Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018

• Election Notes
• Modern World
• Community Park
• Fallis Felonies
• Pencil Logic
• Benefit Dinner
• Snickers Rescue
• Albion Bridge
• Yesterday's Catch
• Hue 1968
• Brief Behavior
• New Rules
• Updated Edition
• Flithy Frisco
• Impartial Face
• Polarized Country
• Little Dog
• Indian Summer
• RV Rebuilding
• Grim Reaper
• Funkacillin Schedule

PRELIMINARY ELECTION PICKS, THE SECOND GO-ROUND

Supervisors

Third District: Haschak v. Pinches

Fifth District: Williams v. No one

Pinches for Third District Supe because he's frugal, creative, truly independent, although Haschak seems to be tardily more or less familiar with the issues. We certainly agree with Haschak’s opposition to the recent pay raises for the County’s bigwigs as they prioritize themselves over the County’s line workers, and not for the first time. Pinches suggests the raises are somehow legally mandated, but Haschak roared back, “Show me the law.”

Williams for 5th District Supervisor, although so far it's unclear why he wants the job, employing “job” in its loosest sense. There’s a cavernous disconnect between what the present County leadership says it’s doing and, objectively, actual results. The bi-monthly meetings are festivals of delusion, Potemkin-like affairs heavy on managerial self-congratulation that do not coincide with reality, kinda like meds time in an asylum. Candidates Haschak and Williams, if they think there isn’t massive dysfunction at the top, will be more of the same. Pinches has always been about getting ‘er done.

Fort Bragg City Council: Lindy Peters, Ruben Alcala, Tess Albin-Smith, Bobby Burns, Jessica Morsell-Haye, Mary Rose Kaczorowkski, (Three seats up) Incumbents Cimolino and Turner are not running.  We need to know more about the candidates while admitting a bias against hyphenated names, which seem pompous and pretentious suitable, maybe, to Masterpiece Theater but, in the popular lib pejorative, “inappropriate” here in Liberty Land.

Point Arena City Council: Incumbent Barbara Burkey is the only candidate running for two seats. We think she can easily fill both of them.

Ukiah City Council: Jim Brown and Maureen Mulheren (incumbents) plus Chon Travis, Ed Haynes, Matt Froneberger and Juan Orozco running for three seats. Incumbent Kevin Doble is not running.

Haynes for sure, probably Orozco as we hold off on the others because we don't know them, but we do know that Haynes will be an asset for good government on a weak and fiscally irresponsible council, second in general dereliction only to the County Board of Supervisors.

Willits City Council: Incumbent Larry Stranske, Greta Kanne and Jeremy Hershman are running for two seats. Incumbent Ron Orenstein is not running. We're still in research mode re Willits but hear good things about candidate Kanne. Stranske definitely deserves re-election. Willits’ city government seems to cook along competently enough given the dearth of complaints about it.

Coast Hospital Board: Incumbent Kevin Miller, John Redding, Jade Tippett, Amy Beth McColley, and Jessica Grindberg are running for 3 long term seats (Incumbents Kitty Bruning, and Peter Glusker are not running). Also, Karen Arnold and Rex Gressett are running for incumbent Tom Birdsell’s short term seat (appointed incumbent).

People we trust recommend Arnold, Redding and Grinberg. No, we don’t care if he’s a Catholic and generally conservative. We're of course partial to our ace Coast Correspondent, R. Gressett, but want him to focus on his journalo-responsibilities.

Coast Parks & Rec: Bob Bushansky (incumbent) is the only candidate running for three seats.  He’s the guy who says Mendo Public Radio’s opaque budget is not only perfectly balanced, it’s perfectly understandable. Which it isn’t. Bushansky, natch, is the KZYX board’s treasurer.

County School Board: Incumbents Don Cruser and Mary Misseldine, plus Tarney Sheldon are running for three seats. Incumbent Camille Schraeder is not running.

Fait accompli. The three candidates are the winners of this cozy little paid sinecure that oversees an invisible agency. We only hope the County School Board will not join the gutless wonders already working surreptitiously to undermine newly elected superintendent, Michelle Hutchins. She ought to at least be given a chance to do the job without fending off ghosts, especially in the context of MCOE, an entity presided over by howling incompetents for many years.

