Paintings by Amanita Mollier at Trinidad Art Gallery. Read more on page 9.
Blatant Gaslighting: Miranda’s Rescue
Editor:
My name is Jamara Knight, and I am a 30-year resident of Humboldt County. This community is run by a select number of families and their friends. It has been that way for decades. Shannon is part of that group.
The article recently published by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (“Miranda’s Rescue Under Scrutiny,” June 18, 2026) is skewed. Reputable journalists verify facts before publishing them. Charmaine and Zora were vetted animals and the facilities that transferred them have been transparent about their adoptability. The fact that the North Coast Journal published his lies about dogs being killed and pretend “adopters” is sickening and is the very behaviors that have allowed this to continue for decades. I have seen many, many accusations over the years and I have watched Shannon utilize his pull in the community to gaslight and discredit them. The very thing your article intended. It is reminiscent of how sexual abuse survivors are treated. Discredit the witness and the truth becomes secondary. There is no perfect witness. Shannon’s picture on the front page and not the picture of those dead dogs is almost uncomprehensible. If that many animals are being killed by animals on his property what does that say about his rescue practices? Were the volunteers working with the animals to ensure their chances at adoption, or were they put in pens with scarce food and water? The conditions of the dogs coming out of the rescue have been reported as underweight with visible scarring. Another verifiable fact left out. Where are the workers that can confirm Shannon’s tales?
Another example of poor journalism and skewed reporting. That article was nothing more than his defense. This was egregious journalism and perpetuates Miranda’s gaslighting of this community. The transparency is lacking, and Shannon is banking on this community not forcing an investigation.
Jamara Knight, McKinleyville
We Need Accountability, Not Excuses
Editor:
Every day that passed gave Shannon Miranda additional time to change his story, create new explanations and attempt to cover up what many of us have long suspected.
Finding eight dogs buried in a hole should not be viewed as an isolated
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To see its flock dig up their leavings
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Lies a hole waiting for you to fill it
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There is nary a berry in sight
And some holes will never be filled
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incident. It raises serious questions about how many more animals may have suffered a similar fate over the years. The public deserves a thorough investigation, not carefully crafted excuses.
As someone who has been involved in animal rescue for nearly three decades, I know firsthand how difficult it is to place animals into safe, loving homes. Shelters are overflowing and large dogs are being euthanized by the thousands due to a lack of adopters. It is difficult to understand how Miranda’s Rescue was consistently finding homes for so many animals in such short periods of time. Where are the records? Where is the documentation? Where are the adopters?
My organization personally sent two dogs to Miranda’s Rescue. Within 30 days, we were told they would be euthanized because they were allegedly aggressive and biting employees. These dogs had a large network of volunteers closely following their progress. We immediately arranged for their return, and a volunteer transported them back to us the very next day.
Investigators and journalists should speak with former employees, volunteers, transporters and others who witnessed
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operations behind the scenes. Those voices may provide the truth.
The county has a responsibility to fully investigate these allegations and follow the evidence wherever it leads. If wrongdoing is found, those responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The animals deserved better. The public deserves the truth. As rescuers, we are humiliated and heartbroken by what has been uncovered. True rescue is built on love, compassion, accountability and a commitment to protecting animals.
Margo Cassidy, Napa
Jumping on the ‘Terrible Guy Bandwagon’
Editor:
Seems everyone is jumping on the Shannon Miranda is a terrible guy bandwagon. I don’t claim to know all the details of the current allegations, or even whether they are true or not, or, if so, what kind of justification was used. Sometimes hard decisions have to be made when running a nonprofit business such as a charitable rescue mission. Unfortunately, it does take money to feed
and house hundreds of rescued animals. What I do know is how many animals Mr. Miranda has sheltered and saved over the many years he has been running his operation. We got two wonderful animals from Miranda’s Rescue, my oh such a good buddy, Bodhi, who was rescued as a puppy from a shipping container in the Hoopa Valley, and Daisy Mae, a sophisticated and garrulous dilute who was a real cool cat, as cool as they come. They are both gone now, after 15 years of being an integral part of our lives and family. They would not have been such an important part of our lives without Shannon Miranda.
I can understand how people feel a trust has been broken, but do they really know the whole story? And where is the gratitude for all the good Shannon Miranda has done over the years? The lynch mob seems a bit sanctimonious to me.
Ryan Lee, Glendale
Humboldt Sponsors Appreciation
Editor:
I want to recognize and thank an amazing local organization, Humboldt Sponsors, the local nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to raising funds solely to benefit the youth of Humboldt County. Among the many programs they support, they generously funded the climate education books-to-schools joint project of 350 Humboldt, a local climate action group and the Climate Action Campaign of the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. In this program, we placed packets of five climate education books in 10 local elementary schools. The books range from kindergarten to sixth grade level. Combined with our book program last year, we have now placed books in 21 local schools.
The goal of the book program is to inform and empower local youth to be proactive regarding climate change and to be empowered stewards of environmental protection. Thank you, Humboldt Sponsors, for including us among your many magnanimous youth sponsorships.
Cathy Chandler-Klein, 350 Humboldt, Arcata
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Cal State’s Newest Polytechnic Campus Hopes a Rebranding Will Bring Enrollment Gains
By Kate Rix/EdSource newsroom@northcoastjournal.com
Jonathan Juarez was working in Los Angeles to help support his parents and brother when he decided it was time to finish his bachelor’s degree. Rather than stay local, the 30 year old enrolled at the California State University’s northernmost campus roughly 700 miles away, drawn by a brand new major at a university in the midst of reinvention.
“I love being able to look back to where I came from, to where I am today,” said Juarez, who will graduate from Cal Poly Humboldt in 2027 with degrees in polytechnic data science and economics. “I told myself, ‘I need to go back. I want it. I really want to see if I can finish this.’ And I fell in love with academia again.”
After more than a century as Humboldt State University, the picturesque campus on California’s North Coast became a polytechnic university in 2022 — making it the third in the system after Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly Pomona. Since the name change, the university has launched new interdisciplinary programs that emphasize applied learning and combined disciplines.
The polytech designation is less of a transformation for the campus and more of a rebranding, aimed at boosting enrollment by putting a finer point on what the university offers.
“That should help boost enrollment,” said Shawna Young, interim provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, “because those who are interested in seeking that kind of job and career and workforce readiness will think of us.”
Since the new designation, Cal Poly Humboldt has seen slight gains in enrollment, growing more than 7 percent from 5,858 students in 2022 to 6,276 in 2025. The university aims to enroll more than 11,600 students by 2035.
But, like all educational institutions across the nation, the campus faces the “demographic cliff” of decreasing enrollment.
Campus leaders say the new designation gives Cal Poly Humboldt a competitive edge with applicants that Humboldt State University didn’t have.
“We have looked at it as a recognition,” said Chrissy Holliday, vice president for Enrollment Management and Student Success. “The hope was to carve out a differentiation of what makes Cal Poly Humboldt unique, so our pitch becomes less about pretty pictures and more about the value we’re offering students.”
CSU leaders asked Humboldt State to apply for polytechnic status in 2020, citing the campus’ “many distinct strengths in the sciences,” and the sciences have benefited from the designation. A new engineering and technology building is expected to be completed in 2027, when the first cohort of students who applied to the new Cal Poly will graduate.
Funded with a one-time state investment of $433 million, the $100 million building will house a new mechanical engineering bachelor’s, an engineering and community practice master’s and, by 2029, bachelor’s programs in forest engineering and regenerative engineering and design technology.
Also funded with the state investment is a two-building housing complex located half a mile from campus. The state Legislature approved an additional annual allocation of $25 million to pay for the rollout of polytech course programs through 2029.
The data science program is a direct result of the polytech transition, said Kamila Larripa, an associate professor of mathematical biology.
“That investment allowed some of these new programs to fully form and not just be an idea,” she said.
Transitioning to polytech
The rebranding has also brought casualties. Last year, the university closed the religious studies department and, instead, added a history of religions concentration
to the history degree program.
The changes alarmed faculty and staff at other universities pursuing polytech status. As Central Connecticut State University explores the designation, some who oppose the idea argue it is being rushed through, might shutter humanities programs and could threaten the university’s gender balance.
For Nicole Jean Hill, who is chair of the Art and Film Department at Cal Poly Humboldt, the transition made sense. People have asked Hill whether the polytech rebrand made her and other arts faculty nervous.
“I’m not worried at all,” she said, “because we totally align with what that is in our field.”
Students in art and film engage in handson learning every day, she said. Beyond that, Hill said the relationship between STEM and art fields “doesn’t feel competitive or ominous” at Cal Poly Humboldt.
“I think a lot of the STEM faculty recognize the importance of arts as well,” she said. “I really love teaching students that are from the STEM fields. It’s my favorite thing about working here.”
One of Hill’s art students benefited directly from the polytech transition. A fine arts major, Jack Conti was more interested in video and animation than traditional media like ceramics and painting. But, with just a few semesters to go until graduation, he was prepared to stick it out with studio art and finish his degree.
Then Hill told Conti that a new interdisciplinary media arts major was about to launch, combining art, film and digital technology. Conti could take a few more courses, apply his earlier graphic design credits from community college and finish two semesters early with a degree that bet-
ter aligned with his career interests.
“I realized that I had a lot of the credits needed to be one of the first people to do the media arts program,” said Conti, who plans to get a master’s degree in media arts. “So I shifted course and started taking more design and digital art classes, and it just pretty much worked out perfectly.”
Other faculty also saw an opportunity to connect humanities courses to post-college outcomes. As chair of the new Applied Humanities Department, history professor Sara Hart spent last spring and summer researching how to align the new major and its focus areas in health, technology and social responsibility with workforce needs. Hart interviewed industry leaders in Silicon Valley, New York City, Boston and Washington, D.C., about what they want to see in future employees. Two major themes emerged: employees need to be more flexible and communicate better. Then, she worked with a team to build a curriculum rooted in the liberal arts but tied to workforce applications.
A class called Applied Storytelling is designed to strengthen professional communication. In another, called Navigating Change, students read the Stoics, a set of ancient Greco-Roman philosophical beliefs, alongside contemporary classics in change management, Hart said. The major also requires 300 hours of service work and includes a career curriculum.
“Our goal is to make sure that students have access to a strong, multidisciplinary humanities curriculum that prepares them for their own chosen professional futures,” she said. l
Kate Rix covers higher education for EdSource and is based in Oakland.
A view of Founders Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt.. California Polytechnic University, Humboldt
Prodigal Fun
Mary Jane 2: The Grandson
Story and photos by Mark Larson frontrow@northcoastjournal.com
Even if you don’t have fond flashback memories of the late Joan Schirle in the role of Mary Jane and the music from the 2011 production of Mary Jane the Musical , I highly recommend seeing Mary Jane the Musical 2: The Grandson at the outdoor Dell’Arte Amphitheater stage in Blue Lake. (Dress warmly, bring a chair or blanket.)
The sold-out opening night crowd enjoyed the timely, very funny and heart-tugging social commentary about Humboldt County cannabis life, the complicated Jane family histories and the challenges of a polyamorous love life, all mixed into this musical written by Michael Fields. The show is co-directed by Roman Sanchez and Fields, and uses only a single painted backdrop and a large rocky ledge on the stage. Lots of
dancing and 12 original songs with great lyrics performed by members of the highly talented ensemble cast were supported by the lively, outstanding soundtrack created by the Best Band Ever, featuring Tim Randles, Marla Joy, Jeff Kelley and Mike LaBolle.
As for the plot, Mary Jane’s grandson Billy Jane, or “BJ” (William English III) can’t afford to keep his inherited land in SoHum anymore, given the current decline in the cannabis economy.
BJ is also entangled in polyamory problems with three live-in girlfriends (Shawn Wagner, Laura Murillo Hart and Lily Linz). Having decided he must give up the land, BJ throws a party to share the news with Jane family relatives and others he’s met in his life working cannabis, including a county supervisor Tex Boner (Ben Clifton), county planning director Dana Chevy (Alyssa Hughlett) and her planning director in training Buick Chevy (Hughlett’s young daughter E.G.). BJ’s Aunt Yoni Jane (Peggy Metzger) and Marcia (Zera Starchild) are also in the mix.
