‘A Big Family’
How a local nonprofit has grown to open its arms to Native youth, one day at a time By Kimberly Wear
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‘A Big Family’
Trinity Mace was at a crossroads a few years back when she was first introduced to a counselor with Two Feathers Native American Family Services at her school in Hoopa. Facing an unstable family situation and struggling with social anxiety and substance use, Mace says becoming involved in the nonprofit’s programs proved to be a…
Camille Marie Kopriva Regli
Camille Regli, a beloved mother, grandmother, friend and artist, passed away peacefully at the age of 86 on Jan. 14 in Fortuna, California. Surrounded by her loving family, Camille passed after a long battle with lung complications caused by Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and a recent battle with Multiple Myeloma. Born on July 18, 1938, in…
Andrew James Lamberson
Andrew “Andy” James Lamberson was born Aug. 22, 1970, to Fred and Janet Lamberson. He was the baby of the family. He resided in Trinidad, California, where he grew up, attending Trinidad Elementary and Mckinleyville High schools. He was a proud member of the Trinidad Rancheria, also an employee where he dedicated 15 years in…
2025 NCJ Pet Photo Contest
[IMAGE-1] Voting has closed and winners will be announced in the Feb. 20, 2025 edition of the North Coast Journal in print and online. You can see all the cuteness here petphotos.northcoastjournal.com. Don’t forget to thank our fabulous sponsors, Fin-n-Feather Pet Shop, the City of Arcata and McCrea Nissan for helping to make this happen.
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Jan. 22
Tonight is the first of a two-night residency at the Arcata Playhouse for the Jamie Baum Quartet. Headed by the namesake flautist, this is modern jazz played about as good as it gets, as the CVs of each member is a who’s who of the big players out there making and defining the genre in…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Jan. 21
Asbury Park, New Jersey, is considered a working class, garage rock mecca, despite over a half a century of time passing since The E Street Band and all of its satellite musicians and bands formed into concrete reality and moved on up into the land of rock ‘n’ roll mythology. However, the town still seems…
Eureka Group Marches in Resistance
More than 200 people joined the People’s March in Eureka at the Humboldt County courthouse on Saturday morning in the nationwide day of protest ahead of Trump’s second inauguration today. Eight years ago, more than 8,000 people appeared for the local Women’s March (now renamed as the People’s March) in Eureka, protesting Trump’s first inauguration…
Music Today: Sunday, Jan. 19
If you missed yesterday’s performance at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Eureka, fear not, you need only head over to the Arcata Lutheran Church to enjoy a 3 p.m. matinee performance of chamber music courtesy of the Borromeo String Quartet. Expect a casual atmosphere for this gig, as the music of Finland’s national composer Jean…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Jan. 18
The Arcata vintage shop Redwood Retro is an interesting up and coming venue, filling a much-needed spot on the scene with an emphasis on the DIY, casual nature of a town whose offbeat charm and mushy beauty seems on the verge of evaporating in the face of high rents, poor management and lowering imaginations. The…
Music Tonight: Friday, Jan. 17
The Basement is the place to be tonight for a sultry ride on the jazz train from downtown to the up-tempo neighborhood with stops all along Funk Street. Swizlo’s Mystery Lounge is the name of this joint, which will be helmed by the eponymous key-master from Object Heavy and beyond. Also on tap will be…
NCJ Preview: Big Family, Cancer and Me, and Dry January Mocktails
Big Family, Cancer and Me, Dry January Mocktails
Music Tonight: Thursday, Jan. 16
Greensky Bluegrass is a quintet from Kalamazoo, Michigan who have, for the last quarter century, been building a large following through constant touring and high-profile appearances on the festival and jam band circuit. As the name suggests, the group uses a bluegrass format from which it deviates into the light show theatrics and noodling passages…
‘Unsustainable’
Editor: The discussion of the policing problems at the Bear River Reservation outline poor leadership from the tribe and its administration, and the failure of our politicians in Sacramento to actually solve problems (“The Battle Over Bear River,” Jan. 9). It also ignored Balkanization, the process of dividing areas into multiple smaller units with the…
