Oct. 9, 2018
Liz Writes Life
It rained off-and-on all week, even at my house. Yay! I
hardly needed to irrigate and really got out of the habit. Did pick green
tomatoes and made two batches of relish. Saturday, I decided to get most of the
red tomatoes picked. Boy, those splits in the tops make them go bad – too easy.
Then, on Sunday morning there was a pretty good frost. So, things are winding
down for sure.
While the ground is soft, it would be smart to get the garlic
planted. An October planting would certainly be early for me!
Veterans’ Parade
Yep, time to get our veterans and organizations revved-up and
entered in the 18th Etna Veterans’ Parade. This year, the parade is
sponsored by the Rotary Club of Scott Valley, who is providing the insurance
for the parade and will also do the parade staging at the Etna High School.
The parade will be on Sat., Nov. 3, 2018 at 11 a.m. Start
lining-up at the high school between 9 and 10 a.m. Dodge Brothers with their
old cars have already said they will participate, Back Country Horsemen will
ride as well and Etna’s Gary Koopman is ready to drive his 1941 Dodge WC 17
half-ton carryall.
All veterans and active-duty soldiers are invited to
participate in the parade. Local clubs and groups are also great supporters
with entries. It is easy to enter. Pick up an entry form at the Etna Hardware
and Fort Jones Hardware stores and mail to me. Or you can call me at
530-467-3515 or Heather Ford at 530-467-3193.
The parade is Scott Valley’s way of saying “thank you” to our
military and veterans. Let’s have a big parade with an even bigger crowd this
year!
Buck hunters
The Mt. Bolivar Grange in Callahan is holding its annual Buck
Hunters Chili Dinner and Dance on Sat., Oct. 20, 2018. Time for dinner is
around 5 p.m. and Smokey and the Bandits band will begin playing at 7:30-ish
p.m.
Museum
The Siskiyou County Museum, on Main St. in Yreka, is holding
“A Walk Through History” on Sat., Oct. 20, 2018. This event was held last year
and was so successful the Friends of the Siskiyou Co. Museum decided to hold it
again. It is a family activity with a pie baking and pie eating contests,
butter churning, Shasta basket weaving, Karuk dancing, bread making
demonstrations, blacksmithing and food booths. Time is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For
more info call 530-598-0075.
Identity
The California DMV continues to have problems and the new federally-mandated
Real ID card program is causing even more. Nearly everyone complains about wait
times at DMV offices throughout the state. This past summer, our state
legislature approved $17 million to fund and hire hundreds more in staff and to
expand hours at field offices. Hum, I hope that is what actually gets done with
those funds.
The current situation causing increased wait times is the federal
Real ID card program, which will be needed to board an airplane on Oct. 1,
2019. Only 1.5 million people have obtained their CA Driver’s License as their
identity card and 23.5 million have yet to either renew their driver’s license
or get their identity card through the DMV. Wow, that is a lot of people to get
processed in one year. You can also get a passport as your Read ID card.
I received my driver’s license renewal notice and went to the
DMV office. I learned that I need certified certificates of my birth and
marriage, because my marriage legally changed my last name. My birth certificate
was easy to get, because I was born in Siskiyou County and went to the
Recorder’s office at the courthouse in Yreka.
But, when I tried to get my marriage certificate, it wasn’t
recorded in Siskiyou Co. Luckily, I found my marriage license and it showed
that we obtained our license in Shasta County. Jack and I were going to Shasta
College, when we got married.
Then, last year, when Jack tried to get his identity card,
DMV wouldn’t accept his birth certificate, because most of his life he has used
his stepdad’s last name and not his birth certificate last name. He was pretty
upset, but ended up getting his passport renewed as his identity card.
For some reason, I thought the Real ID card was the state,
but it is a federal program. So, good luck.
Klamath dams
At the last Scott Valley Protect Our Water meeting, Ray
Haupt, our Dist. 5 Siskiyou Co. Supervisor and chairman of the board, told us
about the “secret” meeting that the Klamath River Renewal Corp. (KRRC) held.
Apparently, Ray heard about the meeting through a local citizen. The county had
not been notified or invited. So, Ray and Dist. 2 Siskiyou Supervisor, Ed
Valenzuela, showed up anyway. The meeting was intended for the residents in the
Copco Lake area.
Ray said KRRC discussed the flood plain, the model it was
using and basically claimed there would be little flooding when the four
hydro-electrical dams were out of the river. After being ignored for some time
by the facilitator, Ray stood up and said he had some questions. He was
frustrated that basic statistics were not used for modeling and wanted answers
for homeowners whose houses could be flooded. Their response was 1 – move your
house; 2 – build your house on stilts; or 3 – put a dike around it. Those
responses were not practical and Ray told them so.
Currently, KRRC is not communicating with the county and that
is very poor judgment, because it is the county that will issue permits for
projects related to dam removal. I don’t think the county will let them get
away with any shenanigans. And ignoring the county will not make the permits go
away.
KRRC has released its “definite” final plan for destruction
of the four Klamath dams. But, the county attorneys and administration are
scouring the plan and will respond by Oct. 16, 2018 to many outrageous claims
by KRRC.
Liz Bowen began writing ranch and farm news, published in
newspapers, in 1976. She is a native of Siskiyou County and lives near
Callahan. Call her at 530-467-3515. Check out her blog at:
LizWritesLife.blogspot.com
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