Category: This Weeks News
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“NO NAME” Group
By Bob Berkowitz I’d like to thank everyone for suggesting topics for our 6 am discussion group. We have discussed topics as varied as: How we can rid ourselves of the mountain lion in the Bertsch Tract, how we can become proactive in getting our politicians to move ahead on getting 101 at Last Chance…
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Hero, Chris Mintz, emerges from Oregon College Shooting
By Donna Westfall It was his first week in college after 10 years in the Army. When the shooting started, he ran to the door and tried to block the shooter from coming in and shooting any more people. He pleaded with his assailant, “It’s my son’s birthday.” Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon was…
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BREAKING NEWS: Shooting At Oregon College
Shooting at Roseburg, Oregon’s Umpqua Community College. 9 dead, 7 more injured. Information is coming in piece meal since the college is in such a remote location. The shooter has been identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer on a rampage against Christians, and shootings occurred in a classroom building called Snyder Hall. Umpqua is a two-year…
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Rare Celestial Event Sunday Night – Supermoon
By Donna Westfall A spectacular show and you can see it without any special equipment. Starting at 5:11 pm, Sunday, September 27th, the moon will be in its closest proximity to Earth, it will appear up to 14 percent larger and 33% brighter. At 226,000 miles away, tonight the moon is at it’s “perigee,” the…
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42 Missing Mexican Students
By Donna Westfall A year ago, 100 students from an all male rural Mexican college traveled to Iguala, Guerrero to protest discriminatory hiring practices of teachers. Many of those students are dead or missing and that event has caused the dramatic loss of popularity for Mexican President, Enrique Pena Nieto. While the government said the…
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Harbor Beautification – Zero Cost to Taxpayers
By Donna Westfall 10 beautiful planter boxes suffering with neglected plants for far too long. Thanks to Bill Cozzi for planting the California Coastal Palms in the http://germaninn.com.au/sbobet/index.html planter boxes on the north end of the Crescent City Harbor looking out to Battery Point Lighthouse. Says Supervisor 1st District, Roger Gitlin, “I am very pleased…
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SLEEP DEPRIVATION IN THE SHU
By Linda Sutter A damn if you do, damn if you don’t situation. As I was driving down Lake Earl Drive past the Pelican Bay I noticed approximately a dozen people standing across the street from the prison protesting with a big sign, “SLEEP DEPRIVATION TORTURE. 53 days and counting.” Keep in mind the number of protestors…
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BRANDY PEAK DISTILLERY
By Linda Sutter Roots and Shoots garden club ventured their way North on the 101 to visit our own backyard special producing Brandy Distillery. Approximately 3.5 miles off Carpenterville Road, making a right on Tantly and another direct right into the parking lot of this North Coast gem. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday from 1- 5 pm…
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Crescent City Continues Water Conservation
Don’t give up on water conservation! The State will be continuing to look at water reduction numbers through February and comparing these numbers to the same months in 2013/2014. As a reminder, Crescent City is mandated to reduce our use by 16% over these numbers. It may seem counterintuitive, but this will likely be MORE…
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Pope Francis Visits Cuba
By Donna Westfall In a country built on Communism since 1959, don’t you find it incredible that 200,000 Catholics still exist to welcome the Pope and take part in a huge Mass in Havana’s Revolution Square? What is even more astounding is that for six decades two brothers, Raul and Fidel Castro have ruled this little Caribbean…