Free Lighthouse Peddler (707) 882-3126 Issue #89 March 2009 www.lighthousepeddler.net A Litle Newspaper by the Edge of the Sea Meet Point Arena’s New Mayor On January 27 following the seating in Art History. She is well known in the of the new Point Arena City Council the area as an accomplished and unique artist members elevated Vice-Mayor, Lauren Sin- who goes by the business name Art-God- not, to the position of Mayor. Her election dess. Te name was originally suggested comes afer having served eight years as a somewhat humorously as a vanity alias for member of the council. Afer falling just the Internet, but the name has become syn- short of being elected in the onymous with Point 2000 council election she Arena’s new chief ex- was appointed to fll a seat ecutive. abandoned by another coun- While still living in cil member. She served the Texas a friend who was remainder of that term and familiar with Annapo- was elected to a 4-year term lis suggested that Lau- in the 2002 election in an ren needed to move to uncontested race. In 2004 Northern California. she was chosen to the post She, a companion, and of Vice-Mayor and ran for Mayor Lauren Sinnot her two sons, Adrian the council again in 2006, winning another and Ian, loaded into a bus and headed west. 4-year term against write-in candidates. Afer a detour up Hwy. 101 and into Ore- Lauren was born in Madison, Wisconsin gon, they returned to the California coast and was raised in a near-by town before at- and made their way to Point Arena in the tending Rice University in Houston, Texas bus. Tey found the town to be very wel- earning three degrees including a Master’s coming and just to their liking, so they continued on page 14
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Each winter we look forward to things slowing down and having time to get to all those Action Network 8 Mar Vista 12 things we are too busy to do in the summer. Tings we call “good winter projects”. Te Anchor Bay Store 10 Mendocino Dog Sports 3 trouble is winter seems to fy by as fast as summer does, leaving most of those projects for Arena Frame 16 next winter. Michael Lopatecki 5 Tis edition will see the passing of the vernal equinox and the lengthening of the daylight Arena Pharmacy 11 MTA 13 to surpass the nightime. Arena Teater 12 Mueller Machine 7 Tere are a few things that you should put on your list for the upcoming month and not Banana Belt Properties 18 Outback Garden and Feed 16 forget. For us, chief among them is the Hazmobile coming to the south coast. Tis time B Bryan Preserve 6 Pacifc Chiropractic 4 aroundthey will be at the Sea Ranch Fire House. Look across at page 3 for the listing of Bed and Bone 11 Pangaea 1 0 their days there; they are precious few and we hate it when we hear about it a few days late Birdsong Clinic and Teashop 3 Peter McCann P.T. 9 and must store our nastys for another couple months. Of course, the Ukiah depot is open Blue Plate Special 5 daily if you are heading that way. Phillips Insurance 6 Another thing you might do is to visit the re-opened Lighthouse. We got a quick tour Body Terapy 9 Phoenix Restaurant 4 and were completely knocked out by the view from the top. No question it is the number Chad DeGarmo 7 Physical Gym 7 one viewpoint on the coast. Te lens has been taken down and put in the Fog Signal Build- Circles 10 Pizzas and Cream 8 ing so the top of the Lighthouse is a clear space with an incomparable 360 deg. View. Get Copy Plus 11 Point Arena Lighthouse cover there before the tourist hordes. Cotonfeld 12 RCMS 15 Patrick Cordrey of the Oz Farm has a piece on page 6 about local agriculture. We keep Cove Cofee 8 Red Stella 6 bringing this subject forward because we are excited by all the possibilities and necessities Davis Dirt Works 9 for change that we are facing in the near and not-so-near future. One of those big changes Rollerville Café 3 Dr. Digital 4 which must take place is the end of our reliance on oil not just for transportation and en- Roots 16 ergy, but to produce our food. We have to move away from the corporate dominance of DuPont’s Mendo Merchantile 5 Sea Trader 3 the food supply, not because we hate corporations, but because it is not sustainable. Tat EasterRidge Realty 12 Sharon Burningham 6 means doing like humans have always done before us. For the most part food should be Four-Eyed Frog 6 Skyway Towing 11 grown by or near the people who consume it. Frannie’s Cup and Saucer 6 South Coast Automotive 10 Gualala Arts 5 Surf Super 7 Gualala Bldg. Supply 4 Surf Terapy 10 Gualala Supermarket 8 Susan Moon 4 Hazmobile 3 Te Lof 5 Healing Arts and Massage 9 Tink Visual back cover Jody’s Auto Repair 8 Top of the Clif 5 Judith Hughes 4 Transformational Bodywork 12 KZYX 11 Velina Underwood 6 Kersten Tanner 6 Village Cobblery 3 Lane Geographics 4 Zen House 10
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T is is the eighth in the series of soon leaves Japan for America, but not be- March 27 & 28 presentations at the T eater of the Met. fore unknowingly impregnating But erf y. 9 am - 1pm T ough this is one of the most famous She waits three years for his return, but Sea Ranch North Fire Station operas of all time, it didn’t start out that when he does he brings his new Ameri- Tea Shop Opening In April Highway One, The Sea Ranch way. Pucini f rst presented his opera in can bride with him. His new bride, Kate, 35590 Verdant View, Sea Ranch (off Annapolis Rd.) Open to both Mendocino and February 1904 in two-acts and it was poor- agrees to care for the child who would Sonoma Residents ly received otherwise be an Limit: 15 gallons/vehicle per day largely due outcast in Japan. to a late com- Tragedy follows Open Every Day Charge for any excess. 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Education at the Met Nagasaki in the is, not a preparation for life; in New York in 1906. His fourth version early 1890s. education is life itself. made several changes in the orchestral and Japan's best-known opera singer, Tama- Janis Dolphin - John Dewey vocal scores and was presented in Paris in ki Miura, won international fame for her 884-3590 1907. Later that year he revised it once performances as Cio-Cio San (Madama [email protected] again and this f f h version is now known But erf y) and her statue, together with as the “standard version” and is the one that of Puccini, can be found in Nagasaki's A Unique Full Service Motorcycle Shop most of en performed, though the original Glover Garden. is still of en performed in Italy. T is production stars Cristina Gallar- T e story is set in Nagasaki, Japan in do-Domas in the title role and Marcello 1904. Pinkerton, a young U.S. Naval of - Giodani stars as Pinkerton. Patrick Sum- cer has arranged for a home and bride in mers conducts. 