History of the Hupa People
Kristin Freeman and Mary Campbell will present “Hupa People in Contemporary America: Holding the Past and Facing the Future,” at the Humboldt County Historical Society program meeting at 1:30 p.
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Other headlines in this week’s Mendocino Beacon include:
- Save the Inn campaign raises $230,000.
- Volunteers train to nab poachers.
- Local abalone season opens today.
Rescue team finds body of climber on Mount Shasta
U.S. Forest Service rescuers Nick Meyers, left, and Eric White, center, pack and weigh gear at Weed Airport while awaiting an attempt to locate Oakland climber Thomas Bennett.
The Siskiyou Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that a search and rescue team has found the body of Thomas Bennett, the 26-year-old climber who was last seen alive Saturday near Mount Shasta’s summit.
Bennett’s family today was at a Siskiyou County airport where rescuers assembled for their ascent of the 14,162-foot mountain.
Rescuers flew up the mountain in a powerful California National Guard Chinook helicopter, a heavy-lifting chopper with twin rotors, which arrived at the small airport near the town of Weed on Wednesday.
On board the Chinook were six Air National Guard soldiers, three U.S. Forest Service rangers expert in climbing and four Siskiyou County search-and-rescue personnel.
The Chinook was supposed to land in a snow field near the summit about 100 feet from where Bennett was last seen. Five rescuers were on board — the three Forest Service rangers and two Siskiyou County search and rescue personnel — to climb to where they believe Bennett took refuge.
On Wednesday, cloud cover near the summit forced two lighter helicopters to return to the rural landing strip along Interstate 5 that is serving as a rescue base.
Rescue personnel waited there Wednesday for breaks in the weather. With no indoor gathering place, they stood in the cold or sat in vehicles.
The massive volcanic peak loomed over all, its upper reaches veiled in clouds.
“I have a great respect for this mountain,” said Eric White, the Forest Service’s lead climbing ranger on Mount Shasta, who is participating in the rescue effort.
Bennett, a chemical engineer from Oakland, fell ill Sunday near the mountaintop. He had reached the summit Saturday with climbing partner Mark Thomas, 26, a structural engineer from Berkeley.
On the peak, they were surprised by an approaching storm and took shelter for the night behind boulders at about 14,000 feet.
Thomas told his father that the pair made it through the night in warm clothes and sleeping sacks and were in good spirits Sunday morning as they prepared to descend.
But Bennett collapsed while he was putting on his crampons and within 45 minutes was unresponsive, Jay Thomas said his son told him. Mark Thomas’ efforts to revive the man were unsuccessful, his father said.
After putting Bennett in a snow cave with food and water, Thomas started down the mountain Sunday afternoon and on Monday was picked up by rangers on snowmobiles.
He told authorities he believed Bennett was suffering from severe altitude sickness and might have died.
Experts in high-altitude medicine said Wednesday that altitude sickness was an unlikely cause if Bennett suddenly collapsed and quickly slid into unconsciousness.
“That’s not the way acute mountain sickness is,” said John Severinghaus, a retired professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and a prominent researcher in high-altitude medicine. “It’s a slow onset process with lots of symptoms first. It begins with headache and nausea and vomiting and feeling terrible.
“If it gets bad enough, it could turn into cerebral edema (a swelling of the brain tissue),” he said. “You can’t stand. You’re dizzy. You complain like crazy. It occurs over many hours.”
A more likely cause, doctors said, was a stroke or a pulmonary embolism — a blood clot that develops in the legs and moves to the lungs. Hours of exertion and huddling in the cold at high altitude could have caused it, they said. Then, as Bennett was putting his crampons on, the clot could have broken free and blocked the arteries going to his lungs, doctors said.
People who experience the condition “spiral downhill very rapidly,” said Thomas Dietz, an emergency room physician in Oregon who for years treated climbers for altitude-related illnesses at a clinic near Mount Everest’s base camp. “Over a period of minutes, maybe an hour, the person slides into a coma. If that’s what happened, there’s nothing you could do on the mountain.”