Mendo College Board. 3 seats up. Incumbents Ed Haynes and Janet Chaniot are not running.  Ed Nickerman, Camille Schraeder, Donald Burgess, Patrick Webb, Giny Chandler, Xochilt Martinez, John Pegan, Larry Lang and Jerry Eaton are running for three seats. We thought Nickerman was dead, an assumption which is a measure of the college's invisibility, and we have no idea of the issues involved here, if any. Also: Robert Pinoli Jr., incumbent is running against William Daniel for one short-term seat. (Nickerman for sure, at least while he remains upright.)

A READER NOTES re candidate Lang: “This guy was the theater tech staff person, one of the highest paid classified positions at the college. He was an inch away from impossible to work with and finally after years of complaints from outside and inside the institution, he was fired. He then got his union to help him sue the college, a move that cost taxpayers lots of moola. And eventually, he won a settlement. This is not a surprising event at the college, it was the way the well-paid higher-ups dealt with problematic employees. Instead of doing their job and conducting actual evaluations, the problematic person was paid off to just go away.”

Local Measures

Fort Bragg Measure H - Shall the measure to enact a three-eighths (3/8th) of a cent general purpose transactions and use tax to provide the City with an estimated $623,000 per year for a limited period of fifteen years be adopted? YES

Willits Measure I - To fund general municipal expenses such as police, fire, roads and recreation, shall the City of Willits tax cannabis (marijuana) businesses at annual rates not to exceed $10 per canopy square foot for cultivation (adjustable for inflation), 6% of gross receipts for retail cannabis businesses, and 4% for all other cannabis businesses; which is expected to generate an estimated $250,000 to $400,000 annually and will be levied until repealed by the voters or the City Council? YES. (About time the stoners coughed up.)

Statewide Ballot Measures

Proposition 1 — Authorizes Bonds to Fund Specified Housing Assistance Programs. Legislative Statute. YES  With many Americans now sleeping in their cars and on the streets, it’s past time for an effective federal housing programs of the New Deal type, but some money at the state level is better than no adequate money at all levels.

Proposition 2 — Authorizes Bonds to Fund Existing Housing Program for Individuals with Mental Illness. Legislative Statute. YES, although we desperately need to re-institute state hospitals.

Proposition 3 — Authorizes Bonds to Fund Projects for Water Supply and Quality, Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Water Conveyance, and Groundwater Sustainability and Storage. Initiative Statute. YES. Water quality and quantity is deteriorating faster than it can be intelligently managed, but Prop 3 is a step forward.

Proposition 4 — Authorizes Bonds Funding Construction at Hospitals Providing Children’s Health Care. Initiative Statute. YES 

Proposition 5 — Changes Requirements for Certain Property Owners to Transfer their Property Tax Base to Replacement Property. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute. NO. Oligarchical swindle.

Proposition 6 — Eliminates Certain Road Repair and Transportation Funding. Requires Certain Fuel Taxes and Vehicle Fees be Approved by The Electorate. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. NO. Not a good time to roll back the gas tax with infrastructure crumbling throughout the state.

Proposition 7 — Conforms California Daylight Saving Time to Federal Law. Allows Legislature to Change Daylight Saving Time Period. Legislative Statute. YES

Proposition 8 — Regulates Amounts Outpatient Kidney Dialysis Clinics Charge for Dialysis Treatment. Initiative Statute. YES. Years ago, I accompanied a friend to one of these blood-washing joints in Santa Rosa. My friend had been blackballed from several for complaining about conditions which, in the place I saw, were demonstrably poor. Syndicates of greedy doctors own these most lucrative businesses which, in the advanced countries of the world, are part of single-payer medical systems where they rightly belong. Imagine your kidneys owned by faceless collections of medical exploiters, and that’s what we presently have as is.

Proposition 9 (On July 18, 2018, Proposition 9 was removed from the ballot by order of the California Supreme Court. It was the Divide California into thirds initiative.)

Proposition 10 — Expands Local Governments’ Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property. Initiative Statute. YES. Doesn’t go nearly far enough and, in the spine-free political context of elected Mendo, unlikely to be initiated.

Proposition 11 — Requires Private-Sector Emergency Ambulance Employees to Remain On-Call During Work Breaks. Eliminates Certain Employer Liability. Initiative Statute. NO. Corporate-owned ambulance services behind this one as a way to chisel free work out of first responders.

Proposition 12 — Establishes New Standards for Confinement of Specified Farm Animals; Bans Sale of Noncomplying Products. Initiative Statute. YES. Seems common health sense to us unless you’re indifferent to the chicken on your plate spending its short life getting shot up with chemicals in a cage so small the thing can’t even turn around.

