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

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

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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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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. 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. 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. 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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We Seek Justice

By North Coast Journal Readers

Editor:

Thank you for showing a continuing interest in the “high-profile” bicycling death of Greg Jennings, which occurred August 25 of last year. (“Gross Negligence?” June 18). I have a few bones to pick with the last two paragraphs, which contain Mr. Gallegos’ comments about petitions and vengeance.

Family, friends, and colleagues of Greg Jennings and his wife, Lisa Hoover; family, friends and colleagues of the bicycling community, and the greater community — we are all strata in the body politic. Our names on a petition, and the number of our names, lend gravity to the circumstances of Greg’s unfortunate, wasteful death. We hope these circumstances will not be forgotten or ignored. Petitions are not out of place; they invite public awareness.

Justice sought — and justice gained — can be achieved within the framework of fairness and due diligence. Vengeance need not — and should not — be a participant. I regret that Mr. Gallegos raised this spectre as stated in the closing words of Walters’ article.

I was present at all open court dates in the Bear case; I was present and participated in the conference room parley with Gallegos after the June 10 date, when he apologized to us all for that day’s fiasco in court. We present were astounded by his last minute change of tack. Certainly we expressed our frustration and confusion and dismay but at no time, either overtly or implied, did I hear an expression of vengeance. Instead I heard a baffled but determined concern for justice for Greg, a need for “due diligence” and, decidedly, a further exploration of the several witnesses who saw the collision and its aftermath.

Betty Jain, Arcata

Sweet Spot*: Betty Jain wins a Bon Boniere sundae for sending our favorite letter of the week.*

Editor:

A “sudden change of direction in the prosecution” relative to Gallegos’ morning of the trial session with one CHP officer ... I would have thought, after more than six months, it more befitting that the DA’s office review the sudden change made by driver Alan Bear, who on a straight stretch of Hwy 299, in broad daylight, upon seeing the bicyclist ahead, suddenly left the lane by 15 feet (not 10 as stated in the article), to hit and kill Greg Jennings.

From the beginning, family, friends, colleagues and the Humboldt Bay Bicycle Commuters Association have only asked that Gallegos and his office closely review all the evidence of the case, contact witnesses and practice due diligence. These are reasonable expectations. Thus the closing of the article with the quote by Gallegos inferring that the petition (not to mention the letters, e-mails, personal meetings that I and others have engaged) was to pressure his legal decisions, more to the point, the communication was to give a voice to the larger community to express concern. For others such as myself, the impetus was to try and understand the process, the perspective of the D.A, but also to raise issue with lack of follow-through and thoroughness in the investigation of this case.

As to the article’s placement of Gallegos’ quote about “justice can’t be vengeance” at the very end — well this is a very, very poor and misguided synopsis of what we are all about and, frankly, an insult.

Lisa D. Hoover, Blue Lake

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1. joshua kinch:

June 25, 12:21 p.m.

A sidebar to this unfortunate incident is sexism. Namely, the fate of male drivers who kill and maim vs. female. In almost every case, the male is demonized, alchohol or no, and gets serious jail time, while the female car killer gets a "poor baby should pay more attention and if you do this again we will just have a hissy fit" and given no time whatsover. Check it out. Remember the Roger Rodoni case? Happens every time.

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