Fields’ creative mind has birthed a fast-flowing, highly entertaining mix of plot twists and surprises, including a plan to grow psychedelic mushrooms to save the farm proposed by BJ’s first cousin Dante Jane (Evan Grande). Then, a mysterious midwife named Marie Devereaux (Cynthia Martells) arrives at the party to provide magical help to resolve everyone’s troubles and make some deliveries.
Among the local songwriters are Anna Hamilton, Joni Rose, Daryll Cherney, Michael “Tofu” Schwartz, Marcia Mendels and Chris Manspeaker, Starchild, Seabury Gould, Chad
Cynthia Martells plays a mysterious midwife named Marie Devereaux.
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Johnson, Brian Lease and Bridget McCracken, Elizabeth Mackay, Jeff Kelley and Randles. Linnie Horrigan is scenographer mentor, Melanie Zapper is scenic designer and lighting designer is Mike “Spike” Foster, with choreography by Wagner. This rollicking show is the opening event of the Baduwa’t Festival and is a special co-production between Dell’Arte International and Fields’ Longshadr Productions. See the festival schedule at dellarte.com/ baduwat. l
Mary Jane the Musical 2: The Grandson continues June 26, 27 and 28, and July 3 and 5 at 8 p.m. Visit dellarte. com or call (707) 668-5663.
Mark Larson (he/him) is a retired Cal Poly Humboldt journalism professor and active freelance photographer who likes to walk.
NOW PLAYING
Ferndale Repertory Theatre’s production of The Music Man continues through June 28. Visit ferndalerep.org or call (707) 786-5483.
EXIT Theatre’s Short Play Festiva l runs through June 27 with 12 selected pieces from local and international playwrights. Visit theexit.org or call (415) 203-2516.
William English III as Billy Jane, Alyssa Hughlett as county Planning Director Dana Chevy, surrounded by Shawn Wagner (in back), Laura Murillo Hart (front) and Lily Linz (right) as Billy’s girlfriends.
Trinidad Art Night
This town-wide walk includes a variety of art exhibits, live music, artist receptions, face painting, skate ramps, pop-up sales and oyster, cider or wine tastings. Call (707) 834-2479 or visit trinidadartnight.com. Forbes & Associates presents Sarah Corliss, produced by Westhaven Center for the Arts. *Event times may vary.
THE LIGHTHOUSE GRILL 355 Main St. Members’ exhibit curated by Westhaven Center for the Arts, Ann Anderson, Catherine Dean, Jaffa Dugan, K. Eitzen, Debra Cool King, Reuben Mayes, Nancy Rickard, Paul Rickard and Daniel Wells, paintings and photography.
SAUNDERS PLAZA EAST (Bandstand) 355 Main St. Music byThe Jimmie Lahman Band. Face painting by Lela Annotto.
HEADIES PIZZA AND POUR 359 Main St. Joe Mallory, paintings and designs.
TRINIDAD MUSEUM 400 Janis Court “Moonstone.” Lois Smith, Genia Garibaldi and Howard, Thelma and Gregg Moore collections, photography; maps diagramming entrepreneur Norman Smith’s early 1900s vision of “$100 Lots in Westhaven” are part of the exhibit; the Heritage Room features a just-installed exhibit showing 150 years of the Humboldt
County Pioneers Society with images and documents of Humboldt’s fi rst nonIndigenous settlers.
TRINIDAD CIVIC CLUB ROOM 409
Trinity St. Sophia Buell, photography.
TRINIDAD TOWN HALL 409 Trinity St. Reuben Mayes, abstract expressionism paintings; John Bumgartner, paintings on canvas and denim clothing; music by Mike Craghead and Sari Baker.
TRINIDAD ART GALLERY 490 Trinity St. “Silk, Silver and Stone; celebrating the work of silk painter Amanita Mollier and jeweler Susan Kohl,” exhibit and reception; snacks, wine pour benefitting Trinidad Coastal Land Trust and an opportunity to meet local artists; music by Ryan Roberts and friends.
TRINIDAD BAY EATERY & Gallery
607 Parker St. Carolyn Belak, underwater photography. Oyster bar.
MOONSTONE CROSSING 529 Trinity St. Tara Miller, driftwood art. Moonstone Crossing wine tasting with snacks or Dick Taylor chocolates.
SEASCAPE RESTAURANT AND PIER
1 Bay St. Music by The Miracle Show. Vendors and artists: Bill Daniel’s Art, The Glassblowers Wife, Lost Coast Candles and more.
Jewelry by Susan Kohl at Trinidad Art Gallery. Submitted.
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The sprawling landscape of Miranda’s Rescue is open and green, with horse paddocks, barns and white fencing. Outdoor kennels are lined up in squares around grassy expanses. The rescue, which includes president and founder Shannon Miranda’s private residence, encompasses 50 acres of Fortuna farmland, some 20 to 30 acres of it usable, and a good deal of it river bar. There are kennels for 60 dogs, capacity for 100 cats, fenced fields for horses, goats and other large animals, and cages for birds both domestic and exotic. It is a fair approximation of the farm parents tell their children a beloved pet has gone to live on rather than admitting it has died.
But the disinterring of eight dogs, some with apparent gunshot wounds to their heads, on Miranda’s Rescue property by animal rescue operator Jenna Moore and spay and neuter clinic founder Jennifer Raymond (the latter of whom purchased the property next door to Miranda’s Rescue to monitor it) has rocked the image of the nonprofit. On May 1, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office investigators bearing a search warrant seized records, a phone, iPad, laptop, guns and ammunition as possible evidence of animal cruelty and defrauding the shelters that transferred dogs to Miranda’s Rescue to be cared for and adopted out, instead putting the animals to death to make room for more.
The investigation is ongoing and as the Journal went to press June 23, the sheriff’s office was conducting a
Miranda’s Rescue Under Scrutiny PART 2
Animal welfare concerns and an ongoing investigation
By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill jennifer@northcoastjournal.com
second search warrant operation at Miranda’s Rescue, including “the excavation of the property in an effort to locate additional deceased animals believed to be buried on site.”
According to an HCSO press release, the search is, “Based on the large number of animals that remain unaccounted.” The excavation, it states, is being carried out with assistance from, “Members of the Cal Poly Humboldt Anthropology Department, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and private forensic veterinarians.” The release also states the sheriff’s office is working with the “FBI, California Department of Justice, United States Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, California Attorney General’s Office and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.”
Video from the scene shows an excavator pushing through the ground and vegetation at one edge of the dirt-covered patch where Miranda buried at least eight dogs. At the other end of the already fl attened expanse, a pair of people were operating groundpenetrating radar equipment.
When Sabrina Woods visited Miranda’s Rescue with a dog from the Solano County Animal Shelter in September of 2025, the approach was idyllic, and she was looking
forward to fi nally seeing the place. She hoped to see some of the dogs she’d cared for as a shelter volunteer in their new homes, including a 100-pound Siberian husky-German shepherd mix named Kane.
Working remotely in fi nance on East Coast time allowed Woods to dedicate afternoons to volunteering at the Solano shelter in 2024. She got attached to a few dogs there but fell in love with Kane. “All he wanted to do was cuddle with me,” she says, “laying down in my arms.” A few months in, she learned Kane was going to Miranda’s Rescue. “I was sad, but I was so happy for him that he was gonna go to this rescue and he’d have the opportunity to be adopted,” and have more freedom to move around. Hoping for news he’d been adopted, “I began stalking Miranda’s Rescue’s Facebook page,” she Continued on next page »
Outdoor kennels at Miranda’s Rescue.
Photo by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
says with a small laugh.
She’d helped raise funds to bring a big red dog named Clifford north to Miranda’s Rescue, even driving him there herself. Founder and operator Shannon Miranda wasn’t available to meet when she arrived, but she was excited to visit and learn about the rescue’s training and other programs. “I was also thinking I was going to see all my dogs,” Woods says, as by then she’d known some 70 dogs that had gone to the Fortuna rescue. “It was just the most disappointing day ever,” she recalls, and it left her sobbing in the car. She saw only one recently transferred dog but thought maybe others were in the rear building to which she didn’t have access. Hearing from staff that Miranda was the only trainer on site didn’t make sense in terms of time requirement.
“That visit made me question their ability to do what everyone said they were doing,” says Woods.
Later that fall, Woods saw a Facebook post from Oakland Animal Services (OAS) stating it had transferred more than 170 dogs. She knew Solano County had sent 126, about 10 a month, and another 170 didn’t sound feasible given Miranda’s Rescue’s kennel capacity and staffi ng. After looking into the usual timeline for placing dogs in the Humboldt area, she learned it could take months or even a year or more.
“There were a lot of accusations I found online … and you can go down a rabbit hole online,” Woods says. But she put rumors aside, figuring if they were true, something would have been done. Instead, she started making Public Records Act (PRA) requests to shelters to fi nd out which ones were transferring dogs to Miranda’s Rescue and how many. She plugged their responses into an Excel sheet covering 2025.
In the 17 redacted pages she got in response to her PRA request for complaints made to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office about Miranda’s Rescue, she says, “I started recognizing a pattern that he was saying he was euthanizing a dog because it killed something,” either because it escaped a kennel and killed another dog, or that it was adopted and killed a cat or bit a child. “I just kept hearing that over and over again.”
Then Woods got a call from Raymond, Miranda’s now neighbor who had been told by a shelter that the two of them were making similar PRA requests. “We were both doing the exact same things,” says Woods, and seeing the same patterns. The two put their work together, cross referenced and formed one comprehensive document covering 21 shelters and municipalities sending dogs to Miranda’s Rescue from 2020 to 2025.
The May 1 search warrant cites potential animal cruelty not solely because Miranda shot dogs, which he has admitted to doing out of what he claims were safety concerns following five dogs attacking other animals. The last of these attacks, he says, occurred on a day when he had to leave town to see a sick relative and felt he could not risk safety by waiting, but was unable to fi nd a veterinarian to administer euthanasia. Under California law, explains Humboldt County Animal Control Facilities Manager Andre Hale, a private rescue is the owner of an animal and not subject to the same euthanasia requirements as a public shelter or a veterinarian. Therefore, according to law, a rescue can put down an animal with a gun, so long as it is shot in the head for a quick death.
But killing animals “for fi nancial gain and failing to provide the exact services guaranteed to his associate,” as alleged in the May 1 search warrant, could bring charges of fraud and/or cruelty. In the case of a dog named Zora transferred from Oakland Animal Services, allegedly lying to the shelter about her adoption and death, are presented as a suspected example of taking payment for accepting a dog and killing it rather than caring for and adopting the animal out, as agreed upon.
The affidavit lists contracts for animal transfers with the cities of Ferndale, Fortuna and Rio Dell, as well as Oakland Animal Services, Berkeley Animal Services, Contra Costa County, Monterey County’s Hitchcock Road Animal Services and Solano
County Animal Care. “In the past year,” it states, “it is estimated that Miranda has received approximately over 600 dogs from various shelters.” Drawing on the documents provided by Raymond, Moore and Woods, the estimated income from those dog transfers, according to the document, comes to approximately $510,000.
As a 501c3 nonprofit, Miranda’s Rescue’s tax returns are available online to the public. Considering not only the entities listed above, but all those listed in the spreadsheet compiled by Woods and Raymond, it’s difficult to see how the numbers fit.
Taxes for 2024 filed by treasurer Brian Paris show total revenue at $471,080. This is broken down into the following:
Contributions and grants, $224,247
Program service revenue, $90,545
Other revenue, $156,288
In 2024, Woods and Raymond’s PRA requests to shelters showed a total of 628 dogs transferred to Miranda’s Rescue. The number does not include animals surrendered by individuals, or dogs from the cities of Ferndale, Fortuna and Rio Dell, which pay monthly, not per dog.
Phone calls to Paris were not returned.
Applying the standard minimum transfer fee of $400 per dog, those 628 transfers from shelters would have brought in roughly $251,200.
That total exceeds each of the line items under Miranda’s Rescue’s total revenue. It’s also unclear where the fees for adopting
out this many dogs would fit, as Miranda says he’s unable to share adoption numbers contained in records seized by the sheriff’s office. He says he does not have access to copies of those records and that even they may not be accurate.