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I though I would It was put in a so-called socially conscious 882-1619 have a look at my water bills to examine the Serving Business and Consumers investment account that theoretically didn’t rate structure and see what encouragement the oil paintings of Mo Ryan give money to bad people; that is, those who there was for me to conserve. exploit employees and the environment to What I discovered was that there is get rich. Well, I don’t know how socially PACIFIC virtually no encouragement at all. conscious it really was because it included I took a bill from each of the four CHIROPRACTIC pharmaceutical companies, energy seasons and averaged them and found that EALTH ENTER producers, and the like, but I didn’t really H C Madeline and I use about 423 cubic feet want to get into investigating everywhere (3150 gallons) of water per month. Our her money went. COZY SLIPPERS average bill is $74.72. I don’t know if that T e day I started the account the share DR. DANIEL BRANNIGAN is high or low on a statewide average, but price was $6.83. Over time I added some that is not my concern here. What bothers money and grandparents did and cash me is the rate structure. T is isn’t a column 884-1714 presents were all put in the account. about my water supplier. T ey don’t make Since Amy is about the cash in the last 38690 PACIFIC DRIVE GUALALA the rules, they just go by what the PUC of the stock, I thought I would look at its allows. performance over the 19 years. I charted T e great percentage of my bill is a f xed it’s rising and falling and noticed some amount. T e service charge is f xed along interesting trends. In ’89 when we started, with three other charges for various things the market was down. On September 5, that are also f xed. My actual water use 1989 the Dow Jones was at 2745. T is only accounts for $24.94 of my bill. T e was just at the end of Bush 1. 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What Today the share price stands at $6.61; [email protected] is that all about? 707 785-9714 22 cents less than 19 years ago. Meanwhile, I don’t begrudge the water company Amy has been paying $35 service fee on the making a reasonable prof t and that, it account meaning that another $665 was lost seems, is all the PUC really cares about: to broker fees. Affordable Acupuncture making sure that utilities are making Over time the family and friends put a reasonable prof t (and no more). It $25 per visit- no appointment necessary in a total of $11,800. Using the dates and seems that they don’t give a damn about amount of deposits and an Internet savings Wednesdays 1- 7 p.m. conservation, at least when devising a rate calculator, I worked out that if we would structure. I’m afraid this is yet another at The Intention Center have put the money in the bank at 2.2 %, it example of how state agencies lose track of would be worth $15,789 today. upstairs at the Sea Cliff Center the public interest. Fortunately for her and just out of dumb I don’t know how water rates get set for Judith Hughes, Licensed Acupuncturist luck I took some money out to make agri-business, but something tells me that Put all thine eggs in one basket private loans when the market was high so 882-2855 there is lit le incentive for them to stop and- watch that basket. she didn’t actually lose any money, but if - Mark Twain growing cot on in the desert. Pg 4 Lighthouse Peddler, March, 2009 continued on page 13 ***************************** Gualala Art Center Presents: Berkeley City College Printmakers As digital technology becomes more of new spaces derived from the lighting and more sophisticated some artists are and modeling of 3D rendering programs. f nding new ways to apply existing concepts Other artists use high-resolution and techniques to the new tools available photography to make "hyper-realistic" Sweatshirts, Toys, Candles, to the digital artist. Large format printers imagery of an illusionary nature, making make possible the production of big images prints that are beyond what is real because Clothing Bath Products formerly unavailable. Twenty of these artists they have been so precisely edited. & Much More of varied backgrounds will be showing at the Still other printmakers are exploring Gualala Arts Center opening March 14 at f gurative work - adapting recognizable 5:00 p.m. until April 6. 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T e majority of the food we eat is Wednesday through Saturday Velina Underwood based and diversif ed before WWII was trucked in from sources around the globe. 213 Main Street Point Arena 882-2500 At orney at Law infused with surplus chemicals and Ref ecting on the historical accounts of technologies that promised a break from the south coast township (Elk to Gualala) “Specializing in the laborious tedium of farm life with the over a century ago, I found descriptions of Estate Planning & Real Estate Law” “Green Revolution.” T is set led in well diverse and productive agriculture. Two in the 1950’s as the U.S. populace made pound onions, four pound potatoes, thirty Cypress Village the shif toward a suburban lifestyle. f ve pound cabbages and one hundred P.O. Box 862 (707) 884-1066 T ings got easier and cheaper due to pound beets were reported from the local [email protected] FAX (707) 884-1053 the industrialization of agricultural soils along the bench lands and river production. T is commodity crop bot oms of the south coast’s exceptionally focused agribusiness became driven by fertile soils. A dozen or more dairies of ered progress and prof ts, overlooking the exports of rich cream and but er from the health of the soil, plants and animals verdant pastures. Today we are fortunate raised, and the workforce engaged in to have an organic neighborhood dairy producing cheap available food. With representing multi generational family free-trade agreements, military might, farming. A half dozen farmers grow and and a newly acquired superpower status of er fresh produce through the season our agriculture went global. Entering at local farmer markets. But by and large, the 1980’s, corporate control of the our region is def cient in local production. agriculture sector reached a new level of How much of the food available in our domination(consolidation of family schools was grown on the coast here? farms lef America’s agrarians down and How much intensive energy is expended out–and then things got big. Genetic to industrially produce, package, and manipulation and biotechnology deliver goods from an average of 1400 OZ FARM entered the arena to “feed the starving miles away? Do we know the people who Weddings planet.” Soon, most of the genetic tended and harvested our food? T inking about how we can gain control Retreats integrity of crops had been tainted, twisted and patented. 