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Cal Poly Humboldt President
Tom Jackson is doing a great job!
The following alumni, donors, community members and staff believe Dr. Jackson has handled the situation at Humboldt correctly with his measured response and we support him. We believe in free speech, but we do not condone the vandalism and damage that took place! We believe that any professors or students that caused damage to the University should be held accountable and all who caused damage should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law! It is wrong that less than 100 students disrupted the education of more than 5,000 students!
Chris Howard, Del Norte County Supervisor
Rex Bohn, Humboldt County Supervisor
Michelle Bushnell, Humboldt County Supervisor
Tami Trent, Mayor, Fortuna
Ronald Rowland, Retired Honorable Judge
William Honsal, Sheriff, Humboldt County
Debi August
Paul August
Dave Avelar
Tyler Avelar
Anne Avelar
Meghan Avelar
Phil Ayers
Mark Baldwin
Becci Barsanti
Alan Battle
Cisco Benneman
Mark Benzinger
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Russ Biasca
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Carol Byard
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Chris Carroll
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Les Charter
Fred Chien
Heidi Chien
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Michelle Collins
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Jill Hansen
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Treasure Hunt
John Hunter
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Al Jackson
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Jackson
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‘Total Ignorance’
Editor:
Ken Quigley
Carlos Rea
Mike Redd
Jim Redd
Sharon Redd
Cindy Redd
Larry Redd
Kristi Redd
Judy Rice
Joe Ries
Sean Roberts
Gary Robertson
Jessica Rodriques
Lorenzo Rodriques
Orbie Rowland
Bryan Rudick
Sejay Sarti
Dave Saunderson
Dick Simon
Sue Simon
Tracy Singleton
Fred Snapp
Joan Snapp
Clifford Sorensen
Julie Stagnoli
Janice Stewart
Eric Strombeck
Steve Strombeck
Chris Tift
Darren Toland
Rollin Trehearne
Anita Trehearne
Dane Valadao
Emily Valadao
Gary Valdi
Alice Valdi
Dan Vasquez
Romeo Venza
Todd Wagner
Danny Walsh
Tracey Walsh
Dale Warmuth
Joyce West
Jason White
Maggie White
Jennifer Whitman
Ronda Wittenberg
Nancy Woods
Gary Woods
I am astonished at the total ignorance displayed by Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury in recommending a civilian oversight board be established to provide oversight of the sheriff’s office (“Grand Jury Recommends Civilian Oversight of Sheriff’s Office,” May 23). I am even more astonished that they would ask the board of supervisors to establish it using the Eureka Police Department as an example. The chief of the EPD is an appointed position. He serves at the direction of the city council. Sheriff Honsal, as in most cases, is an elected official and is the chief law enforcement officer of the county. Sheriffs elected by the “people” are referred to as “constitutional sheriffs.” They serve at the will of the people. Constitutional sheriffs do not take direction from boards of supervisors or citizen groups. They give direction to those groups. That is the law. Such efforts, as proposed, tend to hamstring law enforcement, not improve it. The current sheriff is answerable to the people only and if the people have an issue, they can recall the sheriff or vote him out of office. Humboldt County doesn’t need that kind of added bureaucracy.
John Damon, McKinleyville
Re: ‘Enabling’
Editor:
The letter “Enabling an Anti-Semitic Moment” (May 23) opined that since the Jewish people were dispossessed from their land 3,000 years ago by successive empires, the Jewish people have the right to repossess Israel. Is this opinion based on G-d’s law, tribal law or international law?
Does this opinion mean that us white folk in the USA should give our land back to the Native Americans who occupied this land for thousands of years before being dispossessed by European empires?
If so, will the U.S. see the justice [?] of this land rights policy and use its mighty powers to keep the peace and get it done equitably? It doesn’t seem feasible. The American government and people can hardly agree on anything. Will Europe want us added to their immigration woes? Israel is committed to welcoming us Jews as citizens, but will they have a change of heart faced with taking in how many millions of us? Not to mention they are currently very preoccupied with fighting among themselves and others about justice, property rights, war and peace. Maybe enough land can be carved out within our borders so we can
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It’s a good thing that puppies are cute E’re their fate would be in deep dispute When they while away the hours Digging deep in your flowers Pulling them all up by the roots!
— Dottie Simmons
stay on reservations ...
Forget it. Property rights defy simplistic thinking. I hope all people who believe G-d justifies murder and mayhem come to their senses.
I’m glad I don’t have to resettle in Israel or Russia, the homeland of my grandparents before they fled Jewish persecution in the early 1900s. I’m very thankful that Native American tribes peacefully accept us white folk. Needless to say, they don’t have a choice.
May G-d, the Great Spirit, and/or whatever forces exist, help us floundering mortals save ourselves and the Earth. Can AI help?
Paula Levine, Trinidad
Editor:
Nam Abram’s letter to the editor ignited a predictable collection of anti-Zionist, anti-colonialist effigies (Mailbox, May 30). Does being anti-Zionist automatically translate to being antisemitic, specifically anti-Jewish? The question begs for a binary answer which is in itself a misdirection.
Anti-Zionism has historically been used as a cloak by some — if not many — to conceal antisemitism. While not all anti-Zionist chatter is automatically antisemitic, history demonstrates that antisemitism changes form and modality to suit or obscure its proponent. So just when you’ve spotted it, out come the red herrings: the context shifts, splits, gets diverted, inverted, etc.
To those who responded to Nam’s letter, I ask: who elected Hamas? Who re-elected Hamas? Would any of you support the re-establishment of a Hamasrun government? Whether out of fear, anger or necessity, the voters of Gaza who put Hamas in power have in effect brought this response upon themselves — twice. And just like the German voters of 1932 would later discover, simple, heartwrought solutions can produce unintended consequences.
Who is subsidizing Hamas? Who funded the Oct. 7 sneak attack on Israel about which only one of the May 30 edition’s letters gave even the briefest mention?
Continued on page 7 »
Does the name Iran ring a bell? Who are the protestors wittingly or unwittingly assisting?
Citing Thomas Friedman’s April 14 piece in the New York Times, “One reason Iran supports the Hamas war and prefers that Israel remain stuck in Gaza and occupying the West Bank is that it keeps the world and many Americans focused on Israeli actions — rather than on the brutal crackdown against democracy protesters in Iran and on Iran’s imperialist influence in the region, where it uses proxies to control the politics of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and uses those countries as military bases to attack Israel.”
H. Schneider, Los Angeles Editor:
Thank you to Maxwell Schnurer for sharing a di erent perspective of the occupation and protests at CPH (“In Defense of the Siemens Hall Occupation,” May 16). It is easy to feel helpless as a mere citizen when hearing about the war-crimes and unimaginable atrocities occurring in other parts of the world. These students felt they had to do something to show their disagreement with what is happening. Regardless of whether the administration or the protestors are responsible for the damage to property, and disruption to classes and graduation, the protestors made their feelings known. I think most of us would hope that if our communities were being bombed and starved, humans in other places would cause some inconvenience, create some scenes, and take whatever means necessary to stand up and try to help us.
I am someone who was raised Jewish, went to Jewish schools and Jewish summer camps, and I have no relatives left in Europe because everyone who didn’t come to the U.S. was killed. I was subtly indoctrinated with the idea that another Holocaust could happen and the way to prevent it was to band together and support Israel and Zionism at all costs. This ideology doesn’t serve to create peace. I feel far more threatened by war-mongering leaders, politicians funded by weapons manufacturers and fundamentalists of any religion than people speaking out against Israel or questioning the rationale of a Jewish state founded on the displacement of Palestinians. Would we think it was fair to be exiled from our homes? Would we think it was reasonable to blow up our hospitals if terrorists were believed to be hiding under them? No human is sub-human. As people, we must see others’ struggle, su ering and grief as equally valid to our own and our ancestors’. That is the only path forward.
Samantha Kannry, Arcata
‘Get Serious’
Editor:
In your editorial (“Our Last Best Chance,” April 11), the North Coast Journal understated the concerns of the Yurok Tribe, and the Bear River and Trinidad rancherias. As you describe it, in their dismissal of the Monument Ridge project proposed by Terra-Gen in 2019, the nonindigenous community, sacrificing the hope of prosperity and fossil-free energy, generously bent over backward in atonement for the genocide of the tribes’ ancestors.
Somehow you missed the point made by the Wiyot elders at the Adorni Center in those last dramatic moments of the supervisors’ vote. Terra-Gen o ered the Wiyot a million dollars to back o . As traditional protectors of the earth, tribal elders stepped forward.
In their response, “We do not sell our Mother,” they nailed it … not for the tribes alone, but for all of us. If, as you state, these o shore turbines play an “outsized” role in global e orts to wean from fossil fuel, they also make an “outsized” contribution to immediate catastrophic CO2 accumulation. Like nuclear power plants, like turning our carbon-sequestering forests into biomass for marketable wood pellets, like our insane wars for power, a monster industrial project like these giant turbines further degrades and disempowers us.
Our coast and harbor, last on the coast to retain some of its pristine beauty, oyster beds, salmon, pelicans, biological functions, will be lost forever. We have barely begun to address our own consumptive habits, and have rejected the humbler universal rooftop-solar partial solution. We need to get serious about what we’re facing, rather than perpetuating denial by throwing the responsibility for our atmosphere on to a multinationalcorporate industrialization and colonization of the shoreline and ocean. Tribal concerns address human survival. They are our concerns, too.
Ellen Taylor, Petrolia
More Questions Than Answers
Editor:
“Document Sheds Light on Principal Perry’s Reassignment” (May 16), raises more questions about Northern Humboldt Union High School District’s (NHUHSD) decision to demote Mr. Perry than it answers, whilst placing him in an untenable position due to student confidentiality.
