North Coast Journal 12-27-12 Edition

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thursday dec. 27, 2012 vol XXIII issue 52 • humboldt county, calif. FREE

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6 Watchdogs need to eat 8 For whom the oyster tolls 18 A place, on stage 20 Best books! Best CDs! Best Jazz! 23 Party anew 32 I and thou. Me and Thee. Or something.

Sunny Brae • Glendale • Trinidad • Cutten • Westwood

Meet our neighbors Redwood Empire Quilting Guild is passionate about

Humboldt County. Pam and Jeannie love Murphy’s Markets and quilting!

Many of the 200 or so Guild members make and donate quilts to Humboldt County individuals and families who have suffered a tragedy.

They make tiny quilts for preemie babies and red, white and blue quilts for veterans under the care of Hospice of Humboldt. This month over 300 doll quilts were donated to Salvation Army and Toys for Tots to be given out to children at Christmas. Monthly meetings at Redwood Acres attract about 90 – 100 quilters.

Pam and Jeannie are standing in front of “Jewels,” a super-queen-sized quilt made by Guild members, which will be raffled off at the Heart of the Redwoods Quilt Show in July.

Want to bring “Jewels” home or become a quilter? Call 825-8701 for more information or check out the Guild’s website at www.reqg.com.

The non-profit Redwood Empire Quilting Guild was established in 1977. It is a county wide organization promoting quilting knowledge and appreciation. Men, women and children who are at least 12 years old with an interest in quilts and quilt making may become members.

So not all members actually quilt but do appreciate the history, self expression and amazing designs incorporated in quilts.

The guild also makes annual donations to Humboldt Area Foundation for grants and/or scholarships in the field of textile arts.

You can also find Redwood Empire Quilting Guild on Facebook!

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Mailbox Poem sonnet for the successfully ended world

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Media Maven no news is bad news

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News oyster ouster

10 Blog Jammin’ 12 On The Cover top 10 stories of 2012

18 Home & Garden Service Directory

18 Stage Matters the year that was

20 In Review 3 cds and a book

23 The Hum ThE NEW

24 Music & More!

26 Calendar 28 Workshops 30 Filmland cruisin’ and bruisin’

32 Field Notes lord, is it me? (or is it i?)

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

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Don’t pour that New Year’s champagne just yet.

The Jan. 3rd, 2013 edition deadline is Wednesday, Dec. 26th.

Jot it down. Sticky note it.

Put it in the calendar.

Then go pour some champagne.

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No to ‘You Know …’

Editor: I would expect an educator like Sallie Hadden (“Taking Charge in Loleta,” Dec. 13) to be able to express herself clearly. Her remark concerning the committee members being of a specific nationality are problematic. “‘Oh, they, a lot of, several of them are Hispanic parents,’ Hadden said. ‘You know, good people, but, you know.’”

Know what? OK, they’re maybe from Mexico, they are humans, they care about their kids like everyone else, but what else? All I can think is some bigoted comment can be inserted here.

Another thing, Ms. Hadden: Public schools are paid for by all of society because they benefit all of society. It is a socialized system. As such, all members of a community are allowed to give their input into the way the school is run, and their concerns should be considered. If you don’t want to hear our input, then don’t take our money. It is not your personal fiefdom to run as you please.

I’m not sure we want a bigot who ignores the recommendations of an independent committee and thinks bullying is “blown out of proportion by society” to be involved in our schools at all, let alone as principal and superintendent.

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Editor: “Taking Charge in Loleta” should have been titled “Taking Charge at Home.” Parents are responsible for their children’s behavior. The schools are responsible for their education.

You quoted a father who said

his children told him it was hard to learn in class because other students are acting up. Schools are not here to raise children — they’re here to teach them. If parents would put their time, energy and passion into raising their children, teaching them how to behave both in and out of the classroom, the schools would have a far

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Early Letters Deadline

Because of the holiday, we’re asking you to please email us your letters no later than 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 28, for our Jan. 3 edition. As usual, please write no more than 300 words about something we’ve recently published, and include an address and a phone number where we can reach you that Friday morning. Happy New Year. l

The world is new but just the same so far.

The all, the school, the nothing, every word works as it always has, or does not — I promise love forever, watch leaves fall, see dead mother look out the bathroom mirror and think, I need a haircut again so soon?

I look inside and mind wakes up — the tree in the forest offers to fall again and griefs drop capes and stand up straight.

At sixty six I’m two-thirds there, a century or a beast from St. John’s hell old and new but just an ordinary man.

The dark seems cosmic, woowoo and pregnant with unknown life as always — time to wake the kids for school. ­— John W. Powell

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Editor: In reference to Barry’s gem on the “place downstairs” (“A Brief History of Hell,” Dec. 13): There seem to be more art masterpieces depicting Satan’s world than the holy place above. Maybe art curators or critics can set me straight on that trivia. A good glimpse of the universe below might be viewed from the Kilauea volcanic fields on Hawai’i or Yellowstone. Barry mentioned a hot spot on New Zealand to me. Lechugilla Cave in New Mexico, although cooler and dripping CaCO3, can get totally dark — eternal leaky faucets can drive one mad.

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Susan Dodd, Eureka

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few weeks ago, emails flew between school board members throughout Humboldt County in response to a story on the Lost Coast Outpost about how much various school bonds in Humboldt County would end up costing future taxpayers.

Outpost Editor Hank Sims had plugged our county into a searchable database compiled by the Los Angeles Times as part of an investigative story the paper did on capital appreciation bonds. That’s a type of bond often used to fund big building projects.

My husband is on the Arcata School District board. And voters had just given the board the OK to issue $7 million in bonds. He sent out a flurry of emails to everyone involved in Arcata’s bond pro-

cess to make sure the district wouldn’t be caught with its financial pants down.

He feared Arcata would find itself in the same position as McKinleyville: Taxpayers there discovered they will pay $10 for every dollar the school board borrowed and that kindergarten kids will still be paying off that debt when they graduate from college, if they decide to stick around that long.

The school bonds story became the talk of the county. The Times-Standard, Arcata Eye and North Coast Journal all covered it.

San Diego Assemblyman Ben Hueso has said he will introduce a bill that will prevent public agencies from issuing longterm, high interest bonds.

But he wouldn’t be taking that action,

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and we wouldn’t be looking into our bonds here, were it not for other enterprising journalists. A retired Detroit Free Press reporter blogged about the cost of these bonds in May; the news site Voice of San Diego brought the issue to its community’s attention in August; and the LA Times came out in November with its database, which in turn was used by several other newspapers and news sites around the state to look up local bonds.

The Times’ story prompted Sims to plug our county into its database.

Voice of San Diego is an 8-year-old experiment in nonprofit journalism. A San Diego businessman funded it with about $1.5 million, and it now survives on grants from about a dozen foundations. It takes about $1 million a year to run the onlineonly site, with most of the money going to pay salaries for about 11 journalists plus support staff.

All of you who have been paying attention to the school bonds story, consider this: It isn’t clear if nonprofit news organizations like Voice of San Diego are sustainable. And it isn’t clear if for-profit news organizations like the Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, the TimesStandard and the Arcata Eye will last long either. Without them, you’d know a lot less about how your tax money is

spent and how much you will pay in taxes in the future.

For too long, we’ve allowed corporate media companies and advertisers to fund our news industry. And they’ve been willing to do it as long as we agreed to pay for subscriptions. But too many of us think that the information we get on our phones or iPads is free. We don’t care that someone has to pay the salary of the trained newsperson to gather the information and write it up in language we can understand. Someone else can worry about that.

But we do need to worry about it.

On Dec. 31, Tribune Co., which owns The L.A. Times, will exit bankruptcy, and its owner is looking to sell that paper and six others — including the Chicago Tribune, and the Baltimore Sun. These are papers that once were known for investigative journalism of the type that created the school bonds database. Meanwhile, the Journal Register Co. — which owns a chain of small papers on the East Coast — is in its second bankruptcy. It’s an affiliate of MediaNews Group, which owns our Times-Standard. The holding company for MediaNews emerged from bankruptcy in 2010. And in July of last year, Kevin Hoover, who owns the Arcata Eye, announced that he will close that

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Without news organizations, who will produce all that news that ends up as links your friends post on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr? Unpaid bloggers can’t do it alone.

Right now everyone is talking about how this country will avoid or fall off of a fiscal cliff. We are at a different cliff now too, but few people seem to realize it or care. It’s an information cliff. Our major news organizations are standing at the edge of it and with them our local news shops.

When news organizations do their jobs, we find out about important things companies and government bodies would rather we not know. Our ignorance is their bliss. So do you think corporations or governments are going to do much to make sure we have solid news agencies that will protect the public’s right to know?

Venture capitalist Buzz Woolley, who funded the Voice of San Diego, once told an interviewer that he hoped other wealthy businessmen would fund other nonprofit news sites. That might be feasible in localities rich in rich people. But I don’t think you are going to find many of them in small, rural towns. It didn’t work too well for the Eureka Reporter, which had a five-year run a while back, care of Eureka businessman Rob Arkley, although that was fun while it lasted.

I’m not sure what we need to do as a community, state and nation to protect and strengthen our news industry. But I do think we should have community conversations about its future. When our Founding Fathers set up this grand experiment we call democracy, they knew that they had to ensure a free and healthy press; they gave us the First Amendment and made the postal service low cost to foster distribution of information. They knew that you can’t have government of the people and by the people without informed people.

With public bonds, taxpayers don’t want their kids and grandkids paying steep prices for bad financial decisions we make today. It’s time we start looking at news organizations as public assets that fulfill a public service. An information void will cost us in many ways that are hard to foresee. Do we want our kids and grandkids paying those costs years from now? What they don’t know could hurt them.

– Marcy Burstiner mib3@humboldt.edu Marcy Burstiner is a professor of journalism and mass communication at Humboldt State University.

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t sounds just a little egotistical, but to hear some of the local guys tell it, Humboldt Bay oysters are the best on the West Coast, maybe in the world.

Now Humboldt Bay — which already produces about 60 percent of California oysters — may have gotten an unexpected boost as the state’s oyster capital, as the Drake’s Bay Oyster Co.’s operation at Point Reyes faces a federal shutdown.

In November, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar ordered Kevin Lunny and his oyster operation to leave the federally protected area in 90 days, invoking a longstanding threat to return the 2,700-acre national seashore to pristine condition. The move was not unexpected: Congress designated Drake’s Estuary — “discovered” by Sir Francis Drake some 400 years ago — for protected wilderness status in 1976. Lunny and his people purchased the existing farm knowing its permit was scheduled to expire, and started farming oysters there in 2005, using a lot of “seed” oysters from Humboldt Bay. In an official statement, Salazar said

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that “after careful consideration of the applicable law and policy,” he has ordered the park service to let the lease expire and return Drakes Estero to the wilderness Congress wanted. “I believe it is the right decision for Point Reyes National Seashore and for future generations who will enjoy this treasured landscape.”

The “treasure” is a lovely expanse of sea and coast, home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds, some endangered, and the largest sea lion colony on the West Coast.

The national park gets more than 2 million visitors a year, and generates an estimated $80 million for the area economy.

Environmentalists are happy. “The National Park Service rightly concluded in its study that the oyster factory is damaging the national park,” the Sierra Club said.

“Full wilderness protection is the best way to preserve this fragile area.”

The Natural Resources Defense Council agreed, saying that Salazar’s decision will permit Drake’s Estuary to “take its rightful place as one of the nation’s most precious and protected wild places along with designated wilderness areas at Joshua Tree,

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As always, there are disagreements.

Greg Dale, who manages Eureka’s Coast Seafoods, says Salazar’s decision was based on “bad science.” U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who fought the closure, agrees: “The National Park Service’s review process has been flawed from the beginning with false and misleading science,” says a statement released by her office.

Lunny and Drake Oyster Co. have filed suit, set to be heard Jan. 25, asking for an injunction to keep the business alive. The company employs about 30 people — many of whom live in company housing and would be forced to move. Its lease allows it to farm about 1,100 underwater acres, although it apparently is using less than that now.

Humboldt Bay oyster farmers are watching — cautiously — for a longerterm impact that could mean more opportunities starting here as soon as 2014. The Drake’s Estuary oyster operation is part of the Humboldt oyster “family” — it’s a small community, and Humboldt seed oysters travel up and down the coast to grow into slurpy delicacies that go for anywhere from $3.95 to more than $30 a dozen in restaurants. The annual Humboldt Oyster Festival in Arcata attracts upwards of 18,000 halfshell aficiondados a year.

Shellfish growers now work about 325 acres of Humboldt Bay under complicated leases from the state. In 2010, the last year that data is available, oysters grossed $9.3 million for local growers, who are working with the Eureka Harbor District and Arcata consultants HT Harvey & Associates to expand oyster permits in the bay by as much as two-thirds — another 100 to 200

acres — as soon as 2014.

That expansion could create 20 to 40 new jobs, say both growers and consultants. Conceivably, expanding Humboldt Bay production by 100 to 200 acres could mean another $3 million to $6 million per year in oyster sales, says Ted Kuiper of Bayside, a former oyster farmer who still closely follows local aquaculture. That could start happening in 2014, says Adam Wagschal of Arcata consultant HT Harvey, which is helping with the planning and permitting process.

Humboldt Bay is the second largest enclosed estuary in California and already the largest oyster producer on the West Coast. Now that the Drake’s Bay operation may close, the only other major producer in California is Hog Island in Tomales Bay, on the inside of Point Reyes, which farms about 160 acres.

However the legal battle eventually plays out, everyone agrees there’s plenty of demand for shellfish. “The industry is just unable to keep up,” says Kuiper, whose mission in retirement is to help new oyster farmers get into the business.

Others involved in the conversation about oysters and smart stewardship of Humboldt Bay — from fishermen like Dale and Kuiper to Harbor Commissioner Mike Wilson to Humboldt Baykeeper Executive Director Jessica Hall — agree that there is plenty of demand for more oysters, and if the Drake’s Bay operation doesn’t survive, they could come from Humboldt Bay. l

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GOVERNMENT / BY CARRIE PEYTON DAHLBERG / DEC. 24, 11:11 A.M.

Paying for Redevelopment’s Funeral All three of the Humboldt county cities that once had redevelopment agencies have been tussling with the state over how much money they should have to hand over and when, with millions of dollars at stake.

Arcata was told it owes $2.4 million, and it has only paid a little over $300,000, the Arcata Eye reported last week.

Meanwhile, Eureka also is being told it needs to turn over a similar amount, outgoing city manager David Tyson said in an email on Friday.

“I think just about every former RDA [redevelopment agency] in the state is in a similar position as Arcata,” he wrote, although from Eureka’s point of view, “we are not in ‘dispute’ with the state over the monies we are required to turn over as a result of the dissolution of redevelopment.”

The issue has been contentious, though, and cities have not been quick pay the money the state says they owe, according to Humboldt County Auditor Joe Mellett, who is charged with keeping track of the various collections.

“The state is saying all right, we’ve had these audits, and we believe you need to disgorge X amount of dollars. And the cities are saying no, we don’t have the money,” Mellett said over the phone Monday morning. “They’re trying to honor their commitments to their citizens to slow things down as much as they can.”

If the state decides they are delaying too long, it can impose penalties.

It wasn’t immediately clear how much money the state currently says is in arrears from each city. The state Department of Finance’s external affairs office did not

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The money at stake involves taxes that once flowed to redevelopment agencies but now are supposed to be used two ways: paying off redevelopment agency debts, and then going back to local governments, schools and special districts that would have gotten the tax money in the first place if there were no redevelopment agency.

That’s where it gets a little tricky, though, said Mellett. Schools are supposed to get a lot of the returning funds, but it isn’t a windfall for the schools, because the state simply cuts its funding by an equivalent amount, he said. So it is the state, not the schools, that comes out ahead financially, he said.

As redevelopment agencies are dismantled, the money they once collected is moving among many different funds, including ones involving low income housing. For that pot of money, a Dec. 15 demand letter on the state Department of Finance website says that Fortuna owes $1.29 million. Another letter dated the same day outlines Arcata’s $2.4 million obligation.

Fortuna paid $1.29 million in late November, according to Mellett.

Letters to those cities appear to have been written after a meeting among the parties to talk over differences, and no similar letter for Eureka is online. In what appears to be an earlier stage of correspondence, a Nov. 9 letter on the state finance website says Eureka owes $653,897.

That’s exactly the amount Eureka paid with a check dated Dec. 21, according to Mellett.

While the process has been slow and sometimes tense, he said, “the cities are not going to go bankrupt over this, and the state is not trying to bankrupt them.”

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One Big Billing Dispute The city of Arcata is being dunned for just over $2 million by the state of California for improperly winding down its redevelopment agency, the Arcata Eye is reporting.

The city has made a preliminary payment of $300,000 and is looking into ways of dealing with the rest, with Mayor Shane Brinton arguing the city should continue to fight, and Councilwoman Susan Ornelas urging cooperation, the article said.

The dispute, which involves what happened to redevelopment money after the state abolished redevelopment agencies, mirrors others going on in cities around the state. Some court battles have already been lost, and other cities are vowing to fight on.

Links to the Arcata Eye article, along with coverage of the issue by the Los Angeles Times and other publications, are on our website.

GUNS/ BY HEIDI WALTERS / DEC. 21, 11:41 A.M.

Zach and the Cowboys Former NCJ intern and all-around stand-up guy Zach St. George wrote a cowboys-and-guns article and now it’s been picked up by The Atlantic online.

St. George, originally from Alaska, left Humboldt earlier this year after graduating from Humboldt State University. He’s now in graduate school at U.C. Berkeley.

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Cowboy shooters — or members of the Single Action Shooting Society, as their group is officially known — are part of one of the fastest-growing shooting sports in a country of gun lovers. The men (and few women) who partake in it are not slick, like the crew-cut, lawenforcement guys who meticulously measure the distance between bullet holes they shoot in human-silhouette targets. The hats, the nicknames, the old guns — the whole thing is a little dorky. But cowboy shooting, with no solid connection to either self-defense or hunting, is also unique among the shooting sports in its purity of purpose.

St. George doesn’t downplay the seriousness of gun violence in our society, nor the divisiveness over what to do about it: Less than two miles away from the Richmond Rod and Gun Club, in notoriously violent North Richmond, weapons are being wielded in earnest. According to the Small Arms Survey, a monitoring center in Geneva, Switzerland, Americans own roughly 300 million guns, or just under one gun for every child, woman and man — the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. Advocates of gun control point to the roughly 10,000 Americans murdered with

firearms every year. Gun rights advocates retort that Americans have a founder-given right to bear arms. Guns aren’t the problem, goes the refrain — it’s the people who use them.

EMERGENCIES, GEOLOGY, PUBLIC SAFETY / BY BOB DORAN / DEC. 21, 11 A.M.

Apocalypse Now? This morning, as in 12/21/12, the Mayan’s last day, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s office posted a photo of a cataclysmic rending of asphalt on Covelo Road, aka Highway 162, described by friend of the Journal Mike Wilson as, “Kind of like every scene in the movie 2012, only a much, much smaller version.”

Is this the beginning of the end? Not exactly.

The Mendo Sheriff’s Facebook post explains, “It appears storm run-off plugged a drain pipe under the highway, causing the water to flow over the highway eroding the roadway. A semi tractor-trailer made it almost across the area when the road gave way. The rear axles of the trailer fell into the hole and were ripped from the truck. The damage is approximately 20 feet wide by 30 feet deep, taking out both the eastbound and westbound lanes.”

Cal Trans is working on it. In the meantime, “There is an alternate route of Laytonville/Dos Rios Road, which is a single-lane dirt road leading between Laytonville and Dos Rios, where traffic can then come back onto Highway 162.”

Bottom line: Be careful out there. It might

not be the end, but with this weather, the roads are treacherous.

EDUCATION, PUBLIC SAFETY / BY RYAN BURNS / DEC. 21, 10:34 A.M.

