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Blues Series Brings Tommy Castro February 21
Perhaps the most popular bluesman to Castro have recorded 8 albums together.
ever visit our area returns on February 21
Keyboardist James Pace began playing piano
when Tommy Castro and the Painkillers take at age 3. In his 20’s he was playing with Ana
the stage as the second
Popovic (who appeared
installment of the Blues on
last year in the Blues on the
the Coast series. Castro
Coast series). Originally
is touring his new album
out of Roanoke, Virginia
The Devil You Know, which
Pace relocated to the San
won Best Rock Blues
Francisco Bay Area to
Album of 2014 by Blues
start working with the
Blast Music Awards.
Painkillers.
Castro claims he wants
Drummer Bowen Brown
to keep performing until
starting playing drums at
he is dead. In order to
age 9 and was in working
do so he feels he needs to
bands by the age of 15.
keep re-creating himself
He spent 6 years and 8
and with this album he has
album-recording sessions
taken a bit of a turn. He has
with John Lee Hooker,
dropped his horn section
during which time he met
and taken more of a rock
Castro and McDonald.
sound on this recording of
He recently joined the
original tunes.
Painkillers after spending
Bassist Randy
time working with Arena
Tommy Castro photo by S. Sherman
McDonald began playing with Castro in 1991 Theater veterans Mark Hummel, Maria
as part of the original Tommy Castro Band. Muldaur, and Little Charlie Baty, as well as
He left the group in 2007, but returned when numerous other headliners.
continued on page 8
the Painkillers were formed in 2012. He and
From the Editor’s Desk
Tuesday nights are left unscheduled at Arena Theater to allow for the booking of special
events. On Tuesday, February 3 they will show Awake, a film biography of Yogananda one
of the most influential Hindu teachers of the West. See below.
Another special feature presentation on the big screen this month is 3 showings of Jon
Stewart’s film, Rosewater, about the Iranian arrest of journalist Maziar Bahari. Se page 14.
Gualala Arts brings a new form of entertainment to the coast when they host Mystery
Dinner Theater on February 7. A fine meal from the Culinary Guild will be served as
diners take part in solving the mystery. See page 4.
The high school level Poetry Out Loud/Poetry Slam event will take place at Arena
Theater again this year on February 10. This is a fun event that showcases the talents of our
most expressive young people. See page 4.
The Met: Live in HD program continues this month with an unusual twin bill. Two oneact operas, Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle will be screened together on February14. See
page 16.
Lovers of high culture will appreciate Gualala Arts’ presentation of the chamber music
group, Trio Voce on February 15. See page 3.
This is the month of the Academy Awards and the Arena Theater will once again be
hosting an Academy Awards Party. Get out your red carpet outfit and come join the
fun on February 22. See page 2.
Gualala Arts Center will hold their Annual Meeting with elections and volunteer
appreciation night on February 25 at 3:00 p.m. See page 12.
On February 28 the whole family can enjoy the National Theatre Live presentation of
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Fabulous sets and costumes contribute to this
classic story with an opposite gender twist. Se page 8.
Also on February 28 the Pinewood Derby track will be set up at Gualala Arts Center
for participants in this summer’s upcoming Pinewood Derby to test their latest entries. See
page 14.
We had a chance to sit down with Point Arena’s new City Manager, Phil Vince, and hear
his plans and reflections as he takes on this new challenge. Story on page 5.
Finally, Mendocino County’s Fifth District Supervisor, Dan Hamburg, recently spoke at
the Garcia Grange and his comments are on page 11 for those who missed his talk.
Special Showing of Yogananda Documentary
The Arena Theater will have a special Hindu epic, Bhagavad-Gita, millions have
screening on Tuesday, February 3 of the been inspired to seek spirituality through
documentary biopic, Awake, the life of Yogananda’s teachings.
Archival material from the life of
the West’s most influential practitioner of
Hindu philosophy a man
Yogananda (who died in
1952) creates a spine for
known as Paramahansa
the narrative, but the film
Yogananada.
stretches the dimensions
Yogananda was one
of a standard biography.
of the earliest of Eastern
yogis to bring Hinduism
The footage includes
stylized
interviews,
to the West. After the
British
occupation
metaphoric imagery and
recreations, taking us
of India had brought
Eastern philosophy to
from holy pilgrimages
England, he arrived in
in India to Harvard’s
Divinity School and its
California while the
cutting-edge
physics
yearning for something
labs, from the Center for
new in the 1920’s
created an audience for
Science and Spirituality
at the University of
a philosophy that spoke
Pennsylvania to the
deeply to the human soul.
Chopra
Center
in
Yogananada wrote
Paramahansa Yogananada.
the immensely popular and enduring Carlsbad, California.
The film is directed by Paola di Florio
Autobiography of a Yogi, which became a
must-read for the spiritually inclined in the and Lisa Leeman. The presentation is made
1960’s and 70’s when a similar sentiment possible by Surf Therapy Yoga, located in
prevailed in the nation. Combined with Point Arena, and a $10 donation, $5 for
Christopher Isherwood’s translation of the students is requested. 87min.
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Jasmine Lin has appeared as soloist with
Trio Voce. Violinist Jasmine Lin, cellist
Marina Hoover, and pianist Patricia Tao orchestras in the U.S., Singapore, Brazil,
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Hoover
was founding cellist of the St. LawMs. Tao became acquainted with Marina Hoover through Marina’s brother rence String Quartet whose 13 year history
who taught at the same college as Patricia. includes over 1000 appearances throughout
When Patricia learned that Ms. Hoover had North and South America, Europe, Japan,
been a member of the St. Lawrence String Australia and Viet Nam. She has been artistQuartet she invited her to collaborate on in-residence at Stanford University, visiting
cello/piano Repertoire. Marina had played professor at the University of Toronto, artcont. next page 13
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the program’s 10th—Poetry Out Loud continues to grow and will culminate in the National Finals in Washington, DC, on April
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4-9th place finishers receive $1000 each.
