MICHAEL WARYCH has been hired as part-time superintendent of the Boonville schools. Former superintendent Michelle Hutchins has been elected superintendent of all Mendocino County’s schools. Warych is an old Mendo hand, having worked for years at Potter Valley and Willits before finishing out his years in public ed in the Sierra foothills. Not to go too deep into rural metaphors, nevermind the perilous psycho-dynamics of women supervising other women, but the female unhappiness with Mrs. Hutchins at the Elementary School last year may be jollied up some by Mr. Warych’s appointment, a rooster dispatched to the hen house, so to speak.
THE PEACHLAND ROAD REPAIR PROJECT will soon resume. It is aimed at shoring up the road’s washout during the December 2016/January 2017 rains. According to the county’s road man, Howard Dashiell, Peachland’s rehab is his highest priority. Dashiell said work on the project was suspended because his crews were diverted to the fire emergency. Dashiell promises the work will be finished before the winter rains.
YORKVILLE Labor Day Extravaganza - Book lovers - more books than ever before including lots of kids books says Valerie Hanelt, Cake walk clowning - Frosty and Joanie keep kids and grown-ups giggling, serious goodies from raffle with Lisa Bauer. Come and have a root beer float or freshly shucked oysters from Bob “Oyster" Sites. WAY TOO MUCH FUN. Don't miss 10-4 this Coming Monday! (Terry Ryder)
FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. The Panthers got fed to Cornerstone Christian at the Boonville Fairgrounds Friday, by a score of a lot to 6. Our next home game is versus arch-rival Point Arena on Friday night, September 7th.
AS AN ASIDE, the following is the best high school football poem ever written:
AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home,
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.
Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies.
THE ONLY PROPERTY for sale in all of the Anderson Valley for under half a mil or so is the acre and a quarter for the miraculous price of $180,000 just down the road from the Navarro Store. The parcel is already zoned for four lots and has the original dwelling on it. Billed by the euphemizers of real estate as a “fixer-upper,” but if that modest, battered structure could tell its tales…. All this and good water in a neighborhood in transition, although which direction the neighborhood is transitioning to is never quite clear, lately a slight movement upward has been detected. Some enterprising soul will undoubtedly scoop it up as the amazing bargain it is.
I'VE NEVER SEEN the Navarro River looking so sick, so algae-scabbed. Of course it's backed up as it is every year at this low flow time by the sandbar at its mouth, this year plugged by a sandbar that looks like it'll take the Big Rains of '64 to blast free. Dave Severn tells me, though, that the Navarro’s flow this year is actually slightly more vigorous than in 2014. Back in the day, way back in the day, I remember the late Cecil Gowan saying that he remembers the river going dry all the way to the Greenwood Bridge, and that was before the vineyards and all the other straws sucking at its finite waters.
THE SEASON is a’ changin’, as heralded by so many pink ladies or, as some people prefer, naked ladies, whole beds of them, from Philo all the way west through North Fort Bragg. The ladies’ startling mid-August appearance in parched landscapes are reliable harbingers of the great seasonal shift just ahead, and sure enough we went from oppressive heat to refreshingly cool mornings and temps never exceeding 80 degrees. For now. The heat is sure to be back for one last round of fire.
ACE PHOTOGRAPHER HANNAH BROCK reminds us that she will be in Boonville “the weekend of September 8-9 for some events I am photographing and I am looking to see if any businesses need their photos refreshed during these dates! I can provide food photography for your dishes, restaurant, wines, etc. if you are a new business starting out or a current one and need something far more better quantity than your iPhone, let me know and I would love to help out. If you can make your food look good, I will make it look better by bringing out natural color, texture and atmosphere. Shoot me an email at hannahjbrock@yahoo.com!”
MSP REPORTS: If there's something this coast has lacked it's a sports show over the airwaves. And don't get me started on what the coast radio stations offer up to the public on a daily basis. Starting Wednesday, October 3rd from 3:00 - 4:00 pm the dynamic duo of Jim & Jerry Young will be on the air to give their view on LOCAL as well as national sports on public radio station KZYX (91.5, 90.7 & 88.1 FM on your radio dial. And it's a call-in show so listeners can express their opinions on the local & national sports scene. We can't wait for this to start - great idea anchored by two knowledgeable personalities...
