North Coast Journal 04-20-2023 edition

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By Thadeus Greenson

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‘Violence and Disregard’

Editor:

I was stricken with sadness when I discovered the violent disruption of the Wildlife Sanctuary habitat on an innocent, unsuspecting “first day of spring” walk (Mailbox, April 13). What was once my uplift walk has now become my sorrow walk.

What gave me beauty and hope is now the site of my charnel ground training. Mangled branches, twisted stumps, hacked limbs everywhere. No chance for the wild sweet-peas and vibrant, cheerful poppies that were just beginning to get established along this trail last year: No sparrows scooting across the path in front of my feet. No nests for new babies. Its bleak. All in the name of progress. (Look out, Godwit Days!)

What folly the city leaders are engaged in to ignore the science of their own local marine biologists and sink $54 million into upgrading a 50-year-old waste management system that is clearly within the danger zone of projected sea level rise. Do they not think climate change is real?

Several “Trail Closed” signs gave no clue of what was about to happen, leaving an uninformed and unprepared community in stunned shock and silence in the aftermath. The violence and disregard shown the flora and fauna was echoed eerily in the disregard of the public. No meaningful dialogue with the community to prepare for the loss. The two “Trails Closed” signs scattered by Wahlund Construction, gave me no warning of the total annihilation to come.

A replant program? “Oh, it will grow back,” was the casual, unconcerned response. Sure. In 20 years, but not in time for Godwit Days. The native red currant (Ribes) took about 18 years to grow her modest 2-inch diameter trunk. The bat-

tered crabapple might not even make it. This was not a skilled, professional “spring pruning” job. It was an execution.

Glenda Hesseltine, Eureka

For the Birds

Editor:

Thanks for printing my letter last week about Arcata doing better (Mailbox, April 13). I need to share that I was chastised by two of Arcata’s community ambassadors for my letter because I mentioned that a man with a walker had died on the streets. They asked where I gotten that information and it was from the men who hang out in front of the bars on the north side of the plaza. So if the man with the walker didn’t die on the streets, some of his street friends don’t know what happened to him. But let’s talk about birds for a moment. Last Wednesday, I was retracing my steps in the early morning to search for my cell phone which I last remember seeing at city hall during the planning commission special meeting I attended the night before. As I rounded the corner at K and Sixth streets, I saw what I thought was a dead rat. However, as I moved closer to inspect, it was a bird on its back. I flipped the bird over and it just stayed there not moving for more than 10 minutes. At that point, I decided to put it in a box and take it to the new location of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center out in Manila so they could give it an exam. The Wildlife Care director showed up to immediately take the shoebox with the bird under his experienced “wing.” This little gold crowned sparrow had hit the blackened window of Arcada, the arcade place, and after a day’s stay at HWCC, it was released back to the place I found it and it will hopefully avoid window glass in

Terry Torgerson

the future.

I tell this story as Arcata celebrates Godwit Days because, unlike the two-plus hours I spent looking for a shower and clean clothes for a young man a week ago, it took very little time for me to get the local resource to help this little bird.

The moral of the story is that, apparently, Arcata is for the birds.

Joanne McGarry, Arcata

A ‘Sense of Grievance’

Editor:

Reading Mr. Silva’s letter of April 13 (“Abandoned and Forgotten”), I was feeling very sympathetic after the first two paragraphs and imagining I’d call Mike and Jim at the state capital, as well as my county supervisor, and plead his case.

Then I got to his third paragraph, where he suggested that the lack of compassionate support for his misfortune is due to the compassion we have been sowing for the undocumented. That would include those who harvest our fruits and vegetables, clean our slaughterhouses and work the back of most of our restaurants. He then went on to also blame the war refugees we invited to receive sanctuary in our country.

I suspect those of us most likely to o er Mr. Sliva a handout are not the same people who share his sense of grievance toward others in need. In fact, I bet he’d do better pleading his case if he suggested that he, alongside others on whom misfortune has visited, could use help. It may not have been an earthquake that led to most folks who are homeless, but I bet their own misfortune shook them to the core just the same. Not everyone has the foresight and means to be fully insured in life, and that is why we as a society need to lend a helping hand to those most in need, no matter how their situation came to be.

I hope help comes Mr. Silva and the rest of Rio Del soon.

Richard Salzman, Sunny Brae

‘Ask the Right Questions’

Editor:

Arcata needs to get its priorities straight (Mailbox, April 13). There seems to be a trend infiltrating this small community where, despite a proud local identity, it hands its fate up to entities that don’t seem to care about the people living in it. The Gateway Plan, for example, follows the dubious induction of Cal Poly Humboldt — another short-sighted project

Godwits

I looked up and there was one low upon the sky. And then three seven twelve. Then too many to count or even seea torrent flying just beyond my reach. Golden underbellies and outstretched wings turning the blemished sky for a moment into a feathered quilt. Then there were fewer .... fewer nine five one, and one more.

I know they did not come for me, and yet they did.

— Julie Doerner

feigning interest in public involvement just to streamline the process. Never mind that there seems to be no concern of building on a coastal zone that will succumb to sea level rise in our lifetime.

The planning meetings, enticed by an expensive consultant, circle around a false dilemma of two inadequate options: It has to be in the Creamery District and it has to be now!

Why the push on increasing car tra c in quiet neighborhoods along K and L streets or building in a potential flood zone when they can first promote better walkability in Valley West? It’s a neglected industrial area that would benefit greatly from safe trails and improved transit lines, particularly for Cal Poly students resigned to live in that area’s motels.

With all the talk of development in the last year, the city council seems to forget its agency in the matter, easily swayed by the allure of urbanization without considering the limitations of the town’s infrastructure, like its sewage system, police force and public transportation. Momentary gains for the few and enduring di culty for the rest.

All it takes is for one member to challenge convention and ask the right questions. Is there really a “housing short-

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age,” or is there a lack of creativity in regulating developers or property barons, who promise housing but inflate the market so much that it leaves students homeless?

Rose Nhem, Arcata

‘What I Wanted to Understand’

Editor:

My compliments to Thadeus Greenson for his well-written and informative article (“Undamming (and Restoring) the Klamath,” April 13). I worked peripherally on the early planning stages of this project, and his article was just what I wanted to understand in detail how the project will be implemented.

Yantao Cui at Stillwater Sciences produced the model to predict the fate of the sediment that will be released from behind the dam. His model basically gave the green light to proceed because the predicted impacts of the sediment release are relatively minor and short-lived. Because the sediment is so fine-grained and of low density, most should flush from the entire river system in a few years, although turbidity will be high during the process. Of course, how this plays out exactly will depend on the magnitude and timing of the flows after the dams are removed.

Thanks to Thadeus and NCJ for an excellent piece of journalism.

Tom Lisle, McKinleyville

Passover and Taco Week

Editor:

I am not able to eat much in restaurants due to my immune compromised state. So I’m writing this on behalf of those people, like myself, love tacos.

It came to my attention that “taco week” (April 6 through April 16) was chosen to exactly coincide with Passover, which started at sundown on April 5, so April 6 is the first night when Jews are enjoined to not eat leaven, wheat, except for matzoh, (unleavened bread) or other grains for eight days.

Can’t eat tacos during Passover!

Thank you to all participating restaurants for extending this “week” — so those observing the holiday might get a take-out taco after Passover ends — on April 16. Can I just make one additional request: Have an option for beans without lard. Local Muslims would appreciate that, too.

Thanks for all the delicious food.

Amanda Devons, Eureka

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Six Years Later

By Kimberly Wear kim@northcoastjournal.com

On April 14, one day before the sixth anniversary of David Josiah Lawson’s unsolved killing, Charmaine Lawson stood on the Humboldt County Courthouse steps to once again call for justice for her son.

For a several moments, she gathered with about a dozen supporters who were holding up signs, some reading “Stacey Eads Can You Hear Us,” “DNA Does Not Lie,” “Justice for Josiah” and “Killers Off Our Streets,” as the group went through a series of chants, including “Six years, no justice,” “Say His Name. David Josiah Lawson” and “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now. Now, Stacey, Now,” before stopping to speak to reporters.

Charmaine Lawson had just finished a meeting with recently seated Humboldt County District Attorney Stacey Eads, which she called “hopeful,” saying Eads told her that she was reviewing the case and “would probably have an answer for us in about three months.”

“I think you have a district attorney that’s about justice,” she said. “I think she’ll do the right thing.”

Charmaine Lawson made clear, however,

that she didn’t see a reason for Eads’ time frame and considers her predecessor Maggie Fleming responsible for a lack of resolution in the case, saying the former DA “failed us,” pointing to what she described as the “botched” preliminary hearing in May of 2017 that ended with the murder charge facing the only suspect named by police dismissed, and a subsequent criminal grand jury proceeding two years later that did not to lead to an indictment.

“We have more than enough evidence,” Charmaine Lawson said.

The investigation into her son’s death has been fraught with issues since the early morning hours of April 15, 2017, when the 19-year-old Humboldt State University sophomore was fatally stabbed during an altercation at a large off-campus party, hampered by a series of crucial initial missteps in securing and processing the crime scene and identifying potential witnesses.

Allegations of racial bias have also persisted, as Lawson was Black and Kyle Zoellner — the then 23-year-old McKinleyville man initially arrested at the scene and charged with Lawson’s murder — is white.

Charmaine Lawson said her son would

Charmaine Lawson at the start of the 5K run held to honor her son David Josiah Lawson on April 15, the sixth anniversary of his unsolved killing, and those who have gone missing or been murdered in Humboldt County.

Photo by Ollie Hancock

As David Josiah Lawson’s mother renews call for justice, APD says witnesses are essential to move the case forward

be in prison if the situation was reversed.

“My son came to this county to go to school,” she said. “For his life to be taken and no one held accountable is a disgrace.”

While a February 2020 National Police Foundation report commissioned by the city of Arcata concluded emergency responders did everything they could to try to save Lawson’s life amid a “chaotic scene,” it also found “many basic tenets of crime scene security and management” were not followed. That, the report stated, impeded the investigation, sowing “fertile ground for false narratives ... and created an environment that may have discouraged witnesses and others with factual information from coming forward.”

A few months later, a Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury report found “failures, ineptitudes and poorly executed police work” but stated “it did not find direct evidence of racial bias.”

In an interview with the Journal this week, Arcata Police Chief Brian Ahearn, who took over the department in 2018, said bringing the case back into court depends on more witnesses coming forward. Of the estimated 100 or so partygoers gathered outside the home on a small cul-de-sac near campus that night in April of 2017, less than half have been identified and interviewed by investigators, he said.

“People who were at the party are essential to bringing this case back into the court,” Ahearn said. “I can’t emphasize that enough.”

While the party was breaking up at the time of Josiah Lawson’s stabbing, there were still “tens of people there,” the chief said. He said he understands what they experienced was traumatic and some may have convinced themselves what they saw is not relevant, but the individuals who have not come forward are crucial to closing gaps in the investigation.

“We’re asking people to reflect, to look into their hearts and think about Charmaine and Anthony and Chloe and DJ,” Ahearn said, referring to Josiah Lawson’s younger brother and sister, “and try as hard as they can to give us a call.”

For those who might be uncomfortable talking with APD investigators, the chief said the state Attorney General’s Office has offered to provide investigators and has been giving other support to the department, which included putting together an investigative team to review the case last year.

Ahearn said he is confident in the physical evidence, including genetic material on a knife believed to have been used in the stabbing that was found at the scene with DNA contributed by Lawson, Zoellner and two other individuals, but there are still gaps.

“The key now is to have eyewitnesses to corroborate the physical evidence,” he said. “But we are not making progress absent people coming forward. This is a person case now; it relies on people to get it over the finish line and get it back into court. No one saw the stabbing occur and that’s what we need, and there were a lot of people right there.”

While Zoellner was arrested at the scene, a murder charge filed against him was dismissed a few weeks later after a Humboldt County Superior Court judge found prosecutors had presented insufficient evidence to support it, with witness accounts of the events leading up to the stabbing conflicting, no one having come forward who witnessed the stabbing itself and what was then a lack of physical evidence in the case.

Almost two years later, with the DNA evidence in hand, Fleming convened a criminal grand jury to consider charges against Zoellner, but the jury opted not to indict anyone in the case, leaving it back with APD for further investigation.

Ahearn said the department received a new tip about a potential witness around this time last year that led investigators to an individual who denied being at the stabbing scene and was upset at being contacted, asking APD not to do so again.

“Those are the hurdles this case continues to be up against,” he said. “We are not going to stop until we’ve identified and interviewed everyone who was there. … We have a long way to go.”

As part of her meeting at the District Attorney’s Office, Charmaine Lawson said she asked Eads to request that the state Attorney General’s Office take over the case moving forward but, if it declines, she’d like it to at least play a role in any prosecution and that it not be “only left to the DA.”

Eads and the Attorney General’s Office did not respond to a request to comment for this story.

Asked how it was to be standing on the courthouse steps again, asking for resolution to the case, she answered, “I’m pissed. Because my son should be here. I should not have to do this.”

The next day, on the anniversary of her son’s death, Charmaine Lawson led a 5K walk and run in Arcata in honor of her son and all of those who are missing or were murdered in Humboldt County, saying she wanted the community to come together in love, to celebrate and to stand together.

“I’m DJ’s voice, and I’m not going away,” she said. l

Kimberly Wear (she/her) is the Journal’s digital editor. Reach her at 442-1400, extension 323, or kim@northcoastjournal.com.

Lawmakers Want to Know Why Billions in Spending isn’t Reducing Homelessness

The state has spent billions of dollars on homelessness in recent years. So why is the crisis getting worse instead of better?

That’s what a bipartisan group of California legislators is trying to get to the bottom of by calling for a first-of-its kind, large-scale audit of the state’s homelessness spending.

The state has stepped up its involvement and investment in the crisis under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s leadership, allocating $20.6 billion toward housing and homelessness since 2018-2019, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. But despite the influx of cash, during that time, the number of unhoused people in the state has increased by nearly a third — to more than 170,000 as of last year.

That discrepancy between what’s being spent in Sacramento and what voters see — tent cities in their neighborhoods — has many legislators clamoring for an accounting. They have instructed the state auditor to embark on a sweeping project that will analyze multiple state homelessness programs — as well as focus on homelessness spending in two cities — in an attempt to improve California’s response.

“What we’re doing is not working,” said Assemblymember Josh Hoover, a Republican from Folsom who co-authored the audit request with Democratic Sen. Dave Cortese of Santa Clara County. “And I think it’s important to get to the bottom of that and figure out where are we investing that is not getting a return on investment. And we need to stop spending money on the programs that are not working.”

The $743,400 audit, approved unanimously in the state’s legislative audit committee last month, will take about 5,000 hours of staff time and is likely to be complete by October, State Auditor Grant Parks said during the hearing. It will scrutinize the cost-effectiveness of as many as five state homelessness programs. The auditor has yet to reveal which ones, but Project Home-

key — one of Newsom’s signature efforts to create homeless housing — likely will be one. And the audit will analyze spending in two California cities — San Jose and one other yet to be determined.

The analysis will focus on questions such as: How many people received services between 2020 and 2023? How much funding have San Jose and the other city received, and how has it been spent? How much of that money went toward administrative costs instead of services?

Newsom’s office wouldn’t weigh in on the pending audit except to issue a statement: “This process is still in its early stages, and we will continue to closely monitor any future developments.”

Myles White, assistant secretary of legislation for the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, defended the state’s track record during the legislative hearing. “A lot of the progress we’ve made provides a really solid foundation for us to continue in the days ahead,” he said.

San Jose officials said they have used state funds effectively and efficiently, and have been transparent in their work. Local officials rallied at the state Capitol last week, demanding that the state give them an ongoing $3 billion a year to address homelessness.

Cortese began pushing for the audit after touring a massive homeless encampment on vacant land near San Jose’s airport. One of the largest in California, the camp was home to more than 400 people during the pandemic. What he saw shocked and appalled him: “Rodents running around your feet. Massive piles of trash. Tons of broken RVs and abandoned cars. Cars turned upside down with people living inside.”

When Cortese brought up the idea of a state audit, he says local officials told him while they had spent local money, they hadn’t used state funding to improve conditions or offer services at that encampment.

“Which to me just really begged the question: ‘What’s going on?’” Cortese said.

That camp has since been cleared; the Federal Aviation Administration had threatened to withhold airport funds from the city because the camp extended into flight paths. But the city couldn’t move everyone into housing or shelter, and some people have moved to another lot just across the street.

Past attempts at accountability

Cortese’s audit isn’t the first time California’s homelessness response has come under scrutiny. Earlier this year, the Interagency Council on Homelessness found the state spent nearly $10 billion on homelessness between 2018 and 2021 and served more than 571,000 people. But despite that effort, most of those people still didn’t get a roof over their heads.

And in 2021, a state audit of five local governments found they did not always comply with federal regulations or follow best practices when responding to homelessness.

The new audit will be an “entirely different animal,” Cortese said, as it will go deeper into the state’s spending. Legislators hope it also will make specific recommendations as to how ineffective programs could be improved or even cut — something the Interagency Council’s report didn’t do.

The heightened scrutiny comes as Newsom has both ramped up spending and rolled out a series of new programs to combat homelessness since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Those include Project Roomkey, which temporarily put elderly and medically compromised unhoused people up in hotels; Homekey, which gives cities and counties money to turn some of those hotels (and other buildings) into longer-term homeless housing; and the Encampment Resolution Grant program, which gives cities and counties money to clear homeless encampments and move occupants into housing and shelters.

It’s no surprise that Republicans would continue their critique of the liberal gover-

nor’s spending. But the recent involvement of Cortese and other Democrats signals the politics have shifted.

For example, Assemblymember Luz Rivas, a Democrat from the San Fernando Valley, is pushing her own accountability bill. Assembly Bill 799 would force the state to set specific goals for reducing homelessness, while also allowing funding to be reallocated away from local agencies that fail to meet their goals.

