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    Monday, Jan. 20 was Day 1 of the planned week-long faculty strike against the California State University. It got under way early in the morning, with dozens of sign-carrying supporters marching in the crosswalks at 14th & L. K. Wood Streets in Arcata. The strike was settled by the end of the day.
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    Lanore Bergenske (left), of Fortuna, raced to a 67th-place finish overall and first place in the female 60-69 age bracket at the 58th Annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run on Saturday, Feb. 3rd.
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    By noon on Day 5 of the Gaza protest and occupation at Cal Poly Humboldt on Friday, April 26, an unknown number of students began receiving suspension letters from CPH and by 2:30 that knowledge was widespread leading to this large gathering on the quad. A CPH source said the reasons for the suspension letters were either camping on campus or being part of the building occupation. CPH around 12:30 p.m. then announced the university was now closed through May 10 for only remote work and online instruction. In the afternoon, CPH offered a chance to students and non-students occupying buildings toleave buildings with no immediate arrest, but very few took the opportunity to leave.
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    The Dragon Dance at the Eureka China Town Street Festival on Saturday, May 4 featured a team of dancers who maneuvered a giant long, flexible dragon puppet using poles positioned at regular intervals along the length of the dragon.
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    Long-time Kinetic racer Duane Flatmo brought back the past with his fire-breathing dragon sculpture and was the first to cross the finish line on Day 3 of the Kinetic Grand Championship…with a little creative cheating.
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    The 7th annual Redwood Pride Summer Festival got underway Saturday morning, June 8 under foggy skies with the Pride Parade marching from the Adorni Center through Old Town Eureka. The Progress Pride Flag is now a popular symbol for the queer and trans community at many Pride events.
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    Organizer Shoshanna recruited attendees into the Maypole Dance at the start of the 4th annual Fairy Festival on Sunday, June 9. But after a few stanzas of the Maypole Dance music led to tangled Maypole ribbons, Shoshanna cheerfully declared a halt (since people were having trouble following directions) and directed a re-start once everyone untangled the ribbons.
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    It’s been 7 years since David Josiah Lawson, an HSU student, was killed by stabbing at an off-campus party in Arcata in April 2017. On late Monday afternoon of June 24, his mother Charmaine Lawson dedicated the new Justice for David Josiah Lawson mural on the north side of Arcata’s D Street Neighborhood Center. The mural is a community collaboration created by project leader Benjamin Funke and mural artist Blake Reagan and involved the Lawson family, the NAACP Eureka Chapter, the City of Arcata, the Rotary Club of Arcata Sunrise and REBOUND, a DreamMaker project of the Ink People. Charmaine urged the justice system and the community to find her son’s killer and thanked many who helped create the mural.
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    Dell’Arte honored this year’s Prize of Hope Ceremony recipients Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu of San Francisco’s First Voice at the 2024 Baduwa’t Festival and at the end of the event Dell’Arte’s Tony Fuemmeler gifted them with these masks that he had created.
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    The 55th annual Annie & Mary Day parade on Sunday, July 14 had not just the usual two Annie & Mary look alikes in the parade but eight, all dressed in period clothing with their “We Believe” backstory sign (did Annie and Mary actually exist?). Annie & Mary Days are named for the two women who were clerks on the Arcata and Mad River Railroad around 1907, Annie Carroll and Mary Buckley. The railroad was built in 1854 and was the oldest private railroad in California and was referred to at the time as “The Annie and Mary Railroad.” Left to right, front row: Larella Moore, Tami Trump, Janine Volkmar, Mette Hansen, Gin McMillin, Emily May. Back row left two unidentified women and Diane Belak in pearl necklace and black hat.
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    This rider caught some air in the Bareback Steer Riding competition at the Fortuna Junior Rodeo on Wednesday, July 17. Nearly 200 boys and girls signed up for a chance to compete in seven age divisions for saddles, lots of buckles and cash awards at the rodeo grounds in Rohner Park in Fortuna.
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    During the Eureka Street Art Festival on Friday, Aug. 2, mural artist Mir de Silva explained the backstory of “The Lost Pages” mural design on the side wall of Alder Grove Charter School: “They wanted it to look like a page from a story book, given their love of reading at the school.” She also explained that she enlisted Violet Crabtree, currently working on her feature film “Wildfur,” to help with the mural that featured Wildfur’s protagonist, Finnea Wildfur the sasquatch lady. (From left, Emily Rune, Violet Crabtree, Mir de Silva and Megan Phillips)
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    During the Slugs of Eureka walking tour on Friday, Aug. 2 during the Eureka Street Art Festival, Molly Martian zoomed ahead on her bike to locate slug #2 high on the wall at Mendenhall Studios on the corner of C & 2nd Street.