Franklin Stover’s letter of Nov. 13 (“Stop Misusing the F Word”) claims Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is wrong to call Trump a dimwitted fascist, and offers some pretty weak arguments to prove it. Thus, he claims Trump’s regime can’t be called fascist because 1) things were worse in “Mussolini’s Italy,” and still are in North Korea, and 2) nothing Trump and his idiot Gauleiters are doing is as fascist as Obama’s attempt to increase enforcement of the net neutrality rules in 2014. (Yeah, he said that.)
As to the first point, sure, the political situation is still better here than in Il Duce’s OG fascist state, or in the current worst country in the world, but is that the standard we should use? I mean, most Americans are also probably better off than if they were in Nazi Germany, Idi Amin’s Uganda, or Pinochet’s Chile (though that might be a close call), but so what? It’s probably worse to burn in hell than to have your toenails ripped out, but that doesn’t mean Trump’s not a fascist.
Second, I admittedly don’t recall the particulars of any brouhaha in 2014 about net neutrality, but I don’t think anyone else, except Mr. Stover, does either. Besides, so what? Should we set the bar so high that a president can only be called a fascist if he/she is worse than Obama, history’s greatest monster besides Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and the Autopen? (I jest, Obama was a moderate progressive, and I’m sure this is all nonsense.)
In sum, Ms. Cahill was completely correct. Trump’s effort to create a kleptocratic fascist state is something we should all oppose, and Mr. Stover should check himself before opining again.
Bill Hassler, McKinleyville
The Censure and Punishment of Supervisor Bushnell
Editor:
Excellent reporting by Kimberly Wear (“Chronicle of a Censure,” Nov. 13)! Just the facts … it certainly appears the county acted extrajudiciously in removing the supervisor from her chair position.
Ryan Lee, Glendale
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Sanctuary for Trans Individuals
Editor:
Recently, several Eureka residents approached the city council requesting Eureka consider becoming a Trans Sanctuary City. The individuals came out of fear of being transgender in today’s America, but why is this?
Certainly, Donald Trump plays a part. Immediately in office, he placed an executive order that mandated there no longer be federal recognition of individuals as transgender, and it included restricting federal funding for youth gender affirming care. It required that the term “gender” be eliminated in federal documents such as passports and be replaced instead by the word “sex” defined as the biological sex at conception.
Subsequently, the Defense Department declared trans individuals ineligible for military service. This led to the forced separation of trans members with some very limited exceptions.
According to the website translegislation.com, in 2025, a total of 1,000-plus bills attacking trans rights have been introduced across federal and state governments excepting Vermont. Of these, 124 have passed so far.
Many of the actions, including Trump’s executive orders, have been appealed in court with some being temporarily blocked. For example, two lower courts ruled against the implementation of the new passport sex designation, but recently this was reversed on appeal by the US Supreme Court, letting Trump’s desired change stand.
With so much anti-trans governmental activity, it’s understandable why the city council received this request. If
the council adopts the Trans Sanctuary City designation, it will help provide some needed relief for the local trans population whose rights are so widely under siege today.
Sherman Schapiro, Eureka
‘Our Cultural Heritage’
Editor:
Justin Crellin’s eloquent article (“How rescinding the Public Lands Rule Harms Humboldt County,” Nov. 6) alerted us just in time to the threat posed to our nation’s public lands by the prospective rescission of the Public Lands Rule. Hopefully many people wrote comment letters.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages one-eighth of the total US landmass. As such, it is the guardian of much of our natural resources and Public Trust values. Eighty-one percent of BLM lands are already open to resource extraction. What remains protected is critical to the identity of the American people. Our natural beauties are celebrated in our patriotic songs and our folklore. They are our cultural heritage. We treasure the wildlife which the creation of public lands has allowed to survive here. We are grateful to catch a glimpse of a wild world by virtue of the recreational opportunities the BLM offers us.
Our geography is us, these ecosystems are us. Their images flow into and fortify our morale, so battered lately by our ferocious and self-destructive government policies. The Landscape and Public Health Rule is therefore a critical part of our national defense. We must resist efforts to transform us into a wasteland launchpad for a cybernetic, automated society whose interest is shaped by a narrow definition of survival, with an eye on other worlds.
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They Want to be California’s Next Governor. Here’s What They’d Do About Health Care
By Ana B. Ibarra/CalMatters
This story was originally published by CalMatters.
Every day, Californians struggle to afford medications or wait weeks or months for mental health appointments. Thousands in the “sandwich generation” juggle caring for elderly parents with raising children.
Those are top health care issues Californians want to see the next governor address, according to a recent poll. The candidates vying to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom offered views on them — and addressed the Trump administration’s coming cuts to safety net programs — at a recent forum at UC Riverside organized by philanthropic foundations.
“The reality is too many Californians face barriers to health and wellness in our state,” said Richard Tate, president and CEO of the California Wellness Foundation, one of the organizations sponsoring the event. He said the forum was planned to take place in the Inland Empire, where residents experience some of the largest disparities in health outcomes.
Four candidates, all Democrats, took part in the forum. Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former State Controller Betty Yee all agreed that state response to federal cuts will require them to push for efficiency in the health care system — and look for new sources of revenue. They disagreed on how to fund the state’s response.
To better understand the health care issues in the nascent gubernatorial race, CalMatters also reached out to frontrunners not in attendance: former Congresswoman Katie Porter, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and former Fox News Host Steve Hilton. All three polled well in
a recent California Wellness Foundation survey. None of them returned interview requests or answered questions about their health policy priorities or vision by the deadline.
Becerra touts experience standing up to Trump
If elected, Becerra pledges to be the state’s “health care governor” — a title that Newsom also often embraced.
Becerra, 67, touted his experience responding to a public health emergency and negotiating lower drug prices in President Biden’s cabinet. He did so for medications such as blood thinners, diabetes drugs and others as part of a Medicare drug negotiation program. And as a former state attorney general, he sued the previous Trump administration 123 times. He positioned himself as a strong opponent to federal cutbacks to health.
“We will not take a knee to what Donald Trump has done to health care,” Becerra said. “We will not go backwards.”
An estimated 3.4 million Californians will lose coverage as a result of the Trump administration’s cuts to the Medicaid program as approved in this year’s federal spending plan. And if Congress does not renew the enhanced premium subsidies for the Affordable Care Act by the end of year, another 400,000 who buy health plans through Covered California could be priced out.
Filling those gaps is a tall order for the state, but he said it is worth reviewing the tax code to make sure billionaires are paying their fair share to help fund the safety net.
“We can be rational when it comes to our tax book. But then let’s put the money where it should be on health care,” Becerra said. “I can tell you right now, there is too much money being misspent.”
That’s because spending should be prioritized on preventive care and on keeping
people well in the first place, he said.
“We need to provide for (people) at the front door, not in the emergency room.”
Thurmond floats single-payer system for California
Among Thurmond’s boldest visions is that of creating a state-run single-payer system, where a public entity handles health care financing — acting as insurer, paying providers, and covering medical costs for all. That’s an idea once floated by Newsom, but abandoned because of its expense and complexity.
Thurmond, 57, says his support of a single payer system stems from watching his brother die from a rare liver disease. His brother couldn’t afford health insurance, he said, and stopped going to the doctor even though he was sick.
But a system like that would take years to set up, hundreds of billions of dollars and would also require federal approval.
More immediately, Thurmond said, he’d seek legislation to expand requirements for employers to provide quality health care to their workers. “We have many employers in this state who require their employees to get health care through public assistance. And if you do that as an employer you’re going to be held to account,” Thurmond said. “On the flipside … If you’re doing the right thing we’ll reward you with tax credits.”
Like Becerra, Thurmond also supports the idea of taxing the wealthy to increase funding for health care.
If elected, Thurmond pledged to work with Congress to restore the cuts to Medicaid and other safety net programs that the Trump administration made in its most recent federal spending plan.
Villaraigosa: ‘Focus on the basics’
Villaraigosa, 72, says he wants to go back to basics. In a state budget, that means prioritizing public safety, health care and education, in that order, he said. Villaraigosa pitches himself as more pragmatic than his opponents. He doesn’t support a single-payer system; he argues that it’s unrealistic because the state can’t afford the upfront costs and because the Trump administration, which would need to approve such plans, would reject it.
State response to a federal administration that is gutting the safety net, he said, will require innovative solutions and a health care system that is more efficient — what exactly that would look like is to be determined.
“I’m not going to sell you snake oil. It is going to be tough to provide that care, but I’m absolutely committed to it,”
Villaraigosa said.
Alone among forum participants, Villaraigosa was less interested in increasing taxes to create more revenue, sidestepping the question and only saying that he’d like to look for ways to “grow the pie.”
“We already have the highest taxes in the United States of America and the highest cost of living,” he said.
But like his opponents, Villaraigosa said he wants to grow the mental health workforce — to do so, you have to incentivize people with adequate pay, he said. “The issue is access because people can’t get a doctor to give them care when they get seven bucks for that visit,” he said.
Yee wants strict accountability
Betty Yee, a 68-year-old former state controller, wants to be an accountability governor.
Like her opponents, Yee listed improving mental health access as a high priority. Part of the reason Californians struggle to find appropriate care, she said, is because regulatory agencies aren’t robustly enforcing the state’s mental health parity law, which requires insurers to cover physical and mental health conditions equally.
“We are not looking at our health systems in terms of whether they are continuing to build a robust provider network to deal with mental health for our diverse populations,” Yee said. “So we actually need some better oversight with respect to what is currently the law here in California.”
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Yee is an advocate for growing what’s working. Anti-poverty programs, such as the earned income tax credit and the young child tax credit, have been successful in putting extra dollars in the pockets of low-income Californians, Yee says. She says she’d like to be “bolder” with these refundable tax credit programs and expand them to help alleviate some of the financial burden for caregivers, especially those in the sandwich generation.
Yee said California cannot replace federal cuts with borrowing alone; she supports raising taxes for the highest earners to fund the safety net.
“But before we do that,” Yee said, “I want to be sure we’re making the case that we’re making our health care system much more efficient, and that we really are going to have a much better shot at increasing access and affordability for Californians.” ●
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Honoring Transgender Figures in a Difficult Time
By Caden Downing views@northcoastjournal.com
When I walk to my classes in Founders Hall on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus, I pass by a poster that maps every transgender person who has been murdered in the United States in the past 10 years. Most of the time I’ll stop and bow, paying respect and honoring those who have come before me, and those who have come after but weren’t given the opportunity to thrive. Sometimes, on hard days, I stare. I need to stop myself from breaking down as grief overwhelms me.
