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River Views - - Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  December 3, 2014

12/7/2014

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  The Byrnes family arrived in Mendocino County around 1880. The patriarch, Michael J. Byrnes had been born in Boston, Massachusetts either in 1840 or 1841. He headed westward in 1862. One might guess that he was distancing himself from the Civil War draft, but nothing could be farther and further from the truth, for in August of 1863 Michael Byrnes volunteered at Noyo for the California Battalion of the U.S. Army. He attained the rank of sergeant before being mustered out at Fort Humboldt nearly two years later in June of 1865.
     He settled as a farmer in Humboldt County for some time. His wife, Mary Hite was a native of Virginia. Around 1880 Michael, Mary and their burgeoning family moved to the Mendocino Coast where Michael worked in the woods and lumber mills of Albion, Littleriver, and Mendocino. Fairly soon he turned his attention to the law, law enforcement that is. He served first as local constable then as a Mendocino County deputy sheriff for several years. Mary and Michael Byrnes were the parents of five children: John, Grace, Ralph, Miles, and Dorothy.
     Let's turn our attention to the third born, Ralph Byrnes. Born in March of 1883 Ralph attended schools in Mendocino, where he excelled at sports if not in the class (The Kelley House Museum in Mendocino possesses a photo of the 1896 Mendocino High School football team, barely more than a dozen strong - Bill Hurley and Fred Lyons were among young Byrnes' teammates). Ralph was only a year or two removed from high school when his father died 1902. Like his father he went to work in the lumber business, mostly with the Albion Lumber Company (slight full disclosure disclaimer: both Michael and Ralph Byrnes were well acquainted with my grandfather, John Macdonald, who worked on occasion for and with the Albion Lumber Company; first as a logging contractor, but later and more extensively as a timber cruiser and surveyor/mapmaker).
     According to Aurelius Carpenter's History of Mendocino County (the edition published precisely one hundred years ago in 1914): "His [Ralph Byrnes'] genial temperment and attractive personality have brought him into local prominence and have made him popular..."
      So popular that at the relatively tender age of twenty-seven, not only did Ralph follow his father's footsteps into law enforcement, but the Republican Party nominated him as their candidate for Mendocino County Sheriff. As A.O. Carpenter put it, Ralph entered  "the race with customary energy, [and] was elected by a gratifying majority."
     Carpenter went on to describe Byrnes' term in office from 1910 through 1914, stating that Byrnes had  "served his constituents honestly, faithfully and intelligently, and proved an enemy to lawlessness in every form. By doing his duty, he made the office of sherifif feared and respected by evil-doers and law-breakers."
     Ralph proved so successful that he was re-elected to his post as County Sheriff in the June, 1914 primary by a majority of more than four thousand votes (Consider that Mendocino County's population a century ago was roughly one-fourth what it is today and readers will grasp how decisive a four thousand vote majority was in the spring of 1914).
     Great success oft times presages something akin to the opposite in fortune. And so it was a mere four and a half months after Ralph's overwhelming electoral victory of June, 1914. Here we turn to the vicinity of Anderson Valley, more precisely Bell Valley, where a hunting party consisting of Sheriff Ralph Byrnes, his brother John, and Game Warden Bert Miller set out one October morn. No sooner had the men walked into brushy country several yards apart, Sheriff Byrnes spotted a covey of quail. He shot at one flying away from the group. He lowered his gun, then a moment later another bird bird bounded from the brush near his feet. This one flew above a thicket that disguised the presence of John Byrnes, standing alongside a fence. Most of the charge from Sheriff Byrnes' twelve gauge struck the left side of his brother's head. John Byrnes' free arm jerked up toward his face for a moment before he dropped to the ground.
    Game Warden Miller sought help from the nearest farmhouse and John Byrnes was transported by automobile all the way to Ukiah in an effort to seek appropriate medical attention. He never regained consciousness and died just short of two days later.
     The aftermath was best described by August Heeser in The Mendocino Beacon: "The remains were taken to the coast on Tuesday's train for interment, with all the members of the family accompanying same, save Ralph, who has been confined to his bed since the regrettable accident happened. His many friends in this section fear that it will be some time before he will be able to attend to his duties as promptly as he has since being in office. The Sheriff and the members of his family have a host of friends here who are doing all in their power to make the burden of the sad affair as light as possible.  As coast residents are nearly all well acquainted with the entire family and the deceased, it is needless for the Beacon to dwell on the esteem in which all are held by a large circle of friends throughout the entire county who sympathize with the family in their sad bereavement."
     It is certainly worth noting, in the hindsight of a century gone by, that Ralph Byrnes did return to duty, being elected to the post of Mendocino County Sheriff far more times than any other individual. He was still apprehending "evil-doers" for decades to come beyond 1914.
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River Views - - Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  November 26, 2014

