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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING
POI N T RE Y ES L IGHT
Volume LXIII No. 26/ Point Reyes Station, CA
August 26, 2010
EAC chooses
new director
David Briggs
SUSTAINABILITY: John Glavis runs BoTierra Biodiversity Research Center, a one-acre Bolinas garden that cultivates
seven kinds of quinoa, among other plants. Glavis hopes to help educate people about biodiversity and sustainability.
West Marin’s homegrown security
In a garden overlooking Agate Beach,
one man is building what he calls the Department of Homegrown Security. John
Glavis, a lanky man with a background
in anthropology and botany, believes that
his one-acre Bolinas garden could, along
with a few satellite gardens, produce
enough food to feed West Marin.
The secret lies in the protein-rich
seeds of a 6,000-year-old plant, quinoa.
Glavis is growing seven quinoa varieties,
as well as other protein-rich plants, such
as amaranth, which were once the staples
of ancient cultures. For him, the garden is
an experiment in biodiversity, as well as
a political movement. “I really, really feel
sorry for rich people,” he said. “With no
money, no homes, they’ll will be wondering what they’re going to eat.” Glavis is
cultivating 100 species, and giving away
the produce for free.
Small organic farms have long been
part of West Marin’s ethos, but farming—
never an easy or lucrative endeavor—faces increasingly stringent regulations and
enforcement of labor laws. “John’s project is amazing. He’s so ahead of where
we are, and he’s so willing to share everything,” said friend Sebastian Ellis.
Ellis recently launched a nonprofit
food co-op, Heart and Harvest Food,
which provides affordable, bulk, organic
food in Point Reyes Station. She joined
Glavis, several other local gardeners and
property owner Penny Van Dyke on a tour
of BoTierra Biodiversity Research Center
on Monday. “With satellites in Point Reyes
and Inverness,” Glavis told them, “we can
really grow all the food we need.”
At the start of the financial crisis, Glavis grew concerned that farming conglomerates would collapse and create an instant food shortage. BoTierra became his
personal protection, as well as his protest
of the quantity of petroleum used to ship
produce and huge profits reaped by industrial farms. His mission is to educate
and inspire people about food diversity
and sustainability.
Please turn to page 8
INSIDE > High schoolers breeze through exams page 2 Heat wave in West Marin media page 4 Tomales’ spider zoo
page 5 West Marin, a knitter’s paradise page 7 Marshall roadwork page 8 Walnuts and health page 9 Tiny houses page 10
Chedas celebrate 50 years page 15 Calendar page 16 Mina Bauer, 1942—2010 page 18 Speaking for Spot page 19
The Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC) welcomes Amy
Trainer as its new executive director.
Trainer holds a law degree from the University of Kansas and has worked nine
years with nonprofits. She holds degrees
in urban planning and environmental
studies, and worked to protect marine
habitats as a staff attorney for Washington-based Friends of the San Juans.
Trainer was most recently the executive
director of Orient Land Trust, a Colorado
nonprofit. “I worked with a lot of farmers
and ranchers on restoration, increasing
the quality of native species, and protecting stream habitats,” she said. “The goal
is to find that balance. My experience is
that farmers and ranchers are really, really
good stewards of the land, and they know
their land better than someone coming
in from the outside. I’d like to work with
them and give new perspectives, but I
think we share a common goal. I see my
role as director of EAC to do that in the
most sustainable way possible.” — K.C.
Marijuana bust
on Mount Tam
Less than three months before Californians vote on a proposition that
would effectively decriminalize marijuana, law enforcement agencies have
stepped up the eradication of underground pot gardens.
Raids in West Marin, Sonoma and
Mendocino have left five dead and tens
of millions of dollars worth of marijuana
seized. It is unclear whether these operations were run by Mexican cartels,
but federal officials believe as much as
80 percent of the weed grown on public land is owned by Mexican organized
crime. Pro-legalization activists say that
if Proposition 19 passes, California will
see a dramatic decrease in this sort of
Please turn to page 11
Heavy Zucchini C o n t e s t !
The Point Reyes Light annual Heavy Zucchini Contest starts Monday, August 30. Bring us your zucchini, weighed and marked
at the Palace Market. Photos taken from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays until October 4.
Results published on October 1. Grand prize: $50.
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POINT REYES LIGHT August 26, 2010
POINT REY ES LIGHT
Editor: Tess Elliott
Business Manager: Renée Shannon
Advertising Representatives: Harry Korss,
Lori Kyle
Graphic Designer: Josh Stevens
Reporter: Kyle Cashulin
Photographer: David Briggs
Intern: Josh Potter
Administrative Assistant: Jamie Dawson
Website and Production: David Briggs
Correspondents: Victor Reyes,
Art Rogers, Dewey Livingston, Loretta Farley,
Terry Donohue, Josh Churchman,
Robin Carpenter, Herb Kutchins, Bert Crews
Contributors: Tim Henry, Leslie Goldberg,
Donna Sheehan & Paul Reffell,
Sadja Greenwood, Clint Graves
Circulation: Missy Patterson
Delivery: Kathi Lanatti
Published by Point Reyes Light Publishing
Company L3C, owned by Marin Media Institute, a California nonprofit corporation.
Board of Directors of Marin Media Institute:
Corey Goodman, Chair; Mark Dowie, Vice
Chair; Chris Desser, David Escobar, Phyllis
Faber, Jerry Mander, David Miller
and Norman Solomon.
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Address: Box 210 Point Reyes Station, CA
94956
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News briefs
High school students perform well
West Marin sophomores performed well
this year on the California High School
Exit Examination. At Tomales High, 80
percent of sophomores passed. Tamalpais
High School performed extremely well,
with 95 percent of their students passing the exam. But Sir Francis Drake High
School breezed through the exam, with 98
percent passing. All sophomore students
are required to take the exams, and those
who did not pass have up to seven opportunities to retake the parts they failed.
Marin County surpassed the state’s averages, though by a smaller margin than last
year. Detailed reports for each school may
be found at cahsee.cde.ca.gov.
Donations to Saccommanos
Vince Saccommano, an Inverness man
burned by a power line last week, is doing
well, according to his family, but remains in
critical condition at the University of California, Davis Burn Center. Three separate
accounts have been established for contributions. An account at Coastal Health
Alliance is dedicated to funding Saccommano’s medical needs, and an account at
Wells Fargo should be set up in the next
few days. For now, donations can be sent
to P.O. 186, Point Reyes Station, 94956, or
TOBY’S
Toby’s Organic
TOMATOES
Lorraine Almeida
Aug 28, 2010 at 3:00 PM
in the Gallery
Lorraine will read from
her newly published book,
The Myth of the Earth.
Point Reyes Farmers Market
*
On Saturday, August 28......
10 am Guest Chef…David Cook from the Coast Café in Bolinas.
10 am-1 pm Music…Morgan Meadow and Tawnya Kovach play old-time music.
$
Point Reyes Mozzarella is today’s cheese tasting…What will ripen in this
week’s heat? Come to the Point Reyes Farmers Market and discover!
Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman
Sep 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM in the Barn, $20
Celebrating their newly published books of poetry: The Apple Trees at Olema: New and
Selected Poems — Robert Hass and Practical Water — Brenda Hillman
Tickets at ptreyesbooks.com
Mon-Sat 9-5, Sun 10-5 • Main Street, Point Reyes Station • 415/663-1223
brought to Laura Mejia at the West Marin
Pharmacy. Mike McIssac is raising money
for his rent, and can be contacted at (415)
663.9359. Wynn Miller is raising money for
medical housing in Davis through a Wells
Fargo account (#7427986224). A fundraiser scheduled for September 18, at Toby’s
Feed Barn will feature music, food and a
silent auction and raffle. To volunteer, or
to donate to the silent auction and raffle,
contact Nick Corcoran at (415) 669.7251 or
email [email protected].
Freeing up streams in valley
A project to remove a barrier to coho
salmon and steelhead trout spawning
routes through Lagunitas Creek tributaries will begin at the end of the month in
San Geronimo Valley. Castro Street between Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and
Arroyo Road will be closed beginning
tomorrow, August 30, and will take about
two months to complete. Arroyo Creek is
a tributary to San Geronimo Creek, and
supports approximately a third of all
spawning coho swimming up the valley
streams. The fish passage project, funded
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s Restoration Center and
the California Department of Fish and
Game, will remove an ageing, undersized
culvert that has been found to be a con-
siderable obstruction. “The county’s fish
passage project on Arroyo Creek is an integral piece of the county’s commitment
to protect and restore salmon habitat in
the San Geronimo Valley,” said Supervisor Steve Kinsey.
Annual sand sculpture contest
Point Reyes National Seashore holds the
29th annual Sand Sculpture Contest next
Sunday, September 5 at Drakes Beach.
The free community event includes categories for children (14 and under), families, adult individuals and adult groups.
Three prizes will be awarded in each category, along with prizes for the sculpture
with the most recycled plastic included.
Judges will be local celebrities Charlie
Morgan of KWMR and Cheri Leirer, local
business owner and longtime art and science teacher. Donna Faure of Point Reyes
Seashore Association will judge the children’s sculptures. Registration begins at 9
a.m. Ken Patrick Visitor Center, and judging begins at noon. Prizes will be awarded
at 3:30 p.m. Bring a picnic and spend the
day—there will not be a lifeguard on duty,
and please, leave dogs at home! For more
information, contact Bear Valley Visitor
Center at (415) 464.5137. Sponsored in
partnership with Point Reyes National
Seashore Association.
Cover Girls
Artisan Fabrics and Upholstery
Recover Your Favorite Furniture or Upholster
a New Headboard, Wall, Custom Built Storage Otooman
Custom Slipcovers and Upholstery
New Organic Fillings: Organic Cotton or Horse Hair,
100% Natural Latex with No Chemicals
500 C Street, Point Reyes Station
Wool, Mohair, Linen,
Cotton, Tapestry,
Chenille, Ikat, Denim,
Textured Weave,
Sailcoloth, Fake Fur
S. Harris, Schmacher,
Maharam, Donghia &
many more
415 663 9363
Mary Anne Warren
Mary Anne, a resident of Inverness for about 40 years, died in her sleep on
the evening of August 9, 2010, one week before her sixty-fourth birthday,
in the house she loved and helped to design. She was a talented landscape
painter, a distinguished philosopher, and the author of three original and
important books—The Nature of Woman, Gendercide, and Moral Status. The
books were testimonies to the great independence of thought and spirit
that were her lifelong characteristics. Mary Anne was born in Falls Church,
Virginia, and grew up there and in the family home in Indiana. She began
her college career as an art major at Indiana University in Bloomington,
and then switched to philosophy, which she further studied at Berkeley and
Harvard, graduating with a doctorate from Berkeley, and going on to teach
philosophy at Sonoma State and San Francisco State for thirty years. In
this community she served as president and, most recently, secretary of the
Invernes s Ridge Association. Her great hobbies were painting, gardening,
collecting Native American arts and crafts; and bird-watching, which she
combined with world travel. Recent trips with birding groups included
Borneo, Madagascar, Bhutan, Mongolia, Brazil’s Pantanal and Namibia. She
will be missed by her many friends, and most of all by her spouse of 41
years. — Michael Scriven
August 26, 2010 POINT REYES LIGHT
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Sheriff’s calls
Saturday, August 14
LAGUNITAS: At 3:09 a.m. a neighbor complained about a party.
WOODACRE: At 8:38 a.m. a 56-year-old
man was found snoring but unresponsive.
Medics took him to the hospital.
DILLON BEACH: At 11:32 a.m. the campground reported a day user blew through the
gate without paying the fee.
STINSON BEACH: At 11:58 a.m. the theft
of art totaling $12,000, as well as empty beer
cans and a smoking barbecue, were reported
at a private residence.
MUIR WOODS: At 12:52 p.m. someone
called to discuss ongoing issues with a bike
rider.
TOMALES: At 1:14 p.m. a bicyclist crashed.
TOMALES: At 5:11 p.m. a man cut off his
finger.
NICASIO: At 6:46 p.m. a woman who was
home alone reported a homeless person
outside her gate.
FOREST KNOLLS: At 9:44 p.m. a car hit a
deer.
BOLINAS: At 10:04 p.m. a loud wedding
party was reported.
SAN GERONIMO: At 10:17 p.m. two
people were arrested for drug use.
Sunday, August 15
OLEMA: At 2:39 a.m. someone heard a car
speeding and later crash.
WOODACRE: At 3:06 a.m. a woman
reported that her 23-year-old son took her car
without permission.
STINSON BEACH: At 10:37 a.m. someone
reported a family and their dog chasing seals
from sandbars. Deputies admonished the
people.
SAN GERONIMO: At 11 a.m. a man
reported the theft of his scooter from his
driveway.
STINSON BEACH: At 5:42 p.m. a 75-yearold was reported missing.
STINSON BEACH: At 9:27 p.m. a man
making suicidal remarks was placed on a
mental health hold.
Monday, August 16
BOLINAS: At 9:36 a.m. a Norcal produce
delivery truck knocked down the street sign at
Brighton and Wharf.
MARSHALL: At 9:57 a.m. someone reported that a man was electrocuted.
of a horse, and said the caller’s neighbor’s
horses had been stabbed recently.
BOLINAS: At 11:15 a.m. a woman said her
son, who was living in a trailer, was extremely
agitated and saying that he wanted to kill
people.
POINT REYES STATION: At 7:51 p.m. a
woman whose neighbor was making death
threats asked about the status of her restraining order. Deputies said it was not yet
granted.
