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Shameless Art at Gualala Arts All Month Long
Gualala Art Center is not afraid to put Ball. Artists are encouraged to set aside their
tongue in cheek while still presenting artistic “purity” and go for the sale. Most artists
quality
workmanship.
find the most difficult part
Beginning on December
of their occupation is the
5 and running through
selling of their art. How
December 28 in the
many artists have been to
Burnett Gallery and
shows or fairs and seen
Jacob Foyer they will
other artists doing a good
present “Shameless!”, an
business selling items
exhibit of innovative new
produced solely for their
work that is designed
ability to sell? Here is the
with marketability as a
chance for artists to go
primary element. This
for it. Norman Rockwell
is the annual show of
style paintings, black
the North Coast Artists’
velvet canvasses, animal
Guild.
Artists from
portraits, and plaster cast
the Artist Collective of
wall decorations are not
Elk, the Coast Highway
out of bounds. The public
Artists Collective in Point
is invited to see what local
Arena, and the Upstairs
artists believe can sell
Gallery Collective in
well, but often refuse to
“Elvis” by Edgar Leeteg, father of black velvet painting
Gualala have also been
make.
invited to participate. Over 80 pieces will be on
The highly knowledgeable, yet often
display
whimsical owner of the Stewart-Kummer
The exhibit is curated by Ling Yen Jones with Gallery in Gualala, Don Endemann, will judge
the able assistance of NCAG’s Doric Jamison- the exhibit. Indeed, Don’s artist wife, Heidi,
continued on page 15
12th Annual Visit
from Mr. & Mrs. Claus
Saturday, Dec.13 1pm - 3pm
Bring your kids, your friends,
your pets, your parents & get
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From the Editor’s Desk
Shopping, cooking, decorating, hosting guests (or traveling), and, yes, cleaning is keeping
us all quite busy this holiday season. Local venues have toned down their schedules for this
busy month, but there are still plenty of holiday events to help celebrate the season.
RCMS and Shamli Hospice is once again placing their Memorial Tree at Sundstom
Mall on December 17. See page 3. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be at the Four-Eyed Frog
Bookstore on Saturday the 13th for photo opportunities. Also page 3. Brandybuck Ranch
on the Point Arena ridge is again having their Bizarre Bazaar with plenty of locally made
items, see page 7. Point Arena merchants are holding their Hometown Holiday shopping
event on Thursday, December 18. See page 11 for details.
Christmas Eve there will an inter-denominational service at Gualala Arts that will feature
the Nine Lessons and Carols. See page 4.
Another holiday favorite is the Ernest Bloch Bell Ringers performance. This includes
plenty of audience sing-a-longs of traditional Christmas carols. See page 8
What would Christmas be without a performance of The Nutcracker? The Arena
Theater fills that need with a spectacular telecast from the famous Bolshoi on December
21. See page 5
How about an opera whose storyline is about singing? That is what you will see if
you attend the opera series at Arena Theater on December 13 when they present Richard
Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singers of Nuremberg”). See page
6.
Gualala Arts’ Reader’s Theater goes with the Christmas theme on December 19 when
they present Miracle on 34th Street at Gualala Arts Center. This production is based on an
adaptation by local writer David Skibbins (who also directs). See page 7.
The Arena Film Club is only showing 2 films this month, but they are both outstanding.
On December 1 They will show one of our favorite Bogey films, To Have or Have Not.
Thought of as something of a remake of Casablanca, neither film gains its strength from the
storylines and each features outstanding performances and tight editing. On December 8
They are showing Starman, a Jeff Bridges vehicle with Karen Allen. It wasn’t a blockbuster
when released, but has come to be highly regarded as a sci-fi flick with serious intentions.
See page 13.
We aren’t ones to champion wanton consumerism, but we also know that many of us will
be buying gifts and other items during the holiday season. We strongly encourage you to
BUY LOCAL and circulate your money with your friends and neighbors. Gift certificates
and donations to local non-profits are always a good idea if for some reason you can’t find
an appropriate gift.
Best wishes to all of you from the staff at the Peddler. Try to enjoy that part of the season
that appeals to you and consider a little exercise after you partake of all those holiday
goodies.
Series to Highlight Successful Former Students
We here at the Peddler have come up
with an idea for a new series that will highlight the accomplishments of people who
attended local schools and have since made
a significant contribution
to society or have otherwise attained particularly
impressive achievements.
From artists to athletes,
musicians to scientists to
entrepreneurs, despite our
small population, there are
many who we think would
qualify.
The purpose of this is
two-fold. First to honor
the individual for their hard work and determination, but also to serve as models
for those who are still students and may
be looking with trepidation at a daunting
future that holds many challenges, but also
hopes and dreams that for the determined,
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can come true. We will also be illustrating
to one and all that graduates of local schools
can, with hard work, be prepared for any of
life’s challenges.
Therefore, we are
asking the public to assist us by nominating
people who you feel
deserve this recognition. We will follow up
by learning more about
these successful individuals and doing a column about them.
Please send the names
and contact information for anyone that you feel deserves this
recognition along with a brief explanation
as to why you think they qualify.
Our contact information is listed on the
masthead to the right.
