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A Little Newspaper by the Edge of the Sea
Tango Interest Growing on the Coast
by Walter Stillman
Tango on the coast involves a rather small
subculture and yet it seems to have far reaching
reverberations. Dancers from our community
regularly travel to tango festivals in Portland,
Denver, San Diego and
further afield. They dance
frequently in San Francisco and most dancers in
the Bay Area are at least
aware of the presence of
a growing tango community here in Mendocino.
Many of the dancers have
made at least one pilgrimage to Buenos Aires, the
birth place of tango. Beginning with a group of 3 or 4 dedicated couples
with ballroom dance experience in Fort Bragg
about 11 years ago, now some 40 dancers have
participated at a live music event at the Caspar
Community Center. Weekly dance events have
occurred steadily since that time, first in Fort
Bragg itself and for the last 7 years in Caspar on
Thursday evenings. The Greenwood Community Center in Elk has been the place to dance
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tango on Sunday evenings for almost 7 years
and in the last few years there has been a weekly class or dance held at the Stella Circle Hall
(the former Lions Club Hall) in Point Arena
on Wednesday evenings. In addition, at least
one weekend a month
the Weller House Inn
in Fort Bragg hosts a
weekend long workshop with classes in
the day and dancing at
night with some very
high level instructors,
often direct from Argentina. Dancers from
other areas frequently
photo by Walt Stillman visit and they have
made friends with folks from around the country and beyond.
What is the attraction? Well aside from being a healthy, fun, social activity that puts one in
an intimate embrace with a variety of partners
it is also a kind of trance in which an improvisational body language demands a relaxed and
attentive focus on the motion of your partner’s
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From the Editor’s Desk
Has it really been ten years since the millennium change? 2010 seems like a date out
of a science fiction movie. Time marches on, they say, and they aren’t kidding.
Maybe one of the reasons that time flies so quickly is that there is so much going on
around here all the time. Even though we think of January as being the slow time of year,
you wouldn’t know it by looking at all the events taking place this month.
Gualala Arts has their usual full calendar and we feature some of their events on page
3. We are particularly interested in hearing from National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, J. Michael Fay, speak about his 2000-mile walk around the Redwood Empire observing and recording the condition of the redwood forests (see pg 5).
Music lovers won’t have far to go to hear great music. Besides the terrific line-ups for
New Year’s Eve planned all across the area, Gualala Arts will treat both jazz and classical
music fans with shows by Larry Vuckovich and Roy Bogas. The Arena Theater showcases performances by contemporary dance bands at what is being billed as a Winter
Heat Wave and presents two of the simulcast operas from the New York Met (pg. 7).
And blues fans would be crazy to miss the Roy Rogers show at the Theater on January 6
(pg 4).
Kirt Mobert has submitted a written version of the lecture he recently gave at the Point
Arena Co-op on sustainable building techniques (pg. 9). If only building codes could be
expanded to permit such creativity we might not have such a housing shortage, but don’t
expect the building establishment to release the strangle hold they have on the industry
any time soon as the Uniform Building Code is still mired in the mid-19th century.
In addition to our usual columns you might want to checkout a new series we are beginning this month that we call Meet Your Neighbors. This month we feature Anchor Bay’s
Herbie Herbert whose life is a living history of the Bay Area and national rock scene (pg
12).
Enjoy.
TANGO continued from cover
body in harmony with the rhythm and melody of the music. It requires that you bring a
quality of presence to the dance that is missing in our daily activities.
Because the embrace is so close the bodies must move harmoniously to avoid colliding.
This body language is not a matter of the follower mirroring the movements of the leader,
but of responding to his initiation in a way that results in an ever-shifting pattern of asymmetrical forms. In addition the partners bring their own unique emotional colors to blend
with the other. The resulting high when it comes together well is indescribable, it keeps
one not just coming back for more, but reflecting on one’s contribution and how we can
better use our bodies to communicate with clarity to take it to a new level.
Tango emerged from the poor neighborhoods or barrios of Buenos Aires, it was at first
looked down on by the upper classes of the city. The country was dominated by European
immigrants who looked to the homeland especially Paris for examples of true culture until
the French began to embarrass them by dancing tango. In time it came to be recognized
that tango, the music and dance was truly an Argentine creation of which they could be
proud. Popular culture was swept up with tango fever. For years in many parts of the city
it was absolutely necessary for a young man to learn to dance tango if he wanted to meet
a girl. At the height of tango fever in the 1940’s there were hundreds of tango orchestras
playing for the tens of thousands of dancers of Buenos Aires. A certain evolution occurred
in which the orchestras found ways of pleasing the dancers with a basic walking cadence
and a rhythmic and melodic playfulness that inspire unique dance movements. To most
North Americans the music is strange at first until one spends some time moving to it. At
a certain point in a dancer’s development the music seems to “click” and the richness of the
variety of orchestras shines through and favorite songs are discovered and cherished.
While the center of tango in Mendocino is undoubtedly in Caspar, my wife, Raquel, and
I and the dancers of the south coast have contributed significantly to the mix. Raquel and
I will be teaching a beginning tango series at Gualala Arts starting in March and another
series in Elk in April. We teach in Caspar and Fort Bragg as well. Check the Gualala Arts
website gualalaarts.org or call us at 882-2474 about classes. Check tangomendocino.com for
info on tango in Elk and Caspar and whi-tango.com for events in the beautiful virgin redwood ballroom of the Weller House Inn built in 1886 in Fort Bragg. There will be live music, Tengo Tango playing At the Caspar Community Center on Friday, January 22. Doors
open at 8 p.m. and there will be dancing to live music from 9-12. This will be an excellent
chance to come and check out tango on the coast. For more information, contact Walter
at [email protected]
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Roy Bogas to Perform January 17 in Gualala
Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series
presents perennial favorite Roy Bogas on
piano along with musical colleague, Peter
Wyrick, on cello in a concert on Sunday,
January 17 at 4:00 p.m. in the Coleman
Auditorium.
Mr. Bogas has performed numerous
times at Gualala Arts over the years with
his ensemble Roy Bogas and Friends, which
includes Mr.Wyrick (whose violinist wife,
Amy Hiraga is also in the group). Having
studied at the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music,
Bogas debuted with the San
Francisco Symphony at age
14 and at age 19 he became
the accompanist to Yehudi
Menuhin, playing over a
hundred concerts with
him throughout North and
South America. He has also
played with Joseph Szigeti
and many other well-known
artists. In 1962 he was a
prizewinner at the second
Tchaikovski Competition in Moscow. Mr.
Bogas is a professor of music at Holy Names
University in Oakland and is also Principal
Solo Pianist for the San Francisco Ballet.
Peter Wyrick, Associate Principal
Cellist of the San Francisco Symphony,
was one of the last students of Leonard
Rose at Juilliard. He has previously served
as Principal Cellist of the Mostly Mozart
Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, and as
Associate Principal Cellist of the New York
City Opera Orchestra. He was a member of
the acclaimed Ridge String Quartet, whose
recording of the Dvorak Piano Quintets
with pianist Rudolf Firkusny won the
French Diapason d’Or and was nominated
for the 1993 Grammy Award for the Best
Chamber Music Performance.
