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The Sea Ranch Soundings THE SEA RANCH ASSOCIATION PRSRT STD P.O. BOX 16 U.S. POSTAGE PAID MEDFORD, OR THE SEA RANCH, CA 95497-0016 PERMIT NO. 125 Address Service Requested A QUARTERLY NEWSPAPER WRITTEN BY AND FOR THE SEA RANCH ASSOCIATION MEMBERS NUMBER 122 FALL 2014 IN THIS ISSUE: Sea Ranch Celebrates Volunteers; Community NORTH COAST MUSIC NIGHT Spirit Award Presented to Jim DeWilder Around 120 Sea Ranchers gathered at SEAL DOCENT UPDATE One-Eyed Jacks on August 31 to share good food and drink and celebrate volunteerism on the coast. Commu- NOBEL PRIZE WINNER nity Manager Frank Bell welcomed the group for the seventh annual picnic and read a long list of folks who have joined the ranks of volunteers for committees, SEA RANCH HISTORY task forces and other organizations, both on and off The Sea Ranch, since last year’s event. The afternoon was also the occasion for the presentation of the TSRVFD Considers Rosemarie Hocker Community Spirit Forming Fire Award. The award was first presented in 2011 Protection District and was developed by the Communica- by Bonnie Plakos, President, and Don McMahan, tion Committee and established by the Vice President, TSR Volunteer Fire Department Community Manager. lt is named in Board honor of former Board Member Rose- marie Hocker, who passed away that Many Sea Ranchers have had to call year. In leadership roles and in her vol- 9-1-1 and have been relieved to see big unteer work behind the scenes, Rosema- red trucks and friendly faces at the door rie, by encouragement and example, ex- in a very short time (day or night, rain emplified what is meant by Community or shine). We are fortunate that we have Spirit. both dedicated volunteer firefighters and a CALFIRE station staffed 24/7 with full- “It continues to be one my life’s great time paid firefighters. Members of The pleasures to be able to present this Sea Ranch Volunteer Fire Department award, named for the first person who (TSRVFD) and our year-round CALFIRE reached out to me when l first moved to staff train and respond together as “Sea The Sea Ranch,” said Communication Ranch Fire” to provide a high level of ser- Committee member John Forenti as he vice to TSR and surrounding areas. This announced this year’s recipient. “Rose arrangement has been in place since the lived her life with a great sense of pur- early 1970’s, and has been a model of vol- pose, and a very special kind of grace unteer/career fire department partnership. and eloquence that improved the quality of life of all those who knew her.” He Unfortunately, if the trend of diminishing then presented this year’s award to Jim funds to fire protection at TSR continues, DeWilder. within a few years we will not be able to fund our fire services at the same level as “Jim has been a very active volunteer at we do today. Sea Ranch and in the larger community, and exemplifies the volunteer spirit that John Forenti (L) presented Jim DeWilder with the Rosemarie Hocker Community Spirit Award. Claire What Has Created This Problem? was Rose Hocker’s legacy,” he said. McCarthy photo. More photos on Page 9. In brief, the amount of tax dollars returned “Our recipient’s contributions include: to the Sea Ranch area from Sonoma Past TSRA Board Member; Laid the Force; Served on TSR Volunteer Fire Golf Tournament; President and mem- County each year is less than the amount groundwork for TSRA to purchase the Department for 17 Years; President of ber of local Rotary; President of TSR needed to fund both the year-round CAL- Water Company and the Central TPZ; Horicon and Point Arena school boards; Flying Society; EMT for Coast Life FIRE staff and the VFD. In past decades Member of the View Preservation Task Sponsor and volunteer for Booster Club Support District for over 12 years and it was possible to cover all expenses and many more coastal community activi- also to build up reserves to use for major ties that are all better for his involve- capital expenses, such as purchasing re- ment.” placement firefighting apparatus. This is no longer the case, and reserve funds are Articles about Sea Ranch decreasing each year. History in this issue The primary source of funding for Sea In 2003, a Sea Ranch History Forum Ranch Fire is the property taxes paid was held in response to many requests. within our service area. Each year, 19.2% Four major areas were covered: Pre- of Proposition 13 tax funds from The Sea Sea Ranch (Susan Clark); Sea Ranch Rancharea are allocated specifically for Origins (Al Boeke); Early Settlers fire protection. However, due to a long and Volunteers (George Rathmell); and complex history of state and county Effects of the Coastal Act (Kathi legislation, less than 40% of those funds Gordon). In this and subsequent are actually allocated back for use locally. issues, in honor of the 50th Birthday