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6 Whales v. sonar 8 ABCs of AEDC 8 Hey, you – flasher! 19 Editor killer thriller 20 Fun with Mary Jane 30 Meanwhile, on Mars 36 Hike, Grasshopper

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Mailbox Poem

A truckload of wood stacked

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News

Bouncing Sonar Off the Public

10 Blog Jammin’ 12 On The Cover

23 The Hum

Living Every Story

24 Music & More!

26 Calendar 30 Filmland Martian Kitsch

32 Seven-o-Heaven

cartoon by andrew goff

Congress: The Dating Game!

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Home & Garden

Service Directory

19 Get Out! kayaking

19 In Review a book

20 Stage Matters

Don’t Bogart That Script

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McKinleyville Arts Night Friday, March 16, 6-8 p.m.

32 Workshops 36 Field Notes

Grasshopper Peak

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Sudoku Crossword Marketplace Body, Mind & Spirit Real Estate This Week

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Clarke’s Money Leak

Editor: Please let the article on Clarke Historical Museum (“Fight at the Museum,” March 8) be the first in a series.

The problems at the Clarke are not with the staff, they are with the board of directors’ inadequate efforts in carrying out their responsibilities for everlasting protection of extraordinarily important collections. In 1998 there was a roof leak problem; in 2012 there is (still?) a roof leak problem. Uncontrolled amounts of humidity/moisture introduced by a leaky roof is no way to provide a preservation environment for historic textile, photo and basket collections. Yet the board continues to keep the museum in a position where it cannot apply for most major grants. They do this by never having, for three decades now, the required audited financial statement. Why? The most superb staff in the entire

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world cannot overcome that problem.

Fundraising events, “memberships” and small project grants will never bring in enough money to maintain the building and provide for the needs of collections and exhibits.

Edith Butler, Eureka

Free Speech?

Tweet

Editor: If Marcy Burstiner’s daughter really has a message that she wants to disseminate to the masses (“Take the Money and Run With It,” March 1), there isn’t a damn thing a decision of the Supreme Court can do to stop her. All she needs is a Twitter account.

Twitter rivals the printing press as one of the great revolutionary tools in human communication. Setting up an account is free, as is access to the Internet in the first place (through the use of computers at the Humboldt County Library). Anything

A truckload of wood stacked (we’re not in Brooklyn anymore)

such early blackness leaves me cold fighting the long pull down down down down to Earth to soft to sleep backyard walks bring visions of fires and bodies close mouth puckering for warm soup of antler bone and acorn trails leading through smoky messages I want blankets and blankets woven by my grandmother blankets my mother and father drew close beneath as the rain poured for 3 days without stop Cartoon by joel mielke

you tweet can be seen by any person on the planet with an Internet connection and a computer.

If Burstiner’s daughter has even half the analytical, persuasive and writing skills that her mom posseses, she’ll start amassing followers rapidly. To use Marcy’s example, her daughter could use Twitter to organize other young people who can articulate why mass homework and short recess periods are destructive.

Inevitably, adults like myself would start noticing these Twitter discussions, and we would join in. An expanded public discussion of homework and recess, outside the Twitter framework, would soon follow.

Burstiner laments that her daughter can do no better than spreading a message to the viewers of Community Access Television. Marcy’s wrong. Her daughter can reach the whole world through Twitter. #Twitteris4kids2 Eric Black, Eureka

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Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class David Jones, left, mans a .50-caliber machine gun while Aviation Ordnancemen throw an SUW-17 “killer tomato” target over the side of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth Abbate/Released

Bouncing Sonar Off the Public

Navy will host open house to address environmental impacts of sea training

By Sean J. Kearns

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ith the high seas awash in piracy, enemy submarines and unpredictably swirling geopolitical currents, the U.S. Navy wants its fleets ready to meet any potential threat. Readiness, it says, requires extensive training exercises on and under the ocean’s surface and in the air above it — with missiles, explosives and sonar. The Navy says caution, surveillance and science can be used to minimize the chances of marine animals becoming collateral casualties of this training.

A U.S. Navy contingent will come to Eureka on Thursday, March 22, to engage with the community as it pursues renewed environmental authorization for activities in its Northwest Training Range Complex. The area includes 162,000 square nautical miles of waters off of Northern California, Oregon and Washington. It spans from the coastline west to about 250 nautical miles offshore, and from the waters off Shelter Cove north to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Picture an aquatic area slightly larger than Montana. (The Navy’s Northwest training areas also include facilities in Puget Sound; near Ketchikan, Alaska; and on about 800 acres of land in Washington.)

Billed as an “open house” rather than a public hearing, the March 22 event — from 5-8 p.m. at the Wharfinger Building — is part

of a nine-stop Navy tour to inform, and hear from, coastal communities about the environmental impacts of training activities in the complex from 2015 to 2020. (Currently, more than 95 percent of the Navy’s training in the complex takes place in a sector off the Puget Sound called Warning Area 237.)

In 2009, the Navy held similar sessions to inform the Environmental Impact Statement covering its current training and testing. Many of the public recommendations at the time echoed a simple refrain: “Damn the torpedoes. Give the whales a break!”

A sense of the scale of the pseudo sea battles can be gleaned from the Navy’s 2009 “Complex Biological Evaluation” for the Northwest Training Range Complex. In it, the Navy proposed annual offshore actions involving 34 high explosives, 110 “bomb dummy units,” 57 missiles (with names like “Sparrow,” “Sidewinder,” “Harpoon,” “Maverick” and “HELLFIRE”), about 50,000 gun shells, 117,000 rounds of machine-gun fire, 231 flares, nearly 500 targets (including 120 dumpster-sized, heavy-duty inflatable red bags called “killer tomatoes”) and the deployment of 886 midfrequency sonar buoys and 631 other activesonar devices. What the Navy actually used is classified information.

Sonar may have a nice ping to it when it

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reveals a deadly threat to a ship full of sailors, but the intensity and pitch of its sound pulses can injure and disorient whales. Indeed, many of the concerns voiced by the public and environmental review agencies have focused on the potentially debilitating impacts of active sonar on whales and other marine mammals.

Many biologists contend that not enough is known about the physiological and behavioral changes that sonar prompts in whales, particularly in deep-diving beaked whales.

Pat Higgins is a fisheries and watershed biologist and member of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District.

Three years ago he questioned the Navy’s ability to gauge the impact of its training activities, citing a paucity of data on the distribution, abundance and behavior of whales, dolphins and porpoises.

“My concerns from a couple years ago are still germane,” says Higgins. “The Navy doesn’t know what it’s doing out there in terms of interaction with wildlife because they’ve collected no local data that could be a foundation for useful models.”

Higgins believes that the Navy’s aerial observers will have difficulty spotting beaked whales in the training area. These whales dive to great depths, and when they “come up to sip air,” Higgins says, they barely make a ripple.

“When it comes to beaked whales,” he says, “the Navy’s flying blind.”

As it has previously, the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit Jan. 26 to prompt greater protections for marine mammals in the Navy’s Northwest training plans.

According to the nonprofit environmental group, about 355 whales have been stranded during military activities worldwide since 1985.

About a third of those were beaked whales. In a 2004 incident, about 200 melon-headed whales ended up on the shores of Hawaii in the wake of a seven-nation Pacific Rim training exercise.

The Navy is not disinterested in these environmental impacts. It reports spending $18 million to $26 million annually for marinemammal research conducted by universities and nonprofit oceanographic institutions. In 2009 the Navy was part of a 10-agency federal task force on marine mammals and man-made sounds; the group’s top priority was to find out more about the negative impacts and how to mitigate them.

In recent years, the Navy has adopted several new precautions, including lookouts, hydrophones (underwater microphones), pre-explosion boat surveys of marine mammals and sea life, and sonar-reduction “safety zones” around ships that travel amid whales.

Meanwhile, back on land at the Wharfinger Building, mitigation will be a topic at one of the tables set up for the March 22 open house.

Other tables will focus on the importance of training and testing with sonar, public access and safety, marine protections and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process.

NEPA requires federal agencies to develop an environmental impact statement that evaluates several alternatives for a proposed action.

According to Navy spokesperson Liane Nakahara, “We want public comment so we can refine what to analyze. It’s just the beginning of a very long process.”

Data drawn from past public comments suggest that, when it comes to whales and sonar, some humans will come to listen, some to ask questions, and some to give the Navy an earful. l

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Ross Welch, executive director of the Arcata Economic Development Corp.

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Default Lines Plaza Design closure is a parable of who pays when development loans go bad

By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg editor@northcoastjournal.com

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n the southeast corner of the Arcata Plaza, the doors of Plaza Design are locked now, and the windows are obscured by tapedup sheets of brown paper.

The place has been shut down by the Arcata Economic Development Corp., whose executive director, Ross Welch, led the team that walked in earlier this month, ushered customers out and changed the locks.

In 30 years in the banking business, Welch said later, he’s never done anything like that before.

Welch is going gray, and his dark brown eyes take on a sad, puppy-dog look when he’s asked about stuff that he’d really rather not dwell on. Last week, that was happening a lot.

Yes, the nonprofit economic development corporation makes occasional bad loans, because it’s supposed to nurture small businesses and take the lending risks that can help grow jobs.

Yes, every now and then it repossesses a car or pushes a house toward foreclosure if the borrowers can’t pay up.

But normally — the way things are supposed to go — most of the struggling borrowers can work out something with

the development lender. If a business must be closed down, and that happens around once a year, Welch says, owners can get help even with that.

He’s chatting in his office, where his wife’s quilts hang on one wall, and a needlework Monopoly board, from her cross-stitch days, decorates another. He would much, much rather talk about the development lender’s business success stories (they are many), about the Rotary, and about the great volunteer spirit here in Humboldt.

Welch landed in Humboldt 12 years ago, after stops in Sacramento, Crescent City and Fort Bragg. Since mid-2008 he’s been running the Arcata Economic Development Corp., which makes or administers loans in six different counties, with the goal of growing the economy.

It hands out some serious money. In Humboldt County, 64 different businesses owe the development lender a combined $6.5 million. If you include other counties where AEDC is active, it is bankrolling businesses to the tune of $7.4 million.

Where does that money come from?

Some is interest on older loans — the development lender has been around since the 1970s, and over the years it has

helped fund Holly Yashi, Kokatat and even the original owner of Plaza Design, Welch says. A little comes from gifts. But lots and lots comes from the government. The federal Department of Agriculture is so fond of rural robustness that it consistently loans money at 1 percent interest to the Arcata Economic Development Corp., which then turns around and loans that money out at 8 or 9 or 10 percent interest.

The development lender also draws from many other pots of local, state or federal money, created for everything from small business growth to compensating Humboldt for establishing the Headwaters Forest Reserve.

So when AEDC loses some of that money on a bad loan, well … now you know where it came from. Pretty much from all of us.

In fairness, the development lender is supposed to take (calculated) gambles on businesses that are a little bit of a dice roll, all in the name of growing jobs. It insures many loans through a special state program that can cushion some of the blow.

And defaults happen. The development lender’s bad debts have totaled about $300,000 over the past 10 years. In 2005, it wrote off $180,000. Another 80 grand went bye-bye in 2010.

Now, there’s Plaza Design. It is the third largest loan in the Arcata Economic Development Corp.’s portfolio. Welch delicately refrains from spelling out just how it has gone awry. He will say only this, “There were agreements made, and agreements not kept. There were certain performance issues that were not met.”

Peter Labes, who with his wife Jane owned the corporation that owns Plaza Design, says the lender had agreed to help them close the store in an orderly way, then reneged.

“I don’t want to say anything mean about AEDC,” he said in a phone interview last week. “We had a great working relationship with them” — until the very last. The sudden closure, complete with locked doors and seized inventory, left him “surprised and sad.”

Labes and Ross were both reluctant to talk about just how much money is at stake in the store’s collapse. But because public dollars — specifically Headwaters Fund money — is directly involved, Dawn Elsbree, the Headwaters Fund coordinator for Humboldt County, was much more candid.

The fund often teams up with the development lender. AEDC makes and administers many Headwaters loans, but the

funding is 50-50, half from the county’s Headwaters pot, and half from AEDC, through its many, varied sources.

Back in late 2006, Elsbree said, the Labeses asked to borrow $500,000 toward a $775,000 project — buying Plaza Design from its founder and then-owner, Julie Fulkerson. The Labeses appear to have put up the $275,000, Elsbree said, and Peter Labes confirmed that they invested big money, although he wouldn’t say just how much. The couple successfully borrowed the rest in early 2007, with the Headwaters Fund loaning $250,000 and AEDC another $250,000, all at 9.2 percent interest.

(As collateral, the Labeses offered machinery and equipment, accounts receivable and an interest in a home in Irvine.)

Payments started out at over $5,100 a month, Elsbree said, but later were reduced.

“Unfortunately they kind of bought at the peak, and the recession hit them right after,” she said.

John McClurg, co-owner of Fire and Light Originals, which sold its glassware at Plaza Design, said the wave that pulled the store down has been crashing nationwide.

“We’ve had over 300 of the stores we do business with go out of business, all over the country,” said McClurg.

At different times, its lenders lowered Plaza Design’s interest rates and made other arrangements to try to help the business through, Elsbree said, but as the payments dwindled, the loan balance remained high.

On Jan. 31, Plaza Design’s owners still owed the Headwaters Fund $227,862, and would have owed AEDC another $227,862, she said.

This is likely to be the Headwaters Fund’s biggest loss since it was started, according to Elsbree.

Like the Arcata Economic Development Corp., the Headwaters Fund is supposed to take chances, to be “gap” funding to get slightly risky enterprises on their feet.

In that context, Elsbree said, “We were really lucky for the first eight years of the fund. Since 2003 we’ve loaned out over $6.1 million, and up until Plaza Design we’d lost less than $50,000.”

It is too early to know what the final loss figure might be for the Plaza Design loan, because the lenders still have to wring whatever value they can out of the remaining inventory. There might be a big liquidation sale, Welch said, or there might not. At least one potential buyer has expressed interest in taking everything that’s left — no doubt for one, low price.●

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Northern California River Watch, an environmental group based in Petaluma, is suing the Bayshore Mall and its previous corporate owners, General Growth Properties, for failing to restore five acres of wetlands.

The nonprofit alleges that GGP failed to comply with a requirement in the Coastal Development Permit it was issued way back in 1985. According the the complaint, the permit required restoration of 5.17 acres of wetlands on the mall property, and the mall’s owners did no such restoration, thus violating the California Coastal Act. One possible wrinkle: The Bayshore Mall changed owners back in January as part of General Growth Properties postbankruptcy restructuring. River Watch is seeking $30,000 in civil fines, plus another $15,000 fine for each and every day that the owners have been in violation. Anyone have a calculator?

CRIME / BY RYAN BURNS / MARCH 12, 4:02 P.M.

Brutal Home-Invasion From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: Today at approximately 10 a.m. the Fortuna Police Department was notified of a home invasion robbery on Drake Hill Road in Fortuna. The crime occurred in Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office jurisdiction.

When deputies arrived, the female victim said she was home alone at approximately 9 a.m. when she saw an unknown male in her home. The man demanded money, drugs and asked where the marijuana growing operation was. She was then covered with a sheet by another male suspect, whom she did not see. The suspects tied her to a chair with electrical cord. She was sexually assaulted, then burned with a lit

cigarette. The suspects again demanded to know where the money and drugs were located. The victim continued to say she had no drugs or a marijuana grow operation.

During the robbery the victim’s husband called the victim. She answered using her foot and began screaming about what was occurring. The suspects fled with some of her cash and jewelry.

Deputies found no indication of illegal drug activity or marijuana cultivation at the residence. The suspect seen by the victim is described as a male in his early 20s, slender, about 150 pounds, 5‘10” tall, dark brown hair below the ears, wearing black wranglers and black suede shoes with “E” written on them.

Anyone with information should call the Sheriff’s Office at 707-445-7251.

MUSIC, OBITS / BY BOB DORAN / MARCH 10, 8 A.M.

Kala Kenyatte is Gone Kala Kenyatte, a big man and a fixture on the Humboldt music scene, died Thursday morning at Mad River Hospital due to renal and congestive heart failure, the result of ongoing health problems related to diabetes.

He had a lifelong love of music. In a 2003 interview with the Journal he said he grew up with gospel and blues. “Around 1975, things went haywire for me: a lot of drugs and lot of craziness. I was living in this haze. Then I found reggae; it was my new gospel. ... I quit drugs, grew my dreadlocks and got into the music.”

When he moved to Humboldt in 1985, he returned to his blues roots, playing with Buddy Brown, Teddy Taylor and others in the Jambalaya blues jam crowd. In 1987 he assembled his first reggae band, The World Peace Band. … He had other combos over the years with breaks due to health problems. He said he’d had several heart attacks.

His friend Calvin Hall visited him in the

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hospital this week. Hall said music was still on his mind. “When I went to see him Tuesday night the foremost thing on his mind was, ‘Are we going to put another band together?’”

George Kala Kenyatte Dixon leaves behind six children: Deric and Allen Dixon, Kahle and Adia Morris, Danielle Thrasher and Christina Luttrull, who met her father for the first time shortly before his death after finding him via Facebook.

A local celebration of his life is set for Thursday, March 15, at the Jambalaya in Arcata starting at 9 p.m. Host Madi Simmons will sing with reggae band The Mighty Redwood Ambassadors; he’s hoping some of Kala’s former blue jam compadres will play too. One thing’s for certain, stories will be told about the big man who’s gone.

The Humboldt Waste Management Authority hired Cascadia Consulting Group, Inc. to characterize our garbage.

They went through 290 samples of waste from Arcata, Blue Lake, Eureka, Ferndale, Rio Dell, Trinidad and unincorporated Humboldt County, hand-sorting through 202 samples of residential and commercial waste.

The purpose? To see what good stuff we’re still throwing out despite all of the efforts that have gone into getting folks to re-use and recycle. … Among the key findings: In the overall waste stream Cascadia analyzed, it estimated that “more than half of all waste (35,614 tons) disposed … is recoverable either through recycling or composting.” About 21,084 tons of this is compostable or potentially compostable material, including food, compostable paper, leaves and grass. We also toss out a lot of recyclable paper, bottles and cans. But food is the biggie: We throw away an estimated 14,889 tons — 4,340 tons is commercial, 6,438 tons residential and 4,111 tons in the self-haul sector.

You can read the report online at the Authority’s website. ●

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ILLUSTRATION BY LYNN JONES

In a wide-open race, candidates sell charming personas to romance the electorate

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onsidering how unpopular the U.S. Congress is these days, it’s kind of surprising that anyone wants to join its ranks. Last month, Congress’ job-approval rating reached a historic low-water mark of just 10 percent, according to a Gallup survey. And yet here on the North Coast we find ourselves in the midst of the most exciting — and crowded — Congressional primary race in more than a decade.

To some extent, that excitement has been foisted on us. Given the opportunity we probably would have kept electing Rep. Mike Thompson for as long as he chose to represent us. But Humboldt County and Thompson have been forcibly divorced. Last year, a voter-initiated citizens committee redrew California’s boundaries for congressional, state Senate and Assembly districts, putting the North Coast in bed with our wealthy neighbors to the south. For the purposes of congressional representation, Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino counties are no longer attached to an easterly dogleg jutting into the portion of wine country that includes Thompson’s hometown of St. Helena. Instead, the new 2nd congressional district extends from Marin County north to the Oregon border,

Story and photos by Ryan Burns skirting Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park.

Our new representative likely would have been resident 20-year incumbent Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, but the 74-year-old announced last year that she’ll retire rather than seek reelection. As of early this week, 13 candiates had filed paperwork hoping to fill Woolsey’s vacant seat — nine Democrats, two Republicans and two independents, which makes sense given the district’s political makeup: More than half of registered voters here are Democrats while fewer than one in four is Republican.

(The candidate filing period ended Wednesday.)

Population distribution is similarly lopsided. Together, Marin County and Sonoma counties have 251,796 registered voters. Humboldt comes in a distant third with 75,081 while Mendocino, Trinity and Del Norte combined have just 67,415.

Whoever wins the election, he or she will almost certainly hail from either Marin or Sonoma County. Only three of the 13 candidates don’t — Earth First! veteran Andy Caffrey of Garberville, Mendocino seaweed farmer John Lewallen and Mendocino pot doctor William Courtney — and they’re distant longshots.

One more difference this year is the new “top-two” electoral system, which will send the first- and secondplace vote-getters from the June 5 primary into the November general election, regardless of party. We could see two progressive candidates facing off in November, or, if the progressive vote gets spread thinly among the 10 lefty contenders, a Republican could easily slide into one of the finalist slots.

With so many progressives in the field, the differences between candidates are more about style than policy positions. The Democratic contenders all agree that our government is wasting billions on imperialist wars; marijuana should be decriminalized; corporations and the ultra-rich should pay more taxes; universal health care is the way to go; corporate personhood should be repealed; Wall Street needs reforms; and our environment is in peril. On other issues, such as our need for more jobs and a balanced budget, all candidates are in agreement.

And so the race — like most contests in contemporary politics, some would argue — has largely been reduced to the crafting and selling of personas. Personal rough edges and philosophical subtleties have been burnished

CANDIDATES FOR THE 2ND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ADDRESS SOME OF THEIR POTENTIAL CONSTITUENTS AT A MARCH 1 FORUM IN FORTUNA.

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or hidden away, leaving a lineup of easily understood characters.

Much is required of a successful Congressional legislator. You must be a persuasive raconteur, a savvy negotiator, a dogged opportunist, a reliable baconsupplier for your constituents and more.