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Arena Market and Cafe
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Action Network
Anchor Bay Store
Arena Frame
Arena Pharmacy
Arena Tech Center
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Arena Theater
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Oz Farm
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B Bryan Preserve
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Pacific Chiropractic
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Banana Belt Properties
9
Pacific Plate
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Barry Vogel attorney
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Peter McCann P.T. 6
Phillips Insurance
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Pier Chowder House
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Pizzas &Cream
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Point Arena Light Station
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Red Stella
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Redwood Coast Chamber of Commerce
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Rollerville Café
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Bed and Bone
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Copies & More
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Cottage Carpets
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Cove Coffee
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David Moulton A.I.A.
Denise Green
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10
Dianne Neuman Gallery
Four-Eyed Frog Bookstore
Garcia River Casino
4
Sea Trader
Gualala Arts
3
Skinluv
5
Gualala Bldg. Supply
4
Synergy Yoga Center/Surf Therapy Yoga
4
Gualala Supermarket
11
The Loft
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Healing Arts and Massage
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Transformational Bodywork
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Village Bootery
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Shamli MemorialTree Honors the Departed
On Wednesday, December 17 from 4 to
6:00 p.m. at the Sundstrom Mall RCMS
and Shamli Hospice will host an event to
decorate the Shamli
Memorial Tree. The
public is invited to
place a personalized
heart on the tree in
memory of a family
member or friend
who has departed
this world.
Diane Agee, CEO
of RCMS stated,
“Our Shamli Memorial Tree is all
about love and remembrance, and
helping decorate it
is a beautiful way to
celebrate the lives
of friends and family who have passed
away. We thank the
Sundstrom family
for helping us host
this event, year after
year.”
The tradition
goes back more
than 20 years. Each
year the tree is decorated by community members with
over 500 handmade hearts personalized
in memory of family members and friends.
Refreshments will be served, and everyone
is welcome.
There is no charge to attend the Shamli Memorial Tree
event, or to hang a
heart on the tree.
However, donations
to RCMS’s Shamli
Hospice program are
welcome and help
toward the cost of
providing Hospice
services in this community. The Shamli
Memorial Tree will
remain up in the
Sundstrom
Mall
through New Year.
The RCMS/Shamli Hospice Team,
made up of medical
providers, nurses and
specially trained volunteers, focuses on
providing comfort
care to those who
are terminally ill and
helping provide support to their caregivers. To learn more
about Shamli Hospice or to volunteer,
please call Pat OwPhoto by R Kuehn
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Students’ Creative Efforts Presented to Public
with Two Events
Point Arena High School Drama Department and Computer Classes along with
Adobe Youth Voices will be presenting
Cause and Effect: A Student Film Festival.
The public is invited to join them Friday
December 5 and Saturday December 6 at
7:00 p.m. at the PAHS auditorium.
The formats for the short films are based
around Adobe Youth Voice’s “creation with
a cause.” Students have created movies
around a cause or a purpose that feel passionate about and wish to bring awareness.
Topics include: anti-bullying, suicide and
depression awareness, get up and get active,
rape culture in social media, keeping art
in schools, the lost art of chivalry, animal
abuse awareness, and more. Students have
created their films with different media
from stop and go animation, to documentaries, to music videos. This format gives
creative youth a way to express themselves
in digital media. $5 general admission, $3
students and seniors.
The Point Arena Schools Music Department presents The Winter Concert and
Clam Chowder Dinner featuring The Pier
Chowder House and Tap Room clam chowder. Join them Wednesday, December 10 for
dinner at 5:00 p.m. in the high school cafeteria then walk over to the auditorium for
the Winter Concert at 7:00. Cost for dinner
is $15 for Adults and $10 Children (under
12). Price includes bowl of chowder, salad,
bread, drink, and admission to the Winter
Concert. Those not wanting clam chowder,
can attend the concert for $5 Adults and $3
students and seniors.
There will be performances by the Arena Middle School Band, PAHS Jazz Band,
High School Guitar Class, a special appearance by the Coastal Singers, and more.
Concert doors open at 6:30 and refreshments will be sold at intermission. For more
information on either event contact Music
Director Jaime Erwin at 882-2134 ext.348.
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Public Invited to Join Nine Carols and Lessons
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The hard and stiff will be broken,
the soft and supple will prevail.
- Tao te Ching
On Christmas
Eve at 5:00 p.m.
the Nine Lessons
and Carols will
again be presented
at the Gualala
Arts
Center
auditorium. This
service has been
performed
at
King’s
College
in
Cambridge
England
since
1918 when thennew dean of
King’s
Chapel,
34-year-old Eric Milner-White, wanted to
try something innovative and beyond the
standard liturgy of the Church of England.
He had recently been an army chaplain,
which had convinced him that the Church
of England needed more imaginative
worship, so he wove together scripture and
song, called on readers of various ages from
school and town.
The original service was adapted from
an Order drawn up by E.W. Benson, later
Archbishop of Canterbury, for use in the
wooden shed, which then served as his
cathedral in Truro, at 10 pm on Christmas
Eve 1880. AC Benson recalled: “My father
arranged from ancient sources a little
service for Christmas Eve – nine carols
and nine tiny lessons, which were read by
various officers of the Church”.
