPOEIRA ACADEMY. Spring Session Feb. 1-June 15. Classes for Kids, Adults and Beginners. Martial Arts, Music and Acrobatics. Helps to improve strength, flexibility, coordination and self-control. Rental Space Available. For full class schedule visit www.humboldtcapoeira.com. (707) 498-6155, 865 8th St., Arcata. (F-0606) NIA-DANCE FUSION. Modern dance/fitness for all abilities. Mon.s, 6-7 p.m., Studio of Dance Arts Eureka. Starting Jan. 14. Wed.s, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Redwood Raks Arcata. Starting Jan. 9. $5 drop-in, $50/12 classes (707) 441-9102 (F-0328)

ZUMBA WITH MARLA JOY. Elevate, Motivate, Celebrate another day of living. Exercise in Disguise. Now is the time to start, don’t wait. All ability levels are welcome. Every Mon. and Thurs. at the Bayside Grange 6-7 p.m., 2297 Jacoby Creek Rd. $6/$4 Grange members. Every Wed. 6-7 p.m. in Fortuna at the Monday Club, 610 Main St. Every Tues. at the Trinidad Town Hall, Noon and every Thurs. at the Eureka Vets Hall, Noon. Marla Joy (707) 845-4307, marlajoy.zumba. com (F-1226) ZUMBA WITH MIMI. Put the FUN back into your workout! Latin & Pop music, sure to leave you sweaty and smiling! Wed. & Fri. 9:30 a.m. at Redwood Raks in the Old Creamery Building, Arcata. Tues. & Thurs. 9:30 a.m., Fri. 5:30 p.m., Humboldt Capoeira Academy, Arcata. (F-1226) SUN YI’S ACADEMY OF TAE KWON DO. Classes for kids and adults, child care, fitness gym, and more. Tae Kwon Do Mon-Fri 5-6 p.m., 6-7 p.m., Sat 10-11 a.m. Come watch or join a class, 1215 Giuntoli Lane, or visit www.sunyisarcata.com, 825-0182. (F-1227) DANCE-FIT. Dance, aerobics & strength training all in one class ! Mon., Wed. & Fri. 9-10 a.m First class is free. Drop in for $5 per class or 14 classes for $55. No Limits tap & jazz studio, corner of 10th & K st. Arcata. 825-0922 (F-1226)

Home & Garden

GARDENING STUDY SCHOOL. Course 3 offered by Humboldt District of California Garden Club. Topics include: How to grown outdoor flowers, How to Prune, Plant growth factors for success, Plant identification and Wildflowers. Also tour the Botanical Garden. April 5 & 6, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., in Eureka. Registration $40/1 day, $75/2 days, breakfast & lunch included. Call 442-1387 or email mgoodwin@northcoast.com for information. (HG-0328)

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KLAMATH KNOT PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE. Earn a Permaculture Design Certificate and learn ecological design, natural building, forest farming, mycotechnology, greywater design, rainwater catchment and more in this extended course. www. Klamath Knot.com, Sandy Bar Ranch, (530) 627-3379 (G-0228)

Kids & Teens

TINY TUTUS BEGINNING BALLET I. Ballerinas ages 4-7 will learn ballet’s basic steps and beginning dance positions. John Ryan Youth Center, 1653 J St., Eureka. Tues.s, 6-6:45 p.m., beginning 3/5. $25. Register online at www.eurekarecreation.com or call 441-4244 for more info. (K-0228) AN EXPERIMENT IN STUDIO ARTS. Ready for the ultimate visual arts challenge? For the first time ever, an entire class is in the hands of the participating teens - and with full access to an empty gallery space at the MGMA. Join the experiment! Wed.s, March 13-May 1, 4-5:30 p.m. $100. humboldtarts.org, 442-0278. (K-0307) FIESTA KIDS. Latin inspired dance fitness class for kids ages 5-11. Crank up the music, shake, wiggle & have a blast! Mon.s at 4 p.m. starting 3/4 at the Adorni Center. $20/child. Register online at www. eurekarecreation.com or visit The Adorni Center, 1011 Waterfront Dr. 441-4244. (K-0228) G.U.L.C.H. TEEN POETRY SLAM. Learn poetry writing & performing techniques, rules & regulations, upcoming slam contests. Enjoy performances by guest poets. 2/28 from 4-6 p.m. at Cooper Gulch 1720 10th St. $5 drop-in fee & scholarships available. Call Brian at 441-4240 for more info. (K-0228) HIP HOP DANCE CREW. Have your child learn the art of hip hop dance! Give your child confidence & a creative energy outlet. 4 week class for ages 5-9, Wed.s, 6-6:45 pm starting 3/6, $25. Register online at www.eurekarecreation.com or visit The Adorni Center, 1011 Waterfront Dr. 441-4244 (K-0228) MUSEUM ART SCHOOL. Explore the world of David K. Anderson and his sculptures based on the flower paintings of Morris Graves through hands-on art making at the MGMA! Sessions for Ages 6 -8: Tues., March 12-April 30. Sessions for Ages 9-12: Thurs., March 14-May 2, 3:45-5 p.m. $90. humboldtarts.org, 442-0278. (K-0307) ACTIVE KIDS = HAPPY KIDS. Come learn selfconfidence, discipline and respect while gaining true life skills through martial arts. North Coast Self Defense Academy is offering two introductory lessons for only $14 with this ad. Call or visit- (707) 822-6278 or 820 N St, Building #1 Suite C, Arcata www. northcoastselfdefense.com (K-1226)

Over 50

OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE (OLLI). Offers dynamic classes for people age 50 and over. Call 826-5880 or visit www.humboldt.edu/olli to register for classes. (O-1226) AN INSIDER’S GUIDE, LISTENING TO MODERN JAZZ. With music writer Bob Doran. Wed. night discussions take place Tues., Feb. 20 and April 3, 4-6 p.m. prior to two corresponding Redwood Jazz Alliance concerts. Class participants are invited to attend Matt Wilson’s jazz quartet “Arts and Crafts”, Feb. 22, and jazz quintet “Spirit House” with guitarist Joel Harrison, April 4. $40/OLLI members, $65/nonmembers. Tickets not included. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0228)

BEGINNING BIRD FEEDING. Want to attract birds to your yard? What birds eat which seeds? Which feeder would be best? And how do you do this as a cat lover? Get all these questions answered by Louise BaconOgden. Wed., March 13, 6-8 p.m. $30/OLLI members, $55/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0307)

