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Greenview Park Baywood logging could begin next month

gets approved,
budget tightened
Kevin L. Hoover
Mad RiveR Union
ARCATA The grassroots effort to trans-
form Greenview Park into an inclusive play-
ground which includes amenities for those
with physical challenges has culminated in
awards of contracts, with construction set to
begin.
At its July 5 meeting, the Arcata City
Kevin L. Hoover
Mad RiveR Union
SUNNY BRAE/BAYSIDE Now that
Baywood Golf & Country Clubs Timber
Harvest Plan (THP) has passed its second
review, the logging trucks could start roll-
ing up and down Sunny Braes Buttermilk
Lane next month.
Baywood hopes to log about 73 forest-
ed and grassland acres in and around its
Bayside golf course over the next few years
in order to bolster its finances (Union,
April 5). The plan, THP 1-17-044HUM,
has drawn both support and fierce objec-
tions by area residents.
Draft versions of the THP were riddled
with errors substantive and typograph-
ical, though following a June 29 Second
Review at the Fortuna office of the Cali-
fornia Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection (CalFire), the plan was further
amended and corrected. On July 4, Bay-
woods registered professional forester,
Cameron Holmgren, signed off on the
changes. On July 5, CalFire Review team
Chair found the plan conformant with
the agencys standards, with all signifi-
cant impacts mitigated. Final, state-level
approval must be determined within 15
working days, and appears likely.
If approved, logging could take place
year-round for up to five years, though
winter operations would be minimized,
as wet weather limits industrial activity.
Baywood would like to get the project
LOGGING A2

A dAm
Council OKd a $139,689 construction con-
tract to GR Sundberg Inc., with a $7,311 con-
tingency fee. Other contracts for $166,811.54 site better
and $16,880.74 were issued for playground
equipment and surfacing for landscape
sculptures.
The funding was provided by the City of
Arcata, state Housing and Community De-
velopment Department (HCD) 2015 Hous-
ing-related Parks Program Grant monies
and from numerous fundraisers and spon-
sors organized by the Greenview Park Ren-
ovation Project.
Located on Lewis Avenue off 11th Street,
the park will feature tactile walls, wheelchair
rockers and other innovative structures de-
signed to offer interest and engagement to
all, including senior citizens.
Theyll have places to visit, and even
low-impact, outdoor exercise equipment
featuring hand aerobics.
Even with the sizable budget, the project
is some $16,000 short of what it needs to
fulfill its original vision. dAm RigHT The Arcata Community Forests venerable, crumbling Jolly giant
Organizer Dan Bixler said some planned dam on Road 8 east of Humboldt State has been strengthened and improved
items will be delayed, including resurfacing to handle whatever water comes its way for generations to come. The roughly
of the basketball court and installation of $200,000 retrofit project is complete and includes a number of improvements to
a water fountain. Two benches will be in- the aging dam, which once held back a reservoir that served as Arcata's water
stalled, rather than three. supply. The town can relax now knowing the dam will not fail, said mark Andre,
Construction should begin in three to four director of Environmental Services. The upgrades also remove the legacy dam
weeks. from regulation by the state's division of dam Safety, saving the city between
Those wishing to donate to the Green- $6,000 and $8,000 each year in fees. They also give water three ways to escape
view Playground Project may do so via the from the dam, should the old reservoir ever fill up in a major storm event via the
Humboldt Area Foundation at haf.org. Fol- present under-dam culvert, now with a heavy duty armored inlet, right; through a
low the parks progress in the Union and at secondary, 36-inch outfall pipe midway up the dam; and over the new spillway,
the Greenview Playground Project Facebook top photos. Unintended consequence: skaters whove seen the new spillway are
page. drooling at the possibilities. Photos courtesy Mark andre | city of arcata

Big improvements planned for Arcata Ball Park

Andrew George Butler
Mad RiveR Union
ARCATA The Arcata Ball Park may
get a facelift, with new bleachers, 400 ad-
ditional seats, improved walkways, a new
entrance and a beer garden.
Discussed at the City of Arcatas Eco-
nomic Development Committees meeting
July 6, the plans for the Arcata Ball Park
include a complete overhaul of entrance
and exit pathways including a large foray at
the head of the park, additional concession
areas and a new maintenance shed.
Deputy Director of Community Services
Julie Neander introduced the plan to the
committee. She said a consulting compa-
ny was brought on by the city to redesign
and generally assess the potential of the old
ballpark. The consulting firms tentative
plans for the park will have to undergo a se-
ries of amendments before work can begin.
Arcatas various committees, the Arcata
City Council, the public, and the Crabs or-
ganization will all have an opportunity to
add input before any renovations are ap-
proved.
Crabs Board President Bill Gruff said of
the plan This [plan] is a living creature,
as we receive more comments, things will
change.
The focal point of any potential redesign
will center around upgrading the ballparks
well-used bleachers and congested walk-
ways.
The park has more than 30,000 visitors
during Crabs two-month season, accord-
ing to Gruff. Gruff said that their biggest
focus is making seating safer. You can see
the bleachers sway back and forth while
people sign during the seventh inning
stretch, Gruff said.
Under the plan, the old bleachers would
be removed. The seating would then be
divided into two sections, and elevated
more than the current seats. The lower half
of the seating would be accessible for the
disabled, as would the walkway. The lower
walkway adjacent to home plate would be
replaced with seating, potentially bucket
style instead of bleacher. An upper walk-
way would sit atop the stadium attached to
the upper row of seating as well. The an-
nouncers booth would be raised up and
include a lift.
Gruff also said that while he thinks the
consulting firms plan has a lot of great ma-
terial, hed like to see more.
The Crabs, according to Gruff, would
like to see actual dugouts, not covered
benches, erected so that the ballpark would
meet NCAA regulations.
The seating area for the Crabs is not
big enough, forcing players to sit outside
the makeshift dugout area a situation
which is technically against the rules, ac-
cording to Gruff. Also, Gruff said hed like
to see the visiting teams have a locker room
area they can use during their contests with
the Crabs.
The city has about $100,000 set aside
in a trust fund waiting to be spent on the
ballpark. The Crabs also have been saving
money.
A modest $1 ticket price increase several
years ago has been the only pressure put on
park patrons to help raise money.
Weve been looking to upgrade the ball-
park for decades, now, Gruff said. For a
team like the Crabs, the setting you play in
is as important as the game.

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Education complements
Arcata school route project
Daniel Mintz
Mad RiveR Union
ARCATA A state grant
for walkability education
programs rounds out a
$606,000 project that in-
cludes construction of new
walking routes in the Arcata
Elementary School area.
The California Trans-
portation Commission has
included $42,000 for walk-
ability-related outreach
programs in its recent ap-
provals of transportation
funding allocations.
Its part of a Safe Routes
to School project that also
includes construction of
sidewalks, crosswalks, traf-
fic-calming circles and ac-
cessible ramps on the streets
bordering Arcata Elementa-
ry School.
The states education
funding is for eight walk/
bike safety skills lessons,
development and distribu-
tion of walking route maps,
organization of three walk/
bike to school events and
an evaluation of alternative
transportation routes in col-
laboration with Humboldt
State University students.
We want to be a bicycle-
and pedestrian-friendly city
and we already are, but this
will help us emphasize that
through education, said
Arcata Assistant Engineer
Netra Khatri. It helps to
learn at an early age what
the tools are for active trans-
portation.
The educational pro-
grams will begin this Sep-
tember.
The larger Safe Routes
to School projects envi-
ronmental studies phase is
almost done and a design
phase for the sidewalks and
associated infrastructure
will follow.
The city is contributing
$80,000 of matching funds
to the project and construc-
tion is expected to begin
next summer.
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Logging| Concerns about truck traffic on Buttermilk Lane
FRoM A1
completed in as few as two years. Hauling out the logs
would require an estimated 200 truck trips up and down
Buttermilk Lane.
Of five public comments on the Baywood THP sub-
mitted to CalFire, two supported it and three opposed it.
Most enthusiastic was 66-year Bayside resident Lin-
da Palmrose, who fondly recalled the pre-Baywood era
landscape. Aerial photos indicate that the area was first
used as a golf course before 1948. Other accounts state
that the courses back nine holes were created in 1957,
with the front nine added in the 1960s.
When I was a kid, Bayside was open and beautiful,
contrary to the jungle it has become, Palmrose said,
calling the harvest a favor to Bayside. I would hope
that they would harvest every tree on their parcel, which
would help in making that area beautiful again, she
added.
Others filed multi-page letters detailing multiple ob-
jections to, and possible problems with the plan. These
include negative impacts such as noise and pollution on
neighbors, both those bordering the golf course as well as
some along the hauling route. More objections involved UNDER REVIEW CalFire Review Team Chair Bill Fors-
the harvest exposing neighboring properties trees to berg, Baywood forester Cameron Holmgren and
blowdown, the noise and hazard of daily log trucks on Sunny Brae resident Daryl Chinn mark up the draft
narrow Buttermilk Lane especially near Sunny Brae THP with suggestions and revisions at the plans June
Middle School (SBMS), wear on roads, loss of wildlife 29 Second Review in Fortuna. KLH | Union
habitat, loss of aesthetic values, reduction of proper-
ty values, impacts on streams and endangered species, wood and outside CalFires purview.
erosion, silting, the completeness of the paperwork and Finger raised a number of issues, including traffic
more. safety, blowdown and other impacts on the community.
CalFire and other relevant regulatory agencies lodged She said that persistently spotty and vague information
a number of concerns as well. These were based on on- provided by Holmgren and Baywood reflected a very in-
going reviews of the evolving plan, public comment and adequate response to issues raised by citizens, some of

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GENEROUS SUPPORT Veterans Bill Kohse and Wayne
Coldwell Premier Financial present American Legion
Commander Jeff Sterling with a donation of $10,000
for a new PA system for the Arcata Veterans Memorial
Building. The Vets Hall continues its dynamic evolution
as a community activity hub, with weekly events for
veterans and the public alike. Tonight is Game Night
at the hall. For a full rundown of activities, see the Ar-
cata Vets Hall Facebook page. SUbmitted pHoto
FoREST MANAGEMENT Arcatas Forest Management
Committee meets Thursday, July 13 at 7 a.m. at Arcata
City Hall, 736 F St. Agenda items include the 2017 timber
harvest; the 2016 Forest Management Committee Annual
Report; a discussion of USFWS safe harbor agreement for
certain listed species; selection of dates for a study session
on forest management planning; a status update on acqui-
sitions and grants; and more.
Correction
Its been 120 years since Mark Twain was mistakenly be-
lieved to have left this mortal coil. Now, the Union has add-
ed Eleanor Swanson to his august company [The Hum, July
5, 2017]. As Twain wrote to the New York Journals Frank
Marshall White: I have even heard on good authority that
I was dead ... The report of my death was an exaggeration.
We are assured that Eleanor Swanson is alive and kicking
in Blue Lake and wish her many many more years of both.
an onsite Pre-Harvest Inspection (PHI) which took place
June 6. The North Coast Regional Water Quality Control
Board and California Department of Fish and Wildlife
(CDFW) walked the course with Holmgren and CalFire
during the PHI.
Water Quality was mainly interested in keeping sedi-
ment from fouling waterways and preserving tree cano-
py over them. The courses heavily altered hydrology was
generally evaluated. It includes artificial ponds created
for golf course irrigation plus connecting pipes. Baywood
calls these ponds Class IV watercourses, and wanted to
harvest trees growing at the ponds edge. But Water
Quality said no to that, citing insufficient canopy and
the trees being too close to water. The agency said the
ponds should be reclassified as Class II watercourses. It
also discovered a badly installed culvert thats eroding a
channel, with pieces of plastic and concrete added to try
to abate the erosion. Water Quality wants the plastic and
concrete removed where possible without causing fur-
ther damage, then appropriately sized rock armoring
installed.
CDFW evaluated habitat conditions and asked that
corrections be made to maps. These regarded various
watercourses which were unidentified or had their clas-
sification mislabeled.
CalFire noted a number of anomalies, from shortcom-
ings in mapping and watercourse labeling to inadequate
supporting documentation.
All the outstanding flaws were brought to Holmgrens
attention at the June 29 second review. Poring over the
latest draft of the THP, Review Team Chair Bill Forsberg
noted numerous remaining references to Class IV water-
course which were supposed to have been corrected to
Class II. He told Holmgren to do a check and fix any
mentions of Class IV to Class II. Is that clear?
Yes, sir, Holmgren replied.
Sunny Brae resident Liz Finger participated by phone,
representing the Jacoby Creek Protection Association.
She said Baywoods logging has riled at least one club
member who owns property bordering the golf course,
and who has hired a lawyer to look at possible violations
of the clubs by-laws.
While some members were taken by surprise by the
logging plans and are pressing for a vote of the member-
ship on the matter, that controversy is internal to Bay-
whom are very upset. As an example, the surprise that
logging operations could occur year-round rather than
just over the summer as initially announced felt rather
disingenuous, Finger said.
Forsberg said his agency was asking Holmgren and
Baywood to be respectful of adjacent property owners
concerns. He said he had confidence in the plans envi-
ronmental mitigation measures. I feel pretty comfort-
able with this plan, Forsberg said.
Sunny Brae resident Daryl Chinn, who lives on But-
termilk Lane, detailed numerous problems with using
that street as a log hauling route. Its narrow, has no
sidewalks for pedestrian refuge in some stretches and its
25 mph speed limit is constantly violated.
A major issue was safety of Sunny Brae Middle School
students. Holmgren has resisted specifying school
dropoff and pickup hours, offering only vague and un-
enforceable language insofar as truck traffic during peak
periods. He dismissed a suggestion that hundreds of stu-
dents are swarming the school during those times.
Holmgren said that in the three months since the
THP was announced, hed been unable to establish con-
tact with SBMSs principal or superintendent, nor had
he been able to obtain a school schedule so as to spec-
ify hours during which truck passage would be restrict-
ed. After considerable discussion, Forsberg instructed
Holmgren to list school start and end times and add
them to the traffic safety mitigations.
Log trucks will not pass the school a half hour be-
fore the start of classes, and 15 minutes before and after
classes end. Truck drivers are to be supplied a copy of the
school schedule.
Tom Wheeler, executive director and staff attorney for
the Arcata-based Environmental Protection Information
Center (EPIC), has followed the Baywood THP process,
filed technical objections and attempted to keep citizens
informed. Wheeler lamented the sluggish response to
citizen concerns by Holmgren and CalFire, and the dif-
ficulty of getting revisions. Watching this sausage get
made has been an eye-opener for the community, he
said.
Download the THP, revisions and public comments
at ftp://thp.fire.ca.gov/THPLibrary/North_Coast_Re-
gion/THPs/THPs2017/1-17-044HUM/. Log in as a guest
to get around the password requirement.