The performance will include the Sonata
in D Major, Opus
102 by Ludwig
von Beethoven, 4
pieces for piano
and cello by
Gabriel
Faure,
and the sonata for
cello and piano,
Opus 40 by Dmitri
Shostakovich.
Tickets are
$20 for advance
purchases;
$5
more on the day
of the concert (buy your tickets early).
Children and young people ages 7 through
17 are admitted free. For advance purchase,
go to www.brownpapertickets.com or call
them at 800-838-3006.
To purchase in person, visit the Gualala Arts
Center or Dolphin Gallery in Gualala.
Vuckovich Returns to Gualala Stage January 23
The Gualala Arts Jazz Series in association
with impresario Fred Adler (KTDE 100.5
FM) will present local jazz favorite, Larry
Vuckovich and his International Sextet plus
“Valeriana Quevedo’s Song and Dance” in
a two-part concert on Saturday, January
23. Vuckovich, a native of Montenegro,
truly brings an international organization
on this trip to Gualala as he is accompanied
by Serbian born bassist, Buca Necak, and
Puerto Rican percussionist, Hector Lugo
along with Noel Jewkes (tenor / baritone
sax and flute), Pete Yellin (tenor and alto
sax) and Akira Tana (drums).
The first set will feature memorable
Vuckovich trio originals plus the famous
and beloved early sounds of West Coast
jazz. Gerry Mulligan’s familiar “Line For
Lyons,” “Bernie’s Tune” and a sublime
version of “Nancy with the Laughing
Face” coupled with “Young At Heart”
(both Sinatra tunes) will showcase the two
outstanding saxophonists on classic West
Coast interweaving and counterpoint.
Valeriana Quevedo will join the group
after intermission for a passionate set of Salsa
and American song and dance, presented in
both Spanish and English. Ms. Quevedo is
a native of San Francisco, but is steeped in
the tradition of Latin song and dance. As a
youth her father used to take her to Delores
Park in San Francisco to play congas and
bongos and she has studied dance with
numerous well-known choreographers. She has spent ten years performing in the
hit show Beach Blanket Babylon playing a
variety of roles. She has also done improv
comedy, modeling, and has her own dance
company called Hot Energy. She sings
with a number of Bay Area Salsa and Latin
bands.
Vuckovich will unveil his brand new
composition “Adler’s Allegro & Adagio,”
written in honor of South Coast jazz concert
producer and radio personality, Fred Adler,
who will emcee the concert. Adler says
of this piece, “It is a deep honor and true
delight to have an original composition
written and performed for me by such
an accomplished and talented pianist/
composer as Larry Vuckovich, played along
with this formidable sextet.”
The evening will conclude with the
hard-driving and spirited Lionel Hampton
Orchestra’s trademark number “Flying
Home.” Tenor man Pete Yellin took the
famous main solo with the later Hampton
big bands, and will recreate that magic on
this version at the Gualala Arts Center.
Tickets are $28 advance, $5 more day of
the concert, if available. You can purchase
tickets online or by calling 800-838-3006.
To purchase in person, visit the Gualala
Arts Center, Dolphin Gallery or Four-Eyed
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and over three hundred radio stations across
the country. The release continues to get
rave reviews and is recently on the Grammy
list for entries for 2010 in ‘Contemporary
Blues Recording of the Year’ among other
catagories. He is featured on the current
cover of Blues Revue magazine. Rogers has
appeared at numerous festivals and special
events throughout the world, including
Montreux Jazz (Switzerland), North Sea Jazz
Festival (Holland), Notodden (Norway),
Byron Bay (Australia), New Orleans Jazz &
Heritage Festival (USA) and Montreal Jazz
(Canada) in addition to touring Europe, the
U.S.A. and Canada.
Rogers will perform with a pared down
version of the Delta Rhythm Kings when
he brings his solid team of Steve Ehrmann
on bass and Billy Lee Lewis on drums
and percussion. It was Ehrmann who
introduced Rogers to John Lee Hooker
and they
performed
together in
the Coast
to Coast
Blues Band
backing up
Hooker in
the mid1 9 8 0 ’ s . L e w i s
joined
the band
two years
ago after
touring
with the
tommy
castro
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doing years
of session work with such artists as Marty
Balin, Huey Lewis, Dr. John, Bob Weir, and
Ronnie Specter, to name just a few.
Tickets for the concert are $25.00. They
will be available at local ticket vendors and
online at www.brownpapertickets.com in early
January. Members with cards will receive
$2.00 off the ticket price at local vendors.
Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. for the 8:00
o’clock show and the Arena Theater bar and
the snack stand will be open.
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Bluesman and slide guitar virtuoso,
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on Saturday, January 16 with the Delta
Rhythm Kings. Recognized as one of the
true masters of the slide guitar, Rogers
has been playing since he was 12 and has
been recording for over thirty years. The
multi Grammy-nominated slide guitarist
has appeared recently on national radio
broadcasts (“House of Blues Radio Hour”
and “West Coast Live”), and his latest studio
album, “Split Decision”, has been acclaimed
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A Winter Heat Wave to Hit Arena Theater January 23
Arena Theater and Blake More present A
Winter Heat Wave on January 23, 2010 with
live bands Epochalypse and Covered in Butter, DJ Stir Fry Willie and a winter action
flick. Doors open at 8:00 PM for a 9:00 PM
show. Tickets are $15. All ages welcome.
Epochalypse is comprised of local musicians Ian Gleason and Jake Stillman. Ian
sings and Jake plays bass and the two have
shared the stage with other local organizations of musicians such as North coast Underground, Dysphunctional Species, and
Vin Lawdin and the Caliband. They are join
by transplants to the coast, Michael Burton
on guitar and James “Schmidty” Schmidt
on drums.
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Jake will then take the stage with two
other homegrown musicians, Jordan Gallagher (guitar) and George Frost (drums)
in a combo known as Covered in Butter.
Following the music the premier of
“Fourcast”, a winter sports action movie
featuring a behind the scenes glimpse into
snowcross, hillclimbing, big mountain riding and freeriding. More information on
the film is at www.highmarkfilms.com.php.
The evening will be highlighted by the
hosting of DJ Stir Fry Willie, whose antics
should provide for a fun evening for all.
The doors open at 8:00 p.m. for a 9:00
p.m. show. Tickets are only $15 and all ages
are welcome.
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National Geographic Explorer at GAC Lecture Series
The Redwood Forest Foundation and
Gualala Arts are proud to sponsor an
evening of slides and conversation with
J. Michael Fay, a Wildlife Conservation
Society conservationist and National
Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence,
at the Gualala Arts Center on Monday,
January 25, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Fay played a lead role in developing
the October, 2009 National Geographic
magazine cover story, Redwoods: the Super
Trees, and the recent documentary: Explorer,
Climbing the giant Redwoods .
Fay completed his Redwood Transect
last year - a 2,000-mile trek through the
redwood region. Fay walked the length of
California’s mythic redwood range, from
Big Sur to Chetco, Oregon.
