Category: This Weeks News

BY DONNA WESTFALL In this case, I requested addresses of all current sewer customers.  Keep in mind two things. 1.)  In 2007 I requested the same thing.  First I was told that they could not provide it because it contained people’s names.  I told then City Clerk, Dianne Nickerson that I didn’t need or want…

BY DONNA WESTFALL – PART 1 Let’s say you want to know the addresses of sewer customers so you can make sure the City is not pulling any tricks on the next Prop 218 protest vote to raise sewer rates.  So, you dash off a public records request to City Hall like this one. and…

BY DONNA WESTFALL It reminds me of the anti-fluoride campaign.  There was no talking to our council members about the harm from HFSA chemical. Their dentists told             them it was safe and effective and they bought it hook, line and sinker.  Not indicative of independent thought. Likewise, there is…

1938 Austria Kitty Werthmann is 85 years old. This is a SCARY piece of HISTORY. Read & perhaps learn something new from HISTORY and “CHANGE”. America truly is the Greatest Country in the World. By: Kitty Werthmann What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in…

If Triplicate reporter Adam Spencer had it right in his article of 3/9/13 titled Free Speech Reigns At Post Office AS Protestors Spark Complaints, then it appears that one of those sparks was one Kathryn Murray who saw fit to attempt to   take a legal protest   to ground.While it is understandable that seeing a picture…

Submitted by Dr. Duncan Chief of Staff, Sutter Coast Hospital Latest News on Future of our Local Hospital 3/7/13 Sutter Health Postpones Regionalization As They Advance Litigation Last night, the Board of Directors of Sutter Coast Hospital, in the face of overwhelming community opposition, voted to put Regionalization on indefinite hold.  The Board recognized that…

BY DONNA WESTFALL 5-ounce tuna cans of Bumble Bee  Chunk White Albacore and Chunk Light Tuna are being recalled as the lids were not put on tightly enough which can result in product contamination if consumed.  So far no illnesses have been reported.  Products were distributed for retail sale nationwide between January 17, 2013 and February…

BY DONNA WESTFALL – March 5, 2013 Those of you sitting on the potty currently paying $64.32 a month to be able to flush your toilet into our state-of-the-art waste water treatment plant; starting in May you’re likely to see those rates go to $69.70 a month in the City and$60.95 in the County. $5.38…

BY DONNA WESTFALL We have good overall air quality.  That’s the pronouncement by Director Rick Martin of Air Quality Control for Del Norte/Trinity/Humboldt Counties. We currently have a monitor on top of the Health Building and they only monitor every 6 days for particulate matter or PM.  It measures pm10 and he wants to see…