Clif at Beginnings

March 7, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Beginnings in Briceland Hosts Equinox Event Featuring Clendenen, Live Entertainment
on Friday, March 21

To mark the equinox and the arrival of spring, Beginnings in Briceland will play
host to a celebration open to all community members featuring dinner, a silent
auction and live music from the Steel Toed Slippers and the Whitethorn Players and
the opportunity for all in attendance to meet, listen to and talk to Clif Clendenen,
candidate for Second District supervisor, on Friday, March 21.

Residents of all ages in the area are urged to come to the community event and
fundraiser, eat dinner, meet the candidate and have a great time. Doors open at 6
p.m., with a gourmet Italian dinner served at 6:30 in the Octogon community center
hall at Beginnings. Donations for admission will be accepted, all are welcome.
Dinner tickets are on a sliding scale. Door prizes, a raffle and a silent auction
will be among the evening’s entertainment, along with acoustic music from the
Whitethorn Players and a performance from the Steel Toed Slippers starting around 9
p.m.

Critically acclaimed young local band Steel Toed Slippers, who released their
eponymously titled first album last month, have just completed a nine-day tour of
Southern California, finishing up at the renowned Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood. The
four-member band has played more than 50 gigs in Humboldt and Mendocino County in
the past year, and in 2007 played onstage at a benefit show alongside legendary
Little Feat guitarists Paul Barrere and Fred Tacket and participated in a national
battle of the bands on CBS’ “The Early Show.”

Clendenen has been holding a series of well-attended public events and forums this
year to meet and talk with residents of the Second District, and this will be an
fantastic chance for South County residents to meet him again or for the first time,
and to ask questions and talk to him about the issues surrounding the district they
believe are the most important.

Clendenen was born and raised in the Second District and has for the past 30 years
been the owner of his family business Clendenen’s Cider Works in Fortuna, and he
strongly backs a sustainable economy with responsible use of agricultural and forest
lands and supports well-planned, smart growth in the district’s towns and
communities. He is also an active advocate for the restoration of the Eel and
Mattole rivers, with restoration of salmon and steelhead habitats and water flows
restored to their natural levels.

Beginnings, which includes the 1,800-sq. ft. Octogon hall, the Children’s House
preschool, the K-6 Skyfish School, the Yin Yang martial arts pavillion and several
other community-geared programs, was founded as an educational alternative and
community service program in the South County in 1974, with the existing site
purchased in 1977. It is located on Briceland Road approximately eight miles west of
Redway.

For more information on Clendenen and his campaign, or to volunteer or donate,
contact his campaign headquarters in Fortuna at 725-4146 or visit his website at
www.clendenen4supervisor.com.

For more information contact:

Bill Thorington, campaign manager

(707) 496-4703 manager@clendenen4supervisor.com

David Jervis, media relations

(707) 498-0260 press@clendenen4supervisor.com