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PEOPLE & ART
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
MEET
Joe Zazo brings a unique perspective to Humboldt County. -Originally from just outside Philadelphia, he has lived and worked in 10 foreign countries before settling here 24 years ago. Now living in Trinidad with his son Joseph, Joe works with Arcata House Partnership, collecting donated food from local grocery stores, including Murphy’s Markets, and helping distribute it to food pantries, schools, and churches throughout the region. -Humboldt reminded him of Ireland, making it feel like home right away.
Joe Zazo
Joe has been shopping at Murphy’s for as long as he’s lived here, with the Trinidad location as his go-to store. -“It was the closest store to home,” he says, but it’s the people who keep him coming back. -“I know just about everybody on a first-name basis. Everyone is so kind and wonderful.” He believes what sets Murphy’s apart is its culture. -“The generosity and family atmosphere—you can tell the employees enjoy their jobs.”
Joe especially enjoys the cheese selection and fresh produce. -“If I could put cheese on everything, I would!” he jokes, adding that the deli is a favorite stop for breakfast.
Supporting local is important to Joe, especially seeing Murphy’s impact firsthand. -“Their support helps us serve people in need,” he says.
For Joe, Murphy’s is more than a store. -“You become friends with the staff. I always see someone I know—it’s a real community connection.”
No Kings
Sing out, America, sing out.
Vocalize your discontent. Make clear your grievances.
Raise voices high and long and loud.
Sing out, America, the time is now.
Now to shed these foolish cretins.
Now to still the liars’ din.
Now to beg no tyrant’s pardon. Now to stoke that rage within. Now refire that torch held common.
Retribution must begin.
From East to West
From South to North
Let the Lady shine, America.
Let her shine!
— Robert Ewing
‘Let’s Not Return’
Editor:
Reading Thadeus Greenson’s article about Travis Schneider in the North Coast Journal (“Coastal Commission Approves Land-back Agreement to Resolve Developer’s Permit Violations,” Feb. 12), my first thought was, “How arrogant of this Schneider character to think he could ever get away with so blatantly disregarding all the rules and regulations?” I mean, how could he ever think this would fly? But then I thought about how he grew up in Humboldt County at a time when the good ol’ boys ran this county and if you were a friend of theirs, you could do pretty much anything you wanted. The worst case was maybe you’d pay a small fine but no one was going to stop you and, if they try, one of your friends on the board of supervisors will smooth it all out for you. We have been living with a majority on the board of supervisors who won’t show that type of favoritism and expect that the laws apply equally to everyone. If you need a reminder of what it was like back in what folks like Rex Bohn would call the “good old days,” you need go no further than reading the recent telling of Rex’s berating our county staff on behalf of his friend for special favors regarding a permitting issue.
If you think we can’t go back, just remember that a decade ago we never would have believed the federal government would take away a woman’s right to choose, or that masked armed men with no identification could demand to “see your papers” if you have more than a dark tan.
Believe it, it could happen again here, too. Now, Rex Bohn is a good ol’ boy, both literally and figuratively, so it is critical that we keep him in the minority on the board of supervisors. Please, let’s not return to the old days!
Richard Salzman, Sunny Brae
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Nobody is Coming to Help After a Disaster — Nobody but Us
By Laurie Richmond and Erin Kelly views@northcoastjournal.com
It’s been a difficult start to the year in our corner of far Northern California, with record tidal flooding that inundated more than 40 homes in King Salmon Jan. 4-6, the same weekend as the fire in downtown Arcata. Just over a year prior on Dec. 5, 2024, our community experienced a magnitude 7.0 earthquake and tsunami warning — a stark reminder of the seismic risks our region faces. To the ea st, huge wildfires return almost annually, with the August Complex and Slater fires in 2020 burning through communities in Trinity and Siskiyou counties, killing three people and destroying hundreds of homes.
While our geographic location has always placed us at risk of disasters, climate change will only make things worse, bringing sea-level rise and increased coastal flooding, wildfires of larger size and severity, and greater potential for extreme weather events.
We are two faculty members from Cal Poly Humboldt who research community aspects of natural resource issues. Because of recent events, we have been documenting how disaster response and recovery does and does not work in our region. We hope to share some of what we have learned here.
The general public may assume that after a disaster the government will provide relief and support. We might imagine that after a disaster teams of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers flock to a site to assist and Congress grants millions or billions of dollars to support recovery. The truth is that federal or state assistance following a disaster is rare in our region. Federal and state emergency declarations require that the disaster meet certain thresholds, often related to the financial costs of damage. Due to our rural location and comparatively lower property values, these thresholds, particularly at the federal level, are difficult to meet. If there is no emergency declaration, then the individual and public assistance programs offered by FEMA are not available to survivors.
For example, the 2022 Rio Dell earthquake that severely damaged 25 percent of the city’s
housing stock and caused $35 million in damage to the county did not meet the threshold for a federal declaration. Because housing and communities are so remote and dispersed in many of the wildfire-impacted communities in our region, very few fires meet FEMA’s threshold for assistance. The 2017 Helena Fire in Trinity County burned 72 homes in the town of Junction City, but was not declared a disaster. Federal thresholds would have required more than 400 homes to burn.
Even if disasters do meet federal or state disaster thresholds, such as with the 2020 wildfires, the resources and payments are not nearly enough to make people whole, and payments can be delayed by complex bureaucratic processes. Many people who most need assistance lack internet connectivity and support ser vices to access funding and to navigate the paperwork required to receive assistance. It is worth noting that federal support for disasters is likely only to decrease in the coming years. The current administration has already made cuts to FEMA staff and programs, and has floated plans to decrease federal commitment to disasters and even eliminate FEMA entirely.
Individual counties can issue a disaster proclamation following an event. While this can draw attention to the issue, it does not come with any funding. Each county in the region has an Office of Emergency Services (OES), which is responsible for coordinating disaster response locally, including issuing emergency alerts. Their focus is on immediate response to protect human lives (e.g. search and rescue, sheltering, evacuations, critical medical care, food and drinking water). These OES offices are generally under-resourced, which can limit their role in the aftermath of a disaster. None of our region’s counties has any permanent staff to support longer-term post-disaster recovery and rebuilding processes.
Support from the private sector can be significant, whether through insurance or GoFundMe solicitations. But we are seeing the strains of these systems under the increasing frequency of disasters, as many insurance
companies have stopped insuring in California altogether because of fire risk. While GoFundMe accounts can provide relief to certain individuals, they tend to disproportionately help people who already have support networks. So crowdsourcing accounts are not a scalable model that can help everyone.
The truth is that most of the disaster response and recovery processes in our region have been, and will need to continue to be, led by us: community members and community organizations. Many counties have worked to develop Community or Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (COADs or VOADs) which bring together community organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters. COADs and VOADs are part of a nationwide network and their members have developed specialized expertise in disaster response and long-term recovery. The Humboldt COAD is particularly strong and experienced. It brings together community organizations throughout the county to mitigate and respond to disasters. They help lead long-term recovery including developing case management processes and supporting the physical and emotional/spiritual needs of survivors.
The H u mboldt COAD network also facilitates connecting survivors with external groups that can be mobilized after disasters, from governmental agencies (e.g. FEMA, the Small Business Administration and Cal OES) to bigger external organizations (e.g. Habitat for Humanity, Team Rubicon and United Way). In places outside of Humboldt, other organizations have stepped up to help lead recovery, such as the Karuk Tribe and the Happy Camp Community Center, which formed the Slater Long Term Recovery Group after the Slater Fire. Local organizations, including COADs and VOADs, are well-positioned to provide disaster assistance. They understand the context, have preexisting relationships of trust within the community and have the appropriate expertise. Given the dearth of federal, state and county government support, they often play the leading role in disaster recovery. However, they are chronically underfunded and underrecognized, given their critical role. Additionally, these networks are not as strong or available in rural and remote places in our region including parts of Del Norte, Trinity and Siskiyou counties.
So it is important for every North Coast resident to prepare to take on the responsibility of caring for themselves and their fellow com munity members, should something happen. Below is a list of actions all of us can take to make our communities more resilient and prepared for future disasters: Take steps to prepare your family and your property for potential disasters. Have a conversation with your family and loved ones to create a disaster plan, put together a go-bag, and have a two-week supply of food
and water in your house. Review and follow the earthquake and tsunami guidance in the Living on Shaky Ground magazine. Take steps to mitigate your property from future hazard risks, such as flood or fire-proofing steps like creating defensible space around your home. Sign-up for Humboldt, Trinity, Siskiyou and/or Del Norte OES Emergency Alerts, and develop a habit of closely following weather, fire and tide information so you can be aware of when potential hazards may come your way. Stay on top of your insurance coverage and get as much as you can. Insurance in our state is a total mess and it can be tempting to go without, but it is still the best financial protection from future disasters. When making decisions about insurance coverage, do not assume that federal assistance will arrive to help pay for damage after a disaster.
Get to know your neighbors. In a disaster, your neighbors might be your first responders (or you theirs). Strong relationships and a fou ndation of trust with your neighbors will improve your ability to navigate disasters. Sometimes neighbors get to know each other after a disaster, as they grapple with immediate, basic needs in the aftermath of an event. But forming these connections before a disaster can help people identify who could need extra help or who has special skills or resources. Talking to neighbors, mapping your neighborhood and hosting neighborhood potlucks can all create a network of support. Even just having your neighbors’ phone numbers can be helpful. Research shows that strong social ties are a huge asset in disaster response and recovery.
Become involved in a civic or community group that can play a role in disaster recovery. Faith-based, mutual aid and other community organizations can play a big role in helping our community after a disaster. They bring together people who can be galvanized in the event of a disaster. Venues such as granges, Elks lodges and community centers or halls can become important gathering and staging areas following a disaster. Unfortunately, many civic organizations are seeing a generational decline and are in need of fresh participation and leadership. For example, the Humboldt Grange became an important site and resource following the King Salmon floods, but only has 25 members remaining.
Donate and/or volunteer to support community organizations involved in disaster response and recovery. N onprofit organizations primarily run disaster response and recovery efforts, and we need to make sure that these organizations remain healthy to serve us in times of need. Research which groups in your area are active in disasters, perhaps through their participation in county COAD/VOADs. For example, Humboldt COAD has a list of partner organizations. Humboldt Area Foundation’s (HAF) disaster response and resilience
fund provides gap funding to support disaster recovery throughout the broader North Coast region. HAF is able to quickly get funds to the organizations doing work on the ground. If you don’t have funds to give, many of these groups have opportunities for volunteers to assist with disaster recovery activities. The Humboldt Community Emergency Response Team Coalition (CERT) provides information and training for individuals who wish to learn more or be more involved in emergency response. Other counties host CERT trainings fairly regularly.
