NEED A BRAND NEW ROOF, $7800 value? California Shingle and Shake is holding a fundraising raffle for our friend Turk Turkelson, a local roofing contractor. He has recently been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. In conjunction with the raffle we will also be hosting a Tri-Tip dinner and fabulous silent action on August 1st at the Boonville Fair Grounds, happy hour starts at 4p.m. Tickets for the dinner and Raffle are $25 each and can be purchased at the Farmhouse Mercantile, California Shingle and Shake (Ukiah) or by calling Cory Morse @ 895-2543. I hope to see you all there!
THE LORETTA REPORT, posted by Jill Derwinski on July 1st: "I am so excited to tell you that when I saw Loretta today, she said, "Hi Jilly," and I told her how that was the best thing I have heard, ever. Then she said, "Lots better than last week, huh?" Loretta has turned a big corner. She is awake more, smiling more and just 'here' more. I was helping her learn the bed controls, she was learning how to make the head part go up and down. Well, I got confused about the arrows on the controls and Lo and I couldn't make it go back down. I was telling her to push the WRONG button. When I realized my mistake and told her, I got that perfect Loretta smirk and smile! She still has her wonderful sense of humor. I love her! She also told Dan first thing that her favorite is chocolate ice cream. Watching him with her is so wonderful. Dan has never, ever lost his focus on Loretta getting better. His energy alone will make it happen!"
APOLOGIES for losing this thank you to all the volunteers who manned the Grange food and drink booth at the World Music Festival. The promoters graciously waived the $1300 fee ordinarily required of venders while Tim Ward did yeoman's work coordinating Grange volunteers. Those volunteers, Dave (didn't get Dave's last name), Joe Petelle, and Bill Meyers, put in long hours in the booth, whose proceeds will go a major rehab of the Grange kitchen.
THE FIRST ANNUAL Heroes of Health and Safety Fair, Saturday July 18th at the Boonville Fairgrounds, 10am-3pm. There is no cost to this family-friendly event. Many demonstrations and exhibits throughout the day will include jaws-of-life and CPR, health screenings, rescue vehicles, helicopters, search and rescue dogs, a bike rodeo, bounce house for children and free bike raffle for kids. Sponsored by Mendocino County’s Heroes Of Health And Safety Coalition, representing Anderson Valley and Mendocino County agencies. Join us in Boonville on Saturday July 18th from 10am-3pm. (AV Fire Chief Andres Avila and First 5 Commission representative Menaka Olson.)
"FAMILY FRIENDLY" EVENT? I'm sure the above is an "appropriate" venue for children, as the appropriate police would surely vouch for, but what exactly is a family unfriendly event? Most parents would probably want to keep their under-twelves out of a midnight bar room, but unless you're raising a kid on an unwired mountaintop, and even there your neighbors are likely to be armed ag cadres, modern life, the totality of it, is not family friendly.
EVERYONE'S TALKING. About the weather. A reader describes his view from the Anderson Valley last Thursday morning: "It is blessedly cool here this morning. We had a spectacular cloud show this morning — fascinating shapes in brilliant reds and yellows — and since then, to the northeast, we’ve been watching rain showers falling on the Mendocino National Forestlands in the vicinity of Mt. Sanhedrin."
DEPENDING ON YOUR FAVE weather source, it was 99° to 106° in Boonville a week ago Wednesday. We think, by the way, that the Weather Underground is consistently the most accurate on-line weather reporter. It had us topping out at 98° on the alleged 106 day. Whatever, as the young people say. It was hot. No disagreement there.
BIG FANCY WEDDING at the old Boy Scout camp at Navarro, lately retooled as a high-end retreat center. Many sightings of large men and expensive women, including, one report has it, Duane Wade, an NBA star.
JUST UP THE ROAD at the Navarro Store, Mendocino County's lead live music impresario, Dave Evans, has the popular Subdudes coming right up.
KZYX DISSIDENT DOUG MCKENTY, a resident of Elk, has been arrested on pot-related charges, lightweight charges given his bail of a mere $25,000. The roving County narco squad, aka Marijuana Price Support Unit, swoops down randomly, it seems, confining its attentions pretty much to the low-hanging bud, in this case McKenty, a long-time resident of the Mendocino Coast. McKenty had been a loyal programmer at Mendo County Radio prior to his purge for the crime of whatever it was — muted criticism of station management, as I recall.
AV HEALTH CENTER NEWS. The recent meeting of the Center's board of directors revealed that the patient load had grown from 11,800 to 12,000 over the past year. Total operating budget, give or take a few thou — nobody seems to know — but seems to be around $2 mil annually with more than a mil written off. A May "Company Snapshot" shows revenue from patients in the amount of $1,079,085, and grant and other revenue of $1,190,476 for a total of $2,269,562 with the fiscal year ending last week (June 30th). With compensation and benefits rolling in at $1,431,611, facilities $263,227; "all other" $604,197 we have total expenditures of $2,199,036.