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MUELLER MACHINE South Coast Artists to Show in Japan Auto Industrial Marine Motorcycle Ling-Yen Jones, Miriam Owen, and Hi Performance Classics Mike Henderson have been chosen by the Mendocino Sister City Association to .1 day service on cylinders show their work in Japan this summer. Gym & Fitness Studio .Quality engine rebuilding & A Call to Artists went out across - Latest Cardio Equipment In house Installations available the county to f nd artists to represent with awesome Pacific view .Resurfacing heads, blocks, manifolds, Mendocino at two exhibitions. T e - Free weight area to pump you up - Circuit Equipment to work f ywheels, drums, rotors, etc. Miasa-Omachi Mendocino Sister City Exhibition will be June 19 to July 15, your entire body Press-work: axle bearings, bushings . 2009 and the Matsumoto Museum - Pilates Reformer for core work .Broken bolt repair Exhibition will be in September. Hrs: Monday - Thursday 6 am to 7:30 pm .Welding: iron, steel, aluminum Twenty-eight artists were chosen to Friday - 6 am to 7 pm .Overheating problems repaired send their work abroad and of them ten Saturday and Sunday- 8 am to 5 pm .Engine parts; Gasket Sets, Radiators f nalists were picked to actually make the Guests always Welcome! clutches & more! trip. Finalist Ling-Yen Jones, a maker of exquisite and unusual jewelry, was Raf e prize: sterling silver clasp face necklace 884-1555 884-3183 awarded the opportunity to accompany with white pearl and blue gem silica her work. trip must be borne by the artists. In order Cypress Village 38401 Hwy 1 Gualala As a to help raise the funds Ling-Yen is raf ing a Gualalala working sterling silver clasp face necklace with white MUELLER MACHINE a r t i s t s pearl and blue gem silica. Raf e tickets are Ling-Yen “Keeping You Humming” now available at Everything Under the Sun faces a in Point Arena, Four-Eyed Frog Bookstore, All The Help You Need since 1981 daunting Rumors, and Red Stella in Gualala and the task of Chad De Garmo Mendocino Jewelry Studio in Mendocino. r a i s i n g T e lucky winner will be chosen on May 25 Licenced General Laborer the funds at the Memorial Day gif show at 284 Main P.O. Box 785 I keep my friends as misers do necessary St Point Arena (the old CityArt building) their treasure because, of all the to make Pt. Arena, CA at 1:00 p.m. Winner need not be present. the trip. 707 882-2156 things granted us by wisdom, none Tickets are $2 a piece, 3 for $5, 10 for
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Pg 7 Lighthouse Peddler, March, 2009 Panoramic Ocean and Forest Views. Tidy two-bed- room house in Irish Beach with an outstanding view Coast Community Library of Manchester Beach all the way to the light- Book Review house. Minutes away from miles of beaches and by Terra Black over 1,000 acres of scenic public lands, plus the excellent elementary school in Te Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Manchester. Private and wind protected, with a large unbuildable feld at the back and wide views of the for- “Tere was a hand in the darkness, and and learn many useful traits such as Fading ested hills beyond. Te low homeowners association Sandwiches - Cold Drinks - Espresso - and Dreamwalking. fee provides access to a private beach and pond. it held a knife.” $595,000 Ice Cream - Organic Coffee Tis is deliciously creepy stuf. It’s not Bait & Tackle - Surf Gear - Gifts Te Graveyard Book begins at night everyday one reads a sweet story of a litle 882-2665 with the slaying of a family at the hands boy growing to maturity in a graveyard, 884-1109 P.O. Box 630 Open 7 days a week 7 am till 3 pm of a gifed, knife-wielding assassin named having adventures with witches and ghouls Fax 884-1343 35505 So. Hwy 1 790 Port Rd., Arena Cove www.bananabelt.org Anchor Bay, CA Jack. But Jack goofs and lets one get away, and learning some of the magic tricks of an 18-month-old toddler who wanders the Dead. Gaiman says he was inspired by away from his crib and toddles his way Kipling’s Jungle Book. to an ancient Instead of the orphaned DELICIOUSg r a v e y a r d boy being raised in a where he is jungle by wild things, GOURMETgiven sanctuary however, the child is by surprisingly raised in a cemetery by Family Resource Center PIZZASfriendly, but a 501 (c) (3) nonproft www.ActionNetwork.Info ghosts and things that go “Building a thriving, healthy, drug-free commUNITY” & Create Yourvery Own dead, bump in the night. A Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition individuals. Te PIZZAS,Our ICE Dough CREAM, & Sauces Prepared Fresh Some might worry Centers in PASTA, FRESH SALADS, inhabitants of about the violence of Point Arena & Gualala the graveyard, the opening scene, but Family Support Services MICROBREWS,ORGANIC GREENlong since dead LOCAL WINES rest assured that it takes 0-5 Play groups & SPARK SALADS and forgoten, place of screen with zero Counseling save the young Caesar - de Greek - Spring Greens gore. Darkness and grim Fun Activities dine in take out child and take and bake plot devices are not new 39144 Ocean Dr, Gualala 707-884-5413 bring him into in children’s literature. L. 200 Main St., Point Arena 882-1691 15 Flavors 884-5414 en Espanol Now With Two Locations! their world, Frank Baum, who gave us HAND giving him “at the pier” of“top PICKED of theIce hill” Cream Te Wonderful Wizard of “Freedom of the Oz, was especially fond Arena Cove- 38920 S. Hwy 1 Natural Soft DrinksGraveyard” and of decapitations, and Point Arena& MendocinoGualala Micro Brewsraising & Wine him in no one can say that the Mon-Fri 4-8pm Tues-Fri 4-8pm a most unusual Brothers Grimm shied Sat & SunOpen for Lunch Sat & &Dinner Sun manner. And Mon - Thurs 4 -9 p.m. away from blood or gore 12-8pm 12-8pm while the dead do not eat or leave the in telling their “happily-ever-afer” dities. Fri, Sat & Sun 12 - 9 p.m. confnes of their ghostly “homes”, the (707)882-1900Take (707)Out/Dine 884-1574 In Te Graveyard book is mild by comparison mysterious undead Silas agrees to be the to those classics, and is the worthy recipient www.pizzasandcream.com882-1900 child’s guardian and supply him with his of the 2008 Newberry Award for Children’s earthly needs. Tus Nobody Owens is Literature. Come check out this delightful Beautiful Ocean Views adopted into a lifestyle which will fnd (707) 882-2271 Point Arena Cove children’s fantasy at Coast Community him able to converse freely with ghosts Library in the Children’s room.