Each of the top 10 competitors also receives
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The Mendocino County POL Finals begin at 4pm and are free and open to
the public. It will be followed at 4:45pm
by the 15th annual Coast High School Poetry Slam competition. High school poets
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visits with New Point Arena City Manager
by Mitch McFarland
I recently had a chance to sit down with
the new Point Arena City Manager, Philip
Vince, to see how he is doing on his new
job. He officially took over the position
from interim City Manager David Tyson in
November 17, 2014. Though he has been
on the job for 2 1/2 months, when I asked
what his biggest challenge has been, he
quickly replied, “time management”.
It is immediately evident that Vince
wants to learn as
much as he can
about Point Arena as quickly as
he can. He sees
many needs in
the community
and he rightly understands that in
order to proceed
he has to comprehend the past. He
is eager to learn
the history of the
town as viewed by
as many locals as
possible. Indeed,
he has scheduled
a city council
“retreat” for later
this month that
he hopes many town residents will attend.
The state and future of the city will be addressed as led by a professional facilitator.
Born in San Jose, at the age of 2 he moved
to Spain where his father taught in military
schools for nearly 6 years. He moved back
to California and lived in Fortuna for 8
years and San Jose for 4 years until he began
school at St. Mary's College in Moraga in
1976. After graduation he went to SF State
and got a Master's in Public Administration
in 1986.
He took a job as Administrative Assistant in Novato and stayed over 17 years
during which time he worked closely on
the re-development of Hamilton Air Base.
He then leap-frogged into a City Manager's
position in Moraga. Some 5 years later he
found himself working for the City of Martinez and eventually retired with a PERS
pension. After a year off he was informed of
the Point Arena job. As a city not involved
in PERS, he is not prohibited by his PERS
pension from working there. This should
probably be seen as an advantage for Point
Arena as typically someone with his wealth
of background and experience is not going
to be attracted to a very small, very rural
community for work.
Like so many of the rest of us, the beauty and lifestyle on the coast has captured
him. He is selling his house in Moraga in
May and is planning to make this area his
home. He is currently looking for a 3 bedroom rental. Once retired, he and his wife
will summer in Maine, but reside here in
winter and spring. “I'm here for a reason,”
he claims, “this place is a gem”.
When I asked what his biggest surprise
has been he pointed out the big disconnect
between the city having a mere handful of
part-time employees and the number of responsibilities that are expected of a modern
incorporated city
in California. He
sees numerous areas
where city government needs some
tuning up.
This
comes as no surprise
to the City Council.
After all, that is why
they hired a professional City Manager. He mentioned
implementing new
policies, a balanced
budget, and a citywide capital improvement plan as
some of the issues.
Philip sees a role
for government in
increasing the quality of life for Point Arena residents. As such
the city will soon be acquiring the lot south
of the creek at Arena Cove (so-called “hillbilly park”) as well as completing a deal with
the county to acquire the VFW Hall for $1.
With the designation of the National Monument property, that lot will become a major
entry point for visitors to those Lands and it
will benefit the city to work with BLM who
already has plans for signage, picnic tables
and a kiosk.
Prior to his taking over, negotiations had
begun with Verizon to place a cell tower on
a lot on the bluff west of downtown and
the City Manager, Mayor Jim Koogle, and
the President of the DeNovo group have
a meeting planned to discuss broadband
internet service in Point Arena along with
the Mendocino Broadband Alliance. Vince
would like to see the former Arena Cove
trailer park property, which now belongs
to the city, made into an attractive campground for short time visitors. He will be
working with the new owners of the former
Sea Shell Motel to assist them with there
plans to re-develop that derelict property
and would like to see if something could be
done with the deteriorating yellow house
across from the credit union. His experience with the Hamilton Field project and
his strong background in public finance will
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Tuesday Feb. 3 7:00 PM
Poetry Out Loud
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Arena Theater Live
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Monday Feb. 16 8 PM
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Saturday Feb. 28 1 PM
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Met Opera Live in HD
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Feb. 2 Groundhog Day
Feb. 9 Force Majeure
Feb. 23 Lawrence of Arabia
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South Coast Senior
Spaghetti Dinner
The monthly spaghetti dinner to benefit
South Coast Senior Center programs will be
held on Friday, Feb. 27 at 5 to 7 p.m. at the
Veterans Memorial Building in Point Arena
(24000 S. Hwy. 1).
This month’s dinner is being hosted by
the Point Arena Lighthouse and sponsored
by Surf Market. All you can eat salad bar,
spaghetti, and garlic bread. Adults: $9; Children $3. Beer and wine available .
Arena Film Club Schedule for February
The Arena Film Club continues to
serve its mission in February with
another interesting line-up that includes 2 very different comedies
and the classic Lawrence of Arabia.
Film club members are free to enter
and guests may attend for $10 ($5
teen). All films screen at 7:00 p.m.
Monday February 2 Groundhog
Day this is a wacky Bill Murray
comedy (is there any other kind?).
Director Harold Ramis also cowrote the screenplay with Danny
Rubin based on Rubin’s story. Number
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Monday February 9 Force Majeure. 2014
Entry for Best Foreign Language Film this
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Monday February 23 Lawrence of Arabia this nearly 4-hour epic
is considered one of the
greatest and most influential films of all time. Filmed
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this movie was a huge undertaking of the kind that
will likely never be seen
again. Winner of 7 of 10
Academy Award nominations and starring Peter
O’Toole and Omar Sharif,
this look at the Middle East with a 100 yearold perspective may still be relevant today.
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Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia
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written, to my memory.
All through my childhood I continued
writing poetry and fiction, flexing the
muscles of my imagination in as many ways
as I could come up with. I’ve been writing
ever since and pursued poetry specifically,
writing in general all throughout my four
years at the alternative Evergreen State
College in Olympia WA. I graduated
with a major concentration in Writing and
Cultural studies, having finally arrived in
my final year at a set of principles that really
fired my imagination and whole system
up. This last program had to do with how
human language affects our relationship
to our place in the cosmos, our ecosystem,
our land. How the words we use, how our
whole communication style either helps or
harms the earth from which all things come,
including us. So that led me into the study
of the native peoples and cultures of the
Puget Salish region in Washington.
