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Bruce Cockburn to Play Arena Theater
The Arena Theater has scored a coup and
booked Canadian-born singer/songwriter/
activist Bruce Cockburn for a performance on
Tuesday, April 15 at 7:00
p.m. The internationally acclaimed artist has
20 gold and platinum records to his credit as well
as a lifetime of activism.
Like his friends, Bono and
Jackson Browne, Cockburn has used his notoriety to shine a spotlight
on conditions around the
world that need attention.
He has worked with such
groups as Oxfam, Amnesty International, Doctors
Without Borders, Friends
of the Earth, and USC Canada.
Cockburn started out as a rocker (his band,
Olivus, opened for Jimi Hendrix in 1968). He
began his recording career in 1970 and his
early music reflected his new-found Christian
faith, but with the ascension of right-wing
Christianity, he turned away and his faith led
him to focus on humanitarian issues, rather
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F E S T I V A L
than the more mystical and spiritual themes of
his early writing.
His songs have been characterized as a blend
of folk, blues, jazz
and rock. Though
he is known for his
politically and socially relevant lyrics, he is less known
outside his fan base
as an outstanding
guitar player. His 31
albums contain numerous instrumentals and some are all
instrumental. His
guitars are all handmade to his specifications and include
a Resolectric guitar model from the National
Guitar Company, and a steel-bodied Dobro resonator guitar. His playing has been compared
to Bert Jansch, Pat Metheny, and Mississippi
John Hurt.
His songs have been covered by the a plethora of artists including Barenaked Ladies, Jimmy
Buffett, Ani DiFranco, The Jerry cont on page 15
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Something for Everyone!
17 Outstanding Events along the Sonoma &
Mendocino Coasts, from Timber Cove to Little River
Friday, April 4 – Sunday, May 11, 2014
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From the Editor’s Desk
The sun is returning and so is the Whale and Jazz Festival. It seems like the Festival is
starting to signal the beginning of “the season”; that is, when the visitors return and everyone starts scheduling their fundraisers and parties.
You won’t have to wait long in April as 2 art openings will take place on April 4. The
Dianne Neuman Gallery in Gualala has an opening by Portland artist, Paz. Dianne is
relatively new to the Gualala arts scene and seems to be really shaking things up with all the
activity at her gallery.
If you are out viewing art that evening, you are in luck as Gualala Arts is hosting an opening for the Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild. Their long-standing Quilt Challenge produces some spectacular quilts from their members. See page 7 for details on both shows.
We said things are heating up on the social calendar and we aren’t kidding. On April 5
2 more events can be added to the list. The Arena Theater’s opera series continues in the
morning with Puccini La boheme. If that doesn’t float your boat you may wish to check
out the 3rd Anniversary party at the Garcia River Casino that evening. Live band and
cash drawings await you. See page 10 for both of these events.
Of course, the Whale and Jazz Festival is all over the place and on April 7, the Arena
Film club and the Whale and Jazz Festival are screening the documentary Thelonious
Monk; Straight No Chaser. See page 5.
Blues on the Coast is also partnering with the Festival when they present The FortyFours blues band on Saturday, April 12. This is a boogie band, so be ready to dance! See
page 4.
The Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series is bringing young violin talent, Emma
Steele, to Coleman Auditorium on April 13 for an afternoon concert. She is just turning
24, but has an impressive resume already. See page 13.
The Third Thursday poetry night at the 215 Main wine bar continues on April 17 with
Jenny Lin. Poetry and Jazz is the theme of the evening as the Festival reaches another
venue. See page 14.
Action Network has 2 important fundraisers coming up. On April 18 they are sponsoring a picnic at Bower Park to reinforce April as Child Abuse Awareness Month and
Alcohol Awareness Month. See page 18.
Mar Vista Cottages is kindly hosting a gourmet dinner for Action Network to support
the Music Together program that has proved so popular in past years. Music Together
introduces Children to music and incorporates parents into the process. The event isn’t
until May 1, but the $100 tickets are available now. See page 6.
The Arena Theater Association will hold it annual membership meeting and board
election on April 21 at 7:00 p.m. This is not just a boring meeting. Live music and food
augment the election and report from the officers. See page 15.
Opera returns to the Arena screen on April 26 with Mozart’s popular Cosi Fan Tutte.
Local wildlife observer, Jeanne Jackson, has just published a fantastic book collected
from her Mendonoma Sightings column over the years. It is a beautiful, informative, yet
informal survey of our fauna and flora throughout the seasons. She will introduce this truly
gorgeous book to the public at Gualala Arts Center on April 27. You will eventually see lots
of these books around and you may wish to own one yourself. See page 11.
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Denise Green
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Pizzas &Cream
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Point Arena Light Station
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Fresh Flower Bouquets
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Pru Parker Bookkeeping 6
Garcia River Casino
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Red Stella
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Gualala Eye Care
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Redwood Coast Chamber of Commerce
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Redwood Coast Humane Society
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Gualala Bldg. Supply
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Rollerville Café
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Madeline Kibbe : Production Manager
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This Year’s Whale and Jazz Festival Offers Impressive Line-up
The ever-expanding Whale and Jazz
Festival returns this year with a schedule
that spans 3 months and includes a wide
definition of jazz.
Some events took place in March, but the
April events begin on Friday, April 4 at St.
Orr’s Restaurant when Ian Scherer & Steve
Forberg perform
gypsy jazz, Latin
and
standards.
The
multitalented Scherer
plays guitar while
accompanied by
Forberg on guitar
and electric bass.
The duo will play
for seatings at
6:00 and 8:00 p.m.
In addition to the
regular 3-course
menu, small plates
and award winning wines will be offered.
On Monday, April 7 the Film Club of the
Arena Theater will present the 1990 jazz film
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser. See
Film Club schedule on page 5 for details.
