Beasts and Children
What you might not know about PETA’s youth outreach — and all the dogs and cats PETA kills
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Beasts and Children
It’s tough being the only vegan in fifth grade, maybe even the only vegan in all of St. Bernard’s Catholic School. Your friends keep talking about the yummy stuff they’re eating, and ask why you’d want to give that up. They’re not trying to be mean; they really don’t get it. But when you want…
Wiyot Still In For Gambling Win
What’s this? Gov. Brown is announcing the signing of a gaming compact with the Wiyot Tribe? When said compact was signed first by Gov. Schwarzenegger in April 2008, after a nine-year’s-long slog toward said agreement, according to the tribe’s announcement at the time on its website? (See our coverage from back then.) What it is,…
Getting Around In Rio Dell
That’s not getting around Rio Dell — please, the city would like you to visit. It’s getting around in Rio Dell. The City of Rio Dell Planning Commission will meet next Wednesday — March 27 — at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers to talk about the draft “cirulation element” of the city’s general plan.…
Cart Patrol
The Eureka Police Department has made another one of its routine “special operation” sweeps of the city to round up errant shopping carts, says a release from the department today: … numerous subjects were contacted and over 100 shopping carts were recovered. Four subjects were cited and released for misappropriation of property and one subject…
Give Us $300
Citizen, if someone purporting to be “Homeland Security” pops up on your computer screen and says “Gimme $300,” don’t do it. It will threaten you, of course: “The work of your computer has been suspended on the grounds of the violation of the law of the United States of America.” And it will block your…
Your Civic Duty Calls
Your friends are tired of hearing you grouse about a) “those weird metal contraptions the city calls ‘public art'”; b) the peeled-paint, falling down houses in your neighborhood; c) the parking-ticket lady and your long, sad walk from the all-day parking lots; and d) the architectural hodgepodge cluttering up your street. Your friends think you’re…
Sport Mussels Cleared For Eatin’
You’ve gotta be careful with those wiley bivalve mollusks. Sometimes the tasty filter feeders are packed with enough toxins to — worst cases — make you tingle, burn, talk funny, choke, fall over and even die. That’s why the California Department of Public Health routinely sets quarantines on sport-harvested bivalve shelfish such as clams, scallops…
Green Days
Apparently there never were snakes in Ireland; nevertheless we still honor St. Patrick for driving them away. Along with advertising displays festooned with shamrocks and leprechauns, we have glasses of green beer, corned beef and cabbage — and parties galore. Among them, a “Wild Irish Barn Dance” Saturday night at the Arcata Veteran’s Hall,…
Columbus of the Pacific
In 1565, 73 years after Columbus navigated across the Atlantic, Friar Andrés de Urdaneta (1498-1568) discovered the vital route from Manila in the “Old World” to Acapulco in the “New World” that would link the Philippines with the Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico) for the next 250 years. Turns out, our own Cape…
Don’t Be Transphobic
Editor: We now have a new addition to the hollow class of liberals that so pervade the redwood curtain. Joining such classics as “The Patriarchy Hurts Men Too,” “I’m Not Homophobic; I Have A Gay Friend,” and “I Hate All Races Equally,” we have “One Man, One Penis!” Charlotte Stuart’s letter, “No Lady Parts? Hmmm”…
Drink Your Celery
It’s not quite time to put in a vegetable garden yet — it’s too cold for tomatoes and peppers and all that — but if the weather’s nice and you’re just itching to get something in the ground, I’ve got three interesting, cocktail-friendly plants for you. Strawberries. The trick with strawberries is to plant them…
Editor Just a Jerk?