In the last few years, transgender, gender-nonconforming and non-binary individuals have been experiencing a striking surge in hate and violence as bills are put forth and laws are passed limiting our freedom to exist in public, criminalizing our safe and provenly effective healthcare, and decriminalizing violence against us. In 2025 alone, 123 bills have passed limiting transgender rights and jeopardizing our safety, and 1,003 are still being considered. (See translegislation.com for a running list.)
We cannot allow our country to put transgender people back in the closet and trample our rich history to dust. Although the current English language we have to describe our identities did not exist yet, transgender people have been around and noted since the dawn of time. We were sometimes the holy people of ancient religions, given the divine gift of living as both genders — male and female, both and neither, or from one to the other. From ancient Mesopotamia to China, India to the Americas, we have always been here. Our pasts were recorded in oral histories and clay tablets. Here, it was only through colonization that that memory was erased
from the public consciousness as our culture was rooted out and replaced with rigid, early Judeo-Christian values of what gender and sexuality should look like. Denying the existence of people outside the binary (or perhaps those within it who have crossed from one side to the other), also denies the legitimacy of our historic place in the world and cedes our important roles to those of colonizers and missionaries.
All that said, I am also aware that there are people in our world who do not deny that transgender people exist, but are far more concerned with the procedures and medical interventions that we may use to customize our experiences. A common talking point, especially when concerning young people, is that our hormones are experimental and dangerous, but I would argue quite the opposite. Our hormonal treatments and even surgical practices as we know them today, although still evolving like everything in medical science, have their roots in Dr. Magnus Hirschfield’s research in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Hirschfield was the founder of the Institute for Sexual Sciences and practiced some of the first sex reassignment surgeries, as well as early hormonal therapies. He pioneered the field of medical science around transgender individuals and lobbied extensively for LGBTQ+ rights in Germany. However, outside of niche queer spaces, his name largely fell into obscurity after Nazis raided his institute and burned much of his work.
Being transgender often means being an activist, as we are forced to all become public representatives of our community to the outside world. We can try to choose otherwise, but the world will
always choose for us. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Marsha P. Johnson didn’t initially set out to be trans activists. Neither did Mack Beggs (a high school wrestler forced to play in the girl’s league after a law regulating transgender people in sports passed), Buck Angel (an adult film star who now advocates for comprehensive and trans-affirming sex education), Albery Cashier (a Union veteran of the Civil War who was almost denied his benefits after his birth sex was discovered) or Christine Jorgenson (the first transgender woman in the U.S. to undergo gender reassignment surgery). The world simply took a turn that forced them to become activists for their own survival.
The least we can do is share their stories and the stories of thousands — if not millions — of others like them across time. Not every trans person should need to become a political activist, health expert and historian to argue the case of their own survival, but that is the world we live in. So let us remember those who came before us and those who came after but who were not given the opportunity to thrive. Let us keep those still fighting the good fight in our hearts and work to lessen their burdens together. Because it just isn’t possible for us to lift the heavy weight of oppression alone without the solidarity of our surrounding community.
Caden Downing, aka Novice Sister Kit Caboodle (he/she/they), is a student at Cal Poly Humboldt and the mistress of propaganda (marketing) for the Eureka Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Abbey of the Big Red Wood.
The Stopwatch
A family’s ‘lifeline’ to the wreck of the SS Badger
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By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill jennifer@northcoastjournal.com
On a Friday afternoon in early August, Maureen Reiche Foster called the Journal from her home in Chicago. She was hoping to talk with someone about the article “Nightmare at Sea,” by Geoff S. Fein, that ran in the Jan. 2, 2003, issue of the paper. It was about William “Willie” Burnett, a local survivor of the SS Badger State, a Merchant Marine ship hauling munitions that sank amid rough seas in 1969 en route to Vietnam, killing 26 of the crew of 40. The men had spent 11 days attempting to repair damage and stay afloat amid 20-foot waves, nine of those days with bombs rolling loose in their holds, eventually punching through the hull until one finally exploded, sinking the ship.
Why she wanted to get in touch, Reiche Foster said, was a long story. Journal Publisher Melissa Sanderson, who’d picked up the phone, settled in.
According to Fein’s story, Burnett, who died in Cutten in 2002, didn’t talk about his experience. But Steve D’Agati, a history buff who lived in Eureka, had discovered his connection to the harrowing wartime disaster while browsing the sale of his estate, coming across a stopwatch in an envelope that indicated it had been aboard the vessel, saved along with Burnett after the bomb exploded and the ship caught fire.
Reiche Foster’s first husband, Raymond Reiche, was aboard the SS Badger State with Burnett. However, the second assistant engineer was not among the 14 survivors, nor was his body ever recovered, despite an 8,000-square-mile search. Reiche Foster had been pregnant when he
The stopwatch William “Willie” Burnett carried when the crew of the SS Badger State abandoned ship on Dec. 26, 1969.
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set sail. She was three months along on Dec. 26, 1969, when she saw the news ticker at the bottom of the television screen announcing that his ship was breaking up 500 miles from the Midway Islands. She recalled dropping a glass she’d been cleaning, the deep, sudden terror, the feverish hope and the Christmas tree incongruously lit up in the living room. She doesn’t recall who put all the decorations away by the next day.
Survivors headed for Japan aboard a Greek ship named the Khian Star, while Coast Guard and Air Force planes searched in vain for anyone left in the water, as did several ships. Foster Reiche remembers her father sending a telegram to President Lyndon B. Johnson begging him not to call off the search, but by Jan. 3, the danger of more and greater explosions forced other vessels to distance from the SS Badger State
In those days, she said, she was wracked with unanswered questions along with her grief over the man who’d been her high school sweetheart since she was 15 and he was 16. “In 11 days, how many times did he think of us, and of this baby he hoped was a girl?” she asked. It was a question that never left her. In June of 1970, she gave birth to her daughter Katie.
Reiche Foster had read Fein’s story years earlier, and she came across it again recently while working with the Merchant Marine Academy to assemble materials for a tribute to Reiche in its yearbook. “But that stopwatch, it crossed my mind,” she said. She shared it with her brother Michael Downs, along with her wish that she could reach out and perhaps buy the stopwatch that had been on the ship
and give it to her daughter — something tangible that was linked to his last days that she could hold in her hands. Though Reiche Foster wasn’t even sure the Journal still existed, Downs urged her to give it a shot.
“He’s a big Irish guy but he’s a mush,” she said of her brother. Reiche’s death had devastated him, too, she said. As a boy, Downs had idolized Reiche — a high school football star, a hero from their Chicago neighborhood who’d gone to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy — even before they’d become brothers-in-law.
Sanderson was moved and started searching online and making calls until she tracked down D’Agati. A week later, she’d made contact. He still lived in the area and, after 13 years, he still had the stopwatch.
When Sanderson told D’Agati someone wanted to buy the stopwatch, he was reticent, thinking it was a collector without connection to the tragedy, he says. But once he learned about Katie and Maureen, he asked Sanderson to pass on a message: “It’s not for sale but I would love to give it to you.”
Over the phone, Reiche Foster’s voice shook. “You did not,” she gasped. “Oh my God. It’s like it’s meant to be.”
A month later, Downs was walking across the dew-wet lawn on the side
of Steve house. De cable-knits ed white clou D'Agati wore eris tipped his head wit~ recounted his flight these years and mile
of Steve and Linda D’Agati’s house. Downs wore a wool Irish cable-knit sweater, his hair a tufted white cloud. Beside him, Steve D’Agati wore crisp short sleeves and tipped his head with interest as Downs recounted his flight from Illinois. After all these years and miles and lucky coincidences, Downs said, the stopwatch was too precious to send by mail and required a road trip.
Inside, Linda D’Agati set out plates of cookies and brownies as her husband opened the pair of scrapbooks tracing the hearings that followed the sinking of the SS Badger State. Sanderson set up a video call with Reiche Foster from Chicago that led to a round of introductions and thanks.
Downs pressed his fingers to his eyes, dabbing tears even as he cheerily reminisced about what trouble they were as kids — all seven siblings — and about Reiche’s football triumphs, how he’d been part of their family even before marriage. But when talk of the Badger State began, he excused himself.
Steve D’Agati, now retired, had been working as a youth correctional counselor at Humboldt County Juvenile Hall when he wound his way through Burnett’s home and worldly possessions in 2002. The house, he recalled, “seemed stuck in time from 1955,” down to the tube television. The lot, including the scrapbooks, stopwatch and a stack of books related to Burnett’s work as a merchant marine, was $40. D’Agati passed the envelope with the stopwatch around the table. It was silver with looping, stylized numbers, its hands
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stopped at 23 minutes and 57 seconds, the glass face slipping loose. Blocky letters on the envelope read:
W. L. Burnett, 3rd Mate, S/S Badger State. Stop watch that was saved when S/S Badger State was abandon [sic] in mid Pacific Ocean Dec. 26-1969 Approx. 1000 +11 zone time following a bomb explosion & fire in #5 hatch. Ship abandon (sic) in storm. 26 men lost — 14 men saved by Greek MV Khian Star.
It was this note that piqued Steve D’Agati’s interest, leading him to buy the lot, pore over the clippings and search online to learn more about the ship that sank 1,600 miles from Hawaii on what was meant to be a nine-day journey.
According to William R. Benedetto’s book Sailing into the Abyss, chronicling the disaster, Burnett was a World War II veteran and career merchant marine who’d also sailed with wartime munitions during the Korean War. He aided with setting the ship’s course, using “a set of parallel rulers marking off the ship’s course on the navigation chart.”
The SS Badger State set sail from Washington’s Bangor Naval Ammunition Depot with a cargo hold full of munitions bound for the U.S. Air Force stationed in Da Nang, Vietnam on Dec. 14, 1969. The load included mines, ammunition and aerial bombs ranging from 500 pounds to 2,000-pound blockbusters sandwiched between wooden pallets. Over the following days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the sea turned rough, with 15-foot-high waves tipping the ship up to 45 degrees, causing damage to the steering mechanisms, as well as the hull, which had to be patched. Changing course was too difficult in these conditions, and on Dec. 16, some
of the bombs were shaken loose from their restraints.