But winning an election? That’s mostly salesmanship.

In recent weeks, the Journal interviewed the five most formidable contenders in the 2nd District congressional race.

Four are Democrats; one is Republican.

Three are men; two are women. And all five have established simple personas: the Nurse, the Anointed, the Entrepreneur, the Republican and the Activist. Here they are, in alphabetical order.

Candidate: Susan Adams Persona: The Nurse Hometown: Marin Day job: Marin County Supervisor Campaign contributions through Dec. 31: $113,642 Susan Adams, a “happily single” mother and grandmother with a warm smile and shoulder-length, graphite-gray hair, earned her doctorate in nursing from UC San Francisco in 1998. For 33 years she’s been a women’s health nurse practitioner, and more recently she has parlayed that caregiver identity into a political metaphor.

The front of her campaign brochure says “Fighting for healthy communities,” and in a sit-down interview at the Fortuna Starbucks she elaborated on that theme. susan adams “My philosophy has always been ‘healthy planet, healthy communities,’” she said. “And that doesn’t just mean the physical body health. That means a healthy economy and healthy ecosystem and healthy watersheds and clean air.”

Predictably, Adams is on firm ground discussing the health care industry. She’d like the country to move toward a “Medicare for all” public option, and thinks that

President Obama’s Affordable Care Act made some good steps but was ultimately a boon for insurance companies.

Less predictable is the ease with which Adams holds forth on a wide range of other topics, including Humboldt-specific issues like the Shell wind energy project outside Ferndale and the rail banking proposal around Humboldt Bay. (Her politically safe position is that she supports both projects so long as they’re done “the right way.”)

Adams’ brother and sister-in-law live in Carlotta, a fact she’s made sure to mention frequently during local appearances, and she promises that, if elected, she’d spend half her time living in the northern part of the district.

During her 10 years on the Marin Board of Supervisors, Adams helped to establish the Marin Clean Energy Authority, the state’s first community choice aggregation program, which allows the county government to purchase power from clean, renewable sources then transmit that power over PG&E’s lines. Adams said PG&E opposed the project and even helped finance a challenger’s campaign for her seat on the board. But the authority was established in May 2010, and Marin County now gets 50 percent of its energy from clean, renewable sources.

The goal is to reach 100 percent within 10 years.

“We’re way ahead of schedule,” Adams said, adding that she’d like to achieve the same goal district-wide.

“My vision is that the 2nd congressional district is off the fossil fuel grid in the next 10 years, showing the rest of the country how you do it.”

Marin managed to keep its finances out of the red in recent years, and Adams said she’d fight to raise federal revenues by “getting out of the $10 billion-a-month war effort in the Middle East” and eliminating corporate welfare.

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aged to assemble some unlikely bedfellows locally. Staunch liberal Richard Salzman, the disgraced former campaign manager for District Attorney Paul Gallegos, has joined the Adams cause, as has conservative Eureka mortgage consultant (and husband of Eureka Mayor Virginia Bass) Matthew Owen, who contributed $500 to Adams’ campaign.

Most of the $113,642 Adams raised through the end of last year came through individual contributions of $500 or less.

Most of those donors live in San Rafael, San Francisco and other Bay Area communities.

Between sips of coffee at Starbucks, Adams sounded like an eager job applicant. “I do my homework and I work hard and I’m not afraid of taking on the tough battles,” she said. “And I’m successful more often than I’m not. So we’ll see. I’m having a good time with this.”

Candidate: Jared Huffman

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torney, an environmental attorney and a legislator, Huffman has made friends in high places while assembling an impressive résumé. He has passed more than 60 pieces of legislation including ocean and fisheries protections, renewable energy bills and health care industry reforms. He loves fishing and home winemaking, has a beautiful family and once played on the World Champion USA Volleyball team.

With blue eyes, perfect teeth and the dulcet voice of a network news anchor, Jared Huffman may as well have been dreamed up by the Democratic Party and assembled in a lab.

Huffman claimed frontrunner status early in the race by nabbing endorsements from Mike Thompson, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, fellow Assemblyman Wes Chesbro, numerous civic and community organizations and literally hundreds of elected officials.

Sitting in a window seat at Ramone’s in Old Town Eureka, Huffman spoke at length about numerous policy issues.

He supported Prop, 19 and said mari-

Persona: The Anointed Hometown: San Rafael Day job: State Assemblyman Campaign contributions through Dec. 31: $586,131 Jared Huffman grew up in Independence, Mo., Harry S. Truman’s hometown, and as a kid he’d sometimes see the former president walking around the town square.

“He was really a hero of mine from a very young age,” said Huffman, who was 8 years old when the ex-president died. Just a boy and already he idolized Truman, a Democrat who championed civil rights, battled Joseph McCarthy, supported workers’ unions, cut defense spending and advocated for national health insurance — in 1948.

That’s the type of shining credential that makes Huffman seem like The Chosen One in this race. The assemblyman from California’s 6th District has already perfected the demeanor of a congressman.

He looks the part. He CANDIDATES (FROM LEFT) SUSAN ADAMS, ANDY CAFFREY, acts the part. And the WILLIAM COURTNEY, JARED HUFFMAN, STACEY LAWSON, Democratic hierarchy JOHN LEWALLEN, TIFFANY RENEE, DAN ROBERTS AND has evidently chosen NORMAN SOLOMON. him for advancement.

As a civil rights at-

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STACEY LAWSON

juana legalization should be a long-term goal. He’d like to see loopholes closed in the corporate tax code and supports a transaction tax on Wall Street. Asked about jobs he said that consumer demand and consumer confidence need to be restored. “One of the biggest things holding back consumer confidence is this lingering mortgage foreclosure crisis.” He suggested perhaps charging banks that are “sitting on a record amount of cash at the Federal Reserve” and assessing fees on lenders that refuse to work with underwater borrowers.

There’s an Obama-like polish to his oratory, an offhanded eloquence that allows him to unroll long, artful sentences, using phrases like “creative debt-equity sharing arrangements” and “a more nimble estate tax” without sounding pretentious. The downside, as with Obama, is that his polish can be read as detachment. Huffman may seem like the perfect politician, but right now politi-

cians aren’t especially popular.

His opponents, particularly Norman Solomon, have pointed to certain campaign contributions. The top donor to Huffman’s congressional campaign is the Fisher family, which owns The Gap as well as Mendocino and Humboldt Redwood companies. He also took money from two professional lobbyists, though he says they don’t lobby him directly. While running for Assembly in 2008 Huffman accepted donations from large corporations including PG&E, AT&T and Chevron, and from political action committees (PACs) representing the insurance industry, an oil marketers association, Wells Fargo and more.

Huffman argued that his legislative record proves he’s not beholden to corporate interests, adding that he has supported campaign finance reform throughout his career. He coauthored the California Disclose Act, which would have increased transparency in political ads had it not been shot down by Republicans earlier this year. And he supports a constitutional amendment to repeal Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates for corporate political spending.

Candidate: Stacey Lawson Persona: The Success Hometown: San Rafael Day job: Entrepreneur/teacher

tion of more than $5,000 from an advisor at Citizens Bank, for example, and $1,000 from an executive at JP Morgan Chase.

Lawson countered that she’s a vocal proponent of financial reform. She supports reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act to protect ordinary investors from the vagaries of investment banking, and she said she’d crack down on risky practices like credit default swaps.

“Anyone who has given money to me from the banking sector are good Democrats who understand my position that we need very substantial banking reform,” Lawson said.

Another criticism of Lawson concerns a period of her life that seems to have been erased from her personal narrative: In 2004, having achieved professional success, Lawson went on a spiritual pilgrimage to India, where she practiced meditation at an ashram with a renowned swami. She continued to pursue yoga, meditation and spiritual enlightenment after returning to the U.S., and in 2007 media mogul Arianna Huffington recruited Lawson to write a spirituality blog for the Huffington Post.

Lawson wrote at least 20 blog entries in 2007 and 2008, but search for them now and you’ll get a message that reads, “Editor’s Note: This post has been removed at the request of the blogger.”

The posts are retrievable through the Internet Archives, and while there’s nothing particularly incendiary, you can see why she might want them hidden. “I’ve played, for a few brief moments, in the field of oneness with you,” Lawson writes.

“I’ve seen you naked, revealed, and beautiful … and I’ve touched your deepest Self, where you and I dissolve into one and walk on this earth together as in heaven.”

She also describes her upbringing and career rather differently than in campaign materials. She calls the Port Angeles area “the boonies” and remembers her “despondence at being stuck there.” Her early career was like “gorging on a meal with no nutritional value. I was being sustained by success while my soul was shriveling.”

She wraps up her brief autobiography this way: “I could have told the story a dozen different ways, yet none would have revealed who I really am.” Not exactly a campaign slogan.

While certainly a bit woo-woo, Lawson’s writings are actually quite thoughtful,

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Campaign contributions through Dec. 31: $455,959 Stacey Lawson’s campaign has emphasized job creation, relying heavily on her own rags-to-riches narrative. Born and raised near the Washington mill town of Port Angeles, Lawson went on to attend Harvard Business School, graduating in 1996 with an MBA and $80,000 in debt. In short order she raised $7 million in venture capital to fund her first business idea, an Internet-based catalog of machine parts displayed in 3D. Called InPart, it was marketed to industrial clients like John Deere, Caterpillar and Boeing, and it was a success. Shortly after launching InPart, Lawson sold it to a multi-billion-dollar software company called Parametric Technology Corp., or PTC, and was hired there as a senior vice president. Just 28 years old, she’d become a multi-millionaire (a fact she generally leaves out of her campaign narrative).

Lawson, who went on to cofound and teach at UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, describes herself as the ideal candidate to bring middle-class jobs back to North Coast communities.

Her campaign website calls her a “progressive-minded woman who has actually created jobs [and] promoted high-wage American manufacturing.” She produced a snazzy-looking, 49-page jobs plan (available for download on her website) called “Making More in America.” Among its many suggestions: Make credit more available to small businesses and manufacturers; retrofit buildings with green energy; boost funding for education and infrastructure; and raise taxes on the ultra-rich.

In a phone interview, Lawson continued to emphasize her business credentials, saying that she’s the only candidate who has “been in the trenches.” This type of rhetoric generally comes from Republicans, not Democrats, but Lawson said it’s important not to cede that ground: “We’re the party that takes care of people, and we’re the party that’s going to rebuild our middle class.”

Lawson has quickly gone from total unknown to serious contender largely thanks to her prolific fundraising, which is second only to Huffman’s. Her opponents point out that much of that money comes from outside the 2nd District, and several of her largest contributors work in the financial industry. She received a dona-

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and the themes she addresses — interconnectedness, the divinity of all living things, etc. — describe a worldview shared by millions of people. Trouble is they don’t fit the narrative that American voters demand of their political representatives. We distrust ambiguity, we reject all but the most superficial (and Christian) expressions of spirituality, and we punish those who question dan roberts the sanctity of capitalism. support, and he’s keeping his platform It says something about Lawson that simple. Under the “Issues” tab on his she felt it necessary to hide her spiritual norman solomon campaign website only one issue is writings from voters. But it says something addressed: federal spending. Asked his about us, too. opinion on other topics, Roberts said he disadvantage. “I’m a businessman. I care needs to put everything aside except “one Candidate: Dan Roberts about families. I care about small busiissue: fiscal conservatism. Cut the deficit, Persona: The Republican nesses perhaps more than about the balance the budget, stop the spending. It Hometown: Tiburon environment … probably more than some starts there. All of our unhappiness begins Day job: Investment banker theoretical heating or cooling issue.” He with progressive liberals not doing that.”

Campaign contributions through called global warming “unsettled science” What would he eliminate? “Cut departDec. 31: $113,851 and a “bogeyman” that’s served primarily ments,” he said. “You pick ’em. Could be At a March 1 candidates’ forum inside to give Al Gore “a billion dollars… and 200 Energy, could be EPA.” Perhaps Defense?

Fortuna High School’s gymnasium, Dan extra pounds.”

The Journal asked about a claim made Roberts sat with his arms folded across Roberts’ campaign is almost entirely in a campaign video: “$787 Billion Stimulus his chest wearing a navy blue suit and red, self-financed — $110,000 of his $113,851.

Plan equals 2.4 Million Jobs LOST.” Where white and blue bowtie. Even without the Perhaps that helps account for his bluntdid that figure come from? “It probably bowtie it would have been easy for Robness. This refusal to answer in safe genercomes off the press, the published articles erts to stand out. As the lone Republican alities was, among other things, refreshing. on the subject,” he said. The nonpartisan on a nine-candidate panel, he was the only “I’ve given the voters a different message Congressional Budget Office estimated person that night to say, “I don’t agree.” and a clear choice,” he said. that the federal stimulus created between “We have a spending problem, not a 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs in the fall Candidate: Norman Solomon taxing problem,” he said into the microof 2010 alone. “Depends on who you want Persona: The Activist phone. Rather than raising taxes on “the to believe,” Roberts countered. “I pick Hometown: Inverness Park so-called rich,” Roberts proposed a 15 perthe Republican source.” He couldn’t recall Day job: Journalist/media critic/activist cent flat-rate income tax across the board. what that source was.

Campaign contributions through “I think we should stop this class warfare Roberts was born and raised in San Dec. 31: $311,817 that’s going on,” he said, prompting scatFrancisco, where his business is now In one of the most liberal/progressive tered applause from the crowd. located. Is that a disadvantage given how congressional districts in the country, Founder, president and CEO of San rural most of the 2nd District is? “Why author and activist Norman Solomon has Francisco investment firm Roberts & Ryan, do you say that?” he challenged. “Where I positioned himself to the left of his main Roberts had driven his convertible black live, down there it’s not [rural]. It’s rural up rivals in this race. He’s done so by taking Pontiac Solstice up Hwy. 101 to attend the here. I don’t know how I’m gonna reprea hardline stance against nuclear power, event. Before participating in the forum sent this [district] — it’s polar opposites, the wars in the Middle East and corporate he sat down at the Fortuna Starbucks to frankly.” influence on politics, and by calling for a talk about his priorities, his reasons for Good point. People up here are wor“Green New Deal,” an injection of public running and his campaign strategy. ried about just that. “You know what? money for environmentally friendly infraHe’d barely sat down before an older Don’t worry about it,” Roberts said. “The structure development and job creation. woman approached him bashfully and votes, frankly, are down south. Are they Solomon, who expressed admiration said, “Hi, how do you do. You’re the not?” In that case, why even bother drivfor both Humboldt County Supervisor Republican candidate?” Yes, he replied. ing up here? “Because I want to learn the Mark Lovelace and Vermont Sen. Bernie “I think that lady over there would like a fishery issues, environmental issues, the Sanders, has been “walking the talk” of chat with you at some point,” the woman forestry — I don’t know those issues.” his political ideals for years, in a variety said, pointing at two more gray-haired His visit to Humboldt County was a of public forums. Author of more than a women seated nearby. They waved. listening tour, he said, and he doesn’t dozen books including War Made Easy: As strategies go, simply being a Repubsee his unfamiliarity with local issues as a How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinlican is enough to earn Roberts some loyal

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ning Us to Death and The Trouble With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh, Solomon has appeared as a media critic on several national news programs. He even managed to get the better of Glenn Beck in a 2007 CNN segment about the corporate parenthood of major media companies.

Solomon took three fact-finding trips to Baghdad and one to Afghanistan, and he argued against both wars on national TV. On the campaign trail he has been joined by former talk show host Phil Donahue and movie star/Marin County resident Sean Penn.

In a long phone interview and a followup conversation over coffee, Solomon was unapologetic in his call for increased government spending. “As a liberal/progressive/whatever-you-want-to-call-me, I believe in public investment,” he said.

Specifically he argued that we should be spending more on rural health care, rural broadband access, education, public transportation, infrastructure, a federal jobs program and social services.

How would he pay for such programs?

Through “ massive cuts in military spending,” for starters. He’d also call for a carbon tax on polluters, the end of Bush-era tax cuts for anyone earning more than $250,000 per year and closing loopholes in the corporate tax code. And he supports a jobs bill currently wending its way through Congress called “The HumphreyHawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act,” which would establish a 0.25 percent transaction tax on Wall Street. Add these together, Solomon said, and “you’re talkin’ real, real money.”

He supports full legalization of marijuana, “and in the next breath I say

legalization is not enough. … It’s crucial to couple legalization with a policy to protect the small growers. We must put policies in place to prevent the Wal-Martization of cannabis.” At the same time, he’d take a firm stance against cultivation on public lands, he said. Criticizing the recent federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, Solomon suggested that a dramatic gesture might be in order — something along the lines of the stunt by Rep. Mike Thompson in 2002, when the congressman dumped 500 pounds of dead salmon on the steps of the Interior Department to call attention to a massive salmon kill in the Klamath basin. “I can’t say exactly what I’m gonna do, but the day may well need to come when Congressman Solomon dumps some cannabis on the appropriate front steps in Washington.”

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Not that Solomon models himself on Thompson. The Blue Dog Coalition supports policies that are “very friendly to Wall Street,” he said. Solomon would rather join forces with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Embracing his far-left agenda, Solomon sees himself as a perfect match for the 2nd District.

“This new district is a very liberal district overall, and it can stand for and fight for and accomplish in Congress what many districts aren’t able to do,” he said. Then, as he has done numerous times throughout the campaign, he took dead aim at the frontrunner. “Frankly, if Jared [Huffman] was going to represent a district in Kansas or Mississippi in the U.S. Congress, I would say that seems fine, a step forward. But we can do better in this district, and I think there’s a very good chance we will.” l

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Kayaking

Everything looks — and sounds — different so close to the water

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ayaking is just as much about soundscape as it is about landscape. There is the rhythmic splashing of the paddle, of course, soothing and calming your mind. Then other sounds: waves, birds landing on the water or taking off en masse, fish jumping, boats passing by.

The sounds travel and diffuse differently depending on where you are: the ocean, a lagoon, a slough, a body of water surrounded by trees or reeds.

Kayaking is a full immersion in nature because it places you at the intersection of water, land and air. Sitting in the hull of a kayak, right above the water, gives you a particular visual perspective. Sunsets can be magical and moonrises even more so.

A few nights ago, my husband and I paddled on Big Lagoon along the sand bar. There was a light wind and the lagoon was delicately rippled. The ocean was louder, though invisible, like a chorus that you couldn’t see on the stage but whose song reached you loud and clear.

When it is foggy over Big Lagoon, everything is padded, sights and sounds alike, and you feel like you are paddling in a cocoon. On Big Lagoon, you can take the inland route and possibly encounter elk hanging out close to the water. Maple Creek meanders inland and at some point you are in a green tunnel, where the sound is different, the ocean a distant memory, beyond hearing.

Stone Lagoon is smaller than its big sister to the south. Paddling all the way around Stone Lagoon offers a faster-changing landscape. We favor going counterclockwise (as seen from above) and staying relatively close to the shore.

If you launch from the boat ramp at the Visitor Center, you reach the sand spit after a bit of paddling. Then it’s nice to land and take a look at the ocean.

Bird watching and river otter spotting may complement our kayak tour on either lagoon. The sun is always welcome, though not required. Rain, unless heavy, does not stop us.

Deciduous trees and bushes change with the seasons, and so do the birds. (Brown pelicans mean it’s summer.) A dramatically lower water level greeting you at the launch ramp indicates that the lagoon has breached, an event that can occur (more than once) during the rainy season.

Kayaks should stay away from the opening.

Another favorite spot of ours is Hookton Slough. There, flocks of birds play their presto “take off” chorus, herons rattle their off-key calls and egrets rely on their candid beauty to steal the show. When you reach the South Bay, you become aware of being followed: periscopes pop up and plop down as you try to spot where the spies are located. Give up: the seals are well organized and you can’t elude their watch. You also cannot elude the tides, and you need to time your kayak outing so that you don’t get stranded on mudflats.

And then of course there is the mighty Pacific Ocean, so alive that being out on Trinidad Bay is like riding a leviathan: exhilarating.

When my husband and I tell people that we are kayakers, we are immediately asked about going out on the ocean. As I answer the question I wonder how much the equation of kayaking with being on the ocean deters people. While we occasionally paddle around Trinidad and Humboldt Bay, and love doing it, being on the ocean for me is not a requirement. The one

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Kayak Zak’s (www.kayakzak.com) offers kayak instruction, guided trips and kayak and stand-up paddleboat rentals. Depending on the weather, Zak’s will start going to Big Lagoon County Park with its rental trailer during spring weekends and then more often as the season progresses. Call ahead to plan appropriately. Phone: (707) 498-1130.

HSU’s Center Activities program offers kayaking classes and tours (www.humboldt. edu/centeractivities).

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requirement is to be on the water. No matter how calm the water, I feel the creature below me. And my ears pick up the tunes.

The beauty of our county is that it offers so many options; you are guaranteed to find one that works for you. To find out more about the places I described and others I didn’t mention, you can consult the book Sea Kayaking the Redwood Coast by Explore North Coast.

Published just a few weeks ago, this slender, well-organized guide is easy to use and packed with information. It will help you discover what Humboldt and Del Norte counties have to offer to kayakers of all skill levels. The guide’s authors gathered the information you need to choose a place and to get there.

A bit of a reality check to round things out.

Wherever and whenever you go out in a kayak, you need to be prepared. That means having adequate training, appropriate clothing and safety equipment, knowledge of water and weather conditions, awareness of your physical abilities, etc. There are plenty of local resources available to help you. If you are a novice, I recommend getting trained by a competent instructor, who will teach you and have you practice equipment use, paddle strokes and rescue techniques.