Asked about the search warrant’s estimate of how many dogs were transferred to Miranda’s Rescue by shelters in 2025, Miranda scoffs and says he feels more than 600 is “a little high.” However, he says it’s possible 500 shelter dogs came through his rescue. Taking into account the 50 or so dogs that went back to shelters, he sayshe could have plausibly accepted 450 dogs and placed all the adoptable dogs among them. Some weeks, he says with a shrug, 10, 12 or 3 dogs might be adopted out. In total, counting every species, “We adopt out 1,100-1,200 animals a year.”
But even with the seized records returned to him, Miranda confesses he can’t back it up with documentation. “My record keeping is shit,” he says. He says sometimes he was loose with paperwork, allowing people to take a dog and fill out forms later, and admits it’s troubling how loose his record keeping is.
Again, Miranda says he doesn’t have an estimate for how many dogs are dropped off by individuals, though he says most every dog brought in from the cities of Ferndale and Fortuna were “owner redeemed,” meaning returned to their homes.
Documentations of euthanasia are even more scarce as Miranda says he stopped recording them at all in the past year. “Some I
did and some I didn’t,” he says, unsure when he stopped recording but guessing probably in the last seven or eight months. He was tired of receiving aggressive dogs, Miranda says, and gave up.
Humboldt Veterinary Medical Group’s Ferndale Veterinary and Fortuna Veterinary are both listed on Miranda’s Rescue’s website as its vets, and, like all such facilities, are required to follow euthanasia protocol and document each case. However, co-owner Jennifer Flores states she is unable to share privileged client medical information, though it’s been “months and months and months,” since the hospital has been asked to make an appointment for the rescue.
(Miranda offered to contact Ferndale Veterinary, which he named as his primary vet, to release his records to the Journal , but the office had not received written notification to do so as of press time.)
While describing shooting the dogs found on the rescue property by Moore and Raymond to the Journal , Miranda says, without sharing names, “I’ve had several veterinarians call me and say shooting is more humane than euthanizing [by injection].”
Flores says she’d be surprised to hear any vet take that position.
At both the Ferndale and Fortuna vet offices, Flores explains, dog euthanasia is always carried out by injection of a reliable sedative with the smallest needle possible to send the pet to sleep in a few minutes. This is followed by another injection the pet does not feel, an overdose of anesthesia to Continued on next page »
Mendocino County
Ground-penetrating radar equipment and an excavator being used to search for remains at Miranda’s Rescue on June 23. Photo by Melissa Sanderson
stop its heart. The owner or a staffer stays with the pet so it’s never left alone. Before euthanasia, she adds, dogs are offered Hershey’s Kisses the staff call “goodbye kisses,” because, as she says, “Every good dog deserves to eat chocolate before they leave this world.”
In cases where a dog has bitten a person or an animal and the owner is seeking euthanasia, the vet is required to contact Animal Control because rabies is endemic in Humboldt County. Animal Control, Flores says, confers with the county’s Division of Environmental Health, sometimes determining the dog be quarantined for 10 days to see if rabies symptoms develop. Putting down an animal for aggression/attack also requires considering other options, including training, pain medication and possible rehoming, says Flores.
“canine castle” structure. All but a few loads have to go back, he explains, since he didn’t have a grading permit, but he was allowed to spread the remainder. That’s not to say there are no animals beneath the thick vegetation, Miranda says, as he’s buried horses, pets and livestock that die on the property as a matter of practice, as well as animals he’s buried for people who live in cities.
Climbing out of the ATV, every step sends up the scent of the crushed mint underfoot for a few feet until the greenery gives way to the edge of the dirt-covered section of the field. This, Miranda says, is where he buried the eight dogs that Raymond and Moore dug up in the dark on May 26. Weeks later, the earth still isn’t quite packed, despite tire tracks running across it.
Emergency euthanasia, like emergency care in general, Flores says, is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “That’s part of being a practice. You have to have a plan for emergency care.” If it’s midnight, for example, you can call the office and press 9 to be connected to the message service. Staff ask vital questions and send the information to the vet on call, who will respond with an immediate visit or a recommendation to either make an appointment or walk in the following day for urgent care. “There should not be a situation in which you feel like you have to take care of something yourself,” she says, “because we always see emergencies.” But there are limits, as Flores notes, “We don’t perform convenience euthanasias.”
A peacock trailing its tail drifts out of the way as Miranda, in a pair of mirrored wrap-around sunglasses, steers the dusty, red Rhino ATV along the path through the rescue grounds. Miranda points to a pen beside the fence, where Barbara the water buffalo stands 15 feet from an upturned trough. “And she is mean,” he says, joking that he wishes Raymond had entered the property into Bertha’s pen the night she cut through a hole in the fence and started digging.
Tall grass and weeds come up over the windshield, dense enough to obscure the view of the overgrown hedge through which Raymond first entered the property, and the chain link fence beneath it that she cut through. Miranda points to where the hole in the fence is boarded over with plywood. He turns the ATV in an arc around the mounds of dirt he says have been mistaken for mass animal graves but are actually Caltrans project leftovers he hoped to use to flatten the area where he planned to build a
Miranda says he typically gives aggressive dogs a few days to see if they can be worked with before calling the veterinarian for euthanasia. “But sometimes I had to,” he says, turning mainly to Ferndale Veterinary and Riverwalk Veterinary Hospital until it closed. As for Ferndale Veterinary not being asked for appointments in some time, Miranda says he has also gone to McKinleyville Animal Care Center and both Humboldt Spay and Neuter Network and Critters Without Litters for sterilization and injuries, but that his staff makes appointments for him and he isn’t sure.
One of the pit bulls found among the eight dogs buried on his rescue’s property, he says, attacked a baby’s stroller, biting a wheel and refusing to release it. “Thank God I was here,” he says, breath hitching. “I would be in more trouble than I am now if that dog would have killed that baby.” (Miranda tells the Journal contact information for the woman pushing the stroller is unavailable.)
Miranda says he’s not sure how many dogs he’s put down with a gun. “It’s not a ton of dogs but it hasn’t been that many,” he says. In the last four years, he estimates, “I can say maybe 10 times, 15 times — maybe a dog — it hasn’t been, like, mass dogs.” All of them, he says, were extremely aggressive dogs that posed a threat to people or other animals.
The day after Raymond called to tell her about digging up the dogs at Miranda’s Rescue, Woods says her supervisors at the Solano County shelter pulled her aside to ask why she was making PRA requests. When one asked what she’d found out about Miranda’s Rescue, her reaction was visceral. “I just vomited all over her, I was crying,” she says.
Woods says she understands dogs have to be euthanized at times, even in a “no-kill”
rescue, where healthy, adoptable animals aren’t killed to make room for more. “I don’t think anyone in shelters thinks that doesn’t happen.” That’s different, she says, than “to be lied to specifically.”
After tallying the numbers she and Raymond gathered with calls and PRA requests, Woods came up with a total of 635 dogs for 2025, about 70 fewer than the previous year’s number. “I guess I’m a little OCD when it comes to organizing things,” she says of the color coding, the chart and the fact sheet. The packaged information “was just for me approaching shelters and trying to convince them not to send any dogs to Miranda’s again.”
Documents in hand, Woods says she presented the information to Berkeley Animal Care Services, informing Field Services Officer London Rivera there that one of the eight dogs buried at Miranda’s Rescue was Charmaine, a Berkeley transfer. (When contacted by the Journal , Rivera had no comment as the investigation is ongoing.)
On April 30, Woods says she met with Rivera, Animal Services Director for Berkeley Animal Care Services Mike St. Pierre, OAS Operations Manager Melinda Tierney and Director Joe DeVries. “I was extremely
scared. I know the shelters have an incentive to have high live rates,” says Woods, who was concerned shelters were aware of the numbers seeming off but “passing the buck.” Instead, she says, they were upset, angry and appreciative of her work, as well as concerned about her well-being. “I was floored by their response,” she says. “These people care about dogs.”
“The impression I got from them, from Oakland, from Berkeley and Solano, was just horror,” says Woods. “I don’t think for an instant that these shelters that I talked to knew what was happening.”
Sitting behind the bar in his garage, Miranda says, “Everyone thinks I made this ton of money off all these dogs — not true. … It takes so much time and so much energy feeding, training and having other people walk dogs.” With all the expenses from food to payroll, he says, “It takes $115,000 a month to keep this going.” (That does not appear to align with Miranda’s Rescue’s 2024 tax filings, which list total expenses, including salaries and other expenses, at $671,516.)
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Kane, the Siberian husky-German shepherd dog Sabrina Woods cared for at the Solano County Animal Shelter and is still hoping to find.
Photo courtesy of Sabrina Woods
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have been the subject of unfair suspicion for years. His husband Jim Oxboro, he says, came to their marriage with his own money and their real estate holdings are not as lavish as people say. Miranda counts off the couple’s one house in Humboldt and a rented condo and a main house in Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Miranda says, face flushing and eyes wet, is his refuge. “I’ve been doing this 31 fucking years and I can’t have one place and vent after 31 years of all my work? … I can’t have one place where I can go and relax?”
Some of the dogs he’s taken in should never have come to him, Miranda says. “It’s my fault because I’ve kind of allowed myself to become the dumping ground.”
The condition of dogs upon arrival is another issue, he says. “I don’t want to throw people under the bus but it’s go time. I’m not going to sit here and get barbecued.”
He leans forward and says, “Every single dog — and I mean this absolutely — every single dog that came up from Oakland Animal Services was drugged up on Trazodone and Gabapentin. For lack of a better word, they were so fucked up they couldn’t even walk. And we had to carry some dogs to the kennels, they were so drugged up. And I would walk back to the van and say, ‘What am I supposed to do with dogs that can’t walk?’”
Miranda goes on to say that six months ago, dogs from Oakland had arrived dead of heat stroke after traveling in a van with no air conditioning. He says he gave the dogs mouth-to-mouth and was only able to save one, and that shelter staff told him they were horrified and felt bad.
walk, says De Vries, so they discontinued giving the medications the day of travel. That every OAS dog arrived incapacitated, De Vries says, is a “complete lie.”
Reached by phone in Panama, where she has retired after serving as OAS animal care coordinator, Martha Cline confirms that after Miranda’s initial complaint, the shelter stopped sending dogs dosed with Trazodone and Gabapentin the morning they travel. She adds he hadn’t complained about drugged or aggressive dogs in the last couple years. “I never sent him dogs without telling him about the dogs” and their issues, she says. “I always sent behavior notes with the dogs because he doesn’t do email.” She says it’s true OAS didn’t take dogs back since they were all slated for euthanasia at the shelter and Miranda’s Rescue was their last chance, a situation Miranda says he was reminded of multiple times. There was no reason, Cline says, to subject the animals to the long ride back to Oakland just to be put down.
De Vries confirms OAS sent 205 dogs to Miranda’s Rescue in 2025. Recalling Woods’ visit to the shelter and the total number of dogs sent from shelters around the state, he says, “When we saw that math, our stomachs sank. There was just no way he could have adopted out all these animals.” De Vries has since seen the graphic photos and videos of dead dogs pulled from the ground at the rescue online. “That alone would be enough for me to grab a shovel” and search the property, he says.
After consulting with staff who’d been at OAS before De Vries’ arrival, De Vries confirms that one dog died in transit to Miranda’s Rescue two years ago in a van without working air conditioning, but that was the only dog and the only instance. Friends of Oakland Animal Services raised funds to provide working air conditioning and dogs have not been transported without it since.
Trazodone and Gabapentin, a sedative combination of the sort one might give a dog ahead of July 4 fireworks, are given to some dogs at OAS, says De Vries. Staff gave the medication to Zora, according to her file, when she was stressed out in the kennels, which can be loud at a municipal shelter at capacity. “It gets to some dogs after a while,” he notes. But, De Vries says, “They’re still very active. They can go outside and go for walks.” A large enough dose to have a dog stumbling isn’t used except for surgery, he says. However, also two years ago, dogs were given Trazodone and Gabapentin to calm them for travel. Miranda complained that a dog arrived drugged and unable to
Following the search warrant, Animal Control visits Miranda’s Rescue for voluntary monitoring three times a week, accompanied once a week by a veterinarian who asked not to be named in this story. “I’m pretty much there as an advocate for the animal,” they say. The health checks are brief, the vet explains, and include monitoring weight and condition, and giving recommendations, which Miranda, as the owner of the animals, can follow or not. So far, they say, he’s been cooperative. The vet says they don’t feel comfortable commenting on the status of the dogs or how they’re doing beyond their being generally OK. “Just like Humboldt County Animal Shelter, they have thin dogs in their shelter — it happens — dogs get stressed in a shelter situation and they’ll lose weight.”
