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UKIAH, Calif. – Mendocino College welcomes award-winning author Reyna Grande on Tuesday, May 2, at the Ukiah Campus.
The author will share her experiences as a writer, Mexican immigrant and writing instructor.
All are welcome to join a special reception from 5:30 to 6 p.m. in the Lowery Student Center at the campus, 1000 Hensley Creek Road, followed by a reading by the author and question/answer session from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theater.
This event is free and open to the public.
Grande is an award-winning novelist and memoirist. She has received an American Book Award, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award, and the International Latino Book Award.
In 2012, she was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards, and in 2015 she was honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her works have been published internationally in countries such as Norway and South Korea.
Her novels, “Across a Hundred Mountains” (Atria, 2006) and “Dancing with Butterflies” (Washington Square Press, 2009) were published to critical acclaim and have been read widely in schools across the country.
In her latest book, “The Distance Between Us” (Atria, 2012), Grande writes about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States.
An inspirational coming-of-age story about the pursuit of a better life, “The Distance Between Us,” is now available as a young readers edition from Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Division–Aladdin.
Grande was 2 years old when her father left for the U.S. to find work. Her mother followed her father north two years later, leaving Grande and her siblings behind in Mexico.
In 1985, when Grande was going on 10, she left Iguala to make her own journey north. She entered the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant, and later went on to become the first person in her family to graduate from college.
After attending Pasadena City College for two years, Grande obtained a B.A. in creative writing and film & video from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She later received her M.F.A. in creative writing from Antioch University.
Now, in addition to being a published author, she is also a sought-after speaker at high schools, colleges and universities across the nation.
U.S. Air Force Airman Roy C. Ingalls Jr. graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who complete basic training also earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Ingalls is the son of Roy and Holly Ingalls of Clearlake, Calif. He is also the brother of Elizabeth Ingalls.
The airman graduated in 2015 from Lower Lake High School, Lower Lake.
The 2017 recreational Pacific halibut fishery will commence Monday, May 1, for the first of four open periods.
This season's dates are May 1 to June 15, July 1 to 15, Aug. 1 to 15 and Sept. 1 to Oct. 31, or until the quota is reached, whichever is earlier.
The open and closed periods are intended to provide fishing opportunities from spring through fall.
The 2017 Pacific halibut quota for the California subarea is 34,580 pounds – about 5,000 pounds more than the 2016 quota.
During the annual rulemaking process, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) received input expressing interest in maintaining the 2016 season dates, but also adding additional open fishing days in 2017 that align with holiday weekends.
In response, and in light of the increased quota, CDFW recommended a longer open season to the National Marine Fisheries Service which included Memorial Day weekend, in addition to Independence Day and Labor Day weekends.
The season dates are expected to continue to meet the goal of providing as much opportunity throughout the season while ensuring the quota is attained.
As in 2015 and 2016, the open dates are not guaranteed days, and the season could be closed early if it is determined that projected catches will exceed the California quota.
Again this year, field staff will be stationed at public launch ramps and charter boat landings to monitor catches of Pacific halibut along with other marine sportfish.
CDFW will examine this information in comparison to expected catch rates and if the cumulative catch is expected to reach or exceed the quota prior to Oct. 31, a closure date will be determined and the public will be notified.
The public can follow the progress of catch through the season on the CDFW Pacific halibut Web site, which will be updated weekly with the latest catch projection information (see link below).
Before engaging in any fishing activity for Pacific halibut, please check one of the following resources for the most up-to-date information:
– CDFW website, www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Marine/Pacific-Halibut ;
– National Marine Fisheries Service Halibut Hotline, 800-662-9825;
– CDFW Recreational Groundfish Regulations Hotline, 831-649-2801.
SACRAMENTO – State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced that he has authorized health insurers filing rates with the Department of Insurance to file two sets of rates, in light of the market instability created by President Trump's continued undermining of the Affordable Care Act.
Despite the likelihood that health insurers will have to increase rates due to Trump Administration actions, Jones encouraged health insurers to file a second set of rates premised on continued enforcement of the Affordable Care Act, in the hope that President Trump might reverse course and stop undermining the Affordable Care Act.
The actions of the Trump Administration to undermine enforcement of the ACA's individual mandate and the failure of President Trump and Republican House leaders to ensure funding of the Cost-Sharing Reductions in the Affordable Care Act have created immense uncertainly and instability for 2018's health insurance market.