BOLINAS: At 12:42 p.m. someone found the
tires on a truck slashed and graffiti painted all
over the body.
STINSON BEACH: At 3:06 p.m. someone
saw three young men in a car smoking something from plastic pipes.
MUIR BEACH: At 4:30 p.m. a contractor
said tools were stolen out of his truck while it
was parked in Marin City.
FOREST KNOLLS: At 6:16 p.m. a woman
reported that a man was pacing around his
yard, yelling at her.
STINSON BEACH: At 9:32 p.m. a Ford
Expedition backed into a Prius before taking
off speeding.
Tuesday, August 17
SAN GERONIMO: At 5:17 p.m. someone
complained about a neighbor who always left
tires, logs, debris and other junk on the road
in front of the caller’s house.
INVERNESS: At 5:22 p.m. a motorcycle
crashed.
POINT REYES STATION: At 5:44 p.m.
someone reported that a neighbor, a large
woman in her 60s, had threatened to kill the
caller for using pesticides on a lawn.
someone expressed concern about a neighbor who was making death threats, and whom
the caller said also used pesticides.
SAN GERONIMO: At 9:34 p.m. someone
reported the theft from an unlocked house of
silver jewelry made in India.
someone reported a neighbor who was slamming doors and being loud.
Wednesday, August 18
STINSON BEACH: At 11:07 a.m. a man
who recently broke up with his girlfriend said
the woman was preventing him from retrieving his property from her car.
NICASIO: At 11:58 a.m. a large branch was
in the road.
STINSON BEACH: At 10:09 p.m. a woman
reported an unwanted visitor who was trying
to get through the gate.
NICASIO: At 11:29 p.m. deputies ticketed
people at the reservoir.
Thursday, August 19
BOLINAS: At 4:52 a.m. a man with a racing
heart was taken to the hospital.
BOLINAS: At 7:36 a.m. someone asked
deputies to check on a man who had collapsed at the bottom of a driveway. The man
declined help.
FOREST KNOLLS: At 8:15 a.m. a man
reported the theft of tools from a shed on his
front lawn.
Saturday, August 21
OLEMA: At 12:09 a.m. a cow was returned
to pasture.
STINSON BEACH: At 9:59 a.m. a 13-yearold girl was reported out of control.
DOGTOWN: At 10:38 a.m. two large dogs
seemingly familiar with area were seen loose.
TOMALES: At 12:22 p.m. a cyclist crashed
and hit her head.
reported that fiberglass from the back of a
construction truck was blowing all over the
beach.
STINSON BEACH: At 3:08 p.m. a motorcycle crashed.
POINT REYES STATION: At 4:49 p.m. a
woman was placed on a mental health hold
after admitting she was thinking of jumping
into traffic.
NICASIO: At 5:42 p.m. a cow was seen in
the road.
BOLINAS: At 11:50 a.m. the same man who
had collapsed in a driveway earlier was now
seen on another person’s lawn.
deputies cited someone for soliciting after 6
p.m. and without any ID.
BOLINAS: At 12:05 p.m. someone reported
that a man was clearing brush on someone
else’s property, near where the man parks his
motor home.
MUIR BEACH: At 8:44 p.m. someone
asked deputies to check on a woman who was
standing on the side of the road, waving down
cars.
NICASIO: At 1:53 p.m. someone called to
talk about horse stabbings in the area.
saw fireworks.
MARSHALL: At 6:52 p.m. someone
reported a suspicious young man driving a
white Chevy pickup whose dented tailgate
was held up with a rope.
LAGUNITAS: At 11:06 p.m. a man was heard
yelling profanities in his bedroom, where he
was involved with his girlfriend and some loud
music. Deputies told him to keep it down.
someone reported that a downstairs neighbor
was getting violent, stomping around and
slamming doors.
Friday, August 20
CHILENO VALLEY: At 2:50 a.m. deputies
arrested a drunk driver.
WOODACRE: At 10:20 a.m. a woman
reported the theft of jewelry from her home.
BOLINAS: At 4:05 p.m. deputies ticketed a
car.
SAN GERONIMO: At 11:59 a.m. a car was
seen swerving.
BOLINAS: At 5:06 p.m. a man whose truck
had been ticketed complained to deputies that
the vehicle had its tires slashed, preventing him
from moving it, and said he felt that deputies
should have realized that before ticketing it.
NICASIO: At 12:40 p.m. someone reported
finding a possible stab wound in the shoulder
NICASIO: At 5:09 p.m. a cyclist crashed and
cut her head.
Sunday, August 22
TOMALES: At 8:27 a.m. deputies searched
in vain for a cow.
TOMALES: At 11:11 a.m. a motorcycle
crashed.
BOLINAS: At 11:45 a.m. a resident heard her
neighbor screaming, and said the woman’s
boyfriend might be at the house.
FOREST KNOLLS: At 2:54 p.m. a woman
asked to talk to deputies about a gun someone had given her.
FOREST KNOLLS: At 7:11 p.m. someone
heard someone else screaming.
MUIR WOODS: At 9:41 p.m. a man reported that another man, upset about losing
a parking spot, threatened to kill the man’s
family.
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Heat wave
editor’s note
by tess elliot
Summer visited West Marin last week,
bringing heat. For a couple of nights the
air was balmy and the full moon shone
above the oak and redwood forests as
they shook and swayed. People responded differently. I became languid, but I noticed some others became more cheery
than usual. An elderly lady came into the
office in mid-afternoon on Wednesday.
Her mood was bright and she began to
tell me her life story and then ask questions about mine. At another point, a man
stopped me in the street to say that at
least one person in West Marin, meaning him, enjoyed having two newspapers.
He was frank and positive. I found myself
feeling the same.
In another wave, hostility that some
called a newspaper war visited West
Marin this summer. It found a truce last
week, and for that we can all be thankful. I am delighted that the board of
this newspaper reached out to The West
Marin Citizen in a gesture of peace. Both
David Briggs
HOLSTEIN: Over 700 cyclists showed up for the 17th annual Holstein 100, sponsored by West Marin Senior Services.
parties agreed to keep negativity about
the other out of their pages, or the pages
of any other newspaper. This is very encouraging, and should end the heat wave
in West Marin media.
The negativity spawned by this sum-
mer’s attacks rippled into many corners
of our community. I am sure the editor
of The Citizen, Jim Kravets, shares my
feeling that, with so many important
community issues to address, attacks on
each other are a waste of time. We need
not tie ourselves in knots when there are
countless existing knots in need of untying. The true knots—land use disputes,
homes in foreclosure, school budgets, environmental degradation—will be better
untied with all hands on deck.
The rights of same sex couples in Mexico
HABLANDO
by victor REYES
A few days ago, in a historical and
transcendent decision, the Mexican Supreme Court declared lawful and constitutional a reform of the civil code of
Mexico City, opposed before the court by
the Attorney General of Mexico, Arturo
Chavez, who was named by President
Calderón of the conservative National
Action Party (PAN). The controversial
reform enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the City gives couples of the same
sex the right to adopt children. The Assembly had already authorized marriage
rights for these couples; the Court’s decision mandates that the status of these
persons as spouses and adoptive parents
be recognized in the rest of the country,
even though these measures don’t exist
there. Many had feared a contrary decision, because the Court had previously
ruled against fundamental human rights
and in favor of violators of those rights.
In a country with a long conservative
and authoritarian tradition, Mexico City
began to have democratically elected authorities at the end of the 90s, creating a
Legislative Assembly shortly thereafter.
For decades, the country’s president had
appointed the Mayor of the Federal Dis-
trict (DF) and the other authorities of the
capital city, thus depriving inhabitants of
the ability of choosing them by vote.
That authoritarian tradition, carried
over from the colonial era, centralized
everything in Mexico City, from political and economic power to cultural and
educational power to the intellectual
vanguard. Therefore, it was no surprise
that the first mayor elected by popular
vote, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, and the
majority of the members of the first Assembly were from the leftist Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD), born after
the 1988 presidential election. This election was considered fraudulent, because
although the majority voted for the opposition candidate (the same Cárdenas),
the winner was Carlos Salinas de Gortari
of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI). Thus, since 1997, Mexico City has been
governed by the left, and has become
the most progressive area in the country, though one not without its mistakes
and errors. This, in spite of the fact that
the country’s president has belonged to
the conservative PAN party since 2000,
when Vicente Fox was democratically
elected. The first president was not part
of the PRI party, which had dominated the entire electoral spectrum for 70
years—albeit through fraud—governing
in a vertical and authoritarian manner
and merely simulating democracy. In
2006, with all his legal and illegal power,
Fox supported Felipe Calderón for the
presidency; Calderón gained a doubtful
victory by a mere 0.56 percent margin
over López Obrador of the PRD. Many
still question that election. Obrador was
mayor of Mexico City before becoming a
candidate.
Now, the Supreme Court has legalized
a measure in favor of sexual tolerance
and human rights that elevates Mexico
City to the level of the most modern and
advanced countries, where homosexuals and lesbians can finally enjoy the full
rights of every other citizen. However,
the opposing reactions have come quickly, beginning with the Catholic Church in
the voice of the recalcitrant and powerful
Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Archbishop of Guadalajara, capital of the state
of Jalisco and the second-most important city in Mexico. Sandoval reproved
the Court and said that its members had
received money from the government of
the DF and international organizations.
He now faces a lawsuit alleging false accusations.
The Mexican Catholic authorities
had already come out against another
law approved by the DF Assembly—one
which grants the women of Mexico City
the right to abortion (this was also reaffirmed by the Court). Then they came out
against gay marriage, and now have once
again shown their anger and intolerance
against this group and their right to adopt
children.
The states of western Mexico and El
Bajío (the Lowlands) have historically
been bastions of the most traditional and
conservative Catholicism. The Guerra
Cristera (Christian War), took place between the years of 1926 and 1929, after
the government of President Calles prohibited religious expressions. Radical
Catholic groups and some priests in that
part of the country took up arms with the
cry, “Viva Cristo Rey!” (Long live Christ
the King!). Ever since then, the pride
generated by those actions and Catholic tradition have produced a generally
closed and intolerant attitude in those
areas, with governments of the PAN and
very conservative ecclesiastics.
In that ideological battle, many PAN
state governments have passed laws opposing those of Mexico City. In Guanajuato, a young woman who had an abortion
after being raped was sentenced to years
in prison, as were many other women. In
Baja, California, a raped girl was forced
to have a baby she did not want, without
any support. Similar cases have occurred
in other states. The way in which many
Mexican immigrants from these areas
now living in U.S. decide which party to
support in their new country may depend on that party’s stance on immigration and religious issues—an interesting
subject for another column.
Letters
5
Crews’n Tomales
by Bert Crews
Mariah is instrumental
Dear Editor,
Spider World USA
It was insightful and exciting to see the
article about Lucid Art Foundation in the
August 19 edition of the Light. The history, current programs and direction of the
foundation were skillfully detailed. It was
disheartening, however, to see no mention of the contribution and connection of
Mariah Nielson to the JB Blunk Artist in
Residency program. Mariah has been instrumental in developing a dynamic, creative and unique environment for young
vibrant artists from North America and
Europe to develop their art and new ideas.
The Residency is a very active component of the Lucid Art Foundation and has
a strong artistic presence in West Marin.
For that, I am very grateful. I look forward
to seeing the community further embrace
the Foundation and the Residency.
Rick Yoshimoto
San Rafael
Surrealism to Lucid Art
Dear Editor,
Thank you for your article featuring
the Lucid Art Foundation’s creation, concept and programs in your last issue. I was
pleasantly surprised how your writer, Kyle
Cashulin, could pull all the massive information he was given to create a cohesive
story. I appreciate that you corrected the
online version, but I would like with this
letter to let the community know that the
errors or omissions made in the article were
neither intentional from me, the Foundation and even the writer. Like any newspaper article, errors and omissions are apt to
happen unless your article is reviewed by
the person who is being interviewed. But I
understood that was not your policy.
First, I would like to mention the oversight around the JB Blunk Residency. Had
Tomales is the only town in Marin
that can boast about its own zoo. I sat
down with zookeeper Henry Elfstrom
to discover more.
BC: I didn’t even know Tomales had
a zoo. HE: For over 15 years. Located at
the back of Tomales Park, it’s not full
of exotic animals but all arthropods,
which comprise 80 percent of all animals on earth. But these are animals
you can play with and pet. BC: With
distinct personalities? HE: Yeah, although more as a population than individually. I’ve got this one female, she
was an aggressive monster in her salad
days. She has totally mellowed out
in old age. Plays well with kids now.
BC: Yours or hers? HE: Not mine but
schools kids anyway. With special arrangements, I give tours of the zoo to
school kids.
BC: So let’s tell the readers what kind
of animals you house in the zoo. HE:
Like I said, arthropods. Which include
insects, crustaceans, crabs, arachnids
and spiders. It’s a spider zoo. I have
about 20 species but mostly tarantulas,
which are the orchid of spiders. They
are called Old Spiders because evolutionarily, they are more primitive, ancient spiders. All spiders have fangs, but
it not been for the Blunk family, Christine
Nielson, and in particular Mariah Nielson,
this program would not be in existence. It
was the generosity of the family to prepare
JB’s home and studio for a residency program and the hard work of Mariah Nielson,
JB’s daughter. Mariah poured out her heart
and soul, on her own time, and is working
at the Foundation to collaborate to help
create and operate the JB Blunk Residency
program. Second, the headline was mis-
fangs that pinch. With the tarantula, the
fangs thrust down. True spiders pump
air through their bodies, but tarantulas
absorb air as passive breathers.