Over the phone, Moore says the Facebook Group she created, “Where are the Dogs Sent to Miranda’s Rescue in Fortuna, California,” has found more confirmed adoptions in the last couple weeks, totaling around 10 of the nearly 800 dogs posted on the page for people or shelters who have brought animals there over the years.
OAS chips every dog before it leaves the shelter, says De Vries, but the database has to be updated by vets and rescues when the dog moves on. “What rescue doesn’t scan the dog when it arrives and inform the new adopters about it?” he asks. “That’s animal adoptions 101.” An OAS veterinarian has looked up a couple hundred chipped dogs that have gone up to Miranda’s Rescue, he says, and only found four with updated names of new adopters so far. But De Vries is quick to add this doesn’t mean the other dogs are lost or dead, just that the record hasn’t been updated.
Once his paperwork is returned by the sheriff’s office, Miranda says he’ll be able to trace where most animals went. But he has little sympathy for former owners who want to trace dogs. “It’s none of their business,” Miranda says. “Most of the people who drop dogs off, they’re gonna dump them. They don’t want them. They moved into an apartment. They’re pregnant. ‘I don’t want the dog anymore.’ And now that this is going on,” he says, “they want their 15 seconds of fame.”
Some shelters have picked up transferred dogs from Miranda’s Rescue but Miranda is resistant to sending some, especially long-term dogs, back, he says, for fear the shelters will euthanize them. In his interview with the Journal three weeks before the second search warrant operation and excavation began on June 23, Miranda says the rescue was operating as usual. Though now, he says, he’s “doing paperwork on everything.” Asked if he thinks Miranda’s Rescue will be able to continue in the wake of the evolving investigation, he offers a defiant yes. “If anybody can pull this out, I can, because I’ve been honest and I’ve been truthful.” After this story went to press, a sheriff’s office press conference had been tentatively set for 2 p.m. to release more information if available. (Visit northcoastjournal.com for updates.)
For him and Oxboro personally, “It’s been really hard on both of us. The death threats
are horrible,” as are, Miranda says, the ones his friends have received for defending him online. He says he no longer feels safe allowing his grandson or other family members to walk outside on the property or go outside at night. He says he’s had animals turned loose from their enclosures and on top of being watched by Raymond next door, strange cars have pulled up to his gates and set everyone on edge.
“The people that I thought were my really good friends — people I’ve gone all through kindergarten, high school, college with — haven’t even reached out because they’re afraid for whatever. I’m done,” Miranda says. “If you know me and you know my heart, you know what I’ve done, I have no guilt for anything I’ve done because I have a responsibility to keep the public safe. Was it the best choice? Probably not.” But, he says, panic and the possible consequences of an aggressive animal hurting someone forced his hand.
“At the end of the day, I’m trying to do my very best. Why isn’t anyone focusing on all the good that I’ve done?” Miranda asks. “I just don’t get why people have to be so evil.”
Woods is still gathering information on transferred dogs, contacting shelters and updating her numbers. So far, she hasn’t found any information on Kane, the dog she grew so attached to in Solano.
Despite knowing intellectually that she’s not responsible for the deaths of any dogs, Woods says, “The hardest part is I have so much guilt about these dogs. If I had just been able to save these dogs, if I had asked more questions sooner ... maybe I could have done something sooner.”
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Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (she/her) is the managing editor at the Journal . Reach her at (707) 442-1400 ext. 106, or jennifer@ northcoastjournal.com. Follow her on Bluesky @jfumikocahill.bsky.social.
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Tough Losses and Shining Wins
By Brandon Dixon getout@northcoastjournal.com
After starting the season 12-0, the Humboldt Crabs took to the road last week to start off league play with a series against the Lincoln Potters. The Potters entered the series undefeated as well, and would prove to be the first real test of the summer for our Crabbies.
In game one, after weeks of offensive dominance, it would be the Crabs’ pitching staff that would step up and be the difference to start a hard-fought series.
While the Potters jumped out to an early lead, scoring a run in the first, the Lincoln team’s time at the top was short-lived. A Tyler Howard single evened things up for the good guys in the top of the second. Things stayed that way until the Crabs broke through with two runs in the fifth. Howard reached base via a walk and Everett Johnson scored on a wild pitch. Jaden Shabry, who has been off to a hot start for the Crabs, added to the momentum with an RBI single to drive in Howard and the Crabs found themselves in the driver’s seat at 3-1.
The real story of the game was the Crabs’ pitching staff. Aiden Dorsch had a formidable outing, giving up a single run over three-plus innings of work, but the standout performance of the game came from reliever Evan Miranda out of San Diego State University. Miranda would toe the line for four-plus innings, allowing a single run while striking out 10 and walking just a single hitter to protect the lead for the Crabs. “I like pitching in high leverage situations and I had everything working tonight. It felt good to come through in a big spot especially against a good team in our league,”said Miranda. Following Miranda was two-way standout Adam Enyart, who entered the game with a one run lead in the ninth. Enyart proved to have ice in his veins as he threw a scoreless ninth to give the Crabs their first save of the year and their first conference win while moving to 13-0. Overall, the Crabs’ pitching would combine for 16 strikeouts while winning a one-run game in
which they were out hit 10-5. Crabbies took game one 3-2.
Game two started off with some promise as the Crabs jumped out to an early four-run lead in the second behind a single from Howard that would plate two. Ryan VandenBrink drove in another run following an error and the Crabs were in the driver’s seat. It was short lived. In the third, the Potters plated nine runs, then scored again in the fourth and tacked on two more in the eighth to run away with game two 12-4, handing our Crabs their first loss of the summer.
On getaway day, the Potters scored early and often, playing runs in all but two innings. One in the first, two in third and fourth and runs in innings sixth through eighth kept the Crabs in the rearview. The Crabs did not go down without a fight, rallying for three in the eighth, but it was too little too late. Six Crabs’ pitchers took the mound but none of them seemed to have the answer that day. Howard and Alex Harrington each drove in a pair of runs, but it wasn’t enough and the Crabs dropped the game and the series 8-5.
After a hot start, then being brought back down to earth, the Crabs returned home to the friendly confines of the Arcata Ball Park against the Stockton Pearls as the boys looked to get their mojo back Friday night. After several scoreless innings, the Crabbies broke through in the fourth. Aided by four errors from the Pearls, the Crabs jumped out to a four to nothing lead. In the sixth, a Colton Boardman RBI double extended the lead to 6. A Kawana Soares single was tacked on in the eighth. The real story, again, was the pitching staff. Returning Miles Oliver threw six shutout innings and the Crabbies also got scoreless innings from Jackson Kelly and Enyart to lock up a much needed 10-2 win in their homecoming. In game two, the Pearls came out swinging and a three-run first inning had the Crabs playing catch up all game. The Pearls added another in the second but the
Crabbies added two in the third and one in the fourth to keep things close. The Pearls scored consistently and pulled away until a late surge from our boys in the ninth. Walks and errors got things going and plateted a few runs for the Crabs before an Eli Burnham double plated two to make things interesting. Ultimately, the rally fell short and the Crabs went home reeling after their third loss of the week, falling short 12-10 going into Sunday. While Jamie Mullins’ second home run of the summer at home was lost in the mix, it was a key part of the late surge for the Crabs.
Sunday was Father’s Day and the Crabs were looking to break even for the week after a tough six-day slate and a similar week with big league games looming. In front of 1,113 fans, the Crabs’ faithful brought the energy to the ballpark. It was a quiet game early on, with the Pearls jumping on top with a run on the third. There wouldn’t be anymore scoring until the sixth, when the Crabs’ bats came alive and put up a three spot. Mullin was at the center of the action, hitting a three-run homer, his third of the season, putting the good guys in the driver’s
seat. The Pearls answered back with a pair of runs in their seventh and the back-andfourth game remained tied and went into extras. The Pearls pushed across a run to go up 6-5 headed into the bottom of the 10th when Boardman came up with the biggest hit of the summer so far for the Crabs. The Cal State Northridge product entered the game with solid numbers, hitting .333 with 10 stolen bases, but Sunday afternoon shined a new light on the freshman. Trailing 6-5, the lefty sent a pitch into oblivion and lore with a walk-off grand slam in front of a huge crowd to salvage a tough week for the Crabs, who walked off victorious 9-6. l
Brandon Dixon (he/him) is a former All American who played college baseball for Orange Coast College, Point Loma Nazarene and the Peninsula Oilers. Father to two little girls, he’s also the host of The Brando Show podcast.
Above: The Crabs storm the field after a huge walkoff grand slam from Colton Boardman.
Right: Chyran Humphries lifts Colton Boardman after a legendary walk off.
Photos by Matt Filar
Nightlife
ARCATA PLAYHOUSE
1251 Ninth St. (707) 822-1575
ARCATA THEATRE LOUNGE 1036 G St., Arcata (707) 822-1220
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Phatsy Kline's: Out 4 Business LGBTQ+ Professionals Networking Mixer 5-7 p.m. Free
Noble Tobal (dub) 8 p.m. Free
Phatsy Kline's: The Nightcap FNM Afterparty: DJ Gabe Pressure 8-10 p.m. Free Latin Dance Night
[W] 80s Adventure Series: The Goonies (1985) (film) 6-9 p.m. $12, $7 kids 12 and under, includes pizza slice
Karaoke 8 p.m. Free
Shiny Happy People
By Collin Yeo setlist@northcoastjournal.com
Afew weeks ago, I came across a new band while reporting on a show at the Outer Space in Arcata. As is sometimes the case, I was first drawn to the group’s name: Thee Olde Druids. I threw out a line about that first impression, something about my assumption of their knowledge of lunar events, and called it a day. I didn’t get to check out that gig, but thankfully they sent me an email not long later with some links to their music, and as is sometimes — but not so often, sadly — the case, I listened to one of the tracks at exactly the right time for maximum effect. It was the sunset of a beautiful but depressing day, and this track was just the thing to pull me out of the shit and set me onto a sturdier spot, like the beginning of Psalm 40.
This isn’t church music, though, far from it. In fact, the name of this project comes
from a colloquial term of appreciation for the various eccentric hippies whom Ben Anderson and Camille Borrowdale — the duo who make up the band — encountered in their respective trajectories from Lodi and Sacramento to Humboldt County. The song that helped me out is called “Shining Bright,” and it’s the first tune from an album named Soul and Rock that has been available to stream on Bandcamp and beyond since June 12. The record took three years to complete, but its genesis lies in the sounds and words Ben and Camille were writing before they had ever even met and come together through the film department at Cal Poly Humboldt and in the local circus community. The two have since married and have been operating the Rocking Horse toy store in Jacoby’s Storehouse as
co-owners for the last 18 months. I know all this stuff, by the way, because I gave them a call during another sunset, the first one after the solstice, to ask about their music and get some basic information. It was a nice informal chat, not an interview as such. Instead, I’m going to do what I normally do in these intros: just follow a certain feeling until the words seem right.
all thinking of, appears to have talent and a soul. You can judge that for yourself tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse ($20).
Saturday
If you want to spend a little money and enjoy a big to-do for the last Saturday of Pride month, the Clarke Museum is putting on a massive drag show at 6:30 p.m., featuring stars of the local scene. Museum members and anyone who shows up in full drag gets in for $30, while the general public will be charged $40 for this gala night emcee’d by Val de Flores.
If money’s a little tighter or your hours are a wee bit later, fear not, because Pandemonium Jones is holding down a vinyl disco meltdown at the Basement at 9 p.m. for a mere $5. It’s all gravy to me.
Sunday
Jam fans rejoice. Humbrews is hosting Dizgo, the hottest quartet from Bloomington, Indiana. Expect lots of dynamic shifts and mind-freeing transitions over the course of the night, along with some opening grooves courtesy of HotFoot. Things get going around 8:30 p.m. and the tickets will run you $25 at the door, $20 for all the early birds out there.
