Monthly Archives: January 2025

Articles, CC Harbor, Community News, Economy, Environment

‘The State Won’t Work With You’; Long-time Shrimper Says Lack of Infrastructure Is Forcing Fleet, Processors Out of California

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Randy Smith says he understands why Pacific Seafood shuttered its facilities in Crescent City and Eureka.

The same regulations the Clackamas, Ore.-based processor gave as its reasoning for abandoning Humboldt and Del Norte counties have also forced Smith and other local fishermen to land their catch elsewhere.

Smith, owner of the Mistasea and member of the Crescent City Commercial Fisherman’s Marketing Association, the California Dungeness Task Force and, up until last year, the Newport, Oregon Board of Shrimp Producers, said he bought a house in Oregon about two years ago because “I’m up there more.” The harbors in California are a place to park a boat and do some repairs, he said, but there’s no infrastructure anymore.

“You can’t blame Pacific Seafood for doing what they did,” said Smith, whose father was one of the first fishermen to work with the company when its CEO opened the Eureka processing facility about 39 years ago. “You don’t know how many pots you’ll get to fish with and you don’t know when you’re going to get to fish…. The state won’t work with you and Fish and Game won’t work with you.”

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Articles, Community News, Local Government

Starkey Snubbed For Board Chair, Nomination Fails To Get A Second

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Though she congratulated her colleague Joey Borges, Valerie Starkey didn’t hide her disappointment at being passed over for chair of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors.

Starkey, who was sworn into her second term as representative of Del Norte County District 2 earlier this month, was nominated on Tuesday to preside over the Board’s meetings by District 1 Supervisor Darrin Short. That nomination died due to lack of a second.

“I’m only responsible for District 2 and District 2 has supported me and I know where I stand with them,” Starkey told Redwood Voice Community News. “But we go where the need is — we don’t just work in our districts. I have to say that if the supervisors in districts 3, 4 and 5 are not confident in my abilities, then that’s between them and their constituents.”

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The Providence Strike Perseveres – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 14th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; Del Norte County is seeking Measure R Oversight Committee members; Crescent City Harbor District Commissioners discuss enforcing a code of conduct; Harbor Commissioners approved a resolution to start their meetings with a non-denominational invocation; the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation is requesting feedback from Tribal Citizens about the use of the annual Tribal Transportation funds; information on the upcoming Wild Rivers Film Festival; President Biden signs in two new officially designated monuments in the state of California; Yurok DNHS student James Junior Gensaw becomes the first Del Norte wrestler to be signed into a four year university straight out of high school; the Yurok Fire Department aids in firefighting efforts in Southern California; the Providence healthcare worker strike hits its fourth day; climate advocates push to eliminate Water’s Edge tax break for multinational oil companies; and the Trans Can Work foundation re-opens after receiving a 3 year grant. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org! every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of KOBI-TV NBC 5, which has been edited.

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Yurok Tribe Sends Aid for SoCal Fires – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 13th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; the Measure R Citizens Oversight Committee is seeking new members; the first delegation from Rikuzentakata since COVID-19 arrived in Crescent City last week; harbor Commissioners approved a resolution to start their meetings with an non-denominational invocation; Nautical News from Kenny Priest of Fishing the North Coast; information on upcoming Wild Rivers Film Festival events; Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey is named one of eleven indigenous change makers by Indian Country Today; Yurok DNHS student James Junior Gensaw becomes the first Del Norte wrestler to be signed into a four year university straight out of high school; Yurok Fire Department Engine 9434 makes its way to SoCal to aid in fighting the fires; and a California tax exemption saves oil companies millions. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org! every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of the Yurok Tribe via their Facebook Page, which has been edited.

Articles, CC Harbor, Community News

Crescent City Harbor Adopts Guidelines For Public Comment

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Crescent City Harbor commissioners hadn’t gotten that far in their agenda last Tuesday when Board President Gerhard Weber asked a public commenter to leave.