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Behind the Redwood Door

By John M. Daniel Oak Tree Press Outside the bar, a woman screams. Inside, conversation stops, a bartender mutes the TV, and Guy Mallon exchanges glances with his wife before shouldering his way out into the mist. His friend sits propped against a dumpster, throat slashed. “His sequoia-green sweater was soaked with black blood.”

In Mallon’s mythical Jefferson City the bar is called the Redwood Door, but it is unabashedly modeled after The Alibi, just as Jefferson City, with its statue of Thomas Jefferson on the Plaza, is a slightly skewed Arcata. The town is a conflation of North Coast places, with a rocky harbor and a daily newspaper owned by a wealthy, right-wing businessman.

Oh, and the murder victim?

Editor of the local alternative weekly.

Hmmm.

Watching Mallon track down the murderer is only part of fun in Behind the Redwood Door,

by McKinleyville author and book publisher John M. Daniel. The rest comes from locale — and celebrity-spotting.

Daniel insists no one is real, and only a little scenery is borrowed. The land whites stole from the Indians, the fight over the shopping mall, the casino at the Steelhead Rancheria, all are inventions. The editor of the weekly Jefferson Nickel is very loosely modeled after a friend of Daniel’s, now deceased, who once edited the New Times in San Luis Obispo.

The publisher of the daily Jefferson Republican, Seamus Connolly, is modeled after no one we know, Daniel says. Certainly not the former publisher of the Eureka Reporter, who Daniel says he has never met.

“Seamus Connolly is a small town person, and I don’t think Rob Arkley would be called that … because he delves into national political matters,” says Daniel. The author is sitting in his light-filled living room, across the street from one of the peculiar home-castle amalgams on a stretch of the Hammond Trail. During the week, he and his wife Susan run their small press publishing company, Daniel & Daniel, from their home. On Sundays, John Daniel retreats to his office and writes. “It’s the most fun thing I do all week,” he says. “I love it.” He has written a memoir, a writing guide and a modest handful of mysteries, including three featuring Guy Mallon, a book publisher who tends to stumble into mayhem.

Behind the Redwood Door is fast-paced and readable, a satisfying companion for a rainy afternoon even without the local angle. It’s got family feuds, marijuana growers and layers of interwoven stories of the strong preying on the weak.

“Even a genre novel like a mystery has to stand for something,” says Daniel, and in this one “my big crusade is against bullying at all levels.”

As in the real Humboldt, some of the bullies win, and some of them lose.

— Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

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Zuzka Sabata, Joan Schirle and Joyce Hough in Dell'Arte's Mary Jane: the musical. Photo by Bob Doran

Don’t Bogart That Script

Help Mary Jane Return to Dell’Arte This Summer

By William S. Kowinski williamkowinski@northcoastjournal.com

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t’s been disturbingly like summer though it’s actually only March.

Meanwhile Dell’Arte is starting to prepare this summer’s Mad River Festival show, which is going to be — last summer’s Mad River Festival show.

Only different. And the difference may be — you.

“Mary Jane: The Musical was the biggest grossing show in a single run we’ve ever done,” said Producing Artistic Director Michael Fields. “And some people still

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didn’t get to see it.” So that’s one impetus for reprising it this coming summer, as is an unusual circumstance for such a large cast. “Everybody who was in the show last year is available to come back,” Fields said.

“Even our graduate students. It’s never happened before.”

But there are a couple of other compelling reasons. First and foremost is the community’s deep interest in the topic, the Humboldt marijuana industry, which was recently estimated as generating an astonishing one billion dollars for the county economy.

The second reason is artistic. “Last summer we were just trying to get material on stage that allowed people to think about it,” Fields said. “Now we can develop it more, deepen it, especially the characters and relationships.”

Dell’Arte’s artists can deepen the story, but they decided to seek help in broadening it. They’ve posted last year’s script online, and are asking anyone with an idea, a suggestion or even a song to email them.

These contributions are posted at the end of the script, and taken into consideration as the revised show is being developed.

The contributions received so far have included song lyrics and even music in Mp3 files and a CD. “We’re trying to make a bigger conversation with the community,” Fields said. “We really want people to write stuff down, so we can get a broader perspective.”

For example, several contributions posted so far suggest portraying the trimmers. Someone noted that Mary Jane mentions her son, but he’s never seen.

Why not more about him?

Fields noted that when Joan Schirle (as Mary Jane) sang Joani Rose’s song “My Son” for the production’s visit to the Hempfest in Garberville in November, “people were weeping,” particularly in response to such lyrics as “He was by my side, the very first time I put a seed in the ground.” So this suggestion is likely to result in an addition to this summer’s version.

Additions also mean there will be some subtractions. “We know we’re keeping the key songs,” Fields said, like Tim Randles’ “Why is Whiskey Legal and Pot is Not?” and Scott Menzies’ “The Industry.” And though there will be some topical updates to 2012, it will all still be set at the Emerald Ball. What’s different will depend in part on what suggestions are received. “We’re also doing this show for three weeks instead of two,” Fields revealed.

So to participate in creating this show, you can start at www.dellarte.com/maryjane, which will link you to the script and

the suggestions posted so far. You can also contribute directly by emailing info@ dellarte.com.

Coming Up

Opening last weekend and continuing until March 26 is the 10th annual spring production at College of the Redwoods, a reprise of the play that started the series, Moliere’s comedy The Miser. It reunites the original creative team of Kjeld Lyth (director), Daniel Lawrence (scenic design) and Denise Ryles (hair and makeup). It’s onstage at CR’s Forum Theater Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2. Tickets at CR Bookstore or at the door.

Ferndale Repertory Theatre presents a limited run, North Coast premiere of the musical [title of show.] Yes, that’s the title of the show: It’s about two struggling young artists assembling a show for a musical theatre competition. Written by Jeff Bowen (music and lyrics) and Hunter Bell (book), it had a 100-performance Broadway run in 2008. The Ferndale production features Philip De Roulet, Craig Waldvogel, Elena Tessler, Jo Kuzelka and Laura Welch.

It runs just two nights, but on successive weekends: this Friday (March 16), and next Friday (March 23) at 8 p.m. Rated PG-13.

(800) 838-3006, www.ferndale-rep.org.

This weekend Dell’Arte International’s first years present the results of their immersion in melodrama (in class at least) called Saved At Last From the Awful Flood of Life. Seven pieces seek to exemplify the struggle pitting loyalty, honor and justice against deceit, greed and intolerance — and the good guys win!

There’s an opening night benefit for International Student Aid on Thursday at 8 p.m., with tickets at $25. Friday and Saturday shows are pay-what-you-can. (707) 668-5663 or www.dellarte.com.

On Friday (March 16) the Arcata Playhouse starts its sixth annual Family Fun series with Japanese storyteller Kuniko Yamamoto in Magic Mask, Mime and Music of Japan at 7 p.m., with Saturday shows at 2 p.m. and 7. Future family-friendly shows in the series bring Faustwork Mask Theater in April and San Francisco’s Sweet Can Circus in May. Tickets can be purchased at Bubbles, Wildberries Marketplace and Redwood Yogurt in Arcata, or online through brownpapertickets.com. More information: (707) 826-1575, arcataplayhouse.org.

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2. Silver Lining, 3561 Boeing Avenue, #D (at the Eureka-Arcata Airport. Barbara MacDonald, “Heart Felt Imaging” nature photography; Greta Daniels, fish-eye jewelry; Good & Evil Twins, ambigram artwork. Music by Colin Reis, acoustic folk.

3. McKinleyville High School, 1300 Murray Road, in the Multipurpose Room. Personal and Playful Impulses, a faculty collective show, featuring work by Aleisha Bradley, painting & photography; Sean Curry, woodwork; Laura Edwards, watercolor; Jim Hannon, functional ceramic art; Diana Howard, scrapbooking; Marsha Mielke, jewelry & poetry; Anne Sahlberg, short story & poetry; Justine Smith, mixed media; Devon Van Dam, fabric; Rachel Watson, photography. Music by Steve Nystrom, Sean Curry and Chris Evans, plus painting, ceramic and scrapbook demonstrations throughout the evening.

4. North Coast Gallery and Picture Framing, McKinleyville Shopping Center. Ryan Souther, mixed media and drawings.

5. McKinleyville Family Resource Center, 1450 Hiller Road. Special Event, Bring your family, kids of all ages please, to our family art night party! The featured art are collages and paintings that were created by families from last month’s art night. We will be making spring activity wheels.

6. Mantova’s Two Street Music, 2019 Central Avenue.Musical Guest, JD Jeffries, guitar/ vocals.

7. Blake’s Books, 2005 Central Ave. Joyce Jonte, florals and figures in watercolor.

8. Curves, Miller Business Park. Louise Campbell, pottery; Kay Bean, oil paintings.

9. Knitter’s Lane, 1225 Central Ave., #14. Annie Claire, fiber arts. Knit Night: join our knitter’s circle. Food, fun and knitting until 10 p.m. ●

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Applications are available now, the deadline is March 20. • Access to artist marketing workshops Applications are available at the Ink People Center for and personal marketing assistance the Arts or online at www.northcoastopenstudios.com.

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Living Every Story

Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers, plus Hot Buttered Rum, Gary Farmer, Six Rivers Anniversary and a bunch of folk Myshkin

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enata’s Crêperia is not normally a music venue, but it becomes one Thursday when Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers drop by on a tour for Myshkin’s latest CD, Diamond Lust.

“Don’t know if you saw her with Lila Nelson at HumBrews last time passing through,” says Renata (a big fan), “but I caught her in Berkeley some time ago and she’s wonderful live.” She was indeed great opening for Lila. And I love the bio her record company offers: “Myshkin: rooted in the lowlands, conceived in Paris, raised in Indiana, running wild in what woods are left. Joined the circus. Lived in tents, trucks and buses. … Stole a name from Dostoevsky, died her hair in the bathroom of a Texaco.

Sings like a bird, plays like an inmate, writes like she’s lived every story.”

San Francisco’s Hot Buttered Rum started out as a jammy “high altitude bluegrass” stringband, favorites at Telluride and High Sierra, but somewhere along the line they started plugging in and moving toward neo-Americana.

A rockin’ new disc is in the works with Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin producing, but first HBR hits the road for a winter tour with Cornmeal, a like-minded quintet out of Chicago with a similar sound and storyline (bluegrass-ish jams, Telluride, High Sierra, Bonnaroo). The Hot Buttered Cornmeal tour warms up Humboldt Brews Thursday.

The Sewell Fine Arts Gallery is another place you might not expect to hear music aside from Arts Alive! They’re trying out a music series with once-a-month sit-down shows. Thursday they have jazz saxophonist Sky Miller with my neighbor Shao Way Wu on bass and Mike LaBolle on percussion.

You may know Gary Farmer as an actor.

Born in Ontario, a member of the Wolf Clan in the Cayuga Nation, he’s done a lot of TV work and was featured in the Native American films Powwow Highway and Smoke Signals. He was Johnny Depp’s enigmatic traveling companion in the Jim Jarmusch Western Dead Man and

By Bob Doran

bobdoran@northcoastjournal.com somehow reprised that role in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. He also plays a mean harmonica and sings the blues as leader of Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers. He brings his band to Humboldt this weekend playing Thursday at Nocturnum, Friday and Saturday at the Wave at Blue Lake Casino.

The Eureka Inn’s Palm Lounge is now the home of a regular blues jam, typically led by Jenifer Breeze. This week she’s handing the reins to keyboard wizard Mike Kapitan. Mike moved to Arcata a few years back, coming out of the L.A. music scene where, among other things, he played keys and did programming for Thomas “Blinded Me With Science” Dolby and worked on various TV and movie projects.

Mike continued his production work here in Humboldt recording albums for Kulica and Rooster McClintock and putting out a fine record of his own, Believe It! He also led the outstanding Mile Davis tribute Miles Ahead through several incarnations. Now that we’ve reintroduced you, prepare to say goodbye.

Mike and his wife are leaving Humboldt, relocating to Sonoma County to be closer to the S.F. Bay music scene. So Friday’s session is a farewell performance of sorts. (He says he’s not moving that far away.) As far as Friday’s “blues” jam goes, well, Mike is not exactly a bluesman but a bunch of his friends will join him and he definitely can jam.

If serious blues is what you’re after, you might want to head down to the Riverwood Inn Friday night where you’ll find blueswoman Laurie Morvan, the hot guitarist who rocked last year’s Blues by the Bay. Then there’s The Speakeasy, a new joint on Opera Alley that features blues on a regular basis with the guitar/trumpet duo SugaFoot most Tuesdays and Fridays. This Saturday, Buddy Reed and The Rip It Ups rip things up.

Back-to-back tribute bands at the Jambalaya: Friday it’s Silver Hammer (a tribute to The Beatles); Saturday Naïve Melodies play T-Heads music.

Silver Hammer also plays on Saturday (St. Patrick’s Day) at Six Rivers Brewery in McKinleyville, where they’re throwing a big party to celebrate the eighth anniversary of operation under the current management (congrats, ladies). They promise food and drink specials all day and music on two stages. The Beatles trib is the exception to the mostly alt. country line-up, which features the dark country murder ballads of Six Rivs regulars The Pine Box Boys. Also on the bill: Coffin Hunter, fronted by Jack Gibson, long-time bass player for thrash metal outfit Exodus, who discovered banjo and sort of switched gears (his banjo picking still has thrash metal influences) and Colonel Jimmy and The Blackfish, a country punk band from Sacto whose primary influence seems to be Hank 3.

In the folky zone: Jersey-born singer/songwriter Karen Savoca returns with her guitar player partner Pete Heitzman. Karen has been doing a lot of house concerts of late, and that’s the plan here, playing in someone’s home in Sunnybrae on Friday (doors 7:30, music at 8).

Local songwriter Jan Bramlett opens, accompanied by guitarist Craig Carroll, who I met through pot journalist Sharon Letts (not Letz).

The $15 cover goes straight to the touring pair.

Call 707-502-5814 and they’ll tell you how to find the house.

Seattle-based songwriter/activist Jim Page returns to Humboldt for two shows: Saturday he does a benefit for Trees Foundation at the Garberville Civic Club (showtime 7:30 p.m.); Sunday it’s a Northcoast Environmental Center benefit at the Westhaven Center for the Arts with locals Morgan Corviday and Mo Hollis opening. Page is something of an old school protest singer, although not overly strident. As you would surmise from the show sponsors, he’s an eco-activist, but he’s also known for anti-war songs — and as a supporter of busking rights. He still plays on the street at places like Pike Place Market, a right he helped secure back in 1974 when he performed a pro-busking

protest song before the Seattle City Council and helped convince them to drop a permit requirement for street performers.

Gender-bending folk/pop quartet Girlyman returns to the Arcata Playhouse Sunday on a tour behind a new disc, Supernova, an album they say “almost didn’t exist.”

Multi-instrumentalist Doris Muramatsu was diagnosed with leukemia recently, but the band persevered and the album became about “everything we’ve gone through over this last year: death of a way of life, massive change, transformation, fear, and ultimately: new hope and a new start.” (Doris is doing fine, BTW.) A few more returns: Saxman Charles Neville (of the Neville Brothers) and kora player Youssoupha Sidibe are back for a Friday show at the Red Fox backed by the reggae-ish Mystic Rhythms. Marisa Anderson, who switches between guitar and lap steel, plays her droney psyche blues improvisations with deep folk roots next Wednesday (March 21) at Missing Link Records, starting at 7 p.m. Same Wednesday, San Francisco jazz/funk/folk/Ethiopique goddess Meklit Hadero returns to the Arcata Playhouse with her combo.

Big treat for those who tuned in Gus Mozart’s Music Box on KHSU Monday night: Gus played half a dozen archival tracks by Kala Kenyatte and The Sound of Truth, a local reggae band led by the tall, dreadlocked singer, who died last week. Hearing Kala’s warm vibrato on his song “The Sun” sent chills up my spine and reminded me of the power in his music.

Kala’s local friends will gather Thursday night at the Jambalaya with the local reggae band The Mighty Redwood Ambassadors laying down the one-drop. Madi Simmons, who was a member of Kala’s first reggae band, The World Peace Band, serves as host. He’s hoping some of Kala’s old blues jam compadres will show up too — since Kala also loved to sing the blues.

So long, big man.

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Whomp Whomp Wednesday 9pm Rude Lion Sound (reggae) 8pm GLDT/ALLY Open Mic 2:30-4pm

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$5 8-ball tourney 8pm

Beer Pong.

Blues Jam 9pm

Break Dancing with REX 5-10pm $10

Tasting Room open Mon-Thu 4-10pm Swing Dance Night 7:30-10:30pm $5

Jeff & Todd Krider (acoustic) 6-9pm no cover

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West African Drum/Dance 5:30-7pm $10

Hoop Dance w/ Nicole 5:30-7:30pm, two classes

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DJ MXMSTR KRSHN2N 10pm Karaoke 8pm The Gimick (acoustic) noon Jimi Jeff Open Jam 8pm

Lunchbox’s Karaoke 8pm w/ sushi specials

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Open Sun-Thu 4-11pm Fri-Sat 4pm-2am

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THE HUMBOLDT JUGGLING SOCIETY PRESENTS ITS 12TH ANNUAL HUMBOLDT JUGGLING FESTIVAL WITH FREE WORKSHOPS ON JUGGLING, SPINNING POI AND OTHER CIRCUS ARTS FRIDAY AT THE D STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY IN HSU’S EAST GYM. PERFORMANCES TAKE PLACE FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE D STREET CENTER AND SATURDAY NIGHT IN HSU’S GIST HALL THEATER WITH GUEST ARTISTS INCLUDING BAY AREA CONTACT JUGGLER, RICHARD HARTNELL. PHOTO BY WALDEMAR HORWAT

THE HARMONIOUS GENDER-BENDING FOLK POP QUARTET GIRLYMAN RETURNS TO THE ARCATA PLAYHOUSE ON SUNDAY ON A TOUR IN SUPPORT OF A NEW CD, SUPERNOVA. L.A.-BASED SINGERSONGWRITER ADRIANNE OPENS THE EARLY SHOW STARTING AT 7:30 P.M. PHILIP DE ROULET, JO KUZELKA, CRAIG WALDVOGEL AND ELENA TESSLER ARE AMONG THE CAST AS FERNDALE REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENTS THE NORTH COAST PREMIER OF THE HIT BROADWAY MUSICAL [TITLE OF SHOW], A SCRAPPY LITTLE MUSICAL ABOUT A SCRAPPY LITTLE THEATRE COMPANY PUTTING TOGETHER A SCRAPPY LITTLE MUSICAL. THE SHOW RUNS TWO NIGHTS ONLY, FRIDAYS, MARCH 16 AND 23. THE PRODUCTION IS RATED PG-13 DUE TO MATURE SUBJECT MATTER, LANGUAGE AND BRIEF NUDITY.

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15 thursday ELECTIONS

Karen Brooks For Supervisor Dinner. 6 p.m. Redwood Acres Fairground, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. Authentic corned beef and cabbage dinner with root vegetables, green salad and Irish soda bread. After dinner, guests hear Karen’s plan to unlock the economic potential of the county. $50/$90 per pair. brooksforsupervisor. com. 442-6546.

EVENTS

California Conference on American Indian Education.

11 a.m. Humboldt State University, Arcata. Annual conference theme is “Turning Vision into Action” showcasing 35 years of success and growth of American Indian education in California and the impact the American Indian Education Centers have had in their communities. 464-3512.

Conference on American Indian Education Kickoff. 6 p.m. In the Sapphire Palace, Blue Lake Casino. Welcoming reception features local rock legend Merv George. $10. 445-8451.

THEATER

You Can’t Take It With You. 7 p.m. Redwood Curtain Theatre, 220 First St., Eureka. Laurel Tree Charter School presents a delightful comedy about following your dreams. $5. 498-1770.

Saved at Last From the Awful Flood of Life. 8 p.m.

Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. Melodrama exploring interplay between tragically irreversible human circumstances and the triumph of virtues: courage, love,

honor and justice. Benefit for International Student Aid. $25. 668-5663.

The Miser. 8 p.m. Forum Theater, CR, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka. 10th annual spring drama production featuring Moliere’s classic comedy. $10/$5 students and seniors. 476-4558.

MUSIC

Jazz at the Gallery. 7 p.m. Sewell Gallery of Fine Art, 423 F St., Eureka. Evening of jazz with Sky Miller, saxophone, Shao Way Wu, bass, and Mike LaBolle, percussion. $6.

Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers. 8 p.m. Renata’s Creperie, 1030 G St., Arcata. Intimate evening of folk by Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers on tour with a new album, Diamond Dust. $10/$5 sliding scale. myshkinsrubywarblers.com.

ART

Figure Drawing Group. 7-9 p.m. Cheri Blackerby Gallery, 272 C St., Eureka. In the courtyard. Weekly group. Live model. An Ink People DreamMaker project. 442-0309.

MOVIES

Who Bombed Judi Bari?. 7:30 p.m. Garberville Theater, 766 Redwood St. Earth First! organizer and car-bomb victim Judi Bari died in 1997. Just after the 15th anniversary of her death, a 93-minute documentary produced by her eco-cohort Darryl Cherney looks at her life. whobombedjudibari.com. 223-3788.