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Box 204 of the classic “drought-tolerant” plants hail leaves are anise or licorice-scented. www.bodytherapyskincare.com from warmer climes with low humidity, so Gualala, CA Southwest Agastache species tend to they would not thrive here. have fowers in the pink-red-orange range 707-684-9144 Plants from Mediterranean climates, and are more appreciative of heat and dry Free Estimates with cool, wet winters and dry summers, air. All these hyssops will atract bees, Top Quality Dependable Service would be the obvious choices, as long hummingbirds, and buterfies. Evening and Weekend Calls Welcome as they don’t need too much heat. Our For shrubs, we can look for species with region has not been considered part of deep roots like the native blue blossoms California’s Mediterranean climate zone, (Ceanothus species), or exotic Camellias, but that may be changing. which actually have deep, water-seeking To fnd new and interesting plants for Healing Arts roots. 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Te to fnd a greater fool. tulip poppy is Hunnemannia fumariifolia, -Alexander Predro a refned-looking yet vigorous subshrub with yellow fowers. Te carrot family is known for its SUNDSTROM MALL, GUALALA 884-1205 HRS: 7:00 A.M TILL 8:00 P.M. MONDAY THRU SATURDAY, 7:30 TILL 7:00P.M. SUNDAY taprooted plants and Johnny’s Selected Drought-tolerant Shrubs With Mulch Pg 9 Lighthouse Peddler, March 2009 Preview Whale and Jazz Festival Coming in April Spring is just around the corner and that Pangaea is now Saturday afernoon, April 11 will be the a mobile restaurant, means the annual Whale and Jazz Festival Annual Chowder Challenge at the Arts coming soon to a venue is coming to the South Coast. Te Festival Center in Gualala from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 near you! will take place over three weekends. Ac- p.m. Barnaby’s Hot Four is back by popu- Check out tivities begin on Tursday, April 2, with a lar demand with their traditional New Or- our website photo lecture by award winning whale pho- leans style jazz. Admission for the music www.pangaeacafe.com tographer Siegfried Matull. His spectacular only is free. for dates and locations, whale photos from Hawaii and Alaska will Te same evening, Saturday, April 11 as well as catering and guarantee plenty of whale sightings even if the Whale Watch Inn will host a gourmet private chef info. conditions inhibit viewing the whales pass- bufet and wine at sunset overlooking the ing by at sea. sea. Outstanding guitar and vocal duo, Tank you to all the customers of Te following night on Friday, April 3 Mimi & Gabriel Pirard, and Ricky Aquino, Pangaea over the years. St Orres Restaurant will present dinner and percussion will provide original Parisian jazz featuring European Gypsy Jazz with chansons with a jazz favor. Call 884-3667 guitarists Paul Gruen and Ned Ripple. Seat- for information and reservations. ings are 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Call 884- Tat same evening the Art Center will 3335 for reservations. host Poetry and Jazz featuring Butoh the- Circles Hair Studio Saturday afernoon take a ride up to the ater, and haiku & other forms of Japanese Annapolis Winery for Wine and Jazz with poetry accompanied by traditional Japa- Christie Winn & the Lowdowns. Call 886- nese instruments. Refreshments and a no- 5460 for details. host beer/wine bar will be available. Te Festival Music Coordinator, Fred Adler, event begins at 7:30 p.m. has promised a unique and magical musical Sunday afernoon you can enjoy brunch evening when the main event takes place on with creative local jazz duo, Keith Abrams, Saturday April 4 at 7:30 p.m. Todd Sicka- acoustic bass guitar and Paul Mueller, foose’s Tiny Resistors bring an unusual tenor sax at the Blue Canoe in Anchor Bay combination of bass, violin, trumpet, glock- from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. enspiel, saxophone, guitar, and other in- More whale and jazz flms will be shown 884-4400 struments to Todd’s original compositions at the Arena Teater on Monday, April 13 by Appointment Only which Fred calls, “the most original and TBA. Next to Blue Canoe in Anchor Bay Village riveting jazz that I have ever heard.” Lim- Te third weekend features events in ited cabaret seating is available, but get your Point Arena. A restaurant event is being tickets early. scheduled for somewhere in Point Arena, Te following morning on Sunday, April but details are not available at this time. 5 Te Redwood Grill will be serving brunch Whale and Jazz 2009 concludes Satur- from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to the sounds day evening April 18 with Linda Tillery of keyboardist, Greg Hester. Reservations and the Cultural Heritage Choir. Tis at 884-1639. globally acclaimed vocal/percussion en- South Coast Automotive On Monday, April 6 the Arena Teater semble authentically draws from the his- AUTO & TRUCK REPAIR will be showing whale and jazz flms to be tory of African/American Roots music. WELDING announced. MUFFLERS Field shouts, spirituals, blues, gospel, jazz Te following weekend Te Sea Ranch and Afro-Caribbean rhythms are all per- 882-3410 . 30 PORT RD., PT. ARENA Lodge will host a sunset dinner and jazz formed with joyous and devoted integrity. with Susan Suton, keyboard and Terry See next month’s issue for full details. Simcik, guitar. Call 785-2371 for details.