Even as the crew attempted to secure the bombs, more broke away and waves, now as high as 40 feet, buffeted the ship. Capt. Charles Wilson requested to head for a safe port with an escort for the battered ship and set a course for Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
But on Dec. 25, Christmas Day, another storm hit, rocking the Badger State even harder until bombs in all the holds were rolling free and the order to change course to the Midway Islands became impossible, even with an escort on the way. Then yet another storm knocked at the ship, sending it nearly sideways, some of the largest bombs breaking through the hull, which began taking on water. According to Benedetto, Wilson reported the ship rolling more than 50 degrees after being hit by a wall of water, knocking sailors out of their bunks, sending refrigerators to the floor and tearing away the portside lifeboat. All hands went to throw linens, mattresses and packing materials onto and around the bombs to slow their crashing and lessen the chance of sparks, which grew with every pitch and roll of the ship. When an explosion finally came, blowing a hole in the ship, the flash was visible to the Greek vessel the Khian Star still miles away en route to aid the Badger State. As devastating as the explosion was, given the explosives aboard, it could have been much bigger. Wilson gave the order to abandon the ship, which later sank without further explosion.
“Ten days in rollicking weather with the bombs loose and rolling around,” said Steve D’Agati, marveling at what the crew endured. Burnett, he explained, was the
The original envelope in which William Burnett kept the stopwatch from the SS Badger State with a description of its provenance.
Photo by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
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last man pulled from the water onto the Khian Star, yanked aboard by his hair and vest. One of Burnett’s albums has photos of the rescue ship and a Greek crewman, perhaps, Steve D’Agati wondered, the one who dragged Burnett to safety.
“I felt they should be cared for and preserved,” said he. He said he’d tried to donate them to the Humboldt Maritime Museum but didn’t get a response, and the Merchant Marine Academy in San Francisco’s donation protocol involved a complicated process and little enthusiasm. Passing it to Reiche Foster and her daughter made him glad it didn’t work out.
Reiche Foster had been a relative newlywed, having married in March, gone on a late honeymoon in October. She kept all Reiche’s letters, including the one he wrote her before shipping out, promising it was only temporary. “He called it ‘a big rust bucket,’” she said, adding he’d written that the stevedores were “throwing cargo onto the ship.” The packing and securing
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of the bombs were issues raised in the hearings that followed.
Her doctor advised her not to attend the hearings while pregnant, but, she said, “I’m a pretty headstrong Irishwoman.” She sat in back, she said, unable to look at the survivors. “I just saw Ray among them, and he wasn’t there.” She found little comfort in learning of brutal details, like the way the poorly designed life vests pushed men’s faces forward into the water, the birds that pecked at their heads as they waited in the water, or how some were crushed between the lifeboat and the rescue ship. “Everyone dies. But for these men, it took nine days for them. …. Knowing he was in the 100-degree engine room trying to keep the ship upright, imagining him there,” she trailed off.
She and Steve D’Agati talked a bit more about the Coast Guard investigation’s findings, which included flaws in the packing method, and the storms’ intensity and Continued on next page »
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A memorial plaque for Raymond Reiche at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
Courtesy of Maureen Reiche Foster
Katie in Maureen Reiche Foster’s arms at her sister Kathleen’s wedding. Courtesy of Maureen Reiche Foster
unpredictability. She gave a hard smile and thanked everyone again, saying how much it meant to pass the stopwatch to her daughter. “I look at Katie and I see him.”
Back in Chicago, Downs went over to see his niece and goddaughter for lunch, and Reiche Foster joined them. It wasn’t unusual, said Katie Filbin, but her uncle’s tone was serious. “He sat down on the couch and he said, ‘I have something for you,’ and he started crying,” she said. She’d read the Journal article about Burnett and the stopwatch from the Badger State, but it took a moment to piece it together. “There’s moments in life when you just feel, like, love, and the veil between heaven and earth is just lifted. And that’s what it was like.”
Filbin said she has her father’s letterman’s jacket and class ring, and a couple of his sweaters. But “anything tactile, the stopwatch, the clippings … knowing it had been handled by someone who was a survivor … anything that connects to a story or someone who knew him is a lifeline,” she said, especially since his remains were never recovered.
After her mother remarried, she said,
they didn’t talk much about Reiche, perhaps out of deference to Fran, the stepfather who raised her, though Filbin doesn’t think it would bother him. At 55 with kids of her own, she said she has empathy for families doing the best they can in painful circumstances. “Now we have this item that will be out in my home and give us reason to talk about him and know that it’s OK.”
Filbin was still wonderstruck that Sanderson found Steve D’Agati, that he’d hung onto the watch and that he and his wife were so welcoming to her family, “Especially in this day and age, that he invited them into his home.” She wondered aloud at the fragile connections back to the father she never met.
“You can’t tell me that it’s not some kind of, I don’t know, little angel wink or something,” she said. “He’s still in our lives.” l
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.
Raymond Reiche and Maureen Reiche Foster at his 1968 graduation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the same day they became engaged.
Courtesy of Maureen Reiche Foster.
A Christmas Carol Sings in the Season
By Tiggerbouncer Custodio frontrow@northcoastjournal.com
Devised theater is (or should be) an exciting and fun process. It is the process of collaboratively creating new work through improvisation and exploration. The final product can be inspiring, whimsical and impactful when executed perfectly, or messy, unfinished and forced as productions balance creating a cohesive ensemble and an innovative piece simultaneously. Further, predicting the impact on the audience can be challenging as some elements that the collaboration loves in rehearsal could be lost in its transference to the stage.
Luckily, North Coast Repertory Theatre’s newest offering of the devised A Christmas Carol is helmed by Isabel Semler and Shawn Wagner, two people who not only understand these challenges, but are well educated and thoroughly equipped to guide this talented ensemble through them. The result is a fun, interactive and casual experience that moves with precision and ease.
The Storyteller (Scott “Q” Marcus) guides us through the plot. Curmudgeon Scrooge (Craig Benson) is visited by three ghosts that show him past, pres-
Craig Benson and Moss Nipkau in NCRT’s A Christmas Carol
Photo by Shawn Wagner
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ent and future Christmases to motivate change. His employee Bob Cratchit (Brad Harder) spends the day with his family and friends (Kathlina Eayre, Alex Benn, Cory Roberton, Trevor Mather, Rue Sipma, Isabella Snow Oliveira) to celebrate the blessing of another holiday with their sickly son Tiny Tim (Ella Mather). Banking on everyone knowing the basics of the story, this production excels in how to tell it in a fresh way. Marcus gives instructions for audience participation via cue card that I am uncertain the piece needed but was fun in practice. The ghosts are fantastic, oversized puppets with personalities amplified by their puppeteers (Julie Douglas, Rachel Houska, Kate O’faolain, Filip Amborski). A lovely live music trio and beautiful choreography (Shawn Wagner) make this classic relevant, unique and quaint.
Benson displays his usual fantastic acting, driving the show, and Wagner takes advantage of his impressive dance background with a stunning dance piece. Marcus is charismatic with a combination of confidence and innocence that puts smiles on faces. The puppeteers are simply magical and the best display of what a tight ensemble can accomplish as they seamlessly work in tandem to give already impressive props brilliant caricatured animation. Equally, the rest of the cast meld together to create the potpourri of Christmas charm that warms the heart. I could not take my eyes off Oliverira and Mather as these young actors filled the space with the absolute joy of theater. They are mesmerizing. I would have liked to see more consistency (or the existence, in some cases) of accents and especially the juxtaposition of proper British and Cockney, but it’s not distracting.
Denise Ryles’ costume design is absolutely incredible. I would pay to see them on mannequins in a museum installation. The fit, the construction, the
attention to how the lights strike them — all next-level design. Kaya Corcoran’s lighting design made beautiful stage sections but doesn’t quite make a full and cohesive picture in all the scenes. In addition, fully utilizing the movers with gobos could create an added texture and motion that would add life to the designs. The inconsistent proportion of the set design by Wagner adds to this. The unclear delineation or perhaps the enormity of empty space makes the specificity of location murky. Perhaps a larger bed moved closer to center and/or repositioning the piano and changing the size of the table could alleviate this. However, I am a big fan of the magic of a scrim and its presence brought me joy. Still, that one element could be enhanced by the rest of the scenic design. Where the design had shortcomings, the cast easily filled and the movement and blocking masks the issues.
The audience left the performance with smiles, peace and a song: exactly what is needed for a Christmas show. If you need the ease of a simple and beautiful holiday-themed production, this is the one to see. Get your tickets, spike your hot cocoa, relax and smile. Merry Christmas.
NCRT’s production of A Christmas Carol continues at the 5th and D Street Theatre on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m., through Dec. 7. Visit ncrt.net. l
Tiggerbouncer Custodio (he/she/they) is an empowered queer Indigenous Filipino artist whose works have been seen on Humboldt stages and elsewhere.
COMING SOON
Ding, dong, Ferndale Repertory Theatre presents a musical production of The Wizard of Oz Nov. 21-Dec. 21, on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and on Sundays at 2 p.m. Visit ferndalerep.org.
Nightlife
ARCATA PLAYHOUSE
1251 Ninth St. (707) 822-1575
ARCATA THEATRE LOUNGE
1036 G St., Arcata (707) 822-1220
THE BASEMENT 780 Seventh St., Arcata (707) 845-2309
BEAR RIVER CASINO RESORT
11 Bear Paws Way, Loleta (707) 733-9644
BLUE LAKE CASINO WAVE LOUNGE 777 Casino Way, Blue Lake (707) 668-9770
MOKKA 495 J St., Arcata (707) 822-2228
STATION SPORTS
1631 Central Ave., McKinleyville (707) 839-2013
Broadway, Eureka, (707) 798-1934
Main St., Fortuna (707) 725-3700
420 California Ave., Arcata (707) 630-3269
HAVANA ARCATA 780 Seventh St. (707) 826-0860
Got a gig or an event? Submit it to calendar@northcoastjournal.com by 5pm Thursday the week before publication. Tickets for shows highlighted in yellow are available at NorthCoastTickets.com. More details at northcoastjournal.com. Shows, times and pricing subject to change by the venue.
KAPTAIN'S QUARTERS 517 F St., Eureka (7070 798-1273
Fifth St., Eureka (707) 444-1344
Man’s Whiskey (bluegrass/ old time, southern rock) 8:30 p.m. $25, $20 advance
I St., Arcata (707) 630-5000
MOSS OAK COMMONS 1905 Alliance Rd., Arcata Blackplate, The Lathe, Monkee Business 8 p.m. $10
OCEAN GROVE COCKTAIL LOUNGE
480 Patrick's Pt Dr., Trinidad (707) 677-3543
GROWTH CELLARS 1945
Lane, Eureka (707) 407-0479
p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22.
Message in a Bottle
By Collin Yeo
setlist@northcoastjournal.com
I’m writing to you from the murky depths of last week, ahead of a quick retreat away from wi-fi and glowing things, so apologies if I have missed some massive earth-shattering event in the news cycle. What that could be is anyone’s guess, as we have all learned time and again that things that should horrify most reasonable populations into a tsunami of revolutionary arousal can’t even get our public needle to tick up from lethargy to tumescence. I think we might need an oil change in the national libido; the engine is a sputtering mess.