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LETTER FROM HAVANA
Trump rebuffs Obamas dtente with Cuba
Mad River Union reporter Paul Mann re-
cently returned from a visit to Havana,
Cuba. He shares some news and thoughts
about the the country. Ed.
Paul Mann
Mad RiveR Union
La Habana Vieja This intriguing
16th-century city some 20 miles north of
the Tropic of Cancer has cosmopolitan
charm.
Untold americans are about to lose their
chance to enjoy it.
President Trump decided in mid-june to
halt people-to-people U.S. travel to Cuba,
once trekked by Columbus (who christened
it juana), Spains Diego Velzquez de Cul-
lar and the Prussian explorer and natural-
ist alexander von Humboldt.
although group travel will be allowed
with certain conditions, Trumps direc-
tive partly countermands one of President
Obamas major political decisions, his at-
tempt at rapprochement with the govern-
ment of Cuban dictator Ral Castro, First
Secretary of the Communist Party. (Fidel
died in november.)
among other things, Trumps decision
will likely prevent many U.S. citizens from
celebrating Old Havanas 500th anniversa-
ry in person unless they visit in groups in
2019. They will not be able to stay in ho-
tels or dine in restaurants linked to Cubas
military and franchise conglomerate, the
armed Forces business enterprises Group
(GaeSa).
all of the state-run retail stores, as well
as the eateries and hotels, are owned by
Habaguanex, a new adjunct of GaeSa. it
is said to control 40-70 percent of Cubas
foreign exchange earnings. How much goes
to the Cuban military is a guess. GaeSas
books are secret, just like Trumps taxes.
When an american exchanges dollars
for convertible pesos, known officially as
CUCs, the state takes 13 percent right off
the top. no U.S. credit cards are honored
here; Yankee purchases are cash pesos
only.
buying a Cuban tuKola soda, a bottle
of Ciego Montero mineral water or a deli-
cious Cajun steak probably helps finance
the military, lord protector of the Castro
revolution ever since the 1959 overthrow
of the prodigiously corrupt american Ma-
fia-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista.
Denouncing Communist oppression
and human rights violations in a speech in
Miamis Little Havana on june 16, Trump
called Obamas conciliatory policy com-
pletely one-sided, with no reciprocation
from Ral Castro to loosen the militarys
economic hegemony in favor of a thriving
private sector.
Critics suspect Trump has an ulterior
motive, to secure an eventual foothold for
his familys luxury hotel chain at one of the
Caribbeans most popular tourist haunts.
Obamas liberal travel rules remain
in effect for a couple of months while the
Trump administration drafts guidelines to
euchre some of them.
The Miami Herald reported in the wake
of Trumps directive that some U.S. tour
operators had previously scheduled ad-
vance hotel bookings in Old Havana for
the 500th anniversary, based in part on
Obamas peace offering. Whether those
reservations will be honored is an unknown
until the new rules are published.
The anniversary in 2019 will commemo-
rate the citys rich history and its avid em-
brace of world culture, cheek-by-jowl with
back alley slums that are nearly as squalid
and shameful as Mumbais or Dhakas, al-
though not as bad as next-door Haitis cat-
astrophic quartiers misrables. Havana is
decidedly a place of unnerving contrasts.
Graham Greene called it a city to visit, not
a city to live in in his novel satirizing in-
competent espionage, Our Man in Havana
(1959).
La Habana Vieja, essentially a Third
World city, has a First World overlay of
beautifully restored colonial villas and pal-
M AD R IVER U NION
ON THE STREETS OF HAVANA A typical street scene in Havana, with fascinating
architectyure and vintage cars. Photo from the Cuban offiCe of tourism
aces, interlaced with a few opulent hotels
and striking ecclesiastical architecture; the
italian baroque Cathedral of San Cristbal, served Cubas once flourishing sugar plan-
most of it made of coral and completed in
1777; a luminous, pearly white Russian Or-
thodox church with a dazzling gold onion
dome; and the diminutive St. nicholas of
Myra Greek Orthodox church in the shape
of an octagon with a Spanish tile roof and
cupola. ironically, a mosaic plaque nearby
depicts an archimandrite accepting the key
to the reconsecrated church from Castro in
2004. no new churches were built in Cuba
during his dictatorship.
The newest hotel is the sumptuous Gran
Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana, a
stones throw from el Capitolio nacion-
al (the Capitol building now being refur-
bished) and the national Museum of Fine
arts of Havana. The Manzana stands oppo-
site one of Hemingways favorite drinking
houses, the fuchsia-colored el Floridita,
opened in 1817 at the corner of Obispo and
Monserrate streets. it is home to a life-size
bronze of the novelist leaning with one el-
bow on the bright red La Cuna del Daiquiri
bar. The sculpture is a near perfect like-
ness of the self-advertising macho poseur.
a bronze open journal lies before him, the
pages surmounted by his wire-rimmed
eyeglasses.
On the wall just behind the writer is a
larger-than-life bust of Lenin, hung just
above an 11x14 black and white photo of
Hemingway chatting with Fidel, an image
of the highest technical merit, worthy of
ansel adams or Henri Cartier-bresson.
The ground floor of the posh, Five Star
Manzana Kempinski, which opened in May,
is a classical arcade with tony boutiques
retailing armani, Lacoste, Montblanc and
Versace merchandise to those suffering
from status anxiety. Palladian windows
decorate the second floor with the Vetruvi-
an symmetry and proportion reintroduced
by the english architect inigo jones during
the reign of Charles i.
inside the hotel is a 10,000 square foot
spa, several restaurants and bars and luxu-
ry suites for $1,385 a night.
in naked contrast, the average monthly
wage across Cuba is $20. if youre fortu-
nate, a government subsidy or a remittance
from abroad augments it.
So 21st century Havana is a mixed grill,
a gritty marine entrept steeped in revolu-
tionary nostalgia for Che Guevara, (whose
image is ubiquitous, unlike Fidels; Rals mor is shield and sanctuary from a past
is nowhere to be seen) and the cosmopol-
itan escapism financed by the American
Mafia during the immensely corrupt Batis-
ta regime, circa 1933-1959. The citys indis-
putable lan and panache are compounded
with dust, diesel fumes, cigarette smoke
(there are surprisingly few cigar smokers
in the streets), rundown three-story, mil-
dew-plagued hovels, ramshackle hole-in-
the-wall bars reminiscent of Mississippi
juke joints and sinuous, heart-of-darkness
cobblestone alles.
a butcher in a small, blacked-out go-
down slices beef in the open air, weighing
the cuts in a 1940s-vintage produce scales,
not bothering to shoo away the flies crawl-
ing all over the meat
The dark, makeshift storefront of a cav-
ernous warehouse is a bedraggled farmers
market where the halved fruit lies open to
flies and the stringy vegetables are littered
with clumps of earth, patently unappetiz-
ing.
Cramped metaled roads and a net-
work of rusticating narrow-gauge railways
Four plazas ring the citys heart: Plaza de
tations and refining mills. They were built
on the backs of african slaves from 1520 to
1886, when slavery was abolished by Span-
ish royal decree. The trains still run, held
together like the 1940s-1950s american
cars with parts from old washing machines
and whatever stray components can be
scavenged.
This colonial backwardness culminated
in the 20th century Communist govern-
ment established by the totemic Fidel Cas-
tro and Che Guevara over a society once
puckishly described as the highest stage of
underdevelopment.
Cubas arrested totalitarian develop-
ment exemplifies Dantons famous line
as he went to the scaffold at the peak of
the French Revolutionary Terror in april,
1794, memorialized in Georg bchners
play, Dantons Death: Revolution is like
Saturn, it devours its own children. in this
instance, the children are the Cuban peo-
ple. Their long on again/off again struggle
for independence and freedom, periodical-
ly disrupted by Uncle Sams imperialist am-
bitions, carries on and on under the yoke of
oppression and penury inflicted by Che and
Fidel, both of them absurdly lionized and
romanticized by the left. about 5,000 were
executed right after Castros 1959 takeover,
some without even a kangaroo-court trial.
Many thousands more were rubbed out
as time went by. Castros regime literally
drained most of the blood from the victims
before they were shot and sold it to other
Communist countries for $50 a pint.
Unbowed by their blighted past, the
Cubans are open, warm, noisy, proud and
friendly, full of gusto and exuberance.
They are expressive, animated (and vocal)
conversationalists, fervent musicians and
frenzied dancers, connoisseurs of boxing,
baseball, parti-colored Fords and Chevys
and dark humor. el Cubano no se rie, El
Cubano se mea de la risa roughly, The rys greats with bronze busts and equestri-
Cuban guy does not laugh, the Cuban guy
pisses laughter.
Given their tumultuous and treach-
ery-filled national history, Cubans accept
that the future harbors plenty of ambush-
es. One of the earliest bushwhackers was a
French pirate in search of gold who burned
much of Old Havana to the ground in 1555.
The Cuban peoples tart, boisterous hu-
rent by foreign onslaughts, serial coups
and exploitation by outside powers, initial-
ly Spain, latterly the U.S. and the former
Soviet Union.
Walking along el Malecn, the swoop-
ing five-mile boulevard and esplanade that
girds Havana Harbor, a reporter savors the
good-natured humor of a city policeman
about his battered and aging Geely patrol
car, a Chinese marque. Tall, handsome
and gregarious, the officer offers a cordial
handshake, then points to the small white
sedans dents, suggesting they give the ve-
hicle character in the fight against crime.
Despite his affection for the old nail, he
laments that the police are short of the few
later models owned by civilians.
asked if the Geely is low on thrust, he
smiles and lifts the hood to unveil a puny
motor. He is oblivious to its size and proud
of its horsepower, cheerfully insisting it
will go very fast. One doesnt ask the top
speed.
A3
everywhere Yanqui pedestrians are
hailed, Taxi, seor, taxee?! Most cabbies
are polite, but foreign visitors are targets
of jineteros, literally jockeys, hustlers who
ride the back of tourists in hopes of cash-
ing in on naifs.
The spacious, sun buttered el Malecn,
cooled by the harbors trade winds, is rep-
resentative of one element of Old Havanas
appearance, its elegance. a large statue and
fountain of the sea god neptune, sculpted
in alabaster white, presides over the espla-
nade with Trident in hand.
blessed with an airy and expansive
coastline, Havana is a walking city like
Paris, London and St. Petersburg. The ar-
chitecture is as worldly and eclectic as the
culture, a medley of Spanish Moorish, neo-
classical and Cuban baroque buildings.
armas, Plaza de la Catedral, Plaza de San
Francisco de asis and Plaza Vieja. Of hu-
man scale, they are cloistered quadrangles
that feel intimate and snug.
The plazas feature classical Greco-Ro-
man columns and Moorish-style colon-
nades that shelter visitors from the heat.
Last Octobers Smithsonian Quarterly
quoted a Cuban architect-in-exile, Ral
Rodrguez, saying, Havana is a library of
architecture. every style is well represent-
ed there, and the reason for its magic is the
tripartite culture african, american, eu-
ropean.
another calls it music in stone.
equally inviting for a promenade is the
tree-shaded Paseo del Prado, a roomy,
Spanish-inspired alameda with a tele-
scoped view of the Capitolio nacional,
styled after the Panthon in Paris and sim-
ilar to the U.S. Capitol dome, which is a bit
more plump than Cubas.
Lining the Paseo are roaring bronze li-
ons and the magnificent 18th-century style
home of alliance Franaise de Cuba-La Ha-
bana, the former Palacio Gomez inaugurat-
ed in May 2015 by then-French President
Franois Hollande.
Seventeenth and 18th century build-
ings are finished with eye-catching stained
glass, graceful balconies and balustrades
and multitudes of wood shutters, louvered
to snare the marine breezes.
The color palettes are reminiscent of
bermuda and Singapore: bright, tropical
pastels of honey, orange, ocher, yellow,
pink, tangerine, lime, ash blonde and every
hue of azure, indigo, sapphire, turquoise.
Where the mouth of Havanas natural
harbor gives on to the sea, the atlantic is a
startling cobalt. Once upon a time, the port
was the call for Spanish galleons. Through-
out the 1500s, english, Dutch and French
brigands attacked the city and pillaged it.
Old Havana honors the heritage of histo-
an statues in landscapes resplendent with
neon orange flame trees and dignified Roy-
al Palms. There are 70 million palm trees
in Cuba, their fronds erotically susurrus in
the tropical wind. White butterfly jasmine,
hibiscus, bougainvillea, barbados lilies,
amaryllis and jacaranda trees festoon the
quiet parks and tidy courtyards that rever-
ence genius with sculpture-in-the-round:
Alexander von Humboldt, the emi-
nent Prussian naturalist, geographer and
explorer who conducted research of the is-
land in 1800 and 1804
Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali
polymath who became the first non-Euro-
pean poet to win the nobel Prize for Liter-
ature in 1913
Mustafa Kemal Atatrk, founder of the
secular Republic of Turkey in 1923
Jos Carlos Maritegui La Chira, pro-
lific Peruvian journalist, poet and Socialist
thinker (1894-1930)
Jos Mart, the poet born in Havana
in 1853, called the apostle of the Cuban
Revolution, killed in his first battle fight-
ing for Cuban independence from Spain.
He wrote Versos Sencillos (Simple Verses),
from which Guantanamera was derived
and popularized by Pete Seeger in 1963.
Dead at 42, Mart is treasured here for
declaring, a genuine man goes to the
roots. To be a radical is no more than that:
to go to the roots.

to-air missiles and the engine of from the netherlands, strike

Washington still denies Cubas revolution
Paul Mann
Mad RiveR Union
HaVana World nomads rel-
ishing this islands global cachet
consider the Trump adminstra-
tions Cuba policy futile and ret-
rograde.
in their eyes, the administra-
tion is still in denial about Cas-
tros 1959 revolution, while the
rest of the world accepted it long
ago as a practical political mat-
ter. President Trump, they as-
sert, stubbornly refuses an over-
due accommodation with a poor,
militarily insignificant Caribbean
dictatorship. at the same time,
he indulges in a dangerous infat-
uation with Vladimir Putin while
passionately embracing the ante-
diluvian Saudi monarchy.
east of Havana, there is a
mile-and-a-half uphill approach
to the Castillo de los Tres Reyes
del Morro, a 16th century strate-
gic fortress built by slaves on the
rocky promontory above the har-
bor. along the way, visitors see a
history exhibit recalling Washing-
tons serial attempts to destroy the
Cuban Revolution. The memorial
includes U.S. air Force wreckage,
artillery pieces and a 1950s vin-
tage Soviet MiG 21.
Down below in sweltering Old
Havana is the Museum of the
Revolution, housed in the former
Presidential Palace. Out front is
a Soviet SU-100 self-propelled,
turret-less tank destroyer. in the
back, glass-enclosed, is the 60
foot cabin cruiser Granma, used
by Fidel and Ral Castro, Che
Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos
to land revolutionaries on the
Cuban coast in the failed 1956
attempt to overthrow Fulgencio
batista.
also on display are a british
Hawker Sea Fury F-50 fighter air-
craft, two Sa-2 Guideline surface-
a Lockheed U-2 spy plane shot
down by Havana during the 1962
Cuban missile crisis.
all of which is to say that Cu-
bans remain sentimental and nos-
talgic about their revolution and
inclined to romanticize its leaders
despite the economic travails and
lack of freedom that have befallen
them since. The revolution is part
of their national identity. People
from other countries believe that
sentiment should be respected,
especially by a nuclear superpow-
er that should be capable of diplo-
matic realism if not nobility.
at one of the revolution ex-
hibits, three visitors, two from
northern ireland and a third
up an impromptu conversation
about world politics. all three
find Trumps Cuba policy silly
and laughable, easily dismissed
as callow and counterproductive.
Yet they regard his presidency as
a tragic mistake that threatens
a global trade war and the loss
of concerted action on climate
change. alienating naTO and
the european Union is one thing,
dissing Havana is another.
The young Dutch woman, Mu-
riel, voices hope that Trumps
sell-by date will fall short of two
years in office, preferably sooner.
Sounding like Trump support-
ers, however, Tara and Sadie of
CUBA A4
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Leaky boat saved by Coasties Arcata man ejected from truck
Mad RiveR Union
MCKINLEYVILLE
The U.S. Coast Guard res-
cue boat, along with a heli-
copter from the air base in
McKinleyville, helped res-
cue a boat taking on water
Thursday, July 6.
Eight people were
aboard the leaky boat, lo-
cated approximately a mile
off the coast of Westport in
Mendocino County.
Boaters aboard the 32-
foot vessel Samurai con-
tacted Coast Guard Sector
Humboldt Bay watchstand-
ers using a marine-band ra-
dio at approximately 12:30
p.m., reporting that their
boat was taking on water
and they were in need of
assistance.
The Coast Guard dis-
patched a 47-foot Motor
Lifeboat crew from Coast
Guard Station Noyo River
and an MH-65D Dolphin
rescue helicopter crew
PUBLIC SAFETY
SAVING THE SAMURAI The Samurai with the vessel
Ambush ahead of it. Photo courtesy u.s. coast Guard
from Sector Humboldt
Bay, based at the airport in
McKinleyville.
The vessel Ambush, a
good Samaritan boat near-
by, arrived on scene first
and transferred six of the
eight passengers of the Sa-
murai to the Ambush.
Two passengers stayed
aboard the Samurai to con-
tinue dewatering efforts.
The Station Noyo River
boat crew arrived on scene
and transferred an engi-
neering crewmember and
a dewatering pump to the
Samurai.
With the dewatering
pump running and keeping
the vessel afloat, the Samu-
rai was escorted back to
Noyo River without further
incident.
Mad RiveR Union The pickup spun around and Homen,
MCKINLEYVILLE An 88-year-old who was not wearing a seatbelt, was eject-
Arcata man received major injuries during ed. The pickup came to rest and was block-
a two-car wreck Sunday morning, July 9 at ing both northbound lanes.
the intersection of Airport Road and U.S. The Hyundai also spun around and
Highway 101 just north of Eureka. came to rest facing southbound in the
At about 10:34 a.m. Jose Homen, 88, of northbound lane.
Arcata was driving a 1992 Chevrolet 1500 Homen suffered major injuries and was
pickup on southbound U.S. Highway 101 taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka for
and then entered the left-turn lane to cross treatment. Parcher and her two passen-
the highway and enter Airport Road. gers sustained minor injuries and were
Meanwhile, Amber Parcher, 21, of Ba- taken to Mad River Community Hospital.
kersfield was driving a 2016 Hyundai So- The wreck closed the highway for a
nata northbound on U.S. Highway 101 in short period of time, according to the CHP.
the right-hand lane at about 50 mph. In a press release, the CHP thanked City
As Parcher approached the intersection, Ambulance, Humboldt Bay Fire and the
Homen crossed the northbound lanes. The other first responders at the scene.
front of the Hyundai collided into the right DUI is not believed to be a contribut-
front of the pickup, according to the Cali- ing factor in the collision, according to the
fornia Highway Patrol. CHP.
DroWNING IN rIVEr A 45-year-old Arizona man died Friday, June 30 when he drowned
in the Klamath River. Humboldt County Sheriffs deputies responded at 4:40 p.m. to the
Klamath River at Youngs Bar near Highway 169. On arrival, deputies discovered a de-
ceased individual near the river. A fisherman discovered the decedent and transported
the body to the rivers edge. The decedent has been identified by fingerprints as Joshua
Aldon Hammond. There were no signs of foul play. Biological material has been sent
to the lab to obtain a toxicology report. The investigation is still ongoing pending the
results of the toxicology analysis. Next of kin has been notified.