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We have to do things dif erently and 9am-10am always known that it would eventually the only way to accomplish that is to start become commonplace to speak in terms thinking much more long term. Our energy Mon: Renewable Energy of trillions of dollars --one trillion is one problems will not be solved in my lifetime, Hour million millions. but if we don’t start now, they will never be -or- T is year we have reached the point solved without the advent of calamity. The Reality where many of us are chagrined, but not T e stimulus package will provide entirely displeased, by the thought of the Report JON & DIANA LUTHER unprecedented opportunities for the wind 24 HOUR SERVICE federal government shoring up banks and and solar industries. Between a three-year Tue: Mind, Body, Health, serving Mendocino County residential mortgage holders to the tune extension of the production tax credit for and Politics MOST INSURANCE ACCEPTED of 2-3 trillion dollars. T e recently passed wind energy projects, the ability to convert 882-4147 $787 billion stimulus package is understood those credits into cash, and other incentives, 44080 BIAGGI RD, MANCHESTER Wed: Forthright Radio to be a “down payment” on what needs to it is theoretically possible that taxpayers be done to keep the national economy from would cover 30% of the cost of a new wind -or- Highest Quality Digital Copiers completely tanking. farm. Of course, it is important to keep in Takes on the But silver linings do abound. It E-MAIL ACCESS mind that some of those taxpayers not yet is becoming abundantly clear that Barack World OFFICE SUPPLIES have been born. However, incredibly tight BLUEPRINTS Obama does understand that we are f nancial markets will keep many projects Thu: Family Connection approaching the end of the oil and coal & MAP COPYING that are completely ready to develop from -or- LAMINATING economy. It is a long way from over, but it proceeding in the immediate future. When & BINDING is not impossible to see this horizon. A few f nancing is available there will be plenty Wildoak Living MAIL months ago in this column I talked about of places to spend. As of last October the FORWARDING predictions for oil prices in the near future. Fri: The Access Progam NOTARY number of applications for solar power At that time there was no global f nancial projects had grown, in less than two years, -or- HOURS: crisis and oil was selling for $140 per barrel. 10-5 Monday-Thursday 10-6 Friday from zero to 125 with the total potential to The Truth About I talked about predictions of oil prices falling produce 70,000 megawat s, which is equal to Money Copy Plus to as low as $70 per barrel in the short term, 70 large coal-f red power plants. Meanwhile, followed by increases to as high as $200 Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico along KZYX 90.7 FM Philo Sundstrom Mall / Gualala / 884-4448 per barrel in the not too distant future. No 882-2159 with his cousin Senator Mark Udall of KZYZ 91.5 FM Willits & Ukiah one was guessing that a f nancial meltdown Colorado and Senator Amy J. Klobuchar 88.1 FM Ft. Bragg would hammer us so bad that oil would fall of Minnesota, recently introduced a bill www.kzyx.org to less than $40 per barrel simply because that would require utilities to provide 6 no one could af ord to buy it or, even worse, percent of their electricity from renewable Mendocino County oil wasn’t needed because millions of us had resources by 2012 and gradually increase Public Broadcasting no job to drive to or money to go shopping that level to 25 percent by 2025. And there or for vacation, college, or anything else. are billionaires from sea to shining sea eager We have succeeded in reducing our carbon to invest in waving, alabaster f elds of wind footprint, but for a most painful and ironic turbines planted amidst the amber waves of reason. Between dwindling supplies and grain. To keep your marriage brimming, the reality of global climate change, it seems But there are problems -- and lots With love in the loving cup, that all we really needed to begin moving in of them. All of these projects are centralized Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; a new and bet er direction was exactly what Lodging for Pets systems that are going to necessarily Whenever you’re right, shut up. has happened. I guess we should be thankful be located far from energy consumers. - Ogden Nash Grooming Training for the self-serving greed of which we were Solar arrays will be placed in cloud free, A SpecialRebecca Place Golly for Paws all victims. T ank you Wall Street. T ank sunny locations stretching from Southern PO Box 174 Point Arena 95468 you Bush Administration. A lit le serious California to Florida, using the cheapest ruination provides such great motivation land in the remotest desert. T e most and opportunities. I am seeing in the press and from continued on pg 13 Pg 11 Lighthouse Peddler, March, 2009 Living your Knowing Point Arena Food Co-op Is Ofcial sm Body Wisdom Te food co-op in Point Arena that St. or by calling 882-3663. has been in the planning stages for some By owning a piece of the co-op members ~~ A curriculum for the soul time now has fnally become a legal entity. will receive a 5% discount on all purchases, A CLOTHING STORE FOR WOMEN Coastal Organics Cooperative, Inc. is the greater discounts on member shopping Touch ~ Movement ~ Meditation wearable clothes wonderful jewelry name of the organization as it is registered days, discounts on case orders, the ability with the State and will soon be operating to make special orders and infuence the the Arena Market and Café as the name product line, vote for board members, and of the storefront. Work has already begun receive dividends and patronage refunds to renovate the street-level portion of the