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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2024

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It’s Beginning to Look

a Lot Like Christmas… BY ROGER GITLIN County Media, Inc

Holiday Nights and Festive lights was the theme of the December 6th Parade through downtown Crescent City. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere we go. The iconic song written by Mason City, Iowan Meredith Wilson in 1951 while visiting Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and crooned by Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Michael Buble and many other notables. The crisp Autumn air was vibrant and alive as onlookers embraced the Holiday season unfurling. Crescent City and Del Norte

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ofﬁcially welcomed in the Holiday Season with its Annual Christmas Light and Holiday Market. Here are the Parade and Float Award recognitions. Large crowds lined the streets for the joyous occasion • 1st Place, Best Motorized Entry: Potter Estate Group • 1st Place, Best Walking Entry: Crescent City Cowgirls • 1st Place, Best Health and Safety Entry: Crescent City Fire Department Also recognized and appreciated were Scottie Phogography, the Blue Denim Band, Judges Robyn Holt from Western Valley Insurance, Dawn Harper from Your Salon, Kevin Hartwick of Crescent City Rotary and Christina Jones from Elk Valley Rancheria. 31 Parade participants added festive cheer to “ It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas.

Pedestrian Killed on Northcrest Drive Crosswalk BY ROGER GITLIN

Del Norte Gets “Shook Up” by 7.0 Rio Del Quake

BY ROGER GITLIN Country Media, Inc.

The time was exactly 10:49AM, Thursday when cell phones across the North Coast California and South Coast Oregon went berserk, warning of a possible tsunami. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported a 7.0 Earthquake just off-shore near Rio Del. Tsunami warning followed. Board of Supervisors Chairman Dean Wilson told The Triplicate NOAA took precautionary measures and asked Del Norters to seek higher ground as the sensitive wave measuring equipment was unable to equate tsunami impact and as a precaution, asked the public to move inland. For a short period of time, the trafﬁc was overloaded on streets and highways across Del Norte Larger Harbor vessels had about an hour window to move from the shallow harbor to deeper waters, mitigating possible damage to their commercial boats. By 12:31PM, NOAA pulled the warning. Del Norte and Crescent City returned to normal. No injuries or property damage were reported.

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Crescent Harbor larger vessels take precautionary measures exiting the Harbor during Tsunami warning

‘Batten down the hatches’

Gavin Newsom wants $25M to fight Trump as president-elect’s legal ‘hurricane’ looms over California BY CHRIS PEREZ

Background: California Gov. Gavin Newsom. photo credit, inlet President-Elect Donald Trump (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).

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Gov. Gavin Newsom wants state lawmakers to help pad out his litigation fund to the tune of $25 million, according to his ofﬁce, as they brace for legal attacks and “federal overreach” from President-elect Donald Trump. “The Governor is working with lawmakers to establish a litigation fund to bolster the state’s legal resources in response to the incoming federal administra-

tion’s signaled policy proposals that would harm the state,” Newsom’s team said in a speech to State Senators and Assembly members, Dec. 3. “Working with the Legislature, the Governor is proposing a new litigation fund of up to $25 million for the California Department of Justice and state agencies to defend California from unconstitutional federal overreach, challenge illegal federal actions in court, and take administrative actions to reduce Please see NEWSOM, Page 9

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Following a California Highway Patrol (CHP)investigation into the December 4 hit and run trafﬁc fatality on Northcrest Drive and Madison, an arrest has been made. The incident took place at approximately 6PM. The driver of the vehicle who struck and killed Peter Jun Ming Nip, 80, who was walking across a marked crosswalk pushing a shopping cart left the scene of the incident but was arrested by the CHP. She is identiﬁed as Alexandra Danielle Diehl, 33, was taken into custody for violation of Vehicle Code 20001(a) 192 Penal Code, Hit and Run, Vehicular Manslaughter, Leaving the Scene of an accident. According to the CHP Report, the victim was walking across the Northcrest marked crosswalk walk near his home when a 2019 Nissan Rogue struck Mr. Nip who was thrown to the number one southbound lane of Northcrest Dr. Moments later, a Toyota 4-Runner traveling northbound on Northcrest struck the personal metal shopping cart of Mr. Nip. A third vehicle, a white Kia traveling south on the southbound lane, east of Madison Avenue, the approaching driver noticed laying in the road, swerved but was unable to avoid the person. The victim was expediently transferred to Sutter Coast Hospital, but succumbed to his injuries at approximately 9PM. The CHP received information the suspect Nissan Rogue vehicle was located and its driver, Ms. Diehl was arrested at approximately 8:35PM

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