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
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read >June 11, 2009
Dear Mr. CEO
Editor: As an individual who spent a number of years ...
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Damn the Job-Haters
By North Coast Journal Readers
Editor:
In response to the re-branding of Humboldt County away from being the pot capital of the world, the marketing folks have missed the point (“Rebranding Humboldt,” June 25). Humboldt does have a reputation as a pot-growing center, but it also has a reputation as being anti-business. Even if pot growing stopped today, most businesses would not invest in this area. There is no other reason to re-brand than to attract business and investment not already in the area. Business people already here have tried in vain to invest in virtually every type of business that could help the county. They have been blocked consistently by groups who oppose growth, oppose outsiders, oppose any environmental impact, oppose any competition, oppose, oppose and oppose.
Guess what? People with money to invest are not going to invest in an area where they are going to be blocked at every step.
Humboldt has some very good attributes. There is a large population of well educated people who need jobs. There is ample land and space for development. There is a consumer market. But none of the real ideas that could save this county from the destitution it is moving towards are being considered. Two years ago Verizon put a 600-person customer service center in a remote city in South Dakota. That city had almost the exact same characteristics as Humboldt County, with one exception — they wanted the business and they wanted the jobs.
This is the element that must change in this county if the economy is ever going to develop. The marketing job that is needed, before any other, is one that sells the idea of business growth and its benefits to the people of this county. Any other marketing project is just a waste of time and money.
Richard Grabowski, McKinleyville
1. Richard:
July 3, 4:31 p.m.
Even the current business are haveing a difficult time of staying in business in this county. Pretty soon this county will not only being a pot county but also a Welfare county. It is difficult to find and keep clean, good employees now. What is going to happen in the future?
2. Can't agree less:
July 4, 9:06 a.m.
Although the writer correctly identified the ignorance and futility of the county's hopeless re-branding project, he seems only to blame the people the project is trying to help for its inevitable demise. The reality is there haven't been ANY good ideas from the office of economic development or the larger business community for years. Most of these so called economic development schemes are just another excuse to drain the county of dollars and resources. As long as the trade off is $1 for county for every $10 made by verizon (or who ever comes in here ) we should say no way.
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