It can be empowering to take ownership and responsibility for disaster recovery. For such a rural area, we have a robust foundation of community organizations and an extraordinarily strong constellation of local tribal governments that hold generational cultural values of caring for community and have been leaders in disaster preparedness and response for our region. Blue Lake Rancheria built a microgrid to bring energy resilience to our community during disasters. The Yurok Tribe has an impressive OES that operates across three counties. Additionally, due to their sovereign status, tribes are able to directly request disaster declarations and support from federal entities, something the Karuk Tribe did during the Slater Fire.
Many of the steps above will benefit our community beyond disaster preparedness. Getting involved in local organizations and building relationships with your neighbors can be fun, as well as helping address our nation’s loneliness epidemic. So don’t delay! We challenge everyone to volunteer for that organization, to join that board, to donate those funds, or to plan that community gathering. We can all be inspired by the words Christine E .N ieves Rodriguez wrote about her community’s response and recovery process following H urricane Maria in Puerto Rico:
“Community is our best chance . . . It turns out that communities are the most important force that allows humans to weather great storms, literally and metaphorically. The climate crisis will intensify, but our communities will continue to rise — because they are already standing.” l
Laurie Richmond is faculty at Cal Poly Humboldt in the Department of Environmental Science and Management, and a n extension specialist for California Sea Grant. You can learn more about her work at: laurierichmond.net.
Erin Kelly is department chair and professor at Cal Poly Humboldt in the Department of Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management. Learn more at humboldt.edu/forestry-fire-rangeland-management/faculty-staff.
G raduate students Catriona Barr, Clara Riggi, and Kailin Sepp were instrumental in the research and engagement that helped inform this piece.
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CENSURE ON THE MATTER OF
By Kimberly Wear kim@northcoastjournal.com
On paper, addressing a complaint brought against a Humboldt County supervisor seems straightforward.
First, there’s a review by the county administrative officer, county counsel and the Human Resources director. If a majority of the panel decides an incident needs to be further addressed, an outside investigation is launched.
Should the allegations be substantiated, the fi ndings are brought as an agenda item for the board to consider whether to censure their colleague, who is also given an opportunity to speak to the matter. Essentially, it’s a public reprimand for which a super-majority vote is needed.
Approved by the current board in 2022, the procedures outlined in just a few paragraphs of the board’s 31-page code of conduct have become a point of contention in recent months — and a source of some confusion.
When and how issues raised before and amid two supervisors — Michelle Bushnell and Rex Bohn — facing censure in the last six months are resolved, including whether board members should be the ultimate
arbitrators for one of their own, is still up in the air.
As is the path forward for taking action on any future code of conduct violations.
Bushnell announced earlier this month that she would be a “no” vote should another come before the board — a key factor at the March 10 meeting when Bohn faced being censured. He was not.
“If we are purely relying on the next election or a recall, I think those are too blunt an instrument for many of the situations that arise.”
The county is by no means alone in using the mechanism. From the halls of Congress to the chambers of city councils, it’s one of the few avenues outside of the ballot box for holding elected officials responsible for their conduct, especially when it comes to treatment of staff.
— College of the Redwoods Political Science professor Ryan Emenaker
“If we are purely relying on the next election or a recall, I think those are too blunt an instrument for many of the situations that arise,” he said. “I think censure is a nice … other option. Asking people to mount a recall every time something comes up seems incredibly difficult, hoping at the next election that that’s going to be the thing that determines it, I think that’s a bit much. I think censure is one way that, as a board, they can say, ‘Hey, we think this is inappropriate and we want to let people know. And I think that is an important mechanism to have.”
tent with what we directed the staff to do? And, if not, then it is the board, as a collective body, that is best able to make that determination,” Emenaker said.
The situation began to unfold late last year when Bushnell challenged the policy after an outside investigation sustained allegations she acted in a hostile manner toward two employees. Bushnell argued through an attorney that she was denied due process in a fl awed system.
Speaking generally on the topic, College of the Redwoods Political Science professor Ryan Emenaker said he thinks having a midway point, like the censure process, is helpful.
And, he added, the logical choice seems to be for their colleagues on the dais to be the ones to weigh in.
“Were you acting in the interest of the board? Is that the way that we think we should be treating staff? Was that consis-
While Bushnell was censured in a 4-0 vote on Nov. 4, the board majority took the additional step of asking the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury to not only review Bushnell’s conduct but also make recommendations on potential changes to the procedures under dispute.
At the time, Supervisor Steve Madrone said a referral to the government watchdog body was “the most transparent and appropriate way to address” her concerns.
But the request is not a “slam dunk,” as the Humboldt Chapter of the Civil Grand Jurors’ Association of California made clear in an opinion piece penned on the matter in January.
“The board of supervisors can only reFile photo
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quest a study from the civil grand jury; they cannot demand or commission a study,” the piece said. “The civil grand jury is an entity unto itself; it does not answer either to the county or the board of supervisors. Instead, it is a part of the Humboldt County Superior Court, and the civil grand jury decides for itself what it will study, investigate and issue reports on.”
It’s a decision that’s come with rippling effects as the board navigates next steps.
With the wait on for a possible response from the civil grand jury, county staff returned to the board on March 3 to ask for direction on how to handle any new or pending complaints.
County Administrative Officer Elishia Hayes explained that the panel designated to handle complaints involving supervisors has been left “at a bit of a stalemate” since November.
“We are unsure at this time if they will provide any feedback,” she told the board, noting that under the general timeline of the grand jury, any report would likely not be issued until June.
What was initially left unsaid, but not for long, was that at least one complaint, in-
volving Bohn, had already been under investigation, something he publicly announced during the discussion on Bushnell’s censure.
After Chair Mike Wilson started off the conversation by saying he would favor hearing back from the grand jury before proceeding, Bohn went next, noting that he had already “self-reported.”
“A fellow board member made a complaint against me and I’m OK with that and I’m willing to let it go forward,” Bohn said. “I’m going to be perfectly transparent. I haven’t participated in this complaint because I consider it baseless and that’s my opinion and I’m well within my rights.”
While Wilson attempted several times to steer the conversation away from specifics and back to the question at hand, Bohn’s case remained the elephant in the room as the board debated just what their Nov. 4 decision meant.
Bushnell floated several alternatives on how to handle complaints going forward, including bringing on a mediator to review complaints rather than continuing to put staff in the middle. She said the “process does not work the way it currently is” and
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was “not fair to staff.”
She also advocated for forming an ad hoc committee, noting the code of conduct was the board’s policy and they could make changes on their own since any grand jury response could be a way down the road, adding that if any recommendations come in, those could also be incorporated.
“I will say, for myself, that it will take a
four-fifths vote to censure someone and I’m never going to censure anyone on this board,” the Second District representative said. “It’s not my place. So I’m just going to publicly say that I’m not your judge and jury, your constituents are.”
Supervisor Natalie Arroyo leaned toward continuing the current course while allowing this year’s grand jury session to run its
course and seeing what happens before proceeding with any revisions to the code.
Madrone agreed and, while not naming names, circled back to Bohn’s case, saying he thought any changes in how complaints are handled should not apply “to one that’s been around for a long time.”
“In fact, it was around and filed before the referral to the grand jury even oc-
curred,” Madrone said.
Bohn replied that was fine with him. “I’m all for swift justice,” he said. “Like I said, I’m not participating in mine but bring it forward. I’ll take my beating and in two and a half years see what it costs me at the ballot box.”
Just when the board appeared to be homing in on a motion that included continuing with the current process for pending items and forming an ad hoc committee, things took a slight detour. The staff asked for clarification on what to do about new cases.
Arroyo, who was making the motion, noted she thought that was a good question but for her, they should use the code of conduct process that was on the books, noting, “We are not voting to suspend it.”
Bushnell disagreed, offering that complaints should be divided into two categories: those that came before the grand jury referral and those that came after, with the latter being held until June or when the ad hoc committee reports back.
Otherwise, she said, they would be moving forward with a process that “four members of this board said isn’t working very well.”
While Arroyo conceded concerns have been raised about the position placed on staff, the current one “gives a process and a form of recourse to county employees should they have a concern.”
“So, I think I would rather have it on the books in the meantime than not and then revise it as soon as we have some ways to improve it,” she said.
Bohn then asked for a clarification on where that would leave his complaint.
“Is it going to move forward or is it going to sit out in la-la land?” he asked. “I know we are not being specific but since it’s my complaint, I’m going to be specific. … Let’s move it forward.”
Madrone weighed in to say that, under the motion, his would. And Hayes, the county administrative officer, said that would be the case “if there are findings.”
After several board members noted that they didn’t know anything about where the complaint stood, Wilson reiterated that
these processes are typically confidential and involve individuals other than supervisors.
“I think that respecting the process and confidentiality is important, he said. “So, with that, I still think we should wait for the grand jury to come back.”
The motion on the table to form an ad hoc committee — including Bushnell, Madrone and the senior staff panel outlined in the code — and keep using the current one
in the interim, passed 3-2, with Bushnell and Wilson dissenting.
Bohn’s censure item appeared on the next week’s agenda, with the stage basically set for the eventual outcome even before the discussion began.
As in the case of Bushnell, the complaint against him centered on treatment of employees, with an independent investigation sustaining allegations that he engaged in
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“abusive and hostile behavior.”
According to the executive summary of the investigation conducted by the outside law fi rm Kramer Workplace Investigations, the four witnesses interviewed were “undisputed” that Bohn “acted in a disrespectful and aggressive manner toward county employees, which included the use of profanity.”
Dated March 5, the one-page, 300-word document also states that all four were “undisputed” in the perception “that Bohn scheduled the meeting to influence the staff members to quickly take action to create a waiver or an amendment to the Tobacco Retail License Ordinance to ensure that Bohn’s friend was able to transfer all of his tobacco retail licenses when his friend sold his gas stations.”
Bohn apologized, at times reading from prepared comments he said he “scratched out” after reading the report the night before. But he spent much of his speaking time disputing some of the fi ndings’ details, including that he called the meeting, that he did so to lobby for a “friend” or used
profanity at staff.
He said he was just trying to address concerns brought to him by community members about a non-transfer clause in the ordinance that only applies to stores in unincorporated areas.
“However, I sincerely regret if my tone, delivery caused anyone to feel uncomfortable or disrespected,” Bohn said. “I do apologize for that.”
The longtime First District representative went on to thank Madrone for “bringing this matter forward,” saying he appreciated “the opportunity to reflect on the situation and I apologize if anything I said or how I said it caused concern or hurt feelings.”
