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Community Commitment Since April, 1969 VOLUME 50, NUMBER 19 ONE SECTION GUALALA, CALIFORNIA PRICE $1.63+TAX AUGUST 10, 2018 By S.J. Black [email protected] (This article was funded in part by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism s California Fellowship, where Black is a fellow.) Deputy Robert Julian mostly works alone. Not because he necessar- ily wants to, or because he s a lone ranger who works best on his own, but because of a lack of deputies in Mendocino County. If a difficult case aris- es, he can call backup in the form of two deputies from up north, but oth- erwise, We usually try and handle it ourselves, he said, driving down the empty highway, listen- Law enforcement on front line for mental health crises, aftermath of suicides ing to Alan Jackson on the radio. There s a romance to it, he said, being the lone deputy. Years ago budget cuts to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office led to fewer deputies guarding the County, and a lower salary is part of that equation. Julian can think of three deputies who left recently to take up positions in wealthier Sonoma County. Mendocino County s South Coast doesn t have the problems of ag- gressive panhandling and bigger crime the larger cities in Mendoci- no County experience. 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Colusa County Colusa County Yolo County Mendocino County Sonoma County STONY GORGE RES LAKE PILLSBURY EAST PARK RES LAKE MENDOCINO INDIAN VALLEY CLEAR LAKE 0 5.5 11 2.75 Miles Datum: NAD 83 1:336,366 IMT2 GIS August 05 2018 0910 hrs DISCLAIMER: The displayed incident data is approximate and should only be used for informational purposes. The information contained in supporting base layers was generated from GIS data maintained by different sources and agencies and is not necessarily accurate to mapping, surveying, or engineering standards. Evacuation Status Advisory Mandatory County Boundary Wilderness USFS Forest Boundary Lakes Fire Perimeter Cities Mendocino Complex 8/5/2018 9:13:50 AM Ranch Fire, River Fire PUBLIC INFORMATION EVAC MAP S T 128 S T 12 S T 175 S T 116 S T 162 S T 121 S T 1 S T 36 S T 162 S T 99 S T 1 S T 32 S T 16 S T 20 S T 20 S T 29 £ ¤ 101 ¨ § ¦ 5 Butte County Humboldt County Lake County Marin County Mendocino County Sonoma County Sutter County Tehama County Trinity County Tehama County Glenn County Glenn County Colusa County Y olo County Napa C oun ty Mendocino County Sonoma County AREA OF DETAIL The Mendocino fire complex as of Aug. 5. Photo courtesy of Cal Fire. By S.J. Black [email protected] The Mendocino Com- plex fire — the name of the adjacent River and Ranch fires — now ranks the biggest fire in California history as it continues to spread to nearly 300,000 acres, about the size of Los An- geles. The fire had de- stroyed over 116 homes and damaged 12 as of Wednesday, Aug. 8. We broke the record, said Scott McLean, a deputy chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Pro- tection, according to the LA Times. That s one of those records you don t want to see. The previous re- cord was set only eight months ago by Decem- ber s Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Bar- bara counties, which burned 281,000 acres Mendocino Complex fire sets new California record but was more destruc- tive to property. As of Wednesday, the fire was nearly 50 percent contained and being managed by Cal Fire s Mendocino Unit and the U.S. Forest Ser- vice. Last week, Cal Fire had expected the fire to be contained by Aug. 7, but Cal Fire Deputy Chief Brett Pinson with the Mendocino Unit said containment probably won t be reached until Sept. 1. We re hoping the River Fire will remain where it is now, he said in an update to the County s Board of Su- pervisors Tuesday, add- ing there had been con- cern the two fires were going to merge, though it looks unlikely now. Chief Gregg Warner of the South Coast Vol- unteer Fire Department in Gualala said his crew has been working on the River Fire. Things are looking really good on this end, he said, add- ing almost all of the fire has got a line around it to prevent it from going out any further. In the last two, three days, the wind and the heat have been in fire- fighters’ favor,” War- ner said. There have also been no injuries to South Coast firefighters, as safety and hydration have both been empha- sized to firefighters. The biggest struggle, said Pinson, has been along the ridgeline above Clear Lake. Com- munities down by the lake and those to the east of the county are still in danger, he said. Our successes are outweighing our de- feats, Pinson said, but we got a long way to go. Firefighters from Or- egon, Washington state, Utah and even New Zea- land and Australia are combating the fire along with local engines, ac- cording to Pinson. About 4,000 personnel are working on the fires. No civilian nor fire- fighter deaths have been reported, though two firefighters have been injured. The Carr Fire in Redding, which claimed 167,000 acres to become the 12th largest fire in California’s his- tory, resulted in seven deaths and is 45 percent contained. Seventeen large fires are ongoing in the state, covering more than half a million acres. One issue in Mendoci- no County was the in- ability to initially reach disaster service workers at the onset of the fire, according to Heidi Dun- See Fire… Continued on Page 23 By A. L. Biaggi ([email protected]) Tuesday s Sonoma County Board of Su- pervisors meeting was marked by large turn- out from both cannabis cultivation supporters, dressed in green, and anti-cultivation advo- cates, dressed in pink and red, who came out in droves not only to voice their opinions on the recurring disputes between cultivators and their neighbors but also to watch as the Board voted on multiple can- nabis-related ordinances dealing with land use, health and taxation is- sues. While the health and taxation ordinances passed as they were pre- sented, the land use is- Multiple Sonoma Co. cannabis ordinances pass first vote balancing competing interests sues were addressed on an individual basis, and were put only to a straw vote, after which they will be revised and final- ly voted on at the Aug. 28 Board meeting. Land use changes Though none of the measures voted on at this time will put an end to the tensions between cultivators and their neighbors, they did ad- dress some of the issues raised, favoring either side on an issue-to-issue basis. First, the Board voted unanimously for a ten- acre minimum for culti- vation in all zones, the exceptions being indus- trial and commercial, See Cannabis… Continued on Page 11
Transcript of Community Commitment Since April,...
Community CommitmentSince April, 1969
volume 50, number 19 one section gualala, california price $1.63+taX august 10, 2018
By S.J. [email protected](This article was
funded in part by the USC Annenberg Center for Health JournalismÕ s California Fellowship, where Black is a fellow.)
Deputy Robert Julian mostly works alone. Not because he necessar-ily wants to, or because heÕ s a lone ranger who works best on his own, but because of a lack of deputies in Mendocino County.
If a difficult case aris-es, he can call backup in the form of two deputies from up north, but oth-erwise, Ò We usually try and handle it ourselves,Ó he said, driving down the empty highway, listen-
Law enforcement on front line for mental health crises, aftermath of suicides
ing to Alan Jackson on the radio.
Ò ThereÕ s a romance to it,Ó he said, Ò being the lone deputy.Ó
Years ago budget cuts to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office led to fewer deputies guarding the County, and a lower salary is part of that equation. Julian can think of three deputies who left recently to take up positions in wealthier Sonoma County.
Mendocino CountyÕ s South Coast doesnÕ t have the problems of ag-gressive panhandling and bigger crime the larger cities in Mendoci-no County experience. see mental HealthÉcontinued on page 21
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The Mendocino fire complex as of Aug. 5. Photo courtesy of Cal Fire.
By S.J. [email protected] Mendocino Com-
plex fire — the name of the adjacent River and Ranch fires — now ranks the biggest fire in California history as it continues to spread to nearly 300,000 acres, about the size of Los An-geles. The fire had de-stroyed over 116 homes and damaged 12 as of Wednesday, Aug. 8.
Ò We broke the record,Ó said Scott McLean, a deputy chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Pro-tection, according to the LA Times. Ò ThatÕ s one of those records you donÕ t want to see.Ó
The previous re-cord was set only eight months ago by Decem-berÕ s Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Bar-bara counties, which burned 281,000 acres
Mendocino Complex fire sets new California recordbut was more destruc-tive to property.
As of Wednesday, the fire was nearly 50 percent contained and being managed by Cal FireÕ s Mendocino Unit and the U.S. Forest Ser-vice. Last week, Cal Fire had expected the fire to be contained by Aug. 7, but Cal Fire Deputy Chief Brett Pinson with the Mendocino Unit said containment probably wonÕ t be reached until Sept. 1.
Ò WeÕ re hoping the River Fire will remain where it is now,Ó he said in an update to the CountyÕ s Board of Su-pervisors Tuesday, add-ing there had been con-cern the two fires were going to merge, though it looks unlikely now.
Chief Gregg Warner of the South Coast Vol-unteer Fire Department in Gualala said his crew
has been working on the River Fire. Ò Things are looking really good on this end,Ó he said, add-ing almost all of the fire has got a line around it to prevent it from going out any further.
Ò In the last two, three days, the wind and the heat have been in fire-fighters’ favor,” War-ner said. There have also been no injuries to South Coast firefighters, as safety and hydration have both been empha-sized to firefighters.
The biggest struggle, said Pinson, has been along the ridgeline above Clear Lake. Com-munities down by the lake and those to the east of the county are still in danger, he said.
Ò Our successes are outweighing our de-feats,Ó Pinson said, Ò but we got a long way to go.Ó
Firefighters from Or-
egon, Washington state, Utah and even New Zea-land and Australia are combating the fire along with local engines, ac-cording to Pinson. About 4,000 personnel are working on the fires.
No civilian nor fire-fighter deaths have been reported, though two firefighters have been injured. The Carr Fire in Redding, which claimed 167,000 acres to become the 12th largest fire in California’s his-tory, resulted in seven deaths and is 45 percent contained. Seventeen large fires are ongoing in the state, covering more than half a million acres.
One issue in Mendoci-no County was the in-ability to initially reach disaster service workers at the onset of the fire, according to Heidi Dun-See Fire…continued on page 23
By A. L. Biaggi([email protected])
TuesdayÕ s Sonoma County Board of Su-pervisors meeting was marked by large turn-out from both cannabis cultivation supporters, dressed in green, and anti-cultivation advo-cates, dressed in pink and red, who came out in droves not only to voice their opinions on the recurring disputes between cultivators and their neighbors but also to watch as the Board voted on multiple can-nabis-related ordinances dealing with land use, health and taxation is-sues. While the health and taxation ordinances passed as they were pre-sented, the land use is-
Multiple Sonoma Co. cannabis ordinances pass first vote balancing competing interests
sues were addressed on an individual basis, and were put only to a straw vote, after which they will be revised and final-ly voted on at the Aug. 28 Board meeting.
Land use changesThough none of the
measures voted on at this time will put an end to the tensions between cultivators and their neighbors, they did ad-dress some of the issues raised, favoring either side on an issue-to-issue basis.
First, the Board voted unanimously for a ten-acre minimum for culti-vation in all zones, the exceptions being indus-trial and commercial, See Cannabis…continued on page 11
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ternational Cat Day, and the U.S. Department of the Interior celebrated by disseminating photos and information about members of the feline family found in the U.S., some of which are also frequently “sighted” in Mendonoma.
Mountain lions are found in the 14 western-most states, as well as Florida, but according to the Interior Department “are rarely seen.” The ICO has documented several sightings over the years in Jeanne Jackson’s “Mendonoma Sightings” column, al-though none as young or as cute as the kitten pictured here.
Mountain lions are born spotted, with blue eyes and rings on their tails, but by the time they are adults, they will generally be tawny or grayish in color with-out spots, have a white underbelly and a black-tipped tail. The females raise the kittens until they are between 12 and 24 months, when they strike out on their own.
“These cats don’t roar, but they’re capable of an unimaginable, penetrat-ing scream,” according to the Interior Depart-ment, a fact attested to by local readers.
“Harper Smith heard an animal call on Mon-day night on TSR. She wrote, ‘The sound was much louder than any other wild animals I’ve ever heard. It sounded like screaming,” wrote Jackson on March 30, 2018. “A Mountain Lion has a call that sounds eerily like a woman screaming.”
And last Dec. 8, Jack-son told about another incident of mountain lion screaming: “Caro-line Ducato heard a Mountain Lion scream-ing on the Gualala
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Ridge. She wrote, ‘[A week ago] Tuesday, I left my computer bag in my car and went outside to get it about 6:30 p.m. I heard a really loud and terrifying noise, not far from our garage. I think it was down by the pond.’
Caroline let her neighbors know about the Cougar’s presence, so they would be sure to keep their pets in-side. Caroline wrote further, ‘My experience underscores that we in-deed live amongst the creatures of the natural world.’”
ICO reporter S.J. Black had a rare sight-ing of a mountain lion cub last fall. In the Sept. 22, 2017, issue, she re-counted: “I finally got a good sighting to report: a Mountain Lion cub! I was driving home late Wednesday from the ICO, around 11:30 p.m. when right in the north-bound lane was a little Mountain Lion cub, star-ing right into my head-lights!
“Luckily, I was in the opposing lane so no harm done, but I really couldn’t See Cat Day…continued on page 4
Researchers took this photo of a baby mountain lion at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The kitten, from a litter of three females, was found by mapping GPS locations of the kitten’s radio-collared mother. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service.
Bobcats kittens may look like ordinary house cats, but they quickly grow to twice the size of domestic cats. When people see “abandoned” young animals, remember to leave them alone, the Department of Interior ad-vises. A parent is probably waiting close by. Photo by Rob Chapman, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Action Network is looking for volunteers for the 14th annual Gualala River Run on Oct. 13.
“Volunteers are the backbone of this event, they are essential to our success,” said long-time Event Director James Platt. “We have slots for 60 volunteers,” he added. “Our team is adults of all ages plus students from our local high schools and middle schools. For students these volun-teer hours count toward their community service graduation requirement. We need your help and you will get a commemo-rative shirt and snacks. We have a role that fits you!”
The Gualala River Run begins at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Gualala Arts Cen-ter. It includes a 0.5K Kids Dash, 5K (3.1 miles) Run, a 10K (6.2 miles) Run, and a 5K Fun Walk. These events are followed by gourmet brunch, award ceremony and Raffle.
What do volunteers do? They direct parking, register new participants and assist preregistered runners and walkers obtain their commemo-rative shirts and bibs, Platt explained. “Finish line volunteers share the excitement of runners and walkers achieving their goal of completing
a 5K or 10K,” he added. “Our Coastal Creations Brunch plans on feed-ing 150 people so we are looking for volunteers to assist in setting up and serving this gourmet treat.”
The annual fundrais-er helps support pro-grams for local youth.
People who want to volunteer can call Kath-leen at Action Network, 707-884-5413, to sign up.
“If you can’t join us but want to support Ac-tion Network, we wel-come donations via mail or credit card options ac-cessible on our website, ActionNetwork.info,” Platt said.
Action Network seeks volunteers for River Run
By A. L. [email protected] Tuesday’s Men-
docino County Board of the Supervisors meet-ing, Chair Dan Hamburg signed a proclamation, in collaboration with the Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Department and Breastfeeding Coalition,
Mendo Supes proclaim August Breastfeeding Monthrecognizing the month of August 2018 as Breast-feeding Month in Men-docino County.
Representing the Breastfeeding Coali-tion at the meeting was Roseanne Ibarra, execu-tive director of First Five Mendocino, an organiza-tion aimed at helping families with children up to five years of age.
Ibarra explained the proclamation is part of a national campaign to “increase awareness of the many benefits of breastfeeding and sup-port nursing families.”
The proclamation it-self listed a multitude of benefits that breast-feeding provides, includ-ing that fact that it “is a proven primary disease prevention strategy that protects both infants and mothers from a host of chronic and acute dis-See Breastfeeding…continued on page 6
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Carolyn Hand moved to Mendonoma in January and has been providing women’s health services three days a week at Redwood Coast Medical Services’ clinic in Gual-ala since that time.
Hand estimates that about 70 percent of her patients so far are older women — in their 50s, 60s and 70s — treating lots of osteoporosis and menopause-related is-sues. Hand said she is not an “estrogen pusher” but feels many older women have problems and haven’t had anyone
Nurse practitioner offers women’s health servicesto talk them over with.
But she’d also like to attract young women in their childbearing years, who she feels are under-served in the area, par-ticularly if they are preg-nant or want to become pregnant.
See Women’s Health…continued on page 6
The official green “Gualala” sign at the south end of town on Highway 1 has been missing since last October, and is now perhaps someone’s travel souvenir. When CalTrans gets around to replacing the sign, maybe they’ll update the census count on the new one. Steve McLaughlin photo.
“I think they don’t know I’m here,” she said. She also thinks people are confused about the scope of her work, which ranges from teen health to menopause, from con-traception to infertility treatment to pregnancy testing. Although Hand is not a primary care provider, she does also do well woman checks and screening for gener-al health problems with referrals when needed.
Hand has a bachelor’s
By A. L. Biaggi([email protected])
At the Aug. 7 Men-docino County Board of Supervisors meet-ing, cannabis working groups presented a va-riety of updates and rec-ommendations, most no-tably about the coming, state-mandated METRC track-and-trace system for cannabis and the widespread consensus that the current SICPA system should no longer be used by Mendocino County. While SICPA’s contract goes through June 2019, and SICPA is developing ways to in-tegrate the two systems, multiple cultivators, the representatives of the Track-and-Trace work-ing group and County employees all agree that two systems will place too much of a burden on cultivators, and that SICPA should be phased out.
The main issue was that under a two-system setup, cultivators would not only have to deal with paperwork at both the county and state lev-el, but would have to tag their products twice, as the two systems do not use directly compatible
tags. As Supervisor Dan Hamburg summed up the issue, “I don’t under-stand a whole lot about track-and-trace, but one thing I do understand is that people are not hap-py having to deal with a local system and state system.” Corrine Powell, a cultivator, agreed, say-ing “There is absolutely no reason to have our farmers the only ones in the state responsible for a burdensome and time consuming track-and-trace system that is meaningless outside the county.”
Some also expressed displeasure with a per-ceived lack of benefits and inefficiency of SIC-PA itself. Ron Edwards, one of the representa-tives of the Track-and-Trace working group, stated “We have a sys-tem in name only. We are not getting data, we don’t know what we’re collecting. People are paying for it, but we’re not seeing the system working.”
While no decision was made at this time, one will need to be made upon METRC’s arrival. One cultivator, Hannah Nelson, called for the
switch to happen soon-er rather than later, so that cultivators are not forced to make signifi-cant changes in the mid-dle of growing season.
The Board addressed several recommenda-tions from the working groups about their struc-turing. Two of the work-ing groups, addressing building code issues and overlay zones, will be closing, and a new one will be formed, ad-dressing non-cultivation issues and focusing heavily on the subject of microbusinesses. The Board rejected the work-ing groups’ suggestion of assigning a supervisor to each group, instead call-ing for improved commu-nication from the groups and increased informal participation by supervi-sors.
Finally, the canna-bis ad-hoc committee, consisting of supervi-sors Hamburg and John McCowen, rejected the recommendation that four individuals from the working groups be allowed to join, instead stating that they would be creating proper fo-rums through which they could be contacted.
Mendocino Co. cannabis working group calls for just one Track-and-Trace system
The filing period for candidates for the Point Arena City Council has been extended to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, because Councilmember Anna Dobbins decided she will not seek reelec-
City Council filing period extended to August 15tion. Extended filing pe-riods are triggered when an eligible incumbent does not file for re-elec-tion.
The vacancy is for a four-year term, begin-ning December 2018.
People interested in running for the Point Arena City Council can pick up a nomination packet at City Hall, located at 451 School
See City Council…continued on page 12
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Civic Meetings…A public service feature of the Independent Coast Observer
Thursday, August 9Coastal Seniors Van to Santa Rosa. Call 707-412-0201Arena Market and Cafe Coastal Organics Inc., co-op mtg. 4
p.m. RCMS meeting room, Point Arena.Horicon School Board, 6 p.m., Horicon School, Annapolis.
Friday, August 10Coastal Seniors van to Ukiah. Call 707-412-0201.Gualala Food Bank, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Gualala Baptist
Church. Recipients please bring shopping bags. Saturday, August 11Sunday, August 12Monday, August 13
Coastal Seniors Lunch, Veterans Memorial Building, Point Arena, 11:30 a.m.
North Sonoma Coast Fire Protection Dist. Board Meeting.The Sea Ranch North Fire Station.6 p.m.Diabetes Wellness Program food distributionNoon to 2 p.m.Elaine Jacob Center, 38550 S. Highway 1, Gualala
Tuesday, August 14Food Distribution, Veterans Hall, Point Arena, 8:30 a.m.-11 a.m.
Coastal Seniors Lunch, Gualala Comm Center, 11:30 a.m.Mendo & Sonoma Supervisors.Gualala Community Center Board, 2 p.m., Gualala Comm
Center.Manchester School Bd. 5 p.m., Manchester School Library.Redwood Coast Humane Society, 6 p.m., N Gualala Water
Co. Conf. Room. Wednesday, August 15
CRC van to Santa Rosa. Call 1-800-395-8984 or 707-884-4562 noon to 4 p.m. weekdays for reservation.
Coastal Seniors Lunch, Bingo, Veterans Memorial Building, Point Arena 11:30 a.m.
Friends of Coast Community Library board, 4 p.m., at the Library on Main St., Point Arena.
WIC staff visit 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Action Network office, Cypress Village, Gualala.
Thursday, August 16Coastal Seniors van to Santa Rosa. Call 707-412-0201.Mendo. Cnty Planning Comm., Ukiah.Gualala Comm Services District, 5 p.m. Elaine Jacob Ctr.Gualala Arts Bd, 7 p.m. Gualala Arts Center.Subscribe!
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Pedestrian surveyThe Mendocino Council
of Governments is seeking input for a short Caltrans-funded survey about im-proving walking conditions in the South Coast, with an Aug. 15 deadline. The sur-vey will help obtain fund-ing for pedestrian improve-ments such as sidewalks and trails and can be found at www.mendopedestrian.org.