Which is a reason among many why I am going on a low-rent detour away from the endless glassy fix of the screen junkie. I have learned, as alluded to in this column, that I can’t honestly share my thoughts freely about the current political treadmill without, ironically, risking that freedom, so I have chosen abstention as the better part of valor. This isn’t something that I am thankful for, but it’s necessary. “Learn your place and shut up” is probably the most succinct translation of the grooves that are constantly being stamped into our faces by the forces from above and at this moment, I don’t feel like arguing.
The scope of the horrors that exist be-
cause our society has no large-scale social filter to protect us from the shameless evil shared by — if this newest wave of emails is to be fully understood — literally everyone running and destroying the world right now is genuinely sickening. It’s something I have long suspected but tempered with the idea that my worst thoughts about the shape of the world couldn’t be true because they are so bleak. I may be many things, but I am not someone wired with the kind of psychopathy required to succeed in the managerial enforcement wing of this society. I’ll just quote R.L. Burnside: “It’s bad, you know.”
Yes, I’m taking a little break. There’s too much noise, too much hideousness and cruelty, and too many people who will gleefully watch you suffer for the crime of being disgusted about things too loudly. Shh, enough of that. Have a nice week. Take care of each other while it’s still possible.
Thursday
It’s the penultimate Thursday of November, which seems like as good a time as ever to get down to some bluegrass and folk music, courtesy of the Elderberry
Blackplate plays Moss Oak Commons at 8
Courtesy of the artists
Rust Stringband. You can get the goods over at the Basement this evening after 7:30 p.m., where a mere $5 will get you a spot on the dancefloor.
Friday
The Arcata Playhouse is once again hosting one of our area’s most compelling acts, the freeform, avant jazz soundmakers Strange Meeting. This is the good stuff,
the thick, misty texture of organic human blues blending with electronic streetlight tones that cut through without separation. A holy scene. I liked it last time, see if you like it tonight. Roll through at 8 p.m. with $15 in hand for a lesson in wordless world-building.
Saturday
There’s a holiday lull approaching but
thankfully the weekend delivers, as these two examples of Arcata nightlife illustrate nicely. First up at 8 p.m., Moss Oak Commons is hosting a loud gig headlined by one of my favorite local acts, Blackplate. Also on the docket are Hank Wicklund’s The Lathe and Monkee Business. A very negotiable $10 will get you in the door within heat range of the sonic blast furnace.
An hour later at Humbrews it’s a hip
hop-acid jam spectacular starring New York City’s own uptown night tripper DJ Logic, joined by vocalist Lantz Lazwell and friends, including local keyboard wizard Swizlo DJ Funky T Rex will also be providing local ambassador duties, for one of the last times ever, rumor has it ($20).
Sunday
Relax, it’s just another Metal Sunday over at Savage Henry Comedy Club at 7 p.m. This evening’s headliners are retro death metal band Bonginator from Boston and D.C. grind act No/Más. (Side note: D.C. Grind sounds like a 1980s skateboard game for Nintendo.) Anyway, also on the ticket are Something Wicked, Hillsick, and Hexenvvald. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, and this is a record release tour for the Bong band, so bring some cash for a record if you like their tunes.
Monday
I tried, but it’s the beginning of a span of weekdays that terminates with Thanksgiving and Black Friday, so there was bound to be a gap or two. It happens every year.
Tuesday
I refuse to leave tonight blank when I can remind folks out there that there’s another chance to see the excellent Opera Alley Cats at the Speakeasy starting at 7 p.m. It don’t cost nothin’ to get inside.
Wednesday
Soul Circuits are an electro-country act from Minneapolis. We’re talking synths and violins here, with some heartbreak and twang sprinkled on top. Turtle Goodwater from Barnfire will be opening things up with a solo set in the boxcar cavern of the Miniplex. The doors open at 7:30 p.m. and it’s $10 a gander. l
Collin Yeo (he/him) is, for once, speechless.
Calendar Nov. 20 – 27, 2025
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The Humboldt County Fairgrounds kicks off its 2025 Winter Fair with the long-awaited return of the Ice Skating Rink at Belotti Hall ($20 adults, $15 kids). The rink, which hasn’t been around since 2019, opened last Saturday and will be open Mondays through Fridays from 3 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Jan. 11, with private party bookings also available. If you’ve never skated on ice (thin or otherwise), now’s your moment. Don’t miss your chance to carve out some winter memories on the rink this season.
StrangeBrew Beer Fest returns for its 13th year (which could ramp the “strange” up a sud or two), turning the Eureka Theater into craft beer heaven on Saturday, Nov. 22 , from 3 to 9:30 p.m. ($45, $15 designated driver, $10 for the 8 p.m. concert only). What can you expect? Unlimited pours from Lost Coast Brewery, Eel River Brewing Co., Paskenta Mad River Brewing Co., 6 Rivers Brewery, Mount Shasta Brewing Co. and Trinity County Brewing Company, plus Humboldt Homebrewers and the legendary DAS BOOT competition. Music runs nonstop with The Piet Dalmolen Band , Blacksage Runners, Los Perdidos and Radio Clash DJ s spinning vinyl, and Naive Melodies delivering a 90-minute Talking Heads tribute at 8 p.m. Los Gilles Taqueria and Christina’s Filipino Cuisine will be on site to help soak up the sloshing and steady your gait. Bring your ID for this 21-and-up Eureka Theater fundraiser.
Before you feast on that wild mushroom your brother swears is “totally safe,” learn your false from your real. Because no matter how much you love him, the morel of the story is: Don’t trust a mushroom hunter unless they know their stuff. Good news, there’s an event for that.
The Humboldt Bay Mycological Society invites fungi fans of all ages to the 47th annual Mushroom Fair on Sunday, Nov. 23, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Arcata Community Center ($10, $5 students, seniors 60+, veterans, kids 7-17, free for kids 6 and under, 10 a.m. entry for HBMS members). Check out the fresh mushroom displays, browse local vendors, sample food and catch talks from regional experts. Oh, and bring your bro’s ‘shroom. They’ll identify it properly for you.
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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.
LECTURE
Third Thursday Talk Series w/Redwood Community Energy Authority. 7 p.m. Humboldt Grange #501, 5845 Humboldt Hill Road, Eureka. Learn more about the RCEA, what they do and what they can do for you. Free and open to the public. Free.
“Food Web Responses to Klamath Dam Removal”. 7-9 p.m. Six Rivers Masonic Lodge, 251 Bayside Road, Arcata. This talk explores food web responses to dam removal downstream of Iron Gate Dam during a critical period of juvenile salmonid growth and outmigration in the late spring. Free. rras.org.
SPOKEN WORD
Reworded Open Mic Night. Third Thursday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Phatsy Kline’s Parlor Lounge, 139 Second St., Eureka. Poetry workshop at 5 p.m. Open mic from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. events@histroiceaglehouse.com. historiceaglehouse.com. (707) 444-3344.
THEATER
The EHS Players: The Visions of Cassandra 7:30-10 p.m. Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St. An original Greek tragedy adapted from The Iliad by Homer and The Trojan Continued on next page »
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Women by Euripides. Focused on the young, prophetic princess Cassandra, the story explores the love and grief of a family burdened by ongoing conflict, nine years into the Trojan War. $10-$15. needhamc@eurekacityschools. org. (707) 441-2537.
Wild Left Turns & Chance Encounters: Stories and Songs . 7-9 p.m. EXIT Theatre, 890 G St., Arcata. Stories and songs about the serendipity of life with a mixture of humor and drama. Performers include Michael Crowley, Jeff DeMark, Pam Long, Siena Nelson and Marvin Samuels. Music by The Gila Monster Band. $15-$25. mail@theexit.org. theexit.org. (415) 203-2516.
EVENTS
Language Exchange Meeting. 4:30-5:15 p.m. College of the Redwoods Community Education, 525 D St., Eureka. The CR Multilingual Club is proud to offer a Spanish/English language exchange. El Club Multilingüe de CR se ofrece un intercambio de español/inglés. Free. Jonathan-maiullo@ redwoods.edu. instagram.com/crmultilingual/.
Taste of the Holidays. 5-8 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Enjoy a one-stop culinary tour of seasonal dishes, artisan treats and handcrafted drinks from the region’s best chefs, restaurants and makers. Proceeds support Arcata Rotary Club Sunrise
SPECIALS FALL MENU
MOONSTONE
As the days get shorter, the views get be er. Happy Hour is now at sunset.
PRIME TIME At Moonstone
Tender prime rib with au jus and creamy horseradish, served alongside mashed potatoes, a roasted carrot, and silky demi-glace. $40 per person.
RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED.
programs like Backpacks for Kids. $45. arcatasunrise.org.
TRANScending The Veil Ritual. 5:30 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. The Eureka Sisters perform the ritual, providing space for attendees to recognize those they have lost, and read the list of names from the international database. Those with mobility and accessibility needs have priority for benches and other seating. Dress warm. Candles provided, but bring your own if you can. Free. tinyurl.com/humtwor25rsvp.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Henderson Center Holiday Open House. 5-8 p.m. Henderson Center, Henderson near F Street, Eureka. Enjoy special sales and promotions from local shops, meet Santa and the Grinch, take a family photo with Clydesdale horses, kids’ games and activities, treats and more holiday fun. Free.
Winter Fair Ice Skating Rink. Ongoing. Belotti Hall, 1250 Fifth St., Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale. Skating fun for all ages on real ice. Through Jan. 11. For more information, visit humboldtcountyfair.org. humboldtcountyfair.org/.
SPORTS
Lost Coast Cornhole League Night. Third 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.
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ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 10 a.m.-noon. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. Hosted by Joyce Jonté. $10, cash or Venmo.
November After Hours Party and Art Reception. 5-7 p.m. Arcata Library, 500 Seventh St. Celebrate the owl-inspired artwork of Arcata Elementary School third graders and a continuing art show featuring Patricia Sennott. Take part in an easy art project for artists of all ages. Free. manthony@co.humboldt.ca.us. facebook.com/ events/1534909750885552. (707) 822-5954.