Bohn again noted that he did not participate in the investigation “because I just didn’t,” saying he was “ready to take my lumps.”
Madrone thanked Bohn for his “heartfelt apology,” adding, “I know that is never an easy thing for any of us.”
Arroyo and Wilson each spoke about the need for every board member to be aware of the pressure and intimidation that
staff members may feel when working with them.
Arroyo noted how a consultant who worked with the county once told her that “a lot of department heads have fear for themselves and their employees about how they may be treated” during small meetings or when presenting to the supervisors.
“So I do appreciate the apology,” she said. “I think it’s a step in the right direction, but I also appreciate that it was brought forward because I don’t doubt there was some staff concern behind that or feeling there was a power imbalance that we all have to be conscious of.”
Wilson also said he appreciated Bohn’s remarks but took “a little issue” with his criticism of the report’s accuracy when he was “offered an opportunity to participate and chose not to.”
When the mic turned to Bushnell, she followed through on her remarks from the prior week, simply saying: “I just want to make a motion to receive and file the report.” Bohn seconded.
Noting that four votes were required,
Arroyo reiterated the importance of board members not using their positions to intimidate staff — and upholding that standard moving forward.
And, Wilson noted, as elected officials, the process for a complaint brought against a supervisor is different from the human resources course that would be followed for a county employee under the same circumstances.
“I really want to emphasize that if it gets this far, and especially if it’s involving employees, we are not the victim,” he said. “I just want to be very clear. We are responsible for our behavior in those situations and that is something I just want to emphasize.”
With that, Wilson asked: “Is there any objection to unanimous consent to the motion?”
“Seeing none,” he said, “we are ending this discussion.” ●
Kimberly Wear (she/her) is the assistant editor at the Journal
Reach her at (707) 442-1400 ext. 105 or kim@northcoastjournal.com.
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Prominent Male Figures Who are Not Sexual Predators
A tentatively confirmed list in progress
By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill jennifer@northcoastjournal.com
Remember the days when you’d wake up to a horrifying story about a famous man you liked or respected being credibly accused of or admitting to coffee-curdling awfulness? But just one. Singular. Those were the days. Oh, to worry over whether or how to engage with the work of, say, a skeevy actor or a musician one at a time.
Now the landscape of popular culture is a veritable Whack-a-Mole field across which icons and has-beens alike are constantly popping up as creeps, criminals and outright monsters, but our current legal system has left us bereft of mallets. It’s almost like American culture is built on some sort of system that places men in power over women and encourages their abuse and subjugation, largely without consequences. Crazy, right?
How does one keep track? A centralized list would be great but overwhelming in terms of practical use and the psychological vertigo of witnessing the sheer volume. It’s easier and less hope-killing to list the male public figures we can confirm are not sexual predators. The vetting process has been arduous and disheartening, but we are confident in our list given the information at our disposal. Mostly (*knocks wood ). But obviously it’s subject to change (*deep, shaky breath). Don’t let us down, fellas.
Garfield. Is he free of vice? He is not. Gluttony, sloth, wrath and whatever deadly sin bullying his owner falls under are all well documented in this icon’s comic strip, which began in 1976 and has expanded to
books, television, film and plastic phones. But Garfield lusts only for lasagna and even if he were of a lascivious disposition, one imagines he would not strain himself to lift a nonconsensual paw. At least in the area of sexual harassment and abuse, Garfield leaves his legacy as clean as he leaves a baking dish. The same can hardly be said of handsy peers like Pepé Le Pew.
Elias the Hermit, aka Elias of Egypt. An ascetic monk, Elias is recorded to have spent some 80 years during the 4th century A.D. alone in a cave in the mountains of Egypt. While his life was one dedicated to religious contemplation, it’s really the fact that there was simply nobody to harass, harangue, pressure into sex or traffic. You can chalk it up to his never entering the swirling internet cesspool of the manosphere, but it’s a win in any case. (Note: Apocryphal reports of his living to 110 do leave some 30 years unaccounted for so please contact us if you have any relevant information.)
The Swedish Chef. Unlike Noma, his kitchen has always been an abuse-free zone. Sure, he’s committed some egregious food waste but amid the flying cabbage and clouds of flour, he’s kept his fleshy hands to himself, placing himself apart from infamous chefs like Mario Batali. The Swedish Chef is, despite his mustache, a safe man to be around. Without knives or hot soup.
Sisyphus. Makes sense, given he was doomed to push a boulder to the top of a hill only to watch it roll back to the bottom over and over for all eternity. The man’s hands were busy. But not only did he refrain
from catcalling others toiling in Hades during his endless punishment, his only crime was being a real one. Sisyphus called out Zeus — the original sexual predator — for abducting the nymph Aegina. That’s allyship and we see you.
Ebenezer Scrooge. A real sonofabitch, to be sure, and enabled by the same unfettered capitalistic greed that has allowed today’s billionaire elite to perpetrate and get away with the worst kinds of sexual exploitation. But you won’t see Ebenezer Scrooge in the Epstein files or in a photo with Diddy. Even before the greedy geezer found the Christmas spirit, he treated everyone horribly without regard to gender and never wielded his power to do creepy shit. Jacob Marley didn’t rattle his chains at his old partner over being a sex pest, just a
miserly and joyless husk of a man. Cheers, buddy.
Godzilla. Would we say he’s safe? Maybe not. But his wanton destruction of cities and their denizens has always been driven by nuclear-powered animal fury and rage at tiny airplanes. Biting a train car or engulfi ng a seaport in fl ames is not being your best self and it’s not how we handle big feelings. But it’s not being a sexual predator, either. At the end of the day, is he a monster? Yes, but he’s no Harvey Weinstein. And you don’t see him picking up and abducting random blondes — looking at you, Kong. ●
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 and Instagram @JFumikoCahill.
Redwood Region Logging Conference Branches Out in Ferndale
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Under warm, sunny skies, the 88th Redwood Region Logging Conference filled the familiar outdoor spaces of the Humboldt County Fairgrounds in Ferndale from March 19-21 with a shiny array of washing and polished logging trucks, and a noisy mix of old and new equipment demonstrations turning logs into sawdust, shingles, lumber and firewood.
Jeannie Fulton, executive director of the RRLC, paused in her busy Friday schedule to explain why the conference had moved from Redwood Acres to the Ferndale fairgrounds. “The Logging Conference location in the past has had a nomadic tradition,” she said, with Willits and Ukiah rotating locations in Mendocino County. “With the timber industry always evolving, the board decided we should be present in the Eel River Valley for the first time. I like that the fairgrounds’ footprint offers a place for all of our three-day events to be held in one location.”
Fulton said the Industry Insights Panel
was a new educational feature of the RRLC this year with six presentations ranging in topics from safety to Cal Fire updates to carbon credits. On Saturday, the field hosted the John Iversen Invitational Logging Sports Competition for college teams and for others to test their skills.
Inside Hindley Hall was a packed trade show with the latest industry information and equipment, and a mix of educational and advocacy booths, including my favorite: Cal Fire advice on how to identify invasive insects in your firewood.
Artist Claudia Lima, of Arcata, attracted a crowd to her vendor space with her display of large, strikingly beautiful paintings of loggers, logging trucks, fire bombers and historical scenes like teepee burners. “My husband, John, is a logging contractor and I grew up in the logging business,” said Lima. “I started taking classes at Humboldt State University with Leslie Price, Teresa Stanley and Mimi LaPlant to improve my painting skills, and I asked them about what I should paint. After seeing my early logging-industry
paintings at the time, they all said, ‘Stay with it!’ I want my paintings to be a record of logging history and the men who work hard and need to be recognized.” Lima’s paintings can be seen at the Ferndale Art Gallery.
Outside, more vendors lined the fairgrounds walkway loop (including at least one 50-year-old Ferndale business, Northcoast Pumphouse, now owned by Arnold Steiner). “Our traditional business was all about Eel River Valley irrigation and pumps and we’ve expanded now into water-filtration systems for residential and commercial use,” said Steiner.
At the fairgrounds’ west entrance, a steam locomotive’s loud whistle and ringing bell attracted a large crowd lining up for a rare opportunity to ride in a car on a short track behind the 1913-era oil-fired Mountain Quarries No. 202, a restored 1913 0-4-0 tank engine locomotive. Members of the Humboldt Bay Scenic Railroad and the Timber Heritage Association were there offering their detailed knowledge of the locomotive and its steam-powered generator (for the headlight) on loan from the Roots of Motive
logging sport of birling (log-rolling) demonstrated by two college students in a small pool
covered in AstroTurf on Friday at the Logging Conference.
Daliah Juarez, a member of the Cal Poly Humboldt logging sports team, reached back with her double-bladed ax as she competed in the ax throw.
Power organization at the Railroad and Logging Museum in Willits, since the two locomotives from the THA are down for maintenance.
Next to the tracks, high school FFA student Katie Junge from Red Bluff was working on scaling logs by measuring the diameter and length to estimate board feet as part of the on-site forestry competition. From the east end of the fairgrounds on Thursday and Friday, you could hear the cheers and applause from a logging-sports demonstrations by college students from Cal Poly Humboldt, College of the Redwoods, U.C. Berkeley, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the University of Nevada, Reno. Competitive demonstrations included the power saw timed race, the obstacle run choker-setting race, the “misery whip” single buck timed saw, the underhand speed chop of a red alder log, the double-buck timed saw, the ax throw at a bullseye target 20 feet away, a Jack and Jill team for double-buck timed saw, a vertical chop and birling (log rolling in a small pool on an artificial log covered in AstroTurf).
The Cal Poly Humboldt Logging Sports Team club adviser Austin Nolan said at last year’s birling competition in Ukiah, it was snowing and hypothermia was real threat, unlike Friday’s warm conditions. He also pointed out that the men and women swinging the ax to chop wood between their feet were wearing chain-metal socks under their shoes for protection.
For the club members, it’s a year-long commitment. Some 80 students are enrolled in the popular Forestry 170 class taught by Austin Nolan and meet for Saturday practices at a field in Freshwater. He and the students are off to Cal Poly SLO
next week for the Collegiate Logging Sports Competition as part of the 84th annual American Western Forestry Clubs Conclave. On Saturday the logging-sports field hosted the John Iversen Invitational Logging Sports Competition for the college teams and for others to test their skills. In the college-team competition, Cal Poly Humboldt’s team finished in first place, followed by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and University of California Berkeley. CPH’s Iona Mahony-Moyer earned the Belle of the Woods award, and CPSLO’s Daniel Auten earned the Bull of the Woods award.
