Special Mendocino Whale Festival Event on March 6

by: Dan Bacher

Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 15:03:23 PM PST

SPECIAL MENDOCINO WHALE FESTIVAL EVENT,
PRESENTED BY THE OCEAN PROTECTION COALITION:

BLUE WHALE FACTS AND FUTURES
7:00   PM    SATURDAY MARCH 6TH
Preston Hall
44831 Main Street  (next to the Presbyterian Church in Mendocino )

The program  will include  footage and information about the  Blue
Whale that recently collided with a ship and was killed  on  the
Mendocino coast  and emerging technology currently saving Whales in
Massachusetts Bay from similar ship strikes. The whale was killed by
a boat under contract to map habitat for marine protected areas (MPAs)
under Governor Arnold Schwarzeneger's fast track Marine Life Protection
Act (MLPA) process.

Learn about local whales, sea mammals and marine ecology.

Watch a 90 minute documentary film about whales.

NON-ALCOHOLIC REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED AND ALL ARE WELCOME!

For Further Information Contact: 964 2742 or www.oceanprotection.org

Donations Appreciated

Robbing Peter to Build for Paul: Rural/Urban Divide over Bond Money

by: Robert Cruickshank

Fri Mar 02, 2007 at 10:33:52 AM PST

Unfortunately, to do this, the CTC robbed the rural Peter to pay for the urban Paul's freeway widening, and the folks in Mendocino, San Luis Obispo, and Fontana are *pissed*. Mendocino, which lost funding for the Willits bypass on Highway 101, had this to say, from the Ukiah Daily Record:

"This is clearly a blatant display of power politics disguised as a competitive process. There's not any other way of saying it," Dow said, adding that the nine governor-appointed commissioners, not one of whom lives north of the Golden Gate Bridge, acted as if their function was "to bring home the bacon to whatever community they came from," rather than address the entire state's needs.