Category: This Weeks News
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It Helps To Be Able To Think
By Guest Columnist Michael Ceremello – May 31, 2017 – Reflecting back on another week of fake news, opinion pieces masked as news, and outright lies to achieve an agenda, peripheral trivia has drawn my attention to the issue of freedom of speech as well as the press. What amazes me is the lack of…
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NO CODE OF ETHICS FOR DEL NORTE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DALE TRIGG?
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – May 31, 2017 – Don’t expect to get an answer from the District Attorney Trigg’s office when questioned if there is a Code of Ethic’s policy for District Attorney’s . The Staff rolled their eyes and said, “it’s online.” When I asked this unidentified person where online, she snidely…
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Memorial Day Pot Luck at Vet Hall
By Donna Westfall – May 29, 2017 – Services at the IOOF Cemetary (also known as Crescent City Cemetary, Masonic Cemetary and Veterans Cemetary) commenced with the playing of TAPS and it was hard to find a dry eye or someone without a lump in their throat. After quick speeches by Roger Gitlin and Bob…
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CHAIR THE HOPE – Boise, Idaho
QUADRIPLEGIC AND FAMILY TO CYCLE 1,200 MILES TO RAISE MONEY FOR WHEELCHAIRS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES- NEVER BEEN DONE! May 29, 2017 – For Nathan Ogden, life changed dramatically when he broke his neck coming off a ski jump in Oregon 15 years ago. He became paralyzed. Over the next year he made excellent progress and…
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ANOTHER WORLD DISCOVERED
By Bob Berkowitz – May 27, 2017 – You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone, with apologies to Rod Serling. Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge to the foreign country, known as San Francisco, is…
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BREAKING NEWS: Pelican Bay State Prison Melee
By Linda Sutter – May 24, 2017 – At approximately 10:30 am, Wednesday, May 24th, Pelican Bay Inmates on “A” yard staged a fight amongst themselves. When Pelican Bay Correctional Officers arrived to break up the melee, the inmates turned on the officers. 22 bullets were fired hitting 5 of the inmates. It is reported…
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A recap of the Scott Feller Witch Hunt
By Samuel Strait – May 24, 2017 It looks like the Triplicate and its editor Robin Fornoff have finally felt that they have milked the Scott Feller witch hunt in Crescent City of 2017 for all its worth and are moving on to the mundane and their normal course of fare that is boring us…
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King Howard
By Linda Sutter – May 24, 2017 – In the 15th Century King Henry the VIII would commonly chop off your head, or hang you till nearly dead, then chop off your head, then drawn and quartered you to disperse where ever they saw fit. Today, Chairman Chris Howard of the Board of Supervisors, can’t…
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Positive changes at Jedediah Smith Square
By Donna Westfall – May 24, 2017 – “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi The Jedediah Smith Center is most commonly referred to as the Safeway Shopping Center. Plagued with controversy over the last 4 years for a variety of claims including shopping…
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When Judge Follett leaves (Thank God) who will run?
Opinion Piece by Donna Westfall – May 22, 2017 – Calls of recall and resignation resound as a result of the wildly unpopular sentence Judge Follett gave Nolan Bruder (20 year old who drugged and raped his 16 year old sister). It became national news and put Crescent City on the map for another disaster…