MUSIC
Ticket to Ride: The Beatles Tribute Band. 2-4:30 p.m. Trinidad Heart Center, 426 Trinity St. Enjoy an afternoon of classic songs as the band plays all the hits you know and love. $10-$20 sliding scale. trinidadheartcenter@gmail. com. trinidadheartcenter.com/our-events. (707) 845-6231. Gratitude! RLA w/Rob Diggins and Blake Brown. 7:30 p.m. Trinidad Town Hall, 409 Trinity St. The show will feature the seldom heard live music versions of unusual tunes by Gigi Gryce, John Coltrane, Tad Dameron, Wayne Shorter, David Liebman and more. Drinks and snacks available. Presented by Westhaven Center for the Arts. $10-$20 sliding scale.
Strange Meeting. 8 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Unique arrangements of jazz featuring Nicholas Talvola, Russ Thallheimer, Alex Espe, Ian Taylor and Shane Fox. $15. info@playhousearts.org. playhousearts.org/. (707) 822-1575.
THEATER
A Christmas Carol 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. Directed and adapted by Shawn Wagner and Isabel Semler. A miserly businessman is visited by three ghosts who show him the impact of his life choices. This heartwarming adaptation celebrates the power of redemption and the true meaning of Christmas. Presented by North Coast Repertory Theatre. $20, $18 students/ seniors. ncrt.net.
The EHS Players: The Visions of Cassandra . 7:30-10 p.m. Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St. See Nov. 20 listing. Wild Left Turns & Chance Encounters: Stories and Songs 7-9 p.m. EXIT Theatre, 890 G St., Arcata. See Nov. 20 listing.
The Wizard of Oz . 7:30 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. Stage adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s beloved tale of the magical Land of Oz, featuring the movie’s musical score. All ages. $22, $20 senior/student/child. ferndalerep.org/.
FOR KIDS
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.
FOOD
Community Dinners Series: Peaches & Pies. 6:30-9 p.m. Gyppo Ale Mill, 1661 Upper Pacific Drive, Shelter Cove. A six-course meal featuring Gyppo Ale Mill’s three-year-aged wild peach sour, its distilled peach spirit, and sweet and savory pies by Swell, plus soup, salad and a peach-inspired grazing table. $72. gyppo.com/special-events/.
Garberville Farmers Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Garberville Town Square, Church Street. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers, crafts and more. Enjoy music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA certified, service animals are welcome. CalFresh EBT customers receive a market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/miranda.html. (707) 441-9999.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Winter Fair Ice Skating Rink. Ongoing. Belotti Hall, 1250 Fifth St., Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale. See Nov. 20 listing. ETC
November Skate Nights. 6:30-9 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. First-come, first-served. Max. 75 skaters. $6, $5 youth. facebook.com/eurekacommunityservices. (707) 441-4248.
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.
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MUSIC
Cal Poly Humboldt Music Department. 2 p.m. Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka. Faculty members from the Cal Poly Humboldt Music Department perform classical, cross-over genres and chamber music. Meet the performers after the concert. $5, $2 seniors/students/ military, Free for HAC members, children less than 17, and families w/an EBT card. humboldtarts.org.
THEATER
Annie Jr. 2 & 7 p.m. Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, 412 G St., Eureka. The irrepressible comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world’s best-loved, award-win-
ning musicals. Featuring Main Stage Young Performers Company students ages 6-18. $15-$28.
A Christmas Carol . 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Nov. 21 listing.
The EHS Players: The Visions of Cassandra . 7:30-10 p.m. Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St. See Nov. 20 listing.
Twinsies & The Real Housewives of Humboldt . 7-9 p.m. EXIT Theatre, 890 G St., Arcata. Long-form improv theater by local performers. $10. mail@theexit.org. theexit.org. (415) 203-2516.
The Wizard of Oz . 2 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. See Nov. 21 listing.
EVENTS
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. United Indian Health Services (Potawot), 1600 Weeot Way, Arcata. International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is an event in which survivors of suicide loss come together to find connection, understanding and hope through their shared experience. Free. rob.england@uihs.org, pallipsych707@gmail.com. arcata-california.isosld.afsp.org
StrangeBrew Beer Fest. 3-10 p.m. Eureka Theater, 612 F St.
A celebration of sound and suds, featuring an incredible lineup of bands and an all-star roster of the region’s best breweries and homebrewers. Food trucks on site. $45, $15 designated driver. theeurekatheater.org.
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.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
City Wide Thanksgiving Dinner. 3-6 p.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. Enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving dinner in the company of neighbors, or take a meal to go. Everyone is welcome. Made possible by the McLean Foundation. Free. Fortuna River Lodge Holiday Craft Fair. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive. Two days filled with local crafts, vendors and appearances by a special guest.
Studio 299 Holiday Boutique. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Studio 299, 75 The Terrace, Willow Creek. Local arts and crafts, food and drinks, live music. Free admission. studio299. tripod.com.
Winter Fair Ice Skating Rink. Ongoing. Belotti Hall, 1250 Fifth St., Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale. See Nov. 20 listing.
OUTDOORS
FOAM Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Meet leader Paul Johnson at 2 p.m. in the lobby of the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute, rain-or-shine walk that will focus on “the small things along the trails that people often miss.” 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.
Hard Fought Championships. 7-11 p.m. Sapphire Palace, Blue Lake Casino, 777 Casino Way. MMA fighting. General admission is open seating (no seat numbers or assigned seats) for these events, so come early to pick your seat if you have a GA ticket $55. bluelakecasino.com/event/ hard-fought-productions/. (707) 668-9770.
ETC
Bagel Bust! 11 a.m. Frankie’s NY Bagels, 3750 Harris Ave., Eureka. Meet and connect with other Queer folks in a relaxed, low-pressure environment as we enjoy delicious bagels and snacks at Frankie’s NY Bagels at 11:00 AM. tinyurl. com/humtwor25rsvp.
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 Nov. 21 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.
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MOVIES
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 5-8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show 5 p.m. Movie at 6 p.m. A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy under an exceptional concierge. $8, $12 w/poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. facebook.com/events/1137748114997852. (707) 613-3030.
MUSIC
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
A Christmas Carol . 2 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See Nov. 21 listing.
The Wizard of Oz . 2 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. See Nov. 21 listing.
EVENTS
Mushroom Fair. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Vendors, fresh mushroom displays, educational talks, workshops, food trucks and more at the 47th annual event. Mushroom cultivation kits, books, art and apparel for sale. Bring mushrooms to have identified (or photos of mushroom top and bottom). Entry at 10 a.m. for HBMS members. $10; $5 students, seniors 60+, veterans, kids 7-17; free for kids 6 and under.
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.
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.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Fortuna River Lodge Holiday Craft Fair. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive. See Nov. 22 listing. Winter Fair Ice Skating Rink. Ongoing. Belotti Hall, 1250
Fifth St., Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale. See Nov. 20 listing.
ETC
Public Skate. 1:30-4:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See Nov. 21 listing.
24 Monday
ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 6-8 p.m. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. See Nov. 21 listing.
FOOD
Harvest Box Deliveries. Multi-farm-style CSA boxes with a variety of seasonal fruits and veggies, all GMO-free and grown locally. Serving Eureka, Arcata, McKinleyville, Trinidad and Blue Lake. $25/box, $13 for EBT customers. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/harvestbox.html.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Winter Fair Ice Skating Rink. Ongoing. Belotti Hall, 1250 Fifth St., Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale. See Nov. 20 listing. 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.
25 Tuesday
BOOKS
Story Time. Last Tuesday of every month, noon. Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Court. Stop by Trinidad Library for story
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time with Kim. A special time just for young children with their caregivers and families.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Winter Fair Ice Skating Rink. Ongoing. Belotti Hall, 1250 Fifth St., Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale. See Nov. 20 listing.
MEETINGS
Fortuna Parent Project. 6-8 p.m. Gene Lucas Community Center, 3000 Newburg Road, Fortuna. A 10-week series with topics like improving family relationships, effective
discipline to improve school attendance and performance, reduce substance use and negative peer influences, and addressing destructive behavior. Meet other parents in a judgement-free zone and develop a support system. Free. fortunatc@bgcredwoods.org. (707) 617-8160.
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.
Humboldt Stamp Collectors’ Club. Fourth Tuesday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Humboldt Senior Resource Center, 1910 California St., Eureka. New collectors and experts welcome. Learn about stamps, collecting and see local experts in stamps share their collections. Free. humstampclub@gmail.com.
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-reg-
istration not required. Free. englishexpressempowered. com. (707) 443-5021.
26 Wednesday
DANCE
Line Dancing in the Ballroom. Fourth Wednesday of every month, 6-8 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Grab your favorite western wear and boot, scoot and boogie across the ballroom floor. Instructor led. All skill levels welcome. All ages. $10. events@histroiceaglehouse.com. (707) 444-3344.
EVENTS
Unity Day. Last Wednesday of every month, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. St. Vincent de Paul Free Dining Facility, 35 W Third St., Eureka. Local agencies provide information to assist people with getting needed resources heading into the holiday season. Free. sparrish@eurekaca.gov. svdp-redwoods. org/. (707) 613-0192.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Winter Fair Ice Skating Rink. Ongoing. Belotti Hall, 1250 Fifth St., Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale. See Nov. 20 listing.
MEETINGS
Humboldt Health Care for All. Fourth Wednesday of every month, 5-6:30 p.m. Virtual World, Internet, Online. Humboldt Health Care for All/Physicians for a National Health Program meet by Zoom. Email for meeting link. healthcareforallhumboldt@gmail.com.
27 Thursday
ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See Nov. 20 listing.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
Thanksgiving at the Mateel. 12-6 p.m. Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway. Garberville Veterans Association invites hungry community members to attend their free Thanksgiving Day meal. Food will be served at noon after a brief prayer. mateel.org.
Thanksgiving Community Meal. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. D Street Neighborhood Center, 1301 D St., Arcata. Share gratitude, food and community support this holiday season. Open to everyone, no matter your housing status. Free. Trinidad Blessing of the Fleet. 10 a.m. Trinidad Harbor Overlook, corner of Trinity and Edwards streets. Annual event with crews of the local fishing fleet that features a traditional Native blessing, a nondenominational blessing, warm refreshments, student art and music. Free.
Turkey Trot 5K. 9 a.m. Old Town Gazebo, Second and F streets, Eureka. Fun 5K run/walk through Old Town Eureka. Start and finish at the gazebo. Arrive early to register. Winter Fair Ice Skating Rink. Ongoing. Belotti Hall, 1250 Fifth St., Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale. See Nov. 20 listing.
OUTDOORS
Arcata Marsh Thanksgiving Day Walk. 10 a.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Join Friends of the Arcata Marsh tour leaders for a 90-minute, rain-or-shine leg-stretcher before your big dinner. Meet in front of the center on South G Street. Free. (707) 826-2359.
