Mike wanted 100% tax rate, settled for 90%
Humboldt Sentinel
3/18/09
By Sentinel Staff
WASHINGTON -- The House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill by Congressman Mike Thompson (D-Napa Valley) yesterday to charge a 90 percent tax for bonuses paid by businesses given rescue money from the government, such as AIG.
”It’s outrageous that some of the same bankers who helped create this economic mess are now going to be rewarded for their failures with taxpayer dollars,” said Congressman Thompson in a release on Tuesday. “By taxing all bonuses paid out by companies that received money to help them stay afloat, we’ll send a message to these folks that business as usual is no longer acceptable. I would prefer to tax these bonuses at 100 percent but that level is considered confiscatory and doesn’t pass legal muster.”
Currently the IRS keeps 25 percent of bonuses less than $1 million and 35 percent of bonuses more than $1 million dollars. Thompson’s bill, H.R. 1572, the “Taxpayer Protection Act,” raises the rate to 90 percent of bonuses paid by companies given bailout money through the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
“It goes against the ideals of capitalism to reward the people that helped create this economic mess,” stated Thompson yesterday. “It’s even more outrageous that taxpayers are footing the bill. Congress should quickly pass this legislation that will effectively eliminate the bonuses being paid out by companies who received help from the government.”
Thompson is a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over all tax-related matters coming before Congress. House leaders have indicated that passing legislation to address the bonuses will be a high priority for Congress this week.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Congressman Thompson Warns Homeowners
Foreclosure assistance scams abound, HUD offers help
Humboldt Sentinel
3/18/09
By Sentinel Staff
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Mike Thompson (D-Napa Valley) is urging constituents to contact a free local government-approved housing counseling agency instead of companies that charge money for foreclosure assistance.
“As more families struggle to pay their mortgages, predators are trying to take advantage of people who don’t know where to turn for help,” said Congressman Thompson. “There are resources out there to help people stay in their homes, and I urge folks who are struggling to contact government-backed organizations for assistance.”
Families facing foreclosure can get free assistance from agencies that have been approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Treasury. A list of these organizations can be found at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/hcs.cfm?webListAction=search&sear chstate=CA or by calling toll free (800) 569-4287 on weekdays between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time) or call 1-800-CALL-FHA.
Thompson also warned people that some scammers are using names and Websites that use variations of HUD’s name to mislead people, and urged constituents to call his district office if they are suspicious about an offer that seems too good to be true. He reminded homeowners that the only official HUD website is at http://www.hud.gov/ and sites that end in hud.us-gov or hud.com or hudgov.us or any of a number of other addresses are not official HUD Websites.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/18/09
By Sentinel Staff
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Mike Thompson (D-Napa Valley) is urging constituents to contact a free local government-approved housing counseling agency instead of companies that charge money for foreclosure assistance.
“As more families struggle to pay their mortgages, predators are trying to take advantage of people who don’t know where to turn for help,” said Congressman Thompson. “There are resources out there to help people stay in their homes, and I urge folks who are struggling to contact government-backed organizations for assistance.”
Families facing foreclosure can get free assistance from agencies that have been approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Treasury. A list of these organizations can be found at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/hcs.cfm?webListAction=search&sear chstate=CA or by calling toll free (800) 569-4287 on weekdays between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time) or call 1-800-CALL-FHA.
Thompson also warned people that some scammers are using names and Websites that use variations of HUD’s name to mislead people, and urged constituents to call his district office if they are suspicious about an offer that seems too good to be true. He reminded homeowners that the only official HUD website is at http://www.hud.gov/ and sites that end in hud.us-gov or hud.com or hudgov.us or any of a number of other addresses are not official HUD Websites.
Tiny Universe Funks Out Today And Tomorrow
Former Kravitz sax-man Karl Denson defies categorization
Humboldt Sentinel
3/18/09
By Sentinel Staff
That powerhouse of funk known simply as the Tiny Universe headlines back-to-back shows this evening and the next at the Red Fox Tavern in Downtown Eureka.
Karl Denson, the former saxophonist for funk rock superstar Lenny Kravitz, spun off his Tiny Universe project in 1998, and has defied categorization ever since with a dynamic sound and an unstoppable energy. While they’ve only released one album-length recording, The Bridge in 2002, Tiny Universe has nonetheless been the beneficiary of critical praise with rhythm-and-blues hits like ‘Because Of Her Beauty’ and ‘The Answer.’
As Passion Presents promoter Eric Kinnally boasts in his release, Denson has “built a reputation as a groundbreaking musician equally potent as a masterful collaborator and an innovative solo artist, following in the footsteps of funkmasters Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley.”
He started touring with Kravitz during his height of popularity in 1989, spending years between the road and the recording studio, contributing to platinum albums Let Love Rule and Mama Said, also finding time to collaborate with DJ Greyboy on ‘Unwind Your Mind’ which hit the top of the European charts.
“Denson's drive to continually innovate and push the musical envelope drove him to form the Tiny Universe,” according to Kinnally, and KDTU is pushing forward in their latest tour to come up with new material for a forthcoming release. You can check Denson’s tracks at www.globalimaging.us/kdtu or by visiting their MySpace page.
Both shows at the Red Fox start at 10:30 p.m. and are 21-and-over only. Music fans can pick up their tickets at the Tavern, located at 415 Fifth Street in Eureka, for $25. For more information, contact Kinnally at promo@passionpresents.com.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/18/09
By Sentinel Staff
That powerhouse of funk known simply as the Tiny Universe headlines back-to-back shows this evening and the next at the Red Fox Tavern in Downtown Eureka.
Karl Denson, the former saxophonist for funk rock superstar Lenny Kravitz, spun off his Tiny Universe project in 1998, and has defied categorization ever since with a dynamic sound and an unstoppable energy. While they’ve only released one album-length recording, The Bridge in 2002, Tiny Universe has nonetheless been the beneficiary of critical praise with rhythm-and-blues hits like ‘Because Of Her Beauty’ and ‘The Answer.’
As Passion Presents promoter Eric Kinnally boasts in his release, Denson has “built a reputation as a groundbreaking musician equally potent as a masterful collaborator and an innovative solo artist, following in the footsteps of funkmasters Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley.”
He started touring with Kravitz during his height of popularity in 1989, spending years between the road and the recording studio, contributing to platinum albums Let Love Rule and Mama Said, also finding time to collaborate with DJ Greyboy on ‘Unwind Your Mind’ which hit the top of the European charts.
“Denson's drive to continually innovate and push the musical envelope drove him to form the Tiny Universe,” according to Kinnally, and KDTU is pushing forward in their latest tour to come up with new material for a forthcoming release. You can check Denson’s tracks at www.globalimaging.us/kdtu or by visiting their MySpace page.
Both shows at the Red Fox start at 10:30 p.m. and are 21-and-over only. Music fans can pick up their tickets at the Tavern, located at 415 Fifth Street in Eureka, for $25. For more information, contact Kinnally at promo@passionpresents.com.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Sixth Anniversary Peace March This Saturday
Protesters to confront Obama on Afghanistan escalation
Humboldt Sentinel
3/17/09
By Charles Douglas
EUREKA -- The Bush presidency may be history, but his overseas wars of occupation continue to incite demonstrations the world over, with the sixth anniversary of the Iraq conflict also marked with the sixth annual peace marches in communities across the US.
On the North Coast, Eureka will again be the scene of a protest procession through the Downtown and Old Town districts, beginning at 1 p.m. at the Humboldt County Courthouse at Fifth and I Street. The protest continues to be organized by Communities for Justice and Peace, who claim that a culture of militarism transcendent of the two-party façade is responsible for the bipartisan aggression with both Democrats and Republicans continuing to vote in favor of continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“While it's true how millions have been lulled into passivity (and active patriotic complicity) with the Obama victory, it's also true these long months helped build people's hopes that the democratic process would ‘self-correct’ the horrors of the bush regime,” stated peace activist Jack Nounnan in a release. “The anti-war movement acknowledges all this, wanting positive signs, but seeing the necessity to hold firm against Obama and the regime, an extension of our long history of habitual wars for expansion under any number of labels…surely it must be dawning for more of us [as we] become aware of how such hostilities not only grind on and on, but even escalate.”
Nounnan and Communities for Justice and Peace draw a connection between the mounting expenses of these wars, already in excess of a trillion dollars, and the economic calamity engulfing the US under both Bush and Obama.
“For many generations this has been too harsh to bring up and consider, but more Americans are aware not only that America is overextended again, but breaking so many of us financially here at home, so much of our needs ignored with monies drying up...a kind of machine running on, almost oblivious of us running down at home,” Nounnan stated. “This translates quickly into a no-nonsense militarism and control of as many of the worlds resources as possible…then having to learn to live with those post-war years of grinding poverty.”
Along with similar demonstrations in city centers up and down the West Coast, the Eureka march will also coincide with the March on the Pentagon endorsed by Voters for Peace, which begins in downtown Washington, D.C. and also includes the offices of Boeing, Lokhed Martin, General Dynamics and KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton.
“The plan to withdraw troops from Iraq is a slow withdrawal that will take nearly as long as all of World War I,” stated Kevin Zeese, executive director of Voters for Peace. “At the same time the war in Afghanistan is escalating with 17,000 troops (so far) planned for deployment, attacks in Pakistan are increasing and saber rattling continues with Iran with threats of an attack on that country as well.”
“All of this is occurring at a time of economic collapse and with a military worn out by the Iraq war. More war will create greater instability and more threats to U.S. national security. The U.S. has more effective tools to resolve these conflicts.”
While not officially on the march’s procession map -- the full details of which have not been released as of press time -- some protestors want to include Congressman Mike Thompson’s (D - Napa Valley) Eureka office at Third and D Street on the hit list.
While Thompson voted against initiating the Iraq conflict in late 2002, he has voted for nearly every major appropriation to fund both wars, and has refused to join other House Democrats on legislation to mandate the full withdrawal of US forces or on bills seeking criminal investigations concerning the initiation of the war or the conduct of military personnel and their commanders for war crimes.
For more information on the Humboldt County peace march, call CPJ at (707) 442-8733; Voters for Peace can be reached at their website, www.votersforpeace.us.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/17/09
By Charles Douglas
EUREKA -- The Bush presidency may be history, but his overseas wars of occupation continue to incite demonstrations the world over, with the sixth anniversary of the Iraq conflict also marked with the sixth annual peace marches in communities across the US.
On the North Coast, Eureka will again be the scene of a protest procession through the Downtown and Old Town districts, beginning at 1 p.m. at the Humboldt County Courthouse at Fifth and I Street. The protest continues to be organized by Communities for Justice and Peace, who claim that a culture of militarism transcendent of the two-party façade is responsible for the bipartisan aggression with both Democrats and Republicans continuing to vote in favor of continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“While it's true how millions have been lulled into passivity (and active patriotic complicity) with the Obama victory, it's also true these long months helped build people's hopes that the democratic process would ‘self-correct’ the horrors of the bush regime,” stated peace activist Jack Nounnan in a release. “The anti-war movement acknowledges all this, wanting positive signs, but seeing the necessity to hold firm against Obama and the regime, an extension of our long history of habitual wars for expansion under any number of labels…surely it must be dawning for more of us [as we] become aware of how such hostilities not only grind on and on, but even escalate.”
Nounnan and Communities for Justice and Peace draw a connection between the mounting expenses of these wars, already in excess of a trillion dollars, and the economic calamity engulfing the US under both Bush and Obama.
“For many generations this has been too harsh to bring up and consider, but more Americans are aware not only that America is overextended again, but breaking so many of us financially here at home, so much of our needs ignored with monies drying up...a kind of machine running on, almost oblivious of us running down at home,” Nounnan stated. “This translates quickly into a no-nonsense militarism and control of as many of the worlds resources as possible…then having to learn to live with those post-war years of grinding poverty.”