Officials have continued to operate on the assumption that Bennett could be clinging to life on the wind-scoured pinnacle of ice and rock. The summit has experienced sub-zero temperatures, snow and gale-force winds in recent days.
At about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, rescue teams were hopeful they could take advantage of a break in the weather to reach Bennett’s location, but deteriorating conditions forced a California Highway Patrol helicopter to return to base.
A few hours later, at about 2:40 p.m., a larger Super Huey helicopter sent by the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection made a reconnaissance flight but could ascend only to about 12,000 feet because of cloud cover.
“We were looking for that weather window, and it doesn’t look like we’re going to get it,” said Tom McConnel, a veteran pilot with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The Chinook arrived, and rescuers agreed to try again this morning.
Forest Service climbing ranger Dan Tower, in red, thanks Highway Patrol pilot Bob Stetser after their landing Wednesday at Weed Airport.
Ranger Eric White gets a hug from an unidentified friend of missing climber Thomas Bennett.
Military chopper joins effort to reach stranded climber on Mount Shasta
U.S. Forest Service rescuers Nick Meyers, left, and Eric White, center, pack and weigh gear at Weed Airport while awaiting an attempt to locate Oakland climber Thomas Bennett.
Rescuers plan to make another attempt today to reach Thomas Bennett, a 26-year-old climber stranded since Saturday near Mount Shasta’s summit.
This time they intend to use a powerful helicopter that left Mather Field on Wednesday.
The California National Guard Chinook, a heavy-lifting helicopter with twin rotors, arrived at a small airport near the Siskiyou County town of Weed on Wednesday, just before 3 p.m.
Cloud cover near the summit forced two lighter helicopters to return to the rural landing strip along Interstate 5 that is serving as a rescue base.
Team members from the U.S. Forest Service, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department and other agencies waited at the airport Wednesday for breaks in the weather. With no indoor gathering place, they stood in the cold or sat in vehicles.
The massive volcanic peak loomed over all, its upper reaches veiled in clouds.
“I have a great respect for this mountain,” said Eric White, the Forest Service’s lead climbing ranger on Mount Shasta, who is taking part in the rescue effort.
Authorities said they would make another push today at about 7 a.m. – when they hope skies will be clear and winds will be light – to reach Bennett.
The chemical engineer from Oakland fell ill Sunday near the mountaintop. He had reached the summit Saturday with climbing partner Mark Thomas, a 26-year-old structural engineer from Berkeley.
On the 14,162-foot peak, they were surprised by an approaching storm and took shelter for the night behind boulders at about 14,000 feet.
Thomas told his father that the pair made it through the night in warm clothes and sleeping sacks and were in good spirits Sunday morning as they prepared to descend.
But Bennett collapsed while he was putting on his crampons and within 45 minutes was unresponsive, Jay Thomas said his son told him. Mark Thomas’ efforts to revive the man were unsuccessful, his father said.
After putting Bennett in a snow cave with food and water, Thomas started down the mountain Sunday afternoon and on Monday was picked up by rangers on snowmobiles.
He told authorities he believed Bennett was suffering from severe altitude sickness and might have died.
Experts in high-altitude medicine said Wednesday that altitude sickness was an unlikely cause if Bennett suddenly collapsed and quickly slid into unconsciousness.
“That’s not the way acute mountain sickness is,” said John Severinghaus, a retired professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and a prominent researcher in high-altitude medicine. “It’s a slow onset process with lots of symptoms first. It begins with headache and nausea and vomiting and feeling terrible.
“If it gets bad enough, it could turn into cerebral edema (a swelling of the brain tissue),” he said. “You can’t stand. You’re dizzy. You complain like crazy. It occurs over many hours.”