12/7/2014

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First the good news then the bad news then a little more bad and good. Even the bureaucratic world of  this county's mental health system is manic depressive, or is it bipolar. You figure it out.
     At the October meeting of Mendocino County's Mental Health Board, Chairman John Wetzler and his fellow board members were left a bit flummoxed and frustrated at news  that the Board of Supervisors had once again postponed an agenda item proposing adoption of Laura's Law. Laura's Law stems from Assembly Bill 1421 which was signed into state law more than a decade ago. It is named for Laura Wilcox a fledgling mental health worker who was murdered by a man who had refused psychiatric treatment. The California law, modeled on a earlier one in New York, provides for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment (AOT),  but the law must be authorized by each county's board of supervisors before going into effect. Despite support from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the Police Chiefs Association, and the California Psychiatric Association, Mendocino's county government has hemmed and hawed over Laura's Law despite a letter of support from the Mental Health Board.
     At that October Mental Health Board meeting Fifth District Supervisor Dan Hamburg appeared genuinely embarrassed that Laura's Law had been snatched from the Board of Supes agenda yet again. And who controls that agenda? Apparently the Clerk of the Board and Mendocino County's CEO, Carmel Angelo. Why the county CEO has continually stalled Laura's Law can only be explained by her, but Angelo doesn't do much explaining.
     The first piece of good news is that between mid October and early November somebody saw the political light and Laura's Law made its way back onto the Supes agenda, where it squeaked by on a 5-0 vote.
     Now, the bad news: Mendocino County's bureaucrats inside the Health and Human Services Agency want to hold off the actual implementation of Laura's Law until July of next year. When this was announced at the November Mental Health Board meeting by Mental Health Director Tom Pinizzotto (the number two bureaucrat at Health and Human Services) members of the Board questioned the slow implementation process. Some could be heard to say that at least three Supervisors had already expressed a desire to have Laura's Law fully in place within ninety days. One doesn't need a flow chart to read the disconnect between the bureaucrats and the elected officials in this county, though when push comes to shove, as in the County response to the Grand Jury report on the state of privatized adult mental health services, all the current Supes, except Dan Gjerde, have bowed down to bureaucrats like County Counsel Doug Losak, CEO Angelo, and head of Health and Human Services, Stacey Cryer.
     Near the end of the November 19th meeting Mental Health Director Pinizzotto again chastened the Mental Health Board, and everyone in the room for that matter, to work together without question.  There were a couple of nodding heads while Pinizzzotto spoke, but when he was done several MH Board members countered with comments that boiled down to the point that sometimes hard questioning is necessary in order to productively move forward.
     Pinizzotto's words came near the end of a discussion about the potential start up of an 11 o'clock calendar at the Ten Mile Courthouse in Fort Bragg.  The 11 o'clock court provides a way of finding alternatives to jail for low level criminals diagnosed with mental illness. It has been running for more than a year in Ukiah. At the November 19th meeting, Supervisor Hamburg read a message from Judge David Nelson that essentially said that all parties involved (Ten Mile Court Judge Clayton Brennan, the DA's office, and the Public Defender's office) were on board with implementation of an 11 o'clock court calendar in Fort Bragg. Once more, though, Pinizzotto's remarks implied delay. The MH Board seemed ready to demand a precise time line. Astute readers may remember that this same subject, the delay in putting into place an 11 o'clock court in Fort Bragg, was discussed in these pages during the first week of January, 2014.
     The final agendized item for the November 19th meeting of the MH Board was an interview for a proposed new board member. Oddly, the candidate's application was published on the back of the agenda packet, with private, family details included. Chairman Wetzler announced that all present, Board and public, would be allowed to stay for the interview. According to multiple sources, the MH Board had been given this directive by County Counsel Doug Losak. To his credit Supervisor Hamburg objected to this open airing of what in most personnel matters would be a closed session. Members of the public present seemed sympathetic to Hamburg's opinion and voluntarily left the premises. Why the County Counsel felt compelled to order a public session might have remained a total mystery except for what happened as the public prepared to leave. Some folks witnessed Mental Health Director Tom Pinizzotto telling Hamburg to question the potential Board appointee because that person had, in his words, disrupted the previous day's Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) meeting with too many questions, questions which harassed his staff members.
     What seems obvious is that Pinizzotto feels threatened by Mental Health Board members who may do just that, ask questions. More serious is the matter of the County's Mental Health Director exercising undue influence upon the Mental Health Board's own selection process, not too mention pressuring a member of the Board of Supervisors whose role is liasion to the MH Board. Add to this the County Counsel ordering the MH Board to conduct an interview in a manner that could not only bring undue pressure on the applicant, but offering such advice to the MH Board when the advice was erroneous.
     In journalistic terms the lead has been buried here. However, all the incidents along the way needed explanation, so that the conclusion will hopefully be as clear to the Board of Supervisors as it is to the reading public. What we have in Mendocino County is a Mental Health Director exercising undue influence on a countywide advisory board and a County Counsel pressuring that same board to conduct what should be a closed session interview in public. These are not acceptable behaviors for Mendocino County staffers at any level, let alone the powerful positions of County Counsel and MH Director.
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River Views - - Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  November 19, 2014