He and Lindsey Holm took pictures
Crab Feed At Grange
Hall January 9
The Garcia Grange is holding it second annual All-You-Can-Eat Crab Feed on Saturday, January 9 from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at
the Grange Hall in Manchester.
The event is a major fundraiser for the
Grange and proceeds will be used to maintain the aging Grange building.
Tickets for the event are $30 for adults,
$15 for children age 8 – 14, and by donation
for children under 8. Tickets are available at
a variety of locations (look for the posters)
or at the door.
The Grange is located at the corner of
Crispin Lane and Hwy 1 one-half mile north
of the post office. Additional information is
available at 882-3425.
and detailed notes on their 11-month trek,
recording wildlife, plant life, fish, and the
condition of the forest and streams.
Fay believes it is possible to maximize
both timber production and the many
ecological and social benefits that working
forests provide. Talking to loggers, foresters,
biologists,
environmentalists,
local
residents and timber company executives,
they found that redwood forests are at a
historic crossroads - a time when society
can embrace a different kind of forestry that
could benefit people, wildlife and perhaps
even the planet.
While Fay’s message is sometimes dire,
“This planet is in peril,” he sees signs of hope
in a new form of forestry that is developing
on the North Coast. This is an opportunity to talk with
Mike and view his slides, which reveal the
condition of North Coast forests and streams
and the hidden world at the top of 370-foot
redwoods - a vibrant ecosystem alive in the
redwood canopy. Fay is advocating with
public officials, commercial interests and
the region’s residents for a Marshall Plan for
the redwood region.
The Redwood Forest Foundation (RFFI)
conserves
working
forestlands
as a way
to
protect
biodiversity,
mitigate
climate
change,
improve
the
local
economy
and achieve
social equity.
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key corporate
and public partners, they purchase, protect,
restore, manage and conserve the forest
and will use the eventual profits from
sustainable timber production for the longterm public benefit of the local residents.
RFFI purchased the 50,000-acre Usal
Redwood Forest, which is roughly the area
between Ft. Bragg and the Humboldt line
between 101 and the ocean, in 2007. For
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Scuttlebutt
by Mitch McFarland
Arena theater
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January 2010
Member Movie Party
Friday Jan. 8 5:30 PM
7 PM Invictus
Coming Cinema
Precious, Avatar, An Education, Up
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Der Rosenkavalier
Saturday January16 10AM
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Roy Rogers & the Delta
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You can’t help, but get a laugh out of the
Obama haters sometimes. Besides criticizing him for the way he threw the first pitch
to open baseball season, they are all over
him for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
They don’t see him as worthy. Of course,
if he was helping a little old lady across the
street, they would say he is doing it to raise
her taxes.
I did a little research on that prize including reading Alfred Nobel’s own words. It
turns out that it is not a lifetime achievement
award, but for work in the preceding year in
promoting fraternity between nations.
First of all 2009 was not a big year for
fraternity between nations so there couldn’t
have been too many obvious recipients. Yes,
Albert Schweitzer, Mother Teresa, the Dalai
Lama, and Martin Luther King are some of
the most deserving honorees, but let’s look
at a list of other winners.
I wouldn’t have imagined that Teddy
Roosevelt was a recipient given his “rough
and ready” image. He is best known for
launching the White Fleet and storming San
Juan Hill. “Colonel” Roosevelt, as he preferred to be called, remarked that the day on
San Juan Hill was “the great day of my life”,
not the day he was given the Peace Prize.
He was but mashed potatoes compared
to some of the other honorees. Take Yassar
Arafat, for example, founder of Fatah whose
splinter group, the Black September Movement, did the Munich Olympics Massacre
in 1972. Then there is Menachin Begin,
who began the Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory, bombed the Iraqi nuclear
plant, and started the 1972 war in Lebanon.
While we are in the Middle East I should
mention Yitzak Rabin, a military leader and
hawk who launched the Six-Day War, the
raid on Entebbe, and brought F-15 fighter
jets to Israel. He was given the award for
merely recognizing the existence of his adversary (the PLO) in the Oslo Accords.
Don’t forget U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull who in 1939 refuse entry to the U.S.
of 936 Jewish refugees aboard the S.S St.
Louis, some of whom wound up in internment camps in Europe.
My favorite, of course, is Mr. Love-In
himself, Henry Kissinger. His involvement
in Chile, East Timor, Cambodia, Cyprus,
and Angola have lead many to suggest a trip
to The Hague for a war crimes trial is more
appropriate than a visit to Oslo for the man
who once referred to Indira Gandhi as a
“bitch”.
You can see that there are years when the
Nobel committee has to cast far and wide
to find someone to whom to give the prize.
In fact, 15 times since 1901 (mostly during
WW I and WW II) they haven’t awarded it
at all. Those years they give it to the foundation that funds the prize.
I got a chance recently to meet Ann
Moorman, one of the candidates for Superior Court judge to replace the retiring Judge
LaCasse. The deadline for filing for the seat
is February 9, so there may be other candidates, but at this point it is her and another
woman, meaning that it is most likely that
we will have another woman on the bench
in Mendocino county next year (Cindee
Mayfield sits already).
Obviously, when people are campaigning they are at their most accommodating,
but still I got the definite impression that
Ms. Moorman is the type of person who I
would like to see on the bench. She seems
like she comes from the defense side of the
criminal justice system as opposed to the
prosecutorial side of the system. I like this
because I am still waiting for find all these
liberal judges about whom the angry right
is so frequently complaining. Anyone who
thinks that we have too lenient a criminal
justice system has never been through it
would be my guess.
Any time a judge acts out of principle
and rules for a defendant, there is likely to
be a cry that justice is being subverted. All
too often it is not justice that they seek, but
punishment. I think that this comes from
the idea that we are all sinners to begin with
and are deserving of punishment. Surely
you have heard someone say, well, if he isn’t
guilty of that, he is surely guilty of something else they didn’t catch him on. But
wasn’t it Ben Franklin who said that it is better that 100 guilty men should go free than
one innocent man be condemned?
Getting back to Ms. Moorman, she looks
like a strong candidate. She has the endorsement of most of the current and several retired Mendocino county judges, plus a large
swath of the county’s legal and political
landscape ranging from Al Kubanis to Barry
Vogel and Rachel Binah. With nearly six
weeks left before the filing deadline, it is impossible to say who else might join the race,
but so far, this looks like my candidate.
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Opera season with a performance of Richard
Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier. Strauss referred
to the opera as a “comedy for music” and
the story line could be roughly called a
romantic comedy. Set in Vienna during
the rococo period the score is a treasure
house of orchestration, virtuosity in the
choice of instruments and manner of using
them which amounts to inspiration. An
examination
of the full
orchestral score
shows that 114
instruments
are required,
seventeen of
them for an
orchestra on
the stage.
Waltz themes
abound
and
although they
may not fit the
rococo period
in which the
opera is laid,
they play their
part in making
passages, like
the finale to the
second act, the
most significant
music for the
stage of opera
that has been penned in the composer’s
country since Wagner. They also abound in
the scene between Octavian and Lerchenan
in the third act.
Renée Fleming stars as the aristocratic
Marschallin and Susan Graham performs
the trouser role of her young lover.