BC: Wow! How many critters do you
have? HE: About 500, although with
the new babies . . . BC: How do you feed,
water and care for tarantulas? HE: Very
carefully! Ha ha ha. I feed ‘em crickets, and you should hear the zoo when
the male crickets are chirping. What a
racket. As for water, I mist them once a
week— BC: Yeah, I bet you do.
HE: —to maintain their humidity.
They need it when they molt. All animals with exoskeletons have to molt or
shed their skin in order to grow. When
it happens, it looks like they’re dead,
lying on their backs. But then you get
this brand new spider. They molt once
a month when young and maybe once a
year as adult. They need the humidity
or they get stuck in their skins and die.
BC: A problem we all have.
HE: You’ve got to remember that
spiders are related to crabs. Think
of that next time you are eating your
crab cakes at Nick’s Cove. BC: I read
somewhere that the early European
settlers were given soft shell crab, a
delicacy, by native Americans, but re-
leading to some people. A more appropriate heading would have been “From Surrealism to Lucid Art.” Lucid Art has its artistic
legacy from Surrealism. Surrealists were
interested in dreams and symbolic aspects
of the unconscious. Lucid Art is interested
in cultivating awareness, being fully present to creation, the thing itself, rather than
the symbolism of the dreaming world.
Third, the Morris Graves exhibition
did not take place at Noetic Institute, but
fused to eat them, thinking they were
giant insects. So how do your animals
experience the world? What’s reality
to them? HE: Well, with eight eyes
and eight legs, very different from
us. Oddly none of those eyes see the
world too good, so they mostly experience the world through vibrations
and chemicals. BC: Just like rock musicians. Can they live as long as Keith
Richards?
HE: Most are tropical and grow
up fast, molting often, so 15 years is
good living. Desert tarantulas grow up
much slower, molt less and can live 30
years or more. Compare that to regular
spiders living maybe one year, or black
widows, which live about three. BC: So
what you’re telling me is that you’ve
had some of these animals longer than
any relationship I’ve ever maintained?
HE: Perhaps, Bert, it’s best not to see
this zoo as a metaphor for your own
life.
Tomales Spider World USA will be open
for public viewing, holding, petting and
demonstration during Tomales Day—
Tomalepalooza—Sunday, September 5.
The parade starts at high noon, followed
by a barbecue and fair in the park.
was co-sponsored by the Foundation and
the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco.
The Gallery’s founders, Ann Brodsky and
Tony Williams, are longtime West Marin
residents. Since some of the staff are being
mentioned and others are not, I want to
take the opportunity to introduce the hardworking circle of our staff to the commuPlease turn to page 6
The Patterson Boys
Art Rogers — Photography Studio & Gallery
415.663.8345 — www.artrogers.com
Visitors Welcome by Appointment
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Surf report
Letters
by Tim Henry
A decent south swell is in the water as you read this, but already on
the decline. The south drops to head high on Friday, and is replaced
with thigh-high south swell Saturday and prevailing through the week.
Northwest wind swell starts at head-high and drops to the waist range
Saturday. Watch out for big northwest winds cranking up in the afternoon
and prevailing through the weekend.
Thursday, August 26: Northwest wind swell at 3 to 5 feet with 6 to 8-foot
south swell with northwest winds at 15 to 25 mph.
Friday, August 27: Waves at 4 to 6 feet from the northwest with south
swell dropping to the 6-foot range. Northwest winds at 20 to 30 mph.
Saturday, August 28: More northwest wind swell at 3 to 4 feet with new, small
south swell in the water in the 3 to 4-foot range. Winds at 15 to 25 mph.
Sunday, August 29: Continued 3 to 4-foot northwest wind swell with
south swell at 3 feet and more onshore winds.
Monday, August 30: Northwest wind swell going 5 to 6 feet with south
swell in the 3-foot range.
Tuesday, August 31: Waves are 3 to 4 feet from the northwest with 2-foot
south swell.
Wednesday, September 1: That northwest wind swell is dropping to the
3-foot range with minimal south swell and lighter winds.
KRCB celebrates
Labor Day
Bloody Thursday
Bloody Thursday tells the story of a pivotal moment
in American labor history—the Pacific Waterfront
Strike of 1934, in which longshoremen up and
down the West Coast fought for their rights against
the forces of shipping companies, politicians and
police arrayed against them.
Tuesday, August 31 at 9 PM
Subscribe to the 2010/11
Performing Arts Series!
Featuring Punch Brothers and Chris
Thile, Linda Tillery, David Lindley,
SF Opera, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Jil
Aigrot and much more.
Check it out in the Dance Palace Bulletin! Coming Soon:
Saturday, September 4, 8:00 PM A truly unique event—Ian Ruskin performing his
one-man play to a packed house of 1000 longshore
workers in San Pedro, CA. Appearances by Elliott
Gould, Edward Asner with music by Jackson
Browne, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Tim Reynolds,
Ciro Hurtado, and others.
Wednesday, September 1 at 9:30 PM
Channel 22
Broadcast
Satellite
Cable
A service of KRCB Public Mediasm
nity: Emily Anderson, who worked with
me with the infrastructure of the Foundation after Gordon Onslow Ford died
and is currently working on special projects; Sandra Holland, project coordinator
and longtime assistant of Gordon Onslow
Ford; Hannah Mott, operation manager;
Mariah Nielson, director of JB Blunk Residency; Elliott Holland, registrar and photography; Rufus Blunk, ground manager
and guardian of the Bishop Pine Preserve;
Gene Bonini, ground maintenance; Monika Lipman, administrative assistant; and
Sunny Lange, finance.
Fariba Bogzaran
Inverness
Aimée Reed
Point Reyes Station
Mariah Nielson’s part
Slaughterhouse rocks
Dear Editor,
As an original member of the selection committee for the J.B. Blunk Residency, I was a bit confused by the lack
of mention of Blunk’s daughter, Mariah
Nielson, who serves as the Director
of the Residency, in the article “Lucid
Dream to Lucid Art.” Although Lucid
Art Foundation has graciously extended
This Week at the Dance Palace:
Darol Anger and the
Republic of Strings
From Wharf Rats to the Lord of
the Docks: The Life and Times of
Harry Bridges
continued from page 5
its umbrella of support to the residency,
the program was the brainchild of Nielson at the behest of her father’s wish to
continue for his home and studio to be
a space for creativity to flourish. It is
through Nielson’s commitment, dedication and contacts within the art world
that the program has continually been
able to host an international array of
artists; have events such as Open Studios, which allows the community and
the visiting artists interaction; and the
successful exhibition of works produced
while in residence not only in local sites,
but in Los Angeles and San Francisco as
well. I am positive that this oversight
was not intentional by either parties,
but as someone who as witnessed the
sheer ardor and passion that Nielson has
poured into the program, would be more
comfortable if a correction was made.
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Kyle Claushin’s article about slaughterhouses is an important contribution to
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Herb Kutchins
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Saturday, September 11, 8:00 PM
Remember to buy your Duck
Derby Tickets at the Farmer’s Market
$5.00 a duck! First prize is $500 at the
Duck Derby Race on September 12 The Dance Palace
Community Center
503 B St., Pt Reyes Station
For more information, to volunteer,
or to join call 415-663-1075
Tickets at: www.dancepalace.org
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Knit heaven
Guest column
by Loretta Farley
The paradise of West Marin’s natural
beauty is often painted, photographed
and memorialized in print—it is less
known as a knitters paradise! From spinning to knitting, this small geographic
area is filled with handwork.
Luscious yarns, hand-spun by Mimi
at Windrush Farms, are piled up on
summer Saturdays at the farmers market. Spilling out of bins and baskets at
Black Mountain Weavers, owner Marlie
DeSwart stocks a rainbow of handspun
fiber from local sheep, and even dogs!
Knitting groups meet around the year for
tips and fellowship at the local libraries
and bookstore, and a new young ladies
group and classes have begun through
West Marin Free Skool.
Point Reyes Bookstore co-owner Kate
Levinson led the way for West Marin
knitting groups when she initiated the
monthly second Monday night group at
the store. A neophyte knitter, Kate was
inspired by her wish to make a sweater.
She finished it six years later, aided by
group members, including Midge Fox,
who helped decipher the pattern (Midge
is known for the baby socks and sweaters she sells at Black Mountain Weavers). The Knit-Lit group shares tips and
projects during the first hour, then settles in for an hour of work while knitters
take turns reading from books of their
choice.
Point Reyes Station librarian Celeste
Woo started a weekly Thursday afternoon group at the library; from this
group, a second group spun off, which
meets on Fridays at the Inverness Library, shepherded by librarian Nancy
Hemingway. On a recent Thursday, Susan Nelson was busily knitting a market
bag with yarn spun from her own alpacas. Knitting whiz Sue Baty was helping
a new member with a scarf pattern. A
stack of pattern books went from hand
David Briggs
KNITTING: Marlie de Swart teaches all levels of knitters at Black Mountain Weavers through West Marin Free Skool.
to hand while members worked up belts
and dishcloths with their needles. “The
library seeks out these pattern books for
us from all over the county,” Sue said.
Knitter Barbara Gaman expressed her
enjoyment at having an hour concentrated on knitting, away from the various
distractions of life. Head librarian Bonnie Porter said, “I always look forward
to Thursdays. It just lifts my heart to see
the knitters in the heart of the library!’
The Free Skool group began most recently for the younger set. June Dimorente has been working diligently to set
up the free clases, which include knitting courses at Black Mountain Weavers
and a Friday night Young Ladies Knitting League for those under 50. “I just
wanted to get the girls together, we are
all so busy,” June told me over coffee.
The group may be moving to the Olema
Druids Hall. Stay tuned to upcoming the
Free Skool schedule for details.
As the light changes and fall weather sets in, it is time to get out needles,
pattern books and a new skein from BoRage yarns. Remember, if you have trouble with the pattern—there’s a whole
community out there waiting to help!
Knit-Lit meets on the second Monday of
the month from 7 to 9 p.m. at Point Reyes
Books (415) 663.1542; drop-ins welcome.
Knitting groups meet every Thursday
from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Point Reyes
Library (415) 663.1849 and every Friday
except during summer at the Inverness
Library (415) 669.1288; call for hours. The
Young Ladies Knitting League meets on
the third Friday of the month at 7 p.m.
Call June at (415) 663.1485 for upcoming locations and times. Beginning Knit
and Spin with Marlie De Swart meets at
Black Mountain Weavers (415) 868.2495.
Call for schedule, or check the Free Skool
schedule.
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Come tour homes in the Point Reyes
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Proceeds support the work of the Community
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Security
For Glavis, food is deeply rooted in
ceremony and culture. He studied botany and anthropology at Kent State in the
1960s, and was part of the first Earth Day.
He traveled throughout South America,
immersing himself in indigenous spirituality and passing on his knowledge of
natural gardening. He planted organic
gardens next to pesticide-laden fields in
Ecuador. And he learned about ancient
sustainability and food security.
“The Inca had extensive granaries
where they could store enough food for
seven years. They never had any sense of
hunger, neither the rich nor the poor,” he
said.
Quinoa originated in the Andes and
was a staple for the Incans. The plant
grows four feet tall and has wide leaves
and a tight cluster of seeds near the top.
According to a study by NASA, the leaves
contain 20 percent protein and the seeds
16 or 17 percent (chard has the next highest protein content among greens, with
six percent).
The seeds are covered in saponins, a
bitter coating that protects it from birds
and other animals. Glavis says this coating can be used as a natural soap. And at
$2 a pound, quinoa is also cheap. “It germinates within two hours, and does real-
David Briggs
QUINOA: The 6,000-year-old plant produces seeds and leaves with exceptionally high protein contents. John Glavis
believes his garden and others like it—cultivating quinoa and more—could provide enough protein to feed West Marin.
ly well in this maritime climate. I love the
plant and everything about it,” he said.
Glavis steams the quinoa seeds similarly to how one steams grains like rice, and
serves it with butter and sides of mashed
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yacon (similar to jicama), or fermented
beet salad. Sometimes he serves it with
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries—
even peach pie. His garden sits on a mild
slope, its neat rows ending in strawberry
plants or terra cotta pots. A greenhouse
warms plants that need warmth and rows
of Tibetan prayer flags flap in the cool
summer wind.
Besides quinoa, Glavis grows Andean
lupine—another protein-packed plant favored by the Incans—Ethiopian teff grass,
whose seeds can be ground into a polenta-like paste or baked into bread, and the
amazing camelina, a flowering plant that
can be turned into biofuel. “This work is
my way of dealing with the intensity in
the world,” he said. “Last week I heard
that 500,000 people applied for unemployment—I put that angst right into the
ground. I’m transforming fear into positive sustainability.” — Tim Henry
For more information on educational programs, garden tours, and participating in
the West Marin Homegrown Security Network, email John Glavis at johnglavis@
yahoo.com.