At the chainsaw-carving location, a convincing Bigfoot emerged out of a large redwood log. Artist Brian Vorwaller, of Bandon, was hard at work finishing off the details with a specialized chainsaw as Bigfoot and other sculptures created by the large chainsaw-carving artists were going into the live auction to support educational events like the Education Day and Career Day for high school and college students. Artist Ryan An-
Chainsaw-carving artist Ryan Anderson, of Coos Bay,
accompanying his wild-looking skull logger sculpture.
derson, of Coos Bay, said, “I’m enjoying being here in this weather as I just got back from an ice-carving job at -40 below in Alaska.” He created the head of a wild-looking bearded skull logger sculpture for the auction.
Next year’s conference will return to Mendocino County. For more information, see rrlc.net. l
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Mark Larson (he/him) is a retired Cal Poly Humboldt journalism professor and active freelance photographer who likes to walk.
Artist Claudia Lima, of Arcata, attracted a crowd to her vendor space in Hindley Hall with her paintings of loggers, logging trucks, fire bombers and historical scenes like teepee burners.
Nightlife
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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 Claire Bent Jazz Quintet (jazz vocalist/ensemble) 8 p.m. $5
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
CAFE MOKKA
495 J St., Arcata (707) 822-2228
CENTRAL STATION SPORTS BAR 1631 Central Ave., McKinleyville (707) 839-2013
D STEAK & SEAFOOD 320 Main St., Fortuna (707) 725-3700
420 California Ave., Arcata (707) 630-3269
(707) 677-3611
(707) 444-3344
Tribute to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn 7 p.m. $15-$30 sliding Timbata (Afro-Cuban) 8 p.m. $10
Where The Wild Things Are (2009) (film) 5-8 p.m. $8, $12 w/poster
Tish Non Ballroom: Frequency Club Nights w/DJ Statik 9 p.m. $10, Thirsty Bear: Blue Rhythm Revue (funk) 9 p.m. Free Thirsty Bear: DJ Pressure (hip hop) 9 p.m. Free
Wave: Latin Night with DJ Pachanguero 9 p.m. Free Wave: The Undercovers (dance hits) 9 p.m. Free
Thre'penny Bit (UK & EU trad) 7-10 p.m. Free
Treat Yourself
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By Collin Yeo setlist@northcoastjournal.com
I’m going to be brief here because I’m writing at the coda of a beautiful day. I had a wonderful time with some loved ones and the centerpiece was visiting some departed family members in the Trinidad Cemetery, one of my favorite places. We had our picnic there in the sun, with, counting the dead, three generations of the people I care about most in this world. There were some shadows and maybe even ghosts on the fringe, of course, but that’s only natural, and nobody got haunted or chilled to the point of damage. Just a little distraction really. On the way out we said our fare-thee-wells to Cockeyed Florence as we passed her spot of eternal vigilance and distinction at the borderline back to the land of the living. It’s so great to have a familiar presence observing the downshift in tempo from one tango to another. A coat-check on the way out the door to a reality with a different balance of solemnity and whimsy.
Enjoy your week.
Thursday
The Cowtown Sound is throwing a Honky Tonk Thursday at the Logger Bar tonight. There will be a two-step dance lesson for all comers at 8:30 p.m., with the music starting around a half hour after. No cover at the door, so tip everyone accordingly.
Friday
The Creative Sanctuary jazz folk are putting on another tribute to the greats at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. This time it’s Duke Ellington and his tight collaborator Billy Strayhorn, author of the inimitable tune “Take the A-Train,” among many other classics. James Zeller, Katie Belknap and the usual suspects will be joined by some players from the Harambe Youth Ensemble, so this should be a fun bit of frisson between some seasoned and upand-coming musicians. Tickets will run you a sliding scale $15-$30 and the doors open a half hour before the tunes start.
Saturday
Abronia is a Portland band that has gained international recognition for its haunting invocations of the spectral land-
scape of crossroads converging in the valley of death beyond the western plains of the living. A place where the flesh must be sacrificed in the white heat so a caravan of charred bones can carry the soul through the burning hydrogen heaven of the stars which form the cowboy constellations of our American nightmare. Or something damn close. The group’s fourth record Shapes Unravel came out on Feb. 20 and it is a proper dream-weaver. You can see for yourself at the Miniplex tonight at 9 p.m., where local song trippers Vulture Feather and the ever-fantastic Uncredible Phin Band will be making this show one for the legends. Only $10 for all this magic seems like a hallucination from a different world as well.
Sunday
If you have found your allotment of strange beauty still lacking despite the fine offerings in the entire before this one, fear not: You have two fine options to tickle the pineal gland and pluck the fine cords of motion in the medulla that create the chords of subconscious harmony in the seat of the psyche. First up, there’s a 3 p.m. matinee performance of Brahms’ String Quartet No. 3 in B fl at major, Op. 67 by the excellent, globetrotting Balourdet Quartet at the Lutheran Church of Arcata. This wonderful piece of German Romanticism, a recording of which I am listening to right now, is a perfect introduction into the chaotic beauty of spring. The concert comes with a conversation about the piece by the performers, which I am sure will be much more enlightening than anything I could write here, so if you are so inclined, pop over and plunk down your $20 ($5 for students) to have a listen.
A bit later at 7:30 p.m. at Moss Oak Com-
mons, there are some experimental living composers whose music you can enjoy straight from the tap. Arrington de Dionyso plays a wide variety of horns and machines over a wide variety of styles, including what I think of as Javanese lava music or living trance tracks from the spiritual realm around the Ring of Fire. He has once again made the trek from his homebase of Olympia to spread the sounds around, and such wonderful sounds they are. Also on the bill is Brooklyn’s Sandy Ewen , who does things on the electric guitar that can perhaps best be described as multi-dimensional. She uses the instrument not only tonally, but sonically. Textural harmonics and aural colors are a good starting point, but descriptions are always lacking in the pavilion of sound — the mind has another language entirely in that space. Rounding out the bill is another performance by the Uncredible Phin Band , a group that starts with the eponymous Thai mini-guitar and stretches oh-so-much further. There’s a suggested $5-$10 at the door for this one, and with two touring acts, any bit helps.
Monday
Save your ducats for another day.
Tuesday
It’s the last night of March and there are far worse ways to go out like a lamb than enjoying another Tuesday evening of jazz played expertly by the Opera Alley Cats at the Speakeasy. No cover for the show, so show some love for players and pourers.
April Fool’s Day
Wouldn’t it be crazy if this one particular thing that so many people around the world are waiting for with utterly exhausted tension happened today? I mean naturally of course, or by some hilarious accident with enough perfectly ironic splendor to make even the most hardened atheist think — however briefly — that there is some greater power guiding the moral arc of existence with any force other than blind chaos. It would change our relationship to this rather odd “holiday” forever, with the kind of world-shifting alchemy that only a botched gender-reveal party explosion opening up an alien dimension with the firepower of an atom bomb could muster. I’m just speculating here, nothing more, cer tainly nothing actionable. Purely fictitious humor. But could you imagine?
Anyway, if you’d like to enjoy a variety show with a good “fuck you” message to the police state, come check out the Melt the ICE thingy at Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight at 7:30 p.m. There will be comedians, there will be performers, there will be musicians. Some names of note include Josh Barnes , Jeff Fahey, Jessica Grant, Spellbound and Selina Finesse, A.N.H. and Joe Mallory. Entry costs $20 and a portion of the proceeds go to Centro del Pueblo, which is pretty rad. Have a great day regardless, no foolin’. l
Collin Yeo (he/him) finds a great many things funny, but not peace, love and understanding. Those are sacred.
Abronia plays the Miniplex on Saturday, March 28, at 9 p.m. Submitted
Calendar March 26 – April 2, 2026
The Fortuna Garden Club’s 49th annual Daffodils by the River show blooms again Saturday, Marc h 28 , from 1 to 5 p.m. and Sunday, March 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Fortuna River Lodge (free admission). See stunning juried daffodil exhibits and floral arrangements while live m usic sets the mood. Catch a floral arranging demo on Sunday at 11:30 a.m., enjoy homemade cookies with coffee, tea or lemonade, and browse over 30 varieties of colorful daffodils — pots are $15 to take home. Youth and adult entries in floral arranging and cut stems are free and welcome, with entry cards available at the show and ribbons and trophies up for grabs.
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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.
THEATER
The Hello Girls . 6:30-9 p.m. AHS Fine Arts Center, 1720 M St., Arcata. AAI theater presents the true story of the first women’s Army Signal Corps, the unsung female switchboard operators of Word War I. $10, $8 students/seniors (opening night), $15, $12 students/seniors (non-opening night). mzapper@nohum.k12.ca.us. arcataartsinstitute. ludus.com/show_page.php?show_id=200510896.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead . 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. A reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the perspective of two minor characters — the bewildered schoolmates of the Prince of Denmark. Presented by North Coast Repertory Theater. $25 supporter, $20 discount, “Pay What You Want” tickets available exclusively on Thursdays, March 26 and April 16. ncrt.net.
MEETINGS
Green Party of Humboldt County. 6-7 p.m. Cal Poly Humboldt Library, 1 Harpst St., Arcata. Rose Penelope Yee discusses her run for Congress and her policies. Follow on Instagram, @Greenpartyhumco. Free. greenpartyhumco@gmail.com. www.instagram.com/ greenpartyhumco/.
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. 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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Take the A-Train to Arcata as Creative Sanctuary honors two jazz giants on Friday, March 27, at 7 p.m. with A Tribute to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn at the Arcata Playhouse ($15-$30 sliding). A quintet featuring James Zeller on trombone, Tree on viola and saxophones, Brian Post on piano, Lee Phillips on double bass and Ramsey Isaacs on drums digs into obscure gems and beloved classics. Special guests include tap dancer Miles Schmidt, multi-instrumentalist Katie Belknap and members of the Harambe Youth ensemble.
ETC
Arcata Chamber New Office Ribbon Cutting. 4 p.m. Arcata Chamber of Commerce, 791 8th St. Join us for a Ribbon Cutting at our new office in the Jacoby’s Storehouse! gloria@arcatachamber.com. 7078976004.
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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. redwoodart.net.
MUSIC
Tribute to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. 7 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Featuring obscure gems and well-known classics performed by James Zeller, Tree, Brian Post, Lee Phillips and Ramsey Isaacs, with special guests Miles Schmidt and Katie Belknap. $15-$30 sliding. together@sanctuaryarcata.org. sanctuaryarcata.org/ event-details/jazz-tribute-duke-ellington-and-billystrayhorn. (707) 486-5770.