12/7/2014

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  If a tree falls in Albion will the Oakland A's be able to afford a high priced free agent? For those readers whose esoterica does not extend to the connection between timber harvest plans alongside the Albion River and major league baseball, the direct link between chopping large, second growth redwoods and baseball is John Fisher. John Fisher is the 53 year old son of the founders of The Gap, Inc. Don't blame yourself if you don't recognize what comes next because you pretty much have to slip yourself into the corporate crapper to understand the precise connections that await, and this is just what crap dwelling creatures like the Fishers want. They thrive in the crap stream. John Fisher thrives to the extent of multiple billions in personal worth according to wealth indexers like Forbes magazine.
     Mendocino Redwood Company L.L.C. (Limited Liability Corporation) is owned and controlled by Sansome Forest Products L.P. (Limited Partnership) and something called Sd Genpar, Inc. Sd Genpar's corporate head is a fellow named Alexander Dean. Sandy Dean, as most people know him, was the first public face of Mendocino Redwood Co. (MRC) back in the late 1990s when MRC bought 230,000 acres of Mendocino County timberlands from Louisiana-Pacific Corporation.
     Sansome Forest Products L.P. has more corporate tentacles than you can shake a crooked switch at. Among those tentacles are: Sansome Valueact Partners L.P., the aforementioned Sd Genpar, Jjf Genpar Inc, Sansome 120 L.P., Truegard LLC, Sansome Planes L.P, Sansome Coffee, Sansome Planes II, L.P. Sansome Pfi L.P., Sansome Equity Partners... I could go on, there's more, but you get the point. Except that we haven't gottten to a Fisher yet. To get that connection, one has to return to Sandy (Alexander) Dean and take note that he is also President of Sansome Partners, L.L.C., but don't let your eye wander to the other Sansome named corporate pieces of the shell game or you'll lose sight of the goal. Sansome Partners, L.L.C. has another founding member. Guess who? Yes, finally, Mr. John J. Fisher. Just to make this part of the corporate joke complete, Sansome Partners, L.L.C. has one more direct corporate link, and that is to an entity called De Investing (I guess when all else fails, you de-invest). The founding officer of De Investing: John Fisher.
     About the same time John Fisher and relatives were acquiring the 230,000 acres of forest land in Mendocino County, Fisher also acquired an ownership stake in the Fairmont Hotels of San Francisco and San Jose. Also in on this venture was another businessman named Lew Wolff. In 2005 Wolff fronted a group who bought the Oakland Athletics for approximately $180,000,000. Wolff has remained the up front man for this major league baseball team, but the principal shareholder, in terms of investment dollars, is John Fisher. Today, Bloomberg and Forbes estimate the value of the Oakland A's at around $500,000,000. Others in the baseball world have stated that if sold now, the Oakland franchise might bring in as much as $700,000,000.
     The A's won the American League Western Division title in 2012 and 2013, but each year the team failed in the playoffs. In 2014, the team appeared on its way to another Western Division crown and just to make sure, the team's wheeler-dealer general manager, Billy Beane, made mid-season trades to acquire front line pitchers Jeff Samardzija (say that three times fast) and Jason Hammel then a few weeks later really showed they were going for it by dealing for high priced pitcher Jon Lester. Unfortunately for the A's and their fans the bubble burst, the team stopped hitting consistently and the team advanced no farther than the wild card game, which they lost to the Kansas City Royals. Lester, as it turned out, was only the shortest of short term investsments because he is a free agent now. The A's have