Next up on Saturday, January 16 is the
George Bizet’s Carmen. One of the most
popular operas of all time, Carmen “is
about sex, violence, and racism—and its
corollary: freedom,” says Olivier Awardwinning director Richard Eyre about his
new production of Bizet’s drama. “It is one
of the inalienably great works of art. It’s
sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be
shocking.”
The role was originally written for a mezzosoprano, but this production cast soprano
Angela Gheorghiu for the part, though
sopranos
have
been cast before. Unfortunately, she
has
withdrawn
from the first six
performances for
personal reasons
and
will
miss
the
simulcast
performance
on
January 16. She will
be replaced in the
six performances
by mezzo Elina
Garanca, perhaps
to the relief of some
opera purists.
The 4th most
performed opera in
North America was
originally panned by
critics and composer
Bizet died of a heart
attack at the age of
37 shortly after its
opening in Paris in 1875, never knowing
how popular his opera would become.
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The Adventurous Gardener
Of Cabbages & Kings & Maggots
By Lori Hubbart
Kale has become the trendiest of
vegetables, as more people discover its rich,
leafy goodness. Coast gardeners have found
that we have the ideal conditions for kale
and other cabbage crops. Of course, there
would be a worm in paradise. More about
that presently.
Kale has also been called borecole,
both derived from the Latin “caulis” for
stem. A form of Brassica oleracea, Acephala
Group, it features loose leaves that don’t
form a tight head.
First I fell in love with Dinosaur,
or Dino Kale, named for the bumpy,
reptilian texture of its deep green leaves.
Then I discovered Laciniato Kale (love that
name!), also with dark green leaves, but
ruffled edges.
My newest love is Red Peacock
flowering kale, resembling a seaweed with its
lacy, deep crimson leaves. The ornamental
“flowering kale” types are also perfectly
edible, though plants from a standard
nursery could contain pesticides.
Delicate young kale leaves can be
eaten raw in salads, using whole leaves for
decorative touches, or chopping them and
tossing with sesame, julienned carrots or
bits of arame seaweed. The New York Times
even featured a recipe for a pesto made with
Laciniato Kale!
The more robust, older kale leaves
are best cooked, taking care to retain and
enhance the texture and taste. Try a quick
sauté on high heat with a bit of olive oil.
Then sprinkle in lemon juice (or water if
you must) and cover for a fast steam. Use a
light touch, always.
Kale is a winter-through-earlysummer crop here, and seeds can be started
in mid-summer for fall and winter harvest,
or in January for spring harvest. Aim for
spacing of 18 inches and water regularly
while avoiding sogginess.
Companion
plants
whose
metabolisms complement that of kale
include bush beans, celery, beets, cucumber,
onions, lettuce and even potatoes.
Now for the scary part of our tale:
Attack of the Cabbage Maggots! Perhaps
because so many of us are planting kale,
Brussels sprouts, broccoli, kohlrabi and
such, cabbage maggots can happen.
This maggot is the larva of a small
fly, ¼ inch long, with black stripes on its
thorax. The species came over from Europe,
Pg 8 Lighthouse Peddler, January, 2010
as did many of our cabbage crops. Female
flies lay their eggs at the base of cabbage
plants. Then the tiny maggots emerge in
three to nine days, and begin to feed.
They will eat radishes, of course,
plus other cool season vegetables, like
rutabagas and turnips. The little blighters
have three to four generations in a year, so
vulnerable plants can be exposed repeatedly
to maggot infestations.
They attack a plant’s root system,
causing the leaves, deprived of nourishment,
to wilt. If you see wilted leaves or bent stalks,
pull up the plants and inspect the roots and
surrounding soil, using a magnifying lens if
necessary.
The stout bases and stalks of
brassicaceous plants can even be infested,
and it’s horrifying for a gardener to discover
healthy plants transformed into a seething
mass of maggots.
Once maggot damage is noticed,
you probably can’t save your current
vegetable crop. Local gardeners have tried
pyrethrin solutions in varying strengths
applied to the maggots themselves. The
kill rate was 30% to 50%, not high enough
to wipe them out. Also, pyrethrin can be
costly.
Some success has been reported for
sprinkling wood ash directly on the maggots.
One theory is that the ash dehydrates them.
It could be labor-intensive, but most of us
have wood ash on hand.
Chickens make fine predators if
you keep turning over the soil to expose
more maggots for the chickens. Of course
chickens will also eat any beneficial insects
that happen to be present.
It’s best to dig up and dispose of
all plants in the infested area. The infested
soil could be removed, but you’d need a safe
disposal plan. Some experts advise bashing
wild or feral host plants, but unless they are
clearly infested, it would be useless.
Maggots over-winter as pupae in
the soil before becoming adult flies, so try
to prevent those pupae from morphing into
flies. You can turn over the soil to expose
the pupae to predators, drying and cold.
Another
solution
involves
nematodes, tiny, predatory roundworms,
that destroy any young maggots. Mix the
nematode solution with water and apply to
the soil, and wait a while for the nematodes
to grow and begin their work.
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Concepts of Sustainable Building
Every year for several years now I go to
Oregon to teach at the North American
School of Natural Building, also known as
Cob Cottage Company. At Cob Cottage Co.
we advertise the “Complete cob” course, a
nine day intensive workshop where you can
learn everything you need to know to build
your own cob home.
To be totally honest, the real content of
the course is not what's advertised. Sure, we
cram those nine days with building information, foundations, roofs and everything
in between. But from the first moment to
the last, our most important job is in altering the mind-set and perceptual
awareness of our students. Building with cob is the bait that draws
them in, but really, I can teach
you everything you need to know
about mud pie building in a day.
The rest is fiddly bits, teaching
self confidence, awareness and
a healthy helping of propaganda
tossed in for good measure.
With every group, sometime
early in the course, we ask the
question, “What is Natural Building to you?”. Most often the answers go something like this,
“Natural Building is building
houses out of locally sourced, natural and recycled materials”. It's a
fairly accurate statement, It covers the “what” of Natural Building
pretty well.
Sometimes though, the answers
that we get are quite surprising,
not at all what one would expect.
These answers tend to focus more
on the “why” of Natural Building. It seems that as time goes
by, more and more people are
becoming dissatisfied with standard construction and standard
housing, for a growing list of reasons. Chemical sensitivity, environmental concerns, seeking a
deeper connection with ones surroundings. There are political and spiritual
ideals and finally, there's money and wanting to somehow escape the rat race that our
society has become.
For me, Natural Building is about perception, it's a way of seeing. I think it's important
to distinguish between the acts of “looking”
and “seeing”. Looking is kind of like taking a
picture with a camera, the image goes in and
maybe (just maybe) it's stored for later, it's
a mechanical process that happens naturally
whenever our eyes are open. When we see,
a different process takes place. Subtle clues
and patterns are picked out that can lead to
a deeper understanding of what it is that we
by Kirk Mobert
are looking at. Seeing is a learned skill that
can require training and long practice to be
any good at.
So, what's the big deal anyway? What is
it about Natural Building that demands a
shift of awareness to grok in it's fullness? To
answer this question fully, let's go through
some of what it takes to site and design a
Natural Building.
