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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
MEET Patrick Roskam
Patrick Roskam and his wife, Kimberly, moved to Humboldt County in 2010, settling in Blue Lake after years of camping trips that made them fall in love with the area. -They always imagined retiring here, and about six or seven years ago Patrick did just that after a long career in health care. Today, he enjoys retirement, spending plenty of time with his dog and staying connected to the community.
Patrick has been shopping at Murphy’s Markets for 16 years, with the Glendale location being his go-to store. -“It’s so convenient, right o the freeway,” he says. -“I know I’m always going to find what I’m looking for. The store is clean, organized, and easy to shop.” What truly keeps him coming back is the people. -“When I walk through the doors, I feel like I’m visiting family.”
Patrick is especially fond of -Humboldt Grass Fed Beef, saying, -“I’ve never tasted a steak as good as that.” He also appreciates the fresh produce, well-stocked meat counter, and the deli’s hot food selection.
Shopping local matters deeply to Patrick. -“I want to keep my money local and support local jobs,” he says, noting Murphy’s support of schools, youth sports, and community events.
Above all, Murphy’s feels personal. -“I enjoy the conversations I have with the employees,” Patrick shares. -“I run into friends and neighbors, stop to chat, and catch up on what’s happening in Blue Lake. Murphy’s really feels like the community meeting place.”
Arcata, Eureka Protests Call Out
By Mark Larson newsroom@northcoastjournal.com
More than 100 students and community members showed up near the Cal Poly Humboldt campus at the David Josiah Lawson mural at the D Street Community Center for a student-led walkout protest on Jan. 23 in solidarity with Free America walkouts across the country. Participants brought signs or picked one up from a
donated stack, shared handouts with the words to chants and passed out masks.
50501 organizer AJ and Rick Toledo of CPH’s Students for a Democratic Society were among organizers. The group marched to the Arcata Plaza, where they gathered to hear several speakers, before returning to the starting point.
Among those speaking to the crowd, Brenda Perez, executive director of Centro
del Pueblo, warned that it’s “when, and not if, ICE comes to Humboldt County,” and led the walkout protestors in chanting the Centro del Pueblo hotline number (707) 200-8091 to call in case of an ICE presence. Perez encouraged everyone to report suspected sightings to the hotline number first and not to post on social media until it’s confirmed by the call and the
Artist Tim Clewell of Arcata said he created his original “Crush ICE” sign Saturday night after hearing about Sunday’s planned Emergency Protest at the Humboldt County courthouse in Eureka.
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Humboldt Rapid Response Network to avoid raising fears and spreading rumors.
Two days later, an estimated 1,500 protestors rallied at the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka in response to the fatal shooting of Veterans Affairs intensive care unit nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis a day earlier. Many of the protest signs referred to the killing of Pretti and Renee Good, a mother of three, who was shot to death by an ICE agent on Jan. 7. Both Pretti and Good were
37. Others expressed opposition to a range of the Trump administration’s policies and actions, from ICE deployment and anti-immigrant policies to the Epstein files and beyond. See more photos at northcoastjournal.com. l
Mark Larson (he/him) is a retired Cal Poly Humboldt journalism professor and active freelance photographer who likes to walk.
50501 event organizer AJ joined Rick Toledo, a member of the Students for a Democratic Society, and other speakers on the plaza protesting Trump administration policies and actions around the world, including the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota by ICE agents..
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The Emergency Protest in front of the county courthouse in Eureka on Sunday had enthusiastic musicians and singers, but fewer than prior protests there.
‘Bigger Than All of Us’
A fire relief weekend across Arcata
By Kimberly Wear kim@northcoastjournal.com
Plans for the Arcata Rising fundraising shows this weekend began coming together the night of the Jan. 2 fire.
Sitting at Dead Reckoning Tavern, just a few blocks away from the devastation, and reeling from the conflagration they had just watched devour a block of shops, homes and studios, Humbrews owner Shelley Ruhl says she turned to former owner Andy Ardell and said, “Let’s throw a benefit concert.”
From there, things came together quickly. Ardell, who still books the acts for the venue, reached out to Brian Swizlo, keyboardist for Object Heavy and other local bands, who in turn reached out to some of his friends and bandmates to see if they wanted to play. The response was overwhelming.
“Within 24 hours, I had close to 20,”
Swizlo says, adding that’s grown to more than 30 bands as well as DJs, hosts and visual artists. “At first, we were going to do one day on Saturday. It just got too big. … Everyone just wanted to be down.”
Taking the three-day show under his wings has been a challenge, Swizlo acknowledges, bringing together not only the talent but the sound managers, pit crews and other behind-the-scenes personnel needed to pull off what he willingly admits is an “over-the-top, nearly impossible” schedule of 30-minute sets with 10 minutes in between acts performing on two stages.
“I just feel that there were firefighters running into the fire and people who don’t have their birth certificates anymore, so I’ll be fine. We’ll be fine,” he says. “I know it’s bigger than all of us and it’s doable and it’s exciting. I’m just looking at the list now
and going, ‘How are all of these bands available?’”
Ruhl agrees. “There’s just so much support. It’s amazing,” she says, describing the way everything came together as a “feat of meticulous scheduling and selflessness.”
All the money raised from the shows — Friday is a regularly ticketed show while Saturday and Sunday will be a $10 minimum suggested donation at the door — are going to the businesses and residents impacted. Additionally, Humbrews is donating $1 from each pint and 25 percent from orders of two specials on offer at the event.
And, Ruhl notes, she’s working with Pay It Forward Humboldt as her “accountability partner in getting the money to the right places.”
Swizlo says he feels a sense of magnitude in the placement of some acts,
who will be performing in front of the main window — the space where bands used to play back in the day — with the charred remains of the 800 block of H Street visible in the background, calling it both “nostalgic” and “poignant.”
One of the reasons they published the exact time of each set on Saturday and Sunday, Swizlo says, is to make sure people know when their favorite bands are playing, so they can go out and be part of the other events happening around town on those days.
Known collectively as Arcata Fire Relief Support Group Weekend, venues, artists, shops and restaurants across town will also be opening their doors in different ways for the loosely formed but shared effort to help those impacted — as well as bring the community together.
Scenes from the Arcata downtown fire on Jan. 2 that destroyed a city block of businesses, apartments and art studios.
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While not coordinating the weekend of events, the Arcata Chamber of Commerce website is hosting an interactive map to which local businesses can add their plans, as well as links to fire relief resources and vetted donation sites. (Also see this week’s Calendar, Nightlife Grid, and On the Table, as well as northcoastjournal.com for more details.)
“Our intention was just to bring the community together to show solidarity, strength and support,” Executive Director Meredith Maier says.
A lot of unknowns remain in the wake of the five-alarm fire, including the cause, which the results of a joint investigation by the Arcata Fire District and Arcata Police Department has classified as “undetermined.”
Seven businesses and eight apartments were destroyed in the blaze that moved swiftly through the historic buildings amid high winds after being spotted by an Arcata Fire crew around 2:30 p.m.
No injuries were reported but some residents lost their pets in the fire.
Officials say flames were able to move through the “concealed spaces within the interconnected structures” and a gas manifold damaged by the fire left crews unable to shut down the supply to the buildings on fire.
PG&E crews, which Arcata Fire Chief Chris Emmons said at a meeting earlier in January arrived very quickly on scene, ultimately had to excavate at 10th and H streets to reach and crimp the line.
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After the Fire
By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Dante DiGenova says he assumed the Jan. 2 evacuation of the storied Northtown Books, which he’s owned for 19 years and worked at for 35, was for caution’s sake. “Dog and keys,” were his only priorities on the way out.
The store opened in 1965 in Northtown and H Street was its third location, though all the records of those early years burned. Immediate shock has been supplanted by the work of creating a manifest of what was lost for the insurance company. DiGenova has marked out a map of the shop in his home and moves through a kind of ghost space to recall items he passed and touched every day at the register and among the shelves. “It sort of forces me to relive and go over everything that was lost,” he says.
“I can go to the site and look at the rubble, and it’s so abstract to me that it doesn’t really affect me,” he says. But at the recent Zombies of Eureka screening he attended with a coworker, the Lost Loves music video shot at the bookstore took him by surprise, opening with a shot of shoes tapping on the checkered floor and the camera panning around the room. “That was a difficult moment for both of us, just seeing it all again,” he says, “everything we had there and how beautiful it was and knowing that it’s gone.”
Patrons and friends felt the loss, too, and the outpouring of donations and good wishes has been a surprise as well. “Jada Brotman set up that Give a Hand site for us, I think the night of the fire,” he marvels, adding people have very generous. “You know when you work a job, it’s a job to you and you don’t really think about the effect it will have on people,” he says. “The notes that people left, it brought tears to my eyes.”
And those messages about what the store meant to them made him determined to reopen. “It almost feels like a home not just to us but to our customers.”
DiGenova says the store has always defied convention, hanging onto books the staff thought were worthy instead of dumping them after six months like so many booksellers. “If it takes three years to sell something, that’s fine … we know eventually someone’s going to come in and be thrilled to find it on the shelf.” He hopes to reopen as soon as possible, at least in a temporary spot,
and hopefully with his longtime staffers. He’d like to stay close to the plaza, where he still takes his black poodle Tovi for walks.
DiGenova is already hunting for a new rocking horse like the old one, but it’s proving elusive. Some of his adult customers he saw “as tiny kids on that rocking horse in the store.” It will be tough, but he says, “I love that place and I want to bring it back.”
Owner of neighboring shop Dandar’s Boardgames and Books Doranna Benker-Gilkey (a Journal contributor) says she deals with stress with sarcasm, so when the insurance company asked for a photo of the damage, she sent them one photo of the flame-engulfed shop and another of the resulting rubble with a circle indicating Dandar’s portion. Benker-Gilkey had a good cry alone in the house with their dogs a week ago, “Then, onward,” she says with a grim laugh. But at her first State of the City event last Thursday, sitting in a room full of people who were talking about the fire was difficult. “I didn’t expect it to get to me like that, just seeing the pictures.”
She and husband Dan Gilkey had only moved to H Street from their old location in May, but they were all in. “I’d quit my day job and we were going to grow old there,” Benker-Gilkey says. Dandar’s “is just an extension of us,” she says, explaining the toys and collectibles decorating the space and stored in the back made up Gilkey’s entire personal collection amassed over 40 years. Also lost were their son’s childhood Star Wars costume helmets and the plaster cast mask she made for her late sister. Family photos, her father’s artwork and things to keep “what’s left of the family around” are gone as well, and she expects to feel it keenly again when they move into a new spot without all that. “It’ll be hard, but it’ll be OK,” she says, adding she’s grateful not to have lost any people.
People, Benker-Gilkey says, are the heart of the business, which has become a hub for game nights and connecting with fellow players. With the help of other business owners, they’ve only missed a week of game nights. “Outer Space literally opened their doors to us,” hosting Star Wars Tuesdays and Magic the Gathering Fridays. “Septentrio also stepped forward right away with a gen-
Without the assistance of agencies from across the county — including Humboldt Bay Fire, Samoa Fire, Kneeland Fire, Westhaven Fire, Loleta Fire, Ferndale Fire, Fortuna Fire, Fieldbrook Fire, Blue Lake Fire, Rio Dell Fire, Arcata-Mad River Ambulance, CAL FIRE Trinidad, and CAL FIRE Weott — the devastation could have been much worse.