“We get asked by our constituents,” she said. “They ask, ‘Where is this funding going to? Is it really being used effectively?’”

Even Newsom himself has advocated for more accountability. He recently began requiring that cities and counties submit “homeless action plans” before receiving state funding, and he briefly held $1 billion hostage after determining the plans they drafted weren’t ambitious enough.

During last month’s hearing, several legislators advocated for the auditor to choose cities in their own districts. Some made pitches for Los Angeles and Sacramento, while others pushed for smaller cities.

Gail Osmer, a San Jose advocate who led Cortese on the encampment tour that inspired the audit, spoke alongside the senator at the hearing. In an interview, she said she hopes the audit’s findings will be a wake-up call for her city.

Osmer has been critical of how the city cleared the airport encampment. Camp residents were promised services, such as free repairs for their cars and RVs, that many never received, she said.

“People are not held accountable,” Osmer said. “Where’s the money going?”

— Marisa Kendall/CalMatters

POSTED 04.18.23

This story was produced and first published by CalMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to explaining California policy and politics.

A homeless camp on the Eureka waterfront.

It’s January 19, 2022, and local developer Travis Schneider is getting ready to leave the county — and the country — in a matter of hours. He’s also hoping he can put some permit violations identified during the construction of his family mansion on Walker Point Drive behind him quickly. The county had issued a stop-work order a few weeks earlier, on Dec. 27, 2021, after confirming a report from the Blue Lake Rancheria that Schneider had cleared environmentally sensitive habitat and disturbed a wetland, cut an unpermitted access road on the property and graded over a known culturally sensitive archeological site. But Schneider had kept his crews working. Defiantly.

A couple of weeks earlier, on Jan. 3, Humboldt County Chief Building Official Keith Ingersoll had emailed Schneider an official description of his permit violations with a list of five “corrective actions required,” most notably that he hire an archeologist and biologist to assess the damage and submit a report documenting impacts of the violations and corrective measures before resuming construction. Schneider responded about an hour later, saying he was “happy to discuss” the matter and pleading ignorance to any knowledge of there being a wetland or cultural resources on the site.

‘Poke the Bear’

By Thadeus Greenson thad@northcoastjournal.com

“First and foremost, no identified wetland or archaeological/cultural resources have ever been identified to us,” Schneider wrote to Ingersoll, cc’ing Planning Director John Ford, adding that the previous owner told him that tribal officials had indicated “there may be” cultural resources on the site but “would never identify anything to them.”

It’s worth noting here that not only would tribal officials later strongly dispute Schneider’s contention, saying they had physically toured the site with him and pointed out the archeologically sensitive area, but the very conditions of Schneider’s permit make clear there is a 100-foot wetland buffer that needs to be honored. Additionally, the building staff’s analysis references an archeological site on the property that was to be protected by the “non-buildable” area identified on the project’s recorded map. Nonetheless, Schneider protested any wrongdoing.

“We have been working/grading on the site for several years, so for this to come up now is a little late in the game,” he wrote. “Once again, I appreciate the mechanisms of communication. As you should know by now, I’m always happy to meet and discuss matters, but posting something at my property at/on Christmas break is a little less than classy. I’m happy

to work with the tribe and the county on the matters, but will not stop framing or further progress on our home.”

On Jan. 19, 2022, Supervising Planner Cliff Johnson followed up by email, noting an official letter had also been posted at the property that afternoon and sent by mail. The letter advised Schneider that the county was aware he’d continued work on the property in defiance of the stop-work order. It also warned that failure to comply could result in “significant administrative penalties” and the revocation of the project’s building and coastal development permits.

About an hour after Johnson’s email notifying him of the official letters and the county’s insistence that he abide by the stop work order issued several weeks earlier, Schneider reached out to Ford directly.

“I’m not sure why you guys are trying to poke the bear, but please call me ASAP,” he wrote in a Jan. 19 email released to the Journal in response to a request under the California Public Records Act.

Thus kicked off a tense standoff between Schneider, three local tribes and the California Coastal Commission — with the county planning department caught in the middle — that would explode into public view at an Aug. 18, 2022 Humboldt County Planning Commission meeting. Ad-

vocating on behalf of Schneider’s requested permit modifications that would allow the county to lift its stop work order, then commission chair Alan Bongio questioned the honesty and integrity of local tribes, making far-reaching comments about “Indians” and accusing them of trying to extort more concessions out of the developer while playing a “game” with cultural resources — comments that tribal officials found deeply offensive and racist.

Bongio’s conduct at the meeting brought a new level of scrutiny to the project, leading to the discovery of a litany of additional permit violations. Six months later, Schneider has agreed to remove what’s built of his 20,000-squarefoot home, as well as some 15,000 cubic yards of fill material, and pledged to restore the property to its “natural grade.”

Additionally, he has agreed to mitigate impacts the permit violation had on environmentally sensitive and wetland habitat on the property and to enter a portion of the property containing a culturally significant archeological site into an easement held by Wiyot area tribes and fence it off to prevent further disturbance.

Meanwhile, county code enforcement issued a notice of violation and a notice to abate a nuisance due to permit violations

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Once defiant, a local developer agrees to tear down his dream home

The view of Schneider’s Walker Point Road home from Old Arcata Road. Photo by Mark Larson

on the property April 11, paving the way for the county to begin imposing fines of $40,000 a day for up to 90 days, an amount that would total $3.6 million if fully imposed. Representatives of Schneider, the county planning department, area tribes, the California Coastal Commission and the Department of Fish and Wildlife reportedly met at the project site April 17 to discuss details of the agreement and chart a course forward.

It’s a stunning turn of events for a project that seems to have evaded oversight and consequence for years. Email correspondences between county staff and Schneider last year, released to the Journal through a public records request, paint a picture of the rising tensions, and the frustrations and anger of a developer whose public statements appear counter to his conduct and the official record.

Schneider received a coastal development permit Sept. 7, 2017, to build a 8,000-square-foot single-family home with a 1,000-foot natural light cellar on a 3.5-acre property at the foot of Walker Point Road, a cul-de-sac overlooking the

Fay Slough Wildlife Area off the Indianola Cutoff.

In addition to abutting wetlands and environmentally sensitive habitat, the property included a known and “uniquely well-preserved, pre-contact Wiyot village first documented” in 1918, according to a letter from Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Administrator Jason Ramos. The site, Ramos continued, has a high potential to include Wiyot house and fire pits, flaked and ground stone tools, and other artifacts that make it “eligible for inclusion in the California Register of Historical Resources.” Further, the site is one of only a handful of the 100-plus documented to have survived development in the Humboldt Bay vicinity, Ramos wrote, thus “elevating” its “significance.”

This was no secret. According to Ramos’ letter, a tribal historic preservation officer from the Blue Lake Rancheria met county planning staff on site in April of 2017 to review the site and craft conditions of approval for the permit that would require Schneider to physically mark boundaries on the property beyond which he could not build or disturb soil. While on site, Ramos states, they

“noted that grading for the driveway had occurred,” which was documented by photos, even though no permits had been issued for the property, and the project’s building permit wouldn’t be issued until late 2019. Nine days later, on April 27, 2017, a historic preservation officer with the Bear River Rancheria met County Planner Michael Wheeler and Schneider at the property, and the developer “was shown the cultural site location and the site’s significance to the Wiyot area tribes and site protections measures were discussed.” Schneider has said repeatedly he was unaware of the cultural site and suggested in an email to county staff that the tribes “must not have cared much about this cultural site” because they hadn’t pointed it out to him. Asked about this dispute and whether the planning department record indicates this April 27, 2017, site visit took place, Ford told the Journal, “I believe it did, yes.”

But some of the recommended conditions from the tribes did not end up in the final conditions of Schneider’s coastal development permit. Specifically, the recommendation that Schneider physically mark the archeologically sensitive area,

that he notify tribes when starting work and that the tribes periodically monitor construction were all left off the permit conditions for reasons that aren’t clear.

While Ramos contended Schneider began work on the property in 2017 with grading for the driveway, it apparently took Schneider some years to get his permits in order. Ford previously told the Journal a building inspector confirmed in March of 2019 that unpermitted work was underway on the home and Schneider was informed he did “not have a building permit and needed to obtain one.”

Construction on the home continued, nonetheless, Ford said, despite the director describing it as “not allowed.” Ford said he does not know whether the county considered issuing a stop-work order.

“I was not aware of this project at that time,” Ford told the Journal previously. “There was a different chief building inspector at the time. Today, we would issue a stop-work order.”

Instead, not only was Schneider allowed to continue work while he pursued a building permit, which was finally issued Nov. 27, 2019, but he was also granted an alternate-owner-builder permit, which is

designed specifically for those personally building a house they are going to live in. As such, the permits come with significantly less stringent oversight than normal, drastically reducing the number of site inspections required. These permits were intended to help people build in difficult-to-access rural areas or those using “alternate” building methods, and as a means to promote affordable housing, but are also popular among developers and contractors like Schneider — he owns the civil engineering firm Pacific Affiliates, as well as construction and property management companies, with a portfolio that included several commercial buildings, three RV parks and 90 apartments, among other holdings — looking to build family homes with minimal red tape.

As such, it’s unclear what — if any — oversight was conducted by county staff after Schneider finally received his building permit in November of 2019. But on Dec. 22, 2021, after what Ramos described as an “impromptu field inspection,” a Blue Lake Rancheria historic preservation officer reported to the county that the culturally sensitive Wiyot site had been disturbed

by heavy equipment and grading, an unpermitted access road had been carved across a nobuild portion of the property and Schneider had removed hundreds of feet of native vegetation from the wetland setback buffer.

Ford said county staff took the report “extremely seriously” and, after confirming the allegations, issued the stop-work order five days later.

“At the time, people were really upset,” Ford recalled. “And not to be misunderstood — they were understandably upset.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, people would only grow more upset as Schneider continued construction activities for another 50 days after the county’s issuance of a stop-work order.

From his emails to county staff, it’s safe to say Schneider himself was among those upset.

“I’m en route to leaving the country,” he responded to Johnson’s Jan. 19, 2022, email, cc’ing First District Supervisor Rex Bohn, after firing off the “poke the bear” email to Ford. “Clearly this wasn’t that critical to resolve or you would have responded to my email from Jan. 3.”

When Johnson then asked if Schneider would allow county staff and representatives from the Wiyot area tribes to visit the site the following Monday, Schneider refused: “Let’s just suffice to say the trust level with the county is quite low. Actually, it doesn’t exist for me,” he wrote. “You’re not authorized on our lands under any circumstances until I’m present with my counsel. … I strongly encourage you to ask John [Ford] to call me one on one.”

Ford later broke out of a meeting to call Schneider. The developer would later say in a letter to the planning commission it was “mutually” agreed he could continue construction while the permit issues were resolved, Ford has been adamant he told Schneider he needed to

halt construction or face potential fines and permit revocations, and the developer was clear he would not stop work on his family home. Schneider sent Ford an email after the conversation to further argue his case that the stop-work order was related to a “grading” issue and should not affect construction, which Ford previously said should make it “clear that I did not authorize work to continue.”

On Feb. 14, 2022, Ford forwarded the letter from Ramos outlining the long-standing concerns of the Blue Lake Rancheria to Schneider, saying he “should be aware” of it and urging a prompt damage assessment. Schneider then suggested a meeting and Ford offered a time the following afternoon.

In a Feb. 16, 2022, email, Schneider told Ford, Johnson and Ingersoll that “per our meeting yesterday,” he had redirected work crews from Walker Point Road and that he’d spoken to an archeologist recommended by the tribes to assess damage to the cultural site.

“I’m happy to work with the tribes and the selected archeologist to resolve this matter, protect the areas in question, help

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“At the time, people were really upset. And not to be misunderstood — they were understandably upset.”

— John Ford, Planning Director

educate my peers about avoiding situations like this in the future and get our people back to work,” he wrote. “The only thing I ask for is a little respect during the process. … I’m truly not a bad guy.”

Schneider followed up Feb. 17 to suggest that the county “extend an olive branch to Jason Ramos,” noting “he had some strong words in his letter.” Ford replied Feb. 25, saying he’d met with Ramos and Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson. After Schneider replied simply, “And??,” the director said Blue Lake Rancheria was “extremely concerned about what has taken place.”

Schneider replied: “There isn’t much I can do about what has happened at this point other than agree to work with everyone, which is all I have done the past two weeks. Anyone that knows me knows that I wouldn’t intentionally do this. Let’s figure out a way that we can get it resolved in a civil manner ….”

Calls for civility would prove shortlived, however, as Schneider grew increasingly frustrated about the length of time it would take the county to get a contract approved with Bill Rich, the archeologist selected to do the damage assessment. On March 18, 2022, Johnson advised that Rich’s contract was being sent to risk management and the auditor for review. Later that day, Schneider emailed Ford, cc’ing Bohn, Johnson, Bongio and local realtor Tina Christensen, saying he was “incredibly disappointed” Ford wouldn’t return his phone calls.

“I held you in higher character than this and have never done you wrong,” Schneider wrote. “I’d rather that you just told me to ‘pound sand’ and never contact you because you have no intention of talking to me than for you to treat me like this. … Your inaction, non-communication, ignoring the matter will not help solve this problem. Housing is an obvious problem in this county, and I certainly hope you provide a better service to others in this community than myself.”

Almost a month later, on April 14, 2022, Schneider asked if the county has Rich’s report in hand. Johnson responded that the contract was still held up with risk management and the auditor, and being reviewed by the involved tribes. “Absolutely ridiculous, but not shocking,” Schneider replied. Johnson then asked about a meeting to discuss a coastal development permit modification application for the access road that Schneider cut.

“Come on, let’s cut the BS,” Schneider responds. “Basically what has come to light here is that I’m just getting smoke blown up my ass. Making application for

a CDP does nothing other than exercise a formality for you and me. … Lies and bullshit. That’s all I’m getting. You would get tired of it, too.”

Johnson responded to ask if a 1 p.m. meeting the following day would work, noting Schneider’s insistence that Ford, Ingersoll and Bohn be present at meetings made scheduling a challenge.

“I’m out of town looking for a place to move other than Humboldt County. I just want to get this resolved for sale purposes,” Schneider responded. “Please provide anytime next week.”

While it should be noted that the county’s alternate-owner-builder ordinance requires the applicant to certify they intend to occupy the home they are constructing, no one brought this up with Schneider in the emails released by the county.

Three days later, Schneider wrote at 5:20 a.m. again asking if the contract was in place and if the tribes had o ered feedback to a preliminary report, adding, “Every one of you should be embarrassed about how you’re handling this. Covering your head, hiding in a corner, hoping this goes away is first grade behavior. Grow up.”

Ford replied two hours later, apologizing for “the bureaucracy” and conceding they’re having “internal struggles” getting the contract approved, adding he hoped approval would come that day and the county had already received feedback from tribes. The response did not quell Schneider’s frustrations.

“The system is a joke, literally a big joke,” he responded. “I just can’t believe how poorly the county operates and treats people. I would never treat anyone like this, not even my worst enemy. I’d at least tell them to pound sand, etc. etc., and I have no obligation to even respond to them, whereas the county is funded by my tax dollars.”

After learning the contract was

approved the following day, on April 22, 2022, Schneider again fired o a group email, complimenting the “county folks” on their “nice work.”

“You accomplished getting a contract signed in 2.5 months yet again couldn’t get a meeting scheduled this week,” he wrote. “No small wonder why there is a housing shortage and pricing problem. This is literally a five minute exercise that you’re not willing to do. I don’t think you even have the smallest inkling the residual [sic] of your actions for generations to come. What happens when people like myself pull out of town, but yet have all the developable property tied up and you need housing for funding. I’m not the first and I’m not the only one. You have pitted us (those that have the ability and wherewithal to get stu done) against you (those who are inept and don’t have the ability to wipe their rear).”

Christensen then chimed in, pleading, “Let’s all work together to get this figured out and remedied so Travis can move forward with the construction of his home.”

From there, Schneider’s direct emails to county sta seem to have stopped, but his permit problems were just beginning. While Rich’s report determined the Wiyot archeological site had not been damaged by the grading, county sta had unearthed more violations — and stickier ones to untangle — on the property.

Schneider built the house, county sta determined, on a footprint di erent than what had been approved so the structure itself encroached on the 100-foot wetland setback stipulated by his permit and in a no-build area of the property.

“We started really evaluating the full extent of the violation and where things were and recognized that the house was not built where it was shown on the building permit site plan, and recognized there are other implications to the house being built away from where the building permit showed,” Ford said.

Perhaps most troubling for Schneider would be the fact that the house’s

“Come on, let’s cut the BS. Basically what has come to light here is that I’m just getting smoke blown up my ass. … Lies and bullshit. That’s all I’m getting. You would get tired of it, too.”

— Travis Schneider

“I’m out of town looking for a place to move other than Humboldt County. I just want to get this resolved for sale purposes.”

— Travis Schneider

“I would never treat anyone like this, not even my worst enemy. I’d at least tell them to pound sand, etc.”

— Travis Schneider

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encroachment on that wetland setback made the project’s permits appealable to the California Coastal Commission, which had repeatedly expressed concerns about the permit violations and Schneider’s initial defiance of the stop-work order.

In early August of 2022, representatives of Schneider, county sta , the three Wiyot area tribes and the California Coastal Commission met virtually to discuss the path forward, agreeing in principle to an 11-point plan that would remediate damage done and impose mitigation measures. County sta then rushed to get the matter heard by the planning commission Aug. 18, assuming there was an accord. But the Wiyot Tribe and Blue Lake Rancheria, as well as the coastal commission, felt a host of details still needed to still be ironed out regarding who would fund ongoing monitoring e orts and how tribal input into restoration plans would be facilitated and incorporated, as well as how exactly a conservation easement would work and who would hold it.

