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Muir Beach Neighborhood News Issue 242 July 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR UPFRONT Front & Back Cover 1 Dear Reader: MBVFD BBQ 2008 Last year Julie Smith did the lion’s share of BBQ coverage with some The Beachcomber Salutes Painting by Brad Eigsti help from a few Chairs and myself. This year I’m happy to report that Julie (still providing the lion’s share!) and I had much-appreciated Page 2 The Graduates of 2008 help from Paul Jeschke, Laurie Piel, Gail Falls, Bruce Barlow, Debra Table of Contents 2 Allen, Tayeko Kaufman, Kathy Sward, Maury Ostroff, Hannah Eigsti, From the Editor 2 Linda Lotriet, and Erin Pinto. Many thanks to you all for enriching Kaitlin Maureen Ketchum UpFront this annual ritual with multiple perspectives in the pages to follow. BBQ stories begin on page 8. graduated May 10, from The Graduates of 2008 3 Loyola University, New Letters to the Editor 4 And a special thanks to Brad Eigsti for painting this stunning and Orleans with a Bachelors Redwood Log 4 delightful rendition of BBQ Day for the front and back covers. Shopping at Mill Valley Market 4 Degree of Arts degree in In Loving Memory 4 Humanities, Honors in English Subscribe to Green Gulch Bread Deliveries! 5 Next issue: October 2008 (ok bragging here a little Wayne Heldt: A New Photography Exhibition 5 Submissions Deadline: September 15, 2008 bit). She is making her home Hospital Vigil Organized for Green Gulch Accident Victim 6 See page 46 for Submission Guidelines. in New Orleans for the time Little Left After Disastrous Apartment Inferno 7 Email: [email protected] being and is thinking she will The 36th Annual Firemen’s BBQ Drop: Beachcomber mailbox, south end of Pelican Mailbox Row Fletcher Riehl is graduating from UCLA apply to graduate school in May 3rd Work Party 8 Mail: Editor, Beachcomber, 19 Seacape, with a double major in History and the next year or two. We are May 10th Work Party 9 Muir Beach, CA 94965 • 415.381.2515 Greg Ketchum, Kaitlin Ketchum, and Kathy Economics. After taking a few weeks Taylor Ketchum pretty proud of her! May 17th Work Party 10 off for a bit of fun, Fletcher’s going —Kathy Ketchum May 24th Work Party 11 Photograph by Kara Grace Ketchum Support Those Who Support Us to jump right in and go to work for Behind-the-Scenes Prep CIM Group, an investment company A Lot of Work – A Real Good Time 12 Dee Turman, 305 College View Drive Rohnert Park, CA 94928 How I Do the Raffle 13 DTurman Illustration, 707.843.1625 that partners with local governments, Sandy, Rob, and Debra are proud to It Takes a Village 14 Graphic Designer [email protected] Graphic Design & Illustration Services www. dturmanillustration.com development agencies, public announce that Thomas C. Allen graduated of the Beachcomber May 24th Volunteer Dinner 15 employee pension funds, and other from Tam High with honors on June 12. Welcome to the 36th Annual Firemen’s BBQ 16 investors on projects to revitalize urban BBQ 2008 Painting by Hannah Eigsti Member of AIM (2-year documentary film neighborhoods. —Christian Riehl BBQ Day 17 Dave Semling, program), and on to UCSC (film/media May 26th Post-Barbecue Cleanup Party 21 Mill Valley Services, tech. dept.) —Debra Allen Wrap-Up From the Chairs 22 printer of the Beachcomber. Photograph by Leslie Riehl Complimentary color covers! Sunny Skies Help MBVFD Barbecue to Financial Success 23 Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department Doug and David Canepa, Spotlight: Cuco Alcala 24 Mill Valley Market, Shop & Give Program. Shop at Mill Valley Market, give code MBVFD Incident Log 27 Thomas C. Allen #7094 to the cashier before the end of the Photograph by Debra Allen Muir Beach Quilters transaction, and 3% of your total receipt Vision Project Update 28 will come back into our community to the Beachcomber. The more we shop, the more Mill Valley Market gives. Please support Devon McDonald-Hyman to Study Photo & Film at USC Muir Beach Community Services District your community newsletter. Moth Spray Unwelcome and Unlikely at Muir Beach 29 The McDonald-Hyman family wishes to announce the Copyright © Beachcomber. All rights reserved. District Manager’s Report 30 graduation of Devon from Tamalpais High School… Community Center Update 33 The Beachcomber is a community magazine published by and for the residents, friends, family, and former residents Football wide receiver and kicker in the fall, and baseball Nature of Muir Beach. Published since 1946. Appears four times a second baseman in the spring, while maintaining an A The Critter Report 34 year in March, May, July, and October. Subscription rates are average in honors and AP classes can prove demanding for any high school student. But it is particularly hard if Art $25 per year for delivered issues and $30 per year for mailed copies. you’re