Along with similar demonstrations in city centers up and down the West Coast, the Eureka march will also coincide with the March on the Pentagon endorsed by Voters for Peace, which begins in downtown Washington, D.C. and also includes the offices of Boeing, Lokhed Martin, General Dynamics and KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton.
“The plan to withdraw troops from Iraq is a slow withdrawal that will take nearly as long as all of World War I,” stated Kevin Zeese, executive director of Voters for Peace. “At the same time the war in Afghanistan is escalating with 17,000 troops (so far) planned for deployment, attacks in Pakistan are increasing and saber rattling continues with Iran with threats of an attack on that country as well.”
“All of this is occurring at a time of economic collapse and with a military worn out by the Iraq war. More war will create greater instability and more threats to U.S. national security. The U.S. has more effective tools to resolve these conflicts.”
While not officially on the march’s procession map -- the full details of which have not been released as of press time -- some protestors want to include Congressman Mike Thompson’s (D - Napa Valley) Eureka office at Third and D Street on the hit list.
While Thompson voted against initiating the Iraq conflict in late 2002, he has voted for nearly every major appropriation to fund both wars, and has refused to join other House Democrats on legislation to mandate the full withdrawal of US forces or on bills seeking criminal investigations concerning the initiation of the war or the conduct of military personnel and their commanders for war crimes.
For more information on the Humboldt County peace march, call CPJ at (707) 442-8733; Voters for Peace can be reached at their website, www.votersforpeace.us.
Monday, March 16, 2009
St. Patrick’s Day Checkpoint On Tuesday
Federally-funded papers check at undisclosed location
Humboldt Sentinel
3/16/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- Police officers will conduct a sobriety and driver license checkpoint within the city limits of Eureka on Tuesday, March 18.
Motorists approaching the checkpoint will see warning signs, traffic control patterns and officers contacting drivers on the roadway checking driver licenses and screening drivers for signs of intoxication. Drivers can shorten the delay by being ready to show an officer their driver’s license.
This papers check will occur at an as-yet undisclosed location, although judicial precedent requires the Eureka Police Department to disclose this at least one hour prior to its operation.
According to their release today, the EPD is dedicated to getting impaired drivers off the road roadways. So far this year officers have arrested 72 people for drunken driving.
Funding for the checkpoint comes from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. For information call Senior Traffic Officer Gary Whitmer at (707) 441-4232, or e-mail him at gwhitmer@ci.eureka.ca.gov.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/16/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- Police officers will conduct a sobriety and driver license checkpoint within the city limits of Eureka on Tuesday, March 18.
Motorists approaching the checkpoint will see warning signs, traffic control patterns and officers contacting drivers on the roadway checking driver licenses and screening drivers for signs of intoxication. Drivers can shorten the delay by being ready to show an officer their driver’s license.
This papers check will occur at an as-yet undisclosed location, although judicial precedent requires the Eureka Police Department to disclose this at least one hour prior to its operation.
According to their release today, the EPD is dedicated to getting impaired drivers off the road roadways. So far this year officers have arrested 72 people for drunken driving.
Funding for the checkpoint comes from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. For information call Senior Traffic Officer Gary Whitmer at (707) 441-4232, or e-mail him at gwhitmer@ci.eureka.ca.gov.
Eureka Robbery Suspect Arrested In Ukiah
Police also search home of William Mulligan in Stafford
Humboldt Sentinel
3/16/09
By Sentinel Staff
UKIAH -- An investigation into the hold-up at the Harris Street Market in Eureka last Monday has led to the arrest of a Stafford resident who had left the county in violation of his probation.
William Eugene Mulligan, 22, had a search warrant issued for his home at the behest of the Eureka Police Department after officers obtained eyewitness testimony, surveillance footage and evidence processed from the scene of the crime. Upon service of the search warrant in Stafford, more items believed to have been used in this robbery were located, and a further warrant was issued for his arrest.
Not long afterward, Mulligan was located in Ukiah by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and taken into custody. He is being held in the Mendocino County Jail on his arrest warrant, as well as for a federal warrant for violating the terms of his probation.
The possible connection between the Harris Street Market and Liquor robbery and a secondary armed robbery last Thursday at the Patriot Gas Station is being investigated due to several similarities, according to EPD public information officer Murl Harpham in a release issued this morning.
EPD also identified David Joel Shields, a 23-year-old Fortuna resident, as a person of interest in both of these robberies. He is also wanted for the violation of his parole conditions.
The investigation is ongoing, according to Harpham, and anyone with information regarding these two robberies, or the whereabouts of Shields, is asked to call the EPD Criminal Investigations Section at (707) 441-4300.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/16/09
By Sentinel Staff
UKIAH -- An investigation into the hold-up at the Harris Street Market in Eureka last Monday has led to the arrest of a Stafford resident who had left the county in violation of his probation.
William Eugene Mulligan, 22, had a search warrant issued for his home at the behest of the Eureka Police Department after officers obtained eyewitness testimony, surveillance footage and evidence processed from the scene of the crime. Upon service of the search warrant in Stafford, more items believed to have been used in this robbery were located, and a further warrant was issued for his arrest.
Not long afterward, Mulligan was located in Ukiah by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and taken into custody. He is being held in the Mendocino County Jail on his arrest warrant, as well as for a federal warrant for violating the terms of his probation.
The possible connection between the Harris Street Market and Liquor robbery and a secondary armed robbery last Thursday at the Patriot Gas Station is being investigated due to several similarities, according to EPD public information officer Murl Harpham in a release issued this morning.
EPD also identified David Joel Shields, a 23-year-old Fortuna resident, as a person of interest in both of these robberies. He is also wanted for the violation of his parole conditions.
The investigation is ongoing, according to Harpham, and anyone with information regarding these two robberies, or the whereabouts of Shields, is asked to call the EPD Criminal Investigations Section at (707) 441-4300.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Drug Dealer Arrested At Arcata Motel
Joshua Gillette already on probation for 2005 hash fire
Humboldt Sentinel
3/15/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- Last Friday evening, trouble once again caught up with a man previously convicted of destroying part of an apartment building when his hash manufacturing lab blew up and started a fire.
Joshua Gillette, a 30-year-old Iowa resident, was taken into custody at about 11 p.m. last night, when the Arcata Police Department was tipped off that a probationer with a felony arrest warrant was at the Motel 6 on Valley West Boulevard. He was taken into custody without incident, and according to APD officials, offered no resistance.
On his arrest, Gillette was found in possession of hash, a substance suspected of being methamphetamine, hypodermic syringes, unlawfully possessed prescription medications and materials for drug sales. He was charged with drug possession, drug sales and probation violation.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/15/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- Last Friday evening, trouble once again caught up with a man previously convicted of destroying part of an apartment building when his hash manufacturing lab blew up and started a fire.
Joshua Gillette, a 30-year-old Iowa resident, was taken into custody at about 11 p.m. last night, when the Arcata Police Department was tipped off that a probationer with a felony arrest warrant was at the Motel 6 on Valley West Boulevard. He was taken into custody without incident, and according to APD officials, offered no resistance.
On his arrest, Gillette was found in possession of hash, a substance suspected of being methamphetamine, hypodermic syringes, unlawfully possessed prescription medications and materials for drug sales. He was charged with drug possession, drug sales and probation violation.
Balloon Tract: “It’s Time To Build”
Security National foresees final public review stage this summer
Humboldt Sentinel
3/15/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- According to the would-be developers of the Marina Center, sited on top of the remains of the Union Pacific train depot on the Eureka Waterfront, the current economic crisis is no impediment to their plans.
Information on ground-breaking at the Balloon Tract will be the primary focus of a speech and a question-answer session for Security National vice president Randy Gans when he appears at the Eureka Republican Women Federated meeting on Thursday, March 19.
Gans, who reports directly to Security National head and ex-billionaire Rob Arkley, has been involved with the project since its inception in 2002. His stated topic is “The Marina Center -- It’s Time To Build” and in this speech, Gans intends to espouse the premise that the final state of public approval will be reached early this summer.
The Marina Center proposal for a mix of commercial and residential development has drawn fire from environmental organizations for its “capping” of industrial pollution on the site.
Currently the 550-plus page document of the project’s environmental impact report is in public circulation, but will return to the Eureka City Council for another round of public hearings this spring.
The ERWF now meets at the Elks Lodge, 445 Herrick in Eureka, where members, guests and interested persons gather at 11:30 a.m. for a buffet lunch, including coffee or tea, for $12.50, including tax and tip. For those only wishing a beverage and to cover the speaker fee, the cost is $4. The ERWF also asked in their release for attendees to bring a postage stamp to mail a letter to President Barrack Obama.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/15/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- According to the would-be developers of the Marina Center, sited on top of the remains of the Union Pacific train depot on the Eureka Waterfront, the current economic crisis is no impediment to their plans.
Information on ground-breaking at the Balloon Tract will be the primary focus of a speech and a question-answer session for Security National vice president Randy Gans when he appears at the Eureka Republican Women Federated meeting on Thursday, March 19.
Gans, who reports directly to Security National head and ex-billionaire Rob Arkley, has been involved with the project since its inception in 2002. His stated topic is “The Marina Center -- It’s Time To Build” and in this speech, Gans intends to espouse the premise that the final state of public approval will be reached early this summer.
The Marina Center proposal for a mix of commercial and residential development has drawn fire from environmental organizations for its “capping” of industrial pollution on the site.
Currently the 550-plus page document of the project’s environmental impact report is in public circulation, but will return to the Eureka City Council for another round of public hearings this spring.
The ERWF now meets at the Elks Lodge, 445 Herrick in Eureka, where members, guests and interested persons gather at 11:30 a.m. for a buffet lunch, including coffee or tea, for $12.50, including tax and tip. For those only wishing a beverage and to cover the speaker fee, the cost is $4. The ERWF also asked in their release for attendees to bring a postage stamp to mail a letter to President Barrack Obama.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
High Speed Chase Results In Three Arrests
Suspects in Mar. 6 home invasion crash into former Pizza Hut
Humboldt Sentinel
3/14/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA – A suspicious vehicle report early this morning led to the arrests of suspects Waymond Kelly and Michael Johns wanted in the home invasion robbery of just over a week ago.
EPD officers were dispatched to the 100 block of West Seventh Street at about 4:35 a.m. by an unnamed reporting party, which claimed that there was a white sedan parked and occupied by at least two subjects with hoods pulled up over their heads.
As units arrived on scene, they located a vehicle matching the description leaving the area, and when a traffic stop was attempted on the vehicle, the suspects fled. When it reached Fifth Street, EPD Public Information Officer Murl Harpham claimed in a release that it sped up to over 100 miles per hour.
The suspects’ quick get-away was cut short, however, when it tried to negotiate a “no brakes” turn onto R Street at such speeds. The vehicle swerved off the street and impacted the vacant building which once housed Pizza Hut. Three subjects fled from the vehicle, but were taken into custody a short distance away by responding units.
Kelly and Johns were booked into the county jail on parole holds. In addition, Kelly was charged with possession of a controlled substance. The driver, Nathan Aaron Ruptak, a 27-year-old Eureka resident, was booked on charges of evading the police, resisting arrest, and also kept on a parole hold.
Harpham noted the active status of the investigation into the home invasion on Mar. 6, and asked anyone with information on either incident to contact the EPD Criminal Investigations Section at (707) 441-4300.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/14/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA – A suspicious vehicle report early this morning led to the arrests of suspects Waymond Kelly and Michael Johns wanted in the home invasion robbery of just over a week ago.
EPD officers were dispatched to the 100 block of West Seventh Street at about 4:35 a.m. by an unnamed reporting party, which claimed that there was a white sedan parked and occupied by at least two subjects with hoods pulled up over their heads.
