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Sage advice about staying out of the rain

“Like a Hurricane,” a Neil Young song, was playing as I drove through the windswept rain to get a Sunday paper.
Maybe I should have listened closer.

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Our view: Bronc, Jaycees can inspire us in hard times

We should thank our lucky stars for Roger “Bronc” McCovey and the Jaycees Basketball Tournament. At a time when it seems far easier to disagree than find common ground, recent developments on the local sports scene brought us together, at least in Del Norte County.

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Coastal Voices: Solid waste inquiry justified

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Gerry Hemmingson
Whoa!! I thought I should try to clear up some speculation and misconceptions over my inquiry into the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority (SWMA).

First of all, it was my decision and my decision alone to form an ad hoc committee at the Board of Supervisors meeting (ad hoc committees, are used when an objective needs consideration and no standing committee within said organization can absorb that issue into its scope).

I would like to assist in making Supervisor Mike Sullivan’s tasks a little less controversial. During the board meeting at which I made my decision, Supervisor Sullivan had no knowledge of my intention. I picked Supervisor Sullivan because I have complete confidence that he will do an excellent job, and until recently he sat on the SWMA Board.

I am concerned that I have made the City Council members a little uneasy at my, supposedly, leaving them out. That was not my intention, as a matter of fact I hope the mayor would appoint a member or two to sit on the committee, along with their city manager (who was invited and attended the initial committee meeting). At a previous meeting that I attended with two City Council members, and where the SWMA was discussed, I didn’t feel they had much interest at that time. I would like to apologize to any of the City Council members who think they were intentionally left out. I don’t want my decision to affect the working relationship we (the Board of Supervisors and City Council) have worked so hard to achieve. It was 100 percent my idea and I take full responsibility.

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City-county cooperation good to see

Sometimes, a tight deadline is just the ticket to produce the best work.

If it seemed like the fix was on when the Del Norte Local Transportation

Commission took mere minutes Thursday to choose which city and county transportation projects would go to the top of the list for federal stimulus money, that’s because it was.

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Coastal Voices: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Gerry Hemmingsen, chairman of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors, has appointed Supervisor Mike Sullivan to form an ad hoc committee to “study the justification of the Solid Waste Management Authority.”  The first meeting of Supervisor Sullivan’s Committee is today, but it will be closed to the public.
     
I have read in The Daily Triplicate that Supervisor Sullivan’s committee will evaluate whether Del Norte County should withdraw from its partnership with Crescent City on the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority. It is not clear to me what specific reason there is for this urgent scrutiny, but I am not concerned about any honest, objective analysis of our services or finances.

We have a balanced budget and earn revenue sufficient to pay all of our costs, without relying on any tax funding or subsidy from the city or the county. The Transfer Station is open seven days a week and we provide a quality service for a fair price. We hire courteous and well trained staff and our service contracts with private companies pump more than $5 million back into our local economy each year. 

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Our View: Another day in paradise

It really was a super day, although I could find a better adjective if not for a certain football game that unfolded as the sun went down.

Super Bowl Sunday, Del Norte-style, begins with blueberry pancakes and whale spouts. Syrupy fork in one hand, binoculars in the other, I monitor the blue sea beneath the blue sky. The obliging behemoths send up puffs best detected with the naked eye. If I’m not slow about it, there’s time to raise the spyglass and watch them surface like long flat floating rocks.

The pancakes get a little cold, but I finish them off after catching one of the prizes of whale watching, a tail in the air.

Then it’s down to Pebble Beach, where winter weather has stripped away much of the sand, exposing ridges of rock that trap pools of nutrients so appetizing to the gulls and oyster catchers that they refuse to take flight as I approach.


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