A more likely cause, doctors said, was a stroke or a pulmonary embolism – a blood clot that develops in the legs and moves to the lungs. Hours of exertion and huddling in the cold at high altitude could have caused it, they said. Then, as Bennett was putting his crampons on, the clot could have broken free and blocked the arteries going to his lungs, doctors said.
Those who experience the condition “spiral downhill very rapidly,” said Thomas Dietz, an emergency room physician in Oregon who for years treated climbers for altitude- related illnesses at a clinic near Mount Everest’s base camp. “Over a period of minutes, maybe an hour, the person slides into a coma. If that’s what happened, there’s nothing you could do on the mountain.”
Officials have continued to operate on the assumption that Bennett could be clinging to life on the wind-scoured pinnacle of ice and rock. The summit has experienced sub-zero temperatures, snow, and gale-force winds in recent days.
At about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, rescue teams were hopeful they could take advantage of a break in the weather to reach Bennett’s location, but the weather forced a California Highway Patrol helicopter to return to base.
A few hours later, at about 2:40 p.m., a larger Super Huey helicopter sent by the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection made a reconnaissance flight but could ascend only to about 12,000 feet because of cloud cover.
“We were looking for that weather window, and it doesn’t look like we’re going to get it,” said Tom McConnel, a veteran pilot with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The Chinook arrived, and rescuers agreed to try again this morning.
Meanwhile, Bennett’s relatives and girlfriend, and surviving climber Thomas, were reported to be gathering in the area, awaiting news and preparing for the worst.
They could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
MOUNT SHASTA Experts said that altitude sickness was an unlikely cause if climber Thomas Bennett collapsed suddenly and quickly slid into unconsciousness. A more likely cause is a stroke or a pulmonary embolism, they said.
Forest Service climbing ranger Dan Tower, in red, thanks Highway Patrol pilot Bob Stetser after their landing Wednesday at Weed Airport.
Ranger Eric White gets a hug from an unidentified friend of missing climber Thomas Bennett.
Fate of ailing climber on Mount Shasta remains uncertain
Mt. Shasta stands at an elevation of 14, 162 feet in this 2000 file photograph.
An adventure that left two climbers stranded near Mount Shasta’s summit began as a weekend getaway for the experienced mountaineering companions from the Bay Area.
It turned dangerous when escalating winds forced Mark Thomas and Thomas Bennett, both 26, to spend Saturday night above 14,000 feet in subfreezing temperatures and howling winds.
Thomas hiked to safety Sunday and Monday, leaving an unresponsive Bennett in a snow cave. On Tuesday, rescuers waited for the weather to break so they could send up a helicopter. They clung to the slimmest hope that Bennett might be found alive.
“Until we know, we operate as if there is some hope,” said Dan Towner, a lead climbing ranger on Mount Shasta for the U.S. Forest Service.
Mark Thomas called his father, Jay Thomas, on his cell phone Monday night and described his ordeal. In an interview with The Bee, Jay Thomas, a psychologist in Salt Lake City, recalled their conversation.
He said his son, an engineer who graduated from UC Berkeley, and Bennett, a chemical engineer from Oakland, went to Mount Shasta late last week for a long weekend of hiking and climbing.
Both were careful and experienced mountaineers who had climbed together a number of times in the past year, he said. His son had climbed Mount Shasta 10 or 12 times before, he said.
After camping at about 10,000 feet, they decided to ascend the summit Saturday via a more difficult and technical northern route, which neither had tried before. They traveled light, intending to be back at camp before nightfall.
When they reached the 14,162-foot summit, however, it became apparent a storm was moving in. They’d checked the forecast before they left, Jay Thomas said, and it had predicted only cloudy skies and a slight chance of snow – not the major storm they saw coming.
Caught by surprise, they had to make a choice. Did they start down the exposed mountain face, with the likelihood of getting hit by high winds as night fell? Or did they take shelter behind rock outcroppings near the summit?
They chose the summit.
