North Coast Journal 08-31-2023 edition

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BURGER WEEK 2023

‘Long Live Theater’

Editor:

The Pintauro one-act plays currently being performed at NCRT in Eureka drop us unceremoniously into a moment, inescapable, we are there and the actor is there (“Pintauro’s Defining Moments at NCRT,” Aug. 24). We wait for dialogue to get a context and when it begins we know there’s no turning back. We get raw and human feelings and, as my friend said, “Be prepared to feel things you didn’t expect to feel.” We are in the hot seat-in the swirl of conflicting emotions the actors bring into focus. It’s a shared experience, and yes, uncomfortable at times. But, we are not alone — that is the gift the playwright o ers us; even in existential quandaries, we are not destitute, we have company, that of the actors and others in the audience.

The entire production invites us into a finely crafted, personal and boldly intense experience. As audience members we get to find meaning in a broad array of situations and characters, experiencing the transformation that live theater can evoke. I’m so grateful to the director and the North Coast Repertory Theater for raising the bar of Humboldt theater and giving us all the opportunity to engage on this level.

I hope the actors have full audiences moving forward through the run. They deserve to play with as many of our heartstrings as they can while we get to come

The Weeds I Can’t Reach

There’s a big Black fly in my house. It passes behind me, In front of me, Beside me, careening wildly, Never seeming to settle Where I could get a good shot at it. It annoys me, Perplexes me, Would seem to be taunting me

If there was room in that microscopic brain For such intent.

It’s as if Gun violence, Climate change, Forest fires, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Songbird blights, Supply chain issues, And sta ng shortages

Aren’t enough, there needs to be more Immediate distress.

There seems to be little I can do about it, Like the forest of weeds growing in the second storey gutter, Out of reach.

But, Maybe I can reach Just this one.

I’ll try.

to the A Toast Towns

Help celebrate the second anniversary of North Coast Journal Inc. buying The Ferndale Enterprise with a short toast to the many people, places and things that make the Eel River Valley special.

Whether the bartender at your favorite watering hole, the teacher who’s seen generations of your family grow up, or the event you look forward to all year, we invite you to send us a short toast of up to 150 words to celebrate the community.

Please send submissions to editor@northcoastjournal.com with your full name and contact information, and “ERV Toast” in the subject line by Sept. 20. Multiple submissions are welcome. We’ll publish your toasts in a special Anniversary Edition in October.

— Jim Buschmann

ever more alive to ourselves and each other. Long live live theater!

Pintauro at NCRT Sept. 1-3, Sept. 15-17. Meighan O’Brien, McKinleyville

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‘Disgusted’

Editor: I am absolutely disgusted to see yet another stand of grand trees being unnecessarily cut down, this time along the corridor that connects Eureka to Arcata (“Arborist Recommends Eucalyptus Removal to Make way for Bay Trail,” Nov. 5, 2018). Some may claim that it was an unavoidable choice for advancing the Humboldt Bay Trail but that is highly doubtful, seeing as there was great care to keep the stand’s neighboring billboard directly on the path. This is reminiscent of what happened to the grove around the Eureka PG&E substation in 2021. Years later, PG&E admits its hasty “tree trimming” fire mitigation was ine ective and, now, all that’s left of the illegal clearcut is a trailer and a fence propped up to hide the abhorrent shortsightedness. (Were they ever charged, btw?)

Sure, in this case, the trees were eucalyptus and it’s a county project, but why does the common theme seem to be large organizations blatantly ignoring community input and carrying on without repercussions? This complete disregard for boulevard timber has become so common that it has trickled to disturbing acts of local vandalism. Public property, like sidewalk trees in Henderson Center and Old Town, have been mutilated for no apparent reason. Do folks not realize that trees brought — and still bring — value to our community? That trees provide shade and retain water, through groundwater and fog, which keeps our area cool when everywhere else is reaching triple digits? Not to mention o ering shelter for endangered animals and, oh yeah, purifying the air we need to breathe. Even Disney knows there’s no other place with trees like ours.

City and county o cials need to be more resolute in preserving and investing in greenery within our towns, especially if it’s been around for decades and clearly loved. There are less destructive alternatives. Quit using “development” as an excuse to eradicate things that make this area special!

Rose Nhem, Arcata

Correction

A photo of The Pronouns was misidentified in the caption in the Aug. 24, 2023, issue. The Journal regrets the error.

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Pension Debt is Devouring Local Services

By Patrick Cloney newsroom@northcoastjournal.com

In the face of the ongoing climate crisis, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors recently voted to urge the State of California to divest CalPERS, the State’s retirement system, from fossil fuel companies to reduce emissions. There is another area of impact regarding California’s retirement system that needs to be addressed: its very significant and very negative effect on the ability of local governments to provide services.

In 2015, Eureka cut $800,000 from its police department as it spent $900,000 on pension debt. The years 2016 through 2019 saw a 19-percent reduction in full-time positions at the Eureka Police Department as the city spent $14.8 million on pension debt ($1 million in 2016, $3.9 million in 2017, $4.5 million in 2018 and $5.4 million in 2019). In 2020, Eureka cut $1.1 million and six positions, including those of four officers, from EPD, as it spent $5.7 million on pension debt.

In January of 2020, the first case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed and the pandemic made the economic situation much worse. With the arrival of COVID-19, Eureka entered double jeopardy, losing tax revenue as ever-increasing pension debt payments took funding away from services.

In 2020, Eureka brought forth Measure H to help its financial woes. Passed with 66 percent of the vote, Measure H more than doubled Eureka’s sales tax, taking Eureka’s existing 0.5 percent sales tax and adding a 0.75 percent increase for a total tax of 1.25 percent. Measure H was projected to bring in $9.6 million: $3.8 million from the existing 0.5 percent tax and $5.8 million from the 0.75 percent increase.

Measure H took effect in 2021. The hitch in my git-along, or the fork in my soup, if you prefer, is that Eureka’s pension debt payment in 2021 rose to $6 million. After years of services cut or not provided due to pension debt payments, a situation made worse by COVID-19, Measure H was not a huge step forward. In fact, it wasn’t even able to prevent the city from sliding backward, bringing in $5.8 million in revenue that went toward that $6 million

pension debt payment.

Eureka City Schools is asking $4 million for the old Jacobs Junior High property, open land that could help Eureka with its critical need for housing. In 2022, Eureka City Hall put forth a maximum purchase price for the Jacobs property of $2.8 million. In 2022, the city also brought forth that it would be spending 10 times that amount — $28 million — on pension debt over the next four years alone, as it added balloon payments to its previously scheduled pension debt installments of $6.3 million in 2022, $6.6 million in 2023, $6.9 million in 2024 and $7.2 million in 2025. Eureka’s yearly pension debt payments will increase to $8.4 million in 2029 and continue until 2040.

In June of 2022, Arcata had $29.6 million in unfunded liability for its pension program. Recently, the city announced its pension debt had increased by $1 million to $30.6 million, and that its minimum pension contribution will increase by $1.32 million this year, with staff also recommending an additional payment of $5 million. These pension payments will inevitably cause reductions in other services.

Last year, Fortuna authorized an additional $1.54 million payment for pension obligations.

In 2015, Humboldt County had $220 million in pension debt. In early 2021, it announced three things: Its pension debt had increased to $330 million; pension obligations increased from 18 percent of payroll costs to more than 32 percent; and pension debt payments will increase by $17 million per year for at least the next decade. Now, in 2023, Humboldt County has a $17 million budget deficit that’s projected to grow.

Humboldt County roads currently have a Pavement Condition Index (a PCI) of 49 (out of 100), a “poor” rating. No additional funding for road maintenance would see the county’s PCI drop to 25 over the next 10 years, a “fail” rating. It will require an additional $343 million over the next decade just to maintain the current PCI of 49. An additional $571 million would be needed over the next 10 years to bring the

system up to a PCI of 70, a “good” rating. Troubling finances, indeed.

The Humboldt County Sheri ’s O ce, meanwhile, is asking the city of Blue Lake for an increase in payment for services from $146,000 per year to $315,000 annually. Blue lake has a total budget of a little more than $1 million, more than $87,000 of which is going to unfunded pension liability, according to City Manager Mandy Mager.

Thanks for staying with me on this. I realize this is a lot of numbers and can get confusing, but I believe in the saying, “Follow the money, find the truth.”

The solution to this debilitated economic situation must come from our state government o cials. Until this problem is solved, I echo the call of Eureka’s ex-mayor, Susan Seaman. In her Feb. 9, 2023, op-ed about Eureka City Schools (“Eureka Needs to Stand Up to its Playground Bully”), Seaman stated very simply: “Demand transparency.” Great idea!

To provide this transparency, I call upon Seaman, along with all her contacts in government, to bring forth a yearly PDSIR: a Pension Debt Service Impact Report. A PDSIR would be a yearly report from our good friends in government that would list their governmental agencies’ pension debt payments for the upcoming year and what services would be cut or not provided due to these debt payments. The next year’s report would have a review of exactly what happened the previous year along

with projections for the upcoming year. Government transparency! Let’s do this!

Divesting government retirement funds from fossil fuel companies to combat the climate crisis is a grand and noble gesture, but it does not address our local problems: crises in government sta ng, road maintenance, homelessness, debilitated government finances. The willful indi erence and lack of a plan from our friends in government to solve this problem is very disturbing. We are just starting down this path. We have many years of service loss ahead. How long before all of these cuts in services result in a catastrophic failure?

This a bad situation. It is bad for the current sta who are working hard but do not receive the support they need. It is bad for citizens who have services cut or not provided.

My primary concerns are: safety, quality of life services and economic fundamentals.

In 2020, in Eureka, an individual killed an elderly man and brutally stabbed two other people in three separate attacks. Weeks later, the Eureka City Council cut $1.1 million and six positions, including four o cers, from its police department as it committed $5.7 million to paying down pension debt. ●

Patrick Cloney is is a 1975 graduate of Eureka High School and owned a family business for decades.

CUSTOMER FEATURE

Meet Maggy and Ch lie H belin

in Eureka, serving low-income community members. Maggy ran the summer day camp program in which her junior counselors were teenagers living in the projects and counselors were HSU students.

Charlie finished earning his MSW, LCSW and MFT licenses in the 1970s. He was head of Child Protective Services from 1977 to 1984 at Humboldt County’s welfare department, where he also started the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program. He did 15 years with the Redwood Coast Regional Center from 1984 through 1999. He continued his career as a consultant for the Del Norte Superior Court from 1999 through 2020 doing child custody investigations. In addition, Charlie was head of Catholic Charities from 1999 through 2006 where, thanks to grants from St. Joseph Health, he served people that nobody else would.

Meet Maggy and Charlie Herbelin, long-time Murphy’s Markets customers and Humboldt County residents. After meeting and falling in love in San Francisco when Maggy borrowed a cup of sugar from her neighbor Charlie, the couple came to Humboldt County 55 years ago in 1969.

At least every other day, Charlie and Maggy find themselves in their neighborhood Murphy’s in Cutten, which is where they go to source all their meat and dairy products and whatever produce they don’t grow themselves. They love to shop at Murphy’s because the entire sta is always so sincere and open, sharing and caring. If you have special orders, Murphy’s is very accommodating. Murphy’s employees will know Maggy because each one of them has received a jar of jam and likely a homemade pulled pork sandwich from her at some point!

They have been very active members of the community while raising two wonderful children and contributing an immense array of work and service. In the 1970s, Charlie started the Neighborhood Center on California Street

In addition to her work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture compiling the Ag Statistics for Humboldt and Del Norte counties, Maggy has sat on a number of boards throughout her life, including the League of Women Voters, the United Stand Study Committee, Humboldt Bay Watershed Advisory Committee and the Human Rights Commission. She started the Humboldt Bay Stewards and did a lot of work on di erent restoration projects, all the while also keeping goats, chickens and making goat cheese! Ask her about the time she brought goats across the U.S.-Mexico border all the way down to the town of Yajalon in the state of Chiapas. She is a Humboldt County Master Gardener member and holds an award from the Humboldt County Fair for best cheddar goat cheese. She was a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary doing vessel exams and teaching boating safety classes and is a current member of CERT. Maggy has studied Aikido, Jiu Jitsu, Tai Chi and has her black belt!

Together as Captain and Docent, they gave hundreds of tours of Humboldt Bay on the Baykeeper vessel, sailed the bay for years on their various sailboats, and enjoyed being members of the Humboldt Yacht Club.

Now retired and in their 80s, Maggy and Charlie still maintain active and healthy lives. So if you’re looking to live a full, healthy life in good spirits, it seems Murphy’s Markets can provide the nourishment and community you need to keep on going!

Left: Maggy and Charlie Herbelin with their dog, Wabi.

Above: Maggy and Charlie’s children, Armando and Sarah.

Hats Off to the Victors

Homophobic Slurs Mar Fair’s Chili Cook-off

The friendly competition of the Chili Cook-off hosted by Guy Fieri at the Humboldt County fair took an unfriendly turn Aug. 24, with anti-gay slurs, property damage and the arrest of one contestant on suspicion of DUI.

After an afternoon of cooking chili and making homophobic comments peppered with slurs, Loco Fish Co. owner Jayme Knight, who does not deny using the offensive language, drove his truck over supplies and equipment belonging to neighboring competitors Foggy Bottoms Boys, a family farming operation run by husbands Thomas and Cody Nicholson Stratton. According to Ferndale Police Chief Ron Sligh, officers at the fairgrounds subsequently arrested Knight on suspicion of drunk driving. Sligh says so far it doesn’t look like the damage caused was intentional, but FPD is still talking to witnesses regarding whether anything Knight said would necessitate forwarding the case to the district attorney for consideration of hate crime charges.

“The subject we arrested was not cooperative with us,” Sligh says.

Under the law, simply using homophobic language, slurs or other hate speech is not a crime unless it includes a threat of violence. Meanwhile, the law defines a hate crime as a crime specifically motivated by a bias toward the victim because of their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, nationality or disability.

As such, to accuse Knight of a hate crime, prosecutors would need evidence that he both ran over the supplies intentionally and did so because of the Nicholson Strattons’ sexual orientation.

Thomas Nicholson Stratton, whose

husband is away at the Oregon State Fair, says when he arrived at the competition, employees cooking the Foggy Bottoms Boys’ chili entry informed him Knight had been making disparaging comments about “gay beef” and using anti-gay slurs in reference to their business. They said Knight, who “seemed intoxicated,” was becoming “more boisterous throughout.” It’s not the first time Nicholson Stratton or his crew have been confronted with bigotry, and he says they stuck to their policy of not engaging. He was, however, concerned at what his 4-year-old son may have heard as he visited the Foggy Bottoms booth.

When it came time to pack up, Nicholson Stratton says, “the owner ran over several boxes of our ingredients and then backed over [them] again.” Those supplies also included a table, marrow bones, jars of ingredients and a new burner purchased for the event, some of which was salvageable, some not. A Foggy Bottoms Boys Instagram post Aug. 27 describes the incident but does not name Knight or Loco Fish Co.

