Bulletin, Record, Progressive, Reporter Wednesday, May 30, 2018 1iB
OPINION
Appreciating th
legacy of a very generous man
WHERE I STAND Waikoloa on the big island of In addition to Plumas Arts Clampus Vitus Chapter 8; validate the importance of decades to do the good work
Hawai'i. Locally we knew and the Town Hall TheatreQuincy Rotary; dramaworks; the work we do building that we have become
ROXANNE VALLADAO him as Grand Humbug for E. beneficiaries from the Estate The Common Good community through arts respected for, this is all
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
PLUMAS ARTS Clampus Vitus Chapter 8, of Wells C. Clarke (totaling Foundation and Feather programming in addition to something that we can still
Chief of the Chute Crew for $1.7 million) include: River Trout Unlimited. the essential aspect of only barely believe.
Plumas County lost one of the Solar Cook Off Meadow Valley Fire For this astonishing covering annual operatingPlumas Arts will offer a
our favorite citizens and responsible for the set up for Department; Plumas District distribution of funds, we all expenses, tribute to our most
characters in August of 2015, that event, a heavy Hospital; Meadow Valley have Carl's 10ng-time friend But what we do have now, unexpected and beloved
but the legacy of Welles equipment operator and the Schoolhouse and Plumas Jack Brown to thank, with heartfelt thanks to our benefactor as part of our 36th
Carlton Clarke, Jr better,guy you would call on to get Corporation's Watershed because right up to the end Friend Captain Carl, are anniversary celebration
known to us as "Captain things done. Program; Feather River Carl did not care much about funds to take care of theSaturday, June 9, at 3 p.m.
Carl," will live on through No one would have ever College Foundation for the money. It was at Jack's historic facilities that we Join us as we give tribute to
his magnanimous bequest to guessed that he was a man of rodeo, women's volleyball, suggestion that money be have been tasked to manage: Captain Carl and dedicate the
Quincy, Meadow Valley and means. You could fmd him sand volleyball, baseball, given to the community and the Town Hall Theatre, circa mural on the back of Town
beyond, for generations to most evenings at the Plumas softball and basketball teams he handled the arduous task 1936, and the former Capitol Hall Theatre where his
come. Club, most any Clamper and Feather River Fitness; as executor of Carl's estate Saloon, which is now the likeness smiles out to
And so will the stories doins', the annual Solar Cook Plumas Community Radio; without compensation. So Plumas Arts Gallery. So now passers-by.
Off or Sunday afternoons at Buck's Lake Fire here again we recognize awe do not have to have a At 4 p.m the celebration
about him, and maybe even
more, the stories that he told the Town Hall Theatre where Department; Plumas Countylabor of love by another panic attack when something moves to Dame Shirley plaza
us in that voice of his that he sat in that same seat,Search and Rescue; Plumascommunity-minded citizen,breaks or needs repair, for a party with free
could only be the voice of Captain Carl's seat, to see County Museum; Plumas With his donation to We also established a admission, circus fun and
"The Cap'n." All of us got every movie we showed from Hospice and Quincy High Plumas Arts, we were given a Plumas Arts Endowment games provided by
bits and pieces of a colorful animated fairytales to the School; the Meadow Valleyfoundation that we had only with funds held in publicQUIRCUS, and
past retold around campfires bang-bang action thrillerCommunity; Our Savior dreamed of before. We still trust and returns invested in dance-inspiring funk, rock,
or at the bar of the Plumas shoot-'em-ups and everything Lutheran Church; Quincy need to write grants, do community arts services. New Orleans-style jazz music
Club he worked: as a in between. Untied Methodist and St fundraising and manage That endowment also by the eight-piece,
ship's captain out of Newport He loved the theatre and John's Catholic churches;earned income programs, provides opportunity for horn-heavy band
Beach chartering trips for cared deeply for his Plumas Rapids Swim Team; Memberships are still theothers who may be interested RIGMAROLE. There will also
the likes of Richard Burton, community. We learned that Feather River Land Trust;backbone of our support in a legacy donation to help be a no host beer, wine and
for the Army Corp of in his final wishes he wanted Central Plumas Recreationbase. Annual membership to keep local arts thriving in beverage bar and a barbeque
Engineers bulldozing roads to make sure that some of his District; Quincy and Eastdonations of $40, $50, $100 or our community for well into meal available for purchase.
in (what was then) Burma assets made their way to Quincy Beautification more from hundreds of the future. As an Thank you Captain Carl for
and the creation of the benefit the Town Hall Programs; Quincy MS Girls; individuals, families organization that has worked giving us so much more to
Kawalhae Harbor in Theatre. Quincy Little League; E. businesses and organizations hard and struggled for celebrate!
Retaking control of cannabis policy -- good solution available
WHERE I STAND operations on the other. The
MAUCO initiative of the
ScoTr COREY
Ph.D. POLITICAL SCIENCE
Personally? If someone
could promise me I would
never smell pot again, it
would be 40 years too late.
Nevertheless, as a matter of
public policy, I will make a
law and order argument in
favor of limited commercial
cannabis production in
Plumas County. In order to
take back control of cannabis
policy, the Board of
Supervisors should quickly
enact an interim measure to
"grap.dfather" icenses of
produ cers who had pemits -
in this county in previous
years. In essence, they
should legislate the status
quo of 2016.
