Weedkiller
We ran out of space in last week’s column, but we wanted to make sure that y’all took notice that the Journal‘s First Annual Short-Short Fiction Contest is underway, and the entries are already beginning to trickle in. Join the party! We’re talking short-short-short, here — 99 words or fewer. We’ve semi-assembled an all-star team of judges, who will read the stories blind and pick their favorites. The best of the best will be featured in an upcoming issue. There will be prizes of some sort.
General hint, non-binding upon the judges or the entrants: Everyone likes to read about the place they live.
This is exciting! We launched fiction issue last year with Crawdad Nelson‘s excellent short story “California Improved” (Feb. 7, 2008), and it’s taken us a bit too long to get back to it. We’re thinking, with fingers crossed, that this is a beautiful way of democratizing the thing and getting a lot more voices in there at the same time.
Send your entries to fiction@northcoastjournal.com, or snail-mail them to North Coast Journal, Fiction Contest, 145 G St., Suite A, Arcata, Calif., 95521. Deadline: Feb. 15.
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Exposing this east-west rail nonsense
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Today
44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
Flow 2012 Fashion Show
STAFF PICK / events / 8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Student designed and produced clothing. Fundraiser for Arcata Arts Institute. $35/$25 students. artsinstitute.net. 822-1220.
Woodside Preschool's Rummage/Bake Sale
events / 8 a.m.-noon. Woodside Preschool, 900 Hodgson St, Eureka. www.woodsidepreschool.com. 445-9132.
Lanphere Dunes Restoration
STAFF PICK / outdoors / 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School. Help remove non-native invasives at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Tools and gloves provided, wear work clothes and bring water. Carpool to the protected site. 444-1397.
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Comment / By Jonathan / Jan. 23, 2009, 11:08 a.m.
Not to mention the knowledge to grow weed is being exported by our very own hydro shops to other counties, closer to the urban areas. We still have a ‘sell the shovel, dont pan for the gold’ thing going on…for now.