Summer of Fun! 2011
Summer camps, sports, arts, crafts and more
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Summer of Fun!
Humboldt County has a wealth of organized summer activities for children. This is just a survey of what’s available. For more information, contact your school, church or pick up a copy of the Humboldt Kid’s Digest at a branch of the Humboldt County Library, the Eureka Chamber of Commerce or county agencies. Most of these…
Bye bye, Kneeland P.O.?
(Photo courtesy of JA Robbins) Heck of a party hubbub up there at the Kneeland Post Office today as neighbors wandered in in trickles and bursts to say goodbye to retiring Post Mistress Bonnie Lee Clark. Today was Clark’s last day — she worked 12 years at the tiny Kneeland outpost and 26 total for…
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Photos and Video from Pedreros Child-Murder Case [Updated]
In this week’s issue of the Journal interns Travis Turner and Preston Drake-Hillyard report on the tragic case of Claudia Pedreros, the McKinleyville woman accused of drowning her 2 1/2-year-old daughter Sophia in the Trinity River last weekend. Here we offer supplemental material that we were unable to include in the print edition. In…
Budget Cuts?
The NCJ would like to thank the City of Eureka for our new, freshly painted “4-way sto” located at the corner of 3rd and F sts. We agree that “p”s are ointless and assé and are glad to see savings assed on to Eureka taxayers. Yes, all four ways.
Update: Missing Toddler Found Dead
Police sources report that a 30-year-old McKinleyville woman, Claudia Parker, who had left her in-laws’ home in McKinleyville late Friday night was found the following morning walking naked down Hwy 3 near Coffee Creek Road in the Trinity Lake area. It is assumed that Parker left Humboldt County with her 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Sophia Parker,…
Salzman Sues Arcata Over Panhandling Law
Political activist/consultant/sign maker Richard Salzman (above right) filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court yesterday against the City of Arcata, claiming that the liberal mecca’s panhandling ordinance is unconstitutional. Ordinance no. 1399, which narrowly passed the Arcata City Council last March, made it illegal to panhandle “in an aggresive manner.” It also prohibits panhandling in certain…
Rabies Miracle?
A remarkable turn of events in the story of a Willow Creek resident who was diagnosed with rabies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): According to the Two Rivers Tribune, the victim’s family expects the victim to make a full recovery. The TRT story identifies the victim as “a young girl.” If…
Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography
Yes, it’s a celebrity bio. Though it’s on the cover of Vanity Fair, it’s also in the New York Times Book Review. Pretty boy celebrities are people, too — and an actor who lives in a world populated by the most accomplished film and stage artists, as well as the Washington political equivalents, is positioned…
May 19-25
May 19. Anyone who has raised baby chicks knows that, at the slightest touch, they let out a little squawk. Each chick’s squawk comes at a different pitch, and while it may be tempting to line them up and play them like a xylophone, this will soon tire the chicks and equip them no…
Dennis Coffey
Member of the legendary Funk Brothers, Motown’s crack studio band, guitarist Dennis Coffey remains relatively unknown to a larger public unaware of his overwhelming contributions to the Detroit legacy of funk and soul. Coffey’s playing style and inventive use of distortion and effect pedals became a cornerstone of the bridge between Motown’s ’60s-tailored soul and…
McKinleyville Arts Night
Presented by members of the McKinleyville business community. Receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are from 6-8 p.m. on the third Friday of each month. For more information contact coordinator Taffy Stockton at (707) 834-6460. 1. Plaza Design McKinleyville Shopping Center. Lauren Lester, watercolor paintings; Music by Hartstrings. 2. Stork’s NesT McKinleyville Shopping Center View…
Musical Orphans and a Memorial
Arcata Playhouse has a weekend of wild and crazy musical theatre starting Friday night with BOOM! An International Lost and Found Marching Band. The faux sextet from Kansas City is led by Dell’Arte alum Stephanie Roberts, who plays Lily, the strict German ukulele-strumming leader of a group of orphan musicians including Maori saxophonist/accordionist Neil (Peter Lawless),…
Blindsided on the Corner of California & Harris
He merely wanted a cigarette But we thought…
The Sokal Hoax
The π of Euclid and the G of Newton, formerly thought to be constant and universal, are now perceived in their ineluctable historicity. — from Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, by Alan Sokal, Ph.D. Come again? Pi is a variable? You might have thought the ratio of the circumference to…
Combat Mold
Editor: As a long-term employee of St. Joseph Hospital, I was disappointed but not surprised by administration’s denial of a toxic mold problem in PCU and the third floor break room (“Mold Grievance,” May 12). I, therefore, have a modest proposal: Relocate the administrative naysayers to a new office – the third-floor break room -…
Summer Festival Guide 2011
It’s that time again. Summer’s here — almost, anyway — and the time is right for dancing in the street, in a meadow or perhaps along the riverside at a music festival. Some of your options in the coming months: The 35th Annual Summer Arts and Music Festival. While the future of the park…
Honorable Maid
Reviews BRIDESMAIDS. To be truthful, Bridesmaids had a lot going against it for this viewer. For one thing, to quote the Journal’s preview, it’s being touted as a “would-be The Hangover for chicks,” and The Hangover ranks very high on my all-time worst-film list. For another thing, the stars are from Saturday Night Live, and…
Rutabaga Scramble
Monkeywrenches in the works and bursts of last-minute confusion are a longtime tradition in the world of Kinetics. When he was alive, Hobart Brown, “Glorious Founder” of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, was known for his devilish smile, his wit, throwing last-minute Kinetic kurveballs and becoming embroiled in litigation — some of it whimsical, some of…
Million Dollar Bash
It’s another rainy May in Humboldt. Summer seems far off, yet in a way it’s already here in that the college year has ended and most of the students are skittering off to elsewhere. It’s easier to park in my neighborhood, anyway. As a result, many promoters have gone on hiatus and some of the…
Backwoods Statecraft
Longtime lumberman Art Harwood is a veteran of the Timber Wars, and he remembers the summer when loggers and environmentalists started talking to each other — really talking. It was during the Redwood Summer protests of 1990. Hoping to avoid violence, a group of loggers, mill workers and environmentalists got together to establish some rules…
Lyme, Humboldt
Editor: I want to thank you very much for printing the article on Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases and raising awareness, since Humboldt County was identified as an endemic region by the Centers for Disease Control and the California Department of Public Health decades ago (“Repellant,” April 28). We are very ill-prepared and undereducated…
Don’t Push It
Editor: It pains me to see frivolous talk about freedom of expression and the environmental implications of beach grass removal filling your mailbox, while serious problems loom ominously in the back pages of your fine publication. I am, of course, referring to the crossword puzzle in your issue of May the 5th. The clue for…
Pistol-whipped
Editor: I just put down your May 5 edition. I MAY finish reading it after writing this letter. I found the cartoon by Joel Mielke to be deeply disturbing on so many levels that I hardly know where to start. He would seem to imply that residents of Fortuna (and Eureka) are rednecks of low…