Hurricane-force wind on summit
Mark Thomas told his father they both had warm clothes and sleeping sacks that kept them comfortable through the night. The hurricane-force winds made sleeping difficult, but by morning they were in good spirits and ready to descend. As Bennett put his crampons on, he toppled over, apparently stricken with severe altitude sickness, Thomas told his father.
In less than an hour, he was unresponsive, and Mark Thomas’ efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, Jay Thomas said.
Mark Thomas called 911 Sunday morning and reported his friend’s condition. A rescue was impossible because of the weather, and after several hours Thomas realized he could do no more for Bennett, his father said.
He dug a snow cave, put Bennett inside and started down the mountain. Winds were so fierce they picked him up and tossed him around; he had to crawl at times until he reached the tree line, Jay Thomas said.
Mark Thomas spent the night in the forest; two rangers on snowmobiles found him Monday afternoon at about 7,000 feet.
Jay Thomas said his son had returned to his Berkeley home. He could not be reached Tuesday.
In the city of Mount Shasta, Towner said he was the ranger who gave Mark Thomas a ride to safety on his snowmobile.
“He had quite an ordeal up there,” the veteran ranger said. “It’s miraculous that he made it down.”
Weather can change quickly
Towner said he’s climbed Mount Shasta about 200 times. Weather near the summit can quickly turn ferocious, he said, with the wind accelerating as it strikes the mountain.
Towner said that when he was 26, the wind shredded his tent and he was forced to race down the mountain as night fell. That was 20 years ago, and now Towner urges the thousands who attempt Shasta’s summit each year to be prepared for the worst.
The main hiking season on Mount Shasta begins in April and lasts through July. It’s a popular mountain, even with inexperienced climbers.
Last year more than 9,000 climbers set out for the summit, Towner said. Many of them never made it.
“You need crampons and an ice ax and the knowledge of how to use them,” he said.
A helmet is essential protection from avalanches and falling rocks, he said. Other necessities: plenty of water, high-calorie foods, hats, gloves and windproof jackets and pants, even in summer, the ranger said.
“It’s a winter environment all year round. There are glaciers for a reason,” Towner said. “You can get a nice summer day, but high up, the air temperature will be around freezing.”
The sun can make it feel hot, but those caught in darkness or shade will suffer if not properly equipped, he said.
More than a half-dozen weather-related rescues are needed each year, he said. There have been dozens of fatalities on the mountain.
Towner has participated in numerous rescues, including one in 2000 in which a National Guard helicopter crashed at 11,800 feet. He likely will be among those who search for Bennett when the weather clears possibly today or Thursday.
Susan Gravenkamp, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, said Bennett’s family was traveling to the Mount Shasta area Tuesday.
Early reports that Thomas and Bennett had failed to take proper precautions were not entirely accurate, Gravenkamp said.
Mark Thomas had looked at National Weather Service forecasts before leaving home, she said.
The men were dressed warmly, had food and water, and carried a map and compass. They had let friends know their plans and were not required to fill out a wilderness permit because Mark Thomas held a seasonal pass, she said.
Gravenkamp said it would have been helpful if the men had checked in with rangers before climbing and looked at the latest forecast. It might have changed their plans, she said.
Climber had harrowing escape on Mount Shasta
An adventure that left two climbers stranded near Mount Shasta’s summit began as a weekend getaway for the experienced mountaineering companions from the Bay Area.
It turned dangerous when escalating winds forced Mark Thomas and Thomas Bennett, both 26, to spend Saturday night above 14,000 feet in subfreezing temperatures and howling winds.
Thomas hiked to safety Sunday and Monday, leaving an unresponsive Bennett in a snow cave. On Tuesday, rescuers waited for the weather to break so they could send up a helicopter. They clung to the slimmest hope that Bennett might be found alive.
“Until we know, we operate as if there is some hope,” said Dan Towner, a lead climbing ranger on Mount Shasta for the U.S. Forest Service.