On Sunday, a Heroes Parade is set for noon at the Arcata Plaza to honor all the first responders who rushed to the scene, preventing the fire from spreading beyond the single city block.
Like the Arcata Rising concert, the event started with a conversation.
Amy Bohner says she was talking with her husband Steve, fellow co-owner of
Alchemy Distillery, about how blown away she was by all the fundraising in those first days after the fire when he said, “Maybe we should do something for the first responders.”
Bohner brought the idea to Maier and next thing she knew, she was taking a crash course on how to put together a parade. It’s something, she says, that’s “been my
life for the last couple weeks,” quickly noting that she has “no regrets.”
“They deserve all the kudos they have coming their way,” she says.
Things will kick off around 11 a.m. with local organizations and agencies, from the county’s Office of Emergency Services and the Red Cross to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and CalFire (which will be bringing three therapy dogs) tabling in the plaza center. Then, at 11:50 a.m., Arcata Mayor Kimberley White will read a city proclamation.
Organizers are looking for people to be in place around the plaza before the main event starts at noon from the Arcata Fire station. The Marching Lumberjacks will start things off, followed by Arcata Fire trucks, APD vehicles and those of the departments from across the county that rushed to help, a response that officials have credited with preventing a catastrophic event far beyond the devastation wrought that day.
Other agencies, including PG&E, California Fish and Wildlife Department, City Ambulance, among others, are also invited to participate. Also joining in the two rounds around the plaza will be the operator of the excavator who did the delicate work of tearing down parts of the block to aid fire suppression, along with the piece of heavy equipment on a flatbed truck, Bohner says.
But, she notes, “there’s no real reason for a parade if the community doesn’t come out with signs, cheers and welcome.”
To help set the scene, there will be a free sign-making workshop at the Arcata Playhouse on Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with cardboard, paints and other craft supplies for people ready to “bring their creativity to show our local heroes our appreciation.”
Watching the plans for this weekend coalesce alongside the outpouring of support that’s been flowing since the flames tore through Arcata’s downtown on that Friday afternoon has been “inspiring,” she says.
“Such local rock stars putting their heads down and saying, ‘Let’s do it,’” Bohner says. “It just really did take the whole city coming together to pull this off in the same month.” l
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eral offer,” she says, and now the Magic the Gathering players meet there on Saturdays. Nearby Rain Delay Card Co. is also setting aside a case for Dandar’s to sell cards.
The response to the shop’s GoFundMe and the Give a Hand effort, as well as fundraising by other businesses including PG&E was beyond what she imagined. At first, it felt awkward, Benker-Gilkey says, “We work for money.” But she realized they weren’t alone and so many people were affected. “It’s important to allow people to help you,” she says, “and it’s a reminder we aren’t in this alone. Dan and I didn’t make this store alone, we did a lot of heavy lifting, but it wasn’t going to work without a community behind it.” Still, the thought of the three-day fundraiser coming up makes her swoon a little.
The donations, says Benker-Gilkey, are going to make it so they can set up a new spot, inventory and, most importantly, gaming tables to reestablish their game nights. “We gotta get that back.” Wherever they find a temporary place, the plan is to return to H Street. “We wanna be right back where we were in a new building,” she says, “with sprinklers.”
In September, after losing their spaces at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Stewart Building, Laura Corsiglia, Carol Andersen, Peggy Rivers and her husband Van Shields made a shared studio of a storefront on 10th Street. “It had beautiful light and just a quiet, open space to draw in,” says Corsiglia.
None of the artists were on site when the flames started, but Rivers says, “We got to the fire just in time to see the front of the building fall off.”
“Not only is it a place to create new work, but sadly, also a place to store work,” says Corsiglia, “it was a place that contained a lot of art and a lot of fragile works on paper.”
For some of them, it was the bulk of a life’s work. “I think we’re all still in a certain degree of shock,” she says, and while she’s grateful nobody was hurt, “It’s disorienting to lose so much work.”
“We all lost thousands of paintings,” says Andersen. But knowing she has so many paintings out in the world, especially locally, has been some comfort. In fact, an ongoing exhibition of work by the four artists at the Morris Graves Museum of Art spared some of their pieces.
Shields, who says he’s only recently been able to dedicate himself to making art, laments, “Peggy lost so much more than me. … But her loss is my loss as well.”
Along with the art itself, Rivers’ documentation of a lifetime of shows, and
decades’ worth of journals and slides burned. “Nobody died but a part of me died, for sure,” she says. Realizing she had “not one single tool to make anything,” she wanted to give up, “but I didn’t want that to be my story.”
Each of the artists say the community support has been wonderful, not only financially, but emotionally. Andersen says, “I can’t even talk about it without crying. I was overwhelmed. … People in the community and people who collect my work were so generous … it was such a validation.” An artist’s work, she says, is often solitary and she didn’t expect the outpouring.
Echoing the sentiment, Rivers says, “When you’re an artist you’re working alone in your cave and you’re lucky if someone sees it. … but to see that your work is valued,” she trails off. So many people have reached out with love and assistance, she says. “It’s hard to be the recipient of all that love but I’m trying to take it all into my heart.”
Shields says talking through their grief with a therapist has been helpful, “and the community response to take care of everyone in this situation has buoyed us.”
Corsiglia says renter’s insurance will cover the cost of her tools but not lost work. Her husband set up online donation for the group separate sites have gone up as well. “We’re so grateful for all of that and so much mobilization and community,” she says. “It is a deeply creative community and a community with a lot of solidarity and that’s very beautiful also.”
Corsiglia has been drawing at home and making a series on black paper called “Aftermath.” She says, “This fire destroyed so much of our work, but it did not destroy who we are as artists or our capacity to respond to the world by creating art.”
Painting is “not always just making something but finding out something.”
Rivers and Sheilds have started sketching again, too. River says, “I’m trying to think about where does my work go from here? … In the midst of this beauty all around us there is this tragedy and I want to put that into it somehow.”
For Andersen, painting has been a balm during difficult times before, and she intends to return to it. “I figure I’ll apply the same energy to this crisis and that will be my way.” ●
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (she/her) is the managing editor at the Journal Reach her at (707) 442-1400 ext. 106, or jennifer@northcoastjournal. com. Follow her on Bluesky @ jfumikocahill.bsky.social.
What’s Good for Arcata
By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill jennifer@northcoastjournal.com
The fundraising events for those affected by the Jan. 2 fire in Arcata are legion, and the music shows alone are going to eat your weekend. But what are you going to eat? Luckily, local food folks are pitching in for the cause as well, and we’ve got suggestions for your community-minded grazing, in case you stumble into the street too rocked out to make good choices.
Ramone’s Bakery & Café (in Wildberries, 747 13th St.)
This weekend, 10 percent of sales goes to fire recovery. If your usual muffin feels too rote for the occasion, consider
the white chocolate and raspberry tart with chocolate crust (4-inch tart $5.25). Or insist on the princess treatment via the Swedish Princess cake ($5.45), the softest vanilla cake layered with whipped cream, raspberry jam and a rolled coat of marzipan (fondant could never). And you’re already in Wildberries, where the Community Giving Program is dedicated to fire relief through February, so drop a few bucks there if you’ve got them.
North Coast Co-op (811 I St.)
First, first responders, who’ll get an extra 10 percent off this weekend. Register round-ups and 1 percent of sales go to
help those affected by the fire this weekend, so it’s time to splurge on the fancy cheese you’re always eyeing.
Richards’ Goat Tavern & Tea Room
Belly up to the hot cocoa bar and have $1 for your drink donated. We hear tell there will be both boozy and non-alcoholic offerings like a Dubai hot chocolate and a bevy of toppings to graze.
Café Mokka (495 J St.)
With 10 percent of sales going the cause, you should probably make time for a biscotti to dip in your matcha latte and a moment’s respite in the even greener garden. Do you have time to dip yourself in a hot tub as well? Self-care and community care all in one.
Los Bagels (1061 I St.)
Listen, you have your usual order and the $5 dozens on hand this weekend are a gimme. But with 10 percent going to relief for friends and neighbors, bend your knees and lift an orange-chocolate babka into your arms like a fragrant bakery baby ($9). The layers and the chocolate are thicker than the standard, and whoever you share it with will appreciate you both.
Arcata Pizza & Deli (1057 H St.)
The restaurant’s own employee Kevin lost everything he had in the fire, so the folks there set up a tip jar for him as well as a QR code for donating. While you’re at the counter, a broad slice of the Gotti with roasted red peppers, pesto, fresh baby spinach mozzarella and feta would not go amiss ($7). Assistant editor Kimberly Wear swears by the hot French dip with melted Swiss, crispy French-fried onions, hot au jus and even hotter horsey sauce — she is not wrong ($17).
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A white chocolate-raspberry tart and Princess cake roulade from Ramone’s Bakery & Café.
Photo by Holly Harvey
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Mia Bella Cupcakes (1041 H St.)
Swing by on Saturday, when a whopping 20 percent of sales will go to friends and neighbors hit by the fire. Don’t torture yourself choosing — load up. Listen, a dozen is only $36 for an outsized amount of joy. A recent trip yielded a stellar banana bread and Biscoff, a fancy green tea and strawberry cupcake and a cookie dough filled and topped one that spoke to our ids. But a special cupcake
will also make itself known on Saturday, so you kind of have to get that one, too. Eat well and feed each other. l
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A Mia Bella cupcake. Photo by Holly Harvey
The Gotti and the French dip at Arcata Pizza & Deli.
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Every Day Feels Like Low-Fired Clay
Annakatrin Burnham’s Flowstate
By Alexander Rondeau artbeat@northcoastjournal.com
At first glance, Annakatrin Burnham’s idiosyncratic sculptures are abstract and otherworldly — almost alien. Titling these quirky ceramics Trophies creates an immediate inroad for viewers to recognize their trophy-esque formal qualities: three-dimensional objects designed for display bearing a stable base adorned with a decorative stem or crowning object rising vertically from the base. But to what merit have such unique trophies been awarded?
Tidal Gallery (339 Second St.) in downtown Eureka opened the Trinidad-based artist’s solo exhibition Flowstate on Dec. 6, 2025, which will continue until Feb. 4. The driving force of Burnham’s show is the Trophies series with 15 ceramic pieces sculpted, fired and glazed using varying materials and techniques, including low, mid and high firing, magnesium carbonate crackle glaze, frost and black ice porcelain, and stoneware in soda. The sculptures are presented atop pedestals Burnham designed and fabricated herself. Additionally, the exhibition includes the aptly named “Chains”: a large-scale installation of white, mid-fire frost porcelain loops bound together, forming chains suspended from the gallery’s ceiling.
Though each ceramic piece in Trophies intimates the commemorative and design attributes of trophies, the artist designates value systems in her appraisals of what we might choose to celebrate that delineate from the competitive nature of trophies and awards. Here, Burnham’s trophies redeploy the modernist drive for innovation and victory through competition into curious sculptures that venerate everyday lived experiences, phenomena and even places that we may otherwise perhaps take for granted or consider to be signs of weakness antithetical to celebration.
