Cultural Center concept art designed by Greenworks Planning Consultants architect Ben Johnson, courtesy of Crescent City.
Crescent City councilors applauded the friendlier Cultural Center architect Ben Johnson and his team at Greenworks Planning Consultants presented them on Monday.
Johnson’s vision removes the second of two staircases and adds a walkway that takes visitors to an entry plaza. But rather than incorporating a Tolowa basket pattern into the entry plaza — a proposed introduction to the interpretive walk at neighboring Beachfront Park — councilors wanted a design that represents the whole community.
“The entryway needs to be communicated that this is an entry point for all people,” Mayor Blake Inscore said. “None of this is meant to undermine or take away from the amazing work or this being the ancestral home of the Tolowa people. The point is we’re talking about an entryway going into a public building that’s for everyone, including people from all over the world.”
November 21st, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; storm information from the National Weather Service; power outage tips from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation and National Weather Service; the former harbormaster’s misuse of the Harbor’s credit card makes their acquisition of a Port Infrastructure Development Grant much more difficult; the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation will be offering a free screening of their film A-’ti Xwee-Ghayt-Nish (Still We Live On); the Del Norte High School marching band gets their highest ever score at the Festival of Bands in Eugene; Crescent City and Brookings sign a pool pact; Gold Beach City staff break ground on the new veteran housing units; the Oregon Department Of Transportation receives an over $31M grant to fund cleaner construction; South Western Oregon and North Western California are under a flood watch; and Josephine County Commissioners approve the formation of a new fire district. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Crescent City Mayor Blake Inscore supported a partnership with South Coast Community Aquatics in Brookings to give Del Norters a place to swim while the Fred Endert Municipal Pool undergoes renovations starting next month.
But he said he was apprehensive about committing $35,000 toward the arrangement without having a better sense of how many people would actually be willing to swim in an outdoor swimming pool from December through February.
“When we talked about this initially with the extended closure we talked about how we were going to do some cost adjustments whether that is to not renew people’s passes or give them that extra period of time that we’re closed — are we still going to do that?” Inscore asked city staff Monday. “What if a person goes up and goes for a couple of times and realizes it’s not warm enough [or] it’s too far? How are we going to track that for a person who tries this and it doesn’t work for them and other people are now getting a three-month, four-month bump on their annual pass?”
Photo and image courtesy of the Crescent City Harbor District
An $8 million Port Infrastructure Development Program grant will allow the Crescent City Harbor District to begin constructing a new Citizens Dock.
But, according to interim harbormaster Mike Rademaker, representatives with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), which is offering the grant, questioned whether or not the harbor could manage it.
This uncertainty was due to the recent resignation of previous harbormaster Tim Petrick amid concerns that he had misused a Harbor District credit card, Rademaker told harbor commissioners on Tuesday. There was also some concern when the Harbor District’s contract with its grant consultants, Community System Solutions, ran out on Oct. 1, Rademaker said.
Del Norte County Sheriff Garrett Scott saw the tree limb coming before it shattered his windshield.
Scott was on the 5700 block of Kings Valley Road at about 10 p.m. Tuesday guiding vehicles away from another large tree that had fallen across power lines.
After seeing those motorists safely up Wonder Stump Road to U.S. 101 he returned to Kings Valley where he almost became a casualty of the atmospheric river blowing through Del Norte County. The passenger side took most of the impact from that tree limb, the sheriff told Redwood Voice Community News on Wednesday.
“Glass blew all over the inside. It was a brand new truck too,” he said. “It’s dangerous out there. I feel for those road crews and the people out there with those limbs coming down on them, and the firefighters, I hope everybody stays safe.”
November 20th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; storm safety tips from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation and National Weather Service; following last night’s power outage, Del Norte schools are to operate as usual; St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will be holding a candle-lit vigil tonight to commemorate the Trans Day of Remembrance; Del Norte High School gets their highest score yet at the festival of bands; a new juvenile justice system wing will allow first time offenders to be judged by a jury of their peers; last week was the groundbreaking ceremony for Gold Beach’s new veteran housing units; the City of Brookings is offering sandbags to residents and businesses in flood prone areas; and Southwestern Oregon and Northern California are on flood watch. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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November 19th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; the Del Norte Sheriff’s Office gets new hirees at a higher step in the salary schedule; a look at items discussed at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting; tomorrow St Paul’s Episcopal Church will be hosting their Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil; the Tolowa Dee-’ni Nation conducted a necropsy on a beached whale near Yan-na-svt’; the Yurok Tribe completes restoration of Indian Creek; first-time nonviolent offenders under Del Norte County’s juvenile justice system will be given legal representation through its new wing; Crescent City Harbor’s plan of trucking in ice from Brookings serves as a temporary solution to the ice plant shutting down; tips on safe driving in wet weather from the California Highway Patrol; and king tide season is here. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Del Norte High School performs at the Pride of the Northwest field show in Grants Pass on Oct. 12. | Thumbnail photo courtesy of Dan Sedgwick, video courtesy of Danielle Wood.
Self-competition may be cliché in some circles — a motivational mantra personal trainers use to get clients off the couch.
But it’s why the Del Norte High School’s Band of Warriors triumphed despite coming in last in their category at the Festival of Bands field show in Eugene on Nov. 1.
“Even though we did get last place, the students didn’t feel that way because we had a massive point increase from where we were and the best score we’ve ever gotten in a competition,” DNHS Music Director Daniel Sedgwick told Redwood Voice Community News on Wednesday. “I’m talking [about] any year before this.”
Del Norte County is adding a new wing to its juvenile justice system that will offer first-time nonviolent offenders a chance to be held accountable by a true jury of their peers.
The system’s foundation will still be there. This includes the sheriff’s office, police department, Del Norte Unified School District, county probation, the District Attorney and the court itself, said Paul Dillard, chairman of the Del Norte County Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Commission. But as the John Wilson Teen Court program gains steam, Dillard sees youth serving as prosecutor, defense attorney, even the judge.
“We [will] have legal representation there to help those youth,” he told Redwood Voice Community News on Friday. “The DA’s office is going to be there for the prosecution and — not necessarily a public defender, maybe it’ll be a retired attorney or it might even be a retired judge — but they guide them. They set standards on the model that’s been created, including what they can do and what they can’t do.”
St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Crescent City will be hosting a candlelight vigil in observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) and Resilience this Wednesday, November 20th at 7pm. The event honors the memory of transgender and gender-variant individuals who have lost their lives to violence, while also focusing on cultivating community and resilience among the LGBTQIA+ population.
The event will feature several speakers from various backgrounds, including Christie Lynn Rust – a local woman who transitioned after retiring from her decades-long career as the beloved Music Director at Del Norte High School. The names of trans individuals in the United States who lost their lives in the past year will be read, with a candle lit for each of them. Unfortunately, as hate crimes often go unreported, there is no way of knowing the true number of victims lost to anti-trans violence.
The official flier for the Transgender Day of Remembrance 2024 Service.
Statistics about the unique challenges faced by transgender individuals paint a worrisome picture. A 2011 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force survey revealed that anti-transgender biases perpetuate discriminatory practices and attitudes towards gender-variant individuals. 63 percent of transgender respondents reported having experienced at least one form of significant discrimination, 35 percent said they were physically assaulted, and 41 percent reported attempting suicide.