The whale theme is emphasized on
Thursday April 10 with the showing
of the 2009 Academy-Award winning
documentary film, The Cove, in which
a team of activists, filmmakers and free
divers penetrate a hidden cove in Taiji,
Japan to witness the slaughter of some
23,000 dolphins and porpoises that takes
place annually by Japan’s whaling industry.
Mark J. Palmer from Berkeley’s Earth
Island Institute / The Dolphin Project will
emcee the event. Light refreshments will be
served. $5 donation requested. The graphic
depictions may be upsetting to some.
Food is
definitely a part
of the festival and
on Saturday, April
12
beginning
at 11:30 a.m.
Barnebey’s Hot
Four New Orleans
style jazz band
will play for the
popular Chowder
Challenge.
Local chefs &
cooks vie for
the title of “Best
Mendonoma Coast Chowder.” A panel of
‘celebrity’ judges will determine winners in
the categories of Traditional (New England
Style Clam Chowder) and an Open
Class (for all manner of seafood and even
vegetarian chowders). A “People’s Choice”
vote of the Chowder & Jazz patrons decides
the most popular entry and there is even a
cash award for the entrant with the ‘Most
Tasted’ chowder. Entry forms at Gualala
Arts website.
Entrance is free, but $20 purchases a
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and
beverages,
including
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and
microbrews as well
as soft beverages.
Jazz and the blues
share a common cultural and geographic
source and came into being during more
or less the same era and thus the festival
continues on the evening of April 12 when
the Arena Theater’s Blues on the Coast
series presents The Forty-Fours. See story
on page 4.
The Third Thursday Poetry night at the
215 Main wine bar is again participating in
the festival with their monthly poetry and
jazz evening. Details on the April 17 event
on page 12.
The following evening, April 18, the 215
Ian Scherer
will once again host jazz when The Kaleo
Larson Quintet performs at 7:00 p.m. Local
favorites Harrison Goldberg (reeds), Keith
Abrams (bass), Chris Doering (guitar) and
Gabe Yanez (drums) join trumpeter Larson
for this lively gig. $8 cover with limited
seating.
The Garcia River Casino remains a
part of the festival as they welcome back
the immensely popular Zydeco band, the
Zydeco Flames on Saturday , April 19.
There is no cover charge for the 8:00 p.m.
show, but entrance is limited to 21 and over.
On Friday, April 25, keyboardist Susan
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The Blues on the Coast series at Arena
Theater has partnered with the Whale and
Jazz Festival and will present the LA-based
group, The Forty-Fours, on April 12 at 8:30
p.m.
Led by Johnny Main on guitar and vocals,
the solid rhythm section consists of J.R.
Lazana on drums and Mike Turturra on upright bass. The extraordinary Tex Nakamura, formerly of the band War, plays the harp.
The 44's play the blues with a rocking style
with few frills. They don't impress with
personal style or fancy shoes, but with their
solid, danceable music. Nakamura's harmonica rivals most anything you will hear
out of Chicago.
While this is clearly a boogie band, Johnny
Main is very capable of soaring, delicate solos on his guitar. He began playing classical
violin as a youth, but got in trouble with his
teacher for fooling around and playing the
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He was a closet guitar player until at age
15 when he showed
up at a party and to
everyone's surprise
played Voodoo Child
on guitar.
The band didn't
really hit the scene
until 2007 when they
took 4th Place in the
Memphis International Blues Challenge. Producer and
guitar master, Kid
Ramos of the Fabulous Thunderbirds
picked them up and
produced their first
album, Boogie Disease, which garnered Best Debut Album of
2011 from the Blues Underground Network and Best Blues Band of 2011 from
American Blues News, who called the band
“one of the hardest working, hardest playing
blues outfits anywhere."
They released a second album in 2012,
Americana, to rave reviews. The band has
been compared with ZZ Top and Tommy
Castro and a confusing list of others, a testament to their range of styles. Band members cite as their influences Albert King,
Albert Collins, and Muddy Waters (not a
bad list).
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased
online at www.arenatheater.org and at local
ticket outlets: Four-Eyed Frog Books and
Sea Trader, Gualala; Arena Market and The
Pier Chowder House and Tap Room, Point
Arena. The Arena Theater Bar and snack
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Film Club Schedule Includes Jazz Film
red
stella
The Arena Film Club has a full schedule real-life brothers and child prodigy stand
for April beginning with the documentary, up comic team, Koki Maeda and Oshiro
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, Maeda, along with veteran actress Kirin
which will be screened on Monday, April Kiki and actor Joe Odagiri.
7 at 7:00 p.m. as part of the Whale and Jazz The 2 boys are separated with divorced
Festival celebration. The film is about the parents living in different cities, but when
life of pianist
one hears that a
and jazz great
new bullet train
Thelonious
connects their 2
Monk
and
cities they set off in
features live
search of a miracle
performances
that is alleged to
by Monk and
take place when
Cypress Village
his band, and
2 bullet trains
Gualala
interviews
meet for the first
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and
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about
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wonderful movie
offbeat genius.
with tons of heart.
Thelonious
Puts the human
Thelonius Monk photo by Herman Leonard
Sphere Monk grew up in Manhattan, in humanistic filmmaking.” 2011 running
started playing piano at age 6, attended time 128 min in Japanese with subtitles.
Julliard, and by his early 20’s was a regular Monday April 28 No Place on Earth
at Minton’s Playhouse, a Manhattan a docudrama by Janet Tobias about the
nightclub where many of bebops discovery by a 1993 spelunker of caves in
innovators, including Charlie Parker, the Ukraine where in 1942, 38 Jewish men,
Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, met women and children hid from the holocaust
to play. His first recording was with the for 511 days in a pitch-black underground
Coleman Hawkins band in 1944 and world where no human had gone before.
in 1957 Monk returned the favor and The film has been well received in the festival
invited Hawkins to play on a recording rounds. Its screenwriters, Janet Tobias and
with John Coltrane.