As units arrived on scene, they located a vehicle matching the description leaving the area, and when a traffic stop was attempted on the vehicle, the suspects fled. When it reached Fifth Street, EPD Public Information Officer Murl Harpham claimed in a release that it sped up to over 100 miles per hour.
The suspects’ quick get-away was cut short, however, when it tried to negotiate a “no brakes” turn onto R Street at such speeds. The vehicle swerved off the street and impacted the vacant building which once housed Pizza Hut. Three subjects fled from the vehicle, but were taken into custody a short distance away by responding units.
Kelly and Johns were booked into the county jail on parole holds. In addition, Kelly was charged with possession of a controlled substance. The driver, Nathan Aaron Ruptak, a 27-year-old Eureka resident, was booked on charges of evading the police, resisting arrest, and also kept on a parole hold.
Harpham noted the active status of the investigation into the home invasion on Mar. 6, and asked anyone with information on either incident to contact the EPD Criminal Investigations Section at (707) 441-4300.
Friday, March 13, 2009
HSU To Hold Writing Education Conference
Workshops center on writing in the 21st Century
Humboldt Sentinel
3/13/09
By Paul Mann
ARCATA -- The Redwood Writing Project and Humboldt State University will host "wrt 2 lrn: Writing in the 21st Century," on Saturday, March 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Founders Hall.
The conference is aimed at kindergarten through college-level educators who teach writing.
wrt 2 lrn is a follow up to the Redwood Writing Project's (RWP) summer conference in which educators share their knowledge and explore collaborative ways of developing training for their colleagues. This year, the RWP fellows have organized their findings from the summer meeting and will share them at Saturday's conference.
An array of workshops will feature timely topics and themes that will include Writing with English Language Learners, Technology Trends and Today's Writing Classroom. The workshop Textists vs. Textperts will feature a panel discussion of local K-16 educators and students. They will lead participants in addressing two underlying questions: can the language of text messaging be used in an academic setting and what are the effects of text language on today's writing?
Attendees have a choice of four workshops from fourteen options. Lunchtime will feature two alternatives: an open mike poetry read or a "read around," in which writers share feedback and writing techniques.
Pre-registration fee for the conference is $45.00 and includes a box lunch. Those wishing to earn one-half unit of university credit will have a total registration/tuition fee of $60.00. To register online, visit www.humboldt.edu/~rwp or call the RWP office at 826-5109 for details.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/13/09
By Paul Mann
ARCATA -- The Redwood Writing Project and Humboldt State University will host "wrt 2 lrn: Writing in the 21st Century," on Saturday, March 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Founders Hall.
The conference is aimed at kindergarten through college-level educators who teach writing.
wrt 2 lrn is a follow up to the Redwood Writing Project's (RWP) summer conference in which educators share their knowledge and explore collaborative ways of developing training for their colleagues. This year, the RWP fellows have organized their findings from the summer meeting and will share them at Saturday's conference.
An array of workshops will feature timely topics and themes that will include Writing with English Language Learners, Technology Trends and Today's Writing Classroom. The workshop Textists vs. Textperts will feature a panel discussion of local K-16 educators and students. They will lead participants in addressing two underlying questions: can the language of text messaging be used in an academic setting and what are the effects of text language on today's writing?
Attendees have a choice of four workshops from fourteen options. Lunchtime will feature two alternatives: an open mike poetry read or a "read around," in which writers share feedback and writing techniques.
Pre-registration fee for the conference is $45.00 and includes a box lunch. Those wishing to earn one-half unit of university credit will have a total registration/tuition fee of $60.00. To register online, visit www.humboldt.edu/~rwp or call the RWP office at 826-5109 for details.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
HSU And CR Name Top Book For ‘09
Three Cups Of Tea explores poverty in Pakistan
Humboldt Sentinel
3/12/09
By Paul Mann
Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods have chosen as 2009 Book of the Year Three Cups of Tea, the best-selling account of new schools established in the remotest areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, particularly for girls.
Co-authored by mountain climber Greg Mortenson and journalist David Oliver Relin, Three Cups is the fourth annual selection of the HSU/CR partnership, which provides a forum to promote literacy and the free exchange of ideas. The forum's precept is, "A community that reads together shares a uniquely human experience."
Both the HSU and CR campuses will host group sessions in Fall 2009 to examine the book's themes. Faculty are encouraged to incorporate the book of the year in their classes.
A fall one-unit book club class at HSU will be open to the general public as well as students. It is titled English 480 and sign-up is available on WebReg, Open University and Extended Education. Small discussion groups meet evenings four to five times during the semester.
The New York Times number one best-seller chronicles Mortenson's failed attempt to scale the world's second highest mountain, K2. Exhausted afterward, he wound up separated from his party in a desperately poor Pakistani hamlet. He was nursed back to health there and he learned that the community could not pay a dollar a day to hire a teacher.
Moved by this, Mortenson launched a humanitarian campaign, laboriously collected funds in small amounts-right down to pennies-from the grassroots and went on to establish 78 schools. He emphasizes community-based education and literacy programs that cater to girls.
Tom Brokaw, the first and initially only donor, commented, "Greg Mortenson's dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it's proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world."
The highly regarded Pakistani journalist, Ahmed Rashid, best-selling author of Descent into Chaos, said, "Pakistan and Afghanistan are both failing their students on a massive scale. The work Mortenson is doing, providing the poorest students with a balanced education, is making them much more difficult for the extremist madrassas to recruit."
Mortenson is slated to make an appearance on the Redwood Coast at a date to be announced.
Further information about Humboldt State's one-unit book club class this fall is available from Erin Sullivan in the English Department at erin@humboldt.edu or (707) 826-3128.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/12/09
By Paul Mann
Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods have chosen as 2009 Book of the Year Three Cups of Tea, the best-selling account of new schools established in the remotest areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, particularly for girls.
Co-authored by mountain climber Greg Mortenson and journalist David Oliver Relin, Three Cups is the fourth annual selection of the HSU/CR partnership, which provides a forum to promote literacy and the free exchange of ideas. The forum's precept is, "A community that reads together shares a uniquely human experience."
Both the HSU and CR campuses will host group sessions in Fall 2009 to examine the book's themes. Faculty are encouraged to incorporate the book of the year in their classes.
A fall one-unit book club class at HSU will be open to the general public as well as students. It is titled English 480 and sign-up is available on WebReg, Open University and Extended Education. Small discussion groups meet evenings four to five times during the semester.
The New York Times number one best-seller chronicles Mortenson's failed attempt to scale the world's second highest mountain, K2. Exhausted afterward, he wound up separated from his party in a desperately poor Pakistani hamlet. He was nursed back to health there and he learned that the community could not pay a dollar a day to hire a teacher.
Moved by this, Mortenson launched a humanitarian campaign, laboriously collected funds in small amounts-right down to pennies-from the grassroots and went on to establish 78 schools. He emphasizes community-based education and literacy programs that cater to girls.
Tom Brokaw, the first and initially only donor, commented, "Greg Mortenson's dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it's proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world."
The highly regarded Pakistani journalist, Ahmed Rashid, best-selling author of Descent into Chaos, said, "Pakistan and Afghanistan are both failing their students on a massive scale. The work Mortenson is doing, providing the poorest students with a balanced education, is making them much more difficult for the extremist madrassas to recruit."
Mortenson is slated to make an appearance on the Redwood Coast at a date to be announced.
Further information about Humboldt State's one-unit book club class this fall is available from Erin Sullivan in the English Department at erin@humboldt.edu or (707) 826-3128.
Grafitti Suspect Arrested In Old Town
Eric Scott Howe caught in the act on Third Street
Humboldt Sentinel
3/12/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- “When I get out of jail I’m going to spray paint my town again,” Eric Scott Howe boasted after being caught spray painting Old Town buildings, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
Howe was caught near Third and H streets shortly after midnight Thursday by Sgt. Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez, who saw Howe, 28, spraying the building at 731 Third Street
Rodrigo-Reyna was sent to that address after the building’s owner reported spotting someone in dark clothing with a backpack in the alley behind the building, after being alerted by the rattle of a spray can.
“What you consider illegal, I consider art,” Howe told officers, although he had damaged a mural on the Times Printing building on Third Street. Officers describe the graffiti as tagger or crew; Howe isn’t known to belong to a gang.
Officers discovered Howe spray-painted at least a dozen commercial buildings and PG&E power poles as well as municipal signs and dumpsters.
The vandalized buildings were spread across four blocks between Second and Third streets from F through I streets.
Howe has been jailed for felony vandalism and carrying a concealed weapon, also a felony. He had a hunting knife with a six-inch blade and two cans of spray paint.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/12/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- “When I get out of jail I’m going to spray paint my town again,” Eric Scott Howe boasted after being caught spray painting Old Town buildings, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
Howe was caught near Third and H streets shortly after midnight Thursday by Sgt. Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez, who saw Howe, 28, spraying the building at 731 Third Street
Rodrigo-Reyna was sent to that address after the building’s owner reported spotting someone in dark clothing with a backpack in the alley behind the building, after being alerted by the rattle of a spray can.
“What you consider illegal, I consider art,” Howe told officers, although he had damaged a mural on the Times Printing building on Third Street. Officers describe the graffiti as tagger or crew; Howe isn’t known to belong to a gang.
Officers discovered Howe spray-painted at least a dozen commercial buildings and PG&E power poles as well as municipal signs and dumpsters.
The vandalized buildings were spread across four blocks between Second and Third streets from F through I streets.
Howe has been jailed for felony vandalism and carrying a concealed weapon, also a felony. He had a hunting knife with a six-inch blade and two cans of spray paint.
SWAT Serves High Risk Warrant In Hoopa
One arrested, two others cited but Alvin Wingo remains at large
Humboldt Sentinel
3/12/09
By Sentinel Staff
HOOPA -- Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputies called in the help of their Multi-Agency SWAT Team in the service of a warrant on Rice Lane yesterday, resulting one arrest, two citations and the subject of the warrant still at large.
Hoopa Valley Tribal Police joined in the manhunt for Alvin Lee Wingo Jr., a 49-year-old Hoopa resident, who is sought for an alleged assault with a deadly weapon offense, which occurred last Saturday evening. Wingo is alleged to have pointed a loaded, pistol grip shotgun at two other men, chasing one of them as they fled -- although there was no exchange of fire, the two men who escaped were afraid for their safety.
While Wingo wasn’t home when the army of law enforcement officers arrived yesterday, HCSO deputies did discover three persons, ten firearms and drugs on the scene. These included methamphetamine, hypodermic syringes, marijuana, five rifles, three handguns, one sawed-off shotgun and one converted assault rifle. Two of the weapons recovered were reported stolen in late 2008, according to the HCSO release.
Michael William Logan, 29, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana for sales and a parole violation.
Juanita Wingo, 47, was issued a felony “Notice to Appear” citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, marijuana and illegal firearms inside her residence and within her control.
A female juvenile was issued a misdemeanor citation for providing false information to law enforcement regarding her identity. Her identity was not released by law enforcement due to her age.
According to Deputy Marsh at the HCSO, Alvin Wingo is a convicted felon and is prohibited from having access to or control of firearms -- which means he isn’t allowed to have them kept at his home, whether he was present or not. Law enforcement describes him as a Hispanic male adult, 49-years-old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing about 235 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He has multiple tattoos on his arms, legs, back, and chest, including the word “Indian” tattooed on his left arm and “Pride” tattooed on his right arm. Anyone with information regarding the location of Alvin Lee Wingo Jr. is asked to contact the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/12/09
By Sentinel Staff
HOOPA -- Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputies called in the help of their Multi-Agency SWAT Team in the service of a warrant on Rice Lane yesterday, resulting one arrest, two citations and the subject of the warrant still at large.