Mr. Perry was successful principal of Six Rivers prior to appointment at Arcata High
Condor Check-in
The North Coast flock expands its range as a new cohort of birds waits in the wings
By Kimberly Wear kim@northcoastjournal.com
The North Coast’s 11 condors “looked great” after undergoing recent medical exams, according to an update from the Northern California Condor Restoration Program, a Yurok Tribe-led effort to bring the bird known as prey-go-neesh back to the upper reaches of the endangered species’ former range.
The annual spring evaluations are not only an opportunity for the program’s team to do hands-on assessments, including taking blood samples to test for potential health threats, but to make any needed repairs to the birds’ satellite transmitters and identification tags.
In the May 16 update, NCCRP Manager and Yurok Wildlife Department Senior Biologist Chris West noted none of the condors had any ”detectable levels of lead in the blood.”
As an apex scavenger, condors serve as “nature’s clean-up crew,” scouring the landscape of large carcasses and, in turn, helping prevent the spread of diseases. But that ecological role also makes the largest bird in North America — boasting a nearly 10-foot wingspan and weighing 20 pounds or more — vulnerable to being poisoned by lead ammunition fragments in the
carrion, which accounts for about half of condor deaths in the wild.
In October, one of the local condors needed to undergo treatment at the Sequoia Park Zoo and five others were found to have elevated levels of the toxin after they ate remains of an elk killed by a poacher in Redwood National and State Parks, which was believed to be the contamination source.
And that came after a close call a year earlier, when two tainted elk were found within the fledgling flock’s range — with just one of the poached animals containing enough lead bullet fragments to kill several condors, according to the Yurok Tribe. At the time, West described the incident as being “as close as you can get to a worst-case scenario.”
(It should be noted that those near misses came despite California banning the use of lead ammunition for hunting in 2019 and the Yurok Tribe spending years working to educate hunters about non-lead ammunition options before ever bringing the condors to the North Coast.)
But humans and the birds’ natural predators aren’t the only dangers lurking for condors. Last year, an avian flu
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NCCRP Program Manager and Yurok Tribe Senior Biologist Chris West checks condor A3. Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe
outbreak killed at least 22 members of the Southwest population living in Arizona and Utah.
With a recently approved vaccine now in hand, the NCCRP team took advantage of this recent check-up session to also administer the two-dose series to the eight eldest members of the flock.
Those include Ney-gem’ ‘Ne-chweenkah (She Carries Our Prayers, A0), Hlow Hoo-let (Finally, I/We Fly, A1), Nes-kwechokw’ (He Returns/Arrives, A2) and Poy’-we-son (The One Who Goes Ahead or Leader, A3) as well as Cher-perhl Sonee-ne-pek’ (I Feel Strong, A4); and Neee’n (Watcher, A5), ‘Me-new-kwek,’ (I’m Bashful or I Am Shy, A6) and He-we-chek’ (I Am Healthy or I Get Well, A7).
In November, the newest members, Pey-gel (Fighter, B0), Pue-leek (Downriver, B1) and Pey-cheek (Upriver, B2), became the first vaccinated condors in the nation to take flight in the wild after being inoculated as part of a trial program at the Los Angeles Zoo.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the vaccine “should provide some level of protection from mortality if the birds are exposed to the virus, and likely decrease the degree to which an individual becomes ill.”
In a recent email to the Journal, Tiana Williams-Claussen, director of the Yurok Tribe Wildlife Department said, “all of the North Coast’s condors are now either fully or partially vaccinated, and the A-series birds currently in holding are slated to receive their second dose soon, to be released soon after, presuming all goes well.”
She added she expected the condors currently being held in the release enclosure to be once again soaring over the North Coast by mid-June.
California condors were declared endangered back in 1967, when fewer than 100 survived outside of zoos. But as the wild population continued to dwindle over the next 20 years — with only 22 re-
maining in a small pocket of mountainous area in Southern California — they were placed into captive breeding programs in 1987 in a race against time to save the bird from extinction.
As of December, the latest numbers available from USFW, the nation’s condor population now stands at 561, with 344 flying free as part of restoration efforts, including 195 birds in California.
Among the latter are the North Coast’s 11 birds, with the condors’ return to the region in 2022 culminating decades of work by the Yurok Tribe to bring back prey-goneesh —a bird that the tribe and many Indigenous cultures consider sacred — to once again soar over their ancestral lands.
In the two years since A3 and A2 became the first of the flock to spread their wings in the skies over Yurok country after a century-long absence, the birds mostly stuck close to the release site around the Bald Hills area of the Redwood National and State Parks, a partner in the restoration endeavor.
But things started picking up speed around April, with the birds “consistently expanding their range week after week,” according to a social media post by the NCCRP.
“Within their new range, the condors have flown over Tolowa Dee-ni’, Yurok, Karuk, Hupa, Chilula, Wiyot, Wintu, Pomo, Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, and neighboring traditional tribal lands, including Eureka, Blue Lake, Arcata, Ferndale, Hoopa, Orleans, Klamath, Crescent City, Berry Glenn, Dinsmore and Rio Dell, amongst other locations,” the NCCRP states.
(Read more about a recent sighting in this week’s Get Out “Condors Over Arcata” on page 25.)
Williams-Claussen told the Journal those journeys have also seen the condors scavenging more in the outside world.
“We are happy to see them expanding, and to be finding more wild forage,” Williams-Claussen said. “We are still consistently providing them food because
we want to keep them tuned into the management facility, so that they keep returning for their health checks, but they definitely have been taking advantage of that wild food.”
Another milestone for the flock is slated to take place sometime this summer, when seven more birds are expected to join the fold.
“We are currently still in discussion of final placement of birds throughout the current California condor recovery program, but it does look like we are still to receive our two delayed birds (due to the avian flu outbreak) from last year, coming from the Oregon Zoo, as well as an additional five to be coming from the LA Zoo,” she said.
As to the potential big step of a homegrown boost in the local condor population’s numbers, don’t get any hopes up yet for the fluttering of little prey-go-neesh wings.
Aside from viruses and man-made dangers, one of the other main challenges to the condors’ survival comes down to simple biology — the birds are late bloomers in the avian world.
On top of that, condors are highly social and heavily dependent on elders showing them the survival ropes. So, with no adult birds around to act as examples, the mating game might take a little longer.
But even if the North Coast flock’s oldest members are quick on the uptake, Williams-Claussen noted those birds are just 5 years old right now.
“Typically, condors don’t find mates until 6 to 8 years old, so we’ve got a bit of time yet,” she said. “That said, you can really see the difference in maturity between the 5 and 4 year olds, which is interesting to observe.” l
Kimberly Wear (she/her) is the Journal’s digital editor. Reach her at 442-1400, extension 323, or kim@ northcoastjournal.com.
Condor A3 in the holding enclosure.
Maddy Rifka/Yurok Tribe
The Path Toward Medicare for All
By Patty Harvey newsroom@northcoastjournal.com
Recently Mad River Community Hospital faced the prospect of selling out to a corporate group from Texas. Is Mad River Hospital now an endangered species like so many of our rural hospitals? Recently, Blue Shield and Providence (the conglomerate owner of St. Joseph’s Hospital) struggled with a contract dispute that could have banished many people from the Providence system. In Humboldt County, it’s nearly impossible to find even primary care while a ordable dentistry and specialty care are even more daunting. The dispute was finally settled — for now — with no guarantees for the future.
Some 100 million in the U.S. struggle with medical debt, totaling $140 billion, according to a New York Times report, a crippling financial burden and the greatest cause of bankruptcy in our nation. Not to mention inability to access health care that causes the loss of life and health of millions of residents. What can be done to repair our disintegrating healthcare system?
Sixty years ago President Lyndon Johnson ushered in the revered and necessary program of Medicare. Conservative forces almost immediately compromised that program by demanding a “skin-in-the-game” 20-percent co-pay on Medicare’s Part B, a move that set the scene for increased weakening of Medicare as a safety net for elders and the disabled.
The “Balanced Budget Act of 1997” created “Medicare + Choice,” a forerunner of Medicare Advantage (MA), an assault on traditional Medicare that consummated a 30-year project of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation. As Dr. Robyn Stone, assistant director of health and human services under President Clinton, observed, Medicare Advantage was the “beginning of the end of entitlements for the Medicare Program.”
The flaws of MA are legion and now well-publicized. Despite o ering programs with little or no premiums and sweetened by promises of tasty perks like “help” (marginal and often not widely available) with dental and vision bills plus other pseudo-enticements in the form of gym membership and even groceries, MA enrollees feel initially satisfied. As long as they stay relatively healthy, those perks and low premiums are almost impossible to pass up, especially for poorer folks. But later on, prior authorization requirements produce delays and denials of care, while need for specialized care puts people out of network with unknown and often perilous cost. Returning to traditional Medicare becomes nearly impossible.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) keeps warning that “Medicare is going broke.” Here’s why: the largely unchecked MA runaway train is also a big player in feeding at the public trough, as it gulps down billions of dollars every year from overpayments gouged out of the Medicare Trust fund by making its enrollees look sicker than they are and keeping funds intended for medical treatment as profits. An October 2023 exhaustive study from Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP.org), “Our Payments, Their Profits,” shows overpayments to MA programs from $88 to $140 billion per year.
What then is to be done? MA, for example, now enrolls a majority of seniors eligible for Medicare. MA’s tentacles reach deeply into the financial and social structure of the nation. As such, it is unlikely any mechanism exists where it can be decreed, “Medicare Advantage now is outlawed.”