Paul Laikin, are nominees for the 2014
Duke Ellington, who was Monk’s Award for Documentary Screenplay. 2013
hero and inspiration, composed over in English running time 83 min.
1000 songs and is the most recorded jazz
composer of all time. Monk’s popularity
as a composer can be judged by the fact
that he is the second most recorded jazz
composer of all time despite having
written only 70 songs. His compositions
include “Epistrophy”, “’Round Midnight”,
“Blue Monk”, “Straight, No Chaser” and
“Well, You Needn’t” and other hugely
popular standards. Charlotte Zwerin
(Gimme Shelter) directed the film which
includes much archival footage in this
Clint Eastwood produced film.
Admission is free to Film Club
members. Guests are welcome for a $10
donation and teens are $5.
Monday April 14 I Wish a 2011
Japanese film written and directed by
Adorable home in the city of Point Arena with a sunny south facing
Hirokazu Koreeda. This film stars the
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Mar Vista Hosts Fundraiser Dinner for Action Network
Thursday, May 1 Action Network is pre- includes 2 CD’s and a songbook.
senting a fundraising dinner in the Glass
It is an expensive program to offer, and
House at Mar Vista Cottages in Anchor Action Network has fundraised since 2012
Bay. The event is a
to be able to continue to
fundraiser for our
offer the program. The
Music
Together
Fundraiser dinner will
Children’s Music
feature a superb menu
Program offered
created and prepared
originally in Guaby Ross Woodward of
lala, now expanding
Trinks Café, with desto Point Arena. The
sert by Margaret Smith
Fundraiser is made
of Two Fish Baking
possible by the genCompany, and dinner
erosity of Renata
will be complimented
and Tom Dorn,
by wine pairings from
owners of Mar Vislocal vineyards. Tickta Cottages, Event
ets are available now for
Director
Rox$100 per person and
anne Claflin, Ross
space is limited. Please
Woodward, Trinks
call Action Network
Café, and Margaret
at 884-5413 for tickets
Smith of Two Fish
and more information
Baking Company.
on Music together. For
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Mar Vista’s Glass House at Night
ally recognized early childhood music
program for babies, toddlers, preschoolers,
kindergarteners, first and second graders,
and the adults who love them. Music Together classes build on your child’s natural
Appetizers:
enthusiasm for music and play – encouragMarble Potatoes, Smoked
ing the imagination with song and moveSalmon,
Crème Fraiche, Caviar
ment, incorporating drums, shakers and
other instruments. The 10-class program
Local Oysters with Mignonette
Grilled Flatbread with Shaved
Asparagus, Gruyere,
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
and Alcohol Awareness Month. Action
Mushrooms
Network is sponsoring a Family fun day
Amuse Bouche:
to raise awareness of Child Abuse and NeRoasted Local Beets stuffed
glect and the consequences of underage
with Point Reyes Blue Cheese
drinking and tobacco use. Everyone is inMousse topped with La
vited to Bower Park on April 18 from 11:30
Quercia Prosciutto and Herbs
a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Soup:
They have commitments from a large
Local Fennel and Green Garlic
cross section of community officials, inSoup with Marin French
cluding law enforcement, CHP, Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, Fish
Farmers Cheese Crostini
and Wildlife wardens, and California State
Main:
Parks Ranger. Fire Departments from GuaGrilled Leg of Sonoma Lamb
lala and Sea Ranch, Health Services, CLSD
with Roasted Carrots, Spring
Ambulance, RCMS, RCMS Dental, and
Onion, Fiddlehead Ferns, and
Americorps will also be on hand.
Whipped Potatoes
The Humane Society will be there with
Salad:
animals along with miniature ponies with a
Local Mixed Greens with
cart to give kids rides, Jumpy House, kids
Spring Strawberries, Chevre,
games, Scavenger hunt, “Hide a Gnome’
Kumquats, Almonds, and
game, Pomo Dancers, Zumba Kids dance
troupe, and the CALSTAR helicopter will
Balsamic Reduction
be landing up on the baseball field, with
the crew promising to give kids a chance to
Dessert:
see inside. Action Network will be cooking
Seasonal
fresh fruit tarts
hot dogs for $1 each. Families may wish to
bring picnics to supplement the hot dogs.
Menu
Action Network Picnic
arenatheater.org
April 2014
Bruce Cockburn
Tuesday April 15 7 PM
Arena Theater
Annual Membership Meeting
and Board Election
Monday April 21 6 PM
Arena Theater LIVE
Blues on the Coast
The Forty Fours
Saturday April 12 8:30 PM
3rd Monday Music
Hosting ATA Election Night
Monday April 21 6 PM
▪▪▪
Met Opera Live in HD
La Boheme
Saturday April 5 9:55 AM
Cosi Fan Tutte
Saturday April 26 9:55 AM
▪▪▪
Arena Theater Film Club
Mondays 7 PM
April 7 Thelonius Monk
Straight No Chaser
April 14 I Wish
April 28 No Place on Earth
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New Show at Dianne Neuman Gallery
Since opening last year, the Dianne Neuman Gallery has kept up a fast paced exhibition schedule and her recently released calendar for the remainder of the year proves
she has no intention of slowing down.
Beginning in April, a new show will present the work of Portland artist “Paz”.
Paz describes herself as a “Sundancer
and Pipecarrier of the
Lakota lineage.”
Preview pieces
from the show are
spell binding . Bold
colors set the scene
for an imaginative
romp.
Largely figural in subject matter
these paintings are
peopled with beings
from the physical and
spiritual worlds. The
viewer gets the sense
of entering another’s
dreamscape.