In the King’s College event, almost
every year some carols have been changed
and a new, specially commissioned one is
introduced, but the backbone of the service,
the lessons and the prayers, has remained
virtually unchanged. The Kings College
service is broadcast over the Internet and
numerous radio stations, including some
300 stations in the U.S. alone, to millions of
listeners around the world each year.
Our local event has been represented by
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several of the coast faith communities: Mary,
Star of the Sea and St. Aloysius Catholic
Churches of Gualala and Point Arena; Light
of the Coast - Science of Mind Center,
Gualala; St. Paul’s Community United
Methodist Church, Point Arena; Starcross
Community, Annapolis; Shepherd of the
Sea Episcopal - Lutheran Mission, Gualala.
In addition several of our coast’s children
and youth will lend their gifts of leadership
to this well-loved tradition and celebration.
There is no admission charge and seating
at the Gualala Arts Center is limited and
traditionally fills up to standing room only.
Folks are encouraged to plan ahead, arrive
early and bring a flashlight for safe walking
to and from parking areas around the Arts
Center.
Donations received at the Festival of Nine
Lessons and Carols go to support South
Coast Crisis Aid (also known as South
Coast Crisis Line). These donations are
the primary source of funding for SCCA.
Your generosity supports emergency
food, fuel, bus transportation and lodging
assistance throughout the year via vouchers
distributed by local clergy in Gualala and
Point Arena. Please make your checks out
to Shepherd by the Sea, with “South Coast
Crisis Aid” in the memo line.
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- Mark Twain
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Bolshoi’s Nutcracker to Screen at Arena Theater
The series is presented in North America in
association with the Metropolitan Opera.
The Nutcracker will be followed by
Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet. Each
production will feature behind-the-scenes
programming, including interviews with
the cast and creative teams, either prior
to the start of the production, or during
intermission.
Tickets for the performances are $18
general, $5 youth. Online tickets can be
purchased from the Theater website, www.
arenatheater.org.
4:00 - 6:00 pm
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It is hard to imagine a Christmas
season passing without a performance of
The Nutcracker. The Arena Theater will
telecast the Bolshoi version of this classic
ballet on December 21 at 2:00 p.m. The
music, of course, is by Tchaikovsky and
the choreography and libretto is by Yuri
Grigorovich, who was the Artist Director of
the Bolshoi for over 30 years. The Nutcracker,
which he first put up in 1966, is one of his
most famous productions. He currently
serves as ballet master and choreographer
at the Bolshoi.
Even those not inclined toward ballet are
familiar with the story of the Nutcracker in
which a young girl’s Christmas toy comes to
life and overcomes the threat of the Mouse
King and his army. The tale explores the
universal themes of love, power and evil
and is renowned for the costumes and
sets that accompany Tchaikovsky’s highly
recognizable music.
This is a new program for the Arena
Theater that is being offered as a result of
requests from patrons. The same company
from which the Theater contracts for the
opera series is now offering for the 20142015 season 3 ballets from the Bolshoi. Each
event will be screened as a Sunday matinee.
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- Japanese proverb
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Arena Theater Live
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Bolshoi Ballet—Live from Moscow
The Nutcracker
November 17, 8pm
Monday, November 17
Doors: 7:30pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets: $5
For Open Mic inquiries and sign ups,
call Rufus at 882-1906
One of the greatest classics in the world
with iconic music by Tchaikovsky
Sun, December 21
doors 1:30 / show 2pm
$18 General Admission
$5 Youth Admission
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On Saturday, December 13 The Met: Der Ring des Nibelungen, and in 1866 his first
Live in HD series continues at the Arena wife died.
Theater with Richard Wagner’s only mature
The July 1868 premier was held in Munich
opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The and sponsored by Ludwig II of Bavaria who
Master-Singers of Nuremberg”). James had Wagner with him in the Royal box. At
Levine reprises the opera along with Johan the end of the successful performance the
Botha as Walther and Annette Dasch as audience called for Wagner who broke court
Eva. James Morris and Michael Volle share protocol by addressing the crowd from the
the central role of
Royal box.
Hans Sachs. The
The opera is
opera
features
often cited as
stunning
sets
an example of
and
costumes
Wagner’s
antias they recreate
Semitism.
It
16th
century
was also used by
Nuremberg.
various German
At the time,
administrations
Nuremberg was
in the early
a free imperial
20th century to
city, and one of
promote German
the centers of
nationalism.
the Renaissance
In fact at the
in
Northern
reopening of the
Europe. The story
Bayreuth Festival
revolves around
in 1924 Die
the real-life guild
Meistersinger was
of Meistersinger
performed. The
(Master Singers),
audience rose to
an association of
its feet during
amateur
poets
Hans Sachs’ final
and
musicians.
oration, and sang
“Deutschland
One of the main
über Alles” after
characters,
the
the opera had
cobbler-poet
photo Met Opera
Hans Sachs, is based on an actual historical finished. On 21 March 1933, the founding
figure: Hans Sachs (1494–1576), the most of the Third Reich was celebrated with a
performance of the opera in the presence
famous of the historical mastersingers.
The opera is Wagner’s only opera centered of Hitler. Subsequently Wagner’s grandson
on a historically well-defined time and and later his great-granddaughter produced
place rather than a mythical or legendary revisions which significantly changed the
setting. It is the only mature Wagner opera storyline to exclude any anti-Semitism or
to be based on an entirely original story, German nationalism.