never shown an inkling of interest in free agent players who will command high eight or nine figure contracts (we're not dealing in decimal points here - expect several free agents to receive offers well over the $100 million dollar mark this winter). The Oakland A's of the 21st Century owe most of their success to the abilities of general manager Billy Beane to build and re-build clubs out of the thrift store bargain basement of young and under appreciated players. The A's are consistently near the bottom of the list in total player salaries, always far below their cross-Bay rivals, the San Francisco Giants. The A's benefit annually from a little thing called revenue sharing. Baseball's revenue sharing system is set up so that when money glutted franchises like the Yankees or Dodgers spend exorbitant amounts on their players' salaries, a certain amount is set aside in a pool for those teams with low end payrolls. For the decade that John Fisher has been principal owner of the A's his franchise has reaped tens of millions of dollars from this revenue sharing system.
     Are we getting the picture, John Fisher doesn't like to spend money, he likes to collect it, by the millions and millions. Unless a lot of trees fall and get cut up into boards to be shipped to the Home Depot there will never be enough money for the A's to sign their young, talented players to long term contracts let alone sign top line, yet pricey free agents.
       Enter Timber Harvest Plan (THP) 1-14-080, Mendocino Redwood Company's plan to cut timber on 758 acres of Railroad Gulch in the lower watershed of the Albion River. Railroad Gulch is by far the most significant tributary to the Albion. It has been logged before (my oldest uncle chopped trees there in 1906), and more than once, but there are a goodly number of large second growth redwoods still available for cutting.
     People like Sierra Club member Linda Perkins can provide an extremely detailed list of reasons for significantly reducing MRC's timber harvest plan in size and scope. In fact, at a meeting at the Albion School on November 13th, she asked several pertinent questions of MRC's President and Chief Forester, Mike Jani, and his right hand man, John Andersen. One of Andersen's replies concerning pre-harvest planning went this way, "We can't get to every acre on the plan before we submit it." - meaning before the THP is sent in to Cal Fire (formerly California Department of Forestry).
     This simple fact struck home for yours truly and I asked my only question of the two hour meeting, which was really more of a statement. When the Macdonald family was preparing to submit a Non-Industrial Timber Management Plan (NTMP) to the Department of Forestry in the early 1990s my father, Lorne Macdonald, then in his eighties, walked all 180 acres of this ranch as part of the preparation for said NTMP.
     If a man in his eighties can walk 180 acres of his own land before cutting a sustained yield amount of trees on it why on God's green earth can't a corporate timber company (owner of more land in this county than any other person or company) patrol every acre of a parcel they intend to log? Needless to say, neither Andersen or Jani had a straightforward response.
     What it amounts to is this: the Fisher family is too cheap to pay for enough man or woman power so that MRC employees could walk each acre of a proposed THP before submitting the plan to the state department that governs forestry. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would tell you that if MRC isn't willing or able to patrol their own lands before submitting a timber harvest plan, they shouldn't be allowed to go ahead with that harvest. It bottoms out at common sense. The Fishers have the common sense to pinch pennies and dollars. Does CalFire possess the common sense to spot a cheaper than cheap huckster of a timber company in their midst? Don't hold your breath.
    
