Anne Rook died at home after a courageous bout with cancer on Jan. 27, 2007.
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Jan. 30, 2007 -------- Survived by her sisters Helen Galloway, Gwendolyn
Gibson and her brothers Walter Rook Jr. (Gail), James Gibson (Harriet), Allyn
Gibson and Eddie Anderson. Predeceased by Ben Galloway, Frances Judd (Earl)
and Geraldine Anderson. Beloved Aunt to 24 nieces and Nephews, 71 great nieces
and nephews and 43 great, great nieces and nephews.
b.z , A graduate of Memphis State University,
she taught for 32 years, 29 of them at Tomales High School. In 1982 she
was named the outstanding Foreign Language Teacher of California. She was
very active in extraˆ curricular activities taking several groups
to Mexico and co-chaperoning groups to Washington D.C. She dearly loved
her students.
blank She was very active in the Tomales
Regional History Center as a Board of Directors member and head of Alumni
section. She was a life member of C.T.A., CFLTA in which she was membership
chair for many years. A member of the Petaluma United Methodist Church,
where she was the Tuesday volunteer secretary and a member of the Social
and Swim Club.
Her beautiful smile and personality will be missed by all. Visitation will be Wednesday, January 31st from noon to 6 pm at Adobe Creek Funeral Home with services at Petaluma Methodist Church at 5th and D Thursday February 1st at 10 am.
Contributions may be made the Annie Rook scholarship and in care of Tomales High School, Hospice of Petaluma, the Tomales Regional History Center Alumni Section or The Methodist Church.
Services conducted by Adobe Creek Funeral Home.
Sacred Heart's Lady Cagers play Novato Christian
Sunday Jan. 28th at the West Marin Gym 8th grade girls from
Sacred Heart played Novato Christian. Sacred Heart won 34 to 21.
Teresa Vega led the scoring with 12 points followed by Ana Gonzalez with 11
points. Emma Meckfessel scored 4 points and Alyssa Tanner had 3 points.
The West Marin Sacred Heart 6B team played the closest game yet , but was defeated by St. Rita's by a score of 20-14. A good effort was made by all players at the first home game. Tyler McFadden played a great game setting screens and playing aggressive defense.
The Lady Cagers are now 4 and 0. They are led by coach Kathy Tyson. The next game is at Drake High School on Sunday Feb.4th at 3 pm.
Pt Reyes Dark employee accussed of embezzlement
Posted Jan. 20, 2007 --------- POINT REYES STATION – The owner of the Point Reyes Dark reported at 3 p.m. Friday Jan. 19 a staff member embezzled a substantial amount of cash. Other sources confirm that a trusted employee (on staff for less than a year) had taken over $20,000. The embezzler was confronted by the owner earlier that afternoon. More details as they become available.
Addtional information Monday, Jan. 22, 2007 -------- Lt. Scott Anderson said this afternoon that no further information is available except that the investigation continues and no arrest has been made.
Editor's note: Due to the lawsuit filed by The Point Reyes Dark against the Navigator, we are unable to speak to the Dark -- except through our lawyer's -- to seek their comment or version of this story.
TMDL and why it is so important
How Much is Too Much?
The role of TMDLs in the regulation of water quality
By JW Sharp
Take a walk outside sometime, perhaps after the rains stop and the warm sun returns. Head down the hill, through the woods and to the banks of your creek. The heavy flows of winter will have passed on, leaving inevitable changes in their wake: banks collapsed, trees fallen, and, looking closer, a great deal of fine, powdery sediment, perhaps coating a shallow gravel bed with just enough contamination to prevent sensitive salmonids from raising their young. Under federal and state regulations, this natural result of erosion is qualified as a pollutant and must be quantified within the confines of the Total Maximum Daily Load determined for that particular waterway.
More than half the waterways in the North Coast Region were declared impaired by sediment in 2002, including the Estero Americano and large sections of the Russian River. Besides sediment, the main sources of pollution are heat and oxygen. Although these are all naturally occurring substances, even beneficial ones, there is a point where they become too much, where they exceed the carrying capacity of the waterway and limit the usefulness of the habitat. That point is known as the Total Maximum Daily Load.
