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 Climb to the Top of one of the tallest Pacific Coast Lighthouses as Keepers have done over 100 years! Access the tower gallery for whale watching and the most dramatic coastal view anywhere. Visit the newly-renovated Fog Signal Building, new home of the priceless First Order Fresnel Lens. Gift Store – Shopping by the Sea Select from a new inventory of Lighthouse collectibles Point Arena Light Station 45500 Lighthouse Road Open Daily 10AM – 3:30PM Point Arena, CA Admission $7.50/Adults, (707) 882-2777 $1.00/Children 12 & under From the Editor’s Desk Advertisers Index 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 Deadline for submissions is the twentieth of each month Lighthouse Peddler Issue#89 March 2009 Mitch McFarland: Editor, Publisher, go-fer Madeline Kibbe: Art Director, Design, Production Manager (707) 882-3126 P.O. 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