BOOKS

Alan Senauke. 7-8:30 p.m. Northtown Books, 957 H St.,

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Arcata. Zen priest and Buddhist peace activist signs his new book The Bodhisatttva’s Embrace: Dispatches from Engaged Buddhism’s Front Line. 822-2834.

FOR KIDS

Share a Story. 6:30 p.m. Arcata Library, 500 Seventh St. Video clip, stories, puppets, activities and crafts. Each family receives the book Rhyming Dust Bunnies. www. humlib.org. 269-1910.

16 friday ELECTIONS

Dinner for Supervisor Clif Clendenen. 6 p.m. Scotia Inn, 100 Main St. Hosted by Committee to Re-Elect Clif Clendenen. Meal by Dorris and Daughter Catering, no host bar, music by Falling Rocks. $40/$75 pair. clendenen4supervisor.com.

EVENTS

Humboldt Juggling Festival. Noon-10 p.m. D Street Neighborhood Center/East Gym, HSU. Free workshops and juggling all day. www.humboldtjugglingsociety. org. 826-3928.

St. Patrick’s Dinner. 5 p.m. Willow Creek VFW Hall, 20

Kimtu Rd. Corned beef and cabbage. Fund Raiser for the Willow Creek Fire Council. $10.

St. Patrick’s One Day Early. 5 p.m. Westhaven Center for the Arts, 501 S. Westhaven Drive. Corned beef and cabbage dinner ($15) followed by traditional Irish and bluegrass music by Pilot Rock Ramblers at 7 p.m. $7 for music only. Call ahead for dinner reservation. 677-9493.

California Conference on American Indian Education.

11 a.m. HSU. See March 15 listing.

THEATER

[title of show]. 8 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. Hit Broadway musical featuring music and lyrics

by Jeff Bowen, a love letter to musical theatre about two struggling young artists who decide to write an original work for a musical theatre competition even though the deadline is near. $10. ferndale-rep.org. 800-838-3006.

Tell Me More: Ten Tales. 8 p.m. Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway. Random People’s Monologue/Dialogue Project presents locally written stories.

Refreshments provided by South Fork High School Spanish Club. $12/$20 sliding scale. 943-9786.

Saved at Last From the Awful Flood of Life. 8 p.m.

Dell’Arte Carlo Theatre. See March 15 listing. Pay what you can. Reservations at 668-5663.

You Can’t Take It With You. 7 p.m. Redwood Curtain Theatre. See March 15 listing.

The Miser. 8 p.m. Forum Theater, CR. See March 15 listing.

Upping Arcata’s Weird Downtown Arcata is no stranger to strange.

For better or worse, a trip to the Plaza is likely to include a cast of, uh, colorful figures. But even in A-town, we’re betting someone dubbed by TMZ as “The Freakiest Dude in America” will stand out.

Sorry, Plazoids. You’re about to be out weirded.

You’ve likely caught a glimpse of The Enigma (born Paul Lawrence) at some point. Covered from head to toe with blue, puzzle-piece-shaped tattoos and sporting two knobby horns on the top of his shaven head, he’s hard to miss. Over the course of his illustrious career he’s performed as part of the Jim Rose Circus at Lollapalooza, appeared on television shows The X-Files and Penn and Teller: Bullshit, and portrayed himself in the freak show-themed film Firecracker alongside Faith No More’s Mike Patton.

MUSIC

Wild Irish Barn Dance. 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Manila Community Center, 1611 Peninsula Drive, Arcata. Shirleigh Brannon and Mathew Marshall call Irish and Scottish social dances to music by fiddler Blake Ritter, David Boveri on concertina, plus local friends. Beer, Irish coffee and snacks. $7. 269-2061.

Parker String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Calvary Lutheran Church, 716 South Ave., Eureka. Grammy Award winners for Best Chamber Music Performance perform Mozart, Janacek and Schumann. Part of Eureka Chamber Music Series. $30. 445-9650.

Babes in Bookland. 7:30 p.m. United Methodist Church, 1761 11th St., Arcata. The third annual Friends of the Arcata Library Spring Concert features The Babes, the Humboldt Light Opera’s woman’s chorus performing a selection of literate songs ranging from jazz to folk to good ol’ rock n’ roll. $6. 822-5954.

DANCE

Jammin’ Fridays. 8-11 p.m. Humboldt Capoeira Academy, 865 Eighth St., Arcata. All swing music. Lindy hop lesson by Phillip and Aleisha. $5. loverlipe@hotmail. com. 616-8484.

Friday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. North Coast Dance, 426 F St., Eureka. Swing lesson 7:30-8:15 p.m., followed by open session. $5. 464-3638.

SPOKEN WORD

Ghosts of the Gaelic Language. 7 p.m. Old Town Coffee and Chocolates, 211 F St., Eureka. Featuring ghoulish Celtic stories told by Carpathian and Howard Emerson. www.patientcreatures.com. 445-8600.

What’s The Enigma got in store for Arcata? He is currently getting his freak on touring with the Show Devils show alongside girlfriend Serena Rose performing such feats as “The Kiss of Death” — blindfolded, Paul and Serena hold apples in their mouths, fire up a chainsaw between them and precede to … ahh, you should just YouTube it.

Good news, HumCo! You’ll have two chances to catch Show Devils this week. First they are performing in a joint show with Shea Freelove’s Circus Emporium Roadshow on Thursday, March 15 at the Arcata Playhouse at 9 p.m. Then, on Sunday, March 18 they’ll titillate the crowd at HumBrews starting at 10 p.m.

So, you’ve been informed/warned. For more info, slither over to showdevils.com.

—Andrew Goff

FOR KIDS

Storyteller Kuniko Yamamoto. 7 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Playhouse Family Series begins with “Magical Mask, Mime and Music of Japan” combining charming folktales with traditional music, masks, origami and mime providing a magical entry into Japanese culture. $10/$8 kids 12 and under. arcataplayhouse.org.

822-1575.

ETC.

Eureka Sequoia Garden Club. 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m. First Covenant Church Carriage House, 2526 J St., Eureka.

Mary Lou Goodwin owner of Eureka Florist leads a flower arranging workshop. mgoodwin@northcoast. com. 442-1387.

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Girl Scouts Celebration. 10 a.m. Redwood Acres Fairground, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. Talent show, “trashion” fashion show with outfits made out of upcycled and recycled materials, food, tons of fun activities, displays, traditional Girl Scout stuff. 443-6641.

Shenanigans Celebration. 4 p.m. Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive. Knights of Columbus Redwood Council presents a corned beef dinner for St. Patrick’s Day with step dancing by Emerald Coast Irish Dancers,

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presents Four Humboldt County Chamber Ensembles Saluting Franklin Stover Sunday, March 18th at 3 p.m.

The Monday Club 610 Main St., Fortuna

Photo by Tina Vaughan

Suggested donation: $8.00 Seniors and Students: $6.00

Meadowood Quartet

Photo by Joan Tempas

Stephan Vaughan, Marilyn Page, Betty Bliss, Eric Jones

North Coast Brass Ensemble

Photo by Jeanne Scranton

Ronite Gluck, Tom Hyde, John Ferreriea, Fred Tempas, Dan Aldag

Sweetflower Trio

Photo by Richard Taylor

Allen Lesser, Gwen Post, Aryay Kalaki

2D&C

Joseph Hazen, Holly MacDowell, Mark Creaghe

Sponsored by Pacific Heart Group, Inc.

Fortuna – Eureka – Crescent City 444-8300

silent auction and “pot-o-gold” drawing. No host bat at 4 p.m. Dinner 5 p.m. $20, $10 for kids. 725-9303.

ArMack Orchestra Gaelic Gala. 5:30 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Community Parkway. Evening of food, music, and an auction of exceptional items to help Arcata and McKinleyville High school students travel to and compete in New York and London. E-mail orchestra@outerarcata.net. 839-4668.

Trinidad Skatepark Alliance Benefit. 6-10 p.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. Features music by The No Good Redwood Ramblers and Kindred Spirits. All ages. $10. 601-7792.

St. Patrick’s Green Day. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Beneficial Living Center, 148 South G St., Arcata. Fundraiser to buy a rototiller for the Arcata Educational Farm with music by The Mighty Redwood Ambassadors and DJ LivingEarth, beer garden and seed exchange, pot-of-gold raffle, get lucky garage sale. 633-6125.

California Conference on American Indian Education.

11 a.m. Humboldt State University. See March 15 listing.

Humboldt Juggling Festival. 10 a.m. East Gym. See March 16 listing. Public show in Gist Hall Theater at 7 p.m. $15.

High School. Learn about Access Humboldt media resources including recording studio, field equipment, editing stations, cable TV channels, online archives. www.accesshumboldt. net. 476-1798.

You Can’t Take It With You. 7-9 p.m. Redwood Curtain.

See March 15 listing.

Saved at Last From the Awful Flood of Life. 8 p.m.

Dell’Arte Carlo Theatre. See March 16 listing.

The Miser. 8 p.m. Forum Theatre CR. See March 15 listing.

Tell Me More: Ten Tales. 8 p.m. Mateel Community Center. See March 16 listing.

Open Jazz Jam. 2-4:30 p.m. Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. Bassist Baron Wolfe and friends followed by open jam. 442-0278.

Chamber Players of the Redwoods. 3 p.m.

Fortuna Monday Club, 610 Main St. Four North Coast chamber music ensembles comprising a total of 15 musicians perform works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Kotschau, Berger, Koetsier, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Strayhorn and others. $8/$6 students and seniors. 839-1452.

Girlyman. 7:30 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Folk/pop/rock band performs a blend of acoustic, Americana and rock in support of new

THEATER

OUTDOORS

Bird Survey. 8 a.m. Shay Park, Arcata. Assist Audubon’s Rob Fowler on his ebird site survey. 839-3493.

Audubon Society Arcata Marsh Field Trip. 8:30 a.m.

Meet at parking lot, end of South I Street. Led by Pat Bitton rain or shine. Bring binoculars for birding. 442-9353.

Trail Stewards Work Day. 9-11 a.m. Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. Help maintain trails and grounds around nature center. Wear closedtoed shoes; bring drinking water. friendsofthedunes. org. 444-1397.

Open Gardens. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Humboldt Botanical Gardens, College of the Redwoods, Eureka. Roam the 44acre fully fenced property. $5. www.hbgf.org. 442-5139.

Friends of the Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 600 S. G St. Elliot Dabill leads a 90-minute interpretive walk through the Marsh. 826-2359.

SPORTS

St. Patrick’s Skate Night. 6-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Fireman’s Pavilion Rohner Park, 5 Park St. Rollerskate the night away. $3 for those wearing the green. 725-7620.

FOR KIDS

Storyteller Kuniko Yamamoto. 2 and 7 p.m. Arcata Playhouse. See March 16 listing.

BOOKS

Author Lloyd Kahn. 7 p.m. Northtown Books, 957 H St., Arcata. Talk and slideshow based on his new book, Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter. northtownbooks.com. 822-2834.

ETC.

Community Media Center Orientation. 10 a.m.-noon.

Access Humboldt Community Media Center, Eureka

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Show Devils. 10 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. America’s A-list “Subculture Sweethearts” bring you a menagerie collection of human marvels, strange stunts and novel talents.

With special guests Small Axe. $10. 826-2739.

Humboldt Juggling Festival. 10 a.m. East Gym. See March 16 listing.

THEATER

The Miser. 2 p.m. Forum Theater, CR. See March 15 listing.

MUSIC

album Supernova. $17/$15 members. www.arcataplayhouse.org. 822-1575.

OUTDOORS

Audubon Society SoHum Field Trip. 9 a.m. Southern Humboldt Community Park, 934 Sprowl Creek Road, Garberville. Meet in Kimtu Road parking lot. Field trip to revel in beauty of the park and its avian inhabitants.

986-1112.

FOOD

Dow’s Prairie Grange Breakfast. 8-11 a.m. Dow’s Prairie Community Grange, 3995 Dow’s Prairie Rd., McKinleyville. Pancake breakfast while meeting your neighbors. dowsprairiegrange.org. $6. E-mail dowsgrange@ gmail.com. 840-0100.

ETC.

Redwood Coast Scrabble Club. 1-5 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Community Parkway. Fun with words.

677-9242.

Forks Over Knives. 6 p.m. Fortuna Community Services building, 2331 Rohnerville Rd., Fortuna. Film examines how degenerative diseases can be prevented and even reversed by changes in what we eat. 777-9861.

Finding Peace When Life Is Difficult. 7 p.m. Lifetree Cafe, 76 13th St., Arcata. Life-and-death decisions, hardships, and disabilities discussed. Snacks and beverages available. E-mail bobdipert@hotmail.com. 672-2919.

The Unbearable Lightness of The Parker Quartet While the Eureka Chamber Music Series routinely brings in some truly fine touring string quartets, this Friday’s show is extra special. The Parker Quartet, founded a decade ago at the New England Conservatory of Music in conjunction with the conservatory’s professional string quartet training program, is arguably among the best in America.

After garnering numerous awards early on — winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition and taking home the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the 2005 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France — the quartet won the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009-2011 seasons. More recently, the quartet — violinists Daniel Chong and Karen Kim, violist

Jessica Bodner and cellist Kee-Hyun Kim — won the 2011 Grammy for “Best Chamber Music Performance” for their recording of György Ligeti’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2.

The Parker’s program in Eureka includes Wolfgang Mozart’s Quartet in F Major, K. 590, Robert Alexander Schumann’s Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3, and Leoš JanáÐek’s Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters,” which you may remember from the soundtrack of Milos Forman’s film The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The Parker Quartet performance on Friday, March 14, begins at 7:30 p.m. at Calvary Lutheran Church, 716 South Avenue, Eureka. Admission is $30, $15 for church members, just $5 for students. Contact ECMS at 445-9650.

— Bob Doran

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22 thursday

19 monday

Sky Miller, saxophone Shao Way Wu, bass Mike LaBolle, percussion

EVENTS

DANCE

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.

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DANCE

Coming Together to Help Children Learn Mathematics. 7:30 p.m. HSU Founders Hall, Room 118.

Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona William McCallum discusses developing common core state standards for U.S. mathematics. 826-3143. .

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Meklit Hadero. 8 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. San Francisco-based jazz/folk singer Meklit Hadero brings her trio of drums, bass and trumpet back to the Playhouse. $15, $13 Playhouse members. www. arcataplayhouse.org, 822-1575.

OUTDOORS

Friends of the Dunes Work Day. 5-6:30 p.m.

Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. Develop native landscaping around nature center and on the green roof. 444-1397.

FOR KIDS

Family Literacy Night. 6:30 p.m. Humboldt County Library, 1313 Third St., Eureka. Featuring local storyteller Dan O’Gara. Each child receives a new book.

269-1910.

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Meet the Agency. 7 p.m. Adoption Horizons. 10 W. Seventh St., Suite F, Eureka. Open to anyone interested in discussing local adoption services and options. 444-9909.

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THEATER

The Miser. 8 p.m. Forum Theater, CR. See March 15 listing.

ETC.

THE GRID

A Taste of Main Street. 5-8 p.m. Various locations throughout Old Town, Eureka. Sample food from 24 local participating restaurants and food producers. $25. 442-9054.

Redwood Coast Jazz Festival Kick Off Dance. 7-10 p.m. Adorni Center, 1011 Waterfront Drive, Eureka.

Start your Jazz Fest weekend with dancing to Blue Street Jazz Band. $10, $8 with an all event badge.

445-3378.

ART

Figure Drawing Group. 7-9 p.m. Cheri Blackerby Gallery. See March 15 listing.

MEETINGS

Senior Action Coalition. 10 a.m.-noon. Alzheimer’s Resource Center, Building B, 2nd Floor, Eureka. Take a stand on issues affecting older adults. www.a1aa. org/psa. 441-0449.

Redwood Region Audubon Society. Noon. Golden Harvest Cafe, 1062 G St., Arcata. Discuss local and bigger-picture conservation issues. 442-9353.

American Rhododendron Society. 7 p.m. Eureka Women’s Club, 1531 J St. Eureka chapter’s monthly meeting. 443-0604.

Thursday, March 15th 7 pm $6 Admission at the door 423 F Street, Eureka 707-269-0617 sewellgallery.com

Heads Up…

Paths 2 Prosperity. Learn how to handle your money. The Financial Resource Center is looking for young adults 16-25 to participate in workshops that make financial literacy fun and lucrative. Classes held at Humboldt County Office of Education, 901 Myrtle Avenue, Eureka from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays March 24 and 31, April 7 and 14. Cash awards to those who earn a certificate of completion.

North Coast Open Studios. Registration deadline is Tuesday, March 20. NCOS 2012 takes place Saturday and Sunday, June 2-3 and 9-10. It’s open to dedicated artists, fine crafts people, arts manufacturers, art organizations, art businesses and cultural sites in Humboldt County. Reserve a spot in this creative showcase for local artists by completing and returning the application form. Contact NCOS Coordinator Taffy Stockton at contact@northcoastopenstudios.com, call (707) 834-6460 or go to www.northcoastopenstudios.com. ●

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Erin Go Bragh!

St. Patrick’s Day is upon us once again come Saturday, a day when everyone’s Irish, wearing green is considered mandatory, shamrocks are bandied about recklessly and the bartenders add green food coloring to beer. All this ostensibly to commemorate the death of a saint who was not Irish, because he supposedly drove some snakes out of Ireland.

In what is mostly an American tradition, we eat a boiled meal of corned beef and cabbage to mark the day. You can do so a day early, Friday, March 16, at the Willow Creek VFW Hall (20 Kimtu Road) starting at 5 p.m. The $10 you pay for dinner goes to help support the Willow Creek Fire Council.

Also celebrating St. Patrick’s one day early with corned beef, the Westhaven Center for the Arts (501 S. Westhaven Drive). You’re asked to call ahead for reservations for the 5 p.m. c.b.&c. dinner (677-9493) or show up at 7 p.m. for traditional Irish and bluegrass music by The Pilot Rock Ramblers. Just $7 for music only.

Get jiggy on Friday at the Manila Community Center (1611 Peninsula Drive) with a Wild Irish Barn Dance featuring tunes by fiddler Blake Ritter and David Boveri on concertina and other friends with Shirleigh Brannon and Mathew Marshall calling Irish and Scottish social dances. It goes from 7:30-11 p.m. with beer, Irish coffee and snacks (no corned beef).

Admission is $7. Call 269-2061 for more details.

Meanwhile, Friday at Old Town Coffee and Chocolates (211 F St., Eureka), the living spectre Carpathian and Howard Emerson offer Ghosts of the Gaelic Language, a collection of ghoulish Celtic stories. Showtime is 7 p.m. Details at www.patientcreatures.com or 445-8600.

Then on Saturday, St. Pat’s Day proper, you have the Knights of Columbus Redwood Council’s Shenanigans Celebration at the Fortuna River Lodge (1800 Riverwalk Drive) starting at 4 p.m. with a no host bar. The requisite corned beef dinner is at 5 p.m. along with step dancing by Emerald Coast Irish Dancers, a silent auction and a “pot-o-gold” drawing. Admission is $20, $10 for kids. 725-9303.

The ArMack Orchestra’s annual international din-

ner is also on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at the Arcata Community Center (321 Community Parkway), and since it’s that day it’s a Gaelic Gala. A gourmet Irish dinner is followed by a performance featuring something from the movie Amadeus (Mozart) and Celtic tunes for Lord of the Dance. There’s also an auction with proceeds going to help Arcata and McKinleyville High School students travel to New York and London to compete in music festivals. Reservations at 822-5453 or 839-4668 or orchestra@outerarcata.net.

The annual St. Pat’s celebration at Gallagher’s Irish Pub (in the Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka) features Humboldt’s top Celtic combo, Good Company, with Ann Marie Woolley, Sam McNeill, Bob Stockwell and Janet Finney-Krull, plus special guest fiddler Kevin Woolley, and the Emerald Coast Irish Dancers. Good Company kicks things off at 5:30 p.m. with Irish reels and jigs; the dancers perform from 7-7:45, then there’s more Good Co. Irishness from 8-10.

You’ll also find the Irish pub band The Vanishing Pints at Bear River Casino Saturday night (9 p.m.). Fiddler Blake Ritter plays early (5 p.m.) at Mad River Brewing with friends David and Chris (corned beef and cabbage available), then later (9 p.m.) Blake plays at Café Mokka with his usual music partner, Rich Kearns.

Saturday’s Shake Your Shamrock Dance Party at the Sapphire Palace has Accurate Productions playing music for a not-exactly-Irish electronica dance party (9 p.m.-2 a.m.) to benefit Teens For Change (you must be at least 18 to attend).

Tickets are $12 and are available at the Blue Lake Casino Players Club or by phone at 668-9770 ext. 3281.

Also barely Irish, the St. Patrick’s Day Fundraiser at Beneficial Living Center (148 South G St., Arcata) to help Arcata Educational Farm buy a new rototiller. The all-day party (11 a.m.-5 p.m.) includes music by The Mighty Redwood Ambassadors and DJ LivingEarth, a beer garden and seed exchange, a pot-of-gold raffle and a “get lucky” garage sale. Call 633-6125 for more details.

Have a green weekend!

— Bob Doran

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JOHN CARTER

Martian Kitsch

Carter stumbles in low gravity, and things get worse from there

By John J. Bennett filmland@northcoastjournal.com

Reviews JOHN CARTER. With John Carter, writer-director Andrew Stanton (Wall E, Finding Nemo) hitches his wagon to Disney’s star, following Pixar counterpart Brad Bird into huge-budget live action.