While it is hardly one of Wagner’s more
devised by Wagner himself, who wrote
the libretto himself. He began writing the popularly performed operas, it is noted
story in 1845, but didn’t begin writing the for the music as the opera itself centers on
libretto until 1862 with the premier not musical performance. Start time 9:00 a.m.
held until 1868, as the 1860’s were not Running time 5 hr. 50 min. 2 intermissions.
a good time for Wagner. The 1861 Paris Tickets $24, Seniors $22, youth $18.
production of Tannhauer was a fiasco, the
1864 production of Tristan und Isolde was
abandoned, Wagner gave up hope of writing
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from the original film, “Miracle on 34th Street”
Nearly everyone is familiar with the 1947
film Miracle on 34th Street about the Macy’s
Santa Claus who believes he is the real
Santa and goes about turning skeptical New
Yorkers into believers. In the course of their
transformation they come to discover the
true, generous meaning of this holiday.
Local author and stage director, David
Skibbins, has adapted for Gualala Arts
Readers’ Theater a play version of the story
The Lighthouse Peddler
Is For Sale!
* sale to include historic string ball
The 13th Annual Brandybuck Bizarre
Bazaar to be held the weekend of Dec. 6
and 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Brandybuck
Ranch located on the Point Arena ridge
near Schooner Gulch Road. Unique, funny,
thoughtful, practical and affordable items
will be available to satisfy holiday shoppers
desire to shop local and support local artists.
The bazaar includes a Grand Raffle of a
basket of donated artisan goodies. Sweet
and savory hors d’oeuvres, hot apple cider,
and music are provided.
Participating this year are Potters Brenda
Phillips, Gretchen Barton, Cindy McPeak,
Beatrice Acosta, and Cate Carre; Jewelers
Jennifer Washick, Mike Sorbelli, Kirby
Leary, Carol Segelstom and Linda Dawson;
Woodworkers Bill Ranseen and Steve Main.
Other local vendors include ; Joel Kies,
Joanne Leary, Astrid R-Hogle, and Jan
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written by the Mountain Community
Theater and presented with the permission
of Dramatic Publishing. The reading will be
accompanied by music from Don Kreiger
(who else?) with sound effects by Sabina
Walla.
Though the Readers’ Theater has been
in existence for several years, this is the
third year that they have given public
continued next column
cont.
performances. They rotate directors each
year and this is the first public performance
directed by Skibbins. The performance will
be recorded for broadcast on KTDE 3 times
during the holiday season. See KTDE
website for times.
The cast this year includes Karen
Sarratoni, Joel Crockett, Annan Paterson,
Rick Hansen, Saundra Brewer, Bob Welsh,
Lynn Atkins, Jane Simmonds, and Jan
Carter.
Evening performances will be on Friday,
December 19 and Saturday December
20 at 7:0 p.m. There will be a matinee
performance on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
General admission tickets are $10
with youth tickets at $5. Tickets may be
purchased at the Gualala Arts website
(www.gualalaarts.org) or at the Dolphin
Gallery, the Art Center, or Four-Eyed Frog
Bookstore in Gualala.
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Bell Ringers Concert Set for December 13
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Belts
Slippers
Socks
The holidays on the coast just wouldn’t seem
right without a concert by the Ernest Bloch
Bell Ringers, so on Saturday, December 13
at 3:00 p.m. the Gualala Arts Center will
host the bell ringers along with some of
their friends under the direction of Jeanne
Jackson.
In addition to
songs from their
f o u r- a n d - a - h a l f
octave hand bells
and chimes, they
will be joined by
local singers. Remi
Alexander joined
by Karl Young
on
Shakuhachi
flute will help
the audience sing
“Have
Yourself
a Merry Little
C h r i s t m a s ,”
always a lot of fun.
Catherine Miller
will lead an all sing
on “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Rachel
Kritz and Linda Bostwick will perform a
duet on “Angels We Have Heard on High”
and Sita Milchev and Cassy Grossman will
join the bells on “Mary, Did you Know?”A
highlight of the concert is sure to be “Pata-Pan” with Cyndy Solomon joining the
bell ringers on alto recorder and Eric Kritz
on clarinet playing “Just a Closer Walk
with Thee”. The Coastal Singers will add
their beautiful voices and 4-part harmonies
to this concert, performing 3 pieces and
joining the bells on “Winter Wonderland.”
Santa Claus will
also be at the
concert and will
be handing out
candy canes to
kids of all ages.
R e f res h m ent s
will be served.
Tickets are
$10 in advance
and $5 more day
of performance.
Children
and
young people
17 & under can
attend for free
as long as they
are accompanied
photo by B. Pratt
by an adult.
For advance purchase, visit Brown Paper
Tickets or call them at 800-838-3006. To
purchase in person, visit the Gualala Arts
Center or Dolphin Gallery in Gualala.
For further information, contact Bell
Director Jeanne Jackson at 884-1761.
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The Adventurous Gardener
Eating Really Local –
A Wild Holiday Feast
By Lori Hubbart
Could you put on a holiday dinner using only foods
native to Mendocino and
Sonoma Counties? The traditional holiday meal was
based on foods like corn and
turkey, native to other parts
of the Americas. A feast
consisting only of locally
indigenous foods would be
a fun challenge.