Hoopa Valley Tribal Police joined in the manhunt for Alvin Lee Wingo Jr., a 49-year-old Hoopa resident, who is sought for an alleged assault with a deadly weapon offense, which occurred last Saturday evening. Wingo is alleged to have pointed a loaded, pistol grip shotgun at two other men, chasing one of them as they fled -- although there was no exchange of fire, the two men who escaped were afraid for their safety.
While Wingo wasn’t home when the army of law enforcement officers arrived yesterday, HCSO deputies did discover three persons, ten firearms and drugs on the scene. These included methamphetamine, hypodermic syringes, marijuana, five rifles, three handguns, one sawed-off shotgun and one converted assault rifle. Two of the weapons recovered were reported stolen in late 2008, according to the HCSO release.
Michael William Logan, 29, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana for sales and a parole violation.
Juanita Wingo, 47, was issued a felony “Notice to Appear” citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, marijuana and illegal firearms inside her residence and within her control.
A female juvenile was issued a misdemeanor citation for providing false information to law enforcement regarding her identity. Her identity was not released by law enforcement due to her age.
According to Deputy Marsh at the HCSO, Alvin Wingo is a convicted felon and is prohibited from having access to or control of firearms -- which means he isn’t allowed to have them kept at his home, whether he was present or not. Law enforcement describes him as a Hispanic male adult, 49-years-old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing about 235 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He has multiple tattoos on his arms, legs, back, and chest, including the word “Indian” tattooed on his left arm and “Pride” tattooed on his right arm. Anyone with information regarding the location of Alvin Lee Wingo Jr. is asked to contact the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
HSU Unit Inaugurates Klamath Newsletter
Publication focused on water quality issues such as fish health
Humboldt Sentinel
3/11/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- Humboldt State University’s Klamath Watershed Institute, a think tank devoted to Klamath Basin preservation, has inaugurated an official newsletter, The Klamath Current. It is the official publication of the Klamath Basin Water Quality Monitoring Coordination Group, and is available at www.humboldt.edu/~kwi/.
The premier issue includes articles about Klamath River fish disease research, Salmon River monitoring, dam removal and tribal health risks posed by the Klamath’s contamination.
Since mid-2007, the institute has worked with the coordination group to enhance water quality monitoring throughout the Klamath Basin.
The direct link to the Klamath Current news page is www.humboldt.edu/~kwi/?content=current.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/11/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- Humboldt State University’s Klamath Watershed Institute, a think tank devoted to Klamath Basin preservation, has inaugurated an official newsletter, The Klamath Current. It is the official publication of the Klamath Basin Water Quality Monitoring Coordination Group, and is available at www.humboldt.edu/~kwi/.
The premier issue includes articles about Klamath River fish disease research, Salmon River monitoring, dam removal and tribal health risks posed by the Klamath’s contamination.
Since mid-2007, the institute has worked with the coordination group to enhance water quality monitoring throughout the Klamath Basin.
The direct link to the Klamath Current news page is www.humboldt.edu/~kwi/?content=current.
Hold Up On Harris Street
Masked men pull gun on market clerk, steal cash and smokes
Humboldt Sentinel
3/11/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- The Harris Street Market was held up Tuesday night by two masked men who took undisclosed amount of money. Both robbers wore hoods and bandannas over their faces but appeared to be light-skinned.
One of the men approached the clerk at the cash register and pulled a handgun from his waistband; the clerk stepped back and the suspect emptied the register.
The men also grabbed several packs of Marlboro cigarettes on display near the register before leaving on foot.
Anyone with information about this robbery is urged to call the at the Eureka Police Department at 707-441-4300 and ask for the Criminal Investigation Unit.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/11/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- The Harris Street Market was held up Tuesday night by two masked men who took undisclosed amount of money. Both robbers wore hoods and bandannas over their faces but appeared to be light-skinned.
One of the men approached the clerk at the cash register and pulled a handgun from his waistband; the clerk stepped back and the suspect emptied the register.
The men also grabbed several packs of Marlboro cigarettes on display near the register before leaving on foot.
Anyone with information about this robbery is urged to call the at the Eureka Police Department at 707-441-4300 and ask for the Criminal Investigation Unit.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
National Student Award Named For Judith Little
Sociology Association recognizes accomplishment
Humboldt Sentinel
3/10/09
By Sentinel Staff
YPSILANTI, MICH. -- Judith Little, Professor Emeritus with the Department of Sociology, was honored by the Association on Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS). Beginning this fall, the student team winning an applied sociology competition will be recognized with the “Judith Little Student Award.”
Each year AACS selects a client from the community that hosts the AACS annual meeting. The organization or group is asked to identify a problem that might be addressed by a student team of applied sociologists. In preparation for client meetings at the annual meeting, student teams advised by AACS faculty members research the problem or issue and develop preliminary plans. At the annual meeting, the teams meet with a representative of the client and gather more information. After the annual meeting, the teams submit their problem solutions to the representative and to the AACS problem solving coordinator. While one team wins the award, all teams receive feedback on the quality and usefulness of their proposed solutions.
Little was one of the creators of this activity, along with Jerry Krause, another HSU Sociology emeritus faculty member, and Stephen Steele of Anne Arundel Community College. She is currently a member of the Commission on Applied and Clinical Sociology, is the Commission representative to the Board of the Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology and immediate Past President of the California Sociological Association.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/10/09
By Sentinel Staff
YPSILANTI, MICH. -- Judith Little, Professor Emeritus with the Department of Sociology, was honored by the Association on Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS). Beginning this fall, the student team winning an applied sociology competition will be recognized with the “Judith Little Student Award.”
Each year AACS selects a client from the community that hosts the AACS annual meeting. The organization or group is asked to identify a problem that might be addressed by a student team of applied sociologists. In preparation for client meetings at the annual meeting, student teams advised by AACS faculty members research the problem or issue and develop preliminary plans. At the annual meeting, the teams meet with a representative of the client and gather more information. After the annual meeting, the teams submit their problem solutions to the representative and to the AACS problem solving coordinator. While one team wins the award, all teams receive feedback on the quality and usefulness of their proposed solutions.
Little was one of the creators of this activity, along with Jerry Krause, another HSU Sociology emeritus faculty member, and Stephen Steele of Anne Arundel Community College. She is currently a member of the Commission on Applied and Clinical Sociology, is the Commission representative to the Board of the Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology and immediate Past President of the California Sociological Association.
Monday, March 9, 2009
EIR Released To Re-Open 142 Miles Of Railroad
NCRA looking to restore line between Lombard and Willits
Humboldt Sentinel
3/9/09
By Sentinel Staff
UKIAH -- After years of bureaucratic in-fighting and even a public push to rip up passenger and freight railroad lines to install bicycle trails, the North Coast Railroad Authroity announced today that draft environmental documents are ready and funding is in place to restore rail service on the southern end of the Northwestern Pacific line.
The Draft Environmental Impact Report described the remediation steps necessary to re-open a 142-mile stretch of freight rail service between Willits in central Mendocino County southward to Lombard in Napa County where it will connect with the Union Pacific rail network. At first the scale would be decidedly small, with three round-trip freight trains per week shipping mostly feed grains, building materials, wine and general merchandise. The report looks to expand service to three round-trips per day by the second or third year of operations, according to NCRA Chair Allan Hemphill of Cloverdale.
“This 2 volume document cost $3.5 million to complete and painstakingly analyzes every potential impact of train service on the Russian River Division between the interchange with the Union Pacific [Lombard] and Willits,” Hemphill stated in the NCRA release. “What’s clear from the DEIR is that trains will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, take trucks off of 101, save energy and provide a cost-effective means to ship goods in and out of the North Coast.”
The NCRA claims that $35 million in state funds have already been invested to repair the first 62 miles of the line from the national rail interchange near American Canyon (Lombard) to Windsor with freight service scheduled to begin on this phase in October.
The NCRA has applied for a further $36 million in federal economic stimulus funds to continue repairs North to Willits.
Today’s submittal of the DEIR begins a 45-day comment period under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) which allows the public to respond to NCRA plans to restart freight service. A public hearing on the DEIR has also been set for April 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Petaluma Community Center.
Before railroad operations commence, the NCRA Board of Directors must respond to all public comments and incorporate the responses in a Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) which the Board of Directors must certify.
The public can review the Executive Summary of the DEIR on the NCRA website,
www.northcoastrailroad.org.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/9/09
By Sentinel Staff
UKIAH -- After years of bureaucratic in-fighting and even a public push to rip up passenger and freight railroad lines to install bicycle trails, the North Coast Railroad Authroity announced today that draft environmental documents are ready and funding is in place to restore rail service on the southern end of the Northwestern Pacific line.
The Draft Environmental Impact Report described the remediation steps necessary to re-open a 142-mile stretch of freight rail service between Willits in central Mendocino County southward to Lombard in Napa County where it will connect with the Union Pacific rail network. At first the scale would be decidedly small, with three round-trip freight trains per week shipping mostly feed grains, building materials, wine and general merchandise. The report looks to expand service to three round-trips per day by the second or third year of operations, according to NCRA Chair Allan Hemphill of Cloverdale.
“This 2 volume document cost $3.5 million to complete and painstakingly analyzes every potential impact of train service on the Russian River Division between the interchange with the Union Pacific [Lombard] and Willits,” Hemphill stated in the NCRA release. “What’s clear from the DEIR is that trains will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, take trucks off of 101, save energy and provide a cost-effective means to ship goods in and out of the North Coast.”
The NCRA claims that $35 million in state funds have already been invested to repair the first 62 miles of the line from the national rail interchange near American Canyon (Lombard) to Windsor with freight service scheduled to begin on this phase in October.
The NCRA has applied for a further $36 million in federal economic stimulus funds to continue repairs North to Willits.
Today’s submittal of the DEIR begins a 45-day comment period under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) which allows the public to respond to NCRA plans to restart freight service. A public hearing on the DEIR has also been set for April 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Petaluma Community Center.
Before railroad operations commence, the NCRA Board of Directors must respond to all public comments and incorporate the responses in a Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) which the Board of Directors must certify.
The public can review the Executive Summary of the DEIR on the NCRA website,
www.northcoastrailroad.org.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Zepparella: Four Women, One Mission
Red Fox gets foxy next Friday with lively Led tribute
Humboldt Sentinel
3/8/09
By Sentinel Staff
Zepparella intends to bring the passion, beauty, aggression and musicality of Led Zeppelin alive at their upcoming Mar. 20 show at Red Fox Tavern.
This cover band offers four talented musicians and some of the greatest rock music of the 20th Century, and in their show release, they insist that their celebration won’t be complete without fellow appreciators.
Zepparella is no costumed, wigged-up tribute band, says Passion Presents promoter Eric Kinnally, and no backing tracks or misguided attempts at note-for-note replication will be heard. Instead, Zepparella delivers an explosive, emotional musical journey, carrying the audience away on the ride of dynamic energy between the four musicians, just as the magic of Zeppelin resulted in such a combination of musical personalities.
Anna Kristina, the popular Bay Area stage actress, vocalist, songwriter and solo artist, brings her seductive style and powerful range to front the band with consistently transcendent performances. Her soulful delivery is mesmerizing.
Gretchen Menn applies her dazzling and emotive guitar playing to the leads. After her stint as Agnes Young in the top-grossing Bay Area band AC/DShe for three years, and then touring as the second guitarist in the national metal band Bottom, she now takes on the Page lines with an arresting ability that can’t be missed.
Nila Minnerock’s seminal bass playing, dark, beautiful, aggressive, melodic, fills out the bottom end of the band. Her joined-at-the-hip connection with Clementine began eleven years ago in Bottom, and close to 20 trips around the US, Canada and Europe and three records have created the remarkably intuitive rhythm section that Zeppelin deserves.