There
is an intensity in the work, which reflects
her method of creating. “For me, painting
is an intuitive journey. I approach my work
completely open to what might happen, to
the process of emotion, spirit, thought and
impulse interacting with the media. I am
rarely attached to the outcome, mostly to the
experience. The unpredictable experience
allows the final piece to emerge through
color, texture, light and composition, which
provides the form that connects my inner
world of spirit and emotion to the shared
reality of the earth-world. This becomes the
completed painting. The movement in the
process can be great or small, bold or timid,
loud or soft, just as the relationship of spirit
is with the physical
realm. “
This show begins
on Friday April 4th
and runs through the
month. There wil be
an opening reception
on April 5th from 4 to
9 pm.
The gallery’s schedule seems to rotate
between local, juried
shows and shows such
as Paz’s, which are selected by Dianne from
her personal network
of artists. Following
this show, will be a
juried show entitled,
“Imagine- Figuratively
Speaking”. Artists are encouraged to submit works that consider the human figure
in some way. Juror Teresse Radenbaugh is
a painter, designer and currently teaches figure drawing at Fashion Institute of Design
and Merchandising in L.A.
Entry fee is $15 per entry up to three.
Cash prize offered for Best in Show. Deadline for entries is April 14. See the website
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Annual Quilt Challenge Graces Gualala Arts
One of the more poplar annual shows at name just a few. It is always impressive to
Gualala Arts Center is the Quilt Challenge. see the range of individual interpretation
The Pacific Piecethis yearly show presmakers Quilt Guild
ents. Using color, pathas been holding the
tern and linear elements,
Challenge in Gualala
contemporary quilts are
since before the Arts
a bold, graphic- yet tacCenter opened in
tile art form
1998 and it is now in
The Opening Recepits 16th year there. It
tion is Friday, April 4
continues to be a viat 5:00 p.m. when the
sual treat as well as a
Jacob Foyer and the
display of fine craftsBurnett Gallery will
manship.
burst with color and deEach year memsign. Refreshments will
bers of the Guild
be provided by Guild
choose a theme to
members. This popular
inspire their quilts.
event celebrates both
This year the Chalthe quilters and the
lenge is “Quilt the
sources of their inspiraMusic”
enticing
tion.
quilters to choose
The show will hang una favorite piece of
til April 27.
music and give it Vintage Wagon Wheels by C Smith
a physical form.
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All of a sudden we are all being asked to
have an opinion about what should happen
in Crimea. It is unlikely that one in ten thousand Americans could have found Crimea
on a map 2 months ago and yet the talking
heads want us all to freak out because Russia has “taken” it from the Ukraine.
Maybe this is a ploy the news media like:
drum up an issue that no one knows anything about because that will require lots of
experts to come out of the woodwork and
explain the “significance” of what is going
on.
I dove into the woodwork myself a bit to
learn more. My interest was slightly piqued
from having studied Russian in school under a Ukrainian teacher.
The history of Crimea is incredibly complex. It lays at the virtual crossroads of human history. Crimea has been conquered
by just about every ethnic group you could
name from that region (and several others
you can’t name). For several hundred years
after the 1400’s it was ruled by Crimean
Khans. These turkic people, so-called Tartars, have extended at times as far as Siberia
and the Baltic.
The Crimean Khans were part of the Ot-
toman Empire for several hundred years,
though with a good deal of autonomy, until
the late 18th century. They had a massive
slave trade with the Ottomans and others.
About 2 million slaves from Russia and
Ukraine were sold over the period 1500–
1700. Eventually the Russians gained influence over the khans and, in 1783, the entire
Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire
(Crimea was larger than just the penisula
then).
Russia and the Ottoman Empire went
to war in October 1853 over Russia’s rights
to protect Orthodox Christians. Sound familiar?
Despite being a stronghold of the antiBolshevik White Army (so-called White
Russians), in 1921 Crimea became part of
the Soviet Union.
In 1944, the entire population of the
Crimean Tatars, who are Muslim, was forcibly deported to Central Asia by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet government as a form of collective punishment, on the grounds that they
had collaborated with the Nazi occupation
forces. An estimated 46% of the deportees
died from hunger and disease.
We have all heard that in 1954 Nikita
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Union, arranged for Ukrainian independence while remaining part of the Soviet
Union. It was timed to celebrate the 300th
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The power of accurate observation is
commonly called cynicism by those who
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- George Bernard Shaw
Bananas, of course, though edible fruit
As an antidote to a long, dry summer,
consider a lush retreat with the flavor of the requires a heated greenhouse. Abysinnian
tropics. If you are in love with the tropical banana (Ensete ventricosum) and hardy
look, why not create a tropical garden ha- Japanese banana (Musa basjoo) have big,
ven? After our blessed bit of rain, it’s time elongated leaves and grow 6’ to 20’, making
them prime into get plants in
gredients for the
the ground and
tropical look.
established
beRice paper
fore things dry up
plant (Tetrapagain.
anax
papyrifOn the north
erus) is in the
coast we can use
aralia
family,
plants that conjure
along with ginup the look of the
seng and ivy. It
tropics, though of
is multi-trunked
a hardier persuawith
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lobed
leaves,
rather than actual
which are great
replication.
for textural conFirst, you need
trast.
plants with great
The smaller
big leaves, like elpalms are anephant ears (Coother important
locasia esculenta.