Local appetizers might
feature crunchy, richly flavored seaweeds – gathered,
since we can’t grow them.
For meat eaters, low tide
foraging would also yield
shellfish.
For a main dish, carnivores would have to forgo
the non-native turkey, but duck or Canada
goose could certainly be served, accompanied by a sauce of wild huckleberries (related to cranberries).
A tasty stuffing could be made with native grains and nuts. Blue wild rye (Leymus
glaucus) was used as a grain by native peoples, and like most native grasses is a peren-
berries of the hairy manzanita
nial bunchgrass, growing in a clump, rather
than a spreading mat. This tall, handsome
grass is commercially available, and quite
growable.
Wild hazelnuts (Corylus cornuta var. californica), are abundant here, and in a good
year, will produce a plentitude of nuts. The
roasted nuts would make a delicious ad-
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For seasoning, try Sonoma sage (Salvia
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We have two tasty local onions: The tall
pink onion (Allium unifolium), and the magenta-flowered coast onion (Allium dichlamydeum). These beauties are easily grown,
though the tall pink one multiplies much
faster.
For vegetarians, a pilaf of wild grains
and nuts, seasoned with local plants would
make a lovely main dish. Carnivores could
add venison served with a reduction sauce
and wild mushrooms.
Another veggie entrée would be roasted
bulbs, ranging from the large, multi-purpose soaproot plant (Chloragalum pomeridianum), to the smaller, delectable broadiaeas
(Brodiaea, Dichelostemma and Triteleia species) and blue camas lily (Camassia quamash).
All these showy bulbs can be had from
specialist sources, and planted out in the
fall. Raised beds lined with wire might be
the best way to grow them for eating. Perhaps there were fewer pocket gophers in the
old days, though some disturbance helps
the bulbs multiply.
The bulbs could be roasted with the leaves
of California bay (Umbellularia californica).
On the coast, this aromatic tree grows in
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RCU TOY DRIVE
Redwood Credit Union (RCU) is holding
its annual holiday food and toy donation
programs in all of its North Bay and San
Francisco locations. All branches, as well
as the RCU Auto Center, will be collecting
toys and non-perishable food items Nov.
28 through Dec. 13. Partnerships with
nonprofit agencies throughout the North
Bay ensure that donations will remain
in the local community, benefitting
children and families in need during
the holiday season. The Point Arena
branch donations will be shared with
Project Santa and Project Sanctuary.
Brett Martinez, President and CEO of
RCU, stated, “What makes RCU’s toy
and food drives unique is the way our
communities rise to the occasion to help
those less fortunate during the holiday
season. This program has been an RCU
tradition for more than 20 years, and I am
always overwhelmed by the generosity of
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Scuttlebutt
by Mitch McFarland
The Keystone Pipeline debate is getting
lots the headlines these days as President
Obama is about to make perhaps one of the
biggest decisions of his presidency.
This dirtiest of oil will be piped down to
Texas to be refined and exported. How that
is suppose to be of any great advantage to us
is beyond me. Proponents are claiming that
it is a jobs program, but if that is the best they
an do, they don’t have much of an argument.
Between 1000 – 2000 (depending on who
you believe) workers will be needed for 2
years to build it and the CEO of the pipeline
company building the pipeline says 35
people will be employed after that. Is that
reason enough to accept the inevitable
spills, air pollution, and dislocation (plus
massive deforestation of boreal forests in
Canada) that even proponents admit will
occur? There is a huge environmental
argument against not just the pipeline, but
the whole tar sands extraction of oil. No one
who seriously looked at all the issues could
say this is something humanity should be
doing.
Too bad that doesn’t matter. Most people
don’t give a crap about that as long as they can
afford their energy costs like home heating,
air conditioning, and transportation and we
have been continuously told that we cannot
live without fossil fuels for the foreseeable
future.
We have no choice many will claim. Oil
is our lifeblood and our economy will crash
without cheap oil. The problem is that tar
sands oil will not be cheap. The website
Oilprice.com informs us that while existing
production will remain profitable for some
time, new production has costs that make
it a very marginally profitable investment.
Bitumen is expensive to extract, upgrade
and refine and cannot compete with the
many new shale oil projects in the U.S. with
production at its highest level in a decade.
Total SA, Europe’s third-biggest oil
company, will book a $1.65 billion loss in
the first quarter on the canceled Voyageur
Upgrader project in Canada’s oil sands after
selling its stake to Suncor Energy Inc. More
than $5 billion of investment in Voyageur
over the next five years is “no longer justified
from a strategic and economic point of
view,” the Paris-based company said in a
statement.
Economist Jeff Rubin has written, “when
you’re schlepping oil from sand, you are
probably at the bottom of the ninth inning
in the hydrocarbon economy.” Yet it doesn’t
appear that we are in the waning days of oil
burning despite the fact that more and more
difficult efforts are employed to extract oil
worldwide.
This trend along with the vast increase in
U. S. production including cleaner natural
gas leads me to think that there is a reason
why many believe that the Keystone oil is
headed to China. We will simply be part
of China’s delivery system. Funny too, how
some here cry that we shouldn’t be doing
anything about climate change because
China will still keep burning dirty fuel, yet
here we are striving to help them do just
that.
