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Kevin Kelly Ariana Campbell Kawika Chetron Osorio HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIF. • FREE Thursday Feb. 1, 2018 Vol XXIX Issue 5 Christine northcoastjournal.com Mitche f Walters John M Chris Giauque Joan Taylor Penelope Milbourne Seamus Kenneth Ollie Cader Penelope Milbourne Baker THE Victoria Murphy Katie Wantz John Morgan HUMBOLDT Anesi Roger Seamus 35 Andrea White Sauta Why does Humboldt County have the highest rate of missing persons Mary reports in the state? Sheila Stuart By Linda Stansberry Daniel Ogden Stromberg Franks Jeff Dan Pogue Joseph Ivan Edrel Pierce Seamus Murphy Lorie Walters White Rebekah Martinez Gregory Kuljian Linan Daniel Thomas Locke Roger Anderson FlanaganHannah Rowell Fannie Fawn Stuart 2 NORTH COAST JOURNAL • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 • northcoastjournal.com PARTS AND SERVICES ON: Honda Yamaha Polaris Suzuki KTM Kawasaki Harley-Davidson Can-Am CUSTOM BUILDS & FABRICATIONS ATVS • UTVS • TRUCKS • MOTORCYCLES PARTS • REPAIR • SALES CNC MILL & CNC PLASMA SERVICES 3990 BROADWAY, EUREKA 707.269.0991 northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 3 Contents 5 Mailbox 5 Poem Feb. 1, 2018 • Volume XXIX Issue 5 Crab Season North Coast Journal Inc. 6 News www.northcoastjournal.com Bench Clearing ISSN 1099-7571 © Copyright 2018 10 It’s Personal Publisher Judy Hodgson Oldylocks and the 3,000 Stairs [email protected] 11 Week in Weed General Manager Cultivation Cap Heads to Court Chuck Leishman [email protected] 12 NCJ Daily News Editor 13 On The Cover Thadeus Greenson The Humboldt 35 [email protected] Arts & Features Editor 18 Home & Garden Jennifer Fumiko Cahill Service Directory [email protected] Assistant Editor/Staff Writer 21 Table Talk Kimberly Wear Hum Plate Round-up [email protected] Staff Writer 23 Art Beat Linda Stansberry Contents Under Pressure: [email protected] Graffiti at Piante Calendar Editor 24 Arts Alive! Kali Cozyris [email protected] Saturday, Feb. 3, 6-9 p.m. Contributing Writers 26 Front Row John J. Bennett, Simona Carini, Barry Evans, On the Rocks Gabrielle Gopinath, Collin Yeo Art Director/Production Manager 27 The Setlist Holly Harvey [email protected] Bowled Over Graphic Design/Production Miles Eggleston, Carolyn Fernandez, 28 Music & More! Jacqueline Langeland, Amy Waldrip, Live Entertainment Grid Jonathan Webster [email protected] 32 Calendar Creative Services Manager 38 Filmland Lynn Leishman [email protected] Lost in the Darkness Advertising Manager Melissa Sanderson 40 Workshops & Classes [email protected] 44 Sudoku & Crossword Advertising 45 Washed Up Linus Lorenzen [email protected] Dig Those Razor Clams Tyler Tibbles [email protected] Kyle Windham [email protected] 45 Classifieds Classified Advertising Mark Boyd [email protected] Office Manager Annie Kimball [email protected] Bookkeeper Deborah Henry [email protected] Mail/Office 310 F St., Eureka, CA 95501 707 442-1400 FAX: 707 442-1401 www.northcoastjournal.com Press Releases [email protected] Letters to the Editor [email protected] Events/A&E [email protected] Music [email protected] Classified/Workshops [email protected] CIRCULATION VERIFICATION COUNCIL Arts Alive! is Saturday, Feb. 3. The North Coast Journal is a weekly newspaper serving Humboldt Read more on page 24. County. Circulation: 21,000 copies distributed FREE at more than “Last Flight,” drawing by Louise Bacon-Ogden 450 locations. Mail subscriptions: $39 / 52 issues. Single back issues mailed $2.50. Entire contents of the North Coast Journal are copyrighted. On the Cover No article may be reprinted without publisher’s written permission. Printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink. Typography by Jonathan Webster 4 NORTH COAST JOURNAL • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 • northcoastjournal.com Crab Season Huge waves Lift our horizons, Crab pots set Close to shore Wafting death, Baiting others In the dark DR. PAUL DOMANCHUK OPTOMETRIST Unaware of THE The harvest… ISION — Kirk Gothier V Terry Torgerson CENTER Providing Eye Care & Eye Wear for over 50 years. empowerment and a statement against I have gone to two Hu man town hall DR. KENNETH KAISER I Marched anti-Semitism. meetings and never heard him bring up OPTOMETRIST Editor: Carman Gentile, Arcata these issues. For our representative to Previously with Eye of the Phoenix Today I marched with my daughter, ignore class issues is deadly; our country 616 H STREET • EUREKA granddaughter and sister (NCJ Daily, Jan. is on the brink of authoritarianism and we 25). We were proud to join women and Let’s Talk About Jobs! can no longer make the same mistakes men from my small county who share my Editor: we’ve made for decades. The Democrats horror at this presidency. I’ve felt helpless A glaring omission in Representative lost voters in the center because previous and depressed; marching was something Hu man’s interview (“Congressional