GENTLE YOGA FOR OLLI. Learn yoga with focus on both floor and standing poses for strength, balance and flexibility at any age. With Patricia Starr. Mon., March 4-April 8, 1:30-3 p.m. $55/OLLI members, $80/ nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880, www.humboldt.edu/ olli (O-0228)

BEYONG TOURS. Freewheeling, Independent Travel for All Ages. You may remember traveling easily and effortlessly in your youth. Do you think traveling has become more dangerous and difficult in a post 9/11 era? Learn how today’s travel can be freer, lighter and more open than ever with world travelers Louisa Rogers and Barry Evans. Tues.s, March 12-26, 1-3 p.m. $50/OLLI members, $75/nonmembers. OLLI: 8265880 (O-0307)

STEER CLEAR, WHEN IT IS TIME FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO CONTROL THE CRUISING. This course is designed to help start the difficult conversation about driving retirement. See the documentary, “Old People Driving,” and join in a guided discussion with Kip Roberti. Sat., March 2, 10 a.m.-Noon. $10/OLLI members, $35/ nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0228)

DECODING THE MAYAN WORLD. What caused the sudden collapse of one of the world’s greatest civilizations? What can the Mayan collapse tell us about our own declining ecosystem? Who are the Mayans today? With Barry Evans. Wed., March 13 and 20, 2-4 p.m. $40/OLLI members, $65/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0307) GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY. Discover the tools that will help you learn more about your forebears with Michael Cooley. Sat., March 16-30, 10 a.m.-Noon. $50/OLLI members, $75/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0307) THE WAY OF WELLNESS. Learn a few time-tested principles of wellness that include portable, low-cost ways to build your fitness, fuel your body, protect yourself against disease, maintain emotional balance and strategies to change long-held habits. With Louisa Rogers. Wed.s, March 13 and 20, 2-4 p.m. $40/OLLI members, $65/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0307) ART OF LIVING. Wed. Brown Bag Lunch Presentations and Discussions. Wed., Noon-2 p.m., ongoing through May 22, at Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center. Topics include Restoration and Renewal in Redwood National/State Parks; Conversations on Creative Aging; Independence for a Lifetime; Creating Community Assets. Presentations are FREE to OLLI at HSU members. To join/reserve your seat, call OLLI: 826-5880, www.humboldt.edu/olli (O-0228) CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY, INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION. Join a discussion of different cultures and diplomatic communication with Elena Matusevich. Thurs., March 7-21, 2-4 p.m. $45/ OLLI members, $70/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0228) FINGERPAINTING ON YOUR IPAD. An introduction to iPad painting using the ArtStudio app, with local artist Claire Iris Schencke. Sat., March 2 and 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $50/OLLI members, $75/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0228) FLOODS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Examine the history, weather and geology that contributed to extreme rainfall and flood events with historian Jerry Rohde, meteorologist Nancy Dean and geologist Harvey Kelsey. Tues,, March 5-19, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $45/ OLLI members, $60/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0228) FUN, FORMS & FUNCTIONS OF FOLKLORE. Look at different forms of folklore, including myths, tales, jokes, food ways, music, games, music, traditions and more. With Renee Ross. Tues., March 5-19, 10 a.m.-Noon. $30/OLLI members, $55/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880 (O-0228)

Spiritual

INTRODUCTION TO YOUR ASTROLOGICAL BIRTH CHART. Workshops in Arcata, Sat., 3/9 or Sun., 3/17, 1-5 p.m. Level II workshop, Sat., 3/23. For more information: www.danaquillman.com, 822-5247. (S-0321) KDK ARCATA BUDDHIST GROUP. Under the direction of Lama Lodru Rinpoche. We practice Tibetan meditation, followed by discussion. All are welcome. For more info contact Lama Nyugu (707) 442-7068, Fierro_roman@yahoo.com. Sun’s 6 p.m, Community Yoga Center 890 G St, Arcata. Our webpage is www. kdkarcatagroup.org (S-0502) TAROT AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PATH. Classes in Eureka, and Arcata. Private mentorships, readings. Carolyn Ayres. 442-4240 www.tarotofbecoming. com (S-0228) ARCATA ZEN GROUP MEDITATION. Beginners welcome. Sun., 8 a.m. North Coast Aikido Center, on F St. between 8th and 9th in Arcata. Wed., 6-7 p.m. at First Christian Church, 730 K, Eureka, ramp entrance and upstairs; newcomers please come 5 minutes early. Sun. contact, 826-1701. Wed. contact, barryevans9@ yahoo.com, or for more info. call (707) 826-1701. www. arcatazengroup.org. (S-0606)

Sports/Recreation

ROLLER SKATING. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation Fri./ Sat., 6:30-9:30 p.m., Sun. 2-5 p.m. Adult Skate: 2nd Sun. of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m. To schedule birthday parties, call 668-5932 or find us on facebook at parks-rec@bluelake.ca.gov. (SR-1226)

Therapy/Support

GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICES CREATIVE ARTS GATHERING. Healing the grieving heart through the transformative quality of art, community, nature, song, and self- expression, Sat. March 16. With nature as our guide, we will explore the world of growing plants and what we can learn from the seasons and cycles of the natural world as a tribute to and a reminder of all that nature can offer the grieving heart. No artistic experience is required. Suggested materials fee: $3-$5. Visit our website for more information at www.hospiceofhumboldt.org or contact Julie with questions at 445-8443. (T-0307) SUICIDE INTERVENTION. Examine suicide statistics, attitudes, indicators and predictors to assess level of risk and kind of intervention necessary. MFT/LCSW CEUs available. With Rebecca Porteous, LCSW. Fri., March 15, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $40 includes lunch. $25 additional for credit or MFT/LCSW/nursing CEUs. Pre-registration required. Call HSU Distance & Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/extended (TS-0228)

Six Week workshop with Christine Fiorentino and T Proctor using movement, meditation, and interactive experiences to access our inherent spaciousness, openness, and wonder.

Uncover and resolve inner obstacles. Monday evenings March 11-April 15, 6:30-9:15. $135 by March 8th. Presented by: Phone: 445-2437

Being Real BeingRealNow.org

North Coast Academy

Improve your mind and body in a fun, intense workout, and a very chill environment. Adults & kids ages 8 and up. Contact Justin (707) 601-1657 Text or Phone. 1459 M. St. Arcata. northcoastfencingacademy@gmail.com northcoastfencing.tripod.com

Custom Knitting: Techniques and Tips

March 9th, 11am to 6 pm

Josh Bennett, New York designer and new Rowan Yarn American designer, will show how to design a garment with a professional look from start to finish. Learn formulas to create original designs that fit well, the writing of a basic sweater pattern, and how to modify existing patterns. Learn to measure the body correctly and what designs fit which body types, and special techniques that professional designers use. This is an amazing opportunity to study with a fabulous designer.