Clementine tackles the best rock drumming ever written with her own powerfully passionate style, bringing the Motown influence of the Bonham groove to the forefront. As Phyllis Rudd in AC/DShe and throughout the run of Bottom, she developed a heavy-hitting sound suited to attempt Zeppelin. The musical connection established with Gretchen in AC/DShe and the lifelong rhythmic conversation with Nila creates the bond required to do this great music justice.
For some other samplings of Zepparella’s talent, visit www.zepparella.com or check them out on MySpace.
Ledheads can get your $15 tickets early for this show by visiting the Red Fox Tavern at 415 Fifth Street in Downtown Eureka. The Friday night 21-and-over show will start at 10:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.passionpresents.com.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/8/09
By Sentinel Staff
Zepparella intends to bring the passion, beauty, aggression and musicality of Led Zeppelin alive at their upcoming Mar. 20 show at Red Fox Tavern.
This cover band offers four talented musicians and some of the greatest rock music of the 20th Century, and in their show release, they insist that their celebration won’t be complete without fellow appreciators.
Zepparella is no costumed, wigged-up tribute band, says Passion Presents promoter Eric Kinnally, and no backing tracks or misguided attempts at note-for-note replication will be heard. Instead, Zepparella delivers an explosive, emotional musical journey, carrying the audience away on the ride of dynamic energy between the four musicians, just as the magic of Zeppelin resulted in such a combination of musical personalities.
Anna Kristina, the popular Bay Area stage actress, vocalist, songwriter and solo artist, brings her seductive style and powerful range to front the band with consistently transcendent performances. Her soulful delivery is mesmerizing.
Gretchen Menn applies her dazzling and emotive guitar playing to the leads. After her stint as Agnes Young in the top-grossing Bay Area band AC/DShe for three years, and then touring as the second guitarist in the national metal band Bottom, she now takes on the Page lines with an arresting ability that can’t be missed.
Nila Minnerock’s seminal bass playing, dark, beautiful, aggressive, melodic, fills out the bottom end of the band. Her joined-at-the-hip connection with Clementine began eleven years ago in Bottom, and close to 20 trips around the US, Canada and Europe and three records have created the remarkably intuitive rhythm section that Zeppelin deserves.
Clementine tackles the best rock drumming ever written with her own powerfully passionate style, bringing the Motown influence of the Bonham groove to the forefront. As Phyllis Rudd in AC/DShe and throughout the run of Bottom, she developed a heavy-hitting sound suited to attempt Zeppelin. The musical connection established with Gretchen in AC/DShe and the lifelong rhythmic conversation with Nila creates the bond required to do this great music justice.
For some other samplings of Zepparella’s talent, visit www.zepparella.com or check them out on MySpace.
Ledheads can get your $15 tickets early for this show by visiting the Red Fox Tavern at 415 Fifth Street in Downtown Eureka. The Friday night 21-and-over show will start at 10:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.passionpresents.com.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Home Invasion Thwarted By Pepper Spray
Suspects supposedly looking for marijuana
Humboldt Sentinel
3/7/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- Police investigators are looking for Michael Tray Johns, 26, and Waymond Richard Kelly, 25, who thought are thought to be two of the four people who committed a home invasion Friday at about 10 a.m. at 14th and D streets.
Three men and a woman wearing masks forced their way into a home and demanded marijuana. At least one had a gun; they fled when threatened with pepper spray by the resident.
Anyone with information about Johns’ and Kelly’s location is urged to call the Eureka Police Department dispatch center at (707) 441-4044.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/7/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- Police investigators are looking for Michael Tray Johns, 26, and Waymond Richard Kelly, 25, who thought are thought to be two of the four people who committed a home invasion Friday at about 10 a.m. at 14th and D streets.
Three men and a woman wearing masks forced their way into a home and demanded marijuana. At least one had a gun; they fled when threatened with pepper spray by the resident.
Anyone with information about Johns’ and Kelly’s location is urged to call the Eureka Police Department dispatch center at (707) 441-4044.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Four Busted After Westside Disturbance
Drugs, paraphernalia and brass knuckles discovered
Humboldt Sentinel
3/6/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- Four people have been arrested by Eureka police officers answering a Thursday morning call about a disturbance on West Del Norte Street.
At about 7:39 a.m. officers met four people in two trucks at the foot of West Del Norte Street, where two men had reportedly tried to pull a woman from a truck.
While waiting for a warrant check on the driver and passenger of a green Ford F-150 to be completed, Officer Stan Harkness smelled marijuana coming from the truck. Looking through an open passenger window, Harkness saw a plastic bag with marijuana on the seat.
Police dispatchers confirmed the truck’s driver and passenger, Dalina Lynn Cardoza-Sovereign, 30, and Billy Joe Giddings, 29, of Fortuna, were both on parole.
Searching the Ford, Harkness found and seized about an ounce of marijuana and a pair of brass knuckles, which are illegal. Sovereign and Giddings were both jailed for parole violation and having a dangerous weapon.
Harkness next spoke with the driver and passenger of the other truck, Robert Anthony Leitch, 45, and Rebecca Joanne McKinnon, 36.
Talking with Leitch next to the white Ford Ranger’s open driver’s side door, Harkness saw a small plastic bag of white powder in the door’s side pocket.
A search of the truck uncovered drug paraphernalia, including several hypodermic needles and several small plastic bags thought to hold methamphetamine.
During a body search McKinnon admitted she had a hypodermic needle in her pocket with meth she’d just been given by Leitch.
Leitch was jailed for furnishing a controlled substance and for possession of drug paraphernalia. McKinnon was jailed for possession of a controlled substance.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/6/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- Four people have been arrested by Eureka police officers answering a Thursday morning call about a disturbance on West Del Norte Street.
At about 7:39 a.m. officers met four people in two trucks at the foot of West Del Norte Street, where two men had reportedly tried to pull a woman from a truck.
While waiting for a warrant check on the driver and passenger of a green Ford F-150 to be completed, Officer Stan Harkness smelled marijuana coming from the truck. Looking through an open passenger window, Harkness saw a plastic bag with marijuana on the seat.
Police dispatchers confirmed the truck’s driver and passenger, Dalina Lynn Cardoza-Sovereign, 30, and Billy Joe Giddings, 29, of Fortuna, were both on parole.
Searching the Ford, Harkness found and seized about an ounce of marijuana and a pair of brass knuckles, which are illegal. Sovereign and Giddings were both jailed for parole violation and having a dangerous weapon.
Harkness next spoke with the driver and passenger of the other truck, Robert Anthony Leitch, 45, and Rebecca Joanne McKinnon, 36.
Talking with Leitch next to the white Ford Ranger’s open driver’s side door, Harkness saw a small plastic bag of white powder in the door’s side pocket.
A search of the truck uncovered drug paraphernalia, including several hypodermic needles and several small plastic bags thought to hold methamphetamine.
During a body search McKinnon admitted she had a hypodermic needle in her pocket with meth she’d just been given by Leitch.
Leitch was jailed for furnishing a controlled substance and for possession of drug paraphernalia. McKinnon was jailed for possession of a controlled substance.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Interrupted Burglary Ends After Standoff
Tou Cheng resists arrest, suspected of being under the influence
Humboldt Sentinel
3/5/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- A distraught man who held off police for two hours as they talked him down from the roof of a house has been jailed for attempted burglary and drug charges.
Tou Cheng, a 28-year-old Eureka resident, was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of attempted burglary, resisting arrest and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
At about 4:52 a.m. Wednesday Eureka police officers were sent to a house on the 300 block of 15th Street, where a caller said a someone was trying to force their way through the back door. As the homeowner spoke to the dispatcher, the burglar tried to get in by breaking a window.
When officers arrived Cheng fled to the roof and held them off with a large piece of pipe, threatening to jump from the roof if they tried to arrest him.
As two sergeants talked with Cheng he threatened several more times to jump, at one point running and sliding to a stop at the edge of the steep rain-slick roof.
City Ambulance staff and Eureka fire personnel were also on hand as Cheng finally came down a ladder to give himself up to officers.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/5/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- A distraught man who held off police for two hours as they talked him down from the roof of a house has been jailed for attempted burglary and drug charges.
Tou Cheng, a 28-year-old Eureka resident, was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of attempted burglary, resisting arrest and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
At about 4:52 a.m. Wednesday Eureka police officers were sent to a house on the 300 block of 15th Street, where a caller said a someone was trying to force their way through the back door. As the homeowner spoke to the dispatcher, the burglar tried to get in by breaking a window.
When officers arrived Cheng fled to the roof and held them off with a large piece of pipe, threatening to jump from the roof if they tried to arrest him.
As two sergeants talked with Cheng he threatened several more times to jump, at one point running and sliding to a stop at the edge of the steep rain-slick roof.
City Ambulance staff and Eureka fire personnel were also on hand as Cheng finally came down a ladder to give himself up to officers.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
HSU Teams Up With UT-Austin On Green Fee
Survey responses sought from students, faculty, staff
Humboldt Sentinel
3/4/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA – The Humboldt Energy Independence Fund is working with the University of Texas At Austin’s Campus Environmental Center to analyze Green Fee programs in North America. The HEIF is supported by such a fee, which the student body self-imposed several years ago to help develop sustainable energy projects on campus which incorporate student involvement.
The survey looks at general impressions and is to be completed by faculty, staff, and students at institutions with green fees and aims to track green fees’ perceived effects on campus sustainability.
The surveys must be completed by Friday, March 27, 2009. For more information contact the Humboldt Energy Independence Fund at www.humboldt.edu/~heif.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/4/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA – The Humboldt Energy Independence Fund is working with the University of Texas At Austin’s Campus Environmental Center to analyze Green Fee programs in North America. The HEIF is supported by such a fee, which the student body self-imposed several years ago to help develop sustainable energy projects on campus which incorporate student involvement.
The survey looks at general impressions and is to be completed by faculty, staff, and students at institutions with green fees and aims to track green fees’ perceived effects on campus sustainability.
The surveys must be completed by Friday, March 27, 2009. For more information contact the Humboldt Energy Independence Fund at www.humboldt.edu/~heif.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Congressional Internship Open To HSU Students
Panetta Institute fosters “dialogue” and “public service”
Humboldt Sentinel
3/3/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- A California think tank invites Humboldt State University students to enter a one-semester internship program with the U.S. House of Representatives, September-December 2009.
The Panetta Institute for Public Policy was established December 1998 on the campus of California State University, Monterey Bay. The institute is a bipartisan study center that fosters dialogue on issues of state and encourages public service.
The cost of the program is fully funded. Student benefits include CSUMB fees, food and housing, a stipend and academic materials for the two-week program. The institute also funds travel, housing and a stipend for the interns’ time in Washington, D.C.
The congressional internships are open to undergraduates in their junior and senior years or in graduate standing when the program begins in September at Monterey. During the two-week orientation, a cadre of professionals will share experiences and insights and teach the intern orientation course. Interns are then assigned for two and a half months to the Capitol Hill office of a member of the California delegation to the House.
Lawmakers from both parties partner with Panetta Institute interns.
Application forms for are available online from Student Affairs and from the Department of Politics, Founders Hall, Room 180 and the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Nelson Hall East, Room 216.
Eligible students must be first-time participants and registered for the Fall 2009 semester, concurrent with the internship.
Deadline for application, resume and essay is 5 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the Department of Politics at Founders Hall, Room 180. Details can be downloaded at www.panettainstitute.org or ascertained by calling (707) 826-4494.
Humboldt Sentinel
3/3/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- A California think tank invites Humboldt State University students to enter a one-semester internship program with the U.S. House of Representatives, September-December 2009.