Monday
Anderson handles the production and some of the instruments — bass, guitar and percussion — while Borrowdale provides all of the vocals, ukulele and accordion. The record seesaws through some genuinely delightful, weird spots that favor the sunshine side of vintage psychedelia. There are instrumentals along with the regular singing tunes, but despite the brightness of the sounds, the two are very careful to avoid the kind of toxic positivity that can corrode and hollow out less meaningful albums. This music is fun but it isn’t stupid, and it lurches in ways that evoke the dark backdrop of night that folds behind the bright lights of every big top wonder. The big clown face above the carousel shifts from primary colors to black and white in a wash of off-kilter melodic beauty. This is the kind of band that we need around here, boosting toy and puppet frescos and a sweet new music box tinkling away in every song. If you have a chance to check out the free Humgrown Music Festival this Friday and Saturday at Dean Creek Resort near Redway, Thee Olde Druids will be playing a set on opening night on the Redwood Stage at 6:30 p.m. Otherwise, stay tuned to this frequency for future gigs. I have their number and, after a delightful conversation, I made it very clear that I want to hear about and report on all of their upcoming shows.
Welcome to summer, friends.
Thursday
There’s a nice pop and folk show over at the Outer Space tonight at 8 p.m. San Francisco singer/songwriter Marika Christine has come to town in support of her latest record Enjoy the Clouds, and she will be bookended by local weavers Bleater and Halfwing. The show costs a sliding scale $5$20 for a dreamy evening of sunset music.
One more Metal Monday over at Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight at 7 p.m. I’m not working off an abundance of information here, but I do know that Seattle’s relatively new and fresh — for a death metal band — Invocation Ritual is making a stop on their West Coast tour. Tickets are a sliding scale of $10 to $20.
Tuesday
I Love Boosters is the new Boots Riley movie and it’s getting a limited run in independent theaters, which means the Miniplex at 6:30 p.m. tonight. The $10 ticket supports both Boots and a beloved indie venue, so consider rolling through.
Wednesday
Friday
Contemporary folk and blues singer Sawyer Fredericks is perhaps best known for winning season 8 of The Voice at the age of only 16. And while it’s not a great time for Americans to be reminded of the works of NBC reality show stars from New York, he’s from upstate, and unlike the other guy we’re
The summer ’80s movie series continues at the Eureka Theater tonight at 6 p.m. with a show of The Goonies . Whether you are a nostalgia hound or a kiddo — youths 12 and under get in for only $7 — or someone in between, this one’s probably a fine time on the big screen, and general admission is only $12. l
Collin Yeo (he/him) is no stranger to summer.
Calendar June 25 – July 2, 2026
Komboujia. Submitted
Humboldt’s queer past gets a glow-up for Pride Month at Drag Me to the Museum, happening Saturday, June 27, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Clarke Historical Museum ($40, $30 museum members and those in drag). The evening features performances by local drag stars, including Komboujia, Glitterous Clitterous and Mr. Gino, as well as mini-exhibits on Humboldt’s queer history, including Victorian-era drag and a Two-Spirits display on loan from the Wiyot Cultural Center. Living histories, costumes, photos, complimentary snacks and a no-host bar round out the fun.
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ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. With a live model. Bring your own art supplies. Call to contact Clint. $5. synapsisperformance.com. (707) 362-9392.
LECTURE
“Going Up The River”. 7 p.m. Fieldbrook Community Hall, Fieldbrook Road. Local history presentation with historian Jerry Rohde. Featuring the work of photographer and drone videographer Erin Scofield. Free.
MUSIC
Summer Concert Series. 6-8 p.m. Madaket Plaza, Foot of C Street, Eureka. Open-air music with live bands and dancing each week on Eureka’s waterfront. June 25: The Undercovers (‘80s hits) Free.
THEATER
Short Play Festival. 7 p.m. EXIT Theatre, 890 G St., Arcata. Twelve full-stage productions featuring local actors, directors and technicians see their Humboldt County premieres. $15-$25. mail@theexit.org. theexit.org.
EVENTS
Ferndale Architectural Walking Tours. 4 p.m. Ferndale Museum, 515 Shaw Ave. Explore Ferndale’s Main Street Historic District with a local historian on an easy onehour afternoon walking tour of architecture and history. Check in at 3:45 p.m. Group size limited to 15. Age 21+ only. Reservations required. $25+ fees.
FOOD
Henderson Center Farmers Markets. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Henderson Center, Henderson near F Street, Eureka. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, baked goods, eggs, plants and more. Enjoy music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers can receive market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/hendersoncenter.html. (707) 441-9999.
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
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Don your fins. Arcata’s newest favorite summer tradition arrives with a splash of seaside magic when the Arcata Fairy Festival returns to the Arcata Plaza on Sunday, June 28, from 11 a.m. to6 p.m. (free entry) This year’s theme, Tidal Dreams, summons mermaids, sirens, sea dragons and pirates to dry land for a day of costumes, live music, dancing, aerial arts and fun. Browse artisan vendors, enjoy food and drinks, explore the Gnome Dome or join a scavenger hunt. All ages welcome, whether you arrive on two legs or a tail.
are open to all ages and skill levels. Registration opens at 5 p.m. Games at 6 p.m. Different format each week. Bags are available to borrow. Drinks available at the Canteen. Outside food OK. $15. mike@buffaloboards.com.
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ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 10 a.m.-noon. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. Hosted by Joyce Jonté. $10, cash or Venmo. redwoodart.net.
DANCE
Balkan Camp Sendoff Party. 7-10:30 p.m. Synapsis Union, 1675 Union St., Eureka. A variety of dances, special performances and dance music played by five bands from Northern California, Oregon and Washington. All ages and dance levels are welcome. $5. kurumada@humboldt. edu. humboldtfolkdancers.org. (707) 496-6734.
LECTURE
Walking Tours. 5-7 p.m. Da Gou Rou Louwi’ Cultural Center, 417 Second St., Eureka. Guided tours during Friday Night Market exploring Wiyot history and the significance of Tuluwat Island. The 30– to 45-minute tours begin at the center at 5 and 7 p.m., led by William “Sonny” Frank IV, offering insight into local history and cultural restoration. Advance registration encouraged. Twelve participants per tour. Free. jfontenot@wiyot.us. facebook.com/events/1011978825019382. (707) 798-1949.
MOVIES
Barry Lyndon (1975). 6-10 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Pre-show 6 p.m. Movie at 7 p.m An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England. $8, $12 w/poster. info@arcatatheatre.com. tickets.vemos.io/-LvvzSYm6udEnGfKIRLa/arcata-theatre-lounge/-OtC8CwHs7b7OFtH5wl0/barry-lyndon-1975. 707-613-3030.
MUSIC
Humgrown Music Festival. 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Dean Creek Resort, 4112 Redwood Drive, Redway. Multi-day community celebration of Humboldt’s bands, DJs, artists, food and craft vendors, community and culture. Camping along the Eel River available. RSVP for camping. Free. lighthouselabs.records@gmail.com. humgrownmusicfest.com.
Rodeo in the Redwoods rides again Friday, June 26, and Saturday, June 27, at Southern Humboldt Community Park ($15, $10 kids). Now in its 69th year, the weekend packs in CCPRA rodeo competition, a Bull-O-Rama, junior rodeo, a steak dinner and live music, plus the crowning of this year’s rodeo king and queen. Friday, the fun goes from 6 to 9 p.m. On Saturday at 11 a.m. , the parade winds through downtown Garberville, celebrating America’s 250th birthday with horses, classic cars, community groups, fire departments and more. At 4 p.m. enjoy barbecue at the park before the Bull-O-Rama gets kicking at 7 p.m.
North Coast Choral Artists – “Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between”. 7:30 p.m. Christ Episcopal Church, 1428 H St., Eureka. An eclectic and inspiring choral program inspired by the idea of greetings and farewells. Led by artistic director Rachel Samet. $20. Sawyer Fredericks. 7:30 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Folk, Americana and roots singer. Winner of Season 8 of The Voice . $20. info@playhousearts.org. playhousearts.org. (707) 822-1575.
THEATER
Fowl Play: A Loosey Goosey Late Night Show. 10 p.m. Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. A whodunnit mystery retold by idiots full of sound and funny set in the Nightclub of the Falcon Teat. The audience helps put the pieces together to decide the ending. The speakeasy features a working bar on stage, live band and special guests. Part of the Baduwa’t Festival. $20, $15 student/senior, included in Baduwa’t all-event pass.
Mary Jane The Musical 2: The Grandson. 8 p.m. Dell’Arte Amphitheatre, 131 H St., Blue Lake. “Theatre of Place” production in which Mary Jane’s grandson throws a party to say goodbye to his family’s cannabis land in SoHum. Featuring 15 original songs and a cast of Humboldt theater and music veterans. Written by Michael Fields and co-directed by Roman Sanchez and Fields. Dress warm, performances are outside. Special low cost preview June 18. Part of the Baduwa’t Festival. $20-$35. The Music Man. 8 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. Meredith Willson’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy about a fast-talking salesman who attempts to con the small town of River City but instead gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. $22, $20 students/ seniors. ferndalerep.org.
Short Play Festival. 7 p.m. EXIT Theatre, 890 G St., Arcata. See June 25 listing.
EVENTS
Free Bike Valet at Eureka Friday Night Market. 5:30-8:15 p.m. Dick Taylor Chocolate Factory, 333 First Street, Eureka. Check in your bike with the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities (CRTP) to have it watched. Free. crtpbikevalet@gmail.com. transportationpriorities.org. (707) 273-1081.
Eureka Friday Night Market. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Historic Old Town Eureka, Second Street. Bustling night market with three stages of performers, a bar stocked with local wine, beer, cider and cocktails, artisan vendors, street food vendors, food trucks and good vibes. Free admission. humboldtmade.com/eureka-friday-night-market. Ferndale Architectural Walking Tours. 4 p.m. Ferndale Museum, 515 Shaw Ave. See June 25 listing. Rodeo in the Redwoods 2026. Southern Humboldt Community Park, 1144 Sprowel Creek Road, Garberville. CCPRA rodeo, Bull-O-Rama, junior rodeo, parade, steak dinner, live music and crowning the king and queen are all part of this fun weekend. $15, $10 kids.
FOR KIDS
Kid’s Night at the Museum. 5:30-8 p.m. Redwood Discovery Museum, 612 G St., Eureka. Drop off your 3.5-12 year old for interactive exhibits, science experiments, crafts and games, exploring the planetarium, playing in the water table or jumping into the soft blocks. $17-$20. info@discovery-museum.org. discovery-museum.org/ classesprograms.html. (707) 443-9694.
Weekly Preschool Story Time. Eureka Library, 1313 Third St. Talk, sing, read, write and play together in the children’s room. For children 2 to 6 years old with their caregivers. Other family members are welcome to join in the fun. Free. manthony@co.humboldt.ca.us. humlib.org. (707) 269-1910.
FOOD
Garberville Farmers Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Garberville Farmers Market, Garberville Town Square. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers, crafts and more. Enjoy music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers can receive a market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/garberville.html. (707) 441-9999.
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. ETC
June Skate Nights. 6:30-9 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. First-come, first-served. No pre-registration needed. Max. 75 skaters. Special adults only skate night on June 27. $6, $5 ages 17 and under. eurekaca. gov/248/Roller-Skating. (707) 441-4248. Public Skate. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. Roll over to the Fireman’s Pavilion in Rohner Park. Public Skate sessions may close early if there is no one in attendance. $5.50 ages 6 and older, $3.50 ages 5 and younger, bring skates for a $0.50 off (rules online), $2 non-skater minor. friendlyfortuna.com/departments/parks_recreation.
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ART
Trinidad Art Night. Last Saturday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Trinidad, Downtown. A town-wide art walk that includes a variety of venues and live music, artist receptions, classes, crafts, face-painting, pop-up sales and silks or fire performances by Circus of Elements. Free. trinidadartnight.com.
DANCE
Hansel and Gretel Ballet. 7-9 p.m. Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St. An original retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale by the Dance Scene Studio. Miles Grant and Lily Cunningham star as Hansel and Gretel, and Isadora Guimaraes dances as the Forest Witch. Also Continued on page 25 »
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featuring adorable young gingerbread, cupcake and gumdrop dancers. $20, $10 children under 12. dancescenestudio@gmail.com. DanceEureka.com. (707) 502-2188.