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and
It has large, heartfor
outdoors,
shaped
leaves
the Mediterrathat grow from
nean fan palm
in-ground tubers,
(C h a m a e ro p s
which provide the
Red Ginger with Canna
humils) is argutaro root that has
sustained Polynesians for untold centuries. ably the best choice. It is very hardy and
This plant is an aroid, related to calla “lilies” tough, and doesn’t need copious watering.
but is unlikely to flower in our climate, and Slow growing, it can eventually reach 20’
tall. Dwarf forms like ‘Vulcano’ will grow
may die back in the winter
Another aroid genus, Philodendron, in- more slowly and remain compact. Dwarf
cludes some hardy, arborescent (upright) windmill palms (Trachycarpus species) are
species. P. selloum is the hardiest of the lot, another good choice, with T. wagnerianus
with deeply cut, heart-shaped leaves up to and T. nanus among the best.
3’ long.
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The Garcia River Casino will be celebratStan Spencer, General Manager of the caing their 3rd anniversary on April 5. They sino, states that he is pleased with the casiare already passing out pull tabs on the ca- no’s progress as they continue to see growth.
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On Saturday April
5, the Arena Theater opera series,
The Met: Live in
HD, continues with
Giancomo
Puccini’s La boheme, a
4-act opera based
on the Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe
Giacosa. The story
began as a series of
stories published
by Henry Murger beginning in 1846 titled
Scenes of the Bohemia. In 1849 he and Theodore Barriere wrote a play based on the
stories that was very popular. This inspired
Murger to collect the stories into a book,
Scenes of the Bohemian Life, which was published in 1851.
While Puccini was working on the opera
the composer Leoncavallo offered him a
completed libretto, which Puccini declined
in favor of finishing his own work. Puccini’s opera premiered in 1896 with Arturo
Toscanini conducting. Leoncavallo put his
opera up in 1897 and little has been heard
of it since. Puccini’s La boheme is the most
performed opera in Met history and Operabase lists it as one of the top 5 of all time
with over a hundred different productions
having been staged.
Romanian Anita Hartig sings the lead
role of Mimi after having already sung the
part this season with the Paris Opera, the
Bavarian State Opera, and the Deutsche
Oper Berlin. Vittorio Grigolo sings the part
of her lover Rodolfo. Running time 3:25
with a 9:55 a.m. start.
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be screened. It is the 14th most performed
opera of all time. It is the 20th of his 23 operas and was first performed one year before
his death in 1791.
The Italian-language opera buffa (“comic
opera”) is in 2 acts with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, who, after losing his patron
with the death of Austrian Emperor Joseph
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The plot is reminiscent of Shakespeare‘s
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betrothed into infidelity.
Youthful Met stars Susanna Phillips
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and Stalin’s treachery still stinging, Crimea declared itself a part of the Ukraine in 1994,
but Crimean Communists forced the Ukrainian government to expand on the already extensive autonomous status of Crimea. Nevertheless, Russia was given a treaty that extends
Russia’s lease on naval moorings and shore installations in port of Sevastopol and other
locations in Crimea until 2042 with optional five-year renewals (can you say “Guantanamo”?). Also, Russian troops have been stationed in Crimea for over a decade under an
agreement with Ukraine, though lately they have exceeded the allowable number of troops.
During the 2004 presidential elections, Crimea largely voted for the presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych. In both the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary elections and the 2007
Ukrainian parliamentary elections, the Yanukovych-led Party of Regions also won most of
the votes from the region, as they did in the 2010 Crimean parliamentary election.
Are you still panicked that Russia has “invaded” Crimea? The imperialist war mongers
like John Bolton and Dick Cheney are ready for us to launch the missiles to stem Russian
hegemony. More American blood and treasure to feed the military industrial complex.
America is tired of foreign adventures. We have plenty of war damaged veterans to take
care of already and we are just crawling out of a deep recession.
Sure, Putin probably fantasizes a return of the USSR, but that is a pipe dream. What
I see is a severely weakened leader confronting massive protests and discontent at home
resorting to the same tactic that has been used by leaders for centuries: if you have trouble
at home, start a war and drum up nationalism to divert the public’s attention from the real
problems.
The U.S. militarists would call people like me an isolationist, yet others would call it
“minding your own business”.
Isolationism has a long history in the U.S. Early colonialist came here precisely to get
away from European politics. Until the machine age we had 2 big oceans that acted as a
effective buffer between us and most of the rest of the world. Even the Monroe doctrine,
which we all learned was suppose to be our justification for colonizing Latin America, was
really a statement of non-inference from European politics. These are Monroe’s words, “In
the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken
part, nor does it comport with our policy, so to do.” The introduction to the Monroe Document states, “American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have
assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” The idea was to avoid entanglements with Europe, although
it was later interpreted to mean WE could colonize Latin America.
World War II pretty much ended isolationism in America as we emerged as the world’s
policeman and fear of Soviet communism led to the cold war struggle “fought” all over the
planet. Ronald Reagan put the final nail in the coffin when he declared in 1982 “it is time
that we committed ourselves as a nation -- in both the public and private sectors -- to assisting democratic development”, which in retrospect appears to have meant, “let’s go for
it boys!”.
While the idea of our becoming a peace loving nation terrifies the military industrial
complex there is another group that fears isolationism and that is the Tri-Lateral globalists
. Tariffs and other protectionist trade policies are considered another aspect of isolationism. Such things bother these folks very much and any talk of the U.S. turning inward to
focus on our own economic development is counter to their vision of a global economy
dominated by multi-national corporations.
In times of change,
learners inherit the earth;
while the learned
find themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with a world
that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
Third Thursday Poetry Hosts Jazz Poet JennybyLin
Blake More
On Thursday, April 17 at 7 p.m. The Third
Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series, in
conjunction with the Whale & Jazz Festival,
at 215 Main in Point Arena will feature SF
Jazz Poet Genny Lim. The reading will begin
with live improv jazz and an open mic with
jazz improv; the reading will conclude with
more live jazz.
Genny Lim is a poet, playwright and
performer. A noted jazz
poet, she has collaborated with such jazz legends
as Max Roach, Billy Higgins, Eddie Marshall, and
longtime friend& bassist
Herbie Lewis.