Cost $125 plus materials

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320 2nd St. between D&E, Eureka Space is Limited!

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Field notes continued from previous page FREE DEPRESSION SUPPORT GROUP. Walk-in support group for anyone suffering from depression. Meet Mon.s 6:30 p.m -7:45 p.m, at the Church of the Joyful Healer, McKinleyville. Questions? Call (707) 839-5691. (T-1226) FREE GAMBLING TREATMENT. Call (707) 496-2856 Shawna Bell, LMFT, MFC #47122 www.norcalrecoveryservices.com. (T-1226) SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS ? Confidential help is available. saahumboldt@ yahoo.com or 845-8973 (T-1226)

Vocational

200-HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING. At Om Shala Yoga. With Janine Melzer. April 6-June 30. Deepen your practice and get certified to teach! 858 10th St., Arcata. 825-YOGA (9642), www.omshalayoga. com (V-0228) FIRST LINE SUPERVISION. Mon.s & Wed.s, March 11May 8, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $1,195. College of the Redwoods Eureka Downtown site at 333 6th St. This training will emphasize skills for hiring, interviewing, disciplinary actions, scheduling, communication and conflict management. Scholarships available by calling The Job Market (707) 441-5627. View more at www. redwoods.edu, visit Community Education link. Call (707) 269-4000 to register. (V-0228) NOTARY PUBLIC CLASS & EXAM. Fri., March 22, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. $105 (includes class materials). Additional fee: $40 check to Secretary of State. College of the Redwoods Eureka Downtown site at 333 6th St. This is a one-day class that meets the requirements to sit for the State notary exam. View more at www. redwoods.edu, visit Community Education link. Call (707) 269-4000 to register. (V-0228) NOTARY TRAINING. This one-day seminar for new and renewing notaries provides the practical training needed to pass the comprehensive exam required for all California Notaries. Fri., March 22, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $149 plus additional for live scan, photo and exam. Pre-registration required. Call HSU Distance & Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/extended (V-0307) SALES & CUSTOMER SERVICE. Tues.s. & Thurs.s, March 19–May 16, 1-5 p.m. $1,195. College of the Redwoods Eureka Downtown site at 333 6th St. This training will emphasize Customer and Personal Service, Sales and Marketing, and Communications and Media. Scholarships available by calling The Job Market (707) 441-5627. View more at www.redwoods. edu, visit Community Education link. Call (707) 2694000 to register. (V-0228)

Wellness/Bodywork

OM SHALA 40 DAY YOGA JOURNEY! Devote yourself to 40-days of mindfulness, meditation & asana. Fri., March 1–Tues., April 9. 40-Day Unlimited Yoga Pass for $175: Includes unlimited yoga classes, sauna & generous discounts on bodywork, private yoga, workshops, and other healing modalities. 858 10th St., Arcata. 825-YOGA (9642), www.omshalayoga. com (W-0228)

LIVING TAO T’AI JI. This energetic style of Tai Ji focuses on powerfully moving the qi (energy) through our body systems. With Christopher Campbell. Mon., Tues. and Wed., March 11-13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $50. Pre-registration required. Call HSU Distance & Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www. humboldt.edu/extended (W-0228) T’AI CHI WITH MARGY EMERSON. Three programs: T’ai Chi for Back Pain and Arthritis, Traditional Long Form (Wu Style), and The 42 Combined Forms (all 4 major styles). 11-week term starts the week of March 26. Begin as late as the third week. At the martial arts academy in Arcata’s Sunny Brae Shopping Center. Visit a class with no obligation to pay or enroll. Morning and evening classes. Fees for the 11-week term: $95 for 1 class per week, $155 for 2 or more classes per week. See www.margaretemerson.com or call 822-6508 for schedules. (W-0328) YOGA THERAPY FOR LOW BACK PAIN, SCIATICA & HIPS. At Om Shala Yoga. With Peggy Profant. Sat., March 2, 2-4:30 p.m. No experience required! $35. 858 10th St., Arcata. 825-YOGA (9642), www.omshalayoga. com (W-0228) FREE ROLFING CONSULTATION. With Lee Tuley, Certified Rolfer. Find out what Rolfing can do for you. (541) 251-1885 (W-1226) DANDELION HERBAL CENTER. Intermediate Herbology with Jane Bothwell, April 17- June 12, Wed. evenings, 7-9 p.m., next to Humboldt Herbals in Eureka. Delve deeper into the healing power of plants. $365. (707) 442-8157 www.dandelionherb.com (W-0411) AYURVEDIC MASSAGE TRAINING & CLEANSING RETREATS. With Traci Webb and Myrica Morningstar, Training meets five weekends (Fri-Sun). May 17-July 14. Learn over 16 Ayurvedic Massages and Herbal Body Therapies for Career Enhancement and Self-Healing (Deadline: April 17). Group & Personal Cleansing Retreats: July 17-Aug. 11. Call for details. NCBTMB Approved CE Provider. REGISTER: Northwest Institute of Ayurveda: www.ayurvedicliving.com, info@ ayurvedicliving.com, (707) 601-9025. (W-0411) HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK. Full day workshop in Arcata. March 16. Contact Martin 498-1080. holotropicbreath@yahoo.com (W-0228) NEW CLIENTS $10 OFF. Myrtletowne Healing Center 1480, #A Myrtle Ave. A Hidden Gem on Myrtle Ave., specializing in therapeutic massage. We will assist you on your road to recovery or work with you on that chronic pain issue. Swedish, deep tissue, trigger point, reflexology, acupressure, uterine centering, lymph drainage, lomi lomi, and more. Founders Hilary Wakefield and Sarah Maier are both Doulas, we do pregnancy massage as well! You are worth it, call today (707) 441-9175 (W-1226) START YOUR CAREER IN MASSAGE THERAPY! Daytime classes begin June, 2013 at Arcata School of Massage. 650-Hour Therapeutic Massage Certification will prepare you for Professional Certification in California, and the National Exam. Our comprehensive program prepares your body, mind and heart to become a caring, confident professional massage therapist. Call 822-5223 for information or visit arcatamassage.com (W-1226) ●

RADIANT BALANCE. Turn your healthcare into a daily routine. Amy Aiello works with dietary and lifestyle changes to bring about balance and vitality. Using Ayurveda and Whole food nutrition as a base for all her work. Now seeing clients at Arcata Core Pilates. Appointments, call (707) 834-9822. (W-0228)