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ELECTION LAW KEEPS CANDIDATE ON BALLOT AFTER WITHDRAWAL

The campaign for the next Mendocino County supervisor from the Fifth District was marked by tragedy June 26 when candidate Chris Skyhawk suffered a hemorrhagic stroke.

Two days later, Ted Williams, who was to meet Skyhawk in a runoff election in November, announced he had stopped active campaigning. Skyhawk’s family announced July 17 that he was withdrawing from the supervisor’s race to focus on his recovery.

But, by state election law, Skyhawk’s name remains on the ballot.

Skyhawk ran second in a field of five candidates in the June 2018 primary election. Williams finished with 2,285 votes (41.42 percent), to Skyhawk’s 1,715 votes (31.09 percent). Skyhawk and Williams were to compete in November for the supervisor’s seat being vacated by the retiring Dan Hamburg

Assistant registrar of voters and Assessor County Clerk-elect Katrina Bartolomie said this week that California election law requires a candidate’s name to stay on the ballot under these circumstances.

“There is no provision in Election Law that allows Chris to drop out,” she said.

Bartolomie said that her office has had some inquiries about write-in candidacies, though no one has taken out nomination papers.

“Unless the potential write-in candidate(s) come in to complete their candidacy paperwork, they are not considered “Qualified Write-In candidates” and any vote they may get will not be counted,” Bartolomie stated.

(Courtesy, Mendocino Beacon)

IT TAKES A VALLEY. Looking to start a monthly or seasonal clean-up/improvement day at our local community park. We had such a successful event this past June with dozens of volunteers from Philo to Yorkville chipping in to weed, shovel, rake, and haul to bring new gravel and wood chips to our picnic and play areas. We still need seasonal weeding and mowing and have more projects ahead of us to replace our fence lines and gates and so much more. For those out there interested in helping out or being involved, please feel free to email us at avparkday@gmail.com.

FALLIS & GIRLFRIEND SENTENCED

UKIAH, Tues., Oct. 9. -- Two defendants resolved their felony cases this afternoon in Dept. B of the Mendocino County Superior Court.

Defendant Negie Tony Fallis, age 38, of Covelo, entered a no contest plea to being a convicted felon in unlawful possession of a firearm, a felony. He also admitted having served a prior prison term for a 2012 Glenn County conviction for felony child abuse.

Defendant Fallis' case will be called again in Dept. B on December 4, 2018 at 9 o'clock in the morning for judgment and sentencing. He will be remanded into custody at that time to begin serving a stipulated four year state prison sentence.

Defendant Fallis' current purported girlfriend, Antonia Dulce Bautista Dalson, age 20, of Covelo, also entered a no contest plea to a being an accessory, a felony, by assisting Fallis elude law enforcement and by attempting to hide from law enforcement the firearms that her purported boyfriend unlawfully possessed.

Defendant Bautista Dalson's case will be called again in Dept. B on December 11, 2018 at 9 o'clock in the morning for her judgment and sentencing. This defendant plead "open" today, meaning she can be granted supervised probation with up to one year in the county jail or be sentenced to local prison for up to three years.

A no contest plea to a felony charge is the same as a guilty plea for all purposes.

The prosecutor handling the above cases is District Attorney David Eyster. The investigating law enforcement agency is the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office and the Round Valley Tribal Police.

There continues to be an ongoing investigation by the Sheriff's Office into a missing person case that may or may not involve the above defendants.

The judge who today accepted from each defendant their admissions of criminal liability and who will pronounce sentence on each on December 4th and 11th is Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Cindee Mayfield.

(District Attorney Press Release)

DINE OUT AT THE MACCALLUM HOUSE FOR THE KELLEY HOUSE!

Tomorrow beginning at five in the bar, the MacCallum House is hosting a "Dine Out Night" for the benefit of the Kelley House Museum. Please lend your support to the Mendocino Coast's history bank! Bring your friends and enjoy autumn fare from renowned chef Alan Kantor or indulge in a custom cocktail or glass of wine in the bar. All proceeds go to Mendocino's Kelley House Museum. Dinner begins in the restaurant at 5:30 p.m. and reservations are recommended. Please call 707-937-0289 or visit maccallumhouse.com.

ALBION BRIDGE REPORT

From Jim Heid Tuesday @ 10:02 am:

"Before Caltrans was granted its geotechnical investigation permit to maul the northern approach to the historic Albion River Bridge, the agency supposedly made arrangements with the Albion-Little River Fire Department to ensure that emergency vehicles would be able to get through if necessary.

Caltrans has begun cutting trees at the northern end of the Albion River Bridge, and is stopping traffic to do so.