False Gun Report Disrupts Fortuna High

Class was canceled at Fortuna High School yesterday after the Fortuna Police Department received a report that a student planned to bring a weapon to campus and possibly “engage in acts of violence.” The report turned out to be false, but as the press release below reports, some Fortuna High students reacted by suggesting they should arm themselves and head off to school.

The press release from the Fortuna Police Department said in part: On December 20, 2012, the Fortuna Police Department received information that a student was planning on bringing a weapon to the Fortuna Union High School campus to possibly engage in acts of violence. … Through the course of the investigation, it was determined that other students had also become aware of this information and were discussing bringing weapons to school for self-protection. …

“Throughout this investigation, the safety of student and staff was the first priority of both the department and the school,” said Sergeant Charles Ellebrecht. “Together, we decided that canceling class was the best option.”

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After decades of ham-fisted toughon-crime legislation — most notably 1994’s three-strikes law, which voters last month resoundingly chose to reform — California’s overcrowded prisons had reached the breaking point. With 173,000 inmates crammed into the system, more than doubling the design capacity and creating nightmarish conditions, the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and ordered the state to cut its prison population down to 137.5 percent of design capacity

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The state’s attempt at a solution, enacted in October 2011, was to hand off a big chunk of responsibility to county governments, placing them in charge of people convicted of certain non-serious, non-violent and non-sexual felonies. Rather than being shipped off to state prisons or placed on parole, these offenders now serve time in county jails or get placed on mandatory supervision under local probation departments. (Or sometimes both, if they receive a “split sentence.”)

As we reported in September (“To Redeem a Felon,” Sept. 27), this experiment is considered the most sweeping change to California’s criminal justice system in more than 50 years.

By necessity (there’s only so much space in local jails too, after all), counties throughout the state — and Humboldt County in particular — have been trying a variety of programs and techniques aimed at reforming criminal behavior, rather than just storing offenders in cells for as long as possible.

How’s it working? That’s a tough

question to answer. The new system has succeeded in reducing the state’s prison population by nearly 40,000 inmates, but it has also produced side effects, complaints and unforeseen consequences. For one thing, the local probation department has had to deal with more offenders than the state predicted, and it has been scrambling to hire enough people to staff new treatment programs.

Plus, many of the offenders are hardened criminals with long rap sheets.

Consequently, the culture inside the Humboldt County jail has grown more prisonlike, with increased racial tensions and violence. And according to the county’s chief probation officer, Bill Damiano, some in this new batch of offenders have mental health needs that may exceed the capabilities of his department’s residential treatment programs.

Meanwhile, local police chiefs are blaming realignment for an uptick in property crime (though cause-and-effect is far from clear). And with cells for women in particularly short supply, leading to episodes in which a few women have reoffended soon after their release, the public has become more leery of allowing criminals back on our streets.

“So the impacts have been greater than were projected by the state,” Damiano said last week. “But of course they didn’t have a great model to start with because no one had done this before in California.”

Regardless, the bottom line is that local communities now have to figure this out.

The old system, with its overcrowded prisons and 70 percent repeat-offender rate, failed miserably. Now it’s up to county governments to shoulder more of the state’s crime, punishment and — wherever possible — redemption.

— Ryan Burns

New county supervisors Estelle Fennell and Rex Bohn. photos by zach st. george

Swapping Supervisors The grumbled buzz about who’s in whose pockets got some new names to speculate about in 2012.

Rex Bohn, who won a three-way race in June to succeed retiring Humboldt County Supervisor Jimmy Smith, was sworn in early, in August, so that Smith could step down and focus on his health.

Estelle Fennell, who narrowly defeated incumbent Clif Clendenen in June, will take office Jan. 7.

Who’s beholden to whom? Well, campaign donations reported in the June 7 Journal (“You Scratch My Back …”) showed plenty of timber, industry, real estate and construction money going to Fennell and Bohn, from big donors including: Barnum Timber Co., David Schneider of Schneider Dock and Industries, Eureka Readymix, George Schmidbauer of Schmidbauer Lumber, Hilfiker Pipe Co. (construction), Hooven & Co. (engineering and contracting), Kramer Investment (apartment building and property management), L&H properties and S&W Properties. That’s just a small sampling — some construction companies and business owners gave to just one of the winning candidates, and the campaigns neglected to collect occupations from other donors.

But campaign donors have been surprised before, and people who seemed firmly in the “grow, baby, grow” camp have been known to protect the environment and balk at handing government dollars over to private businesses.

So far, early indications seem mixed.

The new board majority wanted to slow down and strip down the county’s general

plan update, a reversal that smelled of pro-runaway-growth to many at first, but it might not be headed that way now. And it has jumped aboard the idea of an eastwest rail line, but so far hasn’t given away any tax money to promote it. That last was a 3-2 vote, with departing Clendenen joining Mark Lovelace in dissenting. Are 4-1 votes ahead once Fennell comes on board? And if so, who will benefit? We’ll all get to watch and see.

— Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

Dangerous Seas

Most of the time that immense, shifting mass of life-teeming saltwater that collides with our shore brings us joy and sustenance. Other times it makes our hearts beat wildly with fear — or break.

On Oct. 30, Manila resident Scott Stephens, 25, was surfing off the North Jetty when a great white shark clamped its mouth around his middle and dragged him under. Stephens punched the shark in the head, it let him go, and he swam back to shore where a number of surfers jumped to his aid. He survived — with seven deep gashes, a surfboard with a cartoonishlooking scalloped void, and a tale to tell.

Four weeks after the encounter, Stephens waded back in, at a spot not far from where he and his shark had their meet-cute.

“At first it was scary,” Stephens said.

“Then it was surprisingly easy. My mind went from thinking about sharks to thinking about surfing again. There’s still a smile on my face. It’s a huge part of my life, and to be able to get back out there and do what I really love to do is very lucky.”

He said every time he goes into the ocean, his cares wash away.

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“The ocean can be a powerful healing tool,” he said. “But it can also be dangerous. It has two sides to it.”

On Nov. 24, the Kuljian family, from Freshwater — Howard, 54, his wife, Mary Scott, 57, and their son, Gregory “Geddie,” 16, and daughter, Olivia, 18 — were walking on the beach at Big Lagoon. Their dog Fran was pulled into the water while fetching a stick. Geddie, trying to save Fran, was swept in. Then Howard and Mary were pulled in while trying to save Geddie.

Bystanders recovered the elder Kuljians’ bodies, but Geddie’s has not yet been found. Olivia survived, as did Fran the dog.

After the tragedy, officials issued reminders about the unpredictable nature of our north coast, with its cold water, steep drop-off beaches and sneaker waves — sudden big waves that appear right behind smaller ones and that roll in deceptively on sunny, calm days.

“The undertow is very, very dangerous,” said Humboldt County Coroner Dave Parris. “You can be in ankle-deep water and it can tow you under. The sand out there is very, very soft. You sink into it and you’re overridden with water, and it overcomes you with pressure on the ankles and feet, and you can’t pull your feet out of the sand quick enough, and it sweeps you down, and you can’t stand up. You think you are in control being at ankle depth; you’re not.”

— Heidi Walters

The Year in Pot

It’s an undeniable fact: Cannabis is big business in Humboldt. Marijuana was on our top 10 story list in 2011, and the year before, and the year before that and farther back into distant news archives.

This year some of the biggest news was national, with voters in Colorado and Washington State legalizing recreational marijuana. No one knows yet how that conflict with federal law will play out, or what the impacts could be on local growers.

In Humboldt, 2012 was a year of local crackdowns, new scholarship and continued confusion about state and federal roles.

Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey sought aid from the feds after CAMP, the state-funded Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, was seriously downsized by state budget cuts. Downey collaborated with the U.S. Marshall’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and the ATF. The federal/county effort led to major busts, including one in Blocksburg in October, when authorities seized approximately a ton of pot with an estimated value of at least $4 million.

Meanwhile, cities kept worrying about tough talk from Melinda Haag, U.S. attorney general for the Northern District of California, who has threatened legal action against landlords, cities and others who violate federal pot laws, even if what they are doing is legal under California’s medical marijuana law.

As a result, Humboldt County supervisors and the Arcata and Eureka city councils all extended previous moratoriums on new dispensaries.

Arcata also lashed out at big household grows in November by passing Measure I, a 45 percent tax on heavy electricity use. The tax applies to households using more than six times a “baseline” amount that gets especially favorable electric rates. In December the Arcata council heard a report on implementation talks with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. The good news: Changes to PG&E’s billing system will cost the city less than the anticipated $600,000 or so — closer to $300,000. The bad news: It will take until October 2013 to get things going.

On the education front, Humboldt State University established a Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research, which hosted a symposium in October on environmental issues in pot growing. The institute drew national attention: CBS News and the Huffington Post covered it; the late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live mocked it.

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The Million-dollar Embezzlement You could practically hear the county’s collective reaction to the February headlines: “Whoa, seriously?” A former Yurok Tribal employee named Roland Raymond stood accused of conducting a scam of jaw-dropping proportions — a long and elaborate embezzlement scheme using fake invoices and fishy bank transactions to collect federal funds to the tune of nearly $1 million. What’s more, two highly respected biologists were allegedly in on the scheme. And the craziest part? Raymond was missing, a fugitive from justice.

While he was on the lam, details emerged about his alleged methods. According to the lead investigator of the Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office, Raymond had used his position as the Yurok Tribe’s forestry director to collect payment for jobs that had never been done, issue purchase orders for iPads that were never found and use tribe-issued credit cards to buy gasoline, auto parts and other things for himself and his wife.

When local DA investigators searched

Raymond’s Eureka home in late February, they found syringes and a substance alleged to be heroin.

The two biologists alleged to have helped Raymond, Ron LeValley and Sean McAllister of Mad River Biologists, were respected for their research on endangered species and efforts to protect them, including work on the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, in LeValley’s case, and a long-term project to monitor local snowy plover populations. Their company’s name appeared atop many of the fake invoices, and a bank account in the company’s name was allegedly used in the embezzlement scheme.

On April 5, after six weeks on the run, Raymond turned himself in to authorities.

He was placed in the custody of the U.S. Marshal’s Service and, after the case was taken over by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, charged with embezzlement. He pleaded not guilty, and in September the TimesStandard reported that a plea deal was in the works. His trial has been continued to Jan. 8. So far no trial date has been set for the state embezzlement charges against LeValley and McAllister, and no federal charges have been filed against them.

— Ryan Burns

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Klamath Dam Removal Plan Stalls Out The early news this year looked good for advocates of dam removal on the Klamath River. In January the state released its draft “Secretarial Determination Overview Report,” which made it look likely that the federal government would green-light the landmark Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement.

Just a month later, however, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that with Republicans in Congress blocking authorization of the deal — along with $800 million in environmental restoration funds — he wouldn’t be able to sign off by the target date of March 31.

Here at the end of 2012, the deal remains stalled in Congress.

Ever since the historic Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement was reached in 2008, the plan for removing four fishkilling hydroelectric dams on the river has felt fragile — a tenuous accord between conservationists, tribes, farmers and fishermen, each of whom hold different priorities for the treasured watershed. But

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when dam owners PacifiCorp signed on in 2009, agreeing to tear down the dams by 2020, it looked like a peaceful resolution to nearly 100 years of water conflicts was finally in the works. The agreement, which involves more than two dozen stakeholders, is designed to restore and sustain fish populations while providing reliable water supplies for agriculture and the surrounding communities.

With the agreement now in limbo, the stakeholders have held firm, insisting that the delay in Congress hasn’t shaken their resolve to see the dams gone by 2020.

PacifiCorp continues to collect millions of dollars in removal costs from the 70,000 of its customers who get power from the dams.

But in May the Hoopa Valley Tribe asked the feds to step in and essentially start from scratch. While the tribe supports dam removal, it has never signed on to the current settlement agreement, arguing that it infringes on tribal water rights and doesn’t comply with the Clean Water Act. Calling the agreement “stranded,” Hoopa Valley Tribe attorney Tom Schlosser argued that only the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could move things

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along. How? By strong-arming PacifiCorp into either removing the dams immediately or renovating them to meet current environmental regulations (which would likely be more expensive than removing them and thus achieve the same goal — or so the argument goes).

Whether the deal truly is stranded or simply in a holding pattern remains to be seen. Stakeholders want to give Congress more time to ratify the deal. In the meantime, PacifiCorp, which is owned by mega-billionaire Warren Buffet, continues to operate the dams, with a federal relicensing review on hold for now.

— Ryan Burns

Wal-Mart Arrives Ahh, 2012. The year Eureka finally got its smiley face.

But so what? Why include the opening of a Wal-Mart among this year’s top stories? With nearly 9,000 locations worldwide, the world’s largest retailer opening yet another fluorescent-lit shop is certainly not a rare occurrence.

Sure. However, no other single issue garnered quite the sustained, impassioned fire in our website’s comment sections, both pro-Wal and anti-Wal, as that damned store.

Let’s back up: Eureka’s love/hate relationship with Wal-Mart dates back to 1999, when residents voted down Measure J, an attempt to rezone the Balloon Track to allow the retailer access. A dozen years later, whispers that Wal-developers were sniffing around Gottschalks’ former Bayshore Mall shell — and being really sneaky about it, btw — raised local ire.

First came the detractors. At issue was Wal-Mart’s well-documented worker’s rights violations and its penchant for Hulk-smashing localized small businesses.

It will steal our jobs! Then came the wave of supporters, excited by the prospect of cheapy goods and the opportunity for employment. It will bring us jobs! WalMart is uniquely salient to most everyone.

Organized protests, anti-Wal-Mart film screenings and Facebook groups popped up countywide.

Then it got weirdly hilarious. Wal-Mart sent out invitations to its June grand

Rusting engine marooned on Eureka’s Balloon Tract. photo by Bob Doran

opening indicating, among other loveliness, that the proceedings would feature a prayer from a local pastor, a flag ceremony courtesy of Eureka High School’s Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps and a dance performance by Bimbo Bear, a giant Pepsi bottle and Chester Cheetah to the Black Eyed Peas “Let’s Get It Started.” (Note: Chester no-showed, but was replaced by a giant, caped piece of white bread.) Say what you will, but such a spectacle will never be replicated.

Thanks for the show, Wal-Mart.

— Andrew Goff

East West Rail Line

It’s not a new idea. Preliminary plans for a rail line connecting Humboldt to points east were discussed in the late 19th century, but a north-south line was built instead.

Landslides put that one out of commission, and there has been no rail service to Humboldt since 1999.

In its absence, the dream of an eastwest rail line has picked up steam, with

the city of Eureka leading the charge.

In late 2011, Eureka’s City Council heard from a few people seeking support for studying a proposed, 125-mile east-west line that would connect Humboldt Bay to the national rail system. They argued that rail service is needed for a viable port and once the tracks are laid, we’ll have jobs galore. In a talk on KINS radio, rail supporter Rob Arkley said, “This is 1,000 to 1,500 union jobs, wealth being created in this county unlike anything we’ve seen; our kids will stay here; we will have our future again.”

It’s unstated and uncertain just who might build this rail line or where the money will come from. At this point supporters are merely looking at “feasibility.”

To that end, in January, the Eureka City Council endorsed the Humboldt Bay Alternative Rail Route Feasibility Study.

The city hired ousted Harbor District CEO David Hull as a consultant to help gather political support.

Since then, the state has kicked in $25,000 to help investigate the idea. And rail backers have been busy persuading continued on next page

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continued from previous page Tehama, Trinity and Humboldt counties and some of their cities — all aligned as something called the UpState RailConnect Committee — to seek funding for a feasibility study that could cost $250,000 or more.

In December, east-west rail proponents asked the Arcata City Council to join in, but a skeptical council took no action.

Meanwhile, Humboldt County supervisors took anleft occupy protestEr patricia kanzler being arrested by sheriff’s deputies in march.

Suzie and Hank Seemann at Tuolumne Meadows, other step this month, voting right Sheriff’s deputies removING protest signs from the fence surrounding the Yosemite National Park, August 2003.

Photo Courtesy of Hank Seemann. county courthouse. photos by andrew goff 3-2 for a rail-related push to develop a marketing plan for the bay and work with other agencies to craft a 12-year which he went over the facts associated represented him, are both on the “2025 Harbor Action Initiative.” with Warren’s release. board of the Humboldt Civil Liberties As 2012 ended, Eureka City Manager “After reviewing that case and discussing Defense Fund.

Dave Tyson, head cheerleader for the such releases with the attorneys,” Gallegos They sued because “it was inapeast-west rail, retired. His replacement, said, “it was obvious that such decisions propriate to outlaw holding a sign Bill Panos, comes from West Sacramento Twin tragedies on Sept. 27 shook our were being made based on the evidence as up,” Salzman said, adding that he’s where, among other things, he was the community to the core. Dorothy Ulrich is appropriate.” glad that the city of Fortuna, which is port director. was murdered in her home in Hoopa, and No new, permanent policy has been working on its own panhandling law, Prediction: We’ll be hearing lots more later that same morning a hit-and-run drivestablished. has indicated it is studying the ruling about these railroad revival dreams in 2013. er killed Bayside resident and HSU lecturer Warren was arrested on a warrant later for pointers.

— Bob Doran Suzie Seemann and severely injured two of the same day of the slaying and hit-andAnother clash of messy vs. free her friends as they were jogging. run, and now is in San Quentin State Prison ended less cleanly, with Humboldt The deaths and injuries raised serious serving out his sentence in the previous, County backing off portions of its questions about how our local justice

unrelated cases. In late November, the urgency ordinance to crack down on system handles certain convicted criminals Government efforts to tidy up the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, which protesters outside the county courtawaiting sentencing. messiness of life can run smack into free handled the Ulrich slaying case, recomhouse, but leaving other parts in place.

The “person of interest” in both inciexpression, and at least once this year, mended that the DA charge Warren with The revisions came after a jury sent dents, Jason Anthony Warren, a convicted free expression won. homicide and auto theft. Earlier this month, the county a sharp rebuke, refusing in felon, was supposed to be in jail that day.

That came in September, when the California Highway Patrol, handling the July to convict three protestors who lit In August, in court for earlier incidents, Humboldt County Superior Court Judge hit-and-run, recommended the DA charge candles outside the courthouse after a he’d agreed to a type of plea bargain Dale Reinholtsen ruled that big chunks of Warren with murder, two counts of at9:30 p.m. curfew. involving a Cruz waiver. One charge was Arcata’s anti-panhandling law violate the tempted murder, animal cruelty (a jogger’s The verdict “will send a message,” dropped, he pled guilty to two — felon in state and federal constitutions. dog was also killed), three counts of assault Deputy Public Defender Casey Russo possession of a weapon and assault with a Courts do need to balance free speech with a deadly weapon and auto theft. told the Journal at the time. “This deadly weapon — and he was free to go, rights with cities’ power to do things like No charges have been filed yet. Last decision shows that it will be very difunder orders to return Sept. 7 for sentencreduce traffic congestion and protect week, Gallegos said some evidence has ficult to prosecute these cases.” ing. If he showed up as ordered, under the public safety, the judge ruled, but parts of been forwarded to the California DepartThe county’s Human Rights Comdeal one charge would be dropped and Arcata’s 2010 law went too far. ment of Justice for analysis, which probably mission has called for repealing the he’d be sentenced to six years. If he didn’t, “To put it simply, speech rights prevail won’t be completed until February. Galentire urgency law, which the county he’d be convicted of the two crimes, rein a public forum (e.g. public parks, legos said he’s reviewed the reports from passed in March. So has Janelle Egger, ceive a first “strike” on his record and face streets, etc.) in the absence of unique the Sheriff’s Office and CHP and requested who challenged the law in court but nine years. circumstances,” Reinholtsen wrote. copies of information that was referenced dropped her suit after the county Warren hadn’t shown up for the senHe struck down big sections of the in them, including statements of individuremoved the curfew. tencing, and was still at large on Sept. 27. city’s law, ruling that Arcata cannot ban als, photographs and videos.

