As One Door Closes, Another Opens at the Blue Ox by Kimberly Wear
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Humboldt County, CA | FREE Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 Vol. XXX Issue 38 northcoastjournal.com COMING FULL CIRCLE As one door closes, another opens at the Blue Ox By Kimberly Wear 11 Pot banks 44 Tricky Dick treats Community Spotlight: Carlos Avelar Celebrating 50 Years! arlos Avelar’s career in the grocery business Cstarted on Sept. 8 1969. He has been at Murphy’s since it opened in 1971. “I started out cleaning and sweeping the sidewalks. I moved up to manager after graduation and now I’ve done just about everything there is to do in the stores. I am now the pricing and purchasing person for all of the locations. It’s great because I get to go out to all the stores and be active in all of the local communities,” explains Carlos. Many of you also probably know Carlos through his involve- ment in youth sports. Carlos started coaching youth sports after his senior year of high school. “I’ve coached Little League baseball for almost 46 years and I’m still coaching in McKinleyville. I’ve also coached basketball at Sunny Brae and Pacific Union, as well as a number of AAU and traveling teams.” Murphy’s Markets would like to thank Carlos for his years in the business. Since Carlos works at all Murphy’s locations, next time you see him at your local store, make sure you say hi and congratulate him on his 50 years! Sunny Brae • Glendale • Trinidad • Cutten • Westwood 2 NORTH COAST JOURNAL • Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 • northcoastjournal.com Build to edge of the document CONTENTS Margins are just a safe area 4 Mailbox 6 Poem Fall Fly Freshen Up Sept. 19, 2019 • Volume XXX Issue 38 7 News North Coast Journal Inc. In the Balance www.northcoastjournal.com for the ISSN 1099-7571 © Copyright 2019 8 Guest Views PUBLISHER ‘Some Urgency’ Chuck Leishman [email protected] 9 Guest Views GENERAL MANAGER Holidays! Cannabis Raids and Our Economy Melissa Sanderson [email protected] 11 Week in Weed NEWS EDITOR Banking and Vaping Thadeus Greenson [email protected] 12 Home & Garden ARTS & FEATURES EDITOR Service Directory Jennifer Fumiko Cahill [email protected] NCJ Daily 13 ASSISTANT EDITOR/STAFF WRITER 14 On The Cover Kimberly Wear [email protected] Coming Full Circle STAFF WRITER Iridian Casarez [email protected] 20 Table Talk CALENDAR EDITOR The Watergate ‘Tricky Dick’ Cake Kali Cozyris [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 21 Front Row John J. Bennett, Simona Carini, Wendy Chan, Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave … Barry Evans, Gabrielle Gopinath, Collin Yeo Please mention this ad! SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS PUBLISHER 22 Music & More! 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Printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink. northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 3 MAILBOX ‘Quixotic’ Editor: Fortuna’s City Councilmember Glaser’s crusade against the public art as “pacifism” and “liberalism” seems quixotic (“Friendly Fire,” Sept. 12). If the art poles are verboten in the good councilmember’s world, might as well ban Volkswagen buses in Fortuna. It could be driven by a Wall Street invest- 5th & O Eureka • (707) 442-1741 www.mccreasubaru.com ment banker to no avail, nothing screams liberal hippie like a VW bus. John Dillon, Eureka Editor: Email us It pains me to write this but Dean Glaser is right (“Friendly Fire,” Sept. 12). Here: “Believe there is good in the world” is a wuss motto; butterflies, like facts, have a press releases: well-known liberal slant. [email protected] Fortuna deserves better. If the butter- letters to the editor: [email protected] fly-painted pole is allowed to stand, at the events/a&e: very least conservative Fortunans deserve [email protected] conservative poles. I humbly offer a se- music: lection of potential pole mottos, but I’m [email protected] certain Mr. Glaser can do better: “All you sales: need is cash,” “Life is hard, grow up!,” “Vi- [email protected] sualize shutting your big mouth,” “Fortuna classified/workshops: [email protected] *hearts* CO2” and “Nice people suck.” Mitch Trachtenberg, Trinidad Editor: Reading “Friendly Fire” (Sept. 12) and Fortuna City Councilmember Dean Gla- ser’s perspective on the newly installed “Artists Pole” at the Fortuna Monday Club very much reminded me of The Grinch Terry Torgerson Who Stole Christmas. Why would anyone be opposed to art that reflects a positive message about being kind, being happy and looking for good in the world? Given the recent atmosphere in our country, I welcome Council and its efforts to bring art and the unique meaning and tenor of “curse” the effort of people in our community friendliness into the community! words. These words impart a particular nu- who take steps to uplift the people living Mairead Dodd, Eureka ance of meaning that cannot be attained there. In fact, recently I was at a four-way with other words. They are completely stop looking at the back of a store on the legitimate and useful words of the English corner of Main and Ninth streets, thinking ‘Concerned’ language. Sometimes they are the only about how great a mural would look there. Editor: words that can convey the feelings being The panoramic mural at Ray’s Food Place I have long been concerned by the expressed. Only those corrupted by myth- is a vibrant collage reflecting the heart of nuclear waste stored south of Eureka ological religious beliefs could be offend- Fortuna. The mural on Green’s Pharmacy is (“Radioactive,” Sept. 5). From what I ed by words. a historical remembrance of days gone by. understand, there is a huge prevalence Rick Siegfried, Eureka There are many empty storefront win- of leukemia in children in the area of the dows that I would like to see something decommissioned reactor. I would like to creative done with. In addition to the hear about this from public health. I have Really, NCJ? painted poles, front windows of vacated no idea what can be done about this. Editor: stores could act as museums, 4-H or civic Devora Kaufman, Bayside “Burger Week,” really? (Sept. 12.) We are clubs could advertise their activities and in peak growing season and the variety artists could do installations based on a of incredible local food is off the charts Home Birth theme. Rather than look like a ghost town, ‘Completely Legitimate’ (thank you farmers!). How about a Loca- the presence of art brings life to a com- Editor: vore Week featuring restaurants’ most munity. Perhaps the “Peace Pole” terminol- In response to Amy Dillon Sewell’s locally-sourced dishes? Birth Center ogy triggered something within Mr. Glaser letter, there are no “bad” words (Mailbox, (Thanks to Papa Wheelies’ for its veg/ that is much more personal within himself. Sept. 12). Yes, the English language has local burger, at least!!) (707) 633-3009 I applaud and support the Fortuna City much beauty and ingenuity, including Julie Slater North, Sunnybrae 4 NORTH COAST JOURNAL • Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 • northcoastjournal.com cation. People laughed at “Ms.” in the early pronoun capable of the same, is it? (My interest. Keeping up with the scientific ‘Very Offended’ 1970s; nobody blinks an eye now. Non- preferred pronouns: first person — “we/ and popular literature, I was aware of the Editor: cis-language crafters, we implore you to us,” second person “you/y’all” and third problem and the latest theories about the My friends and I, who have chosen not present reasonable alternatives to the cor- person — never speak of us in the third cause of lung damage from vaping e-cigs to partake of the marijuana craze, are very rosive misuse of tried-and-true pronouns.