Arcata Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) ARCATA – In a major disaster, such as an earthquake or flood, no community is likely to have enough first responders to give immediate assistance to every person who might need it. This is why Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers are trained to fill in until the professional…
Rossbacher: No more KHSU Community Advisory Board meetings, please, until we clear this up
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – Humboldt State University President Lisa Rossbacher appears to have suspended meetings of radio station KHSU’s Community Advisory Board until the members explain themselves. In a letter dated Sept. 17 (see below), Rossbacher cites confusion over a June 27 decision by the CAB to forward a letter to…
Meet Jennifer Kalt – as seen in Vanity Fair!
Janine Volkmar Mad River Union HUMBOLDT – It’s a beautiful photograph in a slick magazine. Vanity Fair’s Summer 2018 issue has a feature article titled “Clear the Coast: A Band of Passionate Californians Is Fighting To Keep Crucial Waterways Clean” and the photograph was taken in Rancho Palos Verdes. Jennifer Kalt, the director of Humboldt…
Corks, Forks and Kegs in McK Saturday
McKinleyville Chamber of Commerce MCKINLEYVILLE – The place to be on Saturday, Sept. 15 from 4 to 8 p.m. will be downtown McKinleyville for the 2018 Corks, Forks and Kegs event, a beer and wine walk with food tastings. This promises to be a great time to mix, mingle and share an evening with your family,…
Fundraising memorial for David “Gypsy” Chain Sunday
Geraldine Goldberg Special to the Union EUREKA – Forest activists, community members, musicians and artists will gather at the Historic Eagle House in Old Town, Eureka on Sunday, Sept. 16 for a 20th Anniversary Memorial for David “Gypsy” Chain. The event is a fundraiser for a scholarship in memory of the young man who lost…
East Coast pizza comes to Trinidad
Janine Volkmar Mad River Union TRINIDAD – East Coast pizza, I am reliably informed by my native New Yorker friends, is a Thing. You should be able to stumble up to a famous pizza stand on Eighth Street and Second Avenue in New York at one in the morning and buy a slice or two.…
Eco-Briefs and volunteering opportunities, Sept. 13, 2018
Friends of the Dunes HUMBOLDT – Help clean up the coast by joining a global movement that was started in Arcata and continues this Saturday, Sept. 15 from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants will be combing the beach for plastic and other trash materials in an effort to reduce potential marine debris for Coastal Clean-up Day.…
Arcata veterans hold 9/11 memorial service on the Plaza in honor of Patriot Day
Mad River Union ARCATA PLAZA – As part of the 9/11 Patriot Day Ceremony, Arcata veterans and civic leaders joined this morning in remembrance of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001. American Legion Post 274 Commander Jeff Sterling lowered the flags on the flagpole to half staff. The American flag is a new one.…
Arcata Fire District: Get to know your local fire service
How well do you know your local fire department? Today the Arcata Fire District extends from Arcata, north to Clam Beach, west to Manila and the Samoa Bridge, south to Indianola cutoff, and east to Fickle Hill and Jacoby Creek roads for approximately three miles. The Arcata Fire District is comprised of three fire stations…
The local shopping odyssey of Alicia the Recumbent
I needed a bike and all the gear to participate in a non-profit ride. Where to start? With Justin and Andrew at Revolution Bicycles, of course. I’m unable to ride a two-wheeler because of my disability but that was no problem for them. Well, except to find a recumbent bicycle that could be adjusted to…