Bird stepped into the fourth installment of a well-established franchise, complete with mega-star (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol). Stanton adapted an early 20th century sci-fi adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs, then cast a breakout TV star with relatively few film credits. Add a rumored $250 million in production costs and more than two hours of Martian fisticuffs and this is the result: a would-be blockbuster that never capitalizes on its substantial promise.

In the early going I was fully on-board with John Carter. We’re introduced to the eponymous protagonist in the American Northeast, circa 1881. The production design is sumptuously detailed, and the air of adventure is infectious. After a plot

turn or two, the story jumps back a dozen years to the wilds of the Arizona territory. Carter, a cavalryman still raw from the war, seeks a storied cave of gold in the foothills. For my money, this section is the movie’s highpoint. The stunts are quick and exciting and Stanton tips his cap to John Ford with some breathtaking tracking shots of Monument Valley.

Then the plot turns again and Carter finds himself on Mars, where the accumulated tension and fun of the first act dissipate. Carter lands in the middle of an intense global conflict. Two warring humanoid factions are trying to wipe each other out, and the nomadic, six-limbed, green-skinned Tharks are caught in the middle. Weird mystics are calling the shots from behind the scenes. Carter falls for an embattled princess. The middle part of movie is weirdly talky and stilted, and punctuated with huge action sequences that aren’t compelling enough to save it.

Star Taylor Kitsch had his work cut out for him with this one, and on the whole he acquits himself admirably. But some of

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SILENT HOUSE. From a technical standpoint, Silent House is pretty ambitious. Taking a page from the Hitchcock playbook (see Rope), the filmmakers made the movie look like a single, unbroken shot. They pull off the trick, but one has to wonder why they bothered. It’s just a trick, a logistical stunt that doesn’t contribute the atmosphere or story. In fact, it’s often distracting enough to take you out of the story completely.

Despite that, the first two thirds of the picture are airlessly tense and scary. This is thanks mostly to a nervy performance

by Elizabeth Olsen. As a young woman trapped inside her family’s neglected vacation house, she’s called upon to play sheer panic for the entire running time.

The problem is that her performance is in service of a script that stretches the anxiety so far it can’t help but snap back, unsatisfyingly.

The premise is effective and viscerally frightening: being trapped in confined space with an unknown assailant. Codirectors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau tap into that fear early on. They use a lot of well-worn horror tropes (the electricity’s off, the windows are boarded up, the doors are all locked, etc.), but they work them in effectively. Thankfully, they also avoid unnecessary exposition. We walk right into the thick of things without much context, which adds a disorienting dimension to the creepiness.

That’s all well and good, but the movie falls apart when it gets to the conclusion, which is implausible and unsatisfying. I don’t want to give it away, so I’ll just say the plot turns on an overused device and rushes through the resolution without taking the time necessary to make it work.

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A strong lead performance, effective atmosphere and clever camera trickery can’t save this thing from itself. R. 85m.

A THOUSAND WORDS is 990-some too many for this dull, lifeless, brazenly obvious excuse for a comedy. When Eddie Murphy showed up in Tower Heist last year, I was among many who thought we might be getting back some of the old Eddie, the foul-mouthed, quick witted, street-wise character he created to define much of the comedy of the 1980s. But I was wrong, Heist was a huge disappointment, and now he’s obviously back to his newer old tricks, that is, churning out the kind of uninspired, insipid “family” fare that’s unfit for human consumption.

A magic tree grows in Murphy’s back yard. With every word he speaks, a leaf falls from the tree. He decides that the last leaf will signal his death. Only processing his daddy issues can save him from this dark fate.

To end on a positive note I can say that Clark Duke’s performance as Murphy’s assistant almost makes the movie worth watching. His affect and timing are nearperfect, but even they can’t fill the humor vacuum that is this movie. PG13. 91m.

Previews 21 JUMP STREET. The Fox TV show that launched Johnny Depp in 1987 gets remade as an action-comedy some 25 years later, starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube. R. 109m.

RAMPART. The trailer lays it down in all caps: “WOODY HARRELSON IS THE MOST CORRUPT COP YOU’VE EVER SEEN ON SCREEN.” With a script co-written by crime novelist James Ellroy, this dark drama features an impressive supporting cast including Ned Beatty, Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi. R. 108m.

Friday, the Arcata Theatre Lounge presents the 1999 beauty pageant mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, starring Kirsten Dunst and Denise Richards. PG13. 97m. 8 p.m. The following night is St. Patty’s Day, and the ATL is celebrating with corned beef, Irish car bombs and director Guy Ritchie’s hyperkinetic crime saga Snatch (2000), starring Jason Statham, Dennis Farina and Brad Pitt in a tasty supporting role. R. 104m. 8 p.m. Little Monsters, the oddball 1989 family comedy starring little Fred Savage and comedian Howie Mandel (in lizard makeup), comes creeping in Sunday. PG. 100m. 6 p.m. And on Wednesday, Sci-Fi Pint and Pizza Night rolls around again with a Herculean doublecontinued on next page

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Film times reflect the most current listings as of Tuesday afternoon. As schedules at individual theaters sometimes change, we recommend calling ahead to avoid any inconvenience.

Broadway Cinema

Fri Mar 16: Drop Dead Gorgeous Doors at 7:30 p.m. $5 Rated PG-13 Sat Mar 17: Snatch w/ Corned Beef & Car Bomb Specials! Doors at 7:30 p.m. $5 Rated R Sun Mar 18: Little Monsters Doors at 5:30 p.m. $5 Rated PG Wed Mar 21: Sci Fi Pint & Pizza Night ft. Hercules Double Feature 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. All ages

707-443-3456 1223 Broadway Street, Eureka Times are for 3/16-3/22 unless otherwise noted.

21 JUMP STREET *1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 A THOUSAND WORDS 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 SILENT HOUSE 12:45, 3:00, 5:45, 8:45 JOHN CARTER 3D 12:05, 2:20, 3:10, 6:20, 8:30, 9:30 JOHN CARTER 2D 11:15, 5:25 PROJECT X 11:50, 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 THE LORAX 3D 12:50, 3:25, 5:55, 8:20 THE LORAX 2D 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40 ACT OF VALOR 1:05, 3:40, 6:15, 9:00 WANDERLUST 1:45, 6:40 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 2D 11:25, 4:15, 9:10 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 2D 1:35, 6:50 THE VOW 12:55, 3:35, 6:10, 8:50 SAFE HOUSE 4:05, 9:15

Mill Creek Cinema

707-839-3456 1575 Betty Court, McKinleyville Times are for 3/16-3/22 unless otherwise noted.

21 JUMP STREET *12:40, 3:20, 6:10, 8:55 JOHN CARTER 3D *11:50, *12:30, 2:55, 6:00, 6:30, 9:05 JOHN CARTER 2D 3:30, 9:30 PROJECT X 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 THE LORAX 3D 12:20, 5:45 THE LORAX 2D 3:10, 8:15 WANDERLUST *12:45, 6:15, ACT OF VALOR *1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 2D 4:00, 9:10 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D 3:50, 9:25 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 2D *12:55, 6:55 SAFE HOUSE 3:20, 8:45

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the qualities that made him so compelling on the TV show Friday Night Lights (humor, wounded pride, sublimated sensitivity) are conspicuously absent from his John Carter.

I think he tries a little too hard to make the transition to action stardom, but he isn’t entirely to blame for the movie’s limited artistic success. That can be attributed to its sagging middle, longwinded dialog and impotent action.

PG13. 132m

* = EARLY SHOWS

Minor Theatre 707-822-3456

1001 H Street, Arcata Times are for 3/16 -3/22 unless otherwise noted.

RAMPART THE DESCENDANTS THE ARTIST

*1:10, 3:40, 6:15, 8:50 *1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 *1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20

Fortuna Theater

707-725-2121 1241 Main Street, Fortuna Times are for 3/16 -3/22 unless otherwise noted.

JOHN CARTER 3D *12:40, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 THE LORAX 3D *12:00, *2:10, 4:25, 6:30, 8:45 THE LORAX 2D *12:50, *3:00, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20 PROJECT X *12:15, *2:30, 4:40, 7:00, 9:05 WANDERLUST 7:15, 9:35 ACT OF VALOR *12:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D *12:10, 2:35, 4:55 THIS MEANS WAR 7:20, 9:45

Garberville Theater 707-923-3580

766 Redwood Drive, Garberville

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 2D 3/16 - 3/22: 7:30 ExCEpT 3/21: 6:30

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CROCHET FLOWER CLASS. Fri.s, Noon-2 p.m. $25, with Kelly Card of KC Made It. Make a variety of flowers to adorn any kind of handwork! Explore several methods of construction, and leave with a bouquet of new skills. Basic crochet skills required.

Bring a few hooks and scraps of yarn. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329)

feature: Hercules Unchained (1959) and plain-old Hercules (1958), both starring bodybuilding beefcake Steve Reeves.

6-10 p.m.

Are you an opera lover bemoaning our cultural isolation? Good news!

Fortuna (yes, Fortuna) to the rescue!

With the Fortuna Theatre’s Symphony in Cinema Series, you can watch a Berlin production of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutti on the big screen! Sunday at 4 p.m. and Wednesday, March 21, at 7 p.m.

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Place online at www.northcoastjournal.com or e-mail: classified@northcoastjournal.com. Listings must be paid in advance by check, cash or Visa/MasterCard. Many classes require pre-registration.

Continuing ACT OF VALOR. Active-duty Navy SEALs star as active-duty Navy SEALs in this fictionalized account of Navy SEALs on active duty. Shameless Pentagon propaganda. R. 101m.

THE ARTIST. Mostly silent, blackand-white homage to cinema’s mostly silent, black-and-white early years. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture. PG13. 103m.

THE DESCENDANTS. George Clooney plays a Hawaiian parent and land baron thrust into real life after his wife’s jet-boating accident. Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay. R. 115m.

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE. Nicolas Cage stars in this moronic, action-packed sequel centered on Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle-driving stuntman who sold his soul to the devil.

PG13. 95m.

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson leads a family-friendly adventure to the isle of 3D effects. Jules Verne barfs in his grave. PG. 94m.

THE LORAX. The tree-hugging Dr. Seuss character now shills for SUVs and flapjacks. What a sellout! Also, this movie is not good. PG. 86m.

PROJECT X. You know the party is off the hook when the angry dwarf gets stuffed in the oven and the drug dealer grabs a flamethrower. Sigh. R. 88m.

SAFE HOUSE. An otherwise generic CIA thriller gets a lift from Denzel Washington’s charisma. R. 115m.

THE VOW. After a car accident, a woman loses all memory of her husband, so he has to woo her anew. PG13.

104m.

WANDERLUST. Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play a Manhattan couple who join a free-love commune in this comedy from director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer). R. 98m. l North COAST Coast JOURNAL JourNal •• THURSDAY, thursday, MARCH MarCh 15, 15, 2012 2012 •• northcoastjournal.com northcoastjournal.com 32 NORTH 32

Arts & Crafts CREATING TUMBLERS & MUGS. Ongoing, weekly the first and third Mon., 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Create whimsical ceramic mugs for our fundraising events.

All ages welcome. Attend 3 workshops and receive a final product free. Fire Arts Center, 520 South G St., Arcata. 707-826-1445, www.fireartsarcata.com (AC-0315) GLASS FUSING. $120 + $60 materials fee. (4 weeks) Tues., 5-8 p.m., March 20-April 10. Weds., 10:30 a.m.1:30 p.m., March 21-April 11. Explore the elements of design and the principles of composition as you create exciting works of art with glass. Fire Arts Center, 520 South G St., Arcata. 707-826-1445, www. fireartsarcata.com. (AC-0315) TILE MAKING. $180, Fri.s., 5:30-7:30 p.m., March 30June 1(10 weeks). Enjoy this decorative, yet functional art form while exploring a variety of tile-forming and surface-decorating techniques. Finished tiles can be hung, grouted, or incorporated into other projects.

Suitable for beginner-experienced students. Fire Arts Center, 520 South G Street, Arcata. 826-1445, www. fireartsarcata.com.(AC-0315) WHEEL THROWING 1 & 2. $180, Thurs., March 29May 31 (10 weeks), 5:30-7:30 p.m. Join Peggy Loudon for complete introduction to basic wheel-throwing and glazing techniques. Perfect for beginning and returning students. Class will put you on the road to developing your own personal style. Fire Arts Center, 520 S. G St, 826-1445. www.fireartsarcata. com. (AC-0315) “THE ARTIST’S WAY” GROUP FORMING. 12 week session in discovering your creative self. If you want more creativity in your life or if you are blocked and can’t get into the flow, join us. All art forms welcome.

(714) 658-4335. (AC-0315) CAN’T BELIEVE I’M CROCHETING WITH KC. Thurs.s, Noon-2 p.m., with Kelly Card of KC Made It. $25. Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of crocheting! Designed for complete beginners. Learn most of the basic stitches: how to chain, single crochet, and double crochet, how to work flat and in the round.

We will talk about gauge, what hook goes with what yarn and how to read a pattern. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www. origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329)

DECONSTRUCTED SILK SCREENING. Sat., March 24,14 p.m. $55, with Cindy Shaw. Using a variety of textures, such as leaves, fabrics, corrugated cardboard, doilies, and stencils (to name a few), I will teach you how to make beautiful designs on fabric and paper using the screen printing process. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www. origindesignlab.com. (AC-0322) DYING TO UP-CYCLE. With Devora. Sat., March 17, 1-4 p.m. $55. Tie-dyeing provides a quick easy way to turn your old favorite garments and thrift store finds into vibrant new fashionable clothing. Devora of Rainbow Goddess will prepare the dyes and fixer and teach you many of the folds and tying techniques that she has learned during her 32 years of experience Bring used natural fiber garments. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www. origindesignlab.com.(AC-0329) FREE EUREKA BUTTON CLUB. 2nd Sun. of the month, 2 p.m. We are mad about buttons old and new. Our meetings are fun and educational. Come and learn more about all of those buttons in your button box.

Guests are welcome any time. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www. origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329) INTRO TO WET FELTING. Thurs.s, 6-8 p.m. $35 +$10 material fee. Learn basic wet felting techniques using warm soapy water and wool roving. Create felted balls, felted beads, pin cushions, coasters and flat felt. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www.origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329) LEARN TO KNIT SOCKS AT YARN! Thurs.s, April 5-26, 5:30-7 p.m. Step up your knitting with socks. We’ll learn the short row method of turning the heel. Beg. knitting level required. Call 443-YARN for more info. and to register. (AC-0329) MASTER PENCIL & BALL POINT PEN. Learn the secret techniques of America’s Top Photo Realist Chuck Bowden. 12 weeks, Sun.s, 6-8:30 p.m. beginning March 18. $25/class includes school, library and gallery access. Located at Main Street Art Gallery, 1006 Main St., Fortuna. Call Chuck, 845-2038. Any age any level welcome! (AC-0315) OPEN CRAFT NIGHT. Fri.s, 6-9 p.m. FREE. Come craft with us and get creative and crazy, bring your project and a snack (and your fun hat!). Free to all (adults please) and a great way to explore new projects and get to know your fellow artist. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www. origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329) STENCILING ON FABRICS. With April Sproule. Sat., March 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $80. Using April’s collection of original textile stencil designs perfectly suited for a wide variety of fiber art applications such as wearable art, quilting projects, and home decor.

Class covers: Basic stenciling technique, Image placement: borders, all over patterns, and central motifs, layering and shading color mixing. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www. origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329) LEARN TO DRAW! Traditional drawing with local artist Susan Fox. Tues., 7-9 p.m. On-going 4 week sessions: $40. Westhaven Center for the Arts. Write/ call, sfox@foxstudio.biz, 496-1246. (AC-0419)

ORCHID GROWING DEMYSTIFIED UP-CYCLE KIDS CLOTHES. Sun., March 18, Noon-4 p.m., with Mari of Almond Blossom. $75. Turn unsuitable funky kid’s clothes into cute wearable clothing again. Bring clothing that is stained, dingy, and or with small tears. Learn the craft of dying, screenprinting, using a sewing machine to sew patches and alter clothing into treasures. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www. origindesignlab.com. (AC-0315) VERY BEGINNING SEWING Wed.s, 6-8 p.m. with Jodi Lee. Learn to use and care for your sewing machine. We will have you sewing a straight line in no time, then on to fancier stiches. Origin Design Lab, 426 3rd St., Old Town Eureka, (707) 497-6237, www. origindesignlab.com. (AC-0329) FINISHING TECHNIQUES AT YARN. Thurs., March 22 & 29, 5:30-7 p.m. $30, plus materials. Learn how to correctly seam your knitting and techniques to make knitted projects look more beautiful. Call 443-YARN to register and for more info. (AC-0315)

Communication

LIFETREE CAFE: JOIN THE CONVERSATION. Ever wonder how you’d face a life-or-death decision?

Come hear the story of one couple who faced such a decision about their unborn child. Sun., March 18, 7 p.m. Lifetree Café, 76 13th St., Arcata. Free Admission.

Questions, Contact Bob Dipert 672-2919, bobdipert@ hotmail.com. (CMM-0315) UNLAWFUL SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING. Are you and your business in compliance with California law? Participants will learn what is and is not harassment and how to recognize and respond to it effectively. This one-day, two-hour workshop meets the requirements of California State Law AB 1825. At the CR Eureka Downtown site, Thurs, March 29, 9-11:00 a.m., $45. Information or to register, call College of the Redwoods Community Education at 269-4000 or www.redwoods.edu, visit Community Education link. (CMM-0315) WOMEN’S NETWORKING GROUP. Come together to share and grow your Business, Product, or Service.

Monthly meetings, $20, includes organic/vegetarian meal. (No membership fee) Contact Joanne (707) 8456140, or theheartlinknetwork.com. (C-0322)

Computers

INTRO TO ADOBE DREAMWEAVER. Learn essentials of website design in a step-by-step exploration of this dynamic web design application. With Annie Reid. Tues. & Thurs., March 30-April 3, 6:30-9 p.m. $125.

Pre-registration required. Call HSU Extended Education to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/ extended. (C-0315) INTRO TO ADOBE INDESIGN. Fast-paced, hands-on exploration of Indesign page layout software. Demonstration of tools, menus, palettes, page set-up, master pages, guides and margins, color and more.

With Annie Reid. Tues./Thurs., April 10-24, 6:30-9 p.m. $125. Call HSU Extended Education to register, 8263731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/extended. (C-0329)

Dance, Music, Theater, Film

DISCOVER ARGENTINE TANGO! Beginning lessons Sun., 5-5:45 p.m. Practica 6-6:45 p.m., $6 Studio of Dance Arts, Eureka. 445-2655, 822-6170. (DMT-0329) 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-1227) BELLY DANCING WITH SHOSHANNA. Feel fabulous in classes for all levels in Arcata at Redwood Raks.

616-6876 or Shoshannaland.com. (DMT-1227)

WEST AFRICAN DANCE WITH ALSENY SOUMAH! All of March, Tues./Thurs., 5:30-7 p.m., at Redwood Raks, Arcata. All levels welcome. Live drumming. Dulce, 832-9547, Christina, 498-0146. (DMT-0329) DANCE WITH DEBBIE’S: Ballroom, Latin, Swing, and Yoga group and private lessons at North Coast Dance Annex, Eureka. Drop in on our Fri. Night Swing 7:30-9:30 p.m. Contact (707) 464-3638 or debbie@ dancewithdebbie.biz. (DMT-0426) JAPANESE OBON DANCING. Craig Kurumada teaches Obon Festival dances. All levels welcome. Mon.s for 5 weeks starting Feb. 20, 6-7 p.m. Common Ground Studio, Westwood Center on Alliance in Arcata. $5/ person, (707) 496-6734 or ckurumada@aol.com.

(DMT-0315) STUDIO OF DANCE ARTS. # 7 5th St., Eureka. (707) 442-1939. Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Irish Step, Hip Hop, Middle Eastern, Tango, Pre-School Dance, Pilates Mat. All levels & ages welcome. Register this month and perform in our June 19 performance at the Arkley Center For The Performing Arts. (DMT-0419) TRILLIUM DANCE STUDIO PRESENTS: Salsa Lessons with Ozzy Ricardez and Miss Julie. All levels Welcome. Ongoing, drop-in Fri. nights, 7-8:15 p.m.

1925 Alliance Rd., in Arcata (x st. Foster) $7 single $10 couple. (DMT-0531) GUITAR/PIANO LESSONS. All ages, beginning and intermediate. Seabury Gould 444-8507. (DMT-1227) SAXOPHONE/FLUTE LESSONS. All ages, beginneradvanced, jazz improvisation, technique. Susie Laraine: 441-1343. (DMT-1227) PIANO LESSONS. Beginners, all ages. Experienced.

Judith Louise 476-8919. (DMT-1227)

Fitness

ZUMBA FITNESS. Sat.s, 10-11 a.m. Lose weight, get fit, have fun. Sun Yi’s Academy, 1215 Guintoli Ln., Arcata. $5 class. Michele, 445-2355. (F-0517) HUMBOLDT CAPOEIRA ACADEMY. Spring Session: Feb. 1-June 15. Classes: Beginner Basics, Tues.s & Thurs.s, 6-7:15 p.m. Advanced Adults, Mon.s & Wed.s, 6-8 p.m. All Levels Adults, Thurs.s, 10:30-Noon. All Ages All Levels Community Class, Sat.s, Noon-2 p.m.

Arcata, (707) 498-6155. www.humboldtcapoeira.com.

