It’s Business Time
I hereby command likeminded readers to start a “Get Old Town a Taco Truck” Facebook group.
Second complaint, plus a call to arms: As far as I can see, there’s exactly one upside to our city’s totalitarian new smoking ordinance — see Ryan Burns & “Seven-O-Heaven,” elsewhere in this paper — and that is the fact that Old Town is blessed with classy old-school alleys just waiting for someone to come along and put them to productive use.
This is the season. I envision a hazy moveable feast, a convivial tobacconist social club, hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Let’s start with Opera Alley between F and G. Drop by on your break and join the endless party. I want to send up a wall of smoke thick enough to overwhelm the fire department switchboard.
There might be more upsides to the new ordinance that I haven’t thought of yet. Ask my friend @CiggyButtz about it, if you want. (#FF!)
Time is running out. You have until noon Friday to submit your vote in the NCJ‘s Annual “Best of Humboldt” Reader’s Poll. If you miss that deadline, you are screwed — voting will be closed for approximately 49 weeks thereafter, and as everyone knows: If you don’t vote, then you can’t complain. If you have already voted, please resist the temptation to vote again and again. Trust me: I will ferret you out and nuke all of your ballots minus one, and the resulting excess of black bile in my earthly humours will cause me to lash out senselessly at your favorite politician.
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Railroad!
Proposed lines ‘set rich blood a-tingling’ in early 1900s
Some Other Proposed North Coast Railroads
Choo-choo Fantasies
Exposing this east-west rail nonsense
seven-o-heaven
Undeterred Will
Will chides Andrew for lack of attention to detail and makes plans for his inevitable victory.
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Jan. 13, 2011
The Golden Boy
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Wish Lists
Dec. 16, 2010
The Train Geeks Return
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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FIVE Comments
Comment / By Tom Fredriksen / Aug. 27, 6:47 a.m.
Hank,
The Govt has decided that smoking is not good for you. Therefore, you shall not smoke.
Further, and I am surprised that I have to also bring this to your attention. The Govt has decided that junk food is not good for you, therefore, you shall eat at fancy sitdown menu controlled restaurants.
(Pot, of course, is exempt, it is medicine)
Comment / By Anon / Aug. 27, 7:25 p.m.
if I could find the ballot, I’d probably vote. Where the hell did you guys hide it?
Comment / By Hank Sims / Aug. 27, 8:14 p.m.
Too late, polling closed, game over.
Comment / By martha / Aug. 29, 6:39 p.m.
Goats? Most of the cheese made at Cypress Grove is made from imported frozen curd. They could make that cheese anywhere. The tiny amount of milk bought from local dairys is just a token . It doesn’t take a genius to see how much cheese is produced at CG vs the amount of milk that comes from these tiny local goat dairys, and know that the dairys can only produce a fraction of the milk or curd needed.
Comment / By Wanda / Sept. 20, 10:22 a.m.
Martha is correct. The majority of goat cheese is made with frozen curd purchased from Holland and Mexico. Two of the hard cheeses are not even made by Cypress Grove, but rather purchased and sold with CGC label. The four tiny goat dairies probably only acct for less than 10% of the curd necessary. LOCAL? Is Gregg Foster ignorant or just spinning a story?