Natural Buildings aren't just made of
natural materials, they are also designed
very carefully to take full advantage of their
local environment for heating, cooling and
providing for human comfort, both inside
for (or with) you? What direction does the
wind come from in the middle of the summer and how does it shift around throughout the year? Are there any surprise wet
spots or unforeseen seasonal springs where
you would like to put the house? Look for
frost pockets, sun traps, wind tunnels, etc. If
there is already a building on or near the site,
examine it carefully for signs of wear. If you
have close neighbors, where do their headlights or porch light shine at night? When
they have a party, where is their noise the
loudest and where does smoke from their
BBQ tend to collect? These careful observa-
Home Stove photo by K. Mobert
the building and out. Careful observation is
the first and most critical step in designing
for maximum comfort with minimum energy input. I recommend to all prospective
builders that before they build, before they
drive a single stake or remove a single blade
of grass from a likely building site, they observe that site carefully through all seasonal
conditions for as long as possible. I recommend at least one full year, more is better.
Where does the sun rise in the morning,
where does it set, which trees does it hide
behind on it's path across the sky and are
you able to do something about it? Are they
on your property (for instance) and if not,
how likely is your neighbor to remove them
tions can save you a ton of money and hassle. Simply shifting the building a few feet
either way can mean cutting your heating or
cooling needs by a large margin, reducing
maintenance costs or avoiding some annoying habit or feature of the neighborhood.
Along with careful observation of the site
comes careful observation of the self. How
do you live your life, what activities do you
perform on a daily basis and under what
conditions are you most comfortable doing
them? In Natural Building, we encourage
small, snug houses. Small buildings are easier to heat, cool, clean and hide, cheaper and
quicker to build and maintain, and are simpler to engineer and get permits for. KnowPg 9 Lighthouse Peddler, January, 2010
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Mr. Wasserman is a long-time resident and former mayor of Point Arena
This past year has seen much controversy
in the city government of Point Arena. One
might say that it all began early in 2009
regarding how much money was available
in the Pier account for equipment purchase;
specifically the replacement of the aging
boat hoist and fork lift.
The pier supervisor was authorized by
the city council to buy a new hoist and
reconditioned fork lift (for about $45,000)
based on pier account information that
was confusing, at best. The problem was
rectified, but not without embarrassing
revelations in the local press.
As a result, the City’s recently appointed
mayor called, with council approval, a
committee of department heads and city
employees to “brainstorm” the problem.
Subsequently, with the mayor as chair of
a newly-created finance committee, they
assumed a multitude of oversight duties,
some of which supplanted existing policies
and processes.
At about the same time, the mayor made
some controversial decisions, later viewed
by many as beyond the scope of the office.
This in turn caused some council members
to put to question the mayor’s appointment
to the office. The mayor’s position was
upheld by a 3-2 vote, but the resulting
debate was contentious and resulted in the
resignation of the vice-mayor at a loss to
the balance and representation on the city
council.
What follows is a very brief discussion
of the electoral structure of California cities
and, in particular, the duties and powers of
the office of mayor.
According to the California State
Government Guide to Government, there
are two forms of local government granted
by the state; general law cities and charter
cities. The state constitution and laws
enacted by the legislature govern the powers
of city government, but the formation of
each city is a creation of its citizens.
In 1908, the City of Point Arena was voted
into existence as a general law city, some say
through vote-getting shenanigans (but that
is a subject for another day). As a general
law city, Point Arena derives its powers
from the state legislature. This means that
the basic laws of the City must adhere to
the state Government Code and any acts by
the state legislature that modifies the Code.
Most general law cities are small, though
almost none as small as Point Arena.
In contrast, charter cities, numbering 83
in California, are created when its citizens
specifically mandate their powers and
adopt a charter or document to govern their
city. This charter allows cities to define for
themselves the powers and duties of city
officials freeing them from mandates of
the state legislature resulting in more local
control.
These are two forms of administration
hierarchy in California cities, though they
do not necessarily define the organizational
chart or means of electing mayors or
defining their powers.
The most common type of city
administration is the city manager/
elected council system. In this type, the
city administrator, or manager, directs
department heads in carrying out the
policies of and is responsible to, the elected
city council. In this form, the mayor can be
elected or appointed, and has very limited
powers.
Point Arena, as well as most general
law cities, uses the mayor/elected council
system. The mayor is chosen by the council
from its members, usually the most senior
council member, though sometimes on a
rotating basis. In this system, the council
has significant administrative and legislative
power and all department heads report
directly to the council. This is known as a
weak-mayor system.
In a weak/mayor system such as in Point
Arena, a city may choose to elect the mayor
by popular vote for either a two or four
year term. Because the mayor possesses
no special powers other than conducting
meetings and helping prepare the agenda,
there is little incentive to go to the trouble
of electing a mayor by general election.
In a strong-mayor system, the mayor is
not a member of the council, but is elected
directly by the people. A chief administrative
officer or general manager reports directly
to the mayor. Decision making authority in
specific matters may be vested with council
members or independent boards, according
to the city charter. The success of the
elected mayor is largely dependent on his/
her cooperative abilities with the council.
Strong mayor systems may exist in either
charter or general law cities, but in practice
exist only in cities whose populations are
many times larger than Point Arena.
continued on pg.14
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Usagi Yojimbo Book 1: The Ronin
Written by: Stan Sakai Artwork by: Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo is the ongoing saga of a lone
ronin (a masterless samurai) by the name
of Myamoto Usagi. The story takes place in
Edo period Japan, a feudal period of harsh
realities: the shogunate
has been established,
but the lords of several
clans undermine it; the
land is governed by law
but still overrun by brigands; the hard steel and
hard training of swordsmen is still much appreciated, but other weapons, easier to master but
just as deadly, are entering the scene; and anthropomorphic animals
roam the land.
Well, what did you
expect? "Usagi Yojimbo"
means "Rabbit Bodyguard", after all, and the
protagonist is a, well, a
rabbit. But no fuzzy-eared, tame-natured,
wide-eyed rabbit is he! Myamoto Usagi may
be a rabbit, but his ears are tied in a topknot
and his mastership of the katana and wakizashi is legendary.
In Usagi Yojimbo Book One: The Ronin
we are introduced to Usagi the best possible
way: by his actions. The book collects sever-
al stories that follow each other in time, and
in the first of these Usagi seeks shelter in a
cabin that is plagued by hideous goblin and
recounts the tale of how he lost his master.
The following stories
introduce most of the
supporting cast: Tomoe Ame, the beautiful feline vassal and
bodyguard of Noriyuki, the young lord of
the Geishu clan, both
of which Usagi helps
in their time of need;
the treacherous Lord
Hikiji and his snakelike (well, actually,
really a snake) counselor Hebi; Murakami
Gennosuke, Gen for
short, a good-natured
if immoral rhino of a
bounty hunter; and
the blind swordspig
Zato Ino, who so wants to live in peace that
he'll kill whoever tries to stop him. Each
character is well defined, most of them revolving around the strict conduct code of
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Registration has begun for the first ever Coast Community Library Scrabble Challenge.