Closer to my heart is how our tax dollars
are being invested in energy. We know
that huge sums of potential tax dollars are
not collected from oil companies because
of numerous subsidies of which they may
legally take advantage (let’s ignore the huge
chunk of Pentagon budget that goes to
“secure” our access to oil in the Mid-East.)
Not collecting taxes for something is the
same as spending money on that thing, so I
figure we taxpayers are investing quite a bit
of money annually in the fossil fuel business
and I don’t like the long-term prospects of
that investment.
But how else to invest in energy
infrastructure? I think we all agree that we
as a government should be keeping an eye
on the future to plan how we can continue
to develop as a nation and people. That
would surely include our energy future.
Most people understand that our energy
future is with renewables. The argument
revolves around when that future will
arrive. I would like to posit that it is already
here and the only thing keeping it from
accelerating is our lack of understanding
(thank you mainstream media).
Let’s look at the federal government’s
investments in alternative energy. In 2009
The Obama administration charged the
DOE’s Loan Programs Office with jumpstarting cutting edge green technology
ventures deemed too risky and expensive
to attract cash from private investors. One
such loan guarantee was the Solyndra
factory. When they went down you would
have thought the Russians had landed on
the East Coast and the Chinese army landed
in California the same day. The media went
nuts and the climate deniers and fossil fuel
cont’d on page 14
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Point Arena Shops
Open Late for
Hometown Holiday
On Thursday, December 18 Point
Arena merchants will once again be staying
open late to celebrate the season and
accommodate holiday shoppers. Main
street merchants will be open until 7:00 p.m.
with many offering refreshments, special
sales, gift-wrapping, and gift certificates.
Action Network’s facility in Point Arena
will be open to give children a place to be
while parents are shopping. When stores
close at 7:00 p.m. The Arena Theater will
be showing The Hunger Games” Mockingjay
Part 1 and the Third Thursday Poets will be
holding their annual solstice party at the
215 Main wine bar.
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Mistletoe
By Gail Thompson
Do you remember your first
romantic kiss?
Perhaps it was
a magic moment under the
mistletoe. You
are young and
nervous, hoping that a certain
someone will be
brave enough to
join you under
the
mistletoe
and give you a
special kiss. Not
so long ago, this
meant a marriage pledge!
What a
strange choice
for a romantic
moment. Mistletoe is a parasitic plant. It has a modified
root (called a haustorium) that penetrates
the host plant, usually a tree. This spreading root system connects to the conductive
system where it extracts water and nutrient
needs, which eventually can kill the host
plant.
Mistletoe has a good side. It has been
found to have a positive effect on biodiversity by providing high quality food and habitat for a wide range of animals and birds.
In ancient Celt, Norse, Greek and early
European periods, mistletoe was revered as
a mystical plant with special powers. It was
often used in certain pagan ceremonies.
Depending on the culture, it was used to bestow life and fertility, as an aphrodisiac and
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used in primitive marriage rites. It was hung
to ward off evil spirits and to prevent witches from entering and as a protection against
poison (which is strange since their berries
can be poisonous). In Scandinavia, it was
considered a plant of peace under which enemies could declare a truce or where fighting spouses could kiss and make-up.
Wow, all this attributed to that piece
of green hung up for a hopeful kiss during
the holidays!
Even if all the pagan aspects of mistletoe are mostly forgotten, its evolution into
romantic kissing under the mistletoe makes
for a lot of fun, teasing and repartee.
Two eighteenth-century events popularized our modern tradition. The Eng-
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lish had a decorated mistletoe kissing ball
at Christmas. If a girl stood under it, she
could not refuse a kiss. If the girl was not
kissed, she could not expect to be married
the following year. On the twelfth night, the
Christmas mistletoe was burned to ensure
that the boys and girls that kissed do eventually marry.
It was also popular to pluck a mistletoe
berry after a kiss. Once all the berries were
gone, it was considered bad luck to kiss under the mistletoe.
In the U.S., the tradition was popularized by the American author, Washington
Irving (1783-1859), famous for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He describes the tradition in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Kissing is yummy, sweeter than candy.
I plan to promote this tradition by giving
each family some mistletoe for their holiday
decorations, including one for our house.
With this article visible in a prominent spot,
I have high hopes that my lifetime sweetheart will bestow a lingering kiss at a special
moment. What a fun tradition!
continued next column
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Book Review:
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
Review by Joel Crockett, Four Eyed Frog Books
“I’m old!” That’s the opening to a song
my brother wrote. It’s a humorous song and
touches, gently, on some of the issues and
infirmities we associate with old age: “...I’m
the same punk kid in used-up skin; I wish
that young was now and old was then.”
But Being
Mortal tells it as
it really is. Old
age, or any age
as we approach
our final days, is
rarely humorous.
It’s serious. It can
be scary. And
doctors
tend
to try, in every
way they can,
to extend our
lives as long as
possible. That’s
their job. Often,
though, unwittingly in most cases, they do
just the opposite. The results can be painful,
expensive, and just, plain sad.
Who talks honestly and helpfully to a
person who is clearly dying? What is the
value of a risky operation to prolong a life
that is clearly and irreversibly in decline?
What are the risks? Why are bad decisions
made? What matters most to a person, to a
human being, who is nearing the end of her
life? These are questions that Atul Gawande
addresses in his sobering and thoughtful,
yet hopeful new book, Being Mortal.