THAT MEDICAL CALL at 10:20 last Wednesday morning mustered emergency services was for a "17-year-old male unconscious." The kid was hauled out of the Philo hills from Blackbird Farm and carried over the hill by an ambulance out of Ukiah. Seeing no death notices a week later, we assume the lad survived.
SPEAKING OF BLACKBIRD, a Philo branch of a large, LA-based, multi-state complex of semi-wilderness camps and charter schools run by hustling former school teacher called John Hall, Hall seems to have hired a techno-scrubber who has managed to remove much of the reporting on Hall’s publicly-funded and highly dubious empire. We’ve searched on-line for our stories on Blackbird in vain, and you’ve got to go the LA Times website directly to find their reporting on Hall.
ABOUT NOON last Wednesday, the first-day-on-the-job male clerk at the Anderson Valley Market suffered a seizure also requiring medical attention. He is expected to resume his market duties soon. Both emergencies occurred Wednesday morning.
PRE-SALE TAMALES (We’re down for a dozen)
To benefit Anderson Valley Youth football- Pop Warner
$20.00 a dozen
We will be selling
1. Cheese with jalapeno, onion & tomato
2. Chicken with green sauce
3. Pork with red sauce
All orders need to be in by September 1 and picked up on September 8th at 7pm at the Boonville Fairgrounds.
Contact: Patty 707-272-8300
Yadira 707-621-1418
AT THE BUCKHORN in Boonville: Cool off with a Key Lime Daiquiri or one of our other Summer Specials. These happen to be the owners' favorites! And be sure to try our Strawberry Mojito, made with Bucket Ranch strawberries and mint from our garden. Or, the strawberry shortcake, and pancakes too at brunch, which also feature Bucket Ranch strawberries. Mmmm so good. Also, did anyone notice an old familiar face at the bar Sunday brunch? Yes, Tom Towey [former Buckhorn Proprietor] is back as guest bartender on Sunday mornings. Welcome back Tom!
JR CHEERLEADERS SOUGHT. Hello everyone, I am the youth cheer coach here in Anderson valley. I am trying to get a squad together I have one with paperwork turned in and two who want to do it. So, I am going to put this out there and hope for the best. The cheer squad is grades 2nd - 8th, you can contact me via Facebook. If I do not get at least 6 girls by August 29th, I will not be able to have a squad this season. They will need to have paperwork filed out, a copy of their birth certificate, payment in full and a physical all in by August 31st, because our first game is September 8th. Thank you for taking the time to read this. All the best — Coach Kali Johnson
FLEA MARKET LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Anderson Valley Senior Center
AV Senior Center, Veterans Building, 14410 Highway 128, Boonville, 95415
August 31 to September 3, 2018
Friday to Monday 9 AM to 6 PM
To reserve a space call Dave at 707-895-2325
Or AV Senior Center at 707-895-3609
$20 per day or $40 for the weekend
Clean out that barn or shed, make a few bucks and support the AV Senior Center
AS POPES GO, the present one, Pope Francis, isn't bad, what with his strong stands for social justice and general commonsense, but he's just the latest Pope to shuffle off the ongoing and seemingly endless pervo-rama playing out in his church in vague promises to do better. If Il Papa were serious about ridding the church of predatory priests he'd purge the entire hierarchy from bishops on up through the boys in the Vatican. But on it goes, all of it reminding me of a Mendocino episode back in 2002 wherein two local teenage boys nearly beat a priest to death who'd, as the chaste phrase goes, "made sexual advances." The assaulted priest worked the Mendo outback, serving the small congregations in places like Elk and Philo. My late friend, Jerry Cox, was quite angry with me for writing it up. Father Cox had left the church to marry a nun just before he was made a monsignor. The Church had been his life. He told me that the molesto priest was a great guy, that the rumors that he was gay were simply slander, and that the priest's two attackers were merely a couple of murderous punks who made up the molest story to cover up their robbery of the man. The two teen yobbos certainly didn't have to beat the priest nearly to death but, as I believe the shrinks claim, they were deep in the throes of "homosexual panic," so terrified of their own homoerotic musings they re-established their hetero-hood by attacking a defenseless homo. I've never forgotten Father Cox's heated defense of the Mendo priest, but ever afterwards the Church's denials that it has a major pedo problem have seemed all of an ongoing piece. The whole show is still in denial, it seems.
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