from yearly surpluses. Oddfellows Hall to accommodate the Depending on how much you shop at the new co-op. cooperative, you could easily realize a beter While hired professionals must return on your share purchase than most Sea Clif Center necessarily do some work, there is investments. In addition you will also be Mon-SatMon-Sat 10:00-5:00 pm Sun 11:00-4:00 With Fred and Cheryl Mitouer 10:00-5:00 pm Gualala Creators of much that volunteers can do to make one of the owners of the cooperative. Tis 884-1836 Seacliff Center Gualala Sun 11:00-4:00 884-1836 Pacifc School of Massage & Healing Arts the transition. Tere are volunteer creates the opportunity to build and shape sm & Transformational Bodywork opportunities for painting, general the market in exciting ways that beneft www.bodyworkmassage.com construction and more. Some materials members and the community. Finally, as an 2009 Seminars have been donated, but there is still a owner, you can participate in the democratic 707 884-3138 need for plumbing materials, framing running of the business; electing board lumber, and fnish lumber. Te goal is to members, participating in the board, serving open phase one in April. on commitees, and seting general policies. Te frst thing that anyone interested in If interested in making a greater seeing this project happen should do is to investment in this community project, join the co-op. Membership investments please contact the co-op for investment are $300. A membership includes the possibilities. Investing in a co-op where you Hwy. One - Anchor Bay 884-3522 whole family, but multiple memberships live is diferent than puting your money in www.MarVistaMendocino.com within a family are welcomed. Multiple corporate stocks and bonds far away. Te Arena theater benefts would accrue to that family. risks are diferent, the process is diferent, www.arenatheater.org Additionally, it is possible to become a and the benefts to you and the community member by paying $50 annually until the are diferent. If you are interested in making Recycling Tip March 2009 full investment is reached. Shares are not this vital community owned institution We received an email recently from transferable, but they are refundable. A happen, please contact Peter at 707-882- serious conservationist and recycler, Member Movie Party start-up fee will be waived at this time 3663 or [email protected] Lucienne Allen. She and her husband, Friday March 6 5 PM for founding members. Applications are David, live on the ridge and use a Brita 7 PM Gran Torino available from the storefront at 185 Main flter to purify their drinking water. Tis is fne except that she states,“If March Films: The Reader, Doubt, 3rd Tursday Poets Present Gary Bolstridge you’re like me, you feel prety bad Coraline, Taken, ...more every few months throwing the used Met Opera LIVE in HD On Tursday, March 19th at 7:30pm, blending the improbable with reality, ofen flters in the landfll.” Te Tird Tursday Poetry Reading Series ending with a revelatory comment meant Well, feeling bad wasn’t good Saturday March 7 at the old CITYART building in Point to show the reader that both have a viable enough for Lucienne. She has found Madama Butterfly Arena will feature San Francisco poet Gary presence and meaning.” a company that recycles those used 10:00 AM Doors: 9:15 AM Bolstridge. Bolstridge, a humorous, quirky On his ffh grade report card, his teacher pitcher flters and uses them to make Saturday March 21 ,philosophical poet, is a retired mechanical wrote "a good student but has his head in other products. It is a company called engineer who freelances as a writer. He the clouds." Gary says this is still true, and Preserve and Lucienne sends along La Sonnambula has over 30 chapbooks of poetry and his that he is very much “in touch” with his 10:00 AM Doors: 9:15 AM their web address where information poetry has been published in magazines, “innerchild”. on their recycling program is available. Arena Theater LIVE literary reviews, online anthologies, and Oddly, with his head in the clouds he Go to htp://www.preserveproducts. Saturday March 14 journals. He has been a featured poet at remains frmly grounded in imagination com/recycling/britaflters.html to Food Banks Benefit cafes, galleries and libraries throughout the and creativity(balancing cold, hard facts learn how. Bay Area. He has recently published his frst with imagination in what he calls a “yin/ Tanks, Lucienne, there aren’t many Twelv30 book of poetry with Beatitude Press, Line yang approach” “I have never lost that like you(but there should be. 8:00 PM Doors: 7:00 PM By Line, which includes the visual images of childish eye and have fun seeing things Wednesday March 25 Anne Herbst. Besides poetry, he publishes as they aren't and making up improbable Ginger Helton Desert Roots articles and essays about bonsai, viewing stories to entertain myself. I enjoy reading Broker Yuval Ron, Dror Sinai, Eliyahu Sills stones and Japanese lanterns, and he also to an audience, having them interact with EASTER RIDGE gives public lectures on these subjects. REAL ESTATE 7:30 PM Doors: 7:00 PM me. It brings poetry to life and makes life His poetry spans such topics as nature, fun,” he says. (707) 882-3920 Arena Theater Film Club the human condition, life experience, Tis event is supported by Ling-Yen Jones 1-888-882-3920 Human Rights Series surrealism, philosophy, history, politics & Te Tird Tursday Poetry Group, an 152 Main Street Mondays March 2, 16, 23 & 30 and physics, among other things. No topic P.O. Box 678, Point Arena, CA 95468 anonymous donor, and Poets & Writers, email: [email protected] 214 Main Street, Point Arena is taboo. He says, he likes “to infuse most Inc. through a grant it has received from the website: www.easter-ridge.com poems with humor, satire and/or irony, James Irvine Foundation.
