September 2016 Volume 23 Number 1

It was a glorious day in the heat of the summer; the skies were ablaze this August day with interplanetary traffic traveling from the far reaches of outer space. The sweet smell of the river mingled with the sweet har-monies of the bands. If you stood

still enough in the right place, and concentrated just enough you might think you have discovered the meaning of life. Our 20th annual BridgeFest was a glowing ball of laughter, dancing, fun times and good food. Thank you to everyone who came out to share your day with our community and get to know your neighbors.

Ryan Evans took first place in the “Intergalactic flying Saucer Trials” utilizing his stellar launching skills to take the gold. Swains Flat Outpost Garden Center hit a homerun for the community center by donating a pallet of soil to the winner of the 3rd An-nual “Dirtbag Muster” which was won by a young man named Matt. The winner of the “My Favorite Alien” costume contest was Lauri Rose.

On Friday the 19th of August a group of amazing people got together to bake their hearts out. The end result was 53 pies, 84 muffins and many other miscellaneous baked goods to be sold to benefit the BCC at BridgeFest. Our thanks go out to you. The mountain bakers were: Kathy Wolff, Lyn Javier, Aiden Biglow, Bailey Willet-Mooney, Elsie Iloff, Toi Wallace, Kay Brown, Jen Bishop, Lena Fuller, Daniel Fuller, Julie Stephens, Ida Schellhous and Heidi Taylor. With thanks to the BCC food booth crew who sold everything we had that day, they are: Kay Brown, Lena Fuller, Daniel Fuller, Chi Chi, Daniel Ervine and Blu Carlisle-Roy. We also sold a record number of shirts this year, thanks to Judy McClintock, Rene Hudson, Diane Garibay and Bobbi Jo Parker for manning the BCC booth.

Thank you to our M.C. for the day Randy Krahn for his tireless efforts on behalf of the community center as well as our BridgeFest Coordinator Kate

McCay (and the crowd goes wild), also to Chad Ho-lub for putting his blood, sweat and tears into prep-ping and take down of the grounds. A full list of vol-unteers will be forthcoming so keep your eyes peeled and be sure to give them a thank you when you see them.

These next few years will bring excitement to the Bridgeville area as we are poised to receive a unique grant. More info will be re-vealed in the coming months.

Bridgeville Elementary School will host their Back to School Night on Septem-ber 8th starting at 4:30 p.m. and Bridgeville Headstart’s First day of school will be the 6th.

Looking forward to what we make of our future.

Chantal Campbell, Executive Director

Inside this Month

School News BridgeFest Pictures

Dear MFP BVFD News

Are We Crazy or What? TRCCG News

Calendar

Happy Fall!

Welcome to

September

Healthy Alien Spirits

Healthy Spirits is suspended this month as Lauri Rose has been kidnapped by Darsubeans. The ran-som fee is 40,000 Sirian gulaians. NASA is handling all negotiations and things are looking hopeful to have Lauri back before next month’s newsletter deadline.

If you have any spare gulaians laying around please contact NASA at (202) 358-0001, they will be able to give you the bank account information for trans-ferring your gulaians to the ‘Let’s Ransom Lauri’ ac-count. Thanks to the community for all your help in countering this Alien terrorist threat to our newsletter.

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE

Bridgeville Community Newsletter Published monthly by the Bridgeville Community Center

Attila Gyenis—Editor

Bridgeville Community Center PO Box 3 Bridgeville, CA 95526 Tel: (707) 777-1775

Email– BridgevilleNews@yahoo.com

Comments and corrections are always welcome. Manage-ment is not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other editorial mis-statements, intentional or otherwise. The views expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the Bridgeville Community Center or its staff. If you have any other concerns, please submit them in triplicate.

Humboldt County Bookmobile

Read A Book

They Deliver

The Bookmobile comes to Bridgeville and Dinsmore the second Tuesday.