For example, “Mom Brain” is an ode to the artist’s experiences of caretaking and the fogginess of early motherhood, taking shape as a 14-by-6-by-6-inch ceramic sculpture crowned with a cloud sitting atop a spire emanating from a green U-shaped base. As a trophy, “Mom Brain” does not celebrate the phenomenon of feeling scatterbrained itself, but is instead merited by the artist as recognition of her own personal navigation of a physiological and emotional period that is expected of mothers through social reproduction as unpaid labor. And so, too, this trophy is offered to many other mothers, parents and caretakers. In a country without universal access to healthcare, reproductive rights, childcare, parental leave and many other social services that benefit parents of young children, a trophy feels like an unduly small commemorative gesture. As a series, Trophies finds cause for celebrations not despite cultural values that favor modernist, capitalist innovation but in spite of these hierarchical rubrics that privilege certain types of traditionally masculine labor over other typically feminized forms of labor. Are Burnham’s Trophies warped and quirky — though equally beautiful and inviting — because we cannot otherwise imagine bestowing trophies for anything other than superiority? Are the abstract qualities of her sculptures mirrors that humorously poke at cultural norms and values to reflect systems of power that not only create competitive systems, but also reward dominance? Indeed, Burnham’s abstraction is an aesthetic choice that points toward our need to expand what success could look like.
The exhibition’s title Flowstate nods to artistic intuition in the creation stages, wherein a “flow state” is achieved once the artist loses herself in her process, time
ode to caretaking and motherhood, taking ceramic sitting green “Mom Brain” phenomenon of is instead recognition of her physiological expected of reproduction as trophy is parents without unireproductive and many parents like an gesture. cause for values innovation rubrics traditiontypically Burnham’s though because bestowing supeof her humorously poke reflect create reward abstraction toward could nods creation stages, once process, time
stretches and artistic output pours steadily through a stream of consciousness that eclipses self-awareness. Burnham’s foregrounding of the flow state also offers an entry point into longstanding debates in art criticism around determining objective versus subjective interpretation, and whether the developments of critical theory, contemporary art theory, art criticism and art history have produced canons and rubrics to objectively assess the cultural, artistic and conceptual value of artworks. The objective camp would turn to formal and sociocultural elements such as color theory, technique, art history and cultural histories that transcend personal and individualized interpretations. Meanwhile, the subjective camp would legitimize intuitive, emotional reactions to artworks, individual taste and personal lived experiences in deriving meaning. Many art historians and critics have noted masculinist undercurrents in objective frameworks that discount personal emotions and taste — which are coded as feminine — in the
interpretation of art. Flowstate comfortably makes room for both camps through the artist’s use of abstraction, which serves as a cultural critique by subverting trophies, and in creating an exhibition that is exciting and aesthetically puzzling.
“The personal is political,” a famous feminist credo, is playfully embodied in Flowstate as Burnham sculpts her inner world and the shape of her brain fog into tangible moments of celebration. As she offers in her exhibition statement, “As these trophies come together, they shape a story and stand as dedications to the inglorious victories of daily life, the mundane, the tedious, and the darker moments that also define me.” l
Alexander Rondeau (he/him) is a queer curator, writer, and artist from Ontario, Canada, and has been living in Humboldt County for the last three years. Like a Chappell Roan premonition, he will be moving to Saskatchewan in March for a curatorial appointment.
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Vision Creation New Sun
By Collin Yeo setlist@northcoastjournal.com
Alot of the problems in contemporary society can be traced to the servile tradition of western liberal compromise, and one of central stations of failure within that tradition is the long list of Nazi officials who died natural deaths as free men after World War II. One of the more egregious examples of this in terms of ideological damage to the illusion of a free society is the Nazi jurist and political scientist Carl Schmitt. His philosophy of a total, shameless power grab through legal justification is currently electrifying the repulsive nerds responsible for trying to corral the melting, demented pervert running bloody skid marks all over the traditional norms of conduct for the American ruling class.
Schmitt’s theories can be dummied down to institutional capture and corrosion, essentially using the weak points of liberal democracy to take over the administrative departments of the state, and then using the authority of those compromised departments to rewrite the legal framework of power. It’s like the neoliberal tradition of tax breaks for the rich, only instead of capital, it’s an upward redistribution of power into an elite, authoritarian ruling core. It’s so effective and devastating that it is presently turning the mirage of liberal democracy into a fascist pyramid scheme eight decades after the end of the Third Reich. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
While we are all trying to absorb the monstrosity of two very public executions of American citizens by masked, state-sanctioned stormtroopers, we are also reaching a peak contamination level of toxic disinformation, as the administration’s officials are using the Israeli Defense Force’s preferred tactic of shooting first and accusing the victims of terrorism after. A warm homecoming for the imperial outpost atrocities of foreign policy. Why am I bringing this up in a weekly live music column? Because, as is the case with many political observations I have made here in the past, this is another marker on the road to a world where the freedom to enjoy live music, art and
community will not be guaranteed, or perhaps even allowed. Hell, this is actually a giant fucking glowing LED billboard of horror, an existential threat to every aspect of life as you know it. Do not count on voting your way out of this. Do not count on the sanctity of your human rights. The Constitution is just paper, and paper burns. Everything burns, in fact, unless living people work together to put that fire out.
Living people working together. That’s community. That’s cooperation and resistance. You take any of those four words out of that first sentence and communal resistance takes a knee on the way down to a painful, humiliating death. And who wants that? The future is too bright with stellar fusillades of gorgeous possibility. I titled this week’s column after the record I was listening to while writing it — one of my favorites — Vision Creation Newsun by the Japanese band Boredoms. That record reinvented music for me and underlined that there are truly no rules that bind other than the rusty shackles of tradition. We are human, we are amazing, we can do anything.
Be safe and do amazing things.
Thursday
Adam Moezinia is a versatile, Juilliard-trained jazz guitarist and bandleader from New York City who will be bringing his group The Folk Element Trio to the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. I watched some of the trio’s live performances on YouTube and found the music to be a fine mix of contemporary jazz and traditional blues and spiritual traditions played in a fashion that reflects the living energy of that magical city. Old is bridged to the new like dirty bricks spined with scaffolding and haute couture flashes in the grimy, sleepless subway arteries. I really liked it, and the guitar, bass and drum trio is an excellent format to really breathe and flow. Check it out for $20; you won’t regret it.
Friday and Saturday
I’m going to make a rare move here and lump the weekend nights together under the banner of the Arcata Rising Fundraiser shows at Humbrews from Friday through Sunday. We all know about the dreadful fire on the second day of 2026 that claimed the beloved half block from 10th and H streets to the alleyway, and this is a fine example of our local music community coming together to raise money for the folks who lost everything. There are too many acts to name, and complete information can be found elsewhere (see page TK), so I’ll merely express my gratitude to those involved. It is very clear, once again, that our greatest power is with the people in our community. As it was and ever shall be, amen.
Sunday
A slightly late birthday show for the late Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who would have been 99 years old last Sunday had he not died 31 years ago as of Dec. 8, an infamous calendar day for musicians that also saw the deaths of John Lennon and Dimebag Darrell — in different years, of course. Anyway, the Creative Sanctuary jazzbos have come together for a matinee celebration of the master’s songs, and at 4 p.m. you can join James Zeller, Danny Gaon, Ramsey Isaacs and Matthew Seno along with some special guests who will all, I am certain, do it quite right. Tickets are a sliding scale $15-$30, but if you are a little light at the moment, you will not be turned away for a lack of moolah.
Monday
Experimental Los Angeles band Ding Mao will be playing an all-ages gig tonight at 7 p.m. at the Siren’s Song Tavern for $5. The group has a loud and busy sound with a big vocal presence and treated elements coating the guitars and rhythm section. That’s the best I can do with what I’ve got but, if that sounds intriguing, you can fill in the blanks yourself.
Tuesday
It’s a good night to stay home and brush up on first aid and self-defense with your friends and loved ones. After all, midwinter is the perfect time to practice the essential arts of communal preservation. Don’t be caught unprepared by an icy storm.
Wednesday
Canadian/Californian Steve Poltz first came to widespread national attention 30 years ago when he collaborated with the singer Jewel on some of her mega-hits. He’s also known for his proto-indie rock band the Rugburns, who are still burning away onstage from time to time. However, tonight he’ll be doing a solo show for those of you who like the simplicity of an acoustic guitar, good songs and a campfire singalong atmosphere. You’ll have to imagine the woodsmoke, as tonight’s 7 p.m. gig is at Trinidad Town Hall, but you get the idea ($30). l
Collin Yeo (he/him) is in the zone, trying to stay out of the Interzone.
Adam Moezinia plays the Arcata Playhouse tonight with The Folk Element Trio at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29. Photo courtesy of the artist
Calendar Jan. 29 – Feb. 5, 2026
After the devastating Jan. 2 fire that erased an entire block of beloved Arcata businesses, homes and art spaces, the community is rallying. Arcata Rising takes over Humboldt Brews for three days, Friday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. , Saturday, Jan. 31, from noon to midnight and Sunday, Feb. 1, from 1to 8 p.m. with dozens of local bands, artists, performers and speakers, plus raffles, food and drink specials, and more ($10 minimum donation per night; proceeds go directly to those affected). Nearby, Richards’ Goat hosts an ’80s-’90s dance party benefit on Friday, Jan. 30,at 8:30 p.m. (donation), Peaches & Pearls brings burlesque on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 2 to6 p.m. , and Arcata Playhouse offers poetry and open mic at Soulraiser on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 7 to9 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, at noon, the Heroes Parade honors fire victims and first responders at the Arcata Plaza (free).
29 Thursday
ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. With a live model. Bring your own art supplies. Call to contact Clint. $5. synapsisperformance.com. (707) 362-9392.
MUSIC
Adam Moezinia. 7 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Jazz, folk, world. $20. info@playhousearts.org. playhousearts.org. (707) 822-1575.
THEATER Orbit Arts Sonic Showcase: Three Radio Plays from Pelican Bay. 7:30-8:30 p.m. Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. Listen to three original audio pieces created by theatre ensembles at the state prison. Benefits a spring term of classes at Humboldt County Correctional Facility as part of Dell’Arte’s Orbit Arts Program. In Dell’Arte’s main studio, which is up a flight of stairs (no shoes allowed). donation. orbitartsprogram.com/sonicshowcaselisten. (707) 668-5663.
The Half Life of Marie Curie. 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. Based on the true story of friend- ship between two extraordinary scientists. Co-directed by Nan Voss and Julie Eccles-Benson. Presented by Redwood Curtain Theatre. Through Feb. 21. ncrt.net.
SPORTS
Lost Coast Cornhole League Night. Last Thursday of every month, 6-10 p.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. Monthly league nights are open to all ages and skill levels. Registration opens at 5 p.m. Games at 6 p.m. Different format each week. Bags are available to borrow. Drinks available at the Canteen. Outside food OK. $15. mike@buffaloboards.com.
Four acts. One stage. Zero dry eyes. Grab your boots and your baggage and head to the Eureka Theater on Saturday, Jan. 31, for HonkyTonk & Heartache: An Evening with Hannah Juanita, Noelle & the Deserters, Mose Wilson, Harmonic Howl ($20). A night of Nashville neo-traditional, California country-rock, outlaw grit and classic twang that’ll leave your heart bruised in the best way. Trust us, this lineup hits harder than a George Jones song. Get more info at theeurekatheater.org.
30 Friday
ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 10 a.m.-noon. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. Hosted by Joyce Jonté. $10, cash or Venmo.
