Category: This Weeks News
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SENIOR APARTMENTS TO IMPLEMENT A SMOKE FREE POLICY
The Crescent City Senior Apartments, located on Oregon Street, will be implementing a no smoking policy to protect staff, tenants and visitors from the dangers of second hand smoke. The policy will prohibit new tenants from smoking with the prohibition included with any new lease agreements. The few tenants who currently smoke will be allowed…
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THE SHERIFF’S RACE
BY DONNA WESTFALL An invitation to be interviewed was sent the same day to all 4 candidates: Wilson, Maready, Apperson and Lee. Sheriff Dean Wilson and Crescent City Police Sgt. Erik Apperson responded quickly and on the same day. I’ll be having a second interview with Sheriff Wilson on Friday, March 28th; and Linda Sutter…
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WILL THERE BE JUSTICE FOR KENNETH JONES?
BY DONNA WESTFALL Coulter Mann didn’t take a gun and deliberately set out to shoot somebody. That would be murder, right? What he did was drink too much, jump in his vehicle, talk on his cell phone while driving and kill Kenneth Jones in a collision. And for that the Judge pronounced a 3 year prison sentence. …
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DESTRUCTION OF TWO FAMILIES
BY INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER LINDA SUTTER On an ordinary day you wake up, go about your business, go to work and then maybe enjoy the company of some friends later in the evening. You receive a phone call from the hospital, “Your husband has been in an accident.” When you arrive at the hospital, you are…
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THE RIGHT WAY OR THE HIGHWAY
BY GUEST COLUMNIST MICHAEL CEREMELLO FORMER COUNCILMAN AND VICE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DIXON (NOTE BY EDITOR: Dixon is near Sacramento. We share many of the same problems here in Crescent City. For your convenience I have highlighted those similarities.) It seems the phrase of the day is “paradigm shift”. This is not a…
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FLUORIDES UNDER FIRE: FLUORIDGATE SCANDAL UNFOLDS
SUBMITTED BY DANIEL G. STOCKIN, MPH Legal Community Awakens as Federal Fluoride Harm Case Proceeds to Oral Arguments and Fluoride Harm Newspaper Advertising Appears March 12, 2014: Legal community interest in the long-smoldering controversy over use of fluorides is growing as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has agreed to hear oral arguments…
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DEL NORTE COUNTY EPIDEMIC?
BY DONNA WESTFALL Have you been suffering with sore knees? Stiff neck? Achy joints? Flu-like symptoms? Cognitive impairment?Are you wondering if you may have fibromyalgia, irritable bowel, chronic fatigue, MS or Parkinson’s, rheumatoid arthritis, dementia or the flu? How about recurring bouts of these same symptoms over the years with decent health in between? Let’s talk about Lyme…
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7 YEAR OLD AGAINST GMO’S
BY DONNA WESTFALL CREDIT TO MSN Meet Alicia Serratos, 7 years old. She has collected nearly 10,000 signatures from people who want to get genetically modified organisms (GMOs) out of Girl Scout cookies. At 7 years old, she has a better understanding and grasp of the issue than many adults and particularly those at Monsanto that…
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YES, IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE
BY DONNA WESTFALL As the house shook, Sunday night, March 9th, I figured it was at least a 5 pointer. My husband came running out of the bedroom at my insistence and thought it was our dog scratching himself and shaking the bed. Turned out to be 6.9 and off the coast from Eureka. No one…
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SUTTER COAST HOSPITAL UPDATE
BY KEVIN CALDWELL, M.D. Our Healthcare Decisions Must be Based on Fact and Transparency As a current Del Norte Healthcare District Board member, three term former Chief of Staff and Board member of Sutter Coast Hospital (“SCH”), and local physician for the past 29 years, I would like to clarify some information published in last…