THEATER
The Hello Girls . 6:30-9 p.m. AHS Fine Arts Center, 1720 M St., Arcata. See March 26 listing. Peter & the Starcatcher 7:30-10 p.m. Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St. The EHS Players present a fast-paced, imaginative adventure that flips the Peter Pan legend on its head. $10-$15. needhamc@eurekacityschools.org. sites.google.com/eurekacityschools.org/ eureka-high-arts/performing-arts-classes/theatre-arts/ ehs-players. 707-441-2537.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead . 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See March 26 listing.
EVENTS
River Night. 6-10 p.m. Arcata Veterans Hall, 1425 J St. Celebrate local rivers with short films featuring youth paddlers and river projects, hear from local voices
A reality TV star as president, corporations running the government, a population glued to screens and hostile to intellect … Mike Judge thought it would take until 2505. Looks like 2026 beat him to it. Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Idiocracy (2006) at Sci-Fi Night on Wednesday, April 1 (the irony is not lost on us) at 7 p.m. at the Arcata Theatre Lounge ($6, $10 w/poster). Pre-show starts at 6 p.m., raffle at 6:45. Themed cocktails available, electrolytes optional. It’s what plants crave.
working to protect and restore waterways, browse community vendor tables and take part in a raffle. Food available. Beer and wine for 21+. $10-$35. info@usarc.us. usarc.us/team-redwood-rafters.
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.
MEETINGS
Lost Coast Steamers Mixer. Fourth Friday of every month, 5-7 p.m. Phatsy Kline’s Parlor Lounge, 139 Second St., Eureka. Monthly mixer for steampunk enthusiasts to gather. Every fourth Friday of the month brought to you by the Lost Coast Steamers Steampunk Consortium. Free. events@historiceaglehouse.com. historiceaglehouse. com. (707) 444-3344.
Tarot Salon with Pop Culture Healing. Fourth Friday of every month, 5:30-8 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Join Geneva Elise every fourth Friday for a community tarot event for readers of all levels. Snacks in Phatsy Kline’s then head to the Bayview dining room and practice reading. Bring your deck and a journal. Light refreshments provided. $20-$25. events@ historiceaglehouse.com. popculturehealing.com/tarotsalon. (707) 444-3344.
OUTDOORS
Ocean Ranch Plant and Pull. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Ocean Ranch Unit of the Eel River Wildlife Area, Table Bluff Road,
Loleta. Support invasive plant removal, native planting, cultural garden maintenance and mulching, while engaging with environmental and cultural education opportunities. Free. clare.dooley@wildlife.ca.gov. www. facebook.com/WatershedStewardsProgram/. ETC
Public Skate. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. Roll over to the Fireman’s Pavilion in Rohner Park. Public Skate sessions may close early if there is no one in attendance. $5.50 ages 6 and older, $3.50 ages 5 and younger, bring skates for a $0.50 off (rules online), $2 non-skater minor. friendlyfortuna.com/departments/ parks_recreation.
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COMEDY
Swami Beyondananda - Comedian. 6-9 p.m. Eureka Center for Spiritual Living, 239 Buhne St. Billed as “one of the biggest names in comedy” (“Beyondananda” alone has 12 letters), Swami keeps the audience in hysterics with his mixture of word play, political and spiritual commentary and playful silliness. $25, $20 advance. eureka1049@gmail.com. 707-443-5743.
MOVIES
Robo-Cat Productions Presents: The Dead Walk!. 5 a.m.-7 p.m. Celebrate Robo-Cat Productions’ six years of spooky online variety shows with a collection of great songs and a classic feature. Free. robocatproductions@ gmail.com. facebook.com/events/912720468038368. (707) 382-7938.
MUSIC
Balourdet Quartet Mainstage Concert. 7:30 p.m. Calvary Lutheran Church, 716 South Ave., Eureka. Repertoire is set to include: Quartettsatz, D 703 by Franz Schubert, impossible inventions (2024) for string quartet by Paul Novak, String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven and String Quintet No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 87 by Felix Mendelssohn. Presented by the Eureka Chamber Music Series. $40, $10.
War On Women. 6-10 p.m. RampArt Skatepark, 700 South G St., Arcata. Hardcore punk. $15-$20. rampartskatepark.org/events.
THEATER
The Hello Girls . 1:30-4 p.m. AHS Fine Arts Center, 1720 M St., Arcata. See March 26 listing. Peter & the Starcatcher. 2-4:30 & 7:30-10 p.m. Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St. See March 27 listing. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead . 8 p.m. 5th and D Street Theater, 300 Fifth St., Eureka. See March 26 listing.
EVENTS
Daffodils By The River. 1-5 p.m. Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive. This juried show offers daffodil exhibits, live music, demonstrations, displays, youth activities and refreshments. More than 30 varieties of daffodils available for purchase. Free admission. Fortuna Board Game Brawl. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Gene Lucas Community Center, 3000 Newburg Ave., Fortuna. Annual board game con hosting its first 20-hour gaming “brawl.” $12-$15. fbeboardgamebrawl@gmail.com. facebook. com/profile.php?id=61582460116845. (707) 762-4448. No Kings Rally. 12-2 p.m. Humboldt County Courthouse, 825 Fifth St., Eureka. Stand with millions of fellow Americans saying “NO” to Trump. Live music from Radical Apes
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and Queen Karma, as well as poetry, speeches and a Food Not Bombs Arcata food drive. Free.
Singing Resistance at the No Kings Rally. 12-2 p.m. Humboldt County Courthouse, 825 Fifth St., Eureka. Gather on the steps of the Eureka Courthouse to sing in solidarity and resistance during the No Kings Rally. All voices are welcome. Led by local musicians. Free. Variety Show/Fundraiser ft. Makenu. 6-10 p.m. Fuente Nueva Charter School, 1730 Janes Road, Arcata. Threecourse Colombian cuisine, no-host bar, live music, dancing and a silent auction/raffle. $75, $550 for a table of 8.
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@eurekanatural-
foods.com. eurekanaturalfoods.com. MEETINGS
Words of Hope and Change. 10-11:30 a.m. Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 425 Shaw Ave., Ferndale. Substance use disorder discussion and resources for prevention and help. There will be training and distribution of Narcan, which is a life-saving medication for opioid overdose.
OUTDOORS
FOAM Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Meet leader Paul Wilson 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 spring’s new leaves (alder, willow and maple). Free. (707) 826-2359.
Ocean Ranch Plant and Pull. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Ocean Ranch Unit of the Eel River Wildlife Area, Table Bluff Road, Loleta. See March 27 listing.
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.
Game of Throws Fundraiser. 10 a.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. A cornhole fundraiser benefiting Nation’s Finest Veteran Services. Doors open at 10 a.m. Bags fly at 11 a.m. Sign up at share. scoreholio.com/73MYCB6lvZb. $60 for teams of two. welcome@nationsfinest.org. nationsfinest.org/gameof-throws/. (707) 690-4783.
ETC
Adult Skate Night. Last Saturday of every month, 6:309:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. Ages 18 and older only. IDs checked at door. Alcohol and drug-free event. $5.50 includes skate rental.
The Bike Library. 12-4 p.m. The Bike Library, 1286 L St., Arcata. Hands-on repair lessons and general maintanence, used bicycles and parts for sale. Donations of parts and bicycles gladly accepted. arcatabikelibrary@riseup.net. Public Skate. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See March 27 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
Where The Wild Things Are (2009). 5-8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show 5 p.m. Movie at 6 p.m. Max imagines running away and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways. $8, $12 w/poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. tickets.vemos. io/-LvvzSYm6udEnGfKIRLa/arcata-theatre-lounge/-OlTfZUJJ13Kg-e7YFSP/where-the-wild-things-are-2009. 707-613-3030.
MUSIC
The Balourdet Quartet Concert and Conversation. 3-4 p.m. The Lutheran Church of Arcata, 151 E. 16th Street. Featuring String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67 by Johannes Brahms. $20, $5 students. admin@eurekachambermusic.org. eurekachambermusic.org. 707-273-6975. 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.
EVENTS
Daffodils By The River. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive. See March 28 listing. Fortuna Board Game Brawl. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Gene Lucas Community Center, 3000 Newburg Ave., Fortuna. See March 28 listing.
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.
Spaghetti Feed. 4-8 p.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. Spaghetti, salad and bread. Benefits 4-H Clubs of Bridgeville, Carlotta and Hydesville. Sponsored by Fortuna Kiwanis. $12, $8 children under 12.
GARDEN
Volunteer Workday. 10 a.m.-noon. Trinidad Museum, 400 Janis Court. Help maintain the native plant garden located behind the museum and library. Serious rain cancels.
OUTDOORS
Nature Journaling at the Arcata Marsh. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. No pre-registration required but sessions are limited to the first 10 people. All ages welcome, if they can concentrate quietly for an extended period. Heavy rain cancels. Clipboards and colored pencils provided; bring notebook, journal or other paper and a writing implement. Wear weather-appropriate clothing. info@arcatamarshfriends.org. (707) 826-2359.
ETC
Public Skate. 1:30-4:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See March 27 listing.
30 Monday
ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 6-8 p.m. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. See March 27 listing.
FOOD
Harvest Box Deliveries. Multi-farm-style CSA boxes with a variety of seasonal fruits and veggies, all GMOfree and grown locally. Monday: serving Blue Lake, Arcata, McKinleyville and Trinidad. Tuesday: serving Eureka and Fortuna. $30/box, $15 for EBT customers. harvesthub@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. humboldtharvestbox.org/.
SPORTS
Ping Pong for Seniors. 3-4 p.m. Humboldt Senior Resource Center, 1910 California St., Eureka. Join the fun...all levels are welcome. free donations accepted. (707) 443-9747.
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.
31 Tuesday
BOOKS
Story Time. Last Tuesday of every month, noon. Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Court. Stop by Trinidad Library for story time with Kim. A special time just for young children with their caregivers and families.
DANCE
Baywater Blues Fusion. 7-9 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Dance to blues and more. No partner required. Open to all levels. $5-$15. eventlead.eaglehouse@gmail.com. historiceaglehouse. com/live-music-events. (707) 444-3344.
MUSIC
Redwood Interfaith Gospel Choir Practice. 6-8 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Family atmosphere and loving people who like to sing gospel music. All invited to join. Free. redwoodinterfaithgospelchoir.com. (707) 441-9098.
FOOD
Harvest Box Deliveries. See March 30 listing.
