Category: This Weeks News
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WAL MART VS MORONS
BY DONNA WESTFALL Here’s one of those e-mails that continue to circulate until you’ve received a zillion of them from all over. Question: Can anyone find any inaccuracies with any of this? If yes, please comment. Does anyone know how long this has been circulating? PLEASE, READ THIS TO THE END. IT IS…
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CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT – 6 PM
BY DONNA WESTFALL Everyone has access to the city council agenda. The agenda is the road map on the discussions and votes that will take place tonight. If you want to see a copy of an agenda, you can pick one up at City Hall located at 377 J St, Crescent City, or you can…
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OPINION PIECE – GUN CONTROL
BY KATHERINE KELLY Obama is coming for our guns? Too bad he didn’t come for them a little sooner or that family in New Mexico would probably be alive today. They were murdered by their own guns: a mother, father and three children. They were murdered by their son, brother, 15 years of age, who…
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THE AMAZING LEMON
BY DONNA WESTFALL Back in the late 1960’s, when my son was 18 months old, we had a wedding to attend in Mexico City. Unfortunately, he had an ear infection. At the time, his pediatrician was Dr. Paul Fleiss. Dr. Fleiss is now retired. Back then he was a gentle, knowledgeable man who was…
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PORTLAND, OREGON AND FLUORIDATION
Latest update from Kim Kaminski on the battle to keep the toxic industrial waste product, hydrofluosilicic acid, out of their clean water. If you are in a position to donate or go up there and volunteer, please contact them. Barrels of fluorosilicic acid, the proposed fluoridation chemical to be added to the…
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Congrats to Roger Gitlin on Debut Meeting at BOS January 8, 2013
1st District Supervisor Roger Gitlin’s debut as a sitting board member Jan. 8 was a study in group dynamics from my perspective. I was disappointed in his delayed welcome to the board as a new member in several aspects; the first being that he was not acknowledged as welcome by Chairman Mike Sullivan until after…
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RAY’S MARKET CLOSING AFTER 22 YEARS
BY DONNA WESTFALL Another business bites the dust. How much has Wal Mart’s expansion and inclusion of grocery/food items affected other businesses in our community? I’d say A LOT. Some employees have already moved out of the area in search of work. The owners maintain that they will absorb current employees in their other…
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HOW OUR STATE LEGISLATORS SPENT $300,000 ON A NAME CHANGE
BY DONNA WESTFALL Did you know it’s going to cost $300,000 to change the name of the Department of FISH and GAME to FISH AND WILDLIFE? This organization has been around for 143 years. The department traces its origins to Spanish and Mexican laws enacted before California became a state. California created the nation’s first…