SPORTS
Lost Coast Cornhole League Night. Fourth and Last Thursday of every month, 6-10 p.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. See Nov. 20 listing. l
Getting Away
The Running Man and Keeper
By John J. Bennett screens@northcoastjournal.com
THE RUNNING MAN. Even back in the salad days of ridiculous action movies, of impossible physiques and ridiculous armaments, The Running Man (1987) struck me as second tier. Maybe because it wasn’t grounded in a recognizable reality, or because it was released so close to Predator (also 1987) and Die Hard (1988) and The Terminator (1984) and the first few Rambo installments — or because my parents were less interested in watching it — it felt like a miss. Admittedly, I did not see the thing in that peak era, circling back to it years later, but I suspect that even if I had, with the eyes of less jaded, more impressionable youth, my reaction might not have been all that different. I wouldn’t learn until much later, of course, that the production was troubled from the beginning, that The Running Man perhaps could have been a more prescient, incisive adaptation of the Richard Bachman (RIP Stephen King’s alter ego) novel, but the final result, as delivered to the audience, failed to fully alloy its bloodthirsty ’80s steeliness to the professional wrestling silliness of its attempted spectacle. Seen now, it plays deeply dated, hobbled not as much by the limitations of contemporary filmcraft as by its weird tonality. And so, as Schwarzenegger himself has intoned, it may be primary among his peak-era projects in meriting an update. And, pointedly, I’m told the novel is set in 2025.
In the first cinematic iteration, though, the action takes place in a dystopian 2019 — a dismal, if still fanciful techo-future — where a nation ravaged by capitalism, I guess, sits transfixed by the titular television game show, wherein civilians are pitted against an array of loony goons (some on roller skates, if memory serves) in a winner-take-all battle to the death. Solid premise.
Edgar Wright, as big a movie-nerd as any working director (thankfully, a little less vociferous about his bona fides), is clearly a fan of the action cinema upon which so many of us cut our critical teeth.
His movies are partly defined by reference and reverence, but he has also synthesized his influences into a filmmaking vernacular that, without fail, enlivens his material with technique that is as exciting as it is exacting. Most of us caught on with Shaun of the Dead (2004), which in turn led us back to his British comedy series Spaced (1999), the crucible that produced his fruitful collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In the intervening decades, Wright has, despite everything wrong with the modern movie industry, managed to build a formidable canon of elevated popcorn delights, movies that belie the depth and breadth of the director’s technical acumen with humor and crowd-pleasingness.
And now, with co-writer Michael Bacall, Wright has gone back to the source material and reminted The Running Man as a pure action-comedy that, without force-feeding us, offers a commentary on wealth-disparity and the centralization of influence that has proven so corrosive in real-time.
In Co-Op City, Ben Richards (Glen Powell) has proven himself too honest and unwilling to bend to a corporate structure intent on disempowering the worker. Too poor to provide medicine for his ailing toddler, with his wife pulling triple shifts at a nightclub/bordello, he burns his final bridge with his employer and, in desperation, auditions for a variety of network TV shows. Lustful for fresh meat, the tooth-gnashing producer Dan Killian (Josh Brolin) hand picks Richards as the newest would-be star of The Running Man show. The premise is simple: Survive for 30 days with the whole country and a cadre of assassins in hot pursuit, win $1B New Dollars. The game is rigged, of course; what fun would it be otherwise? And so we follow ever-resourceful but vastly outgunned Ben on a desperate chase through the American Northeast and on a mission to combat the disinformation and disempowerment wrought by the military-enContinued on next page »
tertainment complex.
The Running Man stumbles, just slightly, in its final act, but everything up to that point is in finest Wright form, rocketing from one elegantly constructed action set-piece to another. To its eternal credit, the movie knows what it is, girding the action just enough with its criticism of our current, muddled, flailing cultural moment. R. 134M. BROADWAY.
KEEPER. Osgood Perkins, who seems to work as much as anybody but John Swab, has had three movies in wide theatrical release in the last year and a half. Not everybody liked The Monkey (another Stephen King adaptation), maybe because it traded the dread of Longlegs (2024) for cheeky splatter humor; I found it delightful. Perkins has game, though, and a seemingly bottomless well of inspiration that has now yielded a creeping kinda-sorta folk horror set in an isolated house in the woods.
From a screenplay by Nick Lepard, Keeper finds artist Liz (Tatiana Maslany) setting out to spend a weekend away with Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland), her doctor boyfriend of a year, in his family’s isolated cabin. Seems idyllic, but from the jump things aren’t nearly as pleasant, romantic, or non-supernatural as Liz would hope.
With this most recent volley of work, Perkins has proven himself to me as a standout in the fairly glutted field of modest-budgeted horror. He can shift his tone and style to suit the material, but everything he does is imbued with a dark, deeply satisfying sense of humor and executed with great craft and care. Keeper is something of a clinic for the wannabes, a study in cultivated, lockedroom dread elevated by its visual style and the unerring commitment of its cast. R. 99M. BROADWAY. l
John J. Bennett (he/him) is a movie nerd who loves a good car chase.
NOW PLAYING
BLACK PHONE 2. Scary sequel for the kids, now teens, getting supernatural calls and pursued by the masked Grabber (Ethan Hawke). R. 114M. BROADWAY.
BUGONIA. Emma Stone as a CEO kidnapped by conspiracy theorists. With Jesse Plemons. R. 118M. MINOR.
NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON’T. The Horsemen team up with younger illusionists for a diamond heist sequel. PG13. 112M. BROADWAY.
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Locally filmed comedy/action/drama with Leonardo DiCaprio in Humboldt drag as an ex-revolutionary single dad searching for his daughter. R. 161M. MINOR.
PREDATOR: BADLANDS. A runt alien hunter (Dimitrius Schuster-Kolomatangi) goes after the biggest game on a hostile planet, half a droid (Elle Fanning) in tow. PG13. 107M. BROADWAY .
REGRETTING YOU. A widow and her teen daughter wrestle with complicated grief. PG13. 117M. BROADWAY.
RENTAL FAMILY. Evidently Japan has national healthcare, and you can rent Brendan Fraser to be part of your family, so what are we doing here? PG13. 103M. BROADWAY.
SARAH’S OIL. Based on the true story of an African American girl who struck oil. PG. 103M. BROADWAY.
SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE. Sequel to the relentless Finnish action movie about a Nazi-shredding ex-soldier (Jorma Tommila), this time with the Red Army commander (Stephen Lang) who killed his family. R. 88M. BROADWAY.
WICKED: FOR GOOD. Elphaba and Glinda reunite from opposite sides of the yellow brick tracks to save Oz in the sequel. PG. 137M. BROADWAY (3D), MINOR. For showtimes, call Broadway Cinema (707) 443-3456, Minor Theatre (707) 822-3456.
How we should release the Epstein files. The Running Man
The Lure of Immortality
By Barry Evans fieldnotes@northcoastjournal.com
We’re immortal, you and I. Well, not quite immortal as in “forever,” but if you count nearly a third of the age of the universe as forever, yes, we’re immortal. And when I say “we,” I don’t mean our bodies, what we usually think of as our selves. Along with all multicellular organisms, we consist essentially of two types of cells: germ and somatic. German biologist August Weisman pioneered the dichotomy 200 years ago.
Our germ cells have lived for around 4 billion years through countless bodies prior to the ones we’re now in. Every creature now living is the product of an unbroken line that stretches back to the first organism to appear on Earth, dubbed LUCA for Last Universal Common Ancestor. Meanwhile, biologists cite the Theory of Disposable Soma: Once we’ve reproduced, our bodies are dead weight, flesh and blood consuming precious resources. Before reproduction, the one essential job of our soma is to carry the germ plasm safely, feeding and protecting it before mingling it with germ plasm from the opposite sex.
All of which doesn’t stop wealthy tech bros like Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil from trying to game the system, looking for ways for their somas to dodge the inevitable and live kinda-sorta forever. As a species, we’re actually doing pretty well, on average doubling lifespans since 1900, thanks mainly to vaccinations, antibiotics and sanitation. But, according to realists (or pessimists if you’re in the Diamandis-Kurzweil camp), we’re close to the biological limit of aging. Only one human is known for sure to have lived over 120 years.
Which is bad news, even if you’re a billionaire. True, America’s richest live about 12 years longer than the poorest, but there may be only so much tech can do to increase that. For one thing, the bros — virtually all the longevity enthusiasts are male — are up against the gender issue: Women live seven years longer than men (although they spend a greater portion of their lives in poor health). But life-extension enthusiasts are thinking about much more than closing that seven-year gap; they’re thinking in terms of centuries … or more.
The oldest person with verified birth and death records is Jeanne Calment (18751997), a woman from Arles, France, who died at 122 years and 164 days. Seen here in her 40s, she is the only person known to have lived over 120. The oldest verified man is Jiroemon Kimura from Japan, who only made it to 116 years.
Photo by Gustave Ouvière
Anti-aging approaches currently being investigated — or embraced if you’re in the “live forever” set — run the gamut from the obvious (vitamin supplements, exercise, eight hours sleep, weight control, meat-free diet) to exotic and expensive “biohacks.” Today, these include plasma exchange, personalized immune therapies, stem cell injections, telomere rejuvenation, rapamycin, metaformin and much more.
But perhaps the future of longevity lies in another direction, beyond biology. If the goal is preservation of consciousness, rather than one’s entire body, nanotechnology may be the answer. In a recent New Yorker article, nanotechnologist Michael Andregg of Eon Systems predicted that scans of human brains, based on subtle bioelectric signals, will result in digital brains waking up in the cloud: “This is a whole new body, a whole new brain — this is transcendence!” he gushes. I think his optimism may be premature (read: absurd) given our brain’s hundred billion neurons, each connected by axons to thousands of other neurons.
Meanwhile, the skeptic in me wonders, But what’s it all for? We’re the only species with an awareness of death, which surely gives lives meaning, each day offering an opportunity to appreciate the statistical unlikeliness of just being here. Or as the late biologist and author Lewis Thomas put it, “You’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.” l
Barry Evans (he/him, barryevans9@ yahoo.com, planethumboldt.substack.com) considers anything over 80 a bonus to be thankful for. Every day.
By Matt Jones
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1. School game watcher, often 4. Applies lightly
8. Cause to topple over
13. “What ___ you on?”
14. Records
15. Classic Harlem ballroom that shares its name with a cabbage variety
16. Author Deighton
17. State aquatic bird? [Med school graduate, maybe]
19. Location of a 2025 jewel heist
21. Seesaw requirement
22. “Come Back, Little Sheba” playwright William
23. Award-winning feat
25. World representations?
27. State antlered animal?
[“Skedaddle!”]