MEETINGS
Humboldt Cribbage Club Tournament. 6:15-9 p.m. Moose Lodge, 4328 Campton Road, Eureka. Weekly six-game cribbage tournament for experienced players. Inexperienced players may watch, learn and play on the side. Moose dinner available at 5:30 p.m. $3-$8. 31for14@ gmail.com. (707) 599-4605.
SPORTS
Ping Pong for Seniors. 3-4 p.m. Humboldt Senior Resource Center, 1910 California St., Eureka. See March 30 listing.
ETC
English Express: An English Language Class for Adults. Virtual World, Internet, Online. Build English language confidence in ongoing online and in-person classes. All levels and first languages welcome. Join anytime. Pre-registration not required. Free. englishexpressempowered. com. (707) 443-5021.
1 Wednesday
DANCE
Country Swing. 6-8 p.m. The Historic Eagle House, 139 Second St., Eureka. Learn country swing in the Eagle House Ballroom. All ages. $5. eventlead.eaglehouse@ gmail.com. historiceaglehouse.com/live-music-events. (707) 407-0634.
LECTURE
FOAM Lecture on Salmon Restoration. 7-8:30 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Join Rachael Aguirre, fish habitat assistant at the California Conservation Corps, for a lecture on the history and current practices of its Restoration Program. In-person and simulcast via Zoom at humboldtstate.zoom.us/j/88248246788?pwd=AuQSlOmC4Zwkq4hzWctlzTySkjKyjY.1#success. Free. info@arcatamarshfriends.org. arcatamarshfriends.org. (707) 826-2359.
MOVIES
Sci-Fi Night: Idiocracy (2006) 20th Anniversary. 6-9 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show 6 p.m. Raffle 6:45 p.m. Main feature 7 p.m. A movie for our times. $6, $10 w/poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. tickets.vemos.io/-LvvzSYm6udEnGfKIRLa/arcata-theatre-lounge/-OmngKcZkk9JtpDOe7eE/sci-fi-night-idiocracy-2006-20th-anniversary. 707-613-3030.
MUSIC
The Joy of Singing Choir. 5-7 p.m. Jefferson Community Center, 1000 B St., Eureka. Singing circle that focuses on singing in harmony through improvisation as well as repertoire, including resistance songs. All level drop-ins welcome. $10-$20, no one turned away for lack of funds. hello@bynieves.com.
FOR KIDS
Nature Story Time. 2-3 p.m. Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, 220 Stamps Lane, Manila. Enjoy a short story, movement activity and art project for children and their caregivers. info@friendsofthedunes.org. (707) 444-1397.
MEETINGS
350 Humboldt Monthly General Meeting. First Wednesday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Learn about and engage in climate change activism with a community of like-minded people. Zoom link online. Free. 350Humboldt@gmail.com. world.350.org/humboldt/. (707) 677-3359.
Mother’s Support Circle. First Wednesday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon. The Ink People Center for the Arts, 627 Third St., Eureka. Mother’s Village circle for mothers with a meal and childcare. $15 to attend, $10 childcare, sliding scale spots available. (707) 633-3143.
ETC
Grief Support Services in Spanish. First Wednesday of every month, 5-6:30 p.m. Gene Lucas Community Center, 3000 Newburg Ave., Fortuna. A safe and welcoming space for Spanish-speaking individuals to process loss, connect with others, and receive compassionate support. Este grupo está abierto para todas las personas en la comunidad que habla español, que estén pasando por la pérdida de un ser querido. glccenter.org.
2 Thursday
ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See March 26 listing.
Open Art Night. First Thursday of every month, 5-7 p.m. Gene Lucas Community Center, 3000 Newburg Ave., Fortuna. Bring your own project or work on a project provided. All ages. Free. jessyca@glccenter.org. glccenter. org/events. (707) 725-3330.
BOOKS
Storytellers and Writers Book Club for Tweens and Teens. First Thursday of every month, 4-5 p.m. Trinidad Library, 380 Janis Court. Tweens and teens share ideas on world building and books they’ve read or would like to write. In the Trinidad Room.
THEATER
The Hello Girls . 6:30-9 p.m. AHS Fine Arts Center, 1720 M St., Arcata. See March 26 listing. Peter & the Starcatcher. 7:30-10 p.m. Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St. See March 27 listing.
EVENTS
Fortuna Rotary - An Evening at the River Lodge. 5:30 p.m. Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive. Barbecue oysters, prawns and hors d’oeuvres, prime rib and chicken dinner. Major fundraiser for community projects. $200 couple, $800 table of eight.
MEETINGS
Arcata Chamber Mixer. 5:30-7 p.m. 425 I Street, Arcata, 425 I Street. Join us for a Chamber Mixer at the wonderful office of the North Coast Rape Crisis Team. gloria@arcatachamber.com. arcatachamber.com. (707) 897-6004. l
Books in Space
Project Hail Mary
By John J. Bennett screens@northcoastjournal.com
PROJECT HAIL MARY. Loving books just as much as movies and credibly accused of being a formalist, I am generally skeptical of adaptations for the screen. I suppose I fi nd works of literary creation something like sacrosanct and will always bristle at the notion that there aren’t enough original ideas being developed as screenplays to produce something cinematically viable. But popular novels are as much a part of movie history as the camera itself, so my contrarianism, once again, amounts to little more than stewing in silence.
Reactionary as I may be, I must admit there is nothing inherently wrong with transposing a work of invention from one medium to another. Some of my favorite movies are based on books; my hypocrisy knows no bounds. And, at its best, adaptation can both liberate a novel from the constraints of the page, rendering it accessible to another audience and allowing one version of its constructed reality to achieve new, vibrant life. It’s a fickle business, though, as faithful readers can have just as big a problem with “unfaithful” reinvention as I have with the fundamental notion of the practice. Acolytes of a book, more often than not, want the movie version to play out as it appeared on the screen in their minds, every grace note and minute detail intact, absent only the glyphs themselves. Dorks like me, on the other hand, want to see something we haven’t yet: an expansion or distillation of exciting ideas made new (and more exciting) by the opportunities presented by the grandness and flexibility of the movies. There’s no pleasing everyone.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning work with One Battle After Another inarguably contains the chromosomes of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland . Anderson found a crucial center in that sprawling (but also uncharacteristically concise) novel and, recontextualizing it for our troubled decade, rendered it both new and recognizable — same-same, but different. It’s a truly fi ne example of the practice at its best: the work
of one master of a medium filtered through another. We can be sure its detractors have more to say than I do in praise, but saying one “liked the book better” becomes a specious argument in light of the brilliance of its reimagining. And that, to me, is adaptation at its best.
Which is not to say that Drew Goddard’s screenplay for Project Hail Mary, taken almost verbatim from Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about the potential end of the world (well, worlds) is not an impressive work.
A friend urged me to read Project Hail Mary, probably too recently, and I did, with pleasure. While the book does not enjoy residence beside the dark, fatalistic tomes that mostly populate my bookcases, it is an effective space adventure, heavier on the science than the fiction. Admittedly, that might be a harsh reaction, as the story is indeed well-plotted and page-turning. But, having read only this one, Weir strikes me as a science writer with some fun story ideas, rather than a novelist in the tortured, hidebound mode I tend to prefer. (In fairness, that is a reflection of my intractable bias.)
Project Hail Mary is every bit the sort of novel that suggests a movie version and, even in this embattled era, so shall we have one.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who were fi red from their last sci-fi project (2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, which ended up directed by Ron Howard and is probably just fi ne), have made a career of saving modern comedy from itself, infusing their movies with a vivacity and weirdness generally absent from a genre
that Hollywood seems intent on rendering obsolete, if not extinct. Most excitingly, they approach comedy with a keenly cinematic sense of its execution, using techniques beyond the ken of convention to enliven and enlarge their joke machines. While Project Hail Mary isn’t exactly high comedy, at least on the page, it is characterized by an abiding sense of fun and discovery (even if it is frequently drowned out by procedural fanaticism). Knowing those things, and Goddard’s formidable CV (from Buffy to The Cabin in the Woods), I was prepared for this to be an effective if unsurprising adaptation, which is precisely what it is.
The movie makes smart choices in streamlining some of the more laborious scientific DIY of the source material, and Ryan Gosling (if you don’t like him, we have nothing to talk about) is every bit the conflicted everyman genius the story requires. PG13. 156M. BROADWAY, MINOR. ●
John J. Bennett (he/him) is a movie nerd who loves a good car chase.
NOW PLAYING
BEN HUR (1959). Nearly four-hour-long, big-budget Biblical adventure with swords, sandals, chariots and Charlton Heston. G. 223M. BROADWAY.
THE BRIDE! Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) bids Dr. Euphronius (Annette Bening) to make him a monster’s moll (Jessie Buckley) in 1930s Chicago. R. 126M. BROADWAY.
GOAT. Animated sports comedy about an ungulate underdog with the unfortunate
slogan “Smalls can ball.” PG. 100M. BROADWAY, MINOR.
HOPPERS. Animated adventure about a girl (Piper Cuda) who transfers her consciousness into a beaver and radicalizes forest animals. PG. 105M. BROADWAY, MINOR. THE POUT-POUT FISH. Fish-focused animated comedy adventure voiced by Nick Offerman, Amy Sedaris and Miranda Otto. PG. 92M. BROADWAY.
PROJECT HAIL MARY. Ryan Gosling stars as a science teacher turned reluctant astronaut on a mission to save the planet. PG13. 156M. BROADWAY, MINOR.
READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME. After evading her murderous in-laws, Grace (Samara Weaving) is sent to the next level with her sister (Kathryn Newton). R. 168M. BROADWAY, MINOR.
REMINDERS OF HIM. A mother fresh from prison connects with her daughter and a local bar owner. Starring Maika Monroe. PG13. 114M. BROADWAY.
SEND HELP. Rachel McAdams goes feral as a mistreated employee and Survivor superfan stranded with her rotten boss (Dylan O’Brien). R. 113M. BROADWAY. SUPER MARIO BROS. GALAXY MOVIE. Animated video game adventure sequel with Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy and Jack Black. PG. 98M. BROADWAY.
TMNT II: SECRET OF THE OOZE (1991). Fighting turtles fi nd their roots in the sewers of New York City. PG. 88M. BROADWAY. UNDERTONE. Freaky audio throws a paranormal podcaster into a full-on haunting. Starring Nina Kiri. R. 93M. BROADWAY. For showtimes, visit catheaters.com and minortheatre.com.
We are only three months into 2026. Project Hail Mary
1. Salad with bacon and eggs
5. Airport boarding site
9. Hairy like a lion
14. Explorer on TV
15. James Patterson sleuth Cross
16. “Superfudge” author Judy
17. Mic check you can feel in your vertebrae?
20. “Monster” of the southwest 21. Brisbane hoppers 22. “Ay, Dios ___!”