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River Views - - Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  November 12, 2014

12/7/2014

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Last month I spent several days in Sequoia National Park. When most folks hear that name they think: big trees. Yes, the world's largest tree, in terms of volume, the General Sherman Tree, does stand in Sequoia National Park. However, there is much more to this park than just large trees.
     We'll get to that, but first some diversions. The main reason that the sequoias were preserved in national parks long before coast redwoods is purely economical. The timber from sequoias tends to splinter much more quickly and more often than the durable lumber of coast redwoods (which are generally smaller in diameter, but taller than sequoias). Thus Sequoia entered the national park system back in 1890. Some of the earliest rangers protecting its environs were buffalo soldiers from the 24th Infantry and 9th Cavalry who worked at fighting wildfire, confiscating weapons, arresting poachers, and curbing the thefts of natural resources and relics. The buffalo soldier/rangers built the first usable road to the Giant Forest as well as the first trail to the top of Mount Whitney. Yes, Sequoia National Park, which can be entered by driving east from either Visalia or Fresno, stretches all the way across the Great Western Divide to the John Muir Trail and Mt. Whitney in the Eastern Sierra.
     The shortest route to the huge sequoias, including the General Sherman Tree, is from Visalia, through the small town of Three Rivers and on east a handful of miles to the Ash Mountain entrance station. From there the highway twists up, up and more up, passing elevation markers for two thousand feet, then three and four and five and six thousand. Drivers will seldom need anything beyond second gear. It's only seventeen miles from the entrance to the Giant Forest Museum, but this drive can easily take forty-five minutes.
     I have reached an age at which I do not want to be in Yosemite Valley or West Yellowstone in mid-summer; not because of the heat, but the throngs who more or less destroy what should/could be a relatively peaceful sojourn in the beautiful wilderness of our national parks. That's why I chose to travel to Sequoia in mid-October. On a weekday, even the crowds at General Sherman are minimal. If you go out to Moro Rock (everyone should climb the 380 stair steps to the top of the dome, where views stretch nearly to Whitney) then continue to Crescent Meadow you can make a relatively solitary 8/10 of a mile hike to Hale Tharp's house inside a log (discussed in more detail two weeks ago in the AVA). It's amazing how few Americans will walk more than a quarter mile from the parking lot even in a national park. I don't get it.
     If you want even less people around, the trail toward Tharp's Log splits off about a 1/3 of the way in and hikers can climb a very mild hill (less than a quarter mile) then walk out of the forest into a vast expanse with nothing but mountain ranges and deep canyons in front of you. This is the western beginning of the High Sierra Trail, where backpackers can occasionally be spotted embarking on or finishing the approximately sixty mile trek from Sequoia to Mt. Whitney. Just a mile or mile and a half from the Crescent Meadow parking lot in shoulder season (best in September to mid-October) will leave you alone on an alpine trail with incredible vistas.
     There is another part of Sequoia National Park that remains far less used. That is reached by the same Visalia to Three Rivers route. However, a mile or so short of the Ash Mountain entrance, drivers will spot a sign for Mineral King. This road holds even more twists and far less pavement. Twenty miles and ninety minutes later you'll reach the tiny “resort” stop at Silver City, your last chance for the slightest connection to civilization. On the right days of the week a stop at the resort “restaurant” will give you a chance at a slice or two of homemade pie. This is a stop well worth making. From Silver City to the campsites at Mineral King it's only a couple of more miles of forest service road.. The campground is actually called Cold Springs. From there it's a short hop to the trailheads for several eye-popping day hikes or the starting point for breathtaking backpacking trips. If you have time for day hikes of several hours in duration may I suggest that your first one be to Eagle Lake. The walk entails a 2,000 foot elevation gain within 3.5 miles, but it's the most gradual 2,000 feet I've encountered.
     From the nearby Sawtooth trailhead at 8,00 feet day hikers can reach the unforgettable scenery at Monarch Lakes. This route can also be a starting point for backpacking sojourns far from phones, TVs, and most people. Though the view from the upper Monarch Lake is spectacular, most hikers are startled to find the lake dammed by Southern California Edison, a reminder that the entire Mineral King Valley barely escaped full scale development by the Walt Disney Corporation. Disney wanted to turn it into the largest ski resort in California. Fortunately, groups of preservationists, led by the Sierra Club, blocked the development plans long enough for the national park service to annex this wild section of mountains to become part of Sequoia National Park in 1978.  
     