DANCE
Signature & Sultry Burlesque Show. 8 p.m. EXIT Theatre, 890 G St., Arcata. DIVA Burlesque pesents Renegade Revue. Curated by TinyTr2ntup and emceed by Jamie Bondage. $20.
THEATER
The Half Life of Marie Curie 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Jan. 29 listing. ncrt.net.
EVENTS
Arcata Rising - A Benefit for the Community. 8-11 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. Dozens of local bands and artists coming together to help build back the Arcata community from the devastating fi re on Jan 2. Silent auction, raffle, speakers, food and drink specials. All proceeds go directly to those affected. Details online. $10 minimum donation. humbrews.com/ live-entertainment/.
Eureka Chinatown Monument Groundbreaking Ceremony. 12-1 p.m. First Street Plaza, Foot of 1st St., Eureka. Speaker from HAPI, ECP, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors and the city of Eureka. Community members, partners and the public are invited to mark this milestone. hapi.humboldt@gmail. com. hapihumboldt.org.
FOR KIDS
Family Literacy Party with Quack and Wabbit -Garberville Library. 11 a.m. Garberville Library, 715 Cedar St. Professional handmade puppets teach children positive messages and life skills. Mr. Gumpy’s Outing is a musical
Ready, set, BinGO! The Eureka Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence invite you to Formula Fun Bingo, an ages 18+ night of pole position jokes, fast and furious daubing and the only drag race where sequins beat horsepower on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 5 to 9 p.m. at Bayside Grange ($30, $20 advance, sass provided free of charge). Let’s face it, we all need a night of laughs and letting loose, and the Sisters excel at that. This racecar-themed Bingo event features a costume contest (drag racers, hot rods and pit-crew realness encouraged) raffles, concessions and dinner by Los Giles food truck — all benefitting Kinetic Universe.
story about cooperation and friendship based on the book by John Burningham. Free. rickerhlp@gmail.com. humboldtliteracy.org. (707) 445-3655.
Kid’s Night at the Museum. 5:30-8 p.m. Redwood Discovery Museum, 612 G St., Eureka. Drop off your 3.5-12 year old for interactive exhibits, science experiments, crafts and games, exploring the planetarium, playing in the water table or jumping into the soft blocks. $17-$20. info@discovery-museum.org. discovery-museum.org/ classesprograms.html. (707) 443-9694.
Weekly Preschool Story Time. Eureka Library, 1313 Third St. Talk, sing, read, write and play together in the children’s room. For children 2 to 6 years old with their caregivers. Other family members are welcome to join in the fun. Free. manthony@co.humboldt.ca.us. humlib. org. (707) 269-1910.
ETC
Public Skate. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. Roll over to the Fireman’s Pavilion in Rohner Park. Public Skate sessions may close early if there is no one in attendance. $5.50 ages 6 and older, $3.50 ages 5 and younger, bring skates for a $0.50 off (rules online), $2 non-skater minor. friendlyfortuna. com/departments/parks_recreation.
31 Saturday
BOOKS
Family Literacy Party with Claire Bent. 11 a.m.-noon. Arcata Library, 500 Seventh St. The local singer-songwriter who specializes in jazz and funk shares her favorites, classics from her childhood and a few new songs. Free. rickerhlp@gmail.com. humboldtliteracy. org. (707) 445-3655.
MUSIC
Honky-Tonk & Heartache: An Evening with Hannah Juanita, Noelle & The Deserters, Mose Wilson, Har-
monic Howl. 7 p.m. Eureka Theater, 612 F St. Journey through the sounds of traditional Nashville, the sunsoaked vibes of California country-rock, and the raw truth of outlaw storytelling. $20. theeurekatheater.org.
THEATER
The Half Life of Marie Curie. 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Jan. 29 listing. ncrt.net. EVENTS
Arcata Rising - A Benefit for the Community. noon-midnight. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. See Jan. 30 listing.
Formula Fun Bingo. 5-9 p.m. Bayside Grange, 2297 Jacoby Creek Road. Ages 18+, racecar-themed Bingo with a costume contest, raffles, concessions and a food truck. Bring up to two raffle item donations for extra tickets. $20-$50. eurekasisters.org/.
Paw-ty in the Dog Park. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Del Norte Street Dog Park, 1200 W. Del Norte St., Eureka. Pet-themed crafts, an agility course and opportunity drawing by Fin N Feather. Donate dog food or toys to the Sequoia Humane Society and receive extra drawing tickets. Free. www.eurekaca.gov/967/Del-Norte-Dog-Park. Peaches & Pearls Arcata Fire Fundraiser. 2-6 p.m. Peaches & Pearls, 853 H St., Arcata. Featuring Duchess Burlesque, window models, performers. www. peachesandpearls.net.
Sea Level Rise Walk. 9:30 a.m.-noon. Freshwater Farms Reserve, 5851 Myrtle Ave., Eureka. A winter walk and discussion led by Northcoast Regional Land Trust advisor Aldaron Laird. Bring waterproof boots and warm layers. Coffee, tea and bagels provided. Free. info@ncrlt. org. ncrlt.org/events/sea-level-rise-walk-at-freshwaterfarms-reserve/. 707822-2242.
Soulraiser: A Fire Relief Fundraiser. 7-9 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Featuring poetry readings by
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CALENDAR
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also known as Candlemas and the Feast of Brighid.
Friday, January 30th 6pm
Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 24 Fellowship Way, Bayside, CA
Join us for a celebration of Brighid as both Goddess and Saint. We honor Brighid and invite her to join us as we tend her flame and welcome the coming Spring. Ritual will be led by Grove of Hekate and Solas Dorcha, Archdruid of the Druids of the Tuatha De’ Danann. A festive potluck will follow.
Jerry Martien, Therese Fitzmaurice and A Reason To Listen, plus surprise guest artists, an open mic, welcoming music, poetry and spoken word. Pay-what-you-can donation. arcataplayhouse.org.
FOR KIDS
Family Literacy Party Tour Quack N’ Wabbit- Trinidad Town Hall. 1:30-2:30 p.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. Professional handmade puppets teach children positive messages and life skills. Mr. Gumpy’s Outing is a musical story about cooperation and friendship based on the book by John Burningham. Free. rickerhlp@gmail.com. humboldtliteracy.org. (707) 445-3655.
FOOD
Arcata Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Year round, offering fresh produce, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers and more. Live music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers receive a market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org. (707) 441-9999.
Music and Makers - McKinleyville Location. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Eureka Natural Foods, McKinleyville, 2165 Central Ave. Live music, samples/demos, pint specials. Free. marketing@eurekanaturalfoods.com.
Music and Makers - Eureka Location. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Eureka Natural Foods, 1450 Broadway. Live music, samples/demos, pint specials. Free. marketing@eurekanaturalfoods.com. eurekanaturalfoods.com.
GARDEN
Humboldt Rose Society – Annual Rose Pruning Demonstrations. 10 a.m.-noon. Shafer’s Ace Hardware and Garden Center, 2760 E St., Eureka. Demonstration and Q&A session about pruning roses for spring. Free. humboldtrose.org.
OUTDOORS
Dune Restoration. 9 a.m.-noon. Little River State Beach, Clam Beach Road, Mckinleyville. Help remove invasive non-native plants and support native dune vegetation. Meet at the northern gravel parking lot on Clam Beach Drive near the Crannell Road overpass. Bring sturdy shoes, a hat, drinking water and readiness for moderate physical activity. All tools and training provided. Sign up at eventbrite.com. Free.
FOAM Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Meet Friends of the Arcata Marsh leader Ren Bunce in the lobby for a 90-minute, rain-or-shine walk introducing the area’s history, wastewater treatment plant, plants and birds. Free. (707) 826-2359.
SPORTS
Fortuna Recreational Volleyball. 10 a.m.-noon. Fortuna High School, 379 12th St. Ages 45 and up. Call Dolly. In the Girls Gym. (707) 725-3709. Rumble at the River VIII. 6:30 p.m. Bear River Recreation Center, 265 Keisner Road, Loleta. A night packed with powerful strikes, fierce matchups and authentic Muay Thai intensity.
ETC
Adult Skate Night. Last Saturday of every month, 6:309:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. Ages 18 and older only. IDs checked at door. Alcohol and drug-free event. $5.50 includes skate rental.
The Bike Library. 12-4 p.m. The Bike Library, 1286 L St., Arcata. Hands-on repair lessons and general maintanence, used bicycles and parts for sale. Donations of parts and bicycles gladly accepted. arcatabikelibrary@riseup.net.
Public Skate. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See Jan. 30 listing.
Thursday-Friday-Saturday Canteen. 3-9 p.m. Redwood Empire VFW Post 1872, 1018 H St., Eureka. Enjoy a cold beverage in the canteen with comrades. Play pool or darts. If you’re a veteran, this place is for you. Free. PearceHansen999@outlook.com. (707) 443-5331.
1 Sunday
MUSIC
Chamber Players of the Redwoods Winter Concert. 2-4 p.m. Lutheran Church of Arcata, 151 E. 16th St. North Coast musicians perform “music of the masters.” Featuring the 10-member wind ensemble Humboldt Harmoniemusik, the French horn quintet Cornocopia, North Coast Brass playing “Quintet No. 1” by Michael Kibbe, and Jazz Beyond Recall. Free, donations accepted. ftempas@suddenlink.net. chamberplayersredwoods. org/. (707) 822-7917.
Mania: The ABBA Tribute. 7:30 p.m. Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, 412 G St., Eureka. Matinee Birthday Tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim. 4-6 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Creative Sanctuary tribute to the Brazilian bossa nova composer hosted by trombonist/vocalist James Zeller with Hernan Rostan, Jennifer Trowbridge, Katie Belknap, “J Street Regulars” Matt Seno, Ramsey Isaacs, Danny Gaon and more. First 50 tickets include free entry to LatinoAmerican Adventure directly following. $15-$30 sliding scale. together@SanctuaryArcata.org. sanctuaryarcata. org/event-details/matinee-birthday-tribute-to-antonio-carlos-jobim. (707) 822-0898.
Sweet Harmony. 4-5:30 p.m. United Methodist Church of the Joyful Healer, 1944 Central Ave., McKinleyville. Women singing four-part harmony a capella. Now welcoming new members with all levels of experience. /. (707) 845-1959.
THEATER
The Half Life of Marie Curie. 2 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Jan. 29 listing. ncrt.net.
EVENTS
Arcata Rising - A Benefit for the Community. 1-8 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. See Jan. 30 listing. Heroes Parade. noon. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Honoring those affected by the Arcata fire and thanking first responders. Free.
FOR KIDS
Humboldt Dads Playgroup. 2-4 p.m. Humboldt County Office of Education, 901 Myrtle Ave., Eureka. In the annex of the HCOE offices (same as last month). Make new dad friends and reconnect with others. Bring your own snacks and water. Free. dadsofhumboldt@gmail. com. facebook.com/events/2053406471869077/. (707) 273-1652.
FOOD
Food Not Bombs. 4 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Hot food for everyone. Mostly vegan and organic and always delicious. Free.
Freshwater Pancake Breakfast. 8-11 a.m. Freshwater Grange, 48 Grange Road. Enjoy your breakfast with buttermilk or whole grain pancakes, ham, sausages, scrambled eggs, apple compote, orange juice, tea, and French Roast coffee. Adults $10.00 and children $7.00. freshwaterhall@gmail.com. 707-498-9447.