HSU Students First Class Free. (F-0329) NIA. Nia has arrived in Humboldt County! Dance fusion fitness program blending healing arts, dance arts, and martial arts. Weds at the Bayside Grange, 6:30-7:30pm., 2297 Jacoby Creek Rd. Starts Feb. 1. Your first class is always FREE! Regular fees $6/$4 Grange Members. Pauline Ivens 707-441-9102, waterpolly@ gmail.com (F-0412) 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-1206) 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-1206)

ZUMBA. Latin-inspired fitness program using international music and various dance styles including Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue and Reggaeton for a great cardio workout. 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 12 p.m. and every Thur. at the Eureka Vets Hall 12 p.m. Marla Joy 707-845-4307. (F-1227) 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-1227) NORTH COAST SELF DEFENSE ACADEMY. Come learn your choice of Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Lau Kune Do Kung Fu, Muay Thai, Stand-up/Kickboxing & MMA. 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-1227)

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Learn how to grow orchids in your own home Sat., March 17

10:30 a.m.

Workshop Fee: $5 Space is limited

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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-1227) NORTHCOAST AIKIDO FOUNDATION. Instructing non-violent martial arts since 1978. Mon.-Fri., 6-7:30 pm. Adult Beginning Special: 6 weeks for $99, enrollment ongoing. Children’s classes Mon. or Wed., 4-5 pm, $40/month. Visitors welcome! 890 G Street, Arcata, entrance around back. 826-9395. www. northcoastaikido.org. (F-1227)

Garden

SPRING PLANT IDENTIFICATION. Learn to identify a wide variety of plants suited to our local area on guided walks around the College of the Redwoods main campus and adjacent Botanical Garden. Eightweek class, Mon.s, 1:30-4:00 p.m., starting March 19. $80. Information or to register, call College of the Redwoods Community Education at 269-4000 or www.redwoods.edu, visit Community Education link. (G-0315)

North Coast Academy Fencing (with swords!).

Improve your mind and body in a fun, intense workout, and a very chill environment. Ages 8 and up.

Contact Justin (707) 601-1657 Text or Phone.

1459 M. St. Arcata. northcoastfencingacademy@gmail.com

FOUNDATION CLASS. Fri. & Sat., April 7-8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. $275. Full Weekend beginning level class. Participants will leave understanding: Law: The many faces of Cannabis, from history to the ever changing current law. Health: The many reasons and ways to use medicinal cannabis safely. Horticulture: Effective techniques from soil preparation through to harvest and storage. Key elements of this class focus on knowing how to start, grow, harvest, dry/ cure and store their own medicine. We will address small indoor soil systems but have a focus on outdoor organic practices. 707 Campus, 1881 Barnett Ct., #4, Redway Meadows Business Park. 707 Cannabis College, www.cannabiscollege.com, (707) 672-9860.

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continued from previous page PURE ANALYTICS WITH SAMANTHA MILLER. FREE, Session 3 of 3 series on medical cannabis. Fri., April 6, 6:30-8 p.m. Introduction to High CBD and THC strain development, medicated edibles and dosage information. 707 Campus, 1881 Barnett Ct., #4, Redway Meadows Business Park. 707 Cannabis College, www. cannabiscollege.com, (707) 672-9860. (G-0401) INFUSIONS FOR CULINARY APPLICATIONS II. Fri., March 23, 6-9 p.m. $70. Infusions for vegetable glycerin, nut milks, and alcohol. Discussion and demonstration class. 707 Campus, 1881 Barnett Ct., #4, Redway Meadows Business Park. 707 Cannabis College, www.cannabiscollege.com, (707) 672-9860.

(G-0322) FOUNDATION CLASS. Fri. & Sat., March 17-18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. $275. Full Weekend beginning level class. Participants will leave understanding: Law, the many faces of Cannabis, from history to the ever changing current law. Health: The many reasons and ways to use medicinal cannabis safely.

Horticulture: Effective techniques from soil preparation through to harvest and storage. Key elements of this class focus on knowing how to start, grow, harvest, dry/cure and store their own medicine. We will address small indoor soil systems but have a focus on outdoor organic practices. 707 Campus, 1881 Barnett Ct., #4, Redway Meadows Business Park. 707 Cannabis College, www.cannabiscollege.com, (707) 672-9860. (G-0315) SOIL PREPARATION AND FERTILIZATION. With Kevin Jodrey. Fri., March 16, 6-9 p.m. $70. Learn the essentials of soil prepartion and feeding your garden for the healthiest results. 707 Campus, 1881 Barnett Ct., #4, Redway Meadows Business Park. 707 Cannabis College, www.cannabiscollege.com, (707) 672-9860. (G-0315)

Kids & Teens

CERAMICS FOR OLDER KIDS, AGES 7-12. $80, (5 weeks) Mon.s., 4-6 p.m., April 30-June 4. Adventures with clay: Learn various hand building and wheelthrowing techniques. Fire Arts Center, 520 South G St., Arcata. (707) 826-1445, www.fireartsarcata. com. (K-0315) CERAMICS FOR YOUNGER KIDS, AGES 5-7. $60, (4 weeks) Sat.s., 9:30-11 a.m., May 5-May 26. Fun class, which fosters a life-long love of ceramics and art.

More info at www.fireartsarcata.com, (707) 826-1445, Fire Arts Center, 520 South G St., Arcata. (K-0315)

MUSEUM ART SCHOOL FOR KIDS. At Morris Graves Museum of Art. Hands-on art instruction based on themes & subject matter reflected in exhibitions on display at MGMA in Eureka. After-school classes for ages 6-12, March 20-April 26. Instructors Arupa Richardson & Karan Collenberg. For fees and more info call 442-0278 ext. 208 or visit www.humboldtarts.org.

Registration forms available online. (K-0322) CAPOEIRA KIDS. Spring Session 2012: Feb. 1-June 15.

Classes: Beginner Kids (Age 5-7), Tues.s & Thurs.s, 3:304:30 p.m. Beginner kids (Age 8 & up), Tues.s & Thurs.s, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Advanced Kids (Ages 5-7), Mon.s & Wed.s, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Advanced Kids (Ages 8 & up), Mon.s & Wed.s, 4:30-6 p.m. Arcata, (707) 498-6155. www.humboldtcapoeira.com. (K-0329) 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-1227)

Language

LEARN SPANISH! With native speaker. Private lessons, all levels welcome! Contact Rocío: (787) 2256610 or talavera.rocio@gmail.com. (LA-0315)

Lectures

LIVING ON SHAKY GROUND: How to Survive Earthquakes & Tsunamis in Northern California. A free class. Mon., April 9. Two sessions offered at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., River Lodge, Fortuna. Pre-registration is required: Call (707) 499-0754. Presented by HSU Regional Training Institute, Community Disaster Preparedness (www.humboldt.edu/rti). Funding provided by the Calif. Emergency Management Agency Earthquake and Tsunami Program. (L-0329) PLANNING YOUR RETIREMENT. Premier Financial Group, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor, invites you to a free seminar on Tues., March 20, 5:15 p.m6:30 p.m. at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, 921 Waterfront Dr. Room 203, Eureka. Let us help you gain clarity and confidence around your retirement.

RSVP at (707) 443-2741 or online at www.premieradvisor.com. (LE-0315)

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-1227)

DANCE CLASSES AT BLUE LAKE PARK & REC. Dance classes for boys and girls of all ages. Enrich your life with ballet made fun and easy! Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced and Mommy/Daddy & Me classes offered. $5 per class. Begin March 26,. For schedules and descriptions visit www.bluelake.ca.gov or call Amanda Arthington, 668-5932. (K-0322)

SENIORS STRETCH CLASS. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation. Gentle stretch, designed to increase flexibility and strength while improving balance and circulation.

Beginning March 26, Mon & Wed. 10-11 a.m. and 2-3 p.m. at Prasch Hall, Blue Lake. Drop-In fee $4. Visit www.bluelake.ca.gov or call Amanda Arthington at 668-5932. (O-0322)

SEQUOIA PARK ZOO SPRING CAMP. For 5-12 year olds. Join us for a wild adventure at the zoo. Call 441-4263 or visit sequoiaparkzoo.net for info. (K-0315)

THE FOUR STORIES OF EPHESUS: Sources of the Modern World. Discover Ephesus, a city derived from Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Muslim cultures.

With Tom Gage. Thurs., April 5-26, 3:30-5:30 p.m. $60/OLLI members, $85/nonmembers. OLLI: 8265880 (O-0329)

SPRING BREAK CAMP. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation.

Join us for roller skating, arts and crafts, sports and more at Blue Lake Spring Break Camp for 5-13 year olds. Mon.-Fri., April 9-13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Perigot Park. Full-day or half-day option. Extended care hours available. Register today as space is limited!

Register at Blue Lake City Hall, www.bluelake.ca.gov or call Kara Newman, 668-5932, for more information. (K-0405)

INTRO TO MEDITATION: PART 2. A continuation of the Intro to Meditation course, offering more depth and longer meditations. Delve more deeply into Christian, Sufi, Hindu and Buddhist meditative traditions and also learn about the practice of chanting. With Girija Moran. Wed., April 4-25, 6-8 p.m. $60/OLLI members, $85/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0322)

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SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDY OF ROMEO & JULIET. Ponder the majesty of Shakepeare’s language and why this drama about young love lives on eternally as an audience favorite. With Tom Gage. Tues., April 3-24, 6-8 p.m. $60/OLLI members, $85/nonmembers.

Extra fee for optional trip to Ashland to see the play.

OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0322) WINE TASTING 101: An Introduction to Wine Appreciation. Learn more about wine: Wine regions, varietals and styles. Discuss how wine is analyzed, how to understand wine labels and explore food/ wine pairing. With Randy Ward. Tues., April 3-May 1, 6:30-8 p.m. $75/OLLI members, $100/nonmembers.

OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0322) FOSSILS & THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE THROUGH TIME. Look at the origins and evolution of life from the beginnings of the Earth to today, through viewing the Natural History Museum’s “Life Through Time” exhibits that have just been updated and reinstalled.

With Richard Paselk. Wed., March 28-May 2, 6-8 p.m. $60/OLLI members, $85/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880. (O-0315) THE ARMCHAIR TRAVELER: HARK, HARK, THE PARK. Join Jerry Rohde on a virtual tour of the most scenic nearby parks. Sat., March 24, 1-3 p.m. OLLI members/$30, $55/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880.

(O-0315) AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN MONGOLIA. Explore some major projects by American archaeologists and their Mongolian colleagues. Instructor Bob Service has participated in several Mongolian archaeological expeditions. Sat., March 24-April 14, 1-3 p.m. $45/ OLLI members, $70/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880.

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Spiritual

ADVANCED DREAMWORK WITH JEREMY TAYLOR. Fri., April 20, 7-9 p.m. & Sat., April 21, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

Pre-requisite: Basic Dreamwork with Jeremy or through OLLI. $75 both sessions. RSVP ASAP, Barbara Clark, 442-0743. (S-0315) WILD GRACE WISDOM SCHOOL SPRING CLASSES. EXPLORING NINE DIMENSIONS: B.H. Clow’s work, helps integrate the major changes we’re all going through. 5 Sun.s, March 25-April 22, 2-5 p.m. $150.

TAROT: Beginners, exploring this deliciously rich realm of images, symbols, practical and esoteric uses. 4 Fri.s, March 23-April 13, 1-3 p.m. $100.

(707) 668-5408, astro@salinarain.com, www. salinarain.com. (S-0315) SACRED RE-PARENTING. At the age of 2729 we are called to awaken to our Sacred Parents, to begin the process of letting go of the stories of our family of origin and to begin the journey of reparenting ourselves through our understanding, relationship, and experience of the Universal Source of all Things: God/Spirit/Creator. Eight week journey into that liberating and empowering process. Class begins April 3- May 22. Shakati Walsh, M.A. M.S. Visit website: Jupiterslight.com, email shakatiwalsh@yahoo.com or Call 707-826-0734 or 707 616-3163.

(S-0329) TAROT AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PATH. Classes in Eureka and Arcata.

Private mentorships, readings. Carolyn Ayres, 442-4240, www.tarotofbecoming.com. (S-0517)

THE SLOW DOWN EXPERIENCE. GLOBAL MEDITATION CENTER. Intuitive Qigong, Chanting, Singing for Health & Inner Peace, Drumming, Tibetan Breathplay, Guided Imagery/Visualization & Immersions. 4001 West End Rd., Arcata. (707) 599-0748, shablow@ gmail.com. (S-0315) 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-1227)

Sports/Recreation

MEN’S SOFTBALL LEAGUE. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation. April 28- June 9. Games on Sat’s, 11:30, 2:30 or 5 p.m. at Perigot Park, Blue Lake. $400/team. Winner receives Championship T-Shirts! Register at Blue Lake City Hall, www.bluelake.ca.gov or call Kara Newman, 668-5932 for more information. (SR-0419) WOMEN’S SOFTBALL LEAGUE. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation. April 9-May 7. Games on Mon.,Tues., and Wed. at 5:30 and 6:45 p.m. $350/team + $5/nonresident. Winner receives Championship T-Shirts! At Perigot Park, Blue Lake. Register at Blue Lake City Hall, call Kara Newman, 668-5932 or visit, www.bluelake. ca.gov , for more information. (SR-0405) 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 parksrec@bluelake.ca.gov. (SR-0315)

Therapy/Support

SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS ? Confidential help is available. saahumboldt@ yahoo.com or 845-8973 (T-1227)

Vocational

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN TRAINING. 272 Online Course with classes meeting once a week for 12 weeks. Mobile Lab Services offers intensive courses designed to get you back to work quickly, and well trained. (707) 407-0518 or 511 H St., Eureka. (V-0315)

Wellness/Bodywork

BEGIN YOUR LIFETIME COMMITMENT TO LIVING WELL. Qigong Workshop: Sun.s, 9-10:30 a.m., April 22-June 3 (no class 5/13), Arcata. misty-mountain@ hotmail.com, 498-1009. (W-0531) START YOUR CAREER IN MASSAGE THERAPY! Daytime classes begin Mar. 19, 2012, and Evening classes start Sept. 4, 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-0315) HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK. Full day workshop in Arcata. May 12. Contact Martin 498-1080. holotropicbreath@yahoo.com (W-0503) SHAMANIC SPIRITUAL SUPPORT. For problem solving, health issues & supporting well-being with Michal Mugrage. Divination, soul-retrieval, energy clearing, heart-centered spirit release, or space clearing. Also offering spiritual mentoring and classes. www.thankful-heart.com, (707) 407-7192. (W-0329) 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 session 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, $150 for 2 or more classes per week. See www.margaretemerson. com or call 822-6508 for schedules. (W-0329) DANDELION HERBAL CENTER. Classes with Jane Bothwell. EAT LOCAL! WILD FOODS BANQUET, May 5, 2012. Learn to positively identify and prepare many wild delicacies with numerous recipes being shared.

PETROLIA SEAWEEDING WEEKEND, with Allison Poklemba. June 23-24, 2012. Learn how to identify, ethically harvest, and prepare local sea vegetables.

Register online www.dandelionherb.com or call (707) 442-8157. (W-0426) NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING/FERTILITY AWARENESS. Safe, effective, fun, women & men, all ages.

For class call Marla Joy (707) 845-4307, marla_joy@ suddenlink.net (W-0426) DANCING FOR BIRTH: PREGNANCY/ POSTPARTUM FITNESS. If you can walk you can dance! Classes are fun and casual, no experience needed. It’s a feel-good workout with world dance movements that will help you have a more satisfying birth experience. Babies are welcome. Two classes available: Sun.s, 2-3:30 p.m. with Sarah Biggs doula and educator, phone, 8404617, pacificbirth.com, and Wed.s, 11-12:30 p.m. with Jyesha Wren, aspiring midwife and dancer, phone: (831) 428-9647, www.jyesha-dfb.com). $10/class & first class free in Arcata at the Humboldt Capoeira Academy. (W-0705) ●

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JOLENE HAYES. Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist will guide you to uncovering and resolving whatever is blocking you from fulfilling your greatest potential so you can experience a life of creative expression, peace and joy. Call 707-499-9207 or email jolene-hayes@sbcglobal.net to make appointment.

(T-1227)

lowing the publication date of this notice, to the following address: City of Arcata Environmental Services Department 736 F Street Arcata, CA 95521 published date: 3/15/2012

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City of Arcata Publically Owned Treatment Works (POTW) Pretreatment Program notice of Significant Noncompliance of Industrial Waste Pretreatment Requirements in 2011.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) General Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR Part 403) requires the City of Arcata to annually publish a list of “Significant Industrial Users” which, during the previous calendar year, significantly violated applicable Pretreatment Standards or other Pretreatment Requirements.

For the purpose of this publication, “Pretreatment Standards” are “any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits established by the USEPA, or the City of Arcata which applies to Industrial Users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established pursuant to Section 403.5” (Section 403.3(j)). The term “Pretreatment Requirements” means any substantive or procedural requirement related to Pretreatment, other than a National Standard, imposed on an Industrial User (Section 403.3(r)). A Significant Industrial User is in “Significant Noncompliance” if its violation meets one or more of the following criteria: (A) Chronic violations of wastewater Discharge limits, defined here as those in which 66 percent or more of all of the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a 6-month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement, including instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l); (B) Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which 33 percent or more of all of the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a 6-month period equal or exceed the product of the numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement including instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l) multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil, and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH); (C) Any other violation of a Pretreatment Standard or Requirement as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l) that the POTW determines has caused, alone or in combination with other Discharges, Interference or Pass Through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public); (D) Any Discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to

the environment or has resulted in the POTW’s exercise of its emergency authority under paragraph (f)(1)(iv)(B) of 40 CFR 403 to halt or prevent such discharge; (E) Failure to meet, within 90 days after the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance; (F) Failure to provide, within 45 days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, 90-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules; (G) Failure to accurately report noncompliance; (H) Any other violation or group of violations, which may include a violation of Best Management Practices, which the POTW determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local Pretreatment program.

In 2011 the following Industrial Users were in Significant Noncompliance of applicable Pretreatment Standards: Mad River Community Hospital was in Significant Noncompliance for failure to accurately report noncompliance.

Humboldt State University was in Significant Noncompliance for failure to provide, within 45 days after the due date, the required Annual Self-Monitoring Report and Periodic Self-Monitoring Report.

Further, Humboldt State University was in Significant Noncompliance for failure to collect and analyze required effluent samples.

Fieldbrook-Glendale Community Services District was in Significant Noncompliance for failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, the required Annual Self-Monitoring Report and Periodic Self-Monitoring Report. Further, the Fieldbrook-Glendale Community Services District was in Significant Noncompliance for failure to collect and analyze required effluent samples.

Cypress Grove Chevre was in Significant Noncompliance for failure to provide, within 45 days after the due date, required Periodic SelfMonitoring Reports, discharge of Oil and Grease above Technical Review Criteria (TRC), and Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits for Oil and Grease.

Persons wishing to comment may do so, in writing, within 30 days fol-

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids are invited in single contract proposal to replace the Bleachers at the McKinleyville High campus The project includes bleachers with access ramps and announcer booth, including engineering drawings and DSA approval.

Bids will be accepted at the office of the Northern Humboldt Union High School District at 2755 McKinleyville Avenue, McKinleyville, until the bid opening at 2:00pm, Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The bid opening will be open to bidders.

Construction Documents may be examined at the office of David Pierce Architect, 707-786-4266, davidpierce@frontiernet.net and at the following locations: Humboldt Builders Exchange Eureka, CA North Coast Builders Exchange Santa Rosa, CA Shasta Builders Exchange Redding, CA Del Norte Builders Exchange Crescent City, CA Medford Builders Exchange Medford, OR Klamath Falls Builders Exchange Klamath Falls, OR Placer County Builders Exchange Auburn, CA Prime bidders may obtain pdf bidding documents from the Architect’s office. Prime bidders may obtain a paper copy upon request from the Architect’s office at no cost. If you would like to pick up a paper planset at the prebid walkthrough, please request it from the Architect’s office 2 days before the walkthrough.

All bids must be accompanied by a negotiable bid guarantee which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid. The bid guarantee may be a certified check, bank draft, U.S. Government Bonds at par value, a bid bond secured by a surety company acceptable to the U.S. Government, or an irrevocable Letter of Credit.

A performance and payment bond are required. California prevailing wages are required for this project.

The successful bidder will have a B License.

A non-mandatory Pre-Bid meeting is scheduled for 2:00pm, March 14th, 2012, at at 2755 McKinleyville Avenue, McKinleyville, followed by a site walk.

Questions about this project are to be directed in writing to David Pierce, (707)786-4266, davidpierce@ frontiernet.net.