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River Views - - Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  November 5, 2014

12/7/2014

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Outside the robins are gobbling hawthorn berries, one after the other. The tree will be bare in another day. Hawthorn berries contain the same antioxidant, oligomeric procyandins (OPCs), as grapes as well as the flavanoid quercitin, which can be found in the outer rings of red onions and in cranberries, broccoli, blueberries and several other vegetables and fruits. As every organic-seeking shopper knows, antioxidants destroy free radicals, the compounds that damage cell membranes in your body. Free radicals mess with your DNA, especially as you age. Free radicals  occur naturally in your body's internal systems, but things like smoking release an inordinate amount of the suckers, and in excess with too much freedom the radicals will literally kill you. Hence, you need antioxidant filled foods, like raw blueberries and kale, to name just two, to do battle with the free radicals who bring on cancer and heart disease. For two thousand years or more hawthorn berries have been consumed as an unofficial treatment for heart disease. Two hundred years ago American doctors were employing hawthorn berries as a curative for circulatory and respiratory ailments.  A 2008 study concluded that a hawthorn extract provides “a significant benefit in symptom control and physiologic outcomes” in the treatment of chronic heart failure. A 2010 review noted a need for further study, but also stated that Crataegus (hawthorn) preparations “hold significant potential as a useful remedy in the treatment of cardiovascular disease.”
     The benefits of natural remedies have served mankind for thousands of years, but in the television and computer age those have largely been replaced by prescription medications, especially in the United States. Scan a cross section of television channels and you'll find a miasma of drug commercials. That's right drugs, but we're not talking cannabis here, we're talking drugs with side effects as serious as meth or heroin. Heroin is not that far from what big pharmaceutical companies have been peddling to the American populace. Heroin kills about ten Americans per day. Prescription drugs kill approximately fifty. And that's after a slight drop in deaths attributable to prescription drugs in the past few years.
     The trend for the last two decades is decidedly upward. More and more of our fellow citizens are becoming addicted to, and being killed by, prescription drugs. Here are some specifics: more American women are dying from painkiller overdoses than cervical cancer and auto accidents. Over the last decade and a half, those death rates stand side by side with the rise in sales for opioids like Vicodin.
     With over twelve million Americans addicted to prescription painkillers, the problem might appear to have moved beyond a negative tipping point; however, there could be a ray of hope on the horizon. Chronologically speaking many readers have probably been passed by and left in the dark by the main stream media. How many of you knew that six months ago Santa Clara and Orange Counties filed suit against five of the largest pharmaceutical producers of painkillers. The lawsuits accuse the corporations of causing a nationwide drug epidemic through "a campaign of deception" in which the goal was to boost sales of potentially lethal painkillers such as OxyContin. The legal filings allege that the pharmaceutical companies violated California's unfair business practice laws as well as laws aimed at preventing false advertising. The complaint specifically accuses the five drugmaking giants (Actavis; Endo Health Solutions, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceuticals [a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson]; Purdue Pharma [producer of Percocet and Percodan]; and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' Cephalon Inc.) of encouraging patients such as well-insured seniors and veterans to ask their doctors for prescription painkillers to treat relatively common maladies like headache, back pain, and arthritis. The lawsuit further alleges that narcotic painkiller prescriptions have become so commonplace as to create "a population of addicts" that has also given rise to a resurgence in the use and abuse of heroin.
     At last month's Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) candidates' forum the emphasis was on the then upcoming Wellness Festival, which highlighted health screenings, nutrition, local providers of yoga, and a river walk/run event. Those are all fine pursuits, but not a single candidate for the  MCDH Board of Directors mentioned any type of drug issues on the coast let alone problems arising from overuse of prescription drugs. According to those present at least one question noting this imbalance in priorities was submitted to the intermediaries asking the questions, but no such drug addiction query was deemed worthy of mention. Such are the blinders in place on the otherwise lovely Mendocino Coast. 
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