She has performed at
numerous national jazz
festivals and venues from
San Jose, San Diego, Kansas, Houston, Chicago
and Honolulu to Davies
Symphony Hall and SF
Jazz Center, and has been
featured at World Poetry
Festivals in Caracas, Venezuela, Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Italy. Her poetry
and jazz collaborations have been recorded
in several CDs with her long time collaborators, Jon Jang, Immigrant Suite and Francis
Wong, Devotee and Child of Peace.
Genny Lim’s award-winning play Paper
Angels, about Chinese immigrants detained on Angel Island under the Chinese
Exclusion Act of 1882, was the first Asian
American play featured on PBS’s American
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Playhouse in 1985. The play was reprised in
the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2010,
where it received the Best Site Specific
Award. Her performance piece, Where is
Tibet? premiered at CounterPULSE and at
Afro Solo Arts Festival in San Francisco.
She is the author of two poetry collections, Child of War and Winter Place and
the co-author of the American Book Award
winning, Island: Poetry
and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island.
Her work has been widely
anthologized in publications, such as This Bridge
Called My Back, Unbroken
Thread, Cheers to Muses,
Huizache, Asian American
Literary Review and Pacific Northwest Review. Her
newest poetry collection,
Paper Gods and Rebels,
was released in November
2013.
Genny served as a San
Francisco Art Commissioner from 19911995 and helped to establish the Cultural
Equity Arts grants program and Writers
Corps under the Commission’s aegis. She
is currently an adjunct at Notre Dame De
Namur University in Belmont, California and teaches the Senior Women's Asian
American Writing Class at the Japanese
Community and Culture Center of Northern California in San Francisco's Japan
Town.
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Chamber Music Series Presents Violinist Steele
On Sunday April13 at 4:00 p.m. Concert
violinist, Emma Steele, will perform. As a
20-year-old she was a
finalist in the highly
regarded Sibelius Violin
Competition in Finland
where she received
the Young Talent Prize
and one reviewer
claimed she “stole the
show at Sibelius”. She
has also received the
National Foundation
for Advancement in
the Arts Silver Award,
WAMSO Elaine Louise
Lagerstrom Memorial
Violin Award and a
study grant from the
International Pablo de
Sarasate Violin Competition 2009.
She is featured in the PBS documentary,
Circling Around: The Violin Virtuosi. A
native of Chicago, she currently resides
in Copenhagen, Denmark
where she’s a concertmaster
of the Royal Danish Opera.
Steele has an impressive list
of awards and competition
achievements for a young
woman who will turn 24 2
days before her Gualala Arts
appearance.
Her violin was made by
Jean-Baptiste
Vuillaume
(1798–1875), a French
luthier, widely regarded as the
pre-eminent luthier of his day.
Tickets are $25 advance; $5
more day of concert. Children
and young people ages 7
through 17 are admitted free
with adult.
Full Moon
New Moon
April 16
April 30
Surf Therapy at 25
Charles DeFay is celebrating 25 year
since opening his business, Surf Therapy.
When he opened his shop, first at 170
Main St in Point
Arena, it was a
combination surf
shop and massage
studio. He was
experiencing
some
health
issues and was
doing yoga to
help alleviate the
problem. Through
his bodywork, he
was able to help
single individuals,
but the benefit
he was receiving
from doing yoga
made him want
to give classes in yoga to be able to help
groups of people.
He took a class in teacher training from
yoga instructor Peri Ness in Encinitas,
California and quickly fell in love with
both her yoga style and herself. She
eventually became Peri DeFay, his wife.
Charles moved his business to the top
of the hill while renting the Point Arena
Dance Studio and in 2005 purchased
the building that is now Surf Therapy
Yoga, the surf shop being long gone.
DeFay estimates that some 2000
people have attended at least one
class and some come nearly every
day. Charles plans to
continue to provide a
place to do yoga into
the indefinite future so
that locals can receive
the
documented
physical, mental, and
spiritual benefits of
yoga.
A study by Dr.F J
Schell of the Dept. of
Internal Medicine in
Germany concluded
that comparing two
groups, one that
was asked to begin
practicing yoga and
one that does not,
“Significant differences between both
groups were found in psychological
parameters. In the personality inventory
of the yoga group showed markedly
higher scores in life satisfaction and lower
scores in excitability, aggressiveness,
openess, emotionality, and somatic
complaints.
Significant differences
could also be observed concerning
coping with stress and the mood at the
end of the experiment. The yoga group
had significantly higher scores in high
spirits and extravertedness.”
Pacific Community Charter School
Enrollment is Open K - 12th Grade
Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter
& world renowned guitarist
BLUES ON THE COAST
Presents
Contemporary & Traditional blues
and R&B
TUESDAY, APRIL 15
SATURDAY, APRIL 12
doors 6pm / Show 7pm
8 PM D OORS /8:30 PM S HOW
Tickets $30
G ENERAL $20
Our vision is to provide a
challenging curriculum that
integrates core academic skills
with art and real-world experiences. We value lifelong
learning, compassion and the
involvement of families and
the community.
Our K-12 Programs Offer
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Arena Theater’s Membership Meeting and Board
Election Is April 21
On Monday, April 21 The Arena
Theater Association will hold its annual
general membership meeting and Board of
Directors Election. The meeting is open to
any member of the public, but voting rights
are reserved for theater members.
The evening is hosted
by
the
Third Monday Music
series so members
will be entertained
by James Hayes, a
key member of he
Monday musicians
group, and his
friends. Delicious
snacks will be
offered
and
members
are
invited to bring
a pot luck dish if
they wish.