In his interviews of the very old, Dr.
Gawande confirms it isn’t death itself that
we fear. It’s the journey. It’s what happens
along the way. Losing faculties such as
hearing and memory, losing best friends
and, perhaps most importantly, our way
of life. When we can no longer take care of
ourselves, when we are debilitated, we risk
losing our independence. He quotes Philip
Roth from his novel, Everyman: “Old age
is not a battle. Old age is a massacre.” But
until it happens we don’t really think much
about it. We are unprepared.
As I read the book, as I write this review,
I can’t help but think of my mother-inlaw, Anny. Anny has lived by herself in a
small Winnipeg apartment since she was
widowed, 32 years ago. She’s been fiercely
independent; driving to the store, doing
her own cooking, living life on her own
terms. Early in November, though, Anny
(who, by the way, is 97 years old) ended
up in the hospital for the first time in her
life. While her mind is sharp and intact, her
body is letting her down. Now what?
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Options are being considered for Anny,
who desperately and vociferously wants to
go home. What medication will be most
effective? Should she be given a pacemaker?
What kind of in-home help will she require?
Maybe we should consider a nursing home,
or an “assisted-living” facility. Doctors
are making recommendations. We are
struggling with the choices and the potential
consequences. We knew this day would
come, but we really didn’t talk much about
it. In many ways we simply weren’t prepared.
Neither, of course, was Anny. How do we
make her life worth living when she is weak
and frail, when she can no longer fend for
herself? And the more insidious question,
how soon will this be us?
Doctors aren’t always right. Surgery,
medications or the latest technology aren’t
always the answer. Nursing homes aren’t
either. To a person wishing to live life on
his own terms, even if on a limited level,
these options can feel like a prison. And
all assisted living facilities are not created
equal. But there is a movement toward
understanding. There are assisted living
facilities that live up to their names, that
offer what’s important to those in the final
chapter of their lives. There is hope.
“We’re all gonna die!” It sounds like a line
from a bad Airplane movie. But the fact is,
it’s true. We are all going to die. “Death,”
cont. next column
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Dr. Gawande reminds us, “is not a failure.
Death is normal.” How, he asks, can we
avoid losing what’s really most important to
us as our bodies let us down? How can we
live successfully all the way to the very end?
Is being safe and living longer the answer?
Or is it more important to have meaning?
Through powerful, personal and often
moving stories, the author shares insights
on what has worked and what hasn’t.
There’s magic in tough conversations.
There’s value in asking questions like, “What
matters most? Your hopes? Or your fears?”
Being Mortal offers paths to explore what
really matters and suggests options to bring
meaning and worth to the last days of your
aging parents, to your terminally ill best
friend, and ultimately to you.
No matter how old you are, no matter your
circumstance, this is a book that belongs at
the very top of your reading list. Sooner or
later it will matter to you.
When death comes for us,
may our lives be already
safely stored away
in the minds and hearts
and memories of those
we have loved,
and in the happiness and
well’being of all we have helped,
and may death find no life to take
from us
but shuffle off defeated,
having relieved us only of our dying
-Robert Brault
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group’s annual “Open Mic Solstice Reading
& Party”. The reading will begin with live
improv jazz followed by an open mic with
jazz improv; the reading will conclude with
more live jazz. Following tradition, there will be no
featured poet this month, but instead all
members of the community are encouraged
to bring in extra poems & potluck food to
share if they are inspired to do so. Third
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Bogart and Bacall in To Have or Have Not
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from pg 8
Yes, SOD is a danger to many plants other than oaks. Another at-risk tree is the tanbark
(Lithocarpus densiflorus), an oak relative. Some years it sets a good crop of plump acorns,
said to be delicious. Learning to pound, leach and cook acorns takes some practice.
The tanbark trees in northern Sonoma County were devastated by SOD, much to the
sorrow of the resident native people. This tree is sacred to local native people, much used
by wildlife, yet a trash tree to the timber industry.
Salad greens would include miner’s (or Indian) lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata). This tangy
annual is easily grown in a sheltered garden, where it can be encouraged to become large
and lush.
For beverages, berries of manzanitas (Arctostaphylos species) were traditionally made
into cider. These shrubs are quite at home in our acidic coast soils. If your landscape is
bereft of manzanitas, large types are stunning as single specimens, or planted in rows for
an allée effect. Their flowers impart a honey-like scent to the air on warm, late winter days.
California’s wild grape (Vitis californica) is native a bit further inland, and its leaves turn
either golden or red with cool fall temperatures. We can grow it here, and with enough
grapes for experimentation, it might yet be possible to make a passable native wine.
On to dessert! No pumpkin pie for us, since edible squashes occur further east, but not
in California. A sort of pudding of the aforementioned grains, maybe?
What about sweeteners? Neither sugar cane nor sugar beets are native here, and honeybees are from the Old World. Luckily, the big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum), a few miles
inland, is actually a type of sugar maple, so you could make a rich, sweet syrup from the sap.
For table decorations from the wild, try lichens blown down in a storm (the ecosystemfriendly way to collect lichens). For decorative berries, toyon or hollyberry (Heteromeles
arbutifolia) can be grown in sunny, sheltered spots on the coast. Its red berries are stunning
when combined with the white fruits of snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), which thrives
in light shade.
