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8 a.m. Greening Your Business Scotia Inn

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9 a.m. H1N1 Vaccine Clinic Area 1 Agency on Aging

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9 a.m. Historic Archaeology Lab Opportunity HSU Behavior and Social Sciences Building

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11 a.m. Kathleen Bryson Meet and Greet Has Beans

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noon Paul Hagen Press Conference Eureka Women's Club

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6 p.m. The Tumbleweeds (cowboy songs) Chapala Cafe

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6 p.m. Concert and Desserts Portuguese Hall

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6 p.m. Arts! Arcata Northcoast Environmental Center (NEC)

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6:30 p.m. Humboldt Helps Haiti Plaza View Room

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7 p.m. DJ Ray Boiler Room

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7 p.m. Dale Winget (folk) Oberon

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7:30 p.m. Audubon Lecture Humboldt County Office of Education

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7:30 p.m. A Midsummer Night's Dream Arcata High School

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8 p.m. Antigone College of the Redwoods

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8 p.m. Capitol Steps Van Duzer Theatre

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9 p.m. St. John & the Sinners (blues/rock) Cher-Ae-Heights Casino

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9 p.m. UKEsperience (folk rock) Six Rivers Brewery

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9 p.m. Swingin' Country Blue Lake Casino

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9 p.m. Beautiful People Boutique Fashion Show Mazzotti's Arcata

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9 p.m. Gunshy (classic rock) Bear River Casino

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9 p.m. Jah Sun and the We A Dem Band Humboldt Brews

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9 p.m. Ash Reiter, Monster Women, Mister Moonbeam (rock) Lil' Red Lion

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9 p.m. Jimi Jeff And The Gypsy Band (blues) The Playroom

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10 p.m. Kraddy (hip-hop) Mazzotti's Arcata

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10 p.m. Music by DJ Sidelines

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10 p.m. DJ Ninja Retro Dance Party Aunty Mo's Lounge

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10 p.m. DJ Jsun Pearl Lounge

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11 p.m. The Big Lebowski Arcata Theater Lounge

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Will She Peek?

By North Coast Journal Readers

Editor:

I am sorry to have to tell you I will no longer be reading the North Coast Journal after having enjoyed it for many, many years.

Ever since the change of the guard in your paper’s editorship, standards have gradually slipped to a level which today I can only call abominable. I no longer consider the North Coast Journal a newspaper. To my eyes, all it is today is a fancy advertising pamphlet and event calendar.

The editorial and journalistic content of this once great newspaper are now no more than slanderous opinions and trivial stories. You have some nerve criticizing the Times-Standard for poor reporting on local issues such as the wildfires in the same issue where your headline story is a popularity contest between Arcata and Eureka, as judged by barflies and bums. For shame! I am no particular fan of the Times-Standard, but at least that newspaper actually reports the news!

So your editor has quit smoking, and his car blew a head gasket at Reggae on the River. Are these things in any way relevant? They certainly do not belong in a newspaper, not even on its editorial page. They belong in someone’s personal diary.

Run some real news for a change, preferably written by your own staff and not borrowed from the Sacramento News & Review. Or do you no longer employ any journalists?

Publish this letter or not, I don’t care. I will not even pick up the next North Coast Journal to see if you did.

— Petra Taylor-Vandormael, Arcata



Sweet Spot: Sorry, last month’s winners — still awaiting new coupons from the busy folks at Bon Boniere. They’re coming. That said, Petra Taylor-Vandormael is obviously this week’s winner — she takes home a Bon Boniere sundae for sending our favorite letter of the week.

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