What followed played out in increasingly public fashion, with Bongio using racist language and accusing the tribes of operating in bad faith, while Christensen accused them of lying and a letter from Schneider cast him as the victim of a “coordinated” e ort by parties who wanted to see “our house demolished.” When the matter came back to the planning commission two weeks later, things had deteriorated further, with two of the involved tribes having withdrawn from the process, the California Coastal Commission having shared deepening concerns with Ford and indicating it wouldn’t hesitate to intercede. The county’s Division of Environmental Health had also weighed in to note that Schneider began construction without a necessary septic permit, a previously unknown violation of his coastal development permit.

Under threat of an appeal to the coastal commission and at Schneider’s request, the commission sent the matter back to sta to once again try to reach a compromise that would allow Schneider to continue construction while addressing concerns of the tribes and the coastal commission.

In the ensuing weeks, an inquiry from the Journal led the planning department to confirm that the home under construc-

tion on Schneider’s property was 20,817 square feet — more than twice the size allowable under his coastal development permit — and he’d brought in 15,000 cubic yards of fill, more than 10 times what the coastal development permit allowed. Also through the Journal’s reporting and Schneider’s confirmation, it was learned that Bongio had done concrete work on the project in 2019, raising questions of bias in the commission chair’s handling of the matter. (Bongio, after being censured by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors in September, would step down from the commission in December to “focus on his family and business.”)

In October, in an apparent e ort at damage control, Schneider invited the Journal to tour the then-graying skeletal framing of his dream home on Walker Point Drive. He expressed hope and optimism that all the parties could not only find a path forward that would allow him to resume construction, but also learn from the mistakes made.

“I believe there’s an amicable resolution,” he said, repeating his insistence that he was unaware of the archeological site’s location. “I hope I can be someone who can bring people together. … It’s an emotional subject because it does involve my dream home, but at the end of the day, I think there will be a lot of good that comes out of this. I’m optimistic that we’ll come to a resolution — that’s the American way, to listen and come to a positive resolution.”

Things have been publicly

quiet on the project since October, though county sta has been working to forge a final solution, primarily with Schneider and the coastal commission. That process came to a head in recent weeks, when Schneider’s attorney sent a March 24 letter to Ford o ering an agreement under which Schneider would agree to the mitigation measures previously proposed back in August — without, it should be noted, any of the additional detail requested by the Wiyot Tribe and Blue Lake Rancheria — as well as “partial or complete removal of the residential structure … if requested by the county and tribes, as part of the overall resolution.”

Ford, apparently having reached a point of frustration, replied April 3 that the pro-

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“You have pitted us (those that have the ability and wherewithal to get stuff done) against you (those who are inept and don’t have the ability to wipe their rear).”

— Travis Schneider

posed agreement was “unexpected and not consistent” with prior conversations, noting the proposal referenced “alleged” violations when the violations are real, confirmed and severe.

Based on “verbal discussions,” Ford wrote it was the county’s understanding Schneider would agree to remove the structure and imported fill, restoring the site to a natural grade; mitigate the impacts to environmentally sensitive habitat and wetlands; set aside the archeological site to benefit local tribes, while fencing it off and providing them ongoing access to it; and pay “a penalty related to the violations cited above.”

Schneider’s proposal, Ford wrote, represented a step backward.

“These violations need to be resolved, and a public negotiation, after the prolonged time provided to the property owner to resolve this, is not an acceptable path to resolution,” he wrote, adding that the department would move forward with scheduling a coastal development permit revocation hearing before the board of supervisors and then forward the property to the California Coastal Commission for enforcement action.

Two days later, Schneider’s attorney responded to agree to Ford’s terms. On April 11, the county served Schneider with a formal notice of violation and notice to abate a nuisance, beginning the process of imposing fines of $40,000 a day for up to 90 days.

“In order to really address this issue thoroughly, there’s going to have to be remediation of what’s been done on site, and I think there is also a need to assess penalties,” Ford said. “And we can’t assess penalties through the permitting process, thus we’re pursuing a penalty process and a permitting process simultaneously.”

Schneider told the Journal in an April 7 email that he was working with the county “toward a respectful and appropriate resolution,” and he was “looking forward to putting this behind us,” but did not respond to follow-up inquiries regarding the notice of abatement.

Ford said Schneider will be applying for permit modifications to carry out the agreed upon work, and the planning commission will need to sign off on those. He said he anticipates the matter could come before the planning commission in June, but stressed staff has erred by rushing this forward before and does not want to make that mistake again.

The notice of violation and abatement issued April 11 stipulates that after 10 days, the county will begin to impose daily fines of $40,000 for up to 90 days. But the terms of the notice make clear that

doesn’t necessarily mean Schneider will have to pay them.

Under the county’s code enforcement program, parties can enter into a compliance agreement with the county to correct violations and, if conditions of the agreement are met, “then some and possibly the entire penalty could be dismissed.”

Ford told the Journal it’s not entirely clear how the process will work going forward, saying it’s contingent on input from the various stakeholders and Schneider following through on the basic parameters he’s agreed to. But the planning director said it’s unlikely financial penalties will be waived in their entirety.

“I do believe there will be fines,” Ford said.

Talking to the Journal by phone April 17, Ford said there’s no question his department made mistakes in handling Schneider’s permits. To recap, it somehow approved building plans for a structure twice the size allowable under the coastal development permit, issued a grading permit for 10 times more fill dirt than allowable, issued a building permit without a septic permit in place and failed to thoroughly incorporate do-not-disturb lines into all site plans.

The case, Ford said, necessitated a full review.

“Nobody went out of their way to do something wrong,” he said. “I don’t think any of it was done knowingly. But small decisions along the way were just off enough from the county’s perspective that it allowed this situation to occur.”

Moving forward, Ford said it’s imperative that planning officials take full responsibility of the things they’re signing off on, and make sure they “take the time to get them right.”

“There’s the need to make sure everyone is understanding everything that the plans say, and that they are in conformance with the coastal development permit that was approved,” he said.

As an example, Ford noted that Schneider’s coastal development permit includes the limit of disturbance line prohibiting construction in certain areas. That information was on the original permit and the original site plan, but was not noted on a subsequent site plan. But it was in the coastal development permit, the governing and guiding document for the project.

“There should have been no doubt but sometimes you have to tattoo things on people’s eyeballs,” he said. l

Thadeus Greenson (he/him) is the Journal’s news editor. Reach him at (707) 442-1400, extension 321, or thad@ northcoastjournal.com.

Jetties Heating Up for Rockfish

By Kenny Priest fishing@northcoastjournal.com

The boat-based rockfish season on the North Coast won’t open until May 15 but that certainly doesn’t mean fish tacos can’t be on the menu. The jetties, the breakwater constructed to protect Humboldt Bay, are starting to provide some good fishing opportunities for both rockfish and lingcod. Over the last couple weeks, the North Jetty has started giving up some nice rockfish, along with the occasional big lingcod. While no limits have been reported as of yet, most are catching enough to make plenty of fish tacos. The South Jetty hasn’t been as good, but that will likely change as water and weather conditions improve.

There are a few di erent techniques anglers use on the jetties. One of the most popular is fishing with small swimbaits or scampi jigs. You can use a halfounce or three-quarter ounce, depending on the tide and depth of water. Another popular method is a two-hook setup rigged with bait. Bait, especially herring, under a float is also a deadly technique for big lingcod.

For bait, squid or shrimp work well. You can also cast and retrieve egg sinkers or banana weights rigged with a herring. This also works well for lingcod. While we wait for the May 15 boat-based rockfish opener, the jetties are always an excellent year-round option to put fresh fish on the table. For a complete list of rockfish regulations, visit wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/ Ocean/Regulations/Groundfish-Summary#north.

Weekend marine forecast

Ocean conditions look to be improving throughout the week with decent conditions forecast for the weekend. Friday is calling for north winds 5 to 15 knots and west waves 5 feet at 10 seconds. Saturday is calling for winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 knots with north waves 7 feet at 12 seconds and northwest 3 feet at 13 seconds. Sunday looks a little worse. Winds

will be from the northwest 10 to 15 knots with northwest waves 5 feet at five seconds and west 4 feet at 14 seconds. For an up-to-date weather forecast, visit weather.gov/eureka/ or windy.com.

Englund Marine Eureka Grand Opening May 5

Englund Marine Eureka will be holding a grand opening celebration on Friday, May 5 from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. with the Eureka Chamber of Commerce. There will be sale prices on clothing, boots and raingear all day long. Englund Marine’s new location is 590 West Waterfront Drive, Eureka.

The Rivers:

Reminder: The South Fork Eel, Van Duzen, Mattole, Mad, Redwood Cree and Chetco rivers all closed to fishing March 31.

Smith

The Smith was right around 9.5 feet on the Jed Smith gauge Tuesday and should be in excellent shape all week. Fishing reports have been hard to come by as most anglers have moved on for the season. There should be some downers around a few fresh ones still making their way upriver.

Eel (main stem)

As of Tuesday, the main Eel was running at 10,200 cubic feet per second on the Scotia gauge and rising slightly following Monday’s rain. It’s predicted to drop through the week before rising again on the weekend. It’s getting close to being fishable but needs to get down to 5,000 cfs. That could happen next week. The main stem Eel to the South Fork is open all year. Only artificial lures with barbless

hooks may be used from Apr. 1 through Sept. 30.

Lower Rogue

Spring salmon fishing has been surprisingly good on the lower Rogue, according to Andy Martin of Wild Rivers Fishing. “Plunkers are catching fish on Spin-N-Glos, 4.0 MagLips and Brads plug cut lures at Huntley Park and Lobster Creek,” said Martin. “Guides anchoring near Elephant Rock and the Willows caught limits of salmon over the weekend with anchovies and spinner blades, as big numbers of hatchery springers moved through. Conditions remain good for this weekend.”

Brookings ocean update

Lingcod and rockfish continue to be good out of Brookings on nice weather days according to Martin. “Lingcod remain in shallow water, while thicker schools of rockfish have moved inshore. The forecast for Friday and Saturday looks promising. Surfperch are biting well at numerous Brookings-area beaches, although fishing along the jetties is slow because of high water in the Chetco. Pacific halibut season opens May 1. Coho salmon season opens in the ocean out of Brookings June 17.”

Read the complete fishing report at northcoastjournal.com. ●

Kenny Priest operates Fishing the North Coast, a fishing guide service out of Humboldt specializing in salmon and steelhead. Find it on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and fishingthenorthcoast.com. For up-to-date fishing reports and North Coast river information, email kenny@ fishingthenorthcoast.com

Eight-year-old Isabell Kelly, of Arcata, holds a rockfish she caught last Saturday from the north jetty. Photo courtesy of Brian Kelly

Driving with My Father

By Lauri Rose getout@northcoastjournal.com

To give my brother and his wife a break, I take my 97-year-old, Alzheimer’s riddled dad for a couple of days every month. By mid-morning, I’m stir-crazy and Dad is getting antsy. So, the days go something like this:

“Hey Dad, it’s Sunday, how about a drive?” Never mind that yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow will be Sunday, too.

Dad loves a drive. He is down the steps before I can grab his elbow and keep him steady. Impatiently he pulls at the car door, then settles himself in the passenger seat where I buckle him in. Invariably, he looks at me and apologizes for not helping with the driving because, “That S.O.B. took my license away.”

There are lots of good drives in Humboldt. Sometimes we head to Founder’s Grove and Avenue of the Giants. Dad loves the big trees. “That’s a big one,” he says pointing out the window. And, one minute later, “That’s a big one.” I enjoy the reminders that each tree is uniquely worthy of attention.

State Route 36 is also a good drive. At Alton, the log deck depresses me, but it astonishes Dad and he teaches me to see it without preconceived notions about what it represents. It is pretty amazing seeing all those logs in one place. Dad also enjoys the curves of the road. “That’s the way,” he says, his left hand swooping and mimicking the curves. In my Dad’s lexicon, good driving equals a good person. I’m 64 but I bathe in Dad’s praise like I was 14. Today, I hanker for a crab sandwich, so we head out toward Trinidad and the Seascape Restaurant. As we pass Loleta, Dad nods with quiet satisfaction, “This sure is pretty country.”

I take the trip from Fortuna to Eureka a lot. I’m on autopilot, mainly worrying about whether Dad can hold his urine until we get to the restaurant. I’m wondering if the library is open in case we need a bathroom stop. My father’s comment brings me back into the here and now. I see again that even the ugly places in Humboldt are beautiful.

As we head north through the mishmash of architecture that is Fifth Street, Dad points to one building after another. Toward the end he gets a little impatient, “This is a long town.”

I nod and try to point out the incredible painted power boxes on every corner. At the stoplight on Fifth Street, I show him the trompe l’oeil mural on the courthouse with its illusion of giant beams sticking out into thin air. This is not a good mural for someone with his type of dementia; he doesn’t understand why they don’t just finish the damn building. I point out the jail. He used to work in law enforcement. He’s pleased to see the beige and red checkerboard facade.

As we go between Eureka and Arcata, Dad’s head droops. He loves driving but often falls asleep. I used to be insulted — I was creating carbon debt, wasting gas putting in my best e ort to please him, he ought to stay awake. Now, I just enjoy the quiet. It’s nice that he’s at peace. I watch the sun glinting o the tidal flats and enjoy the egrets feasting beside the road.

I wake Dad as we go through McKinleyville and top the rise that looks over Clam Beach. This is possibly my favorite view anywhere. I love the long sequences of breakers rolling in, crashing and foaming against the yellow sand, the sea stacks and Trinidad Harbor shimmering in the misty distance. I’m absorbed by how vast the ocean is and how small the land is. I remind myself humans are 60 percent saltwater. Beaches are our home place.

Beside me, Dad nods in appreciation. “Pretty,” he says.

As we pull up the hill on the other side of Clam Beach, I point out the elephant form in the rock just before the Westhaven exit. Dad is singularly unimpressed, though — “Of course” he saw the elephant in the “dumb” rock.

We take the o ramp to Trinidad and Dad does his hand-mimicking-curve thing as we turn sharply into the town proper. One steep downhill and we have reached the Seascape.

I think we might take a short walk along Trinidad Head trail or out the pier to see otters, or at least a few seals. Not unexpectedly, Dad declines. His gait is unstable and even with me holding his hand, he fears falling. We stick to the pavement and make our way to the restaurant.

The crab sandwich turns out to be over our budget, so I order clam chowder for both of us. Totally delicious. I know Dad liked it, too, because he rated it “not so bad,” which is Dad code for exceptional. He sleeps all the way back to Fortuna.

It’s the last time Dad comes to visit. He dies just a few weeks later. Though driving is hardly my idea of the consummate outdoor adventure, for an old man with dementia and an unsteady gait, it turned out to be perfect for both of us. ●

Lauri (she/her) lives on a Dinsmore homestead with a neurotic dog, crazy cat, 12 weird chickens and a husband who defies adjectives. She misses Dad.

The author’s father Charlie Rose at Seascape Restaurant. Courtesy of Lauri Rose

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Color Wheel

By Collin Yeo music@northcoastjournal.com

Well friends, it’s the beginning of flower season again and I could not be more pleased. I’m talking calendulas, daffodils, trilliums, California poppies (not the band, but they are fine, too). I have an abstract relationship with flowers, in that I encounter them as a cheerful addition to my daily life without choosing to become too educated on their taxonomies and cultivation. I enjoy the flashes of color and scent that spring out of the landscape, and prefer to let the mystery be regarding the deeper knowledge behind their nature. Music can be enjoyable this way, too, just going in blindfolded to an album or track without any foreknowledge. I recently got to experience that at the Arcata Main Street block party on Arts Arcata, when I heard (for the first time) local trio Northern Blight, who played good covers at a deliberately low volume, creating a sort of rock ASMR that I found pleasing to the point of being nearly hallucinogenic. Their cover of Thin Lizzy’s “Dancing in the Moonlight” was spartan and lovely, although played a step up (in G Major) from my preferred F. At least that’s what I heard, anyway. I probably would have benefitted from a little of the ignorance I apply to flowers. And cars, for that matter — I am no motorhead and whenever people talk about classic cars around me, I just say that I like the ones that go “vroom” and look like metal sharks. If you were to ask me what I do know about, I’d probably say “not much, certain aspects of literature and philosophy (boring!), and a lot of trivial minutiae about bands and music (nerd!).” A small but strong part of me has always wanted to experience my existence like a calm, directionless jellyfish (which is neither jelly, nor fish, but a secret, brainless third thing), and just drift through my assigned breathing years as a placid observer. Let the Book of Life record that I have, at times, been a faithful and joyous viewer in a landscape full of people who are frankly a little too motivated by the lust for eternal fame (impossible) and conquest (silly, grow up). I will never be Shelley’s Ozymandius, no crumbling monuments with hubristic inscriptions for me — no, when I’m gone, you can remember me with flowers. Have a lovely week.

Thursday

Well, it’s 4/20, so cheers to those who celebrate. If you are among that crowd, you should consider going to the Mateel today at 4 p.m., where a great smoke out is being staged with a proper soundtrack of reggae music. Junior Toots is the son of the late, great Toots Hibbert of the Maytals fame, and he will be joined by other Jamaican musicians, including Kulcha Knox, Kurrency King and Kava Jah. Music begins after 7 p.m., but DJ Irie Adina will be spinning music before then, and beer, wine and food (including barbecue) will be vended. This is a good time to spend some coin in SoHum and $25 for this lineup seems quite reasonable. If you’d prefer to hang out up north, the Arcata Theatre Lounge is a good party destination, especially if you are looking to move your body. Queer dance groove master and rising star Wreckno is making a stop on their tour to pump the jams and bring the chaotic stage show to our sleepy county. The show’s at 9 p.m. but I’d come early because those $20 tickets are going to go fast.

Friday

Two good shows tonight, so let’s not dawdle. At 7:30 p.m. at the Trinidad Town Hall, you can listen to the exotic-yet-distinctly-comforting tunes of Canary and the Vamp, as the band whirls and twirls through the various Tin Pan Alleys of the Naked City in the geography of the Great American Songbook ($10-$20 sliding scale).