GARDEN
Volunteer Workday. 10 a.m.-noon. Trinidad Museum,
400 Janis Court. Help maintain the native plant garden located behind the museum and library. Serious rain cancels.
OUTDOORS
Clean the Sidewalk Day. First Sunday of every month, 9-11 a.m. Valley West Park, Hallen Drive, Arcata. Help pick up non-hazardous items left behind. Meet at the park entrance for instructions, supplies and check-in. gmartin@cityofarcata.org. cityofarcata.org.
ETC
Public Skate. 1:30-4:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See Jan. 30 listing.
2 Monday
ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 6-8 p.m. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. See Jan. 30 listing.
MUSIC
UFC of Humboldt. First Monday of every month, 6-8 p.m. HLOC’s Space, 92 Sunny Brae Center, Arcata. Bring a ukulele and join the fun. Check the calendar online for cancelations or additional events. All levels welcome. $3 suggested donation. ukulelisarae@gmail. com. ukulelefightclubofhumboldt.com.
FOOD
Harvest Box Deliveries. Multi-farm-style CSA boxes with a variety of seasonal fruits and veggies, all GMOfree and grown locally. Monday: serving Blue Lake, Arcata, McKinleyville and Trinidad. Tuesday: serving Eureka and Fortuna. $30/box, $15 for EBT customers. harvesthub@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. humboldtharvestbox.org/.
ETC
Homesharing Info Session. 9:30-10 a.m. and 1-1:30 p.m. This informational Zoom session will go over the steps and safeguards of Area 1 Agency on Aging’s matching process and the different types of homeshare partnerships. Email for the link. Free. homeshare@a1aa. org. a1aa.org/homesharing. (707) 442-3763.
3 Tuesday
MUSIC
Monthly Sing-along. First Tuesday of every month, 7-9:30 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Sing your favorite folk, pop and rock songs of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Songbooks provided. $3. joel@asis.com. (707) 407-6496.
FOR KIDS
Look Closer and Make Connections. First Tuesday of every month, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Natural History Museum of Cal Poly Humboldt, 1242 G St., Arcata. Explore new exhibits and activities, including marine science, a bear, discovery boxes, microscopes, puzzles, scavenger hunts and more. $3 youth, $6 adult, $15 family, free for members. natmus@humboldt.edu. humboldt.edu/natmus. (707) 826-4480.
FOOD
Harvest Box Deliveries. See Feb. 2 listing.
MEETINGS
Humboldt Cribbage Club Tournament. 6:15-9 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Weekly six-game cribbage tournament for experienced players. Inexperienced players may watch, learn and play on the side. Moose dinner available at 5:30 p.m. $3-$8. 31for14@ gmail.com. (707) 599-4605.
Monthly Meeting VFW Post 1872. First Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m. Redwood Empire VFW Post 1872, 1018 H St., Eureka. Calling all combat veterans and all veterans eligible for membership in Veterans of Foreign Wars to meet comrades and learn about events in the renovated Memorial Building. Free. PearceHansen999@ outlook.com. (707) 443-5331.
Writers Group. First Tuesday of every month, 12:30-2 p.m. Christ Episcopal Church, 1428 H St., Eureka. Writers share all types of writing and get assistance from one another. Drop-ins welcome. Not faith based. Free.
ETC
English Express: An English Language Class for Adults. Virtual World, Internet, Online. Build English language confidence in ongoing online and in-person classes. All levels and first languages welcome. Join anytime. Pre-registration not required. Free. englishexpressempowered.com. (707) 443-5021.
4 Wednesday
LECTURE
“How to Talk Gooder About Science Stuff”. 7 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Join Arcata Marsh interpretive aide Malcolm Ridings for a one-hour talk, followed by a Q&A session. This presentation will be both in-person and simulcast via Zoom.
MOVIES
Sci-Fi Night: Godzilla (1954) . 6-8:40 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show 6 p.m. Raffle 6:45 p.m. Main deature 7 p.m. After a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it. $6, $10 w/poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. tickets.vemos.io/-LvvzSYm6udEnGfKIRLa/arcata-theatre-lounge/-OilJVYp8mSuswWLI1Oz/sci-fi-nightgodzilla-1954. (707) 613-3030.
MUSIC
An Evening with Steve Poltz. 7-10 p.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist. $30. sherryvanderpool@yahoo. com. (707) 845-6242.
EVENTS
Joan Schirle’s Sexy Birthday Bash Cabaret. 7:30 p.m. Dell’Arte’s Carlo Theatre, 131 H St., Blue Lake. A debaucherous night of music, dance and variety with local performers and an introduction to Dell’Arte International’s new Producing Artistic Director Noah Bremer. $40, $100 VIP table (two tickets, two drink/ snack tickets). dellarte.com.
FOR KIDS
Family Literacy Party Tour Quack N’ Wabbit- Rio Dell Library. 2-3 p.m. Rio Dell Library, 715 Wildwood Ave. Professional handmade puppets teach children positive messages and life skills. Mr. Gumpy’s Outing is a musical story about cooperation and friendship based on the book by John Burningham. Free. rickerhlp@gmail. com. humboldtliteracy.org. (707) 445-3655.
MEETINGS
350 Humboldt Monthly General Meeting. First Wednesday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Learn about and engage in climate change activism with a community of like-minded people. Zoom link online. Free. 350Humboldt@gmail.com. world.350.org/humboldt/. (707) 677-3359.
Mother’s Support Circle. First Wednesday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon. The Ink People Center for the Arts, 627 Third St., Eureka. Mother’s Village circle for mothers with a meal and childcare. $15 to attend, $10 childcare, sliding scale spots available. (707) 633-3143.
ETC
Grief Support Services in Spanish. First Wednesday of every month, 5-6:30 p.m. Gene Lucas Community Center, 3000 Newburg Ave., Fortuna. A safe and welcoming space for Spanish-speaking individuals to process loss, connect with others, and receive compassionate sup-
port. Este grupo está abierto para todas las personas en la comunidad que habla español, que estén pasando por la pérdida de un ser querido. glccenter.org.
5 Thursday
ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See Jan. 29 listing. Open Art Night. First Thursday of every month, 5-7 p.m. Gene Lucas Community Center, 3000 Newburg
Ave., Fortuna. Bring your own project or work on a project provided. All ages. Free. jessyca@glccenter.org. glccenter.org/events. (707) 725-3330.
BOOKS
Storytellers and Writers Book Club for Tweens and Teens. First Thursday of every month, 4-5 p.m. Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Court. Tweens and teens share ideas on world building and books they’ve read or would like to write. In the Trinidad Room.
MUSIC
Alice Di Micele. 7 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Americana/folk artist joined by Andy Casad on guitar. $20-$50 sliding. arcataplayhouse.org.
THEATER
The Government Inspector. 7 p.m. Saint Bernard’s Academy, 222 Dollison St., Eureka. The Saint Bernard’s Academy Drama Department persents a fast-paced satirical comedy by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. $10.
FOR KIDS
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Hug your loved ones. Abolish ICE. Sentimental Value
The Oscars and Sentimental Value
By John J. Bennett screens@northcoastjournal.com
Sure as death and taxes, the Academy Award nominations are once again upon us. The big news: Sinners has obliterated the previous record for previous nominations. Time now being what it is — some previously unknown, unknowable glue-trap of speed and paralysis — a lot of time has passed since the movie debuted and, I see now, I wrote so rapturously about it. Hard to say whether its omission from my year-end favorites list is due to recency bias, chemical interference, world events or my own degrading cognitive capacity, but its unprecedented reception by the Academy has given me pause. I’ve certainly thought about Sinners since last April, haven’t I? Reminded now, I remember the exhilaration of the experience of it, but somehow it hasn’t lived in my memory like it seems it should, and I can’t say why. Regardless, it is a bracing development for a relatively young filmmaker like Ryan Coogler to be recognized for a creation wholly his own, moreover one that has vampires and Tommy guns in it. In fact, looking over the ten Best
Picture nominees, I’m struck by the depth and breadth of their variety, and more than a little surprised/validated by the number of genre-leaning entries. The broadening of the Academy seems to have succeeded in breathing lively new life into the proceedings (including, I’m told, the ceremony itself) and dispelling some of the stuffiness with which they have often been burdened. Though Hamnet does seem to have something of the Merchant-Ivory about it; haven’t seen it. (A friend attributed my disinterest in Chloe Zhao’s latest to antipathy toward what he called “chick flicks,” but beyond questions of authorship, I have little to no interest in William Shakespeare’s backstory; this includes my borderline contempt for 1998 crowd-favorite Shakespeare in Love.) If nothing else, the nominations are an occasion to explore the movies that the industry has agreed upon as the year’s best. The system is imperfect at best (aren’t they all?), but it can at least deliver us a primer or rough outline or jumping-off point. I’m a little behind this year, having yet to see Marty Supreme
(no contentious reason for that) or The Secret Agent (access remains an issue), but I was prompted to catch up with Sentimental Value, the 800-pound Nordic gorilla of the nominees.
SENTIMENTAL VALUE. Far Northern European cinema remains something of a straw man in my education, a sphere of influence burdened equally by my own contrarianism and the importance assigned to it by the critical community. Ingmar Bergman’s always been one of the elephants in the screening room, a titan whose influence is indisputable, but for whom I find reverence frequently suspect. Probably unfairly, I’ve lumped in Joachim Trier, the Danish-born Norwegian auteur who, after years of run-up, became something of a nerd-household name with The Worst Person in the World (2021). The cineastes were all-abuzz back then, probably rightfully, but even in the newly widened cinematic landscape of early post-COVID, I passed. We can’t hide from our own preconceptions forever.
There are indeed elements of Senti-
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mental Value that fly in the face of my own, well, sentimental values regarding cinema. It opens with emotionally freighted voiceover, belabors the difficulty of parent-child relationships and, in its portrait of the artist as an old man, revisits some pretty worked-over territory. But, this being the current moment, those elements do more to distance it from the swollen middle of contemporary movies than to align it with something else. Furthermore, Trier and his cast are so committed to the emotional truth of the story (about a famous filmmaker and even more famously absent father trying to reconnect with his adult daughters) that some of the tropes transcend cliché.
Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård), who hasn’t made a feature film in 15 years, returns to Oslo for the funeral of his ex-wife, the mother of his children. He’s been a long time gone and he’s armed with a new screenplay with a lead role intended for his elder daughter Nora (Renata Reinsve). Caught up in her own turmoil, of which her contempt for her father is certainly part, she wants nothing to do with it. In a happy accident, Gustav crosses paths with an American movie star (Elle Fanning) at a festival, casts her in the part, secures Netflix financing and sets to work preparing to shoot what is now a doomed, deeply personal project.
It’s a testament to Trier’s vision that dozens of production companies are listed in the credits here. This is the sort of movie that doesn’t really get made anymore (especially not in this country), but is an opportunity for the medium to do some of the things that it is uniquely capable of doing. R. 133M. STREAMING. l
John J. Bennett (he/him) is a movie nerd who loves a good car chase.
NOW PLAYING
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE. Next leg of the journey for the post-apocalyptic zombie horror. R. 109M. BROADWAY.
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH. Na’vi-onNa’vi violence in the latest installment of James Cameron’s sci-fi action franchise. PG13. 195M. BROADWAY (3D).
