‘Our Food is Our Medicine’
Healing at Indigenous Foods and Cultural Gathering Day By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
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‘Our Food is Our Medicine’
Marion Frye is cutting sea anemones, or sa’roh, gelatinous looking fists pulled from rocks at low tide. She’s let them rest a couple days in water so they won’t sting her hands. “Yeah, ‘horse’s ass,'” she says with a chuckle, explaining the nickname of the creatures whose flowery tendrils retract when touched. She cuts into…
Erin Jarvis-Nessier: 1960-2024
It is with profound sadness and a shattered heart that we announce the passing of loving wife, mother, friend and soulmate Erin Diana Jarvis-Nessier. Our princess passed on Jan. 2, 2024, peacefully cradled within the arms of her husband, may God rest her soul. Her son, Beau, was also present, outside amongst her beloved forest.…
Music Tonight: Thursday, April 4
The Alley Cats, also known as the Opera Alley Cats when they play the Speakeasy on that street, are a fine jazz group of varying size depending on who is up for the gig. However large or small, these cats know their stuff, and provide an excellent cool jazz atmosphere for the lucky folks in…
On the Jamwagon Bandwagon
You can’t miss the bright blue Jamwagon food truck with its red lettering announcing pitas, gyros, hummus, falafel and fries (1631 Central Ave., McKinleyville; updates on Facebook). And good thing, too. (Sidebar: Is McKinleyville’s Central Avenue, with its Indian takeover days at the Taqueria Martinez truck, Auntie Hao’s and now this Greek street-food operation, becoming…
Records Document Another Eureka City Schools Brown Act Violation
Eureka City Schools appears to have violated more open meeting and public records laws in its handling of the former Jacobs middle school property exchange than previously known, the Journal has learned via a new batch of public records disclosed in response to the paper’s request. While the Journal already reported that the district erred…
New Plan Could Help Humboldt Foster Kids Afford Extracurriculars
Foster kids often miss out on Little League or music lessons. That’s one of the consequences of changing homes, or living with a family on a tight budget. Now California has a new plan to give them opportunities for the kinds of extracurricular activities that can build character and community. It’s included in a proposed…
One Killed, Another Injured in 101 Crash
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a single vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 101 north of Fernbridge on Sunday that left one man dead and another with major injuries. According to a news release, emergency personnel arrived just before 5 p.m. to find the overturned Ford F150 truck down the side of an embankment and…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, April 2
Lindsay Lou is an alternative bluegrass and Americana artist whose journey of musical development took her from Michigan, the state of her formative years, to Nashville, the spiritual center of the Great Country Sound that might be more mythical than solid these days. What isn’t debatable is her considerable talent at songwriting, singing and strumming,…
Indigenous Foodways, Wind Farm Opposition and Big Boats
This week we’re looking at how a multi-tribal event highlights how Native people in Humboldt are teaching traditional food harvesting for food sovereignty, mental health and healing their community. We’ve also got an update on the planned offshore wind farm and its tribal opposition. And there’s a possibility some very big military support and supply…
Music Tonight: Sunday, March 31
Particle Kid is the project of Micah Nelson, Willie Nelson’s youngest kid and a talented musician and prolific tourer in his own right. He returns for another spin through Humboldt County and his venue this time, the Old Steeple, is just about perfect to showcase his analog, acoustic, tape loop and digital hybrid sound. Folk…
Ione Franz: 1936-2024
We are saddened to announce that our beloved GG, Ione Franz, passed away peacefully holding her husband’s hand on Feb. 24, 2024. Ione was born Feb. 26, 1936, to Joe and Mary Leonardo. She grew up in Ferndale, California, with her siblings Mary, Evelyn, Joe and Frank. In 1953 she was crowned Queen of The…
Music Tonight: Saturday, March 30
Even more local action tonight, all within block-party distance. The New Pelicans are back at it again at Wrangletown Cider, with doors at 7 p.m. and music a half an hour later, terminating by 10 p.m. Southern roots and soul are likely on the docket ($10) A later-lasting show begins at Humbrews at 8 p.m.,…
NCJ’s Greenson Takes Second Freedom of Information Award
The Society of Professional Journalists NorCal announced its winners of the James Madison Freedom of Information Award this week, “recognizing people and organizations who have made significant contributions to advancing freedom of information.” Among the recipients is the Journal’s own news editor Thad Greenson, for his investigative story “The Soeth Files” (May 4, 2023). The…
Music Tonight: Friday, March 29