Chat,” administrations shipped out thousands of I could do. Feeling fi nally empowered, I Jan. 18) was “jobs or full employment.” We those voters’ well-paid manufacturing jobs walked up F street toward my car with my should be proposing: federal job retrain- and we have not created solutions to re- Email us sister and our protest posters. I was heck- ing programs for jobs lost during industry verse the slide of the middle and working led; I dared carry a Hillary sign. I wanted disruptions, vocational training in high classes. We need to rectify this. Here: Bernie, too, but … school/community college and federal A strong middle class helps make a Someone in a car on Fifth Street shout- start-up funding for mini manufacturing. country internally strong and gives hope ed something. They circled around, and on Instead of discussing “decorum,” Hu man to the working class. Sixth Street they hollered out again, “She and Wear could have analyzed the fury Zephyr Markowitz, Bayside should be in jail.” OK, I thought, that’s your and fear fueling Trump’s ascension. Eco- ill-informed opinion. Immediately before nomic insecurity feeds racism. me was a motorcycle event with rows of Environmental issues are close to Hu - Clarification beautifully polished large bikes. Some of man’s heart but it is incumbent upon him In our weekly cartoon feature in the the guys there nodded in either approval to fi gure out that nationally we are not Jan. 25, 2018, edition of the North Coast or acknowledgement. I slowed to admire going to get support for environmental is- Journal, we ran a photo collage submitted press releases: an orange bike but the owner said, “Hillary sues unless folks feel they can fi nd decent by cartoonist Terry Torgerson showing newsroom@ needs a bullet in her head.” Then he said, paying jobs to keep their house and family signs from the Jan. 20 Women’s March on northcoastjournal.com either she (Hillary) or I was a “C” word! together. These are lynchpins to support- Eureka. It has since come to our attention Misogyny is alive and well in Humboldt. ing their self-respect. that Torgerson used photos he found on letters to the editor: I got to the car feeling defeated again. Hu man’s district includes many Facebook, including some taken by Lost letters@ Now, I’m angry and looking for a construc- working and middle class people who are Coast Outpost photographer Andrew northcoastjournal.com tive outlet. fearful about their economic future and/ Go . The Journal regrets using the photos events/a&e: Cheri Ward, Eureka or aren’t stable fi nancially now. I talked without the necessary permissions and calendar@ to an employee at the Humboldt County credits. northcoastjournal.com O ce of Education about federal job music: A Monumental creation being needed. Her reply, “Yes! [email protected] Let’s get real.” Write a Letter! Suggestion Lots of District Two folks work in the Please make your letter no more than sales: display@ Editor: service industry. A substantial number will 300 words and include your full name, northcoastjournal.com May I suggest a statue for the Plaza that be losing those jobs to automation in the place of residence and phone number is far removed from President McKinley (“A next several years. Even in Eureka, com- (we won’t print your number). Send it classified/workshops: Monumental Decision,” Dec. 7). Consider puterized scanners are replacing cashiers to [email protected]. The classified@ Mary, the Jewish mother to Jesus of Naz- and tellers. Hu man needs to have these weekly deadline to be considered for the northcoastjournal.com areth. She stands as a tribute to women’s people’s backs. upcoming edition is 10 a.m. Monday. ● northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL 5 Build to edge of the document Margins are just a safe area News WINTER/SPRING EDITION NOW AVAILABLE! ON NEWSSTANDS & ONLINE HUMBOLDTINSIDER.COM Judge Dale Reinholtsen is retiring when his term ends. File Bench Clearing Humboldt County’s judicial turnover, LIFESTYLE two decades in the making By Thadeus Greenson OUTDOOR FUN [email protected] PERFECT TRIPS wenty years ago in these very club that wields tremendous power over former Humboldt County Confl ict Counsel pages, the North Coast Journal the citizenry of Humboldt County. After Greg Elvine-Kreis to fi ll Watson’s seat and ran a story about an unprece- all, trial judges decide child custody cases, Kelly Neel, a former deputy public defend- FOOD & DRINK dented turnover in the Hum- marry people, grant divorces, authorize er and deputy prosecutor in Humboldt, to boldt County judiciary. Over the the seizure of personal property, protect take Cissna’s. Who will take over Miles’ and Tspan of just 24 months in the late 1990s, people’s rights and decide when — and Feeney’s seats remains to be seen but Court SHOPPING Humboldt saw fi ve of its seven judgeships for how long — someone’s freedom Executive O cer Kim Bartelson says she change hands amid a youth movement.