tress, cig-burned coffee table or listing laminate desk. A

Pantsless, fancy free and in no hurry
Friday, June 16 1:35 p.m. A naked woman was found
passed out in the bathroom at the transit center.
7:50 p.m. A 16-year-old and two fellow larval hoodlums
tagged a downtown restaurants bathroom with a blue
paint pen.
Saturday, June 17 11:25 a.m. A woman at a Sunny
Brae bus stop sat talking to herself and unpacking dolls
from a suitcase, as one does.
3:49 p.m. After stuffing merchandise in her purse, a red-
haired woman went into a Plaza businesss dressing room
as employees called police. She was told to leave and never
come back.
4:20 p.m. Dont ever pull a gun on me again,
yelled one man to another at 11th and H streets.
8:16 p.m. A woman in a blue hoodie screamed
nonsensically and tore up the garden at a Valley
West apartment building.
Sunday, June 18 2:55 a.m. At the Union-
town 24-hour shoplifting center, two males stole
groceries including whipped cream, then headed
back out into the world.
Monday, June 19 8:28 a.m. Someone fingerpainted
over the windshield and drivers side window of a car on
Valley West Boulevard.
5:11 p.m. A man in a rancid poncho with a stroller full
of stuffed animals was reported slumped over near an F
Street business.
5:53 p.m. A man in a tie-dye shirt offered what he said
was LSD from a foil packet to people on the Plaza. He was
arrested.
Tuesday, June 20 12:02 a.m. An employee entered
a business after hours, only to hear the sound of someone
yawning upstairs.
1:14 p.m. A man with an elegant backwards baseball cap
near the switchback trail above Cahill Park tried to smoke
something out of a pipe.
2:31 p.m. A woman with dried blood and feces on her and
carrying a suitcase went in and out of a G Street bank all
day.
Wednesday, June 21 10:51 a.m. A man undressing in
a downtown banks parking lot was arrested.
1:05 p.m. A man swigging alcohol from an open container
did little to advance the art of yelling at random passersby.
The lack of a shirt wasnt particularly original, nor was the
yowling of the usual unimaginative swear words.
Thursday, June 22 8:03 p.m. A man in a Chicago
Bulls cap may have stolen a bottle of alcohol from a West-
wood supermarket, or he may have placed it on a different
shelf inside da store.
8:48 p.m. The man and woman who keep camping in the
community garden at 11th and F streets are also baseball
cap aficionados.
11:28 p.m. Doorhandle tryers worked Valley
West Boulevard.
Saturday, June 24 1:22 a.m. Though not
a registered guest, a naked man luxuriated in a
Valley West motels hot tub.
8:53 p.m. A man in a downtown parking lot was
just one of a number of yelling-Americans active
this night.
Sunday, June 25 2:28 a.m. A man was seen
chopping a tree with an axe at Fern Way and Forest Ave-
nue.
Monday, June 26 3:40 a.m. No camo rig for this
alleged Uniontown supermarket shoplifter. No, this
help-yourselfer was last seen chugging north past City Hall
in a big ol cowboy hat and San Francisco Giants jersey.
He never made the goal line, having been arrested shortly
thereafter.
6:30 a.m. An old Arcata Road school suffered vandalism
over the weekend.
8:51 a.m. At an 11th Street church which hosts a charter
school, a brown-bearded man had pantslessly transformed
the bathroom into a laundromat. He, poor of pants but
strong of will, resisted leaving until he was finished wash-
ing his traveling trousers, which he apparently did before
police arrived.
3:01 p.m. Have garbage to dump? Too lame to take it to
the Waste Transfer Station? Of flexible character and mor-
als? Transform yourself from dumper to philanthropist just
by scrawling FREE on that grimy dish drainer, clapped-
out footwear, bongwater-anointed sofa, bedbugged mat-
man and woman, one of them pregnant, dumped boxes of
previously loved household items at Foster Avenue and Al-
liance Road, all of course properly labeled as free for the
not-taking.
4:13 p.m. Succulents were stolen from a home by the
female former half of a relationship which, in its prime,
might have shared that same description.
5:31 p.m. A man brandishing a knife boldly threatened to
harm people at a Uniontown shopping center, in between
loud disagreements with himself. This accomplished, he
left on his green bike.
9:36 p.m. A vehicle dragging a chain on the freeway man-
aged to hit and crack someones windshield.
9:46 p.m. A man on Alliance Road got some time in on an
ongoing landscaping project kicking rocks out of flower
beds and into plants.
Tuesday, June 27 11:47 a.m. A real estate agent at-
tempting to sell a lot in Valley West wanted to make sure
that the campers there werent considered part of the fur-
nishings, and asked that they be removed.
10:55 a.m. After a quick shoplifting stop at an Alliance
Road mini-mart, a vehicle with two human and two dogly
occupants was further cluttered with a frosty six-pack o
beer and several 40 ouncers.
6:14 p.m. A Mustang Lane resident waited outside for po-
lice to arrive holding an injured pet rat which had appar-
ently been attacked by some other animal.
7:57 p.m. A 16-year-old girl was followed by an older man
with shoulder-length gray hair, wide-brimmed hat and tan
trench coat from Meadow Creek Way to Janes Creek Park.
Wednesday, June 28 1:14 p.m. A woman who made
off with a case of adult lemonade from a Valley West shop
was well-captured on video, her physical capture and pros-
ecution to follow.
3:26 p.m. A Tavern Row bouncer kept someones ID,
thinking it was fake. The owner wanted police to verify its
validity and have it returned.
6:39 p.m. After a woman collided with something and
someone at a J Street gas station, she left under the in-
fluence of opioids, the Sheriffs Office said. She said her
dad would pay for everything, but he refused. She and a
deputy were standing by at the hospital so APD could take
a statement and the investigation could proceed.

County opposes bill
County of Humboldt
HUMBOLDT The County of Hum-
boldt sent a letter recently to the legislature
signaling its strong opposition to Assembly
Bill 1250 (Jones-Sawyer).
AB 1250, at its core, seeks to stop coun-
ties from contracting with communi-
ty-based organizations (CBOs), nonprofits,
local businesses and other private provid-
ers of quality local services that counties
and their residents rely on.
This is significant because Humboldt
County routinely contracts with organiza-
tions and businesses that have the exper-
tise, capacity or the ability to deliver ser-
vices more efficiently.
AB 1250 has passed the Assembly and
will be heard in the Senate Governance and
Finance Committee on Wednesday.
The constraints contained within AB
1250 will jeopardize our ability to provide
vital health care, social services, mental
health and public safety services for our
countys most vulnerable, said Virginia
Bass, chair of the Humboldt County Board
of Supervisors. We routinely contract for
homeless housing services, food and nutri-
tion benefits, children and family services,
and so much more.
Proponents of the bill claim it wont limit
contracting with non-government groups,
but the clear intent of AB 1250 is to prohib-
it these private contracts. The bill impos-
es significant new restrictions and layers
of bureaucracy designed to stop counties
from contracting for local services.
For instance, the bill requires CBOs,
nonprofits and local businesses to disclose
personal information about its employees
and officers, including salary and other
private information. This not only raises
significant privacy concerns, but it will chill
private sectors willingness to enter into
contracts with counties to provide services.
It also requires contractors to disclose
extensive information on a monthly basis.
These auditing and review requirements
could create unnecessary gaps and delays
in service delivery that can pose detrimen-
tal outcomes for the people benefiting from
these programs.
By restricting counties abilities to pro-
vide services in the most cost-effective
manner, AB 1250 will also increase costs
for taxpayers and reduce funding available
for other local services.
For many fundamental programs, it will
not be a matter of who will provide the ser-
vice but if they can even be offered at all.
The role of local government is to de-
termine the most effective way to deliver
critical services in our communities, said
Bass, who is also 2nd Vice President of the
California State Association of Counties
(CSAC). We do not need another Sacra-
mento mandate that dictates how we gov-
ern our county or that impedes our ability
to deliver high-quality and cost-effective
services to local residents.

Cuba| Tourists shocked at Trump presidency
From A3
Northern Ireland would prefer to eschew
politics entirely.
Tara says she cant stand either British
Prime Minster Theresa May or Labor Par-
ty leader Jeremy Corbyn. Shes at a loss to
think of an alternative.
All countries have political problems,
she says fatalistically. Eventually Trump
will vacate the world stage.
A couple from Quebec remains amazed
by Trumps election. How on earth did
Americans vote for him? Julie asks, in-
tensely baffled. He knows nothing and
reads nothing. Hes a primitive and so
crude!
A mathematician from Belize exclaimed,
I was shocked, really shocked when
Trump was elected. I still cant believe it.
Having twigged the presidents mind
(invertebrate) and modus operandi (pre-
varication), tourists from Austria, Ecua-
dor and Germany as well as Quebec, the
Netherlands and Northern Ireland tell a re-
porter they were not surprised by Trumps
qualified repudiation of President Obamas
concordat with Havana.
Yet long-time Cuban expatriates in Flor-
ida favor Trumps action, though they con-
cede it will not disturb, much less upend,
the Castro government.
Maria, a cashier in the gift shop at Fair-
child Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral
Gables, who emigrated in 1979, said she
agreed with Trumps decision, even if a
lot of people dont. Its the principle of
the thing, she said. I know it wont change
anything, but still... Her voice trailed off
wistfully.
At Versailles Restaurant, said to be the
most popular Cuban eatery in Miami, K
talks about Trumps decision while looking
over the many confections in the restau-
rants spacious dessert parlor.
Scion of a wealthy Cuban family that
moved to Miami in 1964 when she was two,
she shakes her head thoughtfully.
She also says, It wont change anything
in a tone suggesting she certainly wishes
it would.
 J ULY 12, 2017 M AD R IVER U NION A5

OPINION
v THE ERA OF TRUMP

Is Humboldt willing to protect one of its most vulnerable communities?

(The following letter was sent to the Others share that they fear taking their Sheriff, recognize that sanctuary policies could take a long time.
Humboldt County Board of Supervisors children to school and even leaving their are vital to preserving police-community In the meantime, Humboldt County
on July 4.) homes for fear of becoming entangled with relations and ensuring that residents feel could follow the lead of other cities and
law enforcement due to no fault of their safe reporting crimes and accessing basic counties to do everything in its power in

I
am writing to implore that you pass a own. They dont report crimes or come for- government services. this moment to ensure full trust and coop-
Humboldt County Sanctuary Ordi- ward if they witness a crime. Such a policy wouldnt serve as protec- eration between local law enforcement and
nance that includes non-collaboration Children and youth, many of them U.S. tion for undocumented criminals because community members.
by local law enforcement with federal Im- citizens with undocumented parents, ex- Minimally, Humboldt County should
migration enforcement. This ordinance is hibit signs of distress and anxiety because examine how much federal funding it could
necessary to instill trust and cooperation their parents might be deported.
Everyone deserves to live potentially lose. What is the likelihood of
between local law enforcement and immi- Seventy percent of undocumented im- here in peace, not in terror losing funding? Could the Sanctuary pol-
grant communities. migrants and 44 percent of Latinos that they could be icy include a clause that would allow the
President Trump promised are less likely to report crime to the Board of Supervisors to modify it if circum-
the mass deportation of 2-3 police because they fear that police separated from their stances change?
million undocumented immi- would enforce immigration laws. loved ones at any moment. Minimally, the resolution considered
grants and publicly blames this Individuals who perpetrate do- by the Board of Supervisors this summer
population for the countrys mestic violence, trafficking and should contain language which mirrors the
crime rates, under-employment other forms of violence against language of the Sheriffs current policy.
and immoral behaviors. v GUESt immigrants often instill fear of law existing laws require local municipalities to The Resolution should then be convert-
In February 2017 alone, fed-
eral immigration authorities
OPINION enforcement to control their vic-
tims.
collaborate with ICE in the case of serious
crimes.
ed into an ordinance so that its language
becomes enforceable. This way, the entire
renee
launched a new wave of raids And since undocumented im- And having a Sanctuary law in the county, not only certain departments, takes
Saucedo
and other actions in several migrants commonly live in house- county creates a vague and uncertain risk responsibility for ensuring compliance.
states, sweeping up undocumented resi- holds where at least one member has legal that some federal funds could one day be Arguments exist on both sides of this
dents, people with and without criminal status, U.S. citizens and lawful residents withheld. For example, even in Sanctu- issue. But the potential benefits of having
records. also fear that contacting the police will re- ary jurisdictions, officials send federal im- a Sanctuary policy in our county far out-
Spanish-speaking news and programs sult in the arrest of a family member. migration agencies the fingerprints of any weigh the potential risks. In our county,
heavily televise anti-immigrant rhetoric, It has been insufficient to simply rely on person including an immigrant booked the vast majority of undocumented resi-
which adds fuel to the immigrant com- the argument: Locally, we dont help ICE. into a prison or jail; the federal govern- dents lead productive lives and contribute
munitys fears that local law enforcement Nobody should be afraid. ment may use that information to identify much more to our society than what they
anywhere in the country can potentially Law enforcement depends on communi- noncitizens for deportation. receive. They sustain the dairy, bulb, hos-
assist ICE in identifying and detaining un- ty trust to effectively maintain public safety President Trump has lately threatened pitality and other industries. Everyone
documented individuals. Immigrant com- and combat crime. to de-fund Sanctuary jurisdictions. But deserves to live here in peace, not in ter-
munities fear local law enforcement, even For this reason, more than 600 cities a federal court in San Francisco recent- ror that they could be separated from their
in states and local areas where police and and counties across the nation, includ- ly ruled in two cases that the presidents loved ones at any moment.
sheriffs dont typically follow the call to as- ing Monterey, Santa Clara, San Diego and threats were unconstitutional, and stopped The Humboldt County Board of Super-
sist in the deportation agenda. Arcata, have decided to institute legally the government from carrying them out visors decision really boils down to this:
For millions, deportation means being allowable measures to curb collaboration anywhere in the country. (County of San- Is Humboldt County willing to take what
forcibly separated from ones children and between local law enforcement and federal ta Clara v. Donald Trump, U.S. District is now a small risk in order to protect and
family, sometimes indefinitely. The dan- immigration enforcement. Court, California, 17-cv-00574-WHO). serve one of its most vulnerable communi-
ger and risks are too huge to assume that it The California legislature is currently The House of Representatives then in- ties? Do you care enough about us to take
probably wont happen to them. considering legislation that would limit troduced HR 3003, which would essen- this step?
As a result, many mothers living in collaboration with ICE in the state (SB 54 tially threaten certain federal funding to
Humboldt County dont take their chil- De Leon). sanctuary jurisdictions.But research Renee Saucedo is a member of the
dren to doctor visits for fear that police will Many local leaders, including the Eure- shows that, even if it passes, it faces seri- Steering Committee for Centro del Pueblo.
make a traffic stop and report them to ICE. ka and Arcata Police chiefs and Humboldt ous legal challenges, and the legal process She lives in Eureka.