Knight admits he used slurs but says, “I had zero intention of running over their table and bones. I was doing a threepoint turn to back up and go and load the truck,” but didn’t see the supplies. “Any kind of gay slurs I really didn’t direct toward them,” says Knight, who also says he didn’t realize the Foggy Bottoms Boys booth was immediately next to the Loco Fish Co. tent he was standing in under full daylight for hours with visible signage and only layers of mesh separating their respective staffs.

“God, I regret my actions so much,” Knight says. “I don’t know what to say; I don’t have any excuses. I had too much to

drink and my judgement got the better of me.” Without denying having used anti-gay slurs, he adds, “I really don’t have any hatred at all toward the LGBTQ community at all. I’m just trying to wrap my mind around how it got so out of control. I need to really work on myself; I needa go to rehab and therapy.”

Nicholson Stratton doesn’t see how Knight’s bigoted remarks weren’t aimed at him, his family and his business, since, “We were there and named in those comments.”

Event coordinator Melissa Sanderson, who is also the publisher of the Journal, says she did not know about Knight’s comments until after the event, though she was aware of his arrest. Jill Duffy, the fair’s interim CEO, also says she only became aware of a problem when the Ferndale police became involved but that such behavior and language is not compatible with a family-friendly fair. Duffy says she wishes she’d been informed earlier.

“I would have immediately been out there and put a stop to it,” she says. “Per-

sonally, I have no room for it. … I’m really glad he was able to be removed without anyone being hurt.” She adds that starting next year, private event participants and vendors will be made “aware they are at a family-friendly event and they need to comport themselves in an appropriate manner or they’ll be removed.”

Nicholson Stratton says he’s warmed by the outpouring of support in response to the Instagram post, though he says he’s also received messages from people insisting Knight would never make such comments, despite Knight’s own admission. Knight has attempted to contact the Foggy Bottoms Boys but Nicholson Stratton says they are keeping to their policy of non-engagement.

“We’re not out to share the misfortunes of someone else’s ailments and challenges,” says Nicholson Stratton, adding they felt it was important to acknowledge the incident. “Those things do exist, but we are bigger and stronger, and they are the few.”

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Forgotten in Rio Dell

Months after quakes rocked the small town, recovery proves elusive

By Kimberly Wear kimberly@northcoastjournal.com

Eight months ago, Jacqui and Shane McIntosh were getting ready to celebrate.

With an offer in hand, the couple’s Rio Dell home was set to enter escrow Dec. 20, marking the beginning of a new chapter in their lives after they put in years of sweat equity to afford a new house closer to their jobs a 45-minute commute away.

Then the magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck at 2:34 a.m. In a matter of seconds, the McIntoshes’ hopes came crashing down around them as their Painter Street neighborhood shook with the third highest intensity ever recorded in a California earthquake.

Her husband, Jacqui McIntosh told the Journal, “thought those were our last moments.”

“It just kept going,” she said. “It felt like it wasn’t going to stop.”

After the initial shaking subsided, the couple made their way downstairs and began to grasp the extent of the damage. Jacqui McIntosh said she remembers being sprayed in the face by a broken gas line before stepping outside in those first frantic moments to find their porch pitched up higher than the front door.

Their 100-year-old starter home, the one they moved into just days after

marrying in 2019, the place they invested their nest egg into to build a better future, had been thrown off its foundation by the quake and shifted 22 inches to the east.

“It was like everything was falling into place, and then everything blew up,” Jacqui McIntosh said.

Later that day, images of their whitetrimmed tan house with the slanted porch surrounded by yellow police tape, the For Sale sign standing in the lawn, were seen on television screens and newspapers across the country — becoming the indelible portrait of the earthquake’s destruction in the Eel River Valley town.

“I thought help was going to come,” she said, “and it hasn’t.”

The bleak reality is Humboldt County simply wasn’t able to reach the $65 million damage threshold needed to trigger a Federal Emergency Management Agency response under a matrix that is based on the value of the property damaged, not how much property loss there was.

Even with major impacts to 25 percent of Rio Dell’s housing stock and nearly $26 million in damage to the city’s vital infrastructure, damage totals across the Eel River Valley, including the grandstands at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds in Ferndale, still fall $30 million short of that FEMA mark.

That has left many residents largely on their own, as inequities built into the federal relief system leave local and state officials with few options for providing assistance to rural, economically challenged communities following a natural disaster. And most of what is available is geared toward low and very low income households.

Unable to qualify for those programs due to their income, Jacqui McIntosh said she and her husband are facing the possibility of foreclosure despite navigating a labyrinth of paperwork and countless phone calls. Taking out a low-interest loan just to fix the foundation — not even touching the other extensive repairs needed to make the house livable — would leave them $100,000 underwater, she said.

And, she said, she’s frustrated that most of the aid available is allocated based on income and not the extent of damage — or at least some level of balance between the two — leaving residents in situations like theirs behind.

“It’s sad because we put our whole lives into that house,” Jacqui McIntosh said. “It’s sad because we didn’t do anything wrong. It’s sad because we put a lot of love into that house and it’s just fallen into disarray. It’s sad because the house has a lot of history, and it survived a lot, and I don’t know

if it will survive.”

The McIntoshes aren’t the only one still trying to pick up the pieces months after the initial earthquake and 5.4 aftershock on New Year’s Day left hundreds without a place to call home, especially in Rio Dell, which bore the brunt of the earthquakes’ force.

Of the around 90 residences in the city deemed unlivable in the aftermath, 55 remain red-tagged, according to the latest number available from the Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services, and 220 others are still yellow-tagged for restricted use.

Next door to the McIntoshes on Painter Street, the damage at Sharon and Steve Wolff’s house wasn’t as severe but they still face a long road back to normalcy.

The couple had been putting final touches on a downstairs remodel, including the office where they produce the Rio Dell Times, when the earthquake struck, sending items around their home crashing to the floor, causing large cracks in newly painted walls and separating the recently installed wood flooring inches from the wall.

“We were,” Steve Wolff said, “just so close to finishing.”

“It looked gorgeous the night before the earthquake,” Sharon Wolff added. “A

This house on Painter Street in Rio Dell, which was jolted off its foundation in the Dec. 20 earthquake, became the indelible image of damage in the Eel River Valley. Eight months later, it’s future remains unclear. Photo by Thadeus Greenson

lot of plans changed that day.”

Months later, she said she still hasn’t put anything back on their kitchen’s upper shelves.

Like many in the town, with sections of their home cracked open and exposed to the elements, they faced challenges trying to stay warm during this year’s fierce storms and brutal cold.

One night, Steve Wol said, he woke up to find something furry on his pillow and started screaming, “There’s a possum in the bed!” That possum, “Snuggles,” as the marsupial came to be known, was captured and relocated to an area by the river after its several repeated attempts to stay inside.

“These are some of the problems you never thought you’d face,” Sharon Wol said.

Around town, she said, “there’s a lot of stress.”

The lack of a FEMA response also doesn’t sit well with the couple who raised five children in their historic house that — like the McIntoshes’ — was moved to Painter Street after being floated across the Eel River from a former sawmill site in the 1930s.

“It shouldn’t be like that,” Steve Wol said. “It’s not equitable.”

Sharon Wol agreed.

“It’s so maddening because you think FEMA is going to be there if a natural disaster hits,” she said. “But they’re not there for us.”

They said there was a “really nice outpouring of support” in the initial weeks after the quakes — from the free cooked meals and hot showers to food distributions and access to porta potties — but much of it disappeared as quickly as it arrived as the town’s recovery was just getting started.

“It was like, ‘OK, bye,’ and that was the end of it,” Sharon Wol said.

Across town, Lance Nally said he thought he was doing the right thing by taking out a loan on his credit card to pay a contractor to make immediately needed repairs on his red-tagged home

on Belleview Avenue, which the quake left teetering on its foundation.

Later, when he tried to get reimbursed, Nally said he was told there was no aid available for already completed work, something he said was never conveyed at community meetings or when he first reached out for information about assistance, leaving him feeling “left out in the cold.”

There were signs all over town cautioning residents to only hire licensed contractors, he said, but not a word about how getting work done before going through the grant application process would leave them footing the full bill.

The foundation of their house might be solid now, but Nally said he and his wife Lydia are “being penalized because we took care of the problem that they wanted us to take care of,” leaving them essentially on their own to find a way forward while putting a child through college and continuing to work on more repairs.

Their home, he adds, is all they have.

“Why,” Nally asked, “isn’t anyone helping us?”

Humboldt County’s OES Director Ryan Derby said he understands people are frustrated.

“We were in an unfortunate situation where, as devastating as this was to our community, it still didn’t reach that threshold for a federal declaration,” Derby said.

“And, in the absence of a federal declaration and federal individual assistance, there are only certain avenues that the county and the state can go through to connect people with recovery resources.”

Back in April, the county shifted from an emergency response to a long-term recovery mode, contracting with Arcata House Partnership, Changing Tides Family Services and the Humboldt Eel River Valley Long-Term Recovery Group — a coalition of government agencies, nonprofits and businesses — to provide disaster case management services.

Derby said he knows people have

Lance and Lydia Nally sit by

the red tags that still adorn their house, despite them having gone into debt to repair the home’s foundation. “It’s kind of a tag of pride now,” Lance Nally says. “We made it, and we’re still here.”

Photo by Thadeus Greenson

ON THE COVER

services to address the myriad of problems and di culties people are still facing in the quakes’ aftermath, including help in navigating those arduous applications and assistance with language barriers.

“We have to act based on the cards dealt us and it does mean a steep hill to climb, no doubt,” he said. “I understand and I’m frankly heartbroken over the whole situation for a lot of our residents here, and it’s not fair.”

fallen through the cracks, and some are still staying with family all these months later. He said he also realizes there was a misconception in the community early on that FEMA dollars would become available.

“It’s a tough message to basically say the assistance you need isn’t coming from the federal government but we are doing everything we can through disaster relief management and the long-term recovery group to connect people to the resources they need to at least get back on their feet,” Derby said.

While most of those loan and grant programs target low to very low income households, one exception is loans available through the Small Business Administration. Derby said there may also be other options those in need can access by calling the disaster case management line at (707) 382-5890.

“I would really encourage anyone who is not finding the resources they need through the loan programs or the grant options to reach out to that disaster case management line, to plead their case and hopefully get contacted with some resources,” Derby said, adding that could include aid from area nonprofits or the donations that came in after the quake hit.

Rio Dell City Manager Kyle Knopp had a similar message, saying that without a FEMA response, which brings a “really special piece” of the long-term recovery puzzle via individual assistance for impacted homeowners, what’s primarily left are pre-existing programs that can take months to access and include lengthy application processes.

Knopp emphasized that the disaster management hotline is the entry point for accessing the long-term recovery group’s

Like 90 percent of Californians, many of those hardest in Rio Dell lacked earthquake insurance. The reality, Knopp said, is coverage can be cost-prohibitive for many people and most policies come with high deductibles in the $30,000 to $40,000 range, or about what many foundation issues would cost to repair.

Moving forward, Knopp and others would like to see changes to how that FEMA formula works, as it currently leaves poor, rural areas to struggle while places like Marin or Malibu — where median home prices range $1.5 to $3.3 million, respectively — would qualify for federal aid with property losses at just fraction of the number of homes damaged in Rio Dell.

“All of our elected o cials have been great and have been responsive and understand the situation here and how inequitable it is,” Knopp said. “Hopefully, this can translate to broader reforms as far as FEMA, so this doesn’t happen again.”

North Coast Congressmember Jared Hu man made clear he wanted to see FEMA’s formula reworked to be more equitable.

“FEMA’s thresholds in rural areas often leave small communities without important federal aid even when they are disproportionately impacted during disasters,” he said. “It’s a serious problem, especially in the West, and I know many of my colleagues have seen this in their congressional districts. I have urged FEMA to be more flexible in order to address these inequities — but unfortunately it appears we’ll need statutory action to make that happen. This will undoubtedly require a major congressional e ort. I will be a part of that endeavor and am looking at all options to address this issue.”

Meanwhile, slowly but surely, the recov-

Steve and Sharon Wol continue to work on repairs to their Painter Street home, frustrated at the inequities in FEMA’s response threshold. Photo by Thadeus Greenson

ery continues.

The Wol s said they did reach out to that long-term disaster management line but were often left waiting for calls back or found there was simply no one there who could help them.

In the end, they also didn’t qualify for any of the grant programs and were instead approved for a nearly $60,000 Small Business Administration loan to fund repairs, but that’s been a bitter pill to swallow and they’re trying not to use the full amount.

According to the county, $7 million in SBA loans have been approved in connection with the earthquakes, with the vast majority — $6 million — going to homeowners and the remainder to businesses.

“It’s still a loan you had no intention of taking out before the earthquake,” Sharon Wolf said. “You don’t want to have to take out a loan that’s not of your choosing.”

And, Steve Wol added, “You can’t just borrow money every time there is an earthquake.”

Nally said he also reached out to the disaster relief line but was told there was nothing that could be done to help pay for work already completed.

He said he became frustrated with the lack of assistance while trying to go through the process for other work their house needed and all the hoops they were told to jump through. For example, he pointed to the Habitat for Humanity grant program’s requirement that applicants get two contractors to give bids on repairs. Eventually, he said, he just gave up and withdrew their application.

Instead, Nally said they have gone into credit card debt to pay for the work themselves while living on a fixed income. And there’s still more to be done — from cracked walls to fences that won’t shut.

“I’m an ordinary guy, I’m retired,” Nally said. “I’m on Social Security. It would have been beneficial if we got some money, even a loan.”

He said he did appreciate the support that came at first, the free food, the gas cards, the hot showers. But where’s the support now?

“We wanted our house fixed, that’s what we wanted, but we’re pretty much on our own,” he said.

Back on Painter Street, Jacqui McIntosh said they’re still waiting to hear back from the mortgage company about what might happen next, whether that’s proceeding to foreclosure or some other alternative.

On top of everything else, she said, some kids broke into their vacant house at one point and vandalized the walls with spray paint. Worst of all, she said, was what happened to the rope swing hanging in the yard.

Made for her when she was a little girl, the swing had somehow survived the Paradise Fire five years earlier but someone cut it down, leaving the rope sitting on ground in their Rio Dell backyard. The tire, Jacqui McIntosh said, was found a few blocks away.

Even if they were somehow able to break even or help finally arrived, she said she doesn’t see moving back to the place where all their all their hopes dashed just as they seemed to be coming true.

“I don’t know that I could ever live in it again, because of the trauma in the house,” Jacqui McIntosh said. ●

Kimberly Wear (she/her) is the Journal’s digital editor. Reach her at (707) 442-1400, extension 323, or kim@northcoastjournal. com.