While she would rather see the After Warren was named a person of inpeople from begging as long as they are Ulrich, who was 47, is survived by three law killed, Egger was guardedly optiterest in the slaying and the fatal hit-andnot on public transit or close to an autogrown children, numerous relatives and her mistic last week that a subcommitrun, Humboldt County district attorney matic teller machine. husband, whom she had been planning to tee studying its provisions will sugPaul Gallegos told his staff to oppose any The judge left standing part of the law join “on his long haul trucking trips,” accordgest more changes. But she doesn’t new requests (which come from the dethat had not been in dispute: Its ban on ing to the Two Rivers Tribune. Seemann, call it a clear win. fendant or defense attorney) for releases. “aggressive” panhandling involving threats, who was 40, is survived by her husband, “An ordinance was enacted restrictIt was a temporary policy, Gallegos told following people, touching them or their Hank Seemann, their two young children ing free speech in front of the courtthe Journal in October, to allow proseccars, or blocking their passage. and numerous relatives. Her jogging comhouse, and a major portion of it is still tors time to decide whether to set new In November, the city decided not to panions that terrible September morning, on the books and it’s taking a long standards for agreeing to such releases. appeal.

Terri Vroman-Little and Jessie Hunt, contime to change it. That’s not good.

Last week, Gallegos said the temporary Arcata resident Richard Salzman, who tinue to recover from their injuries.

Hopefully, it will change.” policy lasted two to three weeks, during brought the suit, and Peter Martin, who — Heidi Walters — Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

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es, once again we’ve imposed on you, the reader, what we think are the top 10 most important local events and issues. But in an attempt to reflect what drew your eyeballs this year, we went through Google analytics statistics for northcoastjournal.com and compiled a Casey Kasem-approved Top 40 list of pieces that made you move your fingers an inch or so. Click on, HumCo. 1. Details Emerge About Gruesome Shark Attack — Bite survivor and shark puncher Scott Stephens’ late October surf-session-gone-wrong received worldwide exposure. A legend was born.

2. Downey Calls for Backup — Humboldt County’s sheriff looked to the feds for help with ganja overwhelm.

3. So, Jimmy Kimmel Doesn’t Think Humboldt State’s New Weed Institute Sounds All That Necessary — HSU inevitably ended up the subject of a late night talk show for its Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research Institute. It was pretty funny.

4. Know Your 2012 Kinetic Sculptures! — Three days of continually updating colorfulness from this year’s Kinetic Grand Championship. ’Twas glorious.

5. The Eureka Wal-Mart Has Been Blessed — A local pastor prayed for God’s hand to guide the stewards of the low prices. Always.

6. Betsy Lambert Out at KIEM Channel 3 — And did we ever find out who pooped and peed on the bank? No. No we did not.

7. Dave Chappelle Drinks “Regular Coffee and Cream” in Fortuna — The reclusive comedy megastar pulled his motorcycle over at the Friendly City’s Starbucks. No, really.

8. Seemann Obituary Released — Relatives of the late Suzanne Seemann memorialized their loved one.

9. Arcata Planning Commissioner Accused of Drunken Door-Kicking — The tale of an unfortunate night for an Arcata business owner and freshly minted city planning commissioner.

10. This Week on the Marijuana Follies… — Humboldt County, where the streets are lined with marijuana …

11. Old Town Sunbather John Tutuska Has Died — “The light in me recognizes the light in you.” - John Tutuska 12. Capleton’s Red Fox Tavern Show Canceled — After community outcry over violent homophobic lyrics, a local music venue canceled a Jamaican dancehall star’s local performance.

13. How I Was (Temporarily) Banned from the KIEM News Channel 3 Facebook Page — Be careful whose news judgment you question.

14. Jogger in Fatal Crash Identified — In late September, a very sad day.

15. The Yurok Grift — A million dollar embezzlement scheme affecting the Yurok Tribe, and allegedly involving prominent biologists.

16. Homicide “Person of Interest” in Custody — Jason Anthony Warren, believed to be involved in a Hoopa homicide and a Freshwater hit-and-run, was apprehended.

17. Plaza Design Lockout — The bizarre end of one of the Arcata Plaza’s most beloved retailers.

18. If You’ve Never Seen a Live Mudslide… — Wanna see some mud slide?

We got video.

19. Humboldt’s Wal-Mart Resistance — Impassioned protests preceded Eureka’s newest big box.

20. Bohn Underscores Faith in Cops, Law — The newly appointed county supervisor responded to the arrest of his son on kidnapping and assault charges.

21. Drug Money — Spending records offered a rare glimpse into fiscal life of Humboldt’s drug cops.

22. Jesus Christ, Chester Cheetah Invited to Wal-Mart Opening Ceremony Mega-Party Extravaganza Festivities — We were invited to Wal-Mart’s grand opening! And it sounded epic!

23. Dancing Mascots Usher in Humboldt’s Wal-Mart Era — We went to WalMart’s (second) grand opening! It was epic!

24. The Mormon Moment — Hanging out with Humboldt brethren of the Republican presidential nominee.

25. ‘Don’t Bother Coming In’ — Humboldt County paid a lot of employees a lot of money to not work at all.

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26. Female Cage Fighter Tackles Eureka Transient — Sometimes badassary happens right outside NCJHQ when our smart phones are charged.

27. Former CR President on Verge of Dismissal — No one likes Jeff Marsee.

28. Arcata Plaza New Year’s Eve: Meh — The inevitable overreaction to years of Mckinley face humping.

29. Senseless Tragedy — A community tried to make sense of the tragic loss of Suzie Seemann.

30. Your Dog Is Dead — Guest poster and animal lover Mark Dondero’s letter to whoever abandoned Toby (a good dog) seven years prior.

31. The Rural Bar Crawl — Three days.

Seventeen bars. Swastika. Bobcat Goldthwait. Hazy memories.

32. Surviving — Hank Seemann gave his first interview after the loss of his beloved wife.

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33. LaRue Out At Redwood Curtain — The end result of No. 9 above.

34. Burlesque! — We exposed local boobies.

35. Freedom to Boycott — No one is oppressing your reggae, mmmkay?

36. On the Implications of Evangelical Prayer at the Eureka Wal-Mart Opening Ceremonies — Guest theologian Austin Roberts wasn’t too keen on Jesus being co-opted for commercial purposes. Jesus wasn’t that pumped either.

37. The End of Occupy Eureka? — Sheriff deputies attempt to end the nonstop courthouse party by enforcing the “urgency ordinance” passed in March. To answer the question, this was not the end.

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As I’ve noted on other occasions, there are gaps in the North Coast theatrical ecology. But it’s worth noticing the variety that does exist, and that this past year’s productions supported and altered that ecology, however subtly.

Dell’Arte pioneered “theatre of place” on the North Coast, and this year saw a unique example in the second version of

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There are few if any Broadway musicals older than Anything Goes that get produced anymore. Songs have since been added, and today’s version is not exactly the same as the show that premiered in 1934, but the Cole Porter songs themselves have not changed. His music is timeless, but his lyrics are very topical — particularly in one of this show’s most famous songs, “You’re the Top.” The lyrics are a kind of mini-tour of 1934. While some of the places and the famous people named in the song are still well known, others mostly aren’t. Quite a few clever references go right by a lot of the audience some 70 years later. So how does that work?

It was interesting to watch how Molly Severdia and Erik Standifird relieved anxieties by acting out contemporary reactions to some references in their performance of the song, a highlight of the North Coast Rep production. For instance, they gave the line “You’re broccoli!” the icky vegetable look, but in 1934, broccoli was new to the U.S. and quite fashionable.

They simply ignored other references, like Jimmy Durante, a showman who was often parodied into the 1960s. In fact some lyrics are now so obscure that there are several online attempts to track down their meaning. There was a long and involved theory about “you’re a drumstick lipstick” until somebody uncovered an old ad that showed that Drumstick lipstick was a 1934 brand name. Still, it isn’t necessary to know that moisture-proof cellophane was a modern miracle in the ’30s to laugh at the exuberant brilliance of “You’re the National Gallery/You’re Garbo’s salary/You’re cellophane!”

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“devised theatre” that worked in these two productions, with adequate time and thorough process. It wasn’t so successful in the Dell’Arte holiday show, The Fish in My Head — well-performed and produced, but so disjointed that it’s the first show I can recall that got me to root for the villain: the guy who wanted it to make more sense.

This year also brought an unusual number of topically relevant dramas written by actual playwrights: Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room at Ferndale Reperatory Theatre, Justin Lance Black’s 8 and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus at Humboldt State University, for example. HSU and College of the Redwoods also contributed classics (Moliere at CR, Noel Coward at HSU) and a glimpse of a different cultural approach in HSU’s version of the Sanskrit drama Shakuntala. A theatrical ecology is sustained by educational inquiry for both participants and audience.

Humboldt Light Opera Company added to its high quality contributions with Damn Yankees and Cinderella. Redwood Curtain continued to concentrate on small cast contemporary American comedies, but took a few more chances this year with plays of challenging form and content, such as Circle Mirror Transformation, Dusty and the Big Bad World, For Better and The Language Archive. These forays work largely because Redwood Curtain nurtures a high level of acting.

Our two community theatres (Ferndale and North Coast in Eureka) have the words “repertory” in their names, which refers to producing shows from “the repertoire,” or the roster of successful plays (artistically, commercially or both) of the accessible past. There are a lot of judgments involved: Some shows are too big (and expensive) or too small, too new (rights are unavailable) or too old.

But how old is too old? Looking back at this year yields a rule of thumb. Dramas can be quite old, though Shakespeare is about the limit. This year we got a searing drama from the 1950s (Look Back in Anger at Ferndale Rep) and a mystery from the 1940s (Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at

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1. Sebenza LV (Hyperdub) A collaboration between east-London production squad LV and South African MCs Spoek Mathambo, Okmalumkoolkat and Ruffest, Sebenza (Zulu for “work”) is a jumbled feedback loop of cultural exchange and languages, all duelcontinental slang splattered with hyper-colored synths and kwaito rhythms. “Sebenza — only rest in December.”

2. Classical Curves Jam City (Night Slugs) With a conceptual package that includes wellmatched artwork and a slew of related minimalist YouTube videos, Classical Curves articulates a particular kind of retro-futurism that is currently surging through the zeitgeist of forward-thinking club culture, restructuring tropes and signifiers from dance music’s past into the framework of the future via the antiseptic luster of the everpresent Ableton Live grid. On Classical Curves one doesn’t hear the dancefloor so much as the reverberant spaces around it, and all the crashing glass and pulsing subwoofers within.

3. The Face of Earth Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang (Ideologic Organ) Drawing heavily from their research into ancient musical forms, this married couple explore the atmospheric overlap and possible combinations within them, here working with poetic forms like the Persian gazal and the Javanese wangsalan in a muted, intimate setting.

4. Pluto Future (Epic) With an emotionally charged delivery that triangulates rapping, singing and autotune, Future sounds as if he’s speaking through a prism, and what comes out isn’t too far from the pain felt in a weathered folk singer’s whisky-choked rasp.

With the help of wonder producer Mike Will, he abstracts trap-rap and maximalist club-anthems into something more untethered and urgent than much of what sticks to the dials in the current landscape of radio R&B. 5. Channel Orange Frank Ocean (Island) Does more really need to be written about this? Though Miguel’s “Adorn” deserves a nod for the most ubiquitous/unifying song of the art-school R&B era, Frank obviously takes the cake for the album. The ghosted-vocoder background vocals on the second half of “Pyramids” alone are enough to justify the critical shitstorm.

6. Mature Themes Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (4AD) 7. Forty-Nine Views Andrew Chalk (Faraway) 8. Clear Moon Mount Eerie (P.W. Elverum & Sun) 9. Space Zone Young Smoke (Planet Mu) 10. It’s The Arps Todd Terje (Smalltown Supersound) — Spencer Doran Spencer Doran is a musician and sound engineer born in Arcata, now living in Portland, Ore.

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What do an 80-year-old Tin Pan Alley tune, a 1970s fusion classic, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and a Carl Sandburg poem about bubbles have in common?

They’re all (along with some choice originals) vehicles for Wilson and his compassionate quartet to make music that’s both instantly accessible and richly rewarding. Give thanks.

2. The Guest House Trio M (Enja/Yellow Bird).

The cooperative trio of Myra Melford, Mark Dresser and Matt Wilson shares a musical vocabulary that embraces blues, free improvisation, Zimbabwean pop and the classical avant-garde. They make it all hang together through empathetic interplay on compositions inspired by everything from the mystic poetry of Rumi to the sublime comedy of Don Knotts.

3. Blue Moon Ahmad Jamal (Jazz Village).

An OK album — if you like your music with lots of joy and beauty and groove. (“Damn!” a listener we know said of Jamal’s recent Center Arts appearance; “that was so good, I think it added a year to my life!”)

At 83, the maestro writes and plays at peak power, with able assists from an all-star band of veterans: Reginald Veal, Herlin Riley and Manolo Badrena.

4. Accelerando Vijay Iyer Trio (ACT Music).

This was the year that Iyer’s apotheosis was made official (with wins in five, count ’em, five categories of the DownBeat Critics Poll, for starters). And with this album, his trio raised its already elevated game to a higher level, too, solving the equation of “time divided by time” and making odd meters oddly danceable.

(They work their calculus on a broad array of rhythms, from Flying Lotus to Heatwave to Ellington at his most soulful.)

5. Further Explorations Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian (Concord Jazz).

The live performances that fill this double CD are culled from a two-week stand at New York’s Blue Note with tunes drawn from the Bill Evans repertoire plus some originals. The music is alive with spontaneity, passion (some simmering, some fiery) and playfulness. Gomez’s bass sings, Corea is a keyboard wizard and Motian’s musical drums weave it all into a gorgeous tapestry.

6. Live at Kitano Frank Kimbrough Trio (Palmetto) 7. Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans Ryan Truesdell (ArtistShare) 8. Be Good Gregory Porter (Motéma) 9. Sunrise Masabumi Kikuchi Trio (ECM) 10. And a four-way tie — we kid you not! — for 10th place: Imaginary Room Adam Baldych and the Baltic Gang (ACT Music) Claroscuro Anat Cohen (Anzic) Union Square Ben Allison, Michael Blake, and Rudy Royston (A-Beat) Number Five Tom Harrell (HighNote) — Redwood Jazz Alliance Redwood Jazz Alliance members host Bright Moments, Friday’s at 8 p.m. on KHSU-FM along with jazz concerts in Arcata and Eureka

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1. Tramp, Sharon Van Etten (Jagjaguwar) 2. Old Ideas, Leonard Cohen (Sony) 3. Researching The Blues, Redd Kross (Merge) 4. Boy & Girls, Alabama Shakes (ATO) 5. O’Be Joyful, Shovels and Rope (Shrimp) 6. Locked Down, Dr. John (Nonesuch) 7. Long Slow Dance, The Fresh & Onlys (Mexican Summer) 8. White Manna, White Manna (Holy Mountain) 9. Falling Off the Sky, The dB’s (Bar/None) 10. Deer Creek Canyon, Sera Cahoone (Sub Pop) For the second year in a row there have been solid, diverse recordings by female artists. Two female singer-songwriters who share a maturing period in their respective careers top this impressive list. Seattle-based Sera Cahoone honed her alt. folk-country approach for Deer Creek Canyon, executed with a straightforward elegance. On the other end of the continent, Brooklyn-based Sharon Van Etten created a perfect soundscape for her emotional arcs of isolation and painful transition with her LP, Tramp. Also worthwhile: the pop experimentalism from Julia Holter (Ekstasis), deconstructionist hip hop by the duo THEESatisfaction (awE naturalE), country-soul sophistication from Kelly Hogan (I Like to Keep Myself in Pain) and the cutting, insightful alt. folk narratives from Caroline Herring (Camilla).

Seasoned vets also released superb recordings: With the collaborative aid of Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Dr. John drew from the mojo of earlier work like his classic debut, Gris-Gris, to produce a powerful recording and statement on Locked Down. L.A. power pop stalwart Redd Kross delivered an excellent Researching The Blues, filled with an eclectic assortment of pop gems. East Coast pop eccentrics The dB’s returned to the fold, emerging with Falling Off the Sky, the band’s most satisfying and assessable recording to date. The S.F.-based Fresh & Onlys filtered ’80s Brit indie pop influences on a garage-rock foundation, resulting in an effervescent Long Slow Dance. Leonard Cohen came out of retirement to release a masterful, patient and poetic work with his Old Ideas, a record full of subtle yet rich arrangements.

A surprising number of top-notch debuts arrived in 2012, including the unrelenting force of Toronto’s trio Metz and the guitar-pop of Kyle Thomas (under the King Tuff moniker). The dense, psych blast of Arcata-based White Manna took many by surprise (including yours truly) with a sonic debut. The young quartet Alabama Shakes redefined “southern rock,” inserting soul and alt. rock into the mix to produce a potent, new gumbo.

Once committed as a duo (both professionally and personally), Shovels and Rope captured a live, board-stomping spontaneity with a dose of passionate chutzpah for the band’s official alt. folkcountry debut, O’ Be Joyful.

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1. Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru Lisa and Jaz Marathu are devastated when their young autistic son Raj goes missing in the Mojave Desert. Their quest to find what happened to him is the central thread of the book, but the novel intersperses their story with characters ranging from a Franciscan priest in the 18th century to the story of a ’50s UFO cult. The desert acts as a blank slate on which various characters project their perceptions of reality. Technology and mystery are fused and confused, and revelation is just beyond reach. Kunzru gives his visionary novel the shock of the new, but it’s still deeply rooted in place.

2. The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers An intensely told novel of one soldier’s experience in Iraq. Powers effectively uses a fractured chronology to build suspense and mirror the tortured psyche of private Bartle and his guilt over the loss of a comrade. A tense, tightly coiled nightmare of a book, poetic and powerful.

3. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe The tale of the fluctuating fortunes of the company that reinvented the superhero myth for modern times is told with charm and wit. Howe shows how a last ditch effort by a faltering publisher of monster and romance comics evolved into a pop cultural juggernaut. Original creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are rightfully at the center of the story, but he also illuminates the triumphs and travails of the later artists and writers who picked up the torch.

4. Hav by Jan Morris In this unique novel, Jan Morris creates a fictional travelogue describing a fascinating city that exists only in her imagination. Hav is a city both secluded and cosmopolitan, one that straddles cultures and religions. Morris carefully invents architecture, ethnic groups and traditions (most notably, a wildly dangerous rooftop foot race across the city), and scatters quotes from the famous and infamous who’ve supposedly visited Hav. The second part of the book charts her return to the city after 20 years, by which time cultural homogenization and political authoritarianism have changed the city she remembered beyond recognition.

5. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens This slim volume is a testament to Hitchens’ bravery and clear-eyed facing of facts, even when that meant his almost certain demise. In an account of his treatment for terminal esophageal cancer, Hitchens reiterates his refusal of the false comforts of religion, but also of necessity reveals a heretofore unseen humility and humanity. Sharply observed and poignant.

6. HHhH by Laurent Binet 7. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Mark Dery 8. Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret 9. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie 10. The Hive by Charles Burns — Jay Aubrey-Herzog Jay Aubrey-Herzog sells books for a living.

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ell, we all survived the end of the world, and Xmas, and whatever other holiday you might have celebrated. (Is Kwanza over?) All right, on to the next round of themed parties.

It’s not quite as cataclysmic as the Mayan end times, but Monday marks the end of another year and the beginning of a new one, which is always a good excuse for heading out for a night on the town dressed in cool duds, perhaps accentuating your outfit with a funny hat or a faux tiara.

Happy New Year!

Absynth Quintet is once again taking over the Arcata Theatre Lounge for a bigger than ever New Year’s party including what’s alleged to be Humboldt’s biggest balloon drop (500 plus balloons). It will also have a couple of flying fish, laser lights and other visual effects by Beams, the usual champagne toast at midnight, Times Square’s ball drop projected on the movie screen and what drummer Tofu Mike describes as “a few more delightful surprises.” Along with AQ’s patented “traveling-gypsy-circusindie-grass” there’s a set by electronic tribal surf combo Likwefi, a trio with organ, drums, percussion and digital-fx. “And the guys from Likwefi will probably sit in on a few tunes with us,” predicted Tofu. He declared 2012 Absynth’s “best year yet,” noting, “We got to play in front of more different people than ever, from the Strawberry Festival to String Summit to Gaia with the Oregon County Fair in between.” And

before all that there was the band’s now yearly April excursion to Minnesota (of all places) for the Sweetwater Shakedown, a recurring fest gig prompted by airplay on the syndicated radio show Undercurrents.