We will be watching closely Elegy for Redwood Auto

v lEttEr
(The following is an open letter to Sinclair

Broadcast Group, its board members, share-
holders and decision makers. Ed)
We the people of Humboldt County, on
the Redwood Coast of California, would like
to welcome you to our community. With your
recent acquisition of four local television
channels, you are now a major part of our
media landscape. We may be a small market
demographically, but we support our local
news outlets and we have high standards and
expectations for corporations that control ac-
cess to information in our communities.
As the comedian John Oliver pointed out
recently on his show Last Week Tonight,
Sinclair has earned a somewhat unsavory rep-
utation for biased coverage and inflammatory
must-run segments that routinely misrep-
resent facts in order to benefit right-wing po-
litical agendas (more on this at tinyurl.com/
LWT-Sinclair). While this behavior may stem
from a legitimate belief that you are doing
the right thing, you should be aware that it
often comes across as cynical manipulation
and intentional distortion of the truth.
From past experience, we know that con-
solidated absentee ownership reduces com-
petition, threatens media localism and harms
information diversity. For example, when
the digital television transition modified the
transmission systems for local TV broadcast-
ers, coverage in large swaths of Humboldt
County was significantly reduced.
While Bonten has made substantial in-
vestments in local origination, Sinclair has
a reputation for requiring their owned affili-
ate stations to air non-local editorial content
during local newscasts. This must air prac-
tice reduces local origination of news and in-
formation programs that address controver-
sial issues of public importance. To become a
trusted local broadcaster, your policies need
to provide reasonable opportunities for local
and opposing views to be expressed.
Since we would like to give you the benefit
of the doubt as a new player in town, we have
developed a short list of suggested actions
that would help to demonstrate your commit-
ment to becoming a responsible provider of
high-quality information:
Ensure Localism with meaningful in-
vestments in local news and information pro-
gramming to support public interests of local
and tribal jurisdictions:
Station broadcasts should identify must
air non-local content on-screen.
Provide equal airtime for local editorial
content expressing opposing views.
Ensure that Spanish language channel(s)
include equivalent local program origination
as other channels, and that tribes have in-lan-
guage programming available on-air.
Promote Universal Access with in-
vestments in new infrastructure for our least
served people and places:
Install and maintain additional translator/
repeater facilities to ensure full multi-casting
coverage over the entire Designated Market
Area served.
Transparency and accountability to local
jurisdictions through community-based par-
ticipation in local programming:
Maintain public files, including annual re-
ports on compliance with contractual promis-
es available at every local library location.
Dedicate multi-cast channel(s) pro-
grammed entirely with locally originated
non-commercial content from local jurisdic-
tions. (Note: This could be accomplished in
coordination with Public-Education-Govern-
ment access community media available now
through the counties, cities and tribes served.)
While we would love to see all of the above
actions incorporated into Sinclairs local op-
erations, we dont hold out much hope that
these issues will be addressed.
After all, were just one small piece of a
growing monopoly, and there is lots of money
to be made through media manipulation and
control. Still, we promise to do everything in
our power to make sure that you deliver ser-
vices that meet local needs and community
interests.
The North Coast is a very special place to
its residents, and we sincerely hope you will
thoughtfully consider these and other ways
that we can work together to develop and sup-
port community-based media.
Think of this as a golden opportunity to im-
prove your reputation and become a trusted
and reliable source of news across the Red-
wood Coast region.
Welcome to Humboldt County, and rest
assured that we will be watching closely and
working tirelessly to help keep you account-
able to the high standards of our community.
Thats one piece of local news you can defi-
nitely count on.
Sean Taketa McLaughlin,
executive director, Access Humboldt
Eureka
R
edwood Auto was my place, my mechanic, my guys. For years and years,
Id roll in with my inevitably staggering truck or car with 200,000 miles on
it, and they would magically make it drive again. Their closing is massively
inconvenient, but far more than that.
Redwood Auto was an iconoclastic local business. Presided
over by Morgan, the grumbling lovable manager who never
left his beat up old chair at the front, the room was a veritable
haven of All Things Motor the rich smells of oil and gas, the
greasy parts and bright clean tools, the rumble of motors and
the clang of metal. It was a classically American place no
computers to fix the cars, just men in coveralls and an incon-
ceivable amount of knowledge about what is, to me, the fright-
ening mystery of how my truck works.
Morgan knew how to do anything. Sitting in his chair, he
would direct the younger mechanics. Theyd bring him a part
and hed squint at it and diagnose. I never saw him stumped. Prices were always
fair, often too generous. If I was going on a road trip, Id drop it over and theyd do
whatever needs to be done to an ancient truck before a big trip, and send me off
with a smile and no charge. Patrick, the affable accountant, was always rushing
around, putting out metaphorical fires and cracking wise.
I never just dropped the truck off. Going to Redwood Auto was paying a social
call. Id go in, set my self down on the beat up sofa next to the giant wood stove,
and shoot the breeze and crack some jokes.
It was that rare thing a mechanic that I absolutely trusted, and kept my ve-
hicles staggering along. Their closing has left a rent in the fabric of Arcata, and
I want to thank Sam, Patrick and Morgan, and all the guys, for making my life
easier for as long as I can remember.
Jada C. Brotman is the ads manager for the Mad River Union.
v So what do you think? Do you have an opinion
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500 max. If you need more words than that, con-
tact us about writing a Guest Opinion. Deadline for
letters and opinions is noon Friday. Email letters to
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GOOD TIMES The

Arcata Plaza was
a mellow place to
have fun in the sun
on the Fourth of July.
People danced,
top, drummed, left,
and skate boarded,
above, while enjoy-
ing tasty treats and
cold beer. Middle
left, Woodley Island
was once again a
popular destination
to watch the annual
fireworks show.
jack Durham | union

FIREWORKS
NIGHT

CRABS ALUMNI AND PARENT'S WEEKEND

AT THE ARCATA BALL PARK
Friday, July 14
Crabs vs Walnut
Creek Crawdads
Gates 6pm/Game 7pm
Gates 6 pm; Game 7pm
10-minute Fireworks
Show after the end of
the game
Dont wait in line, get your tickets
(9:45pm or 10pm)
Arcata Pet Owners: Please make sure pets
are secured in the house or in a kennel.
Also, make sure your pet has proper
identification. Please tell any of your friends
who own pets in Arcata and live near the
ballpark about this date.
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CD REVIEW
THEATRE REVIEW

Oh, yes, hunty

What
Sashay to Redwood Curtain
Theatre to see The Legend
the
of Georgia McBride
Lauraine Leblanc
Mad RiveR Union
folk?
REDWOOD CURTAIN THEATRE Whats a poor

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ts Folklife week, offi- BROOKS OTIS' fIDDLE
Southern boy to do when he cant pay his rent, his wife is bob doran | Union
pregnant and hes just lost his gig as an Elvis imperson- cially or unofficially,

SongS ator? Put on a dress and mash his mouth around to other when the Humboldt and so on. But Humboldt
peoples words (to paraphrase drag diva Alaska Thun- Folklife Society goes full Folklife doesnt exclude
derfuck 5000), according to Matthew Lopez The Legend bore with the annual jazz, so earlier this week

of life,
of Georgia McBride, the newest production at Redwood Humboldt Folklife Fes- they had Jazz Night with
Curtain Theatre. tival. Was there a procla- plenty of keyboards and
Riding the coat tails dress train of the popularity of mation? Probably. saxophones and the like.
drag queens, the play, first performed in 2015, is a spar- You may be As I men-

death &
kly little gem celebrating queerness and finding your wondering, what tioned, the
own voice Queer Eye for is this Folklife Folklife Fest is
the Straight Guy meets stuff everyone is already under-
RuPauls Drag Race. always talking way and well
repeat some
SillineSS GEORGIA B3
about? Ten years
ago I tried an- things from
YAAASSS, QUEEn! swering that the last Hum:
David Hamilton question for a Wednesday,
as drag mother festival guide. July 12, Huck-
Miss Tracy Mills in (Forgive me if I leberry Flint
HEAD BOOMER Jeff Kelley just spent a few weeks at Redwood Curtain repeat myself.) headlines a show
the Kampground of American Liberty for All, site of Theatres new The easiest way to explain in Blue Lake on DellAr-
DellArtes State of Jefferson Picnic. Janine Volkmar| Union show. SUbmitted is to take the word apart. tes outdoor stage called
photo Folk = People. Life = Mu- Music Under the Stars
Janine Volkmar sic, at least for the folks with Kenny Ray and
Mad RiveR Union involved in Folklife. Of the Mighty Rovers and
HUMBOLDT Jeff Kelleys CD is out and its a gem. course thats an oversim- Rogues Gallery. Thats
Never Been Done is a treasure trove of songs that are plification. followed by a night at the
sweet, hilarious, deep and lovely, often combining two of Folklife is generally con- Logger Bar with the Jo-
these characteristics in the same song. cerned with traditional mu- anne Rand Trio (with
Its his first CD ever and it took close to a full year to sic of one sort or another, Piet Dalmolen and Tim
record, mostly because Kelley is busy performing, teach- more often than not played Randles).
ing and doing sound for other musicians. on stringed instruments Thursday evening (July
He plays in a Grateful Dead cover band The Miracle like guitars, banjos, fiddles THE HUM B2
Show, in a rowdy Irish folk music group The Vanishing

Birds, boudoir & cityscapes

Pints, and in the DellArte band, recently performing in
The State of Jefferson Picnic and other DellArte shows
such as the Red Light in Blue Lake Adult Cabaret.
Kelley gigs as a solo act, too. And thats not all. Hes a
sound engineer for the Blue Lake Casino and tutors math
at College of the Redwoods.
No wonder the CD took a year. Dominic Romano at
Bongo Boy Studios told me, Lets get this finished! so we
did, Kelley said.
Kelley estimated that
they spent 40 to 50 hours
in the studio, recording
and bringing in other peo-
ple. Romano filled in with
vocals, keyboards, thumps
and tambourine on many
cuts. Other local guests
included Jeff Thomas and
Leah Mahan on vocals,
Chris Parreira on harmonica, Sam Kaplan-Good on
drums and shaker, Colin Trujillo on banjo, Steve Porter
on saws and Anwyn Halliday on trumpet.
It all adds up to a CD that moves confidently from
song to song and mood to mood. Its my new favorite to
cook to, and I tested it out on seven berry pies and three
cakes. Total success.
Kelleys songwriting skills are honed from years of ex-
perience. Words come first for him and the complex and
clever rhyming shows that. I typically write the lyrics
first, he said. I find it easier to find musical passages
after that.
Humor is an essential element of many of his tunes.
Lord Buckley said that Laughter is the absence of ter-
KELLEY B3
aRcata Main StReet
ARCATA Arts! Arcata, Arcata
Main Streets monthly celebration of
visual and performing arts, is this Fri-
day, July 14. See art, hear music and
drink wine for a good cause at the fol-
lowing locations.
Angelica Atelier 1101 H St., No. 2
Making Shape, boudoir photo-
graphs by Angela Tellez.
Arcata Artisans 883 H St. Ce-
ramics by Natalie DiConstanzo and
paintings by Mimi LaPlant.
Arcata Exchange 813 H St. Photo-
graphs by Alex Nonsenzo; music by
Pure Mongrel. Wine pour benefits
the Arcata Historical Sites Society.
Bang Bang Vintage 824 L St. Art
by Eric Mueller; music by Electric
Salon.
Bubbles 1031 H St. Music by Clean
Livin.
The Griffin 937 10th St. Art by
Anna Oneglia; music by DJ Ea-
stOne around 9 p.m.
Libation Wine Bar 761 Eighth St.
music by Jim Silva.
Moores Sleep World 876 G St.
Prints by Laurel McKay; music by
The Yokels. Wine pouring benefits
Humboldt Animal Rescue Team.
Fire Arts Center 520 South G St.
Ceramic art by Laura Rose and
fused glass by Lorna Saner.
Northtown Coffee 1603 G St.
Photographs by Lindsey Wright.
Om Shala Yoga 858 10th St. Art
by Beth Kabat.
Pasta Luego 791 Eighth St. Flor
dLuna Winery pouring to benefit
Humboldt Area Center for Harm
Reduction.
Plaza 808 G St. Birds, Trees &
Horsehooves, oil paintings by Amy
Granfield. Wine pour benefits the CITYSCAPE Lily Drabkin shows
Northcoast Environmental Center. collages at Stokes, Hamer, Kirk &
Plaza Grill 791 Eighth St. 15 years of Eads, LLP for Arts! Arcata.
Stubbornness, works by Jay Brown.
Redwood Curtain Brewery 550 straction, works by Jay Brown.
South G St. Landscape photo- Stokes, Hamer, Kirk & Eads, LLP
graphs by Tim Haywood. 381 Bayside Rd. Metropolitan
Redwood Yogurt 1573 G St. Se- Perspectives collage, painting and
nior Portraits by Marina Sonn and multimedia by Lily Drabkin and
Making Music Visible by various Anne Samberg; music by Dale Win-
students of the Arcata Arts Institute. get. Wine pour benefits American
Sanctuary 1301 J St. POST- Cancer Society Relay Team #169.
ED: Views of the North Coast, Upstairs Gallery 1063 G St.
photographs by Miles Mattison Wavelengths, infrared photo-
and Ocean Energy, watercolor, graphs by Aaron Brinks.
graphite and acrylic works by Lee Wildberries Marketplace 747 13th
Mothes. St. Spiritskins, works by stu-
Savory 1504 G St. Driven to Ab- dents of the Arcata Arts Institute.

