September 09, 2009 08:54 am
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Those are the words Rick said as he cleaned up the kitchen Saturday evening after our first attempt at canning albacore. After reading my column last week, Rick was determined to help me overcome my tuna canning inferiority complex.
I had my heart set on canning tomatoes and freezing corn over the weekend and had hit the farmers market early Saturday to buy corn and two boxes of tomatoes. But my plans were put on hold when Rick suggested we cruise the harbor to see if any tuna boats were in.
On A dock we met Matt who was selling tuna he’d just caught off the coast of Gold Beach, Ore. Rick paid him $2 per pound and $3 to clean it. Matt’s partner Lisa carved the fish into perfectly shaped loins that we carried home in a garbage bag.
We consulted Devon Morgante’s recipe for canned tuna that appeared in a prior week’s Triplicate and also read our canning bible, the Ball Blue Book, before starting.
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September 08, 2009 08:47 am
Today is the day after Labor Day, which means the end of summer for those of us who have learned to plant summer solidly between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
It’s too bad that kids have to go back to school now, just when the weather is becoming the best it will be all year. Would the world come to a crashing end if school started on Halloween and ended on the Fourth of July for coastal folks?
Perhaps we could soothe the troubled waters of authority if May and June were devoted to outdoor classes that teach how the world works, from gravity and geology to ichthyology, ornithology and the uses of common plants.
I have to change the term from “native” to “common” plants, having been scolded repeatedly for identifying exotic plants that migrated from Europe and Asia a very long time ago, as native. Some, like selfheal, arrived so long ago that the teachings of Native American healers include the use of them.
I’ve received more feedback on the last column than any other in years. People have forgotten how to play. They know something is missing, and they want and need it. As one woman who wishes to remain anonymous said, “I can’t get there from here,” and there was both pain and frustration in her voice. Perhaps together we can all explore ways to play.
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September 04, 2009 08:27 am
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From the pages of the Del Norte Triplicate, September 1939.
Possible registration of state relief warrants, no matter how distasteful that may be, is certainly a very definite indication that the pruning shears must be used in our state government if we are to balance incoming revenue with outgoing, said Sen. Collier while on a visit to Del Norte County over the weekend.
“Expenses in California have been climbing all out of proportion to the general increase in population that the state has experienced. It certainly is true that we can not go back now to a 1925 or a 1930 budget, but we can return to sensibility in state governmental spending,” Collier said.
“We have certainly built up a house of cards that sooner or later will crash unless we stop building on the unstable foundation of a mortgaged future,” Collier further stated.
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September 04, 2009 08:25 am
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We are about to start another Del Norte Warrior football season. It’s the time of year that all Del Norte High fans look forward to.
I have never failed to be impressed by the number of our local citizens that donate their time to the youth of this community, not only at the high school but to all the youth programs in the area. For more years than I like to count Nat Parrott is one of those special people.
When you attend a Warrior junior varsity football game, you will see Nat on the sideline guiding the JV defense. Nat has worked as the defensive coordinator under Steve Luis for about nine years.
Before joining the high school staff, he worked with Doug “Pop” Gaines in the youth program for 10 years. For many years Nat not only volunteered his time to football programs, but also coached in the youth wrestling program.
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