today
9 a.m. 15th Annual Plant Sale Bayside Grange
read >10 a.m. 35th Annual Daffodil Show Fortuna River Lodge
read >10 a.m. Peace Begins with ME Eureka Center for Spiritual Living
read >10 a.m. Annual Juggling Festival Humboldt State University
read >10:30 a.m. Learn How to Meditate Humboldt Area Foundation
read >11 a.m. Understanding Islam Arcata Library
read >noon Rainwater Harvest and Reuse Systems Living Earth Landscapes
read >2 p.m. Antigone Matinee College of the Redwoods
read >2 p.m. So Hum Tales Mateel Community Center
read >2 p.m. Open Jazz Jam Morris Graves Museum of Art
read >2 p.m. Irish Tea and Celebrity Cake Auction Fieldbrook Winery
read >2:30 p.m. Open Mic World Cup Cafe
read >6 p.m. Vintage Jazz (jazz) Chapala Cafe
read >6 p.m. Competitive Scrabble See Event Description
read >7 p.m. Open Mic Mosgo's
read >7:30 p.m. Zoe Boekbinder Westhaven Center for the Arts
read >8 p.m. Karaoke at Bear River Casino Bear River Casino
read >8 p.m. Karaoke Blue Lake Casino
read >8 p.m. Cabaret Arkley Center for the Performing Arts
read >9 p.m. Deep Groove Night Jambalaya
read >9 p.m. Piano Ben Six Rivers Brewery
read >previous columns
July 16, 2009
Wabash Willie in Involuntary Philanthropist
Cartoon by joel Mielke
read >July 9, 2009
Humboldt Canines
Cartoon by Joel Mielke
read >July 2, 2009
Fishing for Advice
Editor: Great to see a cover story on the Marine ...
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Bullets to Spare
By North Coast Journal Readers
Editor:
Heidi Walters wrote a wonderful article on reintroducing condors (“Fixing the World,” July 16). The Bucksport employee’s salient remark that a lot of hunters stockpile ammo helps explain their resistance to switching to lead-free bullets. (However, it was startling and distressing that one of the scientists working on the restoration hasn’t yet made the switch to lead-free bullets.)
Here’s a possible solution for the hunters and their stockpiles: The feds are printing money. Let them print a little more to help pay for a trade. Hunters would get 5 percent more bullets (lead-free) if they trade in their lead bullets. It would be a kind of Cash for Clunker (cars) version for bullets.
A bird with a 9-foot-plus wingspan – any bird with a 9-foot-plus wingspan – has got to be awesome. Bring on the condors.
Zephyr Markowitz, Bayside
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