ART MUSIC VOTE ART NIGHT SPACE MANILA So much BISCUIT Manila CSD to see You so candidates in Mack cray in their own Town B1 cray B1 words A4 & A5 MADRIVERUNION.COM MMADAD RRIVEIVERR UUNIONNION VOL. 3, NO. 3 16 PAGES WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015 EST. 2013 $1 Growers get regs, city OKs pot zone State lawmakers promote new marijuana rules MMIZ plan downsized, neighborhood meeting planned Daniel Mintz Kevin L. Hoover by Governor Brown. Mad RiveR Union Mad RiveR Union The proactive approach, developed HUMBOLDT – A few days before Gov- ARCATA – The Arcata City Council during three Planning Commission meet- ernor Jerry Brown approved a package last week adopted an ordinance creating ings, is intended as a way to sensibly chan- of medical marijuana regulation bills, its a Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone nel a predicted boom in the cannabis in- authors were in Humboldt County to say (MMIZ) on West End Road. But strong dustry into creation of legal businesses that regulation is overdue and will deliver pushback from area businesses and resi- rather than the unregulated underground order to a large but uncontrolled industry. dent made the council scale back the size enterprises that have resulted in disrupt- North Coast Assemblymember Jim of the proposed zone, and a neighborhood ed neighborhoods, distracted police and Wood was joined by Assemblymembers meeting will be held later this month to criminalized cannabis workers. Rob Bonta and Tom Lackey at the Hum- gather input from area stakeholders. It’s also intended to keep the federal gov- boldt County Courthouse for an Oct. 6 As approved by the council, the MMIZ ernment from further intervening in Arca- press conference on The Medical Mari- is planned as a location where cannabis ta’s afairs by demonstrating a good-faith ef- juana Regulation and Safety Act (MRSA), entrepreneurs can set up tax-paying, la- fort to regulate the local cannabis industry. which they co-authored. bor-friendly and environmentally sustain- Land Use Code revisions adopted by the GREEN RUSH REGS Assemblymember Along with a bill sponsored by Senator able businesses under streamlined permit- council specify the location of the MMIZ, Jim Wood promotes the new regula- Mike McGuire and another Assembly bill ting. It’s also intended to mesh with the now to be concentrated in the ruins of the tions last week at the Humboldt County sponsored by Wood, the act is part of a Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety former Humboldt Flakeboard plant. Courthouse. DM | Union POT REGS A8 Act (MRSA) which was just signed into law MMIZ A8 Motives fuzzy Happy Homecoming in Arreaga case Paul Mann Mad RiveR Union FIELDBROOK/EUREKA – The jury takes up the double murder case of Jason Michael Arreaga with only oblique indications of what might have motivated the killings of Eureka couple Harley Wayne Hammers Jr. and Angel Robin Tully, both 37, in Septem- ber 2014. A love triangle is central to the story, but HOMECOMING McKinleyville High School and the marrow truth of the case is not self-evi- Humboldt State both celebrated Homecoming dent. Arreaga is from Lucerne in Lake Coun- last week with parades. Top photos, MHS students ty and was not an intimate party to the tri- parade down Central Avenue. Far right, HSU Pres- angle. He pleaded not guilty to the murders. ident Lisa Rossbacher in HSU parade around the The leitmotif of the state’s case is that Arcata Plaza. Right, royalty hopefuls in McKin- Hammers and Tully threatened Arreaga in leyville. Later that night, the MHS Panthers football a Fieldbrook driveway with undisclosed ob- took on Fortuna. The Huskies won 49-21. The HSU jects in their hands seconds before the gun- Lumberjacks beat Azusa Pacifc that night. ARREAGA A6 Photos by JD | Union Exchange student becomes refugee Work begins on McK fitness center Maia Lemann Jack Durham The center, which should be completed Mad RiveR Union Mad RiveR Union in 12 to 14 months, has been in the works ARCATA – Abdul Abdullah thought he was coming McKINLEYVILLE – Construction is for more than a decade. to Arcata for a year exchange. What he didn’t know underway on a two-story ftness center The $5.9 million project is being f- was that he would be unable to return home at the end in McKinleyville that will include a swim- nanced by Native American Bank. “This of the school year. In the time Abdullah was gone, his ming pool, sauna tub, steam rooms and an is our largest loan in California, and one home country of Yemen became embroiled in a civil array of exercise equipment. of our largest loans ever,” stated Clay Co- war and the situation turned so dangerous he could not The 29,000-square-foot ftness center lombe, senior vice president of the bank. return. “He’s not a foreign exchange student anymore, – called The Club at Mill Creek – is being “The amount of research that went into he’s a refugee. We have to plan for the long term,” said built by the Big Lagoon Rancheria on Betty the feasibility study the tribe prepared was Ilza Hakenen, Abdullah’s current host mom. Court of School Road near the Mill Creek very sophisticated. It’s fulflling for us to Abdullah left his home, family and life in Sana’a on Cinema. have such a good business partner.” Sept. 8, 2014. He is part of the Kennedy-Lugar Youth “We are so excited to bring a new health Moorehead would not disclose how Exchange and Study (YES) program that is designed club and ftness center to McKinleyville,” large the pool will be, saying he wanted WAR REFUGEEE Abdul Ab- specifcally for students from countries containing a state Rancheria Tribal Chairman Virgil there to be a few surprises when it opens. dullah can’t go back to Ye- signifcant Muslim population to attend high school in Moorehead in a press release announcing But “it will be a nice size pool,” he said. men. Photo by Zaliah Finegan REFUGEE A6 the project. FITNESS A6 Download coupons from our new website: www.lube-central.com 2014 winner! BEST SMALL BUSINESS McKinleyville Chamber of Commerce 839-2171 1590 Nursery Rd. McKinleyville Bring in this coupon and receive $5 off any service! 1590 Nursery Rd. 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He worked with electron micro- Letters to the Editor/Opinion: (707) 826-7000 [email protected] The family goes back on the land from both branches. scopes and failure analysis on bridges and power plants in “My grandparents and great grandparents were caretak- the Bay Area for twelve years. Advertising: (707) 826-7535 ers on the property and then were deeded part of it for He then came home and worked with his father as a [email protected] their caretaking. They bought the rest of it around 1913,” rock crusher for ten to ffteeen years, by his reckoning. Entertainment: (707) 826-7000 he said. All of that experience qualifed him to farm on the fam- [email protected] On his maternal side, McIntosh’s family had a ranch ily land with its “poor soil,” retaining his sense of humor. and homestead in Burnt Ranch. She was a McKnight. 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