Problem is, Caltrans is ALSO doing mauling at the Salmon Creek Bridge site, and they’re stopping traffic there, too.

I wonder if the supposed “safety arrangement" that Caltrans came to with fire department takes this extremely dangerous scenario into account — traffic stopped at BOTH bridges, with severe bottlenecks as a result.

Aerial video of this dangerous scenario is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/…/traffic_control_both_bridges.mo…

Others also commented:

***"Long wait at intersection from Albion Ridge & Hwy 1- Caltrans. Give yourselves more travel time."

***"CALTRANS is removing eucalyptus trees right now at the historic ALBION RIVER BRIDGE.

Please come to Albion with a camera, hard hat if you have one and water & snack & cell phone and take photos. Spread the word."

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BACKGROUND ON CALTRANS' ALBION DEMOLITION DERBY

For folks who are wondering what’s going on at the historic Albion River Bridge, I showed the following video at the California Caltrans Commission (that’s what I’m calling them now) meeting in Fort Bragg on Sept. 12.https://vimeo.com/288827336 

What I witnessed at the end of the CCC meeting, when coastal staff “questioned” Caltrans about their project, destroyed any faith I had in the commission. (The meeting video is on Cal-Span:http://cal-span.org/unipage/?site=cal-span&owner=CCC&date=2018-09-12(Forward to about 5 hours and 19 minutes to watch the circus for yourself.)

Did you know that Caltrans pays the coastal commission almost $1 million a year of your tax dollars to help “streamline” their permit applications? Read it for yourself:https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2010/10/W25a-10-2010.pdf

It’s called an “interagency agreement," though it’s easier to just say “bribe” or “payola.” The current payola agreement expires in 2020 and it shouldn’t be renewed.

Jim Heid, jim@heidsite.com

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NONVIOLENCE TRAINING

Saturday, Oct. 20 from 10am to 4pm at the new Albion Elementary School 30400 Albion Ridge Road in Albion

Sponsored by Albion Bridge Stewards

Get together with your friends & help save the Albion Bridge!

For questions and registration contact Annemarie Weibel at 707 937-5575 or <aweibel@mcn.org>

Who’s invited?

Everyone concerned about the Albion Bridge who wants to learn about nonviolent direct action and support roles.

CATCH OF THE DAY, October 9, 2018

BERRY BRADFORD, Garberville/Fort Bragg. Probation revocation.

PATRICK BYRNE, Ukiah. Disorderly conduct-alcohol, probation revocation.

DONNELL CAMPBELL, Willits. Cultivation of more than six pot plants.

GABRIEL FREEMAN, El Dorado/Willits. Battery.

RUBEN GREEN, Morro Bay/Ukiah. Failure to appear.

JEREMY JENSEN, Redwood Valley. Receipt of stolen property.

JEREMY KENYON, Fort Bragg. Probation revocation.

MIRIAM KESSLER, Santa Rosa/Ukiah. DUI-drugs, renting vehicle to person with ignition interlock device restruction, suspended license (for reckless driving), probation revocation.

JAZMINE MCCLOUD, Colusa/Ukiah. Petty theft.

ANTHONY MCCOY, Ukiah. Suspended license, probation revocation.

ABRAHAM PISCINA-RUIZ, DUI.

JASON PITMAN, Garberville/Ukiah. Failure to appear.

CANDICE SANAPAW, Clearlake/Ukiah. Petty theft.

DAKOTA SANAPAW-POTTER, Clearlake/Ukiah. Petty theft.

CHRISTINE SEIGLER, Ukiah. Disorderly conduct-alcohol, probation revocation.

ERIC WARD, Laytonville. Grand theft-firearm, controlled substance, transportation of controlled substance, sale of organic drug, possession of controlled substance while armed, felon/addict with firearm, armed with firearm in commission of attempt of felony, conspiracy, offenses while on bail.

HARDLY STRICTLY PEACE MOVEMENT

by Fred Gardner

The Times' CIA correspondent David Sanger reported Oct. 7 that Gen. William Westmoreland had requested "tactical" nuclear weapons to be shipped to Vietnam in February, 1968 for use in the event that US troops were overrun at Khe Sanh. President Lyndon Johnson, notified by an adviser, immediately nixed Westy's mad scheme, which had been dubbed "Operation Fracture Jaw."

Sanger quotes once-secret cables which, amazingly, Westmoreland wrote at the height of the Tet offensive, as battles raged far to the south of Khe Sanh and the NLF flag flew over the Citadel in Hue.