About four years after graduation
and moving back down to Sonoma
County, where I grew up, I initiated my
apprenticeship with master poet teachers
through the California Poet Teachers in
the Schools non-profit organization. After
fifteen observations, ten lesson plans of
my own devising and a few practice runs I
was passed into the ranks of operating poet
teachers and in Fall of 2014 began my first
year as such.
I am very excited by the prospect of
teaching poetry to children in the schools
because it marries two of my chief passions
in life: writing poetry and working with
children. I believe there is a quality of
consciousness inherent to both poetry
and kids that is very much needed in our
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Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Improv
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will feature Sebastopol poet Kyle Matthews.
The reading will begin with live improv
jazz and an open mic with jazz improv;
the reading will conclude with more live
improv jazz. Kyle is a young poet with a lot of soul
and heart, coupled with an innovative and
creative gift for language. I met him while
teaching a poetry and yoga workshop
this summer and his offerings were so
innovative and fresh that he became the star
of the class. I asked him to come and feature
for the Third Thursday Poetry series. When asked to provide his bio, he offers
this, which appears in his own heartfelt
words:
“My background with poetry begins when
I was either seven or eight years old. I’d
just started reading—period—and I don’t
remember reading a lot of poetry by that
age, although I suppose through nursery
rhymes, music and fairy tales I’d absorbed
a good bit. At any rate I happened to be
alone in my house one summer Sunday
afternoon, and bored and restless to boot. It
was a windy day and I think the movement
of wind through foliage in the backyard
drew my attention to the window-door,
where I stood thinking how strange it was to
see the effect of something (the wind) that I
couldn’t see visually.
Something in my head clicked though
and compelled me to go to the printer and
take out a white sheet of printer paper and
sit down to write my first poem, which I
appropriately (I thought) titled The Wind. That was not the first thing I ever wrote, but
certainly the most complete piece I’d ever
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desserts will be available and movie quizzes
and other diversions will entertain
the house during TV commercials.
Also included in the party
entertainment is the competition to
complete the most correct official
Oscars ballot. Movie passes and
popcorn are awarded to those who
succeed in guessing the greatest
number of correct Oscar winners.
Ballots will be available at the
theater.
This year’s best picture nominees
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Of Everything, American Sniper;
Whiplash; The Imitation Game;
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event has been a tradition
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renovation in 1995 and is
a fun party for fans of film.
Doors open for the Red
Carpet entrance at 4:30
p.m. Admission is free, but
donations are gratefully
accepted.
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3rd Monday Music Features
Tim Mueller’s Shimmering Express
The Arena Theater’s 3rd Monday Music
evening is hosting guitarist Tim Mueller’s
Shimmering Express. With noted local
sidemen James “Purple” Hayes, Jeremy
Ruley, and Joaquin Sherman the band
will provide a low-key, but high-quality
evening of danceable music. According
to Mueller, who fronts the band, “we’ll be
doing originals with just a few sideways
versions of popular songs.” When asked
about musical influences, he is less specific,
“ We’re sort of influenced by everything
all the time.”.Although its members have
known each other and played together
over the years , The Shimmering Express is a
relatively new band, whose members seem
to be enjoying themselves whenever they
have performed. Adults pay a mere $5
admission with students at $2 and children
free.
Arena Theater’s 3rd Monday Music
grew from the desire to have a venue for
local musicians to hone their stage skills
and meet other musicians. The shows are
organized and run by volunteers including
l to r: Joaquin Sherman, James Hayes, Time Mueller and Jeremy Ruley
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National Theatre Presents Treasure Island
continued on pg 14
The National Theatre Live series continues
at Arena Theater on February 28 with a new
adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s
classic Treasure Island. Directed by Polly
Findlay, set design by Lizzie Clachan,
and the adaptation by feminist dramatist
Bryony Lavery, this adaptation features
gender reversal with Patsy Ferran starring
as Jim Hawkins and other females as pirates.
Though the acting runs from solid to
excellent, reviewers all seem to agree that
the real star of the show is the set. Ms.
Clachan’s set transforms itself from sunken
ship to island jungle to cathedral-like
caves. The Oliver Theatre is known for its
technical wizardry and it is on full display
in this family-oriented production. This
version, like the book, is a tribute to the wit
and resourcefulness of children.
Showtime is 1:00 p.m. with the doors
open at 12:30. Tickets are $18 general with
a special $5 admission for youth under 18.
Tickets may be purchased online at the
theater website www.arenatheater.org or at
the door.
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Book Review:
Showing “Small Works”
THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS
by Michel Faber
Review by Joel Crockett, Four Eyed Frog Books
Subtle Sunset photographic image on aluminum
by T. Eckles
Several years ago the late Merilyn Lafferty
thought a small works show might be fun for
the art community as well as the many art
buyers who don't have any free wall space.
Justifying her belief were over 100 pieces
submitted for the resulting exhibit. In 2012
a Small Works show was again organized
and over 140 pieces were submitted.
With an opening reception on Friday,
February 6 at 5:00 p.m. the Burnett Gallery
will be displaying this year’s Small Works
exhibit. Small work is being defined at anything that has no dimension greater than 12
inches. The show is open to all comers, but
the application deadline will have passed by
our printing Over 100 pieces have again
been submitted for the show that will be up
until February 28.
One should count
each day a separate life.
- Seneca
What is it like to be a missionary?
A number of great authors have shared
their missionary stories. Michel Faber,
however, adds a new twist.
Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible
gives us a dramatic look at a committed but
narrowly focused Baptist who drags his wife
and four daughters deep into the Congo.