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Unlike the GeorGian calendar, chinese new Year is variable, fallinG between Jan. 21 and feb. 20 (second new moon after the winter solstice). this Year of the snake (shé) started on feb. 10, 2013. Joe mabel, wikipedia commons

Happy New Year! By Barry Evans

fieldnotes@northcoastjournal.com

lame the Visigoths. If those scruffy barbarians hadn’t had the gall to revolt in Gaul at the end of 154 BCE, we’d probably be celebrating New Year’s on March 1. The story is a bit more involved than that, though. Our calendar is a much-modified version of one supposedly invented by Romulus, legendary founder of Rome, in 735 BCE (“Year One”). Unfortunately he was, as Ovid wrote, “better versed in swords than stars,” and his 10-month year was just 304 days long. Romulus’ successor Numa Pompilius added two months — Januarius (after the two-faced god Janus) and Februarius (from februare, to purify) — to bring the year up to 355 days. Januarius was originally at the beginning of the year and Februarius at the end, but in 450 BCE, Januarius was slotted in before Februarius. All this time, March 1 (after Mars, god of war) marked the start of the year. Then came the Visigoth problem. The rebellion broke out right at the end of year 154 BCE. To avoid a change of command in the middle of a war (March 1 being the date when the two new Roman consuls came into power), year 154 was cut off after 10 months. This meant that year 153 started on Jan. 1, pushing the rest of the year back a couple of months, resulting in today’s oddly named ninth month of September (septem = seven), October (octo = eight), November (novem = nine) and December (decem = 10). Back to old Rome. The calendar year was getting increasingly out of sync with the seasons by the time Gaius Julius Caesar (102-44 BCE) assumed power. The year

he died (Et tu, Brute?), he had initiated what we call the Julian calendar. In the process, he ensured that future generations would remember him. He re-named his birth month, until then called Quintilis. Hence Julius/July. Thirty-six years later Augustus, first Roman emperor and greatnephew by adoption to Caesar, made a couple of minor calendrical corrections, which is why we have August today. Later proposals for renaming April (Neronius), May (Claudius), June (Germanicus ) and September (Tiberius) obviously didn’t stick. Caesar kept Jan. 1 as New Year’s Day, but nothing was quite that simple. The 567 CE Council of Tours abolished that date for New Year’s Day (too many pagan connections), and for 1,000 years in Christian Europe, the start of the year was celebrated all over the calendar from Easter to Christmas, with particular emphasis on March 25, Annunciation (or Lady) Day. Finally, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII initiated his sensible calendar with its every-fouryears leap year (unless that year is divisible by 100 but not by 400), starting each year on Jan. 1. It took another 170 years for the (Catholic) Gregorian calendar to be adopted by (Protestant) England, Wales and Britain’s colonies. They finally saw the light in 1752, when Thursday Sept. 14 followed Wednesday Sept. 2. And the rest is, literally, history. l Barry Evans’ (barryevans9@yahoo.com) first act as dictator will be to abolish years altogether and institute the Julian Day Calendar. JD 2456352 starts at 4 a.m. PST Feb. 28.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00103

The following persons are doing business as MCKENNY’S DO IT BEST BUILDING CENTERS at 2800 Hubbard Lane, Eureka, CA 95501. Myrtletown Lumber & Supply Inc. 2800 Hubbard Lane Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/11/13. /s Dean Kruschke, General Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 19, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21/2013 (13-58)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00104

The following persons are doing business as MYRTLETOWN DO IT BEST INSULATION SERVICES at 2800 Hubbard Lane, Eureka, CA 95501. Myrtletown Lumber & Supply Inc. 2800 Hubbard Lane Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Dean Kruschke, General Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 19, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21/2013 (13-57)

2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21/2013 (13-59)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R13-00098

The following person is doing business as CHAMISE CREEK ORCHARD at 101 D Rd., Garberville, CA 95542, P.O. Box 664, Garberville, CA 95542. Ronald Smith P.O. Box 664 Garberville, CA 95542 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/9/81. /s Ronald Smith. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 15, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/21, 2/28, 3/7, 3/14/2013 (13-54)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R13-00099

The following person is doing business as HAND THERAPY CENTER at 1125 16th Street, Suite 212, Arcata, CA 95521. Carolyn Christenson 777 Driver Road Trinidad, CA 95570 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Carolyn Christenson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 15, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/21, 2/28, 3/7, 3/14/2013 (13-55)

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OOPS, Sorry! All you eagle-eyed crossword enthusiasts don’t miss a thing! Yes, last week’s puzzle was a repeat that mysteriously slipped back into the new ones.

ANSWERS NEXT WEEK!

ACROSS “piranha”? 54. Tex-Mex fare 1. Looks bad, comparatively 30. Deck treatments 55. Mumbled assent 6. Vamoose 32. Hypochondriac’s imagining 56. Miguel Cabrera led the 10. Org. whose website has a flood 33. “____ For” (1995 Nicole Kidman American League in batting insurance rate map movie) avg., HRs and these in 2012 14. Smells 34. Make watertight 58. Fugitive’s flight 15. Hypochondriac’s imaginings 36. Many a Little League coach 59. Genre of the 2012 hit 16. “Project Runway Canada” host 37. Encyclopedia volume whose “Gangnam Style” 17. Encyclopedia volume whose entries entries include “sodium,” “Solomon” 61. Encyclopedia volume whose include “Denver,” “divorce” and and “sparrow”? entries include “tambourine,” “Dostoyevsky”? 40. And so forth: Abbr. “Tanzania” and “tarragon”? 19. Expansive 43. Lax 64. Moolah 20. Revivalism? 44. Rear-____ 65. Field of knowledge 21. Cross 48. Yakov Smirnoff’s home country 66. Yellow-and-black character on 22. Nascar Hall of Fame architect 50. “No idea” “Romper Room” 23. Suffix with decor or fabric 51. Encyclopedia volume whose entries 67. They give women a lift 25. Encyclopedia volume whose entries include “rooster,” “roulette” and 68. They’re in I-N include “Pasteur,” “pecan” and “Rubicon”? 69. Full of attitude 38. Up ____ good 50. “What’s ____ for me?” quote “Karl Marx was right. DOWN Socialism works. It is just that 39. Polar bear who became 52. TV character whose 1. iTunes download, perhaps a sensation after he was catchphrase was “Did I he had the wrong species” 2. Get comfortable with born at the Berlin Zoo do that?” 18. “My bad!” 3. Less honorable path in 2006 53. Letter-shaped 22. Danced to an accordion, 4. Directional ending 40. The Iron Curtain divided construction piece perhaps 5. Concordes, for short it: Abbr. 57. Repairs, as a golf green 24. Muckraker Jacob 6. Libya’s Gulf of ____ 41. Bout ender, in brief 59. Vladimir Putin’s former 7. Crossword editor, at times 26. Hosiery hue 42. Colorful brand name? org. 27. Mah-jongg piece 8. Green and Gore 45. Forensic facilities 60. According to 28. Ortiz of “Ugly Betty” 9. Bit of chiding 61. ____ Mahal 29. Until now, in a CPA’s report 46. Protects in glass, say 10. Time to quit? 47. Offering from the front 62. Title object of 1981’s top31. Stone Age implement 11. Sent with a click desk grossing movie 34. Pigeon or dove 12. More, to Manuel 49. Experts 63. Ode title starter 13. Subject of the E.O. Wilson 35. Barnyard brayer