also an award-winning photographer. Interview With A “Busy, Busy, Busy” Man 35 Ben Herwitz, a lifetime Muir Devon’s talent for photography was striking throughout his Fiction Beachcomber Staff Beacher, graduated this year from high school years. His accolades include 1st Place in the Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind 42 Editor Linda Gibbs Saint Ignatius College Prep in San Pacific Sun newspaper Photography Contest, selected Graphic Design Dee Turman Francisco with Honors. He will works chosen for the prestigious Mill Valley Arts Festival, Community Info Reporters exhibited in the Rising Stars Artisans Gallery showing, and Weekly in Muir Beach 46 continue his education at Trinity Greater Muir Beach Neighbors Judith Yamamoto winning “Best in School” for the Physics Photo Contest at Muir Beach Community Center 46 College in Hartford, Connecticut Muir Beach Quilters Pam Barlow where he was recruited to row for Tam High. In his spare time, Devon’s a photographer and Classified 46 MB Volunteer Fire Dept. & Roving Paul Jeschke writer for the West Marin Citizen newspaper as well as the Trinity’s nationally ranked crew Beachcomber Submissions Guidelines 46 MB Volunteer Firemen’s Assoc. Anne Jeschke Muir Beach Beachcomber magazine. Nature Dave MacKenzie team. He plans to major in Sports Supporting the Beachcomber Masthead Larry Yamamoto Psychology. —Jim Herwitz His passion for photography and film led to Devon’s Friends of the Beachcomber 47 Photographer Julie Smith admission to the University of Southern California (USC), Become a Friend of the Beachcomber 47 where Devon will study photography and film on a Roski Circulation Anne Jeschke Photograph by Jim Herwitz Give a Gift Subscription to the Beachcomber 47 Cover Painting by Brad Eigsti Devon on location at Yosemite School of Fine Arts Talent Scholarship. Beachcomber Beach Towel 47 MBVFD BBQ 2008, 17” x 12” 2 3 UPFRONT UPFRONT Redwood Log Subscribe to Green Gulch Bread Deliveries! Musings from Mia Monroe By Emila Heller and Mick Sopko The Green Gulch has designed a weekly email “menu” so people can order Bread Bakery has their choice of bread from the ones being offered. (Re: Can I Mention Something? March 2008 issue) Summer days and summer crowds are here! Lots of ladybugs been operating now Yes, the layout of the article was great, and I thank you very much. We’re also delighted with the connection we’ve made are visiting, too…warm days and sunny spots are full of for about 9 months with Will Koza of the Pelican Inn. We’re currently Even better, the article caught the attention of a former Muir them plus many butterflies as well. Local tip: visit early and we’re producing Beacher who subsequently arranged for her daughter's Girl Scout supplying the Inn with about half its bread needs, mostly or late to have the woods more to yourself! And, ask your up to 350 loaves each Troop to engage SaveABunny as a volunteer project for the Troop. in the form of “miches,” which are large, round, 2 kilo friends to take the shuttle on weekends and holidays. week, consuming That is a great demonstration of how powerful and important loaves of different varieties. Will is interested, as are almost half of them local publications are to supporting the needs of the community. we, in supporting and encouraging local food activity, Wildlife is abundant this year, too! Regular reports of within the community I can't thank you enough for the time and effort you put into the and serves the bread mainly over the weekends – for the coyote on the trails, otter frolic in the creek, barred itself, for guest and Beachcomber, but because of your work, lots of people—and owlets learning to fly and feed overhead, and of course, table, for sandwiches, and for breakfasts. bunnies—are benefiting. Christian Riehl resident meals. We’ve lots of deer! Remember: they’re wild animals and don’t been offering the rest Some of our more popular breads are Pain Rustique, feed, approach or otherwise distract them from their wild Walnut Levain, Corn Rye, Pain Provençal (with olives and This year I decided to change the reference to my functional for sale to our Muir life! fresh rosemary) and, of course, Muir Beach Sourdough! description to “Team Lead” rather than “Chair.” After letting Beach subscribers Mick has recently introduced a sweet and sour Raisin Rye everything sit for a year, I think it is more descriptive to use the Special dates in Muir Woods, please join us: and to Sunday and is experimenting with a number of other breads, term as it truly is a team effort to get the BBQ moving each year. • September 19-20-21 at 1 pm: a special dance visitors after the including Focaccia, Ciabatta, Sesame Durum, Unyeasted This is especially true with the type of effort involved in each of performance: BIG TREES small dance public lecture at our Bread, and Pure Rye.