
today
8:30 a.m. Audubon Society Field Trip See Event Description
read >8:30 a.m. Alzheimer’s Resource Center Volunteer Training See Event Description
read >9 a.m. Arcata Farmers' Market Arcata Plaza
read >9 a.m. Speakers' Symposium College of the Redwoods
read >9 a.m. Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation Speakers’ Symposium College of the Redwoods
read >9 a.m. Humboldt Botanical Gardens' Speakers' Symposium College of the Redwoods
read >9 a.m. Fall Rummage Sale Arcata United Methodist Church
read >9:30 a.m. AAUW Meeting See Event Description
read >9:30 a.m. Little River State Beach Restoration See Event Description
read >9:30 a.m. Sierra Club Headwaters Hike See Event Description
read >10 a.m. Lanphere Dunes Guided Walk See Event Description
read >10 a.m. 5th Annual Synergy Fair Arcata Community Center
read >10 a.m. Go Green and Boost Your Bottom Line Wharfinger Building
read >11 a.m. Sustaining Excellence and Enthusiasm in Health, Relationships and Work Carlo Theater (Dell'Arte)
read >noon KEET's Kids Club Morris Graves Museum of Art
read >1:30 p.m. Humboldt County Historical Society Humboldt County Library
read >2 p.m. Arcata Marsh Field Trip Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center
read >4 p.m. Woodside Preschool’s 36th Wine and Ale Tasting Gala Adorni Recreation Center
read >4:30 p.m. Harvest Dinner and Bazaar Humboldt Grange
read >5 p.m. A Toast to Music Christ Episcopal Church
read >5:30 p.m. Elvis and the Hound Dogs + Stolen Taxi Trinidad Town Hall
read >6 p.m. The Tumbleweeds Chapala Cafe
read >6 p.m. Arts Alive! Various Locations
read >6 p.m. Day of the Dead Exhibition Ink People Center for the Arts
read >6 p.m. Bar None 10th Anniversary Eureka Labor Temple
read >6 p.m. Randy Spicer Piante Gallery
read >6 p.m. Gallery Open for Arts Alive! Four Paths Gallery and Studio
read >6:30 p.m. ShinBone (Blues R&B) Eureka Theater
read >7 p.m. Mike Craighead and Sari Baker Old Town Coffee & Chocolates
read >7 p.m. Harvest Concert Arcata Presbyterian Church
read >7 p.m. 2 Left Feet Dance Project Redwood Raks World Dance Studio
read >7:30 p.m. Joe & Me Cafe Mokka
read >7:30 p.m. Cyrano de Begerac Eureka High School Auditorium
read >7:30 p.m. Torch Song Summit Eureka Women's Club
read >7:30 p.m. Jeff DeMark and the LaPatinas Westhaven Center for the Arts
read >8 p.m. Stones in His Pockets Arcata Playhouse
read >8 p.m. Humboldt Bay Brass Band Fulkerson Recital Hall at HSU
read >9 p.m. Synergy Six Rivers Brewery
read >9 p.m. Arts Alive! with Akaboom Sound Pearl Lounge
read >9 p.m. Tempest WAVE @ blue lake casino
read >9 p.m. Back In The Daze Dance Party Central Station Cocktail Lounge
read >9 p.m. Swingin' Country Band (country) Bear River Casino
read >9 p.m. The Zygoats + Alder Camp (rock) The Lil' Red Lion
read >9 p.m. DJ Knutz (funk) Muddy's Hot Cup
read >10 p.m. Music by DJ Sidelines
read >10 p.m. DJ Icy Hot Aunty Mo's Lounge
read >10 p.m. These United States (indie folk) Humboldt Brews
read >11 p.m. Hellbound Glory The Alibi Lounge and Restaurant
read >previous columns
April 16, 2009
Richardson Cartoon Realignment
Cartoon by Joel Mielke.
read >April 9, 2009
Richardson Grove
Cartoon by Joel Mielke
read >April 2, 2009
Where do they buy their gas?
Cartoon by Joel Mielke
read >Maginot Grove
By North Coast Journal Readers
Editor:
Your “Sweet Irony” piece reminded me of something Dennis Miller would have written when he got a job at FOX after his HBO stint ended (“Town Dandy,” April 9). Granted it is the “Town Dandy” column, but calling the release of public documents to the media a “leak” speaks for itself.
If your mind has not already been made up on the question of whether opening Humboldt County to STAA trucks truly represents positive economic and sustainable development, take some time to research who and what are the true drivers to expansion of STAA routes nationwide.
For Journal readers, it’s not too late to let politicians know it’s time to find new solutions. If we can’t draw the line at Richardson Grove, where will we draw it? Visit www.SaveRichardsonGrove.org for more info.
Dave Spreen, Kneeland
Editor:
Thank you, Hank Sims, for shining a light on the county’s publicly funded campaign to convince the public that widening the road through Richardson Grove would be universally beneficial to the economy and is widely supported by the business community. I’m sure administrators of the Headwaters Fund will be more cautious in the future, and hopefully less biased toward a particular outcome.
The most troubling aspect of the proposed project is the assumption that widening the road through the grove is the only option we have for moving goods in and out of the county. CalTrans prepared a DEIR that does not genuinely assess the need for, or alternatives to, the project. Likewise, the Economic Development Department has not explored all the options for future modes of transportation, and has focused solely on STAA truck access. Naturally, when only one option is on the table, people will consider it a done deal.
Perhaps the balance of the money left in the contract “to prepare and disseminate information to the business community and the public” should be used for exploring the alternatives and educating the public about other transportation and economic development options.
Diane Higgins, McKinleyville


















1. Jeff Muskrat:
April 27, 1:45 p.m.
Thank you Dave.
I'm not sure when Hank Sims stopped caring for the local community.
Diane, the information "leak" regarding the public owned Headwaters Fund advancing the Cal-Trans Richardson Grove project was printed in the Time-Standard over a week before Hank's vicious attack on the NEC and Friends of Richardson Grove regarding the KMUD radio ads. Hank also called it a "minor tweak" in the road. Read the EIR, it's much more than that...
Why did Hank suddenly change his tune after the previous slam piece? Was it the avalanche of letters to the NJC supporting the NEC and Richardson Grove? Was it the outrage from the public over the misuse of the Headwaters Fund?(BTW, the fund has never been utilized for what it was intended)
Either Hank doesn't read the Time-Standard...or he has interests in hiding information and swaying public opinion towards a more commercialized version of Humboldt County.
2. El Pearl:
April 27, 7:56 p.m.
Only in america can a fund be set up to protect the land be used to destroy it! I spent a number of years trying to save headwaters an all it seemed to have done is give the powers to be more money to destroy what's left.
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