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

MEDIUM #11

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The following persons are doing Business as PLANET TEAS at 100 Ericson Court Arcata, CA. 95521. PO Box 5178, Arcata,CA. 95518 Jana Ashbrook 1035 Warren Creek Rd. Arcata, CA. 95521 Dorje Kirsten 3480 Coombs Dr. Arcata, CA. 95521 Reagan Kirsten 3480 Coombs Dr. Arcata, CA. 95521 The business is conducted by A General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/7/2013 /s/ Jana Ashbrook This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 7, 2013 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00088

Solution, tips and computer program at

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mid/Town Storage intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property, pursuant to Sections 21700-21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC, Section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code. Mid/Town Storage will sell the contents of the following storage units listed below (where property has been stored) at public auction by competitive bidding on Saturday, the 9th of March, 2013 at 9:30 AM on it’s premises at: 1649 Sutter Rd., McKinleyville, CA, County of Humboldt. Name of Tenant and Storage Unit: Jacqueline Anderson, Unit #183 Dillon Boots, Unit #38 Regan Chase, Unit #653 Brian Coffman, Unit #458 Rob Cox, Unit #188 Ronald Creaghe, Unit #100 Rhonda Hickie, Unit #325 Ronald Jenkins, Unit #12 Robert Lee, Unit #427 Julie McMullen, Unit #560 Julie McMullen, Unit #633 James Melendy, Unit #36 James Melendy, Unit #208 Grace Miller, Unit #622 Candy Morris, Unit #22 Jessica O, Unit #661 Kindra Richcreek, Unit #406 Sarah Ryan, Unit #176 Kastassja Sanders, Unit #455 Cammie Smith-Forward, Unit #600 Gary Spoonemore, Unit #338 Tanya Unger, Unit #278 June Whiffing, Unit #260 Items to be sold include, but are not limited to: household furniture, misc. housewares, TVs, plastic totes & boxes, misc. electronics, tires, toys, ladder, bicycles, camping equipment, BBQ, musical instruments, planting pots & trays, pet items, speakers and much more! Purchases must be paid for at the time of sale and can be paid by Cash or Credit Card (Visa, Master Card or Discover). A Cash Deposit of $25 is required for every unit purchased. Anyone interested in attending must sign in at the office prior to 9:30 A.M. on the day of the auction, no exceptions. All purchased items are sold as they are, where they are, and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obliged party. Auctioneer: David Johnson, 707-443-4851, Bond # 9044453. Sale will take place rain or shine. Bring flashlight and pad lock or locks… For further information, please call (707) 839-1555

The following person is doing business as ASPIRE CHANGE KLJ TRAINING & CONSULTING at 1203 Henderson St., Eureka, CA 95501, P.O. Box 6298, Eureka, CA 95502. Karen Lofts Jarboe 1203 Henderson St. Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/15/13. /s Karen Lofts Jarboe. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 19, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

CROSSWORD By David Levinson Wilk

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R13-00105

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continued from previous page. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00038

The following persons are doing Business as SUNNYNIGHTS PHOTOBOOTH/ CONFIGURATIONS BUILDING COMPAMY at 1834 14TH St. Eureka, CA. 95501. Jason Cseh 1834 14th St. Eureka, CA. 95501 Bethany Cseh 1834 14th St. Eureka, CA. 95501 The business is conducted by A Married Couple. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on N/A /s/ Jason J. Cseh This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on January 17, 2013 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 03/07/2013 (13-46)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00057

The following person is doing Business as RIVERBEND PARK at 45630 St Hwy 36., Bridgeville CA. 95526. Brian A. Beltramo 1438 East Ave. Eureka, CA. 95501 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on N/A /s/ Brian A. Beltramo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on January 28, 2013 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00082

The following person is doing Business as FUTURETECH at 940 Broadway, Eureka CA. 95501, PO Box 3011, Eureka, CA 95502. Bobby Doyle Weaver Jr. 2937 I St. Eureka, CA. 95501 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 02/05/2013 /s/ Bobby Doyle Weaver Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 06, 2013 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 03/07/2013 (13-43)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00083

The following persons are doing Business as HUMBOLDT PAWN/ HUMBOLDT BAY TRADE & PAWN at 1435 Fifth St. Eureka, CA. 95501. Humboldt Bay Trading Co., Inc. 1435 Fifth St. Eureka, CA. 95501 The business is conducted by A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on N/A /s/ Lester L. Krause III, President/ CEO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 06, 2013 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 03/07/2013 (13-45)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R-13-00041

The following persons are doing Business as NAGAN BUILDING at 786 9th St. Arcata, CA. 95521. Jeffrey Nagan 775 Patrick Ct. St. Arcata, CA. 95521 Shelly Ergeson 7061 Enright Dr. Citrus Heights, CA. 95621 The business is conducted by A General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/16/2013 /s/ Jeff Nagan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on January 17, 2013 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 03/07/2013 (13-49)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R13-00072

The following person is doing business as PHOTOGRAPHY BY

ESTELLA at 1393 Chaparral Drive, McKinleyville, CA 95519. Jamey Estelle Hughes 1393 Chaparral Dr. McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/31/13. /s Jamey Estelle Hughes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on January 31, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 3/7/2013 (13-50)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R13-00085

The following person is doing business as FOREVERGREEN LANDSCAPE at 2723 Fairfield St., Eureka, CA 95501. Brian William Kretz 2723 Fairfield St. Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Brian Kretz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 6, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 3/7/2013 (13-47)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00039

The following person is doing Business as THE QUEENWAH PALACE at 171 Langford Rd., Trinidad, CA 95570, PO Box 723, Trinidad, CA 95570 Katherine Ann Long 171 Langford Rd. Trinidad, CA 95570 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/17/2013 /s/ Katherine Ann Long This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on January 17, 2013 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28/2013 (13-34)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 13-00078