“Overall, we got out of the Humboldt bubble in a way we haven’t before,” Tofu concluded. Be forewarned, last’s year’s ATL party sold out and this one will probably do the same. Get your ticket ahead of time.

The Arcata Playhouse continues its tradition of ringing in the new with a musical Club Shampoo, featuring Playhouse Princess Jackie Dandeneau and the Playhouse Players, Tim Randles, Tim Gray and Marla Joy. This year’s special guests include Siena Nelson, Julie and Curtis Thompson (of Kulica), Gregg Moore and SquarPeg, The Brendas, Three-Oh (an a cappella trio from the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir) and a horn-augmented version of The Bayou Swamis dubbed Swami Love Child. Yes, champagne at midnight.

Nocturnum has Midnight Masquerade, a red carpet affair where you can say goodbye to 2012 with those sexy stripping starlets the Va Va Voom Burlesque Vixens and dance the night away with Pressure Anya. The Forget Me Not photobooth will be there, so get dressed up — cash prize for the top “masquerade royalty.”

For a tribute-ish NYE hit the Jambalaya where Naive Melodies will be dropping Talking Heads tunes following an opening set by The Foggy Bottom Boys. The psychedelic pedal-steel blues and rock band

includes Piet Dalmolen and Pete Ciotti from The Nucleus, with Kaleb Duncan on steel. Influences: Derek and the Dominos, Allman Brothers, Dylan, Clapton, Neil, The Band — you know, the classics. Eighties formal wear encouraged; again, the obligatory champagne toast at midnight.

The newish funk, blues, soul, jazz, “super awesome funland band” River Valley Mud allegedly formed after a chance meeting in a dark alleyway under a full moon, where members discussed methods of political intrigue. The Mud is breaking in the New Year at Humboldt Brews with ace neoAmericana outfit The Trouble, who, like The Foggy Bottom Boys, cite Dylan, Neil and The Band as influences, adding XTC and Tom Waits to the mix. (It’s also a songwriters’ band.)

For a hip hoppin’ New Year’s Eve Party try the Red Fox Tavern. Humboldt’s premier rap duo Potluck, with 1-Ton and UnderRated, is home for the holidays after spending the year bouncing around the states spreading the word about Humboldt weed on a tour co-headlining with D12. “If you listen to Potluck you will know what it’s like to live in the Mecca of marijuana and how it changes your way of thinking way beyond smoking blunts,” says UnderRated. “We got a whole Potluck movement going on across the country,” says 1-Ton. “If someone doesn’t know about Potluck, they just don’t know what’s been happening on the underground.” Bump Haven and Aaron Dean join Potluck to welcome in the New Year.

So you’re looking for the “phatest” New Year’s Eve party? Try the Far North Climbing Gym in Arcata where Phantom Wave Records presents Phat Party 01 with DJ Red, who plans on “throwing down the funky house vibe. I’m all about the bass lines.”

He’s joined by Itchie Fingaz in Razle Dazle EDM mode, Deep Groover DJ Touch and Phantom Wave recording artist Estkowski with Wrye providing visuals (beer from Redwood Curtain). Party on!

The Mad River Brewery Taproom has one of the few all-ages parties, ringing in the new with fiddles, banjos and guitars, acoustic and otherwise, played by Kindred Spirits and The Sierra Rose Band. While the Taproom usually closes earlier, it’s open until 1 a.m., with “Hoppy Hour” all night.

The Delta Nationals and Cadillac Ranch play the Logger Bar for the Eve. Early arrival advised. “First come, first served,” says Kate.

Space Biscuit, a new band with Tamaras and friends, welcomes the new at the Eureka Woman’s Club with an all-ages “Humboldt Faith Equality Fun-Raiser LGBT New Year’s Eve Alcohol-Free Dance.” It starts with an organic dinner from 7 until 9 p.m. Then there’s dancing until midnight to Space Biscuit’s neo-cabaret queercore rock/

electronica “galactic dance journey.”

James from Splinter Cell alerts us to a “trashy rock ‘n’ roll” NYE thing at the Lil’ Red Lion with his band and The Hard Ride.

The party is sponsored by The Mob, a local motorcycle club, and will include a dinner option.

The Barfly’s New Year’s bash on the waterfront features heavy rock by Last Match followed by Enceledus, with no cover and food served until 1:30 a.m.

Jimi Jeff and The Gypsy Band play Hendrix tunes etc. way out Highway 299 at Simon Legree’s.

Lori O and The Knights rock out at the Ivanhoe in Ferndale.

Shamus T Bones has a big band New Years Eve party with Eureka Brass playing for your dancing pleasure.

The Riverwood Inn celebrates its 18th annual New Year’s Eve bash with champagne, hats and horns, Loreen’s special midnight buffet and blues music by The Uptown Kings. And it’s not until the next weekend, but you might want to get advance tickets to some part of the fournight run by Canadian honky-tonk/ragtime/ swing band Petunia and the Vipers, who are taking over the Riverwood from Jan. 3-6 to record a live album.

There are a few choices for those in a holiday mood looking to party after Christmas and before New Year’s Eve. You’re invited to “thrash into a New Year” a little early at the Lil’ Red Lion with local heavies Locust Furnace, Miasmic and Burning Hash providing fuel for headbanging on Saturday night.

Friday night Eureka’s “girl group gone to space,” The Monster Women, join the “cutesy ball-busting all-girl synth pop” quartet Blood Gnome, busting the music cherry of Five Eleven, the cool new restaurant that’s filled the space once occupied

by Hurricane Kate’s.

Motherlode funks things up Afrobeat style in Blue Lake Casino’s Wave Lounge Friday night (where there’s never a cover charge).

Pressure Anya DJs are at Six Rivers Brewery Friday night.

Fun with Games hosts a Winter Wonderland Dance Party at Nocturnum Friday promising “enchanting decorations, mad music collaborations and booze” (it is a bar after all). Expect thumping EDM from Zucco of Digiraatii, Razle Dazle (see above) and Snoflake, which may be a seasonal name. The attire is seasonal too, says Fw/G: “We encourage you all to dress up in formal attire or at least wear that ugly sweater you just picked up at the thrift shop.” Or the one you got for Christmas and were thinking of taking to the thrift store. Have a happy holiday. l

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The Monster Women (girl group) Blood Gnome (synth pop) 10:30pm

Live music on the weekends

GALLAGHER’S Eureka 442-1177

Seabury Gould & Evan Mordan 6:30pm

Pappa Paul (folk) 6:30pm

Pappa Paul (folk) 6:30pm

HUMBOLDT BREWS 826-2739 856 10th St. Arcata

Open daily noon-11pm until 2am most music nights

Happy Hour 3- 6 pm every day

www.humbrews.com

BEAR RIVER CASINO 733-9644 11 Bear Paws Way, Loleta BLUE LAKE CASINO 777 Casino Way, Blue Lake 668-9770

445-3283

Facebook.com/LikeBarFly

CENTRAL STATION 1631 Central, McK. CHER-AE HEIGHTS 677-3611 27 Scenic Dr. Trinidad

Throwback Thursday DJ Night w/ Accurate Productions 9pm

CLAM BEACH INN McKinleyville

Kindred Spirits (bluegrass) 9pm

EUREKA INN PALM LOUNGE 518 7th St. Eureka 497-6093

15th & Broadway, Eureka

On the Web at www.arcatatheater.com

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

CHAPALA CAFÉ Eureka 443-9514

Car Audio • Mobile Video iPod and Bluetooth Solutions

Adaptation Doors 7:30pm $5

FAR NORTH CLIMBING GYM Arcata The Usual Suspects 7-9pm

FIELDBROOK MARKET 839-0521

THE IVANHOE 315 Main St. Ferndale Old Skool Hip Hop with DJ Red 9pm

JAMBALAYA 915 H St, Arcata, 822-4766 LIBATION 761 8th St. Arcata 825-7596 LIGHTHOUSE GRILL Trinidad 677-0077 LIL’ RED LION 1506 5th St Eureka 444-1344

myspace.com/ littleredlioneurekacalif

It’s a bar.

We got beer.

Want to play at the Logger?

Call our booking line 362-6715.

The Forever Young Band (Neil covers) 7pm

MAD RIVER BREWERY 668-5680 101 Taylor Way Blue Lake

Moonsong (rock) 6-8:30pm

Food Truck Night: Taqueria La Barca

MOSGO’S 2461 Alliance Rd Arcata

4 For Jazz 7-9pm

Locust Furnace, Miasmic, Burning Hash (thrash) 9pm

THE LOCAL 517 F St. Eureka 497-6320 LOGGER BAR 668-5000 510 Railroad Ave. Blue Lake

Newly restored historic bar Pint-sized Margaritas and Mimosas www.madriverbrewing.com Handcrafted ales for over 20 years

Winter Wonderland Dance Party 10:30

NOCTURNUM 206 W 6th St. Eureka OCEAN GROVE 480 P.P. Drive Trinidad OLD TOWN COFFEE & CHOC. 211 F St. Eureka 445-8600 PEARL LOUNGE 507 2nd St. Eureka 444-2017

www.OldTownCoffeeEureka.com DJ Lost (dance music) 10pm

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

Grown and Sexy 10pm

RED FOX TAVERN 415 5th St Eureka REDWOOD CURTAIN BREWING 550 South G St., Arcata 826-7222

Dan Chandler & Musaic (Balkan folk music) 7-9:30pm Live DJ (dance music) 10pm Pressure Anya Rump Shakers (DJs) 9p

Tasting room open again!

Open for pints, goblets, growlers, kegs, and merchandise - new space.

Saturday noon-9pm

redwoodraks.com

Zumba with Mimi 9:30-10:30am

redwoodraks.com

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

Irish Music 8pm

Find us on Facebook

Zu Zu Petals (jazz) 9pm

SHAMUS T BONES 407-3550 191 Truesdale St., Eureka

Falling Rocks (roots country & swing) 8pm

Open daily 11:30am-9:30pm

Come in for a great dinner!

REDWOOD RAKS 824 L Street, Arcata 616-6876 RIVERWOOD INN Avenue of the Giants

SICILITO’S PIZZERIA Garberville

Karaoke 7-10pm

SIDELINES 732 9th St. Arcata 822-0919

DJ music 10pm

DJ music 10pm

DJ music 10pm Good & Evil Twins Karaoke 8pm

SILVER LINING 3561 Boeing Ave., McK Brews N’ Blues Jam 9pm

Pressure Anya (DJ duo) 9pm

Brew with a view Top o’ the hill McKinleyville

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

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

Buddy Reed (blues) 8pm

TOBY & JACKS 764 9th St. Arcata

DJ music 10pm

MXMSTR KRSHN2N 10pm

TIP TOP CLUB 6269 Loma Ave., Eureka 443-5696

Throwback Thursdays

Friday and Saturday lap dance specials

www.fabuloustiptop.com

SIX RIVERS BREWERY 1300 Central Ave. McK. 839-7580 THE SIREN’S SONG 325 2nd St. Eureka THE SPEAKEASY 411 Opera Alley, Eureka 444-2244

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clubs • concerts • cafés

Find us on Facebook Blue Lotus (dinner jazz) 6-9pm

New Year’s Eve Club Shampoo 9pm Antz Doors 5:30pm $5 Closed Sunday Facebook.com/LikeBarFly Online at bearrivercasino.com Karaoke with KJ Leonard 8pm

New Year’s Eve with Absynth Quintet and Likwefi 9pm $18

On the Web at www.arcatatheater.com

Sci-Fi Pint ‘n Pizza Night Bride of the Gorilla Doors 6pm $5 Karaoke w/ DJ Marv 9pm-1am

Rockin’ New Year’s Eve with Happy Hours 4-6pm $1 off pints/wells The Last Match and Enceledus 9pm Wing Special 1 lb. for $5 Free pool NYE with NightHawk (rock) New Year’s Day Brunch The River’s Edge Restaurant open and MXMSTR KRSHN2N (DJ) 9pm 9am-2pm $14.95 7am to 9pm daily, until 10pm Fri/Sat Boogie Down 2012 Dance Party Fat Tire Tuesdays Wild Wing Wednesdays: Chicken wings w/ G-Spot Boogie Band 9pm $2.00 Fat Tire Pints and $8 domestic pitchers 5pm NYE w/Taxi (rock) 9pm

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

NYE with Dr. Squid 9pm Bingo Marathon 6pm win $45,000

Karaoke with Chris Clay 8pm

FREE Pool $3 well drinks

Cocktail lounge in the historic Eureka Inn

New Year’s DJ Dance Party 9pm

Top Shelf Tuesday

Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 5-7pm

Phat Party Ø1 w/ DJ Red 9pm Facebook.com/511fiveeleven

Closed Mondays.

Open Tuesday-Sunday 5pm Food served until 10pm

Family friendly dining.

Seabury Gould (solo) 6:30pm

Coming Jan. 11, The B-Side Players

NYE with River Valley Mud and The Trouble 9:10pm

All shows 21+ www.humbrews.com

Coming Jan. 16: Audie Blaylock and Redline

HBG • ROOR • Illadelph • Vaporizers rs

wed 1/2

Menu at www.thealibi.com

NEW HUMBOLDT DESIGNS JUST ARRIVED, AND THEY WILL GO FAST SO COME IN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR SALE:

BUY ANY 2 HOODIES SAVE $10 BUY ANY 2 TSHIRTS SAVE $5 BUY ANY 2 HATS/BEANIES SAVE $5 EUREKA BAYSHORE MALL 707-476-0400

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ARCATA 987 H ST. 707-822-3090

WWW.HUMBOLDTCLOTHING.COM

Locally Blown Glass

mon 12/31

www.thealibi.com

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Humboldt H umboldt H Hoodies oodies • Hats • Beanies • Tshirts

bands • djs • karaoke • drink & food specials • pool tournaments • and more

Lori O and The Knights (rock) 9pm Sundaze: Deep Groove Society 9pm Naive Melodies/Foggy Bottom Boys Claire Bent and Aber Miller 7-9pm JD Jefferies (folk) 5-7pm Don’t think of it as work Think of it as fun!

Sunday night potluck dinner 6pm Open Monday-Friday 1-9pm Sat. noon-9pm, Sun noon-7pm

Biker NYE w/ The Hard Ride and Splinter Cell (rock) 10pm The Delta Nationals (rock) Cadallic Ranch (country rock) $15 Hoppy New Year w/ Sierra Rose Band, and Kindred Spirits - open until 1am

Repeat: We got beer.

Open New Year’s Day 5 pm Ping Pong in 2013 Closed New Year Day

myspace.com/ littleredlioneurekacalif Buddy Reed (blues) 8pm Wednesday open mic starting in Jan - 8pm The Wandering Weenie Wagon 5-8pm

Open Mic 7-10pm Va Va Voom Burlesque Vixens 9pm

Whomp Whomp Wednesday (EDM)

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

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

www.OldTownCoffeeEureka.com

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

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

www.pearlloungeeureka.com

Tequila Tuesdays muchas variedades

www.pearlloungeeureka.com

Potluck NYE (hip hop) 9pm $13 Sunday noon-9pm

Weekday Hours M-F 3pm to 9pm

www.redwoodcurtainbrewing.com

Find us on Facebook.

Breakdance with Reckless Rex Atienza 5-7pm $10

redwoodraks.com

redwoodraks.com

Zumba with Mimi 9:30-10:30am

Find us on Facebook

www.robertgoodmanwines.com

Open New Year’s Day

Come have lunch 11:30am-4pm

The Uptown Kings (blues) 9pm $25

Have a signature cocktail in the bar!

Open New Year’s Eve. We have champagne!

NYE with Eureka Brass (swing) 9:30pm

NFL Brunch 10am Trivia Night 8pm

Bump Foundation’s Funky New Years 9pm

www.robertgoodmanwines.com

Good & Evil Twins Karaoke 8pm Sunny Brae Jazz 9pm w/ fried chicken

St. John (unplugged) 8pm

Dance Party Matt ‘n’ Adam 9pm Sunday Mimosa and Bloody Mary specials

Live music 7pm

ShugaFoot Band (jazz/blues) 7pm

Wednesday Happy Hour 4-6:30pm

Like us on Facebook

Bubbly and Boobies 6pm-3am ½ off 21+

2 Dollar Tuesdays $2 beer / $2 lap dances

Ladies/Amateur Night Ladies get in free!

www.facebook.com/511fiveeleven 707-268-3852 Open Tuesday–Sunday, 5 p.m. until everyone’s gone • • • •

food service until 10 p.m. wood fired oven family-friendly live music on the weekends

OPEN

NEW YEAR’S EVE Serving a Special Menu

Reservations Recommended

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ON NEW YEAR’S EVE, GET ALL THAT YUCKY 2012 OUT OF YOUR HAIR WHEN THE ARCATA PLAYHOUSE AGAIN PRESENTS CLUB SHAMPOO, A VARIETY SHOW OF SORTS HEADLINED BY JACKIE DANDENEAU WITH A STACKED LINEUP OF LOCAL ENTERTAINERS INCLUDING SIENA NELSON, KULICA’S JULIE AND CURTIS THOMPSON, GREGG MOORE AND SQUARPEG, THE BRENDAS, THREEOH AND SWAMI LOVE CHILD.

WITH MOST BANDS HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, NEW YEAR’S EVE IS A GREAT TIME TO EXPERIENCE LOCAL BANDS. CASE IN POINT, TWO OF HUMBOLDT’S LIVELIEST GROUPS, THE SOUL-DRENCHED RIVER VALLEY MUD AND ALL-AMERICAN ROCKERS THE TROUBLE, WILL VANQUISH 2012 AT HUMBREWS MONDAY NIGHT.

THE YEAR OF HUMBOLDT’S BURLESQUE EXPLOSION ENDS APPROPRIATELY AS THE VA VA VOOM BURLESQUE VIXENS HOST THE CLASSY MIDNIGHT MASQUERADE. PRESSURE ANYA WILL GET YOU STARTED ON YOUR “MORE CARDIO” NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION. AND MAKE SURE TO DRESS TO IMPRESS: THE EVENING WILL BE DOCUMENTED FOR POSTERITY BY THE FORGET ME NOT PHOTOBOOTH. CLEAN IT UP, HUMBOLDT.

27 thursday MOVIES

The War of the Worlds (1953). 6 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night features a mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades! $5. arcatatheater.com. 822-1220.

ETC.

Non-therapy Poetry Learning Group. Noon. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway.

Share, discuss, explore through new poetry experiences.

442-1466.

Transition Humboldt. 7 p.m. The Link, 1385 Eighth St., Arcata. Organizational meeting for anyone interested in developing Transition Town initiatives. Screening of In Transition 2.0 about Transition initiatives around the world. E-mail larry@northcoast.com. 845-7272.

28 friday ETC.

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

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OUTDOORS

Audubon Society Arcata Field Trip. 8:30 a.m. Meet at the parking lot at the end of South I Street. Led by Ken Burton. Bring binoculars and have a great morning birding.

Trip held rain or shine. 442-9353.

Friends of the Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 600 S. G St. Meet leader Elliott Dabill for a 90-minute walk focusing on the ecology of the marsh. 826-2359.

FOOD

Arcata Winter Farmer’s Market. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Open space just outside Brio Café, Arcata. Fresh, local produce. ncgc.org.

ETC.

Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. 11 a.m. Arcata Holistic Health Center, 940 Ninth St. Dalai Ani Kunzang Drolma leads meditation sessions. E-mail structuralthomas@gmail.com. 825-1088.

31 monday EVENTS

New Year’s Eve with Absynth Quintet and Likwefi. 9 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Ring in the new year with two great local bands. Evening features a ball drop and free champagne toast at midnight. $18/$15 adv. arcatatheater.com. 822-1220.

NYE with The Delta Nationals and Cadillac Ranch.