Buried in the Times story is the fact that Westmoreland also sought the option of using chemical weapons. What appears to be a belated exposé is also a cover-up in the now:

“Should the situation in the DMZ area change dramatically, we should be prepared to introduce weapons of greater effectiveness against massed forces,” General Westmoreland wrote in a cable [to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Earle Wheeler, on Feb. 3, 1968]. Under such circumstances, I visualize that either tactical nuclear weapons or chemical agents would be active candidates for employment.”

In his great book, "Hue 1968," Mark Bowden wrote: "Westy's preoccupation with the vulnerability of Khe Sanh played perfectly into Hanoi's plans. The buildup of NVA forces there had been a feint, the objective all along had been Hue and the other cities. Westmoreland had fallen for it so completely that even after Hue fell, neither he nor his superiors in Washington could see it, much less admit it."

Commemorating the Presidio Mutiny

Westmoreland's obtuseness was a factor in the decision to press mutiny charges against the 27 prisoners at the Presidio of San Francisco stockade who, on October 14, 1968, staged a non-violent sit-down to protest the killing of a fellow prisoner. The commanding general at the Presidio was a close ally of Westmoreland and out to show that strictest repression was the appropriate response to dissent. (During fiscal 1968 there were 53,357 desertions, 155,536 AWOLs.)

The first mutineers to be sentenced  — Nesrey Sood, Larry Reidel, and Larry Osczepenski — got 15, 16 and 14 years. An article about Sood by Barry Farrell in Life Magazine alerted millions of Americans to the level of unrest within the military and the madness of the brass.

GIs facing court martial are assigned Army lawyers and can also hire civilian lawyers. Terence Hallinan, a totally PC San Francisco defense lawyer, represented 14 of the mutineers pro bono. "These are the children of America's poor whites, a hidden class of people," he said in one summation. "In peacetime they would never have been held in the Army, but because of the war  because the Army needs every body it can get — they couldn't be discharged. The war is really so unpopular among GIs that the Army senses that if it started giving these discharges — CO, psychiatric — the floodgates would open and thousands of men would try to get out. Since they can't let them out, yet they can't use them in the field, they fill the stockades with them."

Several of the surviving mutineers, with the support of the Presidio Trust, have organized a 50th-anniversary get-together at the stockade Sunday, Oct. 13. On Saturday evening Oct. 12, 7 pm at the Officers Club, five knowledgable panelists will discuss the significance of the mutiny and the ensuing trials: Randy Rowland, a conscientious objector who the Army considered the mutineers' ringleader because Hallinan was his lawyer when he turned himself in; Brendan Sullivan, who, as an Army captain, defended Larry Reidel, and would go on to defend Oliver North and tell Senate investigators, "I'm not a potted palm — I'm his lawyer;" Notre Dame history professor David Cortright, author of "Soldiers in Revolt" (another great book, reprinted in 2005 with an intro by Howard Zinn); Jeff Patterson of Courage to Resist, the first service member to refuse to fight in Iraq); and Susan Schnall, a Navy nurse who has stayed active in the peace movement.

On October 12, 1968, Lieutenant Schnall was among the hundreds of active duty personnel who took part in a peace march in San Francisco that culminated in a rally at the Civic Center. Schnall spoke at the rally and was charged with disobeying an order (by being in uniform) and conduct unbecoming an officer (distributing leaflets for a rally allegedly intended to impair morale). At her trial Lt. Schnall insisted that her participation was protected by the First Amendment and in no way promoted disaffection. A prosecution witness from Naval Intelligence testified, "I heard her say that young men are being trained as killers and the Vietnam was is a dirty filthy war. She said, 'End the war now. Bring the boys home. Bring the boys home alive!"

Schnall was found guilty on both counts and sentenced to six months at hard labor. But the Secretary of the Navy invoked an obscure policy of not confining women officers with sentences lighter than a year, and she was allowed to return to work at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, where the wounded sailors greatly appreciated her.

The Department of the Army also recognized that the Presidio Mutiny had turned into a public relations disaster and began reducing sentences. The mutiny helped open the eyes of the US Power Elite to the fact that they couldn't rely on draftees to maintain the empire. Soon they would transition to a "Volunteer" Army, and later to Blackwater, and here we are today.

Commemorate the Presidio Mutiny! Saturday evening at the Officers Club, 50 Moraga Ave., 7-9:30 pm. Sunday afternoon at the stockade, 1213 Ralston Ave., 1-3 pm. Be there or be in DARE.