The following persons are doing business as HORIZON RENTAL SERVICES at 3853 Glenwood St., Eureka, CA 95502, P.O. Box 6533, Eureka, CA 95502. Horizon Realty Services, Inc. 3853 Glenwood St. Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/01/12. /s Sean Crowder, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 4, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28/2013 (13-41)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R-13-00059

The following person is doing business as NORTH COAST TRANSITIONS at 335 W. Sonoma St., Eureka, CA 95501, P.O. Box 8047, Eureka, CA 95502-8047. Daniel Joseph Griffith 335 W. Sonoma St. Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Daniel Joseph Griffith. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on January 28, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28/2013 (13-32)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R-13-00071

The following persons are doing Business as COMIX TRIP PRODUCTION COMPANY at 1267 McCallum Circle., Arcata, CA. 95521, PO Box 577, Bayside, CA 95524 Paul C. Thompson 1267 McCallum Cir. Bayside, CA. 95524 Violet Crabtree Thompson 1267 McCallum Cir. Bayside, CA. 95524 The business is conducted by A Married Couple. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/1/2013 /s/ Paul C. Thompson /s/ Violet Crabtree Thompson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on January 31, 2013 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28/2013 (13-36)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R-13-00077

The following person is doing business as DAVE’S 76 SERVICE at 1666 Main Street, Fortuna, CA 95540. Anita L. Ansley 2020 S. Second Avenue Fortuna, CA 95540 The business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Anita L. Ansley. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 4, 2013. CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28/2013 (13-40)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV130086 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501

PETITION OF: QUYEN SHARP TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: QUYEN SHARP for a decree changing names as

follows: Present name QUYEN SHARP to Proposed Name QUINN SHARP THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 22, 2013 Time: 1:45 p.m., Dept. 8 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501 Date: February 01, 2013 Filed: February 01, 2013 /s/ W. BRUCE WATSON Judge of the Superior Court

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF SHIRLEY MARGUERITE FOSTER, CASE NO. PR130063

PETITION OF: THOMAS JAMES MORGESE TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: THOMAS JAMES MORGESE for a decree changing names as follows: Present name THOMAS JAMES MORGESE to Proposed Name THOMAS JAMES TSUTOMU TAKAHASHI THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 12, 2013 Time: 1:45 p.m., Dept. 8 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501 Date: January 22, 2013 Filed: January 22, 2013 /s/ W. BRUCE WATSON Judge of the Superior Court

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: SHIRLEY MARGUERITE FOSTER A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TOM FOSTER AND DAVID FOSTER in the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TM FOSTER AND DAVID FOSTER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 21, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept. 8. 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 deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code Section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: WILLIAM T. KAY, JR. SBN 59581 LAW OFFICE OF WILL KAY 628 H STREET EUREKA, CA 95501 (707) 445-2301 February 25, 2013 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV130050 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501

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Open Door is seeking the following medical professionals:

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Development Coordinator Humboldt Senior Resource Center

Under the direction of the Communications & Marketing Director, the Development Coordinator is responsible for for HSRC fund development activities including production and implementation of annual fund development plan, mail campaigns, fundraising events and donor recognition. BA in English, nonprofit management, business or marketing preferred, or equivalent work experience. Proven success in grant writing, and/or fundraising for nonprofits highly desirable. Must be computer-literate with ability to learn specialized software programs. Benefitted position, 32 hours/week, Mon.-Fri. Compensation based on experience. Job description and required application available at www.humsenior.org or pick up application at 1910 California St. Eureka, Ca. 95501 Mon.-Thurs. 9-noon and 1-3pm. Submit completed application, letter of interest and resume to: HR Dept. at same address. As part of the application process, arrange for three reference letters from referent sent directly to same address. Call 707-443-9747 Ext. 1257 with questions. Deadline to submit application and all materials: March 14, 2013 4:30 pm. EOE. AIRLINE CAREERS. Begin here Become an Aviation Maintenance Tech. FAA approved training. Financial assistance available. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 888-242-3214 (E-0228) CALIFORNIA MENTOR. Is seeking committed, positive people willing to share their home and help an adult with developmental disabilities lead an integrated life in the community. Become part of a professional team and receive a competitive monthly stipend, ongoing training & 24 hour support. Contact Jamie (707) 442-4500 ext. 14 or jamie. mcgovern@thementornetwork. com (E-1226)

DRIVERS. CAE Transport. Weekdays/Sat.s, various day shifts. 21+ & clean driving record. Print application at www.cityambulance. com, send WITH COVER LETTER to personnel@cityambulance. com or 135 W. 7th St., Eureka, CA 95501. (E-0228) DREAM QUEST THRIFT STORE MANAGER. Full-time. Requirements include management skills, positive attitude and professional standards. Dream Quest a nonprofit organization helping youth to realize their dreams. (530) 6293564. (E-0307) Place your ad online in the Marketplace at www.northcoastjournal.com. 442-1400 VISA/MC.

Seeking committed, positive people willing to share their home and help an adult with developmental disabilities lead an integrated life in the community. Become part of a professional team and receive a competitive monthly stipend, ongoing training & 24 hour support. Contact Jamie (707) 442-4500 ext. 14 or jamie.mcgovern@ thementornetwork.com

GREAT JOB!! CREW MEMBER FOR 2013 SALMON SEASON KODIAK AK. Familiarity with tools, engines, hard work, a quick learner & generally “handy”, mariner experience a plus, remote living in cabins with family. Would like to hire & train for future summers in mind. Mature, capable, & easygoing applicants only. No drugs. Season is @ June 1 -Sept. Email resume, references & questions to: kodiakcatch24@gmail. com (E-0228) OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST. Humboldt County Office of Education, 1.0 FTE, M-F, Full-time. Reqrs. BA degree, valid certification as Occupational Therapist; knowledge of school and community resources related to special education services; ability to communicate effectively with school staff, parents and children. Elig. for H&W and Retirement benefits. Placement on the Certificated Salary Schedule. For job description or questions contact Kathy Atkinson at katkinson@ humboldt.k12.ca.us or call (707) 445-7039. Apply by: Mon. March 11, 2013 by 4:00 p.m. (E-0307) AMERICAN STAR PRIVATE SECURITY. Is Now Hiring. Clean record, Drivers license required. Must own vehicle. Apply at 922 E Street, Suite 209, Eureka. (707) 476-9262. (E-0314)