‘Propaganda’
Editor: Thadeus Greenson chose propaganda over accurate information in his attempt to explain the background for the (silly) class action lawsuit (“Group Brings Class Action Suit Against Huffman,” Dec. 26). Space limitations will not allow me to address the U.N. Commission’s allegations as well as the ICC “investigation” which are not what they seem, but I will…
Cancer and Me
“Congratulations!” “Er, thanks — what for?” “For beating cancer!” Congratulations are certainly due but not to me. I was just the patient; all I had to do was be on time for my many medical appointments, follow my oncologist’s instructions and avoid crowds following my chemo infusions while my immune system was recovering. The real…
Renewal Begins
Haphazard wind lurches through old-growth forest. Green canopy churns. Broadside trunks groan. Duff flies upriver like weightless condor feathers. Soggy soil slips grasp of tendril fingers underground. Twisted roots, black as grizzly claws, rend and rupture, disconnecting life force from its center. Totem topples, limbs crack rapid-fire, crescendo in a landslide roar that reverberates through…
Shelter Cove to Host Wellness Weekend, Hoping to Boost Tourism
Nestled along the Lost Coast, Shelter Cove is gearing up for its first-ever Wellness Weekend from Jan. 24 through Jan. 26. Organized by the nonprofit Visit Shelter Cove, the event is designed to draw visitors to the remote town during the tourism off-season with activities promised to rejuvenate the mind, body and spirit, while showcasing…
Fat Cats, Bigga Fish
I’ve been hearing a lot about the idea that our current situation is the fault of the American voters, some even suggesting, in this paper and elsewhere, that the public can’t be trusted with the task of participating in a democracy. Given that this week covers the inauguration and return of a very divisive president,…
Winter Squash and Beans for the Season
As we open the calendar to the January page, we may wish to pay more attention to the food we eat and how we nourish our bodies. Then, as the month goes on, our daily to-do lists get longer and such wishes are pushed aside. When life gets complicated, sometimes summoning the energy to plan…
Dry January Mocktails
Whether you’re taking a break after the holidays or “dry curious,” many are forgoing alcohol for Dry January. But as you look at 2025 so far, you may be thinking you’ve made a huge mistake. You’re not alone facing our hellscape without even the thinnest veil of numbing booze between you and reality’s horrors. Plenty…
Don’t Worry, Be Walking
Have you ever had a day when everything you touch ends up broken, materially or metaphorically? Your favorite mug slips from your grasp and shatters on the floor. You open the dishwasher at the end of its cycle and find a moving piece detached. Someone misunderstands a word you say and a pleasant conversation turns…
Den of Thieves 2 Drops Loot
DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA. Even on those evenings when the seemingly endless expanse of streaming options is without appeal, a heist movie will reliably hit the spot. Variations on the plotting, execution and fallout of an elaborate theft all please in their turn: twisty confidence games for the puzzle minded; stylish capers with tuxedos…
‘So Good’
Editor: Being a man of my word, I began packing early the morning after the election (“Top 10 Stories of 2024,” Dec. 26). Sixteen-year-old car, now with sleeping bag and tent, a bag of clothes and some food. Next stop, British Columbia; good-bye Humboldt and the U.S.A. Walking down a Vancouver street this December, I…
‘Bright’
Editor: Polls suggest that a much larger share of voters ages 18 to 30 supported Trump in the recent election than when Biden won. Additionally, more than half found the shooting of insurance CEO Brian Thompson in the back acceptable. Piano playing cats were more important than national security. I’d say this is the definition of mindful…
‘We Are Lemmings’
Editor: History tells us that the vast majority of humans follow whoever leads them without thinking, much less rebelling (Mailbox, Jan. 9). Genocide in Germany for instance, written about by Hannah Arendt, shows that not only did the average German not object, but also most Jews did not rebel on their way to the camps.…
‘Nature Doesn’t Invade’
Editor: While I appreciate the care Kimberly Wear took to represent both sides of the “conflict” between the spotted owl and the barred owl, the article failed to recognize human actions as the source of the trophic cascade in the ecosystem (“Combating the Barred Owl Invasion,” Oct. 10). Nature doesn’t invade. This is a human…
