January 24, 2009 02:08 pm
January 20, 2009 09:18 am
It is Sunday night, approaching midnight. I look out my window, down upon the courthouse I work in and beyond to a channel marker at sea. A fog horn barks across the moonlit swells, both steering the fisherman and their boats to and from the safety of the harbor, away from the rocks. I think about tomorrow’s anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King, the greatest American of the second half of the 20th century, and the following day when Barack Obama will be inaugurated. I think of many things and people tonite, many of them ghosts.
I recall growing up outside of Newark, N.J., and my father was arguing over my mother’s stated intent to take my kid sister and I to Drew University in Madison that night to see Martin Luther King speak. He had just won Time’s Man of The Year award and Mom was saying how she “wanted the kids to see him.”
Hours later, Mom led us down a University path toward the gymnasium to see Dr. King.
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January 17, 2009 01:14 pm
January 14, 2009 11:29 am
The Triplicate’s suggestion (“Want a theme? Look to our maritime roots,” Jan. 6) is most appropriate.
Del Norte County has maritime roots that go back to the redwood canoes that the local Indians used for fishing, whaling, and just getting from “here to there” in an easier way than tramping through the coastal and riverside forests.
The earliest Spanish explorers sailed the coastline as far north as Cape Ferello. Francis Drake sailed down the coast from his landfall north of Coos Bay to his careening site at the mouth of Drake’s Estero on Drakes Bay. Bruno de Hezeta made his landfall in 1775 at St. George Reef. He sailed south from there to Trinidad, which he named (one of the few of his names that stuck).
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January 10, 2009 11:01 am
January 09, 2009 08:50 am
I have spent the last 34 years of my life helping teenage boys identify and address their core issues, i.e., those issues that led them to getting into trouble and eventually being removed from their community.
It can be challenging work, but it can be extremely rewarding when you see someone figure out how to change their approach to life so that they start to succeed in creating a positive lifestyle.
During the first week in December I was invited to attend Challenge Day, a program brought into our community to show teens how to connect with each other through a variety of activities. The providers of this experience offer a day filled with powerful exercises that break down barriers and create a safe place for participants to show who they have hidden behind the “masks” they wear in order to try to survive in a world they fear.
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January 08, 2009 09:05 am
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Fluoridation in our water system was recently challenged at a City Council meeting.
The Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Branch, provides a large variety of public health services and is acutely aware of the needs facing our community as it relates to oral health in both children and adults. Without reservation, we fully support water fluoridation and encourage every water system in Del Norte County to follow the lead of the City of Crescent City and its electorate supporting water fluoridation to benefit its residents.
Dr. Swirnoff’s support-of-fluoride comments identified in The Triplicate are typical.
The American Dental Association, the California Department of Public Health and many professional associations and governmental agencies support this tremendously successful and important contribution to the public good. Some readers may understand the negative impacts of childhood dental decay and its effects on a child’s physical, emotional and overall development.
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January 07, 2009 10:04 am
The State Water Resources Control Board has been holding a series of workshop meetings throughout the state regarding its interpretation and implementation of Assembly Bill 885.
At 7 p.m. on Jan. 28, board will hold a meeting at the Eureka High School Auditorium, 1915 J St., Eureka, to discuss its proposed new regulations for on-site septic systems.
If you are an owner of one of the 7,700 homes in Del Norte County that use an on-site wastewater treatment system (OWTS) then you should be aware that these proposed regulations will cost you money.
All systems, existing and future systems, will be required to have their septic tanks inspected for solids accumulation at least once every five years by a qualified service provider. If the landowner also uses an on-site well as a water source, the well water will have to be sampled and tested for a wide array of items by a state-certified laboratory at least once every five years unless the owner installs and tests a separate monitoring well or wells immediately down gradient from the septic system.
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January 03, 2009 12:52 pm
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Charitable organizations had good reason to fear a decrease in donations just as requests for help increased in the final months of 2008. After all, even people who weren’t struggling were probably antsy about the deluge of bad financial news.
Instead, Del Norte County residents came through. Many of the organizations striving to spread holiday cheer experienced a surge of last-minute giving, including donors they had never heard from before.
Established philanthropists also stood tall. The Wild Rivers Community Foundation doled out $18,000 to 20 food, gift and clothing projects in the region.
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December 23, 2008 08:52 am
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If you’ve ever had a few days to make a local move — say to another house just across town or even down the street — you know the feeling. As you get some of your possessions into the new place, you’re living in two worlds, both disorganized.
The Triplicate is going through a similar experience as we relocate to a new residence in cyber-space. If you go to triplicate.com, you’ll be invited to check out the new digs. It’s an airier, more modern-looking Web site, full of potential and room to grow.
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