Did I say sliding scale? Because a very reasonable $10-$15 sliding scale will get you into the Arcata Veterans Hall tonight, where, at 8 p.m., you can enjoy a double barrelled blast of sheer rock power with Portland’s Bubble-glam doomsters Fox Medicine teaming up with our most righteous local heavy metal power trio The Sturgeons. This one is going to be a banger.

Saturday, Earth Day

If you didn’t get a chance to scope out last night’s presentation by the Eureka Symphony, “Dramatic Fantasies,” then tonight is your last chance. Croatian-Amer-

ican guest violinist Ivo Bokulic brings his prowess to Bohuslav Martinu’s “Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra,” followed by a program that is filled with enticing gems, including Dame Ethel Smyth’s ebullient piece “The Wreckers: Overture.” It all goes down at the usual spot, the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts. Doors at 7 p.m. with rush tickets available then, masks required ($19-$49)

Sunday

If you haven’t seen Sister Act at Ferndale Repertory yet, today’s 2 p.m. matinee show is your last chance ($20). Personally, I’m holding out for the musical version of another Whoopi Goldberg vehicle from the ’90s, the execrable Theodore Rex.

Five hours later, and up in Arcata, the Outer Space is hosting a punk-ish show with Heart Eyes, Aeysha and Vegan Slaughterhouse (what would that be, a compost pile?) holding court. It’s $5-$20 sliding scale and while no one will be turned away due to lack of funds, you will need a mask.

Monday

Here we go again, another Metal Monday over at Savage Henry Comedy Club at 7 p.m. Los Angeles grind band Cancer

Christ joins forces with a squad of local acts, including Dead Drift, Mystery Meat and Human Soup Hot Tub, the latter of which wins the ignoble distinction of making me gag every time I find myself typing out the name. Way to go, folks ($10).

Tuesday

Garage rock trio L.A. Witch plays a free one at the Cal Poly Humboldt quad at noon today. I hope those in charge let the band play loud, as they are very good at that.

Wednesday

The Exit Theatre in Arcata presents its monthly Something Different variety show with performances by local folk-els A’Okay the Clown, Jesse Jonathan, Jamie Bandage and Jay Brown at 7 p.m. ($8). I like this venue, and I’d like to see it continue its existence above the plaza. l

Collin Yeo (he/him) thinks that the current media hype about AI gaining sentience sure smells a lot like the media hype about crypto before it crashed. He lives in Arcata, where that smell can be enjoyed for free when the farmers are fertilizing the fields.

Junior Toots plays the Mateel’s 4/20 event at 4 p.m. on April 20. Courtesy of the artist

Calendar April 20 – 27, 2023

FOOD

Volunteer Orientation Food for People. 3-4 p.m. Virtual World, Online. Help fight hunger and improve nutrition in the community. Visit the website to be invited to a Zoom orientation. Free. volunteer@foodforpeople.org. foodforpeople.org/volunteering. (707) 445-3166, ext. 310.

ETC

Celebrate Earth Day this Saturday, April 22 , by getting out and embracing the beauty of our natural spaces, picking up some trash or gathering with friends to learn more about being good stewards of our planet. From 10 a.m. to noon at Eureka Labor Temple, join Northcoast Environmental Center and 350.org/Th!rd Act to learn about climate justice at local, state and national levels. There will be presentations by Congressmember Jared Huffman, local environmental activities, free breakfast and more. Call (707) 834-2194 to RSVP (free). Over at Pierson Park , there’s an Earth Day Celebration happening from 3 to 8 p.m ., with music, food and craft vendors, tabling and educational activities, speakers and kids’ activities (free). Down the street, check out the Earth Day Celebration at the Bigfoot Taproom from 1 to 6 p.m . They’ll be hosting vendors with plants, upcycled garden art and other art, as well as household composting solutions (free entry).

20 Thursday

ART

Cal Poly Humboldt Art Dept. Graduates Exhibition

Reception. 5-7 p.m. Reese Bullen Gallery, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. Showcasing Humboldt’s graduating art majors and minors work, including painting, ceramics, photography, printmaking, jewelry, sculpture and media arts. art.humboldt.edu/galleries.

Eureka Photoshop Users Group Photography Show. Hagopian Art Gallery, Humboldt County Library (upstairs), 1313 Third St., Eureka. Award-winning members present traditional photography, abstracts, digital art, collages and more through April 28.

Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. With a live model. Bring your own art supplies. Call to contact Clint. $5. synapsisperformance.com. (707) 362-9392.

“Spiritual Detour -> This Way”. Brenda Tuxford Gallery, 422 First St., Eureka. Twenty-five artworks by 19 Humboldt artists celebrate serendipity and coincidence through April.

Thursday Night Art. 4-7 p.m. The Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata. Bring your own supplies or use what’s around to collage, paint, draw, make an art book. Bring an instrument to jam in the Great Hall. Free, $5-$20 donation appreciated. sanctuaryarcata.org.

BOOKS

Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson Radio Hour. 10-11 p.m. The final episode and the last chapter of GI Gurdjieff’s All and Everything (Second Series): “Meetings With Remarkable Men,” Episode 16: The Material Question: Part 3. Free. rybopp@suddenlink. net. HumboldtHotAir.org. (707) 826-7567.

Calling all film buffs and cinephiles: The Humboldt International Film Fest gets rolling for its 56th year, April 20-23, with nightly showings at the Minor Theatre ($12 general, free for Cal Poly Humboldt students). The four-night event is the culmination of CPH film students’ call for entries for filmmakers to submit their short films to the longest student-run film festival in the world. Check out shorts in animation, documentary, experimental and narrative categories, and take part in visiting artist talks and workshops. Get more info online at hsufilmfestival.com.

COMEDY

Drink & Draw. 6 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. Self-guided art space and place hosted by Jessica Grant. Bring your own supplies or use ours. Snacks, drinks, friendly atmosphere. All ages w/caution for language. Ages 21 and up. Free. info@ savagehenrycomedy.com. www.savagehenrycomedy. com. (707) 845-8864.

LECTURE

Kieval Lecture. 7-8:30 p.m. Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. Glen Van Brummelen delivers a lecture titled “Revolutions in the Heavens and the Earth: The Story of Trigonometry.” In room 135 of the Science-B Building. Free. math@humboldt.edu. (707) 826-3143.

MOVIES

Cheech and Chong’s Up In Smoke. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Eureka Theater, 612 F St. Special 420 presentation. Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van made entirely of marijuana from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail. Doors at 6:30 p.m. 10 adults, $5 ages 12 and under. info@theeurekatheater.com. eureka-theater. org/event/cheech-and-chongs-up-in-smoke/. (707) 442-2970.

Humboldt International Film Fest. Minor Theatre, 1013 H St., Arcata. Four nights of original short films from all over the world in animation, documentary, experimental and narrative categories. Plus, visiting artist talks and workshops. $12 general, free for Cal Poly Humboldt students. hsufilmfestival.com/.

MUSIC

Hip Hop Thursdays. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. The Jam, 915 H St., Arcata. Chuck Angeles, Starcata and Pressure. Free. thejamarcata.com. (707) 822-5266.

The Jimmie Lahman Band. 7-10 p.m. The SpeakEasy, 411 Opera Alley, Eureka. Live music outside in the patio. Free. lahmantone5@gmail.com. (707) 499-9031.

Clear your calendars, friends of the fruity. Two nights of uproariously fun debauchery await you at Papaya Lounge Rumble Royale II: Sloppy Seconds happening Friday, April 21 , and Saturday, April 22 , at 7:30 p.m. at Septentrio Tasting Room , ($35). Billed as Pee-wee’s Playhouse meets Absolutely Fabulous, you can guess the vibe of this adults-only cabaret. Doors at 6 p.m. for food by the Nosh and pre-show dancing at 6:30 p.m. This show is 21 and up.

McKinleyville Community Choir Rehearsal. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Arcata Presbyterian Church, 670 11th St. Join if you like to sing or play an instrument. Reading music or prior experience not necessary. Rehearsals are every Thursday evening. ccgreene46@gmail.com. (831) 419-3247.

Oryan Peterson-Jones. 6-8 p.m. Humboldt Bay Social Club, 900 New Navy Base Road, Samoa. Live music. Free. humboldtbaysocialclub.com.

Pat Holland. 6-9 p.m. Redwood Curtain Brewing Co. Myrtle Ave. Tasting Room, 1595 B Myrtle Ave., Eureka. Acoustic guitar songs. Free. path63b@gmail.com.

THEATER

The Humboldt Circus Presents Clownspiracy. 7:47 p.m. Gist Hall Theatre, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. Three nights of clowny cryptids, big-top bigfoots and entertaining extraterrestrials. Be hypnotized by jugglers and flow artists alike in a looking glass landscape. For audiences age 18 and over. Tickets cash only at the door, $1 off with a costume or handbill. $10, $8 student. thehumboldtcircus@gmail.com.

EVENTS

4/20 Celebration. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Herb & Market Humboldt, 427 H St., Arcata. DJs, food, boba, brands and local artisans from 2:15 p.m. to 7:10 p.m. with a special surprise dropping at 4:20 p.m. Free. Herbandmarket@ gmail.com. (707) 630-4221.

420 Smokeout. Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway. Roots reggae music, food, cannabis lounge and pop-up market. $25, free for 12 and under. mateel.org.

Lumberjack Days. Gutswurrak Student Activities Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. Celebrate the return of Lumberjack Days with six afternoons of live music including The Original Wailers, hip-hop star Quaodad 400, garage rockers L.A. Witch, the reggaetón of La Doña, the Americana of Gabe Lee and the blues of GA-20.

Restorative Movement. 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 2-3 p.m. Virtual World, Online. SoHum Health presents classes focused on strength and mobility (Tuesday), and on relaxation and breath work (Thursday). Contact instructor Ann Constantino for online orientation. $3-$5 donation per class, no one is turned away for lack of funds. annconstantino@gmail.com. sohumhealth.org. (707) 923-3921.

21 Friday

COMEDY

Home Improv-ment. 7 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. Hosted by Stephanie Knowles with no pressure, just fun and a chance to try something out of your comfort zone. Free, donations accepted. savagehenrycomedy.com. (707) 845-8864.

Please Don’t Leave. 11 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. Scott Hoyle runs this improv-based comedy show with a rotating panel of the best local comedians and touring comics. $5. info@savagehenrycomedy.com. savagehenrycomedy.com. (707) 845-8864.

LECTURE

Science on Tap: Fish and Geology. 5-7 p.m. Mad River Brewing Co. & Tap Room, 101 Taylor Way, Blue Lake. Tom Leroy, an engineering geologist and project manager at Pacific Watershed Associates, speaks on “How the geology of the Pacific Northwest has influenced salmon evolution and habitat distribution.” info@erwig.org. erwig.org/events.html.

MOVIES

Humboldt International Film Fest. Minor Theatre, 1013 H St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

MUSIC

Canary and the Vamp. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. Westhaven Center for the Arts presents Canary and the Vamp: jazz manouche meets banshee flapper. Doors at 7 p.m. Snacks/drinks available. $10-$20 sliding scale. westhavenarts@gmail.com. (707) 834-2479.

Dreams On Fire. 5-8 p.m. Gyppo Ale Mill, 1661 Upper Pacific Drive, Shelter Cove. Buckle in for melodic indie-arthouse, space-rock from a local favorite. family@ gyppo.com. gyppo.com. (707) 986-7700.

Eureka Symphony Dramatic Fantasies. 8 p.m. Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, 412 G St., Eureka. Ethel Smyth’s “The Wrecking Overture,” Czech composer Bohuslav Martin’s “Rhapsody-Concerto” for viola and orchestra featuring soloist Ivo Bukolic and “Pines of Rome” by Ottorino Respighi. $19-$49 (RUSH tickets at door at 7 p.m. are $10 with student ID, $15 adult).

Friday Night Jazz. 7-10 p.m. The SpeakEasy, 411 Opera Alley, Eureka. Live local jazz with the Opera Alley Cats. Free. elvisatemydonuts@hotmail.com. (707) 444-2244.

Live Music. 6-8:30 p.m. Fieldbrook Market & Eatery, 4636 Fieldbrook Road. Every Friday, local bands play folk, bluegrass, Americana. Always family friendly. Check Facebook or Instagram for the lineup. Free. fieldbrookmarket@gmail.com. (707) 633-6097. Opera Alley Cats. 7-10 p.m. The SpeakEasy, 411 Opera Al-

Richard Schild (left) and Ralph Valle, co-directors of the 2023 Humboldt Int’l Film Festival, selected films that highlight community togetherness. Courtesy of Cal Poly Humboldt

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ley, Eureka. Professional-level jazz twice a week with cool vibes and great people. Free. thespeakeasybar@yahoo. com. facebook.com/speakeasyeureka. (707) 444-2244. Ray Bevatori and Michael Curran. 5-8 p.m. Gyppo Ale Mill, 1661 Upper Pacific Drive, Shelter Cove. From Hank to Hendrix, a serenade of happy-to-lonesome songs and acoustic melodies inspired by the music of the ‘60s. family@gyppo.com. gyppo.com/calendar-of-events. (707) 986-7700.

Roots and Boots. 8 p.m. Bear River Recreation Center, 265 Keisner Road, Loleta. Three of the voices that defined ‘90s country music. Doors at 6:30 p.m. Ages 21 and up.

THEATER

The Book of Will Redwood Curtain Theatre, 220 First St., Eureka. The heartfelt and hilarious true story of the artists and friends who undertook the Herculean effort to publish the Bard’s plays in the wake of his death. Through May 13. redwoodcurtain.com.

The Humboldt Circus Presents Clownspiracy. 7:47 p.m. Gist Hall Theatre, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. See April 20 listing.

Papaya Lounge Rumble Royale II: Sloppy Seconds. 7:30 p.m. Septentrio Tasting Room, 650 Sixth St., Arcata. An innovative and blatantly naughty cabaret. Doors at 6 p.m. and pre-show prancin’ at 6:30 p.m. with DJ Dry Hump. Ages 21 and up. $35.

Sister Act 8 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. A feel-good musical comedy based on the 1992 film. Get tickets online. ferndalerep.org.

EVENTS

College of the Redwoods Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. College of the Redwoods, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka. Annuals, perennials, vegetables, succulents, culinary herbs, houseplants, native plants and landscape plants propagated and grown by students are available at the CR greenhouse. Benefits the greenhouse operation and the agriculture program.

Lumberjack Days. Gutswurrak Student Activities Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

FOR KIDS

Kid’s Night at the Museum. 5:30-8 p.m. Redwood Discovery Museum, 612 G St., Eureka. Drop off your 3.5-12 year old for interactive exhibits, science experiments, crafts and games, exploring the planetarium, playing in the water table or jumping into the soft blocks. $17-$20. info@discovery-museum.org. discovery-museum.org/ classesprograms.html. (707) 443-9694.

Weekly Preschool Storytime. Eureka Library, 1313

Third St. Talk, sing, read, write and play together in the children’s room. For children 2 to 6 years old with their caregivers and other family members. Free. manthony@co.humboldt.ca.us. humboldtgov.org/ Calendar.aspx?EID=8274. (707) 269-1910.

GARDEN

Sea Goat Farm Garden Volunteer Opportunities. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Help with animal care, weeding, watering, planting and occasional harvest help on Saturday mornings. Volunteers get free produce. flowerstone333@gmail.com. (530) 205-5882.

SPORTS

Skate Night. 6:30-9 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. All ages. First-come, first-served. No pre-registration needed. Maximum of 75 skaters. $6 adult, $5 for ages 17 and under. (707) 441-4248.

ETC

Tabata. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Virtual World, Online. SoHum Health presents online classes with short, high intensity cardio workouts. Contact instructor Stephanie Finch by email for a link to the class. Free. sfinch40@ gmail.com. sohumhealth.com.

NATURE & SCIENCE

Science and Nature Youth Camps at the Natural History Museum Registration Open. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Natural History Museum of Cal Poly Humboldt, 1242 G St., Arcata. Register now for youth camps in July-August. Registration is open until full. Each camp will be Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for ages 4-9 at the Natural History Museum of Cal Poly Humboldt. Camp topics will include: Science Heroes, Pollination Planet, Wildlife Detectives, and From Dino Egg to Chicken. $100. natmus@humboldt.edu. natmus.humboldt.edu/ events/science-and-nature-youth-camps-natural-history-museum. (707) 826-4480.

22 Saturday ART

Dona Blakely Pop-Up Art Show. 4-9 p.m. Matt Beard Art Gallery, 1636 F St., Eureka. Oil paintings. Maker Faire. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods’ Sea Goat Farmstand, 1450 Hiller Rd., McKinleyville. Browse local craft booths, sign up for classes, enjoy food and drink and listen to live music. Family-friendly event. Sign up for workshops online. Walk-ins welcome. Free. seagoatfarmstand.com. fb.me/e/2LgcPcLWC. (707) 382-2427.

COMEDY

Farm to Table: Late Night Comedy. 11 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. Baseball Robby curates this small batch artisanal stand-up comedy showcase. $5. info@savagehenrycomedy.com. savagehenrycomedy.com. (707) 845-8864.

Trinidad’s Got Talent. 5-9 a.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. Entertainment by local musicians, poets, artists, comedians and dancers. Food and beverages (non-alcoholic drinks, beer, wine and cider) for purchase. Benefits the school’s music, art, gardening and theater programs. $10, $30 for talent acts. tsef2020@gmail.com. trinidadusd.net. (707) 677-3631.

DANCE

Only Skin Deep: Dreaming (is an art). 6:30-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. A performance and visual art exhibition for Humboldt County creators of Indigenous, pan-African, Latinx, Asian and mixed heritage. $10 and up. onlyskindeep@inkpeople. org. fb.me/e/AUaFWbbK. (661) 748-5921.

MOVIES

Humboldt International Film Fest. Minor Theatre, 1013 H St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

Princess Mononoke (1997) - Earth Day. 7-10 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Rated PG-13. All ages. A young warrior in medieval Japan must find a way to restore the balance between humans and nature. $8, $12 admission and poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. facebook.com/ events/184488327681905. (707) 613-3030.