Voter registrationVoter registration will
be available on Saturday, Aug. 18, 8:30 a.m. to noon, at the Pay ’n’ Take at the Gualala Community Cen-ter.
California residents in any county who will be 18 years old by Tuesday, Nov. 6, and are U.S. Citizens are eligible to register to vote. The forms are in English and in Spanish.
People must re-register if they have changed their address, their name, or wish to change their politi-cal party.
Youths 16 or 17 years old, may now pre-register in advance of their 18th birthday.
People should bring a driver’s license or Califor-nia ID card, and their So-cial Security number.
For more information, go to sos.ca.gov or call 707-884-4703.
En EspañolRegistro de votantesRegistro de votantes es-
tará disponible el sábado, 18 de augusto, 8:30 al me-diodía, en pay ‘n’ take en el centro comunitario de Gualala.
Los residentes de Califor-nia del condado que tienen 18 años de edad después de el martes, 6 de noviembre y son ciudadanos estadoun-idenses son elegibles para registrarse para votar. Los formularios están en inglés y en español.
Personas deben volver a registrarse si han cambia-do su dirección, su nombre, o desea cambiar su partido político.
Jóvenes de 16 o 17 años de edad, ahora puede pre-inscribirse antes de su 18 cumpleaños.
Las personas deben ll-evar una licencia de con-ducir o tarjeta de identifi-cación de California y su número de Seguro Social.
Para obtener más infor-mación, visite sos.ca.gov o llame al 707-884-4703.
Port Road maintenance
Port Road in Point Are-na will be subject to one-lane traffic control from Tuesday to Saturday, Aug. 14 to 17, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., as part of the Port Road Maintenance Project.
The first phase of the project entails asphalt removal, dig outs, new compacted road base and relaying of asphalt in the portions of roadway and bike lane that have suf-fered base failures. Cracks in the asphalt surface of the road will be filled and sealed. The second phase of the project entails applica-tion of slurry seal sometime in September.
The project was de-signed by SHN Engineer-ing in Fort Bragg with construction performed by Wylatti Resource Manage-ment in Covelo, and is paid in part by SB 1 funds.
Coastal SingersThe Coastal Singers
choral group is seeking new members for its December concerts. Rehearsals will begin Monday, Sept. 3, and continue each Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Gualala Arts Center.
Director Sue Bohlin said new members will be ac-cepted until mid-Septem-ber.
Returning or new pro-spective members should contact Bohlin at sueboh [email protected] or 707-884-5477 or Christine Chap-man at 707-884-9144.
Citizenship workshop
A citizenship workshop by California Human De-velopment will be held Monday, Aug. 20, 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Garcia Guild/Manchester Community Center in Manchester. To register, contact Asucena Calderon at 707-523-1155, x. 4714.
En EspañolEl lunes 20 de agosto,
de 5 a 8:30 p.m. se llevará a cabo un taller de ciudada-nía a cargo del Desarrollo Humano de California. en el Garcia Guild / Manches-ter Community Center en Manchester. Para regis-trarse, comuníquese con Asucena Calderon al 707-523-1155, x. 4714.
RCMS celebrates National Health Center Week
By Diane Agee(Diane Agee is the CEO of Redwood Coast Medi-
cal Services.)National Health Center Week 2018 (NHCW) pro-
vides an opportunity to visit a Community Health Center and see firsthand why they are now at cen-ter stage in a changing health care landscape. This past year, Congress, with strong bipartisan support, invested in health centers, recognizing that a strong community-based system of care where people have easy access to doctors and preventive care will save lives and reduce health care costs.
Health centers like RCMS are part of a nation-wide network that is the family doctor to more than 27 million Americans. Our mission to provide af-fordable options for primary care is well established. What may be lesser known is that we are proven innovators and problem-solvers in treating chronic disease. We look beyond medical charts not only to prevent illness but also address the factors that ac-tually cause poor health, such as poverty, homeless-ness, substance use, mental illness, lack of nutri-tion, and unemployment.
Health centers are on the front lines dealing with complex problems no one wants to think about, in-cluding the devastating opioid crisis and the growing problem of obesity in economically challenged neigh-borhoods – health conditions that, if left unchecked, end up in hospital emergency rooms for costly treat-ment. We save the U.S. health care system 24 billion dollars a year by managing health conditions and reducing unnecessary visits to the hospital.
Our model of care works by treating the whole patient with an integrated range of services located under one roof. That way, our patients, including low-income families, veterans and the elderly, need not navigate a confusing maze of services to see a dentist or to fill a prescription. Yet, all too often this happens in our fragmented system of care, even for patients who have both insurance and a regular pro-vider. At health centers the goal is to provide every-one with easy access to care no matter who they are, where they are from, or if they have an insurance card.
At RCMS we are always working towards ex-panding our scope of services to focus on the whole person. We provide Primary Care, Dental, Behav-ioral Health, Urgent Care, Chronic Disease Man-agement, and most recently expanded our scope to include Women’s Health. We also run a community Hospice Program, coordinate volunteer services, and have a host of outreach resources that include everything from enrolling for MediCal and Covered California, to coordinating annual community flu clinics and youth sports exams. Learn more about our range of services by visiting RCMS-health-care.org or call 707-884-9434 to arrange a health center tour.
The theme of this year’s National Health Cen-ter Week is “Celebrating Health Centers: Home of America’s Health Care Heroes,” but none of us who work at health centers consider ourselves heroes. Rather, we are people of the community who believe that affordable health care should always be within reach for everyone who needs it. Talk with our clini-cians and staff and find out why health centers are a good prescription for our nation’s health.
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Parking surveyThe Gualala Municipal
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Cat Day…from Page 2believe my eyes!”
More common in Mendonoma are sight-ings of bobcats, which, according to the Inte-rior Department are the wildcats most likely to be seen in North Ameri-ca, with over 1 million of them in the country.
Bobcats are fierce hunters, able to bring down much larger prey, such as deer. They are good swimmers and climbers with excellent eyesight and hearing.
But sightings of bob-cat kittens are rare, according to Jackson. Whale watchers Scott and Tree Mercer saw a bobcat kitten, but didn’t get a photo. “On Monday, we stopped on Light- house Road and briefly watched a Bobcat kitten stalk some prey, likely a gopher, before the kitten ran off ‘empty-handed,’” they wrote for Jackson’s April 13, 2018, column.
“The only person I know of to get photos
of a bobcat kitten is Mark Simkins several years ago near the end of April,” Jackson said. “Bobcat young are kept hidden by their moth-er until they grow big enough to hunt for them-selves.”
The Interior Depart-ment says the best way to view wildlife is to give them room to move. “In general, if animals re-act to your presence, you’re too close,” say Department guidelines for safely watching wild-life. “Ultimately, staying safe and keeping wildlife wild is up to you!”
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Hibakusha and Hope in the Nuclear Age
by Robert F. Dodge, M.D.(Robert Dodge is a family physician practicing in
Ventura, is the Co-Chair of the Security Committee of National Physicians for Social Responsibility and is the President of Physicians for Social Responsibil-ity, Los Angeles.)
This week marks 73 years since the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, ultimately resulting in the deaths of more than 200,000 people. With the dawn of the nuclear age, the term “hibakusha” formally entered our lexicon. Atomic bomb survivors are referred to in Japanese as hibakusha, which translates literally as “bomb-affected-people.” The bombings and aftermath changed the world forever and threaten the very fu-ture of humankind to this day.
According to the Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Law, there are three hibakusha categories. These include people exposed directly to the bomb and its immediate aftermath, those people exposed within a 2-kilometer radius who entered the sphere of de-struction within two weeks of the explosion, and people exposed to radioactive fallout generally from assisting victims and handling bodies. These also include those exposed in utero, whose mothers were pregnant and belonging to any of these defined cat-egories.
Hibakusha have provided a living legacy to the horrors and threat of nuclear war. The threat con-tinues to this day, fueled by a new nuclear arms race initiated by the United States proposal to spend upwards of $1.7 trillion over the next 30 years to rebuild our entire nuclear arsenal. Every other nu-clear nation is following suit in modernizing their arsenals as well, giving rise to the myth of nuclear deterrence that has driven the arms race since its inception.
This renewed arms race threatens us and every-thing we care about every moment of every day. As tensions have grown between the nuclear superpow-ers, the threat of nuclear war by intent or miscalcu-lation or increasingly by cyber-attack threatens us and everything we care about.
This is not a reality that has to be. Recognizing the catastrophic humanitarian consequences from any use of nuclear weapons, civil society and non-governmental organizations (nonprofits) around the world — working with hibakusha — initiated an in-ternational effort over the past decade to abolish nu-clear weapons. The International Campaign to Abol-See Letters…
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Open mindedEditor:
An article in the Press Democrat, Sunday, July 29, 2018, Forum section, “An is-land nation sinks as climate changes, Pacific country of Kiribati faces loss of all its land due to rising sea lev-els”, by Joshua Keating, Slate, was not supported by any science within the article. An examination of the particulars of Kiribati shows why. First, tide gauge information for that area of the Pacific shows fluctua-tions predominantly caused by El Niños, not climate change. Information from two Kiribati tide gauges: sea level at Christmas Is-land was higher in 1982 and 1997 than in any year since; Kanton Island had higher sea level eight times before 2016, 1976 to 2009, and the highest was in 1997.
The author also does not know the physics of coral islands, which grew as sea level rose over 400 feet in the past 18,000 years as the 100,000-year glacial period (Ice Age) ended. Recent photo and satellite studies have found that a majority of Pacific coral atolls are the same size or have grown in the last half century as sea level has ris-en at a modest rate of four inches per century with no sign of acceleration.
The article published was alarmism without any climate change science.
The Press Democrat printed this in their Letters to Editor section on August 1. The ICO censors me from fear, but at least the Press Democrat is open minded.
Michael CombsGualala
Something happeningEditor:
Kudos to Sheriff Tom Allman when he said it!: “I don’t care where your OPINION on global warm-ing is; there is something happening. We are seeing fires where we’ve never seen them before.”
Wake up all you climate change deniers and Trump supporters.
Let’s keep America safe!Sue Hart
The Sea Ranch
Up for grabsEditor:
Does your vote count?Last Feburary, the Cen-
ter for American Progress released a study measuring the degree to which each of the 50 states meets basic standards for safeguarding election systems.
Paperless voting sys-tems — touch screens with no paper backups — are still used in 14 states. Only 26 states require post-election audits. Forty-one states use database soft-ware that was created more than a decade ago — so long ago that the vendors no lon-ger track vulnerabilities or send patches to the users.
Last February, Election Systems and Software, the country’s largest supplier of election management systems assured the New
Suffer the little childrenTuesday the Mendocino County Board of
Supervisors recognized August as Breast-feeding Month in Mendocino County. It was the kind of proclamation often called a “feel good” move — non-controversial and relatively meaningless. Supervisor Carre Brown said, “Back in the day, for me, for my generation, it was [taboo] to be breastfeed-ing a child anywhere publicly and I’m just so happy to see the change in attitudes.”
In Mendocino County, it’s probably true that attitudes have changed, but that isn’t the case nationwide. Just this year, Utah and Idaho became the last of the 50 states to make breastfeeding in public legal. De-spite that, a Google search will turn up doz-ens of accounts of women being shamed, harassed or asked to leave public spaces for feeding their children. And of women as-serting their rights, saying those who object are reacting to a part of the body typically sexualized being used in a nonsexual way.
A 2018 UNICEF report shows the U.S. has a lower percentage of breastfeeding than most other high-income countries, and that “positive social norms that support and encourage breastfeeding, including in pub-lic spaces” would empower more women.
In light of all that, the Supervisors’ proc-lamation is anything but meaningless. Well done.
—Chris McManus
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SeveNTH-DAy ADveNTIST cHurcH
Sabbath School .............. 10 a.m. SaturdayChurch ........................11:15 a.m. Saturday
For information, call 707-785-3174.
JeHOvAH’S WITNeSSeSLake Street, Point Arena
Sunday:Public talk .......................................10 a.m.Watchtower Study .....................10:35 a.m.TUESDAY:Theocratic Ministry School and congrega-tional Bible study .........................7:00 p.m.
Public invited, no collections. For more information call 707-882-1819.
Mendonoma Coast Church Services
ST. PAUL’S COMMUNITyuniteD metHoDist cHurcH
Pastor Christie McManus and Pastor Trish Ross
40/50 School St., Point Arena707-882-2074 spcumc.org
SUNDAYS: 10:30 a.m. Intergenerational worship followed by Fellowship time.
cHristian scienceInformal group meets Sundays at 9 a.m. For information on location, call Carrie or Don Krieger, 707-785-2684.
catHolicPhone 707-882-1734
Fr. Carlos OrtegaSt. Aloysius Church,School Street, Point Arena
Saturday Spanish Mass ................7 p.m.Sunday Mass ................................9 a.m.Thursday Mass .............................9 a.m.
Mary Star of the Sea ChurchChurch Street, Gualala
Saturday Spanish Mass ................5 p.m.Sunday Mass ..............................11 a.m.Wednesday/Friday Mass ..............9 a.m.
episcopalThe Episcopal Congregation worships
in conjunction with the Lutheran Congrega-tion as Shepherd by the Sea Episcopal/Lutheran Mission at Mary Star of the Sea (R.C.) Church, 39141 Church St., 1 block east of downtown Gualala.
The Eucharist is celebrated Sundays at 9 a.m., followed by coffee.
Website: shepherdbythesea.org.
gualala baptist cHurcH“The little white church on the hill”
707-884-4330 GualalaBaptistChurch.org
Jason Baker, Pastor ........... 707-884-4330Sunday:Tune in to 100.5 FM for GBC's Christian Music program each Sunday .......8 - 9 a.m.Adult Bible Study .........................9:45 a.m.Morning Worship ............................11 a.m.Includes Children's Sunday SchoolNursery provided for preschool ......11 a.m.Tuesday:Open Adult Bible Study.........7 to 8:30 p.m.Wednesday:TALC Teaching As Life Comes …2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
KNIGHTS TeMPLARS OF LIGHTLocal meetings take place the third
Saturday of each month at 3 pm hosted by The Commanderie of St. Jude, place and time TBA via appointment.
For information, AOIOKTOL, PO Box 572, Gualala, California 95445-0572.
lutHeranThe Lutheran (ELCA) Congregation
worships in conjunction with the Episcopal Congregation as Shepherd by the Sea Episcopal/Lutheran Mission at Mary Star of the Sea (R.C.) Church, 39141 Church St., 1 block east of downtown Gualala.
Eucharist is celebrated Sundays at 9 a.m., followed by a coffee fellowship.
Website: shepherdbythesea.org.
BAHA’I FAITHFor information on local meetings, call 707-882-3885.
gualala meDitationSitting meditation 11 a.m. Fridays,
Mary Star of the Sea Church, Gualala. Call 707-785-9159.
WORLD WIDe PRAyeR CIRCLeWednesdays, 7:15-8:15 p.m., 340 Main
St., Point Arena.
catHolicElk, CA
Blessed Sacrament ChurchA Mission of St. Anthony’s Mendocino
5750 Highway 1, Elk Fr. Louis J. Nichols, 707-937-5808
Vigil Mass for Sunday .......Saturday, 4 p.m.Vigil Mass for Holy Days of Obligation ...................4 p.m.
menDocino coastJeWISH COMMUNITy
MCJC Shul, 15701 Caspar Road, Caspar. Weekly services, 10:30 a.m., Saturday. Holiday services, monthly pot-luck and classes. Rabbi Margaret Holub, 707-964-6146.
tHe cHurcH of Jesus cHrist OF LATTeR-DAy SAINTS
Sunday services at 11 a.m. at Camp Liahona Redwoods, 27010 Skaggs Springs Rd., An-napolis. Visitors are welcome.
GReeNWOOD COMMUNITy cHurcH
Non-denominational service is held on Sunday 10 a.m. led by Dorothy Cong and Paul DeVaul.
Transmission Meditation Group meets Fridays at 8 p.m. For more infor-mation, contact Charlie or Rosi Acker, 707-877-1800 or [email protected].
Subud is offered on a variable schedule. In Subud, individuals receive an inner experience that enlivens their spiritual and ethical understanding and leads to natural life changes. For more information, contact Rasunah Katz, 707-877-1817 or [email protected].
assemblies of goD revival
COMMUNITy CHURCH95 Riverside Drive
SUNDAYS:Morning Worship ............................10 a.m.
Don endemann.
Don Endemann, known locally as a cham-pion of art and artists, died on July 17, 2018, at Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa, shortly af-ter being diagnosed with gastro-intestinal cancer.
He was born in South-ampton, England, and lived in Paris with his German-American fa-ther and Scottish moth-er before coming to the U.S. as a youth in 1947. Largely self-educated, and a Marine veteran, Don immersed himself in the world of art, which he shared with his wife of 54 years, painter Hei-di Endemann. He was a landscape contractor in Marin, and Heidi was freelancing for adver-tising agencies in San Francisco, before they “escaped” to the coast in 1972. Here they built their home, which now also houses the Stewart Kummer Gallery. The gallery, then called The North Light Gallery, first opened in 1982 in Gualala.
As a gallerist with an original and practiced eye, Don acquired a deep knowledge of art history, loving all forms of art and developing a special passion for fine ceramic
Obituary: Don Endemann
works by artists nation-wide, said his friend April Dammann.
Survivors include his wife Heidi; half-siblings Astra, Gerda and Frederik; neph-ews Roy and Ray; niece Carla, and brother-in-law Brett. At Don’s re-quest, there is no service planned. “Instead, he would want you to smile when you gaze upon a beautiful work of art,” said Dammann.
“At the end of every visit – business or so-cial – Don never failed to say, ‘Greasy side down,’” she added. “Truckers
understood: keep your wheels on the ground. It was Don’s way of saying, ‘Be safe.’ Be safe, Don.”
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eases and conditions” and it “is the preferred and most appropriate source of nutrition for infants, adapting over time to meet the chang-ing needs of the growing infant.” It also voiced support for business and workplaces that provide support for breastfeed-ing mothers as they “ex-perience an impressive return on investment including lower health care costs, absenteeism and turnover rates, as well as improved mo-rale, job satisfaction and productivity.”
In response to the proclamation and prog-ress made by the Breast-feeding Coalition, super-visor Carre Brown said “Back in the day, for me, for my generation, it was [taboo] to be breastfeed-ing a child anywhere publicly and I’m just so happy to see the change in attitudes in what’s accepted and what’s not accepted.”
Breastfeeding…from Page 2
Breastfeeding Coalition representative Roseanne Ibarra and Supervisor Dan Hamburg after the signing of the Breastfeeding Month proclamation. Photo courtesy of Mendocino County Board of Supervisors.
Women’s Health…from Page 3degree in nursing from San Francisco State, an OB-GYN nurse practitio-ner’s certification from San Jose State and a master’s degree in nurs-ing from Holy Names University. She’s been a labor and delivery nurse and has done a “ton” of obstetrical work, includ-ing delivering “quite a
few” babies.She said she would
like to set up arrange-ments with other pro-viders where she and they could co-manage pregnancy cases, allow-ing more routine care to take place here, sav-ing women many trips to Santa Rosa, Ukiah or Fort Bragg for mater-nity care. “It would be super easy,” she said.
Hand spent her for-
mative years in Fort Bragg before moving to the Bay Area for 30 years, but said she has wanted for some time to return to the coast. “I do know what it’s like living on the coast,” she said. When she accepted the job here and bought her home in Anchor Bay, she said something relaxed in her. “It just felt like coming home,” she said.
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The times given in the following tables are calculated for Arena Cove area from NOAA tide predictions. They are correct within about 15 minutes for the coast between Fort Ross and Elk.
HigH tiDes
LOW TIDeS
Thu Aug 09 10:50 AM 4.7 ft. 9:49 PM 7.1 ft.Fri Aug 10 11:35 AM 5.0 ft. 10:41 PM 7.2 ft.Sat Aug 11 12:18 PM 5.3 ft. 11:33 PM 7.1 ft.Sun Aug 12 1:01 PM 5.5 ft. 12:26 AM 6.8 ft.Mon Aug 13 12:26 AM 6.8 ft. 1:44 PM 5.6 ft.Tue Aug 14 1:20 AM 6.3 ft. 2:27 PM 5.8 ft.Wed Aug 15 2:17 AM 5.7 ft. 3:12 PM 5.8 ft.Thu Aug 16 3:20 AM 5.0 ft. 3:59 PM 5.8 ft.Fri Aug 17 4:32 AM 4.4 ft. 4:50 PM 5.7 ft.Sat Aug 18 5:56 AM 4.0 ft. 5:44 PM 5.6 ft.
Thu Aug 09 4:13 AM -0.9 ft. 3:40 PM 2.4 ft.Fri Aug 10 5:01 AM -1.2 ft. 4:37 PM 2.2 ft.Sat Aug 11 5:47 AM -1.3 ft. 5:32 PM 1.9 ft.Sun Aug 12 6:32 AM -1.1 ft. 6:27 PM 1.7 ft.Mon Aug 13 7:15 AM -0.8 ft. 7:23 PM 1.5 ft.Tue Aug 14 7:59 AM -0.3 ft. 8:21 PM 1.4 ft.Wed Aug 15 8:42 AM 0.4 ft. 9:24 PM 1.4 ft.Thu Aug 16 9:28 AM 1.1 ft. 10:32 PM 1.3 ft.Fri Aug 17 10:17 AM 1.7 ft. 11:46 PM 1.1 ft.Sat Aug 18 11:14 AM 2.3 ft.