Plot surprise
British conservative 26. Hanukkah coins
27. Bird feature for Buster Poindexter?
30. Murals and mosaics, e.g.
31. Hive noise
32. Santa ___ winds
33. Conical shelters
36. Pastry coating for shine and color
40. Certain Wall St. trader
41. Progressive mascot
42. Letters on a “4” button
43. Grouch eating like Cookie Monster?
48. Stuck in ___
49. They get in a row
50. Basketball
51. “I Want Your ___” (George Michael hit)
52. Tight-fitting
53. Tiny marchers
54. Bottom-of-thepage section
about a devilish number?
59. Festoon
60. At any point
61. Comedian Rudner
62. Toyota subcompact discontinued in the U.S.
63. Nautical beginner?
64. Phishing offer DOWN
1. Some physical media
2. Alley-___ (sports maneuver)
3. Actress/model Nielsen of “Rocky IV”
4. Vote out at the Round Table, on “The Traitors”
5. Big party
6. Part of a PC-
resetting combo
7. Restaurant with samovars
8. Ship abroad
9. Yale School of Management degs.
10. European peak
11. Pumpkin spice component
12. Folder fodder
13. Railroad terminal
18. Low voice
19. Radio Flyer, for instance
23. The one over there
24. Had on
25. Therefore
26. Sink teeth into
28. Where hip-hop originated
29. Activity suffix
34. Agreement
35. Distinct period
36. Shady tree
37. Without a strong opinion
38. Search for bargains
39. Telehealth company for men
41. Cancel, as a debt
43. Big name in frozen potatoes
44. Is really awful, in 1990s leet-speak
45. Ill feeling
46. “Yeesh!”
47. The “M” of GM
48. Evaluate
52. “Deadly” septet
53. Hairstyle for Questlove
55. ___ Lanka
56. Gen ___
57. Rideshare app stat
58. Battering item
Come and join us as we discuss Substance Use Disorder and be presented with resources to prevent and deal with it. There will be training and distribution of Narcan which is a life saving medication for opioid overdose. When: March 28, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church 425 Shaw Avenue, Ferndale
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Wellness & Bodywork
SOUND HEALING TRAINING APRIL 11TH & 12TH, 10:00-6:00 IN BAYSIDE. This is a 2 day beginner/ intermediate intensive training in the art, science and practice of sound healing taught by Jen Madrone and Shemaia Skywater. For more information or to register visit https://inneralchemyhealing.thrivecart.com/sonic-alchemy-sound-healing-intensive/.
The Five Colors of the Rainbow
Barry Evans fieldnotes@northcoastjournal.com
“The seven notes of the scale before the return to the octave are analogous to the colors of the rainbow — red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet, plus the strangely superfluous indigo which made the number up to seven.” — Ian Bostridge
Tenor Ian Bostridge, quoted above, reminds us we are supposed to see seven colors in a rainbow simply because there are seven notes in the normal Western musical scale. Isaac Newton originally agreed with chemist Robert Boyle, who, a few years earlier, claimed to have seen five colors in the spectrum of sunlight split by a prism, that is, red, yellow, green, blue and violet. But Newton, as much mystic as he was scientist, added two more, orange and Bostridge’s “superfluous” indigo, to harmonize with the Western music scale. (In this, Newton was harping back to the ancient Greek Sophists, who saw a connection between colors, musical notes and the seven wandering stars, i.e. five known planets plus the sun and moon.) In his 1704 book Opticks , Newton wrote that the seven colors of the spectrum “may perhaps suggest analogies between harmonies of sounds and of colors.”
So seven it is: ROYGBIV, Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain. Not to complicate matters, but Newton’s blue is what we call cyan, and his indigo is our blue.
Beyond this, it gets very subjective. Our retinas have three receptors, or cones, for color, responding to red wavelengths (400500 nanometers), green (450-630) and blue (500-700), giving us the “primary” colors. When two sets of cones are activated equally, our brains tell us we’re seeing the three secondary colors, the same as inkjet printer cartridges: Yellow (red + green), cyan (green + blue) and magenta (blue + red). With all three
sets of cones activated, the sky’s the limit. I’ve seen estimates putting the number of colors humans can tell apart in the millions. How many colors do you see in “nature’s prism,” the rainbow? In the accompanying photo taken recently from Eureka’s boardwalk, I can make out red, orange, yellow, cyan and violet in the primary bow. In the faint secondary arc above it (note the inverted colors), I think I can see red, orange, yellow and cyan. After that my imagination takes over.
The spectrum of a rainbow is pretty fuzzy compared with one projected through a triangular glass prism. That’s because of the way sunlight is dispersed by raindrops — in a word, messily. Light is first refracted when entering a drop, reflected inside on the back of the drop and re-refracted when leaving it. Red light is refracted less than shorter-wavelength blue light, meaning that we see red on the rainbow’s topside. (The secondary arc, with red at the bottom and blue on top, results from two additional reflections before leaving.)
The actual geometry of a rainbow is pretty simple. If you’re in a plane looking down, you may be lucky and see a full circle, but because we normally see rainbows from the ground, we see just part of the circle — an arc — centered opposite the sun. The center of the arc would be on an imaginary line drawn from the sun through your eye. In my photo, there should be a pot o’ gold right under the old Table Bluff Lighthouse, which was moved to Woodley Island in 1987. ●
Barry Evans (he/him, barryevans9@ yahoo.com, planethumboldt.substack.com) wants you to know that The New Humbook is on sale at local bookstores and gift shops.
Rain clouds ahead to the northwest with a clear southeastern sun behind makes for a gorgeous Humboldt Bay double rainbow.
Photo by Barry Evans
CITY OF FORTUNA
NOTICE OF ADOPTION
Notice is hereby given that on March 16, 2026; the City Council of the City of Fortuna adopted the following ordinance:
ORDINANCE 2026-783
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORTUNA APPROVING A ZONING
MAP AMENDMENT FROM RETAIL COMMERCIAL TO COMMERCIAL
THOROUGHFARE FOR ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NUMBER 040-172-009 AND FINDING THE PROJECT EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT
SECOND READING PERFORMED AND ADOPTED on the 16th day of March 2026 by the following vote:
AYES: Council Members Conley, Diaz, Stevens, Mayor Pro Tem Trent, Mayor Johnson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
Copies of the full Ordinance are available for public inspection and review in the office of the City Clerk at 621 - 11th Street, Fortuna, California. This notice is given in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California. This section allows a summary of the Ordinance to be printed.
Buffy Gray, Deputy City Clerk
Posted: 03/17/2026
liability company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 1/18/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Justice Klein, Owner CEO
This January 27, 2026 by SC, Deputy Clerk 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/26 (26-082)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00093
The following person is doing Business as KBR Precision Services
Humboldt
2306 Spring St Eureka, CA 95501
Kevin B Romandia
2306 Spring St
Eureka, CA 95501
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 2/26/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
3/26 (26-122)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
CITY OF FORTUNA
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN and you are hereby notified the City of Fortuna will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, April 6, 2026, in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 621 11th Street, Fortuna, California, at 5:00 p.m. for the following purpose: CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTING A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORTUNA
AUTHORIZING FEES FOR RENT STABILIZATION REGULATIONS FOR MOBILE HOME PARKS PROGRAM, INCLUDING FEES FOR ANNUAL CPI RENT INCREASE APPLICATIONS, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PASSTHROUGH APPLICATIONS, AND FAIR RETURN RENT INCREASE APPLICATIONS
All interested parties and members of the public are invited to attend and be heard at the hearing. A copy of the Agenda and full staff report for these items will be available at the front counter or www.friendlyfortuna.com by April 2, 2026.
Buffy Gray Deputy City Clerk
Dated: March 17, 2026 3/26 (26-123)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00059
The following person is doing Business as
Cacao & I Humboldt
3400 Redwood Drive #1906
Redway, CA 95560
Cacao & I LLC CA B20250367475
3400 Redwood Drive #1906 Redway, CA 95560
The business is conducted by a limited
1834 Central Ave Ste A
McKinleyville, CA 95519
Catherine Holm 1834 Central Ave Ste A McKinleyville, CA 95519
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 2/26/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Catherine Holm, Owner
This February 24, 2026 by RP, Deputy Clerk
3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-099)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00127
The following person is doing Business as Mend-Stitch-Hem: Sewing Solutions Humboldt
16 West Trinity St Eureka, CA 95501 PO Box 6756
Eureka, CA 95502
Kelley J. Devlin-Lake
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 Kevin B Romandia, Owner
This February 11, 2026 by JC, Deputy Clerk 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-097)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00087
The following person is doing Business as Cutter’s Edge Humboldt
754 12th Street
Fortuna, CA 95540
Suzanne Van Meter
754 12th 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 1/5/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Suzanne Van Meter, Owner
This February 10, 2026 by SG, Deputy Clerk
3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-098)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00125
The following person is doing Business as Kalos Salon Humboldt
January 21, 2026
3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-103)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00139
The following person is doing Business as Rafter Seven Seven Farms Humboldt
1983 Blair Ln Fortuna, CA 95540
Anjanette L Dunn
1983 Blair Ln Fortuna, CA 95540
Garth E Casacca
1983 Blair Ln Fortuna, CA 95540
The business is conducted by Copartners.
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 Anjanette L Dunn, Partner by SG, Deputy Clerk
March 2, 2026 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-104)
16 West Trinity St Eureka, CA 95501
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 2/24/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Kelley J. Devlin-Lake
This February 24, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk
3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-100)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00036
The following person is doing Business as Thread Paper Ink Humboldt 427 F Street, Suite 217 Eureka, CA
Sarah M Cox 1890 Ribeiro Court 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 1/27/21.