Robo-Cat Productions Presents: Conversations

With The Dead. 5-7 p.m. Virtual World, Online. Two hours of tales from behind the veil and haunting tunes that echo on the wind. On Facebook. facebook.com/ events/240168061813624.

MUSIC

Dylan Weber. 5-8 p.m. Gyppo Ale Mill, 1661 Upper Pacific Drive, Shelter Cove. Originals and favorite covers. family@gyppo.com. fb.me/e/2fhF5svhp. (707) 986-7700. Fantasy Land with LIØNE. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. RampArt Skatepark, 700 South G St., Arcata. Two stages, the vagabond dancers, aerialists, fire performers, Algorythms Laser Light Show, Los Giles, live painting by Katie Rose, VIP, pillow pit, bottle service, bars, lounge and more. Headliner: LIØNE. Featuring Eluid, Mikey Bones and D’Vinity. $20-$50. info@arcaneartistes.com. tickets.vemos.io/-MLoivRPo0aPx8oeX3JK/arcane/-NRsWMNZ-5LzKBcM_qdM/fantasy-land-with-lione. (916) 207-6208.

The Lost Dogs. 8-11 p.m. The Logger Bar, 510 Railroad Ave., Blue Lake. Local blues and Americana band The Lost

Dogs. Free. facebook.com/LoggerBar. (707) 668-5000.

THEATER

The Humboldt Circus Presents Clownspiracy 7:47 p.m. Gist Hall Theatre, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. See April 20 listing.

Papaya Lounge Rumble Royale II: Sloppy Seconds. 7:30 p.m. Septentrio Tasting Room, 650 Sixth St., Arcata. See April 21 listing.

Sister Act. 8 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. See April 21 listing.

EVENTS

Black Humboldt Birthday Gala and Dinner. 6-9 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Celebrate five years of Black Humboldt with drinks, food by Mother’s Cooking Experience, performances, speakers and silent auction. All proceeds benefit Black Humboldt. $100. Blackhumboldt@gmail.com. eventbrite. com/e/black-humboldts-5-year-birthday-gala-tickets-595243869437. (707) 840-4641.

Celebrate Earth Day. 10 a.m.-noon. Eureka Labor Temple, 840 E St. Learn about climate justice at local, state and national levels. Presentations by Congressman Jared Huffman, Northcoast Environmental Center and 350.org/Th!rd Act. Local environmental activities, free breakfast and more. Call to RSVP. Free. (707) 834-2194. College of the Redwoods Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. College of the Redwoods, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka. See April 21 listing.

Earth Day Celebration. 3-8 p.m. Pierson Park, 1608 Pickett Road, McKinleyville. Featuring local musicians, local food and craft vendors, tabling and educational activities, speakers and kids’ activities Free. decolonizingeconomicssummit@gmail.com. gen.nationbuilder. com/ceremony. (707) 798-0951.

Earth Day Celebration at the Bigfoot Taproom. 1-6 p.m. The Bigfoot Taproom, 1750 Central Ave., McKinleyville. There will be vendors with plants of all varieties, upcycled garden art, natural art pieces, and household composting solutions. thebigfoottaproom@gmail.com. thebigfoottaproom.com. (707) 630-4057.

Lumberjack Days. Gutswurrak Student Activities Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

FOOD

Arcata Plaza Farmers Market. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Fresh produce, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers and more. Music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified,

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service animals are welcome. Music by Oryan Peterson-Jones 10:30 a.m. to noon Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org/arcataplaza.html. (707) 441-9999.

Humboldt Grange Breakfast. Fourth Saturday of every month, 8-11 a.m. Humboldt Grange Hall, 5845 Humboldt Hill Road, Eureka. Eggs, sausage (link or patties), pancakes, biscuits and gravy, coffee, tea, cocoa, juice, family, friends and community. Dine in or take out. $10, free for kids under 5. facebook.com/humboldt.grange. The Pancake Agenda. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Eureka Center for Spiritual Living, 239 Buhne St. Brunch fundraiser for Redwood Pride’s June Pride event. Gluten-free and vegan options. $10 sliding scale, free for kids under 6. Sea Goat Farmstand. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Fresh veggies grown on site, local eggs and sourdough bread. Work from local artists and artisans. flowerstone333@gmail. com. (530) 205-5882.

GARDEN

Humboldt Orchid Society Spring Show. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. Orchid displays, carnivorous plants and more orchids for sale. $2 suggested donation.

Sea Goat Farm Garden Volunteer Opportunities. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. See April 21 listing.

MEETINGS

Sistahood. 9:30-11 a.m. Virtual World, Online. For women teenagers and older on Zoom, to build healthy relationships and strengthen ties through validation and affirmation. Music from 9:30 a.m., open conversation from 9:45 a.m., meditation with the Sista Prayer Warriors from 10:45 a.m.

OUTDOORS

Audubon Guided Field Trip w/Michael Morris. 8:30-11 a.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I Street. Bring binoculars and meet trip leader Michael Morris at the end of South I Street (Klopp Lake) for easy-to-walk trails and and a diverse range of shorebirds, migratory songbirds, raptors and resident birds. Free. rras.org.

FOAM Marsh Tour w/Alex Stillman. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I Street. Meet leader Alex Stillman in the lobby of the Interpretive Center for a 90-minute, rain-or-shine walk focusing on marsh history, wastewater treatment, birds and/or ecology. Masks recommended inside. (707) 826-2359.

Restore & Restore - Earth Day Celebration. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. Bring your yoga practice to the dunes for an early morning asana. Enjoy a brisk morning walk after the movement class to the beach where for an ocean meditation circle. Snacks and tea provided. Space is limited, email or call to reserve a spot. info@ friendsofthedunes.org. (707) 444-1397.

Southern Humboldt Guided Birding Trip. 8:30 a.m. Tooby Memorial Park, Garberville, Garberville. This walk includes 2-3 miles of gentle walking through riparian, grassland and mixed hardwood forests with seasonal bird species. Meet in the parking lot. Free. rras.org.

Spring Guided Walk at Founders Grove. 2-3 p.m. Humboldt Redwoods State Park, 17119 Avenue of Giants, Weott. Learn about the park’s cultural and natural history while being in it. This walk is 0.6 miles long on a flat ADA trail. Meet at the Founders Grove picnic area/ parking lot. Free. humboldtredwoods.org.

Walk in the Park Fitness. 10-11 a.m. Sacco Amphitheater, 1101 Waterfront Drive, Eureka. Join Samantha from Eden Personal Fitness for a functional fitness walk down

Waterfront Trail. All fitness levels welcome. Dress for the weather. Free. edenpersonalfitness@gmail.com. edenpersonalfitness.com. (707) 362-9004.

Wigi Wetlands Volunteer Workday. 9-11 a.m. Wigi Wetlands, Behind the Bayshore Mall, Eureka. Help create bird-friendly native habitats and restore a section of the bay trail by removing invasive plants and trash behind the Bayshore Mall. Meet in the lot behind Walmart. Tools, gloves and packaged snacks provided. Please bring your own drinking water. Free. jeremy.cashen@yahoo. com. rras.org. (214) 605-7368.

SPORTS

King Ryan vs. Gevontae Davis Watch Party. 6-9 p.m. Next Level Boxing, 2734 Hubbard Lane, Eureka, California. Next Level Boxing and The Pugilistic Club host the King Ryan vs. Gevontae Davis watch party. Concessions, door prizes, fun. $10 donation. (707) 572-5334.

Stock Car Racing. Redwood Acres Raceway, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. Schedule and tickets online. racintheacres. com.

ETC

A Day of Mindfulness, Contemplations on Nature. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 24 Fellowship Way, Bayside. A joyful day of mindfulness in celebration of Earth Day. afhbsangha@gmail.com. ancientforestsangha.org/calendar/.

Earth Day 350Humboldt. 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Come to the 350Humboldt table on the Arcata Plaza for information, ideas and conversation about making lifestyle changes that support a livable climate.

Earth Day 350Humboldt- McKinleyville. 3 p.m. Pierson Park, 1608 Pickett Road, McKinleyville. Come to the 350Humboldt table for information, ideas and conversation about making lifestyle changes that support a livable climate. Free.

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ART

Dona Blakely Pop-Up Art Show. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Matt Beard Art Gallery, 1636 F St., Eureka. See April 22 listing. COMEDY

Stand-up Comedy Workshop. 7-8 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. Led by local stand-up comic Jessica Grant. Bring a pen or pencil, and circle up to talk shop about jokes. Open to anyone interested in performing stand-up comedy. Drop-ins welcome. Free, donations accepted. JessicaGrantComedy@gmail.com. savagehenrycomedy.com. (707) 845-8864.

Sunday Open Mic. 9-11 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. Sign-ups at 9 p.m., show at 9:30 p.m., local favorite features for the 10@10. Comics get five minutes. Zero hate speech tolerated. All-ages w/caution for language. Snacks, drinks. Free, donations accepted. info@savagehenrycomedy.com. savagehenrycomedy. com. (707) 845-8864.

DANCE

Only Skin Deep: Dreaming (is an art). 1:30-4 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See April 22 listing.

MOVIES

Grown Up Movie Night. 6-8 p.m. Scotia Lodge, 100 Main St. Finish off the weekend with classics in the lounge. Food and drinks available at the lodge’s Main & Mill restaurant. Movies are PG-PG-13 and titles are

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listed online. Free. scotia-lodge.com/hosted-events. (707) 298-7139.

Humboldt International Film Fest. Minor Theatre, 1013 H St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

Wall-E (2008). 5-8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show at 5 p.m. Movie at 6 p.m. Rated G. All ages. The heartwarming story of a curious robot on a galaxy-spanning adventure. Pre-show and retro-gaming station in the lobby $8, $12 admission and poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. facebook.com/ events/785945182951773. (707) 613-3030.

MUSIC

Sunday Jazz Jams. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Blondies Food And Drink, 420 E. California Ave., Arcata. Every Sunday. Jazz players, all ages, all levels. Bring your ax and play some Real Book tunes. Everybody who wants to plays. Free. blondiesfoodanddrink@gmail.com. blondiesfoodanddrink.com. (707) 822-3453.

SPOKEN WORD

Next Up - Redwood Poetry Festival. 6-9 p.m. The Epitome Gallery, 420 Second St., Eureka. Curated poetry show of young poets. Part of the Redwood Poetry Festival.

EVENTS

Lumberjack Days. Gutswurrak Student Activities Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

FOR KIDS

Family Movie Day at HBSC. 2-4 p.m. Humboldt Bay Social Club, 900 New Navy Base Road, Samoa. Bring the family out and get cozy and enjoy favorites rated G-PG. Drinks and snacks available at the Lobby Bar. Movie titles are on listed online. Free. humboldtbaysocialclub.com/ our-events. (707) 502-8544.

FOOD

Ferndale Veterans Community Breakfast. Fourth Sunday of every month, 8-11:30 a.m. Ferndale Veterans Memorial Building, 1100 Main St. Menu includes pancakes, biscuits and gravy, ham, sausage, eggs to order, coffee, juice and mimosas. $10, $5 children. Food Not Bombs. 4 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Free, hot food for everyone. Mostly vegan and organic and always delicious. Free.

OUTDOORS

Community Stewardship Day. Fourth Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Seawood Cape Preserve, 2265 Patricks Point Drive, Trinidad. Remove invasive plant species at Seawood Cape Preserve. Wear long sleeves, pants, hats and sturdy shoes, and bring water. Register online. Free. seawoodcapepreserve@wildlandsconservancy. org. Seawood-Cape-Preserve_Community-Stewardship-Days.eventbrite.com. (707) 633-9132.

Trinidad Head Breeding Gull Field Trip. 9-11 a.m. Trinidad, Downtown. Aa field trip focused on the breeding gulls and seabirds nesting on the rocks off of Trinidad Head. Meet at the Trinidad State Beach parking lot at the end of Lighthouse Road and bring a scope if you have one. Free. rras.org.

SPORTS

Sunday Springles Disc Golf League. 12-3:30 p.m. Beau Pre DiscGolfPark at the Beau Pre Golf Course, 1777 Norton Road, McKinleyville. Flex-start PDGA sanctioned disc golf league. Six-week series. Play in any or all of the weeks. All PDGA divisions available. Membership not required. Book a tee time with the Pro Shop. $10 buy-in. beauprediscgolf@gmail.com. instagram.com/ beauprediscgolf/. (707) 839-2342.

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She Persisted - 2023 Redwood Poetry Festival. 6-9 p.m. The Epitome Gallery, 420 Second St., Eureka. A celebration of female and feminine-identifying poets. Hosted by local poets Rachel Noel and Katherine Nunes-Siciliani. Part of the Redwood Poetry Festival.

EVENTS

Lumberjack Days. Gutswurrak Student Activities Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

FOOD

Volunteer Orientation Food for People. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Virtual World, Online. See April 20 listing.

ETC

Homesharing Info Session. 9:30-10 a.m. and 1-1:30 p.m. This informational Zoom session will go over the steps and safeguards of Area 1 Agency on Aging’s matching process and the different types of homeshare partnerships. Email for the link. Free. homeshare@a1aa. org. a1aa.org/homesharing. (707) 442-3763.

Tabata. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Virtual World, Online. See April 21 listing.

25 Tuesday

ART

“A Celebration of Local Birds” Art Show. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Photography by Mike Anderson and Leslie Scopes Anderson.

COMEDY

‘No Strings Attached’ Trivia. 6 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. Enjoy trivia games hosted by local comedians and compete for prizes. Trivia is followed by a feature comedy show at 9.p.m. Free. info@savagehenrycomedy.com. www.savagehenrycomedy.com. (707) 845-8864.

Thinkin’ & Drinkin’. 6-8 p.m. Gyppo Ale Mill, 1661 Upper Pacific Drive, Shelter Cove. Humorous trivia with David Gilchrist. family@gyppo.com. gyppo.com/ calendar-of-events. (707) 986-7700.

MOVIES

Grown Up Movie Night at HBSC. 6-8 p.m. Humboldt Bay Social Club, 900 New Navy Base Road, Samoa. Drinks and snacks available while you watch classics and get cozy in the Lobby Bar. Movie titles are listed online. Free. humboldtbaysocialclub.com/our-events. (707) 502-8544.

MUSIC

Open Mic Night. 9 p.m.-midnight Central Station Sports Bar, 1631 Central Ave., McKinleyville. Signup begins 8:40 p.m. Open to all types of expression: music, poetry, etc. No cover, tips appreciated.

Opera Alley Cats. 7-10 p.m. The SpeakEasy, 411 Opera Alley, Eureka. See April 21 listing.

SPOKEN WORD

Word Humboldt Spoken Word Open Mic. 6-9 p.m. Northtown Coffee, 1603 G St., Arcata. Sign up list goes up at 6 p.m., and the open mic kicks off at 6:30 p.m. Two rounds of open mic poetry and a featured poet. Everyone is welcome, especially new performers. LGBTQ+ friendly. Free. instagram.com/wordhum.

EVENTS

Lumberjack Days. Gutswurrak Student Activities Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

MEETINGS

Humboldt Cribbage Club Tournament. 6:15-9 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Weekly six-game cribbage tournament for experienced players. Inexperienced players may watch, learn and play on the side. Moose dinner available at 5:30 p.m. $3-$8. 31for14@ gmail.com. (707) 599-4605.

Humboldt Stamp Collectors’ Club. Fourth Tuesday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Humboldt Senior Resource Center, 1910 California St., Eureka. New collectors and experts welcome. Learn about stamps, collecting and see local experts in stamps share their collections. Free. humstampclub@gmail.com.

ETC

English Express: An English Language Class for Adults. Virtual World, Online. Build English language confidence in ongoing online and in-person classes. All levels and first languages welcome. Join anytime. Pre-registration not required. Free. englishexpressempowered.com. (707) 443-5021.

Restorative Movement. 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 2-3 p.m. Virtual World, Online. See April 20 listing.

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Figure Drawing. 6-8:30 p.m. Blondies Food And Drink, 420 E. California Ave., Arcata. $5. blondiesfoodanddrink. com.

BOOKS

On the Same Page Book Club. 5:30 p.m. Virtual World, Online. Online book club that meets on the first Wednesday of the month on Zoom. Sign up using the Google form at forms.gle/bAsjdQ7hKGqEgJKj7.

COMEDY

Open Mikey. 9-11 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. The longest running comedy open-mic in the county. Sign up at 9 p.m. for a five-minute set. Show at 9:30 p.m. Snacks, drinks, zero hate speech tolerated. All-ages w/caution for language. Free, donations accepted. info@savagehenrycomedy.com. savagehenrycomedy.com. (707) 845-8864.

Philosophy Forum: Pattie Gonia. 7 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata. Ticket info at centerarts.humboldt.edu.

Washington Square Wednesdays. 6-9 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. Bring your own board and play chess. Snacks, drinks, friendly atmosphere for all-ages. ID to drink. Free, donations accepted. savagehenrycomedy.com. (707) 845-8864. Wicked Wednesday Comedy. 8 p.m. The Siren’s Song Tavern, 325 Second St., Eureka. Peter Nelson hosts a hilarious stand up open mic with different comedians. Free. sirenssongtavern.com.

MOVIES

Sci-Fi Night: Mars Attacks (1996). 6-9 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show at 6 p.m. Raffle at 7:10 p.m. Main feature at 7:15 p.m. Rated PG13. All ages (12 and under, parental guidance suggested). Directed by Tim Burton, this satirical comedy takes on the classic alien invasion movie with a star-studded cast. $5, $9 admission and poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. tickets.vemos.io/-LvvzSYm6udEnGfKIRLa/arcata-the

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Secret Cinema Society. 6:30 & 8:30 p.m. Richards’ Goat Tavern & Tea Room Miniplex, 401 I St., Arcata. Cult classics on a common theme each month, presented at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. April theme is ‘70s Paranoia Thrillers. Free w/food/drink purchase. info@miniplexevents.com. fb.me/e/PZvpO6jP. (707) 630-5000.