James Michener in his epic
novel, Hawaii, includes the
efforts of eleven couples
whose mission is to bring
the knowledge of Jesus
Christ to the Hawaiian
Islands. But in The Book of
Strange New Things, Peter, a
simple pastor from a small
community church, is
chosen for a very different
mission; a mission that will
create separation between
him and his wife, one that
will take him billions of
miles from earth. After
an urgent but thorough
search, Peter has been
selected by USIC, a huge
multi-national corporation, to be sent to
Oasis to bring the gospel to the indigenous
natives of this far away planet.
We are introduced to Peter and his wife,
Bea, as they wend their way to Heathrow
where Peter will board a plane to Orlando
and there an interstellar vehicle that will
take him to his final destination, galaxies
away from earth. Clearly they are committed
to each other and to their faith. While not
understanding why they weren’t selected to
go as a couple, they support each other in
Peter’s calling.
Once on Oasis and adjusted to his new
environment, Peter eagerly seeks out the
native population to begin his ministry.
As Peter becomes more deeply and
enthusiastically involved in his mission,
though, Bea’s life gradually begins to fall
apart. Problems in the home church,
destructive weather patterns, food
shortages, terrible and more frequent world
tragedies haunt her. The
only means the couple
has for communicating
is through written
messages,
akin
to
texting. Bea’s messages
become more frequent,
more desperate and
pleading. But Peter finds
it difficult to write back
in a meaningful way.
Exceptional though he is
as a speaker, he can’t find
the same compassion
as a writer. The distance
between them and
the inability for truly
intimate and meaningful
communication puts a heavy strain on their
relationship. As Peter buries himself in the
challenge of his ministry, Bea becomes
more frustrated and resentful.
To share a more complete synopsis of
this book without creating spoilers is a
challenge. Rather than give the plot away,
I’ve chosen not to offer any of the surprises
the book will bring you. Suffice it to say that
author Michel Faber is a bizarrely inventive
writer. He’s created a most unusual world
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by Mitch McFarland
I have never been especially afraid of eating GMO food. I always avoid it for two reasons. First, I support organic food production and will buy organic produce whenever
I can. More importantly, however, I am opposed to GMO foods because they have
nothing whatsoever to do with feeding a
hungry world or reducing the use of chemicals. GMO seed production is ALL about
corporate control of agriculture and market
dominance. If you think that Monsanto and
others sit around their board rooms talking
about how to save the lives of starving children in Africa, then... no wait, no one could
be that naïve.
It turns out that I was wrong to think that
GMO's are likely nutritionally similar to
organic or conventionally produced crops.
In fact, I was quite surprised to read an article from the ScienceDirect website that reprinted an article from the publication Food
Chemistry (http://www.sciencedirect.com/
science/article/pii/S0308814613019201)
that details not only the significant differences in GMO crops, but also the shoddy
lack of information that has been relied
upon to approve their use.
The article focuses on research done on
soy crops. Soy, of course, is one of the leading crops in the world. Globally, Roundup
Ready glyphosate-tolerant GMO soybeans
contributed to 75% of the total soy production in 2011. Thus, 620,000 tons of glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide globally, were dumped on soy beans in 2008
alone.
It turns out that GMO's have only been
tested for allergenicity and toxicity resulting from the transgenic product itself. No
tests were done for residual pesticide and
herbicide. In fact, in early studies of the
composition of Roundup-Ready GM soy,
the researchers did not even spray the tested
plants with the recommended herbicide.
When this oversight was corrected and
the plants were sprayed, they didn’t bother
to test for residuals! Still there are no programs in the EU, US or Canada designed to
monitor the main herbicides used in transgenic crop production.
The study cited in the Food Science article
concerned the nutritional differences between GMO soy, conventional soy and organic soy. Numerous varieties of each of the
3 kinds were studied. Samples were tested
by several different labs using multiple testing techniques.
All individual samples of GM-soy contained residues of both glyphosate and
Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA).
The conventional and organic, of course,
had none since they had not been sprayed.
The organic samples contained significantly
more total protein compared to both the
GM-soy and conventional soy. The content
of Zn was significantly higher in the organic samples compared to the conventional
and GM samples. The GM-soy (pooled
samples) contained on average less of all
the main sugars (glucose, fructose, sucrose
and maltose) compared to both the conventional and organic soy. The organic soy
contained more sugars than both conventional and GM-soy, but less fiber. GM-soy
had a significantly higher level of palmitic
acid, a saturated fat, compared to organic
soybeans.
Glyphosate has been shown to reduce
photosynthesis and nutrient uptake in GMsoy. High glyphosate application rates have
been shown to reduce alpha-linolenic acid
(ALA, 18:3n_3) but increase oleic acid
(OL, 18:1n_9) , producing a less healthy
profile of fatty acids.
The extensive use of glyphosate over vast
land areas may lead to shifts in weed populations and selection of glyphosate-tolerant
weeds . This, in turn, typically triggers the
use of higher doses or more applications of
glyphosate, which can further accelerate the
evolution of glyphosate resistance in weed
species. We call that a “vicious cycle”.
If you are still feeling rather sanguine
about GMO's, here is something else for
you to consider: residue levels up to 5.6 mg/
kg in GM-soy represent “...extreme levels,
and far higher than those typically found”
That quote is from Monsanto. Seven out
of the 10 GM-soy samples tested surpassed
this “extreme level” of glyphosate + AMPA
residues.
The acceptance level of glyphosate in food
and feed, i.e., the maximum residue level
(MRL) has been increased by authorities
in countries where Roundup-Ready GM
crops are produced . In Europe, it was raised
from 0.1 to 20mg/kg in 1999 (a 20,000%
increase!), and the same MRL of 20mg/
kg was adopted by the U.S.; not based on
new evidence indicating glyphosate toxicity
was less than previously understood, but in
response to actual observed increases in the
content of residues in glyphosate-tolerant
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The way some people treat
their bodies, you’d think
they were renting.