9 p.m. Logger Bar, 631 Second St., Blue Lake. The newly reopened Logger Bar rings in its first new year with two of Humboldt’s most swinging bands. $15. 668-5000.

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Phat Party 01. 9 p.m. Far North Climbing Gym, Arcata.

Spend the final moments of 2012 with DJ Red and funky bass lines. Also, DJs Razle Dazle, Touch, Estkowski and Wrye. Redwood Curtain beer. $8. phantomwaverecords. com.

Club Shampoo. 9 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. All-star local lineup includes Jackie Dandeneau, Tim Randles, Tim Gray and Marla Joy and special guests Siena Nelson, Julie and Curtis Thompson, Gregg Moore and SquarPeg, The Brendas, Three-oh and Swami Love Child. $15. 822-1575.

River Valley Mud and The Trouble. 9:30 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. Two of Humboldt’s most energetic live bands rock you into the new year. $10. humbrews.com. 826-2739.

Red Fox New Year’s. 10 p.m. Red Fox Tavern, Eureka. Hip hop new year with Humboldt heroes Potluck. theredfoxtavern.com. 269-0282.

Midnight Masquerade. 9 p.m. Nocturnum, 206 West Sixth St., Eureka. New Year’s Eve party features Va Va Voom Burlesque Vixens, dancing with Pressure Anya and The Forget Me Not photobooth.

New Year’s at the Jam. 9 p.m. Jambalaya, 915 H St., Arcata.

With locals Naive Melodies and The Foggy Bottom Boys. $15. 822-4766.

New Year’s Eve Party. 9 p.m. Riverwood Inn, Phillipsville.

Dress up and enjoy the blues of the Uptown Kings, mid-

night buffet, champagne, hats and horns. $15/$20 couples.

Boogie Down 2012 Dance Party. 9 p.m. Blue Lake Casino.

Featuring the electro-funk of The G-Spot Boogie Band. bluelakecasino.com. 668-9770.

All Ages New Year’s Eve Party. 9 p.m. Mad River Brewing Company, Blue Lake. Acoustic new year with Kindred Spirits and The Sierra Rose Band. Hoppy Hour all night.

668-4151.

LGBT New Year’s Eve Alcohol-free Dance. 7 p.m. Eureka Women’s Club, 1531 J St. Games, door prizes, quilt raffle, dinner and dancing until midnight. Hosted by Humboldt Faith Equality. $5/$10 sliding scale. E-mail humboldtfaithequality@yahoo.com. 497-9002.

New Year’s Eve Bash. 9 p.m. The Bar-Fly, Corner of Waterfront and Commercial, Eureka. Local bands The Last Match and Enceledus rock you into 2013. 443-3770.

Friendship Circle Dance. 7-10 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Dancers 50 and older enjoy dancing with live music from the 1930s-50s. $4. 725-5323.

ETC.

Food for People Volunteering. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Food for People, 307 W. 14th St., Eureka. Seeking volunteers looking for ways to give back to their community, especially during the busy holiday season. For more information about volunteering, please contact Randy Weaver, Volunteer Coordinator at 445-3166. foodforpeople.org.

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OUTDOORS

Arcata Marsh Nature Ramble. 2 p.m. Meet on the porch of the Interpretive Center on South G Street. Naturalist Jenny Hanson leads a two-hour New Year’s Day walk through the marsh. 826-2359.

ETC.

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

2 wednesday ETC.

Icarus Session: Arcata. 7-9 p.m. The Link, 1385 Eighth St., Arcata. Internationally coordinated effort in which participants present, in 140 seconds, about something they are making, creating, developing, inventing or doing.

RSVP. $2. the-link.us. 822-0597.

3 thursday MUSIC

Humboldt Folklife Society Group Sing Along. 7-9 p.m.

Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway. Joel Sonenshein leads. 839-7063.

ART

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

BOOKS

LunchBox Envy Signing Session. 5-7 p.m. North Coast Co-op Arcata, 811 I St. The Locally Delicious team celebrates healthy lunches for kids with hot soup samples and signed copies of their new book. locally-delicious. org. 268-8968.

ETC.

Human Rights Commission Meeting. 5 p.m. Humboldt County Courthouse, conference room A. 668-4095.

Move to Amend Affiliate Meeting. 7-8:30 p.m. Humboldt State University Library, Arcata. Get involved in community awareness, fundraising and political activism. movetoamend.org. 832-2018.

Heads Up…

Free Chronic Disease Management Workshop Series.

Aligning Forces Humboldt will be offering the six-week Our Pathways to Health workshop series starting in January at locations in Eureka, Fortuna, McKinleyville and Garberville. Addresses challenges for people living with long-term health conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, COPD, depression or chronic pain. Contact Michelle at 445-2806 ext. 4 to sign up. Preregistration is required and space is limited. ●

Making Your Kids’ New Year’s Resolutions for Them Ah, another arbitrary point on the humanmade calendar is upon us. Time to capitalize on the built-in narrative and start making better decisions, citizen. Time to cut the gut!

Pull the trigger on that gym membership! Eat fewer McNuggets! Make 2013 your year!

What’s that? You were really banking on that other calendar’s end of the world prediction coming to pass, so you spent that last six months only consuming fried Oreos, chicken wings and Twinkies-‘cuz-they’re-gonna-begone-soon? Oh no!

Well, maybe there’s no hope for you. But let’s see if we can ward off heart disease and diabetes for your offspring. Need some help with that project? The good food-passionate ladies of Locally Delicious have just released their latest book, LunchBox Envy, a guide to healthy eating for the youngins. Eat your heart out, Michelle Obama!

Doing its part to combat childhood obesity, the kid-friendly book contains tips for easily lunch box-able healthy food options, fun ways for kids to be involved in their family’s food — including gardening, preserving and cooking — and DIY food-related projects including how to make a solar oven and how to worm compost. Yes! And because a book works better when it’s signed by the authors, the Locally Delicious crew will be on hand to sell endorsed copies of LunchBox Envy. Pick one up — and warm yourself with hot soup! — Thursday, Jan. 3, at the North Coast Co-op in Arcata from 5-7 p.m. and on Friday, Jan. 4, at the Eureka Coop on from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Eat up, kids.

— Andrew Goff

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Communication

BE YOURSELF. Participants find their unique attributes and put them to use at LifetreeCafe this week, Sun. Dec., 30, 7 p.m. 76 13th St., Arcata. 672-2919, www.campbellcreek.org for more info. (CMM-1227) INCREASING TEAM SYNERGY. Discover how good teams can make more effective decisions in the workplace. With Janet Ruprecht. Fri., Jan. 11, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $95 (includes materials). Pre-registration required.

Call HSU Distance & Extended Education to register, 8263731, or visit www.humboldt.edu/extended (CMM-0103) List your class – just 50 cents/word per issue!

Deadline: Monday, noon.

Place online at www.northcoastjournal.com or e-mail: classified@northcoastjournal.com.

Listings must be paid in advance by check, cash or Visa/MasterCard. Many classes require pre-registration.

Arts & Crafts ALL ABOUT RAKU. $100. Tues.s, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Jan. 8-Feb. 12 (6 weeks). With Diane Sonderegger. Explore all aspects of western raku ceramic art including suitable clays, glazes, firing and post firing reduction techniques. Learn to fire the raku kiln. Fire Arts Center, 520 South G Street, Arcata.

826-1445, www.fireartsarcata.com. (AC-1227) HANDBUILDING. $90/$180. Thurs.s, 10 a.m.-Noon (5 or 10 weeks). Jan. 10–Feb. 7, Feb. 14–March 14.

With Otamay Hushing. A flexible format to encourage creativity and build confidence. Sign up for 5 or 10 weeks. Focuses on basic techniques with slabs and coils as applied to various projects. Fire Arts Center, 520 South G Street, Arcata. 826-1445, www.fireartsarcata.com. (AC-1227) WHEEL THROWING 1 & 2. $180. Tues.s, 7-9 p.m.

Jan. 8–March 12. With Bob Raymond. Learn the basics or perfect your wheel-throwing technique.

With 40 years’ experience, Bob is an inspiration to students of all levels. Ideal for both new and continuing students. Fire Arts Center, 520 South G Street, Arcata. 826-1445, www.fireartsarcata. com.(AC-1227) CERAMICS FOR YOUTH & ADULTS. Play with clay! Get your creative juices flowing by learning & practicing ceramics! Youth ages 7-12 years.

Adults 18 & over. Classes starting Jan. 24. Days & times vary by class. $40-60 fee includes materials.

Register online at www.eurekarecreation.com or in person at Adorni Center. Call 441-4244 for more info. (AC-0103) KNITTING 101 AT YARN. Thurs.s, Jan. 10, 17 & 24, 5:30-7 p.m. $15 each class. Jan. 10 - Learn Continental style knitting technique. Jan. 17 - Learn how to knit cables! Jan. 24 - Colorwork for beginners.

Beginning knitting level required. Call 443-YARN for more info. and to register. (AC-0103) LEARN TO KNIT AT YARN. Sat.s, Jan. 12, 19, 26 & Feb. 9, 3-4:30 p.m. $60, plus materials. Learn the basics of how to knit and make a simple project. Call 443-YARN for more info. and to register. (AC-0110)

SIMPLICITY PARENTING 8 WEEK SERIES. Every other Sun., Noon-2 p.m. or Mon., 6-8 p.m. beginning Jan. 13-April 22. In Eureka. Cost $150 plus $20 workbook.

Flexible payment options available. Join the slow parenting movement and learn ways to simplify four realms of family life. Slow down and de-clutter your home environment. Create predictable and connecting rhythms that guide and inspire your time together.

Simplify your family’s schedule. Reduce the influence of adult concerns, media and consumerism on children to increase resiliency, social and emotional intelligence.

This work is powerful, joyful and applicable to families with children of all ages. Contact Diana Nunes Mizer at (775) 313-7332 or visit consciousparentingsolutions.com for more information. (CMM-0110)

Computers

INTRO TO PHOTOSHOP CS6. With Annie Reid. A fastpaced hands-on exploration of the imaging application for digital camera enthusiasts, designers and other digital media artists. Tues./Thurs., Jan. 14-30, 6:30-9 p.m. $135. Pre-registration required. Call HSU Distance & Extended Education to register, 826-3731, or visit www. humboldt.edu/extended (C-0103)

Dance, Music, Theater, Film

ONE-ON-ONE INTRO TO PIANO. At Arcata Community Center. New to piano, want to refresh old skills? On-going time slots available Tues.s, 3-9 p.m., Wed.s & Thurs.s, 3-6 p.m. Just $10 per class. Call Arcata Recreation Division 822-7091 or visit www.cityofarcata. org (DMT-1227) DANCE WITH DEBBIE. Boost your confidence on the dance floor with private lessons. Gift certificates available, too. (707) 464-3638, debbie@dancewithdebbie. biz (DMT-0124) LEARN 2 HOOP DANCE. Foundational Hoop Dance series starts every few weeks in Arcata. Ongoing int/adv. workshops. Private lessons. Hoops/collapsible hoops for sale. www.chakranation.com (DMT-1226) REDWOOD RAKS WORLD DANCE STUDIO, ARCATA. West African, Belly Dance, Tango, Salsa, Swing, Breakdance, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Zumba, Hula, Congolese, more! Kids and Adults, 616-6876. (DMT-0228) PIANO LESSONS BEGINNING TO ADVANCED ALL AGES. 30 years joyful experience teaching all piano styles. Juilliard trained, remote lessons available. Nationally Certified Piano Teacher. Humboldtpianostudio.com.

(707) 502-9469 (DMT-0606) PIANO LESSONS. Beginners, all ages. Experienced.

Judith Louise 476-8919. (DMT-0606) WEST AFRICAN DANCE. Tues.s, Thurs.s, 5:30-7 p.m., at Redwood Raks, Arcata. All levels welcome. Live drumming. Dulce, 832-9547, Christina, 498-0146. (DMT-0228) GUITAR/PIANO/VOICE LESSONS. All ages, beginning and intermediate. Seabury Gould 444-8507. (DMT-0606) SAXOPHONE/FLUTE LESSONS. All ages, beginneradvanced, jazz improvisation, technique. Susie Laraine: 441-1343. (DMT-1227)

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Fitness

BEGINNING TO ADVANCED GROUP PILATES. Increase your potential through a mindful movement practice with Melissa Peraza at Arcata Core Pilates Studio! Beginning-advanced group Pilates mat classes, reformer classes and private training sessions Mon.-Sat. Trained in STOTT Pilates, Melissa has experience with high caliber athletes, injury rehabilitation, and senior populations. Questions?

Call (619) 203-4345 or email peraza.mell@gmail.com to schedule an appointment. (F-1227) GENTLE YOGA. Gentle Yoga This class cultivates conscious relaxed breathing, strength, flexibility and balance with body/mind awareness. Befriend your body. Open to all levels. Fri.s, 8:30-10 a.m. Call 822-7091 or visit our website www.cityofarcata.org/ rec (F-1227) TAI CHI AT ADORNI. Stretch, limber, tone & strengthen your body while improving focus & coordination!

Also reduce stress & manage pain. 4 week class for ages 15 & up, Thurs.s, Noon-1:15 p.m. starting Jan. 10, $60. Register online at www.eurekarecreation. com or visit The Adorni Center, 1011 Waterfront Dr. 441-4244. (F-0103) HUMBOLDT CAPOEIRA ACADEMY. Winter Intersession Dec. 15-Jan. 31. Mon.s & Wed.s: all level kids, 4-5 p.m., all level adults, 5-7 p.m., and Sat.s: open gym/ roda at Noon. Christmas break 12/23-12/31. Rental Space Available. For full class schedule visit www. humboldtcapoeira.com. (707) 498-6155, 865 8th St., Arcata. (F-0131) NORTH COAST SELF DEFENSE ACADEMY. Come learn your choice of Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai Techniques, Filipino Kali, Jun Fan Stand Up Kickboxing, & Muay Thai/MMA Sparring. Group and private sessions available 7 days a week for men, women and children; all experience and fitness levels welcome.

Call or visit (707) 822-6278 or 820 N St., Building #1 Suite C, Arcata www.northcoastselfdefense.com (F-1226) AIKIDO. Is an incredibly fascinating and enriching non-violent martial art with its roots in traditional Japanese budo. Focus is on personal growth and pursuit of deeper truth instead of competition and fighting. Yet the physical power you can develop is very real. Come observe any time and give it a try!

The dojo is on Arcata Plaza above the mattress store, entrance is around back. Class every weeknight starting at 6 p.m., beginning enrollment is ongoing. www.northcoastaikido.org, info@northcoastaikido. org, 826-9395. (F-1227) AIKIBOJITSU. Get your black belt in stick! New beginning classes in Aikibojitsu, The Art of the Staff, taught by Tom Read Sensei, Chief Instructor of Northcoast Aikido, with over 40 years of experience in martial arts. Classes meet Sat.s 9 a.m- 10 a.m., at Northcoast Aikido, 890 G Street, Arcata (entrance in back, by fire station). $20 per class, Visit www. aikibojitsu.com (F-0328)

Town Hall, Noon and every Thurs. at the Eureka Vets Hall, Noon. Marla Joy (707) 845-4307, marlajoy.zumba. com (F-0110) ZUMBA WITH MIMI. Put the FUN back into your workout! Latin & Pop music, sure to leave you sweaty and smiling! Wed. & Fri. 9:30 a.m. at Redwood Raks in the Old Creamery Building, Arcata. Tues. & Thurs.

9:30 a.m., Fri. 5:30 p.m., Humboldt Capoeira Academy, Arcata. (F-1226) SUN YI’S ACADEMY OF TAE KWON DO. Classes for kids and adults, child care, fitness gym, and more.

Tae Kwon Do Mon-Fri 5-6 p.m., 6-7 p.m., Sat 10-11 a.m.

Come watch or join a class, 1215 Giuntoli Lane, or visit www.sunyisarcata.com, 825-0182. (F-1227) DANCE-FIT. Dance, aerobics & strength training all in one class ! Mon., Wed. & Fri. 9-10 a.m First class is free. Drop in for $5 per class or 14 classes for $55. No Limits tap & jazz studio, corner of 10th & K st. Arcata.

825-0922 (F-1226)

Home & Garden

GET ORGANIZED! Mon.s, Jan. 28-March 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. College of the Redwoods Eureka Downtown Site, 333 6th St. $99. A class to help you meet your goals of 2013. Topics include: Basics of Organizing, Paper, Kitchen, Closets, Downsizing and Preparing for a Move. www.redwoods.edu, visit Community Education link. Call (707) 269-4000 to Register today!

(HG-1227) GARDENING STUDY SCHOOL. 2nd Course Jan. 4 & 5. 9 a.m-3 p.m, in Eureka. Study Vegetable Gardening, Landscape Design, Pest Management, Container Gardening, Lawns and Lawn Substitutes and How New Plants are Developed. One day $40, two days $75.00 Call 442-1387 for registration form, or email Mgoodwin@northcoast.com. (HG-0103)

Kids & Teens

CERAMICS FOR OLDER KIDS, AGES 7-12. $80, Four 5 week classes offered. Mon.s, 4-6 p.m., Jan. 7-Feb. 4 and Feb. 11-March 11. Tues.s, 4-6 p.m., Jan. 8-Feb. 5 and Feb. 12-March 12. With Bob Raymond. Adventures with clay: Learn various hand buiding and wheelthrowing techniques. Fire Arts Center, 520 South G Street, Arcata. 826-1445, www.fireartsarcata.com.

(K-1227) FRIDAY NIGHT FLIPS. Want space for your kids to play while you get away? Bring them to the Arcata Community Center gymnastics room for two hours of fun. Ages 6-12, Fri.s, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Drop-in $10.

Call 822-7091 or visit our website www.cityofarcata. org/rec (K-1227) DANCE CLASSES FOR KIDS. Eureka Recreation offers a variety of dance classes for kids ages 4-11 years , from Tiny Tutus Beginning Ballet I & II, So You Think You Can Dance, Fiesta Kids and more! Classes starting Jan. 7. Days & times vary by class. $20-30. Register online at www.eurekarecreation.com or call 441-4244 for more info. (K-0103)

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

SOCCER AGES 2-7. Introduce your child to the sport of soccer! Learn & practice basic skills, such as dribbling, passing & ball control. Fri.s, beginning Jan. 11, time varies by age group. $30. Register online at www.eurekarecreation.com or call 441-4244 for more info. (K-0103)

ZUMBA WITH MARLA JOY. Elevate, Motivate, Celebrate another day of living. Exercise in Disguise.

Now is the time to start, don’t wait. All ability levels are welcome. Every Mon. and Thurs. at the Bayside Grange 6-7 p.m., 2297 Jacoby Creek Rd. $6/$4 Grange members. Every Wed. 6-7 p.m. in Fortuna at the Monday Club, 610 Main St. Every Tues. at the Trinidad

ACTIVE KIDS = HAPPY KIDS. Come learn selfconfidence, discipline and respect while gaining true life skills through martial arts. North Coast Self Defense Academy is offering two introductory lessons for only $14 with this ad. Call or visit- (707) 822-6278 or 820 N St, Building #1 Suite C, Arcata www. northcoastselfdefense.com (K-1226)

Therapy/ Support

FREE DEPRESSION SUPPORT GROUP. Walk-in support group for anyone suffering from depression. Meet Mon.s 6:30 p.m -7:45 p.m, at the Church of the Joyful Healer, McKinleyville. Questions? Call (707) 839-5691. (T-1226) FREE GAMBLING TREATMENT. Call (707) 496-2856 Shawna Bell, LMFT, MFC #47122 www.norcalrecoveryservices.com. (T-1226) TYPE 1 DIABETIC SUPPORT GROUP. meeting the 3rd Tues. of each month, 6-7:30 p.m, at the Foundation of Medical Care, 3100 Edgewood Rd. Eureka.Contact 443-0124.