Mark Thomas called his father, Jay Thomas, on his cell phone Monday night and described his ordeal. In an interview with The Bee, Jay Thomas, a psychologist in Salt Lake City, recalled their conversation.
He said his son, an engineer who graduated from UC Berkeley, and Bennett, a chemical engineer from Oakland, went to Mount Shasta late last week for a long weekend of hiking and climbing.
Both were careful and experienced mountaineers who had climbed together a number of times in the past year, he said. His son had climbed Mount Shasta 10 or 12 times before, he said.
After camping at about 10,000 feet, they decided to ascend the summit Saturday via a more difficult and technical northern route, which neither had tried before. They traveled light, intending to be back at camp before nightfall.
When they reached the 14,162-foot summit, however, it became apparent a storm was moving in. They’d checked the forecast before they left, Jay Thomas said, and it had predicted only cloudy skies and a slight chance of snow – not the major storm they saw coming.
Caught by surprise, they had to make a choice. Did they start down the exposed mountain face, with the likelihood of getting hit by high winds as night fell? Or did they take shelter behind rock outcroppings near the summit?
They chose the summit.
Hurricane-force wind on summit
Mark Thomas told his father they both had warm clothes and sleeping sacks that kept them comfortable through the night. The hurricane-force winds made sleeping difficult, but by morning they were in good spirits and ready to descend. As Bennett put his crampons on, he toppled over, apparently stricken with severe altitude sickness, Thomas told his father.
In less than an hour, he was unresponsive, and Mark Thomas’ efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, Jay Thomas said.
Mark Thomas called 911 Sunday morning and reported his friend’s condition. A rescue was impossible because of the weather, and after several hours Thomas realized he could do no more for Bennett, his father said.
He dug a snow cave, put Bennett inside and started down the mountain. Winds were so fierce they picked him up and tossed him around; he had to crawl at times until he reached the tree line, Jay Thomas said.
Mark Thomas spent the night in the forest; two rangers on snowmobiles found him Monday afternoon at about 7,000 feet.
Jay Thomas said his son had returned to his Berkeley home. He could not be reached Tuesday.
In the city of Mount Shasta, Towner said he was the ranger who gave Mark Thomas a ride to safety on his snowmobile.
“He had quite an ordeal up there,” the veteran ranger said. “It’s miraculous that he made it down.”
Weather can change quickly
Towner said he’s climbed Mount Shasta about 200 times. Weather near the summit can quickly turn ferocious, he said, with the wind accelerating as it strikes the mountain.
Towner said that when he was 26, the wind shredded his tent and he was forced to race down the mountain as night fell. That was 20 years ago, and now Towner urges the thousands who attempt Shasta’s summit each year to be prepared for the worst.
The main hiking season on Mount Shasta begins in April and lasts through July. It’s a popular mountain, even with inexperienced climbers.
Last year more than 9,000 climbers set out for the summit, Towner said. Many of them never made it.
“You need crampons and an ice ax and the knowledge of how to use them,” he said.
A helmet is essential protection from avalanches and falling rocks, he said. Other necessities: plenty of water, high-calorie foods, hats, gloves and windproof jackets and pants, even in summer, the ranger said.
“It’s a winter environment all year round. There are glaciers for a reason,” Towner said. “You can get a nice summer day, but high up, the air temperature will be around freezing.”
The sun can make it feel hot, but those caught in darkness or shade will suffer if not properly equipped, he said.
More than a half-dozen weather-related rescues are needed each year, he said. There have been dozens of fatalities on the mountain.
Towner has participated in numerous rescues, including one in 2000 in which a National Guard helicopter crashed at 11,800 feet. He likely will be among those who search for Bennett when the weather clears possibly today or Thursday.
Susan Gravenkamp, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, said Bennett’s family was traveling to the Mount Shasta area Tuesday.