The Panetta Institute for Public Policy was established December 1998 on the campus of California State University, Monterey Bay. The institute is a bipartisan study center that fosters dialogue on issues of state and encourages public service.
The cost of the program is fully funded. Student benefits include CSUMB fees, food and housing, a stipend and academic materials for the two-week program. The institute also funds travel, housing and a stipend for the interns’ time in Washington, D.C.
The congressional internships are open to undergraduates in their junior and senior years or in graduate standing when the program begins in September at Monterey. During the two-week orientation, a cadre of professionals will share experiences and insights and teach the intern orientation course. Interns are then assigned for two and a half months to the Capitol Hill office of a member of the California delegation to the House.
Lawmakers from both parties partner with Panetta Institute interns.
Application forms for are available online from Student Affairs and from the Department of Politics, Founders Hall, Room 180 and the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Nelson Hall East, Room 216.
Eligible students must be first-time participants and registered for the Fall 2009 semester, concurrent with the internship.
Deadline for application, resume and essay is 5 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the Department of Politics at Founders Hall, Room 180. Details can be downloaded at www.panettainstitute.org or ascertained by calling (707) 826-4494.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Dr. Jack A. Shaffer, 1929-2009
Dr. Jack A. Shaffer, 1929-2009
Human Rights Commissioner, psychology professor remembered
Humboldt Sentinel
3/2/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- Jack was born in the small town of Monticello, New York, to a close and loving family who immigrated from Russia. He and his older brother, Stanley grew up in a world of swimming holes, winter sledding, lox and bagels, and pranks such as hoisting school chums up the flag pole. In the late 1940s he attended the University of Wisconsin which opened his eyes to the wonder and excitement of learning. There he decided to become a psychologist and also met his future wife, Judy Grossman. They married in 1952 and went on to do graduate work at Ohio State University where Jack received his PhD. in Clinical Psychology. In 1958 they moved to Arcata where Jack taught Psychology at Humboldt State University until his retirement in 1995.
He loved developing and teaching courses in Minority Counseling, Psychology of Prejudice, Legal and Criminal Psychology, and the Holocaust. During this period, he also became the father of two beloved children, Wendy and Bruce. During his 50 years in Arcata, Jack was greatly involved in his community, helping develop the first local preschool program (preceding Headstart) and a Community Companion program which paired H.S.U. psych students with a community member diagnosed with a mental illness. He also served on the Mental Health Advisory Board and the Temple Bethel Board. Jack received Fulbright scholarships in 1965 and 1972, allowing him and his family to live overseas and teach in Bangkok. Thailand and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, leaving him with special love of South Asia.
After retirement, Jack was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the Human Rights Commission and served until his death. He also became a volunteer for the Arcata Police Auxiliary, patrolling Arcata’s streets for many years. More important than all those achievements was that he was an extraordinarily good and caring being who thought all people were interesting and equal.
He is survived by his wife, Judy; his daughter, Wendy Rachael West and husband Andy; his son, Bruce and wife Karen and their sons Joel and Mathew; plus numerous close and family members. He is also survived by his best buddy, Sam Oliner, his dear Thursday night poker gang of 35 years, and other special friends.
A memorial will be planned at a future date. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the charity of your choice. Arrangements are under the care of Paul’s Chapel, in Arcata.
Human Rights Commissioner, psychology professor remembered
Humboldt Sentinel
3/2/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- Jack was born in the small town of Monticello, New York, to a close and loving family who immigrated from Russia. He and his older brother, Stanley grew up in a world of swimming holes, winter sledding, lox and bagels, and pranks such as hoisting school chums up the flag pole. In the late 1940s he attended the University of Wisconsin which opened his eyes to the wonder and excitement of learning. There he decided to become a psychologist and also met his future wife, Judy Grossman. They married in 1952 and went on to do graduate work at Ohio State University where Jack received his PhD. in Clinical Psychology. In 1958 they moved to Arcata where Jack taught Psychology at Humboldt State University until his retirement in 1995.
He loved developing and teaching courses in Minority Counseling, Psychology of Prejudice, Legal and Criminal Psychology, and the Holocaust. During this period, he also became the father of two beloved children, Wendy and Bruce. During his 50 years in Arcata, Jack was greatly involved in his community, helping develop the first local preschool program (preceding Headstart) and a Community Companion program which paired H.S.U. psych students with a community member diagnosed with a mental illness. He also served on the Mental Health Advisory Board and the Temple Bethel Board. Jack received Fulbright scholarships in 1965 and 1972, allowing him and his family to live overseas and teach in Bangkok. Thailand and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, leaving him with special love of South Asia.
After retirement, Jack was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the Human Rights Commission and served until his death. He also became a volunteer for the Arcata Police Auxiliary, patrolling Arcata’s streets for many years. More important than all those achievements was that he was an extraordinarily good and caring being who thought all people were interesting and equal.
He is survived by his wife, Judy; his daughter, Wendy Rachael West and husband Andy; his son, Bruce and wife Karen and their sons Joel and Mathew; plus numerous close and family members. He is also survived by his best buddy, Sam Oliner, his dear Thursday night poker gang of 35 years, and other special friends.
A memorial will be planned at a future date. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the charity of your choice. Arrangements are under the care of Paul’s Chapel, in Arcata.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
HSU Library Adds Internet Café
Remodeled space to open up this fall
Humboldt Sentinel
1/21/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- The Humboldt State University Library has begun construction of an Internet café, the second phase of a project to upgrade the library’s technology.
Scheduled to open this fall, the Internet café will be in the library’s southeast corner, in back of the first floor main lobby just west of the circulation desk. The remodeled food-friendly space will feature Internet docking tables, data ports, a cluster of electrical outlets, suitable tables and chairs, diner-style booth seating, a coffee stand, food services and vending machines.
Concurrently, the Library’s Learning Commons of 24 computer workstations put into operation in March, 2008 will undergo a major expansion from its first floor site with space for students in nearly 60 offices in the basement, left vacant after many faculty transferred to the new Behavioral and Social Sciences Building in 2007.
Library faculty have already begun moving downstairs, where students will have access to new spaces for study, multimedia presentations and collaboration; an exercise room equipped with treadmills and Stairmasters; and a ‘quiet’ area for students who prefer traditional forms of study. Eventually some of these spaces will be equipped as smart classrooms.
“On a residential campus like ours, the Library is a hub and a home away from home, not only for resident students, but also for out-of-state and international students,” said Dr. Ray Wang, Interim Dean of the Library.
“The Internet café, the presentation and collaboration spaces, the exercise room all make sense as a convenient and inviting place where students, faculty and staff can decompress, relax,” continued Wang. “I believe these new assets will play a big role in retention. Today’s students expect their university to have an Internet Café, they consider it a given.”
The Learning Commons initiative, funded in part by $5,000 from University Advancement’s Parent and Family Fund, is designed to foster independent research and centralize academic support services. It provides near-instant access to the computer help desk, math tutoring, media distribution and a full roster of HSU centers: Learning, advising, testing, university writing and the Student Disability Resource Center, which will be making its new home in the Library basement quarters.
This pooling of resources will expand with a rising number of campus partners in the next several years, Wang said.
Humboldt Sentinel
1/21/09
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- The Humboldt State University Library has begun construction of an Internet café, the second phase of a project to upgrade the library’s technology.
Scheduled to open this fall, the Internet café will be in the library’s southeast corner, in back of the first floor main lobby just west of the circulation desk. The remodeled food-friendly space will feature Internet docking tables, data ports, a cluster of electrical outlets, suitable tables and chairs, diner-style booth seating, a coffee stand, food services and vending machines.
Concurrently, the Library’s Learning Commons of 24 computer workstations put into operation in March, 2008 will undergo a major expansion from its first floor site with space for students in nearly 60 offices in the basement, left vacant after many faculty transferred to the new Behavioral and Social Sciences Building in 2007.
Library faculty have already begun moving downstairs, where students will have access to new spaces for study, multimedia presentations and collaboration; an exercise room equipped with treadmills and Stairmasters; and a ‘quiet’ area for students who prefer traditional forms of study. Eventually some of these spaces will be equipped as smart classrooms.
“On a residential campus like ours, the Library is a hub and a home away from home, not only for resident students, but also for out-of-state and international students,” said Dr. Ray Wang, Interim Dean of the Library.
“The Internet café, the presentation and collaboration spaces, the exercise room all make sense as a convenient and inviting place where students, faculty and staff can decompress, relax,” continued Wang. “I believe these new assets will play a big role in retention. Today’s students expect their university to have an Internet Café, they consider it a given.”
The Learning Commons initiative, funded in part by $5,000 from University Advancement’s Parent and Family Fund, is designed to foster independent research and centralize academic support services. It provides near-instant access to the computer help desk, math tutoring, media distribution and a full roster of HSU centers: Learning, advising, testing, university writing and the Student Disability Resource Center, which will be making its new home in the Library basement quarters.
This pooling of resources will expand with a rising number of campus partners in the next several years, Wang said.
Redwood ACLU Holds Local Election Reform Forum
Keynote speaker Steve Chessin to discuss choice voting
Humboldt Sentinel
1/21/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- Redwood ACLU’s Jan. 28 forum is headlined by election reform advocate Steve Chessin, who will talk about efforts to change the California electoral system.
“We’re very proud to be able to provide this forum featuring such a prominent statewide advocate of choice voting, which would greatly improve the functioning of our local and state elections.” said Redwood ACLU chair Christina Allbright. “It’s about time our community leaders sat down in the same room to discuss what positive steps can be taken to reform our election process in ways which conform with our constitutional values.”
Steve Chessin is the President of Californians for Electoral Reform, a statewide organization pushing for choice voting, which lets voters to rank candidates by order of preference. Choice voting has been used in San Francisco city elections for several years.
Chessin, a software engineer from Mountain View, is also a member of the Democratic Party state executive board. The forum’s panel, however, features local speakers from across the political spectrum, including:
Carolyn Crnich, the Clerk-Recorder of Humboldt County, will discuss the Humboldt Transparency Project and the recent decision to move away from the Diebold/Premiere vote-counting system for local elections.
Patrick Higgins, a Humboldt Harbor Commissioner and an advocate of the California Clean Money Campaign, will review efforts to establish public financing of election campaigns.
Chris Crawford, a Eureka Chamber of Commerce board member and the organizer of “No on Measure T,” will present his proposal for campaign contribution limits on private financing of local election campaigns.
Greg Allen, a founding member of the Humboldt County Election Advisory Committee and the Vice Chair of the Redwood ACLU, will provide an overview of the use, and misuse, of the local ballot initiative process and his idea to provide prior legal review of ballot measures before they are presented to voters.
Dave Ogden, the founder of the Eureka Civic Association and the Chair of the Eureka Finance Advisory Committee, will look at reform of Eureka’s Ward system to make it a “true” ward system where only residents of a particular ward would vote on that ward’s City Council member.
“The Redwood ACLU has an important role to play in improving this process, not only as a public service, but to make sure that election reform measures we do support are given a fair hearing, instead of being tainted by the immature and unprofessional conduct associated with recent campaigns,” Allen said. “We have a real duty, a professional responsibility to do it right.”
For information, call the Redwood ACLU at 707-442-4419 or visit redwoodaclu.blogspot.com.
Humboldt Sentinel
1/21/09
By Sentinel Staff
EUREKA -- Redwood ACLU’s Jan. 28 forum is headlined by election reform advocate Steve Chessin, who will talk about efforts to change the California electoral system.
“We’re very proud to be able to provide this forum featuring such a prominent statewide advocate of choice voting, which would greatly improve the functioning of our local and state elections.” said Redwood ACLU chair Christina Allbright. “It’s about time our community leaders sat down in the same room to discuss what positive steps can be taken to reform our election process in ways which conform with our constitutional values.”
