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News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra sheetthe News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra Heller had thoughts this week on Kenosha. Lunch did, too. Check out page two for more. Saturday, August 29, 2020 FREE Vol. 18, No. 35 CASTING ABOUT A SENSE OF URGENCY Inyo hopes to discourage Covid violations By Lunch nyo County Supervisors ordinance to arrest persons passed an urgency or- for violations of the statute or Idinance on Tuesday to ordinance ... “ “discourage and penalize viola- The reason the Supervisors tions of orders pertaining to the were contemplating this step Covid-19 pandemic.” (the potential empowerment of But while the Supervisors health department and other agreed to the potential en- officials to issue criminal cita- actment of civil penalties for tions) is because Inyo County violations, they declined to add Sheriff Jeff Hollowell has stated a criminal component. he is reluctant to enforce some It was the prospect of an of the state health orders, added criminal component which he believes are unconsti- which raised the ire of many tutional. local citizens. And as Inyo County Superior One, Leon Beadle, promised Court Judge Tom Hardy said on recall petitions if the ordinance Tuesday, while state and coun- was approved as presented. ty orders “can” be enforced by County Counsel Marshall peace officers, enforcement is Rudolph explained at the not required. outset that the County did have “Kinda like a speeding the power to include a crimi- ticket,” chimed in Supervisor nal component. According to Jeff Griffiths. If they see you California penal code section speeding, they can pull you PHOTO: TODD ROBERTSON 836.5 (d): “The governing body over and ticket you. Or not. Sean Robertson made the most of a cloudy day by dropping a line in Silver Lake over the weekend. of a local agency, by ordinance, But as Griffiths added, “The may authorize its officers goal is to dissuade egregious MAN (CLEANING UP AFTER MAN) DEFENSE and employees who have the offenders who are a danger to On the trails with Friends of the Inyo’s Alex Ertaud duty to enforce a statute or see URGENT, page 8 By Hite fter yet another story Ertaud officially began his People are typically recep- about trash, Friends of tenure as the Stewardship tive to this type of work, “The Athe Inyo asked The Sheet Director for Friends of the Inyo reaction I get is pretty positive. to tag along with an employee in September 2017. “Ideally we Hikers are thankful that some- to see what the non-profit was would have five trail ambas- one is out there doing the work,” doing to mitigate the trash issue sadors, one for each ranger said Butcher. in the Eastern Sierra. station,” said Ertaud referencing When the Sheet followed So for one day, The Sheet fol- the trail ambassador program Ertaud up Duck Pass, the experi- lowed Alex Ertaud, Stewardship staffing. Depending on fund- ence was exactly as Butcher had Director at Friends of the Inyo, ing, there have traditionally described. up Duck Pass Trail to Barney been between 2-4 full time trail Ertaud brought a shovel Lake. ambassadors staffed during the and other tools just in case Ertaud has a story akin to summers. he needed to clear trail. He many residents in the Eastern This year, there is only one full removed any rocks larger than Sierra. He graduated from col- time ambassador and one part a fist from the trail, picked up lege during the Great Recession time. trash, and attempted to talk to and did not have many options. So what do these ambas- almost everyone that appeared So he took a job as a ski in- sadors do? Lindsay Butcher, to be camping, whether that be structor and the Eastern Sierra the only current full time trail checking their permit, answer- started to grow on him. ambassador, told The Sheet, “On ing questions, or sharing general Alex Ertaud documents evidence of an illegal fire at Lake Barney Ertaud left the area to get his a normal day I am usually going knowledge. “I’ve been doing this for four trash] is getting its moment and Masters degree from the Uni- up some trail. I check permits, I One of the 20 or so groups summers and I’ve picked up attention. versity of Utah. But like so many pick up trash, and I am usually Ertaud talked to did not know thousands of pounds of trash,” But this is a continuation of a others, found himself coming doing some trail work along the they had to pack out their toilet said Ertaud, “I’m glad it [the back. way. paper. see TRAILS, page 9 Tightening races Redrawn flood maps CannaBishop? Suddenstink 4th amendment blues p. 15/ p. 8/ p. 6/ p. 4/ p. 5/ 2 I