Currently, the county is
increasingly trapped
between a pretense of
re-established prohibition,
on one hand, and a program
of large-scale, sophisticated
Keep Plumas Green will be
on the November ballot. It
allows operations of up to
22,000 square feet, and has
licensing requirements so
demanding that small
producers will have
difficulty complying. Yet,
legally, it cannot be changed
by a single word before or
after the vote, except by a
new initiative. If MAUCO
falls, the Moratorium wins
by sheer inertia. It was
enacted out of caution and to
gain time, but a severe
electoral showdown will
harden the!political lines,and
make it the default outcome.
The pretense that
prohibition is enforceable
will become a shared
illusion, doomed to fall.
The Board cannot change
the ballot initiative, but it
can preempt it politically by
creating a better alternative
than the Moratorium. Voters
will be less likely to uphold a
nation. But it is obvious that
that is not a practical
solution. Nevertheless,
despite the paranoia and
exacerbated fears of gun
owners, the NRA and
various greedy
manufacturers, all guns
should be registered, and
their owners should be held
fully responsible for their
safe keeping.
Wallace B. Eshleman
Quincy
LETTERS, from page lOB
force in America. We no
longer require dependence
upon our farmers and
hunters for our militia -- as
we did during the
Revolutionary War.
Removal of all of those
civilian guns whose sole
purpose is to kill other
human beings would
undoubtedly lead to a safer
large, rigid block of
regulation if there is a
rational,realistic course of
action under way.
Realistically, Plumas is
probably a middle level
cannabis producing county
in California. For simplicity,
past production can be
thought of in three
categories, legal small plots,
illegal small plots, and cartel
grows, There are numerous
producers in the county who
have dutifully complied with
licensing requirements
under the old medical
marijuana law and, as a part
of that process, identified
themsetvts to the Sherifl s
Office. As an interim
solution, the Board could
"grandfather" those licenses
to the same people (working
in the same locations) who
have operated them in the
last few years. Done
properly, this would achieve
three things.
First, the legal producers
would be limited to those
who have already shown
themselves responsible in
the context of our
community. Most Plumas
County residents do not even
know that there have been
legal producers here for
many years. If they are that
innocuous, they can serve as
models for what works here
now. So, the Board should
require reporting on water,
pesticide, and fertilizer use,
and a survey the neighbors.
If this has to be
sell-reporting, then so be it,
but I would be surprised if
this kind of research were
not immune to FDA bans on
studying the drug itself.
There must be an
enterprising Ag professor or
grad student out there
somewhere. Eight or nine
months from now, Plumas
County might become the
only jurisdiction in America
to make its cannabis
decisions on the basis of hard
data that applies locally.
Second, we could better
manage the threat of crime
by funding the fight against
cartel production. My single
greatest concern with
attempting to reinstitute
weaker bad people, and from here (and the state
punish you ff you resist "track and trace" program
buying their very expensive can be used to show origin),
"insurance." ff we have a it will be certified safer than
solid structure of fees and the rest of the market can
taxes, and direct that funding promise.
to law enforcement, legal To me, nothing is ever
production could help pay for going to make sense out of
its own protection and for tearing up vegetation,
vigorous action against the putting it in your mouth, and
cartel producers in the setting it on fire. Also, I
forest, agree with SheriffHagwood
Third, local rules could that much depends on the
create positive incentives to attitude of the cannabis
responsible behavior. At community. Giggly defiance
least in the early years, all has always been a part of the
legally produced cannabis pot scene. If they now act like
might be required to sell at they can spike the ball in the
specific times and places, the end zone, no amount of sane,
mid other " m Uerate reasonmg gomg" '
commodities have been sold to matter.
at auction elsewhere. In this But reasonable measures
way, testing could be are worth trying as part of
uniform and public, prices the larger American
open to inspection, security recovery from an irrational
simplified, and taxes would drug control regime. For
be transparent and decades, cannabis has been
enforceable. Producers could put in the same class as
also be required to meet heroin (and worse than
standards of chemical purity, meth). For decades, the
and if they failed, the crop powers that be have made us
would be destroyed on site. feel we had vigorous
Growers could form protection against dangerous
sell-insurance pools to drugs by arresting tens of
protect against complete loss millions of people for pot. For
in the case of sabotage, the same period, they have
The advantage here is that quietly promoted opioids
local regulation could give that kill tens of thousands of
local producers an edge that American annually. Treating
other areas do not have. cannabis like alcohol and
Other areas and growers are tobacco ends its function as
competing to achieve the whipping boy of
reputations for quality on a American drug control, and
product that is basically not allows us to turn our
good for your health. I gather attention and our taxes
that a large proportion of against the substances that
California cannabis fails are truly killing us.
chemical testing. If it comes
prohibition Js'tt atdt play - .- :tobacco
into the hands of the cartels.
For decades, the laws against
cannabis have been all stick
and no carrot, and use
remains at about 10 percent
of the population (one time
experimenters, and former
users would be much larger
statistics). Trying to
suppress production with
less funding, and lower
penalties can be expected to
yield a predictably bad
result. Illegal small
production will expand, but
growers will be reluctant to
trust law enforcement to
protect it from other sorts of
crime.
This is a formula for
inviting the cartel thugs to
become, as the saying goes,
"Police for people who
cannot call the police." That
is the polite description for
extortion, protection rackets,
and the like. Powerful bad
people will protect you from
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