Here are excerpts from the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office call logs for Jan. 25–31.

Wednesday, Jan. 25

• At 12:19 p.m. a report of an older male with long gray hair checking houses on Blackwell Lane.

• At 5:10 p.m. a person reported losing a black iPhone 4s which has a picture of sand dunes on the screen near Macken Avenue and Pebble Beach Drive.

• At 6:53 p.m. a vehicle hit a light pole on the 1300 block of El Dorado Street.

Tsunami All-Starz members perform Saturday at a Wild Rivers Community Foundation fundraiser. See A2 for more on that event. Del Norte Triplicate/Rick Postal

Despite competing against bigger teams from larger metro areas, the group came away with the Sportsmanship Award at the American Masterpiece Cheer and Dance competition in San Jose on Jan. 21 and 22.

That’s out of 119 cheer teams at the event.

“It’s a big honor,” said Nicole Wanner, Tsunami All-Starz senior team head coach. “It was totally awesome when we found out. We were all crying. We all got a little choked up ... The kids were like “Oh my gosh, we won that.”

’02 graduate clears hurdle in auditions

Hollywood can seem a long way from Del Norte County, especially for a local kid with dreams of stardom.

Paris Lo is one step closer to his dream.

Born and raised in Crescent City, Lo recently auditioned for the star-making TV show “American Idol” in San Diego. He got his chance to sing and dance in front of the celebrity judges, Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, and was told he was “going to Hollywood.”

The new Five Rivers Healing Arts center will have an open house Saturday from 10 a.m. 5 p.m.

Five Rivers offers acupuncture, Chinese medicine and herbal pharmacy and massage therapy by Dr. Shelley Sovola and massage therapists Joshua Francis and Jana Taylor.

Benefits include a $5,350 award for use in education

There are three Americorps VISTA positions open for Building Healthy Communities in Del Norte County and adjacent tribal lands.

VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) positions available include:

• Yurok food systems with the Yurok Tribe: This person will coordinate efforts to support food system planning and improvement through coalition building, strategic planning, funding research, writing and issue campaigns.

24 fruit trees at Mountain Elem. will provide food

Deborah Kravitz, left, the program coordinator for the Network for a Health California in local schools, and Sara Haug, a First 5 Service Corps VISTA, fill in dirt around a tree sapling. Del Norte Triplicate/Kelley Atherton

In about two hours, 24 apple, pear, plum, peach and cherry trees were planted, creating an orchard for the K-5 school. In a few years the trees will provide fruit for the school and the Gasquet community.

The trees were purchased with a $500 grant from Jamba Juice that First 5 Del Norte applied for to use for Mountain School, said Connor Caldwell, a First 5 Service Corps VISTA who is a development coordinator for the Community Assistance Network (CAN).

A local man was sentenced to six years in prison last week for making a death threat.

Tyler N. Chapman, 29, of Crescent City, was also ordered to pay restitution of $4,700 to two victims.

Chapman stole a sedan from a person last April and threatened him if he went to authorities, District Attorney Jon Alexander said.

Del Norte teens have the opportunity to gain work experience outdoors doing conservation work.

The Northwest Youth Corps, based in Eugene, Ore., is hiring 900 teens to do conservation work all over the region, including Del Norte.