In conjunction with the Point Arena Flower Power Festival and Daffodil explosion,this
event will take place Saturday, March 13th at the library in Point Arena. This fundraiser
will benefit programs at the library in the coming year.
Starting in the morning, a youth competition is planned. Students will vie for top place
and raise money for literacy projects at the library by soliciting in advance pledges based
on their scores accumulated in three 20 minute rounds.
The afternoon event will be a bilingual, Spanish English pairs competition. Teams of
two will face off using standard English tiles and Spanish tiles to form words in either
language. Players should pair up to combine their language proficiencies to create these
teams. This contest will also be comprised of three 20 minute rounds, with the winner being the team who has the highest total score from all three rounds.
An adult tournament will take place in the early evening. Teams of four persons will
purchase a table as a group and play together to score a group total. Individual tables will
compete against each other in three 20 minute rounds with first place going to the highest
scoring team. Beverages and light snacks will be provided and a silent auction is planned.
Prizes will be awarded at the end of each event to the highest scorers and also to the
highest pledge fundraiser in the youth division.
Registration forms are available at the library. Volunteers and sponsors are being
sought to help on the day of the events. Individual should contact Madeline Kibbe 882
-3126 for more information and to volunteer.
HOURS:
10-5 Monday-Thursday 10-6 Friday
A member owned Co-op
It’s YOUR
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Downtown Point Arena
Mon - Sat 7:30- 7:00 p.m.
Sun 8:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Call 882-3663
for info
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Question:
Where Can You
Find Public and
Community Radio in
Mendocino County?
A. 90.7 FM
B. 91.5 FM
C. 88.1 FM
D. All of the Above
Answer:
D. All of the Above
KZYX&Z:
Celebrating 20 Years
of Listener Support.
Office: 895-2324
fax: 895-2451
Philo Studio: 895-2448
Mendocino Studio: 937-5103
Willits Studio: 456-9991
News Line: 895-2554
www.kzyx.org
90.7 FM • 91.5 FM • 88.1 FM
Mendocino County
Public Broadcasting
Listener Supported
Community Radio
When the power of love
overcomes the love of power the
world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix
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Meet Your Neighbors
One of the things that make this area so
special (at least to us) is the remarkable people
who are drawn to live here. Our neighbors
possess incredible talent and many have made
great contributions to society prior to and even
during their lives on the coast. Some are famous; most are not. Some got wealthy, while
others eschewed money and fame. Or lost it.
There are inventors, artists, business people,
adventurers, and all sorts of people with fascinating histories from across the country and
around the globe.
This is the first of an occasional column that will spotlight some of these
folks who we may have seen dozens of
times in the post office and never knew
what an interesting story lies behind
the person.
The people that we hope to present
will be chosen by no particular standard except to try to cover a broad
geographic and cultural range. This
month features Anchor Bay resident,
Herbie Herbert.
Herbie was born in Berkeley, California in 1948. He was a in junior
high when his home was taken by
eminent domain to build a parking
lot for BART and his family moved
to Orinda, but Herbie’s heart remained in Berkeley.
His love of rock music lead him
to manage a band in the East Bay
called Frumious Bandersnatch several of
whose members went on to join The Steve
Miller Band. When Bill Graham took over
the Fillmore West, Herbie was hired to help
out. He was a roadie for Santana when they
decided to end Bill Graham’s management
of the band. Their own personal manager,
Stan Markum, couldn’t bring himself to tell
Graham, so the band told Herbie to do it,
thus making Herbie one of only two people
to ever fire Bill Graham. It was perhaps this
moment that launched Herbie on a career,
which many believed transformed the industry.
In its infancy the rock and roll business
was completely unorganized. Little attention was paid to the actual production of
shows as sound, staging and lighting were
generally left up to the venues. Bands didn’t
even use monitor speakers on stage.
When Santana imploded in 1972, Herbie’s acquired what equipment they had and
began his first production company, Primo
Productions. In 1973 Gregg Rolie and Neal
Schon of Santana along with Ross Valory
and George Tickner from Frumious Bandersnatch and drummer Prairie Prince of the
Tubes formed the band Journey under Herbie’s management.
Herbie brought to the band and the rock
music business itself a new level of business management. As manager of Journey
Herbie invented efficient logistical systems
and profitable business arrangements out of
whole cloth, out of his own head, and many
of these ideas became standards for the in-
Herbie Herbert
dustry. His business vision was something
not seen before in rock management. His
marketing skills set Journey apart from the
numerous similar bands popular at the time.
Journey incorporated an umbrella company,
Nightmare, Inc. that included wholly owned
subsidiaries for trucking, lights and sound, a
music publishing company, a fan club, and
even a real estate holding company. When
a need came up for the band Herbie would
create an in-house entity to supply the service. He was a tireless promoter whose marketing skills included early use of videos at
retail outlets (before MTV existed), point
of sale advertising, close ties with record
company people, retailers, the press (he attended high school with rock critic, Joel Selvin), and concert promoters. He had Journey constantly on the road and released an
album every year for several years until the
band was exhausted.
It was 1982 when Herbie and the band had
their greatest moment. At large financial risk
to himself he used the Oakland Coliseum
to produce the first stadium sized full the-
atrical production of a rock show including
moving stage sets, large-scale sound system,
fireworks, and a first ever seen giant video
screen giving each of the 20,000 attendees
a front row seat. The only video projection
equipment available in those years was in
the operating room of the Cleveland Clinic
for training medical students. Herbie managed to rent the equipment and drive it out
to Oakland for the show, which set a new
standard of production for the entire concert industry.
In 1993 Herbie parted from Journey
after they had sold 50 million albums and
along with Neal Schon bought the rest of
the production company, Nocturne Inc.,
from the other band members. He continued to manage other bands such as Europe,
Roxette, The Steve Miller Band, and Mr.
Big and sold another 50 million albums.
What began as a joke was the next phase
of Herbie’s career. Out of a word game between Herbie and a friend came the name
Sy Klopps. In an effort to have a little fun,
Herbie and his friends created Sy Klopps
as the hot new act. They sent out fake
press releases and had promoters tell of
shows that never happened. They mailed
out announcements of a world tour and
had jackets made. A buzz built up in the
trade press and agents and record companies wanted in. When news of Sy Klopps
reached the front page of Hits Magazine,
Herbie’s friends convinced him that the
ruse had gotten so big that it might be risky
to poke that much fun at the entire rock music industry. He needed to make Sy Klopps
a reality. Reaching into his extensive circle
of musician friends he actually put together
the personnel to produce 3 albums, using
mostly different players on each disc. Herbie provided the lead vocal on the tracks as
well as playing guitar on some tunes. Besides the Sy Klopps project, Herbie also
teamed with Grateful Dead drummer Billy
Kreutzmann in a band called Trichromes.
These days Herbie can be found with his
wife, Maya, on their beautifully landscaped
property overlooking the ocean just south
of Anchor Bay. He has been visiting the area
since 1964 when high school friend, Tom
Brown, brought him to his parent’s vacation home in Anchor Bay. In 2005 Herbie
bought the property whose longtime owner
was Dorothy Olsen Darr. He is retired from
the music business, but is a supporter of the
Arena Theater and has assisted with the production of some shows.