The Miniplex has yet another local band showcase tonight and the line-up is smoking. Swingo Domingo is a duo with everything in the name, so expect swing and pop, boppin’ tunes. Icarus and Suns holds down the funk with an Afro and Central American style of melody making, and House of Mary takes you to…
A Burger Break in the Rain
In Humboldt spring, if the patio is dry, much less sunny, take advantage. Not all the benches were dry at Eureka’s branch of Redwood Curtain Brewery when the rain let up at last, but enough for a burger and fries framed in a patch of sun in front of the attached Cookin’ Nook truck. The…
Eureka Man Killed in Crash on 101
A 79-year-old Eureka man was killed yesterday in a single-car crash on U.S. Highway 101 near Humboldt Hill, the California Highway Patrol reported. According to a press release, CHP’s dispatch center received a report of an overturned vehicle in the highway’s northbound lanes around 12:40 p.m. and personnel responded to find a 1998 Nissan Pathfinder…
Down with the Sickness
I’m going to be brief here because I’m recovering from some kind of minor crud. Looking through my recent history for possible disease vectors, from out-of-town visitors to a few crowded indoor situations, and I’m coming up with nothing concrete. So I’ll blame my troubles on doing sound last week for an incredibly strange and…
Making Change: Comfort
Let’s talk about how too much comfort makes you boring, weak and small-minded. Welcome to part two of Making Change, a six-week series on the hows and whys of personal, social and political change. Describe surfing in Humboldt County to someone unfamiliar with the sport and they look at you like you’re bonkers. “First you…
Into the Woods’ Complicated Ever After
Modern renditions of fairytales are simplistic, bland stories that encourage learned helplessness and non-consensual kissing — a far cry from the dark folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. The musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, now being performed at the Van Duzer Theatre by the Cal Poly Humboldt Department of…
Devils and Do-Overs
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL. After a brief, pleasantly surprising period of infatuation with modern, low-budget horror, my enthusiasm precipitously — maybe inevitably — declined. But as it has been, so shall it ever be, and the “breakthrough,” every few decades or so, of a group of inspired, well-executed movies will typically be followed in…
‘Pure Souls’
Editor: Dogs … the only love money can buy. My heart goes out to Setlist reporter Collin Yeo on the recent loss of his dog. As someone who has had to carry out several times that final act of love that Yeo details, his recent column “He Was a Friend of Mine” (March 21) is…
‘Thumb on the Scales’
Editor: It seems Humboldt County District Attorney Stacey Eads has sent a clear message to all of our superior court judges: Rule favorably for my prosecutors or you, too, could be given a blanket disqualification. And be taken off of all criminal cases to boot. (“Court Challenge,” March 14.) While this may be a novel…
On Voting
Editor: I appreciate the vehemence with which George Clark bemoans what he calls the “biggest threat to democracy” — low turnout rates in mid-term elections. (Mailbox, March 21.) I mean, it sure sounds bad, what with “shuttered storefronts,” a “collapsed demand for production” and a “collapsing economy,” etc. But I’m confused; if the 30 percent…
‘Low-Hanging Fruit’
Editor: Yes, California is not close to meeting climate change mandates, just like CalMatters reported (NCJ Daily, March 21). Nonetheless, there are a few solutions to many of the problems which we seem deliberately blind to. More than a decade ago, before electric cars were the big deal they are now, there was quite a…
‘Too Much Fixin”
Editor: Anyway, to address the current mess regarding bird names … . I’ve been shining on the current PC about names and personas until an article in the North Coast Journal about renaming birds, which had someone’s name as part of theirs, on grounds that many of these people “weren’t very nice” (“Bird Names for…
Correction
The story headlined “After A” in the March 14, 2024, edition of the North Coast Journal included inaccurate information about when cannabis farmers who owe Measure S taxes must have their bills paid in full. Farmers have until March 31 to enter into a payment plan with the county, and until Dec. 31, 2025, to…
Eclipse!
Science started around dusk on May 28, 585 B.C. Don’t take my word for it, that’s the opinion of the late polymath/sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. On that date, the Iranian Medes and Greek Lydians, who’d been warring for six years, were fighting a battle near Turkey’s Halys River when, late in the day, the sun…
Rules for Living
Nobody wants to hear your story about how you almost didn’t choose the winning team in the March Madness bracket. Believe me. Nobody. Iain Macdonald
Military Transport Ships Eyeing Port in Humboldt Bay
Humboldt Bay may soon be home to a few new — and very large — ships. The possibility floated into public view toward the end of the March 20 meeting of the Humboldt Bay Development Association Board of Directors when Vice Chair Leroy Zerlang updated his colleagues on his efforts to get the U.S. Maritime…