The commenter, Alicia Williams, had stepped up to the podium a second time seeking to rebut statements a previous speaker had made concerning invocations at public meetings. She refused to step down after Weber reminded her multiple times that she had already spoken.

Weber wound up telling Williams to leave, saying she was disrupting the meeting.

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Arts & Culture, Guest Submission, In Media Res

The Providence of Nosferatu

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This article is a guest submission. To submit your own work for consideration, send your piece to redwoodvoicedn@gmail.com. Thumbnail photo courtesy of Focus Features, from the film Nosferatu (2024).

Written and submitted by Urma Fassinger.

This article contains spoilers for the film Nosferatu (2024). 

From the streets of Wisborg, Germany to the forest of birch trees in Transylvania, Nosferatu (2024) is strikingly beautiful, haunting, and nauseatingly disgusting. Gothic horror has been on the fringe of cinema until Robert Eggers showed the world how valuable it is. This isn’t the director’s first project that could be described as strange and off-putting—films such as The Lighthouse (2019) and The VVitch (2015) have stunned and mystified audiences who seek out the dark. 

Nosferatu (2024) is a faithful adaptation of Nosferatu (1922), which was a creative adaptation of the novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897. Many believe that Dracula is the first modern vampire novel, but it is not; it has two predecessors: Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, published in 1872 and The Vampyre by John William Polidori, published in 1819. 

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Biden Administration Drops Old-Growth Forest Protection Plan – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 10th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from Caltrans District 1; weekend weather and shoreline updates from the National Weather Service of Eureka; Oregon sends fire strike teams to California to help battle the Palisade Fires; Students from Rikuzentakata make their exchange visit to Del Norte High School; the marine update from Fishing the North Coast; Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey is named one of 11 Indigenous Change Makers in 2024 by Indian Country Today; the Biden administration withdraws protection plans for old-growth forests across the nation; and tribal policing powers bill enters California Assembly discussion for the third time. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org! every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of Redwood Voice Reporter Persephone Rose, which has been edited.

Articles, CC Harbor, Community News

CC Harbor Board Will Include Prayer At Its Meetings; Intention Is To ‘Recognize There Is A Higher Power Above Us,’ Commissioner States

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Though one public participant questioned the point and another warned of lawsuits, Crescent City Harbor commissioners on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to incorporate prayer into their bi-monthly meetings.

The proposal came from one of the Board’s newest members, John Evans, who pointed out that the United States Congress starts its sessions with an invocation.

Evans said he didn’t want to exclude any particular faith and proposed holding the invocation before the meetings started.

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Tribal Policing Powers Bill on the Table Again – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 9th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from Caltrans District 1; Oregon sends fire strike teams to California to help battle the Palisade Fires; students from Rikuzentakata make their exchange visit to Del Norte High School; what you need to know about Jimmy Carter’s National Day of Mourning; CDFW begins the reintroduction efforts of Sacramento Perch into urban ponds and lakes; the Biden administration withdraws protection plans for old-growth forests across the nation; Grants Pass City Council contests with public majority at a special meeting; Brookings announces the theme for their 2025 Azalea Festival; tribal policing powers bill enters California Assembly discussion once again; Governor Newsom announces the new Director of the California Department of Public Health; and the White House announces two new national monuments in California. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org! every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!

Today’s newscast image is taken as a screenshot from Google Maps, which has been edited.

Articles, Community News, Youth

Del Norte High School Students Welcome Friends From Across the Ocean

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Students from Del Norte High hosted their peers from Takata High School this week. A student delegation of nine visited from Rikuzentakata, Japan to further the sister school relationship between the two communities. | Photo by Jessica Cejnar Andrews

The relationship between Del Norte and Takata high schools entered a new chapter Monday when a delegation of students from Rikuzentakata touched down in Crescent City for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

After the plane circled the runway for more than an hour due to fog, nine students and two teachers stepped off the tarmac to an enthusiastic welcome from their host families, the Del Norte High School Japan Club and Kamome Foundation members.

Before they accompanied their host families to pick up their luggage, each student received a gift from their American counterparts, former Japan Club members who are now in college.

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