MOVIES
Friends of the Dunes/Eureka Theater Essential Cinema Fundraiser: Dune (1984) 6 p.m. Eureka Theater, 612 F St. Experience David Lynch’s visionary Dune on the big screen. Proceeds benefit Friends of the Dunes/Eureka Theater. $10. theeurekatheater.org.
MUSIC
Humgrown Music Festival. 11-3 a.m. Dean Creek Resort, 4112 Redwood Drive, Redway. See June 26 listing.
THEATER
Fowl Play: A Loosey Goosey Late Night Show. 10 p.m. Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. See June 26 listing.
Frozen, The Broadway Musical in Concert. 7 p.m. Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, 412 G St., Eureka. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, Disney’s Frozen includes all the film’s beloved songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, along with new music. $26-$54. box-office@mainstagehumboldt. org. mainstagehumboldt.org. (707) 200-1778.
Mary Jane The Musical 2: The Grandson. 8 p.m. Dell’Arte Amphitheatre, 131 H St., Blue Lake. See June 26 listing. The Music Man . 8 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. See June 26 listing.
Short Play Festival. 4 & 7 p.m. EXIT Theatre, 890 G St., Arcata. See June 25 listing.
EVENTS
Prize of Hope Ceremony and Dinner. 4 p.m. Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. Presented to San Francisco Mime Troupe. Michael Gene Sullivan and Velina Brown, SFMT actor-directors, will receive the 2026 Prize of Hope on behalf of SFMT. $30, ceremony and dinner only, $50, including early admission to Mary Jane The Musical 2: The Grandson. All of U.S. 250 Protest. 12-2 p.m. Humboldt County Courthouse, 825 Fifth St., Eureka. Join the nationwide protest and celebration of the values of freedom, equality and democracy. Sponsored by 50501 Humboldt. Free. 50501humboldt@gmail.com.
Bayside Grange Community Barbecue and Potluck. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Bayside Grange, 2297 Jacoby Creek Road. Burgers, hot dogs, sides, cold beer, music and community. Bring a dish to share or purchase barbecue on site. All welcome. Lunch served at noon. Free, food available for purchase. hi@baysidegrange.com. facebook.com/ events/1031090726024848. (707) 630-3049. Bigfoot Daze. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Willow Creek, State Route 299. A family-friendly festival with a downtown parade, live music, food and vendor booths, ice cream social and more. Free. willowcreekchamber.com/bigfoot-daze/. Drag Me to the Museum. 6:30-9 p.m. Clarke Historical Museum, Third and E streets, Eureka. Learn about Humboldt’s queer history through mini-exhibits, including the story of drag in the Victorian Era and a special exhibit on Two-Spirits on loan from the Wiyot Cultural Center. Also, living histories, photos and costumes on display. Plus, complimentary snacks, a no-host bar and drag performances. $40, $30 museum members and those in drag. clarkemuseum.org.
Ferndale Architectural Walking Tours. 4 p.m. Ferndale Museum, 515 Shaw Ave. See June 25 listing. Humboldt Amateur Radio Club Field Day. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Woodley Island Marina, 601 Startare Drive, Eureka. The Humboldt Amateur Radio Club will begin setting
up its 60-foot tall military-surplus mast with several antennas on it at 8 a.m. The public is welcome to watch from a safe distance. From 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. the site will be open to the public for visiting and tours. Anyone is welcome to come try their hand at using a radio and talking on the air. Free.
Myers Flat Menagerie June Bazaar. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Block and Tackle Designs, 12812 Avenue of the Giants, Myers Flat. Vintage treasures, handmade goods, flea market finds, live music, smoked brisket and barbecue, yard games and kids zone, discount/prize wheel. Free. blockandtackledesigns@gmail.com. facebook.com/ events/1504095647242618/. (520) 732-9359.
Open House and Fire Preparedness Fair. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fortuna Volunteer Fire Department, 320 South Fortuna Blvd. Obstacle course, fire truck rides, demos, disaster prep. info. Rodeo in the Redwoods 2026. Southern Humboldt Community Park, 1144 Sprowel Creek Road, Garberville. See June 26 listing.
Speeder Crew Car Rides. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Timber Heritage Association, 930 Vance Ave., Samoa. For the first time in three years, mainline rides return, featuring the famous Arcata and Mad River Speeder Crewcar No. 60, homebuilt by the AMR/NRLCo shops in Korbel in the 1930s. Two to three rides an hour.
Summer Nights at the Farmstand. 5-7 p.m. Sea Goat Farmstand & Folk School, 1450 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Grab your lawn chairs and blankets for live local music, artisan and market booths. Family friendly. Free. seagoatmakerspace@gmail.com. seagoatfarmstand.org. (707) 497-9212.
Vacation Benefit Raffle Drawing Party. 6-8 p.m. Breast and GYN Health Project, 987 8th Street, Arcata. The Breast and GYN Health Project’s annual raffle drawing party. Join them in person at 6 p.m., or live on Facebook, for the drawing at 7 p.m. Free. volunteer@hcbhp.org. bghp.org/events/255. (707) 825-8345.
Hospice of Humboldt Fashion Show and Auction. 2-5 p.m. Septentrio Tasting Room, 650 Sixth St., Arcata. YARN presents a fashion show of hand knit and crocheted items followed by silent and Dutch auctions. Ticket includes two raffle tickets to use in the Dutch auction. Proceeds will go to Hospice of Humboldt. $10. info@ yarn-fun.com. yarn-fun.com/collections/classes-andevents/products/hospice-of-humboldt-fashion-showand-auction-fundraiser. (707) 443-9276.
FOOD
Arcata Farmers Market. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Year round, offering fresh produce, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, flowers and more. Live music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers receive a market match at every farmers market. info@northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org. (707) 441-9999.
Bread and Cookie Stand. 10:05 a.m.-3 p.m. Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. Half Dollar Holler bake sale to help to support Dell’Arte International. A dozen kinds of scratch baked bread and cookies. Located at the Center of the Universe behind Dell’Arte International, First and H St. in Blue Lake. Humboldt Dockside Saturday Seafood Market. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Madaket Plaza, Foot of C Street, Eureka. Fresh local fish and seafood every Saturday through Oct. 31 at Madaket Plaza. EBT accepted. On-site fillet services available. No market on July 4.
OUTDOORS
FOAM Marsh Tour. 2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center, 569 S. G St. Meet leader Alex Stillman at 2 p.m. in the lobby of the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute slow walk around the Butcher’s Slough Log Pond. Free. (707) 826-2359.
Playscape Work Parties at HUUF. Every third Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon. Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 24 Fellowship Way, Bayside. Help mainatain the grounds at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. connect@huuf.org. huuf.org/home-2/ upcoming-events/engagement/.
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.
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.
June Skate Nights. 6:30-9 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. See June 26 listing. Public Skate. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See June 26 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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DANCE
Hansel and Gretel Ballet. 2-4 p.m. Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St. See June 27 listing.
MUSIC
Humgrown Music Festival. Dean Creek Resort, 4112 Redwood Drive, Redway. See June 26 listing. North Coast Choral Artists – “Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between”. 4 p.m. Christ Episcopal Church, 1428 H St., Eureka. See June 26 listing.
Summer Concerts in the Garden. 1-3 p.m. Humboldt Botanical Garden, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, College of the Redwoods campus, north entrance, Eureka. Live local music on the lawn, plus vendors and food. Beer and wine available for purchase. Picnics welcome. Service dogs permitted. This week: Anna & the Situation. Regular garden entry fee, $5 HBG members, under 18 free. hbgf.org. 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. umc-joyfulhealer.org. (707) 845-1959.
THEATER
Frozen, The Broadway Musical in Concert. 7 p.m. Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, 412 G St., Eureka. See June 27 listing.
Mary Jane The Musical 2: The Grandson. 8 p.m. Dell’Arte Amphitheatre, 131 H St., Blue Lake. See June 26 listing. The Music Man . 2 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main St. See June 26 listing.
EVENTS
Arcata Fairy Festival: Tidal Dreams. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. All-ages whimsical fun and magic with the theme Tidal Dreams. Playhouse Arts partners for artisan vendors, food, costumes, photo opportunities, aerial dance, live music, dancing, the Gnome Dome, HumBubbles, scavenger hunts and more. Mermaids, sirens, sea dragons, pirates and creatures of the sea welcome. Free. arcatafairyfestival@gmail.com. arcatafairyfestival.com. (707) 616-6876.
Eureka Heritage Society’s Home and Garden Tour. 12-5 p.m. Annie B. Ryan House and Gardens, 1000 F St., Eureka. Tour starts at Annie B. Ryan House & Gardens. Featuring artists, live music, refreshments, silent auction and after party from 5 to 7 p.m. $40, $35 advance. eurekaheritage.org.
Lost Coast Gardens Grand Opening. 12-4 p.m. Lost Coast Gardens, 8060 Centerville Road, Ferndale. Browse plants for sale in the nursery, view a nature-inspired art installation by Brian Barth and explore the forest preserve. Live music by Jesse Alm, James Zeller, Katie Belknap, Daniel Nickerson and Goodshield Aguilar. Farm-to-table lunch available while supplies last. Free. plantswithapurpose.org.
Trinidad Artisans Market. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saunders Plaza, 353 Main St., Trinidad. Next to Murphy’s Market. Featuring local art and crafts, live music and barbecue. Free admission.
FOOD
Bread and Cookie Stand. 10:05 a.m.-3 p.m. Dell’Arte, 131 H St., Blue Lake. See June 27 listing.
Community Breakfast. Fourth Sunday of every month, 8-11:30 a.m. Ferndale Veterans Memorial Building, 1100 Main St. Pancakes, biscuits and gravy, ham, sausage, eggs to order, coffee and juice. $12, $7 kids under 12. Food Not Bombs. 4 p.m. Arcata Plaza, Ninth and G streets. Hot food for everyone. Mostly vegan and organic and always delicious. Free.
Veterans Pancake Breakfast. Fourth Sunday of every month, 8-11:30 a.m. Fortuna Veterans Hall/Memorial Building, 1426 Main St. Pancakes, biscuits and gravy, ham, sausage, eggs to order, coffee and juice. $12, $7 kids under 12. vfwpost2207@gmail.com. (707) 725-4480.
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
McKinleyville Botanical Garden Volunteer Workday. Fourth Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m. Hiller Park, 795 Hiller Road, McKinleyville. Help maintain a small community-driven botanical garden which features pollinator- and bird-friendly plants. No experience needed. Rain cancels. Go west on Hiller Road to parking lot for Hammond Trail/soccer/dog park. Garden is adjacent to children’s playground.
Move to End Hunger. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, South I Street. Walk, bike, run or skate as individual or as a team, and solicit pledges per mile or flat donations from friends and family to help children, seniors and families in Humboldt County facing hunger. Register online. Free. cweissbluth@foodforpeople.org. go.rallyup.com/move-to-end-hunger26. (707) 445-3166.
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.
Volunteer Work Day. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, 127011 Newton B Drury, Orick. Help restore prairies by removing invasive non-native plants and encroaching vegetation. Meet in front of the visitor center. Please park in the day-use parking area (not the visitor center parking lot) or along Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway. Free.
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ETC
Public Skate. 1:30-4:30 p.m. Fortuna Skating Rink, Rohner Park. See June 26 listing.
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ART
Life Drawing Sessions. 6-8 p.m. Redwood Art Association Gallery, 603 F St., Eureka. See June 26 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/.
Miranda Farmers Market. 2-6 p.m. Miranda Market, 6685 Avenue of the Giants. Fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers and more. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers can receive a market match at every farmers market. info@ northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/miranda.html. (707) 441-9999.
MEETINGS
Shut Up & Write. 7-9 p.m. Dead Reckoning Tavern, 815 J St., Arcata. Join fellow writers each week to show up, sit down and get words on the page. No critiques. No sharing. No pressure. Just focused writing time alongside others doing the same. RSVP online. Free. d.i.y.art@ inkpeople.org. shutupwrite.com/series/id2uK2PJwf00. (707) 969-7490.
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.
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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.
