Trinidad Civic Club raised over $5,500 toward the CASA seasonal goal of $80,000 toward helping foster children in Humboldt County leading up to the CASA Kid Walk last weekend. Team Trinidad, led by Trinidad Civic Club Co-Presidents Dana Hope and Jan West, both of whom are also school board presidents at Big Lagoon School and…
Trinidad Tidings: Walk through Trinidad’s vivid history
Trinidad Museum Society celebrates its 10th Anniversary in the Sangster-Watkins-Underwood-Susan home that opened as a museum on Sept. 26, 2009 after a three year rehabilitation effort led by contractor Charles Netzow. A retrospective exhibit in the museum’s Photography Room showing the history of the 1899 home, the move, in three sections, from Ewing to Edwards…
Trinidad Tidings: Recreation, learning and foot tapping
Don’t miss the day-long community celebration of the beautiful Trinidad coast and the off-shore rocks that make up the California Coastal National Monument, on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the California Coastal National Monument Festival in the community of Trinidad. There will be a variety of free activities throughout the day. Starting at 8 a.m., water…
Trinidad Tidings: ‘A welcoming, healthy and vibrant place to live’
Trinidad author Glory Ralston will tell about her latest book Found in the Woods on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. in Trinidad Library. Found in the Woods is Glory’s third novel. Some Things are Obvious and While the Music Played are her previous books. Her latest novel is a poignant story of how a…
Trinidad Tidings: Tour the lighthouse, enjoy some art
Happy birthday to Bob Hallmark, who turned 90 on Aug. 29. Commercial fisherman, former Harbor Commissioner, restaurant owner, craftsman, founding member of the Greater Trinidad Chamber of Commerce, which held its first Crab (now Fish) Festival on the Hallmark-built Trinidad Pier in 1957, philanthropist, and loving husband of wife, Carol, was feted by his Dog…
Trinidad Tidings: 50th Anniversary of Lady Bird Johnson Grove
Trinidad Museum’s Photography Room Exhibit commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Lady Bird Johnson Grove in Redwood National and State Parks. First Lady, Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson (1912-2007), wife of the 36th President of the United States, visited Humboldt County twice: first on Nov. 25, 1968 at Jedediah Smith State Park, and again…
Trinidad Tidings: Hotel approved, council meets
The Cher-ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria received conditional approval for its 100-room hotel project to be located next to the Sunset Restaurant and the Casino off Scenic Drive at last Thursday’s California Coastal Commission meeting in the Wharfinger Building in Eureka. The sovereign nation does not have to obtain the state’s…
Trinidad Tidings: Newly energized and up for TBAM
The TBAM (Trinidad Bay Art and Music Festival), two weekends of inspirational music, begins Friday, Aug. 9, and continues through Saturday and Sunday in Trinidad Town Hall, followed by a second weekend on Aug. 16, 17 and 18. This is the third annual festival. (See page B1 for more about the festival.) ‘Figures & Flowers’…
Trinidad Tidings: CC members roll up their sleeves in Trinidad
Twenty-eight eager Youth Conservation Corps members in the Generation Green Program traveled from Willows, Sacramento and Redding last week to work with Ben Morehead of the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust and Jill Mefford and Ingrid Bailey of the Trinidad Museum Native Plant Garden to clear dead brush, remove invasive species, weed and trim gardens and…
Trinidad Tidings: Music festival coming to seaside village
World class musicians return to Trinidad for two weekends of music to lift your spirits, inspire you, and soothe your soul. Trinidad Bay Art and Music Festival (TBAM) opens on Friday, Aug. 9 in Trinidad Town Hall at 8 p.m. with a Marimba Masterworks concert featuring Nonoka Mizukami. On Saturday, Aug. 10, Temporary Resonance with…