(T-0214) SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATIONGET YOUR LITTLE ONES AQUAINTED WITH SOCCER BEFORE THE SEASON BEGINS! CONTACT THE EUREKA RECREATION DEPARTMENT. SHIPS ? Confidential help is available. saahumboldt@ YOUTH BALLROOM (AGES 8-12). By Dance with DebTAI CHI MADE EZ FOR BEGINNERS. Learn a short yahoo.com or 845-8973 (T-1226) bie. Jan. 19 - May 25, Sat’s 11 a.m.- Noon. $170 (sibling version of Tai Chi made up of simple, smooth, cirdiscounts available) at North Coast Dance Annex; cular movements designed to stretch, limber, tone Vocational 455 5th Street, Eureka. (707) 464-3638 or Debbie@ and strengthen the body. With Glenda Hesseltine.

FREE REAL ESTATE INFORMATIONAL MEETING. dancewithdebbie.biz (K-0124) Mon., Jan. 7-Feb. 11, 3-4:30 p.m. $70/OLLI members, Tues., Jan. 15, 5:30-6:30 p.m. College of the Redwoods $95/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880, www.humboldt.

Eureka Downtown Site, 333 6th St. Come to this free Language edu/olli (O-0103) informational meeting to learn more about getting EASY CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH. Jan. 9-30, Wed.s, your real estate license. Classes Begin in Feb. www.

Spiritual 5:30-7:30 p.m. $78. College of the Redwoods Eureka redwoods.edu, visit the Community Education link.

Downtown Site, 333 6th St. In this fun non-grammar TAROT AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PATH. Beginners Call (707) 269-4000 to find out more. (V-1227) based class, students will learn essential Spanish for and more experienced readers class begins Jan. 2013. everyday conversation. www.redwoods.edu, visit Free Introduction, Humboldt Herbals and Moonrise Wellness/Bodywork Community Education link. Call (707) 269-4000 to Herbs. Call Carolyn Ayres, 442-4240, or see schedules NEW YEAR’S EVE VINYASA & RESTORATIVE YOGA. register today! (L-1227) at www.tarotofbecoming.com. (S-1227) With Christine Fiorentino. At Om Shala Yoga. Mon., Dec. 31, 10 a.m.-Noon. $20. Honor the season, yourself INTRO TO JAPANESE. Basic Japanese grammar strucARCATA ZEN GROUP MEDITATION. Beginners weland your body. 858 10th St., Arcata. 825-YOGA (9642), ture, vocabulary and writing systems. Focus on useful come. Sun., 8 a.m. North Coast Aikido Center, on F St. www.omshalayoga.com (W-1227) conversational skills. With Mie Matsumoto. Mon./ between 8th and 9th in Arcata. Wed., 6-7 p.m. at First Wed., Jan. 23-Feb. 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m., $125 ($50 addiChristian Church, 730 K, Eureka, ramp entrance and LEVEL ONE REIKI. Everyone can do Reiki. Two day tional for one unit of optional credit). Pre-registration upstairs; newcomers please come 5 minutes early. class includes Reiki attunements, theory and practice. required. Call HSU Distance & Extended Education Sun. contact, 826-1701. Wed. contact, barryevans9@ Sat.s, Jan 12, & Jan. 19, 1-4 p.m. Sun Yi’s Academy of to register, 826-3731 or visit www.humboldt.edu/ yahoo.com, or for more info. call (707) 826-1701. www.

Tae Kwon Do, Arcata. Reiki Master Teacher, Christy extended (L-0110) arcatazengroup.org. (S-0606) Robertson. Registration $150. (707) 845-0238. (W-0110)

Over 50

OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE (OLLI). Offers dynamic classes for people age 50 and over. Call 826-5880 or visit www.humboldt.edu/olli to register for classes. (O-1227) AMENDS, THE 12 PRINCIPLES OF FORGIVENESS. This course can help you free yourself from resentment, anger, blame, guilt and regret, and let go of the past while creating joy and peace in the present. With Sharon K. Ferrett. Wed., Jan. 30-March 6, 3:30-5:30 p.m. $70/OLLI members, $95/nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880, www.humboldt.edu/olli (O-0110) GENTLE YOGA FOR OLLI. Learn yoga with focus on both floor and standing poses for strength, balance and flexibility at any age. With Patricia Starr. Mon., Jan. 14-Feb. 18, 1:30-3 p.m. $65/OLLI members, $90/ nonmembers. OLLI: 826-5880, www.humboldt.edu/ olli (O-0103)

Sports/Recreation

ADULT SPORTS LEAGUES. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation, At Prasch Hall, Blue Lake. Download registration forms at www.bluelake.ca.gov. Men’s Basketball, Jan. 9 – Feb. 20, Wed’s, 6,7,8 & 9 p.m., $400/team, Women’s Basketball, Jan. 7.-Feb. 18, Mon’s, 6,7,8 & 9 p.m., $350/team, Women’s Volleyball, Jan. 6.- April 7 , Sun’s, 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m., $150/team. For more information, please call 6685932 (SR-0103) ROLLER SKATING. Blue Lake Parks & Recreation Fri./ Sat., 6:30-9:30 p.m., Sun. 2-5 p.m. Adult Skate: 2nd Sun. of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m. To schedule birthday parties, call 668-5932 or find us on facebook at parks-rec@bluelake.ca.gov. (SR-1226)

YOGA FOR CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION PROGRAM. Starting Jan. 2013 at Om Shala Yoga. Ease into parenthood with the guidance of experienced facilitators and the support of a nurturing community. Classes and workshops are designed to support you in each stage of pregnancy and beyond. No yoga experience required. Doulas and birth partners welcome. For more info contact program director Jodie DiMinno at (707) 616-0930. 858 10th St., Arcata. 825-YOGA (9642), www.omshalayoga.com (W-1227) T’AI CHI WITH MARGY EMERSON. Three programs: T’ai Chi for Back Pain and Arthritis, Traditional Long Form (Wu Style), and The 42 Combined Forms (all 4 major styles). 10-week session starts the week of Jan. 7. Begin as late as the third week. At the marital arts academy in Arcata’s Sunny Brae Shopping Center. Visit a class with no obligation to pay or enroll. Morning and evening classes. Fees for the 10-week term: $95 for 1 class per week, $155 for 2 or more classes per week. See www.margaretemerson.com or call 8226508 for schedules. (W-0110)

DANDELION HERBAL CENTER. Classes with Jane Bothwell. HERBAL CLINIC CLASS. Jan. 14-April 15, 2013, Refine and expand your herbal counseling skills. BEGINNING WITH HERBS, Jan. 30-March 27, Eight Wed. evenings 7-9:30 p.m., plus 2 herb walks. 10 MONTH HERBAL STUDIES. Feb.-Nov. 2013. Meets one weekend per Month. PLANT LOVERS JOURNEY TO COSTA RICA with Jane Bothwell & Rosemary Gladstar, Nov. 14-23, 2013. Get in touch to be on the interested list. REGISTER:online at www.dandelionherb.com or call (707) 442-8157. (W-0110) NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF AYURVEDA. Classes with Traci Webb and KP Khalsa. INTRODUCTION TO AYURVEDA, 3-Day Introductory Immersion. Jan 25-27, 2013. Learn to Balance Body and Mind using Doshas, Elements, Foods, Herbs, Essential Oils, Yoga, Meditation and Colors, $249. Serves as Prerequisite to 10-MONTH AYURVEDIC HERBALISM PROGRAM, Meets fourth weekend of month, Feb. 22-Nov. 17, 2013. Global Herbs, Ayurveda Therapeutics, Plant/ Mineral/Food Medicines, Formulating, Medicine Making Immersion, Herb Walk. REGISTER ON-LINE: www.ayurvedicliving.com, OR info@ayurvedicliving. com, (707) 601-9025. (W-0124) NEW CLIENTS $10 OFF. Myrtletowne Healing Center 1480, #A Myrtle Ave. A Hidden Gem on Myrtle Ave., specializing in therapeutic massage. We will assist you on your road to recovery or work with you on that chronic pain issue. Swedish, deep tissue, trigger point, reflexology, acupressure, uterine centering, lymph drainage, lomi lomi, and more. Founders Hilary Wakefield and Sarah Maier are both Doulas, we do pregnancy massage as well! You are worth it, call today (707) 441-9175 (W-1226) START YOUR CAREER IN MASSAGE THERAPY! Evening classes begin Jan. 22, 2013 at Arcata School of Massage. 650-Hour Therapeutic Massage Certification will prepare you for Professional Certification in California, and the National Exam. Our comprehensive program prepares your body, mind and heart to become a caring, confident professional massage therapist. Call 822-5223 for information or visit arcatamassage.com (W-1226)

North Coast Academy

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

Adults & kids ages 8 and up.

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

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

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Cruisin’ and Bruisin’

Tom does his tough guy thing (yawn) while Apatow gets deeply funny

By Ryan Burns

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Reviews

JACK REACHER. The Internet has been abuzz for months with chatter about Tom Cruise taking on this role. I don’t have any previous experience with the character (drawn from a series of novels by Lee Child), but he’s apparently supposed to be some kind of hulking drifter with savant tendencies when it comes to investigation and brutality. As far as I’m concerned, this hardly matters since Cruise has more than enough charisma, screen presence and athletic ability to play bigger than his actual size. What’s more troubling is that, once again, he seems to have thrown his support behind a movie that’s well

beneath his formidable talents.

Reacher drifts into Pittsburgh in the wake of a horrifying, seemingly random mass killing. Turns out he’s familiar with the prime suspect, an Army sniper who bugged out in Baghdad years before and turned the rifle on a handful of civilian contractors. Reacher was the Army investigator assigned to the case, which, though unassailable, got disappeared because the “victims” turned out to be high-order bad guys. But Reacher, ever the moral arbiter, swore to the shooter to exact justice if he ever stepped out of line in the future. Now he’s back to keep his word, and even though it looks like another open and shut case, our man’s

gotta do the due diligence, uncovering an elaborate frame-job in the process.

As I’ve not read any of Child’s books, I don’t know whether to blame him or writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (Way of the Gun, screenplay on The Usual Suspects) for the clumsy exposition, scant characterizations and unlikely dialogue.

I tend to think McQuarrie was unfortunately faithful to his source material and that it simply doesn’t translate to the big screen.

The movie certainly has distinct tone and pacing, with nods to film noir and the work of Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, Charley Varrick), but it is too plodding to be compelling. Maybe even more troubling is the PG-13 rating. This movie is filled with scenes of horrific violence but shot and edited so that their impact is completely undermined. It’s rendered in such broad strokes that even the protagonist’s somewhat dubious moral ambiguity and resolute readiness to do harm if called upon seem simplistic and childish.

Cruise is fun to watch, as usual, and legendary weirdo/genius filmmaker Werner Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man) plays a bad guy with a milky eye who chewed off his own necrotic fingers in a frozen gulag. So at least it’s got that going for it. PG13. 130m.

THIS IS 40. With the crazy financial success of the good-natured, crass silliness of The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) Judd Apatow bought himself the creative freedom to make a series of intensely personal, often hilarious movies about the process of becoming an adult. Knocked Up (2007) follows an accidental couple through the wilderness of attraction, pregnancy and adult responsibilities. Funny People (2009) is a bittersweet take on the nature of fame, financial success and mortality. With This Is 40 Apatow goes deeper still into semi-autobiography, detailing the shifting fortunes and interpersonal vagaries of a successful, loving and screwed-up family.

Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann (Apatow’s wife in real life) reprise their roles from Knocked Up as Pete and Debbie, a suburban power couple who seem to have everything going for them. He runs an indie record label, she a hip clothing boutique.

They’ve got two charming, wise-cracking daughters (played by Apatow and Mann’s kids) and a beautiful house. On paper, everything’s coming up roses. But one of her employees is stealing from the store, and his label’s future is entirely dependent on the success of a new Graham Parker record. Their increasing financial woes and the advancing specter of middle age throw them into a scary tailspin of annoyance and recrimination.

Somehow, Apatow’s movies keep getting funnier and more mature at the same time. From start to finish This Is 40 pops

with big laughs, poignant moments and insightful observations about married life.

As a portrait of the sometimes impossible job of sharing a life, it feels almost embarrassingly honest and authentic. As a straight-ahead R-rated comedy, it’s by far the funniest movie I’ve seen this year; a success by any measure. R. 134m.

A LATE QUARTET. This is an actors’ movie — one of those solemn, self-important character studies that critics and armchair intellectuals like so much. I get it, and I can appreciate it for its successes, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Catherine Keener and Christopher Walken play chamber musicians in an acclaimed string quartet. Hoffman and Keener are the married couple with a gifted violinist daughter and relationship issues. Ivanir is the egomaniacal genius first chair violin.

Walken’s the avuncular Juilliard professor and cellist who brought them all together.

His Parkinson’s diagnosis threatens to tear the group apart. They argue a lot, have affairs, play beautiful music together and live in the rarefied atmosphere of very successful New York society.

The characters are vividly rendered, and Walken does some of the best acting of his career. But the world of the movie feels tiny and airless, all but impenetrable.

Nobody has a point of view I can relate to, and there are no surprises. As a showcase for actors, it works. As a compelling story? Not so much. R. 105m.

— John J. Bennett

Previews

DJANGO UNCHAINED. Merry Christmas, lovers of cinematic badassery. The incomparable Quentin Tarantino brings his grindhouse aesthetic to this tale of slavery and revenge set in the antebellum south, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson.

R. 165m.

LES MISÉRABLES. Merry Christmas, lovers of musicals based on French historical novels. Director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) brings the Broadway fixture to the silver screen with songbirding from Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe. PG13. 157m.

PARENTAL GUIDANCE. Merry Christmas, lovers of Billy Crystal and Bette Midler. They star as grandparents using old-school discipline on their wacky, 21st century grandkids in this comedy from director Andy Fickman, best known for directing movies starring The Rock. PG. 104m.

Did you notice? The world didn’t end! We humans sure like thinking about disaster, though, don’t we? To wit, the timelessness of H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. See the 1953 movie adaptation at this Thursday’s Sci-Fi Pint

and Pizza Night at the Arcata Theatre Lounge. Doors at 6, movie at 7. Speaking of adaptations (segue alert!), dive into the brilliant and tortured mind of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (as portrayed

by Nicolas Cage) in Spike Jonze’s metacomedy masterpiece Adaptation (2002), Friday night at 8. Sunday’s family feature is Ants, the computer-animated insect comedy from 1998 that’s not A Bug’s Life.

6 p.m. And Sci-Fi Pint and Pizza Night rolls around again next Wednesday with camp classic Bride of the Gorilla (1951).

Continuing

THE HOBBIT. Peter Jackson’s gonna milk this Middle Earth business for all it’s worth, isn’t he? This bloated Lord of the Rings prequel (part one of three) is a drag.

PG13. 169m.

THE GUILT TRIP. Odd couple road comedy starring Seth Rogen as The Seth Rogen Character and Barbra Streisand as his embarrassing Jewish mother. PG13.

95m.

LIFE OF PI. Ang Lee’s adaptation of the bestselling book by Yann Martel is a visual feast, a technological marvel and a glib homily about spirituality. PG. 127m.

LINCOLN. Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a bravura performance in Steven Spielberg’s handsome and rousing biopic, which portrays the deft political wrangling of our 16th president. PG13. 149m.

MONSTERS, INC. 3D. See, there’s a prequel coming out next summer called Monsters University, so obviously you should take the kids to see the original in 3D. G. 92m.

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS. Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Jack Frost team up to make kids believe in them again. PG. 97m.

SKYFALL. James Bond battles his Freudian demons and a swishy-sinister Javier Bardem in one of the most satisfying 007 films to date. PG13. 143m.

— Ryan Burns

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

Broadway Cinema

707-443-3456 1223 Broadway Street, Eureka Times are for 12/25- 1/3 unless otherwise noted.

DJANGO UNCHAINED 1:30, 5:10, 8:45 LES MISERABLES 1:20, 5:00, 8:30 JACK REACHER 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 THIS IS 40 11:40, 2:45, 5:50, 8:55 GUILT TRIP 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 MONSTERS INC. 3D 11:55, 2:20, 7:10, 9:25 MONSTERS INC. 2D 4:45 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D 12:45, 4:35, 8:20 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 2D 12:00, 3:45, 7:30 PARENTAL GUIDANCE 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:15 LIfE Of PI 2D 11:45, 2:30, 5:15 RISE Of THE GUARDIANS 1:45, 4:10, 6:35 LINCOLN 1:00, 4:25, 7:50 TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN PT. 2 9:00 SKYfALL 8:05

Mill Creek Cinema

707-839-3456 1575 Betty Court, McKinleyville Times are for 12/25- 1/3 unless otherwise noted.

DJANGO UNCHAINED 1:05, 4:45, 8:25 LES MISERABLES 1:30, 5:05, 8:30 JACK REACHER 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 THIS IS 40 11:45, 2:50, 5:55, 9:00 GUILT TRIP 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 MONSTERS INC. 3D 12:55, 5:45, 8:10 MONSTERS INC. 2D 3:20 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D 12:30, 8:00 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 2D 4:15 PARENTAL GUIDANCE 12:45, 3:25, 6:05, 8:45

Minor Theatre 707-822-3456

1001 H Street, Arcata Times are for 12/25- 1/3 unless otherwise noted.

DJANGO UNCHAINED 1:30, 5:10, 8:45 LES MISERABLES 1:00, 4:25, 7:50 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 1:10, 4:50, 8:30

fortuna Theater

Dec. 27 Jan. 2 Thurs Dec 27 - Sci Fi Night ft. The War of the Worlds (1953) Doors at 6 p.m. All ages. Free Fri Dec 28 - Adaptation. (2002) Doors at 7:30 p.m. $5 Rated R Sun Dec 30 - Antz (1998) Doors 5:30 p.m. $5 Rated PG Wed Jan 2 - Sci Fi Night ft. Bride of the Gorilla (1951) Doors at 6 p.m. All ages. Free

707-725-2121 1241 Main Street, Fortuna Times are for 12/25- 1/3 unless otherwise noted.

PARENTAL GUIDANCE 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 LES MISERABLES 12:10, 3:40, 7:10 DJANGO UNCHAINED 12:25, 3:50, 7:20 JACK REACHER 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 MONSTERS INC. 3D 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 2D 12:15, 4:00, 7:45

Garberville Theater 707-923-3580

766 Redwood Drive, Garberville RISE Of THE GUARDIANS LIfE Of PI

arcatatheatre.com • 822-1220 • 1036 G St.

12/25 - 12/27: 7:30 EXCEPT 12/26: 6:30 12/28 - 1/3: 7:30 EXCEPT 1/2: 6:30

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Field notes

tious business name listed above on 02/26/1986. /s William Louis Crosswhite.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on December 13, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013, 1/10, 1/17 (12-352)

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Leonardo da Vinci’s “The LasT supper.” WhiLe The 1611 King James BiBLe has “is iT i, Lord?” (maTTheW 26:22), in The WorLd engLish BiBLe of 1997 iT’s, “iT isn’T me, is iT, Lord?” iTaLian minisTry of cuLTure/puBLic domain

Lord, is it me?

(Or is it I?)

By Barry Evans

fieldnotes@northcoastjournal.com

W

hen I was a kid growing up in the UK, world maps in our schoolrooms still showed huge swaths of pink, glorifying the extent of the British Empire on which, we were assured, the sun never set. We were fed the myth that Britain ruled the waves along with much of the land (until our comeuppance at Suez in 1956), and moviemakers of that era played along. Typical scene: White meets black somewhere in the Dark Continent. “I’m Doctor Farnsworth,” the pith-helmeted explorer would say in his plummy Eton voice. “Me Moogoo,” replied the suitably awed native.

We’d smile, of course. Back then, using object “me” for subject “I” was seen as a sign of inferiority. The idea was that, if someone knocked on the door and you asked, “Who is it?” the reply, “It is I” or “It’s me,” would immediately establish the class of whomever (!) was outside. Pronouns came in two basic flavors, subject and object, and if you were going to get anywhere in this world, you’d jolly well better know which one to use.

