Category: This Weeks News
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DEL NORTE’S SOLID WASTE JPA RUN IT’S COURSE?
BY DONNA WESTFALL It’s not often we get to witness a government agency closing or changing its structure in the hopes of reducing costs so that the consumer will be paying less. Currently, Del Norte County has some of the highest tipping fees in the State of California. That just doesn’t makes any sense. Witnessing…
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ANOTHER TOWN TERMINATES FLUORIDE IN THEIR WATER
BY DONNA WESTFALL Approximately 330,000 Canadians living in and around Windsor, Ontario will be drinking fluoride-free water in the near future. After more than a year of campaigning by local residents, and a 6-hour long hearing on Monday night, the Windsor Council voted 8-3 to end fluoridation. Mayor Eddie Francis also voted with the majority, saying: “A…
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BREAKING NEWS: 5.3 EARTHQUAKE OFF OREGON COAST- NO TSUNAMI THREAT
Around 10 pm Monday, Jan 29, 2013, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake was recorded. Anyone can follow earthquakes around the globe by checking the US Geological Survey website. This quake was west north west of Bandon, Oregon and several miles down. Reports as far south as Sebastopol, which is just north of San Francisco, had people…
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TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
BY DONNA WESTFALL If you were born of Jewish faith or heritage during the years 1933 to 1945, the chances of your extermination were extremely high. Nazism rose faster than a multi-level marketing scheme. The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy…
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UPDATE ON SUTTER COAST HOSPITAL REGIONALIZATION INJUNCTION
BY DR. GREGORY DUNCAN Sutter Health Calls Special Meeting to Discuss Cutting Hospital Bed Capacity by 50%. THE FUTURE OF OUR HOSPITAL HANGS IN THE BALANCE Dear Fellow Citizens of Del Norte and Curry Counties: Sutter Health is stepping up their legal battle to take down the Injunction granted to our County Healthcare District.…
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ONLY SERVICE DOGS BELONG IN GROCERY STORES
BY TED SCOTT with minor modifications in BOLD BLACK TYPE to make the article more reader friendly for all ages. So, Thursday night around 6 PM I went in to Crescent City Can Food (known today as Grocery Outlet) on L & 3rd Streets’I was over by the eggs when this gal came in with a…
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BREAKING NEWS: FIRST HOMELESS DEATH OF THE SEASON
BY DONNA WESTFALL On Friday, January 25, 2013, my husband, Doug, and I spent 45 minutes discussing the issues surrounding homelessness in our County with Director Mike Justice and his assistant, Daphne Cortese-Dean of OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES and learned about the first death of this winter season. A woman. She had alcohol problems. She…
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UPDATE ON CALIFORNIA STATE BAR CASE AGAINST DA JON ALEXANDER
BY DONNA WESTFALL One of the reasons we started www.crescentcitytimes.com an on-line newspaper is because not all the news printed by our local Del Norte Triplicate is 1.) accurate, or 2.) fair or 3.) unbiased. Our philosophy is to report the news as accurately, honestly and fair as possible. Here then are a few…
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PROBLEMS WITH 911
BY LINDA SUTTER – January 26, 2013 WOW, its 0430 hours in the morning, and there is a party going on waking me from a dead sleep. Since our local police are closed, I had to dial 911. There are no options here, either get up at 0430 hours after only going to bed at…
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OVER 50 MILLION ABORTIONS SINCE ROE V WADE, 1973 – PART 1
BY DONNA WESTFALL Who recognizes the name Norma McCorvey? That’s the real name of JANE ROE. Norma McCorvey, is now a pro-life advocate. McCorvey writes that she never had the abortion and became the “pawn” of two young and ambitious lawyers who were looking for a plaintiff who they could use to challenge the Texas state…