Fantastic Value!
Anchor Bay Village
0.14 acre building
lot. Blue water view
filtered
through
your own trees.
Deeded access to
Anchor Bay Cove.
Deeply discounted
for quick cash sale.
884-1109
Fax 884-1343
www.bananabelt.org
$55,000
P.O. Box 630
35505 So. Hwy 1
Anchor Bay, CA
OZ FARM
Retreats
Weddings
Cabin Rentals
Organic Produce
882-3046
41601 Mountain View Road
XL125 HONDA FOR SALE
1971, Street legal, clean title
New tires + knobbys
good condition
$800 Firm
882-3126
Action Network Is Always In Action
Action Network Family Resource Center in partnership with the Across Ages and
Cultures Prevention Coalition will hold a
series of forums to share and discuss the
results of the recent Pride Surveys taken
by area middle and high school students.
Pride Surveys is independently owned by
International Survey Associates, but is the
federally sanctioned, official measurement
of adolescent drug use in America. More
than 10 million students, parents, and faculty members have responded to Pride Surveys nationwide.
Action Network will present the findings
of the recent survey taken in local schools
at 3 meetings in January for all members of
the community who are interested in hearing and commenting on the results. The
audience will be encouraged to participate
in a discussion of strategies to encourage
youth to develop healthy and productive
lifestyles.
All the meetings are bi-lingual and will be
held from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The first
will be held Tuesday, January 5 at the Action Network facility at the Cypress Village
(up the stairs from the Physical Gym). The
following Tuesday, January 12, there will
be a forum at the Point Arena facility (the
Westamerica building). Once again on
Tuesday, there will be an additional meeting in Gualala January 17, at the Action
Network office.
Furthermore, any schools, site councils,
churches, civic groups and neighborhoods
can request a special forum at their own
Try Our Special
location. Interested groups should contact
Janet Kukulinsky at 884-5413.
As part of their continuing efforts to
serve the youth of our area, Action Network is also introducing a youth mentoring
program called CASASTART. The national
Center on Addition and Substance Abuse
(CASA) of Columbia University is the only
national organization that brings together
under one roof all the professional disciplines needed to study and combat all types
of substance abuse as they affect all aspects
of society. They have developed a program
called Striving Together to Achieve Rewarding Tomorrows (START), thus the
title CASASTART. It is a comprehensive
community-based mentoring program designed to help youth succeed in life by providing them with the skills, resources and
confidence they need to reach their potential. The problems to be addressed include
underage drinking, marijuana use, truancy,
poor school performance, no job skill development programs, and lack of employment.
The need for youth mentoring and tutoring
exists at all grade levels and in all our local
communities.
Adults, young adults and teens are needed
to serve as tutors and mentors to local youth.
The time commitment can range from occasional for youth activities to 1-2 hours
every week for tutoring and mentoring. If
you would like to make a positive difference
in the lives of our community youth, please
contact Kelley Kieve at Action Network
884-5413 or via e-mail at [email protected].
Lodging for Paws
Pets
Lodging
Grooming
Training
Rebecca
Golly
882-2429
PO Box 174 Point Arena 95468
PACIFIC
CHIR
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OPRACTIC
HEAL
TH C ENTER
EALTH
DR. D
ANIEL BRANNIGAN
DANIEL
884-1714
38690 PACIFIC DRIVE GUALALA
Camper Shell for Sale
Older style cap for full size pickup
99”L x 75 1/2”W x 26”H
Panelled, insulated ceiling with
glass windows- stored for decades
excellent condition $175
882-3126
South Mendocino Coast
Bus Service
Rt. 95 - Daily Service Between
Point Arena & Santa Rosa
Route 75 Now
Now Running
Running Saturdays
Saturdays
and weekday
weekday service
service between
between
and
Gualala, Fort
Fort Bragg
Bragg &
& Ukiah
Ukiah
Gualala,
Soup
& Salad Bar
$6.99 lb.
Gualala Open 7 Days 884-4184
800-696-4MTA
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SUSTAINABLE BUILDING
Hwy. One - Anchor Bay
884-3522
www.MarVistaMendocino.com
red stella
ing yourself, what you like to do and when you like to do it is the key to building the smallest possible home that fits your needs with less waste. To get this right, you need to be
specific. Do you like to cook or do yoga, do you do yoga in the morning while you make
breakfast or would you rather take a hot drink and read the paper? The possibilities are
endless and only you can get the right fit for your activities, in your home.
After a reasonable amount of time, armed with knowledge of the site and ourselves we can begin to play with designing the building. My favorite method of design is
to pace the building directly into the site. I like to mock up the building with stakes and
string, branches, rocks, firewood rounds, old bedsheets, whatever is handy. I'll act out each
activity, moving through the daily business, trying different combinations, always looking
Mendocino Dog Sports
Companion Dog Training
For Fun, For Sport, For Life
Janis Dolphin
884-3590
[email protected]
gift
home
dress
shoe
Cypress Village,
Gualala
884-1072
www. redstella.com
Caring for Our Community for
Over 30 Years
Medical Clinic
30 Mill Street, Point Arena
Mana Hobson, MD
Internal Medicine, Living Well/Shamli Hospice
Lois Falk, FNP
Family Practice , Living Well
Maureen Frank, FNP
Family Practice
Clinic Hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday to Thursday
Call 882-1704
Dental Clinic
175 Main Street, Point Arena
Roberta Rams, DDS
Family Dentistry
Clinic Hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday to Thursday
Call 882 - 2189
Inside Panorama K. Mobert photo
for the simplest, most compact arrangements.
This process seems a bit slow and odd at first. It runs completely against the grain
of the modern building and banking industries. Financiers don't like it and aren't likely to
provide loans to it, building departments don't like it and aren't likely to give permits for
it, most building professionals don't like it either and aren't likely to risk their reputations
working on it. Still, using this process we can design homes that are smaller, cheaper, more
energy efficient, more comfortable and more ecologically sound than anyone in these industries believes to be possible.
BOOK REVIEW
bushido, governing every aspect of the samurai's life. Usagi, in particular, will never break
this code - but he doesn't forget that people, even if they are simple peasants, come first.
The stories are action-packed, but Sakai takes his time to show us the scenery, add reliable dialogue, and slowly demonstrate and develop the characters and their relationships.
His attention to detail and meticulous research are a constant source of joy and information - from the vegetation, through the clothing and up to the political plots, everything
is inspired by accurate historical information. Sakai’s attention to detail is also showcased
in the beautiful black and white art (and everything here is done by Sakai - pencils, inks,
layouts and lettering) which uses clean lines and functional paneling to tell the story in the
most effective way, paying homage to the characters and the society they live in.
Lucky for us, there is more of this sword wielding rabbit and his antics to enjoy – a
whopping 22 books in the series! Coast Community Library will do its best to keep copies on the shelf. Come check out Miyamoto Usagi, and his animal friends and foes in the
graphic novel section of the library.
MY TURN
"Aim for success, not perfection.