Aug 01 - Season Last season Total TotalRAINFALL Aug 07 to Date to date Last Season 10-year avg Manchester...................... 0.00 0.00 0.00 28.00 35.72Point Arena .................... 0.05 0.17 0.00 31.12 36.69Anchor Bay ..................... 0.00 0.05 0.00 32.12 43.37gualala ........................ 0.01 0.13 0.07 29.14 39.31gualala ridge................ 0.01 0.13 0.07 30.59 41.53 Sea Ranch meadows ...... 0.00 0.00 0.00 23.80 37.55Annapolis ....................... 0.00 0.00 0.00 39.36 51.51
Temperature on Ocean Terrace: High 74.8°F Low 50.5°F Ocean Temp at Arena Cove: 49.5°FRainfall year is July 1-June 30. Gauges read Tuesday morning. Rainfall reporters: Point Arena Harbor Office, Point Arena; Ray Edlund, Anchor Bay; ICO Office, Gualala; R.T. Andersen, Gualala Ridge; Leonard Hay-flick, Sea Ranch; Cliff Putnam, Annapolis; Deryl Holloway, Manchester.
SUNRISE/SUNSETDAy RISeS SeTSTh ..... 9 6:24 am 8:14 pmFr .... 10 6:25 am 8:12 pmSa ... 11 6:26 am 8:11 pmSu ... 12 6:27 am 8:10 pmMo... 13 6:28 am 8:08 pmTu ... 14 6:29 am 8:07 pmWe .. 15 6:30 am 8:06 pmTh ... 16 6:31 am 8:04 pmFr .... 17 6:32 am 8:03 pmSa ... 18 6:32 am 8:02 pm
More tide and weather info atwww.mendonoma.com
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aug. 11New Moon
aug. 18First Quarter
aug. 26full moonSept. 02
Last Quarter
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The government in actionTo keep readers informed, the ICO publishes sig-
nificant events and actions of the past week of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the federal government. For online links and an archive of previous weeks, visit www.mendonoma.com.
California Focus
(Tom Elias is a syndicated California columnist. His email address is [email protected]. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net.)
See Government…Continued on Page 12
By Thomas D. EliasSyndicated Columnist
No state has been more visible than California in resisting the environmental policies of President Trump, filing 38 lawsuits by the beginning of this month. Now the state’s massive early fire season is demonstrating the merit of those legal actions.
For every authority analyzing the unprecedented level of early summer blazes here and around the world agrees that one major cause is heat – record heat that has beset almost every place in the world from Switzerland to Hong Kong, from San Francisco to parts of Finland north of the Arctic Circle.
Yes, Finland, where Trump staged his lugubrious July summit with Russian President Vladimir Pu-tin, has seen temperatures in the 90s this year, for the first time in recorded history.
Meanwhile, England sweated through a record heat wave, while Greece saw the deadliest fires in its long history and Europe’s worst since 1900. Sev-eral prominent waterfalls in Switzerland fed by Al-pine snowmelt stopped flowing months earlier than usual.
And then there’s California, where at one time in July, 19 wildfires burned simultaneously, taking well over 1,000 homes and some lives.
Scientists at the state universities of Colorado, Nebraska and Nevada (Reno) report regional tem-perature averages in the West have increased by 2 degrees since the 1970s, resulting in drier and more combustible plant growth. At the same time, NASA scientists say this climate change helped kill thou-sands of trees and bushes in California’s mountains, providing unprecedented amounts of tinder.
Rather than act to help mitigate this crisis, Trump’s administration has taken myriad actions appearing to further it. Trump is trying to roll back automotive emission standards. He’s shrunk sev-eral national monuments to make way for mining. The President ended NASA’s climate monitoring program, a head-in-the-sand move that allows him to keep denying climate change. He’s cut programs designed to find new renewable energy sources and shut down instruments on existing satellites that measure heat on the earth’s surface.
Massive early fires show merit in state’s Trump responseHe’s loosened regulations on toxic emissions from
industrial sources and dropped climate change from the official list of threats to national security.
California is resisting some of that, but its law-suits are likely just a delaying action ultimately doomed to failure when they reach the U.S. Su-preme Court, to which Trump has nominated two judges long opposed to environmental regulations.
That can only help things get worse and hotter before they get cooler and better. Victims of the fires who lose homes and businesses and loved ones will not be able to sue Trump or his appointees for help-ing cause their woes because it’s difficult to parse out a direct link between, say, enabling toxic emis-sions in Pennsylvania and the degree of fury in a California fire.
But there is a connection, and virtually every oth-er government in the world besides ours has seen it and agreed to act on it, even China, long noted for high levels of smog and other pollutants in its cities and countryside.
If climate change could cause cool and foggy San Francisco to see record heat reach 106 degrees over last year’s Labor Day weekend, then it likely also is one reason there is less snow on the Alps and the Canadian Rockies now than 10 years ago and also why it’s difficult to see a glacier anymore from Gla-cier Point in Yosemite National Park.
The lesson of all this is that if Trump and the West Virginia coal miners who overwhelmingly voted for him in the last election see no harm in greenhouse gases they are creating and furthering, California has no choice but to resist.
The lawsuits at the heart of such resistance won’t end the far longer fire seasons that have become a regular feature of California life, but they may help the world fend off an even bigger crisis than it faces right now, even if Trump and his many supporters choose to ignore what’s before them daily.
After all, this is a President who exhorted a crowd the other day, “Don’t believe what you see …” It was reminiscent of the joke about the husband, caught in flagrante and denying anything untoward, asking his wife, “Who are you going to believe: me or your lying eyes?”
Monday, July 30• U.S. diplomats and commanders have made
overtures to parties including the Taliban to engage in peace talks in Afghanistan.
• President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was one of three Republican-appointed judges who, in 2012, voted unanimously to set aside an order by the National Labor Relations Board that would have required the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to bargain with the United Auto Workers.
Tuesday, July 31• The Trump administration is considering by-
passing Congress to give an additional $100 billion tax break to the richest Americans by decreasing the capital gains tax.
• Facebook executives announced they have identified a campaign to influence the U.S. 2018 midterm elections carried out by dozens of fake Facebook accounts directed at divisive issues in the United States. The social media organization spent the week briefing lawmak-ers on Capitol Hill.
• White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said he has agreed to Trump’s request to stay on in his job through the 2020 election.
• Trump suspended duty-free status for cloth-ing imports from Rwanda over that country’s decision to increase tariffs on imports of used clothing and shoes.
• Judge Robert Lasnik of U.S. federal district court granted a temporary nationwide injunc-tion against Cody Wilson posting blueprints for 3-D plastic guns on the internet. The next hearing is Aug. 10.
Wednesday, Aug. 1• The Washington Post fact checker reported
that Trump has made 4,228 false or mislead-ing claims to date. During his first year in of-fice, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims; in the past six months, he has nearly doubled that number.
• Trump attacked the Russian election influ-ence probe, calling on Attorney General Jeff Session to end it. The president wrote, “At-torney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it con-tinues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!”
• The Treasury Department announced it is imposing sanctions on Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Minister of In-terior Suleyman Soylu over the continued de-tention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
• The Trump administration issued new rules to encourage more people to buy inexpensive health insurance plans originally designed for short-term use and banned by the Affordable Care Act.
Thursday, Aug. 2• The Trump Administration proposed new
rules that would significantly reduce the mileage requirements for cars, increasing pollution, and setting up a fight with states that have imposed higher mileage standards and stronger anti-pollutions rules, especially California.
• The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State for the past four years is closing in on the last pocket of more than 1,000 militants in eastern Syria and is expecting a tough fight.
Friday, Aug. 3• The Labor Department reported that un-
employment for the lowest-skilled workers, those without a high school diploma fell to its
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Seven lucky Action Network kids joined the Flynn Creek Circus for an afternoon camp on Friday and made their debut on Saturday afternoon as the opening act. Photo courtesy of Action Network.
The Steven Bates Band plays at the Ka Kahleh Coastal Trail opening celebration on Sunday afternoon. Misty Miller photo.
RENO (AP) — Ne-vada and California poli-ticians say the large and deadly wildfires burning in California are a re-minder of the risk that fires pose to the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller, Cali-fornia Democrat Sen. Di-anne Feinstein and oth-ers speaking Tuesday at
Politicians discuss wildfire risks at Tahoe summitthe annual Tahoe Sum-mit described the risks of increasingly intense wildfires to the area and efforts the government and businesses are mak-ing to protect the lake.
Republican Rep. Tom McClintock said past summits have not fo-cused on fire prevention but the Tahoe Basin “is on borrowed time.”
Feinstein said the U.S. government has contributed about $705 million to protect the lake while California has invested $840 million and Nevada has contrib-uted $121 million.
Local communities have chipped in another $121 million and the pri-vate sector has put forth $362 million.
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u.s. senatorsSen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Wash-ington, DC 20510-0504. 202- 224-3841. FAX 202- 228-3954. Contact via website http://feinstein.senate.gov
Sen. Kamala Harris, 40B Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-0504. 202- 224-3553. Contact via website http://harris.senate.gov
representatives in congressSecond District (incl. Mendocino County and Western Sonoma County): Rep. Jared Huffman, 1406 Longworth House Office Building., Washington, DC 20515. 202- 225-5161. Contact via website huffman.house.govMendocino District office: 430 N. Franklin Street, P.O. Box 2208, Fort Bragg, CA 95437. 707-962-0933
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Governor Jerry Brown, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814. 916-445-2841; Fax: 916-558-3160. Contact via website www.gov.ca.gov
state senatorSecond District: Mike McGuire, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814. 916- 651-4002, Fax 916- 651-4902.Santa Rosa District office: 50 D Street, Suite 120A, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. 707- 576-2771; Fax 707- 576-2773. Ukiah District office: 200 South School Street, Ukiah, CA 95482. Phone: 707-468-8914. Fax: 707-468-8931. Contact via website: Sd02.senate.ca.gov/contact
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By J. Stephen [email protected]. Andersen was
just 16 years old in September 1939, when smoke became visible from his family’s farm on the Gualala Ridge.
At that time, R.T. and his family lived on what since the 1960s has been known as The Farm, subsequently bought by the late Foy and Libby Van Dolsen, and now owned by Alan Hogle. It is about two miles north of the Andersens’ cur-rent acreage off Country Club Way near Ocean Ridge Drive, which was then owned by Ander-sen’s uncle.
On that 1939 Septem-ber day, young R.T. said he gathered a couple of friends, Tom Larsen and Herman Neuauer, to in-vestigate.
They found wildfire had erupted near Fish Rock Road and was headed south, driven by a stiff wind.
He said the trio grabbed gunnysacks and a couple of buckets filled with water and ran
Fighting wildfire with wet sacks and buckets
down to the Collins place (on the road of the same name) to help fight the fire. According to R.T., the Collins home burned at 4:30 p.m. — for some reason, he looked at his watch, a vivid memory, still, 79 years later.
Back in 1939, you didn’t call 911 and ex-pect air tankers to swoop in, or even a con-voy of fire trucks. R.T. said fighting fire was more do-it-yourself.
There was a Califor-nia Forestry station in Point Arena, he said, but the equipment was basically a pickup truck with some tools aboard.
R.T. and his two bud-dies ran to his uncle’s place with their sacks and buckets, negotiating what he called a “gate of fire” between blazing manzanitas down what is now Country Club Way to get to the prop-erty.
He said neighbor Walter Tock was already there helping R.T.’s un-cle cut fire lines around See Fire of 1939…continued on page 12
By J. Stephen [email protected](To commemorate its
50th year of publication, the Independent Coast Observer is revisiting each of those 50 years, one week at a time.)
In January 1987, the Gualala Community Services District seated its first Board of Direc-tors, and accepted a feasibility study for a sewer system to serve downtown Gualala and adjacent areas. Its first year was tumultuous, as the district pursued fed-eral construction grants, and disputed a proposed privately-owned waste-water treatment plant that would serve sev-eral commercial proper-ties in the middle of the newly-declared district.
Starcross in Annapo-lis welcomed the first of four babies who were born with AIDS. The monastic community planned to care for the children for the rest of their sadly all-too-short lives.
Two months before the official ribbon-cut-ting, a fishing boat out of Bodega Bay was the first vessel to tie up at the newly-completed Point Arena Pier. The sur-prised crew of the boat was treated to cham-pagne for the occasion at the old Arena Pier Café. The official dedica-tion, with suitable pomp and speeches, took place March 26.
The new pier had a bustling opening season, as boatloads of red sea urchin were offloaded all summer, headed for the sushi bars of Japan. The booming trade in red urchin roe caused the Department of Fish and Game to consider limit-
Yesteryear in the ICO — 1987
R.T. Andersen with a redwood that survived the Gualala fire of 1939 to be-come a home for countless generations of honeybees. Steve McLaughlin photo.
ing commercial licenses. (In 2018, the red urchin fishery has moved else-where, and the ocean floor is carpeted with un-marketable but raven-ous purple sea urchin.)
A series of well-at-tended, town-hall-style meetings sponsored by the Independent Coast Observer considered ex-istential questions for the unincorporated com-munity of Gualala. On the agenda were discus-sions of what is Gualala, where are its borders, and how should it be gov-erned. Those meetings held in 1987 eventually resulted in the creation of the Gualala Municipal Advisory Council.
In February, an enor-mous American flag measuring 85 by 45 feet made a stop in Point Arena, where it was de-ployed by local elemen-tary school students downtown. It eventually made its way to the 50th anniversary of Mount Rushmore’s dedication on July 4, 1987.
Arena Rock, also known as Wash Rock, off Point Arena was des-ignated a Marine Na-ture Preserve. The new underwater park was described by state offi-cials as a “deluge of life,” but was also the bane of mariners in years past, causing several ship-wrecks.
Two workshops were held on the coast to prepare for the upcom-ing “Harmonic Conver-gence,” one of the first globally synchronized meditation events sched-uled August 16 to 17.
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Paul Bunyan welcomes one and all for a rowdy good time in Fort Bragg
Labor Day weekend. Photo courtesy Visit Mendocino County.
The Paul Bunyan Days festival in Fort Bragg
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31 through Sept. 3, filling the city with a variety
of events highlight the colorful history and fun
opportunities in the area.
There will be a logging show where competi-
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Jack and Jill handsaw, pole climbing and more.
A beauty pageant will be held where festival
goers can vote for the Belle of the Redwoods
while contestants dress up in theme-appropriate
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possible. Other events include the Fireman’s
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The coastside village of Elk will shine with
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appropriately-named Great Day in Elk.
The 44th annual event will be held on Satur-
day, Aug. 25, from noon to 7 p.m., featuring a
parade and carnival filled with a variety of ac-
tivities, entertainment and food.
The parade starts at noon on Highway 1, fea-
turing floats, tikes on bikes, Smokey Bear, fir
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trucks and more.
After the parade, the crowd will move to the
Greenwood Community Center for the carnival,
featuring game booths and prizes, do-it-yourself
projects, a massage booth, a watermelon-eating
contest, sack races, a crafts fa
ir, a silent auction,
and a raffle.
All are welcome to try their skill at scaling the
greased pole which is topped with the tradition-
al $100 bill prize.
The afternoon entertainment includes live
music by Gwyneth Moreland, belly dancing by
“The Trillium Tribe” and a cake auction.
Food available in the day includes tamales,
Caesar salad with and without chicken, fresh
baked focaccia bread, Moroccan lentil soup, old-
fashioned hot dogs and homemade treats. There
will be fresh-pressed Greenwood Ridge apple ci-
der and margaritas, along with soft drinks and
beer. From 3 to 7 p.m., an outdoor barbecue fea-
tures grilled tri-tip with roasted potatoes, green
salad and bread or chili-cheese enchiladas with
black beans and salsa.
For more information, call 707-877-3291 or
go to www.elkweb.org. No dogs, please.
Festival goers enjoyed the Dahlia Garden during a previous year’s Art In the Gardens event at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens in Fort Bragg. Photo Courtesy of Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.
Great Day in Elk is August 25
marching bands and local groups. A complete
schedule Paul Bunyan Days events can be found
in this Packet’s Mark Your Calendar feature.
Art in the Gardens on August 4 is major juried art festival
The annual Art in the Gardens will be held on
Saturday, Aug. 4, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, 18220
North Highway 1, Fort Bragg.
The juried art event will be set amidst the spec-
tacular background of summer floral displays.
Over the past 25 years, Art in
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showcased extraordinary creations such as ce-
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People can spend a day strolling 47 acres of
natural beauty from the manicured gardens and
fern-ringed ponds at the Gardens’ entrance to
the wildflower-strewn bluffs at ocean’s edge.
Mingle with artists amongst dramatic summer-
time blooms.
Sample an array of wines from around Men-
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ay be pur-
chased on the Gardens’ website or at the event.
Craft brews will be available for purchase with
complimentary tastings on the Event Lawn,
with culinary vendors throughout the Gardens.
Tickets are at the Garden Store, Harvest Mar-
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Working men playing softball with scheduling issues can sometimes leave a team at loss for players. Last Friday, Aug. 3, the Ball Bust-ers, who have one of the strongest teams in the league, were without a handful of prime time players when they drew a doubleheader with the surging Savages.
Missing were short-stop Bill Hatfield, cen-terfielder Ira Smith, third baseman Mark Aguon, catcher Pete Rasmusen and left field-er Dan Iliffe. In spite of the missing players, the Ball Busters fielded a nine-man team to keep the game regulation.
In the first inning, the Savages scored 3 runs with Aaron Kirby knocking in an inside-the-park home run. The Ball Busters managed to score 1 run in the bot-tom of the first.
The Savages knocked in a run in the top of the second inning, and 3 runs in the top of the third. Richie Cobarrubia knocked in two RBIs. The Savages then added 5 runs in the top of the
fifth. The Ball Busters answered back, and go-ing into the top of the seventh, the score was 14-8, Savages.
Everything fell apart for the Ball Bust-ers when the Savages scored 10 runs in the top of the seventh. Sav-ages left fielder Justin Moore clobbered a 3-run homer. Final score, 24-8 Savages.
The Ball Busters ran out of juice in game two and were unable to score in the top of the first in-ning. The Savages scored 6 runs in the bottom of the inning, with Moore hitting his second home-run of the doubleheader. Ball Buster centerfield-er Joby Baker made a spectacular catch at the fence, robbing “Horse” Cobarrubia of a home run in the bottom of the second inning. Baker, whose throwing arm was swollen from a bee sting, tumbled over the center field fence backwards af-ter jumping into the air and catching the ball at the 350 foot mark.
The Ball Busters scored 3 runs in the top of the third inning with Ethan Boyle knocking in two RBIs.
Then the Savages’ bats cut loose and scored 14 runs in the bottom of the third inning.
When the Ball Bust-ers came to bat in the top of the fourth inning, the score was 20-3 Sav-ages.
The Ball Busters held the Savages to a few more runs the rest of the game and rallied with 9 runs scored by the time they came to bat at bot-tom of the seventh in-ning. The Savages held them scoreless with a 1-2-3-out inning. Final score was approximately 24-12 Savages.
This Friday, Aug. 10, at the Dust Bowl, the Savages will play the Rednexicans in a doubleheader with first pitch at 5:30 p.m.
Savages overwhelm Ball Busters
Richie Cobarrubia of the Savages slides safely under the attempted tag of Ball Buster second baseman Bill Buechner. David Torres photo.
Savages left fielder Justin Moore hit two home runs during the dou-bleheader against the Ball Bust-ers last Friday, Aug. 3, at the Dust Bowl. David Torres photo.
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Aaron Kirby of the Savages hit an inside-the-park home run for his team last Friday. David Torres photo.
Willie Robles hit a 3-run homer during the first game of a double-header against the Ball Busters. David Torres photo.
If you are a bird, it’s not hard to find the Dust Bowl in Gualala. This photo is courtesy of drone pilot and opera-tor Tom Iliffe of Anchor Bay. The men’s softball league Friday night games run through Sept. 7. The first game starts at 5:30 p.m. The second game starts at 6:45 p.m. or immediately after the first game. A coin toss will determine home field advantage for the first game. each game will be played for seven innings. Make-up games and championship games begin Sept. 14. American Softball Association rules govern all play.
Savages runs-batted-in leader Richie Cobarrubia rounds the bases in the second game of the doubleheader against the Ball Busters last Friday night at the Dust Bowl. David Torres photo.
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Cannabis…from Page 1in the latter case to al-low for dispensaries. Applicants with fewer than ten acres who had already applied under the previous rules will be transitioned into the conditional use permit process, but no new ap-plications will be ac-cepted. The change will largely prevent small cultivators from growing in residential areas.
Second, the Board voted to keep the cur-rent setback criteria when dealing with pub-lic parks, by which can-nabis operations must be 1,000 feet from the prop-erty line. Supervisors re-jected other options that would either increase the distance or allow re-ductions for those with conditional use permits. The supervisors in favor of the current criteria pointed to the fact that most of the parks in the county are large open areas, and that 1,000 feet seems sufficient for safety reasons. The vote was 4 in favor, with Su-pervisor David Rabbitt abstaining.
Next, the Board unan-imously rejected all pro-posed options related to Ò inclusion combining districts,Ó which would have allowed cultiva-tion in various districts in which it is currently prohibited, preventing some expansion of the industry.
A more divisive is-sue was the creation of exclusion zones, special zones in which cultiva-tion would be prohib-ited based on certain safety and quality of life related criteria such as inadequate road ac-cess, inadequate water availability, increased fire hazard and an open ended factor of cultiva-tion being Ò detrimental to the residential charac-ter of the areaÓ , an issue heavily favored by the
neighbors. These exclu-sion zones were rejected though, with a vote of 3-2, with Supervisors Rabbitt and James Gore voting against their re-jection, a clear victory for the cultivators.