CLIKA. A viral video takes a Mexican musician (Jay Dee) to the big-time. R. 82M. BROADWAY.
HAMNET. Agnes and William Shakespeare cope with the loss of their son in 16th century England. PG13. 126M. BROADWAY, MINOR.
THE HOUSEMAID. Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney in a thriller about weird dynamics with the help. R. 131M. BROADWAY.
IRON LUNG. Post-apocalyptic sci-fi submarine trip through a sea of blood. Co-written, directed and starring Mark Fischbach. R. 127M. BROADWAY.
LORD OF THE RINGS. Extended versions of the already very long Peter Jackson adaptations on the 25th anniversary. PG13. BROADWAY.
MARTY SUPREME. Timothée Chalamet plays a ping pong champ in the 1950s, when that kind of thing apparently got you laid. R. 150M. BROADWAY, MINOR.
MELANIA. Director Brett Ratner bounces back from rape and sexual misconduct allegations and a cameo in the Epstein files by directing a vanity doc about the first lady, who’s comfortable enough with sexual predators. PG. 104M. BROADWAY.
MERCY. Chris Pratt is on speed-trial for murder before an AI judge and I don’t know who to root against harder. PG13. 100M. BROADWAY.
MOSES THE BLACK. Hagiography meets gangster redemption starring Chukwudi Iwuji and Omar Epps. 110M. BROADWAY.
NO OTHER CHOICE. Park ChanWook directs Lee Byung-hun in a satirical psychological thriller about a man out to kill a business rival. R. 139M. MINOR.
PRIMATE. Vacation with friends turns to horror when the family chimp gets rabies and that’s why we don’t have pets with thumbs. R. 89M. BROADWAY. RETURN TO SILENT HILL. A love letter draws a man to the killer ghost town. R. 106M. BROADWAY.
SEND HELP. Rachel McAdams goes feral as a mistreated employee stranded with her rotten boss (Dylan O’Brien). R. 113M. BROADWAY (3D), MINOR.
SHELTER. Jason Statham may have to keep his shirt in this action movie set in chilly Scotland, where a girl (Harriet Walter) must evade bad guys. R. 107M. BROADWAY.
ZOOTOPIA 2. Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman return to voice the rabbit and fox crimefighting duo in the animated comedy adventure. PG. 108M. BROADWAY, MINOR.
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By Matt Jones
CROSSWORD
Degraded 19. Escorted from the outside
20. The “S” in RSVP 21. Scoundrel 23. 180 deg. from WSW 24. Study unfamiliar material, say 28. Place to go in England? 29. Stoop 30. Scarecrow’s desire 33. Inkling
36. Measure with a stopwatch
39. They may be
laminated to protect against spills
42. Eight, to Einstein
43. Right behind in line
44. State of dread
45. “The Time Machine” leisure class
47. Pacers’ st.
48. Disco, early punk, funk, etc.
55. Foe of Frazier and Foreman
56. Place to pamper poodles, perhaps
57. ___ el hanout (North African spice mix)
59. “The Hobbit” hobbit Baggins
61. Like the circled letters in the long entries (or the clustered groups)
64. Actor’s parts
65. Barrett who cofounded Pink Floyd
66. Smart group
67. Bothered
68. Sweet suffix
69. Pamphlet DOWN
1. Wheel edges
2. Message from a server
3. Soup server
4. Questionnaire topic
5. Archery bow wood
6. Scottish island with a namesake whisky brand
7. Outdated
8. Network with LeVar Burton hosting “Trivial Pursuit”
9. First half of a suspenseful decision-making
phrase, maybe 10. Plastic follower?
11. A weepy movie often has one
12. “Dallas” surname
13. Descartes and Lacoste
18. “Deal ___ Deal”
22. Awaiting the pitch
25. Not much
26. Slangy term for COVID-19
27. Means (to)
30. Car grille protector
31. Suggestion, casually
32. North Carolina city home to the Biltmore Estate
Iwas walking along Humboldt Bay when I heard, “Psst. Hey!” A Lewis’s moon snail (Neverita lewisii ) was calling me from a shallow pool in the tidal mudflat.
The snail said, “I want to enter the big baking contest. But those jerk-offs will never let a snail win. So, can you pose as me? Plus, I need you to bring me the ingredients for a blackberry pie, but replace the shortening with chicken fat. That’s a sure-fire winning secret. When they award my prize, I’ll reveal myself.”
I stared at her almost-spherical light brown and white shell and her large round foot. She looked like a thick-crust extra-cheese pizza with a baseball stuffed into it. And as big as her shell was, her foot seemed far too big to fit inside.
I was pleased to see her intact shell because I only find fragments of moon snail shells washed up on open-ocean beaches. I’m guessing these pieces are broken while the shells travel out of the bay on tidal currents or in dredging spoils. I also noticed her extended tubular siphon, which didn’t seem capable of speech, and her four short sensory tentacles that seemed useless for making pies.
“Whoa,” I said, “But how are you going to roll out a crust?”
“When moon snails lay eggs, we mix thousands of them with sand and mucous, and then form this mixture into a wide, collar-shaped ribbon. It looks like a piece of faded truck tire innertube. A large female like me can make one the size of a pie crust. I’ll just sub the crust ingredients in place of the eggs and mucous.”
“OK, but what does a predator of other mollusks know about fruit pies? Look at the beveled small round holes in all these clam shells.”
“The rudimentary eyes on two of my sensory tentacles cannot resolve that. But yes, I drill into mollusk shells using my rasping tongue, or radula, aided by a mild
acid that I discharge through my mouth. I can drill only about a half a millimeter a day, so I prefer thin-shelled clams. Then I inject digestive enzymes into the hole and lap up the slurry. So, yes, fruit pies probably taste nasty. But I want glory, not dessert.”
I wondered how I’d get an aquatic invertebrate safely to the award ceremony. Well, it turns out that a moon snail’s foot is huge because it is pumped up with water. They use this inflated foot to plow through the mudflat, digging up clams like a bulldozer. But they can shed that water through their siphon, fit back into the shell, and then seal themselves inside using a flat fingernail-like door called an “operculum,” which is attached to the foot. They can also absorb air through their skin and can supposedly live out of water for a week.
At the award ceremony, the emcee said, “Folks, there’s been a terrorist attack on our esteemed panel of judges. We found a blackberry pie spiked with mud and sharp bits of shell. Deport him!” He pointed at me as masked thugs zip-tied my wrists.
I expected to see the moon snail high-tailing it for the exit. But she said, “Let him go! It was I, the moon snail, who made that pie from scratch. I thought the chicken fat crust would make up for the debris. It was all due to my hubris and incompetence, and I am sorry.”
I thought such a rare display of honesty and humility would get her set free. But instead, the jerk-offs beat her to death with a flagpole.
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Biologist Mike Kelly (he/him) is also the author of the book Tigerfish: Traditional and Sport Fishing on the Niger River, Mali, West Africa It’s available at Amazon or everywhere e-books are sold.
Moon snail shells.
Photo by Mike Kelly
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FORTUNA PLANNING COM-
MISSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Fortuna Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on February 10th, 2026, at 6:00 P.M. at City Hall, 621 11th Street in Fortuna, California
To consider approval of a Zoning Map amendment to rezone 703 Main Street, Assessor’s Parcel Number 040-172-009, from Retail Commercial to Commercial Thoroughfare. The change in zoning will accommodate “ambulance service” as a conditionally permitted use.
Location APN: 040-172-009
Project Owner: Abe Fockaert
Project Applicant: City Ambulance
The meeting is scheduled to stream live on Access Humboldt. The staff report and draft resolutions will be available no later than 72 hours before the meeting on the City’s website at www.friendlyfortuna. com under “Your Government” “Boards, Commissions & Committees” “Planning Commission” February 10, 2026 Regular Meeting. All interested persons are invited to appear at the time and place specified above to give oral or written testimony regarding this matter. Written comments may be forwarded to the Planning Commission Secretary at communitydevelopment@ci.fortuna. ca.us or 621 11th Street, Fortuna, California, 95540.