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Sacred Heart Cagers' basketball team wins over Mt. Carmel
Posted Jan. 18, 2007 --------- My name is Kathleen and I am currently the coach for the eighth-grade girls basketball team here in Point Reyes. We play for the Sacred Heart Church in Olema. We are the Cagers’
There are three teams this year. A sixth-grade co-ed, and eighth grade boys and an eighth grade girls.
Last week the coach for the sixth-grade team dropped off a report of their first game and it was not published. We will try again.
I’ll leave it up to the other coaches to get their own reports in. Thanks.
On Jan. 14 Sacred Heart Cagers’ won over Mt. Carmel 29-14.
The game took place at Davidson Middle School in San Rafael.
Molly Sobel and Lindsay McFadden led the team in scoring with six points each. Emma Meckfessel and Yanelli Rico followed with four points each. Ana Gonzalez and Teresa Vega played excellent defense.
This makes the girls 2 and 0 and they will have another game Jan. 21 at Terra Linda High.
Sacred Heart will have three home games this season at the West Mann School: Jan. 28, Feb. 11, March 4. All three teams will play on all these home game dates, starting at 12 noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. respectively.
You can reach me at home at 415-663-9257 or at work 415-663-1082.
Filling the need for local news
Posted Jan. 17, 2007 -------- West Marin community radio (KWMR-FM) added a daily West Marin News program this past Novembe.
The program is heard Monday thru Friday at 8 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m.
Andrew Shaw, news producer at KWMR has hosted a weekly show about West Marin events for three years. The new program expands the coverage, resources and the time devoted to West Marin News.
The editorial board of the station asks citizens living in the various West Marin communities to participate in the process of newsgathering and news program production. Ideally, said Shaw, the West Marin News is produced and written by local folks.
Shaw said the KWMR editorial board had been discussing filling a growing demand for local reporting for some time.
This effort goes hand and hand with the recently introduced citizen editorial program called “Speaker’s Corner,” airing Monday through Friday at noon. That program invites listeners to voice their opinions. Draft scripts are welcomed by the station and recording sessions for the programs are scheduled for Thursdays at 4 p.m. Guest editorialists are encouraged to speak out and share their sincere and intelligent thoughts. The KWMR website says humor and Spanish is welcome. Rules of the road prohibit for-profit event promotion, no slander or profanity and no rants.
KWMR encourages West Marin citizens to contribute to the News and Speaker’s Corner. To contribute to the News program, contact Andrew Shaw, News Producer at 415-663-8256 or news@kwmr.org. To contribute to the Speaker’s Corner: Email to programming@kwmr.org with "To the Point" in the subject line, or mail to KWMR, PO Box 1262, Point Reyes, 94956.
Please include your phone number and/or email address.
Tomales Peace Cafe protests Bush's surge
In
Tomales, a group of neighbors, of various political persuasions, came together
for a couple of hours on Sunday to publicly express their personal reasons
for waging peace in times of warfare. Participants included those whose lives,
as civilians or as combatants, have been diminished by the tragedy of "death
with glory." The Tomales Peace Cafe, together with the Bodega Go-pher
Peace group, posted themselves along Highway One to remind motorists that
even the smallest of communities, hanging on the edge of a vast continent,
can "be the change we wish to see in the world" (Gandhi).
Small peace demonstration at Pt. Reyes Friday
Sunday Jan. 14, 2007 --------- A small band of protesters waved signs at passing cars Friday in front of the Bank in Pt. Reyes Station. They were protesting the recently announced "surge" by President Bush.