An uncontroversial proposal that passed unanimously was the approval of individu-als with a use permit to use an additional 25 percent of the area for the purposes of propa-gation. In the example given, if 10,000 sq. ft. in greenhouse are used for cultivation purposes, an additional 2,500 sq. ft. of the greenhouse could be used for propagation.
Finally, a vote was taken on the issue of al-lowing multiyear canna-bis use permits, which was passed with a vote of 4-1, with Supervisor Rabbit voting nay. This will prevent applicants from having to renew their permit applica-tions every year as is currently in place. Su-pervisor Gore noted that this would be of great help as the current sys-tem application system can sometimes take up to a year just to process.
Health changesThe proposed health
ordinance changes passed unanimously, looking to address issues created as the cannabis industry has adjusted since the ordinance first passed in 2016. Some of the changes implement-ed are simply clean-up of the ordinance, taking out unnecessary provi-sions that state law al-ready covers, adjusting language and definitions to match with those of the state, and adjusting references to other regu-lations that have been changed since the ordi-nance first passed.
Others were much larger, part of the En-vironmental Health de-partmentÕ s effort state effort to Ò not be more prohibitive than the
State, while still main-taining health stan-dards.Ó State law allows dispensaries to give out discounts and samples, generally to help low income medical users, and so the countyÕ s ban on doing so has been removed. Dispensaries will also no longer have to submit their facility and operation plans dur-ing the permit process.Business tax changes
The business tax or-dinance changes also passed unanimously. Like the health changes, some of the proposed adjustments are just housekeeping, including changes to some defini-tions in order to prepare for the upcoming land use ordinance, though this will not affect taxa-tion itself.
Many of the changes are cannabis-friendly. The payment schedule for outdoor cultivators has been adjusted, now due in two installments, one after the harvest ends and one several months later. The pro-posal states that this
will allow cultivators to feel less pressure to sell their crops, allowing a larger window and pre-venting oversaturation of the market.
The penalty rate has been dropped from 25 percent to 10 percent to match rates of other in-dustries in the county, which will ideally make legal sales of crops much more viable and encour-age more cultivators to leave the black market.
Finally, a pair of changes were imple-mented to improve effi-ciency within the county government itself. The Board can now appoint a referee who will take testimony for any ap-peals made by the coun-ty Treasurer-Tax Collec-tor and create a report that the Board will have final determination of, so that they will no lon-ger have to hear all ap-peals. Also, the county Treasurer-Tax Collector is now allowed to write-off de minimis, or trivial, amounts due, a practice already used in regards to property taxation.
By Christina LarsonAP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Clues to the mystery of why Viking colonies in Greenland flourished and fell have been found in the DNA of medieval walrus bones housed in more than a dozen Euro-pean museums.
For almost 500 years, the Norse descendants of Erik the Red built churches and manor homes and expanded their settlements on the icy fringes of Euro-pean civilization. Their colonies at one time sup-ported more than 2,000 people.
And then they van-ished.
Scholars have long wondered why. Ò Why did they flourish and why did they disappear?Ó asked Thomas McGov-ern, an anthropologist at Hunter College in New York. Ò And did their greatest success also contain the seeds of
Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony
their demise?ÓResearchers reported
in a study in Wednes-dayÕ s Proceedings of the Royal Society B that the fate of these medieval outposts may have been tied to the demand for walrus ivory among rich Europeans.
The study revealed that during the height of the Norse settlement — from about 1120 to 1400 — at least 80 percent of the walrus samples were directly sourced from Greenland.
Ò ItÕ s possible that almost all the walrus ivory in western Europe during the High Middle Ages came from Green-land,Ó said Bastiaan Star, a scientist at the University of Oslo and one of the studyÕ s au-thors. Ò This result tells a very clear story.Ó
A dozen years ago, many historians be-lieved that the changing See Lost Colony…continued on page 23
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lowest point in July, 5.1 percent, the lowest since the U.S. government began keeping un-employment statistics in 1992.
• Cynthia Laporta, tax accountant for TrumpÕ s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, testified in his fraud trial that she had agreed to alter tax and bank documents to help Manafort with his financial troubles in late 2015 and 2016, even though she believed key financial records were false.
• Judge John Bates ruled that the Trump ad-ministration had failed to justify its termina-tion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Ar-rivals (DACA) program, and that the program must be restored.
• China announced Friday it will hit about $60 billion worth of U.S. exports with new tariffs of between 5 and 25 percent targeting more than 5,200 individual types of U.S. exports to China.
• U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabrow ruled that the government has the Ò sole burden and responsibilityÓ to locate hundreds of deported and released migrant parents separated from their children at the border.
• Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of 11 members of a commission formed by Trump to investigate supposed voter fraud, issued a scathing rebuke of the disbanded panel on Friday, saying that after examining over 8,000 documents, he concluded the panel had been set up to try to validate TrumpÕ s baseless claims about fraudulent votes in the 2016 election.
Saturday, Aug. 4• No news to report.
Sunday, Aug. 5• President Trump said the now infamous
meeting at Trump Tower between his top campaign officials and Russians offering in-formation on Hilary Clinton Ò was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally le-gal and done all the time in politics,Ó contra-dicting an earlier statement Trump dictated on behalf of his son.
Government…from Page 7
Open Space…from Page 5ish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, led this international effort. On July 7, 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nucle-ar Weapons was adopted by 122 nations, represent-ing a majority of the worldÕ s people at the United Nations. Opened for signature on Sept. 20, 2017, the
International Day of Peace, the treaty makes nu-clear weapons illegal under international law just as all other weapons of mass destruction have been declared. Once 50 nations have ratified the treaty it goes into effect 90 days later. Thus far 15 nations have ratified the treaty, with New Zealand signing this past week (signing is step one, ratifying is the final step).
Under Article 1 of the treaty, nations are prohib-ited from developing, testing, producing, manufac-turing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, transfer-ring, deploying, stationing, using or threatening to use nuclear weapons, under any circumstances.
The nine nations who possess nuclear weapons have officially boycotted the efforts to abolish these weapons. However, there are significant efforts by the people in these countries to move their govern-ments to come in line with the international commu-nity working to eliminate nuclear weapons. Most of these countries are legally bound to do so with their 48-year obligation under the Nuclear Non-Prolifera-tion Treaty, committing them to Ò work in good faith to eliminate nuclear weapons.Ó
In the United States, a rapidly growing move-ment called Ò Back from the BrinkÓ is gaining mo-mentum as individuals, organizations, cities and communities across the nation are endorsing this resolution that allows them to take action now. This resolution, emanating from the efforts of many dif-ferent organizations, can be endorsed by all. It calls on the United States to lead a global effort to pre-vent nuclear war by renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first, ending the sole, unchecked authority of any U.S. president to launch a nuclear attack, taking U.S. nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, canceling the plan to replace its entire nuclear arsenal with enhanced weapons and actively pur-suing a verifiable agreement among nuclear armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals.
This effort empowers us to take action to end this insanity and realize the opportunities that our de-mocracy provides. As the people lead, the leaders will follow.
This week, solemn memorials commemorating the nuclear attacks of Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, around the world will be attended by a decreasing number of the hibakusha bomb survivors. These individu-als have never lost hope — hope demonstrated from their courage, compassion, conviction and witness that no one will ever suffer or confront the horror they experienced. We owe it to them and to all fu-ture generations to do everything in our power to eliminate this immoral and now illegal manmade threat to humanity. The time is now to add your voice to the growing chorus calling for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons.
Letters…from Page 5York Times they never preinstalled Ò remote ac-cessÓ software that could make those machines eas-ily hacked. This month they admitted that such software had been preinstalled in an undisclosed number of ma-chines from 2000 to 2006.
Last July, DEFCON, in Las Vegas is an annual convention of hackers. Last year one Ò contestÓ was to at-
tempt to hack into a collec-tion of 30 voting machines currently in use. It took one hacker only 90 minutes to accomplish that task.
Last September, the Department of Homeland Security informed officials in 21 states that Russians had hacked into their regis-tration systems in the run-up to the 2016 election.
Democracy is up for grabs.
David SkibbinsThe Sea Ranch
Fire of 1939…from Page 9the ranch buildings, and the three young people climbed up on the roofs of the house and out-buildings with their wet gunny sacks, whacking down embers as they drifted down.
Though the fire dev-astated Glennen Gulch and swept through the ranch, R.T. said, Ò We saved every building,Ó except, he added casu-ally, Ò the building we kept gas in.Ó Turns out, the fuel supply had been pumped out from the tank and stored safely
in the middle of a field, though.
R.T. said he heard the fire burned almost to the Gualala River, or at least to what is now Gualala Court. He didnÕ t see it himself, because, Ò I never left this place for two weeks!Ó
One redwood tree was hollowed out but sur-vived the fire, R.T. said. It was serendipitous for local hymenoptera, though, as honeybees took up residence in its trunk, and the Ò bee treeÓ at the Andersen place continues to be a living remnant of the big fire of 1939.
City Council…from Page 3Street in Point Arena. Office hours at City Hall are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. City Hall is closed on Wednesdays.
Ò The process to take out nomination papers
generally runs about 15 minutes,Ó said Admin-istrative Assistant Paul Anderson. There is no filing fee.
More information is available on the CityÕ s website at www.cityof pointarena.net or by calling 707-882-2122 or email at [email protected].
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Author and preservation advocate/historian Adam Arenson will present a talk about his experience researching and writing his award-winning book, “Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California” on Saturday, Aug. 18, at 10 a.m. in Coleman Hall at Gualala Arts. The lecture is a special feature of this year’s Art in the Redwoods Festival. Photo of Adam Arenson courtesy of Gualala Arts.
Local Millard Sheets fans are invited to enjoy a special presentation by historian and pres-ervation advocate Adam Arenson during the 57th annual Art in the Red-woods Festival on Sun-day, Aug. 19, at 10 a.m., in Coleman Hall. Sheets was a prominent, na-tionally-known water-color and architectural artist who maintained a home and studio, called Barking Rocks, north of Anchor Bay.
Arenson is an asso-ciate professor of his-tory and director of the urban studies program at Manhattan College. He authored the award-winning book “Bank-ing on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architec-ture in California,” doc-umenting Sheets’ art and architecture. He will share his experience researching and writing about the partnership of between financier Howard Ahmanson and Sheets, who produced Midcentury Modern ar-chitecture and art for Home Savings and Loan and other commercial clients.
While Millard Sheets first came to national renown through his plein-air watercolor painting, his influence was multiplied through his roles with the New Deal’s Public Art pro-gram, stewardship of the Scripps and Otis art departments, and nu-merous commercial com-missions for his studio, where he oversaw the creation of architecture, sculpture, murals, mo-saics, and stained-glass windows. Beginning in
Millard Sheets historian Adam Arenson to lecture at Gualala Arts Center on Aug. 19
1958, Sheets spent part of every year in Guala-la, moving to Barking Rocks full-time in 1977. He died there in 1989.
Millard Sheets De-signs, which employed a working staff of li-censed architects and engineers, drafters, and artists, completed more than 100 Home Sav-ings and Loan buildings throughout the Unit-ed States. His works include the national American Fire Insur-ance Company offices for Ahmanson, Ahmanson Bank and Trust Com-pany in Beverly Hills, 42 Home Savings and Loan Association buildings, private residences, and the Scottish Rite Memo-rial Temples in Los An-geles and San Francisco, among many others.
Arenson holds de-
grees from Harvard and Yale, and he previously taught at the University of Texas at El Paso. He researches, writes, and teaches the history and memory of North Amer-ica, concentrating on the cultural and political history of slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruc-tion, as well as the de-velopment of cities–from California to the Yukon Territory, from the prov-ince of Ontario to St. Louis to El Paso.
His work has ap-peared in The New York Times, Washing-ton Post, The Atlantic, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and he coordi-nates the Writing Histo-ry Seminar in New York City, where he lives.
For more information, call 707-884-1138 or vis-it gualalaarts.org.
Blues-rock guitarist Anthony Gomes, accompanied by his band, will perform live at Arena Theater this Satur-day, Aug. 11, at 8:30 p.m., as part of the Blues on the Coast series sponsored by the Pier Chowder House and Tap Room. Photo courtesy of Anthony Gomes promotion.
Blues-rock guitar-ist Anthony Gomes and his band will perform at Arena Theater this Sat-urday, Aug. 11, at 8:30 p.m., with doors opening at 8 p.m. The show is part of the Blues on the Coast series 2018.
According to Blues Music Magazine, “formi-dable guitar chops and authentic singing place Gomes on the forefront of modern blues,” and “his high-energy shows
Canadian blues rocker Anthony Gomes to play at Arena Theater on Aug. 11
and dynamic stage pres-ence make him one of the top draws on the rock/blues circuit today.”
Born in Toronto, Canada, to a Portuguese father and a French-Ca-nadian mother, Gomes began playing guitar in his early teens and was drawn to the blues sounds of B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clap-ton and Jimi Hendrix. He relocated to Chicago in the late ’90s to learn
from the blues masters. As a sideman for Magic Slim and the Teardrops, Gomes put together his own group and won the first annual Buddy Guy’s Legends Best Unsigned Blues Band competition in 1998.
Later that year, Gomes released his de-but CD, “Blues in Tech-nicolor,” which intro-duced him as a guitar slinger loaded with im-pressive firepower, crit-ics say. Since then he has been touring and performing worldwide, sharing the stage with blues celebrities such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Robert Plant, Joe Bona-massa, Heart, Jonny Lang, Sammy Hagar, 38 Special, Robert Cray and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Gomes’ discography includes 12 albums, and his latest offering, “Elec-tric Field Holler,” is con-sidered his most rock-in-fluenced album to date. Gomes described it as having “that youthful at-titude that makes it raw, thrilling and shameless.
“The blues is old, but not tired,” he said. “It speaks as truthfully to-day, and for this genera-
tion, as it ever has.” Blues Rock Review, Roots Mu-sic Report, Confessing the Blues and Blue Mon-day Monthly have fea-tured the release in their Top Blues Albums of the Year.
The blues series is un-derwritten by The Pier Chowder House and Tap Room. Tickets are $20, available at The Sea Trader and Four-Eyed Frog Books in Gualala; Arena Market and The Pier Chowder House and Tap Room in Point Are-na; Twist in Mendocino, and online at arenathe ater.org. Arena Theater is located at 214 Main Street, Point Arena. For additional information visit arenatheater.org.
215 Main wine bar in Point Arena will host the duo of singer/song-writer/violinist Corwin Zekley, and harpist/pia-nist/singer/songwriter Emma Newton, this Sat-urday, Aug. 11, starting at 8 p.m. There is no cover charge for the per-formance.
Zekley plays and com-poses in genres ranging from Celtic to Gypsy jazz to rock and roll. He attends the Berklee Col-lege of Music in Boston, teaches violin, and per-forms across the west coast with a variety of bands. Newton is an
eclectic musician versed in classical music as well as jazz.
The two will perform together for an evening of “electrifying original love songs and stan-dards featuring melodi-ous violin, imaginative harp, and soaring vocal harmonies,” said Zekley.
As always, pani-ni sandwiches, small plates, and a variety of craft beers, wines and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for pur-chase.
For more information, call 215 Main at 707-882-3215.
‘Eclectic Singing and Stringing’ at 215 Main this Saturday
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Black Bear by Pat Sorensen.
Colony of Carpenter Ants by Michael Combs.
Pigeon Guillemot by Kathryn Cody.
Western Tiger Swallowtail by Terry Pfardresher.
Five River Otters by Doreen Clay.
Pacific-slope Flycatcher chicks by Nancy Morin.
When you install a motion detector camera, you open a new window to the world of nature. In Pat Sorensen’s case, three outdoor cameras at his place on the Gualala Ridge have yielded many nocturnal sightings, in-cluding Gray Foxes who sometimes drink out of his birdbath.
On July 7, and again on July 17, his cameras picked up the sighting of a huge Black Bear. Pat said, “The bear did no damage and left no ‘call-ing cards.’ He walked by the shed and headed east into the brush.” The territory of a female Black Bear is typically 2.5 to 10 square miles. A male Black Bear’s range is between 10 and 59 square miles.
It’s not surprising to have a Black Bear sighting, especially with huckleberries ripening up. Pat noticed Ameri-can Robins, in particu-lar, were in berry-laden bushes, and Deer are eating the berries too.
Michael Combs had an interesting sighting. He wrote, “While set-ting up the Gualala Arts Center parking lot for the Auto Show, I noticed that one of the stan-chions had three bases on one pole. I lifted the top base off the pole and discovered a thriving colony of black ants with their precious eggs. As I watched, the ants im-mediately and swiftly carried the eggs away through the dry grass into the forested area
nearby.”I sent Michael’s photo
to Michele Esposito. She wrote, “Wow, that’s an interesting habitat for ants to start a colony. From the photo it looks like there are majors and minors of the genus Camponotus. I think it’s Camponotus vicinus.” Commonly called Car-penter Ants, they are among the largest and most abundant ants in the Pacific Northwest. They have an important part to play in nature as they prey on many for-est defoliators. However, you don’t want them nesting in the walls of
your house. Some con-sider them more damag-ing than termites.
In last week’s column, I misidentified the liz-ard Ray Douglas pho-tographed. Dave Tet-tleton wrote, “That’s definitely a [Western] Fence Lizard, or blue-belly as we call them in slang.”
This is a fun time of year to see young birds out of their nests, be-ing fed by parents and learning to fly. One of the more difficult birds to see are Pigeon Guil-lemots, as they nest in caves. Eagle-eyed Kath-ryn Cody wrote, “We
saw these little birds in their caves, feeding their young, at the Point Arena-Stornetta Land last Thursday.” Kath-ryn’s photo shows an adult Pigeon Guillemot in his breeding plum-age – black with white shoulder patches. And you can’t help but ad-mire those orange-red feet. Craig Tooley also photographed this sea-bird. He captured two with their mouths open, showing the inside of their mouths is the same color as their feet.
Another seabird has been fledging off rocky islands this past week – Common Murres chicks have been taking that leap of faith. Diane Hichwa wrote, “Com-mon Murres have been heard calling ‘Mu-ur-ur-ur,’ even at night. The chicks leap from Gual-ala Point Island [at the sound of their father’s voice] and dad helps them feed along our coast until they can fly.”
Diane also reported that Black Oystercatch-ers have several chicks fledging and fledged now. Roger Adam-son is watching a spe-cial Oystercatcher. He wrote, “The white chick, a leucistic Black Oyster-catcher, is thriving just off the Mendocino Head-lands. It appears to be doing well along with a normal-colored sibling. It is directly south of the southwest parking area.”
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Glass artist Cynthia Myers will share space in the Dolphin Gallery with Siobhan edler, exhibiting her painted silk scarves. An opening reception for the artists is set for Saturday, Aug. 11 at the Gallery; the show will remain on display through Aug. 26. Photo courtesy of Gualala Arts.
For three weeks in August, Gualala Arts’ downtown gallery, The Dolphin, will feature lo-cal artists Cynthia My-ers’ etched glass and Siobhan Elder’s painted silk. An opening recep-tion is set for Saturday, Aug. 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit will remain on display through Sun-day, Aug. 26.
This is Myers’ and El-der’s second two-person show at The Dolphin.
“My work is meant to be more than a function-al object such as a wine goblet, a vase or even a glass front door,” said Myers. “Each is a per-sonal statement meant to reflect the taste of the owner and to provide artistic pleasure to the viewer. Each completed piece captures and bends the light to produce its own luminous effect.”
Myers begins her cre-ative process with blown glass she sources from three U.S. artisans. She first adheres tape to the surface of the glass and
carefully draws her de-sign, taking into account how the pattern will reflect light. Next, she cuts out the areas that will be sand blasted or etched. With experience acquired in more than 25 years working in the medium, she etches the design one detail at a time inside the studio’s sandblasting booth.
Myers’ work is found in collections across the United States, Europe and Japan, and is on display in a number of California galleries, in-cluding Mendocino, Half Moon Bay and Cambria.
Elder’s work for this collection, called “At-mospheres,” grew out of her desire to capture the unique quality of light on the north coast.
“Thirty-plus years as a professional textile art-ist have found my work being sold worldwide on wearable items from hand painted silk neck-ties to scarves,” she said. “This collection marries the wearable aspects of
my work with the fine art background that is the base of my work as an artist. These pieces are designed to be expe-rienced as wall hangings or worn as scarves and wraps.”
Elder is passionate about her silk paintings — which bring her joy, she said — as well as the people who wear her work. “I paint because I am an artist and I am still giddy every morn-ing when I go to my stu-dio,” she said. “I paint because I am filled with gratitude that my time is spent creating some-thing that can make someone else feel spe-cial.”
This passion for the work she does led to the project “Empowerment through Accessories,” in which she began teach-ing people going through chemotherapy to paint scarves they could then wear.
For more information, call 707-884-1138, or visit gualalaarts.org.
Etched glass, painted silk open Saturday at Dolphin
Arena Theater’s art film series, Exhibition on Screen, will return to the big screen with “Ma-tisse from Tate Modern to MoMa,” this Sunday, Aug. 12, at 1 p.m., with doors opening at 12:30 p.m.
The camera takes viewers on an intimate, behind-the-scenes tour of Tate Modern’s criti-cally acclaimed 2014 exhibition “Henri Ma-tisse: The Cut-Outs” and includes exclusive new material filmed at MoMA, revealing their long relationship with Matisse and giving cin-ema audiences an inside view of their prepara-tions for the exhibition.