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Sacred Origins - Redwood Poetry Festival. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Humboldt Bay Social Club, 900 New Navy Base Road, Samoa. A celebration and showcase of Indigenous and Latinx poets. Hosted by local poet Susanna Gibson. Part of the Redwood Poetry Festival. humboldtbaysocialclub.com.

THEATER

Something Different. 7 p.m. EXIT Theatre, 890 G St., Arcata. Arcata’s monthly primetime interactive variety interview show featuring local artists and personalities with Jesse Jonathon, Jay Brown, Jamie Bondage and A’Okay the clown. $8.

EVENTS

Lumberjack Days. Gutswurrak Student Activities Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

FOR KIDS

Family Movie Night. 5-7 p.m. Scotia Lodge, 100 Main St. Bring the family and enjoy classics in the lounge area. Food and drinks available at Main & Mill. Movies are G-PG and the titles are listed online under events. Free. scotia-lodge.com/hosted-events. (707) 298-7139.

GARDEN

Sea Goat Farm Garden Volunteer Opportunities. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Abbey of the Redwoods, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. See April 21 listing.

ETC

Out 4 Business. Last Wednesday of every month, 4-6:30 p.m. Phatsy Kline’s Parlor Lounge, 139 Second St., Eureka. An LGBTQ+ professionals networking mixer for LGBTQ+ community, friends, allies and business professionals who value diversity and inclusivity. Food and drinks. trex@historiceaglehouse.com. fb.me/e/2i5gvvdKT. (707) 407-0634.

Tabata. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Virtual World, Online. See April 21 listing.

27 Thursday

ART

Eureka Photoshop Users Group Photography Show. Hagopian Art Gallery, Humboldt County Library (upstairs), 1313 Third St., Eureka. See April 20 listing.

Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See April 20 listing. “Spiritual Detour -> This Way”. Brenda Tuxford Gallery, 422 First St., Eureka. See April 20 listing. Thursday Night Art. 4-7 p.m. The Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

COMEDY

Drink & Draw. 6 p.m. Savage Henry Comedy Club, 415 Fifth St., Eureka. See April 20 listing.

MOVIES

Mateel Movie Nights. 5 & 7 p.m. Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway. Thursday double features. Join the Facebook group to see what’s playing and bring a comfy chair, blanket or pillows. Fresh pizza, popcorn and hot chocolate for sale. facebook.com/groups/ mateelmovienightschedule.

MUSIC

Buddy Reed and His Fabulous Rip it Ups. Midnight. Cher-Ae Heights Casino, 27 Scenic Drive, Trinidad. Blues and roots rock. lostmindranch@gmail.com. buddyreedblues.com.

Hip Hop Thursdays. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. The Jam, 915 H St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

McKinleyville Community Choir Rehearsal. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Arcata Presbyterian Church, 670 11th St. See April 20 listing.

Reggae Last Thursdays w/Sarge One Wise. Last Thursday of every month, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. The Jam, 915 H St., Arcata. Sarge One Wise, Steve Culture and The Wisdem Band, and Woven Roots. $5, free for students. thejamarcata.com. (707) 822-5266.

SPOKEN WORD

Black Joy - Redwood Poetry Festival. 6-9 p.m. Eureka Books, 426 Second St. A showcase of poets of the African Diaspora, celebrating Black joy. Hosted by local poets Rachel Noel, Ra and Bamidele. Part of the Redwood Poetry Festival and organized by Word Humboldt. eurekabookshop.com.

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EVENTS

Lumberjack Days. Gutswurrak Student Activities Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. See April 20 listing.

FOOD

Volunteer Orientation Food for People. 3-4 p.m. Virtual World, Online. See April 20 listing.

MEETINGS

350 Humboldt. Fourth Thursday of every month, 6 p.m. Virtual World, Online. The local grassroots climate action group holds its general meetings on the fourth Thursday of every month on Zoom. Link online. actionnetwork. org/events/350-humboldt-general-meeting.

OUTDOORS

Mid-Week “Bird-Sit”. 6-7:30 p.m. Mad River Beach, Mad River County Road, Arcata. At the Vista Point overlooking the river mouth. Highly accessible to folks with limited mobility. View ravens, bald eagles, shorebirds, grebes, herons, waterbirds and harbor seals. Free. rras.org.

ETC

Restorative Movement. 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 2-3 p.m. Virtual World, Online. See April 20 listing.

Heads Up …

KEET-TV is looking for participants aged 60-plus to submit applications for the local show, What’s on Your Bucket List? Go to keet.org/bucket and complete the online form by May 12. Call (707) 445-0813 if you have any questions.

Soroptimist International of Humboldt Bay invites applications for 2023 Club Giving Program. Deadline for application submission is May 1. Questions: sihumboldtbay@soroptimist.net. More information: soroptimistofhumboldtbay.com.

The California Native Plant Society North Coast Chapter invites you to sign up for an early-bird shopping appointment for the Spring Native Plant Sale May 6 (appointment only) and 7. Visit northcoastcnps.org to sign up and see more details. No sign-up needed for Sunday. Area One Agency on Aging is looking for volunteers. Help someone in need with a ride to their medical appointments, educate and assist people to make informed decisions about their Medicare options, become a certified Long-Term Care Ombudsman to advocate for residents in nursing homes, assist with matching home providers and home seekers or teach the Senior Planet’s technology training curriculum to older adults. Apply at a1aa.org/volunteer-interest-form/.

The Yurok Fire Department is searching for four Native American women to train as wildland firefighters. To apply for the Women in Fire Program on the Yurok Reservation, fill out the application online at yuroktribe. org/job-opportunities.

KEET-TV seeks a diverse group of individuals to join its Community Advisory Board. Meetings are held quarterly on Zoom. Go to KEET.org to find the link at the bottom of the page.

Become a volunteer at Hospice of Humboldt. For more information about becoming a volunteer or about services provided by Hospice of Humboldt, call (707) 267-9813 or visit hospiceofhumboldt.org.

Fresh Blood

The Pope’s Exorcist and Renfield

By John J. Bennett screens@northcoastjournal.com

THE POPE’S EXORCIST. Most — nearly all — exorcism movies come off as nasty, pale hokum, and for good reason. The Exorcist (1973) towers over all of them, the alpha and the omega, a procedural examination that presents itself without cynicism and without any seeming agenda. It does the essential work of believing its own story, at least during its running time, and thus treating the audience with intelligence. The movie is exceptionally well crafted, of course, compellingly acted and all of that. But above and within its competence is its inherent honesty, a unique integrity that demands the mental flexibility of a child from both its creators and observers.

I obviously cannot say whether William Peter Blatty, William Friedkin, Linda Blair or Ellen Burstyn believe in demonic possession, but from strictly textual reading of the document they’ve provided, it is apparent that in making The Exorcist, they approached the material with an absence of disbelief; which, of course, is also our job as audience.

Few to none of the copies of copies of that ur-text have come anywhere close

to its insight and vulnerability, much less its legitimate scariness — although for my money The Conjuring (2013) should be part of the conversation — partially because they are often quick cheapies manufactured to exploit all-but-guaranteed profitability. But perhaps more vitally, the delicacy of managing skepticism (balancing simple-minded reverence and convenient disbelief), represents an ever-rarer strain of creative intelligence.

In fairness both to the subject at hand and my opinion of it, The Pope’s Exorcist is not necessarily a work of high art or moral philosophy. Rather, it is a sort of action-comedy from the director of Overlord (2018) with Russell Crowe in the titular role going up against the king of Hell in a fallen-angel black site. It also features a naked woman exploding into a fountain of blood; so, you know, caveat emptor.

Because Crowe remains an actor of considerable power, though, and Julius Avery a director capable of transmuting and hybridizing genre with technique and vision, The Pope’s Exorcist is something both greater than and apart from the

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accepted standard in possession cinema. Where so many of the others have insisted on vacuous bleakness and a binary system of acceptance to foreground the action, putting aside such trivialities as humor, technique or character development, The Pope’s Exorcist strives to inhabit its own created world — one where Franco Nero is the pope — and to enact the sacred rite of suspending disbelief for a couple of hours. My comparison to The Exorcist is, admittedly, something of a puton, but not entirely. Because this movie actually sets out to make its own space and to carry us through the events taking place therein without side-eyeing. (Mr. Friedkin’s representatives should direct their complaints to the Editor.)

In returning, even in the story’s chronology, to a bygone era of scary-movie making, The Pope’s Exorcist kind of rewrites the events of the intervening decades. Set in 1980s Spain with a 1990s self-awareness and an all-encompassing mashing-up of genre and an enveloping atmosphere of spookiness, it almost makes one forget all the pallid, unscary versions of this story to which we’ve been subjected. R. 103M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.

RENFIELD. It was a weekend for it, I guess. Although Renfield doesn’t rise to the coherence or unified style of the top half of our little double bill, it is a suitable companion piece. A gleefully gory, unabashedly cheeky, often ridiculous but self-aware riff on one of the truly canonical movie genres, it may not make any sense at all but makes for a good time.

Long-suffering Renfield (Nicholas Hoult, whom I will continue to celebrate as one of the foremost self-effacing handsome guys in contemporary movies), diminished by his century-long servitude to Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage), seeks solace in codependency support groups. Having decamped to New Orleans for the Count’s recuperation from their last run-in with the good guys, Renfield may finally have had enough of his boss’s insatiable demands for “loving couples, innocent tourists, nuns … a busload of cheerleaders.” His process of self-extrication from the abusive relationship is both assisted and complicated by his introduction to Officer Rebecca Quincy (Awkafina) and the comically vicious Lobo crime family, represented by the equally cruel and inept Teddy (Ben Schwartz). Quincy, working within a corrupt department, longs for justice for her slain hero father; her crusade becomes the expanded stage for Dracula and Renfield’s uncoupling.

There’s way too much going on here: One scene strives for upper-level stunt choreography while the next drifts into comic-book bloodletting; the color pal-

ette drifts from sepulchral dark to Mardi Gras neon to J. Crew pastel; the story wants to be about everything and nothing.

At the same time, though, there is something undeniably likable about the cast, the colors and the abject, R-rated silliness of the whole works. It’s a pleasure to see Cage in a wide-release movie with a real budget where his joy for the work and weird charisma can stretch out. Renfield may be too much and not enough; I’ll take it, all the same. R. 93M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK. l

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NOTICEOFPETITIONTO ADMINISTERESTATEOF

MICHAELAINSLEYRING,SR., a.k.a.MICHAELA.RING,SR. CASENO.PR2300056

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors, contingentcreditorsandpersons whomayotherwisebeinterestedin thewillorestate,orboth,of MICHAELAINSLEYRING,SR.,a.k.a. MICHAELA.RING,SR.

APETITIONFORPROBATEhasbeen filedbyPetitionerMICHAEL AINSLEYRING,JR. IntheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia, CountyofHumboldt. Thepetitionforprobaterequests thatMICHAELAINSLEYRING,JR.be appointedaspersonalrepresenta− tivetoadministertheestateofthe decedent.

THEPETITIONrequeststhedece− dent’swillandcodicils,ifany,be admittedtoprobate.Thewilland anycodicilsareavailableforexam− inationinthefilekeptbycourt.

AHEARINGonthepetitionwillbe heldonMay18,2023at1:31p.m.at theSuperiorCourtofCalifornia, CountyofHumboldt,825Fifth Street,Eureka,inRoom:3

Forinformationonhowtoappear remotelyforyourhearing,please visithttps://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/

IFYOUOBJECTtothegrantingof thepetition,youshouldappearat thehearingandstateyourobjec− tionsorfilewrittenobjectionswith thecourtbeforethehearing.Your appearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney.

IFYOUAREACREDITORora contingentcreditorofthedece− dent,youmustfileyourclaimwith thecourtandmailacopytothe personalrepresentativeappointed bythecourtwithinthelaterof either(1)fourmonthsfromthe dateoffirstissuanceofletterstoa generalpersonalrepresentative,as definedinsection58(b)oftheCali− forniaProbateCode,or(2)60days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanotice undersection9052oftheCalifornia ProbateCode.OtherCalifornia statutesandlegalauthoritymay affectyourrightsasacreditor.You maywanttoconsultwithan attorneyknowledgeableinCali− fornialaw.

YOUMAYEXAMINEthefilekept bythecourt.Ifyouareaperson interestedintheestate,youmay filewiththecourtaRequestfor SpecialNotice(formDE−154)ofthe filingofaninventoryandappraisal ofestateassetsorofanypetition oraccountasprovidedinProbate Codesection1250.ARequestfor SpecialNoticeformisavailable fromthecourtclerk.

ATTORNEYFORPETITIONER:

SashaKamfiroozie,Esq.

1286UniversityAve.,#910 SanDiego,CA92103

(619)535−1405

Filed:April3,2023

SUPERIORCOURTOFCALIFORNIA COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT

4/6,4/13,4/20(23−123)

NOTICEOFPETITIONTO ADMINISTERESTATEOF ROSALIESEELYE-MARTINCASE

NO.PR2300089

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors, contingentcreditorsandpersons whomayotherwisebeinterestedin thewillorestate,orboth,of ROSALIESEELYE−MARTIN APETITIONFORPROBATEhasbeen filedbyPetitionerPATRICK

NOONAN

IntheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia, CountyofHumboldt. Thepetitionforprobaterequests thatPATRICKNOONANbe appointedaspersonalrepresenta− tivetoadministertheestateofthe decedent.

THEPETITIONrequestsauthorityto administertheestateunderthe IndependentAdministrationof EstatesAct.(Thisauthoritywill allowthepersonalrepresentative totakemanyactionswithout obtainingcourtapproval.Before takingcertainveryimportant actions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredto givenoticetointerestedpersons unlesstheyhavewaivednoticeor consentedtotheproposedaction.) Theindependentadministration authoritywillbegrantedunlessan interestedpersonfilesanobjection tothepetitionandshowsgood causewhythecourtshouldnot granttheauthority.

AHEARINGonthepetitionwillbe heldonMay11,2023at1:31p.m.at theSuperiorCourtofCalifornia, CountyofHumboldt,825Fifth Street,Eureka,inDept.:4,Room:4

Forinformationonhowtoappear remotelyforyourhearing,please visithttps://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/

IFYOUOBJECTtothegrantingof thepetition,youshouldappearat thehearingandstateyourobjec− tionsorfilewrittenobjectionswith thecourtbeforethehearing.Your appearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney.

IFYOUAREACREDITORora contingentcreditorofthedece− dent,youmustfileyourclaimwith thecourtandmailacopytothe personalrepresentativeappointed bythecourtwithinthelaterof either(1)fourmonthsfromthe dateoffirstissuanceofletterstoa generalpersonalrepresentative,as definedinsection58(b)oftheCali− forniaProbateCode,or(2)60days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanotice undersection9052oftheCalifornia ProbateCode.OtherCalifornia statutesandlegalauthoritymay affectyourrightsasacreditor.You maywanttoconsultwithan attorneyknowledgeableinCali− fornialaw.

YOUMAYEXAMINEthefilekept bythecourt.Ifyouareaperson interestedintheestate,youmay filewiththecourtaRequestfor SpecialNotice(formDE−154)ofthe filingofaninventoryandappraisal ofestateassetsorofanypetition oraccountasprovidedinProbate Codesection1250.ARequestfor SpecialNoticeformisavailable fromthecourtclerk.

ATTORNEYFORPETITIONER: JocelynM.Godinho,Esq.

bythecourt.Ifyouareaperson interestedintheestate,youmay filewiththecourtaRequestfor SpecialNotice(formDE−154)ofthe filingofaninventoryandappraisal ofestateassetsorofanypetition oraccountasprovidedinProbate Codesection1250.ARequestfor SpecialNoticeformisavailable fromthecourtclerk.

ATTORNEYFORPETITIONER: JocelynM.Godinho,Esq. 350EStreet Eureka,CA95501 (707)442−7262

Filed:April11,2023

SUPERIORCOURTOFCALIFORNIA COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT

4/20,4/27,5/4(23−134)

NOTICEOFPETITIONTO ADMINISTERESTATEOF SHARONLYNNCUTTER, SHARONLYNNKANE, SHARONLYNNKOHNE CASENO.PR2300092

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors, contingentcreditorsandpersons whomayotherwisebeinterestedin thewillorestate,orboth,of SHARONLYNNCUTTER,SHARON LYNNKANE,SHARONLYNN KOHNE

APETITIONFORPROBATEhasbeen filedbyPetitionerRICKYSTUART SMITH

IntheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia, CountyofHumboldt.

Thepetitionforprobaterequests thatRICKYSTUARTSMITHbe appointedaspersonalrepresenta− tivetoadministertheestateofthe decedent.

THEPETITIONrequestsauthorityto administertheestateunderthe IndependentAdministrationof EstatesAct.(Thisauthoritywill allowthepersonalrepresentative totakemanyactionswithout obtainingcourtapproval.Before takingcertainveryimportant actions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredto givenoticetointerestedpersons unlesstheyhavewaivednoticeor consentedtotheproposedaction.) Theindependentadministration authoritywillbegrantedunlessan interestedpersonfilesanobjection tothepetitionandshowsgood causewhythecourtshouldnot granttheauthority.

AHEARINGonthepetitionwillbe heldonMay18,2023at1:31p.m.at theSuperiorCourtofCalifornia, CountyofHumboldt,825Fifth Street,Eureka,inDept.:CR4.

Forinformationonhowtoappear remotelyforyourhearing,please visithttps://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/

IFYOUOBJECTtothegrantingof thepetition,youshouldappearat thehearingandstateyourobjec− tionsorfilewrittenobjectionswith thecourtbeforethehearing.Your appearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney.