English pronouns really are a bit of a dog’s breakfast. We differentiate between subject and object with some: I/me, he/ him, she/her, we/us, they/them. But we don’t with others: “it” takes care of them both, while “you” covers not just subject and object, but singular and plural as well (which is why youse, you-all/y’all, and youuns have been called into service, harkening back to the archaic forms: singular thee/thou, plural ye/you).

In theory, I/me, for instance, is pretty clear, but in practice, it just ain’t so. OK, maybe the Queen says, “It’s I” and she’s

probably the last living native English speaker to start a sentence, “My husband and I…” The rest of us commoners have mostly moved on. Here’s the test: Would you, fellow Humboldtian, say, “Pat and I met at Ramone’s,” or “Pat and me met at Ramone’s”? If you’re partial to “I”, check this out: “I and Pat met at Ramones.” That’s “proper” English, if you’re committed to the I-subject/me-object rule. But trust me, even the Queen doesn’t say, “I and Philip are going to Ascot.”

Here’s what happened. Self-styled grammarians 300-odd years ago promulgated these rules of English — check Wikipedia’s entry for “Robert Lowth” for instance — basing their notions of what constituted “proper” English on Latin, whose grammar is mathematically logical. (And complicated. Seared into my brain are the Latin cases: nominative-genitive-dative-accusative-ablative-locative-vocative.)

But English isn’t Latin. Unlike Latin, it’s alive, meaning it’s fluid and flexible, changing from one generation to the next. And in spoken English today, pronouns don’t always follow mathematical logic. Time was, “Amn’t I?” sounded OK, but today the illogical (singular/plural disagreement) “Aren’t I?” is standard. Pronouns are, in the words of popular linguist John McWhorter, “playful little puppies” that jump the rails of formal grammar. If I were (another usage in transition) going for a job interview, I’d probably say, “My friends and I …” but once I got the job, I’d get off my high horse and use “me” in that phrase. I bet you-guys would too.

Barry Evans (barryevans9@yahoo.com) Hears a Whom when reading Dr. Seuss.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Sections 21700-21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC, Section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the civil Code.

The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on the 9th of January, 2013, at 9:00 AM, on the premises where said property has been stored and which are located at Rainbow Self Storage, at 4055 Broadway Eureka, Ca, County of Humboldt the following: Janet Polizzi, Unit # 5006 Deanna Anderson, Unit # 5069 Nickolas Bailey, Unit # 5242 Michael Tanksley, Unit # 5264 Walter Mucha, Unit # 5280 Thomas Blaquelourde, Unit # 5330 The following units are located at 639 W. Clark Street Eureka, Ca, County of Humboldt and will be sold immediately following the sale of the above units.

Leslie Snow, Unit # 2103 Heather Grabow, Unit # 3419 (Held in Co. unit) The following units are located at 3618 Jacobs Avenue Eureka, Ca, County of Humboldt and will be sold immediately following the sale of the above units.

Dusty Rucker, Unit # 1156 Kayla Owen, Unit # 1162 Jeff Cleveland, Unit # 1165 Richard Moon, Unit # 1188 Gerri Pietromonaco, Unit # 1230 Joann Sovereign, Unit # 1231 Pamela Millsap, Unit # 1350 Vandee Vanness, Unit # 1556 Thomas Marlega, Unit # 1592 Debbie Jansen, Unit # 1678 Kenneth Laskis, Unit # 1817 The following units are located at 105 Indianola Eureka, Ca, County of Humboldt and will be sold immediately following the sale of the above units.

Arthur Bergenn, Unit # 123 Latasha Pifferini, Unit # 169 Bret Roediger, Unit # 332 Ian Neidig, Unit # 414 Stephen Silva, Unit # 461 Items to be sold include, but are not limited to: Household furniture, office equipment, household appliances, exercise equipment, TVs, VCR, microwave, bikes, books, misc. tools, misc. camping equipment, misc. stereo equip. misc. yard tools, misc. sports equipment, misc. kids toys, misc. fishing gear, misc. computer components, and misc. boxes and bags contents unknown.

Purchases must be paid for at the time of the sale in cash only.

Anyone interested in attending the auction must sign in at 4055

Broadway Eureka CA. prior to 9:00 A.M. on the day of the auction, no exceptions. All purchase items sold as is, where is and must be removed at time of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Auctioneer: Rainbow Self-Storage, 707-443-1451, Bond # 40083246.

Dated this 27th day of December 2012 and 3rd day of January 2013 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013 (12-353)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT R-12-00739

The following persons are doing COLDWELL BANKER SELLERS REALTY at 985 G St. Arcata, CA 95521 Gregory M Anderson 1970 Lime Ave. McKinleyville , CA. 95519 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 01/01/2013 /s/ Greg Anderson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on December 21, 2012 CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/27/2012, 1/3, 1/10, 1/17/2013 (12-355)

STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL FROM PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 08-00714

The following person has withdrawn as a general partner from the partnership operating under the fictitious business name of: COLDWELL BANKER SELLERS REALTY, 985 G St., Arcata, CA 95521.

The fictitious business name was filed in Humboldt County on October 2008.

Jack N. Limmer 7076 Brookwood Dr Bayside, CA 95524 /s/ Jack N Limmer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on December 13, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/27/2012, 1/3, 1/10, 1/17/2013 (12-356)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00724

The following person is doing business as C. W. WOOD PRODUCTS at 2051 Eel River Dr., Fortuna, CA 95540, P.O. Box 747, Fortuna, CA 95540.

William Louis Crosswhite 3203 Hwy 36 Hydesville, CA 95547 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00726

The following person is doing business as REVRIE SKATEBOARDS at 1582 Freshwater Road, Eureka, CA 95503.

Corey C. Venema 1582 Freshwater Road Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by An Individual.

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

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on December 13, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013, 1/10, 1/17 (12-350)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00693

The following person is doing business as SWEET BIRD BAKING COMPANY at 325 10TH Street, Unit A, Arcata, CA 95521.

Kirsten Vogelsang 325 10th Street, Unit A Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by An Individual.

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

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on November 27, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/20, 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013, 1/10 (12-349)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00701

The following person is doing business as REDWOOD CURTAIN LIVE at 3614 Pennsylvania Ave., Eureka, CA 95501.

Daniel Deluhery 3614 Pennsylvania Ave. Eureka, CA 95501 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/1/2012. /s Dan Deluhery.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on December 3, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/20, 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013, 1/10/2013 (12-348)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00715

The following person is doing business as SCOOTER’S LANDSCAPING AND FIREWOOD at 2055 Lewis Ave., Arcata, CA 95521, P.O. Box 1006, Arcata, CA 95518.

Tyler David Binion

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00706

The following person is doing business as FORBES & ASSOCIATES ERIC CECCHIN at 1807 Central Ave., McKinleyvillle, CA 95519.

Eric Cecchin 777 Frontage Road Trinidad, CA 95570 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/03/12. /s Eric Cecchin.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on December 3, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013 (12-342)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00709

The following person is doing business as SCHILL ART STUDIO & GALLERY at 1649 Main Street, Fortuna, CA 95540, P.O. Box 833, Fortuna, CA 95540.

Monica Lynne Schill P.O. Box 177 / 27972 Hwy 36 Bridgeville, CA 95526 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2013. /s Monica Schill.

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

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013 (12-343)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00673

The following persons are doing business as AUDIO WAVES at 433 Ewing Street, Trinidad, CA 95570, P.O. Box 461, Trinidad, CA 95570.

Alan J. Grau & Leslie A. Farrar Family Trust 433 Ewing St. Trinidad, CA 95570 The business is conducted by A Trust.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/13/2012. /s Alan J. Grau, Trustee.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on November 14, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2012 (12-339)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00690

The following person is doing business as REJOYCE - DESIGNS at 410 Ackerman Lane, Carlotta, Ca 95528.

Joyce M. Thurman 410 Ackerman Lane Carlotta, CA 95528 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/26/12. /s Joyce M. Thurman.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on November 26, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2012 (12-336)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00694

The following person is doing business as ROCKN IT at 497 Howard Heights Rd., Eureka, CA 95503.

Nicolas Tweedie 497 Howard Heights Rd. Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/01/2012. /s Nicolas Tweedie.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00699

The following persons are doing business as APA ENTERPRISES at 2839 F Street, Eureka, CA 95501.

Alfred K. Abrahamsen 4400 Cedar Street Eureka, CA 95503 Alice S. Pryor 3425 Bernal Avenue Pleasanton, CA 94566 Kent H. Pryor 3425 Bernal Avenue Pleasanton, CA 94566 The business is conducted by A General Partnership.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Alfred K. Abrahamsen.

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

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2012 (12-340)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00700

The following persons are doing business as EUREKAN APARTMENTS at 2839 F Street, Eureka, CA 95501.

Alfred K. Abrahamsen 4400 Cedar Street Eureka, CA 95503 Alice S. Pryor 3425 Bernal Avenue Pleasanton, CA 94566 The business is conducted by A General Partnership.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Alfred K. Abrahamsen.

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

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk 12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2012 (12-341)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV120736 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501

PETITION OF: RYON M. MARKUSSEN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: RYON M. MARKUSSEN for a decree changing names as follows: Present name RAYMOND LEE HAYDEN JR. to Proposed Name TA:NA’N NEWTON MARKUSSEN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written

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The following person is doing business as OMSBERG & PRESTON at 434 7th Street, Suite B, Eureka, CA 95501.

Kimberly Denise Preston 841 13th Street Fortuna, CA 95540 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2008. /s Kimberly D. Preston.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on December 3, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2012 (12-337)

ANSWERS NEXT WEEK! ACROSS 1. Federal agcy. that has trained approximately 800 explosives detection canine teams 4. Give for free 8. “Midnight Run” actor Charles 14. Line of Canon cameras 15. Wishes otherwise 16. Definitely a day for air conditioning 17. Winter hrs. in St. Louis 18. Commando weapons 19. Overseas 20. Put-down said while lying down?

23. Entre ____ 24. Pizzeria purchase

25. Pam’s husband on “The Office” 27. Obvious spot to look for wool?

32. Chapman of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” 34. Noxious 35. LI x L 36. Discovery on an archaeological site where a voyeuristic civilization once lived?

41. Info on modern business cards 43. Cries of surprise 44. Ruler’s domain 46. Botched pronunciation of “oink”?

51. “____ open!”

52. Apt. feature, in ads

54. Forearm bone 55. “What a great time!” (or, read differently, an apt comment related to 20-, 27-, 36- or 46-Across) 61. Hold ‘em declaration 62. Grab bag 63. “I’m not so into it” 64. Heave 65. Sharer’s pronoun 66. Ice climber’s tool 67. Imposes, as a tax 68. 1987 Costner role 69. Barrett of Pink Floyd

DOWN 1. Synth-heavy music 2. “Already?”

3. Walking like a peacock 4. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” Oscar winner 5. Liqueur in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” 6. Words after count or let 7. “Hey ... over here!”

8. ‘90s UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-____ 9. Stuck up, say 10. Other, in Oaxaca 11. It’s perpendicular to a threshold 12. Stuck 13. “Game of Thrones” protagonist ____ Stark

21. -like relative 22. LAPD alert 26. Blanc who voiced Porky Pig 28. Threshold 29. Blistex target 30. “It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am” speaker 31. “Can you hear ____?”

33. “Er-r ...”

36. It’s often hung on the wall at a sports bar 37. Foreigner’s subj.

38. 4 on a phone 39. Truck scale unit 40. Sugar suffix 41. Ocean State sch.

42. Pension recipient 45. It may be spotted in kindergarten 46. Deal with moguls?

47. Suffix with ear or arm 48. Alpaca relatives 49. Hardly alluring 50. Got clean 53. Actresses Judith and Dana 56. LP player 57. Palindromic time 58. Arts and crafts purchase 59. Snobs put them on 60. One with fire power?

61. Fighting something, say

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00704

The following person is doing business as NORTH COAST LAUNDRIES at 128 Grange Road, Eureka, CA 95503.

Lola Marlene Moore 128 Grange Road Eureka, CA 95503 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on n/a. /s Lola Marlene Moore.

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

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Humboldt County on November 27, 2012.

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 12-00714

CROSSWORD By David Levinson Wilk

2055 Lewis Ave. Arcata, CA 95521 The business is conducted by An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/10/2012. /s Tyler Binion.

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

CAROLYN CRNICH Humboldt County Clerk

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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 15, 2013 Time: 1:45 p.m.

The address of the court is: Same as noted above, Dept. 8 Date: November 30, 2012 Filed: December 1, 2012 /s/ DALE A. REINHOLTSEN Judge of the Superior Court 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013, 1/10, 1/17 (12-354)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RAYMOND JEFFERSON SIMONS, AKA RAYMOND J. SIMONS, AKA JEFF SIMONS CASE NO. PR120308

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RAYMOND JEFFERSON SIMONS, aka RAYMOND J. SIMONS, aka JEFF SIMONS A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by WANDA SIMONS in the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that WANDA SIMONS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 10, 2013 at 1:50 p.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept. 8.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court

before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code Section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: DONALD W. BICKNELL, CSB #83266 LAW OFFICE OF DONALD W. BICKNELL 732 5TH STREET, SUITE H EUREKA, CA 95501 (707) 443-0878 DECEMBER 17, 2012 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 12/27/2012, 1/3/2013, 1/10 (12-351)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF THOMAS KEITH BUTTE, ALSO KNOWN AS THOMAS K. BUTTE CASE NO. PR120296

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: THOMAS KEITH BUTTE, also known as THOMAS K. BUTTE A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SARAH JEAN OLIVER in the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SARAH JEAN OLIVER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an

interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 3, 2013 at 1:50 p.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept. 8.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code Section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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707.445.9641 www.sequoiapersonnel.com 2930 E Street Eureka, CA 95501

Open Door is seeking the following medical professionals:

DIRECTOR OF NURSING 1 F/T Arcata CASE MANAGER 1 F/T Eureka RN CLINIC COORDINATOR 1 F/T Crescent City MEDICAL ASSISTANT 1 F/T Crescent City, 1 F/T Willow Creek RDA1 F/T Eureka Call (707) 826-8633 ext 5140 Visit www.opendoorhealth.com

PROGRAMMER POOL (JOB #1164) P/T, temporary, pool position in Information Technology Services. Review: 1/4/2013. For more info visit: www.humboldt.edu/ jobs or call 707-826-3626. HSU is an ADA/Title IX/EOE (E-1227) CALIFORNIA MENTOR. Is seeking committed people willing to share their home with an adult with developmental disabilities.

We are seeking Mentors who have experience with insulin dependent diabetics & live in the McKinleyville/Arcata area. We offer a competitive monthly stipend & 24 hour support. Call Jamie at (707) 442-4500 ext. 14. (E-1226) CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHER. Humboldt County Chinese School is looking for experienced Chinese Language teachers for beginning and intermediate youth classes, Feb./Mar. 2013. Contact Bernie Levy (707) 445-1781 or levyb@ eurekacityschools.org for more information. (E-1227) HELP WANTED!!! Extra income!

Mailing Brochures from home!

Free supplies! Genuine opportunity! No experience required. Start immediately! www.mailingcentral. net (AAN CAN) (E-0228)

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MARKETING DIRECTOR. The Marketing Director is an integral part of the Cypress Grove Chevre management team participating in setting vision, mission and goals for the company. The right person will have 7+ years of marketing experience and will work closely with the Sales Director and Creative Director to achieve the brand and sales goals of the company.

Learn more about the position by visiting the “Newsroom” section of CypressGroveChevre.com. (E-1227) CUSTOMER SERVICE/FLOOR MANAGER. Chautauqua Natural Foods is looking for a person with customer service experience and knowledge of natural and organic products for it’s new Garberville store opening in Dec. 2012, Contact Peg (707) 923-2636. (E-1227) OPENINGS AVAILABLE. Part Time & On-Call Mental Health Aides, Dietary Aides, Housekeepers. Needed for Mental Health Rehabilitation Center. Apply at Crestwood Behavioral Health, 2370 Buhne St, Eureka. (E-0110) HOME CAREGIVERS PT/FT. Nonmedical caregivers to assist elderly in their homes. Top hourly fees.

442-8001. (E-1226)

4254 Fairway Drive, Eureka

- Arcata Location $50,000-$70,000

Seeking an experienced Manager for Arcata store.

Responsible for the operation of large, full-service, Certified Organic Grocery. Supervising a staff of 90+ employees, leads the way in providing exceptional customer service to our 12,000 member owners.

Participate in the overall planning and management of the co-op. Exp. in natural foods, understanding and commitment to the cooperative business model and a proven, successful management history. Exp. working in a union environment is a plus. Bachelor’s degree preferred plus five years of progressive management exp. or an equivalent combination.

We offer a competitive wage package dependant upon experience, excellent benefits package.

Job description and application @ www.northcoastco-op.com/about.htm#employment Please submit resume and letter of interest to HR at: hr@northcoastco-op.com AIRLINE CAREERS. Become an Aviation Maintenance Tech. FAA approved training. Financial aid if qualified, Housing available.

Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 877-492-3059. (AAN CAN) (E-0117) EARN $500 A DAY. Airbrush & Media Makeup Artists. For: Ads TV Film Fashion. Train & Build Portfolio in 1 week. Lower Tuition for 2012. AwardMakeupSchool. com (AAN CAN) (E-1227) $$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary!

Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 http:// www.easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN) (E-0321)

Rentals ELK RIVER 2900 SF 5BD HOME. No pets. Call for Details. 443-2246.

(R-1227)

HUMBOLDT PLAZA APTS.

Openings soon available for HUD Sec. 8 Waiting Lists for 2, 3 & 4 bedrm apts.

Annual Income Limits: 1 pers. $20,300; 2 pers. $23,200; 3 pers. $26,100; 4 pers. $28,950; 5 pers. $31,300; 6 pers. $33,600; 7 pers. $35,900; 8 pers. $38,250.

ARCATA 3BD/1BA HOUSE. Lincoln Ave., Close to HSU. Garage, W/D. $1450/month, lease or mtm, deposit required. Available Jan. 7.

No smoking/pets/party/growing.

(707) 499-7942. (R-0103) HO HO HO HOLIDAY SPECIAL. First months rent free. Great 1BD apartments. $725. Kramer Investment Corporation. Close to HSU, parking and laundry. (707) 4442919, www.kkramer.com. (R-1227) NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS. Plaza Point Apartments, 977 8th St., Arcata. 1 & 2 bedroom apartments and also apartments with special design features for individuals with a disability. Inquire as to the availability of rental subsidy. Must be 62 years of age or older; or disabled, regardless of age. Call (707) 822-2770, Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-1 p.m. TDD #1-800-735-2929.

We are an equal opportunity provider and employer. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACCESS. (R-0103) ALL AREAS-ROOMMATES.COM. ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse!

Visit: http://www.Roommates. com. (AAN CAN) (R-0620) MCKINLEYVILLE 2BD/1.5BA TOWNHOUSE. 1265 Haven Ln. #A. W/S/G Pd. Sec 8 range, refridg, dw, yard, w/c pet. Rent $750. Vac 01/01. www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197.

(R-1227) ARCATA REMODELED 2BD/2BA SPLIT LEVEL APT. 425 Bayside Ct. #B. W/S/G Pd w/c cat Rent $1165, ,www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-1227)

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EHO. Hearing impaired: TDD Ph# 1-800-735-2922. Apply at Office: 2575 Alliance Rd. Arcata, 8am-12pm & 1-4pm, M-F (707) 822-4104

BEAUTIFUL 3BD/2BA HOUSE. $1675 /mo.

Large two car garage, fireplace, a cook’s dream kitchen, washer and dryer hookups, private fenced yard, close to golf course and Grant Elementary School.

CBC Pacific Partners Property Management (707) 441-1315

EUREKA STUDIO APARTMENTS. 1140 E St., #26 & #32. W/S/G/Pd. Sec 8, range, refridg, w/c cat. Rent $515. Vac 12/08. www.ppmrentals. com, Rental hotline (707) 4449197. (R-1227) EUREKA. 2BD/1BA APARTMENT. 230 Wabash Ave. #20, W/S/G Pd. Rent $650. Section 8 OK. Cat OK Vac 01/06 www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197.