Steve Chessin is the President of Californians for Electoral Reform, a statewide organization pushing for choice voting, which lets voters to rank candidates by order of preference. Choice voting has been used in San Francisco city elections for several years.
Chessin, a software engineer from Mountain View, is also a member of the Democratic Party state executive board. The forum’s panel, however, features local speakers from across the political spectrum, including:
Carolyn Crnich, the Clerk-Recorder of Humboldt County, will discuss the Humboldt Transparency Project and the recent decision to move away from the Diebold/Premiere vote-counting system for local elections.
Patrick Higgins, a Humboldt Harbor Commissioner and an advocate of the California Clean Money Campaign, will review efforts to establish public financing of election campaigns.
Chris Crawford, a Eureka Chamber of Commerce board member and the organizer of “No on Measure T,” will present his proposal for campaign contribution limits on private financing of local election campaigns.
Greg Allen, a founding member of the Humboldt County Election Advisory Committee and the Vice Chair of the Redwood ACLU, will provide an overview of the use, and misuse, of the local ballot initiative process and his idea to provide prior legal review of ballot measures before they are presented to voters.
Dave Ogden, the founder of the Eureka Civic Association and the Chair of the Eureka Finance Advisory Committee, will look at reform of Eureka’s Ward system to make it a “true” ward system where only residents of a particular ward would vote on that ward’s City Council member.
“The Redwood ACLU has an important role to play in improving this process, not only as a public service, but to make sure that election reform measures we do support are given a fair hearing, instead of being tainted by the immature and unprofessional conduct associated with recent campaigns,” Allen said. “We have a real duty, a professional responsibility to do it right.”
For information, call the Redwood ACLU at 707-442-4419 or visit redwoodaclu.blogspot.com.
Friday, January 9, 2009
HSU Alum Named Associate Chief Of Forest Service
Hank Kashdan previously served as USFS budget director
Humboldt Sentinel
1/9/08
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- Humboldt State University alumnus Hank Kashdan (’73) has been named associate chief for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service based in Washington, D.C.
“Hank brings 35 years of operational and natural resource management experience from all levels of the agency to this position,” department chief Abigail Kimbell said. “He has been a key figure in our efforts to address a new safety culture, managerial discipline and centralized services, as well as reinvigoration of our Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers.”
Kashdan, who became a senior executive in 2001 when he was appointed Forest Service budget director, said he welcomed “the challenges of the future as we work the crucial decisions and demands on natural resources.”
The Humboldt State alumnus earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1973 and has served in a variety of positions at the Forest Service, including assistant director in law enforcement and national forest administrative officer.
Kashdan was assigned to duty stations in California, Oregon, Washington State, Arizona, Idaho and Montana before his transfer to Washington, D.C., in 1993.
Humboldt Sentinel
1/9/08
By Sentinel Staff
ARCATA -- Humboldt State University alumnus Hank Kashdan (’73) has been named associate chief for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service based in Washington, D.C.
“Hank brings 35 years of operational and natural resource management experience from all levels of the agency to this position,” department chief Abigail Kimbell said. “He has been a key figure in our efforts to address a new safety culture, managerial discipline and centralized services, as well as reinvigoration of our Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers.”
Kashdan, who became a senior executive in 2001 when he was appointed Forest Service budget director, said he welcomed “the challenges of the future as we work the crucial decisions and demands on natural resources.”
The Humboldt State alumnus earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1973 and has served in a variety of positions at the Forest Service, including assistant director in law enforcement and national forest administrative officer.
Kashdan was assigned to duty stations in California, Oregon, Washington State, Arizona, Idaho and Montana before his transfer to Washington, D.C., in 1993.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Legislators Seek Ban On Recreational Gold Mining
Suction dredge mining seen as harmful to salmon fishing
Humboldt Sentinel
1/8/09
By Charles Douglas
SACRAMENTO -- Local legislators lined up with Native American and environmental groups this week in support of emergency restrictions on recreational gold mining along the Klamath River and its tributaries.
While such a ban wouldn’t quite end the practice of panning for gold on the riverbanks, the practice of suction dredging -- the use of fossil-fuel-powered engines on floating pontoons to vacuum hose the bottom of the river – is widely seen as making watercourses murky and unfit for salmon spawning.
The North Coast’s assemblymember, Wes Chesbro (Dem. – Arcata) and state senator, Pat Wiggins (Dem. – Santa Rosa) co-signed a letter with several other legislators to the California Department of Fish and Game and the State Water Resources Control Board demanding the imposition of ad-hoc regulations.
“California is currently facing precipitous declines in its once-thriving populations of native salmon, steelhead and wild trout,” the letter stated. “Therefore, all ocean fishing for salmon was banned in 2008 and is likely to be similarly prohibited in 2009. We see no rationale or basis for allowing the regulatory status quo to remain in place for in-stream mining activities that DFG already acknowledges is harming fish…”
DFG is more than 18 months behind schedule in completing a regulatory overhaul required by a court order issued in December 2006, and is just now starting the process. New environmental standards will not be issued until 2011 at the earliest, according to a release from Wiggins spokesperson David Miller.
In addition to Wiggins and Chesbro, other signatories to the letter sent Monday were Senator Fran Pavley (Dem. - Agoura Hills), chair of the Senate Natural Resources Committee; Senator Lois Wolk (Dem. - Davis); and Assemblymember Jared Huffman (Dem. - San Rafael), chair of the Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee. Wiggins also chairs the Joint Legislative Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Environmentally-leaning elected officials weren’t the originators of the emergency regulations proposal, however; late last month, the Karuk Tribe and three environmental organizations filed a petition with DFG director Donald Koch seeking particular time restrictions on dredging during the July 1 through Sept. 15 spawning season in the Klamath River watershed. Their petition also sought to tack on absolute restrictions on dredging along the Feather River, North Fork American River, Rubicon River, and smaller creeks in the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The Karuk, along with California Trout, Friends of the North Fork and the Sierra Fund, cite federal studies noting a 73% decline in returning coho salmon adults in 2008, compared to just three years before.
“An April 2008 report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the lack of demonstrably viable coho populations, lack of redundancy in viable populations, and substantial gaps in coho distribution, all ‘strongly indicate that (the coho) is currently in danger of extinction,’ their petition stated. “This dramatic and recent decline constitutes an emergency situation.”
The vacuums used by suction dredgers drags sediment from the bottom of the river, then passes the stream bed through a sluice box where heavier gold particles can settle into a series of riffles. The rest of the gravel and potentially toxic sediment is simply dumped back into the river. Depending on size, location and density of these machines, the machines can turn a clear running mountain stream or river segment into a murky watercourse unfit for survival of spawning salmon or their young, according to Wiggins.
“California is suffering from an historical collapse of vital fisheries,” she said. “The alarming decline in once-thriving populations of native salmon, steelhead and wild trout which forced government regulators to close the fishing season last spring may likely occur again in 2009.”
“This crisis has caused tremendous hardships for fishermen, their families and the North Coast economy. We must do everything we can to protect the fisheries which are essential to their survival, especially in today’s depressed economic environment.”
DFG was previously obligated, under the 2006 settlement of a previous lawsuit brought by the Karuk Tribe, to complete an environmental review and overhaul of suction dredge regulations. However, July 1 of last year came, and went, without state authorities meeting this deadline, despite the ongoing violation of the Fish and Game Code relating to the taking of threatened fish species.
The environmental groups involved also claim DFG is allowing violations of the federal Clean Water Act due to the lack of permitting for dredging activities, possibly providing grounds for a further lawsuit entangling an already embattled state agency.
Humboldt Sentinel
1/8/09
By Charles Douglas
SACRAMENTO -- Local legislators lined up with Native American and environmental groups this week in support of emergency restrictions on recreational gold mining along the Klamath River and its tributaries.
While such a ban wouldn’t quite end the practice of panning for gold on the riverbanks, the practice of suction dredging -- the use of fossil-fuel-powered engines on floating pontoons to vacuum hose the bottom of the river – is widely seen as making watercourses murky and unfit for salmon spawning.
The North Coast’s assemblymember, Wes Chesbro (Dem. – Arcata) and state senator, Pat Wiggins (Dem. – Santa Rosa) co-signed a letter with several other legislators to the California Department of Fish and Game and the State Water Resources Control Board demanding the imposition of ad-hoc regulations.
“California is currently facing precipitous declines in its once-thriving populations of native salmon, steelhead and wild trout,” the letter stated. “Therefore, all ocean fishing for salmon was banned in 2008 and is likely to be similarly prohibited in 2009. We see no rationale or basis for allowing the regulatory status quo to remain in place for in-stream mining activities that DFG already acknowledges is harming fish…”
DFG is more than 18 months behind schedule in completing a regulatory overhaul required by a court order issued in December 2006, and is just now starting the process. New environmental standards will not be issued until 2011 at the earliest, according to a release from Wiggins spokesperson David Miller.
In addition to Wiggins and Chesbro, other signatories to the letter sent Monday were Senator Fran Pavley (Dem. - Agoura Hills), chair of the Senate Natural Resources Committee; Senator Lois Wolk (Dem. - Davis); and Assemblymember Jared Huffman (Dem. - San Rafael), chair of the Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee. Wiggins also chairs the Joint Legislative Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Environmentally-leaning elected officials weren’t the originators of the emergency regulations proposal, however; late last month, the Karuk Tribe and three environmental organizations filed a petition with DFG director Donald Koch seeking particular time restrictions on dredging during the July 1 through Sept. 15 spawning season in the Klamath River watershed. Their petition also sought to tack on absolute restrictions on dredging along the Feather River, North Fork American River, Rubicon River, and smaller creeks in the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The Karuk, along with California Trout, Friends of the North Fork and the Sierra Fund, cite federal studies noting a 73% decline in returning coho salmon adults in 2008, compared to just three years before.
“An April 2008 report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the lack of demonstrably viable coho populations, lack of redundancy in viable populations, and substantial gaps in coho distribution, all ‘strongly indicate that (the coho) is currently in danger of extinction,’ their petition stated. “This dramatic and recent decline constitutes an emergency situation.”
The vacuums used by suction dredgers drags sediment from the bottom of the river, then passes the stream bed through a sluice box where heavier gold particles can settle into a series of riffles. The rest of the gravel and potentially toxic sediment is simply dumped back into the river. Depending on size, location and density of these machines, the machines can turn a clear running mountain stream or river segment into a murky watercourse unfit for survival of spawning salmon or their young, according to Wiggins.
“California is suffering from an historical collapse of vital fisheries,” she said. “The alarming decline in once-thriving populations of native salmon, steelhead and wild trout which forced government regulators to close the fishing season last spring may likely occur again in 2009.”
“This crisis has caused tremendous hardships for fishermen, their families and the North Coast economy. We must do everything we can to protect the fisheries which are essential to their survival, especially in today’s depressed economic environment.”
DFG was previously obligated, under the 2006 settlement of a previous lawsuit brought by the Karuk Tribe, to complete an environmental review and overhaul of suction dredge regulations. However, July 1 of last year came, and went, without state authorities meeting this deadline, despite the ongoing violation of the Fish and Game Code relating to the taking of threatened fish species.
The environmental groups involved also claim DFG is allowing violations of the federal Clean Water Act due to the lack of permitting for dredging activities, possibly providing grounds for a further lawsuit entangling an already embattled state agency.
The Difficulty Of Being An Informed American
Function of the “mainstream media” to sell products and to brainwash
Humboldt Sentinel
1/8/09
By Paul Craig Roberts
The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible. If people intend to be informed, they must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A person who sits in front of Murdoch’s Fox “News” or CNN or who reads the New York Times is simply being brainwashed with propaganda.
Before conservatives nod their heads in agreement, I’m not referring to “the liberal media.” I mean the propaganda that issues from the US government and the Israel Lobby.