Up and down Rio Dell’s Belleview Avenue, damaged homes continue to sit in varying stages of repair. Photo by Thadeus Greenson

Fermentation Tales of Koji and Miso

By Simona Carini onthetable@northcoastjournal.com

You may be interested in trying this,” Richard Wagner told me one Saturday morning in April while I was looking at the produce he had brought to the Arcata Plaza farmers market. He and his wife Lauren run Palmer Creek Farm, a biodiverse farm in Fortuna. “I’m always interested in trying something new,” I answered. He placed in my hands a small jar of shoyu koji, which I brought home, together with a substantial amount of curiosity to try its content.

Two weeks later, after another conversation with Wagner, I brought home a 3-year-old green-lentil miso. I knew miso as a fermented soybean paste used in Japanese cuisine, but I’d never dug deeper. It was time I understood the process, which, as every fermentation tale I know, is fascinating.

At the beginning there is a grain — often rice, but also barley, which is what Wagner says he uses — that gets steamed and then inoculated with koji starter, the mold Aspergillus oryzae. The result is called rice koji or barley koji, which is combined with other ingredients and allowed to further ferment to produce the following condiments: shio koji (with water and salt), shoyu koji (with tamari and salt), miso (with cooked legumes, see below). Shio koji is a light-colored, lumpy paste with a mild, sweet miso-like flavor. Shoyu koji is brown, smells salty and mushroom-y, and adds umami to dishes. Both are used for seasoning or marinating.

To produce miso, koji is mixed with salt and mashed, cooked soybeans (most commonly) or other legumes. For example, Wagner has used, among others, green lentils and great northern beans. The combination is placed in a clay vessel under pressure (a layer of tamari forms on the top, which acts as a seal) and fermented for a length of time between a few and many months, depending on the desired flavor profile. The duration of aging and amount of salt produce different types

of miso: older miso is darker and stronger. Aging tests the producer’s patience. It is one thing to wait for a few days or even a few weeks; waiting years requires discipline.

Wagner’s journey in fermented foods started around eight years ago with making kombucha, then yogurt, sour pickles and beer. In 2018 he started experimenting with koji. The steps he took mirror my experience in making cheese: reading resources, connecting with people with the same interest and experimenting.

Now that you know a bit about how these fermented products are made, the question is: How do you use them in the kitchen? Here a few suggestions from my experiments so far, for which I skip the salt in favor of shoyu koji or miso:

Use shoyu koji in salads and to season savory pancakes.

Toward the end of cooking, add miso to vegetables, and to onion and fava bean soup made without stock or broth.

I use great northern bean miso in my oatmeal raisin cookies (recipe likely coming soon) and my brown butter, chocolate chunk cookies (“What-if Cookies,” Jan. 13, 2022).

And here are a couple of recipes from Wagner himself, whom you can find at the Palmer Creek Farm’s booth at the year-round Saturday farmers market on the Arcata Plaza and the summer one in Fortuna on Tuesdays.

Miso Dijon Salad Dressing

¼ cup olive oil

1 ½ tablespoons miso

¼ -½ teaspoon Dijon mustard

2 tablespoons rice vinegar

1 garlic clove

Ground black pepper, to taste

Blend ingredients well using an immersion blender and serve.

Miso Glaze

I prefer to use a sweet mustard and go fairly heavy on the dill, as I like the taste. I typically use this glaze for fish — especially salmon.

2 tablespoons miso

1-2 tablespoons honey

1-2 tablespoons mustard of choice Dill, preferably fresh, to taste

2 garlic cloves

¼ cup olive oil

Blend ingredients well using an immersion blender. Coat the fish with the glaze, marinate for 2 hours, then bake as usual.

Tenderizer for Meat or Vegetables

This uses shio koji or shoyu koji (blended, if needed, to make a smooth paste).

For meat: With a kitchen brush, coat the meat with koji and let rest for a few hours.

For vegetables: Add 1 tablespoon koji and other spices to cleaned and cut vegetables, and place in a container to rest for an hour or so before cooking.

Curious to learn more? Check out these books and articles (links at northcoastjournal.com).

The Art of Fermentation by Sandor

Kats

The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi and David Zilber

Koji Alchemy: Rediscovering the Magic of Mold-Based Fermentation by Rich Shih and Jeremy Umansky

Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments: A Step-by-Step Guide to Fermenting Grains and Beans by Kirsten K Shockey (Wagner recommends this as easy to follow and doable for beginners.)

“Koji Starter and Koji World in Japan” by Hideyuki Yamashita in the Journal of Fungi “Fermentation and the microbial community of Japanese koji and miso: A review” by Joanne Allwood, Lara Wakeling and David Bean in the Journal of Food Science l

Simona Carini (she/her) also writes about her adventures in the kitchen on her blog pulcetta.com and shares photographs on Instagram @ simonacarini. She particularly likes to create still lives with produce from the farmers market.

Richard Wagner holds a piece of barley koji.

Photo by Simona Carini

First Saturday Night Arts Alive

Our galleries, museums, theaters, bars and restaurants are open late. Presented by Eureka Main Street.

ART CENTER FRAME SHOP

616 Second St. Lauren Lester, watercolor landscapes and portraits.

ART CENTER SPACE 620 Second St. Features more than 75 local artists.

BELLE STARR CLOTHING 405 Second St. Music by Jeffrey Smoller.

BLUE OX BOUTIQUE 515 Second St. Beer and cider in the Blue Ox Lounge. C STREET STUDIOS 208 C St. Various artists.

CANVAS + CLAY 233 F St. “I Love to Laugh,” Bob Hanna and Deanna Huse, acrylic painting, sculpture, textile, mixed media.

CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM 240 E St. New exhibits.

DA GOU ROU LOUWI’ CULTURAL

CENTER 417 Second St., Suite 101 Dishgamu Humboldt Community Land Trust will be tabling with a board game where visitors can be surveyed about housing needs in our community through play.

DICK TAYLOR CRAFT CHOCOLATE

First and E streets. Steve Taylor, oil paintings.

THE EPITOME GALLERY 420 Second St. “The Watchers by Liese Chavez,” Julia

Finkelstein and Liese Chavez.

FAMILIA CAFÉ 525 Second St. Laura Chapman White, paintings.

FRIENDS OF SOUND 335 Second St.

“Listnin’ Drawn’ and Chillin’,” Elizabeth Gohr, photography, drawings. Music by Yasushi Matsu.

GOOD RELATIONS 223 Second St. Ragdoll Review live models. The Unus Annus Dildo, photos and acrylic paintings.

MORRIS GRAVES MUSEUM OF ART

636 F St. Performance Rotunda: Music by Laura Hennings and Bob Ebenstei. Performance Rotunda Gallery: “30,000 Salmon,” Becky Evans, 30,000 representations of fish and salmon memorializing the 2002 Klamath River fish kill. William Thonson Gallery: “25/25, Twenty Five Paintings of Humboldt County Artists,” Jim McVicker, paintings. Anderson Gallery: “Burn Pile/ the Andromeda Mirage,” Bachrun LoMele. Knight Gallery: “Narrative Paintings & Fanciful Sculpture,” Ruth Arietta, paintings. Museum Store/Permanent Collection Gallery: merchandise inspired by artwork by Morris Graves, Glenn Berry, Melvin Schuler and Romano Gabriel. Homer Balabanis Gallery/Humboldt Artist Gallery: Artwork by Vicki Barry, Julia Bednar, Jody Bryan, Jim Lowry, Paul Rickard, Patricia Sundgren-Smith, Sara Starr, Kim Reid and Claudia Lima.

HUMBOLDT BEER WORKS 110 Third St. Brewing demo and homebrew tasting, Humboldt Homebrewers.

HUMBOLDT HERBALS 300 Second St. “Tupp Above,” Steph Godfrey, acrylic painting. Music by Zera Starchild.

THE HUMBOLDT MERCANTILE 123 F St. Fieldbrook Winery featured in the tasting room. Music by Turtle Goodwater.

INK PEOPLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS-BRENDA TUXFORD GALLERY 422 First St. Eureka (co-located with the Humboldt County Visitors Bureau). “Backcountry Metaverse,” group art show.

JILLYBEANS EMPORIUM 723 Third St. Wilder Witch Farms air plants and jam; Debbie Guzman, crystal jewelry and photos; Chalk Couture demonstrations.

LITTLE SHOP OF HERS 416 Second St. Seana Burden, acrylic painting, pen and ink, glitter.

THE MADRONE TAPHOUSE & BRICK

FIRE PIZZA 421 Third St. Music by Blueberry Hill Boogie Band.

MAKER’S APRON 317 E St. Drop-in crafting for kids and adults.

MANY HANDS GALLERY 438 Second St. Featuring the work of more than 40 local artists.

MENDENHALL STUDIOS 215 C St. Various artists.

OLD TOWN ART GALLERY 417 Second St. Jennifer Liu, oil paintings; Donna Sellers, oil paintings; Regina Case, oil paintings. Photography, oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolors, pen and ink, drawings, sculpture, textile, mixed medium.

OLD TOWN INK LAB 212 G St. Creative vending machine featuring local artists.

OLD TOWN COFFEE & CHOCOLATES 211 F St. Various artists. Live music.

PEARL LOUNGE 507 Second St. Anna Amezcua and Nancy Ayers, oil painting, acrylic painting and mixed media.

REDWOOD ART ASSOCIATION 603 F St. The 65th annual Fall Exhibition; new paintings by members of the Representational Art League; music by Redwood Dixie Gators.

REDWOOD DISCOVERY MUSEUM

612 G St. Kids Alive! 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. A drop-off program for children aged 3.5 to 12 years. Kids can enjoy crafts, science activities, pizza and uninhibited museum fun ($20/child or $17 for members). Kids must be confidently potty-trained.

REDWOOD MUSIC MART 511 F St. Music by Ukes of Hazard.

RESTAURANT FIVE ELEVEN 511 Second St. Anna Sofia Amezcua and Jamie Pavlich Walker, acrylic painting and collage.

ROSEBUD HOME GOODS 213 F St. “My Ki Designs,” Marisa Kieselhorst, watercolors, textile; tarot readings by Toad; wine pour by Wild Souls Ranch.

SAILOR’S GRAVE TATTOO 138 Second St. Tattoo art.

THE SPEAKEASY 411 Opera Alley. Music by Jenni and David and the Sweet Soul Band, playing indoors from 8-11 p.m. 21+ only. No cover.

ZEN HEALING 437 F St. Resonate Studios “Geodes,” Katie Conley, epoxy resin with shattered glass. DJ music.

ZENO CURIOUS GOODS 320 Second St. Suite 1B. “Mister Kite’s Rubber Men and Other Friends,” David Michael Bois, digital images.

ZUMBIDO GIFTS 410 Second St. Featuring peacock style Talavera pottery from Mexico, various artists, ceramics.

Artwork by Bachrun LoMele at Morris Graves Museum of Art. Submitted

Paintings by Jim McVicker at Morris Graves Museum of Art. Submitted

Lysistrata ’s Raucous, Raunchy Rebellion at NCRT

By Tiggerbouncer Custodio

frontrow@northcoastjournal.com

It’s opening night of North Coast Repertory Theatre’s sex comedy Lysistrata. The excitement is palpable with bouquets in the hands of proud parents eager to support their kids, actors’ friends bursting with energy and support, not to mention the judging and roaming eyes of critics stashing observances for later. This raucous show dripping with penis puns, sexcapades and ginormous phalluses that would make porn stars blush needs electricity like this opening night to sustain its pace, energy and consent to its content. As a testimony to its fun, one leaves fantasizing about the gluttony of laughter and unadulterated joy to be had seeing the play with di erent combinations of friends and family — it needs to be seen in a gaggle.

NCRT is smart pairing this production with its alternating weekend of the emotional Pintauro. The juxtaposition of both in style, content and direction creates a gravitational pull to each other. An audience member may want to be a voyeur in the lives of real people and experience depth of acting, or just to have fun in a three-ring spectacle; both weekends feed o of each other. Lysistrata, for some, serves as a palate cleanser for the seriousness of the previous weekend and allows them complete release in its debauchery. Others, for whom the Dell’Artian approach feels unpolished, are more motivated for the next weekend’s o ering of intense one-act dramas. Both are legitimate and enjoyable, and weirdly work in tandem.

This Lysistrata is a modern and very loose adaptation of Aristophanes’ 411 B.C. play of the same name, with the production poking fun at itself and its legitimacy by using the original author’s original title. Simply, amid the Athenian wars, the women create a plan to withhold sex until the warring factions come to peace. As the script says, they are going to “keep it zipped until they flip” and leave the men “moaning like unmilked cows.”

Smart, too, is Brian Butler’s scenic design. It’s a simple and elegant Grecian pergola against the bright red velvet proscenium with shrubbery at the base of its columns. And yet, it also forms two pairs of furry testicles and large dicks

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reaching to touch its open-shell adorned roof, scandalously laid among comfortable and inviting scarlet red bedding. Somehow Butler makes both true and both fitting.

Megan Hughes again shows her brilliance and humor by creating costumes that are more about what’s under them. They are all simply draped fabric with some type of belt, yet with voids that allow the audience to peek at what’s underneath. Some choose to show glimplses of leopard print cat suits, some sexy lingerie, others just skin — all are perfect. It is a bold decision for a costumer to make underwear more important than the actual costume. Some of the footwear left me with questions but was still funny. Meanwhile, one outstanding costume direct from the books of Bob Mackie a la Carol Burnett’s Went With the Wind deserves an applause on its own.

Each cast member was a joy to watch and together they felt like cohesive storytellers. The pace of the show is driven brilliantly by Kathlina Eayre (Lysistrata), whom I look forward to seeing more of on the stage. The cast is extremely well rounded and looked like they were having fun both onstage and o as Stage Manager A.J. Hempstead even briefly makes a joyous appearance with some pom-poms. The pairing of powerhouse Liz Whittemore (Myrrhine/Old Woman) and Ruthie Engelke’s expertise was fascinating. Whittemore embodies the philosophy of the absurd without going over the top (or only going over in the best ways?) while Engleke completely dives into her environment and raises the stakes to the point of absurdity. Both approaches are incredibly well done and complement each other brilliantly. Jay Templeton (Athenian Chorus Leader No. 2) brings their work to absolute new heights. Though I am a big fan of their previous shows and character acting, this is completely unrecognizable from their previous characters and perfect in its execution with the correct amount of clown and method. Moss Nipkau (Magistrate), also a standout rising star, knows how to emphasize and sing lines to squeeze humor out of seemingly mundane places. His delivery is impeccable. And can someone please get Cathryn Noel-Veatch (Belphra-

gia) some cold water to douse herself? Her need to get her (cough) needs met is hilarious.

Director Shawn Wagner is an expert at this more physical theatre approach and was a great choice for this project. There are places where the physicality feels a bit flat, and either the actors need more encouragement to really get lost, or the refinement was too much. This is particularly visible in the acrobatic scene, where much of the same moves and choices are seen among the cast; it may be more e ective with more specific schticks or if actors are encouraged get sillier. Still, his expertise is felt and appreciated in the direction of the piece.