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HUMBOLDT SUPERIOR COURT Applications are being accepted for

Courtroom Clerk One year legal exp required $2726 to 3327/mo+ benefits

FBI/DOJ/Background Applications accepted through 3/11/2013. info: 707-445-7256 ext.1514 Email: HR@humboldtcourt.ca.gov or go to: www. humboldt.courts.ca.gov

PAID IN ADVANCE! MAKE up to $1000 A WEEK mailing brochures from home! Helping Home Workers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity! No Experience required. Start Immediately! www.mailingstation.com (AAN CAN) (E-0228) LIVE LIKE A POPSTAR. Now hiring 10 spontaneous individuals. Travel full time. Must be 18+. Transportation and hotel provided. Call Loraine 877-777-2091 (E-0228) MERCHANDISING SPECIALIST, PT EUREKA. Channel Partners is looking for a Part Time Merchandising Specialist. Contact: Thanh Phan, 877-747-4071 ext.1248. Thanh. Phan@channelpartners.com To apply go to http://bit.ly/11vbJsw (E-0307) AIRLINE CAREERS. Become an Aviation Maintenance Tech. FAA approved training. Financial aid if qualified, Housing available. Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 877-492-3059. (AAN CAN) (E-0228) HELP WANTED!!! Make $1000 a week Mailing Brochures from home! Free supplies! Helping Home Workers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity! No experience required. Start immediately! www. mailing-usa.com (E-0418) HOME CAREGIVERS PT/FT. Nonmedical caregivers to assist elderly in their homes. Top hourly fees. 442-8001. (E-1226) CONTINUED ON next PAGE

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Real Estate

Buy/Sell/Trade

HUMBOLDT PLAZA APTS.

Openings soon available for HUD Sec. 8 Waiting Lists for 2, 3 & 4 bedrm apts. Annual Income Limits: 1 pers. $20,300; 2 pers. $23,200; 3 pers. $26,100; 4 pers. $28,950; 5 pers. $31,300; 6 pers. $33,600; 7 pers. $35,900; 8 pers. $38,250.

EHO. Hearing impaired: TDD Ph# 1-800-735-2922. Apply at Office: 2575 Alliance Rd. Arcata, 8am-12pm & 1-4pm, M-F (707) 822-4104 ARCATA 2BD/1BA APARTMENT. 1226 L St. W/S/G Pd. Sec 8 OK. Cat OK. Rent $750 Vac Now. www. ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-0228) EUREKA 2BD/1BA APARTMENT. 1335 6th St. W/S/G Pd. Sec 8 OK. On-site laundry. Rent $650, Vac Now. www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-0228) PACIFIC HEIGHTS FURNISHED EXECUTIVE RENTALS. Clean, new accommodations. Attached garage, back patio, quiet and secure. Everything included! The nicest furnished rentals in town! www. np-er.com, (707) 268-1800. (R-0314) EUREKA STUDIO APARTMENT. 914 M St. W/S/G Pd. Private patio. Rent $535 Vac Now. www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-0228) SMALL HOUSE IN ARCATA. 2 room house with loft, garden. $975 includes utilities. Please call (707) 822-2175 (R-0228) EUREKA 2BD/1BA APARTMENT. 230 Wabash Ave. W/S/G Pd. Sec 8 OK. Cat OK. Rent $650 Vac Now. www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-0228) ARCATA REMODELED 2BD/2BA SPLIT LEVEL APT. 425 Bayside Ct. #B. W/S/G Pd., w/c cat Rent $1130, Vac. Now. www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-0228)

Business Rentals DANCE STUDIO RENTAL. Humboldt Capoeira Academy offers rental space for the performing arts, beautiful 2800 sq. f.t dance space offers hardwood floors, wall-to wall windows, full length mirrors, and dressing rooms. Convenient location is visible from the plaza,realand will help estate you to promote your classes. Check with us for rates and availability. Contact Sarara at (707) 498-6155, or sararacdo@hotmail. com. (BR-1226)

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NEW

3 FOODS CAFE/ACREAGE IN ARCATA. The 3 Foods Cafe business is for sale. Rotating diverse menu, outdoor patio area with seating, beautiful interior, a unique atmosphere. Highly profitable opportunity! $175,000. 1-acre lot on Center Street, Arcata. Great bay and city light views, walking distance to downtown and HSU, trails on site, park setting. $165,000. Call Linda for more info (707) 845-1215, Linda. Disiere@exprealty.com (RE-0307) EUREKA FLORIST FOR SALE. $169,000, Plus inventory. Priced for quick sale. Turnkey, will train. 4434811, eurekaflorist.net. (RE-0228) REDUCED ! WILLOW CREEK PROPERTY. 1.33 acres, Willow Creek Community Service District Water, underground power & phone at property. R-2 soils report and perk tested. Approved septic system design by Trinity Engineering. Property is zoned RST. Property is located off Highway 299 on private road one mile east of Willow Creek. Ready to build. $85,000 will consider offers. (530) 629-2031 (RE-1226)

Lodging/Travel EVENT RENTAL. Chemise Mountian Retreat, a perfect natural environment for your wedding or event. King Range. Easily accessible. Solar powered, handicap friendly, new lodge. Information 986-7794, chemisemountainretreat.com (L-0502)

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Garden Center 707-777-3513

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SEWING & CRAFT SUPPLIES 1/2 PRICE! Yellow Tagged Clothing 25¢. Feb. 26-March 2. Dream Quest Thrift Store in Willow Creek, Helping Youth Realize Their Dreams. (BST-0228) IT’S FIREWOOD TIME! Alder, Douglas Fir, Juniper, Madrone (sometimes), Oak, Pepperwood, & Kindling. Call for current availability. We can deliver. Almquist Lumber Company, Boyd Road, Arcata. Open 7 days a week. Stop by or call; (707) 825-8880 (BST-0328)

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SALE: SELECT HATS, TIES & SCARVES

Vintage Clothing & Secondhand

3 G’S HAY & GRAIN. Gardner’s Mushroom Compost, Stutzman Chicken Manure, Fox Farm and Royal Gold. CALL FOR PRICES (707) 826-9537 (BST-0314) THE BEAD LADY. For all your needs in beads! Glass beads, leather, shells, findings, jewelry. Kathy Chase Owner, 76 Country Club Dr. Ste. 5, Willow Creek. (530) 629-3540. krchase@yahoo. com. (BST-1226) Too many tubas, overwhelmed with sTuff? Are your crowded shelves an earthquake hazard? List it all here. 442-1400. Visa/MC