As an example, in fiscal year 2012-13, Year, we will share the record of that $1.95 million was initially allocated for Forum as it appeared in the Winter “fire protection” but only $739,000 was 2003 issue. Look for articles with actually returned from the county for use “TSR History” in the heading. Kathi in The Sea Ranch fire service area. Gordon’s article will appear in the next issue of Soundings. page 14 PAGE 2 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS FALL 2014 Sea Rancher Awarded Nobel Prize by Trish Miller and Melinda Miller-Klopfer breakthrough, the transplanting of to the wonders of human insulin genes into yeast cells pond scum!) His Randy Schekman may be able to cross now allows for 1/3 of the world’s human prized possession all ‘win a Nobel Prize’ off his bucket list, insulin supply to be produced by yeast through high school but he still hasn’t seen a whale from his secretion. but unused since home in The Sea Ranch. Like any good college, he likened scientist, however, he isn’t giving up, and Usually phone calls that come at 1:20 in it to “the teddy he and his wife of over 40 years, Nancy the morning are harbingers of doom or bear that collects Walls, hope to see one in the future, emergency, but Randy recalls his wife dust,” and thus it with more frequent visits to the coast waking and jubilantly shouting, “This now collects more than the events of the past year have is it!” upon hearing the telephone ring famous dust in its allowed. Though they’ve owned at TSR in the middle of the night last October permanent home in since 1991, their visit in August is the seventh. Apparently above-average IQs the hallowed halls of first since Prof. Schekman was awarded and access to the world’s preeminent Stockholm’s Nobel the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or thinkers still can’t clarify international Museum. Medicine for his work in cell physiology time zones to those Nobel spokespersons and genetics. who make the congratulatory calls And life - and on Swedish time. Priorities firmly in accomplishments Randy, a warm and generous man, place, the first thing Randy did was to - don’t end with cheerfully discussed his research call his father, who had been hoping for the Nobel Prize. Nobel Prizewinner Randy Scheckman and his wife, Nancy Walls, relax in understandable terms, as he has just such a phone call for years. In addition to his at their Sea Ranch home. Photo by Trish Miller undoubtedly had to do numerous times ongoing research over the past year. In basic biological Stockholm in December might not top at Berkeley, Randy is Editor-In-Chief but if basic science is supported, and terms, the cells in our bodies produce one’s travel list – unless a Nobel Prize is of eLife, an online life sciences and funded, those discoveries will come. the proteins that create the chemistry to be received. Randy and Nancy found biomedicine journal. It was started He feels strongly that universities and of life, and his research focuses on their time in Stockholm last December by Randy and other scientists as an research institutions should do basic how particular protein molecules are “amazing and otherworldly.” Shuttled alternative to the powerful scientific science, and the private sector should transported out of, or are secreted by, everywhere in limousines, “treated like journals, which accept only a small handle the practical side. cells. Approximately 10% of cellular royalty,” it was evident that the entire fraction of submitted articles, and favor proteins have to be encapsulated in sac- country – from every media outlet to the ones with, in Randy’s word, “pizazz”. As for the future, he is hopeful that it like structures, or vesicles, prior to being average citizen – mobilizes around the He feels that this emphasis on “the wow holds answers to questions previously sent out of the cell to enable bodily Nobels. “Everywhere we went there factor” puts tremendous pressure on thought unanswerable. His sister died functions and processes in other cells of were people wanting [my] photo...” young scientists to make their research as a teenager from a then-incurable form the body. These special proteins include and laureates are besieged for their more impressive than it actually is. of leukemia. Today, however, there is a hormones, insulin, and antibodies; autographs, which are prized, collected, eLife, in stark contrast to these journals, cure. With the promise of more advances crucial substances whose creation and or sold. The whirlwind of media events is non-profit, researcher-driven, and in the field, his share of the Nobel prize secretion from the cells are essential for and speeches culminated in the Nobel open access, so that all of us – academic money was used to endow a chair at UC the body’s continued functioning.
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