One or two tickets is not enough to experience this show. It is really meant to be a party and, as such, I recommend bringing the party and letting Dionysus and Eris do the rest. Enjoy.

NCRT’s production of Lysistrata continues with 8 p.m. performances Sept. 8, 9, 22 and 23, and 2 p.m. shows Sept. 10 (masked matinee) and 24. Visit ncrt.net or call (707) 442-6278. ●

Tiggerbouncer Custodio (he/she/ they) is an empowered queer Indigenous Filipino artist whose works have been seen on Humboldt stages and elsewhere.

NOW PLAYING

North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Pintauro: An Evening of One Acts runs through Sept. 17 with 8 p.m. performances Sept. 1-2 and 15-16, and 2 p.m. shows Sept. 3 and 17. Visit ncrt.net or call (707) 4426278.

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Thirsty Bear: DJ Statik and Friends, 9 p.m. Free

Scott Yoder, Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes, Lxs Perdidxs 7 p.m. $8

Midnight Movie: Freaks (1932) (film) 11 p.m. $8, $12 w/poster

Thirsty Bear: Live Music or DJ TBA 9 p.m. Free

The Goonies (1985) (film), 6 p.m. $8, $12 admission and poster, preshow at 5 p.m.

Thirsty Bear: Live Music or DJ TBA 9 p.m. Free Thirsty Bear: Karaoke 9 p.m. Free

DJ Sonido Pachanguero (Latin) 9 p.m. Free Live Music or DJ TBA 9 p.m. Free

Karaoke with Rock Star 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Free

Headshine (chill acoustic Cali rock) 9 p.m. Free

Piet Dalmolen (solo guitar, classic rock and soul) 9 p.m. Free

[W] Sci-Fi Night: The Fifth Element (1996) (film) 7 p.m. $5, $9 admission and poster, preshow at 6 p.m.

[W] Thirsty Bear: Bootz N Beers (country music/line dancing lessons) 7-9 p.m. Free

Sunday Jazz Jams 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free [W] Science on Tap 6 p.m. Free

Alex Kent Guitar (rock, blues, country, Americana) 9 p.m. Free

[M] Pool Tournament 6 p.m. [W] Karaoke with Rock Star 8 p.m.-midnight Free

[T] Karaoke 8 p.m. Free

[M] Paranormal Open Mic 7-9 p.m. Free

Summer Movie Series: The Wiz (1978) (film) 7 p.m. $10, $5 students/seniors

Reggae Last Thursdays w/ Sarge OneWise 9 p.m. $5, free for students

Live Music TBA 6 p.m. Free

Brian Sykes (classic rock, reggae, folk, blues) 6 p.m. Free

The Stallions (Ween tribute) 8 p.m. $10 Never Come Down, Canary and the Vamp (bluegrass, Americana) 8 p.m. $15, $12

YO! First Fridays w/DJ M ('90s) 9 p.m. $10

Reel Genius Trivia 6-8 p.m. Free

[W] Battle of the BagsCommunity Cornhole Tournament 6 p.m. Free

[T] Grown Up Movie Night at HBSC: Groundhog Day (1993) (film) 6 p.m. Free

[M] Reel Genius Trivia 6-8 p.m. Free

[M] Karaoke 9 p.m. Free, [W] Weds Night Ting (DJs)

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Blueberry Hill Boogie Band (roots rock, golden oldies) 6-9 p.m. Free

Drink & Draw 6 p.m. Free, Special Just Joshin' 9 p.m. $10

Reel Genius Trivia 6-8 p.m. Free

Pros and Context 7-8 p.m. Free, Alex Hooper 9 p.m. $15, The Latest Show 11 p.m. $5

Opossum Sun Trail w/Katsy Pline & Myrtle Mountain Boys (western twang, psychedelia) 9 p.m. $10

Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) w/Winter Band & The Uncredible Phin Band (eclectic) 8 p.m. $15

[W] Reel Genius Trivia 6-8 p.m. Free

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Secret Society of Silly Things 4-7 p.m. $10, Alex Hooper 9 p.m. $15, Braturday Night Live 11 p.m.

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July

FAQ About Your Changing Body

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill jennifer@northcoastjournal.com

It’s been a challenge putting together an FAQ that works in every state and doesn’t squick out Ron DeSantis. But we can still offer vital health information for growing children while conforming to the stated values of the GOP. While tweens and teens are absolutely old enough to carry a pregnancy to term or practice hiding from armed gunmen, we can’t risk traumatizing them with facts about the very bodies they live in. So, the actual S-E-X stuff we’ll leave to more traditional sources like, more worldly cousins, porn and sketchy youth pastors.

Why am I so sweaty?

Could be the hormones. Could also be that guns are the leading cause of death among children in the U.S. and the leaders your parents elected are not only blocking the kinds of gun legislation that have proved effective in other countries, but are showing up for work with little assault rifle pins and posing for holiday family photos with enough firepower to take Guam. Also could be you’re sweaty from crouching in the art supply closet while you were LARP-ing mass murder during today’s active shooter drill. Try deodorant and frequent showers.

When is my voice going to change?

That depends on the growth rate of your larynx and how good you are at

running in a zigzag motion. About a dozen children die from gunshots every day in this country, with 12 to 17 year olds accounting for 86 percent of those, according to Pew Research. Kind of makes The Hunger Games look like drama camp. And you may have to get as far as age 14 or 15 for your voice to drop enough to belt out those bass notes. Move to Australia or set up cones and run some drills, Peeta.

My period is really heavy. Is that normal?

Yeah, we can’t talk about menstruation in Florida. But we can tell you that you’ve got about a gallon of blood in you. And if you’re shot in a major artery, you can lose enough blood to render you unconscious in seconds and dead in less than three minutes, so you’re going to need all you’ve got. But an adult can lose roughly 20 percent of their blood before going into hemorrhagic shock and, assuming it’s a flesh wound and you manage the pain by biting into the handle of your lunchbox, you might not even pass out until around 40 percent.

Am I still a virgin if I use tampons?

Let’s address a common myth about tampons because that’s all I heard: That

little wad of packed cotton simply isn’t absorbent enough for the potential wineglass-per-minute bleeding of a serious gunshot wound. And plugging the hole left by a bullet won’t create enough direct pressure to slow or stop bleeding. Peer pressure is bad but firm, direct pressure is good, kids! Again, we literally cannot offer you basic hygiene advice but we can suggest your mom pack a few rolls of hemostatic gauze along with your Lunchables so you can get a jump on clotting.

How do you know how you identify?

Yeah, we can’t go near that one. But speaking of identifying, we can suggest you submit a preemptive DNA sample so you can be identified after your death amid a battlefield-like school room. The tumbling path of a .223-caliber-size round not only shatters bone and shreds muscle and organ tissue as it tears through a child’s body, but also creates large exit wounds — the fragments sometimes causing multiple exit wounds — that can render you unrecognizable to your loved ones. Remember: The faster we identify your corpse, the faster we can send those thoughts and prayers.

What’s the safest kind of protection?

You’re going to want Level III or rifle-rated body armor that’s a cut above what the cop who came to visit your school on career day was wearing. Yeah, AR-15 rounds are going through that thing like your mom’s book club through a bottle of rosé. Still, Kevlar isn’t nothing and may hold up against a center mass shot from a handgun with larger, slower rounds. So when choosing which wounded or dead classmate to hide under, Chloe with the fancy tactical backpack is a solid choice.

What’s Plan B and how

does it work?

The only Plan B I can talk about is a tourniquet, honey. Place it high on the limb and pull it tight.

Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (she/her) is the arts and features editor at the Journal. Reach her at (707) 442-1400, extension 320, or jennifer@northcoastjournal.com. Follow her on Instagram @JFumikoCahill and on Mastodon @jenniferfumikocahill.

Solidarity Forever

By Collin Yeo music@northcoastjournal.com

I’m not going to waste too much of your time here, as we all have a long weekend ahead, one we can enjoy collectively only because of the efforts of the greatest collective struggle of all time, and the one least reported on in our country because the struggle isn’t over yet. I am talking about the labor movement. We can do better than conservatives and liberals, two sides of the same coin minted by industry. The former will tell you workers who strike are traitors who don’t know their place in the hierarchy of our perfect, Panglossian meritocracy, a system that allows legacy wealth to dictate anti-human and increasingly environmentally suicidal terms onto the planet with impunity. Meanwhile, liberals will tell you that using electoralism and the corrupted, rotten institutions created by various generations of these monsters of wealth is the best bet for progress — forget about doing anything else, especially upsetting that meritocratic hierarchy. The truth is, you and everyone you know who has ever spent a moment of your lives trading labor for sustenance are more valuable than an encyclopedia full of the “great men” of history. Even today, we could spend every day for a year flying venture capitalists, billionaires, and the wealthy pundits and politicians they have bought into the dark sky for a new, uncertain colony on Mars (or straight into the sun) and notice no change beyond the occasional piece of melted debris falling back to the earth. However, if you spent the same time without the people picking up our garbage, moving our freight, picking and growing our food, building our homes, fixing our infrastructure, teaching our children, and on and on, you’d have a literal worldwide apocalypse. We are the citizens of the future, not the people who have tied us into a system of infinite growth on a planet of finite space and complex, life-yielding ecosystems. Have a great weekend and remember the future.

Thursday

Blondie’s is the place to be tonight, as traveling glam rock troubadour Scott Yoder returns to Humco for a set that is guaranteed to be redolent of the golden space age of the 1970’s, the gender bending ground zero of one of the greatest movements in musical history. Local support comes from some of our very best kitsch and niche artists, with Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes and Lxs Perdidxs on hand at 7 p.m. ($8).

Friday

Attention all Weeners out there: The Stallions, Humboldt Country’s premier Ween tribute act, will be jamming at Humbrews tonight at 8 p.m. The band, joined by visiting member and pianist Aber Miller, will be playing the group’s White Pepper album in its entirety, along with some other choice nuggets from its large and chaotic discography ($10).

Saturday

Every so often, the conditions of our homeland create the perfect environment for an unusually excellent band to form and grow into a thing so lovely and special that its very nature prevents it from staying rooted to the soil from whose fecundity it sprang. Like a tumbleweed or a kaleidoscope of dandelion seeds, it takes to the winds and spreads its musical issue out into the larger world. Sometimes, though, those bands return to spawn for a night or two, and happily, one of my favorite of such acts is doing just such a thing tonight at the Miniplex at 8 p.m. Opossum Sun

Trail, whom you might recall most recently when I gave their last release a glowing review in these pages, are back in town, and if you want to hear psyche-western vistas from the outer Cerebellum Range, you must come through. Also playing is a new project called Myrtle Mountain, featuring members of Black Plate, September Rain and that rascally noise scamp Chini. There will also be a set by Berkeley’s futuristic synth-folk band Katsy Pline. Just $10 is a steal for this one, and I’d suggest getting in by 9 p.m. to secure a spot.

Sunday

Well, it seems the Miniplex is slapping it out of the park this weekend with shows featuring great talents from the beautiful frontiers of contemporary musical potential. Tonight’s 9 p.m. gig spotlights the incredible acoustic guitar playing of Sir Richard Bishop, a guitarist/composer of unusual talent, who first cut his teeth in the national eye working with the influential Sun City Girls. Winter Band is another fine act, featuring members of Six Organs of Admittance and Comets on Fire, while The Uncredible Phin Band had collected musicians who sit “above the salt” in our local music scene, including members of White Manna, CV, and Die Geister Beschwören ($15).

Since this is the long holiday weekend, I will mention another great show for the matinee crowd, just in case you have other plans for the evening. The Shanty is hosting a proper patio punk show, with local heroes Former Chimps and The Real D.T.s. As with Sunday Shanty shindigs in the past, this one hits the mark at 2 p.m.

and nothing is required to get you through the door beyond a birthday that is at least 21 years ago.

Monday, Labor Day

It’s Labor Day again, which means that the I Street Block party around the vicinity of Los Bagels and Wildwood Music is back at it again. And thank heavens for that because in these uncertain times, we could all use a little tradition to lean on. The tunes are free and kick off around noon. The lineup is as follows: Lizzy and the Moonbeams, Citizen Funk and Timbata. Go get it.

Tuesday

I am once again suggesting you make your way over to the Speakeasy to check out the jazz stylings on the Opera Alley Cats The music starts around 7 p.m., and the only cost associated with the entertainment is the social convention of buying a drink and tipping the band.

Wednesday

Amber Soul, a Penner family production rooted in well-played pop, will be playing at Redwood Acres starting at 5:30 p.m., where there will also be an assortment of food trucks and vendors. Admission is free, but bring some currency for the food and entertainment, if you so desire it and can spare it. l

Collin Yeo (he/him) is a working class son of working class people stretching back as far as the raven of the afterlife flies. He lives in Arcata.

Opossum Sun Trail plays the Miniplex at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2. Photo courtesy of the artists

Calendar Aug. 31 – Sep. 7, 2023

monthly topics. All orientations welcome. Pre-sale tickets only. $20-$40. earthbodypsychotherapy.com/ erotic-salon/.

First Friday Market Series. First Friday of every month, 4-7 p.m. Herb & Market Humboldt, 427 H St., Arcata. Music, food trucks, artisans and more. Must have a doctor’s recommendation or be over the age of 21 to enter. Free. Herbandmarket@gmail.com. (707) 630-4221.

Monthly Tarot Card Readings at HBSC. First Friday of every month, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Humboldt Bay Social Club, 900 New Navy Base Road, Samoa. Tarot card readings with Nina Fazio-Dean @The_wise_one_8. $15. humboldtbaysocialclub.com. (707) 502-8544.

This Labor Day, join the festivities at the 36th annual I Block Party taking place Monday, Sept. 4, from noon to 6 p.m. in front of Los Bagels in Arcata This fun-for-the-whole-family event is a benefit for Arcata’s sister city Camoapa, Nicaragua, where monies raised support education, clean water and humanitarian projects. The party includes live music by Lizzy and the Moonbeams, Citizen Funk and Timbata. There will be local beers and hard cider, as well as an albacore, chicken or tofu barbecued dinner, desserts, a kids’ area, a silent auction and raffle.

31 Thursday

ART

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.

July/August Art Show - Lynn Niekrasz. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Landscape paintings by Niekrasz are on display at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center. (707) 826-2359. Painting and Wine. 6-8 p.m. Libation Wine Bar & Store, 761 Eighth St., Arcata. Artist host: Erica Brooks. Price indudes a glass of wine and all supplies. Email fineartbyerica@gmail.com to reserve your spot. $40. fineartbyerica@gmail.com. fireartbyerica.com.

MUSIC

McKinleyville Community Choir Rehearsal. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Arcata Presbyterian Church, 670 11th St. The choir seeks new voices for its winter/holiday concerts. The only requirement is carrying a tune. For more information contact Clare Greene. ccgreene46@gmail.com. (831) 419- 3247.

FOOD

Henderson Center Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Henderson Center, Henderson near F Street, Eureka. Fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods, jam, plants and more. Music and hot food vendors. No pets are allowed, but trained, ADA certified, service animals are welcome. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/hendersoncenter. html. (707) 441-9999.

