Recent field notes
May 17
Eclipse Lore
May 10
Early Animal-rights Artist?
May 3
Six Rivers (By Any Other Name)
Today
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.
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.
Open Gardens
outdoors / 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Humboldt Botanical Gardens, College of the Redwoods, Eureka. Roam the 44-acre fully fenced property. $5. www.hbgf.org. 442-5139.
Organic Gardening Seminar
garden / 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Shafer's Ace Hardware and Garden Center, 2760 E St., Eureka. Free lecture by Duncan McNeill on how to create a healthy environment and healthy soils for your plant’s roots. E-mail shafers@sbcglobal.net. 442-5734.
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Comment / By Dawn Derocher / June 8, 2009, 9:36 a.m.
I heard somewhere, a long time ago, that the custom of clasping the right hand when meeting someone (which became the handshake)was a sign of peace. As the weapon, as Barry said, was held in the right hand, when the right hand clasped the right hand of another then neither could raise the weapon against the other. So it follows that a left handed person could hold the right hand of a foe falsly in peace and stab him in the back. There is where left handed people get the bad wrap. There is always the few who wreck things for the rest. Being a total and complete left handed person, I am constantly challenged by the righthanded ness of our society and have heard that left handed people do not live as long because of the constant challenges. Now I wonder if all the negative terms and feelings are not adding to the demise. Now I learn that most primates are left handed? I could have been happier without that information!