Ferndale News

Arcata Theatre Lounge Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night presents "Flash Gordon" and "Purple Death from Outer Space" , 6 to 10 p.m., free with $5 minimum food/beverage purchase.

Heads-up, history lovers of the Victorian Village of Ferndale. The Ferndale Museum will present a fascinating fundraiser at the Ferndale Repertory Theatre Saturday to help support the continued display of the museum's unique collections.

Human-powered mobile sculptures of all themes and sizes crossed the finish line in Ferndale on Monday, completing a three-day race through varied terrain that began Friday in Arcata.

The noon whistle's blast and cheers of thousands of spectators still echoed when the first machines -- a flaming ant and a metallic cockroach -- scurried down Eighth Street in Arcata for the first leg of the Kinetic Grand Championship.

Memorial Day programs are planned in several locations today and Monday. The following listings are events that have been submitted to the Times-Standard: Eureka cemeteries plan a special Memorial Day patriotic program for the community at Ocean View Cemetery's Veterans Garden at 11 a.m. Monday.

The California State Coastal Conservancy approved up to $510,000 in funding Thursday for two environmental restoration projects on the North Coast.

It's nearly Memorial Day, and while schools and offices are closed and the barbecues are fired up, you still may need to get out and around Ferndale.

Arcata Theatre Lounge Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night presents "B.I.K.E." and "END:CIV" , a benefit for Food Not Bombs, 6 to 10 p.m., free with a $5 minimum food/beverage purchase, strong parental guidance suggested for "B.I.K.E.," the depiction of the Black label Bike Club, a fringe network of anti-materialistic bike jousters.

The Salt River project -- a $12 million to $16 million restoration project nearly 30 years in the making that Humboldt County Supervisor Jimmy Smith called the biggest ever in Northern California -- is being held up by one property owner.

The facilities director at College of the Redwoods reported that things are progressing with the Southern Humboldt campus site.

The Humboldt Handweavers and Spinners Guild invites all fiber fans to celebrate the guild's 40th anniversary at the monthly meeting and fiber presentation Thursday at 6:45 p.m. at the Wharfinger Building in the Bay Room, 1 Marina Way.

The weather for the 34th annual Tour of the Unknown Coast , 'California's Toughest Century,' was nearly picture perfect on Saturday, May 5. The gusty breezes for those cyclists heading north on the return ride may have hampered some riders, but the blue skies and sunshine started the day off right for many riders.

Cross an abstract parade float with an all-terrain, pedal-powered vehicle and make it a competition and you get an event its participants call a "kinetic sculpture race". These drivable works-of-art are put to the test each spring in events held across the United States.