Thank you MSNBC, oh I mean the North Coast Journal for your enlightening portrayal of bullying, or should I say “bully pulpit.” (“Waiting for Answers,” March 7.) So you write, “Carrie pulled out her cell phone camera and went to work.” I can only imagine what was happening, and must have included perhaps a compromised…
HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years On Earth
In 2005 environmental journalist Mark Hertsgaard began hearing some deeply unsettling news about the effects of global warming called climate change, primarily from scientists in Europe: Climate change was no longer something that might happen in the future. It was already happening, and it would continue getting worse for at least the next 25 years,…
Show Some Remorse
Editor: I was very interested in Barry Evans’ account of his Lost Coast misadventure (“The Fireball,” Feb. 21). I spent some wonderful and exciting years in the ’70s living fulltime near Honeydew, a parcel or two away from Peter Marshall. I have very fond memories of hiking, hunting and fishing in the King Range and on…
It Was Always April
Along the sidewalk cherry trees in bloom in Brooklyn morning the Atlantic Ocean easy with almost breeze Or Cape Cod on the way to Fairhaven high, no socks in sneakers football stadium dewy with newness and longing And my birthday The world revolved around Spring and me and April Always April Tulips (nothing better…
Goodale a Good Cop
Editor: It is newsworthy anytime a reporter has trouble with law enforcement, especially when their article contains pictures, a timeline and features a local authority that many of us know and respect. I expect the matter between Officer Goodale and yourself to get straightened out over time, as the Journal and the EPD work together…
Peace Officers Vital
Editor: Here it is folks, here is the police state getting closer and closer to you/me/us. I refer to the editorial by Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, editor of the Journal, entitled “Good Cops Aren’t Afraid of Cameras” (Feb. 28). I would define a good cop as one who takes on the mantle of peace officer. Not someone…
Taking Pictures in Public
North Coast Journal Editor Carrie Peyton Dahlberg talked with Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, about taking pictures in public. Here is a condensed version of that conversation. North Coast Journal: You trained police in Tampa and Charlotte before the Republican and Democratic conventions in 2012 and also in Chicago…
Fair is Fair
Editor: I was amazed at the in-depth article regarding the Fair Association Board and what appears to be its small town, petty attitude (“Ferndale Gothic,” Feb. 28). Regardless of who owns and publishes the Ferndale newspaper, the Fair Association Board should conduct its meetings professionally — according to the article, Ms. Cindy Olson “feels threatened by using…
Running for the River People
In northern Finland, a grizzle-bearded man named Stäni Steinbock tells how, when he was a kid, somebody took an excavator to his beloved Oulu River, changing its course where it flowed past his grandmother’s summer house. “I remember being so angry I wanted to set that giant excavator on fire, but so stupid that I…
Green For A Day
Green For A Day
40 Years of Astonishment
She was a Humboldt State political science major who took a voice class on a dare. She sang in public for the first time in Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first show produced by the Humboldt Light Opera Company. It was December 1973. Now voice teacher Carol McWhorter Ryder runs the company, and she…
HumCo’s Greatest Video Hits
Every once in awhile, the world peeks behind the Redwood Curtain. Sometimes they see good things.
McKinleyville Arts Night March 2013
Friday, March. 15, 6-8 p.m. a community celebration of art, music, food and fun on the third Friday of each month. For more information, contact coordinator Taffy Stockton at 707-834-6460 www.mckinleyvilleartsnight.com. 1. EUREKA-ARCATA AIRPORT 3561 Boeing Ave. Long term exhibit currently features work by eight female Humboldt County artists: Regina Case, Natalie Craig, Joan Gold, Linda…
Prisons and People
The play opens with a prison guard and a prisoner, each on a separate stage. They face the audience. They speak: Guard: I am Guard. Not one guard, but many. I have one mouth, but speak with many voices. I have two ears, and I have heard many stories. Prisoner: I am Prisoner. Not one…
Freedom for Dogs!
Editor: Unleash some context please! “Unleashed” (March 7) seems willing to kick the hornet’s nest. People and their dogs is a touchy thing. Freedom can be found in one of its finest forms running on the beach. For some of us our freedom is lived vicariously through our dogs. Call it therapy if you…
Take The Kids Out! No, Really!
Remember when you had these damn kids and you stopped being able to go to shows? That sucked, right? I mean, you could risk taking the wee ones out for some culture, I guess. But really, what guarantees do you have that they’re not going to be scarred for life by curse words, tattoos…
Hungry in Blue Lake
Two absurd chefs, clownishly attired in checks, plaids, stripes and large chefs hats, “made” soup, introducing the ingredients one by one. “The broth!” “The potato!” “The chicken!” These items were rushed and bumbled through two doors into the kitchen of the Mad River Grange in Blue Lake last Friday evening. All except for the chicken,…
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Reviews OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL. Sam Raimi is a director of considerable talents. His best stuff (the Evil Dead trilogy, The Gift, Drag Me to Hell) showcases his distinctive visual style, slapstick humor, sharp editing and a reverence for classical horror cinema. When it works, it really works. Oz doesn’t really work. We open…
The Video Recording, Please
We have heard from Eureka Police Chief Murl Harpham, and we appreciate his swift response to Editor Carrie Peyton Dahlberg’s complaint about being threatened with an arrest after she took photos in the Eureka Main Library parking lot. Harpham says there is a video recording of the incident, but so far it has not…