It was neoconservative Bush regime propaganda fed to America through Judith Miller and the New York Times and through Murdoch’s Fox “News” that convinced Americans that they were in danger from a small secular Arab country half way around the globe called Iraq. It was the American media that convinced Americans that getting rid of dangerous “weapons of mass destruction,” weapons that did not exist in Iraq, would be a cakewalk paid for by Iraqi oil revenues.
It is the same propagandistic American print and TV media that have rationalized Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan based on seven years of lies and deception.
It is the same media that today provides only Israeli propaganda as “coverage” of the Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
It was the New York Times that spiked for one year the leaked information from the National Security Agency that the Bush regime, in violation of US law, was illegally spying on Americans without warrants. The “liberal” New York Times agreed to suppress the story so that Bush would not face reelection under the cloud of his outlaw behavior.
Conservatives think the Washington Post is “liberal media” despite the fact that the editorial and commentary pages are controlled by neocons and their sympathizers.
During the run up to wars and during wars, the American press has always been a propagandist for the government. The only exceptions occurred during the later phases of the Vietnam War and the Contra-Sandinista conflict in Central America. Karen de Young and some others tried to honestly cover the Contras and Sandinistas and were demonized by “patriots” taken in by the government’s lies.
Conservatives still blame the “liberal” media for losing the Vietnam War, when in fact all the media did was to provide some truthful reports that opened some American eyes.
When the truth cuts against the position of the US government, conservatives see it as “liberal.”
When propaganda supports the government’s lies, conservatives see it as “patriotic.”
However, any resemblance to independent reporting disappeared from the American media when the Democratic regime of President Clinton allowed Murdoch and a small handful of moguls to concentrate the American media in a few corporate hands. That was the end of American reporting.
Journalists disappeared from media management and were replaced by corporate advertising executives with an eye not to offend any source of advertising revenue, and certainly not to offend the government, which controls the broadcast licenses that comprise the value of the mega-companies. Today reporters write the stories that their masters want to hear, or they are out. The function of editors is to make certain that no uncomfortable information reaches the public.
The public is slowly catching on, and the print media is dying. The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times are all on the ropes. Americans are still subjected to Fox “News” and CNN propaganda piped into airport waiting rooms, doctors’ offices, and exercise centers.
People ask me where they can get reliable information. I tell them that their goal cannot be reached without their commitment of time.
People who have access to television services that provide English language foreign broadcasts, such as Iran’s Press TV, Russia Today, or Al Jazeera, can get get news and insights from those parts of the world demonized by the US media.
The BBC World Service still reports facts while covering itself by providing the views of the US, UK, and Israeli governments.
Both the Asia Times and Israeli newspapers, such as Haaretz can be read online in English. There are other such newspapers, and all of them provide information that Americans will never see in their own media. Any American newspaper that was as truthful about the Israeli government as Haaretz would be closed down.
The only US print source with which I am familiar in which some honest reporting can be found on a regular basis is the McClatchy papers.
Americans addicted to print media must turn to alternative newspapers, which tend to be weekly or bi-weekly. However, the news and commentary provided are often superb..
Alternative newspapers are often the children of people motivated by a sense of justice and the love of truth. Such people have become an endangered species in the American “mainstream media.” The free press Americans have today is online and in the alternative media.
The function of the “mainstream media” is to sell products and to brainwash the audience for the government and interest groups. By subscribing to it, Americans support their own brainwashing.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week, and columnist for the Scripps Howard Newspapers, was the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan.
Humboldt Sentinel
1/8/09
By Paul Craig Roberts
The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible. If people intend to be informed, they must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A person who sits in front of Murdoch’s Fox “News” or CNN or who reads the New York Times is simply being brainwashed with propaganda.
Before conservatives nod their heads in agreement, I’m not referring to “the liberal media.” I mean the propaganda that issues from the US government and the Israel Lobby.
It was neoconservative Bush regime propaganda fed to America through Judith Miller and the New York Times and through Murdoch’s Fox “News” that convinced Americans that they were in danger from a small secular Arab country half way around the globe called Iraq. It was the American media that convinced Americans that getting rid of dangerous “weapons of mass destruction,” weapons that did not exist in Iraq, would be a cakewalk paid for by Iraqi oil revenues.
It is the same propagandistic American print and TV media that have rationalized Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan based on seven years of lies and deception.
It is the same media that today provides only Israeli propaganda as “coverage” of the Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
It was the New York Times that spiked for one year the leaked information from the National Security Agency that the Bush regime, in violation of US law, was illegally spying on Americans without warrants. The “liberal” New York Times agreed to suppress the story so that Bush would not face reelection under the cloud of his outlaw behavior.
Conservatives think the Washington Post is “liberal media” despite the fact that the editorial and commentary pages are controlled by neocons and their sympathizers.
During the run up to wars and during wars, the American press has always been a propagandist for the government. The only exceptions occurred during the later phases of the Vietnam War and the Contra-Sandinista conflict in Central America. Karen de Young and some others tried to honestly cover the Contras and Sandinistas and were demonized by “patriots” taken in by the government’s lies.
Conservatives still blame the “liberal” media for losing the Vietnam War, when in fact all the media did was to provide some truthful reports that opened some American eyes.
When the truth cuts against the position of the US government, conservatives see it as “liberal.”
When propaganda supports the government’s lies, conservatives see it as “patriotic.”
However, any resemblance to independent reporting disappeared from the American media when the Democratic regime of President Clinton allowed Murdoch and a small handful of moguls to concentrate the American media in a few corporate hands. That was the end of American reporting.
Journalists disappeared from media management and were replaced by corporate advertising executives with an eye not to offend any source of advertising revenue, and certainly not to offend the government, which controls the broadcast licenses that comprise the value of the mega-companies. Today reporters write the stories that their masters want to hear, or they are out. The function of editors is to make certain that no uncomfortable information reaches the public.
The public is slowly catching on, and the print media is dying. The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times are all on the ropes. Americans are still subjected to Fox “News” and CNN propaganda piped into airport waiting rooms, doctors’ offices, and exercise centers.
People ask me where they can get reliable information. I tell them that their goal cannot be reached without their commitment of time.
People who have access to television services that provide English language foreign broadcasts, such as Iran’s Press TV, Russia Today, or Al Jazeera, can get get news and insights from those parts of the world demonized by the US media.
The BBC World Service still reports facts while covering itself by providing the views of the US, UK, and Israeli governments.
Both the Asia Times and Israeli newspapers, such as Haaretz can be read online in English. There are other such newspapers, and all of them provide information that Americans will never see in their own media. Any American newspaper that was as truthful about the Israeli government as Haaretz would be closed down.
The only US print source with which I am familiar in which some honest reporting can be found on a regular basis is the McClatchy papers.
Americans addicted to print media must turn to alternative newspapers, which tend to be weekly or bi-weekly. However, the news and commentary provided are often superb..
Alternative newspapers are often the children of people motivated by a sense of justice and the love of truth. Such people have become an endangered species in the American “mainstream media.” The free press Americans have today is online and in the alternative media.
The function of the “mainstream media” is to sell products and to brainwash the audience for the government and interest groups. By subscribing to it, Americans support their own brainwashing.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week, and columnist for the Scripps Howard Newspapers, was the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan.
Redwood Tsunami Group Honored For Innovation
Tri-county interagency effort lauded for disaster mitigation efforts
Humboldt Sentinel
1/8/09
By Paul Mann
ARCATA -- The Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group, a tri-county interagency body that includes Humboldt State University and advances mitigation of coastal earthquake and tsunami hazards, has received an award for excellence in innovation from a regional earthquake consortium headquartered in Sacramento.
Lauded by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services for introducing “live code” tsunami testing in Humboldt County in March of last year, the Redwood Coast Tsunami Group will be honored by the Western States Seismic Policy Council at its annual conference in February in Salt Lake City.
Dr. Lori Dengler, chair of HSU’s Department of Geology and Director of the University’s Earthquake Education Center, will attend the conference and accept the award on behalf of the group, which represents Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino Counties. Formed in 1996, its membership is drawn from local, state and federal agencies as well as relief organizations, coastal land managers and businesses. The current chairs are Troy Nicolini of the National Weather Service in Eureka and Vicki Ozaki of Redwood National Park.
“Humboldt State has played a major role in the creation, maintenance and projects of the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group, but its success is as an ad hoc interagency organization,” Dengler said.
James Goltz, Earthquake and Tsunami Program Manager in the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said the Humboldt County test in March was of great importance because it exercised the last link in the tsunami warning system. “The test was a complete success and virtually our entire approach was vetted through the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group. We plan to continue ‘live code’ tests in 2009 and incorporate two additional counties, Del Norte and Mendocino, in addition to Humboldt,” he said. The Redwood group will continue as the main vehicle for the tests in conjunction with the Emergency Alert System, which is activated using the same code and resulting messages that would be used in a real earthquake or tsunami.
Goltz also praised the Redwood organization for its educational materials, including “Living on Shaky Ground,” tsunami inundation maps, county fair exhibits and preparedness workshops.
The Western States Seismic Policy Council promotes initiatives to reduce earthquake losses, in partnership with emergency management, geological surveys and seismic council and commissions at the state level. A non-profit organization, it comprises geologists and emergency managers from 13 states, three U.S. territories, a Canadian province and a Canadian territory. They include California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon.
The seismic council typically honors five to eight outstanding mitigation programs or projects each year, Dengler said, and the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group was nominated for the innovation award by HSU alum and former Humboldt County Third District Supervisor John Woolley (’67, ’68).
Humboldt Sentinel
1/8/09
By Paul Mann
ARCATA -- The Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group, a tri-county interagency body that includes Humboldt State University and advances mitigation of coastal earthquake and tsunami hazards, has received an award for excellence in innovation from a regional earthquake consortium headquartered in Sacramento.
Lauded by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services for introducing “live code” tsunami testing in Humboldt County in March of last year, the Redwood Coast Tsunami Group will be honored by the Western States Seismic Policy Council at its annual conference in February in Salt Lake City.
Dr. Lori Dengler, chair of HSU’s Department of Geology and Director of the University’s Earthquake Education Center, will attend the conference and accept the award on behalf of the group, which represents Humboldt, Del Norte and Mendocino Counties. Formed in 1996, its membership is drawn from local, state and federal agencies as well as relief organizations, coastal land managers and businesses. The current chairs are Troy Nicolini of the National Weather Service in Eureka and Vicki Ozaki of Redwood National Park.
“Humboldt State has played a major role in the creation, maintenance and projects of the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group, but its success is as an ad hoc interagency organization,” Dengler said.
James Goltz, Earthquake and Tsunami Program Manager in the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said the Humboldt County test in March was of great importance because it exercised the last link in the tsunami warning system. “The test was a complete success and virtually our entire approach was vetted through the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group. We plan to continue ‘live code’ tests in 2009 and incorporate two additional counties, Del Norte and Mendocino, in addition to Humboldt,” he said. The Redwood group will continue as the main vehicle for the tests in conjunction with the Emergency Alert System, which is activated using the same code and resulting messages that would be used in a real earthquake or tsunami.
Goltz also praised the Redwood organization for its educational materials, including “Living on Shaky Ground,” tsunami inundation maps, county fair exhibits and preparedness workshops.
The Western States Seismic Policy Council promotes initiatives to reduce earthquake losses, in partnership with emergency management, geological surveys and seismic council and commissions at the state level. A non-profit organization, it comprises geologists and emergency managers from 13 states, three U.S. territories, a Canadian province and a Canadian territory. They include California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon.
The seismic council typically honors five to eight outstanding mitigation programs or projects each year, Dengler said, and the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group was nominated for the innovation award by HSU alum and former Humboldt County Third District Supervisor John Woolley (’67, ’68).
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