We can, however, talk about a concept of “leveling the playing field.” Where would that start? Forget trying to eliminate the programs that put huge profit over patients. Instead, why not claw back the illegally gained funds to
level the playing field between traditional Medicare and MA?
If we recouped those lost billions of dollars and gave them instead to traditional Medicare to o er (but fully paid for) the same benefits as MA — dental, vision, hearing, long-term care and eliminate Part B’s 20-percent premiums, who would then choose a Medicare Advantage program of narrow networks, pre-authorizations, delays and denials of care and squandering of tax dollars? Traditional Medicare would become a top, one-stop choice for all seniors while the MA blood supply would shrivel. And then, finally, we could begin to expand real, improved Medicare to everyone from cradle to grave, a program that would save some 40,000 lives and $350 billion per year for individuals, families, businesses and government agencies.
It all depends on political will that is not turned by financial quid pro quo. Our goal is to elect representatives who will hear us, and they will if we speak loudly enough — as the late Everett Dirksen once observed, “When I feel the heat I see the light!” It’s time to call, email, write, heat them up and insist on passage in the House of Representatives of HR 3421 (Jayapal), the Health Care for All Bill.
FYI: To find an estimate of what a universal, single-payer healthcare program would cost you, personally, check out this calculator developed by PNHP and compare it to your current cost of premiums, co-pays and out-of-pocket fees: healthyca.org/medicare-for-all-savings-calculator. And consider joining us working for this healthcare goal: healthcareforallhumboldt@gmail.com. Meeting every fourth Wednesday of the month At 5 p.m. at The Sanctuary in Arcata. ●
Patty Harvey (she/her) is the co-chair of the Humboldt County chapters of Healthcare for All and Physicians for a National Health Program. She lives in Willow Creek.
Eureka City Schools has entered into an amended property exchange agreement with a mystery developer looking to acquire its old Jacobs Middle School site that stipulates the parties should close escrow on the deal on or before July 11.
Meanwhile, the California Highway Patrol seems to be back at the negotiating table for the old campus it had hoped to purchase and turn into its Northern Humboldt headquarters until the district, seemingly out of nowhere, entered into an exchange agreement with a newly formed company — AMG Communities-Jacobs, LLC — on Dec. 14.
CHP had not been included as an identified negotiating party in closed session agenda items regarding the Jacobs campus in the months immediately following the district board’s decision to exchange 8.35 acres of the Allard Avenue property for a small, residential property on I Street and a $5.35 million cash payment. But the district then resumed listing CHP as a negotiating party in April.
Superintendent Gary Storts said the district continues to work toward closing the exchange with AMG but remains in contact with CHP because it “has continued to express interest in the property.”
A series of documents released in response to Journal requests, meanwhile, shows things slowly plodding forward under the exchange agreement.
The parties entered an amended agreement April 4 that for the first time sets a hard target date for the close of escrow, though the July 11 date can be pushed back if mutually agreed to by both parties. Additionally, the amended agreement sets a schedule for AMG to address “disapproved conditions” at the I Street
property and for the district to survey and subdivide the property. The agreement also required AMG, which previously had only put down a $1,000 independent consideration fee in order to enter into the exchange deal valued at $6 million, to put down a $100,000 deposit — a requirement that the document says stems from the developer’s desire “to demonstrate its commitment to the exchange.”
It’s worth noting, though, that the additional deposit is to be fully refunded to AMG “promptly” if the parties fail to close escrow. (This, it’s further worth noting, is in contrast to the non-refundable $35,000 deposit AMG had put down weeks earlier to enter into an agreement to purchase the I Street property, according to the document, which would be well beyond the typically required 3-percent deposits for residential real estate transactions.)
Eureka City Manager Miles Slattery said the district has not yet officially started the process with the city necessary to subdivide the 8.35 acres of the former school site included in the agreement from some adjacent fields the district will retain. But Slattery said he’s informed the district it will take the city just about a week or so to consider a subdivision request after receiving a site survey, so the district still has time to meet the July 11 escrow deadline.
Meanwhile, in a Feb. 26 letter, Eureka City Schools notified an attorney representing AMG that inspections had revealed a number of problems with the I Street property it would be getting back in the exchange, ostensibly for workforce housing. Specifically, the letter noted the property’s sewer connections “require certifications,” its accessory dwelling unit improvements were not “built pursu-
ant to an approved permit” and garage improvements “are not code compliant.” The letter also advises that the property’s pest inspection report indicates further inspections are required, that standing water under the building’s substructure also requires further inspection and a tree leaning against its roof need to be removed.
Under the amended agreement, AMG is required to provide regular updates on its work to address those issues and either have them all “cured” by June 15, after which the district will have 14 days to reinspect the property.
An April 30 update provided by AMG’s attorney indicates that, two months after the district’s letter, the developer had not taken action on any of the issues raised except the pest inspection. That inspection identified some needed plumbing work, chemical treatment to eradicate wood boring beetles, installation of a wood retaining wall and replacement of some damaged siding, but also noted some portions of the structure needing inspection could not be accessed for a variety of reasons.
The developer’s May 31 update to the district, meanwhile, notes the previously requested pest inspection report had been provided and responds to the other 13 “disapproved conditions” with the line, “AMG is in the process of gathering quotes for a comprehensive repair contractor.”
While the amended exchange agreement requires the work be done by June 14, it also provides some leeway by allowing AMG to increase its cash payment to the district to make up for work it is unable to complete by the deadline.
As is the case with the first exchange agreement, the amended version is signed on behalf of AMG by Texas-based attorney Brad Johnson, who is listed as the LLC’s manager on documents filed with the California Secretary of State’s O ce by Amador city attorney Thomas Swett. According to documents released to the Journal pursuant to a public records request filed with the school district, the two attorneys seem to have been the district’s only points of contact for AMG. Who the LLC’s principles are remains a mystery, with Johnson and a spokesperson for the LLC having repeatedly declined to identify them. A website created by the company initially identified its backer as “a small investment firm,” but a spokesperson responding to Journal questions later said it is a “private group of small individ-
ual and family investors” that does not include local businessman Robin Arkley.
AMG’s website and spokesperson have repeatedly gone out of their way to distance the property acquisition from Arkley and his e orts to thwart Eureka’s plans to convert city-owned parking lots in Old Town and downtown into apartment buildings to address the city’s housing shortage.
In addition to backing an e ort to file a host of lawsuits challenging the city’s plans, Arkley has also bankrolled an initiative on the November ballot that would likely block the city’s development plans by adding onerous parking requirements to all developments in Old Town and downtown, while rezoning the Jacobs campus site for multi-family development. Early skeptics of the initiative pointed out that the campus was owned by the district, which, having declared it surplus property, was then in ongoing negotiations to sell it to CHP for a reported o er of $4 million, arguing the zoning change was unlikely to result in construction of the hundreds of housing units the initiative’s backers were projecting.
AMG then seemingly came out of nowhere to o er the property exchange agreement with the district, an agreement that was ratified two days after the LLC was legally formed and signed by Johnson, who it’s worth noting represents both the group legally challenging the city’s housing development plans and proponents of the initiative.
A subsequent records request filed by the Journal with the school district seeking documents and correspondences referencing the proposed property exchange revealed virtually no paper trail exists leading up to approval of the exchange agreement. If there were any of the documents that would typically be generated by a public agency negotiating such a transaction — emails scheduling meetings, phone calls or site visits, or evidence of due diligence, like requests for financial documents or records associated with the property the district was looking to acquire — the district maintains they are no longer in its possession.
A CHP spokesperson did not immediately respond to a Journal inquiry regarding the agency’s ongoing interest in the Jacobs site.
— Thadeus Greenson POSTED 05.04.24
NEW TREX ENHANCE
currently working to find housing for the 20 people who remain in the program but isn’t sure they’ll be able to, noting there simply aren’t enough rental units out there and stigma is a significant barrier in housing people who have experienced homelessness.
She says a significant part of her job is spent simply trying to recruit landlords.
“I’m happy to talk to landlords. Always,” she says. “I will explain the program and its benefits, and do a song and dance, if I need to.”
Newby says her pitch is pretty straightforward. The voucher programs pay fair market rate, and landlords will have the added benefit of a lot of support. Arcata House sta will be in the rental units to look around at least once a month, and the tenants will have case managers helping them “be good neighbors, good tenants and good members of the community.” Plus, she says, Arcata House acts as a third party landlords can call if anything comes up.
Spoor says stigma is often the single biggest hurdle in getting someone from a program into permanent housing.
“We have dozens of people who are looking for housing right now,” she says. “People with financial support, people who go to work but have been homeless for a year, people who have housing vouchers, people who can pay their own rent. There’s a real stigma about people
who are homeless but many of the people served in this program go to work every day, their kids go to school every day, they volunteer and attend community events and churches. … There are so many people who are homeless who have this stigma they just don’t deserve.”
Spoor says she’s disappointed to see the program come to an end but proud of what it has accomplished, expanding the scope of models that have proven successful locally. She says she’s even proud of what the program a orded the 45 percent of its clients that ultimately chose to leave, noting that every night someone spent there was a night spent safe and fed. She says Arcata House will pursue any funding it can find to restart the program, though she worries the organization will have enough trouble simply holding the line on other services with the state looking to bridge a projected $55 billion budget deficit, warning that “housing and supportive services are being eviscerated.”
“We would absolutely operate this program again,” Spoor says. “But if I had a choice between if I’m going to find funding for our brick-and-mortar shelter or the safe parking program? Most people would rather have a bed.” ●
Thadeus Greenson (he/him) is the Journal’s news editor. Reach him at (707) 442-1400, extension 321, or thad@northcoastjournal.com.