MOW & SOW: There is a two-and-a-half month construction zone on
Highway One, stretching all the way from just north of Point Reyes Station
to the center of Tomales. This road has no obvious need of repair, unlike
the Bolinas-Point Reyes Station stretch of Highway One. Yet CalTrans has
budgeted $2.3 million for an experimental application of a Bonded Wearing
Course, which will add about 1.3-plus inches to a road surface that is already
plagued with dangerous, deep shoulder drop-offs. Cases of broken oilpans and accidents caused by putting a wheel over the abrupt edge seem
to merit a greater concentration on mitigating existing defects rather than
adding to the problem. With severe state budget cuts (which has included
the removal of CalTrans’ West Marin maintenance yard, placing the onus
on local fire departments and residents to clear highways in storms, etc.),
many residents on Highway One feel that an expensive “pilot project,” an
experiment in paving, might be inappropriate at this time. Donna Sheehan,
director of Mow & Sow, said, “Rather than this construction experiment,
some of the $2.3 million could be spent on drop-off infilling (5 to 8” in
some places), brush cutting of “tunnels” like the dangerous corners north
of Bivalve, tree-trimming and speed feedback signs on the Marshall
straightaways/dragstrips.”According to Bob Finney, CalTrans’ Deputy
District Director for Construction, CalTrans will review the project and will
inform the public later this week in regard to their plans.“We’re anticipating
ten weeks of delays, noise and pollution,” said Sheehan, “unless CalTrans
‘construction’ can share a budget with CalTrans ‘maintenance.’” — Donna
Sheehan and Paul Reffell, Mow & Sow
9
The wonderful properties of walnuts
go to health
by sadja greenwood, M.D.
Recent studies of the benefits of eating
walnuts have made nutrition headlines: a
reduction in the risk of prostate cancer
(in mice) and slower growth of breast
cancers (also in mice). These unfortunate
mice have been bred or treated to develop these particular cancers. Researchers
say that it is too soon to draw conclusions
for humans from these studies. However,
there are several other good reasons to
include walnuts in your daily diet.
Walnuts, flax seeds—and to a lesser extent, canola oil (buy organic forms of this
oil)—contain relatively high amounts of an
omega-3 fatty acid called ALA (alpha-linolenic acid), a plant precursor to the EPA
and DHA found in fish oil. Green leafy
vegetables, exclusively grass-fed animals,
seeds such as pumpkin seeds and a vegetable known as purslane also have ALA.
This fatty acid is converted to EPA and
DHA in our bodies, although the conversion is incomplete. Omega-3 fatty acids—
from fish and plant sources—are essential
for the human brain and body. Besides its
ALA content, walnuts have other health
benefits that are under investigation.
Read on!
Weight control
Walnut consumption, even in sizable
amounts, has not led to significant weight
gain. A recent study from Loma Linda
School of Public Health asked subjects
(but not a control group) to add one-third
cup of walnuts (about 280 calories) to
their daily food intake. They were given
no other dietary guidelines.
Participants showed no greater weight
gain than the control group over a sixmonth period. They ate slightly less food
when adding the walnuts, in a voluntary
manner. Similar findings have been seen
among people who regularly eat other
nuts. Nuts lead to satiety, and may make
it easier to ignore candy, cake and other
empty calories.
Heart health
Another Loma Linda study looked at
people with moderately high cholesterol
levels; when they added slightly less than
one-third cup of walnuts to their usual
diet, their total cholesterol and triglyceride levels decreased significantly. Subjects with the highest baseline readings
improved the most.
Men with elevated levels of lipopro-
tein (a) showed a significant decrease in
this protein (lipoprotein (a) may increase
the risk of heart attack).
Another Loma Linda study contrasted
the effects of walnuts and fatty fish (fish
contain the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and
EPA).
The fish diet—two weekly servings of
4 ounces of salmon—decreased triglycerides and increased HDL (good cholesterol) more than the control diet or walnut
diet. The walnut diet, adding one-third
cup of walnuts six days a week—showed
better effects on LDL cholesterol and
lipoprotein(a).
The authors concluded that including
walnuts and fatty fish in the diet was helpful in decreasing the risk of heart disease.
(While fresh or frozen salmon has become
very expensive, you can still find wildcaught Alaskan salmon in cans for about
$4. Get the unsalted kind if possible.)
Researchers at the University of Barcelona have recently shown that in addition
to lowering cholesterol, walnuts can improve the elasticity of the arteries, allowing blood to flow more easily throughout
the body. This is an important finding.
Sleep
Melatonin is the hormone secreted by
the pineal gland, behind our eyes, that
regulates our sleep-wake cycle. Darkness causes its levels to rise and bright
light inhibits it. As we get older, our
night-time melatonin levels wane, making it harder to fall asleep or stay asleep.
Melatonin also acts as an anti-oxidant
that helps the body resist toxic molecules called free radicals. Free radicals,
which can damage DNA, are thought to
be important in aging, cancers and brain
disease.
Melatonin is made by plants as well
as animals and is fairly abundant in walnuts. Researchers at the University of
Texas found that when laboratory rats
were fed walnuts, their blood levels of
melatonin went up, as did the total antioxidant capacity of their blood. The
researchers surmised that the combination of melatonin and omega-3 fatty acid
in walnuts made these nuts unusually
beneficial.
I surmise that walnuts may be a perfect bedtime snack, and an easy food to
have by your bedside when the dreaded
2 a.m. insomnia makes your world look
impossible. Dried tart cherries are said
to have a similar helpful effect on sleep,
again due to their melatonin content.
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Tiny homes spread, slowed by disgruntled neighbors
David Briggs
SIMPLICITY: Stephen Marshall manufactures tiny homes, which he calls a mild form of civil disobedience.
Several months ago, Richard Merriss
decided that in his retirement, he wanted
to focus on his hobby: birdwatching. But
in order to do so, he was going to need
some extra space for books and cameras,
since he and his wife shared an already
packed house in Cotati.
Merriss found a solution in tiny
houses, a concept gaining popularity in
Northern California. A tiny house is designed with the double aim of comfort
and sustainability; it can be as small as 64
square feet and includes all the amenities
of larger home—shower, toilet, kitchen,
cabinets and sometimes a porch. With
adept designing and architecture, a good
tiny house provides maximum room in as
little space as possible.
Stephen Marshall, who recently
moved from Inverness to Petaluma to be
closer to his growing tiny house business,
started manufacturing the homes in 2003.
He recently sold his “room-of-your-own”
model to Merriss for around $6,000.
“Affordability and sustainability—that’s
what the movement is really about,” Marshall said. “The early adopters are true
believers, and they really believe they’re
doing good. It’s a mild form of civil disobedience.” The hope is that in downsizing, tiny homeowners will focus on their
basic needs and cease contributing to the
runaway consumerism that some say led
to the current financial crisis.
“You’re pairing down to what you
really need to live, not what you think
you need,” said Kent Griswold, a local
writer who runs a blog dedicated to tiny
houses. While the idea is one forwardthinking Californians seem to support—
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day—very few people are actually living
in tiny houses. Instead, they are using
them to enhance their already existing
footprint. “The bulk of my readers are
dreamers, but it’s a very small population that’s actually doing it,” Griswold
said.
Most of Marshall’s clientele are like
Merriss: looking toward retirement and
hoping to enhance their golden years as
economically as possible. “The business
is booming because a lot my customers
have built before and they know what’s
involved,” Marshall said.
“If one of these boomers wants to flip
their garage into an extra room, or add a
room onto their house, they are forced to
walk through a gauntlet of red tape. Instead, they’ll buy a tiny house and con-
vert into a backyard office.”
But this way of thinking is antithetical to the driving principle behind the
tiny house movement—to move out of a
large house and into a small one. Instead,
builders like Marshall are selling tiny
houses as sound studios, art studios or
extra office spaces adding to a homeowner’s space, instead of pairing it down.
Still, Marshall believes it’s the first
step toward achieving the goal. “It’s having an indirect but real affect on housing,” he said. “The real problem is housing space. We’ve found the solution for
project space.”
But part of the problem with living in
a tiny house is the law. To legally put a
second unit on an existing property, the
unit must be no more than 120 square
feet and can only accommodate dayuse purposes. And it has to be insulated,
paneled and wired like a normal house.
Griswold said there are reasons for
those rules, which nonetheless restrict
sustainable options.
For one, banks don’t know how to finance a home that can be bought in cash
and moved around from lot to lot. Another reason, Griswold said, has its roots
in our cultural history. “We have all this
land in America, and we’ve been taught
to use it,” he said.
Luckily, for small businessmen like
Marshall, Marin County is fairly accepting of the movement. But since some of
the tiny houses that currently reside in
backyards may not adhere to the county’s
permitting laws, law-abiding citizens can
become uncomfortable. “The people
that aren’t allowing it are disgruntled
neighbors. As much as there’s a tendency to lay this off on big government,
it’s little neighborhoods,” Marshall said.
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crime.
Last Wednesday, a coalition of law enforcement agencies composed of 142 officers eradicated nearly 7,000 marijuana
plants in a series of raids in the foothills
of Mount Tamalpais. The plants, which
had an estimated street value of about
$20 million, were spread over 100 acres
in the canyons surrounding Kent Lake.
Officers saw one suspect during
raids, but were unable to apprehend
him. There are no other suspects and
no arrests have been made. Each of the
agencies involved in the operation declined requests for an interview with
this newspaper.
Investigation of the Mount Tam site
began several months ago, when rangers
from Marin Municipal Water District
spotted marijuana plants. “These illicit
and clandestine marijuana sites have
been found in West Marin in several locations,” Sergeant Debra Barry said in a
press release.
Once agents cut down the plants,
California Air National Guard and
California State Department of Justice
transported them by helicopter to an
undisclosed location to be destroyed.
Officers found the growers’ campsite,
which included tents, food, shower areas, camouflage clothing and other per-
sonal items. They also found .45 caliber
ammunition.
Barry noted an “alarming trend” of
officers and residents coming into contact with armed pot growers. There
have been five armed encounters on
the North Coast and Bay Area in recent
months.
No one was hurt during the Mount
Tam raid.
“With this extensive operation, the
Marin County Sheriff ’s Office is taking
steps to destroy the marijuana grows
and eliminate the threat of harm or danger to citizens of our communities and
to visitors who enjoy recreating in our
public lands,” the press release stated.
“More and more citizens and visitors
are becoming afraid to use public parks
due to these armed individuals invading
public lands.”
For the last 20 years of coordinated
marijuana eradication efforts in the
region, the cycle between law enforcement and marijuana growers was simple—helicopters and officers rush in to
seize a garden, and growers disappear
into the dense coastal forests. But this
summer has taken an ugly turn, leaving
five suspected marijuana growers dead
in the past seven weeks.
Last Wednesday, a suspect was shot
in a firefight when 60 officers raided a
garden in a remote area of Mendocino
County. Four other suspects were arrested. Only about 2,400 marijuana plants
were seized—a disappointing catch.
Another raid turned violent in late
June near Lake Berryessa in Napa County, when Jose Luis Martinez Chavez was
shot after he failed to lower his weapon.
Authorities blame the increase in violence on an increase in Mexican drug
cartel activity, as well as more aggressive law enforcement tactics, such as increasing the number of officers at raids.
“We don’t want any more dead marijuana growers. But we’re not going to
stop doing our job either,” Mendocino
County Sheriff Tom Allman told reporters last week.
But many are questioning whether
the violence is too high a price to pay for
a war on marijuana—especially when
the war on cartels might have a new
weapon in Proposition 19.
“The cartels make more than 60 percent of their revenue in the United States.
That’s billions of dollars per year,” said
Mike Meno, director of communications
for Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-legalization lobbying group. “Largely, all
the sale of marijuana is being sold by
criminals and cartels. Violent criminals.
If we were to remove [marijuana] from
the criminal market, not only would
we deal a huge blow to these cartels,
we could retool law enforcement—give
them the resources to go after more violent criminals.”
The idea of legalizing marijuana is
not new in California. Last year, San
Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano
tried to pass a bill that would make mar-
11
ijuana legal for recreational use in the
state. And after Proposition 215 passed
in 1996, patients could get prescribed
marijuana for a myriad of health symptoms.
Residents of West Marin consume a
lot of marijuana, and are likely to support the legislation. An informal survey
of locals by the Light last year showed
that 39 percent used marijuana. Of the
people who didn’t use the drug, 71 percent supported its legalization. The rest
either didn’t know how they felt about
it, or didn’t care. Nobody surveyed said
that the legal status of pot affected
whether they would smoke it.
“It’s about time. It’s going to save billions and it’s going to make millions,”
said American Medical Marijuana Association advisor and culture icon Lynnette
Shaw, who garnered over 150,000 votes
when she ran for lieutenant governor in
2006. “We’ve already saved Marin a lot
of money, because they’ve stopped prosecuting people with medical marijuana.
It saved the county millions. So this is
going to save every county millions. And
the police will have more man-hours to
fight violent crime.”
After Shaw opened a medical marijuana dispensary in Fairfax in 1997, it
didn’t take long for her to forge a positive relationship with the police department. “I really trust them,” she said. “If I
feel in danger, then I know I can call the
police. They’ll come and protect me and
my marijuana.”— Kyle Cashulin
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Volunteers and foster homes
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Tax deductible donations may be
made out to our sponsor: A.S.C.S.
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NEW! Thursday Nights
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at the Dance Palace
NEW! Tuesday Nights
6-7 pm beginning Sept. 14th
at the SG Community Gym
Beginners welcome
Cathy Davis
415-669-7112
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North Bay
Wednesday 7:30 p.m. LARKSPUR LANDING. ‘Kids in the
Cottage’ Pre-School Cottage.
2900 Larkspur Landing Circle
Chips to 1 year.
Friday 8:00 p.m. San Rafael
‘NEW IDEAS’ SPEAKER-DISCUSSION- CHIPS- RAFFLE.