(R-1227) EUREKA 2BD/1.5 BA TOWNHOUSE. 2610 Fairfield St. #3, W/S/G Pd. Range, refridge ,dw Rent $940 Vac 02/01, www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-1227) EUREKA COTTAGE 1BD/1BA. 1134 A St. Range, refridge Rent $700 Vac Now ,www.ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197.

(R-1227) EUREKA 2BD/1BA HOUSE. 2744 F St. Range, refridge,yard, hook-ups garage. Rent $950 Vac 12/30, www. ppmrentals.com, Rental hotline (707) 444-9197. (R-1227)

FORTUNA 2BD/1BA APARTMENT. 1016 Loni Dr. W/S/G Pd. Sec 8 range, refridg, dw. Rent $625 Vac Now ,www.ppmrentals. com, Rental hotline (707) 4449197. (R-1227) EUREKA HOUSEMATE . For 2BD/1BA furnished 2nd floor seniors apartment in the Meadows. $450/month, $70/utilities, $500/deposit. Lease. Must be 42 or older. (707) 672-4096.

(R-1227)

Business Rentals LOOKING FOR MEDITATION SPACE. Want to rent quiet space for meditation studio, 300-400 sq feet, with bathroom, in Arcata, preferably downtown. Call (707) 633-5072. (BR-0117) DOWNTOWN EUREKA OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE. Close to Courthouse. Call 443-2246 for sizes and pricing. (BR-1227) RETAIL & OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE. In historic Jacoby’s Storehouse. Call 826-2426. (BR-0103) DANCE STUDIO RENTAL. Humboldt Capoeira Academy offers rental space for the performing arts, beautiful 2800 sq. f.t dance space offers hardwood floors, wall-to wall windows, full length mirrors, and dressing rooms.

Convenient location is visible from the plaza, and will help you to promote your classes.

Check with us for rates and availability. Contact Sarara at (707) 498-6155, or sararacdo@hotmail. com. (BR-1226)

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Carriage Business for Sale

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Old Town Carriage Co. has been in operation since 1989.

Sale includeS: • 2009 Troyer built anderson Vis-à-vis • Two traffic safe Percheron draft horses • 1994 chevy ¾ ton pick-up truck

• 20ft. Gooseneck trailer • all harness, equipment, misc. supplies • Transfer of license, permits, insurance • Thorough training, consulting included This is an outstanding opportunity if you like horses and want to have a thriving business in a welcoming community that supports and appreciates your efforts. Price: $32,000.

Call 707-601-3638 or email oldtowncarriage@gmail.com

EUREKA FLORIST FOR SALE. $169,000, Plus inventory. Priced for quick sale. Turnkey, will train. 4434811, eurekaflorist.net. (RE-0117) 20 ACRES FREE. Buy 40-Get 60 acres. $0-Down, $168/month.

Money back gaurentee. NO CREDIT CHECKS. Beautiful views. Roads/ surveyed. Near El Paso, Texas.

1-800-843-7537 www.SunsetRanches.com (AAN CAN) (RE-1227) WILLOW CREEK PROPERTY. 1.33 acres, Willow Creek Community Service District Water, underground power & phone at property. R-2 soils report and perk tested. Approved septic system design by Trinity Engineering.

Property is zoned RST. Property is located off Highway 299 on private road one mile east of Willow Creek. Ready to build. $99,900 will consider offers. (530) 629-2031 (RE-1227)

Lodging/Travel VACATION RENTAL. King Range, Great for family gatherings, workshops, small events, solar powered, easy access, handicap friendly. min. 3 nights www.chemisemountainretreat.com, 9867794. (L-0124)

Auto PLACE YOUR AUTO AD!

616 Second St. Old Town Eureka 707.443.7017

BIG SALE!

Info & Pictures at

artcenterframeshop@gmail.com

WWW.CARLJOHNSONCO.COM Preview Weds. 11-5, Thurs. 11 on ADVANCE NOTICE: NEXT AUCTION THURS. JAN. 10TH 5:45 PM

PLACE YOUR PET AD!

Estate furniture and household misc. + additions

20 words and a photo,

Auto CASH FOR CARS. Any Car/Truck.

Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid.

We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN) (A-0404) YOUR ROCKCHIP IS MY EMERGENCY! Glaswelder, Mobile, windshield repair. 442-GLAS, Humboldtwindshieldrepair.com (A-0606)

IN FULL COLOR

for only $25 per week!

Call 442-1400 or e-mail classified@northcoastjournal.com

3950 Jacobs Ave. Eureka • 443-4851

Vintage Clothing Furniture, Housewares & more!

Buy/Sell/Trade SHOES & SOCKS 1/2 PRICE! Green Tagged Clothes 25¢. Dec. 27-29 Dream Quest Thrift Store in Willow Creek. Helping provide opportunities for local youth.

(BST-1227)

Yard Sale 996 1 1th s t.

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SALE KITS • $7

20 words and a photo, IN FULL COLOR for only $25 per week!

Call 442-1400 or e-mail classified@northcoastjournal.com

Special sports memorabilia lot from Sports Bar closing, estate furniture + additions.

310 F Street., Eureka, CA 95501 Phone 442-1400 • Fax 442-1401 www.northcoastjournal.com carmen@northcoastjournal.com

THE

IT’S FIREWOOD TIME! Alder, Douglas Fir, Juniper, Madrone (sometimes), Oak, Pepperwood, & Kindling. Call for current availability. We can deliver. Almquist Lumber Company, Boyd Road, Arcata. Open 7 days a week.

Stop by or call; (707) 825-8880 (BST-0328) THE BEAD LADY. For all your needs in beads! Glass beads, leather, shells, findings, jewelry.

Kathy Chase Owner, 76 Country Club Dr. Ste. 5, Willow Creek.

(530) 629-3540. krchase@yahoo. com. (BST-1226)

FLASHBACK 116 W. Wabash 443-3259 Approx. 1-6 Closed Tues.

SALE: SELECT BLACK

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K STREET ANNEX

11th & K Streets, Arcata

822-8288

TEMPUR-PEDIC FOR SALE. California King Tempur-Pedic mattress and box springs. This is the BellaSonna model and is about two years old.

Entire set is in like new condition.

This mattress is medium to firm support. Originally sold for approx. $5,000, selling for $2,000. Injuries from a recent accident are forcing us into a softer mattress. Text message to 845-4698 only. Available to view in the evenings. (BST-1227)

Pets

WOOF DEDOO PET WASTE REMOVAL SERVICE. Don’t do it, let us dedoo it! www.woofdedoo. com (P-0124)

Services PIERCE’S COMPLETE ORCHARD CARE. Professional fruit tree pruning and orchard maintenance. Andrew Pierce (707) 672-4398. (S-0228) SEABREEZE CLEANING CO. Office & Rentals, Licensed & Bonded (707) 834-2898 (S-0131) STITCHES -N-BRITCHES IN MCKINLEYVILLE. Kristin Anderson, Seamstress. Mending, Alterations, Custom Sewing. Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Bella Vista Plaza, Suite 8A, McKinleyville. (707) 502-5294.

Facebook: Kristin Anderson’s Stitches-n-Britches. Kristin360cedar@gmail.com (S-0131) BOUDOIR PHOTOGRAPHY. By Venus & Aphrodite, Classy to sassy, comfort and privacy guaranteed. $40 fall special. 223-4172. (S-0110)

• Grooming & Boarding by Linn • Gentle Professional Grooming Since 1989

1701 Giuntoli Lane Arcata • groomingbyLinn.com • 826-0903

AIR-SOURCE HEAT PUMPS. Use solar energy to heat your home, a proven technology, reasonably priced, Sunlight Heating-CA lic. #972834. rockydrill@gmail.com, (707) 502-1289 (S-0117) CREATIVE WRITING COACH/ EDITOR Nurturing, collaborative editing and creative coaching will make your work shine. All styles welcome. C.Baku, MFA. www. carlabaku.com. (S-0207) A’O’KAY JUGGLING CLOWN & WIZARD OF PLAY. Amazing performances and games for all ages. Events, Birthdays, Festivals, Kidszones. I’ll Juggle, Unicycle, & bring Toys. aokayClown.com, (707) 499-5628. (S-1226)

New manager?

Co-worker problems?

Personnel issues?

Office politics?

Achieve Your Professional Potential with a Business Coach Louisa Rogers louisarogers7@yahoo.com louisarogers.vpweb.com

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Community BE YOURSELF. Participants find their unique attributes and put them to use at LifetreeCafe this week, Sun. Dec., 30, 7 p.m. 76 13th St., Arcata. 672-2919, www. campbellcreek.org for more info.

(C-1227) ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE. from Home. *Medical, *Business, *Criminal Justice,*Hospitality. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified.

SCHEV authorized. Call 800-4819472 www.CenturaOnline.com (AAN CAN) (C-0117) SEX/ PORN DAMAGING YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS ? Confidential help is available. saahumboldt@yahoo.com or 845-8973 (C-1226) BECOME A FOSTER PARENT. Provide a safe and stable environment for youth 13-18 for them to learn and grow in their own community. Contact the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Foster Care Hotline at 441-5013 and ask for Peggy. (C-0124)

Harvey’s Harvey’s Ha H aarvey’s arvey y at

ALL UNDER ER HEAVEN HE H EA AV VE EN N

Old Town, Eureka 212 F St., 444-2936

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Arcata Plaza 825-7760

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(707) 443-1104 humboldtcremation.com No membership required.

Only funeral provider in Humboldt County to be certified by the Green Burial Council.

Legal Services Kathleen Bryson Attorney DUI & DMV Hearings Cultivation/Possession Juvenile Delinquency Misdemeanors & Felonies Former Hum. Co. Deputy DA Member of CA DUI Lawyers Assoc.

Music

MUSIC LESSONS. Piano, Guitar, Voice, Flute, etc. Piano tuning, Instrument repair. Digital multitrack recording. (707) 476-9239.

(M-0221) SAXOPHONE/FLUTE LESSONS. All ages, beginner-advanced, jazz improvisation, technique. Susie Laraine: 441-1343. (M-1227) GUITAR/PIANO/VOICE LESSONS. All ages, beginning and intermediate. Seabury Gould 444-8507. (M-0606) Too many tubas, overwhelmed with sTuff? Are your crowded shelves an earthquake hazard? List it all here.

442-1400. Visa/MC

Post your job opportunities in www.northcoastjournal.com • 442-1400

445-7715 1-888-849-5728

Humboldt domestiC ViolenCe serViCes

443-6042 1-866-668-6543 rape Crisis team Crisis line

445-2881

national Crisis Hotline

1-800 SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) national suiCide preVention lifeline

1-800-273-TALK YoutH serViCe bureau YoutH & familY Crisis Hotline

444-2273

Hmmm.....

What to do with that Christmas money? Find something you really want.

All six weeks of our

your ideal employee may be a Journal reader. 442-1400. VISA/ MC. Place your ad onlinle at www. northcoastjournal.com 0

ALLIANCE LAWN & GARDEN CARE. Affordable, Dependable, and Motivated Yard maintenance.

We’ll take care of all your basic lawn and garden needs. Including hedging, trimming, mowing, and hauling. Call for estimates (707) 834-9155, (707) 825-1082. (S-0228) ARCATA CLEANING COMPANY. The non-toxic cleaning solution for your home or office. 707-8227819. (S-0606) WRITING CONSULTANT/EDITOR. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry.

Dan Levinson, MA, MFA. 443-8373. www.ZevLev.com. (S-1226)

BRADLEY DEAN ENTERTAINMENT. Singer Songwriter. Old Rock, Country, Blues. Private Parties, Bars, Gatherings of all Kinds.

832-7419. (M-0207) PIANO LESSONS BEGINNING TO ADVANCED ALL AGES. 30 years joyful experience teaching all piano styles. Juilliard trained, remote lessons available. Nationally Certified Piano Teacher.

Humboldtpianostudio.com. (707) 502-9469 (M-0606) PIANO LESSONS. Beginners, all ages. Experienced. Judith Louise 476-8919. (M-0606)

Hiring?

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HELICOPTER FLIGHT LESSONS/ SCENIC TOURS. $195/hr. www. redwoodcoasthelicopters.com (S-0228) 2 GUYS & A TRUCK. Carpentry, Landscaping, Junk Removal, Clean Up, Moving. Contact (707) 8453087. (S-1227) REACH 5 MILLION. hip, forwardthinking consumers across the U.S. When you advertise in alternative newspapers, you become part of the local scene and gain access to an audience you won’t reach anywhere else. http://www.altweeklies.com/ads (AAN CAN) (S-0124) TAI CHI GARDENER. Maintaining balance in your yard. Well equipt.

Maintenance + Projects 18 yrs experience. Call Orion 825-8074, taichigardener.com. (S-0606) ERIC’S SERVICES. Home Repair, Maintenance, Affordable Prices (707) 499-4828. (S-0808) CLARITY WINDOW CLEANING. Services available. Call Julie 8391518. (S-0606)

FREE CONSULTATION 732 5th Street, Suite C, Eureka, CA 95501 707.268.8600 kbesq@sbcglobal.net

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GIT YER VALSSAGE!

Energy Life Center

Swedish, Deep Tissue & Therapeutic Massage.

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Gift Certificates Available (707) 599-5639

Valerie Schramm

707-822-5244

Medical Cannabis Evaluations Facilitating patient use of medical cannabis for over 10 years.

Michael D. Caplan, M.D. Gary W. Barsuaskas, N.P.

Call for Walk-in Availability Veteran / Senior /SSI DiscountS

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Diana Nunes Mizer

Private Practice, CA State Licensed School, Career Training in Holistic Health Education

New Year Special

Weekeknd Massage CliniC 2000 – 1/2 Hour Session 3500 – 1 Hour Session For a limited time only

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NEW CLIENTS $10 OFF. Myrtletowne Healing Center 1480, #A Myrtle Ave. A Hidden Gem on Myrtle Ave., specializing in therapeutic massage. We will assist you on your road to recovery or work with you on that chronic pain issue. Swedish, deep tissue, trigger point, reflexology, acupressure, uterine centering, lymph drainage, lomi lomi, and more. Founders Hilary Wakefield and Sarah Maier are both Doulas, we do pregnancy massage as well! You are worth it, call today (707) 441-9175 (MB-1226) doTERRA ESSENTIAL OILS. Amazing results with no side effects.

Maureen Brundage, (707) 4987749, www.californiadoterra.com, maureen@californiadoterra.com (MB-0214) CERTIFIED MASSAGE THERAPIST. Samantha Dudman-Miller, (707) 616-6031. (MB-0124) YOUR next client may be a Journal reader. Offer your health services here in the Marketplace. 442-1400.

THE SPINE IS YOUR CONDUIT FOR LIFE-FORCE ENERGY. Open to the Alignment of Your Whole Self: Chiropractic by Dr. Scott Winkler, D.C. and Energy Work by Rebecca Owen. 822-1676. (MB-0919) COACHING FOR PERSONAL EVOLUTION WITH REBECCA OWEN. Access your wholeness by cultivating your Presence in the Now and learning to clear old patterns. 822-5253. (MB-0919) HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT. Bachelors, Masters, D.D./Ph.D., distance learning, University of Metaphysical Sciences. Bringing professionalism to metaphysics.

(707) 822-2111 (MB-0606) ZUMBA WITH MARLA JOY. Elevate, Motivate, Celebrate another day of living. Exercise in Disguise. Now is the time to start, don’t wait. All ability levels are welcome. Every Mon. and Thurs. at the Bayside Grange 6-7 p.m., 2297 Jacoby Creek Rd. $6/$4 Grange members. Every Wed. 6-7 p.m. in Fortuna at the Monday Club, 610 Main St. Every Tues. at the Trinidad Town Hall, Noon and every Thurs. at the Eureka Vets Hall, Noon. Marla Joy (707) 845-4307, marlajoy.zumba.com (MB-0110)

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Marriage & Family Therapist, MFC 47122

Gambling Treatment • Trauma Recovery Addiction Treatment • Stress Management DOT/SAP

Ongoing Classes Workshops Private Sessions

739 12th St., Fortuna 4677 Valley West Blvd.

Arcata

www.northcoast-medical.com

ENERGY MEDICINE

Certified Massage Therapist

LOSE WEIGHT/GAIN HEALTH, FROM THE INSIDE OUT. Dave Berman, Clinical Hypnotist. (707) 845-3749. www.ManifestPositivity.com. Helping the YOUniverse conspire on your behalf. (MB-1227) GET HEALTHY NOW. Feeling tired and sluggish? You may be missing some of the 40 nutrients our bodies need each day. Let us help you get your health back.

(707) 839-4527. (MB-0103) TAROT AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PATH. Beginners and more experienced readers class begin Jan. 2013.

Free Introduction at Humboldt Herbals and Moonrise Herbs. Call Carolyn Ayres, 442-4240, or see schedules at www.tarotofbecoming.com. (MB-1227)

Wallet ID cards available (707) 826-1165

HEAT THERAPY

ARCATA ZEN GROUP MEDITATION. Beginners welcome. Sun., 8 a.m. North Coast Aikido Center, on F St. between 8th and 9th in Arcata. Wed., 6-7 p.m. at First Christian Church, 730 K, Eureka, ramp entrance and upstairs; newcomers please come 5 minutes early. Sun. contact, 826-1701. Wed. contact, barryevans9@yahoo. com, or for more info. call (707) 826-1701, www.arcatazengroup. org. (MB-1227)

AIKIDO. Is an incredibly fascinating and enriching non-violent martial art with its roots in traditional Japanese budo. Focus is on personal growth and pursuit of deeper truth instead of competition and fighting. Yet the physical power you can develop is very real. Come observe any time and give it a try! The dojo is on Arcata Plaza above the mattress store, entrance is around back. Class every weeknight starting at 6 p.m., beginning enrollment is ongoing. www.northcoastaikido.org, info@ northcoastaikido.org, 826-9395.

(MB-1227)

Looking for a romantic getaway?

The Wedding Guide is available at newsstands and wedding retailers throughout Humboldt & online at

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ASTROLOGY & TAROT. With Salina Rain: Readings, Counseling and Classes. Mon., 1:25 p.m. KHSU 90.5 FM. (707) 668-5408. astro@ salinarain.com, www.salinarain. com. (MB-0606) DANCE-FIT. Dance, aerobics & strength training all in one class!

Mon., Wed. & Fri. 9-10 a.m First class is free. Drop in for $5 per class or 14 classes for $55. No Limits tap & jazz studio, corner of 10th & K st.

Arcata. 825-0922 (MB-1226) YOUR next client may be a Journal reader. Offer your health services here in the Marketplace. 442-1400.

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$99,900

2 bed, 1 bath, 946 sq ft gambrel style home in the area above Bigfoot Golf Course in Willow Creek, one bedroom downstairs & a loft bedroom upstairs, great summer retreat, garden area

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$329,900

5 bed, 3.5 bath, 2,720 sq ft single level ranch home in Eureka with huge extra bonus room, located on 1/3 acre, lots of parking, two car garage, attached carport, solarium, on demand water heater

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Butler Valley Land/Property +/-40 acres only 35 minutes from Arcata.

Sylvia Garlick #00814886 Broker GRI/ Owner 1629 Central Ave., McKinleyville 707-839-1521 • mingtreesylvia@yahoo.com

Property boasts year round creek, old homestead, developed building sites and amazing views. OWC.

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PIERSON-STYLE home built in 1953. This one-owner home has 3 bedrooms, hardwood floors, and is all redwood construction.

It is located on a quiet street in a good neighborhood. A good first-time buyer or investment home.. MLS# 236808 $114,750

$250,000

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Weitchpec Land/Property

+/-80 acres near Martins Ferry. Wooded property with cleared building sites, small cabin, developed year round spring and county road access. Property touches the Klamath River.

$325,000

Willow Creek Land/Property

+/-250 acres near Waterman Ridge, only a half an hour from Willow Creek. Property boats Southern exposure, timber, two large year round springs, great access and multiple developed building sites.

$450,000

2120 CAMPTON RD. STE #C – EUREKA, CA 95503

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