Category: This Weeks News
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The Importance of Gleaning
By Donna Westfall Several of us joined Kelley Nolan, head honcho of the gleaning group, pick turnips and green beans at an abundant home garden off Parkway in Crescent City. The turnips were baseball size and larger. Five, then six, then seven bags filled to the brim were then taken over to Our Daily Bread…
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UPDATE ON FIRES
BY JAIME YARBROUGH The Coon Mountain Fire is spreading slowly and burning mostly the underbrush. The acreage burned so far is 4,349 acres. The winds that feed it are east-west and cyclical in nature due to the cold air at night and warm air during the daytime. Cold air sinks and traps the smoke in…
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Four Fires – Smoke is in the Air
Coon Fire – Due to significant traffic incurred at the northern Entrance of the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, the entrance to the park will be closed at the junction of US Highway 199 and South Fork Road. This is a hard closure and will only be open to residence and emergency traffic. Howland Hill…
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MOUNTAIN LION FEARS PREVAIL IN BERTSCH TRACK AREA
By Linda Sutter Sunday night, August 16th, Kimmy Simmons, who heads the Bertsch Track Neighborhood Watch group, held a community meeting at the community church in the Bertsch Track area. Many residents are concerned with the increased aggressive activity of a mountain lion which has been coexisting for years without aggression. Residents voiced their concerns to District Supervisor,…
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Today is National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Credit to Indian Country Today Media Network.com Photo courtesy of History.navy.mil The Japanese just couldn’t crack it. It’s been 68 years since the Navajo Code Talkers landed on the beach of Iwo Jima, Japan, and successfully delivered more than 800 encrypted messages without error. In 1982, 40 years after that famed campaign, in honor of their bravery,…
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Kale the Superfood-Update
Check it out, in “Your Health” there is recipe for using my probably least liked food, Kale. This women has stumbled across a way to use this stuff along with her almost world famous Yams recipe that almost has me asking for seconds. If you like Kale already, then be sure to give this a…
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WHY ARE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS RUBBER STAMPING ?
By Linda Sutter August 11th, Board of Supervisors meeting; there were 25 items placed on the agenda. Out of the 25 items only six items made discussion and the rest were rubber stamped without discussion or public comment amounting to only a total of $791,065.00 spent. Chair Finigan stated at the beginning of the meeting anyone want to make a…
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Beleaguered Taxpayers Indeed
By John Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Especially in California, the word “taxpayer” is frequently preceded by the word “beleaguered.” Given our large tax burden and the tragic level of government waste, perhaps there should be a grammatical rule that these two words must always be combined. While some California taxes…
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Part 1: Del Norte County Rodeo for Dummies
By Donna Westfall In case you didn’t know it, rodeos are facing extinction. Places like San Francisco, Alameda and Napa County prohibits rodeos. Nevada prohibits steer roping. Nevada’s state veterinarian says steer roping causes animals to get “hurt too often”. In California a written report of animal injuries must be submitted to the California State…
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Help Force the FDA to Take Action To Regulate Fluoridated Water as Drugs
By Donna Westfall Credit to Fluoride Action Network Important to Read and Take Action by August 27th because many of the people listed below helped Crescent City to end 44 years of water fluoridation with toxic industrial waste chemicals. The moratorium was voted in on November 6, 2012 because our supplier would not provide documentation…