McKinleyville Farmers Market. 3-6 p.m. Eureka Natural Foods, McKinleyville, 2165 Central Ave. Fresh fruits and vegetables, hot cocoa and more. Music and hot food vendors. No pets are allowed, but trained, ADA certified, service animals are welcome. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org/mckinleyville.html. (707) 441-9999.

Willow Creek Farmers Market. 4-7 p.m. Veteran’s Park, 100 Kimtu Road, Willow Creek. Fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, artisans and more. Music and hot food

Ferndale Repertory Theater presents the third in its Summer Movie Series, with the musical The Wiz, starring Dianna Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne and Mabel King, among others, on Saturday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. ($10, $5 students/seniors). Grab some concessions and ease on down the aisle to take your seat for this reimagination of the L. Frank Baum classic, The Wizard of Oz, starring an African-American cast. You won’t be able to sit still for this one! Box office opens at 6:15 p.m., doors at 6:30 p.m.

Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice’s annual dinner event, Taste of the Cove, is this Saturday, Sept. 2, from 1 to 5 p.m. in Shelter Cove’s Mal Coombs Park ($35, $10 for ages 12 and under, free for kids under 5). Enjoy wild-caught fish donated by local fisher-folk, local farm-fresh vegetables and delicious homemade desserts. Locally produced beer and wine will be available. Live entertainment will be provided by the Sisters Terry and the Rolling Papers, Ray Bevitori and Friends, and Hill Honey and the Wildcats. There will be activities for kids and a 50/50 raffle at this family-friendly event.

OLLI Online: Let’s Connect. 10-11 a.m. Weekly chat via Zoom. Facilitated by Tracey Barnes-Priestley. Free. olli@humboldt.edu. extended.humboldt.edu/olli/ letsconnect. (707) 826-3731.

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.

vendors. No pets are allowed, but trained, ADA certified, service animals are welcome. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org/willowcreek.html. (707) 441-9999.

OUTDOORS

Nature Quest. 2-5 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. Wilderness immersion program for teens and adults. Explore trails and share mindfulness practices, group conversation and other eco-therapeutic activities. Adults meet Thursdays, teens meet one Saturday a month. Transportation provided for Eureka residents. Please pre-register. Free. swood2@eurekaca.gov. eurekaheroes.org. (707) 382-5338.

ETC

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.

1 Friday MOVIES

Midnight Movie: Freaks (1932). 11 p.m.-1:15 a.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show at 11 p.m. Movie at 11:59 p.m. Not rated. All ages. Cult-classics on the big screen. $8, $12 w/poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. facebook.com/events/254266820809885. (707) 613-3030.

THEATER

Pintauro: An Evening of One Acts. 8 p.m. North Coast Repertory Theatre, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. Hard-hitting topics that resonate deeply with the human experience. $20, $18 students/seniors. ncrt.net.

EVENTS

Friday Night Market. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Old Town, Eureka, 317 Third St. A bustling farmers market, arts and craft vendors, bar featuring Humboldt produced beverages, a variety of food vendors and live music for dancing on three stages. Free. humboldtmade.com/eureka-friday-night-market.

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.

FOOD

Bear River Tribal Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Bear River Family Entertainment Center, 263 Keisner Road, Loleta. Locally produced foods, handmade goods and crafts, massage, food trucks, bowling and arcade. bearriverfec.com.

Garberville Farmers Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Garberville Town Square, Church Street. Fresh produce, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers and more. Music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals are welcome. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org/garberville.html. (707) 441-9999.

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.

MEETINGS

Language Exchange Meetup. First Friday of every month, 5-7 p.m. Familia Coffee, 1350 Ninth St., Arcata. Speak your native language. Teach someone a language. Learn a language. familiacoffees.com. (925) 214-8099.

ETC

Erotic Salon. First Friday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Peaches & Pearls, 853 H Street, Arcata. Exploring healthy expression and being. Discuss, process and explore

2 Saturday ART

Arts Alive. First Saturday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Historic Old Town Eureka, Second Street. Art, and a heap of it, plus live music. All around Old Town and Downtown, Eureka. Free. eurekamainstreet.org. (707) 442-9054.

LECTURE

Fort Humboldt Historic Tour. 1 p.m. Fort Humboldt State Historic Park, 3431 Fort Ave., Eureka. Join interpreter William on an hour-long walking tour of the park. Meet at the flag pole next to the parking lot. Free.

MOVIES

Summer Movie Series. 7 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. The Wiz - Saturday, Sept. 2, Outbreak - Saturday, Sept. 23. Tickets available at the door. Box office opens at 6:15 p.m. Doors at 6:30 p.m. $10, $5 students/seniors. info@ferndalerep.org. ferndalerep.org. (707) 786-5483.

MUSIC

Live Music at Fieldbrook Winery. 1:30-4 p.m. Fieldbrook Winery, 4241 Fieldbrook Road. Outdoor weekend music series. Saturdays feature electric bands, Timbata playing today. Free admission. fieldbrookwinery.com.

THEATER

Pintauro: An Evening of One Acts. 8 p.m. North Coast Repertory Theatre, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Sep. 1 listing.

EVENTS

Fundraiser Garage Sale. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Soot Sprite Farms, 3040 Central Ave., McKinleyville. Browse a selection of items, clothes and more in a park-like setting where kids can play and pet rescue animals. Arts and crafts. Donation. sootspritefarm@gmail.com. facebook.com/sootspritefarm?mibextid=LQQJ4d. (310) 673-9000.

Living Doll Extravaganza. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Living Doll Vintage Boutique & Gallery, 226 F St., Eureka. Celebrate the boutique’s first anniversary and NCJ Best Vintage Store win with fashion shows at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m, a tarot card reader, massage therapist, reiki healer, musicians, fire dancer, belly dancer, art demos, live

Photo by Mark Larson

The Wiz

Submitted

mannequins, raffles, contests, giveaways and more. Free. livingdollfashions@gmail.com. (707) 498-0610. Makers’ Space Grand Opening. 9 a.m. Abbey of the Redwoods’ Sea Goat Farmstand, 1450 Hiller Road, Mckinleyville. Join Sea Goat Farmstand and Nature’s Mosaic for the grand opening of their new space. See their new workshop/community classroom, take a free mosaic class, enjoy food from Weparepa, veggies from the Sea Goat Farmstand, live music and a craft show pop up. Free. seagoatmakerspace@gmail.com. facebook.com/events/s/makers-space-grand-opening/297261536184082/?mibextid=RQdjqZ.

Taste of the Cove. 1-5 p.m. Mal Coombs Park, King Range National Conservation Area, Shelter Cove. Redwoods Community Hospice dinner event with a locally produced meal, desserts, beer and wine, and entertainment by Sisters Terry and the Rolling Papers, Ray Bevitori and Friends, and Hill Honey and the Wildcats. Plus, kids’ activities and a 50/50 raffle. $35, $10 for ages 12 and under, free for children under 5. hospice@asis.com. (707) 986-7276.

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, service animals are welcome. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org/arcataplaza.html. (707) 441-9999.

Farm Stand. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Table Bluff Farm, 101 Clough Road, Loleta. Regeneratively-grown seasonal veggies, flowers, meats and other items made by Humboldt County locals and small businesses. Cash, card, Venmo, Apple Pay and soon to accept EBT payments. info@tableblufffarm.com. TableBluffFarm.com. (707) 890-6699.

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

Old Town Gardening. 9-10:30 a.m. Eureka Visitor Center, 108 F St. Help beautify Old Town’s planters. Volunteers receive a free bagel breakfast by Los Bagels. Free. hatwood@eurekaca.gov. empowereureka.org/events/ new-time-old-town-gardening-2023-09-02-09-00. (707) 441-4218.

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

OUTDOORS

Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Bird Walk. 8:30-11 a.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I Street. Bring your binoculars and meet trip leader Dan Greaney at the end of South I Street (Klopp Lake) for easy-to-walk trails and an opportunity to view a diverse range of species. Free. www.rras.org.

FOAM Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I Street. Meet leader Paul Johnson in the lobby of the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute, rain-or-shine walk entitled “Bugs, frogs, galls, and other overlooked organisms of the Arcata Marsh.” Free. (707) 826-2359.

Moonstone Beach and Little River Coastal Cleanup and Habitat Restoration. 9:30 a.m.-noon. Moonstone Beach, Moonstone Beach Road, Westhaven. Tools and gloves provided, but registration is required. Email

or call to sign up. zoe@trinidadcoastallandtrust.org. (707) 677-2501.

SPORTS

Rohner Park Find-Your-Way 5K. 2-5 p.m. Rohner Park, 5 Park St., Fortuna. Enjoy the redwoods while following a map to find the checkpoints. Enjoy treats after you finish. The first of a Labor Day weekend series of four adventures. $10-$35. rex@terraloco.com. go-terraloco. blogspot.com/2023/06/0902-04-north-coast-go.html. (510) 681-6181.

ETC

Abbey of the Redwoods Flea Market. First Saturday of every month, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Grace Good Shepherd Church, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Local arts, products, goods. Free entry.

Old Town Eureka Tours. Noon-1:30 p.m. Clarke Historical Museum, Third and E streets, Eureka. A behindthe-scenes look at local history hosted by the Eureka Community Services Department. No registration required. clarkemuseum.org. (707) 441-4080.

3 Sunday

ART

Summer Concert Series and Art Market. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Different local bands and a market with 30 vendors, beer and wine for sale each week. Bring a blanket for a picnic, your dancing shoes and the kiddos for a day of fun. Free. arcatmainstreet@gmail.com. arcatamainstreet.com. (707) 822-4500.

MOVIES

The Goonies (1985). 5-8:30 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show at 5 p.m. Movie at 6 p.m. Rated PG. All ages. Cult-classics on the big screen. $8, $12 w/poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. facebook.com/ events/672695061549845. (707) 613-3030.

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

MUSIC

Live Music at Fieldbrook Winery. 1:30-4 p.m. Fieldbrook Winery, 4241 Fieldbrook Road. Sundays offer acoustic or semi-acoustic folk and American groups, or quieter jazz combos, today the Claire Bent Jazz Combo. See Sep. 2 listing.

Samba Drumming - All Levels. 4-6 p.m. D Street Neighborhood Center, 1301 D St., Arcata. Join and prepare for the annual North Country Fair. Drums and beginner-friendly instruction provided. Participation in the parade is not required. $5-$10 sliding. samba. arcata@gmail.com. sambadaalegria.org. (804) 409-4039.

HBG’s Summer Music Series. First Sunday of every month, 1-3 p.m. Humboldt Botanical Garden, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, College of the Redwoods campus, north entrance, Eureka. Catered by Stephanie’s Home Cooking with local beer and wine, or bring your own picnic lunch. Non-service dogs are not allowed. hbgf. org. (707) 442-5139.

THEATER

Pintauro: An Evening of One Acts. 2 p.m. North Coast Repertory Theatre, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Sep. 1 listing.

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CALENDAR

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EVENTS

Fundraiser Garage Sale. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Soot Sprite Farms, 3040 Central Ave., McKinleyville. See Sep. 2 listing.

Trinidad Artisans Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Trinidad, Downtown. Art, crafts, live music and barbecue. Next to Murphy’s Market.

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

Bring Your Dog to Brunch. 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Mother’s Cooking Experience, 650 Sixth St., Arcata. Join Hounds of Humboldt and Mother’s Cooking at this all-ages, dog-friendly fundraising event for Hounds of Humboldt’s future facility. Food, music, vendors. houndsofhumboldt@gmail.com. houndsofhumboldt. com/events. (209) 614-0108.

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.

Pancake Breakfast. 8-11 a.m. Freshwater Grange, 48 Grange Road. Breakfast in the spacious hall with buttermilk and whole grain pancakes, ham, sausages, scrambled eggs, homemade salsa and cheese, apple compote, orange juice, tea, and French roast coffee. Adults $10, children $7. freshwaterhall@gmail.com.

OUTDOORS

Clean the Sidewalk Day. First Sunday of every month, 9-11 a.m. Valley West Park, Hallen Drive, Arcata. Help pick up non-hazardous items left behind. Meet at the park entrance. Instructions and supplies at the check-in table. gmartin@cityofarcata.org. cityofarcata.org.

SPORTS

Old Town Eureka Find-Your-Way 5K. 3-5:30 p.m. Old Town Gazebo, Second and F streets, Eureka. Discover the quirks and wonders of Old Town Eureka, its parks, views, decor and history in a 5k challenge where you find up to 30 checkpoints. Teams of one to five will use a map to navigate from checkpoint to checkpoint, answering questions at each. Refreshments and socializing at the finish. $10-$35. rex@terraloco.com. go-terraloco. blogspot.com/2023/06/0902-04-north-coast-go.html. (510) 681-6181.

Sequoia Park Find-Your-Way 5K. 9 a.m.-noon. Sequoia Park, 3414 W St., Eureka. Enjoy the ancient redwoods as you follow a map to find the checkpoints. Enjoy treats after you finish. The second of a Labor Day weekend series of four adventures. $10-$35. rex@terraloco.com. go-terraloco.blogspot.com/2023/06/0902-04-northcoast-go.html. (510) 681-6181.

ETC

Humboldt Flea Market. First Sunday of every month, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. New location. Browse antiques, collectibles, tools, records, clothes, crafts, pies, jams and more. $2, free for kids under 13.

4 Monday EVENTS

I Block Party. Noon-6 p.m. Los Bagels, Arcata, 1085 I St. Family-friendly event to benefit Arcata’s sister

city Camoapa, Nicaragua. Live music by Lizzy and the Moonbeams, Citizen Funk and Timbata. Local beers, hard cider, albacore, chicken/tofu barbecued dinner, desserts, a kids’ area, a silent auction and raffle. Free admission. sistercityproject1986@gmail.com. facebook. com/events/1054662165518143. (530) 318-3705.

FOOD

Miranda Farmers Market. 2-6 p.m. Miranda Market, 6685 Avenue of the Giants. Fresh fruits and vegetables, plant starts, flowers and more. No pets are allowed, but trained, ADA certified, service animals are welcome. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation. org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/miranda.html. (707) 441-9999.

MEETINGS

Entrepreneur’s Club of Arcata. First Monday of every month, 4-5 p.m. Arcata Main Street, 761 Eighth St. C. Share your ideas. Learn business skills. Network. Open to all. Free. (925) 214-8099.

OUTDOORS

FOAM Special Marsh Tour w/Paul Johnson Redux. 9:30 a.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I Street. A Labor Day holiday redux of Paul Johnson’s “Bugs, frogs, galls, and other overlooked organisms of the Arcata Marsh” tour. Meet in front of the Interpretive Center. Free. (707) 826-2359.