Pg 12 Lighthouse Peddler, March, 2009 MY WAY FORWARD continued from page 11 efcient place for industrial scale wind energy production is a wide band east of the Rocky Mountains running from Texas north to Canada. Te entire power distribution system of the North American continent must be redesigned and largely rebuilt to handle this new energy source. Coal and nuclear energy can provide electricity at will, 24/7, every day of the year. You just have to throw that billion dollar switch. Wind and solar, especially wind, mountain soothing mist can be intermitent and unpredictable at any given location, so complex systems must be designed and constructed to move the energy around. ascending tranquil fog bank Incredible amounts of new transmission lines will be required and they will march through farmland, fragile deserts, neighborhoods, and small communities where people refreshingly wet are certain to rebel at the idea. Tere will be more than a few environmentalists, hunters, -mai haiku and other sundry types of nature lovers who will be happy to speak for the desert tortoise and the pronghorn antelope. When considering national goals, I have to support wind and solar energy. Industrial scale development of solar energy, of course, has its own set of problems associated with it. I simply must feel beter about wind and solar than fossil fuels and nuclear, but I have to continue to recognize that the only real solution is population control, a subject that most public fgures are still terrifed to seriously discuss. Next month my column will be about a diferent concern. Large-scale development of wind energy can itself afect global climate and local weather. Maybe I should say that again. Large-scale wind energy development can afect global climate. But that’s crazy you say. Wind turbines farms, even the largest ones, aren’t so big. Are they? Major research is being done in this area and peer-reviewed papers published. Te conclusions vary from interesting to astounding. Final Deadline for submissions is SCUTLEBUT continued fom page 4 b b we had just let it sit there she would have lost about $1000. Tis does not take into account infation, which at an average of 3% per year means would mean that neither the March 20th market nor the bank would have protected the $11,000. Several points come to mind. One is that Amy should have gone to college in 1999 (but she was only 13 years old). Another thought is that maybe this is why the savings rate in America is so low. You lose money by “saving” it. Also, unless you get lucky, the only way to make money in the stock market is to work it. Just holding it there is unlikely to increase your wealth. Finally, at least in the last thirty years, money seems to go into the market when Democrats are in and it comes out of the market when Republicans are in. South Mendocino Coast A few years ago there was another idea foated to pay college costs. I can’t remember if it was Barbara Boxer or Pat Wiggins who proposed this idea in California (I don’t think Bus Service they thought it up), but its too bad it didn’t happen. It goes something like this: parents Rt. 95 - Daily Service Between start paying tuition for a California public college starting anytime afer a child is born. Point Arena & Santa Rosa Tey pay at the rate that applies when payments are made. When the child reaches college age they may have already paid for their education or, if they choose not to go to a public college, they can just have the money back to use at a private school or trade school or to buy a new surfoard and take a trip to Bali. Many students get loans to go to college and spend years paying them back at prevailing interest rates. Madeline went to college in the late ‘80’s and paid 9% interest on her RouteRoute 7575 NowNow RunningRunning SaturdaysSaturdays student loan. So ofen we start our graduates out in their professional lives with a bunch andand weekdayweekday serviceservice betweenbetween of debt. In many cases this limits their options because of the need to pay of the students Gualala,Gualala, FortFort BraggBragg && UkiahUkiah loans that are hanging over their heads, but in all cases it increases the cost of college. Tis other way of fnancing school gives parents and students up to 18 years to pay for the schooling with no interest payment, thus making college more afordable while increasing the national savings rate.