Klamath River TMDL Meetings
Fishermen to Fight for Key Fishery Issues to be Considered
in the Environmental Impact Report
SAN FRANCISCO – Jan. 10, 2006 -------- The North Coast Region Water Quality Control Board will host two meetings, in Santa Rosa, CA and San Francisco, CA, to seek public comments relating to Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) regulations for nutrients, low dissolved oxygen and elevated water temperatures in the Klamath River. On Thursday 11 January 2007 from 1300 to 1600 HRS the TMDL meeting will be held at 550 Skylane Boulevard, Suite A, Santa Rosa, California 95403. On Friday 12 January 2007 from 0900 to 1200 HRS the other meeting will be held at the US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9 - California and Arizona Rooms, First Floor, 75 Hawthorne St., San Francisco, California 94105. Water Board staff will present an overview of the impairments in the Klamath River, the analytical approaches being used to quantify the sources of the impairments, and identify potential activities being considered to address the sources of impairment. A oral public comment period will follow.
The Klamath River water quality is appalling. The breadth of poor water quality consequences are numerous, as evidenced by the 2002 Klamath River salmon fish kill and the 2006 West Coast salmon fishery closure. Fortunately, TMDL regulations require that these water quality issues be addressed along the Klamath River.
The two upcoming meetings will be attended by many concerned about the health of the Klamath River and its salmon. Some of the salient issues presented by the fishing community will include: the economic impacts of the Klamath River on coastal fishing communities, the minimum daily flow requirements to restore endangered salmonid runs, the affects of flow requirements to address water quality issues causing disease and parasite outbreaks, and the impacts of land-derived sedimentation on spawning grounds. Additionally, the TMDL regulations must be considered in light of the current FERC relicensing process for the four Lower Klamath River dams, aka mitigations must be made for both dam removal and without dam removal scenarios.
Laganitas Creek levees opened
Monday, Jan. 8 the National Park Service workers breeched the Lagunitas Creek levees with two bulldozers. The heavy equipment removed two 12 foot wide sections of the embankments. The work will "help alleviate some of the potential for flooding..." said John Dell"Osso, spokeman for the Point Reyes National Seashore. The openings will prevent water from growing to flood levels and then spilling over the levee banks.
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ILLEGAL ABALONE TRANSACTIONS RESULT IN FELONY CONVICTIONS
Press Release from the Sonoma County District Attorney, Posted Jan. 8, 2007 -------- Defendants Kalen Tanaka of Hayward and Jeffrey Chow, a restaurant owner in Alameda, will be paying a total of $60,000 to the County of Sonoma and the Fish and Game Preservation Fund after pleading guilty to felony conspiracy charges of harvesting abalone for commercial purposes in a closed area and buying or selling sport-caught abalone.
The investigation began with a tip in 2003 to the Special Operations Unit of the California Fish and Game Department. The investigation established that Mr. Tanaka drove with other divers to the Sonoma and Mendocino Coasts taking their legal limits of abalones. They then delivered the abalone to Chow's restaurant in Alameda County. The Fish and Game wardens observed this conduct on several occasions and determined Chow paid approximately $40 for each abalone.
Tanaka and Chow will be sentenced on February 22, 2007. They are expected to serve 90 days each in the Sonoma County jail and be placed on three years formal probation. Their fishing licenses will be revoked permanently.
Manka's gutted
Revised again 9 pm Thursday Dec. 28, 2006
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A
dramatic fire Wednesday morning thoroughly burned Manka's Inverness Lodge
and Restaurant. The 80 year old building was left with portions of walls
without a roof and the contents destroyed. Inverness Volunteer Fire and Marin
County Firefighters were putting water on hot spots until noon.
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Keeping up with some West Marin folks: follow these links for some updates from Jim Kravets
http://www.foundation.reuters.com/newsarchive/news.asp?newsid=350
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/jimzk@prodigy.net/album/576460762379788656
Shark bite reported at Dillon Beach
Posted 1:12 pm, Sunday Dec. 10, 2006 -------- A Sonoma County man was bitten by a shark off Dillon Beach today. Royce Fraley, 43, of Guerneville was attacked while surfing the big surf off shore at Dillon Beach. His board took most of the attack. Fraley suffered three wounds to the groin. The shark was estimated to be eight feet long. Dozens of other surfers were in the water at the time of the attack -- most were unaware of the encounter. Fraley was taken by private vehicle for medical treatment. His wounds were not life-threatening.
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