SPORTS

Go Wild! Arcata Community Forest Two-Hour Scramble. 9 a.m.-noon. Redwood Park, top of 14th Street, Arcata. Enjoy a trail and wilderness scramble among the redwoods. Teams of one to five find up to 20 checkpoints along the trails and in the wilds. Socializing and refreshments at the finish. The fourth of a Labor Day weekend series of four adventures. $10-$35. rex@terraloco.com. go-terraloco.blogspot.com/2023/06/090204-north-coast-go.html. (510) 681-6181.

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 Sep. 1 listing.

5 Tuesday

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 in the Lobby Bar. Movie titles are listed online. Free. humboldtbaysocialclub.com/our-events. (707) 502-8544.

MUSIC

First Tuesday of the Month Sing-Along. First Tuesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Join Joel Sonenshein as he leads a sing-along of your favorite folk, rock, and pop songs of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Songbooks are provided. Just bring your voice. $3. (707) 407-6496.

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

Tacos and Art Night at the Sanctuary. 6-9 p.m. The Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata. Potluck tacos from 6 to 7:30 p.m. We’ll make fresh tortillas, you bring a taco topping (or donation), share a meal and everybody cleans up. Art from 7 p.m. Bring a project or join one, supplies provided. $5-$10. together@sanctuaryarcata. org. sanctuaryarcata.org.

FOR KIDS

Look Closer and Make Connections. First Tuesday of every month, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Natural History Museum of Cal Poly Humboldt, 1242 G St., Arcata. Explore new exhibits and activities, including marine science, a bear, discovery boxes, microscopes, puzzles, scavenger hunts and more. Tuesday through Friday. $3 youth, $6 adult, $15 family, free for members. natmus@humboldt.edu. humboldt.edu/natmus. (707) 826-4480.

FOOD

Fortuna Farmers Market. 3-6 p.m. 10th and Main streets, Fortuna. Fresh produce, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers and more. Music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals are welcome. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation. org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/fortuna.html. (707) 441-9999.

Old Town Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Old Town Gazebo, Second and F streets, Eureka. Fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods, jam, crafts and more. Live music. Trained, ADA-certified service animals only. CalFresh EBT customers are able to receive a market match at every farmers market. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation. org/oldtown.html. (707) 441-9999.

Shelter Cove Farmers Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Mario’s Marina Bar, 533 Machi Road, Shelter Cove. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, flowers and more. No pets are allowed, but trained, ADA certified, service animals are welcome. Free. info@northcoastgrowersassociation. org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/sheltercove. html. (707) 441-9999.

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.

Monthly Meeting VFW Post 1872. First Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m. Redwood Empire VFW Post 1872, 1018 H St., Eureka. Calling all combat veterans and all veterans eligible for membership in Veterans of Foreign Wars to meet comrades and learn about events in the renovated Memorial Building. Free. PearceHansen999@ outlook.com. (707) 443-5331.

OUTDOORS

Birding by Bike. 6-7:30 p.m. Arcata Bottoms V Street Loop, 3711-3001 Old Samoa Road. Join trip leader Janelle Chojnacki for another round of bikes, birds and brews. Meet across the street on the sidewalk in front of the North Coast Co-Op to ride around Arcata’s V Street Loop. The ride will be smooth and slow. Free. rras.org.

FOAM Special Marsh Tour w/Renshin Bunce and Elliott Dabill. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I Street. “Wastewater treatment and its resulting freshwater diversity” tour, co-led by Renshin Bunce and Elliott Dabill. Meet in front of the Interpretive Center. Free. (707) 826-2359.

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 Aug. 31 listing.

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Art Club. First Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Redwood Retro, 211 G St., Eureka. Come for the conversation and bring your own project or get materials and instruction for an additional fee. Sign up and this month’s project online. $22. stainedghost.com.

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

Mosaic Workshop. 5:30 p.m. Humboldt Cider Company - Cider Garden, 3750 Harris St., Eureka. Make a mosaic heart rock or jewelry set. Everything is provided. Email to reserve your spot. $40, includes drink voucher. naturesmosaic@gmail.com. naturesmosaic.wixsite.com/mosaic.

MOVIES

Sci-Fi Night: The Fifth Element (1996). 6-9 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show at 6 p.m. Raffle at 7 p.m. Main feature at 7:05 p.m. PG-13. All ages. $5 admission, $9 w/poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. facebook.com/events/1183082812648542. (707) 613-3030.

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 Sep. 1 listing.

OUTDOORS

FOAM Special Marsh Tour w/Elliott Dabill. 5:30 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I Street. “Learning about eight important plant families, Part 1” tour with Elliott Dabill. Meet in front of the Interpretive Center. Free. (707) 826-2359.

ETC

Tabata. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Virtual World, Online. See Sep. 1 listing.

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Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See Aug. 31 listing.

MUSIC

McKinleyville Community Choir Rehearsal. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Arcata Presbyterian Church, 670 11th St. See Aug. 31 listing.

EVENTS

Cruz’n Eureka Car and Motorcycle Show. 6 p.m. Historic Old Town Eureka, Second Street. A benefit for Boys & Girls Club of the Redwoods that features a poker

run, barbecue, cruise through Old Town, car show and street fair. Free to watch, registration varies. office@ bgcredwoods.org. bgcredwoods.org/cruz-n-eureka. (707) 441-1030, ext. 200.

FOOD

Henderson Center Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Henderson Center, Henderson near F Street, Eureka. See Aug. 31 listing.

McKinleyville Farmers Market. 3-6 p.m. Eureka Natural Foods, McKinleyville, 2165 Central Ave. See Aug. 31 listing.

OUTDOORS

Nature Quest. 2-5 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. See Aug. 31 listing.

ETC

Restorative Movement. 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 2-3 p.m. Virtual World, Online. See Aug. 31 listing.

Heads Up …

Brenda Tuxford Gallery and Ink People Center for the Arts announce a call for artists to participate in a new exhibition, “The Cycle: Perspectives on Intimate Partner and Family Violence.” Submissions deadline: Sept. 15 at 11:59 p.m. Apply at inkpeopleinc.submittable.com/submit. For more information, contact gallery@inkpeople. org or call (707) 442-8413.

Fieldbrook Art & Wine Festival, happening Sept. 23, is currently accepting vendor applications. Contact Fieldbrook School’s front office at (707) 839-3201.

Annual Junque Arte call for entries: Submit works on Sept. 13 from noon to 5 p.m. at Morris Graves Museum of Art. Art works must be made of 100 percent recycled materials. Review entry guidelines at the museum or at humboldtarts.org.

Access Humboldt is looking for new board members to start in October. Board meetings are scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Contact info@accesshumboldt.net for more information on the application and process.

Area 1 Agency on Aging seeks volunteers to help with rides to medical appointments, educate and assist people to make informed decisions about Medicare options, advocate for residents in nursing homes, assist with matching home providers and home seekers, or teach technology training to older adults. Apply at a1aa. org/volunteer-interest-form/.

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. l

Gran Turismo’s Sponsored Race

By John J. Bennett screens@northcoastjournal.com

GRAN TURISMO. How does one approach a project such as this one, for all intents and purposes a feature length advertisement for the Gran Turismo game (sorry, simulator) franchise, Playstation/ Sony and Nissan, without the cynicism immediately engendered by such shilling? With great difficulty and trepidation, would be my answer.

On the other side of the ledger, I have been a casual appreciator of professional motorsport most of my life and, in adulthood, a participant in some decidedly amateur racing. More salient to this conversation, I’ve always enjoyed watching cars go fast on screen. I find the technical and artistic challenges of rendering that speed among the most fascinating in the world of cinema, at least in part because they are so rarely met with new, successful ways of thinking. Further, only a handful of movies have set out to honestly examine the inner lives of racing drivers, the focus and resiliency required to forsake so much else in service of repeatedly climbing into a machine and making it go fast enough to kill yourself and others.

And so, despite my reservations about the above-the-line corporatization of an undertaking like Gran Turismo, I was still excited to see it. This in no small part because it represents a return to features for director Neill Blomkamp who, after his splashy debut with District 9 in 2009, went on to make a pair of unfairly maligned, beautifully crafted, deceptively insightful science-action thrillers about artificial intelligence, eugenics and economic disparity (Elysium, 2013; Chappie, 2015). Since then, Blomkamp seems to have gone into some sort of director’s jail, whether of his own making or the industry’s. The commercial and critical success of District 9 may have been as much curse as blessing for the young director, allowing him access to the resources to produce even more thoughtful work when audiences and financiers likely wanted more of the same. Regardless, Blomkamp’s CV for the intervening decade or so consists mostly of video game and short subject work. I was excited to see his name attached to a large-scale production that might provide opportunities for him to stretch out visu-

ally, maybe even explore some ideas.

It did not occur to me until midway through Gran Turismo how appropriate, if unlikely, a director he is for a project like this: a defense of simulation technology as proving ground for top-tier racing drivers.

Some background is probably in order. As title cards repeatedly inform us, the movie is based on a true story which, actually, is set within another true story. The initial impetus comes from Kazunori Yamauchi, a game developer who, under the aegis of Polyphony Digital, set out to create the world’s foremost (and most accessible) auto racing simulator. This was some 30 years ago now, and the process took half a decade, yielding the first in a genre-defining series of games for the Playstation console.

Gran Turismo, the game, was and is vaunted for its absolute adherence to real-world physics, loving re-creation of race cars (including their sounds) and meticulous mapping of the world’s most renowned racetracks. Because I am not and have never been a true gamer, my beef with it has always lain in the fact that a game controller cannot replicate the inputs and feedback of a car’s actual controls. I long balked at the notion of Gran Turismo, in spite of its sterling technical accuracy, serving as a real racing simulator.

As in all things, the technology of gaming long since passed me by: In the 21st century, real sim-racers (I don’t like the phrase but it has become canonical) have seats and pedal assemblies and steering wheels eerily similar to those found in (sotto voce) real race cars. And just as the player interface has evolved, so have the game’s engines and the developers’ access; the simulation approaches reality.

At some point, a Nissan marketing wonk named Danny Moore (Orlando Bloom) got hip to the motorsport singularity and pitched the bosses on a real-life racing academy to be attended by the most elite sim-racers in the world. Perhaps because Nissan, especially in their motorsport division, is as technology-obsessed a manufacturer as any, the project got a green light. Moore would go on to conscript a one-time top-level driver named Jack Salter (David Harbour) as chief

engineer, set up a GT competition and fill the freshman class of GT academy with a bunch of kids who, by and large, had never driven on a racetrack (IRL).

Foremost among those kids, our protagonist Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe), an earnest would-be champion from a working-class family in Cardi . Not to give anything away, Jann makes believers of the skeptics, Salter perhaps foremost among them, but not without facing a few dark nights of the racing driver’s soul.

Blomkamp brings his fascination with technology very much into focus here and, as much as I may have preferred a di erent approach, I think it suits the subject matter almost perfectly. The end result might be a little too refined, too bloodless, lacking some of the sweat and desperation of racing as I have known it, but it is a competent and e ective piece of advertising — sorry, entertainment — nonetheless. PG13. 135M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK. ●

John J. Bennett (he/him) is a movie nerd who loves a good car chase.

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ELEMENTAL. Animated adventure about a city of fire, water, earth and air elements. Voiced by Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie and Catherine O’Hara. PG. 93M. BROADWAY.

THE HILL. Baseball biopic starring Dennis Quaid and Colin Ford. PG. 126M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.

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THE MEG 2: THE TRENCH. Jason Statham and Jing Wu fight another prehistorically ridiculous shark. PG13. 116M. BROADWAY.

OPPENHEIMER. Christopher Nolan’s biopic about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. R. 180M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK, MINOR.

RETRIBUTION. Liam Neeson stars a bank executive trying not to get blown up with his kids by a criminal mastermind. R. 90M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK. STRAYS. An abandoned dog falls in with a gang of tough pooches in this talking-pet comedy voiced by Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx and Isla Fisher. R. 93M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.

TALK TO ME. Aussie teens commune with spirits via an embalmed forearm handshake and things get … out of hand. R. 95M. BROADWAY.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM. The crime-fighting brothers emerge from New York City’s sewers for an animated adventure. PG. 99M. BROADWAY, MILL CREEK.

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Notice is hereby given that on August 21, 2023 the City Council of the City of Fortuna adopted the following ordinance: ORDINANCE 2023-760

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORTUNA ADDING CHAPTER 12.26 TO TITLE 11 OF THE FORTUNA MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROVIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THE BIKE AND SKATE PARKS LOCATED AT NEWBURG PARK

The purpose and intent of this ordinance is to make available safe and affordable recreational opportunities for youth within the City, including skating and/or bicycle parks; the City currently operates a bicycle park at Newburg Park and intends to create additional facilities; pursuant to Section 115800 of the California Health and Safety Code, the City Council adopts this ordinance to require that any person using such facilities wear a properly fitted and fastened helmet, kneepads, and elbow pads for their protection.

Copies of the full Ordinance are available for public inspection and review in the office of the City Clerk at 621 11th Street, Fortuna, California.

This notice is given in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California. This section allows a summary of the Ordinance to be printed.

Ashley Chambers

Deputy City Clerk

default CITY OF FORTUNA

NOTICE OF ADOPTION

Posted: 08/23/2023

Notice is hereby given that on August 21, 2023 the City Council of the City of Fortuna adopted the following ordinance:

ORDINANCE 2023-763

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORTUNA, CALIFORNIA AMENDING TITLE 8 – HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE FORTUNA MUNICIPAL CODE BY CHAPER 8.26 – ABANDONED SHOPPING CARTS AND DETERMING THE ORIDINANCE TO BE EXEMPT FROM CEQA

The purpose and intent of this ordinance is to promote public health, safety, and welfare of its residents, visitors, and businesses, and the aesthetic qualities of the City; and abandoned or unattended shopping carts off the premises of retail establishments can interfere with pedestrian and vehicle traffic and the use of public streets, sidewalks, public areas, and public rights-of-way; can constitute a hazard to streams, riparian areas, and other natural areas; can contribute substantially to litter, clutter, and visual blight; and can reduce property values; and pursuant to its broad police powers, the City Council desires to adopt regulations to ensure that measures are taken by the owners of shopping carts to prevent the removal of the cart a violation of the Fortuna Municipal Code, and to facilitate the retrieval of abandoned shopping carts in a manner consistent with State law;

Copies of the full Ordinance are available for public inspection and review in the office of the City Clerk at 621 11th Street, Fortuna, California. This notice is given in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California. This section allows a summary of the Ordinance to be printed.

Ashley Chambers Deputy City Clerk

PROPERTY TAX DEFAULT (DELINQUENT) LIST

I, Amy Christensen, Humboldt County Tax Collector, State of California, certify that:

The real properties listed below were declared to be in tax default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2020, by operation of law pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code §3436. The declaration of default was due to nonpayment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments, and other charges levied in fiscal year 2019-2020 that were a lien on the listed real property.

Tax-defaulted real property may be redeemed by payment of all unpaid taxes and assessments, together with the additional penalties and fees, as prescribed by law, or it may be redeemed under an installment plan of redemption. The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of September 2023, is shown opposite the parcel number and next to the name of the assessee.

