Category: This Weeks News
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GROCERY OUTLET STORES
BY MARK SPRINGER Did you know that a discount, canned goods store originated in Berkeley, California in 1947? That ‘s part of the Grocery Outlet chain today. It has expanded to include everything a modern grocery store would have, and some they may not, like fresh potting plants, flowers in seed and planters, fruit…
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PUBLIC SAFETY AT STAKE?
BY EILEEN COOPER First definitions and explanations: STAA Trucks stands for Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 or extra long trucks CTC = California Transportation Commissioners DEIR – Draft Environmental Impact Report Regarding the truck access along the Smith River on Hwys 199/197, there has been a local political push to attain STAA truck access…
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ARE THEY NUTS?
BY DONNA WESTFALL I left the November 19th city council meeting after the public comment period. Vici Dickey was so gracious to present me with a bouquet of red roses. Janice Wilson, Eileen Cooper and Connie Morrison all expressed their gratitude for the work and service I performed while on the city council and…
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AFTER THE YARD SALE
BY DONNA WESTFALL If we had a place to recycle used clothing, here are some of the things they could be used for instead of burying hundreds of thousands of pounds into the landfill each year. In Chandler, Arizona a company called Bonded Logic manufacturers insulation from used jeans. Importers in China, Taiwan, Korea…
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WHAT IS METABOLIC SYNDROME?
BY DONNA WESTFALL Our sometime photographer, Janice Wilson, bring us news of a new class that meets once a month at Sutter Coast Hospital. From the handout, the definition is that Metabolic Syndrome is not a disease. It is a cluster of metabolic conditions or risk factors that occur together when there is excess…
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IGNORANCE ABOUT FLUORIDE
BY KATHERINE KELLY In a Del Norte Triplicate letter to the editor, dated November 15, 2012, one woman writes a glaring screed of ignorance decrying the removal of fluoride from the city’s water (which affected the county users as well). This woman, Hillary John Herman, is exactly the reason why we had to use an initiative…
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HOMELESSNESS
BY KATHERINE KELLY On any given night in America, between 700,000 and 3.5 million people are going to bed homeless. That is, if they are allowed to even go to bed. In Nevada City, California, a law has recently passed to make sleeping while homeless a crime. Permits will be granted to sleep in public…
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NOTABLE NOVEMBER DEATHS; HAGMAN AND COURTENAY
BY DONNA WESTFALL Larry Hagman played the extraordinary villain J.R. Ewing on “Dallas,” and love interest on “I Dream Of Jeanie” opposite actress Barbara Eden. Hagman, 81, died of complications of throat cancer in a Dallas hospital. Larry Hagman lived in Upper Ojai of Southern California. We met him in the ’90’s after…
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COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER
BY DONNA WESTFALL According to Ernie Cox, one of the band members of Mud Sharks, counted roughly over 600 people attending this years Community Thanksgiving meal held at Del Norte County Fairgrounds. For this year’s Thanksgiving Community Dinner, entertainment was provided by the Mudsharks, Kaleidoscope. Front man for Kaleidoscope, Jewat, has been the entertainment coordinator…