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 Sarah Cox, Owner by JR, Deputy Clerk
business name or name listed above on 2/19/2026.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Donald R Miller, Owner by JR, Deputy Clerk
February 24, 2026
3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 (26-108)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00135
The following person is doing Business as
Sea Growth Marketing Humboldt
2990 Janes Creek Dr Arcata, CA 95521
S W Winter
2990 Janes Creek Dr 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.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00126
The following person is doing Business as
Medical Billing Media/Paying Blue Humboldt
3331 Union St Eureka, CA 95503
Dua The Brand LLC CA 202250311202
3331 Union 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 Sophia Demartini, Managing Member by JC, Deputy Clerk February 24, 2026
3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 (26-107)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00124
The following person is doing Business as The Park Humboldt
1800 Sutter Rd McKinleyville, CA 95519
15 Moose Pond Ln West Trout Creek, MT 59874
Donald R Miller
1800 Sutter Rd McKinleyville, CA 95519
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious
Kneeland, CA 95549
PO Box 312 Bayside, CA 95524
Jessica M Speyer 400 Ashfield Butte Kneeland, CA 95549
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 3/2/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Jessica Speyer, Owner by JR, Deputy Clerk March 2, 2026
3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 (26-113)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00157
The following person is doing Business as Aumanta Humboldt 109 Harlan Way Fortuna, CA 95540
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 Winter S Walker, Owner by TH, Deputy Clerk
March 2, 2026
3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 (26-109)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00112
The following person is doing Business as Just Let Jazzy Esthetics Humboldt
2019 Central Ave McKinleyville, CA 95519 1676 Vine Avenue McKinleyville, CA 95519
Jasmine L Mace 2019 Central Ave McKinleyville, CA 95519
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 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 Jasmine Mace, Owner by SG, Deputy Clerk
February 19, 2026
3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 (26-110)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00135
The following person is doing Business as Wild Mountain Farm Humboldt
400 Ashfield Butte
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00147
The following person is doing Business as Harvey Construction Humboldt
1338 H St. Eureka, CA 95501
Harvey Construction Group Inc. CA B20260099201
1338 H St Eureka, CA 95501
The business is conducted by a corporation.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 2/26/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Matthew S Harvey, President by SG, Deputy Clerk
March 5, 2026
3/19, 3/26, 4/2, 4/9 (26-120)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00176
Scott A Kosavich 109 Harlan Way 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 3/9/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Scott Kosavich, Owner by JR, Deputy Clerk
March 9, 2026
3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 (26-114)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20260017
The following person is doing Business as Red Herring Books 237 Price Mall Crescent City, CA Del Norte
Jennifer Flores PO Box 744 Crescenty City, CA 95531
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on May 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 Jennifer Flores by B. McCune-Sokoloski, Deputy Clerk March 2, 2026
3/19, 3/26, 4/2, 4/9 (26-119)
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 Cheryl Lisin, Vice President
This March 11, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk
3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16 (26-126)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00186
The following person is doing Business as Lucky Turn Locksmith Humboldt 1700 Bird Ave
McKinleyville, CA 95519
Ryan Archambault 1700 Bird Ave
McKinleyville, CA 95519
Travis Milich 1700 Bird Ave
McKinleyville, CA 95519
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.
The following person is doing Business as Godfrey’s Companion Care - Senior Support, Transportation, and Companionship Humboldt
603 Ole Hansen Rd Eureka, Ca 95503
PO Box 74
Bayside, CA 95524
Geoff Barrett
603 Ole Hansen Rd Eureka, CA 95503
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a.
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 Geoff Barrett, Owner
This March 16, 2026 by SG, Deputy Clerk 3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16 (26-125)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00167
The following person is doing Business as Friends of the Lost Coast Humboldt
14400 Briceland Thorn Rd Whitehorn, CA 95589 PO Box 69 Whitehorn, CA 95589
Friends of the Lost Coast CA 2258924
14400 Briceland Thorn Rd Whitehorn, CA 95589
The business is conducted by a corporation.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 1/24/20.
declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Ryan Archambault, Owner/Partner
This March 20, 2026 by SG, Deputy Clerk
3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16 (26-127)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00191
The following person is doing Business as Brent’s Crab Shack Humboldt
115 Stafford Rd Scotia, CA 95565
Brent Freitas LLC CA B20260129726 115 Stafford Rd Scotia, CA 95565
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 2/23/26.
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 Brenton Freitas, Manager
This March 23, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk
3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16 (26-128)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Brittany Elizabeth Wilmot CASE NO. CV2600357 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
Pamm C Johnson
Pamm was born in Eureka, CA and spent most of her life in Eureka. Pamm attended local schools and graduated from Eureka High School.
After graduation, Pamm worked at various jobs including Humboldt Del Norte Foundation for Medical Care for twelve years. Pamm then worked at Bettendorf Trucking until she retired on December 31, 2025. Pamm really enjoyed working with the drivers and division managers.
Pamm met Ken Johnson on a blind date and they were married on September 26, 1970. Their son Scott was born four years later. Pamm and Ken lived in Eureka until 1996, then moved to their dream property on Kneeland.
Pamm was preceded in death by her parents, Jack & Carmine Benjamin, her son Scott Johnson and sister Janet Carvelho.
Pamm is survived by her husband Ken, grandson Austin and daughter in law Lisa Johnson as well as several nieces and nephews.
The family would like to thank the nursing staff at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka for keeping Pamm comfortable and free of pain in her final days.
At Pamm’s request, there will be no funeral services.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Old Growth Cellars located at 1945 Hilfiker Ln. Eureka, CA on Sunday April 12, 2026 from 1pm to 4pm.
Submitinformationviaemailto classified@northcoastjournal.com, or bymailor inperson.
PETITION OF: Brittany Elizabeth Wilmot for a decree changing names as follows: Present name
Brittany Elizabeth Wilmot to Proposed Name
Brittany Elizabeth Brinson
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: April 24, 2026
Time: 8:30 am, Dept. 4
For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
825 FIFTH STREET EUREKA, CA 95501
Date: February 20, 2026
Filed: February 20, 2026
/s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-101)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Natasha Ursula Marie White
CASE NO. CV2600467
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501
PETITION OF: Natasha Ursula Marie White
for a decree changing names as follows: Present name
Natasha Ursula Marie White to Proposed Name
Natasha Ursula Marie Samuelsen
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should
not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: May 15, 2026
Time: 8:30 am, Dept. 4
For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
825 FIFTH STREET
EUREKA, CA 95501
Date: March 4, 2026
Filed: March 5, 2026
/s/ Timothy A. Canning
Judge of the Superior Court 3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 (26-106)
SUMMONS (CITATION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER: CV2502568
NOTICE TO Defendant: Don Daniels,
and all persons claiming any legal or equitable right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the property described in the complaint adverse to plaintiff’s title, or any cloud on plaintiff’s title thereto, named as DOES 1 to 50, inclusive.
You are being sued by Plaintiff: Kristine Mooney, Trustee of the Kristine Mooney Revocable Living Trust Dated November 3, 2023.
Notice: You have been sued. The court may decide against you without you being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.
Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for free waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center(www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Humboldt County Superior Court 825 Fifth Street Eureka, CA 95501
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Carlton D. Floyd (SBN 275958) Floyd Law Firm 819 Seventh Street Eureka, CA 95501
707-445-9754
Date: Novemb3er 25, 2025
Clerk, by Meara Hattan, Jack F 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-096)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF William Leslie Hebard aka William L Hebard
CASE NO. PR2600071
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of William Leslie Hebard aka William L
Hebard A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Cory Hebard In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. The petition for probate requests that Cory Hebard 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 April 9, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept.: 4 For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: Carlton D Floyd Floyd Law Firm 819 7th Street Eureka, CA 95501 (707)445-9754
Filed: March 9, 2026
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (26-115)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Joyce Virginia Oilar aka Joy Oilar CASE NO. PR2600079
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Joyce Virginia Oilar aka Joy Oilar
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Jeff R. Sterling. In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. The petition for probate requests that Jeff R. Sterling 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 April 9, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. at the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt, 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, in Dept.: 4
For information on how to appear remotely for your hearing, please visit https://www.humboldt.courts. ca.gov/
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER:
Jocelyn M. Godinho, Esq
317 3rd St, Suite 15
Eureka, CA 95501
Filed March 16, 2026
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 (26-121)
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2616 VISSER COURT, MCKINLEYVILLE
$499,000
Discover exceptional versatility and income potential on this ±1.07-acre property located in an exclusive gated community. The main residence features 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, complemented by an outbuilding and a privacy fence for added comfort and functionality. A separate, fully finished 1-bedroom, 1-bath secondary home offers the perfect opportunity for rental income, multigenerational living, or guest accommodations. With ample space for future improvements, this oversized parcel provides both immediate livability and long-term potential in a peaceful, lightly traveled setting.
6911 VISTA ROAD, EUREKA
$95,000
while a flat
the road provides a great starting point for your future home. Utilities—including water, gas, and electricity—are available at the street. With space, privacy, and a serene setting, this property offers a wonderful opportunity to build your ideal retreat.
3253 GREENWOOD HEIGHTS DRIVE, KNEELAND $589,000
Country property above the fog belt and not far from Freshwater School. 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with garage, large family room, and multiple flex use outbuildings and shop. New carpet, reliable well with storage tank and state of the art filtration. Septic recently pumped. Surrounded by nature and wildlife, with plenty of outdoor space for exploring, gardening, or play.
3657 H STREET, EUREKA
$369,000
This comfortable well-built Eureka home features craftsmanship and custom details consistent with the era: built-in cabinetry, custom woodwork, beautiful curly Redwood paneling, extra storage and gleaming oak floors. Just off the large living room with woodstove is a wonderful large atrium room with skylights! One of the two very large bedrooms features a built-in desk and cabinets for a potential home office. Step outside and enjoy the large private yard with plenty of room for all your garden projects.
1655 & 1659 FISCHER AVENUE, MCKINLEYVILLE
$695,500
Exceptional half-acre duplex with the Hammond Trail running through the property, offering coastal living and recreation at your doorstep.
The 3BD/2BA main unit and 2BD/1BA second unit each feature private laundry and garages, ideal for multigenerational living or rental income. Extensively updated in the past six years, including roof, siding, windows, kitchens, and baths. Currently a successful vacation rental, sold fully furnished for a turnkey opportunity near Arcata and Highway 101.
±3.86 ACRES ANDERSON AVENUE, MCKINLEYVILLE
$475,000
Wetside Mckinleyville housing development project. Terrific location on a quiet side street, close to Hwy 101, beaches, the Hammond Trail, and Cal Poly Humboldt. ±3.86 acres with approved construction plans for 6 separate building lots with a minimum ½ acre size. Each parcel is flat with fertile soil, panoramic open skies, and great solar exposure. Next steps are to install utilities, drainage improvements, sidewalks, road, and driveway access. All plans available.
40777 HIGHWAY 36, BRIDGEVILLE
$1,200,000
Perched on a scenic hill just off Highway 36, 2 miles west of Dinsmore, this unique property offers privacy, self-sufficiency, and versatility. The straw-built home blends rustic charm with eco-conscious design, featuring a wood-fired cook stove. Infrastructure includes solar, generator, and hydro power, plus spring water and a 500K-gallon pond. With county-approved 18,000 sq ft of upgraded greenhouse space and a permitted build site, it’s ideal for agricultural or off-grid living.