www.thesheetnews.com THE SHEET I Saturday, August 29, 2020 the Ted Carleton ....... Jack of all Lunches INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE I had the following email exchange with Allen Brown this week. 760.937.4613 / [email protected] Brown: News Flash! BLM (Black Lives Matter) takes their community improve- June Simpkins... ment team to Kenosha, Wisconsin. What a great organization! Hope the local high Jack of everything else 760.937.3967 / [email protected] school chapter is taking notes! Second email: NEWS FLASH! Biden, Harris, Pelosi condemn violent protests/ri- sheet Zachary Hite ................... Writer ots/looting in Kenosha. OOPS! No, they didn’t! News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra [email protected] My reply: You’ve seen the video, right? You saw what the cops did to that man. Seven shots in the back. “Nunc demum istaec nata esse modo Owen Page ..................... simplex horum meminisse quae agricolae. Writer [email protected] I’m ashamed of those officers, ashamed for my country. Hi sunt qui in terram. In Occidente novae When will officers break ranks? When will the good ones realize that they can’t testae ex luto. Vos scitis ... insulsi.” Clouds McCloud ......... Ass-trologer continue to avert their eyes while the bad ones pull this shit? -Gene Wilder as Jim, Blazing Saddles Brown: Saw the video, looks horrible. Unlike you, I’m content to wait and see Spike Todd ...........Beverage Consultant what the full investigation/story reveals! There’s always more! Also, unlike you JACK LUNCH apparently, I don’t think this incident that initially appears so terrible justifies PUBLISHER riots, looting and now more deaths. Second email: Ted, hope you know I like you, I do. Yeah, I saw that video, looked terrible. What I saw when I watched that video P.O. Box 8088 was a guy not following police instruction, resisting arrest AND, it looked like he Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 was reaching for something on the floor of his car. Doesn’t change realities, still 760.924.0048/[email protected] For a subscription, contact Lunch at his horrible. I was never a real peace office although technically I was, just a juvenile An adjudicated paper of general circula- above e-mail address, or call the office. Issues are mailed out bi-weekly. Cost is $75/year. probation officer. What did I learn from that? There’s almost always SOMETHING tion. © 2020 The Sheet, all rights reserved. more. We should all want justice and be willing to know the full story rather than just rushing to judgement and using a terrible thing like this as an excuse to riot, It’s so often … [I’m] reminded of my color. It’s just really sad. We’ve got to do loot and kill even more people. Third email: You know I’m right. better, but we’ve got to demand better. We’ve got … it’s funny. We protest and they *Two people were later killed in Kenosha by a self-described 17-year old militia send riot guards, right? They send people in riot outfits. They go to Michigan with member who said he was there to preserve order and defend property. guns and they’re spitting on cops, and nothing happens. The training has to change The above represented chapter one of my mentally processing the murder of an in the police force. The unions have to be taken down in the police force. unarmed man, Jacob Blake, in Kenosha, Wisconsin by a police officer. Chapter two My dad was a cop. I believe in good cops. We’re not trying to defund the police was presented by Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers when asked by a reporter and take all their money away. We’re trying to get them to protect us, just like they about Jacob Blake during a postgame press conference. protect everybody else. I didn’t want to talk about it before the game, because it’s Rivers is a black man, extremely successful and articulate. He attended college at so hard, to just keep watching it. That video, if you watch that video, you don’t need Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He’s coached an NBA champion- to be black to be outraged. You need to be American and outraged. How dare the ship team. He married his college sweetheart, a white woman he met during his Republicans talk about fear? We’re the ones that need to be scared. We’re the ones freshman year. They’ve been married 34 years, and have four children. having to talk to every black child. What white father has to give his son a talk about “What stands out to me is just watching the Republican Convention. They’re being careful if you get pulled over? It’s just ridiculous ... It keeps going.
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