IFYOUAREACREDITORora contingentcreditorofthedece− dent,youmustfileyourclaimwith thecourtandmailacopytothe personalrepresentativeappointed bythecourtwithinthelaterof either(1)fourmonthsfromthe dateoffirstissuanceofletterstoa generalpersonalrepresentative,as definedinsection58(b)oftheCali− forniaProbateCode,or(2)60days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanotice undersection9052oftheCalifornia ProbateCode.OtherCalifornia

thecourtandmailacopytothe personalrepresentativeappointed bythecourtwithinthelaterof either(1)fourmonthsfromthe dateoffirstissuanceofletterstoa generalpersonalrepresentative,as definedinsection58(b)oftheCali− forniaProbateCode,or(2)60days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanotice undersection9052oftheCalifornia ProbateCode.OtherCalifornia statutesandlegalauthoritymay affectyourrightsasacreditor.You maywanttoconsultwithan attorneyknowledgeableinCali− fornialaw.

YOUMAYEXAMINEthefilekept bythecourt.Ifyouareaperson interestedintheestate,youmay filewiththecourtaRequestfor SpecialNotice(formDE−154)ofthe filingofaninventoryandappraisal ofestateassetsorofanypetition oraccountasprovidedinProbate Codesection1250.ARequestfor SpecialNoticeformisavailable fromthecourtclerk.

RICKYSTUARTSMITH 3071BONANZAST McKINLEYVILLE,CA95519

(707)496−8406

Filed:April17,2023

SUPERIORCOURTOFCALIFORNIA COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT

4/20,4/27,5/4(23−142)

NOTICEOFPUBLICSALEOF LIENEDPROPERTY

Noticeisherebygiventhatthe undersignedintendstosellthe propertydescribedbelowto enforcealienonthesaidproperty pursuanttosections21700−21716of thebusinessandprofessionscode, section2328oftheUCCsection535 ofthePenalCodeandprovisionof theCivilCode.

Theundersignedwillsellby competitivebidatbid13.com endingApril28th,2023,at12:00pm. Onlinebiddingonly.Wheresaid propertyhasbeenstoredand whichislocatedat,1400Glendale Drive,McKinleyville,CA95519the following:

#058EdwardVercoe #88JosephCulick #263CrystalTaylor #283PhilipWood #353LeynaCayo #360LeynaCayo #371DonYarbrough #380SandraKirwan

Itemstobeauctionedwhich includebutarenotlimitedtoare bins,householditems,gardentools, compressor.

Purchasesmustbepaidatthetime ofsale.Cashonly.Allpurchases soldas−is,whereis,andmustbe removedwithin48hoursofthe timeofsale.Saleissubjectto cancellationintheeventofsettle− mentbetweentheownerandthe obligatedparty.

ONLINEAUCTIONONLY

Auction:bid13.com Phone888−992−4313 4/13,4/20(23−127)

NOTICETOCREDITORSOF BULKSALE (SECTION6104,6105UCC)

NoticeisherebygiventotheCredi− torsof:MelissaZarp&AliceVaster− ling,Seller(s), whosebusinessaddress(es)is:363 TrinityStreet,Trinidad,CA95570, Thatabulktransferisabouttobe madeto:TrinidadCoffeeHouse LLC,Buyer(s), whosebusiness(es)addressis:363 TrinityStreet,Trinidad,CA95570..

Saidpropertyisdescribedin generalas:Allstockintrade, fixtures,equipment,goodwilland otherpropertyofthatCafe/Coffee ShopbusinessknownasBeach− combersCafe,andlocatedat:363 TrinityStreet,Trinidad,CA95570.

Build to edge of the document

Margins are just a safe area

Thebulksaleisintendedtobe consummatedattheofficeof: FIDELITYNATIONALTITLE COMPANYOFCALIFORNIA,515J Street,Ste.A,Eureka,CA95501.The bulktransferwillbeconsummated onorafterMay1,2023.

fixtures,equipment,goodwilland otherpropertyofthatCafe/Coffee ShopbusinessknownasBeach− combersCafe,andlocatedat:363 TrinityStreet,Trinidad,CA95570.

Thebulksaleisintendedtobe consummatedattheofficeof: FIDELITYNATIONALTITLE COMPANYOFCALIFORNIA,515J Street,Ste.A,Eureka,CA95501.The bulktransferwillbeconsummated onorafterMay1,2023.

Thisbulktransferissubjectto Section6106.2oftheCalifornia CommercialCode.IfSection6106.2 applies,claimsmaybefiledat FIDELITYNATIONALTITLE

COMPANYOFCALIFORNIA,Escrow Division,EscrowNo.FHBT− 2012300165−NS,515JStreet,Ste.A, Eureka,CA95501.Phone(707)442− 5785,Fax:(707)445−2656.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

FORTUNA CITY COUNCIL

Thisbulktransferincludesaliquor licensetransfer.Allclaimsmustbe receivedpriortothedateonwhich theNoticeoftransferoftheliquor licenseisreceivedbyEscrowAgent fromtheDepartmentofAlcoholic BeverageControl.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fortuna City Council held a public hearing on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 6:00 P.M. at City Hall, 621 - 11th Street in Fortuna, California and approved the following item:

Thisbulktransferissubjectto Section6106.2oftheCalifornia CommercialCode.IfSection6106.2 applies,claimsmaybefiledat FIDELITYNATIONALTITLE COMPANYOFCALIFORNIA,Escrow Division,EscrowNo.FHBT− 2012300165−NS,515JStreet,Ste.A, Eureka,CA95501.Phone(707)442− 5785,Fax:(707)445−2656.

SofarasknowntotheBuyer(s),all businessnamesandaddressesused bytheSeller(s)forthethree(3) yearslastpast,ifdifferentfromthe above,are:NONE

“Approval of grant applications for submittal to the USDA’s Rural Development Loan and Grant Assistance program for River Lodge Improvements”

Dated:05/05/2023

Signed:KaseyR.CatherandAsiaM. Cather,Member 4/13,4/20(23−132)

If you have any questions or comment on the approval, please contact the City Clerk or Director of Parks & Recreation.

Submitted by,

Buffy Gray, Deputy City Clerk

Margins are just a safe area

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Thisbulktransferincludesaliquor licensetransfer.Allclaimsmustbe receivedpriortothedateonwhich theNoticeoftransferoftheliquor licenseisreceivedbyEscrowAgent fromtheDepartmentofAlcoholic BeverageControl.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FORTUNA CITY COUNCIL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fortuna City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 1, 2023 at 6:00 P.M. at City Hall, 621 - 11th Street in Fortuna, California to consider:

SofarasknowntotheBuyer(s),all businessnamesandaddressesused bytheSeller(s)forthethree(3) yearslastpast,ifdifferentfromthe above,are:NONE

“Approval of grant applications for submittal to the USDA’s Rural Development Loan and Grant Assistance program for the Purchase of a Tiger Boom Mower”

You are invited to come to the Public Hearing to ask questions or comment on the proposed approval. Written comments may be submitted to the City Clerk on or before the day of the meeting.

Dated:05/05/2023

Signed:KaseyR.CatherandAsiaM. Cather,Member

4/13,4/20(23−132)

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Building Department at (707) 725-7600. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting (28 CFR 35.102 - 35.104 ADA Title II).

Buffy Gray, Deputy City Clerk

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

FORTUNA CITY COUNCIL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fortuna City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 1, 2023 at 6:00 P.M. at City Hall, 621 - 11th Street in Fortuna, California to consider:

“City of Fortuna Declaring it’s intention to Levy an Annual Assessment for 2023-2024 Fiscal Year for the Fortuna Business Improvement District”

You are invited to come to the Public Hearing to ask questions or comment on the proposed approval. Written comments may be submitted to the City Clerk on or before the day of the meeting.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Building Department at (707) 725-7600. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting (28 CFR 35.102 - 35.104 ADA Title II).

Buffy Gray, Deputy City Clerk

Eureka,CA95501.Phone(707)442− 5785,Fax:(707)445−2656.

Thisbulktransferincludesaliquor licensetransfer.Allclaimsmustbe receivedpriortothedateonwhich theNoticeoftransferoftheliquor licenseisreceivedbyEscrowAgent fromtheDepartmentofAlcoholic BeverageControl.

SofarasknowntotheBuyer(s),all businessnamesandaddressesused bytheSeller(s)forthethree(3) yearslastpast,ifdifferentfromthe above,are:NONE

Dated:05/05/2023

Signed:KaseyR.CatherandAsiaM. Cather,Member

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00179

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

THEOUTLAWJAMIEB

Humboldt 2334SutterRd McKinleyville,CA95519

GenevieveANoggle 2334SutterRd McKinleyville,CA95519

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sGenevieveNoggle,Owner

ThisMarch16,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES

bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

3/23,3/30,4/6,4/13,4/20(23−098)

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sGenevieveNoggle,Owner

ThisMarch16,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

3/23,3/30,4/6,4/13,4/20(23−098)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00184

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

FIRE&WATERCONSULTING,LLC

Humboldt 112516thSt Arcata,CA95521

2443FillmoreSt,#380−4248 SanFrancisco,CA94115

BPlusVenturesLLC CA202355112733

112516thSt Arcata,CA95521

Thebusinessisconductedbya LimitedLiabilityCompany. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonMarch1,2023

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sBrianMistler,OwnerOperator andCoordinator

ThisMarch20,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bywc,HumboldtCountyClerk

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sBrianMistler,OwnerOperator andCoordinator

ThisMarch20,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES

bywc,HumboldtCountyClerk

3/30,4/6,4/13,4/20(23−101)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME

STATEMENT23-00186

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

PLAITO

Humboldt

7412ndAve BlueLake,CA95525

POBox7 BlueLake,CA95525

SISUTechnicalSolutionsInc. DE20230222368

7412ndAve BlueLake,CA95525

Thebusinessisconductedbya Corporation.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonMarch1,2023

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars

($1,000).

/sJohnFigueiredo,CEO

ThisMarch21,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES

byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk

3/30,4/6,4/13,4/20(23−111)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00188

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

FIELDBROOKKITCHEN,LLC

Humboldt

4241FieldbrookRoad McKinleyville,CA95519

FieldbrookKitchenLLC CA202355210920

4241FieldbrookRoad McKinleyville,CA95519

Thebusinessisconductedbya LimitedLiabilityCompany.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect.

Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sEusebioHernandez,Manager

ThisMarch21,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

3/30,4/6,4/13,4/20(23−102)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00192

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

MADRIVERSTORAGECENTER

Humboldt

1400GlendaleDrive McKinleyville,CA95519

10608IndustrialAve#100 Roseville,CA95678

ThomasManagement,LLC CABA20220669015

10608IndustrialAve,#100 Roseville,CA95678

Thebusinessisconductedbya LimitedLiabilityCompany. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonMarch1,2023

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sRyanSmith,CEO

ThisMarch23,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bytn,HumboldtCountyClerk

3/30,4/6,4/13,4/20(23−109)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00195

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas WESGREENCOMPANY

Humboldt 6360WestEndRd Arcata,CA95521

HumboldtOrganicSolutionsLLC CA202355018507 1500GlendaleDr McKinleyville,CA95519

Thebusinessisconductedbya LimitedLiabilityCompany.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sSteveMorris,Member/Manager

ThisMarch23,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk 3/30,4/6,4/13,4/20(23−112)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00201

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

J&MPROPERTYMANAGEMENT/ 2KWOODWORKS/JMKEQUIP− MENTRENTALS

Humboldt

1250OeschgerRoad Ferndale,CA95536

RendakEnterprisesCorp

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

J&MPROPERTYMANAGEMENT/ 2KWOODWORKS/JMKEQUIP− MENTRENTALS

Humboldt

1250OeschgerRoad Ferndale,CA95536

RendakEnterprisesCorp

CA5118208

1250OeschgerRoad Ferndale,CA95536

Thebusinessisconductedbya Corporation.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sJedediahCruz,President

ThisMarch27,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk 4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−126)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00203

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

RIDELINESHARPENING

Humboldt

2158ASt Eureka,CA95501

ThomasWNeff

2158ASt Eureka,CA95501

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sThomasNeff,Owner

ThisMarch27,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk 4/6,4/13,4/20,4/27(23−117)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00207

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

HEREANDTHERENOTARY SERVICE/SUNSETRIDGEGARDENS

Humboldt

2011SunsetRidgeRd

Blocksburg,CA95514

POBox100

Blocksburg,CA95514

LindaSSherby

2011SunsetRidgeRd

Blocksburg,CA95514

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted

Blocksburg,CA95514

LindaSSherby 2011SunsetRidgeRd

Blocksburg,CA95514

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonApril4,2018 Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sLindaS.Sherby,Owner

ThisMarch28,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bytn,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/6,4/13,4/20,4/27(23−114)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00209

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas EUREKACORPORATEHOUSING/ CORPORATEHOUSINGAND RELOCATION

Humboldt 1864MyrtleAve Eureka,CA95501

CynthiaJNicklas 2868SandPointeDr McKinleyville,CA95519

DavidPNicklas 2339AlfredCircle Eureka,CA95503

JohnMNicklas 2124MunsonCourt Eureka,CA95501

PhillipTNicklas 1145LeslieRoad Eureka,CA95503

Thebusinessisconductedbya GeneralPartnership. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sCynthiaJNicklas,BusinessOwner ThisMarch28,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk 4/6,4/13,4/20,4/27(23−118)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00210

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

FRESH&FRUITYGRILL&MORE

Humboldt

3300BroadwaySt.#430 Eureka,CA95501

2378MeadowbrookDrive

Eureka,CA95503

LaPatriaMariscosandGrill Restaurant CAC3902379

6690FieldsLanding FieldsLanding,CA95537

3300BroadwaySt.#430

Eureka,CA95501

2378MeadowbrookDrive

Eureka,CA95503

LaPatriaMariscosandGrill

Restaurant

CAC3902379

6690FieldsLanding FieldsLanding,CA95537

Thebusinessisconductedbya Corporation. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonMarch2018

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect.

Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sSiclariAyala,CEO

ThisMarch29,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES

byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/6,4/13,4/20,4/27(23−119)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00212

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

CANOPYRIGHT

Humboldt

5046EchoLane Bayside,CA95524

600FStreet,Ste3,#727 Arcata,CA95521

O&BSolutionsLLC California202124510056

5046EchoLane Bayside,CA95524

Thebusinessisconductedbya LimitedLiabilityCompany. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonMarch28,2023

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sKelseyAParker,VicePresident

ThisMarch29,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/6,4/13,4/20,4/27(23−116)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00213

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

HUMBOLDTBAYCOFFEE/NORCAL COFFEEROASTERS/HUMBOLDT COFFEEROASTERS

Humboldt

526OperaAlley Eureka,CA95501

Culture&Coffee CA5595188

5202ndStreet Eureka,CA95501

Thebusinessisconductedbya Corporation. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti−

tiousbusinessnameornamelisted

Eureka,CA95501

Culture&Coffee CA5595188

5202ndStreet Eureka,CA95501

Thebusinessisconductedbya Corporation.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sLuciaRamirez,CEO

ThisMarch29,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES

bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/6,4/13,4/20,4/27(23−121)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00216

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

BABY'SBESTDIAPERSERVICE

Humboldt 3562FieldbrookRd McKinleyville,CA95519

MotherMadeMagicLLC CA202355718287

3562FieldbrookRd McKinleyville,CA95519

Thebusinessisconductedbya LimitedLiabilityCompany. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sNinaTransue,CEO

ThisApril3,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/20,4/27,5/4,5/11(23−143)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00217

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas J.H.CONSTRUCTION

Humboldt 3850GSt Eureka,CA95503

JoelHaraldson 3850GSt Eureka,CA95503

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonApril3,2023 Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sJoelHaraldson,Owner

aboveonApril3,2023 Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect.

Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sJoelHaraldson,Owner

ThisApril3,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk 4/6,4/13,4/20,4/27(23−122)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00224

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas AKASHICBOOKKEEPING

Humboldt 1477WhitmireAve McKinleyville,CA95519

POBox264 Trinidad,CA95570

GeorgiaRSliker 1477WhitmireAve McKinleyville,CA95519

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonApril03,2023 Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect.

Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sGeorgiaSliker,Owner ThisApril4,2023 JUANP.CERVANTES

aboveonApril03,2023

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sGeorgiaSliker,Owner

ThisApril4,2023 JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/20,4/27,5/4,5/11(23−137)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00225

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas YOURLOCALTREEEXPERT

Humboldt

3990BroadwayStreet Eureka,CA95503

TreeServiceVentures,Inc. CA5537590

3990BroadwayStreet Eureka,CA95503

Thebusinessisconductedbya Corporation. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sGeronimoZuniga,President

ThisApril4,2023 JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR SPECIAL TESTS & INSPECTION SERVICES

4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−123)

College of the Redwoods (the “College”) invites proposals from qualified Inspection firms to perform Testing and Special Inspection Services on the new Physical Education Replace Existing Project at the College of the Redwoods Eureka Campus.

Interested firms are invited to submit their proposals, which shall include an electronic copy of the requested materials by email or mailed thumb drive to Julia Morrison, Vice President, Administrative Services at the address listed below.

Questions regarding this RFP may be directed to Julia Morrison at Julia-Morrison@redwoods.edu, Vice President, Administrative Services.

All proposals shall be received on or before: May 25th, 2023 @ 2:00 PM P.S.T.

All responses to this RFP received by the specified deadline will be reviewed by the College for completeness, content, experience, and qualifications. For those firms deemed most qualified, further evaluation and interviews may be conducted as part of the final selection process. However, the College reserves the right to complete the selection process without proceeding to an interview process, and may choose to select based on the information supplied in the Statement of Qualifications and Proposal.

This request does not commit the College to award a contract. The College expressly reserves the right to reject any and all proposals or accept all or part of any proposals. The College reserves the right to select the firm(s) whose qualifications, in the College’s sole judgment, best meet the needs of the College.

RFP DUE TIME AND DATE: May 25, 2023 @ 2:00 PM P.S.T.