-Robert Brault
Update from Supervisor Dan Hamburg
on County Developments
Following are remarks made by Supervisor
Dan Hamburg during a recent visit to the Garcia Grange
I began my career in Mendocino County
politics as a no-growther. First as a Ukiah
Planning Commissioner and then as a
dark-haired supervisor, I became known,
especially by the business community, as
someone who was anti-business and antidevelopment and even anti-jobs.
This perception of my political persona
ultimately led to a countywide political
bloodbath in 1981 when I was recalled just
six months after taking office. My offense
was successfully stalling a shopping and
convention center north of Ukiah. During
my campaign for supervisor a year earlier, I
had promised not only to vote against this
“leapfrog development” project (which
was to be located in the district I hoped to
represent) but to do my best to persuade
my colleagues to do the same.
When I succeeded in stopping the project in the teeth of another of Mendocino
County’s serial recessions, a group calling
itself “The Employers Council” set about
trying to give me the heave-ho.
Fortunately, at least for me and my supporters, we won that recall election by a
much healthier margin than we had won
the general election a year earlier. It was a
watershed moment in Mendocino County
politics.
But this recall was also a reflection of a
rift that had been festering in the County
for at least a decade already. In the mid70s, while I was still barefoot back-to-thelander, Round Valley was ground zero in
a pitched political battle in which a group
of developers, naming their project “My
Ranch” thought they would carve up that
valley’s floor. The voters answered with a
resounding “no”.
A few years later, a bruising fight was joined over the
county General Plan (or lack
thereof) when the state Office
of Planning and Research filed
suit against the County, a suit
that was resolved when Lake
County Superior Court Judge
Jack Golden ordered a moratorium on all development in the
County.
And who can forget the Timber Wars, a massive struggle
over the way in which Mendocino County’s vast natural treasures would be divvied up? These wars culminated in 1990 with Redwood Summer,
the car bombing of movement leaders Judi
Bari and Darryl Cherney, and finally, the defeat of the statewide Forests Forever initiative. Had this initiative passed, clearcutting
would have stopped in California and, arguably, Mendocino County’s timber industry
would still be an economic driver.
Most recently, a proposal by Diversified
Development Realty, Inc. (DDR) to construct a mega-mall at the old Masonite site
in Ukiah was firmly turned away by voters
countywide, even in the face of a million
dollar campaign by the real estate giant.
I could go on but suffice to say that the
sleepy Mendocino County that I fled to as a
self-described “refugee from urban sprawl”
back in 1971 has changed dramatically over
the past four decades. And so have I, in that
I now find myself to be, in some respects, on
the pro-growth side of things.
When I ran for the office of 5th district
supervisor in 2010, I made some promises
with respect to the sagging economy of our
County. A glance back at my literature from
that campaign reveals that I’m for: “localizing our economy”, “feeding our own”,
“broadband for all”, and “technology for the
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from the New York Times. The BLM is now
in the process of entering into a conservation easement with Mendocino Community College to protect the pristine Point Arena Field Station. And young entrepreneurs
Jeff Hansen and Laura Cover are poised to
rehabilitate the Sea Shell Inn, a much anticipated and necessary change for a town
that may be our County’s true “diamond in
the rough.” I’m also pleased that the Gulf of
the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
has been successfully expanded northward
without threat to the fishery that operates
out of Point Arena cove.
Last week, I attended the annual town
meeting at the Greenwood Community
Center during which the construction manager from the Jackson Rancheria in Amador County outlined his tribe’s plans for
the town. They are restoring the historic
Greenwood Pier Inn and the adjacent pub
while also cleaning up the town’s historic
cemetery and doing rehab work on the museum.
At that same meeting, a young couple
discussed their plans for bringing the town’s
grocery store back up to its former glory,
and another young woman talked about
her work in re-establishing the town’s preschool. Of course, Elk’s volunteer fire department soldiers on, covering 55 square
miles of difficult terrain on a shoestring
budget of $68,000. Mendocino County
would not function without similar fire departments and community service districts
from one end of its 3,800 square mile expanse to the other.
In 2011, shortly after I was elected to
my first term as your 5th District Supervisor and my second term overall, I attended
a banquet in Chinatown. By chance, I was
seated next to a man named Joseph Kong.
We began to chat and soon learned we had
something in common. He was born and
raised in the dusty agricultural town of Taishan, China, southeast of Guangzhou. I had
spent several years there with my family in
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future.” I also said that I favored “protecting
the coast”, “defending our fisheries” and of
course, trying to plug the massive holes in
the county budget.
I think I’ve stayed true
to these goals. The localization movement just
keeps getting stronger
with chambers of commerce and other probusiness groups (most
of which were late to the
localization dance) finally
getting the message that
this is a matter of both
community cohesion and
economic survival. Notably on the south coast,
the “Go Local” campaign
spearheaded by the Surf
Market is getting a lot of traction.
One of the bodies to which I am assigned
as supervisor, the county Economic Development and Finance Corporation, is on the
verge of launching a Direct Public Offering
(DPO) which will allow county residents
to invest in local businesses and social entrepreneurs. EDFC is also in the forefront
on broadband as the fiscal sponsor of the
Mendocino County Broadband Alliance,
on creating a local meat processing plant,
on manufacture of biochar from harvesting
the excess biomass in our severely cutover
forests, and several other local initiatives.
I’m pleased about many of the things I
see happening on the coast from Gualala’s
undergrounding and streetscape project
along with the prospects for the purchase
by public entitles of nearly 30,000 acres of
forestland from Gualala Redwoods. North
Coast Brewery in Fort Bragg has a major
expansion planned on the old G-P mill site
(if they can just get the Koch Brothers, current owners of Georgia-Pacific and so much
more will just return their phone calls!).
The establishment of the Point Arena
Stornetta Public Lands covering over two
miles of coastline, has brought enormous
positive attention to our area, including
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GAC to Honor and Thank Volunteers at
Annual Members Meeting
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another:
‘What! You too?
I thought I was the only one’.