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the hum | Just add - grass

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13) its Bluegrass and Beyond,
with sets by the house band at
Bubbles, Clean Livin, and
Compost Mountain Boys, the
most straight-ahead bluegrass
band around. Then theres the
beyond" part with fiddler Jenny
Scheinman, who says, Im go-
ing to be celebrating the release of
Here On Earth [released earlier
this year] with a set of solo fiddle
tunes, plus a whole set of impro-
visations and songs with John
Wood.
Her new record is a collection
of songs with a traditional bent
written for the film Kannapolis:
A Moving Portrait. Jenny collab-
orated with filmmaker Finn Tay-
lor on the project based on short
snippets of films by a relatively
unknown photographer, H. Lee
Waters, shot in the South in the
30s and 40s painting an indeli-
ble portrait of common folk. Her
tunes are her own, but theyre
definitely folk music.
Friday, the Folk Fest takes a
break from Blue Lake for a tradi-
tional Barn Dance at the Arcata
Veterans Hall with Striped Pig
Stringband playing the tunes
and Lyndsey Battle calling the
dances. Wondering what the folk
barn dances are all about? The
folks at barndancehumboldt.
com explain, a barn dance is a
fun, community-oriented folk
dance and social for all ages, gen-
ders, ethnicities and abilities,
non-dancers and dancers alike. A
caller teaches each dance before-
hand and calls instructions during
each dance, with a live band. You
swing your partner, do-se-do or
whatever, when Lyndsey tells
you. Its fun, and good exercise,
and a great way to meet new peo-
ple since you can come without a
partner or with one. Go. Dance.
all day, all free, all folky
The Hum Folk Festival ends
Saturday with the grand fina-
le around Blue Lakes old Odd-
fellows Hall, now the home of
DellArte. The All Day Free
Fest features music on two stag-
es outside, a smaller one called
the Street Stage in front, and
the Rooney Amphitheatre Stage
in back, plus the Kids Tent in
a circus tent with arts and crafts
projects set up by SCRAP Hum-
boldt, and various music work-
shops inside in two rooms up-
stairs. If you get hungry, there are
food trucks and you can get things
to drink (adult beverages and oth-
erwise) in DellArtes concession
booth.
The folking line-up? On the
Amphitheatre Stage its The La-
dybirds at 11 a.m. and Summer
McCall at noon. (Im not familiar
with either.) The old time jazzy
Belles of the Levee play at 1
p.m. The Bret Harte Break-
ers at 2 (great name btw), Way
Out West from down south (in
SoHum) at 3, La Patina Band
(not just with Jeff DeMark) at 4,
Safari Boots, a band invent-
ed for Folklife, move up to the
big stage (and the big time) at 5,
The Trouble are making trouble
again at 6, and, closing the whole
show, its Absynth Quartet with
their patented fire breathing in-
diegrass, proving that all you
have to do is add -grass to invent
a new genre.
On the Street Stage you have
Kray Van Kirk starting things
off at 10:45 a.m. Melanie Bar-
nett and Company (11:35), The
Chimney Swifts (12:45), Aar-
on Thomas (1:45) and at 2:45
p.m. Joel Sonensheins popular
Beatles Singalong, which until
this year was in a more intimate
(and more crowded) indoor room.
The Spindrifters from Field-
brook follow at 4:45 p.m. Van-
ishing Pints offer quasi-Irish
tunes at 5:45, and closing things
out in the street, authentic rag-
time blues from The Mad River
Rounders.
So-called workshops (more
play than work) start upstairs in
the North Room in the DellAr-
te building with the Humboldt
Ukulele Group offering Be-
ginning Uke at 11 a.m. with In-
termediate Uke at noon. Sum-
mer McCall leads A Capella
Singing at 1 p.m. Jan Bram-
lett demonstrates Songwriting
Techniques at 2 p.m. then JD
Jeffries leads a John Denver
Sing-along at 3 p.m. (up against
the Beatles).
Across the hall in the South
Room Colin Vance teaches
Clawhammer Banjo at 11 a.m. Jim
Hubbard, Barb Culbertson
and Halimah Collingwood of-
fer Harmony Singing at noon, a
fine fiddler Rosalind Parducci
teaches Irish Fiddling at 1 p.m.
Seabury Gould leads an Irish/
Celtic Music Singalong at 2 p.m.
and bluesy Anna Hamilton
shows you Tricky Licks on Gui-
tar at 3 p.m.
The only trouble with the All
Day Free Fest is choosing your fa-
vorite folk. P.S. The Folklifers re-
mind you, Dont forget the after
party with Object Heavy at The
Logger Bar, which is more funky
than folky. Whatever.
A folky side note: Mike Spu-
moni Manetas dropped me a line
last week saying, I just finished
another project and have a double
CD of live bluegrass shows that
Fickle Hill did between 1974-78
in Humboldt County. It is actually
pretty good.
Im pretty sure Spumoni
played at the first Humboldt
Folklife Festival, which was up
on Fickle Hill, probably with the
Fickle Hill band. He has a long
history in Folklife, played man-
dolin in Compost Mountain Boys,
ran Wildwood Music and more.
He plans on having the disc avail-
able at the festival, watch for it.
Get one. Listen.
folk punk
Sometimes all it takes to create
a new genre is some attitude and
a unique instrument. The band
Split Lip Rayfield (playing
Wednesday, July 12 at Humboldt
Brews) formed in Wichita, Kansas
at the end of the 20th century. It
had your usual bluegrass-type in-
struments banjo, mandolin and
guitar with an unusual standup
bass: Jeff Eatons Stitchgiver
was made from a 1978 Mercury
Grand Marquis gas tank with a
neck attached, strung with weed-
whacker line. Along with bands
like The Bad Livers, they invented
something known as thrashgrass,
or cowpunk or alt. country, de-
pending on the mood of the music
journalist. The Split Lip boys have
since lost their guitarist to the evil
C, but they soldier on as a trio,
playing folky music that kicks ass.
the other side
Meanwhile, down on the coun-
ty line, situated on the other edge
of the musical spectrum (and
demographic), a festival called
Northern Lights is in its fifth
year, running Friday through
Sunday July 14 to 16, at Cooks
Valley Campground (near where
they have Reggae on the River).
I talked with one of the orga-
nizers when they first started the
fest, brainstorming a way to dif-
ferentiate them from EDM (elec-
tronic dance music), since they
wanted to cut a wider swath. I
suggested organic dance music,
but it didnt stick. Whatever. You
wont see a lot of guitars and very
few banjos on the fests five stag-
es, one right on the river, others
in the woods, and a silent disco
(think headphones). They bill this
as a diverse boutique festival ex-
perience in an epic location, and
theres much more than EDM: art,
yoga, comedy (Savage and other-
wise) and floating the river plus
music drawing on other genres.
Headliners include Living
Legends, legends in hip hop;
Cherub, an electro/pop/funk/
dance duo from Nashville; Jai
Wolf, lush electronica from
NYC; and G Jones from Santa
Cruz, mixing it all up, with a lot of
much more. See northernlights.
org for the multi-faceted lineup.
jazz is alive
Its the second Friday in July,
which means a couple of things:
Its Arts! Arcata time and
theres a guide to that on B1, and
its Second Friday Jazz night at
the Westhaven Center for the Arts
with RLa playing Standards and
Originals with vibraphonist/
composer Jonathan Kipp, who
has played internationally and lo-
cally with Calliope and percussion
masters Timbata. Hes good.
Saxophonist/flautist Don
Baraka sent us an email re: a
three-day series of musical events
commemorating the death of sax
giant John Coltrane in 1967, or,
the 50th anniversary of the As-
cension of Saint John Coltrane.
(Trane was canonized by the Ab-
yssinian Baptist Church.)
These are not concerts, sim-
ply jazz musicians remembering
him and improvising in his spir-
it, said Mr. Baraka. The informal
jams start Saturday (12:30 to 3
p.m.) at Cafe Phoenix (not typ-
ically a music venue), continue
Sunday at the weekly jazz jam at
Blondies (6 to 8:30 p.m.), with a
special session Monday at Eureka
Inns Palm Lounge (7-10 p.m.)
with Brian Post & Friends, on
the actual anniversary of Tranes
death.
Its ironic that the man who
wrote A Love Supreme died
during the Summer of Love. If
youre not familiar with his work,
start there or maybe My Favorite
Things, then move on to later in
his life when he took off into inner
space with free jazz and ascend-
ed. Thats what music is all about,
breaking the bonds that restrain
us and strengthening those that
hold us together. Remember, mu-
sic = life and vice versa. Enjoy it.

Pints for nonProfits Drink up at Red-
wood Curtain Brewing Co., 550 South G
St., Arcata, today, July 12, when $1 from
every beer sold all day benefits KEET-TV
(PBS).
sUMMEr ConCErt sEriEs Eureka Main
Streets free Thursday evening Summer
Concert Series continues this Thursday,
July 13 at 6 p.m. at Madaket Plaza at the
foot of C Street with Eagles tribute band
Boys of Summer. (707) 442-9054
at thE alibi Humboldt Free Radio pres-
ents Hera Has a Heart (acoustic punk from
Whale Gulch) and Droll Weevil (SoHum
rock n roll) at The Alibi, 744 Ninth St. in
Arcata, Friday, July 14 at 11 p.m. There is
a $5 cover for this 21 and over show.
iMProvisation, ModE & MElody John
Karl Hirten, finalist in the American Guild
of Organists National competition in Or-
gan Improvisation, presents an improvi-
sation workshop Saturday, July 15 at 2
p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 15th and
H streets in Eureka. Every musical piece,
whether written down or improvised, is
constructed out of a variety of building
materials. Over time, musicians carry an
ever-growing tool box containing these
techniques. Hirten will delve into two of
these tools mode and melody and ex-
plore ways to use them to develop a com-
positional personality through simple im-
provisation. He will be using the piano as
well as organ in presenting this workshop.
Admission is by suggested donation of $5.
(707) 443-0700, hirten.com
PiPE organ ConCErt Bay Area organist
and composer John Karl Hirten performs
works for pipe organ by Joplin, Ravel,
Hirten, Bach and others, as well as an im-
provisation on names of audience members
Saturday, July 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Christ
Episcopal Church, 15th and H streets in
Eureka. Admission is by suggested dona-
tion of $15. christchurcheureka.org/con-
certs, (707) 443-0700
winE & jazz A slight departure from the
regular Wine & Jazz programs, The Yokels
a vintage 3-piece band specializing in clas-
sic American music, play Sunday, July
16 at 3 p.m. at the Morris Graves Muse-
um of Art, 636 F St. in Eureka. The Yokels
are singer and guitarist Steve Irwin, singer
and bass player Glen Nagy and singer and
drummer Bill Kerker. Bring along your in-
strument, as audience members may jam
with the band following the show. Admis-
sion is $5/$2 for seniors age 65 and over
and students with ID/free for children 17
and under and museum members.
rEPUtation of Christians Research
revealing peoples common perceptions
of Christians will be explored at Lifetree
Caf Sunday, July 16 at 7 p.m. The pro-
gram, titled What People Really Think of
Christians ... and Why, features a filmed
interview with Gabe Lyons, co-author of
unChristian. Join in the free conversa-
tion about life and faith, with coffee and
snacks, at Campbell Creek Connexion on
the corner of 13th and Union streets in
Arcata. (707) 672-2919, robertdipert@
gmail.com
Morris gravEs MUsEUM sEEKs vol-
UntEErs If you enjoy art and interacting
with visitors, artists and the community,
the Morris Graves Museum of Art is look-
ing for volunteers to welcome visitors to the
museum, give information on current exhi-
bitions and events and collect admission.
Special event volunteers for Arts Alive!
and weekend programs are also needed.
A short volunteer training is all you need
to get started as a volunteer. Contact Pro-
grams Manager Janine Murphy at janine@
humboldtarts.org or (707) 442-0278 ext.
202 if you would like to become a volunteer
at the Morris Graves.

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Blue Lake Casino 9 p.m. Karaoke 9 p.m. 9 p.m. 9 p.m. Karaoke
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Cher-Ae Heights Casino 8 p.m. 9 p.m. Redwood 9 p.m. Hunter & 9 p.m. Hunter & 8 p.m. Karaoke 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Karaoke
27 Scenic Dr., Trinidad Free pool Ramblers the Dirty Jacks the Dirty Jacks with DJ Marv 8-Ball Tourney with DJ Marv
Humboldt Brews 9:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Peach Purple
856 10th St., Arcata Split Lip Rayfield & Black Sage Runners
The Jam 9 p.m. 9 p.m. Thou, Moloch, 9:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
915 H St., Arcata Whomp Cloud Ray & False Sundaze 12BC Productions Comedy Night
The Logger Bar 9 p.m. 9 p.m. Rinky Dink 9 p.m. 9 p.m. 6 p.m. all day all day
501 Railroad Ave., Blue Lake Joanne Rand Stringband Undercovers Object Heavy Potluck Free pool Free ping pong
Mad River Brewing Co. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m.
101 Taylor Way, Blue Lake Piet Dalmolen The Vanishing Pints Home Cookin Band OLoko Dogbone
Redwood Curtain Brewery all day 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 7 p.m.
550 South G St., Arcata Pints for Nonprofits Piet Dalmolen Lovebush Shuffle Board
Six Rivers Brewery 9 p.m. 9 p.m. Crook 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Karaoke 7:30 p.m.
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Uncommon opportunities Has spent 30 years hiding in plain sight

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ave you ever walked on Pilot Point overlooking n celebration of Waldos 30th birthday, his Ameri- mones. RSVP to eulachonreadingseries@gmail.com.
Moonstone Beach? This secluded promontory, man- can publisher, Candlewick Press, is once again team- Later that same day, starting at 8 p.m., Eleftherion
aged by the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust, is a unique ing up with the American Booksellers Association and Lua read some of their poems. Eleftherion is the
geologic formation with exposed fossils, a variety of flora and and 250 independent bookstores across the country for author of huminsect, prism maps,
fauna and beautiful vistas. Carol VanderMeer has organized some hide-and-seek fun to encourage communities to Pigtail Duty, the leaves the leaves,
a tour Sunday, July 29 from 2 to 4 p.m. as part of a summer patronize their local businesses. Once again, the famous green glass asterisms and sever-
guided walks and programs interpreting and appreciating childrens book character in the striped shirt and black- al other chapbooks. Her first full-
land trust holdings. Meet at the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust rimmed specs is visiting many local businesses through- length collection, field guide to au-
office-gallery behind Trinidad Library a little before 2 p.m. out our community this July. Find Waldo Local is a tobiography, was recently published
To reserve a place, email Carol@TrinidadCoastalLandTrust. great summer vacation activity and a wonderful way to by H_NGM_N Books. More of her
org or call (707) 677-2501. support local businesses and work can be found at apoetlibrari-
Other tours through the summer are the Shop Local movement an.wordpress.com. Luas work has
planned for Aug. 12 from 9 to 11 a.m. on in our community. appeared in The Acentos Review, A
Old Home Beach and Sept. 16 from 2 to There is no charge to Sharp Piece of Awesome Literary Magazine, Pilgrim-
4 p.m. at Luffenholtz Beach. For more participate, and the hunt age Press and Toyon Literary Magazine. Admission to
information, visit TrinidadCoastal- lasts for the entire month the reading is $5 to $20 sliding scale. Homemade beer,
LandTrust.org or email info@Trinidad- of July. Anyone who wish- soda and cookies will be for sale.
CoastalLandTrust.org. Ben Morehead es to participate can pick Pajama Storytime
is executive director of the trust. Trust- up a Find Waldo Local in Snuggle up and hear some wonderful stories before
ees include Matthew Marshall, Richard Arcata! passport, which bedtime at Pajama Storytime a fine way to end the day
Johnson, Don Allan, Charles Netzow, contains the names of all at the Arcata Library, 500 Seventh St. Thursday, July 13
Jenny Hutchinson, Bryce Kenny, Shirley Laos, Tom Leskiw, the participating sites, at 6:30 p.m. Children are welcome to come in pajamas,
Ted Pease, and Steen and Tami Trump. Ask any of these ded- and get their passport if they like, but its not a requirement.
icated leaders about supporting Trinidad Coastal Land Trust stamped or signed for each Authors among us
properties, programs and projects. Waldo they spot. Collecting store stamps or signatures Author Jessica Pettitt will be at Northtown Books,
David Fleschner plays at Moonstone Crossing Winery at 20 or more businesses will entitle diligent seekers en- 957 H St. in Arcata, Friday, July 14 at 7 p.m. and at the
David Fleschner just wrapped up six sets at the Portland try into a grand-prize drawing Aug. 5, with the top prize Eureka Main Library, 1313 Third St., Saturday, July 15
Waterfront Blues Festival with the Duffy Bishop Band, the being a six-volume deluxe set of Waldo books. from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. An educator with a stand-up
Strangetones, the Paul DeLay Tribute Band and United by Poets at Sanctuary comedy background, Pettitts new book, Good Enough
Music. Hes coming home to Trinidad Saturday, July 15 Sanctuary, 1301 J St., Arcata, presents a poetry read- Now, invites you to thrive and succeed as the person you
and will play jazz and blues on the keyboard at 3 p.m. at the ing by Melissa Eleftherion and Kirk Alvaro Lua as well are. No need to be perfect! You are good enough now
Moonstone Crossing Winery Tasting Room, 529 Trinity St. as a generative writing workshop with naturalist-po- to make the changes you seek.
Call (707) 677-3816 or (503) 349-7883 for more information. et-librarian Eleftherion. Chris Riley will read from and sign his new novel The
Second Friday Jazz and more The workshop is Sunday July 16 from noon to 2 p.m. Sinking of the Angie Piper, a nautical adventure novel
Due to a scheduling conflict, Third Friday Jazz at Westhav- Bring a writing utensil and paper! Participation fee is set on an Alaskan fishing boat, at Northtown Books Sat-
en Center for the Arts, 501 South Westhaven Dr., is actual- $30 and includes tea, coffee, and pastries from Ra- urday, July 15 at 3 p.m.
ly Second Friday Jazz, July 14 at 7 p.m. It will feature RLa
with guest vibraphonist and composer Jonathan Kipp, who
has played in Zacatecas, Mexico with Andrea Sullivan, Isa-
ias Flores Lugo, La Orquesta de la Universidad Autonoma
Open call for Humboldt County photographers
de Zacatecas and La Filamonica Zacatecas. Locally, Jonathan Mad RiveR Union gins, a professional photographer but are not limited to; composition,
performs with Calliope and Timbata as well as with Taylor EUREKA Humboldt Photogra- and photography instructor at Cos- technical ability, originality, artistic
Ho Bymum and Jenny Scheiman. He studied percussion phy Exhibition, the largest all-pho- umnes College in Chico. She has merit, creativity and impact. She
with Eugene Novotney, Howard Kaufman and Dan Aldag at tography show on the North Coast, worked as a professional wedding, has previously been a photography
HSU. Admission is $5 to $20 sliding scale. is holding an open call for entries for commercial, senior portrait pho- judge for the KVIE Art Auction, the
Also at the center, join Dr. Roy King for Gaia's Love, a na- all Humboldt County photographers tographer and photographic educa- Sierra Camera Club in Sacramento
ture based spirituality group exploring the healing virtues of Saturday, July 15 from 11 a.m. to 2 tor on the college level. Higgins has and the Western States Horse Expo.
nature, Sunday, July 23 at 10 a.m. p.m. at the Redwood Art Association worked in various photographic me- The show will run from July 19
The same day, lift your spirits at Song Village from 1 to 3 Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. diums including; 35 mm film, me- through Aug. 18. The subject matter
p.m., led by Musician-in-Residence Seabury Gould. Folk tunes The show, presented by the Red- dium and large format film, digital is completely the desire of each en-
and a wide variety of music suitable for group singing are part wood Camera Club, Eureka Photo- and interdisciplinary work involv- trant. Entry forms and rules can be
of the afternoons fun. Call (707) 845-8167 for information. shop Users Group and the Redwood ing other artistic genres. A lot of her found at redwoodcameraclub.com/
While at the center, enjoy the new exhibit, Created Im- Art Association has been show- personal work is equine based. humboldt-photography-exhibition
ages IV with art work by Annie Reid, Bosha Struve, Dianne casing North Coast photographers She summarized her judging phi- and redwoodart.us/exhibitions.htm
Williams, George Ventura, Hal Work and Pam Cone. since 2009. There will be a number losophy by saying I can tell you that or picked up at Swanlunds Camera,
of cash awards. I look for a variety of bullet points the Art Center Frame Shop and Eu-
Email Patti at baycity@sonic.net. This years judge is Kathy Hig- when judging photos, which include reka Art and Frame, all in Eureka.

