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By: tra

tra — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:33:05 +0000

There’s an eloquent and powerful Op-Ed piece in today’s Times-Standard, addressing the need for a public restroom in downtown Arcata. It’s written by Marcia Tauber, who together with her hubbie Simeon, owns Simply Macintosh, which has been located on the Arcata Plaza for many years now.

http://www.times-standard.com/guest_opinion/ci_19338431

So it looks like Arcata is going to do a pretty thorough exploration of what would be the most durable and least vandalizable public restroom designs, and come up with some options. It seems like folks from Garberville and Redway might want to check out the options that Arcata comes up with for this kind of permanent pulic restroom facility.

Of course this being Arcata and all, it’ll probably take quite a while for them to work their way through the process, and in the meantime I think we should be moving ahead ASAP with at least a temporary “porta-potty” solution.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:28:34 +0000

Dude, update your links. Arcata Can Be Better isn’t even accessible any longer.

By: Eric Kirk

Eric Kirk — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:28:02 +0000

Thanks TRA. I was offline most of the day. Amazing how quickly one falls out of the loop.

By: tra

tra — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:08:07 +0000

In case you haven’t seen this yet on Heraldo’s site:

http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/estelle-will-run-for-supervisor/#comment-151623

By: skippy

skippy — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:18:09 +0000

Hello Mr. K,

I’d like ask if you would consider carrying Charles Douglas’ Humboldt Sentinel website on your site’s sidebar?

Charles has worked very hard developing and improving his site. He’s done many segments covering local issues– and interviewing local politicos for both Access Humboldt and the video version of the Sentinel. He has your site linked to his.

You can check out his site here. It’s a good addition, I think: http://humboldtsentinel.com/

Me? I’m simply helping Charles out for his countless volunteer hours he’s done for the community. I have his permission sending this to you– and he’d be delighted if you would link his site on your sidebar. Thank you for your consideration and helping out Charles’ site.

yours,
skippy

By: Eric Kirk

Eric Kirk — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:46:26 +0000

Just haven’t had the time to catch up on the issue. It’s an issue which requires more than a link with a two-sentence summary.

As to my denomination, the last generation of any God-believing religion was my grandmother on my mother’s side. She was Catholic. My grandfather married to her probably believed in God, but didn’t really attend Church. On my father’s side they were communists, which is in my view a religion as well.

By: Not A Native

Not A Native — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:38:43 +0000

Eric, even though you’re Protestant several generations removed from Catholic by childhood upbringing. Why no posting about the president’s speech on the middle east peace process and the subsequent many sided furor?

By: Eric Kirk

Eric Kirk — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:22:06 +0000

Richard – I would love to, but I’m not very knowledgeable on the subject. If you would like to write up a guest post and email it to me I will post it.

ericvkirk at gmail.com

By: Richard "Rick" Khamsi

Richard "Rick" Khamsi — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:59:43 +0000

The easiest way to find the videos of the rally is to go to YouTube.com and enter the search words Humboldt Gay Pride or the related words queer, lesbian, transgender, or LGBTQ. Eric, I wonder how many people who care about the issue of youthful despair and suicide will see these messages here in this location. Maybe you could “escalate the propaganda?”

By: Richard "Rick" Khamsi

Richard "Rick" Khamsi — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:04:37 +0000

I have made a channel at YouTube.com called “RickKhamsi” – where you can see some of the things I care about. The series I made of a rally at the Humboldt County Courthouse features about 30 speakers. We were there to urge young people, especially Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer and Questioning kids , to “choose life” despite the pain they are feeling now.

Each speaker in childhood had to face the choice to live or die and had chosen life. This really touched a chord in my heart. Go there and you will hear and see these life-affirming messages. God willing, you will choose to do something to “make ‘the now’ better” for the kids who are suffering now.