- C.S. Lewis
HAMBURG
cont. from pg 11
The Gualala Arts Center’s Annual Meeting and election will be held on Wednesday,
February 25 at 3:00 p.m. The evening is also
set aside to honor and thank the many volunteers that keep Gualalal Arts Center vital.
A slate of 4 candidates have been approved by the Board of Directors to replace
retiring/resigning directors - Steve Carnes,
Sharon
Nickodem,
Lynda O’Brien, and
Sandy Scott. The nominees are Lynn Bailey,
Joel Crockett, Andrea
Lunsford, and Alfredo
Orozco. In addition
Teri Cooper, Don
Krieger, and Roland Stoughton are up for
re-election to serve a second term.
Proposed officers are Rich Schimbor,
President; Roland Stoughton as 1st VicePresident and President elect; Peggy Berryhill, 2nd Vice President; Don Krieger, Treasurer; and Alan Grossman and Lynn Bailey
as co-Secretaries.
the 1980s operating a cultural study program. We hit it off immediately.
It turns out that Joe Kong had been quite successful as a real estate developer in San
Francisco while maintaining close ties to his homeland. He was engaged in setting up a
so-called Regional Center for the operation of a program under the US Citizenship and
Immigration Service known in abbreviated fashion as “EB-5”. Under EB-5, foreign nationals invest money ($500,000 for “rural areas” and $1,000,000 in “urban areas”) in exchange
for a green card. Basically, Joseph had the ability to funnel money from associates in China
who, for a myriad of reasons, wanted to invest in the US.
With assistance from our congressman, Jared Huffman, his able assistant Heidi Dickerson and several others, Joseph was successful in bringing his Regional Center up to speed.
He then began to bring a steady stream of potential investors to our County. I can’t report
any specific business arrangements that have yet come to fruition from this association, but
there are several in the works. It seems that the Chinese are much drawn to our County,
its vineyards and wineries, the coastline, the unique attraction of the City of Ten Thousand
Buddhas, and of course, the rich history of the Chinese people in Mendocino County.
In 2013, I began working with two social entrepreneurs, one from New Zealand and
the other from Germany, who are facilitating the building of a Village Town in southern
Mendocino County along Highway 175, the route that links Hopland to Lakeport. They
have found a gorgeous spot known as McDowell Valley for their project and have successfully negotiated a three year option, contingent on gaining approval from the voters and
the Board of Supervisors.
What is currently known as MendoVito is nothing less than a proposal to change how we,
the modern human race, use the land. According to the project website, “It's about building human habitat that is sustainable, that ends the competition between farm and town
for food growing, that enables people and communities to provide for their economic,
social and cultural well-being while protecting the natural and physical environment, planning for no less than seven generations.”
Without going into all the details, I believe that this project illustrates the reasons that I,
and many others, came to Mendocino County in the first place—to realize an alternative
scenario for how human beings can live together sustainably, without fouling their own
nest. I’d urge any of you who have interest in what may turn out to be the most innovative and “game-changing” development to come along in my 4 decades here to check out
mendovito.com.
As I mentioned earlier, there are many nay-sayers with respect to this project, including
the very people who labeled me a “no-growther” back when I was cutting my teeth as a
local politician. It’s kind of fun to be the one saying, “Hey, we need some development in
this County. It just needs to be the right kind!”
Pg 12 Lighthouse Peddler, February 2015
Each of these candidates will require affirmation of the general membership in order
to be seated.
To be honored are Steve and Carol Chell
as Volunteers of the Year. Carol manages
the Dolphon Gallery. This is a big obligation that requires her to put in many hours
a week overseeing the
volunteers as well as
working many shifts
herself.
Steve is a leader
and key member of
the Chamber Music
Group. He helps select artists, introduces
many of the acts and
makes sure that concerts are staffed and the
audience provided for.
The 2014 Group Volunteers of the Year
are the members of the Sketches Mailing
Team, who over the course of the year processed over 14,500 pieces of mail.
Special recognition is afforded to Dean
Wolf, who in addition to being a vital part
of the Tuesday Work Crew, managed to reppair the long-standing leak in the kitchen
stove.
Also up for special recognition are volunteers Judy Sembach and Patricia Wilson.
Both these women quietly work at whatever
chore needs doing. Their eagerness to help
and positive attitudes exemplify the spirit
of volunteerism that makes Gualala Arts an
important part of coastal life.
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fredo Fettucini, Morgan Davide, Pat Meelater, Teri Yaki, and Barrie Behintz.
Audience members are engaged in solving the mystery. The professional actors are well
skilled in using clue-hunting questions as springboards to present the mystery plot. While
mingling with guests, characters (actors) engage in heated discussions, attracting attention. During the meal, clues are overheard and observed. Plus, written clues are distributed.
Though all mystery plays are fully scripted, ad lib interaction between actors and audience
is inevitable... and then a "murder" takes place. The actual foul deed occurs out of sight, but
the victim succumbs in full view. By the end of the entrée, the characters accuse each other
and guests! One of the characters claims to have solved the mystery, then challenges the
guests to do the same.
Each table constitutes a team, and receives a Solution Sheet for completion within a
certain time frame. The sheets are collected and scored... and the crime solver unmasks the
culprit during the final scene. Finally, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes are given to the winning
sleuths.
The menu for the evening includes pork picante, gluten-free au gratin potatoes, a vegetable medley, desserts, and beverages.
John Gibson of GibsonHouse Players has a theatrical history on our part of the coast as he
worked here on several theatrical productions during the late 80’s and early 90’s. Some may
remember The Glass Menagerie and Dining Room at the Arena Theater or a production of The
Fantastics at Gualala Arts Center in the spring of 1989 directed by Wendy Platt.
GibsonHouse Players has some 70 actors who perform in varying combinations the 30
different mystery scripts that John has in house. He can produce 3 shows at different locations on the same night.
Reservations can be made at the Gualala Arts website www.gualalaarts.org or at the Arts
Center.
Warren Jones Memorial
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Application Available
Reflections on Marriage
by Gail Thompson
Marriage can be hard work at any age gift that you can give your kids than to
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or point in the relationship. A 10 yr. old nurture your marriage.”