First Presbyterian Church
Upstairs Mission & E.
Chips every Friday.
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Works in various media
by Inverness artist Joyce
Livingston, who died in
July, will be on display to the
public for three afternoons.
Please join family members
in the gallery space behind
Priscilla’s Cafe and the
Inverness Post Office on
Saturday, August 28, Thursday, September 2, or Sunday,
September 5, between noon
and 4 p.m.
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or call
415-663-8404
New San Geronimo Valley
Alanon Family Group Speaker
Meeting on Thurs. 7-8 pm at San
Geronimo Valley Community
Presbyterian Church. Sir Francis
Drake at Nicasio Road.
Business Opp.
Bolinas Bay Lumber,
Hardware & Landscape
Supply - Offered at $195,000
This wonderful retail business, a mainstay of the local
community, has been successfully serving the construction,
maintenance, landscaping and
general hardware and gardening
needs of the local contractors,
homeowners and vacationers in
this picturesque seaside town
for 15 years. The owners are
looking to retire, making this the
perfect opportunity for someone
to step in, take over, grow and
enjoy the business. Priced to sell
at a figure that includes heavy
equipment, tools, fixtures and
inventory.
Call Roxanne Berg
(510) 523.0232
(8/26, 9/2)
www.cbcmarin.com
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COMPUTER PROBLEMS?
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upgrades, technical support,
virus removal, data recovery,
networking, backup solutions
and training. 20 years experience. All work guaranteed.
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Firewood
Bear
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15% off
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ONGOING
CONVERSATIONAL
SPANISH GROUP
In Point Reyes / Olema area
Tuesdays, 7 - 8:30 pm
For information,
call Victor: 707-795-6535
[email protected]
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Renewed Resource Woods
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Visa/MC
Open Year Round
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Landscaping
Landscaping
Call Alfonso Ramirez
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if you need
Tree Pruning, Brush Clearing,
Garden Work, Landscaping,
Chipping, Wood Splitting,
as well as Dump Runs
Insured &
Licensed
415 663-1110
Lic #809472
ez construction
KA & Juar
Landscaping, Fences,
Tree Work, Stonework, Drainage,
Bricks, Poison Oak, Brush Clearing,
Chipper & Hauling • Free Estimate
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Point Reyes
Senior Lunch
At The Dance Palace, 5th & B St.
Every Thursday at 12:30
$2.00 or pay what you can
August 26 MENU
Beef & Black Bean Chili
Corn Bread
Green Salad
Seasonal Fruit
September 2 MENU
Orange Chicken
Brown Rice
Steamed Broccoli
Oranges
WEST MARIN TECH
Windows & Mac Consulting
Installation, Repair, Tutoring,
Wireless, Networks & Maintenance from large networks to
single computers, Microsoft
certified, 10 years experience.
[email protected]
415.663.9654
“We make house calls”
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MAC/APPLE SUPPORT
Steve Bowers is back
and he’s doing Mac.
Phone: 390.2427
(Local Number).
Macintosh Support Only.
Sorry, I don’t do
Windows anymore.
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pay what you can, made by Gloria
from the Palace Market
COMPUTER TAMER
for PCs
Dave Brast 669.7499
[email protected] (Also see
appliance repair ad.)
Please reserve your space
by calling 663-1075
or email: [email protected]
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Division of Aging and Adult
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NERO’S FIREWOOD
Marin’s Only Firewood Lot
Residential
Commercial
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Seasoned Oak/Almond/Walnut
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Open 7 Days/ Since 1982/ 892-1480
FIREWOOD
Jose Gonzales
Oak, Bay, Pine
Cut & Split
Good Price
897.2940/328.5037
Landscape — Maintenance
Automatic Sprinklers & Irrigation Systems V New Sod or Seed
New Fences & Repair V Retaining Walls
Ornamental Trimming & Tree Pruning V Hauling
Pavers & Stamped Concrete V General Yard Clean-up, and etc.
Tel: (415) 663-9561
Calif. License 949011
Fax: (415) 663-9471
[email protected]
(10/28)
SEASONED FIREWOOD
16” Oak & Bay
From our property
Free Delivery West Marin
663.9360
(10/28)
For Sale
‘05. 200 CC VESPA
Exc. condition, 2 helmets. Full
cover. $2500. Call Jon 663.8040.
(8/26, 9/2)
Landscaping Design
and Construction
Tree Service and
Clearing: Defensible
Space, View Restoration,
Poison Oak Removal
Soil Prep, Seed or Sod,
Planting, Maintenance,
Emergency Tree Removal & Clearing
Masonry
Concrete, Brick,
Patios, Walls,
Boulders
Lic. #773105
Fully Insured &
Equipped
Construction
Decks, Fences,
Terraces, Ponds,
Walk Ways
Tractor
Grading, Erosion
Control, Hauling
Excavations
Ismael Gutierrez
415.663.9035
Irrigation
Repair, Layout,
Installation,
Manual, Automatic
Free Estimates
Satisfaction
Guaranteed
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Rentals
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service
INVERNESS PARK
Large studio, brand new carpet,
tile, cabinets, kitchen. $1030/mo.
also
1 Bdrm, new carpet, flooring.
$1265/mo. Please call Susan 663.1016 or 707.695.4725
272.5469
• IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
• GARDEN MAINTENANCE
• NEW LAWN (SEED & SOD)
• TREE SERVICE - TRIMMING
• PRUNING - TOPPING
• CLEAN-UP HAUL AWAY
• FIX FENCES
• PRESS WASHER (PATIOS &
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• MULCH
15 years of experience
- my guarantee. UNLICENSED. free estimation!!
707.321.4669
(11/18/10)
Nick Whitney or Tom Kent
Certified Arborists
(8/26, 9/2)
MUST SEE!
3 Bedrooms/2.5 Bath Home w/
view. Large Living Room, Family Room, 2 Fireplaces; LOTS of
closets! Appliances included. New
Paint & Carpet, Large Patio, Very
Private, Parking, 2-Car Garage
& workshop. $2700/month;
PLEASE CALL!
Susan @ 415-663-1016 or
707-695-4725
Tree & Safety Clearing, Chipping,
Irrigation. Tractor Service.
Constriction: Decks, Fences, Walk
ways. Maintenance, Concrete Work.
Landscaping Design.
Competitive Prices.
LAGUNITAS STUDIO
COTTAGE
Sunny & charming, full kitchen/
bath, freshly painted, new deck,
yard, 1 offstreet parking, $700/mo,
$850 security deposit. No smoke.
Available Aug. 1st. 415.601.3531
(8/19, 26)
(415) 663-9048
St. Lic. #946351 Fully Insured C27 C61/49
Help Wanted
THRIFT STORE MANAGER
Full time manager wanted for
the West Marin Thrift Store in
Point Reyes Station. Prefer at
least 2 years experience in retail,
the ability to work well with the
public, and the skill to train and
supervise volunteers. Must be able
to lift and stand for long periods.
Annual salary: $37,440-$45,552.
For a job description and application, please call Sarah Atherton at
415.663.8361
(8/26, 9/2)
INVERNESS RENTALS
KILONZO BUILDING
MAINTENANCE
A Complete Janitorial Service
Commercial • Residential
Daily • Weekly • Monthly
or One Time
Office Buildings • Banks
Restaurants • Medical • Etc.
Rental Clean Up Construction
Site Clean Up Apartments Move
In - Move Out Carpet Cleaning, Window Washing, Floors
Stripped & Waxed. Bonded Free Estimates
West Marin Local - Excellent
References. Insured.
707.326.7804 or 707.584.7864,
Johnson (m)
Unique live/work spacedowntown, bay view,
2 bedrooms, 1 bath, deck.
$1800
Office space- 572 sf,
semi-private, sunny, $795
Rentals - Vacation
BEAUTIFUL INVERNESS
HOME - SEAHAVEN
Available Sept 3 to Sept 20
2 Bdrm, 1 Bath. Walk to beaches.
Bargain if you’ll feed kitties.
415.669.9898 or [email protected]
(8/19, 26)
669–1604
Noel Tree & gardening
Services - Home
415-669-1133 or
[email protected]
(9/2)
663–1572
Rentals - Commercial
INVERNESS PARK
A wonderful home on acreage
w/expansive views, woods, and
rolling hills above Inverness Park.
This open plan home is available
starting Aug. 20th. Two bedrooms,
two full baths, large living room
w/cathedral ceilings, and eat-in
kitchen on 18 acres. Raised bed
garden. An exceptionally private
setting on paved road adjacent
to National Park and close to
downtown Pt. Reyes and park
trails. $2400/month + utilities
and (minor) mowing. Partial trade
for landscaping and/or tree work
considered for licensed arborist or
landscape contractor. 1-year lease,
(shorter term leases considered).
Phone: 415.306.1824
(8/26)
Home Conservation
Ken & Sam Levin
Repair • Remodel
Kitchen • Bath
Tile • Decks • Roofs
WINDOW CLEANING
663-9669
W
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e s t M a r i n ’s B e s
Greg Mann 669-7237
Dave Brast
Appliance Repair
Since 1976
Washers • Dryers • Ranges
Dishwashers • Refrigerators
Heaters • Water Heaters
669-7499 • [email protected]
DF
ELECTRIC
Rentals-Wanted
LIGHT HOUSES
Staff of the Point Reyes Light are
seeking housing in town. Call
Tess at (415) 663-8404
SEEKING 2 BED HOUSE
FOR 8 WEEKS LEASE
STARTING SEPT. 25th
Mature writing couple with
local ref’s seeks furnished house,
2 bdrms + living rm, Inverness/
Pt. Reyes. Must have’s: full size
fridge; excellent stove; w&d;
hard line phone installed or
avail.; wood fireplace or wood
stove. Extras: views; big trees;
quiet setting; natural light; car
garage; charm.
Call Doug 310-821-4800 or
[email protected]
(8/19, 26)
Services - Home
Advertise in the
PT. REYES LIGHT
[email protected]
or call
415-663-8404
Lic. # 880640
FULLY IINSURED
Arrow
Construction
&
Remodeling
• Builders of the Pt. Reyes
Clinic & custom homes
in West Marin
• Remodeling “our specialty”
• Over 24 yrs in Marin
Raul or Bill
415-892-4991
415-669-7573
office
home
e-mail [email protected]
Calif. License#855399
Window Cleaning & Garden Work
Experienced and honest workmanship
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Family Owned & Operated for Over 25 years
Residential • Commercial  
Repairs • Landscape Wiring
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TIMESHARE FOR SALE
This timeshare is available for
one (1) week year round. This
timeshare comes complete with
full kitchen and living room.
During the high season (this
includes spring break, June
29 through August 25th, and
Christmas) you get one (1)
bedroom and one (1) bathroom,
which sleeps four (4) people.
When it's not the high season
you get two (2) bedrooms and
two (2) bathrooms, sleeps six
(6) people. This timeshare is
located 10 minutes away from
the Puerto Vallarta airport, and
15 minutes away from the town
of Puerto Vallarta. Also the timeshare resort is
located right on the beach of
Nuevo Vallarta. The time share
has one (1) week available for
this year (2010) and two (2)
weeks for 2011. Here is the
website for the timeshare resort:
www.paradisevillage.com
for more information please call
415.509.2135.
Bolinas: Peaceful, furnished
studio, w garden space, private
entry, No pets. Credit and
reference check required.
$800.00/mo. utilities included.
[email protected]
415.509.1740 (8/5-8/26)
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(8/5-8/26)
Real Estate
Services - Home
Interior & Exterior for 30 years
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Vacation rental…
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non-toxic coatings available for home or business
CARPENTER/HANDYMAN
Repairs & New Work
CHARLIE MORGAN
Local refs 663.8048
(m)
CARPENTRY,
MAINTENANCE & REPAIR
Decks, doors, windows,
remodeling, roofing & more.
KRAIG (415)613-5594
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SERVICES
11 years experience.
Local references, inexpensive.
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Notary Services
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Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124472
The following person(s)
is (are) doing business as:
Asante Day Spa & Holistic
Health Center, 605B B Street,
San Rafael, CA 94901. This
business is conducted by an
individual: Patricia Cramer,
699 Peters Ave., Pleasanton,
CA 94566. This statement
was filed with the County
Clerk of Marin County on
July 9, 2010, signed, J. Mannion, Deputy. Published in
the Point Reyes Light August
5, 12, 19, 26, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124599
The following person(s) is
(are) doing business as: Pacific Growth Realty Advisors,
4680 Paradise Dr., Tiburon,
CA 94920. This business is
conducted by an individual:
Shannon Phillips, 4680 Paradise Dr., Tiburon, CA 94920.
This statement was filed with
the County Clerk of Marin
County on July 27, 2010,
signed, J. Whitney, Deputy.
Published in the Point Reyes
Light August 5, 12, 19, 26,
2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124605
Passport Health, 28 Mitchell
Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94903.
This business is conducted by
a corporation: Double “M”
Corp., 3342 South Fairway
St., Visalia, CA 93277. This
statement was filed with the
County Clerk of Marin County on July 27, 2010, signed, O.
Lobato, Deputy. Published in
5, 12, 19, 26, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124608
Sacred Tibet, 877 Fourth
St., Ste-A. Sam Rafael,
Urgen Dolma, 877 Fourth St.,
Ste-A, San Rafael, CA 94901
. This statement was filed with
signed, O. Lobato, Deputy.