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and the sweet onions browned in its fat.
The perfect foil for all this is the quick kimchi cucumber side and the little spring mix salad with miso dressing. The latter might be the palate cleanser you need to prepare for the next stall.
Food with Hoy
Alex Hoy’s shapeshifting street stall and catering venture, having already pressed out some of the best smash burgers in the county, takes its new form under a custom red and black tent with a menu recalling the foods he grew up eating and cooking for family and friends, mainly Chinese and Japanese ingredients paired with Southeast Asian cooking techniques.
This week’s offering of char siu pork — marinated 24 hours, smoked and grilled for a char — is a fine example. The long process makes the most of the pork’s stripes of fat and sweet meat. Served atop a bowl of white rice (see above) with a topping of crunchy fried garlic and bok choy — cooked well but preserving a little snap — it’s at-homey nostalgia with an extra kick ($15).
Is it cruel to dangle the char siu when it might not be around next time? Such is the gamble of a constantly changing menu. Keep an eye out for possible dumplings this week, accompanied by a sauce bar from which to sample.
Lulu’s Kreations
Compared to the rippling banners declaring “Corn!” next door, Lulu’s Kreations is keeping a low profile. Less modest are
the stand’s paper trays of puffy miniature pancakes striped with syrup and covered in an avalanche of whipped cream. The list of syrups and toppings from Oreo cookies to Mazapan offers customization, but the tres leches already set on the menu is a winner ($7 for 10 pancakes). The little pancake coins are fluffy and delicate, obscured by strawberries, tres leches and a cumulus cloud of whipped cream. And suddenly pancakes for dinner or dessert is a walkable streetfood option. A problem solved before you knew you had it. l
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (she/her) is the arts and features editor at the Journal Reach her at (707) 442-1400, extension 320, or jennifer@ northcoastjournal.com. Follow her on Instagram @ JFumikoCahill.
Mobile mini-pancakes tres leches (and a passing baby bantha) at Lulu’s Kreations.
Alex Hoy with his char siu bowl special.
Photos by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Photo by Leah Alcyon
Condors Over Arcata
By Sarah Hobart getout@northcoastjournal.com
During most of the sturm und drang of the Cal Poly Humboldt protest, I was across the country, on a pilgrimage of sorts to honor my dad and scatter his ashes at one of his favorite fishing spots. By the time I got home (let’s just forget about my unplanned stay in Newark, New Jersey), all that was left was the sadly predictable denouement of police intervention and arrests. As Dad liked to say, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
But the day before all that went down something else happened in Arcata — the culmination, 37 years in the making, of a different sort of protest. That day a young birder on the trail of a rare sandpiper looked up and saw three California condors soaring over Arcata.
The news spread like hot fudge sauce over butter pecan ice cream. Within 30 seconds of the phone alert, I was out on my deck scanning the heavens. And there they were, a trio of magnificent condors drifting east on a lazy thermal until they soared right over my head and out of sight. It was breathtaking.
Local birder Bill McIver was at work at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office on Heindon Road when his phone pinged. “I ran down the hall and told my co-worker about the condors, and we both hustled outside to see three condors circling high overhead,” he said, adding that despite several attempts he hadn’t seen any of the condors reintroduced to the northern reaches of the county in 2022. Other birders who caught a look were able to zoom in and read the big birds’ wing tags; they were Cher-perhl So-nee-ne-pek’ (“I feel strong,” A4), Neee’n (“Watcher,” A5) and He-we-chek’ (“I am healthy or I get well,” A7).
Just over a year ago, a woman wrote to me and asked if I thought condors would ever be seen in the skies over Arcata. Someday, I told her. That day turned out to be April 29, 2024.
But the train of events leading up to it began almost four decades ago. California condors teetered on the brink of extinction for most of the 20th century, their numbers ravaged by the pesticide DDT, lead poisoning from spent ammunition, habitat loss and poaching. Their lackadai-
sical approach to reproduction, typically laying a single egg every other year, made a comeback even more improbable. The largest North American land bird, condors had few natural predators; humans were and are their biggest threat. In 1987 the condor population had dropped to 22 birds in the wild. By virtually every measure, these giants of the sky were gone.
But multiple agencies and individuals came together and fought the inevitable, using the power of the newly minted Endangered Species Act. And so one of the most intensive and astonishing conservation stories of all time was underway.
One of those individuals was ornithologist Jan Hamber, whose commitment to tracking and monitoring the last few wild condors proved instrumental in saving them. Hamber, a pioneer among women in the natural sciences who was once excluded from a field research team because of her sex, dedicated herself to the study of condor nesting habits and was the first to observe that condors could nest in backto-back years, a discovery that proved critical to the successful captive breeding program. Hamber won multiple honors for her work on condor restoration, including the Trailblazing Women in Science Award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Audubon magazine profiled her in 2020 in a story titled, “This Bird Lives Because She Never Quit.” Now in her 90s, she’s still working on behalf of condors as the manager of the Condor Archives at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. She is a hero.
The mammoth effort to bring prey-goneesh home to Humboldt — through the tireless work of the Yurok Tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and many other partners/donors — was heroic, too.
One might argue that saving California condors is a pretty easy cause to get behind. What’s not to love about these prehistoric-looking birds that are so homely as to be incredibly beautiful? That live in a tight social hierarchy and parent by pinning an unruly chick to the ground with a massive foot? That rip through the tough hides of beached whales and dead elk with ease, filling their crops with up to three pounds of tissue and bone and not eating again for days or weeks? That cool themselves by peeing and pooping on
their legs? Sign me up.
But there are myriad causes in this world and heroism has many faces. Among them are the students, young people and faculty members who took part in what began as a peaceful demonstration intended to focus attention on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. What they did took guts. In the end the heavy-handed response from CPH’s leadership shed light not only on the war in Gaza, but the wars happening every day, right here, on free speech, LGBTQ rights and women’s control over their own bodies.
There are a lot of hammers out there right now. It can be overwhelming; we’ve all felt helpless at times. Sometimes we need to stand up, sit down, march, write to our representatives or write a check. And sometimes we just gotta look up.
lSarah Hobart (she/her) is a freelance writer based in Humboldt County.
A California condor over Arcata.
June on the West Coast
By Collin Yeo music@northcoastjournal.com
What more is there to say? We are now nested in the month so many people love for so many obvious reasons that it seems trivial to list them. On a final climb between now and the solstice to a solar pinnacle that will lead us down the dusty western slope of summer into the mulled days of ripened beauty and noble decay. A time of transient beauty felt all the more strongly by those of us who spent the wet part of the calendar locked into this often hard to handle home.
And also baseball. Get out there.
Thursday
Roselit Bone is back in town. This Portland band is one of the few acts I have had the pleasure of seeing live from the early days of covering this beat and that just gets better every time. For those unfamiliar, imagine an ensemble act with a heavy Western vibe, like a less jittery Wall of Voodoo, but trade the synths in for horns and fiddle. Very strong vocals from an enigmatic singer roll across a desiccated terrain until the music creates the kind of Dust Bowl thunderstorm that makes all the creeks rise and riverbeds flood until the coffins start popping out of the ground at the frontier cemetery. You should go to this show, but if my endorsement doesn’t carry any weight, two great trios, the mighty Strix Vega and Velvet Worms, are providing the local oomph. And if that hasn’t made the case yet for making your first Thursday of June sparkle and flash, the door price at the Siren’s Song Tavern is a mere $5, and this all-ages show is at 8:30 p.m., leaving plenty of time for you to have fun and get home without ruining tomorrow.
Friday
There was a little bit of a mix-up last month regarding Wild Abandon playing a gig at the Logger Bar, so let’s just do a quick window-edit in space-time and insert that show into tonight’s slot at 9 p.m. The forecast now looks like you can
enjoy a lovely summer’s evening in one of our best watering holes with a great local band for gratis.
Saturday
Here’s something a little different for your Saturday, by which I mean during the sunshine hours. The Eureka Theater is the spot for the Climax Music Fest. This new eclectic phenomenon features music by Irie Mae, Icarus and Suns, Samba de Alegria and Mighty Violet, as well as danceable beats on tap poured out by DJ Tone Change. There will also be vendors, food trucks outside, and a fashion show courtesy of Living Doll Vintage. This all-ages event opens its doors at 2 p.m., with a 3 p.m. showtime and tickets going for $25 on site, $20 advance. Check it out.
Sunday
I always forget about Fairy Festival in Arcata, largely because I don’t have any children of my own and I was kicked out of Neverland 35 years ago for making fun of Peter Pan (“Baby Robin Hood” seems tame, but causes no joy in the land found after the second star to the right and straight on til morning). Anyway, it’s happening again on the Plaza today and so, of course, there must be the afterparties. One such event for grown-up pixie dust devotees is a jam band tribute blow-out at Humbrews at 8:30 p.m., where you will find a supergroup called Tore Up!! It’s made up of players from the Magnificent Sanctuary Band, The Velvet Sea and Grate-
ful Getdown. They will be playing the jams of Phish, The Dead, et al, for a mere $10 at the door. I don’t know what the currency exchange is in fairy gold, but you are welcome to find out and report back.
Monday
Quiet tonight out on the stage but that doesn’t have to be the case at home. As part of my ongoing series recommending the tunes of musicians who passed out of this stupid samsara last year, I’m pushing the music of Carla Bley, a bandleader and jazz composer who, for a brief moment in time, sat aflame at the convergence point of emerging and established musical movements to operate the Lathe of Heaven in a mad attempt to create a lodestone of the era, for the future and beyond. What am I talking about? Listen to “Escalator over the Hill,” in which you will hear her shot at finding synthesis between everything from free jazz, rock, Broadway, and Tin Pan Alley pop. The opposite of easy listening.