Kelley | Lush arrangement, beautiful lyric Kelley explained, there were seven CROSSWORD
CROSSWORD PUZZLE #5424
other songs with that title. Who cares ACROSS DOWN
FROM B1 to the guitar in 10th grade. Kelley grew about a title? The song is lovely. 1. Shiny on top 1. Formal dance
ror, he explained. Lord Buckley up in Redondo Beach and moved to The last cut on the CD, Sacrifice, 5. Forward sections 2. Tell __; be dishonest
(1906-1960) was, for the uninitiated, 10. Engrossed 3. Money, slangily
Humboldt County in 1983 because is really a work of art. Its hard to 14. African lily 4. Canine specialist
the hipster bebop preacher who de- of a girl who promptly dumped me. I hear that and think, I did that, Kel- 15. Permitted 5. Locale
fied all labels, according to that other didnt have any money to leave and I ley said. He and Romano collaborated 16. Lake tribe 6. Heed ones alarm
hipster, Bob Dylan. 17. Roarer 7. 10th of 12: abbr.
realized I didnt want to, he said with on the song. We both played the key- 18. Texas athlete 8. Electricians task
And you will laugh when you listen a smile. Hes been here ever since. board at the same time and then went 19. Entry 9. Surgically created opening
to the title track, Never Been Done, Kelley describes his CD as songs in and manipulated it on the comput- 20. Salad ingredient 10. Feasted
Kelleys funny ode to a difficult lover. er, said Kelley. The mixture of organ, 22. Antelopes 11. Russian sea
of life, death and silliness. Some of 24. Suffix for expert or treat 12. __ bread
The song revels in ways to describe the songs are touching moments of a vocals and guitar makes for a lush ar- 25. Crawler 13. Pegs
getting along with a problem partner, thoughtful life. Hello Chicago with rangement of a beautiful lyric. 26. Use the other end 21. Take advantage of
including the image of breaking up its tasty trumpet solo by Halliday, Get this CD and enjoy one of Hum- of the pencil 23. Stacks
29. Equip 25. Place
rocks in a 12-hour day. But, the song recalls the sweetness of a week-long boldts fine singer/songwriters. Its 30. See 15 Across 26. Cheeses
asserts, it can be done. And it goes on visit to his daughter in Chicago and available on CDBaby and iTunes now 34. Soil 27. Fix firmly
to remind us that penicillin is made the sadness at ending the visit. The and Kelley hopes to do a CD release 35. Isolated piece of land 28. Public building
36. Redistribute cards 29. __ of; free from
from mold on bread, gardens are refrain of Hello, Chicago/Can I come party soon. Or just ask him when you 37. __ Maria 31. Columbus home
grown in poo, Im going to do whats home to you/Will your wind blow see him around the county. The Van- 38. Kidnaps 32. Exodus figure
never been done, Im going to get away these lonesome blues, stays in ishing Pints perform Thursday, July 40. Gun rights org. 33. Pack animal
41. Threaten 35. Presidential nickname
along with you. your ear like a welcome memory, not 13 at the Mad River Brewery from 6 to 43. Common verb 36. Address abbr.
The musicality is rich and deep, just an earworm. Another song that plays 8 p.m. and at the Humboldt Folklife 44. Tragic destiny 38. Part where Juliet
what one might expect from someone well on repetition is Raining River. Festival Saturday, July 15 at 5:45 p.m. 45. Move suddenly makes plans to
46. Porkers home elope with Romeo
who started playing saxophone in the The plaintive refrain of I still be- on the street stage in front of DellAr- 47. Late princess 39. Boo-hoo
second grade, took piano lessons in lieve in love, should, by rights be the te. It shouldnt be difficult to find this 48. __ pie 42. Like a Brinks truck
grades four through six, then turned title of Keeping Belief in Love but, hardworking musician. jeffkelley.net 50. Reptile 44. Pampers
51. Get well 46. Shriek
54. __ of; throw out 47. Colombian couple
58. Nostrils detection 49. Fits snugly
Georgia | Shante, you stay acerbically lectures Casey about the history of drag. Kehoe
also provided some of the biggest laughs of the evening
59. Cut off
61. Always
50. Joyous event
51. Squabbles
62. Dinner 52. Actress Falco
FROM B1 (of which there were many), with his dramatic exits from accompaniment 53. Rocky road holder
Part rom-com and part drag show, Redwood Curtain the stage. He also doubles as Jason, Caseys buddy/land- 63. Spoil 54. Fender-bender memento
Theatres production of The Legend of Georgia McBride lord, in which he was likewise utterly believable, though, it 64. Horned animals 55. Shape
65. Beginning 56. Prefix for circle or private
is sassy, trashy and a little rude, but has a heart of gold. must be said, his eyeshadow (which, obviously, must stay 66. Word with black or lock 57. Formerly
Under the able direction of Shea King, the 90-minute play on throughout the play) was a little distracting sunglass- 67. Thin opening 60. Square root of XLIX
(with no intermission) builds momentum, getting funnier es might have helped out here. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
and funnier as it rolls along. Rounding out the cast is Jeremy Webb as Eddie the
The play reunites William English III and Michelle club manager. Ironically, its Eddie who gets the most cos- 14 15 16

Chelly Purnell last seen as Julius Caesar and Mark tume changes, and Webb really works it. His befuddled 17 18 19
Antony in Humboldt States production of Julius Caesar reticence and perfect comic timing allowed him to deliver
20 21 22 23
as couple Casey and Jo. The pair have a darling chemistry lines that would otherwise be offensive with utter charm.
even when fighting, with Purnell slinging some real zing- The Legend of Georgia McBride is a technically chal- 24 25

ers with lots of attitude. Her delivery was a little rushed on lenging production, especially on a community theatre 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
preview night; a little bit more breathing space would give budget. While scenery, by Hanah Toyada, was kept sim-
34 35 36
the audience a chance to really absorb how deeply funny ple, it incorporated some neat shout-outs to Divine,
she can be. RuPaul and other drag legends. Rae Robinson provided 37 38 39 40
Casey is the straight man, in more ways than one, to ev- some fabulous costumes, especially for Miss Tracy Mills. 41 42 43 44
eryone in the play. English was perfect in the role, quickly Makeup by Josh Tillett and Stevie DiLuxe, was on point.
sketching out a believable happy-go-lucky everyman, then Wigs were a little more challenging no lacefronts here 45 46 47

a fish out of water. His tour de force was showing the evo- as they often are in Humboldt County theatre. 48 49 50
lution of his drag persona, Georgia McBride, through an The impetus of the play is club owner Eddies hope 51 52 53 54 55 56 57
Edith Piaf number, in the space of less than five minutes. that drag shows will bring in the crowds, and judging by
Bravo, or rather, brava! the sold-out crowd on preview night, drag queens do put 58 59 60 61

Likewise to David Hamilton as Miss Tracy Mills, a butts in seats. Sashay to the Redwood Curtain Theatre to 62 63 64
down-on-her-luck diva who introduces Casey to drag. see this sassy show. The Legend of Georgia McBride runs
65 66 67
Hamilton threw himself into the role with gusto, clearly Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. through
channelling local queen Fuscia Rae, who is listed in the July 29, with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee July 23. Redwood Solution on page C3
production team as drag mother. Curtain Theatre is located at 220 First St. in Eureka. Tick-
Christopher Kehoe brought some Dr. Frank-N-Furter
leftovers from Rocky Horror Show to his turn as shady
ets can be reserved or purchased at redwoodcurtain.com
or reserved by emailing boxoffice@redwoodcurtain.com
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about butterfly habitat and the plants they love. Local but-
Painted Ladies
terflies and caterpillars, such as Painted Ladies, Red Ad-
mirals, Western Swallowtails and Monarchs will inhabit
the butterfly house this summer.
at the Typically, the life of the butterfly itself is relatively brief,
about two to four weeks. A butterflys mission after pupat-
garden ing is to breed and lay eggs. Much of the lifespan of a but-
terfly is when it is a caterpillar. A caterpillar goes through
a series of molts, shedding skin as it grows. When it be-
comes large and ready to pupate, it climbs up branches
and forms a chrysalis. This is the mysterious and wonder-
ful process that produces a beautiful butterfly from a non-
descript looking caterpillar.
At the Humboldt Botanical Gardens butterfly house,
visitors will be able to see every stage of a butterfly life
cycle from egg to butterfly. In addition, there will be but-
terfly nectar plants for sale and educational information
available.
The Butterfly House at Humboldt Botanical Garden is
EPHEMERAL BEAUTY Visit the Painted Ladies, above,
located inside the greenhouse and is open from noon to
and other species at Humboldt Botanical Gardens
4 p.m. Admission to the garden is $8/$5 for children 6
new Butterly House. Submitted photo
to 17, seniors and active military/free for children under
Mad RiveR Union 6 and members. There is a suggested donation of $3 for
EUREKA The Humboldt Botanical Garden opended a the butterfly house. The Humboldt Botanical Garden is
new butterfly house earlier this month. This pilot project open Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
was designed to entertain and educate gardeners and fam- If you would like to volunteer to help with the butterfly
ilies with children. Visitors to the butterfly house will learn house, call (707) 442-5139. hbgf.org
GLASS ART AT THE MARSH Me-
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art pieces through Au- MANILA Registration is now open for the Friends of
gust at the Arcata Marsh the Dunes Coastal Naturalist Training, a six-week course
Interpretive Center, 569 that will introduce you to wonders of our local ecology
South G St. Shapes and and engage you in the stewardship of Californias natural
subjects found in nature communities.
inspire my work, said Ziel- The course combines a junior college-level introduc-
inski, so many of my pieces tory science course curriculum with classroom and field
involve leaves, sea stars, shells, experiences, guest lecturers, and project-based learning.
jellyfish, dragonflies and other interesting plants and an- In addition to instructor Jennifer Ortega, guest lectur-
imals. Shows at the Interpretive Center are sponsored ers and field instructors include professors, geologists,
by Friends of the Arcata Marsh. The center is open Tues- botanists, biologists, long-time naturalists and other lo-
day through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and cal experts. Upon completion of course requirements,
Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Monday between 1 participants will earn a California Naturalist Certificate
and 5 p.m. (707) 826-2359, millcreekglass.com through the UC California Naturalist Program and are
eligible for four academic credits through UC Davis Ex-
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room sessions Thursday evenings from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Mobile and field sessions on Sundays. Course fee is $350/$325
for Friends of the Dunes members, Peninsula residents
Rentals and students. Additional fees include $25 for kayak rent-
al and $80 for academic credits.
Temporary and Portable fencing Register at friendsofthedunes.org, at the Humboldt
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Conservation Meeting Redwood Region Audubon
Society holds its monthly Conservation Meeting Thurs-
day, July 13 at noon at Ritas Margaritas and Mexican
Grill, 1111 Fifth St., Eureka. (707) 445-8311
Wildlife traCking field Workshop The HSU Natu-
ral History Museum hosts a Wildlife Tracking Field Work-
shop with Phil Johnston, biologist and tracker extraordi-
naire, Saturday, July 15 beginning at 8:30 a.m. This is
an all day workshop and spotting lion tracks is guaran-
teed. The location of the workshop will be in the moun-
tains. All participants will leave from the Natural History
Museum in Arcata. Participation fee is $25/ $20 for mu-
seum or Sequoia Park Zoo members/$15 for seniors and
HSU students. Space is limited; call (707) 826-4479 or
visit humboldt.edu/natmus for more information.
Bird the Marsh Redwood Region Audubon Society
sponsors a free public field trip at the Arcata Marsh and
Wildlife Sanctuary Saturday, July 15. Bring your bin-
oculars and have a great morning birding! Meet leader
Gary Friedrichsen in the parking lot at the end of South I
Street (Klopp Lake) in Arcata at 8:30 a.m., rain or shine.
Trip ends around 11 a.m.
Marsh toUr Friends of the Arcata Marsh sponsors a free
tour of the Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary Saturday,
July 15 at 2 p.m. Meet leader Alex Stillman at the Inter-
pretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute walk fo-
cusing on the plants and ecology of the Marsh. Loaner
binoculars available with photo ID. (707) 826-2359
Mt. lassiC hike The North Group Sierra Club invites
the public to a hike in the Mt. Lassic Wilderness and
Botanical Area in Six Rivers National Forest Saturday,
July 15. Carpools meet at 8 a.m. at the Herrick Ave. Park
& Ride in Eureka off Hwy. 101 south. Take a scenic drive
and hike this medium difficulty six-mile hike, with 1,000
feet elevation change, in this natural wonderland off
Highway 36. See vernal pools, stark serpentine and per-
idotite barrens and vegetation with character. After this
seasons abundant rain and snow, we should see some
good regeneration from the 2015 wildfires. We will as-
cend distinctive 5,916-ft. Black Lassic and explore other
nearby features. Bring lunch and extra water and dress
for the weather. No dogs. By reservation only. Contact
leader Ned at nedforsyth48@gmail.com or (707) 825-
3652. Bad weather cancels.
sand sCUlptUre festival The Friends of the Dunes
22nd annual Sand Sculpture Festival takes place Satur-
day, July 15 at the Manila Dunes Recreation Area. Cash
prizes will be awarded for Best of Show, Most Imagina-
tive, Most Dedicated Diggers, Peoples Choice, Friends
of the Dunes Staff Pick and Best Youth Sculpture for
sculptors 12 and under. Business sponsored teams will
compete for the coveted Golden Shovel award. Teams
may register the day of the event starting at 8 a.m. at
the Manila Community Center, 1611 Peninsula Dr. The
Sand Sculpture Festival is free for spectators, though a
$1 to $5 sliding scale donation is encouraged to support
Friends of the Dunes education and conservation pro-
grams. Every dollar donated buys you a Peoples Choice
flag to vote for your favorite sculptures. The best time
to view sculptures is from noon to 2 p.m. Snacks and
drinks for sale at the beach will benefit Redwood Coast
Montessori School. Parking is limited and carpooling is
encouraged. Parking shuttles will be available from the
Manila Park to the event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more
information, including a parking shuttle map, sculpting
tips, and a photo archive of past sculptures, visit friend-
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JULY 12, 2017

