Category: This Weeks News
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“EXPECT US”
By Donna Westfall While many like to think the strongest force in the universe is love, physics tells us it’s entropy, “lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder”. In a world of good intentions, more fruit often comes from unintended consequences. There is an emerging awareness and recognition of disruptive forces as a…
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Solid Waste Task Force Meeting
By Donna Westfall NOTE: This meeting was canceled due to a lack of a quorum. The next meeting is scheduled for December 14th at 5:30. Meeting place to be announced later. WHEN: Monday, November 9th from 5:30 pm to 7 pm. WHERE: Solid Waste Conference Room at 1700 State St., Crescent City, Ca. Normally, we would…
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Massive clean-up
By Donna Westfall Supervisor 1st District, Roger Gitlin, continues to clean-up this town. In two short hours, huge amounts of garbage were cleaned up on Embarcadero Lane, 1/4 mile north of WalMart. Says, Gitlin, “Thank you, JustServe, Wal-Mart, Team Home Depot, Crescent Ace Hardware Rental and the 21 hero/ volunteers who helped remove 1.6…
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3 Year Anniversary – Fluoride-Free Water
By Donna Westfall On November 6, 2012, Crescent City voters voted in a moratorium to stop adding toxic industrial waste fluoride to the drinking water because our supplier would not provide three things: 1.) Toxicological report 2.) Listing of contaminants 3.) Proof that their product was safe for all water consumers, infants to seniors. The…
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Alpaca Yarn & Gift Shop Opens Nov. 20 in Eagle Point, Oregon
The Andresen Acres Alpaca Yarn & Gift Shop will open its facility with regular business hours on November 20, 2015 in Eagle Point, Oregon. Shop hours will be Fridays and Saturdays Noon – 5 pm and will continue after the holidays. Located at 924 West Linn Road the new facility is full of soft and…
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Popcorn and Pesticides
Submitted by Label GMO’s, Oregon Right To Know.org Big Popcorn has a secret. Popcorn seeds from many major suppliers are coated with a bee-toxic insecticide that is exterminating entire honeybee colonies. And with Americans consuming over 2 billion pounds of popcorn every year, if we don’t take action now, honeybees will continue to be…
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CalTrans District 1
“Caltrans will be performing work along U.S. Highway 101 at Last Chance Grade in Del Norte County Thursday, November 1st. We’ll be working to install a new slide monitoring system, which will provide us with invaluable information about the movement of the grade in near-real time. Please be cautious when traveling through the area.” Previously,…
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Neurotoxin in Crab warnings
By Donna Westfall The California Department of Public Health issued warnings to consumers not to eat crab caught along the California coast between Santa Barbara County and the Oregon border. Due to a neurotoxin found in toxic algae blooms, dangerous levels of domoic acid can pose a significant risk if consumed. Symptoms of domoic acid poisoning may…
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Texas: San Marcos Voters Say No to Fluoride in Water
By Donna Westfall Credit to Russell Wilde, Time Warner Cable News After years of work a grassroots effort to remove fluoride from San Marcos drinking water has succeeded. Similar to Crescent City, after years of trying to engage their city leaders to take action against toxic waste fluoride in their drinking water, the group…
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Johnny Mathis’ home destroyed in fire
By Donna Westfall 80 year old singer, Johnny Mathis returned from performing in Cleveland to find his Hollywood Hills home of 56 years burned. His $6 million home is uninhabitable, but he owns a place in Santa Inez where he plans on living until figuring out what to do. Santa Inez is located in Santa…