Tuesday
The Miniplex is playing more movies again, which bodes well for the future, as the joint holds a place filled by nowhere else regarding showcasing enjoyable and offbeat fare. A case in point is tonight’s 7 p.m. presentation of The People’s Joker, an indie comic book movie parody directed and co-written by actress and comedian Vera Drew. After viewing the trailer and reading about the controversy regarding the film’s festival release due to copyright
issues, I’m interested. It appears to be an awakening story that funnels gender dysphoria through the mass-production madhouse of oversaturated superhero culture, with appearances from a few of my favorite comedians, including Maria Bamford, Bob Odenkirk and Tim Heidecker. Just $10 gets you a seat and, assuming it’s Taco Tuesday, tonight’s a great one in the run to check it out.
Wednesday
Iowa is one of our more overlooked states and as someone who has been in nearly all 50, I have a soft spot for this land of corn and Slipknot near the disputed zone of the Midwest. I have seen things there and the place has its own taste, one I prefer over say, Oklahoma, which is the Devil’s domain. Singer-songwriter William Elliott Whitmore grew up on a farm in the southernmost corner of Iowa and his music reflects a series of dispatches from another way of life than is immediately familiar to mainstream, metropolitan America. It’s good, hearty, no depression-style folk and country, written with purpose and played with sincerity. Check him out online, if you can. Fans of American roots music will lock in immediately and know what to do, which is head to Humbrews tonight at 8 p.m. ($18, $15 advance).
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Collin Yeo (he/him) has waited years but the bean never kicked in. He lives in Arcata.
Roselit Bone plays Siren’s Song Tavern on Thursday, June 6 at 8:30 p.m. Courtesy of the artists
5371 State Route 299, Hawkins Bar Jimi Je Jam Nite (Hendrix, Prince, funk, blues) 7:30 p.m. Free
SAVAGE HENRY COMEDY CLUB
415 Fifth St., Eureka (707) 845-8864
SIREN’S SONG TAVERN
325 Second St., Eureka (707) 442-8778
Central Ave., McKinleyville (707) 839-7580
Opera Alley, Eureka (707) 444-2244
SUSHI SPOT
670 Ninth St. (707) 822-1221
& Draw 6 p.m.
doctor’s recommendation or be over the age of 21 to enter. Free. Herbandmarket@gmail.com. (707) 630-4221. Twice Nice Sale. 12-6 p.m. Eureka Center for Spiritual Living, 239 Buhne St. Thousands of items to choose from. Furniture, tools, antiques, clothing, cookware, books and lots more. Prices start as low as 5 cents. EUREKA1049@gmail.com. (707) 443-5743.
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ART
North Coast Open Studios. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Countywide. More than 160 artists between Fortuna and Blue Lake share their creative spaces with the public. Guidebooks available in the May 22 issue of the North Coast Journal and in art-supporting businesses around the county. Listings with interactive maps online in May. Free. contact@northcoastopenstudios.com. northcoastopenstudios.com. (707) 442-8413.
LECTURE
Saturday Speaker Series: A Wonder of WWII – The Advanced Base Sectional Dock. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Clarke Historical Museum, Third and E streets, Eureka. Discover the World War II Advanced Base Sectional Dock. Andy Werback, retired software engineer and U.S. Navy enthusiast, leads. Free. lelehnia@clarkemuseum.org. clarkemuseum.org. (707) 443-1947.
MOVIES
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). 7-10:15 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. All ages (15 and under parent or guardian suggested). In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with a drifter named Max. $8, $12 admission and poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. facebook.com/ events/1858810711301854. (707) 613-3030.
MUSIC
Climax Music Fest. 3-6 p.m. Eureka Theater, 612 F St. Diverse local musicians, food, a fashion show and more. $25, $20 advance. t.ly/lD82z. (530) 776-7893. Huayllipacha. 7:30 p.m. Fortuna Monday Club, 610 Main St. Fusion of traditional and contemporary Andean music. $15.
Let’s Do It: The Music of Cole Porter. The Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata. The Sanctuary and James Zeller celebrate Porter’s birthday with a concert featuring Zeller (vocals, trombone), Matthew Seno (piano), Danny Gaon (bass), Ramsey Isaacs (drums), and special guests Katie Belknap (vocals) and Tree (baritone saxophone, viola). $15-$30. together@sanctuaryarcata.org. sanctuaryarcata.org/event-details/jazz-greats-2024-lets-do-it. (707) 822-0898.
McKinleyville Community Choir. 1 p.m. Eureka Library, 1313 Third St. Listen to the voices of 50+ members under the direction of Jon Reisdorf, Stephen Lewis and Naomi Faulkner singing modern and traditional favorites. Free. humlib.org.
THEATER
A New Brain. 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See June 7 listing.
The Prom. 7:30 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. See June 7 listing.
EVENTS
Third Annual City of Trinidad Community Yard Sale. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Trinidad, Downtown. Follow the signs when you get to Trinidad. Sales are hosted in individual yards. No early birds please. Sale is held rain or shine.
Summer Arts and Music Festival. Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway. The 47th annual event with music, arts and crafts, food, performances, vendors, kid zone and more. summerartsandmusicfestival. com/.
Barbecue Fundraiser for SoHum Meals on Wheels. 12-4 p.m. Healy Senior Center, 456 Briceland, Redway. Barbecue, music, beer and wine, soft drinks, live music and silent auction. Free. healyseniorcenter@gmail.com. facebook.com/healyseniorcenter. (707) 923-2399.
Raise the Roof! Fundraiser. 4-8 p.m. Fieldbrook Winery, 4241 Fieldbrook Road. A fundraiser for Life Plan Humboldt, a local not-for-profit life plan community. Music by Home Cookin’. Live auction with Tom Allman and Natalie Arroyo. Wood-fired pizza, sides and desserts. Fieldbrook Winery wine. Bring your dancing shoes. $100, $1,200 table of eight. lifeplanhumboldt.org/ event/raisetheroof.
Redwood Pride Festival and Parade. Jefferson Community Center, 1000 B St., Eureka. Parade, festival and evening celebration. See website for updates. Free. facebook.com/redwoodpride/.
Secondhand Spree, From Me to Three. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. The Trinidad Town Hall will be filled with treasures of all kinds. A benefit for the Memorial Lighthouse Monument. Cash only sales, ATM available at Murphy’s Market.
FOR KIDS
Northcoast Music Together Family Literacy Party. 1-2 p.m. Arcata Library, 500 Seventh St. Enjoy singing, keeping a beat and participating with confidence in music. For children and the parents who love them. Each attendee gets a free book. Free. literacyhelpers@ gmail.com. (707) 445-3655.
FOOD
Arcata Plaza Farmers Market. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Humboldt-County-Grown and GMO-free produce along with plants, meats and other products. Live music.
Farm Stand. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Table Bluff Farm, 101 Clough Road, Loleta. Regeneratively grown seasonal veggies, flowers, meats and other locally made items. Cash, card, Venmo, Apple Pay and soon to accept EBT payments. info@tableblufffarm.com. TableBluffFarm.com. (707) 890-6699.
Pancake Breakfast. Second Saturday of every month, 9 a.m.-noon. Salvation Army, 2123 Tydd St., Eureka. Pancake Breakfast fundraiser to benefit the community. Proceeds stay local. Pancakes, sausage, eggs, and coffee will be served. $5 for Seniors and Children and $8 for adults. Children/Seniors $5 and Adults $8. stephanie. wonnacott@usw.salvationarmy.org. 7074426475.
Sea Goat Farmstand. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Fresh veggies grown on site, local eggs and sourdough bread. Work from local artists and artisans. flowerstone333@gmail. com. (530) 205-5882.
MEETINGS
Woodturners Meeting. Second Saturday of every month, 1-3 p.m. Almquist Lumber Company, 5301 Boyd Road, Arcata. Beginning and experienced turners exchange ideas, instruction and techniques. Themed project demo, show-and-tell opportunities and Q&A. This month’s topic is: all about hallowing, tools and tricks. Free. redcoastturners@gmail.com. (707) 633-8147.
OUTDOORS
Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Bird Walk. 8:30-11 a.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I
Street. Bring your binoculars and meet Redwood Region Audubon Society trip leader Mark Colwell at the end of South I Street (Klopp Lake) for easy-to-walk trails and a diverse range of shorebirds, migratory songbirds and raptors, and resident birds likely engaging in breeding activities. Free. rras.org.
Dune Restoration Volunteer Day. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. Restore the biodiversity of the coastal dunes with the team. Snacks and tools provided. Meet at the center a few minutes before 10 a.m. Free. info@friendsofthedunes.org. friendsofthedunes.org. (707) 444-1397.
FOAM Marsh Tour 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Meet leader Gail Coonen at 2 p.m. in the lobby of the Interpretive Center for a 90-minute, rain-or-shine walk on general marsh topics. Free. (707) 826-2359.
Habitat Improvement Team Volunteer Workday. Second Saturday of every month, 9 a.m.-noon. Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 1020 Ranch Road, Loleta. Help restore habitat by removing invasive, non-native plants and maintaining native plant areas. Wear long pants, long sleeves and closed-toe shoes. Bring drinking water. Tools, gloves and snack provided. denise_seeger@fws.gov. fws.gov/refuge/humboldt-bay. (707) 733-5406.