Early reports that Thomas and Bennett had failed to take proper precautions were not entirely accurate, Gravenkamp said.
Mark Thomas had looked at National Weather Service forecasts before leaving home, she said.
The men were dressed warmly, had food and water, and carried a map and compass. They had let friends know their plans and were not required to fill out a wilderness permit because Mark Thomas held a seasonal pass, she said.
Gravenkamp said it would have been helpful if the men had checked in with rangers before climbing and looked at the latest forecast. It might have changed their plans, she said.
Retired Humboldt County administrative officer endorses Johanna Rodoni
Loretta Nickolaus, retired Humboldt County administrative officer, has endorsed Johanna Rodoni for Humboldt County assessor. In a press release from the campaign, Nickolaus said Rodoni will bring an elevated level of leadership to the Humboldt
Mike Downey to hold fiesta fundraiser
The Campaign to Elect Mike Downey for Humboldt County Sheriff has scheduled a fundraiser for Friday, April 9. The so-called “Fiesta Fundraiser” will be held from 5 p.
Patrick Cleary to hold ‘Meet with Music’ campaign event
The public is invited to meet with Patrick Cleary, candidate for 5th District supervisor, at the Fieldbrook Family Market on Wednesday at 5 p.m. The event will give community members an opportunity to learn more about Cleary and to share their
Sonora welcomes Vietnam vets home 4 decades later
George Eldridge dreamed up the idea for today’s welcome home parade, expected to draw about 400 Vietnam veterans to the Tuolumne County town of Sonora.
SONORA – When George Eldridge reported for duty in 1965 at the U.S. Navy base in Hawaii, people there told him it wasn’t a good idea to wear his uniform in public. The sentiment against the Vietnam War was strong, and it was best to keep a low profile.
Eldridge was a journalist for the military, and he saw a lot of fighting during his tour of duty. He flew from one end of Vietnam to the other, often in the planes that sprayed the defoliant Agent Orange over the countryside. He returned home with post-traumatic stress syndrome, and it would be 20 years after he retired from the Navy before he would tell anyone that he’d been in the military.
“We were scorned and treated badly when we got home, and it wasn’t pleasant,” said Eldridge, now of Jamestown. “The war, and what you saw, was just something you wanted to forget.”
But Eldridge will be back in uniform this afternoon, one of scores of Vietnam veterans lining up at 1 p.m. on Sonora’s Washington Street for a half-mile parade to celebrate Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
For many of the 400 or so veterans expected, it will be the homecoming they didn’t get 40 years ago. The streets will be lined with their children and grandchildren and their neighbors and business partners. The veterans will march or ride in convertibles and trucks and sport-utility vehicles, their old uniforms pulled tight against thicker bodies and their military haircuts replaced with balding pates or silver hair. Some – like Eldridge, who is on dialysis due to ailments caused by his Agent Orange exposure – are too sick to walk.
“This is a chance for people to show the vets that the attitude has changed tremendously since the ’60s,” Eldridge said. “It will heal a lot of old wounds.”
According to Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 391 of Tuolumne County, Sonora’s parade is the first Vietnam Veterans Day parade in the country. Eldridge, the chapter’s public affairs officer, dreamed up the event shortly after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 717 last year establishing March 30 as California’s annual Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
More than 8.2 million Vietnam-era veterans live in the country, according to the Census Bureau, and the parade is expected to draw participants from as far away as Washington state and Arizona. But some Vietnam veterans in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties, where many have retired, will be skipping the event. Even now, they say their memories of returning home to hatred and ostracism are still too raw.
“They aren’t going to change history by having a parade,” said Richard Eller of Sonora, who served two tours of duty with the Navy in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970.
“Why have a parade to celebrate such a poor time in history and such bad memories?” Eller asked. “I don’t want to relive that trash, and I don’t like being forced to remember it. It’s history. Get over it.”
