UkiaHaiku celebrates local poets
Sunday’s eighth annual ukiaHaiku Festival featured a few firsts: two Spanish categories, a local focus, winners from juvenile hall and Yokayo Taiko drummers who opened the ceremony just outside the Civic Center.
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Budding birders flock to see live birds of prey at Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival
As the eagle spread his enormous wings, 10-year-old Keaton Sullivan ran up to get a closer look, excitedly calling his brother to join him. Keaton, his brother Thomas, 14, and his sister Stasia, 4, were some of the many young bird lovers
Rhododendron Festival Concert coming up
EUREKA — The public is invited to the 27th annual Rhododendron Festival Concert at 7:30 p.m. April 24 at Christ Episcopal Church, 15th and H streets.
International Folk Dance Festival showcases traditional steps, songs
Dancers at the 12th Arcata International Folk Dance Festival in Bayside wrapped up their weekend of performances and lessons on Sunday with brunch and toe-tapping music.
Dogwood tree memorial blossoms in Dunsmuir
DUNSMUIR – Babe Ruth played an exhibition game at its ballpark in 1924, trains brought swagger and jobs, but the flowering dogwood may give Dunsmuir its most enduring legacy.
That’s not what Cindy Foreman had in mind last spring when she planted four dogwood trees across the street from her Brown Trout Cafe and Gallery.
She wanted only to create a living memorial to her mother, Mary Kingsford, who had recently died.
After Foreman bought the cafe five years ago her mother often visited and critiqued Foreman’s view of the drab fence line separating the railroad tracks from Sacramento Avenue.
“She would say to me, ‘Honey, you need something planted over there.’ She loved flowering trees, and so I planted dogwoods to honor her,” Foreman said.
Her friends were so moved by the gesture that they wanted to expand the project. “Some community efforts are slow getting started, but this one just caught fire in the town,” said Barbara Cross.
She joined Foreman, Cheryl Petty of Window Box Nursery and Linda Price of Boxcar Gallery on a committee overseeing the plantings.
“We sold over 50 trees in a matter of months,” said Cross, president of the Dunsmuir Chamber of Commerce. “Most are planted in memory of a loved one.”
The seven varieties – with blossoms in shades of white, pink, deep rose, peach and even an uncommon yellow – will bloom from mid-April through early summer.
The majority of the dogwoods spruce up a section of Sacramento Street that extends to the town’s Amtrak station. Another grouping is in Hedge Creek Park near a waterfall. A few will shed their delicate butterfly-like petals in private yards and through other parts of town.
The dogwood, indigenous to the area, blooms amid fir trees covering the mountains around Dunsmuir. In 1985 it became the town’s official tree.
This year the committee hopes to plant another 50 trees down Dunsmuir Avenue, the main thoroughfare.
Dunsmuir will celebrate its blooming season Saturday, May 29, with a Dogwood Daze festival.
With Kingsford’s living memorial about to bloom for the first time, how does Foreman think her mother would feel about all those blossoms across the street from her daughter’s cafe? “She’d be thrilled,” Foreman said.
DOGWOOD DAZE
For more information about Dogwood Daze, call the Dunsmuir Chamber of Commerce at (530) 235-2177 or go to http://dunsmuir.com
Wild about art
The Times-Standard The 15th annual Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival will feature the diverse Wildlife and Landscape Art Show. The show will be held at the Arcata Community Center, 321 Community Park Way in Arcata, starting this Friday
Hunt for cast, crew of Summer of 42′
The Mendocino County Film Office at the Coast Chamber of Commerce is organizing a special festival weekend on Aug.
20th annual Redwood Coast Jazz Festival wraps up in Eureka
The 20th annual Redwood Coast Jazz Festival wrapped up Sunday evening with dancers young and old swinging to the beat after what organizers hope was a successful run.
Godwit poster artist to participate in Arts Alive!
EUREKA — As a lead-in to next month’s Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival, Eureka Books will have the 2010 poster artist on hand for Arts Alive!
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.
Coastal Commission wins again
The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is suffering a second loss this month to the California Coastal Commission.
After a blistering defeat three weeks ago, the San Francisco First District Court of Appeal found sea birds have rights when faced with 4th-of-July yahoos. And like the PLF’s recent Balloon Track lawsuit, the argument was over jurisdiction.
From the Press Democrat:
The case pitted those supporting a July 4 pyrotechnic show in Gualala against those trying to protect sea birds on a island near the Sonoma and Mendocino county line.
The display was halted after two years following complaints that it disturbed sea birds on Gualala Point Island. A study in 2007 indicated sea birds fled their nests at about the time of the fireworks show.
The Coastal Commission said the Gualala Festivals Committee would need to apply for a coastal permit to continue the show. To obtain a permit, the group would need to demonstrate it could avoid upsetting the birds.
Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation sued the commission on behalf of fireworks supporters, contending the commission does not have jurisdiction over fireworks.
Complaints followed the first fireworks show in 2006 when birds fled Gualala Point Island. The island is protected by the federal Bureau of Land Management and part of the California Coastal National Monument Program.
In Eureka, PLF sued the Coastal Commission over the Balloon Track last month, claiming the state agency doesn’t have jurisdiction over any half-baked “clean-up” plans for the contaminated property.
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.
North Coast all jazzed up: Redwood Coast Jazz Festival celebrates 20 years of music, community and singing in the rain
During the first Redwood Coast Jazz Festival 20 years ago, organizers remember placing the big white tents around downtown Eureka, the sound of music in the air and the pouring rain.