Learn to Row Day. Humboldt Bay Rowing Association, 1011 Waterfront Drive, Eureka. Humboldt Bay Rowing Association invites adults and youth 12 and up to try rowing on the bay. Pre-registration online required. Participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Learn more about summer rowing opportunities. Free. hbra.org.
ETC
Thursday-Friday-Saturday Canteen. 3-9 p.m. Redwood Empire VFW Post 1872, 1018 H St., Eureka. Enjoy a cold beverage in the canteen with comrades. Play pool or darts. If you’re a veteran, this place is for you. Free. PearceHansen999@outlook.com. (707) 443-5331.
Twice Nice Sale. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Eureka Center for Spiritual Living, 239 Buhne St. See June 7 listing.
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ART
North Coast Open Studios. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Countywide. See June 8 listing.
Trinidad Artisans Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Murphy’s Market Deli, Trinidad, 1 Main St. Art, crafts, live music and barbecue Every Sunday through Sept. 13. Free. murphysmarkets.net. (707) 834-8720.
DANCE
Afro-Fusion Feel and Flow. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata. Explore and enjoy a fusion of West African movements from Guinea, Senegal, Liberia, Congo and Mali with the genre of Afro beats and traditional West African drumming. $10-$15. together@sanctuaryarcata.org. sanctuaryarcata.org. (707) 822-0898.
MUSIC
Live Music Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. 2-4:30 p.m. Fieldbrook Winery, 4241 Fieldbrook Road. See June 7 listing.
McKinleyville Community Choir. 3 p.m. Azalea Hall, 1620 Pickett Road, McKinleyville. Listen to the voices of 50+ members under the direction of Jon Reisdorf,
Stephen Lewis and Naomi Faulkner singing modern and traditional favorites. Free, donations welcome. mckinleyvillecsd.com/azalea-hall.
THEATER
A New Brain. 2 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See June 7 listing. The Prom. 2 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. See June 7 listing.
EVENTS
Summer Arts and Music Festival. Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway. See June 8 listing. Arcata Fairy Festival. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Whimsical day of live music, Maypole dance, eclectic and international music and dance performances, art installations, interactive lounges, vendors, nonprofit and school fundraisers, costume contests, parades, craft libations, a fire show, aerial dance and more.
Secondhand Spree, From Me to Three. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. See June 8 listing.
FOOD
Food Not Bombs. 4 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Free, hot food for everyone. Mostly vegan and organic and always delicious. Free.
GARDEN
McKinleyville Botanical Garden Workday. 2-4 p.m. Hiller Park, 795 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Help restore a small, community-driven botanical garden, featuring pollinator- and bird-friendly plants. No experience needed. Learn about native plants; take home cuttings. Go west on Hiller Road to parking lot for Hammond Trail/Soccer/Dog Park. Garden is adjacent to children’s playground.
OUTDOORS
Humboldt Bay NWR Field Trip. 9-11 a.m. Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 1020 Ranch Road, Loleta. Meet leader Ralph Bucher at the Visitor Center for this 2-mile walk along a wide, flat trail that is packed gravel and easily accessible. Tour tidally influenced habitats including mudflats, riparian vegetation, conifers and a bay that hosts a variety of geese, raptors, shorebirds and waders. Email to sign up. Free. thebook@reninet. com. rras.org.
Second Sunday Cycling Tour of the Arcata Marsh. Second Sunday of every month, 2-3:30 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Andy Feinstein leads a 90-minute tour focusing on wetlands, wildlife and wastewater treatment. Heavy rain cancels. Free. (707) 826-2359.
10 Monday
ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 6-8 p.m. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. See June 7 listing. Zine Club. Second Monday of every month, 6-9 p.m. The Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata. Bring your DIY self-published projects to work on, share and/or trade. Connect with fellow writers and artists of all levels, and work independently in a supportive environment. $5 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. millsguf@ riseup.net. sanctuaryarcata.org. (707) 822-0898.
FOOD
Miranda Farmers Market. 2-6 p.m. Miranda Market, 6685 Avenue of the Giants. Fresh produce, mushrooms, beef and pork, eggs, honey, crafts, body products, jams and plants. (707) 441-9999.
ETC
Boardgame Night. 6-10:30 p.m. The Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata. Quick 30-minute or long strategic games in a supportive and stress-free space. Feel free to bring your favorites as well. All ages. $2-$12. together@sanctuaryarcata.org. sanctuaryarcata.org. (707) 822-0898. Homesharing Info Session. 9:30-10 a.m. and 1-1:30 p.m. This informational Zoom session will go over the steps and safeguards of Area 1 Agency on Aging’s matching process and the di erent types of homeshare partnerships. Email for the link. Free. homeshare@a1aa. org. a1aa.org/homesharing. (707) 442-3763.
11 Tuesday
DANCE
Baywater Blues Fusion Dance. 7:15-9:15 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Half hour dance lesson followed by social dancing. Come solo or with a friend to learn and enjoy partner dancing to blues and modern music. $5-$15 sliding, free for kids 12 and under. baywaterbluesfusion@gmail.com. facebook. com/profile.php?id=100089815497848. (707) 496-4056.
MOVIES
The People’s Joker. 7 p.m. Richards’ Goat Tavern & Tea Room Miniplex, 401 I St., Arcata. A painfully unfunny aspiring clown grapples with her gender identity, forming an illegal comedy troupe and a fascist Caped Crusader. Ages 21 and up. $10. info@miniplexevents.com. miniplex. ticketleap.com/the-peoples-joker/. (707) 630-5000.
FOOD
Fortuna Certified Farmers Market. 3-6 p.m. 10th and Main streets, 10th and Main streets, Fortuna. Fruits and vegetables, crafts, music and hot food vendors. No pets allowed, but trained, ADA certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers receive a market match at every farmers market. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org/fortuna.html. (707) 441-9999.
Shelter Cove Farmers Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Gyppo Ale Mill, 1661 Upper Pacific Drive, Shelter Cove. In-season produce, veggie starts, plants, grass-fed beef, pastured poultry and eggs, flowers, soap, herbal products and arts and crafts. gyppo.com. (707) 441-9999.
MEETINGS
Fortuna Parent Project. 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Gene Lucas Community Center, 3300 Newburg Ave., Fortuna. A 10-week series that addresses topics like improving family relationships, e ective discipline to improve school attendance and performance, reduce substance use, negative peer influences and how to address destructive behavior. Free. fortunatc@bgcredwoods.org. glccenter.org. (707) 617-8160.
Humboldt Cribbage Club Tournament. 6:15-9 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Weekly six-game cribbage tournament for experienced players. Inexperienced players may watch, learn and play on the side. Moose dinner available at 5:30 p.m. $3-$8. 31for14@ gmail.com. (707) 599-4605.
Toastmasters International. Second Tuesday of every month, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Virtual World, Online. Members meet to deliver and evaluate prepared and impromptu speeches to improve as speakers and leaders. Meetings stream at https://tinyurl.com/zoomwithmidday and https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9239283290. distinguished@rocketmail.com. 4139.toastmastersclubs.org. (855) 402-8255.
ETC
Disability Peer Advocate Group. Second Tuesday of every month, 3 p.m. Virtual World, Online. Peer advocates supporting each other and furthering the disability cause. Email for the Zoom link. alissa@tilinet.org.
English Express: An English Language Class for Adults. Virtual World, Online. Build English language confidence in ongoing online and in-person classes. All levels and first languages welcome. Join anytime. Pre-registration not required. Free. englishexpressempowered.com. (707) 443-5021.
12 Wednesday
MOVIES
Queer Futures. 6:30 p.m. Richards’ Goat Tavern & Tea Room Miniplex, 401 I St., Arcata. Four short films explore “fat beauty and liberation, gender-a rming healthcare, nonbinary siblinghood in ballroom culture, and the anonymous connections of a decades-old LGBTQ hotline.” Weekly queer night Big Mood follows at 8 p.m. in the front room. Ages 21 and up. $8. info@ miniplexevents.com. miniplex.ticketleap.com/queer-futures/. (707) 630-5000.
Wildhood. 7 p.m. Minor Theatre, 1001 H St., Arcata. Two brothers search for their birth mother, reconnect with their Indigenous heritage and make a new friend. Free.
ETC
Pints for Non-Profits: Arcata High School Safe and Sober Program. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Redwood Curtain Brewery & Tasting Room, 550 South G St., #4, Arcata. A dollar per beer sold will be donated to AHS Safe and Sober program, helping high school grads stay safe and have fun on their graduation night. redwoodcurtainbrewing.com.
13 Thursday
ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See June 6 listing. May/June Art Show. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. See June 6 listing.
LECTURE
“The Ecology of the Butterflies of the Marble Mountain Wilderness”. 6:30-8 p.m. Natural History Museum of Cal Poly Humboldt, 1242 G St., Arcata. The museum presents a talk by biogeographer Robert Frenau. Free. natus@humboldt.edu. (707) 826-4480.
MUSIC
Eureka Summer Concert Series. 6-8 p.m. Madaket Plaza, Foot of C Street, Eureka. Open-air concert by the bay every Thursday during summer. No concert on July 4. June 13 - Michelle Lambert (pop/folk), June 20 - Undercovers (cover band). Free.
EVENTS
Oyster Fest VIP Experience at Humboldt Bay Social Club. 5-8 p.m. Humboldt Bay Social Club, 900 New Navy Base Road, Samoa. Enjoy craft drinks, an oyster barbecue, live music and coastal scenery, and visits by local oyster farmers. $150. gloria@arcatachamber.com. arcatabayoysterfestival.com/. (707) 897-6004.
FOOD
Henderson Center Certified Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Henderson Center, Henderson near F Street, Eureka. See June 6 listing.