2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124614
Pacific Murals, 143 3rd Street,
individual: Dan Fontes, 143
3rd Street, San Rafael, CA
94901. This statement was
filed with the County Clerk
of Marin County on July
27, 2010, signed, O. Lobato,
Deputy. Published in the
Point Reyes Light August 5,
12, 19, 26, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124619
Rough Linen, 704 Point
San Pedro Rd., San Rafael,
conducted by co-partners:
Stefan Sargent, Patricia
Rose, 704 Point San Pedro
Rd., San Rafael, CA 94901.
2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124654
(are) doing business as: 01
Mt. Tam Financial Group,
02 Golden Gate Financial
Group, 78 Billou Street, San
Rafael, CA 94901. This business is conducted by an individual: Gerald H Mendes, 78
Billou Street, San Rafael, CA
of Marin County on August
2, 2010, signed, J. Mannion,
12, 19, 26, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124510
(are) doing business as: POP
Campaign, 810 Marin Dr.,
Mill Valley, CA 94941. This
business is conducted by a
corporation: Earth Matters,
810 Marin Dr., Mill Valley, CA
of Marin County on July 15,
2010, signed, J. Mannion,
19, 26, September 2, 2010.
ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME
Superior Court of California
County of Marin
Case No. CIV1004088
TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: Petitioner
Stephanie Mink on behalf
of Ilana Rowan Boone filed
a petition with this court for
a decree changing names as
follows: Present Name: Ilana
Rowan Boone to Proposed
Name: Ilana Rowan Mink.
THE COURT ORDERS
that all persons interested
in this matter shall appear
before this court at the
hearing indicated below
to show cause, if any, why
the petition for change of
name should not be granted.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: 09/23/10
Time: 8:30 am - Dept. E
The address of the court is
the same as noted above:
3501 Civic Center Drive,
San Rafael, CA 94913. A
copy of this Order to Show
Cause shall be published
at least once each week for
four successive weeks prior
to the date set for hearing
of the petition in The Point
Reyes Light, a newspaper of
general circulation, printed in
the County of Marin. Dated:
August 4, 2010. Kim Turner,
Court Executive Officer. K.
Main, Deputy. Published in
5, 12, 19, 26, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124679
Lightswitch Architectural SF,
1319 Bridgeway, Sausalito,
conducted by a corporation:
Lightswitch SF Inc., 1319
Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
5, 2010, signed, J. Mannion,
19, 26, September 2, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124691
(are) doing business as: Arte
Sempre, 200 Elinor Ave.,
Mill Valley, CA 94941. This
business is conducted by
co-partners: Zio Ziegler, 200
Elinor Ave., Mill Valley, CA
94941, Jordana Fribourg, 200
Elinor Ave., Mill Valley, CA
94941, Mel Ziegler, 200 Elinor
Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941.
County on August 6, 2010,
signed, J. Mannion, Deputy.
Light August 12, 19, 26,
September 2, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124607
(are) doing business as: S
G Properties, 700 Larkspur
Landing Cir, Larkspur, CA
94939. This business is
Roger Schulke, 502 Clement
St., San Francisco, CA 94118.
Light August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124678
(are) doing business as Treatment Systems Development,
40 Tampa Dr., San Rafael,
David K Osinga, 40 Tampa
Dr., San Rafael, CA 94901.
signed, J. Mannion, Deputy.
Light August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124714
Moving Movie Makers, 820
Edgewood Ave., Mill Valley,
Clare Eileen Cooley, 820
Edgewood Ave., Mill Valley,
CA 94941. This statement
August 11, 2010, signed, O.
19, 26, September 2, 9, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124729
(are) doing business as: Crystal Clean Pool Tile, 133 Buckelew St., Sausalito, CA 94965.
This business is conducted by
co-partners: Scott Buchan,
133 Buckelew St., Sausalito,
CA 94965; Andrea Buchan,
1022 Samuel Dr., Petaluma,
CA 94952 . This statement
August 13, 2010, signed, O.
19, 26, September 2, 9, 2010.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF
DUANE THOMAS IRVING,
CASE NO. PR1004233
To all heirs, beneficiaries,
creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may
otherwise be interested in
the will or estate, or both
of Duane Thomas Irving:
A Petition for Probate has
been filed by Jeannette
Zanoni in the Superior
Court of California, County
of Marin. The Petition for
Probate requests that Jeannette Zanoni be appointed as
personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests
authority to administer the
estate under the Independent
Administration of Estates
Act. (This authority will allow
the personal representative
to take many actions without
obtaining court approval.
Before taking certain very
important actions, however,
the personal representative
will be required to give notice
to interested persons unless
they have waived notice or
consented to the proposed
action). The independent administration authority will be
granted unless an interested
person files an objection to
the petition and shows good
cause why the court should
not grant the authority. A
hearing on this petition will be
held in this court as follows:
Date: 09/20/10
Time: 8:30 am - Dept. K,
Room K, 3501 Civic Center
Dr., San Rafael, CA 94903
Attorney for this petitioner:
Richard T. Franceschini
874 4th Street, Ste. D
San Rafael, CA 94901 .
This petition was filed with
Kim Turner, Court Executive Officer, Marin County
Superior Court by J. Chen,
Deputy on August 11, 2010.
Light August 19, 26, September 2, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124703
Staging to the Max, 1281
Andersen Dr., Suite M-L,
individual: Maxine Lampert,
208 Bungalow Ave., San
Rafael, CA 94901. This
statement was filed with
Light August 26, September
2, 9, 16, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124738
(are) doing business as: SW
Design, 29 Magnolia Ave.,
San Anselmo, CA 94960.
This business is conducted
by an individual: Stephanie
K Wondolleck, 66 Jewell
Street, San Rafael, CA 94901.
Light August 26, September
2, 9, 16, 2010.
K. Veenschoten, 995 Del
Ganado Rd., San Rafael, CA
17, 2010, signed, O. Lobato,
September 2, 9, 16, 2010.
ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME
Superior Court of California
County of Marin
Case No. CIV1004397
TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: Petitioners
Anthony James Natale Beres
and Sandra Brzozowski filed
a petition with this court for
a decree changing names
as follows: Present Name:
Anthony James Natale
Beres to Proposed Name:
Anthony Singing Bear; Present Name: Sandra Brzozowski
to Proposed Name: Sandra
Chocolate Bear.
THE COURT ORDERS
that all persons interested
in this matter shall appear
before this court at the
hearing indicated below
to show cause, if any, why
the petition for change of
name should not be granted.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: 10/1/10
Time: 8:30 am
Dept. J, Room D.01
The address of the court is
the same as noted above:
3501 Civic Center Drive,
San Rafael, CA 94913. A
copy of this Order to Show
Cause shall be published
at least once each week for
four successive weeks prior
to the date set for hearing
of the petition in The Point
Reyes Light, a newspaper of
general circulation, printed in
the County of Marin. Dated:
August 19, 2010. Kim Turner,
Court Executive Officer. K.
Main, Deputy. Published in
26, September 2, 9, 16, 2010.
Fictitious Business
Name Statement
File No. 124757
(are) doing business as: 01
Pets In Marin, 02 Pets Inn
Marin, 995 Del Ganado Rd.,
business is conducted by a
husband and wife: William
Martin Veenschoten, Susan
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Celebrating 35 Years in The Light
THE POINT REYES FAMILY ALBUM
by Art Rogers
“Blast from the Past”
WHEN VERNON AND MARY ANN CHEDA OWNED CHEDA’S MARKET IN DOWNTOWN POINT REYES STATION——JANUARY 1985
Vern and Mary Ann Cheda and Vern’s brother Leroy purchased this store in 1966 from Joe Rilla. It was called Joe’s Market back then and they changed it to Cheda’s Market
and ran it for almost 20 years until they sold it in 1985 to Ed McGillicuddy of Ed’s Superette in Stinson Beach. After a few years, Ed sold it and it became Whale of a Deli.
It has changed hands a couple of times since then, but it still called Whale of a Deli. It is currently owned and operated by David Morales. Vern and Mary Ann
moved to Petaluma and continued to work in the grocery business. On September 4, they will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
Pictured behind the counter from the left are Grandma Elinore Cheda and Edna Petroni, who worked there for many years.
“Growing up with my parents owning the ‘corner store’ was an adventure and there was never a dull moment. It was a family business, which meant that me and my brothers,
Kirk and Kevin, worked a lot, whether we wanted to or not. A lot of my friends were hired on as employees. Paul Lucchesi was the manager of the store. We called him “Pauly Wog”.
He now owns and runs Luchessi’s Deli in Petaluma. Edna Petroni worked the morning shift and us kids would relieve her after school. She could make us laugh at nothing. My
Grandma Cheda “Ellie” would get there at 6 AM every morning to make the coffee and to make some of the salads. Some of my other friends who worked there were
Pete Maendle, Mary Jo Haley, Yvonne Rodoni, Tony Maestri, Lane Missamore, Pete Valconesi, Scott Martin, Ted Giamonna, Shannon Willitts and Susie Morris.
I’m sure there were more—Mom and Dad employed a lot of local young people.” — Michelle (Cheda) Yrisarri, August 2010
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Thursday, August 26
KWMR airs a recording of the recent
community meeting about the transfer
of Dolores Gonzalez from West Marin
School to Tomales High School at 5 p.m.
on 90.5 FM in Point Reyes Station and 89.9
FM in Bolinas. Contemporary Sublime: The Artist in
Nature is a conversation on experience
memory and imagination with Ned
Kahn, Jeremy Morgan, and Mariele
Neudecker at 6 p.m. at Headlands Center
for the Arts. $20, $15 members, includes
organic dinner in the mess hall. For information call (415) 331.2787 or go to www.
headlands.org.
The Art of Simplification is a two-part
series with Jamie Shulander offered
through West Marin Free Skool, finishing tonight at 7 p.m. at 54 B Street, in Point
Reyes Station. Learn about self care, material maintenance and inspiring environments to promote health. Email [email protected] for more information, and
to confirm location. San Geronimo Alateen meets from 7
to 8 p.m. at the San Geronimo Presbyterian Church. For information, call (415)
686.1546.
David Luning plays Americana and folk
originals at 7 p.m. at the Coast Café, in
Bolinas. Wine and beer specials. David Luning plays at 8:30 p.m. at Smiley’s, in Bolinas.
Friday, August 27
Volunteer at the Salmon Protection and
Watershed Network’s native plant nursery every Friday morning. For times and
locations contact Blaine at [email protected].
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
hosts a second chance Biodiversity
Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more
information and directions go to www.
oaec.org.
F.L.A.G.ship bus brings activities for
children ages five and under and their
families from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Porto
Bodega Trailer Park, in Bodega Bay. From
12:45 to 2:15 p.m. the bus will be at the
Dolcini Ranch (4189 Chileno Valley Road)
off the Petaluma-Tomales Road. Sponsored
by Marin Literacy Program. The Valley Dungeons and Dragons Club
meets from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Loft Teen
Center at San Geronimo Valley Community Center. Beginners and experts welcome,
desperately seeking masters! To sign
up call Huda at (415) 488.1099 or email
[email protected].
Learning Curve plays rock and roll at
8:30 p.m. at Rancho Nicasio. $10.
Blue Diamond Fill-ups play live rockabilly at 9 p.m. at Smiley’s, in Bolinas.
Slim Jenkins Band plays at 9:30 p.m. at
the Old Western Saloon, in Point Reyes
Station.
Saturday, August 28
Point Reyes Farmers Market is from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. at Toby’s Feed Barn, in Point
Reyes Station, rain or shine. Guest chef
David Cook from the Coast Café in
Bolinas gives a cooking demonstration
at 10 a.m. Morgan Meadow and Tawnya
Kovach play old-time music from 9:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. Point Reyes mozzarella is
the cheese of the day! Join Shoreline
School Readiness in the Children’s Community Garden for planting project and
activities for kids from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at
Toby’s.
Join Marin Conservation League for
a three-mile guided walk in the Marin
Headlands to learn about Marincello,
the 2,100-acre housing and commercial development planned in the 1960s
from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Meet at the Rodeo
Lagoon parking lot in the Marin Headlands
in Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Please RSVP to (415) 485.6257. Bring water,
a snack, and wear layers and hiking shoes.
Learn about birds at Abbotts Lagoon in
a free guided hike with Marin County
Open Space rangers from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. Meet at the Abbotts Lagoon parking
area on Pierce Point Road, in Point Reyes
National Seashore.
A memorial and potluck for George
Miller will be held at Hearts Desire Beach
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Bay Area author Holly Payne discusses
her latest book Kingdom of Simplicity,
a novel of forgiveness, at 11 a.m. on ViewPoint on KWMR, 90.5 FM in Point Reyes
Station and 89.9 FM in Bolinas.
Bolinas watercolorist Emmeline Craig
shows work at the 2010 Tiburon Art
Festival, a juried show in historic Tiburon
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow.
Works in various media by Inverness
artist Joyce Livingston, who died in
July, will be on display to the public
for three afternoons. Please join family
members in the gallery space behind Priscilla’s Cafe and the Inverness Post Office
today, Thursday, September 2, or Sunday,
September 5, between noon and 4 p.m.
Dr. Erika Crotta’s Science of Good
Health series presents The Six Steps
of Prevention from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the
Sacred Heart Church community room,
in Olema. Contact Erika at aryuvedand@
hotmail.com for more information.