DELIVERY LOCATION: 7351 Tompkins Hill Rd, Eureka, CA 95501

PURCHASING CONTACT: Julia Morrison

E-MAIL: Julia-Morrison@redwoods.edu

statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sGeronimoZuniga,President

ThisApril4,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk 4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−123)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00226

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

RefinedVisionDetailing

Humboldt 26West6thSt. Eureka,CA95501

RyanDLeahy 268WabashAve. Eureka,CA95501

Thebusinessisconductedbyan individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonNotApplicable. Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sRyanLeahy,Owner

ThisApril4,2023 KELLYE.SANDERS byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−131)

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sRyanLeahy,Owner

ThisApril4,2023 KELLYE.SANDERS byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk 4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−131)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00227

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

VINTAGEAVENGER

Humboldt 1101HSt#1

Arcata,CA95521

75816thSt Arcata,CA95521

NancyATobin 75816thSt

Arcata,CA95521

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonJune1999

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sNancyTobin,Owner

ThisApril4,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bytn,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/20,4/27,5/4,5/11(23−133)

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR DSA INSPECTION SERVICES - INSPECTOR OF RECORD

College of the Redwoods (the “College”) invites proposals from qualified Inspection firms to perform DSA Inspection Services on the new Physical Education Replace Existing Project at the College of the Redwoods Eureka Campus.

Interested firms are invited to submit their proposals, which shall include an electronic copy of the requested materials by email or mailed thumb drive to Julia Morrison, Vice President, Administrative Services at the address listed below.

Questions regarding this RFP may be directed to Julia Morrison Julia-morrison@redwoods.edu, Vice President, Administrative Services.

All proposals shall be received on or before: May 25th, 2023 @ 2:00 PM P.S.T.

All responses to this RFP received by the specified deadline will be reviewed by the College for completeness, content, experience, and qualifications. For those firms deemed most qualified, further evaluation and interviews may be conducted as part of the final selection process. However, the College reserves the right to complete the selection process without proceeding to an interview process, and may choose to select based on the information supplied in the Statement of Qualifications and Proposal.

This Request does not commit the College to award a contract. The College expressly reserves the right to reject any and all proposals or accept all or part of any proposals. The College reserves the right to select the firm(s) whose qualifications, in the College’s sole judgment, best meet the needs of the College.

RFP DUE TIME AND DATE: May 25, 2023 @ 2:00 PM P.S.T.

DELIVERY LOCATION: 7351 Tompkins Hill Rd, Eureka, CA 95501

PURCHASING CONTACT: Julia Morrison

E-MAIL: Julia-Morrison@redwoods.edu

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

78ShivelyFlatRd Scotia,CA95565

LEGAL NOTICES Continued from previous page

/sNancyTobin,Owner

ThisApril4,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bytn,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/20,4/27,5/4,5/11(23−133)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00234

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

CANN-DOATTITUDEOLDSCHOOL CULTIVATIONS/PARADISEFLAT

FARM

Humboldt

78ShivelyFlatRd Scotia,CA95565

455ShivelyFlatRd Scotia,CA95565

ElizabethADunlap 78ShivelyFlatRd Scotia,CA95565

OBITUARIES

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonDecember17,2017

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect.

Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sElizabethADunlap,Owner

455ShivelyFlatRd Scotia,CA95565

ElizabethADunlap 78ShivelyFlatRd Scotia,CA95565

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonDecember17,2017

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sElizabethADunlap,Owner

ThisApril7,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bytn,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−128)

Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sElizabethADunlap,Owner

ThisApril7,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES

bytn,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−128)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME

STATEMENT23−00237

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

JILLYBEANSEMPORIUM

Humboldt 1321BaySt Eureka,CA95501

JillMRoss 1321BaySt Eureka,CA95501

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonJune13,2008

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect.

Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sJillMRoss,Owner

ThisApril7,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

March 27, 1950-March 21, 2023

ThisApril7,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bytn,HumboldtCountyClerk

FOGGYBAYUPHOLSTERY

Humboldt

302W.HawthornSt. Eureka,CA95501

MarkD.Robens

302W.HawthornSt. Eureka,CA95501

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonApril12,2023

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sMarkRobens,Owner

ThisApril12,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk 4/20,4/27,5/4,5/11(23−135)

ORDERTOSHOWCAUSEFOR CHANGEOFNAME

DONLEONARDHARLOW CASENO.CV2300504

SUPERIORCOURT OFCALIFORNIA, COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT 825FIFTHST. EUREKA,CA.95501

PETITIONOF: DONLEONARDHARLOW

Presentname

DONLEONARDHARLOW

toProposedName

DONLEONARDDRAKE

ORDERTOSHOWCAUSEFOR CHANGEOFNAME

FAUNTELLEYOUNG CASENO.CV2300477

SUPERIORCOURT OFCALIFORNIA, COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT 825FIFTHST. EUREKA,CA.95501

PETITIONOF: FAUNTELLEYOUNG

Presentname

FAUNTELLEYOUNG toProposedName

VICTORIAELLESTANFORD

THECOURTORDERSthatall personsinterestedinthismatter appearbeforethiscourtatthe hearingindicatedbelowtoshow cause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbe granted.Anypersonobjectingto thenamechangesdescribedabove mustfileawrittenobjectionthat includesthereasonsfortheobjec− tionatleasttwocourtdaysbefore thematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingto showcausewhythepetitionshould notbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjec− tionistimelyfiled,thecourtmay grantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICEOFHEARING

Date:May12,2023

Time:1:45p.m.,Dept.4

granted.Anypersonobjectingto thenamechangesdescribedabove mustfileawrittenobjectionthat includesthereasonsfortheobjec− tionatleasttwocourtdaysbefore thematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingto showcausewhythepetitionshould notbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjec− tionistimelyfiled,thecourtmay grantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICEOFHEARING

Date:May26,2023

Time:1:45p.m.,Dept.4

Toappearremotely,checkin advanceofthehearingforinforma− tionabouthowtodosoonthe court’swebsite.Tofindyourcourt’s website,gotowww.courts.ca.gov/ find−my−court.htm.

SUPERIORCOURT OFCALIFORNIA, COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT 825FIFTHSTREET EUREKA,CA95501

Date:April12,2023

Filed:April12,2023

/s/TimothyA.Canning

JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt 4/20,4/27,5/4,5/11(23−136)

David G. Lenardo (“Crackers”) March 27, 1950 - March 21, 2023 Dave “Crackers” Lenardo passed away peacefully surrounded by his loved ones. He was born to John Junior and Dorothy Lenardo at the Scotia Hospital on March 27, 1950. He grew up on the family dairy ranch in Port Kenyon, Ferndale, California, learning both the language and customs of his Portuguese and Danish heritage. Dave’s education began at Port Kenyon School, then transferred to Ferndale Elementary and High Schools. Throughout the Eel River Valley, Dave was known as an early riser, fed and milked lots of cows, moved irrigation pipes, cut, raked, baled and hauled hay and tilled the soil. He also built buildings and miles of fences. Tractor work was his favorite. Lots of hours were spent mowing grass and weed eating fencelines. Agriculture was his passion with his strong work ethic and sense of humor. Country music was always playing, even in the cow barn. Dave spent most of his time on earth being a good steward to the farmland and animals. He always enjoyed nature and the outdoors, especially Centerville beach when the surf fish were running. Dave is in the presence of his Heavenly Father, experiencing never-ending love joy and peace. Dave is survived by his siblings: John Lenardo, III, Joan (Tom) Hubner, and Patsy (John) Miranda; and his children: Jereme (and Amber), Heather, Kevin, Shawna, Bernadette, Bradley (and Trisha); and grandchildren: Shaylynn, Kelsey, Hunter, Bradley Jr., Casey, and Charlotte; and his partner Mary Enos-Lenardo. He is also survived by many wonderful nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Dave was preceded in death by his parents John G. Lenardo Jr. and Dorothy (Hansen) Lenardo and his sister Rita Lenardo. The family will be holding a private celebration of life.

STATEMENTOFABANDONMENTOFUSEOFFICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME FILENO.18-00243

4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−128)

Thefollowingpersonhasaban− donedtheuseofthefictitious businessnameGOLDENSTATE GREENHOUSE&GARDENPROD−

UCTS

Humboldt

1887ThelmaSt Fortuna,CA95540

Thefictitiousbusinessnamewas filedinHUMBOLDTCountyonApril

23,2018

MarkOliver

1887ThelmaSt Fortuna,CA95540

Thisbusinesswasconductedby:An Individual

/s/MarcOliver,Owner/Manager

Thisstatementwasfiledwiththe HUMBOLDTCountyClerkonthe dateApril5,2023

Iherebycertifythatthiscopyisa trueandcorrectcopyoftheorig− inalstatementonfileinmyoffice

JuanP.Cervantes bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

4/13,4/20,4/27,5/4(23−130)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00244

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

FOGGYBAYUPHOLSTERY

Humboldt

302W.HawthornSt. Eureka,CA95501

MarkD.Robens

302W.HawthornSt. Eureka,CA95501

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto

THECOURTORDERSthatall personsinterestedinthismatter appearbeforethiscourtatthe hearingindicatedbelowtoshow cause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbe granted.Anypersonobjectingto thenamechangesdescribedabove mustfileawrittenobjectionthat includesthereasonsfortheobjec− tionatleasttwocourtdaysbefore thematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingto showcausewhythepetitionshould notbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjec− tionistimelyfiled,thecourtmay grantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICEOFHEARING

Date:May26,2023

Time:1:45p.m.,Dept.4

Toappearremotely,checkin advanceofthehearingforinforma− tionabouthowtodosoonthe court’swebsite.Tofindyourcourt’s website,gotowww.courts.ca.gov/ find−my−court.htm.

SUPERIORCOURT OFCALIFORNIA, COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT

825FIFTHSTREET EUREKA,CA95501

Date:April13,2023

Filed:April13,2023

/s/TimothyA.Canning JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt 4/20,4/27,5/4,5/11(23−139)

Toappearremotely,checkin advanceofthehearingforinforma− tionabouthowtodosoonthe court’swebsite.Tofindyourcourt’s website,gotowww.courts.ca.gov/ find−my−court.htm.

SUPERIORCOURT OFCALIFORNIA, COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT 825FIFTHSTREET EUREKA,CA95501

Date:March24,2023

Filed:March24,2023

/s/TimothyA.Canning JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt 4/6,4/13,4/20,4/27(23−115)

ORDERTOSHOWCAUSEFOR CHANGEOFNAME SANDRALOULEE CASENO.CV2300582

SUPERIORCOURT OFCALIFORNIA, COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT 825FIFTHST. EUREKA,CA.95501

PETITIONOF:

SANDRALOULEE Presentname

SANDRALOULEE toProposedName

SANDRALOUUPTON

THECOURTORDERSthatall personsinterestedinthismatter appearbeforethiscourtatthe hearingindicatedbelowtoshow cause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbe granted.Anypersonobjectingto thenamechangesdescribedabove mustfileawrittenobjectionthat includesthereasonsfortheobjec− tionatleasttwocourtdaysbefore thematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingto showcausewhythepetitionshould notbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjec− tionistimelyfiled,thecourtmay grantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

Noticeisgiven thattheundersignedintendstosell thepersonalpropertydescribed belowtoenforcealienimposedon saidpropertypursuanttoSections 21700−21716oftheBusiness& ProfessionsCode,Section2328of theUCC,Section535ofthePenal Codeandprovisionsofthecivil Code.Theundersignedwillsellat auctionbycompetitivebiddingon the28thofApril,2023,482Wild− woodAve,RioDellisat10:30am; 1799SmithLane,Fortunaisat11am.

482WildwoodAve#42/Edvin Batres

482WildwoodAve#37/Liliana Dominguez

482WildwoodAve#34/Dorothy Lucas

482WildwoodAve#13,14/Edie Thompson

1799SmithLn#16/Cassandra Campbell

1799SmithLn#1/GeorgeRoberson

SixRiversPropertyManagement

75512thStreet

Fortuna,CA95540 (707)725−1094

4/20,4/27(23−145)

David G. Lenardo

by David Levinson Wilk

Familyfriendly Fionas

By Mike Kelly washedup@northcoastjournal.com

Abewildered-looking clown walked onto the stage, so I said, “Please welcome marine biology clown Max Winkle to Washed Up Family Science Hour!”

TRIPLETS

ACROSS

1. [Hey! Over here!]

5. Cacio e ____ (pasta dish)

9. Capital city that rings in the New Year by dropping a huge potato

14. “Future Nostalgia” singer Dua

15. “Too bad, so sad!”

16. Urge forward

17. Face-to-face exam

18. Cube, such as onions

19. Some red carpet dresses

20. Scrolling Instagram, to some

22. Doesn’t disturb

23. Kind of turn

25. Cut (down)

28. Bad-mouth

33. ____-mâché

35. Day before hump day: Abbr.

36. Do more than just check out

37. Pedicure part, perhaps

39. [I’m out]

41. Run for the hills

42. San Francisco’s ____ Hill

44. Most faithful

45. Literary character given the task of painting “thirty yards of board fence nine feet high”

48. “Noted”

49. Marketplaces

51. Chap

55. Maternity surprise ... or, read a different way, this puzzle’s theme

60. Out of gas

61. “Live Without ____” (Van Halen concert video)

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS TO PER

62. Split

63. Group that protects a QB

64. One thing after another?

65. ____ Poupon mustard

66. Builds anticipation for

67. Times Square sign for B’way fans

68. Highest point DOWN

1. “The ____ thickens!”

2. Modern search party?

3. Inbox clogger

4. Account

5. “The Taming of the Shrew” setting

6. Draw out

7. Super saver?

8. Direction opposite WNW

9. First family with the

dogs Major and Commander

10. Skip past

11. NASDAQ debuts

12. Novak Djokovic, for one

13. “Anything ____?”

21. Revealing, in a way

22. “Think this looks good on me?”

24. Shade of purple

25. Italian name of six popes

26. Nikki Giovanni’s “____ of Friendship”

27. Quinceañeras, e.g.

____ operandi

Shake hands (on) 31. “Almost!” 32. Didn’t discard

“As if!” 34. View from a control tower 38. “End of the Road” group ____ II Men

40. Like a good apple

43. One reading Kerouac or Ginsberg, say

46. Living spaces

47. Least cooked

50. Fashion photographer Herb

51. “Then again,” in texts

52. She plays Frankie on “Grace and Frankie”

53. ____ coffee

54. “Molto ____!”

56. Lydia Ko’s sports org.

57. Surname at the O.K. Corral

58. Branch headquarters?

59. River with a mythical ferryman

61. _____-country (music genre)

© Puzzles by Pappocom

HARD #53

“Today we’ll be learning about a sea slug called Fiona (Fiona pinnata), that lives only on floating objects out at sea. And it sometimes washes up on our local beaches riding those objects. Can you twist a sea slug balloon animal, Max? Or maybe tell a sea slug joke …?”

Max whispered in my ear, “Sorry, Mike. My agent didn’t mention actual marine biology clowning. But, maybe I could recite a funny line from my latest film? OK, ahem …. Hello, ladies. Here’s your pizza. It’s sausage.”

The kids in the audience cheered like crazy for pizza. The parents didn’t. So, I said, “That’s right, Max, we humans love to eat pizza! But Fiona prefers to eat goose barnacles. In fact, most individual Fionas eat nothing else. Its diet is very specialized.”

Max said, “In my business you can’t be so specialized. You have to do all your own stunts, as it were.”

“Sure, Max. But while Fiona’s diet is restricted, it’s a cosmopolitan species that lives on all the world’s oceans in warm water and cold. Its larvae settle on almost any floating object, including driftwood, fishing floats, rafts of kelp and even floating, jelly-like animals such as by-thewind sailors. And not coincidentally, the solid objects are the same habitat Fiona’s prey barnacles settle on. Fiona attacks the barnacles using a toothed tongue, called a “radula,” which easily rasps through the goose barnacle’s fleshy stalk to access the tissues within.”

“That sounds uncomfortable, Mike.”

“I bet. Now, Fiona belongs to a class of sea slugs called nudibranchs, which have their respiratory organs exposed on their backs rather than under a protective mantle like most mollusks. In fact, ‘nudibranch’ means ‘naked gill.’”

“I once did a mermaid-themed film called Naked Gills,” said Max. “Unfortunately, mermaids are open-water broad-

cast spawners. But I adapted my techniques to theirs. I had to hold my breath longer than usual, but critics called my work ‘genius’ and ‘revolutionary.’”

“Good for you, Max. If you look at a Fiona, in addition to oral tentacle feelers and its chemosensory antennae called ‘rhinophores,’ you’ll notice two shaggy rows of banana-like projections. These are called ‘cerata,’ and in Fiona they are effectively its naked gills. Each cerata has a little flappy ridge along it. Fiona is the only known nudibranch with these flaps, which may provide added surface for enhanced organ function.”

“Dang, Mike. If you chopped up that last paragraph, you could name like seven movies I was in,” he said.

“These cerata also contain branches of the digestive tract. Barnacle-eating Fionas are normally brown or tan. But ones that settle on blue by-the-winds sailors develop beautiful blue cerata as they feed on them. I’ve never found any of those yet, but I’ll keep looking!”

“You have a strange way of making a living, Mike.”

“Sure. Now, Fionas don’t get much longer than an inch, but they grow and reproduce faster than almost all other sea slugs. So, if a few larvae get lucky and settle on something floating and covered in goose barnacles, the population can explode to many thousands of slugs in order to take advantage of the bounty before it washes up somewhere. Anyway, that’s the show, folks. Don’t forget to look for washed-up Fionas!”

After the studio audience exited, I said, “Sorry about that, Max, but you arrived too early. I had to improvise. Now relax while the crew changes the set, and I’ll call in the naughty marine biology grad students.” l

Biologist Mike Kelly (he/him) is also the author of the book Tigerfish: Traditional and Sport Fishing on the Niger River, Mali, West Africa. It’s available at Amazon or everywhere e-books are sold.

By-the-wind sailors.

Photo by Mike Kelly

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