Crabs beat b52s

12-1 in sunday matCh
FuN IN THE SuN The Humboldt Crabs were scheduled to play the San di-
ego Waves last Friday and Saturday here in arcata, but the SoCal team
canceled its trip at the last minute. Fortunately, local favorites the b52s
were available and played a spirited game with the Crabs on Sunday.
The Crabs won the game 12-1. Top, as is the tradition every Sunday, kids
were invited to run the bases, top. It was Hawaiian day, with players, top
left, dressing up in grass skirts. A lucky boy, left, threw out the first pitch.
matthew Hernandez, right, took the mound. This Friday the Crabs face the
Walnut Creek Crawdads during a game which kicks off Crabs alumni
and Parents Weekend. Bring a flashlight, lawn chair or blanket as right
field will be open to all. There will be a 10 minute fireworks show that night,
so dog owners are warned to take precautions. Photos by matt Filar | Union

The inside scoop on the Humboldt Crabs dirty laundry

J
ust by chance, I happened to sit next to Michelle But- "Please give a shoutout
ler at a game recently. She was passing out healthy to Emerald City," But-
looking salads, grilled chicken to put on top, and ler reminded me. "We
homemade dressing to a group of friends and relatives. couldn't do this without
She did it with skill and grace, not an easy task for the top them. We are in a partner-
row of the bleachers. ship with them and they
We started chatting and I found out give us a great deal."
that she is the great-granddaughter of Pristine and clean uni-
Crabs founder and longtime manager, forms are handed back out,
Lou Bonomini (1916-2000). only to be worn and be-
Butler is following in the tradition come dirty all over again.
of her great-grandmother, Vera Bono- That's what baseball is all
mini, by doing the laundry for 30-some about sliding into home
Crabs players twice a week during the in a cloud of dirt and being

CRab season.
"She probably did it with a wash-
Gab
tub," she said.
Butler and her crew of helpers, in-
cluding her mother, Jan Briggs, her
friends, and some young ballpark staff members, Taylor
Day, Tori Reynolds, and Kaitlyn Burke, have a great setup.
called, Safe!
Butler has been doing
KEEPING Em ClEaN
Jan briggs, left, and her this volunteer duty for
daughter michelle butler. seven or eight years. She's SHOuT IT OuT Volunteers spray detergent on uniforms
a fifth grade teacher at Pa- stretched out on tarps. Photos by Janine Volkmar | Union
cific Union where she herself went to school. Last year her
son Jake was in her class. She's all about tradition.

On Wednesdays and Sundays, they spread out a big
tarp near the dugout and get their industrial sized gar-
den sprayers ready with diluted Shout prewash spray. The
players bring their dirty uniforms (many bearing testimo-
ny to a slide into a base) over to the tarp.
"They are really helpful," Butler said. "They pull out
the legs and sleeves so we can spread the uniforms out for
spraying."
The players also know to put "the things I don't want to
touch" directly into the open laundry bags.
Then the helpers go to town, spraying down every dirt
splatter on each uniform before bundling them into huge
bags.
The whole shebang is taken up to Emerald City Laundry
Company, the eco-friendly laundromat on G Street across
from Wildberries, to be washed, dried and folded.
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"I do the laundry as a tiny little homage to my
great-grandmother," she explained.
But it's not a tiny job. The players have more uniform
pieces than in the old days, including jackets. Some of
them go through two or three pairs of pants and two or FIREWORKS NIGHT Friday, July 14: Secure your
three shirts. That's a lot of laundry. pets and get to the ballpark early, as seating is
When the Crabs went on the road to Redding, Butler's
limited.
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job," she said with a smile.
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Grand Jury report: Raw, disturbing child abuse issues probed

Daniel Mintz
Mad RiveR Union
HUMBOLDT Humboldt Countys Grand Jury has re-
leased an annual report that delves into child welfare is-
sues that are raw, disturbing and should be of concern to
all members of our community.
Protecting children from abuse and responding to it
were main investigative items in the report, which was re-
leased in full last week.
Declaring that the children of Humboldt County are ill-
served by the intake system that is meant to protect them,
the report analyzes the effectiveness of child protection
services.
Unfortunately, the (Grand Jury) discovered that our
children are not being afforded the protections that they
deserve, the report states.
According to the report, the countys Child Welfare
Services (CWS) division twice denied the Grand Jurys re-
quests for intake processing data based on confidentiality
issues and then abruptly made notable changes to their
policies and procedures at intake.
The report allows that the new procedures may improve
the timeliness of CWS responses to instances of abuse and
Former naked mole rat pups now fully furred
neglect but states that the Grand Jury cannot conclude
that serious deficiencies have been corrected until CWS
provides needed measures of timeliness.
The reports recommendations include having the coun-
tys Department of Health and Human Services develop
a timeliness metric for measuring response times once
child abuse/neglect is reported.
In a related investigation, the Grand Jury probed the re-
sponse effectiveness of three key entities school districts,
law enforcement and CWS.
The Grand Jury found numerous problematic areas
with each, along with major problems in how agencies
interact to address child abuse.
Recommendations include having the Humboldt Coun-
ty Office of Education instruct school personnel on the
importance of filing a written report with CWS after mak-
ing initial phone contact.
The county Sheriffs Office is requested to file investi-
gative reports even when allegations are not confirmed, to
create a record that may show the need for more in-depth
investigation.
The Grand Jury also looked into law enforcement readi-
ness in outlying areas in a section of the report titled, Ru-
ral policing in Humboldt County: Lawlessness Ignored?
The report states that according to FBI data, violent
crime in the countys unincorporated area has increased by
two-and-a-half times since 2012, exceeding the national
average for the first time in many years.
Statistics between 2005 and 2014 show that Humboldt
County has the highest arrest rate in the state, according to
the report. It also states that crime continues unabated
because criminals are empowered by the perception that
law enforcement will not respond when called.
Finding that rural areas of county are underserved by
law enforcement and other emergency services, the report
acknowledges that recruitment and training requirements
delay staff additions.
Thats especially relevant to adding deputies funded by
the Measure Z public safety tax, which has been slow,
according to the report.
The Grand Jury recommends increased funding for the
Sheriffs Office and streamlining hiring procedures and
staff retention protocol. Measure Z expires in 2019 un-
less renewed by voters and the report recommends that
the county find a permanent funding model.
The countys $232.3 million employee pension funding
liability as of June 30, 2015 is also probed in the report,
which asks, Will Unfunded County Pensions Un-fund Our
Future?
It threatens to, according to the report, particularly if
projected tax revenues do not materialize or if we have a

O
n my way to the Pla-
za, I stopped by the
WILPF book sale,
one of my annual Fourth of
July rituals. I had my dark
glasses on, but was still met
with an announcement that
there were several books
on the table about animal
rescuing that I might like
to see. Before I even had a
chance to respond, sever-
al other shoppers said that
they didnt think I needed
those!
I admit I was
entertained both
that people rec-
ognize me from
this column and
that other people
understood that
I probably wasnt
looking for more
books about dogs! (I was
looking for light summer
reading, if the truth be
known )
So why do I write this
column? I like to think that
boldt County Animal Shel-
ter and am one third of
Redwood Pals Rescue, a
small nonprofit that works
with the dogs at the shelter
that need extra help. I have
learned a lot in the five
years that I have been doing
this. Yes, it was easier when
I just had a couple of dogs
and didnt pay any atten-
tion to what happened to
the strays or homeless dogs
in our area, but since I cant
unlearn what Ive
encountered, this
is a great venue
for sharing some
of that with a
compassionate
audience. Thanks
for reading!
The shelters
June adoption
promotion was very suc-
cessful. Over 30 dogs went
to their forever homes and
the shelter had plenty of
empty kennels in prepa-
ration for the Fourth of
NAKED MOLE RATS Huey and Velma with mange,
top, and fully furred.
lings, and nurtured them
through their recovery. The
other siblings went to the
Kinetic Sculpture race with
us and were a huge hit with
everyone! All four were ad-
business recession that affects county revenues.
The report states that the pension liability could jeop-
ardize vital programs, even Humboldt Countys solvency.
A main recommendation is for the county to contribute at
least $2 million to the trust fund dedicated to covering the
liability in the 2017 to 2018 budget.
The Board of Supervisors approved the budget in late
June and the pension liability fund will get a contribution
equivalent to a half-percent of projected county employee
salary costs for the fiscal year. Thats forecasted to amount
to about $819,000.
A little
tramp
back to her territo-
ry in the woods. If
you encounter a fe-
ral cat in your area,
Submitted photo feel free to contact
al. They are in great health Companion Animal
now and fully furred! Foundation and
The pups are a perfect we will do what
example of the cooperation we can to set you
between the shelter and up with a trap and
rescue. The shelter recog- help you make a spay/

I am not dog-obsessed. I
actually have a lot of inter-
ests, but dogs are certainly
one of them and this seems
to be a wonderful venue
for bringing awareness to
issues surrounding dogs in
our community. And there
is great satisfaction in help-
ing dogs and humans make
a good match. One of the
most recent matches was
for my wonderful editor
here at the Union, who ad-
opted Saffron [Union, June
21], now named Coffee!
I volunteer at the Hum-
July. Hopefully all of the
pets scared off by fireworks
have been reunited with
their families by now. (On
a related note, there will be
fireworks in Arcata on Fri-
day, July 14, at the end of
the Crabs baseball game.)
There are still good dogs to
choose from at the shelter,
and new dogs are added
regularly.
Two special pups that
are available are Velma and
Huey. These are the last
two of the poor little na-
ked mole rat puppies that
came in to the shelter some
months back. They arrived
with demodectic (noncon-
tagious) mange and with-
out fur.
Three wonderful fosters
stepped up for these pups,
each taking two of the sib-
opted soon after that event
and their adopters are very
happy with them. They
have all done well with oth-
er dogs and children.
These two stayed with
their foster a little longer
and are now back at the
shelter for adoption. The
volunteers love these pups
and appreciate the extra
training that they received
from their foster mom.
Velma and Huey are
leash trained and also
know sit and come. They
love to run and play with
each other and with their
friend Hiccup, who is also
at the shelter. These pups
are about 6 months old and
are light brown with white
markings. They will make
great family pets or a loyal
companion for an individu-
nized the necessity to help
these pups and Redwood
Pals Rescue was able to
find responsible fosters to
care for the pups until they
were ready to come back for
adoption. Redwood Pals is
always happy to hear from
anyone who might want to
foster for us!
These pups are avail-
able at the Humboldt
County Animal Shelter
at 980 Lycoming Ave. in
McKinleyville. More info
is available at (707) 840-
9132. Currently available
dogs and cats are listed on
petharbor.com. Both the
Humboldt County Animal
Shelter and Redwood Pals
Rescue have Facebook pag-
es as well.
For more information
on fostering or other ways
to help dogs in need, please
contact Redwood Pals
at redwoodpalsrescue@
gmail.com or call (707)
839-9692.
M
e e t
Chaplin! His lit-
tle pink tongue
may fool you into thinking
he is the picture of inno-
cence, but this boisterous
brown and black tabby has
a tiger-sized personality.
He thrives on one-on-one
interaction and loves to
chase small toys
that he can pick
up and carry
himself.
Chaplin and
his brother Char-
lie were found in
a nearby forest
with their fe-
ral mother and
were immedi-
ately given the little extra
attention they needed to
socialize them with people
an entirely new concept
for them! Two weeks later,
both brothers are blossom-
ing and just need to find a
family to call their own.
Their mother has since
been spayed and released
neuter appointment. We
provide partial vouchers
for low-income families
as a gesture of thanks
for helping to ensure the
continued health and
safety of our local feline
community.
We pride ourselves on
pairing our animals with
purrr-fect new
companions, so
we encourage
anyone inter-
ested in meet-
ing Chaplin or
Charlie to come
in and visit our
kitten room
Tuesday through
Saturday from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. at 88 Sunny
Brae Center. Pictures of all
of our adoptable animals
can be found at cafani-
mals.org.
All of the animals at
Companion Animal Foun-
dation have been spayed/
neutered, treated for par-
asites and are up-to-date
on their vaccines. If you
have any questions about a
particular animal or would
like to know more about
the adoption process, give
us a call at (707) 826-7387
or email cafadoptions@
gmail.com. Don't forget to
follow Companion Animal
Foundation on Facebook
and Instagram!

Have you adopted

from CAF over the last 15
years? Wed love to hear
from you! Send your pic-
tures and stories to caf-
adoptions@gmail.com.