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Pg 13 Lighthouse Peddler, March 2009 MAYOR SINNOT continued fom cover PRINTMAKERS continued fom pg. 5 turned of the bus, though they lived in it another year. Another aspect of "Tinking Big: Berkeley City College Printmakers" is that images Lauren now owns a home on Main Street in Point Arena, which has become something are produced on a variety of output media - and always at a large scale. Group members of a roadside atraction in town. Lauren has constructed and painted four large plywood produce digital imagery as quilts, on aluminum sheets, as big canvases on stretcher bars, angels that adorn her house. Te frst three are drawn from her extensive knowledge of art on Mylar panels, in "Cornell Boxes" and other "sculptural" environments, and even on history. Tey represent Vision, Strength, and Compassion and are inspired by Victorian, paper. In fact paper choices range from traditional mate printing on treated watercolor Minoan, and Flapper style concepts. and rice papers to glossy photographic fnishes to use of recycled and treated papers. No one should have any difculty fnding her house as it is marked by the presents of a Several artists use their printmaking imagery in creating other work including motion very fancifully painted art car. Some ten years ago Lauren was traveling thru the Canadian graphics, web art projects, and other projected artwork. tundra and saw numerous brightly painted trucks with advertisements. She thought that A fnal component of this exhibition is the degree of refection about art history if they can do, it so can I. Te car is entirely covered with landscapes and symbolic depic- and pertinent precedents both historic and contemporary: collagists, surrealists, tions. conceptualists, abstractionists, traditional photography, and of course digital multimedia Ms. Sinnot became interested in politics out of her constant drive to know how things arts. work. As politics infuences and afects so much of our lives, she naturally felt the desire to Curator for this exhibit is Mathew Silverberg. Members of this group have shown fnd out how that works. She specifcally got involved in Point Arena politics while renting a house from former mayor, Leslie Dahlhof. It was Leslie who convinced Lauren to run for a council seat. During the eight years she has already served Lauren has been focusing her efort on planning issues, learning how government operates, and trying to fgure out how to bring people together. Of the two greatest challenges that she sees facing the city the biggest is, of course, money. Cities such as Point Arena are heavily dependent on state and federal grants to fnance city operations and the current state of the economy has few people feeling optimistic the near- term. Te other issue for Point Arena and other tiny jurisdictions is the disconnect with Sacramento. State politicians think of cities as places where tens of thousands of people live and they tailor legislation accordingly. One such example is the requirement that any council member living within 500 f. of a project must recuse themselves from discussion and voting on the issue. In Point Arena that means that almost every project has at least one council member out of the discussion. Another is the law prohibiting city employees from being on the city council. With such a small pool of interested and eligible citizens in Point Arena it is ofen difcult to feld candidates for the council. When asked what major projects may be in store for her frst year leading the city, Lau- ren mentions an $85,000 Transportation Planning Grant thru the Mendocino Council of Governments (MCOG) that will enable the community of our entire area to address issues Box of Go by Mathew Silverberg of circulation, parking, loading, and the sidewalks and roads of our whole town at the same time. recently (in 2008) at Sea Ranch, the San Pablo Civic Center Gallery, the Alameda Art Ms. Sinnot states that she is “really thrilled’ and “extremely honored” by her appoint- Museum, the June Steingart Gallery (Laney College, Oakland), Kala and the SFMOMA ment and hopes to due justice to the trust which has been placed in her. Also, if anyone Artists Gallery. Various group members have also shown (since 2006) at the Feterley knows the whereabouts of her “Goddess” vanity plate from her art car, stolen a few months
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Pg 14 Lighthouse Peddler, March, 2009 MY TURN continued from pg. 6 ADVENTUROUS GARDENER continued fom pg 9 Supported Agriculture) model. Tis arrangement between farmer and consumer seeks drought limits your planting, remember that islands of vegetation, with shrubs and to establish a fnancially supportive situation for the farm by having investment shares perennials grouped together, helps limit watering and looks beautiful. to cover start-up costs, which is returned in the form of produce over the length of the With both ornamentals and edibles, it helps to know which are true annuals and which season. Shareholders are connected to their food source and receive vibrant healthy are actually perennials. Te tomato is perennial in its tropical homeland and is capable of food. Borrowing from the original version of this concept from Japan, the translation of puting down very deep roots. If you can prepare a root bed four feet deep, your tomatoes teikei means “face to face”, emphasizing the interconnected nature of the relationship. will sent their roots down there. Mature plants can then be watered infrequently, but Tis model relies on the agreement of trust and mutual support to the beneft of the local deeply. community by ensuring safe, secure food, preserving farmland, and creating important Tis leads us to double digging, once again. If you aren’t up for that much digging, try to jobs. fnd someone to do it for you. A deep bed that keeps the topsoil on top will help your edible Spending your dollars locally puts integrity into the community–securing jobs, plants withstand drier conditions. growing businesses & farms, and making regionally distinct products. Coast locals What changes and challenges can we expect for our gardens? As we learned last summer, have the opportunity to support a new cooperative food market in Point Arena, Arena our region can experience wildfres. Even if the coast escapes the fames, fres inland will Organics. Member-owned and directed, the coop will strive to support local agriculture, send more wild animals our way. Afer fres, expect more hungry deer and mountain lions creating a vital guild that will strengthen the fabric of the economy. A recently published to prey on them. Other animals, from bears to porcupines could travel west looking for Mendocino County Local Food Guide ofers information on access and seasonal food. availability of foods produced within the county. Other ways of accessing healthy Dry times may be trying times for wildlife and many plants, but not for weeds. Invasive local food are: atending the Gualala Farmer’s Market (Saturdays from May through plants are adapted for changing conditions, altering their survival strategies to take advantage October), joining a community garden (one in Pt Arena and the Posh Squash in Sea of heavy rains, drought, heat or cold. Tat’s how they got to be weeds! Prolonged dry Ranch), and geting yourself into the garden to “reap what you sow.” Te benefts of conditions may bring newer, tougher weeds our way. growing your own food are immeasurable. If all of us here on the coast sink in some A recent study showed that castor bean (big and toxic) and weedy fountain grass may roots and support the food system that sustains us, we are more likely to have a thriving be capable of thriving here if it gets just a bit warmer and drier. Te one to fear is yellow local economy and strengthened community. star thistle, which has not yet taken hold on the coast. Seeds travel here on car tires, and it would be dreadful if the new climate regime allowed it to become established here. Bees Patrick Cordrey has managed Oz Farm for 8 years. Te farm will be ofering may like it, but it’s one nasty weed to deal with. Whatever happens, this is a time of adventure for plant lovers. We can make wonderful CSA shares for a 30 week season beginning in April. Please call 882-3046 to discoveries about plants and growing techniques that will keep us gardening happily. join or with any questions. Embrace the changes, remembering that all true adventures include fear and frustration as well as delights.
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