All information concerning redemption of tax-defaulted property will be furnished, upon request, by Amy Christensen 825 5th St Room 125 Eureka, CA 95501. (707)476-2450.

PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION

The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the assessor’s office.

PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED ON JULY 1, 2020, FOR THE TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER CHARGES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020.

I certify or (declare), under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct.

Christensen

Collector

NOTICEOFPETITIONTO ADMINISTERESTATEOF ANDREWJAMESKITNA CASENO.PR2300232

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors, contingentcreditorsandpersons whomayotherwisebeinterestedin thewillorestate,orboth,of ANDREWJAMESKITNA,ANDREWJ. KITNA,ANDREWKITNA,AND ANDYKITNA APETITIONFORPROBATEhasbeen filedbyPetitionerEDNAR.KITNA

Thepetitionforprobaterequests thatEDWARDR.KITNA beappointedaspersonalrepresen− tativetoadministertheestateof thedecedent.

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

AHEARINGonthepetitionwillbe heldonAugust31,2023at1:31p.m. attheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia, CountyofHumboldt,825Fifth Street,Eureka,inDept.:#4Room:#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: DanielE.Cooper 611IStreet,SuiteA

interestedintheestate,youmay

filingofaninventoryandappraisal ofestateassetsorofanypetition oraccountasprovidedinProbate Codesection1250.ARequestfor SpecialNoticeformisavailable fromthecourtclerk.

Attorneyforpetitioner: DanielE.Cooper 611IStreet,SuiteA Eureka,CA95501

(707)443−8011

Filed:August4,2023

SUPERIORCOURTOFCALIFORNIA COUNTYOFHUMBOLDT

NOTICEOFPUBLICSALEOF LIENEDPROPERTY

Noticeisherebygiventhatthe undersignedintendstosellthe propertydescribedbelowto enforcealienonthesaidproperty pursuanttosections21700−21716of thebusinessandprofessionscode, section2328oftheUCCsection535 ofthePenalCodeandprovisionof theCivilCode.Theundersignedwill sellbycompetitivebidatbid13.com endingSeptember8th,2023,at 12:00pm.Onlinebiddingonly.

willbedetermined.Thepremises wherethesaidpropertyhasbeen storedandwhichislocatedatLock BoxStorage2031EichRoadEureka, CA,CountyofHumboldt.

AdamEllis123

AimeeKilgore230

YolandaSalas233

ChristopherBayne238

TheresaKegan255

HeatherPetersen355

WilliamVallotton433

KatherineKalas648

DanielLangevin723

KatherynWatson871

BADWOLFDESIGNS

Humboldt 3154CherylLane Fortuna,CA95540

LindseyDBeauchaine 3154CherylLane Fortuna,CA95540

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

McKinleyville,CA95519

JeremyJDuncan 1031AdkinsRd McKinleyville,CA95519

aboveonJanuary1,2017

Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto

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

/sGlynneDuncan,Co−Owner

Itemstobesoldinclude,butare notlimitedto:

AssortedBoxes,Bags,andTotes, Electronics,Furniture,Houseware, Clothing,andPowertools

Saleissubjecttocancellationinthe eventofasettlementbetweenthe ownerandobligatedparty.Please refertowww.StorageAuctions.com forallothertermsandconditions governingthebiddingandauction process.

Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonDecember2020 Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

8/17,8/24,8/31/2023(23−291) default

/sLindseyBeauchaine,Owner

ThisJuly31,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES byjc,HumboldtCountyClerk

8/10,8/17,8/24,8/31/2023(23−283)

8/31,9/7/2023(23−307)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00418

Wheresaidpropertyhasbeen storedandwhichislocatedat,1400 GlendaleDrive,McKinleyville,CA 95519thefollowing:

−#049JosephBarclay

−#298JohnathanRobinette

−#091JamesHutchins/Megan

Llewellyn

−#077JamesHutchins/Megan

Llewellyn

−#377JoshuaFranckiewicz

Itemstobeauctionedwhichmay includebutarenotlimitedtoare bins,householditems,toolsetc. Purchasesmustbepaidatthetime ofsale.Cashonly.Allpurchases soldas−is,whereis,andmustbe removedwithin48hoursofthe timeofsale.Saleissubjectto cancellationintheeventofsettle− mentbetweentheownerandthe obligatedparty.

ONLINEAUCTIONONLYAuction: bid13.com

Phone888−992−4313

8/24,8/31/2023(23−300)

PublicSale

NOTICEISHERBYGIVENthatthe undersignedintendstosellthe personalpropertydescribedbelow toenforcealienimposedonsaid propertypursuanttoSections 21700−21716oftheBusiness& ProfessionsCode,Section2328of UCC,Sections535ofthePenal Codeandprovisionsofthecivil Code.

Theundersignedwillsellatan onlineauctionat www.StorageAuctions.combidding willbeginonThursdaythe14thof September2023,at12:00pm,and willcloseatorafter12:00pmon ThursdaySeptember21st,at12:00 pm,atwhichtimetheauctionwill becompletedandthehighbidder willbedetermined.Thepremises wherethesaidpropertyhasbeen storedandwhichislocatedatLock BoxStorage2031EichRoadEureka, CA,CountyofHumboldt.

AdamEllis123

AimeeKilgore230

YolandaSalas233

ChristopherBayne238

TheresaKegan255

HeatherPetersen355

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas TLLANDRESOURCECOMPANY

Humboldt

2159MapleCreekRd Korbel,CA95550

73East13thSt Arcata,CA95521

MargaretETauzer 73East13thSt Arcata,CA95521

JoseEChavarria 73East13thSt Arcata,CA95521

RyleyETauzer 73East13thSt Arcata,CA95521

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

/sRyleyTauzer,Partner

ThisJune30,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk 8/10,8/17,8/24,8/31/2023(23−290)

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23-00471

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas

BADWOLFDESIGNS

Humboldt 3154CherylLane Fortuna,CA95540

LindseyDBeauchaine 3154CherylLane Fortuna,CA95540

Thebusinessisconductedbyan Individual.

FICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENT23−00472

ThefollowingpersonisdoingBusi− nessas BIGFOOTCOUNTRYLAWNCARE PLUS

Humboldt 1031AdkinsRd McKinleyville,CA95519

GlynneEDuncan 1031AdkinsRd McKinleyville,CA95519

default

JeremyJDuncan 1031AdkinsRd McKinleyville,CA95519

Thebusinessisconductedbya GeneralPartnership. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonJanuary1,2017 Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

LEGALS?

Thebusinessisconductedbya GeneralPartnership. Thedateregistrantcommencedto transactbusinessundertheficti− tiousbusinessnameornamelisted aboveonJanuary1,2017 Ideclarethatallinformationinthis statementistrueandcorrect. Aregistrantwhodeclaresastrue anymaterialmatterpursuantto Section17913oftheBusinessand ProfessionsCodethattheregis− trantknowstobefalseisguiltyofa misdemeanorpunishablebyafine nottoexceedonethousanddollars ($1,000).

/sGlynneDuncan,Co−Owner

ThisJuly31,2023

442-1400 × 314 classified@north coastjournal.com

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

8/10,8/17,8/24,8/31/2023(23−288)

ThisJuly31,2023

JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk

8/10,8/17,8/24,8/31/2023(23−288)

County Public Notices

Fictitious Business

Petition to Administer Estate Trustee Sale

Other Public Notices

PUBLIC NOTICE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Housing Authority of the County of Humboldt has developed it’s Agency Plan in compliance with the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998. A copy of the Agency Plan is available for review at www.eurekahumboldtha.org or by request. A public hearing for the purpose of receiving comments will be held on September 19, 2023 at 2:00pm via Zoom. The Housing Authority will receive comments starting August 10, 2023 to the close of business, September 21, 2023. To request the Agency Plan and obtain zoom meeting information, please call (707) 443-4583 ext 219. The Housing Authority hours of operation are 9:00am – 4:30pm, Monday – Friday, alternating every other Friday an off day.

Briceland Community Services District Water Systems Improvement Project

Briceland Community Services District 1 Miller Creek Road Garberville, Humboldt, CA 95542

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

The Briceland Community Services District. (BCSD) is currently advertising for contractor bids regarding its “Water Systems Improvement Project”.

Bids will be received electronically until 2:00 PM, September 13, 2023 PDT. Bid proposals shall be submitted electronically on the forms contained in the Contract Documents and shall be included as attachment(s) to an email with the subject line “Bid Proposal for BCSD Water Systems Improvement Project” to BCSD care of GHD Inc. at natesanger@yahoo.com. The email shall also contain the name of the Bidder, their address, license number, and California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) registration number. BCSD shall provide a response email receipt from GHD Inc. to the Contractor showing the date and time the submission was received. Bids received after the time specified for opening will not be considered. The Bidder is solely responsible for timely delivery of their bid. All potential bidder questions must be submitted by 5:00 PM, September 6, 2023, PDT. Questions received after 5:00 PM, September 6, 2023, PDT, will not be responded to prior to the bid opening.

/sGlynneDuncan,Co−Owner

Parties interested in attending the bid opening conference call must submit a request via email to natesanger@ yahoo.com with the subject line “Request for Invitation to BCSD Water Systems Improvement Project” by 10:00 AM, September 13, 2023, PDT, and respond to the invitation that will be sent via email from GHD Inc.

ThisJuly31,2023 JUANP.CERVANTES bysc,HumboldtCountyClerk 8/10,8/17,8/24,8/31/2023(23−288)

A nonmandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held to familiarize potential Bidders with the project and is scheduled for 10:00 AM, August 30, 2023 meet at the Beginnings Community Center parking lot at 5 Cemetery Road, Redway, CA, 95560.

The Work associated with this project will consist of, but is not limited to, the furnishing of all labor, material, equipment, testing, and supervision for the installation of (1) 40K gallon concrete treated water storage tank, (4) 10k gallon HDPE raw water storage tanks, (1) fire hydrant, yard piping, site grading.

The Contract Documents are currently available and may be examined at the following locations:

• Humboldt Builders Exchange, Eureka

• North Coast Builders Exchange, Santa Rosa

• Shasta Builders Exchange, Redding

• Medford Builders Exchange, Medford

Contractors may obtain an electronic copy of the Contract Documents for no cost by emailing natesanger@yahoo. com and requesting the “BCSD Water Systems Improvement Project”. Contractors are encouraged to carefully read the “Information for Bidders” section in the Contract Documents.

The general prevailing wage rates applicable to the Work are set by the State Director of DIR State of California under Labor Code Section 1771.4. The Contractor will be required to comply with any changes in these wage rates as they are updated by the State government at no cost to the Owner. Prevailing rates are available online at http:// www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR

Chestine

Anderson

Secretary/Treasurer Board of Directors

Briceland Community Services District

To Run is Human

By Barry Evans fieldnotes@northcoastjournal.com

“In the ancient Olympics, nobody competed with shoes, you would run barefoot.”

Barefoot and bare-assed long distance runners on an ancient Greek amphora as depicted in Norman E. Gardiner’s 1910 Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

Image via Ricky Bennison, Creative Commons

— Daniel Lieberman, evolutionary biologist

Forget the invention of sex, fire, toolmaking, language, agriculture. The real turning point in the fourbillion-year saga from the origin of life on Earth to bacon-flavored dental floss occurred 7 million years ago, a blink of a geological eye. That’s when we split off from the chimpanzee lineage and became fully bipedal. Walking on two legs, the most natural of human activities (other than checking our Facebook likes) was born when the African rainforests started to disappear in response to massive climate change. Instead of the rich dining opportunities presented by a fertile and fecund forest, our ancestors were born into a woodland in which food was more limited and more scattered; to survive, you had to roam farther afield.

In this environment, the ability to walk upright, rather than knuckle-walk (like chimps) was an adaptive advantage just waiting to happen. Not only is knuckle-walking slower than upright walking, but it’s an expensive way to get around: Pound for pound, it’s about twice as energy-draining as walking upright. Chimps, of course, are much better at climbing trees, thanks to their long arms, but much worse at getting from point A to point B on the ground. So natural selection promoted this new upright species, given the cumbersome name Sahelanthropus tchadensis by anthropologists.

That’s walking. How about running? That had to wait another 5 million years, when another climate shift morphed our ancestors’ African home from woodland to savannah grasslands, bringing with it a change of diet. Formerly, they were mostly vegetarians — fruit, nuts and tubers — with the occasional scavenged animal carcass to add to the mix. But now our forebears had to find another food source: animals. The picture painted by anthropologists is confused and controversial, but most believe that, with the disappearance of woodland, early hominids adapted to

running. Here’s what they do agree upon: Our ancestors ran slower than most of the prey they hunted but, critically, they could outlast them. Chasing animals to exhaustion, they were able to finish them off them with rocks or clubs and nourish themselves on nutrient-rich protein.

One key finding from 2 million-yearold fossil evidence is the discovery of skeletons wonderfully adapted to running, including arched (“springy”) feet, short toes (unlike 3 million-year-old “Lucy”), and a big butt. The latter — formally our gluteus maximus (which leaves a scar on a fossilized pelvis) is the muscle that stabilizes our upper body, especially when we run. We went from walkers to runners.

Shoes, of course, came later. Evolutionist Daniel Lieberman, quoted above, has made a study of what the invention of shoes, perhaps 40,000 years ago, has cost us. “When you wear shoes, you lose a lot of [sensory] information,” he said in an interview for Discover magazine. “People who are barefoot tend to have really healthy feet in terms of strength. … In the barefoot populations we study, almost nobody has flat feet.” Unlike about one-third of Americans.

Lieberman, “the barefoot professor,” walks his talk — actually, runs his talk, having competed in the Boston Marathon 11 times either barefoot or in minimal footwear. He was featured in Chris McDougall’s bestseller Born to Run, the book that brought the long-distance running abilities of Mexico’s Copper Canyon Tarahumara tribe to the attention of the world. These Indigenous people, wearing no or minimal shoes, land on their forefoot, a technique that maximizes running efficiency.

For the first time in our evolutionary history, we humans aren’t routinely walking and running. Between automobiles, deskbound jobs and social media, we’ve gone from active to sedentary in the space of a generation or two. Makes you wonder what kids’ feet will be like 100 years from now. l

Barry Evans (he/him, barryevans9@ yahoo.com) plans to keep up his 10K steps per day as long as he can. Wearing runners.

by David Levinson Wilk

CUE THE MUSIC

ACROSS

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5. J. Edgar Hoover Building org.

11. Milk carton amts.

14. ____ fide

15. Drove

16. One-eighty

17. *It has a stem and a black head

19. NAACP co-founder

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21. Soft mineral powder

22. Super uptight

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32. Bygone Mach 1 breaker, in brief

33. Inclusive acronym that was

nominated for the American Dialect Society’s 2020

Word of the Year

35. Jury ____

36. *2022 Oscar winner for the documentary “Summer of Soul”

38. NSFW stuff

40. Virtual greeting

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53. Mandatory college courses, in brief 56. Dispensary fill 57. Do more than

nudge

58. Instruction to start playing ... or a phonetic hint to the starred clues

60. Inc., in France

61. #49 on the periodic table

62. Wrestler/actor John

63. Fabric measures: Abbr.

64. Uses a Zoom alternative

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2. Adams and Alcott

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4. Artist nicknamed the “Pope of Pop”

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volcano

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10. Suffix with ox- or chlor-

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12. How current events may happen?