Candidates for the Board of Directors
are Thom Matson, incumbent; Barbara
Pratt, member, volunteer; Rufus SavageFriedman, member, volunteer; Nathan
Ramser, member; Mitch McFarland,
appointed incumbent. Candidates may
make a brief statement to the membership
prior to the voting. Voting will take place
with secret ballots during the meeting
and results will be announced before
adjournment.
Members will also be given a brief, but
inclusive summary of the financial matters
of the Association and members may have
their questions answered.
At the last general meeting, Board
member, Hugh Brady,
gave his first
show ing
of a slide
show of old
photographs
that
revive
memories of past
events. He has
been working on it
and now has added
music and some
brief interviews. The
n e w
version of the show
will be put up on the big screen and CD’s
of the show will soon be on sale, perhaps at
the meeting.
For those who can’t be at the meeting,
absentee ballots with candidate statements
and voting instructions are available at the
theater office at 882-3272.
Pirates Cove Restaurant
Available for Lease
Jorge Carbahal, owner of the popular
Mexican/American restaurant in Point
Arena, Pirates Cove, is calling it quits to
make room for the next entrepreneur. Jorge
has been working in the restaurant business
on the coast for 20 years. He started out
as a dishwasher at the original Pangaea Restaurant under Shannon Hughes and with
the help of his grandmother’s secret recipes, rose to own his own restaurant. He has
been 8 years at the current location.
His intention is not to sell the business,
but to lease it, thus not requiring the large
capital expense of a purchase for a new
owner.
Jorge points out that the business is doing
well, but the intensity of restaurant work
has worn him down after two decades. He
especially emphasizes his location as a positive asset right on Hwy 1 with easy in and
out for RV’s and other large vehicles. He
also welcomes high school customers from
the school which is just a short walk away.
To inquire about obtaining a lease call
882-4105.
ADVENTUROUS GARDENER
Embrace
KZYX.
FM: 90.7•91.5•88.1
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Community Radio
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For more delicately textured foliage
plants, go for the clumping bamboos. There
are various types, but do your research and
buy from a reputable source. Running bamboos can ruin your whole garden plan and
infuriate your neighbors, too.
Tree ferns, in all their prehistoric glory,
will create a canopy for your tropical retreat.
Australian tree fern (Cyathea cooperi)
grows fairly rapidly to as much as 20’. Old
fronds are shed cleanly, leaving a smooth
trunk behind. Tasmanian tree ferns (Dicksonia antarctica and D. squarrosa) have
fuzzy trunks and grow more slowly to 15’.
Smaller plants with showy leaves include
Caladium bicolor, another aroid. The many
cultivars have leaves blotched with color –
white, red, pink, and more. A festive plant,
for sure. These can be grown in colorful
pots and brought in out of the harsh weather during the winter.
Cannas, old garden standbys, can also
contribute to the tropical look. These tallish perennials usually have orange, red or
yellow flowers, and long, lush leaves. The
varieties with boldly striped leaves are especially choice.
If your garden has a wet spot, you could
try skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus). Not a cabbage, its flower heads reveal
its kinship with the common garden calla.
The colorful part is a bright yellow spathe,
from page 9
a modified leaf, surrounding a narrow stalk
containing the tiny, true flowers. In sheltered, part shade, its narrow leaves can grow
amazingly large. A northwest native, you
can find it in streams on the Stornetta Public Lands.
Next, it’s time to add more flowers, which,
in the tropics, may be pale and fragrant, or
shades of red for attracting hummingbirds.
Foremost among the delicate pastels is
angel’s trumpet (Brugmansia species and
hybrids), with big bold leaves and huge,
hanging trumpet flowers in luscious sherbet shades. The flowers are wildly fragrant,
blooming summer through fall.
B. sanguinea is hardier than the B. candida hybrids, with smaller trumpets of orange-red with yellow highlights. None of
the angels’ trumpet plants look their best in
winter, and all are toxic if ingested.
For red flowers, it’s easy to grow flashy,
red annual morning glory vines like ‘Crimson rambler’ or ‘Scarlet O'Hara’. Redstar
morning glory (Ipomoea coccinea) is an
annual species with flowers of orangey red,
smaller and long tubed.
Mexican scarlet sage (Salvia gesneriflora)
is shrubby and covered with tubular flowers of fire engine red. Needless to say, it’s
a magnet for hummingbirds. It reaches an
untidy 6’, so keep it in the background and
prune as needed.
Casting Call
for Gualala Art Center Theater’s production of
Jekyll & Hyde
AUDITIONS
Sun May 11, 1 pm & Mon May 12, 5:30 pm
Callbacks : Wed. May 14, 5:30 p.m.
Performances
Nov. 14-16, and 20-22
Regular rehearsals begin in October 2014
Coleman Auditorium, Gualala Arts Center
ALL ROLES TO BE OPEN CAST
Principal roles: 1 male & 2 female
Supporting cast: 9-12 male & female
Large Chorus (AKA People of London)
This show’s powerful musical score will
require many versatile singers & highlights
not only the main characters but the entire
ensemble cast.
If your musical education is limited to singing
in the shower & stage experience is minor…
please still consider auditioning! New talent is
always emerging!
Interested actors are strongly encouraged
to request an audition package that includes
a script & sheet music to review prior to
auditions.
Coaching for auditions are available to all.
For more information and/
or audition packet, contact
Director Teo Ariola (707) 884-3090
or email [email protected]
A number of “flowering gingers” will grow
here, but scarlet ginger (Hedychium coccineum) has dozens of small, stamen-studded, orange-red flowers on big spikes. The
plants reach over 6’ tall, with big, elongated
leaves.
Those who like softer reds can also
choose the incomparable Chilean bellflower (Lapageria rosea), in the lily family. This
evergreen vine, the national flower of Chile,
bears waxy, bell-shaped, rosy-red flowers. It
needs regular water, but is well worth it.