Dr. Kenny Richards Northern Humboldt Union High School District 3/8, 3/15/2012 (12-76)

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TS. NO. 139383-aH ON March 23, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock a.M. in the lobby of Humboldt land Title Company, 1034 Sixth St., eureka, Ca County of Humboldt, State of California. HUMBOLDT LAND TITLE COMPANY, a Corporation, as Trustee under the Deed of Trust executed by Pacific Sunset Development, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company recorded on January 14, 2010 as Instrument No. 2010-886-4 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Humboldt County, California, by reason of default in the payment or performance of obligations secured thereby including the breach or default, notice of which was recorded November 21, 2011 as Instrument No. 2011-23926-3 of said Official Records, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in lawful money of the United States, without covenant or warranty, express or implied, as to title, possession, or encumbrances, for the purpose of paying obligations secured by said Deed of Trust, the interest conveyed to said Trustee by said Deed of Trust in property situated in the County of Humboldt, State of California and described as: That portion of the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 30, Township 7 North, Range 1 East, Humboldt Base and Meridian, described as follows: Lot 12 of Tract No. 612 recorded in Book 24 of Maps, pages 86 and 87, Humboldt County Records. ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO. 511-481-032-000 The unpaid balance and estimate of costs, expenses and advances as of February 22, 2012 is $69,984.81; said amount will increase until date of sale. The street address or other common designation, if any, of the real property described herein is purported to be: Lot 12 Sophie Lane, McKinleyville, CA 95519. Directions to the above property may be obtained by requesting same in writing from the beneficiary within 10 days from the first publication of this notice. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Dated: February 22, 2012 Beneficiary: Auric Thoele and Eileen Weppner Telephone: (707) 840-0482 Address: 1820 Heartwood Dr. McKInleyville, CA 95519 HUMBOLDT LAND TITLE COMPANY a Corporation, Trustee Address: 1034 Sixth Street Eureka, CA 95501 Telephone: (707) 443-0837 By /s/ Sue E. Bosch, President 3/8, 3/15, 3/22/2012 (12-64)

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Remains of cabin at Johnson camp photo by baRRy evans

Grasshopper Peak

By Barry Evans

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have a testable hypothesis (see Black Swans from last week) that any situation can be improved with a walk.

Mental, physical, spiritual, relationship, professional, financial problems?

Walking can only improve things, whether around town, through the Arcata Community Forest or — if you’re looking for more of a challenge — 3,379-foot up Grasshopper Peak, in the heart of 53,000-acre Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Grasshopper is the high point of the Mendocino Ridge, a fold of old sea floor that was pushed up some 60 million years ago as the Pacific tectonic plate slid under the North American plate — an on-going “subduction” movement that we still feel with every earthquake.

Even though the seasonal bridges across the South Fork of the Eel and Bull Creek won’t be installed in the park until early May, you can hike Grasshopper now and still keep your boots dry. Exit 101 south at the Honeydew exit and head west about three miles on Bull Creek Road to the Big Trees parking area. In summer there’s a bridge, but you can get across on the farther of the two huge downed redwoods that straddle the creek just upstream of the parking area. If you decide balancing across a big log isn’t to your taste, I’ll offer an alternative route later.

Head about half a mile east along the south bank of Bull Creek until you reach the sign for the Johnson Camp Trail. (Don’t trust a previous sign that tells you Johnson Camp is only two miles distant.) The well-maintained trail from Bull Creek to Johnson Camp is a hiker’s dream, five miles (and 1,350 elevation gain) of old growth redwoods and Douglas fir, with two elegant triangular truss bridges as added attractions. As you head up, spare a thought for oilman-philanthropist John D. Rockefeller who supported the nascent Save-

the-Redwoods League with two checks of a million dollars each that led to the initial Bull Creek purchase of 10,000 acres of virgin timber in 1932. In a couple of hours, you’ll reach Johnson Camp, where two rotting cabins are all that remain of Enoch Johnson’s split-stuff operation. It lasted until the 1950s, producing railroad ties, roofing shakes and other hand-hewn redwood products. The site is now a shady trail camp operated by the Park, complete with a new privy and a non-potable water faucet.

Leaving the soft duff of the trail, half a mile of gravel spur road connects Johnson Camp with the Multi-Use Trail (MUT) running from Bull Creek to the summit. The trail (actually a gated gravel road) starts from opposite the Albee Campground on Bull Creek Road, offering a permanent bridge in lieu of the Big Tree log crossing. Heading steeply up on the MUT, the summit is another three miles and 1,800 vertical feet. The 1935 fire lookout there is now occupied only at times of extreme fire danger. In addition to expansive views of Kings Range to the west and the mountains of Trinity County to the east, the immediate prospect of hundreds of blackened tree stumps (burned during a two-month, 11,000 acre fire in 2003) is a reminder of why the lookout is there in the first place.

Whether you go to the camp or all the way to the top, hiking Grasshopper Peak is a hearty, snow-free outing and a fine way to appreciate this delicious part of the world in which we’re fortunate to live. l Barry Evans (barryevans9@yahoo.com) thinks walking could save the world, one step at a time. Thanks to Dave Stockton of the Humboldt Redwoods State Park for help with this article.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned 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.

The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on the 21st of March, 2012, at 9:00 AM, on the premises where said property has been stored and which are located at Rainbow Self Storage, at 4055 Broadway Eureka, Ca, County of Humboldt the following: Delta Russell, Unit # 5231 Chariti Holmes, Unit # 5241 Ryan Friend, Unit # 5262 Maria Ruth, Unit # 5322 The following units are located at 639 W. Clark Street Eureka, Ca, County of Humboldt and will be sold immediately following the sale of the above units.

Khampha Khamvongsa, Unit # 2516 Bryant Buckhout, Unit # 2701 Christian Shutler, Unit # 3009 Revon Snell, Unit # 3101 Audrey Dennis, Unit # 3410 The following units are located at 3618 Jacobs Avenue Eureka, Ca, County of Humboldt and will be sold immediately following the sale of the above units.

Benjamin Stallworth, Unit # 1105 Linda Stewart, Unit # 1112 Grace Brewer, Unit # 1314 Robinn Baird, Unit # 1504 Melissa Shea, Unit # 1569 Derrick Scott, Unit # 1769 Edward Welch, Unit # 1775 The following units are located at 105 Indianola Eureka, Ca, County of Humboldt and will be sold immediately following the sale of the above units.

Jesse Jones, Unit # 190 Amanda Dale, Unit # 267 Susan Carns, Unit # 283 Bret Roediger, Unit # 332 Items to be sold include, but are not limited to: Household furniture, office equipment, household appliances, exercise equipment, TVs, VCR, microwave, bikes, books, misc. tools, misc. camping equipment, misc. stereo equip. misc. yard tools, misc. sports equipment, misc. kids toys, misc. fishing gear, misc. computer components, and misc. boxes and bags contents unknown.

Purchases must be paid for at the time of the sale in cash only. Anyone interested in attending the auction must sign in at 4055 Broadway Eureka CA. prior to 9:00 A.M. on the day of the auction, no exceptions. All purchase items sold as is, where is and must be removed at time of sale.

Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Auctioneer:

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: CHARLES LEE ROSS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: ALEXANDER J. BERKOWITZ NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and cost on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

CASE NUMBER: DR 110847 The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CALIFORNIA 95501 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: BRADFORD C. FLOYD (CSB# 136459), LAW OFFICE OF BRADFORD C FLOYD, 819 7TH STREET, EUREKA, CA 95501, (707) 445-9754 DATE: November 07, 2011 NOTICE TO THE PERSONS SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant.

Filed: February 23, 2012 Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22/2012 (12-69)

SUMMONS

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: FRANK A. McKEE WHO IS DECEASED,

THE TESTATE AND INTESTATE SUCCESSORS OF FRANK McKEE, AND ALL PERSONS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, OR UNDER SUCH DECEDENT, AND ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD ON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, THERETO, and DOES 1-99 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: NANCY SUE WOLF NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and cost on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

CASE NUMBER: DR 120077 The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CALIFORNIA 95501 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: CARLTON D. FLOYD, LAW OFFICE OF BRADFORD C FLOYD, 819 7TH STREET, EUREKA, CA 95501, (707) 445-9754 DATE: February 3, 2012 NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant.

Filed: February 23, 2012 Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22/2012 (12-68)

The following persons are doing business as OLD TOWN ANTIQUE LIGHTING at 203 F St., Eureka, CA 95501.

Kenneth Bruce Norman 3025 Stover Rd. Blue Lake, CA 95525 Sara Debora Norman 3025 Stover Rd. Blue Lake, CA 95525 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 Sara D. Norman.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 5, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-80)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00142

The following persons are doing business as TAMALII COMADRES at 455 Bayside Ct., Apt. B, Arcata, CA 95521.

Megan Maire Davis 455 Bayside Ct., Apt. B Arcata, CA 95521 Michael Anthony Horcasitas 455 Bayside Ct., Apt. B Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by Copartners.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/5/2012. /s Megan Davis.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 5, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-81)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00149

The following person is doing business as ARCATA HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTER at 940 9th St., Arcata, CA 95521.

Thomas Kent Edrington 2475 Redwood St., #3 Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious

The following person is doing business as tHats FABULOUS at 645 Elizabeth Dr., Arcata, CA 95521.

Trillium Smith 645 Elizabeth Dr. Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Trillium Smith.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 15, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2012 (12-72)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00118

The following person is doing business as LATTE LOVE at 2228 4th St., Eureka, CA 95501, 1240 Mason Way, McKinleyville, CA 95519.

Shanell Beyzade 1240 Mason Way McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/22/12. /s Shanell Beyzade.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 22, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2012 (12-78)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00131

The following person is doing business as DOWN UNDER/ACQUISITIONERS LIMITED at 265 Idlewood Lane, Trinidad, CA 95570, P.O. Box 12, Orick, CA 95555.

Ronald Stanley Plotnick 265 Idlewood Lane, #4 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 Ron Plotnick.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 29, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2012 (12-73)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00137

The following persons are doing business as SO MANY DEALZ at 1926 C Ave., Mckinleyville, CA 95519.

Hilary Morse 1926 C Ave. McKinleyville, CA 95519 Cornelius Van 1926 C Ave.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00119

The following person is doing business as AFROMASSIVE at 420 California St., #26, Arcata, CA 95521.

Chris Noonan 420 California St., #26 Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Chris Noonan.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 22, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22/2012 (12-65)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00061

The following person is doing business as A DAISY MAE PRODUCTIONS at 1005 Bliss Lane, Garberville, CA 95542, P.O. Box 114, Garberville, CA 95542.

Jessica James 1005 Bliss Lane Garberville, CA 95542 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Jessica James.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on January 25, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/23, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15/2012 (12-63)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00088

The following persons are doing business as GOLDEN HARVEST CAFE at 1062 G St., Arcata, CA 95521.

Saebal Inc. 1062 G St. Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Dorothy E. Myers, Secretary/ Treasurer.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 9, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/23, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15/2012 (12-62)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00140

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00104

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31. Coastal California region 32. Yoga class need 35. “Are you calling me ____?”

38. Salinger heroine et al.

39. Fridge problem 41. Show the way ... or an otherwise common word that happens to contain each of the pronouns at the starts of 17-, 25-, 53- and 66-Across 43. Apiece 44. “Check,” in poker 46. Ethan of “Training Day” 48. Doo-wop syllable

49. 1948 Literature Nobelist 51. “Mighty” tree 53. 1998 Spike Lee movie 56. Some pinball targets 60. Tired toddler’s plea 62. Lean 63. Versace rival 66. Title for Judge Judy 68. “Just like you said” 69. Singer India.____ 70. Work ____ sweat 71. Like state-of-the-art gadgetry 72. Daly of “Judging Amy” 73. Opposite NNE

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18. Kin of -ess or -trix 22. Like the letters on a dreidel 24. Portuguese “she” 26. Food writer Rombauer and others 27. Bloodsucker 28. One of the Obama daughters 30. Winter woe 32. Calendar division 33. Get ____ of one’s own medicine 34. “Ain’t Too Proud ____” 36. Film flop of 1987 37. “Of course!”

40. Have a moving experience?

42. “King Kong” studio

45. It went down in history 47. You might play something by this 50. Monstrous 52. Green Hornet’s sidekick 54. “Nonsense!,” to a Brit 55. Manicurist’s board 57. Arithmetic sign 58. Sits heavily 59. Juice box go-with 61. 2000 role for Julia 63. Fireplace remnant 64. “Vive le ____!”

65. Cambridge sch.

67. See 12-Down

1. Mammoth trio?

4. Letters on old rubles 8. O’Neill’s “The Iceman ____” 14. Sine ____ non 15. Accomplishes 16. One writing an Op-Ed piece 17. People rival 19. Eva of “Hitch” 20. X ____ xylophone 21. Artistic impression?

23. Country singer Shelby 25. Witchy women 29. 2003 Will Ferrell movie

1. Splenda rival 2. Disheveled 3. Admitted politely 4. Alphabet trio 5. Rum’s partner 6. Boston NBAers 7. College maj.

8. Felipe’s food 9. What a scared person might sleep with 10. Prized Chinese collectible 11. Draw to a close 12. With 67-Down, a little laugh 13. Four-baggers: Abbr.

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3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5/2012 (12-84 )

McKinleyville, CA 95519 The business is conducted by Copartners.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Hilary Morse.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 2, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

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The following person is doing business as NATUWALL at 2351 Scenic Drive, Trinidad, CA 95570.

Steven Simoes Regalo 2351 Scenic Drive Trinidad, CA 95570 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/29/2012. /s Steven Simoes Regalo.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 29, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

business name listed above on n/a. /s Thomas Edrington.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on March 8, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

CROSSWORD By David Levinson Wilk

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00132

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ANITA JO SHERWOOD CASE NO. PR120051

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF GLENN HAROLD BENHAM CASE NO. PR120048

The following person is doing business as DEANNA’S CLEANING SERVICE at 5596 Meadowbrook, Eureka, CA 95503.

Deanna Lynn Cooley 5596 Meadowbrook Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Deanna Cooley.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 16, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ANITA JO SHERWOOD. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SHERRI IFVERSEN in the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SHERRI IFVERSEN 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 29, 2012 at 1:50 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: JOHN R. STOKES STOKES, ROWE, HAMER & KAUFMAN LLP 381 BAYSIDE ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 (707) 822-1771 MARCH 1, 2012 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: GLENN HAROLD BENHAM. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DORAIN DRAKE in the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DORAIN DRAKE 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 22, 2012 at 1:50 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: JOHN R. STOKES STOKES, ROWE, HAMER & KAUFMAN LLP 381 BAYSIDE ROAD ARCATA, CA 95521 (707) 822-1771 FEBRUARY 24, 2012 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00094

The following person is doing business as LEARN 2 SOARTM CONSULTING at 1640 Willow Dr., Fortuna, CA 95540, P.O. Box 630, Fortuna, CA 95540.

Cindy Steed P.O. Box 630 Fortuna, CA 95540 1640 Willow Dr. 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 Cindy Steed.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 10, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/23, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15/2012 (12-61)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00096

The following persons are doing business as HUMBOLDT HYDROGRAPHICS at 5953 South Broadway St., Eureka, CA 95503.

Tim Ellsworth 2271 Parkwood Blvd.

Eureka, CA 95503 Dennis Ellsworth 2271 Parkwood Blvd.

Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by Copartners.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Tim Ellsworth, Dennis Ellsworth.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on February 10, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 2/23, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15/2012 (12-58)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00105

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the Employment

EMPLOYMENT OPPOrTuNiTiEs PART TIME POSITIONS

McKinleyville Home and Garden Center is expanding AND we are opening a NEW Store in FERNDALE We are looking to fill several positions in our Kitchen Stores departments.

IF YOU: love to cook, to share your passion, have knowledge of Housewares, have retail experience WE WANT YOU !!

Send your resume to: jobs@mykitchenstores.co or Stop by McKinleyville Home and Garden for an application

HOT JOBS!

14 W. Wabash Ave. Eureka, CA 268-1866 eurekaca.expresspros.com

P/T QuickBooks Bookkeeper Pharmacy Clerk Construction Laborers F/T Office Assistant

COMMUNICATIONS DISPATCHER CITy Of EUREkA $2,963-$3,604/month Excellent benefits Would you like the opportunity to make a difference, save lives, and make our community a better place to live? Our dispatchers work in a positive and professional environment that provides opportunities for growth. The City’s modern dispatch center includes 6 dispatch consoles with a userfriendly computerized dispatch system. This is an entrylevel position, no experience is needed, and on-the-job training will be provided. Tasks include taking 911 calls and dispatching police, fire and medical personnel following prescribed procedures, and other related duties. The ability to multi-task and work with others in a fast-paced environment is beneficial.

For a complete application packet, please contact the Personnel Department at 531 K Street, Eureka, or call our Job Line at (707) 441-4134 to request that one be mailed to you. A job description is available on line at www.ci.eureka.ca.gov. We will be accepting applications until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 23, 2012.

Dishwasher/Prep Cook Crown Club Rep Gift Shop Clerk Deli Worker Bingo Admit Clerk Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria Employments Applications available in Human Resources/ Seascape/ Cher-Ae Heights Casino or our website at www.cheraeheightscasino.com Cher-Ae Heights is an alcohol and drug free workplace with required testing.

AIRLINES ARE HIRING. Train for hands on Aviation Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified- Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 888-242-3214.

(E-0315) PT STAFF HERBALIST. Humboldt Herbals. Ideal candidate is a certified herbalist with a happy, self-motivated disposition who enjoys the fast pace of a retail environment. Excellent customer service skills, retail experience.

3 weekdays and every-other Sat. from 10-6. Mail resume, references, and letter of interest to 300 2nd St., Eureka, CA, 95501.

(707) 442-3541. (E-0322) THE HSU DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS. Seeks applicants with the qualifications and ability to teach a variety of economic courses, but particularly History of Economic Thought. Applications must be received by April 1, 2012. For more information visit: http://www.humboldt.edu/aps/ employment/pool.html. (E-0329) HELP WANTED!!! Make money Mailing brochures from home!

FREE Supplies! Helping HomeWorkers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity! No experience required. Start Immediately! www. theworkhub.net (AAN CAN) (E-0607) R.N, PART-TIME. Exp. working w/ elderly preferred. No weekends/ holidays. App./job description may be picked up at Adult Day Health Care of Mad River Apps. accepted until position filled.

(707) 822-4866 (E-0315) FULL TIME HOUSE CLEANING POSITION. Available with Dependable Cleaning. Mon.-Fri. No evenings or weekends. Bi-lingual a plus.Valid license and reliable vehicle required. Email clean@ dependablecleaning.biz and leave name, phone number and best time to call. (E-0322)

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KITCHEN MANAGER

experienced professional person to lead food service team in pursuit of excellence. Responsibilities include coffee & juice bar, salad/hot bar, meals-to-go, sandwich bar, kitchen entrees and daily specials. The manager achieves sales goals, margins and will have 2yrs experience supervising all aspects of food service with experience in menu planning & budgeting. Current CA food safety manager certificate required. Full Benefits.

Closing Date March 23 Pick up and submit application package to: ENF, M-F, 10-12 or 2-4.

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To apply, simply visit the Human Resources office at the casino.

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Finance Director Food for People is seeking a highly motivated professional who is a CPA or has a Bachelor’s degree and senior level accounting experience to fill a part-time position.

Come join our dedicated team of professionals who are committed to compassionate care.

MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST, 1 F/T Arcata The Receptionist, under the supervision of the Front Desk Supervisor, greets and facilitates patient requests and appointments in person and on the telephone. Requires high school diploma or GED, plus three or more months of medical or dental office experience.

MEDICAL ASSISTANT (Experienced), 1 F/T Eureka Must be able to work with a variety of specialty clinics including pediatrics, diabetes, nephrology, psychiatry and gynecology. Strong teamwork and computer skills as well as three years related experience and/or training in a medical setting REGISTERED NURSE, 1 F/T Willow Creek Degree in nursing leading to license as Registered Nurse State of California.

Current RN license for State of California.

Open Door Community Health Centers offers great benefits, competitive compensation and a rewarding work environment.

Application may be downloaded from: www.opendoorhealth.com PLEASE submit complete applications (EOE) To: Carolyn Webb, Human Resources Manager Open Door Community Health Centers, 670 Ninth Street, Suite 203, Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 826-8633, ext. 5140, FAX (707) 826-8628 cwebb@opendoorhealth.com

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15-20 hours per week and the pay range is $35 to $40 per hour, depending on experience.

The individual hired would work closely with the Executive Director, full time Bookkeeper and Board of Directors.

A copy of the complete job posting, a job description and a Food for People Employment Application Form can be found at www.foodforpeople.org.

Area 1 Agency on Aging

CONTRACT MANAGER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Eureka, California

Responsible for grant and contract development and Responsible for overall Agency operations management; developing, evaluating including planning, finance, personnel, clientand services, facility management and compliance for this senior servicenon-profit programs; data analysis and organization. reporting.

Help to develop a comprehensive and BA or BS required, Masters preferred, with 3 years responsible administrative or management coordinated system of services for seniors in Del experience.

Norte and Humboldt Counties. FT/excellent benefits.

Salary range $64,000 to $80,000 DOE.

benefits. Job description andArea 1 For jobCompetitive description/application, contact application at www.a1aa.org.

Agency on Aging at 442-3763. To find out more Deadline for submitting applications is March 26. about the organization, visit it online at www.a1aa.org. Application deadline 4:30 p.m., PAID IN June 6,ADVANCE! 2005 Make $1,000 $$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra

a Week mailing brochures from home! Guaranteed Income!

FREE Supplies! No experience required. Start Immediately! www.homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN) (E-0607)

Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 http://www.easywork-greatpay. com (AAN CAN) (E-0315)

LICENSED ESTHETICIAN, CMT & WELLNESS PRACTITIONERS. Independent contractor/space rent. Established clientele and new referrals provided. Amazing space, ocean view, great circle of established practitioners, Training and CE opportunities. Contact (707) 498-0909 or taunusk@ earthlink.net. (E-0315) GRANT ANALYST (JOB #12-17).

Humboldt State University.

Full-time, 12 month position in Sponsored Programs Foundation.