Featuring interviews with experts, including Tate Director Nicholas Serota and MoMA direc-tor Glenn Lowry, along with friends and rela-tives of Matisse, the film also includes rare ar-chive footage of the art-ist at work.
Dance also fascinated and captivated Matisse, inspiring one of his most famous compositions, “The Dance 1909,” show-ing five figures dancing in a circle, and the film includes specially com-missioned performances by Royal Ballet princi-pal dancer Zenaida Ya-nowsky and jazz musi-cian Courtney Pine.
Acclaimed British
actor Simon Russell Beale brings insight and emotion to the words of Henri Matisse him-self, while actor Rupert Young (“Merlin”) nar-rates.
Apollo Magazine wrote, “The way the film captured Matisse at work, bringing his art-istry to life—including resonant readings from Simon Russell Beale—was genuinely inspir-ing.”
The film has a run-time of 85 minutes and is underwritten by Craig Gilliland and Lori Dot-son of Spindrift Gallery. Tickets are $15 at the door or online at arena theater.org.
Matisse, giant of modern art, featured Sunday at Exhibition on Screen
Blue Nude (II) 1952, by Henri Matisse; Centre Pompidou, Paris and Musée National d’Art Moderne. “Matisse from Tate Modern to MoMa” will screen at Arena Theater this Sunday at 1 p.m., part of the Theater’s art film series. Photo courtesy of exhibition on Screen.
Twenty fingers, 13 strings, billions of mi-croscopic transistors — guitarists Tim Mueller and Chris Doering will explore the possibilities of “Guitars & Gizmos” on Friday, Aug. 17, at
MendoViné wine lounge in Gualala. The mu-sic starts at 7 p.m. and there is no charge for the performance.
MendoViné offers a selection of wines, beers and non-alcoholic bever-
ages along with tapas-style small plates for purchase in a relaxed, living room atmosphere.
MendoVine is located at 39145 Highway 1. For more information call 707-896-2650.
‘Guitars and Gizmos’ at MendoVine this Friday
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“Kitten season is in full bloom and we have several little sweethearts frolicking at the shelter and more will be arriving soon,” said Kim Park of Redwood Coast Humane Society. “Our kittens are acrobatic, playful, silly, inquisitive, soft, cuddly, irresistible, at times a bit mischievous, but always adorable. Watching their antics has you smiling and laughing in no time.” If you are ready to bring “a little ball (or two) of fluff and joy” into your world, visit the Redwood Coast Humane Society’s animal shelter at 39151 S. Hwy 1 in Gualala. The shelter is open Friday through Sunday from 12 to 3 p.m. and people can drop by to see kittens and adult cats. People interested in adopting a dog can call 707-884-1304 or send an email to [email protected] to arrange a time for a “meet and greet.”
Chinese brush painting artist Andrea Allen will have an outdoor vendor booth at the Art in the Redwoods Festival this year. Allen says she creates her works with all the traditions of Dynasty-old brush strokes and symbolism incorporated into each ceramic piece. Photo courtesy of Gualala Arts.
The Gualala Arts 57th annual Art in the Redwoods Festival is just a week away. A de-tailed listing of all Fes-tival events and exhibits will be included with the Aug. 17 issue of the ICO.
There is still time to R.S.V.P. for the Hats Off Dinner, the opening event of the festival on Thursday, Aug. 16, at 6 p.m. This year’s dinner will feature a “Roaring ’20s” theme. “Everyone is encouraged to ‘dress the part’ or come as you are, whichever you pre-fer!” said Gualala Arts Executive Director, Da-vid “Sus” Susalla.
Hats Off Dinner res-ervations are $150, $100 of which is a tax-deduc-table donation. Call 707-884-1138 to RSVP. “The Hats Off Dinner event is Gualala Arts’ biggest fundraiser, and com-
57th annual Art in the Redwoods Festival comingmunity participation guarantees more great events at the Arts Cen-ter,” Susalla said.
Dancing and music will be provided by Four Shillings Short, the live-ly duo of Christy Martin and Aodh Og O’Tuama. Dinner attendees will get a first peek at the exhibit before judging on Friday, and the first opportunity to purchase art.
Chef Sheralynn Kir-by has designed her menu around a choice of beef tenderloin rou-lade stuffed with cher-ries, spinach and goat cheese, or locally caught salmon from fisherman Bill Arana. Twice-baked barbecued tofu will be the vegan offering, and side dishes will include roasted potatoes and fall vegetables, with the Stornetta brothers
donating home-grown fava beans. “Global Har-mony” appetizers will be provided by the Gualala Arts Culinary Guild.
Other food stations will feature Chef Rebec-ca Stewart of the Black Point Grill at The Sea Ranch Lodge with a va-riety of entrée dishes; fresh organic vegetables and salads from Oz Farm; a dessert buffet catered by The Ranch Café; and wood fired piz-za from the Arts Center oven, staffed that eve-ning by Karl Danskin. Woodenhead Wines will be poured.
The following eve-ning, on Friday, Aug. 17, from 4 to 7 p.m., the Champagne Preview will offer participants a chance to preview fes-tival vendors and enjoy a glass of champagne, while learning of the judges’ choices for top honors out of more than 300 entries. Listen to their critique at 6:16 p.m. in Coleman Hall. Entry to the Champagne Preview is $10 at the door.
Thursday and Friday, Aug. 18 and 19, are the main festival days. In addition to the fine arts
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Political conspirators: David Morrissey as Mark Anthony and Ben Whishaw as Brutus. Arena Theater’s National Theater Live series will present Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” on Saturday, Aug. 18, at 1 p.m. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
A new production of “Julius Caesar” will screen as part of Are-na Theater’s National Theatre Live series on Saturday, Aug. 18, at 1 p.m., with doors opening at 12:30 p.m.
The live broadcast from the Bridge The-atre, London, is directed by Nicholas Hytner with a cast including Ben Whishaw as Brutus and
Michelle Fairley as Cas-sius. David Calder plays Caesar and David Mor-rissey is Mark Antony.
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the auto-crat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. Af-ter his assassination, civil war erupts on the
streets of the capital. The Telegraph called
Hytner’s production “a star-studded political cataclysm for our times.”
The play contains some strobe lighting. It has a runtime of 135 minutes, without inter-mission. Tickets are $18, with $5 for youth (18 and under), available online at arenatheater.org.
National Theatre Live to show new take on Shakespeare classic: Julius Caesar
The Arena Theater Film Club will screen director Pedro Al-modóvar’s 2006 drama, “Volver,” this Monday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m.
Penélope Cruz is Rai-munda, a hard-working woman with a teen-age daughter, Paula (Yohana Cobo), and a feckless, layabout hus-band. With her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas), she tends to the graves of her parents, and visits her ailing Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), who is in the final stages of dementia. Raimunda’s family life shatters with one terrible act of vio-lence, and a secret about her late mother Irene (Carmen Maura) surfac-es when Irene returns from beyond the grave to make contact with her astonished daughters.
Drawing inspiration from the Italian neoreal-
Spanish drama ‘Volver’ screens on Mondayism of the late 1940s to early 1950s and the work of pioneering di-rectors such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Viscon-ti, and Pier Paolo Paso-lini, “Volver” (in English, Coming Home or Coming Back) addresses themes like sexual abuse, lone-liness and death, mix-ing the genres of farce, tragedy, melodrama and magic realism. Set in the La Mancha region, Al-modóvar’s place of birth,
the filmmaker cited his upbringing as a major influence on many as-pects of the plot and the characters.
“Volver” premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d’Or. It received critical acclaim and ultimately won two awards at the festival, for Best Ac-tress (shared by the six See volver…continued on page 22
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MendonoMa GalleriesMost galleries in Mendonoma change their featured artists about once a month. Opening receptions are listed in Mark Your Calendar. For current exhibits, call or visit the websites of individual galleries.
alinder studio Gallery, GualalaGallery located in Sea Cliff Center. 707-884-4884.
Coast HiGHway artistsÕ C olleCtive, Point arenaOpen Fri. - Sun. 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. See www.coast-highway- artists.com. 284 Main Street, Point Arena. 707-882-3616.
dianne neuMan Gallery, Gualala Located in Anchor Bay. www.dngallery.com. 707-696-5701.
disCovery Gallery artists ColleCtive, GualalaGallery located in Sea Cliff Center. Open Thurs. through Tues., 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 707-884-1900.
tHe dolPHin Gallery, GualalaGallery located in Sundstrom Mall. GualalaArts.org or 707-884-3896.
tHe elk artistsÕ C olleCtive, elk707-877-1128 or www.artists-collective.net.
Gallery in tHe redwoods, anCHor BayContact Bill Apton, 707-884-4278.
Gualala arts Center, GualalaGualalaArts.org or 707-884-1138.
Gualala Press - Fine art Print studio, Open by appointment. 707-884-3388.
HenleyÕ s Gallery, CyPress villaGe, GualalaGallery located upstairs. 707-884-1531.
House in tHe Country, Point arena707-882-1848.
MatHeson desiGn art Gallery, GualalaUpstairs in the Sundstrom Mall. 707-884-3712.
PlaCewaresRotating exhibits. Wed. - Mon. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. 39114 Ocean Dr. Gualala. 707-884-1184.
Paul stein studio, ManCHesterContemporary porcelain vessels. 707-882-2686.
sea ranCH lodGe, tHe sea ranCHExhibit in the lobby area of the lodge. 707-785-2321.
sPindriFt Gallery, GualalaGallery located in Cypress Village. 707-884-4484.
stewart-kuMMer Gallery, Gualala707-884-3581 or visit www.stewartkummergallery.com.
studio 391, GualalaGallery located in Cypress Village.707-884-9065 or www.studio391.net.
suite G Gallery39179 S. Highway 1, Gualala. Next to Heart of a Child toy store. 707-896-2643
tiMBer Cove inn, tiMBer CoveGallery located in the lobby of the Inn. 707-847-3231.
arena tHeater, Point arena
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inCrediBles 2When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone (voice of Samuel L. Jackson) must find a way to work together again--which is easier said than done, even when theyÕ re all Ò Incredible.Ó Director: Brad Bird.Rated: PG Runtime: 118 minutes
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Blues on the Coast Saturday August 11 8:30 PM
Anthony Gomes Band Exhibition on Screen
Sunday August 12 1:00 PM Matisse
Arena Theater Film Club Monday August 13 7:00 PM
Visit arenatheaterfilmclub.org Coming: National Theatre Live from London
Saturday August 18 1:00 PM Julius Caesar
214 Main Street, Point Arena Confirm times at 707-882-3456
4Arena Cove Farmers MarketFriday, August 10
Fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, value-added products, bread and crafts every Friday through November.
3 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Cove, 790 Port Road, Point Arena.For info contact 707-882-3046.
4Indian Classical Dance & Dinner Event at MendoViné
Friday, August 10Classical dancer Anita Ranjani will perform Bharatanatyam
dance at MendoVinŽ. A traditional South Indian dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. prior to performance.
Location: MendoVinŽ, Gualala.Dinner & Dance Event: $45.For info contact 707-896-2650.
4Karaoke at 215 MainFriday, August 10
Karaoke with musical host Arlene. 21 and over only. 7 to 11 p.m.Location: 215 Main wine bar, Point Arena.$1 per song.For info contact 707-882-3215.
4Gualala Farmers MarketSaturday, August 11
Organic fruits and vegetables, hand crafted foods, local crafts.9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.Free admittance.
4Art Opening Reception — Sondra SulaSaturday, August 11
The Art of Recycling, an art show featuring Ò Little Soul as-semblagesÓ by Sondra Sula.
3 to 5 p.m.Location: Elk ArtistsÕ C ollective, Elk.Free admission.For info contact 707-877-1128.
4Art openingSaturday, August 11
Glass artist Cynthia Myers and silk scarf painter Siobhan Elder display their works. On display until Aug. 31.
5 to 7 p.m.Location: The Dolphin Gallery, Gualala.Free admission.For info contact 707-884-1138.
4Music at 215 MainSaturday, August 11
An Evening of Eclectic Singing & Stringing with Corwin Zekley & Emma Newton. The two will be performing fogether for an evening of original love songs and standards featuring violin, harp and vocal harmonies.
8 p.m.Location: 215 Main Wine Bar, Point Arena.No cover.For info contact 707-882-3215.
4Blues on the CoastSaturday, August 11
Anthony Gomes, Canadian blues rock guitarist, accompanied by his band will perform fusion of blues with rock and soul, influ-enced by B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.
8:30 p.m.Location: Arena Theater, Point Arena.$20.For info contact 707-882-3272 or www.arenatheater.org.
4Exhibition on ScreenSunday, August 12
Ò Matisse. From Tate Modern and MoMA.Ó Hailed as the most successful exhibition in Tate ModernÕ s history, this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition features exclusive new footage from MoMA, New York with expert contributions from those that knew Matisse as well as curators and historians.
1 p.m.Location: Arena Theater, Point Arena.$15.For info contact 707-882-3272 or www.arenatheater.org.
4Film ClubMonday, August 13
Ò Volver.Ó In Pedro AlmodovarÕ s drama, revolving around an eccentric family of women, Penelope Cruz plays a mother forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter. In Spanish with English subtitles. Preceded by film trivia quiz, followed by audience discussion.
7 p.m.Location: Arena Theater, Point Arena.Free to Arena Theaters members, $10 for guests.For info contact www.arenatheaterfilmclub.org.
4Hats Off DinnerThursday, August 16
Hats Off Dinner, opening event of the Annual Art in the Red-woods festival. Dinner and dancing,
6 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Center, Gualala.$150, reservations required.For info contact 707-884-1138.
4Arena Cove Farmers MarketFriday, August 17
Fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, value-added products, bread and crafts every Friday through November.
3 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Cove, 790 Port Road, Point Arena.For info contact 707-882-3046.
4Art in the Redwoods Champagne PreviewFriday, August 17
Champagne Preview and Judges’ critique.4 to 7 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Center, Gualala.$10.For info contact 707-884-1138.
4Music at MendoVinéFriday, August 17
Guitarists Tim Mueller & Chris Doering explore the possibilities of Ò Guitars & GizmosÓ beginning at 7 p.m. MendoVinŽ serves a selection of wines, beers and non-alcoholic beverages along with tapas-style small plates.
Location: MendoVinŽ, Gualala.No cover.For info contact 707-896-2650.
4Mid-Month Pay ‘n’ TakeSaturday, August 18
Mid-Month Pay Ô nÕ Take sale is held on the third Saturday of each month. All departments open this month.
Find books, furniture/electronics, clothing to suit every taste, size and age, toys, distinctive housewares, knick-knacks, jewelry, fabrics and CDs.
Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. (the Main Hall opens at 9 a.m.) and will close at 11:30 a.m.
Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.
4Gualala Farmers MarketSaturday, August 18
Organic fruits and vegetables, hand crafted foods, local crafts.9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.Free admission.
4Art in the Redwoods festivalSaturday, August 18
Fine arts show, artisan vendors, food, entertainment, kidsÕ activities.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Center, Gualala.$6 at gate, under 17 free.For info contact gualalaarts.org.
4National Theatre Live from LondonSaturday, August 18
Ò Julius Caesar.Ó Nicholas Hytner directs a new take on the Shakespeare classic.
1 p.m.Location: Arena Theater, Point Arena.$18, $5 youths 18 and under.For info contact 707-882-3272 or www.arenatheater.org.
4Art in the Redwoods festivalSunday, August 19
Fine arts show, artisan vendors, food, entertainment, kidsÕ activities.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Center, Gualala.$6 at gate, under 17 free.For info contact gualalaarts.org.Send your jpeg newsworthy photos to:
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Bestsellers in MendonomaThese are the 20 best-selling books for July, 2018, as reported by Four-Eyed Frog Books, Cypress Village, in Gualala. This is an editorial feature of the Independent Coast Observer. 1. Less by Andrew Sean GreerA failed novelist decides to accept every literary event in-vitation he’s been putting off to avoid the wedding of his former longtime boyfriend. 2. Shaping the Sonoma-Mendocino Coast by Thomas e. Cochrane *How and why the Sonoma-Mendocino region’s coastline appears as it does today.3. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin KwanOpulent, zany and with over the top family drama and ex-travagant settings, it’s a perfect beach read!4. The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James PattersonThis new Patterson collaboration is a page-turning thriller!5. Mendonoma Sightings Throughout the year by Jeanne Jackson & Craig Tooley *Colorful flora and fauna arranged by season, with fun facts for all ages.6. Qh awala li: “water running down place” by Annette White-ParksComprehensive, readable history of our coast.7. Pachinko by Min Jin LeeA sweeping four-generation saga of a Korean family from the start of the 20th century, moving to pre- and post-war Osaka and covering nearly 200 years. Their story is full of joy, heartbreak and intimate details of a family’s sacrifice to make a better future for their children and grandchildren.8. The Nightingale by Kristin HannahTwo sisters’ bravery and strength is tested during World War II. 9. Warlight by Michael OndaatjeYears after the end of World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects upon his experiences as a teen when his parents left him and his sister with a mysterious neighbor just after the war. 10. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer eganSuspensful noir intrigue set in World War II is a dazzling exploration of how the lives and identities of men, women and America itself transform this page-turning historical fictional novel.11. Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareA tense locked-room mystery in the vein of Agatha Christie12. Anything Is Possible by elizabeth StroutOne sister trades self-respect for a wealthy husband. The other finds, in the pages of a book, a kindred spirit who changes her life.13. Hillbilly elegy by JD vance BShares the story of the author’s family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author — a Yale Law School graduate — while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.14. Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry BSet against an Ireland besieged by conflict, an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid re-minder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives formuch of the 20th century.15. eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Hon-eymanEverything changes when quiet Eleanor meets Raymond, a bumbling co-worker, and she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk. The three become the kinds of friends who res-cue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living.16. We Don’t eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. HigginsIt’s the first day of school for Penelope T. Rex, a young dinosaur, but it’s hard to make human friends when they’re so darn delicious! A fun and funny picture book for young readers.17. Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannA former Texas Ranger and a Native American agent un-cover one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.18. A Pale view of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro BA Japanese woman, now living in England, retreats into memories of post-war Japan.19. Luster of Lost Things by Sophie Chen KellerA fablelike debut novel in wh ich a boy with an uncanny ability to find lost objects must embark on his most impor-tant search yet in order to save his mother’s enchanted dessert shop, the only place he’s ever called home.20. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? By Alyssa MastromonacoMastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, long before his run for president, and she made Hope and Change happen through blood, sweat, tears, and lots of briefing binders. Full of hilarious, never-before-told stories, this is an intimate portrait of a president, a book about how to get stuff done, and the story of how one woman challenged, again and again, what a ‘White House official’ is supposed to look like.B = Book club selection * = Local author
Mark your Calendar…from Page 174Picnic and Clean-up at Evergreen CemeterySunday, August 19
Picnic and Clean-up at Evergreen Cemetery. Drinks and des-sert provided by Garcia Guild.
12 to 3 p.m.Location: Evergreen Cemetery, Manchester.Free.For info contact 707-882-3425.
4BAKU at Art in the RedwoodsSunday, August 19
BAKU playing an improvised synthesis of jazz, Afro beat, Middle Eastern, and other World influences and rhythms.
2 to 4 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Center outdoor amphitheater, Gualala.$6 admission at gate. Youth 17 and under free. For info contact 707-884-1138.
4Arena Cove Farmers MarketFriday, August 24
Fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, value-added products, bread and crafts every Friday through November.
3 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Cove, 790 Port Road, Point Arena.For info contact 707-882-3046.
4Spaghetti DinnerFriday, August 24
Spaghetti Dinner to benefit the Coastal Seniors, hosted by Big Babes of Mendonoma Coast.
5 to 7 p.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.$10 Adults; $5 Children under 12.Wine and beer sold at $5 per glass.For info contact 707-882-2137.
4Jazz at MendoVinéFriday, August 24
Duo’Xplore, made up of Tim Mueller (guitarist) and Harrison Goldberg (saxophonist), will perform its interpretations of the Great American Songbook, classic jazz, and pop tunes.
7 to 9:30 p.m.Location: MendoViné, Gualala.Free admission.For info contact 707-896-2650.
4Waylon & The WildcatsFriday, August 24
Waylon & The Wildcats return to Garcia River Casino for a night of rocking country music.
8:30 p.m.Location: Garcia River Casino, Point Arena.
4CC’s Corner Rummage SaleSaturday, August 25
Monthly rummage sale with new items each month. Donations from purchases provide assistance to the needs of the community.
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.Location: St. Paul’s Methodist Church, 40 School St., S. High-
way 1, Point Arena.
4Good Buy ClothesSaturday, August 25
Good Buy Clothes monthly clothing and accessories sale. Proceeds from the store benefit medical expenses for children and aging, educational grants, crisis situations and other needs of the community from Elk to Timber Cove.
Last Saturday of each month.9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Location: Trinity Hall, School Street, Point Arena.
4Gualala Farmers MarketSaturday, August 25
Organic fruits and vegetables, hand crafted foods, local crafts.9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.Free admittance.
4Great Day in ElkSaturday, August 25
Noontime parade through downtown Elk, followed by activities for all ages at the Greenwood Community Center. Carnival, live entertainment, greased pole climbing and watermelon-eating contests, silent auction, cake raffle, and more. Abundant options for food and drink. Evening dinner and dance. Funds raised sup-port the Greenwood Community Center’s programs and ongoing maintenance of the facilities.
No dogs please.Noon to 7 p.m.Location: S. Highway 1 and Greenwood Community Center,
Elk.For info contact 707- 877-1140 or www.elkweb.org.
