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AV CHILI COOK OFF WINNERS Congrats to our Chili Cook Off Winners! Rebekah Toohey 1st place for the second year in a row, Gwynn Gowan 2nd and AVSC’s very own Jessica Walker won third. Thank you to everyone that came out to support the senior center.

The "No on Prop 40" campaign continued its assault on our mailbox yesterday, lobbing in two glossy, four-page, 8.5 x 11" flyers. Both are meant to appeal to the woke-but-easily-lulled California voter. The front-page of one features a beautiful middle-aged nurse in black scrubs, with a stethoscope over her shoulder. She looks hip, with three silver bracelets on her right wrist. There's a silver streak in her hair, which is parted down the middle.

On this week’s board agenda for the Wednesday, October 7 Closed Session (an all-day closed session), Item CS #5 says, “Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957 - Public Employee Appointment - Chief Executive Officer.” Remember, the last time the Board discussed this “recruitement” they upped the salary cap to $300k plus perks in hopes that it would draw “qualified” candidates, the three they interviewed previously having been declared “unqualified” by five people whose own “qualifications”...

Here we go again. Another dubious rape charge, this one stemming from a Cornell University frat party two years ago, has generated wall-to-wall news coverage over the past two days. Just one (male) journalist had the courage to ask a real news question at the hastily called news conference called by New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James, who had just been appointed to lead the “investigation” into the two-years-old matter.

The institution of the city orchestra, once so crucial to musical life, was born in the 18th century. Its players were assembled from university students and assiduous amateurs, aristocrats with time and money on their hands, and journeymen musicians released from court obligations as these establishments, their coffers depleted by their incessant wars, dissolved in the face of market pressures and cultural shifts. The Grand Concerts, for example, began in Leipzig in the early 1740s when J. S.

Aaron Manning and son Karson in front of his BAAM Mechanical shop in Ukiah. Photo by Monica Huettl One day while I was at work in Ukiah, the owner of a neighboring car repair shop came in to speak to my co-worker about his car repairs. I overheard him mention that he had been bull riding at the rodeo that past weekend. I’ve owned horses for most of my life and have attended many rodeos. I’m acquainted with barrel racers and ropers, but I’ve never gotten to know any bull riders.

It's Back to School days, and everyone is thrilled and excited except for the students and the teachers. And me. Kids are staring into the teeth of eight straight months of hammering boredom in the airless warehouses we call classrooms. The time-wasters we call teachers are marking off the days until they can flee with fat pensions. And I'm flat-out sick of watching school districts devour billions of dollars and utterly fail at the only job we give them: educating our kids.

No On Proposition 44 — A Dangerous Attack On Rural Healthcare State Approved Funds For Boonville/County Fairgrounds Cal/OSHA Lacking Forestry Focus Support Public Campaign Financing Diesel Prices Must Be Protested Washburne Revisited NO ON PROPOSITION 44 — A DANGEROUS ATTACK ON RURAL HEALTHCARE Letter to the Editor I am the Medical Director at Long Valley Health Center in Laytonville, a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center that has served North-Central Mendocino County since 1978.

George White, one of the first white men to lay eyes on Round Valley, was called by a lot of different names during his colorful life, not all of them fit for print.

YESTERDAY'S HIGHS: Boonville 102°, Ukiah 100°, Covelo 98°, Yorkville 98°, Laytonville 97°, Fort Bragg 70°, Point Arena 70° AN upper level ridge over the four corners and into our area this weekend will create unseasonably hot and dry conditions for the interior and continued overcast skies along the North Coast. The weather pattern is likely to remain through most of the coming week. (NWS) STEPHEN DUNLAP (Fort Bragg): 50F under high clouds this Sunday morning on the coast.