Affordability and availability of health insurance coverage are both threatened by the actions of President Trump and Republicans in Congress.
This week health insurers will submit preliminary proposed rates for 2018 to state regulators and Covered California.
"The Trump Administration and House Republican Leaders continue to undermine the Affordable Care Act, creating instability in health insurance markets and causing health insurers to have to increase rates for the 2018 market," said Commissioner Jones. "Given the actions by President Trump and House Republican leaders, I have taken the unprecedented step of authorizing health insurers to file more than one set of proposed rates for 2018 – one assuming the ACA is enforced and funded and the other assuming that President Trump and House Republican leaders continue to undermine or repeal the law and cause unnecessary premium increases."
The California Department of Insurance receives preliminary health insurance rate filings for individual market products on May 1 of each year for the following calendar year.
These proposed rates are also provided to Covered California for those products that insurers or health plans intend to sell through Covered California. Due to all the uncertainty at the federal level regarding enforcement of the individual mandate, availability of risk adjustment payments to insurers, and the status of Cost-Sharing Reduction funding, Commissioner Jones has notified health insurers in California that they may file more than one set of proposed rates for 2018.
Insurers have been encouraged to file rates assuming that the ACA is enforced and funded as well as rates they are filing that are based on all the uncertainty in the market due to undermining of the ACA by the Trump Administration and House Republican Leaders.
Insurers have been asked to submit rate information about how rates will differ if the individual mandate is not enforced and if the federal funding for Cost-Sharing Reductions is not provided.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Tuleyome, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservation organization based in Woodland, is currently recruiting members of the public to be a part of its board of directors.
Tuleyome works in Yolo, Lake, Napa, Mendocino, Solano, Glenn and Colusa counties and also does some outreach in Sacramento County.
The organization has been working in the Northern Inner Coast Range of California and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument region for 15 years, and is now seeking new board members who can lead it into the future.
Tuleyome works to conserve, enhance, restore and enjoy regional public lands and open spaces, and it does this through a variety of programs.
It builds and maintains trails, gets the public outdoors through its Home Place Adventures program, educates the public through its “Nature and You” lecture series and its upcoming Certified California Naturalist program, implements conservation policy, and also purchases land in the region that is ecologically or recreationally important.
Currently, Tuleyome is helping the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service as they develop the new management plan for the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, is working to establish an Inner Coast Range State Conservancy, and is also playing an integral part in the planning and developing of a new Woodland Earth and Science Center.
The organization is looking for results-driven people who can volunteer as board members, and who have a commitment to science-based conservation and a vision for what can be accomplished in the region over the next five to ten years.
All candidates must be able to work productively with people of diverse backgrounds, and have proven experience in science, business, finance, fundraising, land acquisitions and/or environmental advocacy.
For more information, see Tuleyome’s Web site at http://tuleyome.org/boardinquiry/ or contact Executive Director Sara Husby at
There are few writers who have done more to promote the work of other writers than Grace Cavalieri, who lives in the nation's capitol.
She has a radio show, "The Poet and the Poem" from the Library of Congress, she writes book reviews and is a tireless advocate for poetry day in and day out. All this while writing her own poems and plays.
Her most recent book of poems is “With” (Somondoco, 2016).
Wild Life
Behind the silo, the Mother Rabbit
hunches like a giant spider with strange calm:
six tiny babies beneath, each
clamoring for a sweet syringe of milk.
This may sound cute to you, reading
from your pulpit of plenty,
but one small one was left out of reach,
a knife of fur
barging between the others.
I watched behind a turret of sand. If
I could have cautioned the mother rabbit
I would. If I could summon the
Bunnies to fit him in beneath
the belly's swell
I would. But instead, I stood frozen, wishing
for some equity. This must be
why it's called Wild Life because of all the
crazed emotions tangled up in
the underbrush within us.
Did I tell you how
the smallest one, black and trembling,
hopped behind the kudzu
still filigreed with wanting?
Should we talk now of animal heritage, their species,
creature development? And what do we say
about form and focus—
writing this when a stray goes hungry, and away.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited submissions. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2016 by Grace Cavalieri, “Wild Life,” from The Broadkill Review, (Vol. 10, issue 2, 2016). Poem reprinted by permission of Grace Cavalieri and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.