“Wow, Trump is really behaving himself. Aaaand… it’s over.”

NEW RULES

I can’t walk to my car late at night while on the phone

I can’t open up my windows when I’m home alone

I can’t go to a bar without a chaperone and

I can’t wear a miniskirt if it’s the only one I own

 

I can’t use public transportation after 7 pm

I can’t be brutally honest when you slide into my dms

I can’t go to the club just to dance with my friends

And I can’t ever leave my drink unattended

 

But it sure is a scary time for boys

Yeah gentlemen! Band together, make some noise

It’s really tough when your reputation’s on the line

And any woman you’ve assaulted could turn up anytime

 

Yeah, it sure is a scary time for guys

Can’t speak to any women or look them in the eyes

It’s so confusing, is it rape or is it just being nice?

So inconvenient that you even have to think twice

 

I can’t live in an apartment if it's on the first floor

I can’t be wearing silk pajamas when I answer the door

I can’t have another drink even if I want more

I can’t make you feel invalid, unseen, or ignored

 

I can’t jog around the city with headphones on my ears

I can’t speak out against my rapist after 35 years

I can’t be taken seriously if I'm holding back tears

And i can’t ever speak earnestly about all my fears

 

But it sure is a scary time for dudes

Can’t text a girl repeatedly asking for nudes

Can’t make her have sex when she’s not in the mood

And what gives her the right to give you attitude??

 

Yeah, it sure is a scary time for men

Girls like to act like you’re to blame and they’re the victims

Her dress was short and she was drunk, she’s not so innocent

Thank god your dad’s the judge and you won’t be convicted

 

Oh wait...that’s right…

 

It’s not such a scary time for boys

They’ve always had the upper hand,

they’ve always had a choice

It’s time for women to rise up,

Use our collective voice

The day to vote’s November 6, so let’s go make some noise

GO VOTE!

Lynzy Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N34hehRgw9g

THE LATE, GREAT SAN FRANCISCO

The 300 block of Hyde Street in Tenderloin neighborhood dirtiest block of San Francisco

nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/san-francisco-dirtiest-street-london-breed.html

abc7news.com/society/san-franciscos-dirtiest-cleanliness-woes-make-more-national-headlines-/4442565/

PORTRAIT IN IMPARTIALITY

ON LINE COMMENT OF THE DAY

The political rifts being sown now will make it increasingly impossible to govern the nation or transition to a post-industrial and post-financial society in any smooth and sane manner. Our decline can be managed, but it will not, given the polarization present now in our society. This will ultimately lead to America cracking up into small, isolated remnants as the crisis deepens.

LITTLE DOG SAYS, “Skrag was quite animated for him. He runs up to me this morning and yells, ‘Yo, dummy. Those Indians you say you see late at night? You're hallucinating the wrong Indians. The Indians who lived here didn't wear war bonnets!’"

"THE GILDING OF THE INDIAN SUMMER

mellowed the pastures far and wide.

The russet woods stood ripe to be stripped,

but were yet full of leaf.

The purple of heath-bloom,

faded but not withered, tinged the hills...

Fieldhead gardens bore the seal of gentle decay;

... its time of flowers and even of fruit was over."

— Charlotte Brontë

SENATOR MCGUIRE, CONGRESSMAN HUFFMAN & ASSEMBLYMEMBER WOOD Join the County of Mendocino to host Redwood Valley Rebuilding Town Hall

Federal, state, and county leaders will all come together for a Redwood Valley Rebuilding Town Hall in Mendocino County Thursday, Oct. 11 at 6:30 p.m. The Town Hall will be an opportunity for residents to receive updated information on the Redwood Valley County Water District Reconstruction and Improvement Project.

For more information about the Town Hall meeting, please visit: Redwood Valley Rebuilding Town Hall Meeting 10-11-18

(Mendocino County Press Release)

FUNKACILLIN schedule:

Thursday, Oct. 11th 5-7 pm
City of Willits-"Falling Out of Summer" concert series at the Willits Recreation Grove Park-FREE!

Saturday, Oct. 27th
Halloween Party at a Ukiah Ranch near you (private Party)

Saturday, November 17th
Ukiah Methodist Church fundraiser

Monday, Dec. 31st
New Years Eve Party at Garcia River Casino in Point Arena-FREE!

Let's get funky! Cherie and the boys are at it again with some new players, and performing feel good funky music from some far out cats and chicks that made funk what it is, along with a few originals that slide right into place, alongside tunes by the greats including James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chaka Khan & more! Visit us on Facebook...

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