Review: 03/16/12. For more info visit: www.humboldt.edu/jobs or call (707) 826-3626. HSU is an ADA/Title IX/EOE. (E-0315) HOME CAREGIVERS PT/FT. Nonmedical caregivers to assist elderly in their homes. Top hourly fees.

442-6102. (E-1227)

Rentals CENTRAL EUREKA 2BD/1BA APARTMENT. For rent in 55+ family home. $750/month. No smoking, no pets. Call (707) 8456110. (R-0322) EUREKA 1BD/1BA APARTMENT. $650/month, $1000/deposit. No Smoking/Pets. W/S/G paid. References required. 367-2823. (R-0322) EUREKA APARTMENT. 613 Laura Ln., #2. Vacant Now. Water/Sewer/ Garbage Paid. Super Downtown Location. Fun, funky & cool. Upstairs 1bd/1ba features skylight.

Kitchen has range & refrigerator, gas heat. Carpet, linoleum flooring, street parking. No pets. 12 month lease, Rent $600, Deposit $800. Cross street G. Professional Consolidated Property Management, 3109 H St., Eureka. www. ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-0315) SPACIOUS 2BD DUPLEX. With View. 3 miles south of Eureka. Garage, No Smoking/Pets. Garbage/ Water Paid. Availabe 4/1. $1000, 442-0082. (R-0322) BLUE LAKE SHARE. 2 rooms, $350-per person; $700-deposit per person. Walk to fishing, swimming, hiking. Near Dell’Arte. 6684041. (R-0315) EUREKA APARTMENT. 2266 Redwood St., #B. Vacant March 21.

W/S/G & hotwater Paid. Sunny Cutten, near Sequoia Park & Zoo, shopping, gym and post office.

Includes range, refrigerator, dishwasher, disposal, gas heat, coin wash laundry, off street parking.

Will consider cat. Six month lease. Rent $750, $770 w/cat, Deposit $1000 or $1200 w/cat. Cross street Redwood. Professional Consolidated Property Management, 3109 H St., Eureka. www. ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-0315)

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 EUREKA DUPLEXES. 3108 Glen St., #A & #B. $200 Move in Bonus! Vacant Now. Immaculate, spacious townhouse style duplex near shopping with 2.5 baths, range, refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave. W/D hookups, private fenced ground floor patio, upper deck has view of bay. Garage & off street parking. Six month lease. Rent $1295, Deposit $1700.

Non smoking unit. Cross street Harris. Professional Consolidated Property Management, 3109 H St., Eureka. www.ppmrentals. com, Rental hotline (707) 4449197. (R-0315) EUREKA ROOM FOR RENT. 314 E St. Vacant Now. All utilities included. Super affordable rooms put you in the heart of Old Town!

In secure building with shared laundry/kitchen/baths. On-site manager. No pets. Month to month. #6, #7 Rent $350, Deposit $525, #3 Rent $395, Deposit $525.

Professional Consolidated Property Management, 3109 H St., Eureka. www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197.

(R-0315) EUREKA STUDIO APARTMENT. 1140 E St., #23. Vacant March 5.

Section 8 OK. Water/Sewer/Garbage Paid. Hillsdale Apartments.

Cozy upstairs studio apartment will consider cat, has kitchen with range and refrigerator.

Carpet and vinyl flooring, locked entry, off street parking. OSRM. Rent $515, Deposit $700, $850 w/ cat. Professional Consolidated Property Management, 3109 H St., Eureka. www.ppmrentals. com, Rental hotline (707) 4449197. (R-0315) ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Roommates.com. (AAN CAN) (R-0531) Place your ad online at northcoastjournal.com or call 442-1400 .

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the Business Rentals Real Estate MEDICAL/OFFICE BUILDING FOR LEASE. Across from General Hospital. 900 sf. Off street parking. Will remodel to suit. $800/ month. (707) 834-5952, Stodder Properties. (BR-0322) MCKINLEYVILLE DELUXE OFFICES. 1300 Hiller Road. New Building, Upstairs Suites, 700 & 750 sq.ft.

Steve, 498-1342. (BR-0322) 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, and will help you to promote your classes. Check with us for rates and availability. Contact Sarara at (707) 498-6155, or sararacdo@hotmail.com. (BR-1227)

Real Estate

TRINITY VILLAGE 1.3 ACRES WITH CREEK. 3BD/2BA main house. PLUS: Guest House, Art Studio/Workshop, Pool, Sauna, 2 Car Garage, Amenities Galore. $385,000. Call Gale Packard Realty, Owner/Broker, (530) 629-4181.

(RE-0223) OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS. Come to the quaint town of Rio Rico Arizona to make your dreams come true. This hill top 2.2 acre lot situated in a residential area is a perfect haven to build a small eco-friendly home, grow fruits and vegetables year round and live a sustainable life. Make this the bridge to your future.

Offered at $28,000.00. Deborah Van De Putte, Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, (520) 282-1111 deborah.vandeputte@russlyon. com (RE-0426) MANUFACTURED HOME. 14 wide, 2bd/1ba, in Azalea Park, 2637 Hidden Terrace, McKinleyville. Lot 80x70. $26,000. (707) 838-7653.

(RE-0329) LOT FOR SALE. Lot #6 of Alta Sierra Estates, Unit #16, Nevada County. For more information, call (707) 205-7118 or (707) 205-7117.

(RE-0607) LOT FOR SALE. Lot #1994 in Coppercove subdivision at Lake Tulloch, Calaveras County. For more information, call (707)2057118 or (707) 205-7117. (RE-0607)

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. $99,900 will consider offers. (530) 629-2031 (RE-1227)

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PAWS OFF MY HERBS. 8% OFF SALE! Bulk herbs aren’t taxed and Buster still gets a break. It’s a dog’s life. Dot’s Vitality, Dot’s Veggie Vitality and Dot’s Arthritis. Find Dot’s at: Moonrise Herbs, Arcata, Humboldt Herbals, Eureka, or order online at wwwhumboldtherbals.com (P-0223)

DEANNA’S CLEANING SERVICE. $15 hr. Residential, $20 hr. MoveOuts, Rentals & Estates, 2 hr.min. lic #8132, call 445-3610 (S-0517) AMUSING GAMES & AMAZING PERFORMANCES FOR ALL AGES. Events, Birthdays, Festivals, Kidszones. I’ll Juggle, Unicycle, & bring Toys. aokayClown.com, (707) 499-5628. (S-1227) HOUSE CLEANING. Riana Terrill.

Experienced, Reliable & Efficient to meet your needs. 668-5205, 499-1536. $15/hour. (S-0426) TAI CHI GARDENER. Maintaining balance in your yard. Well equipt.

Maintenance + Projects 18 yrs experience. Call Orion 825-8074, taichigardener.com. (S-0426) CATCH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY’S 25th Anniversary sale, 25% off all Weddings, Portraits and Events.

(707) 845-4160 www.catch-light. com. (S-0913) HUMBOLDT HOUSE CLEANING. Rentals, Estates, Residential. Gift Certificates Available! Licensed & Bonded #3860. 707-444-2001.

(S-0412) ERIC’S SERVICES. Home Repair, Maintenance, Affordable Prices (707) 499-4828. (S-0809) 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-0524) SEWING SERVICE. Stitch in Time repairs & alterations. Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. 1038 11th street, Arcata.

707-496-3447 (S-1227) A-1 STEAM CARPET CLEANING. Ask us about our $99.00 2 room special. Also now offering Green Guard 442-3229 ext 13 (S-1227)

PLACE YOUR PET AD! 3954 Jacobs Ave. Eureka 443-7397

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Call 442-1400 or e-mail classified@northcoastjournal.com CASH FOR CARS: Any Car/Truck.

Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid.

We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www. cash4car.com (AAN CAN) (A-0419) YOUR ROCKCHIP IS MY EMERGENCY! Glaswelder, Mobile, windshield repair. 442-GLAS, Humboldtwindshieldrepair.com (A-1227)

OLD WEST WOODEN ORE CART. Displayed on two railroad tracks.

In very good condition . Very Rare. More Items. (707) 725-3228.

(BST-0315) SEWING, NOTIONS, ARTS & CRAFTS SUPPLIES 50% OFF. March 13-17. Dream Quest Thrift Store in Willow Creek. Helping Provide Opportunities for Local Youth. (BST-0315)

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MAKING MEMORIES VIDEO. Personalized Videos, Personal Oral Histories. Pamela Hinrichs, 839-0231. (S-0405) HOUSE CLEANING BY JEANNIE. Residence $15/hour, Move-outs $20/hour. Call 445-2644. References Available. (S-0426) SPECIALIZED HANDYMAN & MAINTENANCE. Anything that needs to be repaired, replaced or maintained around your yard or home. Call Lance, 601-6507.

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50% OFF SALE: SELECT MEN’S JACKETS 616 2nd St. Old Town Eureka 707.443.7017 artcenterframeshop @gmail.com Mon-Fri 10-6 pm Sat 10-5pm

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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. 530629-3540. krchase@yahoo.com.

(BST-1227)

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Custom Pet Portraits by Sophia Dennler • For more information and to order

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ARCATA CLEANING COMPANY. The non-toxic cleaning solution for your home or office. 707-8227819. (S-1227) CLARITY WINDOW CLEANING. Services available. Call Julie 8391518. (S-1227) DISORGANIZED? HIRE A PRO! Paper, clutter, kitchens, closets.

A.D.D. specialist. Experienced, Affordable, Friendly. Claire Josefine 268-8585. www.clairejosefine. com. (S-1227) WRITING CONSULTANT/EDITOR. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry.

Dan Levinson, MA, MFA. 443-8373. www.ZevLev.com. (S-1227)

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Music M-AUDIO PROKEYS 88. Premium stage piano. Custom wood stand.

Sony speakers. $700 OBO, 6779410. (M-0329) ROAD TRIX ENTERTAINMENT. Live Music. Private Parties, Bars, Gatherings of all Kinds. Bookings, Bradley Dean, 832-7419. (M-0510) MUSIC LESSONS. Piano, Guitar, Voice, Flute, etc. Piano tuning, Instrument repair. Digital multitrack recording. (707) 476-9239.

(M-0524) PIANO LESSONS. Beginners, all ages. Experienced. Judith Louise 476-8919. (M-1227) SAXOPHONE/FLUTE LESSONS. All ages, beginner-advanced, jazz improvisation, technique. Susie Laraine: 441-1343. (M-1227) GUITAR/PIANO LESSONS. All ages, beginning and intermediate.

Seabury Gould 444-8507. (M-1227)

LIFETREE CAFE: JOIN THE CONVERSATION. Ever wonder how you’d face a life-or-death decision? Come hear the story of one couple who faced such a decision about their unborn child. Sun., March 18, 7 p.m. Lifetree Café, 76 13th St., Arcata. Free Admission.

Questions, Contact Bob Dipert 672-2919, bobdipert@hotmail. com. (C-0315) TICKETS ON SALE FOR 32ND ANNUAL RIVER NIGHT. If a hillbilly/ charity event tickles your fancy, then River Night is the place for you! Summer LEAP, a program of the Boys and Girls Club, Annual River Night Sat., April 21, 7 p.m- 1 a.m., Portuguese Hall, 1138 11th St. Arcata and will include a benefit drawing, drinks, music and dancing. Beer provided by Mad River Brewery and dancing will be to the musical stylings of the Bret Harte Breakers, Steel Standing, Small Axe Ensemble and DJ Max Michael. Tickets available at Adventure’s Edge and Center Activities, 2 for $10 in advance.

At the door, tickets will be $10 per person unless you arrive in your best hillbilly get-up, where tickets will be $8 per person.

CommUnITy CrISIS SUpporT:

ST. PATRICK’S DINNER Fri. March 16, 5- 8:30 p.m. Fund Raiser for the Willow Creek Fire Council.

Ticket are $10 per person, Veteran’s Hall Willow Creek. Corned Beef & Cabbage with Potatoes & Carrots, and Desserts, Non- Alcoholic Beverage. (C-0315) SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS ? Confidential help is available. saahumboldt@yahoo.com or 845-8973 (C-1227) PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866-413-6293 (Void in Illinois) (AAN CAN) (C-0329) 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-0726)

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transformation consciousness expansion to enhance overall well-being ~energy work~

Marny Friedman 707-839-5910

KICK BUTTS! Become a nonsmoker in one session with Dave Berman, Certified Hypnotist, Life Coach, and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). (707) 845-3749. www.

ManifestPositivity.com. Helping the YOUniverse conspire on your behalf. (MB-0315) REBECCA PORTEOUS, LCSW. (LCS #18459) is opening a private therapy and counseling practice at 3135 Boeing Ave., Suite A1, McKinleyville. Experience working with a broad range of issues. Appointments, call 633-6145. (MB-0503)

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Brenda R. Bryan Spiritual Life Coach/ Gentle Heart Mentor Building bridges between the conscious and unconscious.

Call for free 1/2 hr. consultation

(707)445-1538 EXPERIENCE YOUR OWN WISDOM. Approach relationships, illnesses, & life challenges from the inside out. Discover the spiritual guidance embedded within your everyday experiences and/or dreams. Dream recall not necessary. With AnaLora Garrard, author of Your Dreams: Spiritual Messages in Pajamas. www.analora. com, 826-2647. (MB-0329) HOLISTIC HOUSECALLS. Acupuncture, Massage and Lifestyle Consultations in your home or office. Specializing in Pain Management, Sports Medicine, Women’s Health and Internal Medicine. Custom Chinese herb prescriptions available. (707) 267-7789, Lauren.L .L Ac@gmail .com, www.wayoflifechinesemedicine.com. (MB-0329) FEELING STRESSED? ANXIOUS? DEPRESSED? OR JUST UNSURE? Maybe therapy can help. Let’s talk. I offer sliding scale psychotherapy in a safe, comfortable setting where you can confidentially unpack difficult feelings. 8 years experience, located in Eureka area. Sarah Goldberg, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Lic #47032 (707) 205-9005, www.mysilverlaketherapy.com (MB-0531) BE A LIFE SAVER! Your blood donation is always needed!!

Call the Northern California Community Blood Bank. Call for Bloodmobile schedule. 2524 Harrison St., Eureka, 443-8004

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&Spirit GIT YER VALSSAGE! Swedish, Deep Tissue & Therapeutic Massage.

Gift Certificates Available (707) 599-5639

Pacific

Birth Services Sarah Biggs 707.840.4617 pacificbirth.com pacificbirth@gmail.com

Birth and Postpartum Doula Breastfeeding Counseling and Home-Visits

Valerie Schramm

Childbirth Education Workshops

Certified Massage Therapist

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SHAMANIC SPIRITUAL SUPPORT. For problem solving, health issues and supporting well-being with Michal Mugrage. Divination, soul-retrieval, energy clearing, heart-centered spirit release, or space clearing. Also offering spiritual mentoring and classes. www.thankful-heart.com (707) 407-7192. (MB-0426) CERTIFIED MASSAGE THERAPIST. Samantha Dudman-Miller, (707) 616-6031. (MB-0726) _ doTERRA ESSENTIAL OILS. Amazing results with no side effects. Maureen Brundage, (707) 498-7749, www.thinkdoterra. com/19719. (MB-0517)

GAIL PASCOE, RN, MFC. CA license MFC 25083 is re-opening her private practice specializing in T.B.I. & other neurological problems, health challenges, anxiety and depression. Call 362-6951.

(MB-0503) CRANIAL SACRAL THERAPY. Infused with Shiatsu, Quantum Touch Healing, Energywork.

Crescent City, (517) 974-0460.

(MB-0726) NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING/ FERTILITY AWARENESS CLASS. Safe, effective, fun, women & men, all ages. Call Marla Joy (707) 845-4307, marla_joy@suddenlink. net (MB-0426)

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HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT. Bachelors, Masters, D.D./Ph.D., distance learning, University of Metaphysical Sciences.

Bringing professionalism to metaphysics. (707) 822-2111 (MB-1227) ZUMBA. Latin-inspired fitness program using international music and various dance styles including Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue and Reggaeton for a great cardio workout. 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 Mon. Club, 610 Main St. Every Tue. at the Trinidad Town Hall 12 p.m. and every Thur. at Eureka Vets Hall 12 p.m. Marla Joy 707-845-4307.

(MB-1227) TAROT AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PATH. Classes in Eureka and Arcata. Private mentorships, readings. Carolyn Ayres, 4424240, www.tarotofbecoming. com. (MB-0517) NORTHCOAST AIKIDO FOUNDATION. Instructing non-violent martial arts since 1978. Mon.-Fri., 6-7:30 pm. Adult Beginning Special: 6 weeks for $99, enrollment ongoing. Children’s classes Mon. or Wed., 4-5 pm, $40/month.

Visitors welcome! 890 G Street, Arcata, entrance around back.

826-9395. www.northcoastaikido.org. (MB-1227)

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NEEDING SOME SUPPORT RIGHT NOW? Experienced counselor & therapist Linda Nesbitt, MSW, LCSW (Lic#18830) is expanding her practice and welcoming new clients. Focusing on stress/anxiety, depression, grief/loss, trauma recovery, relationship challenges and postpartum support. EMDR Advanced Trained. (707) 268-0929.

(MB-0426) JUPITERS LIGHT ASTROLOGY READING. The Sacred Geometry of Our Lives. Indivdual, Family & Relationship Readings. Shakati L. Walsh, MA Spiritual Phychology, MS Educational Counseling. (707) 616-3163, shakatiwalsk@yahoo. com (MB-1227) COACHING FOR PERSONAL EVOLUTION WITH REBECCA OWEN. Access your wholeness by cultivating your Presence in the Now and learning to clear old patterns. 822-5253. (MB-0920) THE SPINE IS YOUR CONDUIT FOR LIFE-FORCE ENERGY. Open to the Alignment of Your Whole Self: Chiropractic by Dr. Scott Winkler, D.C. and Energy Work

by Rebecca Owen. 822-1676.

(MB-0920) MOSAIC MASSAGE. Customized pressure and style by Heather, Massage Therapist with 10 years experience. Swedish, Deep Tissue, Prenatal, Reflexology. Located at Om Shala Yoga, Arcata, (707) 362-2821 (MB-1227)

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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. (MB-1227) ASTROLOGY & TAROT. With Salina Rain: Readings, Counseling and Classes. Mon., 1:25 p.m. KHSU 90.5 FM. (707) 668-5408. astro@ salinarain.com, www.salinarain. com. (MB-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 (MB-1227)

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Martial Arts Academy Sunny Brae Shopping Ctr., Arcata 11-Week Session

Starts Week of March 26

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• Tradtitional T’ai Chi

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The Crescent City Jaycees recently hosted their 44th annual 8th grade basketball tournament featuring 56 teams from California, Oregon, and Arizona. This year the Sunny Brae Roadrunners captured first place in the top AAA division and the Jacoby Creek Panthers team finished in first place in AA. It has been 17 years since any Humboldt county team has won AAA. The only other time an Arcata school has won AAA was in 1971 when Stewart School captured the 3rd annual title over 40 years ago. Sunny Brae School and Jacoby Creek School completed an Arcata sweep of the top two divisions. This is the first time since 1993 that two Humboldt County teams won the top two divisions, let alone two schools from the same city.

Back then, a talented McKinleyville team led by former College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State standout Isaac Gildea and Trinity Valley accomplished that feat. This is only the second time in the 44 year history that Sunny Brae has won Sunny Brae & jacoby Creek Basketball ...... the Jaycees in any division. Their only other win was in 1997 in AA. Jacoby Creek's .Learns last win in the Jaycees tourney came in 2006 in AA led by then tourney MVP and current Chico State standout Jordan Semple. This is Sunny Brae coach Carlos Avelar's first Jaycees win. Carlos has been coaching basketball at Sunny Brae since 1999 and is in his 40th season coaching youth soccer and Little League in the McKinleyville and Arcata communities. This is Jacoby Creek coach Mike Harvey's third Jaycees win. Mike started coaching 27 years ago as an assistant for legendary 8th grade coach Dave Mather at McKinleyville Junior High.

In the opening round, Sunny Brae defeated Sequoia from Redding 57 to 47. They followed that up with a semi-final win defeating Pomolita from Ukiah 61-33, and outscored Redding's Mountain View in the championship 63-55. The Roadrunners were led by tourney MVP Sam Spinosa along with all tourney selections Bryce Sprague and CJ Gray. Jacoby Creek opened up outpacing Happy Valley from Anderson in their first game 48 to 38. In the semifinal match they faced Pacheco from Redding who beat them earlier in the year in Redding. The Panthers came back from a double digit deficit to squeak out a 38 to 35 win. In the finals they faced Ferndale and defeated that talented Mustang team 49 to 43. The Panthers were led by tourney MVP Collin Townsend along with all tourney selections Nathan Heidrick and Morgan Pennington.

Team members on the Sunny Brae Roadrunners are: Jake Pasquini, Justin Vrbas, Branndon Sloss, Sam Shumard, Vaughn Banning, Sam Spinoza, Bryce Sprague, Dante Atkins-Salazar, Neel Rao, Tab Heinz, CJ Gray, Andrew Martinez, Michael Carr, Tristan Espy, Coach Carlos Avelar, and Asst. Coach Toby Heinz. Team members on the Jacoby Creek Panthers are: Gannon Carroll, Bodie Yonts, Canyon Robins, Triston Pigg, Gabe Buck, Dominic Wiggens, Collin Townsend, Morgan Pennington, Stephen Zazueta, Nathan Heidrick, Jonathan Carlson, Dakota Bill, Ellis Kahn, Coach Mike Harvey and Asst. Coaches Jason Benge and Owen Bill.

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