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9 a.m. Speakers' Symposium College of the Redwoods

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9 a.m. Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation Speakers’ Symposium College of the Redwoods

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9 a.m. Humboldt Botanical Gardens' Speakers' Symposium College of the Redwoods

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9 a.m. Fall Rummage Sale Arcata United Methodist Church

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9:30 a.m. AAUW Meeting See Event Description

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9:30 a.m. Little River State Beach Restoration See Event Description

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9:30 a.m. Sierra Club Headwaters Hike See Event Description

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10 a.m. Lanphere Dunes Guided Walk See Event Description

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10 a.m. 5th Annual Synergy Fair Arcata Community Center

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10 a.m. Go Green and Boost Your Bottom Line Wharfinger Building

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11 a.m. Sustaining Excellence and Enthusiasm in Health, Relationships and Work Carlo Theater (Dell'Arte)

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noon KEET's Kids Club Morris Graves Museum of Art

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1:30 p.m. Humboldt County Historical Society Humboldt County Library

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2 p.m. Arcata Marsh Field Trip Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center

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4 p.m. Woodside Preschool’s 36th Wine and Ale Tasting Gala Adorni Recreation Center

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4:30 p.m. Harvest Dinner and Bazaar Humboldt Grange

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5 p.m. A Toast to Music Christ Episcopal Church

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5:30 p.m. Elvis and the Hound Dogs + Stolen Taxi Trinidad Town Hall

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6 p.m. The Tumbleweeds Chapala Cafe

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6 p.m. Arts Alive! Various Locations

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6 p.m. Day of the Dead Exhibition Ink People Center for the Arts

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6 p.m. Bar None 10th Anniversary Eureka Labor Temple

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6 p.m. Randy Spicer Piante Gallery

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6 p.m. Gallery Open for Arts Alive! Four Paths Gallery and Studio

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6:30 p.m. ShinBone (Blues R&B) Eureka Theater

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7 p.m. Mike Craighead and Sari Baker Old Town Coffee & Chocolates

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7 p.m. Harvest Concert Arcata Presbyterian Church

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7 p.m. 2 Left Feet Dance Project Redwood Raks World Dance Studio

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7:30 p.m. Joe & Me Cafe Mokka

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7:30 p.m. Cyrano de Begerac Eureka High School Auditorium

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7:30 p.m. Torch Song Summit Eureka Women's Club

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7:30 p.m. Jeff DeMark and the LaPatinas Westhaven Center for the Arts

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8 p.m. Stones in His Pockets Arcata Playhouse

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8 p.m. Humboldt Bay Brass Band Fulkerson Recital Hall at HSU

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9 p.m. Synergy Six Rivers Brewery

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9 p.m. Arts Alive! with Akaboom Sound Pearl Lounge

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9 p.m. Tempest WAVE @ blue lake casino

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9 p.m. Back In The Daze Dance Party Central Station Cocktail Lounge

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9 p.m. Swingin' Country Band (country) Bear River Casino

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9 p.m. The Zygoats + Alder Camp (rock) The Lil' Red Lion

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9 p.m. DJ Knutz (funk) Muddy's Hot Cup

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10 p.m. Music by DJ Sidelines

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10 p.m. DJ Icy Hot Aunty Mo's Lounge

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10 p.m. These United States (indie folk) Humboldt Brews

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11 p.m. Hellbound Glory The Alibi Lounge and Restaurant

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Lies, All Lies!

By North Coast Journal Readers

Editor:

It was disturbing to see that Ryan Burns felt that the Town Hall Meeting with the Planning Commissioners was a “four-hour blab-fest” (“Town Holler,” June 18). Perhaps if he had listened and had just plain cared he might have felt differently. He also might have understood more of what was being said. His flip manner and pitiful desire to sound clever made trivial something that is of great importance.

His mention of Dick Cheney came from my statement to the Commission and it had nothing to do with a “second coming of Dick Cheney.” I was referring to the widely distributed newsletter published by HumCPR. I said that after reading it I thought that it was written by a cross between Dick Cheney and Chicken Little. The papers’ misstatements and fear mongering were my inspiration for that. CPR is a group that consists of realtors, builders, bankers, owners of TPZ land, land use attorneys and engineers, etc. Now there’s an objective, disinterested bunch who clearly have no vested interests or ulterior motives.

Their talk of rural land rights translates to mean that they want to be able to build and develop left, right and sideways with nobody to tell them that they can’t build here or there. It’s all about the money, honey, all about the moola. Virtually every one of the fear-mongering statements in their newsletter is false and/or misleading. One article describes McKinleyville as a rural community with houses on large lots and friendly neighborhoods. What McKinleyville is that? The article claims that this rural paradise will be ruined by Alternative A because it would put all of the low cost housing in McKinleyville. This is nonsense. It is also untrue that no houses will be allowed on TPZ or ag land, no new development on rural land, and on and on.

Burns says that Alternative B is “the proposed plan.” There is no “proposed plan” — B is simply what the Planning Department has been pushing for because it contains enough compromises to keep the wrath of the greedy off their backs and enough crumbs to toss at the environmentally concerned. It is, by the way, not Planning’s place to push one plan over another. That’s not their call.

Kudos to the planning commissioners for their willingness to listen and the dignity, attention and respectful demeanor that accompanied that listening. Thank you to all of you for that. Having said that, I will add that the one disappointment that I had was the minimal responsiveness of the Commissioners. They were in a position to educate the public about the status of the planning process, to correct the many misunderstandings, and, on the whole, they did not do that.

Sylvia De Rooy, Westhaven

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1. Anonymous:

July 3, 12:14 p.m.

Sylvia, you were fabulous at the 6/11 hearing.

Thank you!

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