Willow Creek Certified Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Veteran’s Park, Gower Lane, Willow Creek. See June 6 listing.
GARDEN
Community Compost Drop-O . 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Freshwater Farms Reserve, 5851 Myrtle Ave., Eureka. See June 6 listing.
OUTDOORS
Nature Quest. 3-6 p.m. Headwaters Forest Reserve, End of Elk River Road, 6 miles o U.S. Highway 101, Eureka. See June 6 listing.
Heads Up …
The Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center seeks weekend volunteers to stay open. Shifts are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 1 to 5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, and include welcoming visitors, bookstore register, and answering questions. You must be at least 18, complete paperwork and fingerprinting (free through Arcata Police). Oneon-one training. Call (707) 826-2359 or e-mail amic@ cityofarcata.org.
The Humboldt Local Agency Formation Commission seeks applications from members of the public interested in serving on the commission as a regular public member. To obtain an application, visit humboldtlafco. org or email info@humboldtlafco.org. The deadline is June 14.
Become a volunteer at Hospice of Humboldt. For more information about becoming a volunteer or about services provided by Hospice of Humboldt, call (707) 267-9813 or visit hospiceofhumboldt.org. ●
Trouble with the Kids
Babes and I Saw the TV Glow
By John J. Bennett screens@northcoastjournal.com
BABES. Despite the inescapable fact that pregnancy, birth and its alternatives have touched literally all of us, the subject has been largely shunted to the margins of contemporary cinema. As recently as the first decade of this strange, lamentable century, a “will they or won’t they” dramedy about a birth control mishap would not be a surprising option at the multiplex on a Friday night. It likely speaks to the sickening tilting of our cultural axis, of the rise of fascist fetishization, the renewed marginalization of women and the never-more hateful rhetoric around abortion that funnily poignant movies about accidental pregnancy and the prospect of single-parenthood have all but vanished from the mainstream. As ever, art reflects life, but it is also an important informer of our cultural conversations. And trepidation about “challenging” subject matter — or subject matter that has been thrust to the center of politics and rendered, despite its universality, the basis of senseless violence and ever-widening social fractures — on the part of the gatekeepers is a bad omen, indeed.
Which is a gloomy way to begin discussion of a funny movie about the vagaries of having a baby as an adult human in the modern world; we find ourselves where we find ourselves.
Written by Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz, and directed by Pamela Adlon, Babes drops into the middle of the decades-spanning friendship of Eden (Glazer), a yoga instructor and definitive denizen of Astoria, and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), her high-achieving married best friend. Dawn and husband Marty (Hasan Minhaj), climbing the ladder of New York City success and expecting their second child, have moved into a brownstone in the city, further exaggerating the metaphorical distance between the two former constant companions.
But Eden and Dawn have put in the work, maintaining routines in spite of the challenges of real life in order to fan the flames of their friendship. So, when a newly postpartum Dawn feels a powerful lust for sushi, Eden sets out to find it. And find it she does, albeit with a
shocking, Manhattan price tag. Her return trip to the hospital is complicated by the holiday subway schedule, though, and so she finds herself enjoying an extravagant Japanese feast on her multiple-train ride back to Queens. At which point she meets a handsome, charming fellow inexplicably dressed in a dashing vintage tuxedo. Claude (Stephan James) is himself returning home from a day’s work as an extra on a Scorsese picture (weirdly specific but funny enough). They share the sushi and a wide-ranging conversation across their numerous train transfers, eventually spending the night together. Dawn, relentless free spirit that she is, disbelieves that she could possibly have contracted pregnancy from the encounter but is also resilient enough to shake it off when Claude fails to contact her or respond to her texts. (The “twist” regarding his absence is both realistically abrupt but also underplayed.)
And so Eden finds herself debating motherhood as her best-friendship appears to falter in the presence of real-world, grown-up complications.
Ultimately, I may admire Babes more than I actually like it. Pitched as a lateterm Knocked Up with the deadbeat elided, its de-politicization of the subject matter in favor of emphasis on the relationships at the center of the story feels natural and topical in its casual insistence. And Glazer and Buteau, two definitively hilarious ladies unafraid of wading into the more anatomical aspects of pregnancy and modern friendship, are almost ideally paired as leads. And Adlon, herself a pitch-perfect comic actor making her feature debut, evinces a calm confidence behind the camera, directing with a veteran’s self-assuredness.
The movie sets out to demystify some timeless but also modern notions of adulthood and relationships, a formidable challenge to which it mostly rises. But in the tone of the piece, with its occasional hilarity set against the matter-of-factness with which it constructs the stuff of the characters’ lives, there is a tonal dissonance that, while not unpleasant or jarring, seems to work against the intention of its authors. R. 109M. MINOR.
I SAW THE TV GLOW. I cannot claim to have “a show” that has defined or defended or reflected my own life. That said, I have seen every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at least three times and in sequence. (I see you, Amber Benson.) So I get at least one element of what Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, 2021) has set out to create here. Outsiders Owen (played in adolescence by Ian Foreman and young adulthood by Justice Smith) and Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) develop a tenuous friendship based on a supernatural mystery series. Though bonded by a fondness for each other and a fascination with the TV show, the two are gradually separated by circumstances both physically immediate and metatextual.
A study in loneliness that blurs the distinction between life as lived and as observed through media, I Saw the TV Glow goes to ambitious, mostly successful lengths to visually construct the reality of a troubled person’s inner life. It has in it some near-perfect images and truly unique styles of performance. Still, it resonated with me less than I invited it to. PG13. 100M. MINOR. l
John J. Bennett (he/him) is a movie nerd who loves a good car chase.
NOW PLAYING
BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE. Regress to the 1990s (cops were funny and Florida seemed fancy) with the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence action-comedy sequel. R. 115M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.
THE FALL GUY. Ryan Gosling shoots a macho thumbs up in a comedy take on the 1980s TV show about a stuntman embroiled in real action. With Emily Blunt. PG13. 114M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA. Gritty
action prequel to Fury Road starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth in villain mode. R. 148M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK, MINOR.
THE GARFIELD MOVIE. The languid housecat meets his shady bio-dad. Voiced by Chris Pratt, Ving Rhames and Hannah Waddingham. PG. 101M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.
IF. Cailey Fleming and Ryan Reynolds star in a comedy about a girl who can see imaginary friends. PG. 104M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. A sequel to the primate power struggle skipping ahead generations. PG13. 145M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY EXTENDED EDITIONS. Running time equal to an actual walk to Mordor and back. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARIETTY (2010). Get small with Studio Ghibli’s tiny heroine. G. 94M. BROADWAY.
STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1. Masked randos terrorize a couple in the prequel to the movie about masked randos terrorizing a couple. R. 91M. BROADWAY.
SUMMER CAMP. Childhood pals of a certain age (Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard) attend a camp reunion. PG13. 96M. BROADWAY.
THE WATCHERS. Dakota Fanning plays a woman trapped with strangers, seemingly entertaining alien creatures. Twist! The director is Ishana Shyamalan. PG13. 102M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (2014). Studio Ghibli animated feature about friendship and family secrets. PG. 103M. BROADWAY.
For showtimes call: Broadway Cinema (707) 443-3456; Mill Creek Cinema 8393456; Minor Theatre (707) 822-3456.
The post-burrito glow. Babes
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The Assessor’s Parcel/Assessment Number (APN/ASMT), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the Assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map, if applicable, and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The Assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the Assessor’s office.
All information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption will be furnished, upon request, by Amy Christensen, Humboldt County Tax Collector, 825 5th Street, Room 125, Eureka, CA 95501, (707)476-2450. The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of June 2024, is shown opposite the assessment/ parcel number and next to the name of the assessee.
The right of redemption survives the property becoming subject to the power to sell, but it terminates at close of business on the last business day prior to the date of the sale by the Tax Collector.
401-245-007-000EGGEL MARGARET M $9277.09 510-081-024-000EANNI JOEMMA $2237.94 511-041-011-000BORN BRETT E $74421.61 516-011-046-000EDWARDS JOHN C $47910.46 530-141-002-000PU-LIK-LAH LLC $24743.68 PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED ON JULY 1, 2019 FOR THE TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER CHARGES FOR THE
3) Any property that has been identified and requested for purchase by a city, county, city and county or nonprofit organization to serve the public benefit by providing housing or services directly related to lowincome persons and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years. The parcels listed herein meet one or more of the criteria listed above and thus, will become subject to the Tax Collector’s power to sell on July 1, 2024, at 12:01 a.m., by operation of law. The Tax Collector’s power to sell will arise unless the property is either redeemed or made subject to an installment plan of redemption initiated as provided by law prior to close of business on the last business day in June. The right to an installment plan terminates on the last business day in June, and after that date the entire balance due must be paid in full to prevent sale of the property at public auction.
2) All property that has a nuisance abatement lien recorded against it and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years.
Note: The power to sell schedule for nonresidential commercial property is three or more years of tax-defaulted status, unless the county adopts, by ordinance or resolution, the five-year tax default schedule.
1) All property for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for five or more years.
Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code 3691 and 3692.4, the following conditions will, by operation of law, subject real property to the Tax Collector’s power to sell.
Revenue and Taxation Code Section 3361, 3362
NOTICE OF IMPENDING POWER TO SELL TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY
Executed at Eureka, Humboldt County, California, on May 22nd, 2024. Published in the North Coast Journal on June 6th, 13th & 20th, 2024.
Amy Christensen Humboldt County Tax Collector
I certify or (declare), under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct.