Scholarship application is available online.
boy when asked how you would make a
My husband and I were in our forties,
For the sixteenth year, $500 in scholarship
marriage
work
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wife
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busy
with jobs and being “helicopter”
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she looks pretty, even if she looks like a parents. We barely had time for each
seniors who attend school in Southern
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other. I took this conversation seriously,
Mendocino County (including homeschool
Peeking
in
the
living
room,
I
saw
my
and we started an annual weekend alone
students) and are interested in furthering art
son
and
wife
kissing----a
sight
to
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for ourselves. Now we pass this gift on to
studies or pursuing careers in the arts.
one’s heart. We had just given them their our children. We as humans are evolving
The goal of the Warren Jones Meannual bed & breakfast weekend while we and changing with life’s experiences. It is
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This all started years ago when one of as life unfolds.
and to aid them in further study in their
my
school parents told me a story. This
As an aging married couple, I can
field. Art is broadly defined to include paintmother
had
an
opportunity
for
a
weekend
personally
say that marriage is a challenge
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Encouragement is important for emerging
reluctant to do so. Her parents were going share life and its infinite experiences and
artists to develop and discover their own
to babysit, but she still didn’t want to leave memories with another person is a gift
avenues of expression. This grant is adthem. She talked to her pediatrician. He beyond the efforts of living with another
ministered through the Arena Theater.
looked at her and said, “There is no better human being.
Applications for the scholarship
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waste. Last January they had an accident that exposed some 20 workers to low level radiation. It closed the plant for now and into the future.
In addition to the tens of millions of dollars that contractors get for operating the plant,
they are also eligible for many millions more in bonuses if they do a good job. As I have
previously described, after numerous reports discovered dozens of failings of the contractors, the Department of Energy still gave them virtually all of their bonus for a job well
done.
Now the New Mexico Environmental Department, citing the U.S. Dept. of Energy's own
report of violations, has fined the contractors and the Los Alamos National Laboratory a
total of $54 million. Under a 1992 federal law allowing the U.S. government to open the
We now rent tools for lawn
nuclear waste repository in the state nearly 16 years ago, New Mexico secured authority to
issue environmental permits and the ability to fine the federal government in the event of
and garden, concrete work,
violations.
floors, pumps, much more
Sounds about right so far, but wait! The DOE is now challenging the state’s decision
to levy the fines for permit violations at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the nuclear
38501 South Hwy 1 Gualala waste repository WIPP, calling the penalties “arbitrary” and “capricious” even though the
state used the DOE own investigation as part of their reasoning.
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TRIO VOCE
from pg 3
ist-in-residence at the Banff School of Fine
Arts, Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta, and adjunct cello professor
at Northwestern University.
Pianist Patricia Tao, founding member of
the Guild Trio for ten years, leads an active
life as performer, teacher and concert organizer. Her trio was awarded the position of
Trio-in-Residence at the Tanglewood Music
Center, where they were lauded by the Boston Globe as a “beautiful new landmark” on
the concert stage. Dr. Tao received her undergraduate education at Harvard University, a Masters degree with distinction from
Indiana University and her doctorate from
the State University of New York at Stony
Brook.
Critic Lynn René Bayley states, “This is
truly committed music-making on a level
rarely heard nowadays.”
Tickets for the concert are $25 in advance,
$5 more day of the concert and youth 7 – 17
are admitted free with adult. Tickets may be
purchased at the Gualala Arts website www.
gualalaarts.org.
It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
February 3
February 18
- Aristotle
Pg 13 Lighthouse Peddler, February 2015
Pinewood Derby Test & Tune Day
JR Roddy invites all Pinewood Derby fans
and racers to come to a FREE play day on
the state of the art Gualala Arts Pinewood
Derby track. The puropse of this test and
tune day is to allow racers to run their cars in
a more relaxed and less structured environment that the upcoming”Summernationals”
Pinewood Derby races in July. Racers will
be able to test out their cars on the real track
with full timing and speed being measured.
Learn to make needed adjustments to meet
qualifications with coaching by local”pros”,
and generally have fun getting prepared for
the big race in July.
The Test and Tune day will be held on
Saturday February 28, from 2 to 4 p.m Admission is free. For more information email
[email protected]
BOOK REVIEW
from page 9
folks from planet earth as well as a native population unlike anything I could have imagined
in my wildest dreams.
As you work your way through this novel, you’ll have questions. Why was USIC so
desperate to find a Christian missionary? What are the objectives in the exorbitantly
expensive colonization of this alien world? What will be the fate of Peter and his wife, of the
Oasan natives, of those who have agreed to live in this strange, new world? And finally, what
are the lessons? Who teaches whom? With fewer than 50 pages left to read, I found myself
asking again and again, how is this book going to end?
The Book of Strange New Things is a novel that forces us to look at commitment in a real-life
way. There’s turmoil, philosophy, wisdom and, interestingly enough, one of the best funeral
sermons I’ve ever heard. This is a book of faith; true faith, no faith, lost faith, blind faith. It
causes us to think about exploitation and, if you dig deeply enough, greed. It’s a story about
being human, about being broken. Ultimately, though, it’s about the fragility of even the
closest relationships.
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Stewart’s film Rosewater. This fictional movie
tells the story of the real Maziar Bahari, an
Iranian-born journalist living in London
who was arrested in Iran while covering
the 2009 elections for Newsweek. Accused
of being an agent for foreign intelligence
organizations, he was thrown into the Evin
Prison, where he was interrogated and
beaten, partly for the surreal reason that he
had appeared on “The Daily Show With Jon
Stewart” in a satirical sketch about spying.
The Film will show the same week as
Annie, director Will Gluck’s take on the
on the Little Orphan Annie story. The 2
films will alternate evenings with Rosewater
showing on Friday, February 6, Sunday,
February 8 and Wednesday, February 11.
All shows are at 7:00 p.m.