Learn to make feijoada, the Brazilian
national dish, in a West Marin Free
Skool workshop and dinner with Claudia
Barroso and Adam Osborne starting at 2:30
p.m. in Point Reyes Station. Learn some
Portuguese words and phrases and watch
clips of the 2010 carnaval celebration in Rio
de Janeiro. $5 suggested donation for ingredients, but no one turned away for lack
of funds. Please RSVP to (515) 663.9668.
Artist and author Lorraine Almeida
reads from Myth of the Earth at 3 p.m. at
Toby’s Gallery, in Point Reyes Station.
Asleep at the Wheel, a nine-time Grammy award-winning Western swing band,
plays at 8:30 p.m. at Rancho Nicasio. $40.
Swoop Unit plays live big band funk at 9
p.m. at Smiley’s, in Bolinas.
Chrome Johnson plays at 9:30 p.m. at the
Old Western Saloon, in Point Reyes Station.
Sunday, August 29
Clint Graves
FIRE: A fire begun by a cigarette burned on Tuesday afternoon in Stinson.
Reyes Station and 89.9 FM in Bolinas.
See great examples of transforming
the way your household can relate to
water, energy and waste in order to
reduce your ecological footprint and
climate change at Community Land
Trust of West Marin’s Fourth Annual
Green Home Tour, from noon to 5 p.m.
For more information call (415) 663.1005 or
email [email protected]. Register at
noon in the West Marin School parking lot,
orientation at 12:30, tour starts promptly at
1 p.m. with carpool transportation. Straus
ice cream served en route, refreshments at
each site. $25 advance, $30 at the door.
An opening reception for Galen Leeds’
photography exhibit “The Wetlands
Waiting to Be” is from 1 to 3 p.m. at the
Dance Palace, in Point Reyes Station. Exhibit shows through September 14.
Celebrate Norma Schliftman’s 85th
birthday with her poetry, stories, puppets, paintings, sculpture and songs in
a lively program from 2 to 4 p.m. at the
home of Laura and Rod Marcoux, in Point
Reyes Station. Refreshments served. Donations to the Music in West Marin School
Program, begun last year by Lisa Doron
and Agnes von Burkleo, will be gratefully
accepted. Please RSVP to Agnes at (415)
663.9284.
Learnin’ Kervin’ is back! At 4 p.m. on
KWMR, 90.5 FM in Point Reyes Station
and 89.9 FM in Bolinas.
An artist’s reception for Marsha Krebs
takes place from 4 to 7 p.m. in the West
Room at San Geronimo Valley Community
Center.
Asleep at the Wheel, a nine-time
Grammy award-winning Western swing
band, plays at 4 p.m. for a barbecue on the
lawn at Rancho Nicasio. Gates open at 3
p.m. $37.50 in advance, $40 at the gate.
Monday, August 30
The Loft Teen Center at San Geronimo
Valley Community Center is open
Mondays through Thursdays after school
until 5 p.m., with the gym open until 4 p.m.
$135 gets you a membership through June
2011. For information call Heather at (415)
488.4118 ext 219.
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
starts at 8:30 p.m. on KWMR, 90.5 FM in
Point Reyes Station and 89.9 FM in Bolinas.
A Habitat Restoration Day at Point Reyes
National Seashore starts at 9 a.m. at Bear
Valley Visitor Center. Call Theo Michaels
at (415) 464.5223 to confirm, learn location, and discuss carpooling options. Tools,
gloves and training provided. Bring lunch
and water and wear sturdy, layered clothes.
Mixtape with radio hosts Christian Anthony and Jacoba Charles now starts at
10 p.m. on Mondays on KWMR, 90.5 FM in
Point Reyes Station and 89.9 FM in Bolinas.
Jaz with Kendrick Rand starts at noon
on ViewPoint on KWMR, 90.5 FM in Point
Rainbow Playgroup at San Geronimo Valley Community Center resumes today in
Tuesday, August 31
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STINSON BEACH: Day visitors have flooded Stinson Beach, drawn by record temperatures, blue skies and the natural appeal of coastal Marin.
Room 9 from 10 a.m. to noon. For children
up to age five.
The last day of Baby Gym at Point Reyes
Presbyterian Church is today from 10:30
a.m. to noon.
Play ultimate frisbee every Tuesday at 6
p.m. at Love Field, in Point Reyes Station.
The Marin Poetry Center’s Summer
Traveling Show presents True Heitz,
Stephen Galiani, Terry Hamilton-Poore,
Ann Bacon Soule, Michael Day and
Phyllis Teplitz in a poetry reading hosted by Ethel Mays at the Fairfax Library at
7 p.m. Free.
Alanon meetings start at 7:30 p.m. on
Tuesdays at St. Columba’s Church, in
Inverness.
Pool tournament with cash prizes starts
at 7:30 p.m. at Smiley’s, in Bolinas. $5 buyin, $75 to $100 first prize, $25 second prize,
Smiley’s Cash for third prize.
Wednesday, September 1
Meditate with Carrie and Stuart
Kutchins from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Dance
Palace Church Space.
The Rotary Club meets from 8 to 9 a.m. at
the Coast Guard Galley Building (50 Commodore Webster Drive) in Point Reyes.
Visit www.rotarywestmarin.org for more
information.
A co-creative movement experience
exploring individual creativity and
open-ended improvisational structures
is from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in
the Dance Palace, in Point Reyes Station. No dance experience necessary. For
information, call Nancy Hemmingway at
(415) 669.7770 or Melinda Leithold at (415)
669.1614. $15 per month or $5 drop-in.
Sing Vivaldi and Poulenc “Glorias,”
directed by Molly Maguire and accompanied by Bill Quist from 6:15 to 7:45 p.m.
on Wednesday evenings at the Stinson
Beach Community Center. Please RSVP to
[email protected].
Thursday, September 2
Elephant Mountain Sangha meets on
Thursdays from 8 to 9 a.m. at Point Reyes
Presbyterian Church.
A senior lunch program at San Geronimo
Valley Community Center starts at noon.
Works in various media by Inverness
artist Joyce Livingston, who died in
July, will be on display to the public for
three afternoons. Please join family members in the gallery space behind Priscilla’s
Cafe and the Inverness Post Office today or
Sunday, September 5, between noon and 4
p.m.
Senior Lunch at the Dance Palace in Point
Reyes Station begins at 12:30 p.m. $2 or pay
what you can for delicious lunches prepared by Gloria at the Palace Market. Call
(415) 663.1075 for information.
Marin Master Gardeners presents
“Winter Vegetable Gardens—Now is
the time!,” a panel of Master Gardeners discussing the basics and essentials
of planting a successful winter garden.
Jean Sugiyama, Dave Phelps, Larry and
Betty Mulryan will speak at 7 p.m. at
Marin Art & Garden Center, in Ross. $5.
Friday, September 3
“Present and Past” by Marj Burgstahler
Stone and “New Work, Wood & Clay” by
Rick Yoshimoto open today at Gallery
Route One, in Point Reyes Station. A reception will be held tomorrow from 4 to 6
p.m. Gallery open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. everyday
but Tuesday.
Valley Dungeons and Dragons Club
meets from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Loft Teen
Center at San Geronimo Valley Community Center.
Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem:
The Transformative Power of Words,
presents an evening of mystical poetry,
music and inspiration at 7:30 p.m. at Point
Reyes Presbyterian Community Church.
Sponsored by Point Reyes Books.
The Mighty Kevin Russell Band plays
contemporary blues at 8:30 p.m. at Rancho Nicasio. $12.
Zulu Spear plays at 9:30 p.m. at the Old
Western Saloon, in Point Reyes Station.
Saturday, September 4
Vegetable, Vegetable, Vegetable is an
exhibit of photography, pastels, calligraphy, photo transfer, ceramics, wood,
metal and recipes by Francine Allen,
Kris Brown, Kathy Callaway, Eleanore Despina, Cheryl Higgins, Andrea
Riesenfeld, Nancy Stein, Sean Sullivan
and Amy Whelan opening today in Toby’s
Gallery, in Point Reyes Station. An artists
reception takes place tomorrow from 2 to 4
p.m. Exhibit open through September 28.
An opening reception for “Present and
Past” by Marj Burgstahler Stone and
“New Work, Wood & Clay” by Rick
Yoshimoto is from 4 to 6 p.m. at Gallery
Route One, in Point Reyes Station.
Poet Robert Hass reads from his new
book, The Apple Trees at Olema and
poet Brenda Hillman reads from her
new book, Practical Water, in a benefit
for the West Marin Review at 7:30 p.m.
at Toby’s Feed Barn, in Point Reyes Station.
A reception with live music by Agnes von
Burkleo, refreshments and a no-host bar
begins at 6:30 p.m. $20. Tickets available
at Point Reyes Books, or online at www.
ptreyesbooks.com.
Fiddle virtuoso Darol Anger plays with
his ensemble Republic of Strings at 8
p.m. at the Dance Palace, in Point Reyes
Station. $22 general in advance, $25 at the
door. $20 seniors in advance, $23 at the
door.
The Rancho Allstars featuring Mike
Duke play at 8:30 p.m. at Rancho Nicasio.
$12.
Honeydust plays at 9:30 p.m. at the Old
Western Saloon, in Point Reyes Station.
StuArt has a closing party celebrating
his painting exhibit at Uniquities Salon in
Bolinas from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Christine DeCamp shows paintings and
pottery today and tomorrow from 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. at the Greenbridge Gas Station
Building (11401 Highway One), in Point
Reyes Station.
Experience the Point Reyes Lighthouse
lit up during a small guided tour beginning a half-hour before sundown. Call
(415) 669.1534 after 10 a.m. to sign up and
learn the exact time. Wear warm clothes,
bring a flashlight and meet at the Lighthouse visitor center.
(For week of Thursday, August 26 through Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010)
Thu Aug 26 • 5 pm “Aug 12 Community Meeting on proposed transfer
of Dolores Gonzales.”
Sat Aug 28 • 11 am “ViewPoint.” Bay Area author Holly Payne discusses
her latest book Kingdom of Simplicity, a novel of forgiveness.
Sun Aug 29 • 12 pm “Jazz with Kendrick Rand.” Side-by-side tunes:
vocalist v. instrumental.
4 pm “Learnin’ Kirven” is back from his travels!
Mon Aug 30 • 8:30 pm Special “Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double
Trouble.”
Mondays at 10 pm new start time for “Mixtape” hosts Christian Anthony
& Jacoba Charles.
September 13-24 = Our Fall Pledge Drive….Stay tuned!
Schedules and Local News at www.kwmr.org.
info 663-8068; studio 663-8492
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Mina Bauer, 1942—2010
Mina Bauer, an artist and a bohemian,
lover of music, men, food, clothing, travel, politics and peace, passed away on August 17 at age 68. Peaks of rhapsody and
valleys of darkness defined Mina’s life. “If
Mina had anything to tell people, it was
this: Enjoy every damn minute you’re
here,” said lifelong friend Amber Turner.
“Just enjoy the hell out of life. Have a
damn good time. Be happy.”
Mina was born on April 1, 1942 to Mohammed Moazed and Fourough Nuyani in
Tehran, Iran. Her parents’ marriage was
arranged by their parents; Mohammed
saw Fourough only once before the wedding. “He spotted her through a bush before they were married, you know how the
story goes,” said Mina’s daughter Meran.
Mohammed was a physician who had
studied in Paris and worked for the government under the first Shah. During
the Second World War, as Iran was siding with the Germans, Mohammed—a
Jew who converted to Islam—feared for
his family’s security. When Mina was an
infant, her parents bundled her up and
snuck out of the country to Lebanon.
From there they traveled to Egypt, where
they boarded a cargo ship destined for
New York. The ship was part of a caravan
of three. After sailing around the Cape of
Good Hope, a German submarine sunk
one of the other freighters.
After Mina and her family arrived at
Ellis Island, they moved into the Waldorf
Astoria for several months before finding
an apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens.
“It was very isolating for them. There really weren’t many Persians in the United
States at that time,” Meran said. Fourough developed debilitating rheumatoid
arthritis and rarely left the apartment.
After a time, Mohammed began practicing medicine out of a home clinic.
When she was old enough, Mina was
sent to a Catholic boarding school in upstate New York. She hated it. “She felt
very abandoned by her parents,” Meran
said. “She felt like an outsider.” At home,
Mina cherished her time with her parents. She loved going to Jones Beach,
where she would sit back to back with
her father and eat Persian meatloaf sandwiches. “She also loved going to the movies,” Meran said. “Every Saturday, she
would go and watch double features and
eat candy. It was the only place that was
air conditioned and she could escape to
glamorous worlds.”
Mina was a rebel in high school. She
liked to hang out with guys who had motorcycles and hitchhike around town.
One time, a young man named George
Raff picked her up. She was only 17, and
he was already in college, but they soon
fell in love—much to Mohammed’s chagrin.
After she graduated from high school,
Mina was sent by her father to Ohio State
College. But Mina dropped out after the
first year, and moved with George to Seattle. There she studied art at the Uni-
versity of Washington and made many
friends that would remain with her for
the rest of her life.
Soon, Mina decided that New York was
the place to be. She dropped out of college, left George and went with friends to
Manhattan. “We did the ‘leave home and
go to New York’ thing. We were Lower
East Side girls,” Amber said. “Anybody
who was anybody was playing in the village. Anybody who was anybody was
making art. We were bohemians. Everyone was an artist, or a photographer or a
painter. It was this cauldron of youth and
creativity and love. Kerouac was over, but
Ginsberg was there, Peter Orlovsky was
there—everybody was there.”