4Lighthouse Lecture SeriesSaturday, August 25
Author Jeanne A. Jackson will present “Nature Sightings at the Point Arena Lighthouse,” a slideshow of what you might see in late August and early September, from whales to wildflowers.
5 p.m.Location: Point Arena Lighthouse, Point Arena.$5 per person.For info contact 707-882-2809, ext. 1.
4Music at MendoViné: Bards of a FeatherSaturday, August 25
Jim and Sharon Lieberman accompany themselves on guitar, mandolin and fiddle, singing tunes from the 1920s to present Beer, wine and sandwiches available.
7 to 9 p.m.Location: MendoViné, Gualala.Free admission. For info contact 707-896-2650.
4Comedy with Will DurstSaturday, August 25
“Durst Case Scenario — The Midterms.” Durst has updated his “Durst Case Scenario,” with a subtitle, “Midterm Madness,” described as “a rollicking feast of outrage and outrageousness as up-to-date as the most current 4 a.m. Oval Office tweet.”
7 p.m.Location: Arena Theater, Point Arena.$20For info contact 707-882-3272 or www.arenatheater.org.
4(almost) Full Sturgeon Moon Lighthouse TourSaturday, August 25
Discover the unique history of this historic landmark, the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast. Refreshments will be served and a souvenir Point Arena Lighthouse champagne flute for each participant is included in the cost. Reservations required and must be made three days before a tour.
Gates open at 7:30 p.m., tour begins at 8 p.m.Location: Point Arena Lighthouse, Point Arena.$30 per person or two tickets for $50. For info contact 707-882-2809, ext. 1.
4Film ClubMonday, August 27
“A Perfect Day.” (USA, 2015) Benicio del Toro stars in this drama about a band of badass war zone rescue workers as they defy death and confront war’s absurdities. Preceded by film trivia quiz, followed by audience discussion.
7 p.m.Location: Arena Theater, Point Arena.Free to Arena Theaters members, $10 for guests.For info contact www.arenatheaterfilmclub.org.
4Full Sturgeon Moon Lighthouse TourMonday, August 27
Discover the unique history of this historic landmark, the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast. Refreshments will be served and a souvenir Point Arena Lighthouse champagne flute for each participant is included in the cost. Reservations required and must be made three days before a tour.
Gates open at 7:30 p.m., tour begins at 8 p.m.Location: Point Arena Lighthouse, Point Arena.$30 per person or two tickets for $50. For info contact 707-882-2809, ext. 1.
Throw Your Voice in the ICO!
Dinner and a movie tonight?Check our dining guide on Page 22
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Clubs, Groups and Classes•GA Book ClubThursday, August 16
1:30 p.m.“A Pale View of Hills” by
Kazuo Ishiguro.To RSVP call Mary Retzer at
707-785-3618. The selection for September
will be “The Secret Scripture” by Barry Sebastian. For more information, call Paula Gordon at 707-884-3823.
Location: At the home of Mary Retzer, The Sea Ranch.
•Paint & Pour!Friday, September 7
A little paint, a little wine, and a picture to take home. With instructor Whitney Badgett Hasan.
6 to 8 p.m.Location: Upstairs Class-
room, Gualala Arts, Gualala.$25 for GA memebers,
$30 for non-members, $10 materials fee paid directly to instructor. Purchase beverage at Gualala Arts. Register by Aug. 30.
For info 707-884-1138.
•Painting Demonstration
Saturday, September 8Artist Elio Camacho will give
a painting demonstration for prospective students.
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Cen-
ter, Gualala.Free.For info 707-884-1138.
•Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Workshop
Wednesday, September 19Thursday, September 20
SurfaceDesign Play Day & Color Pop Quilt with instructor Lynn Loolish.
Two day workshop Wednes-day 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursday 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Gualala Arts Cen-ter, Gualala.
$150 member of Gualala Arts and PPQG; $155 member of either; and $160 for non-members. $15 materials fee paid to instructor.
For info 707-884-1138.
•Cook and PourThursday, September 20
Cooking workshops with wine pairing and full-course dinner, instructed by Lisa Giacomini, aka Baby Tomato.
First of four classes. 12 hours of total instruction.
6 to 9 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Kitch-
en, Gualala.$250 for GA members,
$270 for non-members, $80 materials fee paid directly to instructor.
•Cook and PourThursday, September 27
Cooking workshops with wine pairing and full-course dinner, instructed by Lisa Giacomini, aka Baby Tomato.
Second of four classes. 12 hours of total instruction.
6 to 9 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Kitch-
en, Gualala.$250 for GA members,
$270 for non-members, $80 materials fee paid directly to instructor.
•Paste Paper Workshop
Saturday, September 29Paste paper for books, wrap-
ping paper, wall paper and more. Instructed by Elizabeth Solomon.
First of two classes.10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Location: Upstairs Class-
room, Gualala Arts, Gualala.$40 GA members, $50
non-members, $10 materials fee paid directly to instructor.
Register by September 22.For info 707-884-1138.
•Cook and PourThursday, October 4
Cooking workships with wine pairing and full-course dinner, instructed by Lisa Giacomini, aka Baby Tomato.
Third of four classes. 12 hours of total instruction.
6 to 9 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Kitch-
en, Gualala.$250 for GA memebers,
$270 for non-members, $80 materials fee paid directly to instructor.
•Cook and PourThursday, October 11
Cooking workships with wine pairing and full-course dinner, instructed by Lisa Giacomini, aka Baby Tomato.
Last of four classes. 12 hours of total instruction.
6 to 9 p.m.Location: Gualala Arts Kitch-
en, Gualala.$250 for GA members,
$270 for non-members, $80 materials fee paid directly to instructor.
•A Course in Miracles
Thursdays, weekly10 a.m. to noon.Newcomers welcome. An
inspiring, life changing sharing of this profound teaching.
Free.Contact 707-884-3758 for
information.
•Duplicate BridgeSecond Thursdays
Players of all levels are welcome to join the duplicate bridge group. Please bring a partner.
Location: The Loft, upstairs at Sundstrom Mall, Gualala.
For more information, call Carole at 707-785-2198.
•Meditation Fridays, weekly
11 a.m. to noon.Forty minutes of sitting
meditation (with a cushion and pillow or on a chair) are followed by a short reading of a spiritual nature.
Location: Mary, Star of the Sea, Gualala.
Call 707-785-9159 or 707-884-3744 for more info.
•Acoustic Musicians Jam
Saturday, Weekly12:30 to 4 p.m.All acoustic musicians are
invited to jam every Saturday, 12:30 to 4 p.m.
Location: Sundstrom Mall loft area, Gualala.
Free. For info contact Laurence at
707-847-3453.
•Grief Support Group
Fridays, weekly1 to 2 p.m.Talking to others can some-
times help ease the pain of loss. RCMS volunteers facilitate.
Location: Elaine Jacob Cen-ter, Suite E.
Contact Tara or Ralph Na-varro: 707-884-9202.
• Bilingual StorytimeFridays, Weekly
2 p.m.Action Network hosts this
storytime event. All children under age 12 are welcome.
Location: Action Network, 200 Main St., Point Arena.
Contact: 707-884-5413.
•NAFridays, weekly
6:30 p.m.Open NA meeting.Location: Conference room
of the Point Arena Dental Clinic on Main Street in Point Arena.
•Breakfast ClubSaturdays, weekly
9 a.m. to noon.Drop-in for help, a cup of
tea or learn a new craft. Location: The Loft, upstairs
in the Sundstrom Mall.For more information call
Marva at 707-884-4424.
•AA ManchesterSundays, weekly
6:30 p.m.Open AA meeting. Location: Manchester Com-
munity Center on Crispin Road, Manchester.
•Trap ShootingSundays, weekly
10 a.m.The Point Arena Rod & Gun
Club welcomes guests. We are small but we have a lot of fun and competition with other clubs.
Location: Highway 1 and Mountain View, Manchester.
Contact: 415-828-2696.
•PA Community Garden Meeting
First Sunday, monthlyNoon.Members and people of in-
terest come together to discuss and decide garden business.
Location: The Point Arena Community Garden.
•Synergy YogaFirst Sunday, monthly
9 a.m. Gentle synergy yoga class for
beginners to advanced. Daily classes also available.
For info 707-350-0394. Location: St. Paul’s Method-
ist Church, 40 School Street, Point Arena.
Free.
•South Coast Stamp Club
Second Saturdays, monthly12:30 to 3 p.m.Share and trade stamps,
learn how to set up a stamp album, kids’ stamp table. All ages and collecting interests welcome.
Location: Coast Community Library, Point Arena.
For info, Library 707-882-3114, or Martin Sweet, ham [email protected].
Free.
•Ukulele Group @ the Library
Monday, weekly4:30 to 6 p.m.All skill levels are welcome.
Come join in!Location: Coast Community
Library, Point Arena.Free.For info contact the library
at 707-882-3114.
•Coastal SingersMondays, weekly
5 to 7 p.m.Location: Mary Star of the
Sea. Contact Sue if you’d like to
join at [email protected].
•The Mendonoma Writers’ Group
Mondays, Weekly6 to 7:30 p.m. Writers and aspiring writ-
ers are invited to write and share their work in a safe and non-confrontive environment. Drop-ins and listeners are welcome.
Location: Elaine Jacob Cen-ter, Suite E., Gualala.
Free.For info contact: Joel Crock-
ett at 303-775-4616.
•Al-AnonMondays, weekly
7 to 8 p.m.Location: Action Network,
Cypress Village, Gualala.For more information, call
707-292-6905.
•Computer Help @ the Library
Monday through Friday Drop in, or by appointment.Help with basic computing,
email, downloading audio books and movies.
Location: Coast Community Library, Point Arena.
Free.For info contact the library
at 707-882-3114.
•Open Clay Studio Mondays through Fridays
10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Clay, tools and teaching sup-
port will be available. All skill levels are invited. Children’s sessions are available.
Location: Which Craft Work-shop.
For more information, con-tact Jan Maria at 707-884-3825 or [email protected].
•Coastal ConnectionsTuesdays, weekly
11 a.m to 5 p.m.Starting June 19 and go-
ing through Aug. 14, this is a Summer Camp for kids 5 to 12 years old. Children will explore nature trails and conduct sci-ence experiments. Lunch will be provided.
Location: Action Network, Gualala.
$200 for the full 9 week course. $30 for drop-ins.
•Women’s GolfTuesdays, weekly
9 a.m.Join players of all levels in
playing 9 or 18 holes of golf every week.
Location: The Sea Ranch Golf Links.
For info contact Lucy Payne, 650-515-5619, or email sear [email protected].
•Tai ChiTuesdays, weekly
9:30 a.m.All ages welcome. Location: Coast Commu-
nity Library, Point Arena.Free.For info contact the library
at 707-882-3114.
•Senior Tuesday at the Casino
Tuesdays, weekly11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Senior slot tournament and
20 percent discount at the River Grill.
Location: Garcia River Ca-sino, Point Arena.
Contact: 707-467-5300.
•Quilting LabTuesdays, weekly
2 to 5 p.m.Weekly get-together to pick
up quilt-making skills and techniques and share latest projects.
Location: Coast Community Library, Point Arena.
Free.For info contact the library
at 707-882-3114.
•Swing Dance & Lesson
Tuesdays, weekly, from July 24 to Aug. 28
7 to 9 p.m.All levels are invited to a
drop-in lesson and dance.Location: Arena Theater,
Point Arena.$10 Weekly drop-in for
lesson & dance, $5 for dance portion only 8 to 9 p.m.
For info contact 415-858-2886, [email protected] or www.gualalaswingdance.weebly.com.
•AA Point ArenaTuesdays, weekly
8 p.m.Location: Biaggi Hall, St.
Paul’s Church, Point Arena.
•Summer MineCraft Classes
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, weekly
South Coast boys and girls, first through eighth grades are invited to learn MineCraft.
Enrollment forms available at every class.
2 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Union
Elementary School Room 20 (computer lab).
$25 for one 4hr class, $100 for 5 classes, $175 for 10 classes, $320 for 20 classes. Thanks to a generous contribu-tion from the Klein Family Fund for South Coast Opportunities, low-income scholarships are available. (Donations to fund scholarships for next year grate-fully accepted.)
For info contact 707-882-2131 x317 during class time or 707-884-4413 outside of class time.
•Discus ClubSecond Tuesday
5 p.m. Since 1976, men and wom-
en meet monthly, at Ohlson Ranch Center, Sea Ranch, to hear a member’s presentation on their choice of topic. For in-vitation, call 707-785-2313 or email [email protected].
•Story Time @ the Library
WednesdaysNOTE: Story Time is on break
until Sept 12.
•Weight Loss Support
Wednesdays, weekly5:30 p.m. Feel good, look good, live
good. Join a local weight man-agement group. The goal is to make healthy lifestyle choices in eating, exercise and attitude. Location: Conference room of North Gualala Water Com-pany, Cypress Way, Gualala.
Free. Contact Maureen 707-884-
1169 or Joan 707-884-4564.
•World Prayer Circle/Meditation
Wednesdays, weekly7 p.m.Self-realization fellowship/
world-wide prayer circle medi-tation.
Location: St. Paul’s Method-ist Church, 40 School Street, Point Arena.
Free.For more information, call
707-350-0394.
•Healthy HabitsFirst Wednesday of the month
5:30 p.m.Monthly meeting presented
by RCMS to promote health and wellness. You don’t need to be a patient to attend; everyone is welcome.
Location: Elaine Jacob Cen-ter, Suite E, 38550 South High-way 1, Gualala.
For information, contact Jacquie Lappé or Trish Miller 707-884-4005 ext. 139.
•Arena Buying ClubSecond Wednesday of month
Buyers coop for organic goods. Order deadline second Wednesday, for delivery third Wednesday after 4 p.m. at 55 Lake St., Point Arena.
For information, call Pam Chapman, 707-882-2845.
•Caregiver supportThird Wednesday
5:30 to 7 p.m.Redwood Coast Medical
Services offers a support group for family members or close friends who are caring for someone with a serious illness or terminal disease.
The group meets regularly to work toward mutual problem-solving, coping and dealing with the stress of caregiving.
Location: Elaine Jacob Cen-ter, Ste. E, Gualala.
Contact Tara or Ralph Na-varro, 707-884-9202.
•Anchor Bay Amateur Radio Club
Fourth Wednesday, monthly6:30 p.m. Emergency communications
and events. Supports Fort Ross to Point Arena. www.abarc.club.
Location: Bill Platt Training Center, Gualala.
Free.
More Clubs, Groups and Classes on Page 22
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Coastal Seniors Lunch MenuLunch is served every Monday and Wednesday at
the Veterans Hall in Point Arena and every Tuesday at the Gualala Community Center from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Pay ’n’ Take clothing room is open dur-ing Tuesday’s lunch.
Suggested donation of $8 for seniors ($4 for entrée, $4 for salad bar) or $10 for others. Transportation and Meals on Wheels available — call for details. 707-882-2137 or go to www.coastalseniors.org.
August 13 - 15Monday: Roast Herb Chicken, brown and wild rice,
sautéed zucchini with red bells, apple raisin compote.Tuesday: Cheese Ravioli, veggie marinara, Califor-
nia mix veggie, garlic focaccia bread, chocolate cake.Wednesday: Turkey Meatloaf with mushroom gra-
vy, Yukon gold potatoes, peas and carrots.
John Holmgren Branch Manager | Mortgage Advisor NMLS #293904 (707) 785-3650 [email protected] www.mortgageholmgren.com
Reverse mortgage myth #4:
You have to own your home outright to get a reverse mortgage
Reality: Reverse mortgages can be used to pay off existing first mortgages and lines of credit, in addition to credit cards and other debts. Any remaining benefit can be
used to create monthly income or a non-cancellable line of credit for future use.
John Holmgren Branch Manager | Mortgage Advisor NMLS #293904 (707) 785-3650 [email protected] www.mortgageholmgren.com
Reverse mortgage myth #4:
You have to own your home outright to get a reverse mortgage
Reality: Reverse mortgages can be used to pay off existing first mortgages and lines of credit, in addition to credit cards and other debts. Any remaining benefit can be
used to create monthly income or a non-cancellable line of credit for future use.
KTDE 100.5 FMOffi ce 884-1000 • D.J. Studio 884-3000
“The sound waves of the Redwood Coast”
Good News GuysMonday - Fri 7-8am
Don, Bob and RobMusic & Memories Every Weekday Morning
Solid Fuel SoundsMonday - Wednesday 12-4pm
Phil MarrinanThe Notes You Need To Hear
La Caja MusicalMonday 6-9pm
Alfredo OrozcoTraditional & Modern Tunes From South Of The Border
Bone Daddy’s Blues RevueTuesday 6-10pm
Bone Daddy
See KTDE.com for a complete listing
4Paul Bunyan Days eventsFriday, August 31
Several events, including: Gem, Mineral and Fossil show, Historic Model Trains, Log rolling contest, Walking tour of Rose Memorial Cemetery, and Flynn Creek Circus. Go to PaulBun-yanDays.com for details.
Location: Various venues, Fort Bragg.Costs and times vary depending on event.For info visit PaulBunyanDays.com.
4Arena Cove Farmers MarketFriday, August 31
Fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, value-added products, bread and crafts every Friday through November.
3 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Cove, 790 Port Road, Point Arena.For info contact 707-882-3046.
4Jazz at MendoVinéFriday, August 31
Harrison Goldberg, saxophones, with special musical guest.7 to 9:30 p.m.Location: MendoViné, Gualala.Free admission.For info contact 707-896-2650.
4Pay ‘n’ Take Monthly Sale Saturday, September 1
The Main Hall (toys, knick knacks, household goods, jewelry) is open from 9 to 11:30 a.m.
In the New Building are books, Christmas ornaments, furni-ture, tools, hardware and electronics from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
The Clothing Room, open from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., features men’s, women’s and children’s clothing and accessories.
All facilities are open Tuesdays from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. to receive donations of clean, saleable items.
Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.
4Gualala Farmers MarketSaturday, September 1
Organic fruits and vegetables, hand crafted foods, local crafts.9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.Free admittance.
4Paul Bunyan Days eventsSaturday, September 1
Many events, including: Bird Walk, Book Sale, Classic Car Show, Craft Fair, Fireman’s Ball, Firemen’s Water Fight, Flynn Creek Circus, Footlighters Gaslight Gayeties, Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show, Historic Model Trains, Horseshoe Tournament, Kiddie games, Kiddie Parade, Old Fashion Dress Review, Pie Sale, Roots of Motive Power, Tricycle Race, Ugly Dog Contests, Whales and More. Go to PaulBunyanDays.com for details.
Location: Various venues, Fort Bragg.Costs and times vary depending on event.For info visit PaulBunyanDays.com.
4Beer, Bison and BluegrassSaturday, September 1
12 to 4 p.m.Location: Our Lady of Good Counsel Hall, 605 Maple St., Fort Bragg.$25-$45.For info visit PaulBunyanDays.com.
4Garcia Guild Breakfast Sunday, September 2
All-you-can-eat breakfast. Scrambled eggs, pancakes, bacon and sliced fruit. Featuring Lisa’s Luscious Kitchen and Little Green Bean Coffee. Public welcomed.
8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.Location: Manchester Community Center, S. Highway 1 at
Crispin Road, Manchester.$10 adults, $6 children 6 to 12, by donation for kids under 6.For info contact 707-882-3425.
4Paul Bunyan Days eventsSunday, September 2
Many events, including: Lumberjack Breakfast, Book Sale, Craft Fair, Flynn Creek Circus, Footlighters Gaslight Gayeties, Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show, Historic Model Trains, Logging Show and Expo, Roots of Motive Power. Go to PaulBunyanDays.com for details.
Location: Various venues, Fort Bragg.Costs and times vary depending on event.For info visit PaulBunyanDays.com.
4Paul Bunyan Days eventsMonday, September 3
Many events, including: Flynn Creek Circus, Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show, Historic Model Trains, Lions Barbecue, Parade, Fun run/walk along parade route. Go to PaulBunyanDays.com for details.
Location: Various venues, Fort Bragg.Costs and times vary depending on event.For info visit PaulBunyanDays.com.
4Arena Cove Farmers MarketFriday, September 7
Fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, value-added products, bread and crafts every Friday through November.
3 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Cove, 790 Port Road, Point Arena.For info contact 707-882-3046.
4Gualala Farmers MarketSaturday, September 8
Organic fruits and vegetables, hand crafted foods, local crafts.9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.Free admittance.
4Dragon’s Breath TheatreSaturday, September 8
19th Annual Dragon’s Breath Theatre Variety Shoe & Art Walk.Gates open 5 p.m., show at 6 p.m.Location: 44800 Fish Rock Road, Gualala.$20 suggested donation.For info contact 707-884-3138 or [email protected].
4Arena Cove Farmers MarketFriday, September 14
Fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, value-added products, bread and crafts every Friday through November.
3 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Cove, 790 Port Road, Point Arena.For info contact 707-882-3046.
4Karaoke at 215 MainFriday, September 14
Karaoke with musical host Arlene. 21 and over only. 7 to 11 p.m.Location: 215 Main wine bar, Point Arena.$1 per song.For info contact 707-882-3215.
4Mid-Month Pay ‘n’ TakeSaturday, September 15
Mid-Month Pay ‘n’ Take sale is held on the third Saturday of each month. All departments open this month.
There are tables, chairs, tools, electronics, hardware, records, CDs, lamps, desks, etc.
The book department has novels, cookbooks, videos, kids books, audio tapes, Christmas ornaments, poetry, do-it-yourself, large print and many different books.