32. Best-case
33. CIA mind game
34. “Thx,” but slightly more
37. Think events through 38. Puffed, in a way
39. Don’t go anywhere
40. Aleppo’s land (abbr.)
41. U.K. equivalent of an Oscar
42. Cheesemaking byproducts often turned into powder
43. State rodent? [Unit of weight for gems]
46. Follow closely
48. Declined
49. Peru’s capital
50. No. on an invoice
53. Big name in planes
57. State wild bovine? [Singer Roy]
60. Caviar, basically
61. Former Israeli prime minister Shimon
62. Antilles resort island
63. Poem of high praise
64. Get rid of 65. Spots
66. Pince-___ (oldstyle spectacles)
DOWN
1. ___ of America
2. Dirt cake cookie
3. Restaurant handout
4. Make a meal of
5. Connecting word
6. “I meant nothing ___!”
7. BBQ side
8. “Born in the ___” (Springsteen song)
9. Outdoor areas
10. Yet more advantageous
11. Norway, in Norway
12. Forces of acceleration
14. “The Aeneid” poet
18. Rotten
20. Free of animal products
24. Warning
26. Slice off, as a branch
27. High rollers
28. One way to sit by
29. Modern car feature to assist backing up safely
30. Invite out for
31. Overreactive response to when someone swears or sings badly, maybe
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF VACANCY AND PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT
(EDUCATION CODE §5092)
1. A vacancy in the membership of the Governing Board of the Fieldbrook Elementary School District has occurred by reason of the resignation of Colleen Barrick, effective October 7, 2025.
2. The resignation was filed in the office of the Humboldt County Superintendent of Schools on October 7, 2025.
3. Travis Springer was appointed by the Governing Board on November 3, 2025 to fill the above named vacancy.
4. To challenge the appointment and order a special election, the following must be filed in the office of the Humboldt County Superintendent of Schools within 30 days from the date of the provisional appointment:
File a petition calling for a special election containing the valid signatures of at least 1 ½ percent of the number of registered voters of the district at the time of the last regular election for governing board members held within the (name of district), or 25 registered voters of the district, whichever is greater, or In districts with less than 2000 registered voters, a petition shall be deemed to bear a sufficient number of signatures if signed by at least 5 percent of the number of registered voters of the district at the time of the last regular election for governing board members.
11/20 (25-468)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE
ESTATE OF GERALD ROBERT EIB
Case No. PR2500252
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Gerald Robert Eib:
A Petition for Probate has been filed by Margaret Crane in the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt.
The Petition for Probate requests that Margaret Crane 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 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 in this court as follows:
Date: December 18, 2025
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Address of court: same as noted above (Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 5th Street, Eureka, CA 95501)
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.
Petitioner: Margaret Crane Address: P. O. Box 158 Meters Flat, CA 95554 Telephone number 707762-2206
Filed October 3, 2025 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 (25-477)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00559
The following person is doing Business as Delicias Eder
Humboldt
4836 Sierra Way Arcata, CA 95521
Blanca O Ramirez Gonzalez
4836 Sierra Way Arcata, CA 95521
Alvaro A Galinda-Ramirez
4836 Sierra Way Arcata, CA 95521
The business is conducted by a general partnership.
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 Blanca O Ramirez Gonzalez, Owner
This October 14, 2025 by SC, Deputy Clerk 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (25-449)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00558
Eureka, CA 95503
North Coast Culinary LLC CA B2025031744
4065 Williams St 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.
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 Benavidez
This October 14, 2025 by SC, Deputy Clerk
10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (25-450)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00580
The following person is doing Business as Summit & Ash Medical Humboldt
1860 Haeger Ave Arcata, CA 95521
Yoaila Kopelowitz 1860 Haeger Ave Arcata, CA 95521
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 Yoaila Kopelowitz, OwnerThis October 27, 2025 by SC, Deputy Clerk 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (25-452)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00578
The following person is doing Business as The Buffalo Book Club Humboldt
726 13th St, Ste B Fortuna, CA 95540
1800 Carson Woods Rd Fortuna, CA 95540
Lindsey J Dalton
726 13th St, Ste B Fortuna, CA 95540
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).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00572
The following person is doing Business as Dancing Flora Farm Humboldt
88 Main Drive
Garberville, CA 95542
PO Box 35
Garberville, CA 95542
Chelsea D Fogel
88 Main Drive Garberville, CA 95542
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 Chelsea Fogel, Owner
October 23, 2025 by SC, Deputy Clerk
10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (25-455)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00562
The following person is doing Business as Lil Z’s Leather Humboldt 10 Fenwick Ave Samoa, CA 95564
PO Box 2131
McKinleyville, CA 95519
Lauren M Zarske
10 Fenwick Ave Samoa, CA 95564
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 Lauren Zarske, Owner
October 15, 2025 by SG, Deputy Clerk 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27 (25-461)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00564
The following person is doing Business as Lone Pine Motel Humboldt 912 Redwood Dr Garberville, CA 95542
Anil Sharma 912 Redwood Dr Garberville, CA 95542
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 7/1/2007.
be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Anil Sharma, Owner
This October 16, 2025 by JC, Deputy Clerk
11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27 (25-462)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00585
The following person is doing Business as Inari Chili Oil
Humboldt
2750 Pacific Ave
Arcata, CA 95521
Jesse Donnelly
2750 Pacific Ave
Arcata, CA 95521
Chloe J Bocox
2750 Pacific Ave Arcata, CA 95521
The business is conducted by a general partnership.
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 Jesse, Donnelly, Owner/Partner
This October 29, 2025 by JC, Deputy Clerk
11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27 (25-463)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00546
The following person is doing Business as I Love Mondays
Humboldt
1118 Main Street Fortuna, CA 95540
PO Box 344
Fortuna, CA 95540
Emily A Mazzone-Clementi
1118 Main Street
Fortuna, CA 95540
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 6/1/2025.
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 Emily Mazzone-Clementi
This October 9, 2025 by JR, Deputy Clerk
11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27 (25-464
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00575
The following person is doing Business as The Shine Suite Humboldt
1049 Main St Fortuna, CA 95540
The Shine Suite LLC
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).
The following person is doing Business as Red Front Store Francis Creek Inn Humboldt 577 Main Street Ferndale, CA 95536
Jamsher Holdings LLC California B20250342917 1111 Webster Street Fairfield, CA 94533
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 Balkar Singh, Sole Member by JC, Deputy Clerk 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 (25-473)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00595
The following person is doing Business as Crone Humboldt 1307 Gross Street Eureka, CA 95503
Crone Care Company LLC CA B2050043459
1307 Gross Street 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 Rachel M Watkins, Managing Member by SG, Deputy Clerk 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 (25-474)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00571
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on Feb 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 Brian Redding, Owner by JR, Deputy Clerk 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 (25-475)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 25-00589
The following person is doing Business as CW Wood Products
Humboldt
2051 Eel River Drive Fortuna, CA 95540
Valerie M Crosswhite 2051 Eel River Drive Fortuna, CA 95540
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 1986.
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 Valerie M Crosswhite, Sole Proprietor by SC, Deputy Clerk 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 (25-476)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Kathryn Leigh Riley CASE NO. CV2502344
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501
PETITION OF:
Kathryn Leigh Riley for a decree changing names as follows:
Present name
Kathryn Leigh Riley to Proposed Name
Kathryn Leigh West
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.
https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/ SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
825 FIFTH STREET
EUREKA, CA 95501
Date: October 27, 2025
Filed: October 27, 2025
/s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 (25-472)
MENDES MINI STORAGE
ADVERTISEMENT OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property describe below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Sections 21700-21716 of the Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC, section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code.
The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on the 29th day of November 2025, at 10:00 am, on the premises where said property has been stored and which are located at Mendes Mini Storage, 1133 Riverwalk Drive, Fortuna, California, County of Humboldt, State of California, the following: Unit 45 Chad Daniels Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase in cash only. All purchased items sold as is, where is and must be removed at time of sale. Sale subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Dated.
November 13, 2025
November 20, 2025 Mendes Mini Storage 1133 Riverwalk Dr. Fortuna, California 95540
707-725-1300
Dept.: 4
The following person is doing Business as Humboldt Salsa Works Humboldt 4065 Williams St
/s Lindsay Dalton, Owner
This October 27, 2025 by SC, Deputy Clerk 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (25-453)
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
CA B20250286187 1049 Main St Fortuna, CA 95540
The business is conducted by a limited liability Company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious
The following person is doing Business as BLR Construction Humboldt 222 Tree Top Ln Willow Creek, CA 95573 PO Box 354 Willow Creek, CA 95573
Brian Z Redding 222 Tree Top Ln Willow Creek, CA 95573
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: December 12, 2025
Time:8:30 am, Dept. 4 For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit
11/13, 11/20 (25-469)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Christine June Frey
CASE NO. PR2500268
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Christine June Frey
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Heather Nyberg-Austrus
In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. The petition for probate requests that Heather Nyberg-Austrus be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’ will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. This will and any codicils are available for examination 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 December 11, 2025 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: 3175 Kenmar Rd Fortuna, CA 95540 (707)498-9882
Filed November 6, 2025
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
11/13, 11/20, 11/27 (25-470)
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE COMPLIANCE WITH CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 2923.3 HAS BEEN MET.
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED DECEMBER 17, 2019. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.
A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by the duly appointed trustee, as shown below, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will
be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein.
TRUSTOR:
Barbara J. Azbill, a married woman dealing with her sole and separate property
DULY APPOINTED TRUSTEE: Harland Law Firm LLP
DEED OF TRUST RECORDED:
December 31, 2019
INSTRUMENT NUMBER: 2019-023524 of the Official Records of the Recorder of Humboldt County, California
DATE OF SALE:
December 15, 2025 at 10:00am PLACE OF SALE:
Front entrance to the County Courthouse, 825 5th Street, Eureka, CA 95501
THE COMMON DESIGNATION OF THE PROPERTY IS PURPORTED
TO BE: 149 Hill Top Lane, McKinleyville, CA 95519. Directions to the property may be obtained by pursuant to a written request submitted to Harland Law Firm LLP, 212 G Street, Suite 201, Eureka, CA 95501, within 10 days from the first publication of this notice.
See Exhibit “A” attached hereto and made a part hereof for the Legal Description.
Amount of unpaid balance and other charges as of October 29, 2025: $577,738.96. Beneficiary may elect to open bidding at a lesser amount.
The total amount secured by said instrument as of the time of initial publication of this notice is stated above, which includes the total amount of the unpaid balance (including accrued and unpaid interest) and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of initial publication of this notice.