Sacred flower of the Incas (Cantua buxifolia) is a loose shrub growing to 6’ or more,
with small leaves and clusters of long, hotmagenta tubular flowers. A fine hummer
plant, it does quite well in our area.
So many tropical-looking flowers, and so
little space to describe them! Look for red
flowered Iochroma species, pineapple lily
(Eucomis species). Bolivean begonia (Begonia boliviensis), long-tubed fuchsias, calla (Zantedeschia) ‘Edge of Night’ and more.
Add some coleus (alas, now called Solenostemon scutellarioides) with warm toned
leaves, some outdoor wicker seating, piña
coladas, and relax in your own tropical paradise.
WHALE AND JAZZ
from page 3
Sutton will perform at the Black Point Grill in The
Sea Ranch Lodge. She will be joined by vibist /
bassist Piro Patton of Bolinas for a set of tender
standards. Early arrivals for the 8:00 p.m. show
can witness the sunset over the Pacific. Special
menu with à la carte selections will be offered.
Mads Tolling’s Jazz Europa group is the main
event of the Whale and Jazz Festival and takes
place on Saturday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. Tolling
was raised in Denmark, but moved to the U.S. to
study at the Berklee College of Music. The rest
of his organization will include Tommy Kesecker,
vibraharp ; Rob Reich, accordion; Dave Mac
Nab, guitar; Sam Bevan, bass and Eric Garland,
drums.
Tolling toured worldwide with the
Mads Tolling
Stanley Clarke band after being recommended by his idol, French jazz violinist Jean-Luc
Ponty. He received a Grammy for his work on the Turtle Island Quartet’s 2006 recording
4+Four. He received his second Grammy with Turtle Island in 2008 with the recording A
Love Supreme – The Legacy of John Coltrane.
He has also performed with Chick Corea, Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron & Paquito
D’Rivera.
The concert will also introduce this year’s festival youth discovery, the phenonmenal 14year old Santa Cruz pianist, Lucas
Hahn.
Lucas Hahn
Ticket price, $28 advance, $5 more
day of the performance. No host bar.
Brown Paper Tickets: (800) 8383006, Gualala Arts Center (707) 8841138.
That’s it for the April line-up, but the
Festival continues in May beginning
on May 2 when Wendy DeWitt &
Kirk Harwood visit the Timber Cove
Inn. The Matt Silva Trio plays
the Annapolis Winery on May 3
see next column
Ukiah Hazmat Facility
Extends Open Days
Anyone traveling to Ukiah should
know that if they have hazardous waste to
be disposed they need not wait until the
Hazmobile visits our area. The Hazmobile
household hazardous waste collection
facility in Ukiah is now open an additional
day every week, Tuesday and Wednesday
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 3200 Taylor Drive,
Ukiah. In additional to the TuesdayWednesday drop-off, the Ukiah facility is
open on the 2nd Saturday of each month.
Toxic waste can’t go in the trash, but is
accepted at the HazMobile including motor
oil, paint, solvents, fuels, poisons, batteries
and fluorescent light tubes (including
compact fluorescents). There is no charge
for households for up to 15 gallons per day,
and business waste is accepted for a fee.
The HazMobile schedule is posted at www.
MendoRecycle.org/haz_schedule.html and
on the Recycling Hotline at 468-9704.
WHALE AND JAZZ
and Paul McCandless & Will Siegel play
the Arena Cove Bar and Grill on May 4.
McCandless founded the 70’s fusion group
Oregon. More details in the May Peddler or
visit the www.gualalaarts.org.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never
know.
-Louis Armstong
COCKBURN
cont’d from cover
Garcia Band, Judy Collins, K D Lang, and
Holly Near.
Cockburn's list of awards and honors is
too long for this article, but beyond his numerous music industry awards he has received 6 honorary doctorates, induction in
the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame, and
Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee Medal.
He is perhaps best known in the U.S. for
his 1979 hit single “Wondering Where the
Lions Are” or his 1996 hit, “Pacing the Cage”.
A documentary film, Bruce Cockburn Pacing
the Cage, was released in 2013 on television
and a brief theatrical showing. Directed by
Joel Goldberg, the film gave a rare look into
Cockburn's music, life and politics.
A limited number of tickets for the show
are available online to ensure local audiences
can purchase them locally. Tickets are available at The Four-Eyed Frog Bookstore and
the Sea Trader in Gualala, plus the Arena
Market (co-op) and the Pier Chowder
House in Point Arena. Go to www.arenatheater.org for online tickets.
HazMobile
Toxic
Waste
Drop-Off
April 25-26
Friday &Saturday
9 am - 1 pm
Sea Ranch North Fire Station
Highway One, The Sea Ranch
Open to both Mendocino &
Sonoma Residents
Limit: 15 gallons/vehicle per day
Charge for any excess.
Businesses by appointment.
Items Accepted: Motor oil, Medi-
cations, oil filters, paint, solvents,
gasoline, pesticides, antifreeze, fluorescent lights, auto & household
batteries & other toxic items.
Motor oil, auto and household batteries, electronics (i.e. t.v.’s, monitors
electronics) may be recycled at
South Coast Transfer Station,
Fish Rock Road, Gualala
Open Wed. 12 -4, Sat- Sun 9-4
For More information, call the Recycling
Hotline at 468-9704 or visit the website at
mendoRecycle.org
The Next Hazmat Collection
For The South Coast Will Be
June 27 &28
Mendocino Solid Waste
Management Authority
Funded by a grant from
Cal Recycle
wednesday -saturday 5ish-8ish
food to take out or eat in
Dinner menu changes weekly
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A diplomatist is a man who always
remembers a woman’s birthday,
but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
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17- Render weaponless
18- Upon us
19- Demeanor
20- Lifeless
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24- Charles Lamb’s pen name
25- Treat salt
26- Contemporary
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