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1/29 (26-051)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Violet Crane
CASE NO. CV2600024
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501
PETITION OF: Violet Crane for a decree changing names as follows: Present name Violet Crane to Proposed Name Violet Vance
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
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Date: February 27, 2026
Time: 8:30 am, Dept. 4
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Date: January 14, 2026
Filed: January 16, 2026
/s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19 (26-050)
PUBLIC SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE UNDERSIGNED INTENDS TO SELL THE PERSONAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED BELOW TO ENFORCE A LIENIMPOSED ON SAID PROPERTY UNDER THE California Self Service storage facility Act Bus & Prof Code sb21700_21716. The undersigned will be sold at public sale by competitive bidding on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 11AM on the premises where said property has been stored and which is located at Evergreen Storage,1100 Evergreen Rd, Redway, CA95560, County of Humboldt, State of California. The followingunits will be sold for cash unless paid for by tenant prior to auction.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00670
The following person is doing Business as Nor Cal Renovations LLC County of Humboldt 355 Painter St Rio Dell, CA 95562 Nor Cal Renovations LLC CA B20250419994
355 Painter St Rio Dell, CA 95562
The business is conducted by an Individual
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A registrant who declares as true any
material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Cameron Millsap, Managing Member
This December 20, 2025
JUAN P. CERVANTES by sg, Humboldt County Clerk 1/8 1/15, 1/22, 1/29/2026 (26-013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00655
The following person is doing Business as Redwood Coast Racing League County of Humboldt
181 E 12th St Arcata, CA 95521
Humboldt Skatepark Collective CA 2359463
2437 E Cochran Rd
McKinleyville, CA 95519
The business is conducted by a Corporation
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on December 15, 2025
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Charles E Caldwell, CEO
This December 18, 2025
JUAN P. CERVANTES by JR, Humboldt County Clerk 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29/2026 (26-014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00643
The following person is doing Business as Stan Smith Insurance Services County of Humboldt
509 St Suite 3
Eureka, CA 95501
Theatta L Smith
509 J St Suite 3
Eureka, CA 95501
Phillip D Smith
509 J St Suite 3
Eureka, CA 95501
The business is conducted by a Married Couple
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Theatta Smith, Owner
This December 12, 2025
JUAN P. CERVANTES by jc, Humboldt County Clerk 1/8 1/15, 1/22, 1/29/2026 (26-015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20250157
The following person is doing Business as Trillium
Del Norte
681 H Street
Crescent City, CA 95531
True North Organizing Network 517 3rd Street Ste #16
Eureka, CA 95501
The business is conducted by a corporation.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Denise Doyle-Shnacker
This December 1, 2025 by Hannah Gill, Deputy Clerk 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29 (26-016)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00669
The following person is doing Business as Cove Care Inspections County of Humboldt
73 Fawn Dr Whitethorn, CA 95589
Nicole R Wood
73 Fawn Dr Whitethorn, CA 95589
Aron J Wood
73 Fawn Dr Whitethorn, CA 95589
The business is conducted by a Married Couple
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 12/20/2025
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Nicole R Wood, Co-partner
This December 29, 2025
JUAN P. CERVANTES by JR, Humboldt County Clerk 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20250156
The following person is doing Business as Crescent City Lunchbox County of Del Norte 210 Winding Creek Circle Crescent City, CA 95531
2021 Fillmore St. PMB 2205 San Francisco, CA 94115
The Lunchbox Partners LLC 2021 Fillmore St. PMB 2205 San Francisco, CA 94115
The business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Ruth Leroi
This December 18, 2025
ALISSIA NORTHRUP by Claire Landay, Del Norte County Clerk-Recorder 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-018)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-0008
The following person is doing Business as Fem-O-Ral Farms Sohumboldt County of Humboldt
4895 Ettersburg Honeydew Rd Shelter Cove, CA 95589 PO Box 2093
Redway, CA 95560
William F Rolff
4895 Ettersburg Honeydew Rd Shelter Cove, CA 95589
The business is conducted by an Individual
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 5/26/1994
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s William F Rolff, Owner
This January 6, 2026
JUAN P. CERVANTES by sg, Humboldt County Clerk 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-019)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00004
The following person is doing Business as Ezekiel’s Wheels Chapter 707 County of Humboldt 2121 Fairfield St Eureka, CA 95501
1821 Buhne Dr Sp 3 Eureka, CA 95503
Ellie M Payton 1821 Buhne Dr Sp 3 Eureka, CA 95503
The business is conducted by an Individual
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 1/5/2026
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Ellie Payton, Secretary
This January 5, 2026
JUAN P. CERVANTES by sg, Humboldt County Clerk 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-021)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00657
The following person is doing Business as Lucky Turn County of Humboldt 1700 Bird Ave McKinleyville, CA 95519
Ryan M Archambault 1700 Bird Ave
McKinleyville, CA 95519
The business is conducted by an Individual
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on Not Applicable
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to
be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Ryan Archambault, Owner This December 19, 2025
JUAN P. CERVANTES by JR, Humboldt County Clerk 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-022)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00644
The following person is doing Business as Daveco County of Humboldt 7777 Zanes Rd Eureka, CA 95503
David V Klopfenstein 7777 Zanes Rd Eureka, CA 95503
Holly K Klopfenstein 7777 Zanes Rd Eureka, CA 95503
The business is conducted by a Married Couple
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 12/7/2025 declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s David Klopfenstein, Owner
/s Holly Klopfenstein, Owner
This December 12, 2025
JUAN P. CERVANTES by sc, Humboldt County Clerk 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-024)
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO. 25-00520
The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name
Free-Range with Maverick Humboldt 100 Ericson Ct Arcata, CA 95521
The fictitious business name was filed in HUMBOLDT County on Not Applicable
Alyssa M Wilson 97 ½ Phillips Ct Arcata, CA 95521
Samuel A Wilson 97 ½ Phillips Ct Arcata, CA 95521
This business was conducted by: A Married Couple /s/ Alyssa M Wilson, Owner
This statement was filed with the HUMBOLDT County Clerk on the date December 5, 2025 hereby certify that this copy is a true and correct copy of the original statement on file in my office
Juan P. Cervantes by sc, Humboldt County Clerk 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-025)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00014
The following person is doing Business as West Farthing County of Humboldt 361 Main St Ferndale, CA 95536 Borgen Holdings LLC CA 20246171551 763 Oeschger Rd
Ferndale, CA 95536
The business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 11/30/2025
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Joshua Borgen, member
This January 8, 2026
JUAN P. CERVANTES by sg, Humboldt County Clerk
1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-026)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00026
The following person is doing Business as
Coastal Haven Marriage Family Therapy Inc
517 3rd Street, Suites 40 & 41 Eureka, CA 95501
Coastal Haven Marriage Family Therapy Inc
CA C6078693
1401 22nd St Ste R Sacramento, CA 95811
The business is conducted by a corporation.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 3/1/2024.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Hallie Escarda, CEO by SC, Deputy Clerk January 14, 2026 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-033)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00672
The following person is doing Business as
Northern Realms Trading Cards
3300 Broadway St #206 Eureka, CA 95501 Humboldt
Northern Realms Trading Cards LLC CA 202206410356
3300 Broadway St #206 Eureka, CA 95501
The business is conducted by a limited liability company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 12/30/2025.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Michael Surokrovich, Sole managing member by SG, Deputy Clerk December 30, 2025 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-034)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00006
The following person is doing Business as Everwell Private Nursing Humboldt
7000 Linda Road Eureka, CA 95503
NB Financials LLC CA 202104910881
7000 Linda Road Eureka, CA 95503
The business is conducted by a limited liability company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Jennifer Renwand, Owner/ Manager by JC, Deputy Clerk
January 6, 2026
1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-038)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00031
The following person is doing Business as Redwood Coast Junk Solution Humboldt 170 Shadowbrook Street Loleta, CA 95551 PO Box 384 Loleta, CA 95551
Noel Mendoza-Munguia 170 Shadowbrook Street Loleta, CA 95551
The business is conducted by a limited liability company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Noel Mendoza-Munguia, Owner by JR, Deputy Clerk January 15, 2026
1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-039)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00631
The following person is doing Business as Redwood Senior Care Humboldt
509 Francesco Place Fortuna, CA 95540
ZEK Assisted Living LLC CA B20250404982
509 Francesco Place Fortuna, CA 95540
The business is conducted by a limited liability company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 12/2/2025.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Yaron Kerman, CEO/Owner by JR, Deputy Clerk
December 8, 2025
1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-041)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00029
The following person is doing Business as Pleasants Valley Iris Farm Humboldt
6619 Benbow Dr Garberville, CA 95542
Mark V Richard 6619 Benbow Dr Garberville, CA 95542
Kendall F Richard 6619 Benbow Dr Garberville, CA 95542
The business is conducted by a married couple.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 1/1/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Mark V Richard, Co-owner by SG, Deputy Clerk
January 14, 2026
1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-043)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00673
The following person is doing Business as Sohum Screen Printing and Apparel
325 Shelter Cove Road Suite 1 Whitehorn, CA 95589 PO Box 65 Whitehorn, CA 95589
Rustin Alan Spaid
325 Shelter Cove Road Suite 1 Whitehorn, CA 95589
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 12/30/2025.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Rustin Alan Spaid, Owner/Manager by JR, Deputy Clerk December 31, 2025
1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-044)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00034
The following person is doing Business as The Well Humboldt
6383 Lee Ann Drive
Eureka, CA 95503
Ella M Price
6383 Lee Ann Drive
Eureka, CA 95503
The business is conducted by an individual
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name
listed above on n/a declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Ella Price, Business Owner by JR, Deputy Clerk
January 20, 2026
1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19 (26-046)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00043
The following person is doing Business as Roto-Rooter Plumbing Humboldt
700 S G Street Arcata, CA 95521 Plumbing 911 Inc CA 3671622
700 S G Street Arcata, CA 95521
The business is conducted by a corporation.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 1/22/2026. declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Angela Grytness, CEO by JC, Deputy Clerk
January 22, 2026 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19 (26-047)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00028
The following person is doing Business as Mario’s Marina Bar Humboldt 533 Machi Rd Whitehorn, CA 95589 18822 Devilee Drive Yorba Linda, CA 92886 Marios Marina LLC CA 200013010038 533 Machi Rd Whitehorn, CA 95589
The business is conducted by a limited liability company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 1/1/2026. declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Heather Hussey-Van Gaale, Member by JC, Deputy Clerk
January 14, 2026 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19 (26-048)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20260004
The following person is doing Business as Bridging Voices Del Norte 1403 Inyo St Apt 2 Crescent City, CA 95531 Pang Ying Vang
1403 Inyo St Apt 2 Crescent City, CA 95531
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Pang Vang
This January 15, 2026 by Claire Landay, Deputy Clerk 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19 (26-049)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Mehgan Burton
CASE NO. CV2502849
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501
PETITION OF: Mehgan Burton for a decree changing names as follows: Present name Mehgan Joelle Burton to Proposed Name Mehgan Joelle Chastain THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.
Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: February 20, 2026
Time: 8:30 a.m., Courtroom: 4, Room: 4
To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-mycourt.htm.
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501
Date: January 5, 2026
Filed: January 5, 2026
/s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5/2026 (26-020
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Tricia Louise Tracy CASE NO. CV2600020
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501
PETITION OF: Tricia Louise Tracy for a decree changing names as follows:
Present name
Tricia Louise Tracy to Proposed Name
Tricia Louise Today
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: February 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 4
For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501
Date: January 7, 2026
Filed: January 7, 2026
/s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-037)
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR LEAD AND ASBESTOS TESTING AND REPORTING FOR THE MENDOCINO DORMS, DEL NORTE DORMS, RBC-A, AND RBC-B.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Governing Board of the Redwoods Community College District, of the County of Humboldt, State of California, is soliciting proposals from qualified inspection firms to perform Lead and Asbestos Testing and Reporting for the Mendocino Dorms, Del Norte Dorms, RBC-A, and RBC-B at the College of the Redwoods Eureka Campus, proposals are due on February 18th, 2026 @ 2:00 PM P.S.T.
Proposal Documents (RFP) are available at: College of the Redwoods Website: https://www.redwoods. edu/services/bo/purchasing.php Inquiries may be directed to: Leslie Marshall, Director of Facilities and Planning, Email : Leslie-Marshall@ redwoods.edu. PROPOSALS ARE DUE: No later than 2:00 PM PST on February 18th, 2026. All proposals must be submitted electronically by email to Leslie-Marshall@redwoods. edu, or a thumb drive by mail to: College of the Redwoods, c/o Office of Facilities and Maintenance, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka, CA 95501. Only proposals that are in strict conformance with the instructions included in the Request for Statements of Proposals will be considered.
Redwoods Community College District
1/22, 1/29 (26-032)
PUBLISHED NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND JUDICIAL FORFEITURE
On September 22, 2025, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office seized property for forfeiture from Garland Street in Eureka, California, in connection with controlled substance violations, to wit, Section 11360 of the
Health and Safety Code of California. The seized property is described as: $98,490.63 in U.S. Currency. Control Number 25-F-16 has been assigned to this case. Use this number to identify the property in any correspondence with the Office of the Humboldt County District Attorney. If your claim is not timely filed, the Humboldt County District Attorney will declare the property described in this notice to be forfeited to the State and it will be disposed of as provided in Health and Safety Code Section 11489.
1/22, 1/29, 2/5 (26-027)
PUBLISHED NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND JUDICIAL FORFEITURE
On December 11, 2025, Deputies from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office seized property for forfeiture in connection with controlled substance violations, to wit, Section 11359 of the Health and Safety Code of California from Lily Lane in Eureka, California. The seized property is described as: $13,860.00 in US currency. Control Number 25-F-21 has been assigned to this case. Use this number to identify the property in any correspondence with the Office of the Humboldt County District Attorney.If your claim is not timely filed, the Humboldt County District Attorney will declare the property described in this notice to be forfeited to the State and it will be disposed of as provided in Health and Safety Code Section 11489.
1/22, 1/29, 2/5 (26-031)
PUBLISHED NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND NON-JUDICIAL FORFEITURE
On August 20, 2025, Deputies from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office seized property for forfeiture in connection with controlled substance violations, to wit, Section 11359 of the Health and Safety Code of California from Covey Court in Eureka, California. The seized property is described as: $6,000.00 in US currency. Control Number 25-F-12 has been assigned to this case. Use this number to identify the property in any correspondence with the Office of the Humboldt County District Attorney.