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
Fortuna Farmers Market. 3-6 p.m. Fortuna Farmers Market, 10th and Main streets. Offering fresh fruits and vegetables, crafts and more. Enjoy music and hot food vendors. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. CalFresh EBT customers can receive a market match at every farmers market. info@ northcoastgrowersassociation.org. northcoastgrowersassociation.org/fortuna.html. (707) 441-9999. Harvest Box Deliveries. See June 29 listing. Shelter Cove Farmers Market. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Shelter Cove Farmers Market, Gyppo Ale Mill Parking Lot, 1661 Upper Pacific Drive, Whitethorn. Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, flowers and more. No pets, but trained, ADA-certified, service animals welcome. info@northcoastgrow-
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.
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.
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MOVIES
80s Adventure Series: The Goonies . 6-9 p.m. Eureka Theater, 612 F St. A treasure hunt for the ages. Every ticket includes a free slice of pizza from Paul’s Live from New York. $12, $7 kids 12 and under. theeurekatheater.org.
MUSIC
The Joy of Singing Choir. 5:30-7 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.
Song Circle with Seabury Gould. Every third Wednesday, 3-5 p.m. Trinidad Heart Center, 426 Trinity St. Bring your voices and songs to this monthly sing-along. All ages welcome. Folk songs and others conducive to group singing. $10-$20 sliding scale. seaburygould.com. trinidadheartcenter.com/. (707) 845-6231.
GARDEN
U-Pick Flowers. 2-6 p.m. Freshwater Farms Reserve, 5851 Myrtle Avenue, Eureka. Pick flowers at the farm. Park in the large gravel parking lot and follow the signs to the u-pick area. Donations support u-pick and community compost programs. $5-$30. mdrummond@rcaa.org. ncrlt. org/what-we-do/conserved-properties/. (707) 269-2071.
MEETINGS
Mothers’ 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 Road., 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.
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ART
Figure Drawing at Synapsis. 7-9 p.m. Synapsis Collective, 1675 Union St., Eureka. See June 25 listing.
BOOKS
Storytellers and Writers Book Club for Tweens and Teens. First Thursday of every month, 4-5 p.m. Trinidad
Library, 380 Janis Court. Tweens and teens share ideas on world building and books they’ve read or would like to write. In the Trinidad Room.
MUSIC
Summer Concert Series. 6-8 p.m. Madaket Plaza, Foot of C Street, Eureka. See June 25 listing.
EVENTS
Depot Museum 50th Birthday Ice Cream Social. 4-7 p.m. Rohner Park, 5 Park St., Fortuna. Free Jersey Scoops ice cream and docent speakers. Free. friendlyfortuna. com.
Line Dancing with Kim O’Quinn. 12-1 p.m. McKinleyville Senior Center, 1620 Pickett Road. Join Kim and the crew for an hour of fun and exercise. Donation. (707) 839-0191.
FOOD
Henderson Center Farmers Markets. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Henderson Center, Henderson near F Street, Eureka. See June 25 listing. l
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Obsession is a Hard Watch, Hard Recommend
By Linda Stansberry screens@northcoastjournal.com
OBSESSION. Stephen King once wrote that many of his best stories started with a “What if?” What if vampires invaded a small New England village? What if a bullied high school girl turned out to have supernatural powers? What if the person you love suddenly loves you back, and that turns out to be the worst thing that could possibly happen?
That last “what if” is the premise of Obsession , directed by Curry Barker. Bear, played by Michael Johnson, has an all-consuming crush on his friend and coworker Nikki (Inde Navarrette). But he can’t summon the courage or vulnerability to tell her how he feels, even after being asked point blank. In a moment of wistful desperation, he makes a wish using what he assumes is a gag gift purchased from a head shop.
“I wish that Nikki loved me more than anyone in the entire world,” he moans like a heartsick tween. Oof. Wording is everything, my dude.
It’s a tribute to Barker’s talent that what follows in this monkey’s paw tale manages
to both reference and transcend a host of problematic tropes. When we first meet Bear, for example, we witness him having a human moment over the loss of a pet. In different hands, his sobs could be played as pathetic, embodying the emasculated “nice guy” that never gets the girl. But when he sucks it up so he can talk to Nikki on the phone, we are invited to see how his unwillingness to be vulnerable is working against him. He’s both pretending to be something he’s not and — despite believing himself to be in love with her — not truly seeing her as a full person with an inner life of her own. This latter issue becomes apparent when he inadvertently turns Nikki into what is, essentially, a love golem. Before the wish takes effect, we get a sense of why she would be easy to fall for. She’s fun and funny, and smart, creative and kind. These qualities are all subsumed by her magically induced infatuation with Bear. Her only goal becomes to make him happy, to let him know that she loves, loves, loves him. Sadly familiar stuff to any of us who have
When men tell me to smile. Obsession
ever known (or been) a teenage girl, but correspondingly terrifying to any of us who have ever known (or been) a teenage girl. God, is that desire to love and be loved powerful. Here, too, we get a glimpse of the lazy trope Barker could have leaned on: the wild-eyed “crazy” woman, the bunny-boiler. But Navarrette’s facial elasticity and sheer physicality — lots of scuttling, shadow work and breaking glass — sells the idea of love as a kind of demonic possession. Obligatory trigger warning for folks who don’t want to see gore, bodily functions or mediocre sex. Obsession is almost two hours long and not a single scene feels wasted. The plot bustles, the action pops, every supporting character feels both necessary and real. There’s no investment in worldbuilding or lore around the supernatural elements of the curse, which would have been a distraction. Instead, you are invited to follow the concept at the core of this horror film to its logical extreme. You should see it. Not recommended for first dates. R. 108M. MINOR. l
Linda Stansberry (she/her) is a freelance writer and journalist who lives in Eureka. Read more of her work at lindastansberry.com.
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Clerk, by Meara Hattan, Jack F 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 (26-225)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
ANNA POMELOV ZAZZERON CASE NO. CV2601031
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501
PETITION OF:
Anna Pomelov Zazzeron for a decree changing names as follows: Present name
Anna Pomelov Zazzeron to Proposed Name
Anna Pomelov Zlatovi
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ca.gov/ SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
825 FIFTH STREET
EUREKA, CA 95501
Date: May 18, 2026
Filed: May 19, 2026
/s/ Timothy A. Canning
Judge of the Superior Court
6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 (26-226)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00311
The following person is doing Business as Lost Coast Doula Humboldt 2581 Hall Ave Eureka, CA 95503 Anastasia Engle 2581 Hall Ave 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 05/20/2026.
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 Anastasia Engle, Owner
This May 26, 2026 by SB, Deputy Clerk
6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 (26-223)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT 26-00286
The following person is doing Business as Emerald Home Inspectors LLC Humboldt
1929 Brandi Ln Fortuna, CA 95540 PO Box 122 Fortuna, CA 95540
Emerald Home Inspectors LLC CA B2026021704B
1929 Brandi Ln Fortuna, CA 95540
The business is conducted by a limited liability company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 05/12/2026.
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 Nicholas Hamaker, Managing Member
This May 13, 2026 by SB, Deputy Clerk
6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 (26-222)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT 26-00309
The following person is doing Business as Surfside Burgers & More
Humboldt
445 5th St
Eureka, CA 95501
Gilberto Delgado Sanchez
445 5th 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 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 Gilberto Delgado Sanchez, Owner
This May 26, 2026 by SB, Deputy Clerk 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 (26-221)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00300
The following person is doing Business as Yip Yap Books Humboldt
2740 Ocean Ave
Eureka, CA 95501
Tamara L Fortney
2740 Ocean Ave
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 5/1/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Tamara Fortney, Owner
This May 20, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 (26-219)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00304
The following person is doing Business as Mickey’s Quality Cars / Mickey’s Lock & Key Humboldt
1901 Central Ave McKinleyville, CA 95519
V and Express Inc CA 1280637
1901 Central Ave
McKinleyville, CA 95519
The business is conducted by a corporation.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 5/21/26.
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 Michael Jones, President/Chief
Executive Officer
This May 21, 2026
by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 (26-218)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00288
The following person is doing Business as Footprint Construction Humboldt 2850 Fairfield St Eureka, CA 95501
Katrina J Schneider 2850 Fairfield 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 10/15/2010.
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 Gilberto Delgado Sanchez, Owner
This May 14, 2026 by SC, Deputy Clerk 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 (26-224)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00327
The following person is doing Business as Pats Market Humboldt 1201 11th Street
Eureka, CA 95501
PO Box 6904
Eureka, CA 95502
Sajid Awan
331 14th 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 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 Sajid Awan, Owner
This June 2, 2026
by JC, Deputy Clerk
6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-234)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00307
The following person is doing Business as Santa Barbara Art Studios / North Light Art Studios Humboldt
2215 Tydd St #5C
Eureka, CA 95501
Cheryn K English
2215 Tydd St #5C
Eureka, CA 95501
James Richards
2215 Tydd St #5C
Eureka, CA 95501
The business is conducted by an Married Couple.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 8/1/2006.
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 Cheryn English, Co-Owner
This May 22, 2026 by JC, Deputy Clerk 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-233)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00317
The following person is doing Business as Jim’s Quality Quick Lube Humboldt 1270 Evergreen Rd 1 Garberville, CA 95542
The Michael Family Group CA B20250407216 1270 Evergreen Rd 1 Garberville, CA 95542
The business is conducted by a corporation.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 3/25/2009. 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 James Michael, CEO
This May 27, 2026 by JC, Deputy Clerk 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-236)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00296
The following person is doing Business as Humboldt Toys Cards and Games Humboldt
1302 Union St Eureka, CA 95501 Growth Chart Solutions LLC California 202109110566 996 Hayes Rd McKinleyville, CA 95519
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 Eric Parchman, CEO/Managing Member
This May 18, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-237)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00271
The following person is doing Business as
Ever-Evolving You
Humboldt
70 E Ridge Ln
McKinleyville, CA 95519
Kimberly A Jimenez
70 E Ridge Ln
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 Kimberly A. Jimenez, Owner & Health & Wellness Coach
This May 6, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-235)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00322
The following person is doing Business as
Emerald Auto Solutions
Humboldt
321 X St
Eureka, CA 95501
Marianne A Layfield
321 X St Eureka, CA 95501
Jolian Kangas
321 X St
Eureka, Ca 95501
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.
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 Marianne Layfield, Co-Partner
This May 26, 2026 by SB, Deputy Clerk 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-228)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00335
The following person is doing Business as Ramada Bayside Inn and Suites Humboldt
1209 4th Street
Eureka, CA 95501
Jai Dhanlaxmi Inc CA 3883380
933 4th Street
Eureka, CA 95501
The business is conducted by a corporation.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Megan L Natha, CFO
This June 8, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-240)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00337
The following person is doing Business as Dirty Workz Humboldt 1617 Kellner Ave McKinleyville, CA 95519
Dirty Workz Services LLC CA B2026025335 1617 Kellner Ave McKinleyville, CA 95519
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 6/3/26.
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 Glen Hats, Managing Member
This June 8, 2026 by JC, Deputy Clerk 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-239)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00334
The following person is doing Business as Kinfolk Beauty Supply / Harris Union Wholesale / Yore / Kin & Coil Humboldt
318 W Harris St Eureka, CA 95503
Kinfolk Beauty Supply, LLC CA 202461913957
318 W Harris 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 1/7/25.
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 Rochelle H. Burgess, Managing Member
This June 5, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2 (26-241)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00324
The following person is doing Business as Sol Woven Studio Humboldt 1834 Roberts Way #A Arcata, CA 95521
Julie C Wells 1834 Roberts Way #A 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 6/1/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Julie Wells, Owner
This June 1, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/9 (26-244)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00291
The following person is doing Business as Woodland Fly Co. Humboldt
5130 Woodland Way Eureka, CA 95503 DH & H LLC CA 202252818651
5130 Woodland Way Eureka, CA 95503
The business is conducted by a limited liability company.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Daniel Heffernan, Sole-Member, Individual Owner/Operator
This May 18, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/9 (26-245)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00342
The following person is doing Business as Ellis Art & Engineering Supplies Humboldt
401 5th Street Eureka, CA 95501
Darryl M LaTorre
2024 Shamrock Dr 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 11/01/07.
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 Darryl LaTorre, Owner
This June 10, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/9 (26-247)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00341
The following person is doing Business as
P.A.L. Project Speech and Language Services
Humboldt
740 Park Ave
Arcata, CA 95521
Kimberly E Deckman
740 Park Ave Arcata, CA 95521
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 8/8/26.