The clothing room with men’s, women’s and children’s cloth-ing and accessories is now open for every Mid-Month Sale, at 8:30 a.m.
Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. and will close at 11:30 a.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.
4Gualala Farmers MarketSaturday, September 15
Organic fruits and vegetables, hand crafted foods, local crafts.9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.Free admittance.
43rd Annual Blue Wave, Barn PartySaturday, September 15
The Redwood Coast Democrats’ Third Annual Barn Party with special guests: Congressman Jared Huffman, State Controller Betty Yee, State Senator Mike McGuire, State Assemblyman Jim Wood, and other candidates.
Blue grass music by Vintage Grass. Free BBQ and Mexican food. Hispanic dancers. Beer and wine on sale. Big raffle and many surpises.
2 p.m.Location: Kenny Jowers’ Barn, Manchester.FreeFor info contact 707-884-9785.
4Arena Cove Farmers MarketFriday, September 21
Fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, value-added products, bread and crafts every Friday through November.
3 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Cove, 790 Port Road, Point Arena.For info contact 707-882-3046.
4Gualala Farmers MarketSaturday, September 22
Organic fruits and vegetables, hand crafted foods, local crafts.9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.Free admittance.
4(almost) Full Harvest Moon Lighthouse TourSaturday, September 22
Discover the unique history of this historic landmark, the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast. Refreshments will be served and a souvenir Point Arena Lighthouse champagne flute for each participant is included in the cost. Reservations required and must be made three days before a tour.
Gates open at 7:30 p.m., tour begins at 8 p.m.Location: Point Arena Lighthouse, Point Arena.$30 per person or two tickets for $50. For info contact 707-882-2809, ext. 1.
4Full Harvest Moon Lighthouse TourMonday, September 24
Discover the unique history of this historic landmark, the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast. Refreshments will be served and a souvenir Point Arena Lighthouse champagne flute for each participant is included in the cost. Reservations required and must be made three days before a tour.
Gates open at 7:30 p.m., tour begins at 8 p.m.Location: Point Arena Lighthouse, Point Arena.$30 per person or two tickets for $50. For info contact 707-882-2809, ext. 1.
4Arena Cove Farmers MarketFriday, September 28
Fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, value-added products, bread and crafts every Friday through November.
3 to 6 p.m.Location: Arena Cove, 790 Port Road, Point Arena.For info contact 707-882-3046.
4Spaghetti DinnerFriday, September 28
Monthly all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner to benefit the Coastal Seniors, hosted by Shepherd by the Sea.
Spaghetti with meat or vegetarian sauce, meatballs and hot buttered garlic bread.
5 to 7 p.m. Location: Gualala Community Center, Gualala.Adults $10; Children under 12, $5.Wine sold at $5 per glass.For info contact 707-882-2137.
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Sightings…from Page 14catcher chicks might be ‘sightings worthy.’ They hang out in my side gar-den. Adults have spent summers here every year, but this is the first time I’ve seen babies.”
Most Fridays Sara Bogard is out counting Harbor Seals. She wrote, “Last Friday there were 159 Harbor Seals out at the Point Arena Light-house, and 120 Western Gulls moving through.” A very friendly Common Raven watched Sara watching the seals and gulls.
Doreen Clay found a family of River Ot-ters entering the Pacific Ocean. She wrote, “I captured this photo on July 21 from the deck of our house rental on the bluff’s edge in Gualala. We take the ICO and I thought you might like it. I was quite excited! The otters moved quick-ly and disappeared into
the sea. We love Gual-ala, and its wild crea-tures, and plan to have a home there when we retire!”
Doreen wasn’t sure at first whether the ot-ters she saw were River Otters or Sea Otters. Sea Otters spend their lives in the sea, floating on their backs on the surface, usually in kelp beds. River Otters can walk on land, climb up or down a bluff face, swim in rivers, creeks, and the ocean. They swim with their stomachs down. One was seen once cross-ing Highway 1 in down-town Gualala.
Jim Biller and Su-san Marie Hagen spot-ted a very light-colored Anna’s Hummingbird in the flower garden of the Del Mar Center. Jim wrote, “It looks like is has been sun bleached or dipped in Clorox. Very light pale green back, white throat, belly and chin.” I sent their sighting to several bird
experts/photographers. Bryant Hichwa got a nice photo of the bird, which turned out to be a juvenile Anna’s Hum-mingbird. As it grows up, it should acquire more color.
Many lovely butter-flies can be seen now. Dragonflies too. Terry Pfardresher photo-graphed a swallowtail butterfly feeding on a blue agapanthus. Ron LeValley confirmed Terry photographed a Western Tiger Swal-lowtail. Many Califor-nia Sister Butterflies have been seen recently, along with the smaller Pine White Butterflies.
A major meteor show-er peaks over this week-end – the Perseid Meteor Shower. Aug. 11 through 13 is when Earth passes through the densest part of the debris from the gi-ant comet Swift-Tuttle. Turn off all lights, let your eyes adjust and prepare to be dazzled!
Let me know what you are seeing.
enjoy the view…Pull Off the Highway and
Take a Closer Look!
mental Health…from Page 1
see mental Health…continued on page 23
Instead, the area has mostly crimes related to substance abuse, domes-tic violence, and bur-glary.
It’s a beautiful day. The often-present fog is gone, and the deputy is distributing paperwork and responding to calls at various locations in the Point Arena and Gualala area.
But paperwork and house calls are only a small portion of the job. The rest of the job is chance: a chance call for a civil dispute, a chance call for trespassers, and sometimes, a chance call for a mentally ill person.
“Fifty-One Fifties,” are what mentally ill people considered a dan-ger to themselves or oth-ers are referred to col-loquially by those who treat them, a reference to Section 5150 of the California Code, which provides for a 72-hour involuntary commit-ment in such cases.
People specifically come to the coast to com-mit suicide, said law en-forcement in Fort Bragg.
“They don’t come here to think,” said Detective Ze Lima. “They come here to finish.”
“I think it’s something to do with the ocean,” said Deputy Jesse Van Wormer.
In March, an elderly couple from Burlingame died by what law en-forcement believe was a suicide pact. Wolfgang and Linda Bayer were found dead in their car of gunshot wounds on Highway 20 in Fort Bragg. Investigators dis-covered the couple had forwarded a letter to a relative before driving to the coast outlining extensive medical prob-lems and financial diffi-culties.
A month later, the na-tion was shocked when Sarah and Jennifer Hart drove down from Wash-ington state and into the ocean near Mendocino, with their six adopted children in the car.
Julian has dealt with several 5150 cases over his few years on the South Coast. He re-membered a call he re-sponded to for a suicidal woman at the Redwood Coast Medical Services center in Gualala. She was barefoot and pac-ing inside the lobby, and at one point he remem-bers she dropped into a crouch, looking as if she were going to wrestle
him.He classified her as a
5150 and wanted to take her to the Mendocino Coast District Hospital in Fort Bragg, but she was concerned about who would feed her cats, he said. Hospitals are the first place 5150 pa-tients are taken in their journey to receive men-tal health care.
It took him about a half hour, but eventually he convinced her.
Julian doesn’t see the need for training to deal with 5150 patients for himself personally. “We’re not doctors,” he said. “We don’t diag-nose.” Law enforcement deals with only the entry of a 5150 patient to the hospital; so as long as an officer has the natu-ral ability to diffuse a situation, Julian doesn’t consider the process an issue.
But other deputies disagree with Julian, and say more needs to be done for the 5150 cases they deal with, primar-ily because mental ill-ness isn’t illegal, and adding a law enforce-ment officer can escalate a situation and turn it dangerous.
“You’re taking a cop that has virtually no [mental health] train-ing,” said Sgt. Dustin Lorenzo, “and forcing the cop to detain this person, who is noncrimi-nal.”
Unless the officer is very good at communica-tion, it can easily spiral. “It becomes a criminal situation,” he said.
In the Fort Bragg deputies’ time dealing with the mentally ill, they end up classify-ing as 5150, they found the best strategy is to treat them humanely. “Most people are coop-erative as long as you’re not treating them like a criminal,” Lorenzo said, adding the patients are not handcuffed. But for every patient, “We have to go the extra mile to get them help.”
For law enforcement in Mendocino County, this setup can feel like a failure, since officers deal with the entry of a 5150 patient, but also act as coroners. They re-spond to suicides, homi-cides and drug-related deaths, sometimes not-ing the patient they’d sent in for help did not receive the help they needed.
“We don’t know what happens in that mid-dle. And it’s not like we are jaded or distrust-
ful of mental health, [but] those are the only two perspectives we get,” Lorenzo said. “We caught this in time and sent them to you, why didn’t? — what led to their death?”
Anne Nicole Shapiro was one of those people without a middle. Sha-piro was from Boulder, Colorado, and after spending time in China and Korea moved to Mendocino County. She lived in Little River, joined a women’s choir, and worked as a reading coach in public schools. She had been receiving mental health treatment for bipolar disorder, and on Jan. 6, 2016, had spent the night at a care facility in Willits.
She was last seen at 5 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2016. She was reported miss-ing three hours later. At noon, she was found dead at the MacKer-richer State Park beach 40 miles from Willits. No one knew for cer-tain how she’d gotten there, since she didn’t own a car. Several local news outlets reported her case, but after a few days, Shapiro’s story fell away.
Her death was clas-sified as undetermined by the Sheriff’s Office, as they were unable to identify if her deah was a result of suicide, homi-cide or another natural cause.
A year earlier in 2015, Mendocino County Sher-iff Tom Allman had be-gun a two-year journey to get a tax measure to support mental health services and reinstate a psychiatric health facil-ity in-county to replace the one that closed in 2000. Allman is well ac-quainted with mental health and the darker side. In 2005, his older brother died by suicide, a decision he still finds inexplicable, frustrat-ing, and “stupid.”
Today more than half of Mendocino County adult residents need or receive behavioral health services, ac-cording to HealthyMen docino.org, which tracks the County’s health sta-tuses. About 15 percent of people on Medicare are receiving treatment for depression and about 13 percent of Mendocino County adults reported they were in mental dis-tress for more than two weeks out of a 30-day pe-riod. Almost 6,000 calls were made to the Coun-
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Make reservations early!
Enjoy your
special night out
on the coast.
Soup, salad and entrée: $ up to $10 $$$ $20 to $40$$ $10 to $20 $$$$ $40 and above
St. Orres36601 S. Hwy One, Gualala (One mile north of town)North Coast Cuisine. • 707-884-3335Full bar. Checks, Credit cards MC, VISA.Price Range $$ - $$$$Opens at 5:00 p.m. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Sunday Brunch 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The Pier Chowder House & Tap Room790 Port Road, Point Arena • 707-882-3400 Seafood, steaks, fish and chips and more. Local wines and 31 beers on tap. Credit cards MC, VISA, AMEX.Price Range Lunch $$, Dinner $$$Open 7 days a week 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Rollerville Cafe22900 S. Hwy One, Point Arena • 707-882-2077Home-style cuisine.Beer and Wine. Credit cards MC, VISA.Price Range $$Mon. - Thurs. 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.Fri. - Sun. 8 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
215 Main 215 Main Street, Point Arena • 707-882-3215Panini, sandwiches and light fare.Local beers and wines • Age 21 and over only. Cash or checks accepted.Price range $Daily 3 p.m. -11 p.m.
Anchor Bay Thai Kitchen 35517 S. Hwy One, Anchor Bay • 707-884-4141Thai Cuisine, reservations accepted for parties of 5 or more.Take out available. Vegan and Gluten Free options available.Beer and Wine. Checks, Credit cards MC, VISA, DISC. $20 min for Credit card purchases.Price range $$Tues. - Sun.: Noon - 3 p.m., 5 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Black Point Grill at the Sea Ranch Lodge60 Sea Walk Drive, The Sea Ranch • 707-785-2371Inspired coastal cuisine with emphasis on the freshest local ingredients. Special holiday menus, winemaker dinners.Full bar. Credit cards MC, VISA, AMEX.Price range $$$Daily Breakfast 8 a.m.-11 a.m., Lunch 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Dinner 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
Restaurants to suit every occasionTrink’sSea Cliff Center, Gualala • 707-884-1713Coffee shop, desserts, sandwiches. Specialty dinners.Beer and wine. Credit cards MC, VISA, AMEX, Discover.Price Range $$ Mon.-Sat. 7 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sun. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Dinner on Wed., Thurs. and Fri. 5 p.m - 8 p.m., Reservations for parties of 6 or more.
Bird Cafe & Supper Club 190 Main Street, Point Arena • 707-882-1600Local - Seasonal - Mendocino County CuisineBeer, wine and bar service from Sign of the WhalePrice range $-$$$Dinner - Wed. - Sat. 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Twofish Baking Co. at Stewarts Point 32000 Coast Hwy. 1, Stewarts Point • 707-785-2011Bakery, market and eatery. Pastries, fresh bread, coffee and espresso, sandwiches, calzones, salads, ice cream. Full Bar. Checks, Credit cards MC, VISA.Price range $$Mon. - Sat. 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sunday 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
MendoViné 39145 S. Hwy One, Gualala • 707-896-2650A relaxing oasis with fine wine, food and musicFeaturing monthly special eventsAll Credit Cards Price range $$Thurs. - Sat. 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.www.mendovinelounge.com
Dining out in Mendonoma
Uneda Pizza 790 Port Rd., Point Arena • (707) 882-1960Brick-oven pizza using local ingredientsBeer and Wine. Catering also available.Credit cards MC, VISA, AMEX.Price range $$Wed.-Mon. 3 p.m. - 9 p.m. Closed Tuesday.www.unedaeat.com
The River Grill at Garcia River Casino 22215 Windy Hollow Road, Point Arena • 707-467-5320Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Chowder, Burgers, Sandwiches.Free coffee and sodas! Beer and Wine.Credit cards MC, VISA, Discover.Price range $$
VUE Kitchen 39300 S. Highway 1, Gualala • (707) 884-9180Fresh local fare with a Mediterranean flair, seasonal menu.Full bar. Credit cards MC, VISA, AMEX, DISC.Price range $$$Brunch Sat.-Sun. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.; Lunch Th.-Fr. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dinner Wed.-Sun. 5 - 9 p.m.; Bar menu Wed.-Mon. 4 - 9 p.m.
882-2077Reservations Recommended
Homestyle Cuisine Porch Seating Breakfast Served Daily Eggs Benedict Sat. & Sun.22900 Highway One
on crossroad of Lighthouse Road(just 2 minutes north of Point Arena)
Rollerville Cafe
Mon. - Thurs. 8:00 AM - 2:00 PMFri. - Sun. 8:00 AM - 7:30 PM
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Mariachis Restaurant 35501 S. Hwy 1, Anchor Bay • 707-884-1735Mexican Cuisine.Beer and Wine • Food to go • Cash onlyLunch & Dinner Wed.-Mon. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Closed Tues.Breakfast Sat.-Sun. 8 a.m.-11 a.m. Price range $$
Clubs, Groups and Classes from Page 19
•Learning through Play
Wednesdays and Fridays, weekly
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For children ages 18 months
to 4 years. Creative-based, child-centered environment to foster growth and focus on social-emotional develop-ment.
Location: Action Network in Cypress Village, 39144 Ocean Drive, Suite 4, Gualala.
Cost: $15 per day, lunch included.
Call 707-884-5413.
Festival…from Page 16exhibit indoors, more than 30 artists and ar-tisans from throughout Northern California, as well as some from as far away as Grass Valley, San Francisco, Vallejo, and Berkeley, will set up shop throughout the grounds beneath the red-wood canopy.
Kids of all ages can enjoy clay studio fun, Pomo stories by Eric Wilder, stories with Joel Crockett and Four-Eyed
Frog Books, puzzles and games with Tatiana of The Russian House. There will be live enter-tainment by Four Shil-lings Short, The Ernest Bloch Bell Ringers, gui-tarist John Micka, the Tessa Howard Dance Troupe, BAKU with Harrison Goldberg, and more.
Festival tickets are $6 at the gate, and youth 7 to 17 are admitted free. Visit GualalaArts.org for a more detailed schedule of events and entertainment.
volver…from Page 16main actresses) and Best Screenplay. Following its U.S. release, film critic A. O. Scott made “Volver” a “NYT Critics Pick” and wrote: “Very few film-makers have managed to smile so convincingly in the face of misery and fatality: Jean Renoir and Billy Wilder come imme-diately to mind, and Mr. Almodóvar, if he is not yet their equal, surely belongs in their compa-ny.”
In Spanish with Eng-lish subtitles, the film is rated R at a runtime of 121 minutes. The Film Club screenings are pre-ceded by a movie trivia quiz and followed by an audience discussion.
The Arena Theater Film Club is a member-ship-based film society which meets the first, second and fourth Mon-days of most months at the Arena Theater to screen and discuss a va-riety of movies, includ-ing recent independent releases, classics and
foreign films. Screen-ings are free to current Arena Theater members (memberships are $60 per year); their guests are welcome at $10 each. For a schedule of upcom-ing films, visit the Arena Theater Film Club’s website, arenatheater filmclub.org.
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The Thespians would like to thank the following individuals who contributed to our Riser Campaign! Your generosity has made
our theater more comfortable and safer for our audiences. Thank You!
Anonymous George R. & Kathryn N. Anderson Carolyn Andre & Barry Richman Trudy S. & Laurie E. Armer Christopher G. & Erika L. J. Arnold Peter B. & Judith S. Hanson Atherton Richard E. & Marilynn J. Balch Ruthann "Randy" Barrett Geoffrey A. & Wendy C. Beaty Carol J. & Bill Beck R. H. & J. P. Bennett Iris Y. Borg Mary Boyvey Berenice G. & Lawrence R. Brackett Julius & Susan Brauner Saundra T. Brewer Ellen Ann Brown J. Stephen & Gayle Carol Brugler Molly E. Buckley & Don Kurtz R. C. Buechner General Contractor George J. Calys Lynne P. Cannady & David Ford Wayne N. & Debbie Cassani S. C. & C. H. Chell Susan M. Clark Colette Coad The Coastal Real Estate Company Barbara Croner Duane L. & Ann M. Cropsey Mario de Paoli David R. & Kristine Donadio Karen J. Dotson & Edward J. Connolly Carol Emory Hazel Eshlean Dennis & Jane W. Evans C. T. & P. P. Faconti Fidelity Charitable grant—Jeffrey & Linda Graubart James C. & Susan J. Flessner Beverlee French & Craig L. Rice Jackie Gardener Penny A. Gardner Melvyn L. & Janet M. Gerst Janet K. Girod
Ann & Tony Green Dorothy D. Gregor W. F. & J. W. Guenther Gary Gunsel & Patricia Ann Murphy Richard M. & Marilyn I. Harris Laura E. & Jon K. Harwood Klaus Heinemann Kathye & Charles L. Hitt Ken & Jeanne Holmes Jane Hook & Peter Brosig John N. & Katherine C. Horn Linda K. Humble & Dario J. Romano Mary Sue Ittner & Robert A. Rutemoeller Larry Jacobs & Mirka Knaster Birthe K. Kirsch Richard D. & Judy Knarr Eric J. & Judy A. Kohn Donald M. & Marilyn J. Jassowski Ann B. Jones Jack G. & Linda R. Knebel Deborah Tierney & Lloyd Kreuzer Douglas K. & Jan Carrillo Le Du Bettina M. Leong & Bill Weindorf Anne B. & Alexander B. Long M. & E. Loring Harry F. & Lois R. Lutz Robert Markowitz & Christine Berardo Thomas G. Matson & Hank Stuart Claire McCarthy & Thayer Walker Carole H. McQuarrie Cecilia R. Moelter Linda Moon Andy Moore G. William & Patricia B. Mutch James & Marcia Nybakken Anne O'Donnell & Loren C. Adrian Thomas E. & Paula M. Osborne David P. & Evelyn J. Osteraas Douglas G. Paul Richard F. & Alice A. Pego Jacqueline M. & John A. Petersen Victoria Plann & W. D. Leisure Rae Radtkey
George Rathmell Bill & Mary Retzer David Robertson Roma Robbins & Barbara K. Price Cheryl A. Ross & Bruce Nelson Sharon St. James Michael & Patricia A. Salm James S. & Martha A. Sanford Richard & Connie Schimbor Gary L. Schoonyan Cynthia C. Schreiner & John H. Rickards Julie Shumaker & Stephanie E. Weiler Peter & Mary Kay Sidell David & Marla Skibbins Melvin Lyle Smith & Linda Jo Bostwick Sara L. Snyder Richard R. & Ellen M. Soule Jerry G. & Marilyn P. South Nancy Sullivan Dennis L. Steindorf & Jean F. Brooks Martin & Rene Steinpress James K. & Mary S. Suhr Lois Talovsky Margery Tarp Jesakka J. Tarr & Diana Souverbielle Ellen Tamalis Thompson Bonnie Toy Dale A. & Barbara D. Thrush Gale P. Valentini Vanguard Charitable—Laurie A & Jim Shaw Merryman Paul & Charan Van Noord Mary S. Wall Marilyn Walter Richard C. Warmer Robert B. Welch Patrick J. & Cynthia Lee Wilson Dean, Raymonda & Craig Wisdom Gloria Wood Clayton W. & Laura C. Yale Donna M. Yates-Johnson & James L. Johnson Linda Roffelsen-Zierman & Carl A. Zierman
Mental and Behavioral Health Resources for South Coast
Mendocino CountyNorth Bay Suicide Prevention Hotline of Mendocino
County: 1-855-587-6373Suicide Prevention Hotline (South Coast): 800-273-
8255
mental Health
Crisis Line: 855-838-0404Access Line: 800-555-5906Redwood Coast Senior Center: 707-964-0443Hospitality Center: 707-961-0172Redwood Community Services: 707-472-2922Hospitality House: 707-961-1150Tapestry Services (MediCal, foster children): 707-
463-3300Mendocino County Youth Project (youth up to 21
years): 707-463-4915
Substance Abuse
Substance Use Disorders Treatment: 707-961-2522Primary Purpose: 707-937-3830Narcotics Anonymous: 707-485-9110Alcoholics Anonymous: 707-462-7323Alcoholics Anonymous (Gualala): 707-884-1401MCA VHN: 707-462-1932Lucky Dance: 707-964-1001
Mendocino County Mental Heath Plan offers free language or interpreter assistance, American Sign Language or California Relay Services (TTY or TDD) for beneficiaries requesting or accessing services. These services may be requested at any MHP provider site or by calling 1-800-555-5906.
mental Health…from Page 21ty’s Crisis Access Line and about 2,700 people were treated for men-tal or behavioral health from 2017 to 2018.