1/22, 1/29, 2/5 (26-028)
PUBLISHED NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND JUDICIAL FORFEITURE
On October 6, 2025, Deputies from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office seized property for forfeiture in connection with controlled substance violations, to wit, Section 11359 of the Health and Safety Code of California from Mountain Lakes Blvd in Redding, California. The seized property is described as: $19,503.00 in US currency. Control Number 25-F-17 has been assigned to this case. Use this number to identify the property in any correspondence with the Office of the Humboldt County District Attorney.
1/22, 1/29, 2/5 (26-029)
PUBLISHED NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND JUDICIAL FORFEITURE
On October 24, 2025, Deputies from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office seized property for forfeiture in connection with controlled substance violations, to wit, Section 11378 of the Health and Safety Code of California from Hilfiker Lane in Eureka, California. The seized property is described as: $1,509.00 in US currency. Control Number
25-F-20 has been assigned to this case. Use this number to identify the property in any correspondence with the Office of the Humboldt County District Attorney. 1/22, 1/29, 2/5 (26-030)
STORAGE AUCTION NOTICE
The Individuals listed below are hereby given notice that the personal property stored at 315 N. Fortuna Blvd / 1790 Smith Ln. Fortuna, CA 95540 will be sold to satisfy lien imposed pursuant to section S21700–21716 of the Business/Professions Code, section 535 of the Civil Code on or after February 5, 2026 on StorageAuctions.com unless the amount is paid at: 315 N. Fortuna Blvd. Fortuna, CA 95540. Auction will close at 10:00 AM on 2/5/26 #49 Naleah Castillo #103 DeeDee Bott #151 McKenna Hardin #205 Jack Ross J&B Mini Storage 315 N. Fortuna Blvd. Fortuna, CA 95540 Robert Brock (707)-725-9765 County of Humboldt, State of California
Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Go to StorageAuctions.com for more information.
1/22, 1/29 (26-035)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF
Jan E. Silva AKA Jan Elizabeth Silva CASE NO. PR2600017
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Jan E. Silva AKA Jan Elizabeth Silva A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Jeffrey Harrison In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. The petition for probate requests that Jeffrey Harold Harrison be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The Petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examinatino in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on February 19, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept.: 4 For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: Carlton D. Floyd Floyd Law Firm 819 7th Street
Eureka, CA 95501(707) 445-9754
Filed January 15, 2026
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 1/22, 1/29, 2/5 (26-036
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Tricia Louise Tracy CASE NO. CV2600020
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST.
EUREKA, CA. 95501
PETITION OF: Tricia Louise Tracy for a decree changing names as follows: Present name
Tricia Louise Tracy to Proposed Name
Tricia Louise Today
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: February 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 am, Dept. 4
For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
825 FIFTH STREET
EUREKA, CA 95501
Date: January 7, 2026
Filed: January 7, 2026 /s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court
1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 (26-037)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Merritt Lindgren
CASE NO. PR2600018
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Merritt Lindgren
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Cynthia Lindgren In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. The petition for probate requests that Cynthia Lindgren be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on February 19, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept.: 4 For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section
1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER:
Judd M. Patton, Esq Hjerpe Law, Inc
350 E Street, 1st Floor Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 442-7262
Filed January 16, 2026
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
1/22, 1/29, 2/5 (26-040)
CITY OF FORTUNA
Notice of Public Hearing and FIRST READING OF THE FORTUNA CITY COUNCIL
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, February 2, 2026, at 6:00 pm or as soon thereafter as possible, the Fortuna City Council will hold a public hearing and conduct a first reading of an ordinance in the City Hall Council Chamber, 621 11th Street, Fortuna, California, for the following purpose:
Consider the Planning Commission’s recommendation to the Fortuna City Council to adopt amendments to the Zoning Regulations (Title 17 of the Fortuna Municipal Code).
The text amendments would apply citywide in the City of Fortuna. The purpose of the amendments is to ensure compliance with current State law for accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and junior accessory dwelling units.
Chapter 17.06, Regulations that Apply to Specific Uses, repeals section 17.06.001.5 (Accessory Dwelling Units) in its entirety, and adopts a revised 17.06.001.5 (Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units) that is consistent with State law.
Chapter 17.06, Regulations that Apply to Specifi c Uses, amendments to the definition of Dwelling Unit in section 17.06.184.5 (Short-term rentals).
Chapter 17.08 Definitions and Illustrations , amendments to the definition of Dwelling, second residential in section 17.08.222.
STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES, correct the Government Code citation for ADU law.
The Planning Commission’s recommended zoning text amendments and resolution are available on the City’s website at https://towncloud. io/go/fortuna-ca/agendas/680, scroll to 5.a Planning Commission Business. A printed copy is available also for review at the Community Development Department, located in City Hall, during regular business hours.
Environmental Information: The proposed zoning ordinance text amendments are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Pursuant to Public Resources Code § 21080.17, CEQA does not apply to ordinances implementing Government Code §65852.1, or Article 2 (commencing with Section 66314) or Article 3 (commencing with Section 66333) of Chapter 13 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, which governs ADUs and JADUs.
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The ordinance is also categorically exempt under CEQA Guidelines §15303 (Class 3), which covers the construction or conversion of small accessory structures, such as ADUs and JADUs.
The public and all interested persons are invited to appear at the time and place specified above to give oral or written testimony regarding this matter. You may send written comments to semmons@ci.fortuna.ca.us by 12:00 pm the day of the hearing. Comments will be forwarded to the City Council for their consideration. For further information, call the Community Development Department at (707) 725-1408.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (707) 725-7600.
Notification 48 hours before the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting (28 CFR 35.102 - 35.104 ADA Title II).
Siana Emmons, City Clerk
1/22 (26-042)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARGARET R. WOODCOCK CASE NO. PR2500291
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARGARET RUTH WOODCOCK
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner EDWARD R. WOODCOCK
In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt.
The petition for probate requests that EDWARD R. WOODCOCK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on February 19, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Room: 4
For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the
hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the
OBITUARIES
filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Petitioner: Edward R. Woodcock 4662 Little California St Eureka, CA 95503 (707) 630-1712
Filed: December 9, 2025
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
1/15, 1/22, 1/29/2026 (26-023)
LEGALS?
County Public Notices
Fictitious Business
Petition to Administer Estate Trustee Sale
Other Public Notices 707 442-1400
Genevieve Helen Hemenway
December 19, 1928 - January 17, 2026
Born Genevieve Helen Schlinkmann, to Hazel E. Schlinkmann (Bowman) and Fred Schlinkmann. Genevieve was adopted at a young age by her devoted, adoring father, Silvio (Botchie) Santi of Fields Landing, CA. where she lived for over eighty years.
Genevieve grew up in and around the Fields Landing Hotel and Botchie’s Crab Stand (est. 1928) both owned and operated by her parents, (Hazel and Botchie). Her early years included memories of the town as a bustling whaling port. She was enthralled by the player piano in the hotel, she would watch guests play for hours at a time. She took to the keyboard quickly as a child and her love for music grew from there, leading her to become an accomplished pianist.
Sherria (Sheri) Tyler
January 1, 1950 - November 29, 2025
Sherria (Sheri) Tyler, age 75, was born on January 1, 1950, and following a twoyear battle, with Pancreatic Cancer, she passed away peacefully, in her home on November 29, 2025.
Sheri was an accomplished spinner, knitter, and teacher. She taught spinning lessons to various groups in Humboldt County. Sheri raised, sheered, spun and knitted her animals’ fleece (alpacas, angora goats, llamas, and sheep), and sold them at the Arcata Farmer’s Market for 23 years.
Sheri is survived by her husband, Steve Tyler of Arcata; two sons, Zack Tyler of Washington State; Josh Tyler of Vermont State, and three grandchildren. The Tyler family would like to thank the staff of Hospice of Humboldt for the care, compassion, and comfort provided to Sheri during the last few weeks of her life. Memorial donations may be made directly to Hospice of Humboldt, in Eureka CA.
After attending Field School and Eureka Senior High School, (class of 1947), Genevieve attended Humboldt State University and studied music. Her talent was noted and she was offered placement with the Philharmonic Orchestra on the east coast. Though she did not ultimately join the orchestra, her musical gift was present throughout her life. She taught her two daughters to play the piano and ukulele, and entertained several generations of family and friends with her talent throughout the years.
In December 1950, Genevieve married the love of her life, Eureka High classmate, Ellis Hemenway. It was a quick and lasting match - on their third date, Ellis asked her to marry him, and they were married for over 63 years. Two weeks after their marriage, Ellis was deployed to combat in the Korean War. Genevieve endured the longest, most difficult two years of her 97-year-long life during his deployment. Upon his return, Ellis and Genevieve were together constantly, and never spent any time apart.
Genevieve and Ellis took ownership of Botchie’s Crab Stand from Genevieve’s parents which became known throughout the Redwood Empire for selling only the freshest and highest-quality local Dungeness crab. The couple happily committed to long, hard-working days spent on their feet sideby-side working through the winter crab
season year after year. The hard work and long hours offered Genevieve and her family the opportunity to spend months each year at their summer home in Dinsmore, where she could savor life.
Genevieve enjoyed hunting and fishing with family and had a deep love for the outdoors. She learned the art and science of gardening from her father and her vegetable gardens were always teeming with beautiful produce. She loved gardenias, begonias, orchids and African violets and was skilled at tending the most finicky of flowers. Genevieve was a friend to nature, always taking care to enjoy and protect the beauty she found. She instilled her love and respect for the natural world in her daughters and their growing families.
Genevieve was an accomplished cook, taking up many of the dishes and traditions of Northern Italy, her father’s homeland. Homemade gnocchi were a specialty, pillows of love covered in rich, flavorful red sauce made with chicken, pork and salami. Cakes and pies were also a specialty, and she loved to treat her family to homemade mincemeat or huckleberry pies.
Genevieve is survived by her daughters Victoria Smith and Cynthia (Iver) Skavdal; granddaughters Christine (Sergio) Mendes and Allison (Mike) Skavdal-Taylor; and grandsons Blaine Owsley, Loren (Becky) Skavdal, and Carson Skavdal; and five greatgrandchildren: Christopher Mendes, Reese and Riley Skavdal-Taylor, and Marissa and Iver Skavdal. She is also survived by her niece Sandra (Norm) Ball, nephew Tom (Ardis) Schlinkmann and families.
Genevieve was predeceased by her husband, Ellis B. Hemenway, her parents, Hazel and Botchie (Silvio) Santi, her in-laws, Bernard A. and Marie (Wasmuth) Hemenway, biological father, Fred Schlinkmann, brothers Herb Schlinkmann, and Fredrick Schlinkmann.
A private graveside service will be held late January.
A special thank you to the people at Redwood Memorial Hospital, Hospice of Humboldt and Alder Bay Assisted Living Facility for their excellent, loving care. Donations in Genevieve’s memory may be made to any of the following organizations: Hospice of Humboldt 3327 Timber Fall Court
Eureka, Ca. 95503
California Deer Association
Redwood Coast Chapter 1884 Keystone Court
Redding, CA 96003
By personal Check Or caldeer.org
Society of Humboldt County Pioneers
Clark Historical Museum
C/O Shawn Wagner, Executive Director 240 E St. Eureka CA 95501
By personal check
Online with a credit card
Or stopping by the Museum
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