Mina lived in a rundown apartment
on Eldridge Street, a gritty neighborhood
through which she nevertheless walked
barefoot at 3 o’clock in the morning. She
seemed to know everyone in the music
scene. Before long, she met and fell in love
with Joe Bauer, the drummer for the hit
band The Youngbloods. “She always said
he was the love of her life,” Meran said.
After Joe’s success grew, he and Mina,
and many of their friends, moved to the
West Coast. “Everyone in the band had
gotten married by that point, were having
children, were more successful,” Amber
said. “People were craving green. There
was no green in New York back then.”
Joe and Mina rented a house on the
water in Inverness. It was 1967, and
counter culture had not yet reached West
Marin. “We were the original hippies of
West Marin. We moved in, and it was really Redneckville,” Amber said. “This was
at a time when, if you walked into the
Farm House in Olema and had hair longer than an inch, they’d beat the crap out
of you.”
Mina gave birth to a little girl in 1971.
Joe was born in Memphis, and Mina was
born in Tehran, so they took the first
two and last two letters of each city, and
named her Meran. “Mom wanted to name
me ‘Apple,’ but Dad got his way,” Meran
said. When Meran was three, Joe developed a brain tumor. It went into remission, leaving him deaf in his left ear, but
the tumor came back and finally killed
him in 1982. “My mother never got over
it. She didn’t get off the couch for two
years,” Meran said. “She would drive to
the grocery store, and I would have to go
in and get the groceries. She was comatose. She didn’t get dressed, she didn’t do
anything.”
After two years of mourning, Mina
started getting out of the house again. She
met an old family friend named Alex Riley
at the Western in Point Reyes. They dated
for three months, got married, and divorced three months later. “It was a rocky
time. It was the beginning of her trying to
find her way,” Meran said. Then, out of
nowhere, Mina decided they were moving
to Paris. She was tired of mourning, and
needed a fresh start. She met up with Joe’s
old friend Jack Gregg overseas.
Amber Turner
IN MEMORIUM: Mina Bauer had a lust for life that was unparalleled.
One night on her birthday, Jack took
Mina to the Sunset Club on Sebastian Boulevard. It was a basement club, known for
being one of the hottest jazz and bebop
joints in Paris. There she met a jazz drummer named Art Lewis, who would be her
companion and lover for the next 17 years.
The couple lived in Art’s attic apartment on Rue du Faubourg St. Denis. A
courtyard embellished with cobblestones
in sunburst patterns set the building off
the street. “That apartment had three
and a half floors, and we were on the half
floor,” Art said. “The French are amazing
at using space.” Mina had become an avid
painter, and was looking for a studio to
rent. She eventually found a place with
several French models. “They hit it off,
and she really made herself at home,” Art
said. Once Art took a gig in the Aix-enProvence, where Van Gogh painted some
of his most memorable scenes. “We rented a car, we had so much fun,” Art said.
“We went out to this good old country
house. We had a leaky room on the second floor. We loved that place.”
Art and Mina traveled back and forth
between Inverness and Paris for several
years before settling in West Marin. Mina’s distinctive French look, reminiscent
of Edith Head, always drew attention in
West Marin. “She was so elegant. Her
sense of tying a scarf this way and wearing her hat that way,” said friend Elizabeth Zarlengo. “She had a great sense of
style and design, both in her person and
in the way she lived her life. Mina became more passionate about politics and
peace as she grew older. “She wanted
world peace. She worked for peace, always demonstrating,” Amber said. “As
we grew older and people got more conservative, Mina never lost that edge.” Art
remembers pulling Mina off of a conservative after a scuffle during a peace rally
in San Francisco.
Mina was diagnosed with ALS last
summer. The disease progressed rapidly, but Mina passed away painlessly and
with the knowledge that she was loved.
“She thought West Marin was the most
beautiful place on earth and thought she
was blessed for being able to live there,”
Meran said.—Kyle Cashulin
Mina is survived by her daughter Meran
Cricket Riley, granddaughters Josephine
and Genevieve Riley and her brothers
Khosrow Moazed of San Diego and Cyrus
Moazed of Middletown, Maryland. Donations can be sent to Project ALS or made
online at projectals.org. A memorial is
planned for September 18. Further details
will be posted in the Light.
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To love a dog
guest column
by LEslie Goldberg
Not long ago, my son and his wife’s
cat fell ill. They were living in Brooklyn
and took their pet to an animal hospital, where the vet said the cat needed an
expensive surgery. Upset but living on a
tight budget, the couple said they wished
to their pet put down. The vet refused.
Guilty and stricken with grief, they approved the surgery. The cat, 13 years old
at the time, underwent the procedure—
and died two days later.
“My first rule is, ‘Thou shall push your
vet off her pedestal,’” said veterinarian
and author Nancy Kay, who spoke to an
audience gathered on the Dance Palace
lawn the last Sunday in Point Reyes Station. “The fact is you know your pet better than any veterinarian.” And what if
your vet won’t be pushed? Find another
vet, she said.
Author of Speaking for Spot: Be the
Advocate Your Dog Needs to Live a Happy, Healthy, Longer Life, Kay addressed a
dog-friendly audience of, well, dogs and
their owners. Kate Levinson, co-owner
of event sponsor Point Reyes Books, was
on hand with free dog biscuits and books
for sale.
The more than two-dozen dogs remained impressively silent as Kay rhetorically asked the group, “Why do you
need a dog medical advocate? Why not
just leave it up to the vet?” Pet owners
have seen some incredible changes over
the past couple decades. They have access to a great volume of pet health information—some reliable, some not—on the
internet. A plethora of medical technologies, once available only to people, are
now a part of veterinary care.
In the past, a sick or injured dog would
get an X-ray. Now a vet asks: “Do you want
an ultrasound, an MRI or a cat scan?”
Should you take your dog to a plain old
vet, or should you go to a canine oncologist or a heart specialist? Choices abound,
David Briggs
DOG CARE: Author Nancy Kay spoke on the Dance Palace green last Sunday to two dozen dogs and their owners.
and family finances and time constraints
complicate. Gone are the days when you
can just shrug and say, “Well, the doctor
knows best.” When Kay graduated from veterinary
school in 1982, vaccinations were a nobrainer. “There were five shots, and dogs
got them all. Now there are 14 to choose
from,” she said. Vaccinations carry both
benefits and risks. These days, pets can
be vaccinated for Lyme disease and leptospirosis, an illness dogs can get from
drinking water contaminated by, say,
deer feces.
“I remember one patient—a fluffy,
white, pristine bichon frise. That dog
wasn’t going hiking in the wilds, picking up ticks or drinking contaminated
water,” Kay said. Yet the dog had been
vaccinated for both Lyme disease and
leptospirosis. To the despair of its owners, the dog reacted to the vaccines, and
ultimately died. The American Animal Hospital Association says all dogs should be vaccinated
for canine parvovirus, canine distemper,
canine adenovirus-2 and rabies. After an
initial series, these shots, with the excep-
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tion of rabies, should be given once every three years. “Sometimes I ask people,
‘Why did you revaccinate this dog?” Kay
said. “They’ll say, ‘Because a reminder card
came in the mail.’ And why would a vet
vaccinate a pet who didn’t need it? Well,
neither of the reasons are pretty. Either
they are not up to speed on the current research, or they are out to make a buck.”
Kay received her degree from Cornell
College of Veterinary Medicine and completed her residency at the University of
California, Davis Veterinary School. She
has practiced for 20 years, and is owner
and staff internist at the Animal Care
Center in Rohnert Park. She decided
to write her book after a medical scare
of her own. Discovering a lump in her
breast, Kay underwent a mammogram,
followed by an ultrasound, an MRI and a
biopsy. “No one could tell me if I had cancer or not,” she said. “The next procedure
was going to be surgery.’’
Because of her training, Kay knew
which questions to ask and where to find
the best specialist for a second opinion.
“He looked at all my results and said, ‘You
have nothing to worry about.’” Though
the ordeal that lasted three months, Kay
was able to stay steady at the helm. “I
know how to navigate medical waters,”
she said. “I asked myself, ‘How can I enable others to also navigate smoothly?”
Deciding that it would be presumptuous
to educate on human illness, she opted for
something closer to home: pets. Speaking
for Spot was the result.
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7. Perry’s Deli - Inverness Park Grocery: We
have all your picnic needs! Perry’s famous sandwiches,
wine & beer. Graffeo’s coffee, fresh donuts, & bagels
daily. Fresh fish, all organic produce, local products.
Open seven days 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fri. & Sat.
‘til 10 p.m. (415) 663.1491. 12301 Sir Francis Drake
Boulevard, Inverness Park
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stable for the whole family. Guided horse rides along 120
miles of trails through the Point Reyes National Seashore.
Open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (415) 663.1570.
Come on by Five Brooks Trail Head, 3 miles south
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and spa treatments. Provided in the comfort of your
home or vacation getaway. Serving all of Marin County.
By appointment 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily
(415) 669.9971, www.wildirisrose.com
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1. POINT REYES SEASHORE LODGE’S HISTORIC FARM HOUSE RESTAURANT, BAR
& DELI: Serving West Marin hospitality for 140 years.
Local and organic foods, featuring seafood, steak,
salads, burgers & BBQ oysters. Banquet & conference
rooms, outdoor dining, weddings/parties in the garden
on Olema Creek bordering the National Seashore.
Open for lunch & dinner every day: 11:30 a.m. to
9 p.m.; Friday & Saturday ‘til 10. Call (415) 663.1264.
2. Tony’s seafood: Family-style dining
overlooking Tomales Bay. Serving BBQ oysters, fresh
local seafood. Friday night specials.
Open Fri. - Sun. & monday Holidays
11 am - 6 pm 7 day/week.
(415) 663.8997. www.mainsunfarms.com
10905 Highway One, Point Reyes Station
3. The Station House Café: We offer
American cuisine using fresh local, organic and
sustainable ingredients. Full bar. Happy Hour weekdays 4
to 6 p.m. Live music Sundays at 5 p.m.
Open six days a week ; closed wednesday.
Breakfast 8 am - 11 am, Lunch 11 am - 3:30 pm,
Bar menu 3:30 pm - 5 pm, Dinner 5 pm - 9 pm.
(415) 663.1515 www.stationhousecafe.com
Downtown Point Reyes Station
4. marin sun farms: 100% grass fed and
pasture raised meats. Serving lunch 12 pm - 4 pm,
Wed-Sun, featuring local burgers, salads and pork
fries. Beer & wine selection highlights local, artisan
producers.
Butcher shop open 11 am - 6 pm 7 day/week.
(415) 663.8997. www.mainsunfarms.com
10905 Highway One, Point Reyes Station
Lodging
Pool, beach, fishing, pier, boat launch, Thepmonggon
Thai on the Bay Restaurant and Blue Waters Kayaking. Suites & bungalows (with TVs, HBO, fireplaces,
kitchen), 35 rooms. Best rates and value in the area.
Call (415) 669.1389 or (in CA) (800) 339.9398
or visit www.tomalesbayresort.com
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Open Thursday thru Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5
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pastries, country-fresh scones, bread, muffins, cookies,
desserts and more. Pizza daily. Homemade vegetarian
soup Mon-Fri. Featuring Brickmaiden bread and freshroasted organic Thanksgiving Coffee beans.
Open seven days: Monday–Friday 6:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. Saturday & Sunday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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13. WEST MARIN PHARMACY:
Thank you to our community for your continued
support! We are a Wellness Center offering the best
products & services from alternative & traditional
sources. Energy Healing sessions and classes are available by appointment. See us online at www.wm-rx.com
Open Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat. 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. (415) 663.1121, fax (415) 663.1219
4th & A Streets, Point Reyes Station
14. pt. reyes surf shop: For all of your beach
Food
and surf gear. New and used boards and wetsuits.Repair
services available. Also home to Jayli wholesale imports.
Open seven days 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(415) 663.8750
Downtown Point Reyes Station
5. TOMALES DELI & CAFE: Great deli sandwiches heaped high with fresh ingredients & lots of
meat. Specialty salads & surprises for lunch; ice cream
& espresso drinks. Next to Tomales Bakery. FREE
WIRELESS internet access for our customers.
Open daily for breakfast & lunch.
(707) 878.2732. 27000 Highway One, Tomales
15. Toby’s Feed Barn: Local Food Tastes
Better! Featuring unique gifts, an art gallery, pet food,
cold drinks, snack and organic produce.
Open 7 days Mon-Sat 9am-5pm; Sun 10am-5pm;
(415) 663-1223; Downtown Pt. Reyes Station
6. TOMALES BAY FOODS: HOME OF
COWGIRL CREAMERY & GOLDEN POINT
PRODUCE: Choose farmstead & artisan cheeses at
the Creamery, picnic fare from the Cowgirl Creamery
Cantina and organic fruits & vegetables from Little
Shorty at Golden Point Produce—everything you need
for a day in West Marin.
Open Wed-Sunday 10—6. Cowgirl Creamery:
(415) 663.9335; Golden Point Produce.
(415) 663.957. All located in the barn at
4th & B Streets in downtown Point Reyes Station
16. SPIRIT MATTERS!: Wildly delightful Oddities
& Deities in the heart of Inverness Park. Gifts, books,
music, jewelry, scarves, cards, garden art & a whole
menagerie of offerings from the world’s wisdom
traditions...a divine destination!
Open Thursday thru Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(415) 663.8699. 12307 SF Drake Blvd.,
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