NO SURPRISES AT CITY COUNCIL
BY KATHERINE KELLY I didn’t go to last night’s city council meeting where the increase in our water rates was to be announced. I wasn’t feeling well, but if I…
“NO” TO WATER RATE INCREASES!
BY DONNA WESTFALL In the next week, you’ll hear a lot about Prop 218 Protest Vote. It is neither an election, nor do you have to be a registered voter.…
K9 UNITS IN CRESCENT CITY
To whom it may concern, Before printing an article to degrade the Crescent City Police Department K9 units, it would only be fair to actually get the facts from the…
CONTACT MONSANTO TODAY
BY DONNA WESTFALL It’s Friday the 13th. Let’s make it a nightmare for Monsanto. The Monsanto representative for Del Norte County is Rachael Medeiros at (209) 606 9483. Her e-mail…
ROOTS AND SHOOTS
BY JAIME YARBROUGH The emphasis was on raised beds. The meeting held Wednesday, September 11th visited 3 gardens. A raised bed is generally the use of boards or stones and…
THE DRAGONFLY
BY Donna Westfall Pictures by staff photographer, Janice Wilson While you won’t see many honey bees around this year, you will see bumble bees and dragonflies. Dragonflies are insects. They…
WILD LIFE TRAFFICKING AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
By Nicola Grobe The Chinese “Herbal” market contains such things as parts from animals like shark fins for example, or rhinocerus horns, or bear gallbladder. They think that those parts…
WISDOM OF WENDELL BERRY
BY DONNA WESTFALL 79 year old Wendell Berry, oftentimes described as a modern day Thoreau, lives outside of Port Royal, Kentucky. He is an American novelist and poet. He is…