Wesleyan Church
of the Redwoods
Pastor Chuck Clark
Coffee/fellowship
at 10 a.m.
Traditional worship
at 10:30 a.m.
Bible Study
7 p.m. Wednesday
(Sept. through May)
839-2625
1645 Fischer Rd., McKinleyville
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Farmers Markets now accept WIC checks FREE SPOT VISION SCREENING The McKinleyville Lions
Club offers free Spot Vision screening Saturday, July
15 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Dows Prairie Grange,
North Coast Growers assoCiatioN non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and 3995 Dows Prairie Rd., during their monthly pancake
HUMBOLDT The North Coast Growers Associa- children up to age 5 who are found to be at nutritional risk. breakfast and flea market. The Spot device screens for
tion is excited to announce that WIC Fruit and Vegeta- For more information about WIC please call the Humboldt myopia (near-sightedness), hyperopia (far-sightedness),
ble Checks can now be spent at local farmers markets in County WIC office at (707) 445-6255. The popular WIC anisometropia (unequal refractive power), astigmatism
Eureka, Arcata, McKinleyville, Willow Creek, Fortuna and and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks are (blurred vision/eye structure problems), strabismus (eye
Garberville. These are the very still available seasonally, in limit- misalignment) and aniscoria (pupil size deviations). The
same checks WIC recipients ed numbers. screening is open to individuals of all ages. Infants and
receive and spend in the gro- MARkET SChEDULE
As always, Humboldt Coun- toddlers can also be screened, as this equipment does not
cery store. Now, WIC recipients Old Town Eureka: Tuesdays 10 a.m. to
ty farmers markets include free, require verbal interaction and only takes seconds to pro-
have the choice to use these 1 p.m., June through October at Second local live music and a fun, fami- vide accurate results for most individuals. Each person
checks directly with local farm- and F streets ly-friendly community gathering screened receives a printout of the results to show wheth-
ers on any fruits and vegetables Fortuna: Tuesdays 3 to 6 p.m., June
place open to everyone. Along er a follow-up appointment with an optometrist is recom-
found at the farmers markets. through October at 10th and Main streets
with fresh fruits and vegetables, mended. The club will also collect old eyeglasses, hearing
Expanding access to local henderson Center Eureka: Thursdays 10
participants can find other ar- aids, cell phones and ink/toner cartridges during the vi-
fruits and vegetables is part of a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October at F tisan agricultural products like sion screening. The eyeglasses are used on mission trips
the mission of the North Coast and Henderson streets pastured meat, eggs, cheese and around the world to improve the sight for those who may
Growers Association. Now ENF Mckinleyville: Thursdays 3:30 to 6:30
prepared foods. North Coast otherwise go without corrective lenses. (707) 839-3768
even more local residents can p.m., June through October at Central Av- Growers Association farmers
celebrate the bounty of fresh, enue and Pickett Road markets are also proud to be ex- OSTOMY SUPPORT GROUP The Redwood Ostomy Asso-
Humboldt-grown food at these Willow Creek Community Commons:
clusively Humboldt-grown and ciations monthly support group meets Saturday, July
neighborhood farmers mar- Thursdays 5 to 8 p.m., June through Octo- GMO-free. 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. in Room C1 of the Conference Center
kets. Using WIC checks is easy ber at Highway 299 and Highway 96 CalFresh/EBT cards are wel- behind St Joseph Hospital at 2700 Dolbeer St, Eureka.
and the farmers look forward to Garberville Town Square: Fridays 11 a.m.
come at all of these North Coast The group is open to all who have a colostomy, ileostomy
receiving them! This new pro- to 3 p.m., May though November at Locust Growers Association Farmers or urostomy and their family members and others who
gram has the potential to boost and Church streets Markets, and Market Match is support them to share and exchange information and
farmers sales at the markets Arcata Plaza: Saturdays 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
also available at every market to support each other. Call Margot (442-2770) for informa-
significantly, and gives WIC April though November; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. help make fresh fruits and vege- tion or to post questions you may have for discussion.
recipients and their families December through March tables more affordable. CalFresh
increased access to fresh and humfarm.org, (707) 441-9999
can be spent on plants and seeds GRIEF SUPPORT Hospice of Humboldt offers free, drop-
healthful, locally grown foods. that produce food for home gar- in grief support groups every week. The Arcata group
WIC, the Women Infant and Children special supple- deners. CalFresh customers can double their purchasing meets Mondays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the fourth floor
mental nutrition program, is a federally-funded program power with Market Match. Visit the info booth to learn conference room of Jacobys Storehouse, 791 Eighth St.
administered by state and county offices which provides more about CalFresh and Market Match and to sign up. Eureka groups meet Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7 p.m.;
supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition Join the North Coast Growers Association in support- Fridays from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and Saturdays (Slipper Club
education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and ing local farmers, the local economy and healthy families. casual drop-in session) from 9 to 10:30 a.m., all at the
Hospice office, 3327 Timber Fall Ct. The Fortuna group
meets Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Brookdale For-
basic office procedures; clinical ex- tonian telescope from the Smith Riv-
Scopes & stars at CR perience at a local healthcare facility; er Alliance, a nonprofit organization
tuna (formerly Sequoia Springs), 2401 Redwood Way.
(707) 267-9801 hospiceofhumboldt.org
a CPR for healthcare providers class dedicated to long-term protection,
ColleGe of the redwoods and certificate; the National Medical stewardship, and restoration of Del NATURAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS The HSU
HUMBOLDT/DEL NORTE You Assisting Examination; job prepara- Nortes Smith River Watershed. Natural History Museum, 1242 G St. in Arcata, offers
can become a Certified Medical Assis- tion skills; textbooks; three uniforms This telescope is a research-grade kids two different half day summer exploratory work-
tant through College of the Redwoods and a stethoscope. model that will allow detailed views shops. Kids ages 5 to 8 explore rocks and minerals
Community Education Program. The Space is limited. Please attend the of planets, and also the ability to see Wednesday, July 28 or dig into fossils and learn about
Certified Medical Assistant certifica- informational meeting today, July 12 deep-space nebulae, galaxies, and dinosaurs Wednesday, Aug. 2. For kids ages 9 to 12, the
tion is a two-part course that offers from 3 to 5 p.m. at 525 D St., Eureka, star clusters. subjects are similar but more challenging and are offered
lecture, labs and clinical rotation in a Room 111/112. For more information Although the CR Del Norte campus Friday, July 28 and Aug. 4. All workshops run from 9
local medical office. call (707) 476- 4500. only offers one section of Astronomy a.m. to noon and are located at the museums new Learn-
Front office and back office med- See the stars at CR per year, taught in summer session, ing Laboratory behind the main building. Cost is $25 per
ical assistant skills will be covered. The College of the Redwoods Del the telescope is an educational tool participant or $15 for members. Call (707) 826-4479 for
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NAME STATEMENT KELLy E. SANDERS NAME STATEMENT KELLy E. SANDERS jUNE 19, 2017 NOTICE! you have been sued. 12100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 800, and costs on any settlement or mechanical equipment.
17-00299 SC DEPUTy CLERK 17-00348 SC DEPUTy CLERK KELLy E. SANDERS The court may decide against Los Angeles, CA 90025 arbitration award of $10,000 or Application Type: Use Per-
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MCKINLEYVILLE, CA 95519 ORICK SOAP CO. This business is conducted by: 4992 CRESTWOOD CT. HUMBOLDT the plaintiff. A letter or phone call Brad W. jenkins, aka William The name, address, and Bittner & David Satter
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the Humboldt County Clerk on jAMIE E. HARMELLFABER LH DEPUTy CLERK This statement was filed with Present name: CyNTHIA MA- the California Courts Online you without your being heard un- (707) 441-1185 not located in the Coastal Zone.
MAy 31, 2017 155 ORICK HILL LN. 6/28, 7/5, 7/12, 7/19 the Humboldt County Clerk on RIE WOOD to Proposed name Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. less you respond within 30 days. DATE: AUG 01 2016 Environmental: A Califor-
KELLy E. SANDERS ORICK, CA 95555 jUNE 12, 2017 CHARLIE MERLyN WOOD. ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law Read the information below. Kim L. Bartleson, Clerk, by Na- nia Environmental Quality
KL DEPUTy CLERK MICHAEL T. POWELL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS KELLy E. SANDERS 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all library, or the courthouse nearest you have 30 CALENDAR tasha S., Deputy 7/5,7/12, 7/19, 7/26 15303, Class 3, Conversion
6/21, 6/28, 7/5, 7/12 1720 HUFFORD RD. NAME STATEMENT SC DEPUTy CLERK persons interested in this matter you. If you cannot pay the filing DAyS after this summons and of Small Structures, Categori-
ORICK, CA 95555 17-00339
6/28, 7/5, 7/12, 7/19
appear before this court, located fee, ask the court clerk for a fee legal papers are served on you NOTICE OF ARCATA cal Exemption is proposed.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS jONTHAN M. FABER The following person(s) is FICTITIOUS BUSINESS at 825 5th Street, Eureka, Cal- waiver form. If you do not file to file a written response at this PLANNING COMMISSION Date of Application: No-
NAME STATEMENT 155 ORICK HILL RD. (are) doing business as: NAME STATEMENT ifornia, at the hearing indicated your response on time, you may court and have a copy served on PUBLIC HEARING vember 3, 2016.
17-00328 ORICK, CA 95555 NORTH COAST 17-00347 below to show cause, if any, why lose the case by default, and the plaintiff. A letter or phone call AND INTENT TO ADOPT NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
The following person(s) is This business is conducted by: AUDIOLOGY, INC. The following person(s) is the application should not be your wages, money, and proper- will not protect you. your written CATEGORICAL that anyone desiring to present
(are) doing business as: A General Partnership 1930 MYRTLE AVE. (are) doing business as: granted. Any person objecting ty may be taken without further response must be in proper legal ExEMPTIONS PURSUANT testimony regarding said project
PARADISE RIDGE RANCH S/MARNA POWELL, EUREKA, CA 95501 THREADBARE DANCEWEAR to the name changes described warning from the court. form if you want the court to hear TO THE CALIFORNIA may do so prior to or at the pub-
7000 PARADISE RIDGE RD. MGMG PTR NORTH COAST 666 8TH ST. above must file a written objec- There are other legal require- your case. There may be a court ENVIRONMENTAL qUALITY lic hearing noticed herein.
WHITETHORN, CA 95589 This statement was filed with AUDIOLOGY, INC. 3202244 ARCATA, CA 95521 tion that includes the reasons ments. you may want to call an form that you can use for your re- ACT NOTICE IS FURTHER GIV-
PO BOx 1412 the Humboldt County Clerk on 1805 CENTRAL AVE. SHEA L. FREEDOMHOWLER for the objection at least two attorney right away. If you do sponse. you can find these court NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN EN that the information re-
REDWAY, CA 95560 jUNE 14, 2017 MCKINLEYVILLE, CA 95519 1047 6TH ST. court days before the matter is not know an attorney, you may forms and more information at that the Arcata Planning Com- garding the proposed project
SOLOMON M. FAHEY KELLy E. SANDERS This business is conducted by: ARCATA, CA 95521 scheduled to be heard and must want to call an attorney referral the California Courts Online mission will conduct a public and environmental review may
7000 PARADISE RIDGE RD. SC DEPUTy CLERK A Corporation This business is conducted by: appear at the hearing to show service. If you cannot afford an Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. hearing on Tuesday, july 25, be reviewed at the Communi-
WHITETHORN, CA 95589
6/21, 6/28, 7/5, 7/12
S/jULIE KELLY, PRESIDENT An Individual cause why the petition should not attorney, you may be eligible for ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law 2017, beginning at 6:00 p.m. ty Development Department
This business is conducted by: This statement was filed with S/SHEA FREEDOMHOWLER, be granted. If no written objection free legal services from a non- library, or the courthouse nearest (or as soon thereafter as can at Arcata City Hall, 736 F
An Individual FICTITIOUS BUSINESS the Humboldt County Clerk on OWNER is timely filed, the court may grant profit legal services program. you you. If you cannot pay the filing be heard) in the City Council Street, Arcata, on weekdays
S/SOLOMON FAHEY, OWNER NAME STATEMENT jUNE 15, 2017 This statement was filed with the petition without a hearing. can locate these nonprofit groups fee, ask the court clerk for a fee Chambers, Arcata City Hall, between the hours of 9:00
This statement was filed with 17-00335 KELLy E. SANDERS the Humboldt County Clerk on Date: August 21, 2017 at the California Legal Services waiver form. If you do not file 736 F St., to take action on the a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Phone
the Humboldt County Clerk on The following person(s) is SC DEPUTy CLERK jUNE 21, 2017 Time: 1:45 p.m. Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. your response on time, you may project listed below. 707-822-5955.
jUNE 12, 2017 (are) doing business as: 6/28, 7/5, 7/12, 7/19 KELLy E. SANDERS Dept.: 4 org), the California Courts Online lose the case by default, and Project: Applicant seeks a NOTICE IS FURTHER GIV-
KELLy E. SANDERS ORICK SOAP CO. LH DEPUTy CLERK 3. A copy of this Order to Show Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. your wages, money, and proper- Use Permit and Design Re- EN that this action is appeal-
SC DEPUTy CLERK 155 ORICK HILL LANE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
6/28, 7/5, 7/12, 7/19
Cause shall be published at ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting ty may be taken without further view to operate a commercial able to the Arcata City Council
6/21, 6/28, 7/5, 7/12 ORICK, CA 95555 NAME STATEMENT least once a week for four suc- your local court or county bar as- warning from the court. cannabis activity in the City by any aggrieved person.
PO BOx 71 17-00329 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS cessive weeks prior to the date sociation. NOTE: The court has There are other legal require- of Arcata Medical Marijuana Appeals must be filed within
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS ORICK, CA 95555 The following person(s) is NAME STATEMENT set for hearing on the petition a statutory lien for waived fees ments. you may want to call an (Cannabis) Innovation Zone 10 working days following the
NAME STATEMENT jONATHAN M. FABER (are) doing business as: 17-00342 in the following newspaper of and costs on any settlement or attorney right away. If you do Area 2. The commercial date of the action by filing an
17-00326 155 ORICK HILL LANE HUMBOT707 The following person(s) is general circulation, printed in arbitration award of $10,000 or not know an attorney, you may cannabis business is proposed appeal, along with the appli-
The following person(s) is ORICK, CA 95555 2919 HIGHLAND CT. UNIT A (are) doing business as: this county: Mad River Union. more in a civil case. The courts want to call an attorney referral within two, existing, detached cable fee.
(are) doing business as: jAMIE E. HARMELLFABER ARCATA, CA 95521 TIN CAN MAILMAN Date: jUN 26 2017 lien must be paid before the court service. If you cannot afford an buildings 2,500 square feet NOTICE IS FURTHER
GNG MACHINE WORKS 155 ORICK HILL LN. BRETT M. WATSON 1000 H STREET TIMOTHy P. CISSNA will dismiss the case. attorney, you may be eligible for each. A second floor addition GIVEN that, pursuant to state
1021 q ST. ORICK, CA 95555 2919 HIGHLAND CT. UNIT A ARCATA, CA 95521 judge of the Superior Court The name and address of the free legal services from a non- is proposed within each ex- law, If you challenge City ac-
ARCATA, CA 95521 This business is conducted by: ARCATA, CA 95521 OPAL SUN, LLC 7/5, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26
court is: profit legal services program. you isting building. The proposed tion on a proposed project in
zACHARY P. RILEY A Married Couple EVAN G. WRYE 201715010131 Superior Court of California can locate these nonprofit groups commercial (medical) canna- court, you may be limited to
1021 q ST. S/jONATHAN FABER, OWNER 4992 CRESTWOOD CT. 1000 H STREET SUMMONS for the County of Humboldt at the California Legal Services bis use includes cultivating in raising only those issues you
ARCATA, CA 95521 This statement was filed with ARCATA, CA 95521 ARCATA, CA 95521 CASE NUMBER: DR170336 425 I Street Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. Building B with less than 25% or someone else raised at the
This business is conducted by: the Humboldt County Clerk on This business is conducted by: This business is conducted by: NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: Eureka, CA 95501 org), the California Courts Online of the total building floor area. public hearing described in
An Individual jUNE 14, 2017 A General Partnership A Limited Liability Company SARAH IRELAND, an individual; The name, address, and Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. A non-volatile extraction pro- this notice, or in written cor-
S/zACHARY P. RILEY, OWNER KELLy E. SANDERS S/BRETT WATSON, PARTNER S/MICHAEL GLENN-LEWIS, and DOES 1 through 10, inclusive telephone number of plaintiffs ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting cess in Building A will refine respondence delivered to the
This statement was filed with SC DEPUTy CLERK This statement was filed with MEMBER YOU ARE BEING SUED BY attorney, or plaintiff without an your local court or county bar as- the cultivated cannabis into a hearing body at, or prior to, the
the Humboldt County Clerk on
6/21, 6/28, 7/5, 7/12
the Humboldt County Clerk on This statement was filed with PLAINTIFF: LOANTOPIA, LLC, a attorney is: sociation. NOTE: The court has cannabis oil. Minor alterations public hearing(s). 7/12
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zambas awarded sanctuary forest scholarship Arcata
High School graduate Maya Zambas was one of six students recently
awarded a $1,000 scholarship from Sanctuary Forests Scholarship
Program, now in its 22nd year. Zambas won the Sanctuary Forest
Business Community Scholarship, funded by local businesses Thrifty
Supply; Redway Liquor & Deli; the Hemp Connection; Coffee Break;
Douglas Ingold, Attorney at Law and Matarozzi Builders. Zambas will
attend UC Santa Cruz in the fall; after college and graduate school, she
hopes to take part in field work and research to analyze the effect that Maya Zambas
environmental degradation takes on marine organisms and ecosys-
tems. With this research she hopes to continue striving to solve these problems through
increased environmental regulations and techniques. Her goal is to make a significant
difference in the way that our oceans and organisms are being destroyed and restore its
amazing biodiversity to what it once was. (707) 986-1087 ext. 9#, sanctuaryforest.org

Breakfast/Lunch daily 9 am-3 pm

Dinner Thurs-Sun 5:30-9:30 eagles fly
Seasonal and organic ingredients, beer, full bakery
offering vegan treats, organic coffee and teas, espresso, REAL EAGLES McKinleyville Boy Scout Troop 99 recently recognized three boys
many housemade items, including: bread,
dressings, chai tea, with the highest honor a Scout can receive: JB Packer, Christopher Allard and
sauces, and Bodhi Merrill were awarded the rank of Eagle. The Eagle Rank is awarded after
GO, VEGGIES! sauerkraut,
smoothies and
completing 21 required merit badges and a service project for the community.
Packer's project was an information kiosk and trail construction at Chah-Gah-
fresh squeezed
juices. Extensive Cho Trail in McKinleyville. Allard and his crew rebuilt a walking bridge behind the
biodynamic visitor center at Patrick's Point State Park. Merrill's project consisted of building a
1604
1604 G.
G. St.
St. Arcata
Arcata squeezed juices
wine selection. shelter for a Japanese Tsunami boat that is on display at the National Weather
Service at Woodley Island. Packer and Allard are both graduating high school
seniors. Packard will be attending Santa Barbara City College to study English
before transferring to a four-year college with a plan to teach English as a sec-
ond language overseas. Allard will attend Humboldt State to pursue a degree in
Computer Science. Merrill has just completed his freshman year of high school
and has a bright future in front of him. Congratulations. Photo courtesy Jay allard

help for the homeless Hunter, Hunter & Hunt, LLC

has contributed $1,000 to the Betty Kwan Chinn Foun-
dation in support of the Betty Kwan Chinn Day Center,
which provides a wide array of resources to homeless in-
dividuals and families. (707) 407-3833