13. Some mattresses

18. “____ the season to be jolly ...”

22. Bicker

24. Falco with four Emmys

26. A 2009 Los Angeles Times crossword clue for this answer was “Available from Netflix, say” (haha!)

29. Semicircular church area

30. Make a mess of

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34. Dressed (in)

36. *”Bohemian Rhapsody” band

37. Air France hub

38. Raisin brand 39. They’re not real

41. Applied incorrectly

42. Word at the center of a mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields

43. MRI alternative

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Redwood Coast Regional Center

Be a part of a great team!

LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Redwood Community Action Agency is hiring!

YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU

• Case Worker I F/T $18.00/hr.

• Raven Project Coordinator F/T $22-$24/hr.

• Supportive Services Specialist P/T $17.00/hr.

COMMUNITY SERVICES DIVISION

Join the Southern Humboldt Joint Unified School District team!

We have the following jobs available at our School District:

Behavioral Counselor

Instructional Assistant

Teacher, Art & Music

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• Case Worker I / HHAP-APS F/T $18.00/hr.

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

• Program Manager, fulltime Salary/exempt $64,480 annual ($31/hr. equivalent)

• Weatherization Field Crew F/T $18.00/hr. Req’s CDL

Go to www.rcaa.org/employmentopportunities for a complete job description & req’d application. All F/T positions have health benefits. We still require proof COVID Vaccination. EOE

Teacher, Resource Specialist

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PROJECT MANAGER – ENGINEERING

$5,833 - $7,090/Month

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$5,000 paid upon hire and $5,000 paid upon successful completion of probationary period. Plus excellent benefits including free family Zoo membership, free family Adorni Center membership, free enrollment at Little Saplings Preschool for employee children and more!

The City is currently hiring to fill two (2) full-time vacancies for this position in the Engineering Division of the Public Works Department. Under general direction, this position provides administrative, program, budgetary, grant, purchasing, training and work-flow support and project management; analyzes departmental practices and procedures and makes recommendations for organizational, operational, policy and procedural improvements; develops, summarizes and maintains administrative and fiscal records; directs, oversees and manages cultural, environmental, grant, and other programs, and performs related administrative support functions. Desirable qualifications include a combination of training and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Business or Public Administration, Engineering, or a closely related field. For more information and to see the full job description, visit our website at www.eurekaca.gov. We will be accepting online applications only until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 5th, 2023. EOE

THE CITY OF RIO DELL Is now applicationsaccepting for WASTEWATER SUPERINTENDENT

$68,059/yr. - $82,726/yr. + Benefits

This position is responsible for the Wastewater Treatment Plant, collections system and related staff. Grade III certification required or obtainable within 12 months. Current incumbent plans to retire at the end of the year, leaving a good opportunity for a transition overlap.

WASTEWATER OPERATOR I-III

$39,533 - $58,547 + Benefits

The City of Rio Dell is looking for an experienced Wastewater Operator. Modern activated sludge plant requires both mechanical ability and abilities with computer systems. The City also offers an OIT program for those new to the field.

UTILITY WORKER I-III

$33,257 – 49,255 + Benefits

City is hiring for a new hands-on position to specialize in water operations both in the field and at our treatment plants. An interest in advancing in the field of water operations is required.

MANAGEMENT ANALYST I-II-SENIOR

$27.52/hr. to $40.76/hr. + Benefits

The City of Rio Dell seeks a Management Analyst to support the City Manager and other senior staff with developing and implementing a wide variety of projects and initiatives. Experience in economic development, human resources, grant writing, project management and other public agency experience is a plus. The city is open to applicants interested in both full time and part time work.

RIO DELL BENEFITS:

457(b) retirement with employer contribution starting at 10% plus employee contribution match. High quality health, vision and dental insurance at no cost to the employee. Also, 5% Spanish-English bilingual pay, training costs, 3% residency incentive, vacation, sick, holidays and more.

In addition to the standard application, interested persons should submit a cover letter and resume. Applications may be obtained at 675 Wildwood Avenue in Rio Dell, www.cityofriodell.ca.gov or call (707)764-3532. Position is open until filled with first review on August 23.

Would you like to apply your skills in an established organization helping local children and families? Our exciting workplace has full- and part-time time openings. We offer excellent benefits for full-time positions and provide additional compensation for qualified bilingual candidates (English/Spanish)

Resource and Referral Director. Full-time Management position, starts at $5,362.50/month.

Program Assistant-Case Management, $17.60/hour

Child Care Specialist, $18.38/hour

Clinician I/II , I $27.09/hour, II $5,381.09/month

Bilingual Clinician I/II (Spanish), I $28.94/hour , II $5,730.85/month

Mental Health Rehabilitation Support Specialist

Part-time position, starts @ $22.33/hour

Benefits include paid vacation and sick leave, 14 paid holidays, 100% agency-paid, platinum level health insurance, dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as a retirement plan with matching contributions and profit-sharing. COVID-19 Vaccine required. Please go to www.changingtidesfs.org for complete job descriptions and application requirements. Positions open until filled. Submit complete application packets to Nanda Prato at Changing Tides Family Services, 2259 Myrtle Ave., Eureka, CA 95501 or via email to nprato@changingtidesfs.org

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Join our newest program, Family Empowerment Center for Disabilities!

Would you like to apply your skills in an established organization helping local children and families?

Program Supervisor II, Special Needs Services

Starts at $24.55/hour

FEC Navigator, Starts at $20.60/hour

Bilingual FEC Navigator, Starts at $22.36/hour

Priority will be given to candidates who are a parent or close family member of an individual with special needs or disabilities. Experience with school districts and special education and knowledge of the Redwood Coast Regional Center is desirable.

Benefits include paid vacation and sick leave, 14 paid holidays, 100% agency-paid, platinum level health insurance, dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as a retirement plan with matching contributions and profit-sharing. COVID-19 Vaccine required. Please go to www.changingtidesfs.org for complete job descriptions and application requirements. Positions open until filled. Submit complete application packets to Nanda Prato at Changing Tides Family Services, 2259 Myrtle Ave., Eureka, CA 95501 or via email to nprato@changingtidesfs.org.

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K’ima:w Medical Center

an entity of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, is seeking applicants for the following positions:

SAFETY & FIT FOR DUTY OFFICER – ADMINISTRATION – FT Regular ($($31.84 – $41.78 DOE)

DATA ENTRY CLERK – MEDICAL RECORDS – FT Regular ($19.54 - $26.33)

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER – FT Regular Contract ($120,000.00-$140,000.00 annually DOE). DEADLINE TO APPLY IS AUGUST 30, 2023. MEDICAL DIRECTOR – FT Regular Contract ($300,000+ DOE)

CHIEF OF CLINICAL OPERATIONS – FT Regular Contract ($51.74 - $75.38 DOE).

ATTORNEY (MEDICAL CENTER) – FT Regular Contract ($60.39 - $84.56 DOE).

HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISOR (FACILITIES) – FT/Regular ($20.44 – 26.81)

FACILITIES ASSOCIATE (FACILITIES) – FT/Regular ($15.99 – 22.13)

MAT NURSE – FT/Regular (Salary DOE and licensure) RN or LVN Licensure

OUTREACH COORDINATOR (BEHAVIORAL HEALTH) - FT/Regular ($20.00 - $24.00 DOE).

DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR – FT Regular Contract ($31.84 – $38.79 DOE)

SENIOR RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGIST – FT Regular ($35.59 - $48.60 DOE)

MAT PEER MENTOR – FT Regular ($18.00 - $21.00 per hour)

TELEMEDICINE COORDINATOR – FT Regular ($17.90 - $24.25 per hour DOE)

PATIENT BENEFITS-REGISTRATION CLERK – On-Call Temporary ($18.62 - $23.13 per hour DOE)

PHARMACIST – FT Regular ($70.31 - $87.42 per hour DOE)

COALITION COORDINATOR – FT Regular ($17.14 - $20.01 per hour)

PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD (PHR)/

MEDICAL RECORDS SPECIALIST – FT Regular ($18.62 - $23.77 per hour DOE)

MEDICAL BILLING SPECIALIST – FT Regular ($17.90 - $24.25 per hour DOE)

CERTIFIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT – FT Regular ($20.44 - $27.55 per hour DOE)

OR MEDICAL ASSISTANT – FT Regular ($18.62 - $25.09 per hour DOE)

OUTREACH MANAGER/PHN/RN – FT Regular ($40.02 - $49.99 per hour DOE)

DENTAL HYGIENIST – FT/ Regular ($39.00-43.00 DOE)

PHYSICIAN – FT/Regular

MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN – FT/Regular

DENTIST – FT/Regular

All positions above are Open Until Filled, unless otherwise stated. For an application, job description, and additional information, contact: K’ima:w Medical Center, Human Resources, PO Box 1288, Hoopa, CA, 95546 OR call 530-625-4261 OR apply on our website: https:// www.kimaw.org/ for a copy of the job description and to complete an electronic application. Resume/ CV are not accepted without a signed application.

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Make a Difference IN YOUR COMMUNITY

California MENTOR is seeking individuals and families with an available room in their home to help support an adult with special needs. Work from the comfort of your own home while making a difference in our community and changing someone’s life for the better. Receive ongoing support and a dependable monthly payment.

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River front property! This cozy one bed one bath located only 20-25 minutes from Fortuna offers anything from an investment rental property to the summer getaway of your dreams. Sitting on ±0.39 acres. Conveniently located right off of Highway 36, this property provides RV parking, backyard fire pit, plenty of space to expand the house, or have a garden.

52588 MATTOLE ROAD, HONEYDEW

$575,000

Amazing homestead opportunity with 2 homes on ±68 acres! Enjoy southern exposure, panoramic valley views, plenty of water, easy County road access, and the convenience of PG&E power! The custom 3 story, 2,800 sq. ft. main house has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a large loft/game room with office space. Move in ready with a gourmet kitchen, oversized bathroom with large walk-in shower, pellet stove, hardwood floors and spacious bedrooms. Additional features include a two-car garage, bonus storage shed, garden space, gated access, and ample parking. The original 1,300 square ft house is a bit of a fixer offering 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and has shared power and well with 7,500 gallons of storage with the main house.

This timeless 3 bed, 2 bath ranch style home sits on just under a 1/2 acre. Amenities include a lg. attached garage, and a corner breakfast nook. French doors from the living area open to a deck and a back yard with greenbelt views of redwoods. Inspection reports available. Painting, repairs, and updates promise to produce rewarding results!

$499,000

One of a kind ±160 acre property conveniently located off South Fork Road. Enjoy beautiful views, lush meadows, a mixture of fir and oak timber, and two creeks running though the parcel. Property is surrounded by Forest Service offering privacy and seclusion.

Prepare to be impressed by this light-filled and well-kept custom 3 bed, 2 bath home! With vaulted ceilings, generously sized bedrooms, large attic storage space, and an oversized two car garage this home is in turn-key condition and ready for its new owners. The sunny back deck and yard are private and quiet, perfect for BBQing or enjoying the sunshine!

$175,000

Contractor’s delight! Oversized lot located in the heart of McKinleyville. Existing 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home in disrepair with community water and sewer, huge remodel or further development potential. Bring your tools and build your dream home or income producing property!

$434,900

±1.65 Acres with a 4 bed, 2 bath house, in ground pool, and lots of established gardening space! The 1,900 sq.ft. house is move in ready with new interior & exterior paint, dine-in kitchen, wood stove, and attached 2 car garage. Separately metered 2/1 unit offers space for visitors or potential for rental income after a little TLC. The flat, open property also includes gated entry, RV parking, a quaint spring fed pond, pool shed, and plenty of space for your hobbies!

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CERTIFIED COLLISION REPAIR

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Welcome to Cruz’n Eureka!

SINCE 1993, Cruz’n Eureka has become an iconic annual event for the car community here on the North Coast. The last 28 shows raised over $200,000 to support local youth, and with local community support, we hope 2023 will be a record year.

In the early ‘90s, the vehicle cruise scene had become an issue on 4th and 5th Streets. All three lanes north and south were often full of Gear Head car people. While for all practical purposes, it was a huge social gathering on Friday night, sometimes lasting into the early morning. We suspect Caltrans and the City were forced to do something, so an ordinance was created – “no more legal cruising in Eureka.”

City of Eureka police officer and champion for Boys & Girls Club, Lance Madsen, who has since passed, and a small band of others, started a car show in Henderson Center. The event was to become Cruz’n Eureka and made into a benefi t for our local Boys & Girls of the Redwoods.

Joe Porras, Director of Facilities for Redwoods Community College District from 1988 to 2006, Tim Marsh and other car enthusiasts, continued the show in Henderson Center for around 10-12 years. Joe brought Make-A-Wish into the fold of the car show. At the time, the Make-A-Wish representatives came from the Bay Area. Laurie Thietje-Furtado, wife of Mike Standridge, who also helped with the show, became the MakeA-Wish representative for the North Coast.

The car show eventually outgrew Henderson Center and was moved to Halverson Park where the great cruise route through Old Town began and the car show grew to encompass 2nd Street from C Street to G Street. There was a Sock Hop and while it was a lot of fun, there was never enough participation to keep it going.

Unfortunately, Laurie’s health began to decline (the problem with doing too much!). Laurie was aware of Dale Warmuth’s and Sondra Kirkley’s involvement with the Boys & Girls Club of the Redwoods. She asked if Dale and Sondra were interested in taking over the event. Dale, Sondra, Tim O’Brien and his wife Teresa, Jason Henderson (who has since passed) all continued to show their interest in cars and in the welfare of kids of the North Coast.

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A Huge Thank You to All Our Sponsors!

FRIDAY, SEPT. 8

11am-3pm

SHOW & SHINE

Recology’s Show & Shine in Henderson Center between E & F Streets on Grotto - Free Event!

4-5:30pm

CHECK-IN MEET & GREET BBQ

McCrea Motors Check-In Meet & Greet BBQ at Boys & Girls Club of the Redwoods Teen Center, Harris & K Streets. Anyone is welcome – preregistration is suggested.

6-7 pm

CRUZ’ THRU

OLD TOWN

Eureka Chrysler Dodge Jeep FIAT Cruz through Old Town

SATURDAY, SEPT. 9

7am

PARKING

Car & Bike Show parking at 2nd and C streets in Old town

8am SETUP Street Fair Vendor setup starts

10am-4pm

CAR & BIKE SHOW, STREET FAIR AND RAFFLE

11am CAR SOUND OFF

Corner of E & 1st Streets. Prizes for winners. Entry