When Eller returned home from his first tour in 1968, he said, he was stationed on San Francisco’s Treasure Island. He recalls busloads of students from Berkeley and elsewhere going to the airport to shout insults and throw garbage at returning vets. Eller says veterans were denied jobs and had difficulty fitting in on college campuses, where anger at soldiers and the war was so intense. He re-enlisted.
“Fighting the war was bad, but coming home was worse,” he said. “That’s where we found where our real enemies were. I wanted an enemy that was shooting at me from the front, not stabbing me in the back.”
Many Vietnam veterans were drafted and went to war against their will. Eller went out of a sense of duty and patriotism. His father had been a fighter pilot, and Eller remembers Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev brandishing his shoe at the United Nations and, on another occasion, predicting that communism would “bury” capitalism.
“That formed my view of communism,” he said. “In my mind, fighting communism was something you had an obligation to do.”
Eller ultimately spent 24 years in the military, enlisting in the Marines after Vietnam and going to Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1990, which the United States quickly won.
“We didn’t get a parade after Vietnam because we lost,” he said. “You don’t get a parade when you come in second place.”
Eldridge and others in the 500- member Chapter 391 – the largest contingent of Vietnam veterans in California and ninth largest in the nation – understand that vets like Eller and others in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties won’t be marching today. The Sonora Union-Democrat newspaper has published letters opposing the parade, and Eldridge has gotten calls from some vets who don’t like it.
But the parade is as much for the public as it is the vets, Eldridge says. There are some hard feelings to patch up, but with the country now in other far-off ground wars, it seems like the right time to put those memories to rest.
“There are mixed feelings about the parade, we get that,” Eldridge said. “We were not greeted cordially when we came home. We were scorned and so forth, and it wasn’t pleasant. But it’s time for everyone to get over it.”
Vietnam veterans, from left, Dan Brown, 66, George Eldridge, 66, Al Sickle, 61, and Dick Southern, 66, read a resolution presented to them by the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors for their service and sacrifice 40 years ago.
Dikeman supporting Hagen?
Allison Jackson, Worth Dikeman and Paul Hagen.
The last time Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos had to defend his job on election day he faced seasoned prosecutor Worth Dikeman. Gallegos won, and eventually sent Dikeman packing from the DA’s office.
Current candidate Allison Jackson was a big supporter of Dikeman back in the day, but recently released campaign donation forms reveal Dikeman’s money is on former environmental prosecutor Paul Hagen this time around: Dikeman donated $99 to Hagen’s campaign.
The donation is dated March 4th — the day before Jackson announced her intention to run, which wasn’t a secret. But maybe Dikeman didn’t know of her intentions. Or maybe he had money burning a proverbial hole to throw at any opposition.
Perhaps Jackson will have the opportunity to list him in the next round of disclosure forms.
Dikeman and Jackson worked together in the DA’s office before and (briefly) during the Gallegos tenure. They shared a passionate dislike of Gallegos, and Jackson supported Dikeman both in the failed 2004 recall attempt on Gallegos and the 2006 election.
To peruse an easy list of “high-rolling” donators to this year’s local elections, check out John Osborn’s blog.
Art reveals student potential
This Saturday’s “Festival of the Arts” is the creation of visual and performing arts teachers from the various Mendocino Unified School District campuses to showcase this year’s student talent.
The Audacity of Jeff
Fourth District supervisorial candidate Jeff Leonard is sporting a succinct little cartoon on his campaign website. The pictorial depiction of campaign money in Humboldt’s most contentious race comes from local cartoonist Joel Mielke.
[h/t John Osborn]
Panhandling Regs Passed Amid Promises Of Litigation
The City of Arcata took the final step in attempting to curb the behavior of panhandlers last Wednesday, March 17 – a step critics call a violation of people’s free speech.
Art reveals student potential
This Saturday’s “Festival of the Arts” is the creation of visual and performing arts teachers from the various Mendocino Unified School District campuses to showcase this year’s student talent.