LONG-TIME KZYX music programmer Steve Rubin of Boonville has died. We await an obituary.
MENDOCINO COUNTY IS CONSIDERING turning over AV Parks to as yet Unidentified Third Parties.
THE EDITOR REPORTED FRIDAY that he was freshly out of Marin General Hospital due to complications of complications, too tiresome to describe but enervating for sure, meaning it will be a few days before he's back up to his half-speed. Much gratitude to all of you for sticking with us in this difficult time. But the complications returned and he was back in the hospital on Sunday.
HOSPITALS are not restful. Every few minutes, round the clock, someone is coming to take blood, dump more stuff in the IV, take your temperature, and so on, which I suspect is mostly the work of lawyers to prevent suits against the hospital. But everyone is so accommodating only a churl would complain. They fixed me up, although I feel I paid a price. Off to bed!
REMEMBER THE 50s? I used to be reminded of that awful decade on a daily basis. I happened to have owned a six-chair dinette set that was so uniquely, soul-destroyingly ugly that I sprinted past it every day on the way into my office. Covered in a plastic faux flower print of deliberately faded browns, yellows and greens that was clearly the work of a person so far removed from life's natural colors as to be mentally ill — in other words a conscious, eager tool of the 50s aesthetic — this kind of furniture is, however, indestructible. It is so sturdily built, it will inspire suicidal feelings in you and yours for generations to come. I'd rather not say how I came into possession of this particular abomination, but I wanted it out of here. I was prepared to pay someone $50 to take it away, but my supervisor insistsed on selling it for $25, even after I thought I had her convinced that selling furniture this ugly amounted to a crime against nature. She got the $25 for it at a garage sale. I hope they put it out behind their garden where nobody could be useful while it deteriorates and nature takes it back into its welcoming arms.
THE AV COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT is looking for an Admin Assistant. 20 hours/week at the AV Fire Department Boonville Firehouse. The person in this role will be in a position to make a strong, positive impact on the community by facilitating day-to-day operations of the Fire Department, EMS, Recreation, and other branches of the CSD. Bilingual applicants are encouraged to apply! www.avcsd.org for more info. Resume & Cover Letter to: firechief@andersonvalleyfire.org. Applications due by March 13, 2024 at 6pm. $20-$22 per hour, merit & COLA increase, 3% SEP IRA match, medical insurance contribution.
HS diploma or equiv, Microsoft Office exp., Admin exp. Working with public desired.
Job Description at: https://www.avcsd.org/docs/AdminAsst.pdf.
FELINES OF PHILO:
Seven more community & feral cats going in for spay/neuter tomorrow! And we did two on Monday finishing up a colony in Boonville. Donate to help TNR Anderson Valley!
Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=37TRTARSNN5B8
Venmo: @felinesofphilo
BILL KIMBERLIN: My truck is finally old enough that young guys stop me frequently to say, “Hey, that's a cool truck.” It seems to be the square profile that attracts them.
AV SKATEPARK VIDEO
Hi folks!
The Community Foundation of Mendocino County came to AV and interviewed us for a video project about all about the Service Learning Team, and our Skatepark Project! We want to say a HUGE thank you to the Mendocino Community Foundation, and the videographer, Thomas Delgado. We are so, so honored that Thomas and the Foundation took the time to tell our story, and we're so excited to see the finished product!
NORM CLOW: I may have been the only AVA subscriber in the Caroline Islands and then Guam. I was having lunch one day in Kolonia Town on Pohnpei once, reading the paper, when a voice behind me piped up, “Wow, reading the AVA on Pohnpei in the Palm Terrace.” It was a fellow I’d met earlier that day from San Francisco who had a place in Manchester, and whom I’d told I was from Philo. “Do you know Bruce Anderson?” “One of my best friends.” You never know.
I WON'T miss dealing with the Post Office bureaucracy, hastening to clarify that the Boonville Post Office has never been anything but cheerfully efficient. Outtahere was always the prob.
POST OFFICE CENTRAL has steadily made “innovations” which recently has required our weekly dispatch to be partly deposited in bags, partly in bins with special lids and straps that we have to buy, with accompanying weekly reporting requirements pegged to complicated math formulas even our resident math wizard, The Major, sometimes puzzles over every week.
WE HAVE TO store enough bins and bags and lids and straps in the crowded space of our combined office and living space to meet the demands of the weekly dispatch, resulting in quarters that might be called “industrio-beatnik,” a unique clutter certain to defeat even the most committed Feng Shui organizer.
ALTHOUGH we've always paid mightily for second class mailing permit “privileges,” the Boonville weekly has always been treated by big city distribution as junk mail, which accounts for the paper's serendipitous arrivals in distant locales. One week the entire dispatch went missing. I sued the Post Office in small claims court, then handily located just down the street in the Boonville Justice Court. The Post Office sent three (count 'em) officials to beat back my modest claim, arguing, essentially, that stuff happens that the Post Office can't be held liable for.
MAILING COSTS have steadily risen over the years to where we could no longer afford to send papers out of state, nevermind out of the country, and there went a nice slug of subscribers. Lesson learned? Big beats small. Whatever one's enterprise, it's all geared to corporo-convenience and the homogeneity that comes with it.
PLANT STARTS FOR SUMMER GARDENS - by Philo Flora (Misha Vega)
After years of starting all my own plants for my large homestead garden due to the lack of robust and inspiring local offerings, I am starting over 2000 plants this year. I will be offering varieties that I have personally grown with success, both in my home garden and in larger gardens that I have worked at in the valley. I will have vigorous and healthy plants beginning in early April, planted in mostly reused and returnable (if you wish) pots. Get in touch to place an early order, or to get on my email availability list. Pricing on plants will generally be: 4” pots $4 each, jumbo 6 packs $6-7 each.
Plant types available (open pollinated and hybrid - seeds sourced from Johnnys, Uprising Seeds, Fedco, Territorial, and Open Circle Seeds):
Peppers: Serano, Jalapeno, Poblano, Jimmy Nardello, Bell, Lunch box, Stocky Red Roaster, Ajvarski, Padron. Eggplant: Millionaire, Orient Express, Aswad, Diamond. Cucumber: Lemon, Armenian, Slicing, Japanese. Tomato: Early Girl, Green Zebra, Black Krim, Brandywine, Goldie, Sun Gold, Cherokee Purple, Costoluto Fiorentino, plus three types of canning tomato. Yellow and green summer squash, winter squash, melons and watermelons, celariac, celery, parsely, chevil, kale, green onions, basil - Italian, Thai, Cinnamon. Flowers: Cosmos, coreopsis, zinnia, sunflowers, strawflower, and more.
For questions or to order, please contact Misha at: misha.vega@gmail.com
TROY KREIENHOP
I have some Barbados sheep to loan out. If you have a fenced safe place for them. They are eating machines. Better than goats because they are not escape artists. I have 10, but would like to loan out at least 5, with an option to buy possibly. I don’t have enough fenced area for them right now and they eat everything completely down. 707 895-9005.
BRUCE ANDERSON AND HIS WIFE LING (photo by Fred Gardner)
LEND A HAND, IF YOU CAN!
Please support this cause and lift up Tyler and his sweet family in this time of need! Reach out if you are interested in dinner tickets, would like to help, have something to donate etc. Tickets will be available at the local markets starting tomorrow. Any support is greatly appreciated!
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