Never give up your right to be
wrong, because then you will lose
the ability to learn new things
and move forward with your life."
- Dr. David M. Burns
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Regardless whether popularly elected or chosen by the council, the office of mayor of
a tiny town such as ours brings a certain prestige. People skills and a willingness to attend
meetings and serve on boards and commissions throughout the community is an duty
that cannot be downplayed. It is important to note that in our system the mayor must take
a subordinate role in council discussion, guiding the discourse in a fair and evenhanded
manner and that the mayoral position in Point Arena must carry with it a heightened
awareness of equal status with all council members. The mayor, after all, serves at the
behest of the council and carries just one vote in the final analysis.
JOE BRECHER
ATTORNEY
Environmental
& Land Use Law
[email protected]
510-482- 5600
707-882-2951
Blue Plate Special
Breakfast
THE LAST
SATURDAY
OF THE
MONTH
8-11 AM
Donation:
$250
ADULTS $5 CHILDREN Undr 12
St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Point Arena
40/50 School Street/Highway One
www.lig
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Sacramento Poet Crawdad Nelson To Read On
Third Thursday Poetry Night
Going Out of Business!
Starting January 1st
Everything* is 65% OFF
DuPont’s Mendocino Mercantile
882-3017
Arena Cove- Point Arena
Open 11-5, 7 days a week
*excludes consignment
On Thursday, January 21st at 7:30pm,
The Third Thursday Poetry Reading Series
at the old CITYART building in Point Arena will feature Sacramento poet Crawdad
Nelson.
Crawdad Nelson was born in Fort Bragg
and grew up on Tunnel Hill. He attended local schools where he specialized in journalism and forestry, two interests which would
eventually coalesce in a series of late 80s/
early 90s articles in the Anderson Valley
Advertiser and a series of interviews for the
New Settler Interview, whereupon he developed a reputation for telling it like he sees
it. This led, during his greenchain days, to a
series of heated discussions with other mill
workers who saw it differently. These forays
into politics and philosophy come from a
long family tradition: his relatives were not
only prodigal timber workers, but politically aware and active during a number of historical periods important in the timber and
redwood regions, from early-days socialist
party organizing efforts to fraternal disputes
during the 1946-49 Redwood Strike. In the
1980s, his father, Don Nelson, was Financial
Secretary and Business Agent for the International Woodworkers of America local in
Fort Bragg, #3-469. In fact, Nelson himself
worked for Georgia-Pacific between 1978
and 1985, leaving only when he suffered a
workplace injury.
For the next fifteen years, he lived in
Humboldt County and there he edited and
published a small "working class cultural
and literary review", The Steelhead Special,
which published interviews, current-events
articles, poetry, fiction, and miscellany of interest to most residents of the North Coast
area. The magazine was published in Willits
and Lakeport and distributed worldwide,
with an emphasis on coastal locations, libraries and cafes.
He moved to Sacramento in 2003 and
now participates in the local poetry community as well as contributes articles and
essays to the Sacramento News & Review.
He has also been a history major at Sacramento City College during much of this
time. In April 2008 he was a presenter at the
Phi Theta Kappa Honors Research Symposium and Leland Stanford Jr. University. He
has also won a number of other scholarships
and awards while a student. He intends to
complete his education at UC Davis within
the next few years. He works as an English
tutor in addition to his journalistic work.
In a departure from its usual thumbnailsized Poems-for-All editions, the 24th Street
Irregular Press has published this chapbook
of Crawdad Nelson’s longer work. His
gentle observations of the natural world are
coupled with a Zen-like desire to quiet the
mind and a realistic approach to the difficulty of doing so. The opening poem, “Conditions,” exemplifies this with the repeated
actions of a “Buddha nature” seeking the
unknowable, only to find it in the search. In
the prose poem, “Drunk,” Nelson uses the
form to examine every aspect of inebriation:
“I was drunk. Good and proper drunk. Antidisestablishmentarianism drunk. Drunk as a
duck. Drunk as a truckload of dynamite.” He
also returns to the natural world for solace,
as in “Encounters With White Owls”: “We
can look up / but we can’t break / away—”
This event is supported by Ling-Yen Jones
& The Third Thursday Poetry Group, an
anonymous donor, and Poets & Writers,
Inc. through a grant it has received from The
James Irvine Foundation.
Untitled
There are only so many stars
many of them owned already,
and just a little light
that can really be called yours
out of all that pours through heaven.
Always hard to be alive
I mean hard
and when the old folks
lean under the moon to take a drink
they can never get enough
of that moonshine passing
through carved hands.
Crawdad Nelson
South Coast Seniors, Inc.
Coastal Community
Breakfast
Sunday January 10
8:30 am - 11:30 am
Spaghetti Dinner
Friday January 22
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
info 882-2137
www.southcoastseniors.org
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Wednesday thru Sunday
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6- Tent stick
10- Hill dwellers
14- Stadium used for sports or musical
events
15- Corp. VIP, briefly
16- Steak order
17- Render weaponless
18- Upon us
19- Demeanor
20- Lifeless
22- Musical dramas
24- Charles Lamb’s pen name
25- Treat salt
26- Contemporary
30- Small notch
32- Impersonator
33- Choir member
35- Convocation of witches
40- Mobster
42- Bring up
44- Modify
45- Scrutinize
47- “So be it”
48- Money
50- Panel of special keys
52- Disheveled
56- Theater award
58- Strong forward rush
59- Capable of being won
64- Employs, consumes
65- Assisted
67- Londoner, e.g.
68- Search
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1- Oz creator
2- Tuscan river
3- Scorch
4- Cross inscription
5- Curve upward in the middle
6- Old finnish money
7- Chemical agent that oxidizes
8- Human limb, section of a journey
9- Resembling a reverberation
10- Packing heat
11- Monetary unit of Nigeria
12- Pay for
13- Psychics claim to have a sixth one
21- Arm bones
23- Popular card game
26- Baby’s cry
27- Opaque gemstone
28- Facile
29- Buffalo’s county
31- New Rochelle college
34- A pitcher may take one
36- Remain
37- Collide with
38- Neighborhood
39- Look after
41- Killer whales
43- Mean
46- Thick fish soup
49- Struck by overwhelming shock
51- Plural of eye, to Spenser
52- Wake
53- First name in photography
54- Ancient tongue
55- Elephant parts
Featuring Artwork
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57- Shelter
60- Blind as ___
61- Vigor
62- Italian resort
63- Catchall abbr.
66- ___ little teapot...
"If you have a talent, use it in
every which way possible. Don't
hoard it. Don't dole it out like a
miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."
- Brendan Francis
JELLY JEENS
by
Armand Presentati
Outback Garden & Feed
in the heart of Point Arena
CLOSED JANUARY
Reopening in February
with strawberry starts and bare root trees !
Garden Shop 882-3333
Feed Store 882-3335
Tuesday-Saturday 10am - 5pm
closed Sunday & Monday
West of Hwy. One in Point Arena.
Park in the municipal lot next to the theater and use our new entrance or
use our driveway just south of the Phoenix restaurant.
36 orchids
open their faces in grey
january rain
-mai haiku