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER:
The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one
or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 707-444-9281, Attn: John S. Lopez, or visit this internet website www.harlandlaw. com using the file number assigned to this case 11935.001. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 707-444-9281, Attn: John S. Lopez, or visit this internet website www. harlandlaw.com using the file number assigned to this case 11935.001 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase.
DATED: This 29th day of October, 2025 in the city of Eureka, and the county of Humboldt, California. Harland Law Firm LLP
John S. Lopez, Attorney, Harland Law Firm LLP
Trustee Under Deed of Trust EXHIBIT “A”
Legal Description
That real property situated in the County of Humboldt, State of California, described as follows:
PARCEL ONE:
Parcel 3 as shown on Parcel Map No. 1244 for Eber Rae Webster and Margaret B. Webster, filed February 28, 1978 in Book 11 of Parcel Maps, Pages 17 and 18, Humboldt County Official Records.
PARCEL TWO:
A non-exclusive easement for ingress, egress and public utilities and incidental purposes, 40 feet in width, over that portion of the non-county land shown on Parcel Map No. 1244
file February 28, 1978, in Book 11 of Parcel Maps, Pages 17 and 18, Humboldt County Official Records, extending from the county road Northeasterly and Southeasterly to the Southwesterly extension of the Southeast line of the above described Parcel One.
APN: 312-071-024
Property Address: 149 Hill Top Lane, McKinleyville, CA 95519
11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (25-456)
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE COMPLIANCE WITH CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 2923.3 HAS BEEN MET.
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED DECEMBER 2, 2019. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.
A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by the duly appointed trustee, as shown below, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein.
TRUSTOR:
Chingun Nyamsuren, a married man as his separate property
DULY APPOINTED TRUSTEE: Harland Law Firm LLP
DEED OF TRUST RECORDED: December 12, 2019
INSTRUMENT NUMBER:
2019-022179 of the Official Records of the Recorder of Humboldt County, California
DATE OF SALE: December 15, 2025 at 10:00 A.M.
PLACE OF SALE: Front entrance to the County Courthouse, 825 5th Street, Eureka, CA 95501
THE COMMON DESIGNATION OF THE PROPERTY IS PURPORTED TO BE: Humboldt County APN 316-076-013. Directions to the property may be obtained by pursuant to a written request submitted to Harland Law Firm LLP, 212 G Street, Suite 201, Eureka, CA 95501, within 10 days from the first publication of this notice. See Exhibit “A” attached hereto and made a part hereof for the Legal Description. Amount of unpaid balance and other charges as of October 29, 2025: $624,037.64. Beneficiary may elect to open
bidding at a lesser amount. The total amount secured by said instrument as of the time of initial publication of this notice is stated above, which includes the total amount of the unpaid balance (including accrued and unpaid interest) and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of initial publication of this notice.
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER:
The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 707-444-9281, Attn: John S. Lopez, or visit this internet website www.harlandlaw. com using the file number assigned to this case 11935.001. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 707-444-9281, Attn: John S. Lopez, or visit this internet website www. harlandlaw.com using the file number assigned to this case 11935.001 to
find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase.
DATED: This 29th day of October, 2025 in the city of Eureka, and the county of Humboldt, California. Harland Law Firm LLP
John S. Lopez, Attorney, Harland Law Firm LLP Trustee Under Deed of Trust EXHIBIT “A” Legal Description That real property situated in the County of Humboldt, State of California, described as follows: That portion of the Northeast Quarter of Section 17, Township 6 North, Range 4 East, Humboldt Meridian, described as follows:
Lot 3 as shown on Parcel Map No. 2440 on file in the Office of the County Recorder of said County, in Book 21 of Parcel Maps, Pages 126 and 127.
EXCEPTING therefrom one-half of the oil, gas, hydrocarbon substances and minerals in and under said land, as reserved in the Deed executed by Redwood Creek Cattle Co. to William Travis Smith, dated January 31, 1956, and recorded February 7, 1956 in Book 378 of Official Records, Page 21, under Recorder’s Serial No. 1981, Humboldt County Records. APN: 316-076-013 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (25-457)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF
Judith Carol Wells CASE NO. PR2500284
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Judith Carol Wells
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Humboldt County Public Administrator In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. The petition for probate requests that Humboldt County Public Administrator 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 December 4, 2025 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.
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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: Natalie Duke Office of County Counsel 825 Fifth Street, Suite 110 Eureka, CA 95501 707-445-7236 Filed November 3, 2025 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (25-465)
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DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
The Area 1 Agency on Aging (A1AA) is seeking a skilled and experienced Director of Finance to lead the agency’s fiscal operations. This key leadership position is responsible for overseeing accounting, grant management, budget preparation, financial reporting, and ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. The Director of Finance also plays a central role in policy development, human resources management, benefits administration, and oversight of subcontracted service providers. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business administration and at least three years of relevant experience, preferably in nonprofit management. CPA preferred. Strong knowledge of nonprofit financial management, federal and state regulations, quantitative analysis, and supervision principles is essential.
Salary range of $80,000 - $95,000 annually. Starting salary is negotiable based on experience. Benefits, sick leave, paid holidays, and optional 403B. Opportunity to work for a mission-driven organization and contribute to important work.
A1AA is an EOE and Certified Age Friendly Employer (CAFÉ). Applicants must submit a cover letter, a completed application, and two current letters of reference. A pre-employment background check is required of all final candidates.
A full job description and application are available at www.a1aa.org
Position open until filled.
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The Recreation Leader / Youth Basketball Facilitator is a part-time position with responsibility for a variety of tasks related to Parks & Recreation’s youth basketball program, Hot Shots. Work is typically performed in a school or facility gymnasium. Position will require work on a flexible schedule, primarily on Saturdays. Additional work opportunities may be available on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. Must be at least 16 years of age. Complete job description and application are available at GovernmentJobs.com or FriendlyFortuna. com. Applications must be received by 5:00pm on Sunday, November 30, 2025.
Apply online by 11:59 p.m. on December 7, 2025. Are you interested in working with the community to support community events and facility rental needs in Arcata? Apply today to organize, promote, and facilitate a wide variety of City recreation activities, community events, and leisure programs for community members of all ages. An ideal candidate is a clear communicator, both verbally and written, with excellent customer service skills and thrives in a team-oriented environment. Apply or review the full job duties at: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/arcataca or contact Arcata City Manager’s Office, 736 F Street, Arcata, (707) 822-5953. EOE.
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Apply online by 11:59 p.m. on December 7, 2025. Performs a wide variety of administrative and support functions for the Police Department; processes, maintains, and distributes confidential law enforcement records, reports, and other related information; provides assistance to the public inperson and over the telephone. An ideal candidate thrives in providing exceptional customer service with a diverse range of people in emergency or stressful situations, excels in managing competing priorities, and is a proven team player.
Apply or review the full job duties at: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/arcataca or contact Arcata City Manager’s Office, 736 F Street, Arcata, (707) 822-5953. EOE.
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MAINTENANCE FOREMAN
Hourly wage: $49.44-$47.93 per hour.
Humboldt Community Services District is seeking an experienced and motivated individual to coordinate and direct the district’s maintenance field crew in maintaining the District’s water distribution and wastewater collection system, pumping, and storage facilities. The Foreman also assists with long-range planning of system operation and maintenance functions and regulatory compliance. This position provides supervision, training and guidance to a staff of utility workers, and works closely with management to provide quality service to the community.
The ideal candidate will be a strong leader with extensive hands-on experience in water and sewer systems, the ability to manage multiple projects, and a commitment to safety and public service.
The District provides an excellent benefits package, including vacation and sick Leave, annual sick leave buyback, 14 Paid Holidays, 100% employer-paid Health/Dental/ Vision Insurance for employees ($20.00 monthly premium for dependents), an employee assistance program, gym membership reimbursement, CalPERS retirement, and an optional 457 employee-funded retirement account. For more information, including full job descriptions and application instructions, visit: humboldtcsd.org/human-resources-career-opportunities or contact: Human Resources: asm@humboldtcsd.org, (707) 443-4558 ext. 210
First Review of Applicants: December 1st, 2025 Open Until Filled
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200 REBECCA LANE, ARCATA
$639,000
Welcome to country living close to town! This charming two-bedroom, one-bath single-story home sits on just over five acres with your own Redwood Forest. The open circular floor plan features fresh paint, new carpet, an updated bathroom, and oversized laundry. Enjoy raised garden beds, mature fruit trees, and a classic red barn—perfect for horses, livestock, or hobby farming. Ideal for gardening and animal lovers alike, this property blends rural tranquility with convenience, just minutes from downtown Arcata, Cal Poly Humboldt, and the Mad River. Move-in ready and waiting for you!
Ultimate eco-conscious luxury that captures the essence of Northern California’s natural beauty. This property is on over 4 acres, overlooking the Trinity River, and boasts a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1,980 sq ft upscale, innovative, and fully custom eco-conscious homestead. Immersed in natural beauty and architectural charm, River Bend Sanctuary blends historical allure with modern sustainability. Each space, rich in detail and bathed in natural light, marries eco-friendly design with contemporary comforts, using reclaimed materials and innovative layouts.
204 W WASHINGTON STREET, EUREKA
$349,000
Discover this beautifully updated two-bedroom, onebath bungalow on a desirable corner lot near Eureka’s historic Old Town. Inside, enjoy a stylishly remodeled interior that combines modern comfort with classic charm. The efficient layout includes an enclosed entry, plus a versatile flex room ideal for an office, pantry, or guest space. Outside, a fully fenced patio with a hot tub invites relaxation, while the one-car garage adds convenience—all in a prime, walkable location.
429 EVERGREEN AVENUE, ARCATA
$765,000
Just steps from Cal Poly Humboldt, this well-maintained 4-bed, 4-bath home boasts a strong rental history. Each spacious bedroom has an ensuite bath, newer flooring, and fresh paint. The bright upstairs living area features vaulted ceilings, skylights, a modern kitchen, laundry, and a deck with campus views. A charming 1-bed, 1-bath ADU includes a small office and private deck—ideal for owner occupancy or added rental income. A prime investment opportunity in an unbeatable location.
Discover an exceptional opportunity to own a fully permitted, turnkey cannabis farm. Expertly designed for efficiency and profitability this property is nestled in a serene setting, and boasts just under 10,000 sq. ft. of outdoor cultivation space across six greenhouses. The property features a newer well, producing 80,000 gallons annually and nine poly tanks totaling 16,000 gallons for irrigation. Also comes with 2 sheds for drying and processing.