Weaving more natives into our home landscapes and gently tending our wild food sources can benefit us now and in the future. Even this brief overview shows that we could feast
pretty well in a state that has been called a land of nuts and berries
for best reproductive results.
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groupies claimed proof that solar energy was a bust.
Some media outlets later brought out that Solyndra’s failure was one of several solar
companies worldwide that also went bankrupt as the result of illegal dumping by China.
But leave the explanation aside (voters don’t like explanations anyway-- too complicated).
For the sake of argument let’s agree that Solyndra was a bad investment in a company with
a bad business model. Some $500 million tax dollars were lost.
Of the many billions of dollars that DOE risked in alternative energy they have lost some
$800 million and most of it through the Solyndra failure. But wait. As of September, that
portfolio had a loss rate of 2.28 % and has made a profit of $30 million. Compare that to the
typical loss rate for a venture capital firm’s portfolio. As many as 40 % of those companies
fail, according to a 2012 Harvard Business School study. Oh, and the program has created
or saved 55,000 jobs and avoided carbon pollution equivalent to taking more than 3 million
cars off the road. That is a good outcome whether or not you believe in man-made climate
change.
One group that always looks to the future is billionaire investors. What kind of things are
some of them doing in energy? We have all heard about Texan T Bone Pickens and his
big investments in wind energy (making Texas America’s leader in wind generation).
Warren Buffet has put $15 billion into solar power and plans to invest another $15
billion.
Elon Musk, of course, started the electric car company Tesla, but is also chairman of
SolarCity, the nation’s biggest solar installer, which announced it is acquiring a Silicon
Valley photovoltaic panel manufacturer called Silevo in a deal worth as much as $350
million. The startup claims to have developed technology to make solar panels that produce
more electricity at lower cost than those currently on the market. At a targeted capacity
greater than 1 gigawatt within the next 2 years, it will be one of the single largest solar-panel
production plants in the world. Musk recently wrote about the Silevo factory, “This will
be followed in subsequent years by one or more significantly larger plants at an order of
magnitude greater annual production capacity.”
SolarCity expects to install 1 gigawatt of solar panels in 2015—double this year’s
installations, and as much as some manufacturers’ total capacity.
The move comes 4 months after Musk announced plans to build the world’s biggest
lithium-ion battery factory. The big idea: The $5 billion “gigafactory” would allow Tesla to
manufacture as many as half a million electric cars a year by 2020, driving down costs to
make battery-powered vehicles a mass-market phenomenon.
I have heard that the owners of Walmart are not West Coast liberals, yet Walmart plans to
switch to 100% renewable power by 2020 from approximately 20% currently.
Cumulative solar installations in the U.S. rose 547% in the last 4 years. During those 4
years, the world has deployed more photovoltaic systems than over the past 4 decades.
Even Saudi Arabia, for crying out loud, is aggressively expanding their solar capacity.
We need to move away from the fossil fuel economy as quickly as is possible and since the
environmental argument has limited appeal, shouldn’t economics be convincing?
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Photography Exhibit at 215 Main
An exhibit of black and white
photographs of Yosemite in winter
by Bob Schwein will be on display
at 215 Main wine bar in Point Arena
beginning December 1 with an
opening reception on December 5
from 3 – 5:00 p.m. The photos will
be displayed until the end of the
month.
In his statement for the show,
Schwein explains how as an eight
year old his next door neighbor took
him under his wing in his hobby
darkroom and taught him the basics
of mixing chemicals, processing
negatives and making prints. The
magic of watching a print gradually
appearing in the developer is a
wonder he still savors.
He began his professional career as
a metallographer in a materials testing
laboratory where a major portion of his
work involved technical photography.
Schwein cites Sebastiao Salgado, Walker
Evans, Dorthea Lange, Ruth Bernard,
Margaret Bourke-White and Ansel Adamsas
as influences which untimately led to his
work in black and white, medium and large
format photography.
He has studied under Frank Espada,
Mark Citret, Marcia Liebermann, John
Below and Michelle Vignes in the U.C.
Berkeley San Francisco Extension Program
and has exhibited in many group and oneperson venues in California.
Eschewing
the digital age of his medium, his favorite
pieces of equipment are a 4”x5” Arca-Swiss
view camera and a 2.25” square format
Hassleblad. His standard film is Kodak
T-Max 100,printing on Ilford Gallery, fiberbased paper with selenium archival toning.
Schwein is a member of the Bay Area
group, i-contact and a past member of the
Bay Area Photographers’ Collective.
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suspects the show’s name is inspired by a
part of Don’s personality. For himself, Don
believes that there is no shame in producing
commercial work if the artist enjoys their
work and strives to perfect it. Is it not
preferable to the artist who is employed
at other work they don’t enjoy in order to
support their “art”?
First, second, and third place prizes are
$100, $75, and $50 respectively with a $50
prize for best work for an artist under 18
years old. Judge Endemann will award 4
Judge’s Prizes according to his mood.
There will be an opening reception on
December 5 at 5:00 p.m.
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9- Take the role of
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the
only coin you have, and only you can
determine how it will be spent. Be
careful lest you let other people spend
it for you.
- Carl Sandburg
december beach walk
tangles of kelp remaining
from last nights storm
-madhaiku
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LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH
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