“There’s always a stigma,” said Jed Dia-mond, Ph.D.
Diamond has worked in the County for 25 years in mental health and now sits on the Mea-sure B oversight com-mittee. “There’s a feeling of ‘those people.’ [People] don’t recognize they re-ally are us. We all know people—friends, fam-ily—that are challenged with depression.”
That was part of the likely impetus that helped Measure B to pass, he said. “I think there was a recognition; we really do need ser-vices.”
It’s laudatory, he said, and also unusual.
The next installment of this series on the state of mental health in Mendocino County will explain how 5150 patients receive treat-ment, how hospitals are ill-equipped to deal with these patients, and the move to implement Mea-sure B funding.
Fire…from Page 1ham, human resources director. Many of the 175 calls made to fill 32 places needed “were to disconnected phone numbers and many of the calls were not an-swered,” Dunham said.
However, she added, many of the calls were made to cell phones that did not reflect it was the County of Mendocino calling, and all calls had been made late at night and very early in the morning, which could have an impact for those who did not answer the calls.
To address the prob-lem for future disasters, Dunham said human resources will again ask disaster workers to update their contact information when it changes, and to come up with ways to ensure the County of Mendocino is registered as the caller when calls are made.
Crews are providing structure protection on the ground and as the River Fire sees more containment, more re-sources will be fed to push back the Ranch Fire.
“Every structure loss is a tragedy,” said 2nd District Supervisor John McCowen, “but we’re under 100 residences [destroyed]. It actually could been hundreds or thousands.”
Fifth District Super-visor Dan Hamburg warned though that despite the massive ef-fort and zero casualties, “We’re kind of at the beginning as what we think is the worst of the fire season. We could still be a number of months away from rain,” he said. “We really need to focus on fire safety.”
The County now uses Nixle as an emergency alert service, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office. To re-ceive emergency alerts, sign up at local.nixle.com/register, or text 888777 and enter “Men-doAlerts” to get all alerts in the County or a zip code number to receive alerts for that specific region.
North Coast Opportu-nities has reopened its wildfire relief program, which donates all pro-ceeds to wildfire survi-vors. To learn more or to donate call 707-467-3200 or visit ncoinc.org.
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climate of medieval Eu-rope was the main rea-son Norse settlements in Greenland expanded and went extinct. But evidence such as wal-rus bones and historical documents suggested another possible factor: that the Vikings’ de-scendants thrived on a lucrative trade in walrus tusks, which were sold to Europe’s elite and carved into luxury items.
If walrus ivory was the key to Greenland’s medieval wealth, ex-perts now suspect a col-lapsing market for the ivory may have helped doom the outposts. The Norse Greenland settle-ments vanished in the 1400s, after life in con-tinental Europe was rat-tled by the onset of the Black Death and the be-ginning of the Little Ice Age. These calamities undermined demand for walrus ivory, said Bar-rett.
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Public Noticefictitious business name statement
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as:Sea Gull Inn, 44960 Albion Street, Mendocino, CA 95460, 401
Oak Park Ave., Ukiah, CA 95482Gratitude Inn, Inc., 401 Oak Park Ave., Ukiah, CA 95482This business is conducted by a Corporation./s/ Ian Roth, PresidentThe registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-
tious business name or names listed above on 7/15/18.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Mendocino
County on 7/16/2018File No. 2018-F0420Expires 7/16/2023(7423) July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2018
Public Noticefictitious business name statement
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as:Waste to Wealth Consulting, 24151 Pine Reef Road, Point Are-
na, CA 95468Cody McMurtry, 4100 Manila Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609This business is conducted by an Individual./s/ Cody McMurtryThe registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-
tious business name or names listed above on N/A.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Mendocino
County on 6/20/2018File No. 2018-F0362Expires 6/20/2023(7424) July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2018
Public Noticefictitious business name statement
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as:JR’s Home Auto, JR’s Bakertown, 38820 Hwy 1 Gualala, CA
95445, PO Box 649, Gualala, CA 95445Harold Roddy 38831 Old Stage Road, Gualala, CA 95445This business is conducted by an Individual./s/ Harold Roddy - OwnerThe registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-
tious business name or names listed above on 6/1/2017.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Mendocino
County on 7/9/2018File No. 2018-F0411Expires 9/7/2023(7425) July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2018
Public Noticefictitious business name statement
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as:Pawsitively Good K9, 39150 Ocean Dr Suite 1Aida Sol, 38051 Ocean Drive Dr., Gualala, CA 95445This business is conducted by an Individual./s/ Aida SolThe registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-
tious business name or names listed above on 2/26/2018.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Mendocino
County on 2/27/2018File No. 2018-F0391Expires 2/27/2023(7426) July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2018
Public Noticefictitious business name statement
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as:(1) LIOCO, 501 Parducci Road, Ukiah, CA 95482Mendocino Wine Group, LLC., 501 Parducci Road, Ukiah, CA
95482This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company./s/ TIMOTHY L. THORNHILL, C.O.O.The registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-
tious business name or names listed above on N/A.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Mendocino
County on 7/20/2018File No. 2018-F0451Expires 7/20/2023(7431) July 27, August 3, 10, 17, 2018
Public Noticefictitious business name statement
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as:Point Area Cafe, 206 Main Street, Point Arena, CA 95468, PO
Box 66, Manchester, CA 95459Yvone Dorn, 14565 Cypress Point, Manchester, CA 95459This business is conducted by an Individual./s/ Yvonne L DornThe registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-
tious business name or names listed above on N/A.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Mendocino
County on 7/17/2018File No. 2018-F0442Expires 7/17/2023(7432) August 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018
Public Noticenotice of petition to
aDminister estateCASe NO.: SCTM-CvPB-18-27056
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Ralph Fredrick Wilson
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Jean Holt in the Superior Court of California, County of Mendocino.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Jean Holt be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted by probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate un-der the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions with-out obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action). The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
a Hearing on the petition will be held on August 30, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in Dept.: TEN MILE, located at: 700 SOUTH FRANKLIN STREET, FORT BRAGG, CA 95437.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should ap-pear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objec-tions with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the de-ceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to be general per-sonal representative as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Pro-bate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowl-edgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a per-son interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
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Public NoticeNOTICe OF TRUSTee’S SALe
yOU ARe IN DeFAULT UNDeR A DeeD OF TRUST DATeD 4/10/2009. UNLeSS yOU TAKe ACTION TO PROTeCT yOUR PROPeRTy, IT MAy Be SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALe. IF yOU neeD an eXplanation of tHe nature of tHe proceeD-ING AGAINST yOU, yOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWyeR.
A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal sav-ings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with inter-est and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.
Trustor: THeReSe A. STORNeTTA AND STANLey C. STOR-NeTTA, WIFe AND HUSBAND AS JOINT TeNANTS
Duly Appointed Trustee: LAW OFFICES OF LES ZIEVE Deed of Trust recorded 4/20/2009 as Instrument No. 2009-05489 in book , page The subject Deed of Trust was modified by Loan Modifica-tion Agreement recorded as Instrument 2014-05601 and recorded on 5/15/2014 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Mendocino County, California,
Date of Sale: 8/17/2018 at 10:00 AMPlace of Sale: At the main entrance to the Mendocino County Courthouse 100 North State Street, Ukiah, CAEstimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges:
$351,613.06Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than
the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.
Street Address or other common designation of 41501 iversen roaDreal property: GUALALA, California 95445 Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust.
A.P.N #.: 141-100-08-00The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incor-
rectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bid-ding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bid-der at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this
notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mort-gagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if appli-cable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 848-9272 or visit this Internet Web site www.elitepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 18-51707. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the In-ternet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
Dated: 7/19/2018 LAW OFFICeS OF LeS ZIeve, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450Irvine, CA 92606For Non-Automated Sale Information, call: (714) 848-7920For Sale Information: (714) 848-9272 www.elitepostandpub.comAndrew Buckelew, Trustee Sale Assistant
THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR-POSE
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Public Noticenotice of public Hearing
figtree paceWater Efficiency and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)
and Job Creation Program
NOTICe IS HeReBy GIveN that the Board of Directors of the California Enterprise Development Authority (CEDA) will hold a public hearing on:
Date: September 13, 2018Time: 10:30 AMMain Location: 550 Bercut Drive, Suite GSacramento, CA 95811
**vIA TeLeCONFeReNCe(712) 775-7031CONFeReNCe CODe: 183724
list of meeting teleconferencing locations
California Association for Local Economic Development(contact Helen Schaubmayer)550 Bercut Drive, Suite GSacramento, CA 95811
City of Santa Clarita(contact Jason Crawford or Marilyn Sourgose)23920 Valencia Blvd., Suite 100Santa Clarita, CA 91355
County of Stanislaus(contact Keith Boggs or Sheryl Swartz)1010 10th StreetModesto, CA 95354
City of Vista(contact Kevin Ham or Reception)200 Civic Center Dr.Vista, CA 92084
City of Lakeport(contact Margaret Silveira or Hilary Britton)225 Park StreetLakeport, CA 95453
City of West Sacramento(contact Aaron Laurel or Polly Harris)1110 West Capitol Avenue, 3rd FloorWest Sacramento, CA 95691
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (contact Mather Kearney) 6301 S StreetSacramento, CA 95817
Los Angeles CountyEconomic Development Corporation (LAEDC)(contact Carrie Rogers or Linden Johnson)444 S. Flower St., 37th FloorLos Angeles, CA 90071
or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard. Said public hearing will be held to consider the formation of an assessment district (the “Assessment District”) and adoption of the Water Ef-ficiency and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) and Job Creation Program (FIGTREE PACE) pursuant to Chapter 29 of Part 3 of Division 7 of the California Streets and Highways Code (com-mencing with Section 5898.12). The Assessment District will be a voluntary contractual assessment district to assist property owners with the cost of installing distributed generation renewable energy sources and making permanently affixed energy efficient, seismic, and water efficient improvements to their property. The geographi-cal boundaries of the Assessment District will now include the geo-graphical boundaries of the City of Point Arena and the Town of Truckee.
At the hearing, any person may present oral or written testimo-ny. The Board of Directors will consider all objections or protests, if any, to the proposed (i) improvements, (ii) Assessment District boundaries, and (iii) Assessment District contractual assessment.
Dated: August 10 and August 17, 2018 (8/10, 8/17/18) By: Gurbax Sahota
California Enterprise Development Authority8/10, 8/17/18CNS-3161411#INDEPENDENT COAST OBSERVER
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Public Noticefictitious business name statement
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as:(1) ONESTA WINES, (2) MENTIDA, 501 Parducci Road, Ukiah,
CA 95482Mendocino Wine Group, LLC., 501 Parducci Road, Ukiah, CA
95482This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company./s/ TIMOTHY L. THORNHILL, C.O.O.The registrant commenced to transact business under the ficti-
tious business name or names listed above on N/A.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Mendocino
County on 8/1/2018File No. 2018-F0466Expires 8/1/2023(7437) August 10, 17, 24, 31, 2018
Public Noticepublic notice
The Gualala Community Services District Board of Directors ap-proved the following budget at the regular GCSD Board meeting April 19, 2018.
Gualala Community Services Budget 2018-2019 Ordinary Income/Expense Income Total 4000 · Sewer Fee Income $462,417 4011 · Golf Course Water Sales $51,000 4019 · Water Processing $105,996 4020 · Leachate Income $27,108 Total Income $646,521 Total 5300 · Treatment Plant $440,033 Total 5500 · Vehicle $17,016 Total 5700 · Utilities - Electricity $41,820 5900 · Major Equipment Replacement $30,218 Total 5000 · Plant & Operations $529,087 Total 6000 · Admin/Overhead Expenses $23,498 Total 6100 · Payroll $366,168 Total Other Income $359,064 Total Other Expense $86,832 Net Income $0(7439) August 10, 2018
Public Noticenotice of a public Hearing
anD notice of intent to aDopt a Draft mitigateD
negative Declaration
NOTICe IS HeReBy GIVEN that the Point Arena City Coun-cil will conduct a continued public hearing at City Hall, 451 School Street, Point Arena, CA, on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 5:00 at p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, on the following project and Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration at the time listed or as soon thereafter as the item may be heard:
CASe: CDU # 2017-01DATe FILeD: April 10, 2017OWNeR/APPLICANT: ECLand, Inc. AGeNT: David HillmerZONING: Highway Commercial (HWC)ReQUeST: Construct new multi-family housing consisting of
eight residential units. Six units would be constructed on APN 027-061-21 and two units would be constructed on APN 027-061-18. The project also includes a new Coastal Development Permit for the subdivision that created the subject parcels. The previously ap-proved Coastal Development Permit for the subdivision expired and conditions of approval were never met.
APNs: 027-061-18, 027-061-19, 027-061-20, 027-061-21 & 027-061-22
LOCATION: The development is within the Coastal Zone, at 24001 South Highway One
PROJeCT COORDINATOR: Teresa R Spade, AICPSTARTING AND eNDING DATeS FOR PUBLIC RevIeW Pe-
RIOD: June 25, 2018 to August 14, 2018
eNvIRONMeNTAL DeTeRMINATION: The City of Point Arena Planning Department has prepared a Draft Mitigated Negative Dec-laration for the above project (no significant environmental impacts are anticipated that cannot be adequately mitigated). A copy of the Draft Negative Declaration is available for public review at Point Arena City Hall, 451 School Street, in Point Arena. The staff report and notice are available on the City of Point Arena website at http://www.cityofpointarena.net/documents/.
The Point Arena City Council is soliciting your input. All inter-ested parties are invited to attend and be heard at this time. Ap-plicants or their agents must appear for their hearings. If you chal-lenge the above matter(s) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing. All documents are available for review in the City Clerk’s Office. The City Coun-cil’s action regarding the item shall constitute final action by the City unless appealed to the Coastal Commission. Appeals to the Coastal Commission must be made in writing within 10 work-ing days following Coastal Commission receipt of a Notice of Final Action on this project. Should you desire to request notification of the City Council’s decision you may do so in writing by provid-ing a self-addressed stamped envelope to the City Clerk.
For further information contact the City of Point Arena:Mailing Address: PO Box 67, Point Arena, California 95468City Hall Location: 451 School Street, Point Arena, California
95468Telephone: 707 882-2122Richard ShoemakerCity ManagerDate: August 7, 2018(7440) August 10, 2018
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AnnouncementsAA mEEtInG tImES for Guala-la, Point Arena, The Sea Ranch, Annapolis 707-884-1401, www.gualalaaa.org
Employment
Help WAntedFoRt RoSS StoRE & LodGE is looking for full time help in all aspects of our family business. Store Clerk, Room cleaner and laundry. Must be 21, honest, dependable, ready to join our awesome team. Please apply in person at either business. (707) 847-3414 or (707)847-3333
GARCIA RIVER CASIno open-ings:--HR/Payroll Clerk, P/T--Slot Host, P/T--Cashier, P/TFor applications, in person at 22215 Windy Hollow Road or call 707-467-5311, or online at www.thegarciarivercasino.com or [email protected]
LIGhthouSE LodGInG mAn-AGER The iconic Point Arena Lighthouse needs an energetic and customer focused Lodging Manager. You will manage all aspects of our lodging opera-tion including taking phone, on-line and email reservations for our 6 vacation rentals, create promotions, manage marketing including social media, manage the Lodging and Housekeeping staffs and develop strategies to increase occupancy, among other duties. Good computer skills including word processing, spreadsheets and online reser-vations systems. Excellent cus-tomer service skills and phone manner. Lodging and/or vaca-tion rental experience desired. Full time Thursday - Monday. Send cover letter and resume to [email protected] or P. O. Box 11, Pt. Arena CA 95468 nEEdEd In-homE SERVICE in Point Arena. Must have own car. 707-272-3716.
MerchandiseFor sAle
--FRoSt tEK 240 propane chest freezer w/50gal propane tank, excellent condition: $1400.--1953 Willys Jeep MJ 38; runs, needs work: $3400.--34 ton Iron+Oak commercial log splitter, low hours: $1400.All prices are firm. Call or txt 707-292-2649. CAnoE PACKAGE FoR SALE: Old Town Discovery 158. V/G condition. Includes 5 paddles, 4 life jackets, two float cushions, EZ transport roof foams w/ties. Compare at $1500, sell $750 OBO. 707-494-9333. dRY oAK, honESt cords. De-livery available. Call Kyra 707-889-2071. RYE / oRChARdGRASS hAY Coastal grown. 2 wire bales. $7 bale, 10 bale minimum. (510)846-4800
VERmont CAStInG GAS StoVE, red, like new. $1500. 303-263-9669.
YArd And GArAGe sAles
PAIntInGS, prints, decor, household items. August 11, 9am-12pm: 38851 S. Hwy 1, Gualala.
AnimAlsKunEKunE/AGh PIGLEtS for sale. Pasture raised, good graz-ers. 3+ months old. $80 OBO. 415-420-4359.
VeHicles For sAle2007 LEXuS IS 250, rare 6-speed manual transmis-sion. One owner. Car serviced at Freeman Lexus every 5kmi since new. 169kmi w/partial fac-tory rebuild at 100kmi. Heated/cooled power seats (leather), 6-disc CD, new front tires, just serviced, great car, timeless design, perfect for our roads, Lexus reliability. Asking $6500. 707-888-0135.
ServicesAnimAl cAre
BEd & BonELodging for Paws
Boarding - GroomingSince 1987
www.bednbone.com707-882-2429
construction & HAndYmAn
A REnAISSAnCE BuILdERnew Construction,
maintenance, Repairs.
Samuel Parsons 707-684-0098
Contractors Lic 803307A1 hAndYmAn
maintenanceRemodeling
Repairshauling
Lic#616557707-882-2260
Home serVicesCARPEt, tILE And GRout,
upholstery CleaningBy ShoRE-PRo.
Since 1998!Emergency water damage service.707-884-3238.SPECIALIZEDProfessional
Tree WorkAll Phases
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707-889-1670tREE SERVICE
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Jaime Gonzalez, Insured707-721-2057
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Real Estatemobile Homes
tRAILER SPACE in Manches-ter: $660/mo. Includes all hook-ups, electricity and laundry. Greg 707-882-3325.
commerciAl rentAls
oFFICE SPACE, hWY 1, GuALALA Recently remodeled 950 sqft, 6 room office w/private restroom in Professional build-ing. Rent $1200 or lease nego-tiable.Inquire 707-884-3466.
Home rentAlsBEAutIFuL 3BR/4BA home on private 4 acres with million dollar sea views. Easy paved access. Furnished open great room with southwestern design. Hottub, sauna, workshop/garage. Year lease $2250. Available August. Contact Jim 707-295-1545, big [email protected], rch-1@out look.com oCEAnFRont 2BD/1BA flat. $2,365 per month. No dogs. Walk to beach. 707-357-4501.
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Classic 2166 SF coastal lodge-style home nestled between the 9th green & 18th fairway, a stone’s throw from the Clubhouse & the beach. Soaring 2-story ceilings, open beam construction & an open floor plan; includes 2 upper level loft/offices. Sliding glass door access to the beautiful outdoors. A large wood burning fireplace, wood rafters, barn-style ceiling & expansive windows provide you with a wonderful connection to the nature of Sea Ranch.
39140 South Highway One, Gualala, CA 95445707-884-9920 - utopiabythesea.com
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$699,000Hwy 1 to Halcyon (West); left on Leeward; house on left just past
Grey Whale. UBL: 35A-2
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FOR PROPERTY INFORMATION AND APPOINTMENTS, CALL 707.785.3322 [email protected] www.TheCoastalRealEstateCompany.com
The Ranch Center on Verdant View, The Sea Ranch. Next to The Ranch Café. Exit Highway 1 at Annapolis Road. Open 7 days a week. DRE #01822071
Liisberg& Kalinoski
BATHS 2
BEDS 2
YEAR BUILT 1978
LOCATION hillside
SQ.FT. Approx. 1920
PROPERTY 0.96 Acres
PRICE $1,245,000
Award winning 1978 Don Jacobs architectural masterpiece located on the exclusive hillside row of period Jacobs homes with panoramic ocean views. This 2-bed, 2-bath went through a gentle remodel over the last few years giving you a gourmet kitchen plus lots of outdoor, wind protected garden and
deck space for entertaining. A large loft used for office and media, is in addition to the generous living room with wood burning fireplace and built-in bookshelves. A 2-car oversized garage makes this a great
home for fulltime and weekend living. A must see home and location to appreciate. Call today for a private tour. 707.785.3322 or visit:
www.36835greencroft.com
36835 Greencroft Close Road, The Sea Ranch, UBL 30-24 New Price $1,245,000
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