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 Kimberly E. Deckman, Owner
This June 9, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/9 (26-248)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20260049
The following person is doing Business Rowdy Ten Repair
Del Norte
950 Kellogg Rd Crescent City, CA 95531
Quinten Phillips
950 Kellogg Rd 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 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 Quinten Wayne Phillips
This May 18, 2026 by Claire Landay, Deputy Clerk 6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/9 (26-249)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00356
The following person is doing Business as Community Care Advisors Humboldt
2287 Ariel Way Arcata, CA 95521
Andrew C Digiovanni 2287 Ariel Way 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 6/15/26. 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 Andrew C. Digiovanni, Owner
This June 15, 2026 by SG, Deputy Clerk 6/25, 7/2, 7/9, 7/16 (26-250)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00362
The following person is doing Business as Construction & Lawn Care
Humboldt
525 Herrick Ave, #38
Eureka, CA 95503
Ignacio Canseco Maldonado
525 Herrick Ave, #38 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 6/1/26.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Ignacio Canseco Maldonado, Owner
This June 17, 2026 by SB, Deputy Clerk
6/25, 7/2, 7/9, 7/16 (26-253)FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00353
The following person is doing Business as Rahi Realty Company
Humboldt
805 7th Street Eureka, CA 95501
Rahi Miraie
805 7th Street 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 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 Rahi Miraie, Owner/Operator
This June 15, 2026 by SB, Deputy Clerk
6/25, 7/2, 7/9, 7/16 (26-251)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00350
The following person is doing Business as Lil Pies Humboldt 527 Pine Ln Garberville, CA 95542
Michael J Michel
527 Pine Ln Garberville, CA 95542
The business is conducted by an individual.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on n/a.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed
one thousand dollars ($1,000).
/s Michael J Michel, Owner
This June 12, 2026 by JR, Deputy Clerk 6/25, 7/2, 7/9, 7/16 (26-252)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 26-00347
The following person is doing Business as Humboldt Custom Cabinetry
Humboldt
2551 Rohnerville Rd Fortuna, CA 95540
Travis W Byram
2551 Rohnerville Rd Fortuna, CA 95540
Sara A Byram
2551 Rohnerville Rd Fortuna, CA 95540
The business is conducted by a married couple.
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or name listed above on 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 Travis Byram, Owner
This June 11, 2026 by SB, Deputy Clerk 6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/9 (26-246)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
RICHARD WAYNE GLADDEN CASE NO. CV2600975
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 825 FIFTH ST. EUREKA, CA. 95501
PETITION OF:
Richard Wayne Gladden for a decree changing names as follows: Present name
Richard Wayne Gladden to Proposed Name
Richard Wayne Fielder
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: July 17, 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: May 7, 2026
Filed: May 8, 2026 /s/ Timothy A. Canning Judge of the Superior Court 5/14, 5/21, 5/28, 6/4, 6/25 (26-203)
NOTICE OF INTENT TO CIRCULATE PETITION
COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
(California Elections Code § 9101)
Notice is hereby given by the persons whose names appear hereon of their intention to circulate the petition within the County of Humboldt for the purpose of putting an initiative on the ballot that will protect Humboldt County’s Coastal resources and the local economy dependent upon it from the proliferation of warehouses and distribution centers in the Coastal Zone. The initiative would prohibit new construction of warehouse and distribution facilities over 20,000 square feet in the Coastal Zone. The initiative would also require Humboldt County to seek certification from the Coastal Commission for same.
STATEMENT OF REASONS
Humboldt County’s coastline is one of California’s most treasured natural and cultural landscapes. Its rugged shores, working harbors, wetlands, and marine ecosystems have shaped the identity of this region for generations. This initiative exists to protect that heritage from a new and growing threat: the proliferation of commercial warehouse and distribution facilities in our Coastal Zone.
California’s Coastal Act was enacted in 1976 with a clear mandate — to protect coastal resources and ensure that coastal land is used for purposes that serve the public and the sea. Marine-dependent industries, fishing operations, recreational access, and habitat conservation are the proper priorities of our coastal lands. Largescale commercial warehousing and logistics operations are not. These facilities consume vast acreage, generate air and truck traffic, produce noise and pollution, and offer little to no connection to the coast itself.
The stakes are particularly high in Humboldt County. Our coastal communities depend on clean air, healthy fisheries, and vibrant shorelines for their livelihoods and quality of life.
Once industrial facilities take root in the Coastal Zone, the damage is difficult or impossible to reverse. Wetlands are lost. Wildlife corridors are severed. Public access is diminished.
The working waterfront character that defines places from Trinidad to Shelter Cove is permanently altered.
This measure draws a clear line. Facilities under 20,000 square feet remain permitted, allowing small businesses and local commercial activity to continue. Marine-dependent uses — the very kinds of operations the Coastal Act was designed to protect and support — are fully exempt. This is not a broad prohibition on economic development. It is a targeted policy that prioritizes the right uses in the right places.
By applying this prohibition to all applications for which no Coastal Development Permit has yet been issued, this initiative closes loopholes and ensures the will of the voters is
OBITUARIES
Carol (Kara) Sue Rossi 1963-2026
Carol (Kara) Sue Rossi of Eureka passed peacefully at home on April 28, 2026.
Born to Kenneth and Mary Christiansen on January 15, 1963, in Eureka. She graduated from Norco High School in Norco, California in June of 1981. She was active in concert, jazz and marching bands and had the honor of marching in the Rose Parade.
After fi nishing school, she married James Rossi, welcoming two daughters, and began her career with Social Security Administration. Her family moved often for her husband’s work, including three memorable years living in Iwakuni, Japan, ultimately returning to Eureka, where she devoted her time volunteering to the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge 636 where she was a bartender and Sergeant at Arm(s), and supported special events, karaoke nights, fundraisers and community dinners. Carol stood by her friends with fierce loyalty and gave the same steadfast support to the Lodge. But her greatest joy was her granddaughter Raven.
She is survived by her parents Kenneth & Mary Christiansen, sister Teresa Christiansen all of Eureka, sister Wendy and her husband Phil Cervantes of Corona, ex-husband James Rossi, daughter Alicia Rossi of New Orleans, daughter Christin Rossi and granddaughter Raven Bell both of Eureka.
A Celebration of Life will be held July 11th, 2026, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m at the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 636 — 4328 Campton Road, Eureka, CA.
In lieu of flowers please consider making a donation to Mooseheart Charities or Hospice of Humboldt in Carol’s Memory.
LEGAL NOTICES
not circumvented before the measure takes effect.
This measure places amendment authority where it belongs: with the people of Humboldt County. Requiring voter approval for any changes ensures lasting accountability and gives residents a permanent voice over the public interest and coastal ecosystem. Humboldt County has a rare opportunity to get ahead of a problem before it becomes irreversible. Communities up and down the California coast have watched industrial sprawl consume their waterfronts and wished they had acted sooner. We can act now. This initiative will help protect Humboldt’s coast — fishing families, our wildlife, our visitors, and our unique
local economy.
BALLOT TITLE AND SUMMARY
The County Counsel has prepared the following title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed measure:
TITLE: MEASURE TO PROHIBIT NEW WAREHOUSES AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES OVER 20,000 SQUARE FEET WITHIN THE COASTAL ZONE SUMMARY:
The Measure would prohibit the construction of new warehouses and distribution facilities over 20,000 square feet in size within the Coastal Zone in Humboldt County. The prohibition would apply to any pending application for a Coastal Development Permit for such a building. “Ma -
Marlene J. “Marla” West June 24, 1933 – March 27, 2026
Marlene J. West (known to many of us as Marla) passed away peacefully at Frye’s Care Home on the evening of March 27, 2026 at the age of 92. She had touched many peoples’ lives throughout her long life and was visited frequently by close friends and devoted family members in her fi nal days. Marla was born on June 24, 1933, in Redondo Beach, California to Joe and Alice Cooper. She grew up on the family farm in Grants Pass, Oregon- a rural upbringing she spoke of very fondly. She enjoyed sharing stories of rural life in Oregon where her father was the town butcher and her mother was the manager of their farm. Those early years instilled in Marla a deep love of the land and a true respect for nature and all its beauty.
In her early years, Marla was a keen horsewoman and animal lover. As a child was clearly a very talented musician and was given a grand piano which was kept in her bedroom. This instrument was her most treasured possession and it would go with her wherever she went for the rest of her life.
In high school, she met Bob Collins and accompanied his singing at state music championships. They were soon married and embarked upon a life of moving around the country in search of business opportunities.
With them came their three children Wendy, Jeff, and Dirk as they travelled from Oregon to Virginia, Washington to New York and fi nally to California. Wherever they settled, Marla was a creative homemaker, a talented seamstress and a faithful church organist.
of the Sierra Club. She was a devoted gardener and lifetime member of the local Garden Club. She practiced yoga for much of her life and passed on that passion to her daughter and her granddaughter. She took a broad minded approach to spirituality and attended many gatherings; including the Unitarians, the Presbyterians the Trinidad Salons and the Grange.
In 1985, Marla married Robert Lee West and they made their home in Westhaven. There she turned her hand to developing an extensive garden, with her beloved dog Amanda at her side. With Bob, she became a regular visitor to her daughter’s home in England and together they travelled extensively through France, Scotland and Switzerland.
When the family arrived in Humboldt County, Marla enrolled at Humboldt State University and went on to earn degrees in Music, Art and English Literature. Influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, she purchased a piece of land in the mountains above Jacoby Creek and designed for herself a handmade house. She was then beckoned by the sea and moved to Trinidad where she was curator of the local art gallery, teacher of creative writing and co-founder of the Westhaven Community Arts.
Marla’s creativity was evident in everything she did and she was a member of many clubs. She was a long term member of the Painters Club where her work sought to capture the natural curves of plants and animals with careful attention to detail. She was a lifelong hiker and an early member
Seeking the warmth of the sun and the friendship of a small community, she later moved to Blue Lake, a town which she soon grew to love. There she fully embraced many of the town’s popular attractions; such as Dell Arte performances, peaceful forest trails and rousing live music performances at the Tap Room and Logger Bar. She made many new friends and enjoyed attending the Blue Lake Wha-nika gatherings, where fabulous food and friendly faces were always on offer. In fact, it was obvious to her visiting grandchildren that, wherever she went, their grandmother received a very warm welcome.
These grandchildren: Bryony, Alec, and Chad were to bring Marla her greatest joy in later years. With part of her family settled in England, she was determined to access the latest computer apps in order to keep in touch. Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat were all in her repertoire. But she could often be heard saying, “You want to know my very favourite app? It’s Messages!” This comment now seems very reflective of the Marla we all knew and loved: so warm and funny- and always present for the people she loved.
Today Marla is survived by her husband, Robert West, her daughter Wendy Rust, her son Jeff Collins and her son Dirk Collins. She also leaves behind her cherished grandchildren Bryony Rust, Alec Rust and Chad Collins. Marla will always be remembered for her vibrant creative energy. Her life was long, her days were full, and at the heart of it all was her family, who will feel her absence deeply.
rine-dependent uses” would be exempted from this prohibition. The Measure consists only of a ballot question. It is not itself an ordinance. The Measure does not define “warehouse”, “distribution facility”, or “marine-dependent use.” The Measure would require Humboldt County to amend its general plan and zoning ordinances to implement the prohibition. It does not provide a time period in which this must happen and leaves the specifics of implementation open to interpretation.
The prohibition would, as a matter of law, only apply within the unincorporated area of
EMPLOYMENT
the county.
PROPONENT:
Printed Name: Debbie Harrison
Rumberger
Signature: Debbie Harrison
Rumberger
Address: 51 Midway Dr. #48
City, State, Zip: Trinidad, CA 95570
Date: June 22, 2026 6/25 (26-255)
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK EDWARD MCCARTY CASE NO. PR2600104
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate,
or both, of Mark Edward McCarty aka Mark McCarty
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Jessica Johnson
In the Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt. The petition for probate requests that A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Jessica Johnson 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.
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(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 July 16, 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.
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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
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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 Godinho, Esq. (SCB#075680)
317 3rd St Eureka, CA 95501
707-242-7439
Filed June 18, 2026
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT 6/25, 7/2, 7/9 (26-254)
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