Annie will show at the 2:00 p.m. matinee
on Wednesday.
CITY MANAGER
from pg 5
deal with these issues.
Mr. Vince’s undergraduate work was in
history and philosophy and it certainly
shines through. As we spoke about government in general he mentioned that his pet
peeve is lack of transparency and information distribution. He is a member of the
International City Manager's Association
which promotes best practices in administration.
“Public policy,” he told me, “is the prevalent mindset of the community”.
THIRD THURSDAY POET
TOMMY CASTRO
from cover
Gualala Chevron and The Pier Chowder
House and Tap Room generously
underwrite the Blues on the Coast series. All
shows will begin at 8:30 p.m., doors open at 8
p.m. Tickets are $20 for each show and $100
for the series. Series subscribers will receive
preferred seating and a T-shirt. Tickets will
be available online at www.arenatheater.org
or through the underwriting businesses;
contact Tracy DuPont at 882-3400.
MUSIC MONDAY
from pg. 8
lights and sound, setting up and managing
the stage and tending the theater bar. All
proceeds benefit Arena Theater and it’s also
a fun dance night for the community.
from pg. 7
imbalanced world right now. I aspire to offer through my poetry a “voice for the voiceless”
as one awesome elder of the Council for Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers put it, by
drawing from the perspectives of a more-than-just-human community. It’s an honor to
speak on behalf of that which is too often overlooked, and to engage the hearts and minds of
my human family through the brilliance, balance and power of an awakened imagination.”
Third Thursday Poetry is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many
anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The
James Irvine Foundation.
Pg 14 Lighthouse Peddler, February 2015
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9- Wonder
31
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10- Mexican revolutionist
33
36
39
11- Freudian topics
40
42
43
46
12- Long time
44
13- Gave temporarily, holy period of 40 days
47
48
51
7- "The Zoo Story" playwright
26
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6- Where Idi Amin ruled
8- Electrical unit
30
41
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puzzle by bestcrosswords
1
19- SeaWorld attraction
21- Actor Pitt
25- Speech
26- Spellbind
27- Parsonage
<ACROSS>
42- Regal address
28- Thin as ___
1- Just ___!
43- Small sword
29- Look happy
5- Tropical fruit
45- Voter
30- Computer key
10- Fire
47- Stonework
31- Beer mug
14- Hindu hero
48- Hurried
32- More tender
15- Beaming
49- More wan
33- Diary bit
16- "A Death in the Family" author
50- Bee stuff
35- Feel bad about
17- Gyro meat
53- Prince Valiant's son
39- Bruins legend
18- Next largest scoop after tea
54- Brother of Moses
40- Occasional
20- Toothbrush brand
58- Treasonable
42- Remains
22- Can be used to catch fish or surf!
61- Lady of Spain
44- On the briny
23- Lacks
62- Driving aids
46- Wrinkle
24- Wear down, physically or emotionally
63- Native Israeli
47- Excrement used as fertilizer
26- Use, consume
64- The jig ___!
49- Investigation
27- Eyelash cosmetic
65- Go (over) carefully
50- URL starter
30- All together
66- Precipitous
51- Nabisco cookie
34- Spanish fleet
67- What you do to a joint, prior to a heist
52- Not e'en once
35- Queue after Q
<DOWN>
53- Med school subj.
36- Imperial unit of weight
1- Woody's boy
55- Parks on a bus
37- Neet rival
2- River to the Moselle
56- Blame
38- Come into contact with
3- Austen novel
57- Neck part
40- Spanish muralist
4- Tramway vehicle
59- CIA forerunner
41- Part of RSVP
5- Gangster's gun
60- Drain
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Friday February 27
Saturday February 28
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
Next Local Drop Off
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February Opera Offers Twin Bill
W. Rush
J. Georgee
Paintings by Joyce George will be part
of a two person show at the Dolphin
Gallery this month. Along with the
jewelry of Walt Rush, this exhibit
will be on view to the public through
March 3, with an opening recption on
Saturday February 7, from 5 to 7 p.m.
it is to see behind forbidden doors
On February 14 the
in Bluebeard’s castle.
Arena
Theater’s
opera
Director Trelinski sees the very
series continues with an
different music in the operas as a
unusual bill featuring 2 onepairing. He states, “On the one side
act operas, Tchaikovsky’s
is the beautiful, lyrical and Romantic
Iolanta and Bertol Bartok’s
music of Tchaikovsky, which is a
Bluebeard’s Castle. Polish
very feminine side. On the other is
director Mariusz Trelinski
the masculine, modernist music of
has juxtaposed 2 works of
Bartok.” Valery Gergiev conducts
seemingly very different
both operas.
stories, but views one as an
Piotr Beczala sings Iolanta’s love
extension of the other.
interest,
Vaudemont, and Judith
Iolanta is an upbeat opera
is enticed by Mikail Petrenko’s
with a happy ending (rare
Bluebeard.
for women in opera) where
scene from “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Photo Credit K. Bieliski
Netrebko and Gergiev teamed
love wins out. Bluebeard’s
together
last season for the highly
Castle is about love and
regarded Eugene Onegin, but
submission and revels in
were met with protests for their
the psychosexual nuances of
support of Vladimir Putin and the
Judith, bride of Bluebeard.
annexation of Crimea. Director
Storylines may fall away
Trelinski is making his house debut
in importance, as the
at The Met.
production will likely be seen
Doors open at 8:45 a.m. for the
for the 2 outstanding lead
9:30
a.m. start time. General tickets
sopranos, Anna Netrebko
are
$24;
Senior tickets are $22,
and
Nadja
Michael.
and
Youth
(17 and under) are $18.
Netrebko sings the innocent
Running time is 3hrs 39min
Iolanta and Michael the
scene from “Iolanta.” Photo Met Opera
compulsive Judith. Iolanta is
blind from birth and the story is about her
LOOKING FOR THE CROSSWORD?
getting to see. Bluebeard’s Castle is also
ITS ON PAGE 15 THIS MONTH!
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