I, Amy Christensen, Humboldt County Tax Collector, State of California, certify as follows: That at close of business on June 30, 2024, by operation of law, any real property (unless previously taxdefaulted and not redeemed) that have any delinquent taxes, assessments, or other charges levied for the fiscal year 2023-24, and/or any delinquent supplemental taxes levied prior to the fiscal year 2023-24 shall be declared tax-defaulted. That unless the tax defaulted property is completely redeemed through payment of all unpaid amounts, together with penalties and fees prescribed by law or an installment plan is initiated and maintained; the property may be sold subsequently at a tax sale to satisfy the tax lien. That a detailed list of all properties remaining tax-defaulted at the close of business on June 30, 2024, and not redeemed prior to being submitted for publication, shall be published on or before September 8, 2024. That information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption of taxdefaulted property will be furnished, upon request, by Amy Christensen, Humboldt County Tax Collector at 825 5th Street, Room 125, Eureka, California 95501 (707) 476-2450.
Revenue and Taxation Code Section 3351, 3352
NOTICE OF PROPERTY
DELINQUENCY AND IMPENDING DEFAULT
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$26279.86
305-231-013-000RANKIN ANGGIE S C $9394.40
300-051-028-000WANDEL CODY R & TAMARA M
$4379.91
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Housing Authority has completed a draft update of the EFH Tenant Selection Plan. A copy of the draft update is available for review at the Housing Authority website www.eurekahumboldtha.org or by request. The Housing Authority will receive comments regarding the TSP draft update June 6, 2024 through the close of business on July 5, 2024. To request the draft update please call (707) 443-4583 ext 219. The Housing Authority hours of operation are 9:00am – 4:30pm, Monday through Friday, alternating every other Friday an off day.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Housing Authority of the County of Humboldt has developed it’s Agency Plan in compliance with the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998. A copy of the Agency Plan is available for review at www.eurekahumboldtha.org or by request. A public hearing for the purpose of receiving comments will be held on July 16, 2024 at 11:00am via Zoom. The Housing Authority will receive comments starting May 30, 2024, to the close of business, July 15, 2024. To request the Agency Plan and obtain zoom meeting information, please call (707) 443-4583 ext 219. Housing Authority hours of operation are 9:00am – 4:30pm, Monday – Friday, alternating every other Friday an off day.
NOTICEOFTRUSTEE'SSALE
NOTICE INVITING BIDS
1. Notice is hereby given that the Governing Board of the JACOBY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT (“District”), of the County of HUMBOLDT, State of California, will receive sealed bids for A PORTION OF DSA App #01-117353 (REVISION # 1) and DSA App #01-117746 (CCD #2) Project (“Project”) up to, but not later than, 1:00 p.m., on WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2024, and will thereafter publicly open and read aloud the bids. All bids shall be received at the office of the District Office at 1617 Old Arcata Road, Bayside, California.
2. Each bid shall be completed on the Bid Proposal Form included in the Contract Documents and must conform and be fully responsive to this invitation, the plans and specifications and all other Contract Documents. Copies of the Contract Documents are available for examination at the following exchanges and copies may be purchased through them:
- Federation of CA BX: 530-343-1994
- Humboldt Builders Exchange: 707-442-3708
- Medford Builders Exchange: 541-773-5327
- Shasta Builders Exchange: 530-221-5556
Also, the Contract Documents are available from Akemi Dean with Siskiyou Design Group, Inc. Please request the link via email to akemi@siskiyoudesigngroup.com.
3. Each bid shall be accompanied by cash, a cashier’s or certified check, or a bidder’s bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California as a surety, made payable to the District, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the maximum amount of the bid. The check or bid bond shall be given as a guarantee that the bidder to whom the contract is awarded will execute the Contract Documents and will provide the required payment and performance bonds and insurance certificates within ten (10) days after the notification of the award of the contract.
4. The successful bidder shall comply with the provisions of the Labor Code pertaining to payment of the generally prevailing rate of wages and apprenticeships or other training programs. The Department of Industrial Relations has made available the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to execute the contract, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship, and similar purposes. Copies of these prevailing rates are available to any interested party upon request and are online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. The Contractor and all Subcontractors shall pay not less than the specified rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the Contract. It is the Contractor’s responsibility to determine any rate change.
5. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work shall be at least time and one half.
6. The substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments in accordance with Public Contract Code §22300 is permitted.
7. Pursuant to Public Contract Code §4104, each bid shall include the name and location of the place of business of each subcontractor who shall perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the contactor in excess of one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) of the bid price. The bid shall describe the type of the work to be performed by each listed subcontractor.
8. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening for bids except as provided by Public Contract Code §§5100 et seq. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the bidding.
9. Minority, women, and disabled veteran contractors are encouraged to submit bids. This bid is subject to Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise requirements.
10. This project is subject to prevailing wage requirements and bidder and its subcontractors are required to pay all workers employed for the performance of this project no less than the applicable prevailing wage rate for each such worker. If this project is for a public works project over $25,000 or for a maintenance project over $15,000, bidder acknowledges that the project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the California Department of Industrial Relations in accordance with California Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1770 et seq
11. Each bidder shall possess at the time the bid is awarded the following classification(s) of California State Contractor’s license: B (General Contractor).
12. By approving these bid documents for the Project, the Governing Board finds that the Project is substantially complex and unique and therefore requires a retention amount of 5%.
13. XX Bidders’ Conference. A mandatory bidders’ conference will be held at Jacoby Creek School, 1617 Old Arcata Road, Bayside, California 95524 on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Project site. Failure to attend the conference will result in the disqualification of the bid of the non-attending bidder.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, June 17, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, the Fortuna City Council will hold a public hearing at 621 11th Street, Fortuna, California in the City Hall Council Chamber for the following purpose:
CONSIDERATION AND ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION 2024-17; A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORTUNA ESTABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF FEES AND CHARGES FOR BUILDING, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AND WATER AND WASTEWATER WITHIN THE CITY OF FORTUNA FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025
All interested persons are invited to appear at this time and place specified above to give oral or written testimony in regards to this matter. Written comments may be forwarded to the City Clerk at 621 11th Street, Fortuna, California, 95540.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (707) 725-7600. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting (28 CFR 35.102 - 35.104 ADA Title II).
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Sandra Fredrickson died on Friday, May 24, 2024. She was born in 1939 in Duluth, Minnesota to John and Ruth Fredrickson, and was the middle child of three, between Paul and younger sister, Tracey.
Sandra was an active nurse for 40 years, the last 20 spent as a nurse educator in San Francisco.
She began her retirement in Humboldt County in 1999, finding peace in the remote area of Westhaven. Sandra enjoyed volunteer work, especially at the Humboldt County Animal Control Shelter where she helped socialize kittens and cats. She was a pie maker for the Westhaven Blackberry Festival, made home deliveries for Food for People, helped Barbara Snell and Lena Macy with blood drives in Trinidad, and was an ombudsman for the Mad River Adult Day Care.
A faithful member of Trinidad Women in Black, Sandra stood for peace every Friday for more than eight years.
Sandra claimed her greatest adventure in life was taking a year off from nursing to sail the South Pacific (with her life partner, John) in a 32-foot sailing vessel. She is survived by her partner, John Hepplewhite; sister, Tracey Mueller; nieces and nephews, Jan, Krisa, Kirk, and Jenny. She was preceded in death by her brother, Paul Fredrickson.
Please send any memorials/donations to a charity of your choice.
A private gathering in Trinidad is being planned for a later date.
Sandra’s family thanks Hospice of Humboldt and Fresenius Kidney Care in McKinleyville for their compassionate care.
By Matt Jones
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7. Andy’s role on “Taxi”
8. Material at the back
9. They may look up to a Leo
10. Savvy
12. Throughout 13. Dim
15. Air of horror
16. It may cause some division on TV
20. 2002 Wimbledon winner ___ Hewitt
21. Like some goals
22. Manual replacement?
23. Propeller on the Mississippi, maybe 33. Adam’s group
34. Capital city close to Mount Ararat
40. Children’s movie
that interrupted a 1968 Raiders-Jets broadcast
43. Role for BeyoncÈ
44. “See the one before”
45. Opinion
46. “Happy Motoring!” brand
EMPLOYMENT
K’ima:w Medical Center an entity of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, is seeking applicants for the following positions:
CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER – FT Regular ($96K -$123K)
EXECUTIVE MEDICAL SECRETARY – FT Regular ($20.44 - $27.55 per hour)
COMMUNITY HEALTH REPRESENTATIVE (CHR) – FT/Regular ($19.54-26.33)
OUTREACH MANAGER/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE – FT/Regular ($125K - $138K) RN/PHN
FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER – FT/ Regular ($133K-$175K)
PURCHASED REFERRED CARE (PRC) CLERK – FT/Regular ($18.62-$25.09)
PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD (PHR)/ MEDICAL RECORDS SPECIALIST – FT/ Regular ($18.62 - $23.77 per hour DOE)
MEDICAL ASSISTANT – FT/Regular ($22.05 - $25.25 per hour DOE)
DENTAL HYGIENIST – FT/ Regular ($39.00-43.00 DOE)
PHYSICIAN – FT/Regular ($290K-$330K)
MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN – FT/Regular (DOE licensure and experience) LMFT, LCSW, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist
DENTIST – FT/Regular ($190K-$240K)
All positions above are Open Until Filled, unless otherwise stated.
For an application, job description, and additional information, contact: K’ima:w Medical Center, Human Resources, PO Box 1288, Hoopa, CA, 95546 OR call 530-625-4261 OR apply on our website: https:// www.kimaw.org/ for a copy of the job description and to complete an electronic application. Resume/ CV are not accepted without a signed application.
