Fortuna News

This summer, local youth between the ages of 16 and 24 will have an opportunity to participate in the second contingent of the Southern Humboldt Culinary Career Academy.

Family: My husband, Andre Guimaraes, is a civil engineer. My oldest daughter is 6 and goes to school in the Fortuna district.

Fortuna's Memorial Day saturation patrol resulted in the arrest of one driver who allegedly had more than 300 whipped cream chargers in his vehicle Monday.

St. Joseph Hospital received a $19,840 contract from the state's Employment Training Panel for the training of new nurses hired by the Eureka hospital and Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna.

The Fortuna City Council is slated to meet in special closed session at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Fireside Room of the Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive.

We salute the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors for unanimously voting this week to keep Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park safe from the state budget crisis and open to the public via a partnership with the state Department of Parks and the Save the Redwoods League.

Officers from the Fortuna Police Department will conduct a special DUI enforcement patrol this Memorial Day weekend to crack down on drunken driving.

Fortuna's Art and Wine in the Park is looking for artists to display and sell their work at a summer festival that takes place June 10 from noon to 5 p.m. at Rohner Park in Fortuna .

Estelle Fennell said Humboldt County's 2nd District is in need of a strong advocate, and she believes her leadership and communication skills make her the woman for the job.

Two free organic gardening seminars for the homeowner will be offered Friday and Saturday, one in Fortuna and the other in Eureka.

Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park has been spared from closure thanks to a unanimous vote Tuesday by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors to operate the park during the next year.

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.

As graduation approached, South Fork High School seniors were "showing some of the symptoms of 'senioritis,'" correspondent Bill J. Taylor reported to the May 26, 1988 Redwood Record.

Longtime senior advocate Maggie Kraft is coming home to become the new executive director of the Area 1 Agency on Aging.

No criminal charges will be brought against a Fortuna bus driver who ran over an 84-year-old woman while driving a busload of students to school last month.

The Fortuna Police Department is asking for the public's help in connection with the burglary of a storage unit on Saturday evening.

Alphabet books have been around almost since Guttenberg invented the printing press.

Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park might be saved from closure if the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors votes Tuesday to enter into an operating agreement with the state.

Fortuna city staff and the city council are trying to close a $500,000 annual deficit in the city's general fund that was created when the state eliminated Fortuna's redevelopment agency.

Redwood Camera Club is currently showing members' photography at Redwood Memorial Hospital, 3300 Renner Drive.