Pets

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Music ARCATA CLEANING COMPANY. The non-toxic cleaning solution for your home or office. 707-8227819. (S-0606) WRITING CONSULTANT/EDITOR. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Dan Levinson, MA, MFA. 443-8373. www.ZevLev.com. (S-1226)

DALLAS CAPITAL

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do you have a project or idea you would like to build? contact peter portugal (707) 599-2158 over 48 years professional experience in invention design - engineering - art - and fabrication in metal wood - fiberglass - plastic

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HELICOPTER FLIGHT LESSONS/ SCENIC TOURS. $195/hr. www. redwoodcoasthelicopters.com (S-0627) STITCHES -N-BRITCHES IN MCKINLEYVILLE. Kristin Anderson, Seamstress. Mending, Alterations, Custom Sewing. Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Bella Vista Plaza, Suite 8A, McKinleyville. (707) 502-5294. Facebook: Kristin Anderson’s Stitches-n-Britches. Kristin360cedar@gmail.com (S-0502)

PIERCE’S COMPLETE ORCHARD CARE. Professional fruit tree pruning and orchard maintenance. Andrew Pierce (707) 672-4398. (S-0228) 2 GUYS & A TRUCK. Carpentry, Landscaping, Junk Removal, Clean Up, Moving. No job too big or small, just call. Contact 2guysandatrucksmk777@gmail.com, (707) 845-3087. (S-0321) A’O’KAY JUGGLING CLOWN & WIZARD OF PLAY. Amazing performances and games for all ages. Events, Birthdays, Festivals, Kidszones. I’ll Juggle, Unicycle, & bring Toys. aokayClown.com, (707) 499-5628. (S-1226) PROFESSIONAL GARDENER. Powerful tools. Artistic spirit. Balancing the elements of your yard and garden since 1994. Call Orion 825-8074, taichigardener. com (S-0606) ERIC’S SERVICES. Home Repair, Maintenance, Affordable Prices (707) 499-4828. (S-0808) ALLIANCE LAWN & GARDEN CARE. Affordable, Dependable, and Motivated Yard maintenance. We’ll take care of all your basic lawn and garden needs. Including hedging, trimming, mowing, and hauling. Call for estimates (707) 834-9155, (707) 825-1082. (S-0228) CLARITY WINDOW CLEANING. Services available. Call Julie 8391518. (S-0606)

Greg Rael Law Offices

Practice devoted exclusively to Criminal Defense since 1976 1026 Third Street Eureka

(707) 445-9666

Music BRADLEY DEAN ENTERTAINMENT. Singer Songwriter. Old Rock, Country, Blues. Private Parties, Bars, Gatherings of all Kinds. 832-7419. (M-0509) PIANO LESSONS BEGINNING TO ADVANCED ALL AGES. 30 years joyful experience teaching all piano styles. Juilliard trained, remote lessons available. Nationally Certified Piano Teacher. Humboldtpianostudio.com. (707) 502-9469 (M-0606) PIANO LESSONS. Beginners, all ages. Experienced. Judith Louise 476-8919. (M-0606) MUSIC LESSONS. Piano, Guitar, Voice, Flute, etc. Piano tuning, Instrument repair. Digital multitrack recording. (707) 476-9239. (M-0523) SAXOPHONE/FLUTE LESSONS. All ages, beginner-advanced, jazz improvisation, technique. Susie Laraine: 441-1343. (M-1226)

GUITAR/PIANO/VOICE LESSONS. All ages, beginning and intermediate. Seabury Gould 444-8507. (M-0606)

Community MAKING TOUGH DECISIONS. How to make difficult decisions will be explored at LifetreeCafe this week, Sun., March 3, 7 p.m. 76 13th St., Arcata. 672-2919, www.campbellcreek.org for more info. (C-0228) ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE. from Home. *Medical, *Business, *Criminal Justice,*Hospitality. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified. SCHEV authorized. Call 800-481-9472, www.CenturaOnline.com (AAN CAN) (C-0228) SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS ? Confidential help is available. saahumboldt@yahoo.com or 845-8973 (C-1226) BECOME A FOSTER PARENT. Provide a safe and stable environment for youth 13-18 for them to learn and grow in their own community. Contact the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Foster Care Hotline at 441-5013 and ask for Peggy. (C-1226)

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HAS MOVED! Jessica Baker, Licensed Acupuncturist, Herbalist & Instructor 607 F Street in Arcata

New Lower Prices (707) 826-1165

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Services include Acupuncture, Facial Rejuvenation, Nutritional/Herbal Consultations and Classes

Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sat. 9 to 5; Sun. 1-5

Swedish, Deep Tissue Gift Certiﬁcates Available (707) 599-5639

Valerie Schramm

Certiﬁed Massage Therapist

Martial Arts Academy Sunny Brae Shopping Ctr., Arcata 11-Week Term Starts Week of March 25

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EARTHRITE MASSAGE. CMT with excellent local references. Now practicing at home (Arcata) after working at Mendocino Hot Springs. Offering Introductory Special. $45/hour! Call Rick: (707) 499-6033. You will float away…. (MB-0404) NEUROTHERAPY SOLUTIONS. For stress releif and wellness. Optimize your brain! Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field Therapy State-of-the-art brain mapping and EEG biofeedback. 854 10th St Suite 202B, Arcata. visit: www.neurotherapysolutions. com or Call Stan Vanella, MS (707) 599-5763 (MB-0228) GET WIRED FOR JOY! Learn simple, practical, neuroscience-based tools in a small, supportive group. Rewire stress circuits for better selfregulation, promoting vitality and joy, with Nancy BorgeRiis, LMFT, Certified Emotional Brain Trainer. 707.839.7920 and borgeriis@sbcglobal.net (MB-0418)

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CERTIFIED ROLFER ™ . Angela Hart. Ten Series, Tune ups, injuries. (707) 616-3096. (MB-0228) BREATHE LOVE IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS. EXPLORE AND DEEPEN CONNECTIONS. With subtle body energy work and astrology. Rev. Elisabeth Zenker, MSW; (707) 845-1450. www.sacredenergyspace.com (MB-0307) NEW CLIENTS $10 OFF. Myrtletowne Healing Center 1480, #A Myrtle Ave. A Hidden Gem on Myrtle Ave., specializing in therapeutic massage. We will assist you on your road to recovery or work with you on that chronic pain issue. Swedish, deep tissue, trigger point, reflexology, acupressure, uterine centering, lymph drainage, lomi lomi, and more. Founders Hilary Wakefield and Sarah Maier are both Doulas, we do pregnancy massage as well! You are worth it, call today (707) 441-9175 (MB-1226)

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