Oct. 9, 2019

Liz Writes Life

Yep, it froze one morning, last week, and there were several additional mornings, when my thermometer said it was just above freezing and yet there were pretty good frosts. Tomato plants looked pretty sad, as well as the dahlias, impatiens and four o’clocks. I am surprised that five-foot tall cosmos still have blooms and don’t look too bad. The frost did take about a fourth of the blooms, but the plants are still green.

I decided to pull-up the tomatoes. Oops, I hadn’t irrigated the soil, so was dry and I needed to take the shears and cut the tomatoes and four o’clocks above the ground. Drug the bushy plants outside the garden to a compost pile. I was able to pull-up the last pie pumpkin vine and counted 15 pumpkins. Then, I noticed some Russet potatoes poking out of the ground, so I gathered those. I also cut off hollyhock stems from about half the hollyhocks. So, I am getting started on cleaning-up the garden. Yay!

Jesse Mullin

Several fundraisers will be held for Jesse Mullin, a young man from Scott Valley, who had a freak accident in August that broke his C-5 vertebrae resulting in paralysis from his chest down. He was a rising local star in the field of dance.

Jesse is able to breathe on his own and talk and there is some arm movement. Currently, he is in U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento learning to feed himself and doing strength training. Jesse’s family is in desperate need of a wheelchair-accessible van.

The first fundraiser will be at the Knights of Columbus annual dinner this Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. The Knights are donating all of the proceeds from the dessert auction items. The dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Yreka Community Center at the north-end of Yreka. Call Jesse’s aunt, Dona Farnam at 530-467-3617, if you would like to donate a dessert.

Then on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, friends of Jesse are holding an activity at the Little Lot on Etna’s Main St. from 4 to 7 p.m. It is still in the organizational stage. Jan Gaynor said, “We are going to do everything we can to raise funds to help this great guy!” So, save the date. Also, a Go Fund Me page has been set-up for those who know how to navigate the internet and Banner Bank will take donations into the Jesse Mullin account.

Vets Parade

It is full-steam ahead for the Veterans’ Parade in Etna. This is the 19^th year, since it was started after the 9-1-1 attack in 2001. It will be held on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019 in Etna and is sponsored by the city and Rotary Club of Scott Valley.

All veterans and soldiers are invited to participate – which is easy, just drive your vehicle or have someone drive you. In the past, individuals, groups and organizations have been very supportive by entering as well. It is super easy to enter, just call me at 530-467-3515.

Line-up for the parade is at Etna High School at 9:30 a.m. and the parade officially starts at 11 a.m.

We are starting to check-in with the different folks, who hold other activities during or after the parade. Jim Sutter said the Sutter, Whipple and Farrington families will cook-up barbecue hotdogs on Main St. once again -- and veterans eat free.

United Nations

Debbie Bacigalupi spoke at the September Scott Valley Protect Our Water meeting about attending the 68^th United Nations Civil Society Conference that was recently held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Debbie has attended a variety of United Nations meetings, including those held in Brazil, and is quite concerned. She has learned there is deception in the definition of their terms and believes agriculture and farming is under attack by this global group. Her goal is to expose the deception on a variety of global issues.

Debbie showed the “Global Governance” book that she obtained at a past conference and has thoroughly read it. The book explains Agenda 21, which has to do with “sustainable” goals set for 2021. Many of those global governance goals have not been met, so the new Agenda dates have been set for 2030 and 2050.

During the Civil Society Conference, Debbie learned that agricultural landscapes must be changed to cities growing gardens, including growing vegetables on roof tops. She asked a presenter about the sustainability of farmers and ranchers, who presently grow much of the food and was told “obviously not all farmers are going to be needed.” To Debbie this is ludicrous. She rebutted that her family are farmers. “What will happen to them?” she asked. The response was, “… they may survive.”

This is Debbie’s concern: The expectation that city people will grow the food that farmers and ranchers now grow. Yep, the idea boggles the mind. Debbie sees their plan for “sustainable development” to be population control as stated in their workshops.

Man is always wondering what the future may hold. But, the fears created by global warming, affects to environment and how to govern the mass populations is what drives the Civil Society Conference and Agenda 21 meetings.

Debbie said “they” are now admitting it is all about one world governance; comprehensive planning and what is called “Smart Growth,” which is the mass compaction of people into cities. Debbie is frustrated at the indoctrination and hypocrisy of past Global Warming scares and fears. One claimed Miami, Florida would be under water by 2015. That didn’t happen.

Yes, we need to be concerned about our environment, she said, but moving into this one-world government control over land, cities and agriculture has underlying deceits. Debbie spoke to what some left-leaning leaders are pushing: The Green New Deal. “It is not green. It is not new and it is not a good deal,” she finished.

Liz Bowen began writing ranch and farm news, published in newspapers, in 1976. She is a native of Siskiyou County and lives near Callahan. Columns from the past year can be found at: lizwriteslife.blogspot.com. Call her at 530-467-3515.

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