A MAY "Board Financial Summary" shows the 2015 budget figures at:
Patient Revenue : $1,104,792
Grants/Other Revenue: $1,096,449
Total Expenses: $2,129,568
BUT THERE'S "Uncompensated care": at $1,034,776 which surely indicates a large operating deficit.
THERE'S ALL MANNER of reports on the Health Center's website but, and to put it mildly, it's beyond our admittedly meager abilities to decode, but I'll give it a go: Two mil in, two mil out, a mil in patient care written off.
NOT BAD, all things considered. The figures at least indicate basic solvency.
HEIDI KNOTT-GUNDLING and Bill Sterling are discussing plans to raise money to pay down the Health Center's onerously large mortgage — about a mil at last count — and eventually develop an endowment to help support the clinic apart from its "Annual Appeal."
KATHY BAILEY REMINDS US: No cost to local residents to enjoy Hendy Woods State Park this Sunday, July 12 from noon on, and every Second Sunday of the month for the rest of 2015. Hendy Woods Community will pay the Day Use fee for those who live in Yorkville, Boonville, Philo, Navarro, Comptche, and Elk: Know Your Zip Code! We are doing this to ensure that cost does not prevent local people from enjoying the only large public open space in Anderson Valley and its beautiful old growth redwood groves, lovely meadows, and access to the Navarro River. Funding is partially underwritten by a generous grant from the Philo Apple Farm.
A MOTORCYCLE stolen from a worker at Anderson Valley Brewing was hurtling up and along 253 when it crashed and burned near the Hammond place, mile marker 8.42 just before the twisting road begins its long descent begins into Ukiah. The ensuing 10-acre "vegetation fire" was quickly extinguished by the Anderson Valley volunteers, with assists from CalFire and Ukiah firefighters. The unidentified motorcycle thief got away on foot.
JUST IN from the Sheriff's Department: "On July 4th at about 3:25 PM Mendocino County Sheriff's Deputies and California Highway Patrol were summoned to the area of mile marker 8 on Highway 253 regarding a report of a suspect who had stolen a motorcycle, which had crashed and ignited a fire that resulted in an approximately 24 acre vegetation fire. The suspect, later identified as 35 year old Marcelino Anguiano of Ukiah, had piled into a hillside at about mile marker 8.47 Boonville, and run off into the woods.
THE COLLISION caused the motorcycle to catch fire igniting the adjacent hillside. More than 50 personnel, along with a helicopter and Cal Fire tanker airplane, turned out to suppress the blaze. Estimated cost? $58,000.
AT 8:43 PM that evening, Deputies received a call of a male trespasser on the property of a ranch adjacent to the motorcycle crash site. It was Anguiano who was determined to be under the influence of a controlled substance and had an outstanding Mendocino County felony warrant for his arrest.
ANGUIANO was booked into the Mendocino County jail where he is being held on bail of $80,000.
BOONTLING PRESERVATION SOCIETY? Yes, and a good thing, too. Meets the third Thursday of the month. For time and place check with prime movers Rebecca Toohey and/or Jason Liljengren.
GOVERNOR BROWN, to the dismay of Mendo's crackpot community, signed one of the strictest schoolchild vaccination laws in the country last week, eliminating personal and religious belief exemptions for vaccines. “The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases,” Brown said in a signing statement. “While it’s true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community.”
THE BILL allows any school-age child with an exemption on file to remain unvaccinated until he or she starts kindergarten or, if already in elementary school, seventh grade.
BEGINNING January 1st, 2016 schools will begin checking to ensure that children entering kindergarten and seventh grade are vaccinated in July 2016 before the 2016-17 school year commences. To enroll in public or private schools, children will need to have received shots for diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib meningitis), measles, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), poliomyelitis, rubella (German measles), tetanus, hepatitis B and varicella (chickenpox).
SB 277 allows for medical exemptions and permits doctors to take into account family history, including whether a sibling had an adverse reaction. Quack MD's are, of course, standing by to do just that.
TOM McDERMOTT is coming in 2 Saturdays, July 18th at 7:30 at the Grange and if you love piano and almost any form of music, he will please. He plays Chopin, Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz and Brazilian. Want to sample? Eric Labowitz will interview Tom on his popular NO Show (New Orleans that is, Monday July 13 at 7 PM.) Here’s the real treat, Eric’s love for NO music brings a diverse library of vinyl and CDs and he has lots of McDermott’s sideman productions over many years. Oh a ya! Tickets are at all that Good Stuff and Lemon’s.
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