Bookmobile: (707) 269-1990

Bridgeville School 10:30 - 11:30 Dinsmore (next to Laundromat) 12:15 - 2:15 Carlotta (Martin & Shirley's) 3:30 - 4:30

Bridgeville Community Newsletter Published monthly by the Bridgeville Community Center

Attila Gyenis—Editor

Bridgeville Community Center PO Box 3 Bridgeville, CA 95526 Tel: (707) 777-1775

Email– BridgevilleNews@yahoo.com www.BridgevilleCommunityCenter.org

Bridgeville Community Center Mission Statement

“The Bridgeville Community Center is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all our community members. We are committed to bringing people of all ages together to encourage good health, self-esteem, creativity, and personal development.”

Who are the members of the Bridgeville Community Center Board of Directors?

Kent Stanley, President; Laurie King, Treasurer; Kay Brown, Joyce Church, Nancy Herzog-Bottom Roger Schellhous, Kathy Wolff

BridgeFest Flying Saucer Trials 2016 By Ida Schellhous

This year’s saucer toss was a bit different. In years past the target on the riverbed has been too distant for the younger contestants to score well, so Roger Schellhous Built a beautiful, colorful, kid-size replica of the Bridge-ville bridge which was placed in the KidzZone at BridgeFest.

Up on the big bridge the competition was a daunting task for the staff to keep track of. We had contenders and spectators from such alien places as New York and Hawaii. There were 34 entries and countless extra-paid-for tosses bringing substantial money for the BCC. The lead in the contest changed several times during the day with 3 winners landing within only a few inches from one another and the goalpost! These top scorers all received cash prizes. Ryan Evans’ UFO #14 took 1st place. In 2nd place was Starship Commander’s (with the long, silver tresses) ship called Annunake X, and the CalFire team’s entry was a very close 3rd. It was the most fun year ever for us as the contestants showed such enthusiastic, good natured, competitive spirit and community spirit, as well. The Captain of the winning entry, UFO #14 donated his cash prize of $80 to the BCC and only asked for a T-shirt. Thanks a lot, Ryan.

Many thanks are also due to Patsy Currie, our tireless bookkeeper, and Martin Schellhous who broke in his new boots rapidly retrieving saucers from the rocky riverbed.

Editor's Note: Mr. BridgeFest, aka Randy Krahn, seems to be off on quite the vacation after that awesome BridgeFest Celebration! He has sent word from the Za-rem constellation that planetary leader Xatham Putta invited Randy to return to Zarem for a short visit "to meet the family." At least he isn’t being held hostage like Lauri. He plans on being back to Bridgeville in time to write an all-embracing Update for the October newsletter.

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School News

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL!

Bridgeville School started Monday, August 29th!

I have been working hard this summer to prepare for the upcoming school year, and I look forward to seeing all the Bridgeville School students and fami-lies at our Back to School Night on Thursday, Sep-tember 8th at 4:30pm.

As a school leader, my focus is on the whole stu-dent growth of each of our children. I believe in set-ting high expectations and creating an encouraging and safe environment where every student can suc-ceed academically, socially, and personally. Helping all students to see their capacity for success and building their self-esteem is an integral part of my emphasis as a teacher and administrator and our primary goal here at Bridgeville School. Additionally, I still believe in the school’s ability to provide stu-dents with character education and the opportunity to learn positive citizenship behaviors and personal responsibility. Our small class sizes and individual attention to every student’s needs is what makes Bridgeville School such a unique and wonderful learning community.

Family is the school’s biggest partner. Research has shown that family support and involvement in children’s schooling leads to better grades, less dis-ciplinary action, better attendance, and higher self-esteem. Here at Bridgeville School, families are a unique and important part of our learning commu-nity. Communication is the key to successful rela-tionships between families and educators. Commu-nicating with teachers and other school personnel is important in advocating for your child(ren). Please get involved and always feel free to ask questions and make suggestions. If we work together with our students’ best interests in mind, we can create an even better school and learning experience for them.

Another key element to student success is atten-dance. Please help us share an enthusiasm for edu-cation by teaching your children the importance of attendance. We are hoping for many perfect atten-dance awards at the First Trimester Awards Assem-bly! Please schedule doctor and dentist appoint-ments so that your child can at least participate in a portion of the school day, and unless students are ill, please help get them to school every day and on time! Thank you!

We will continue with our school-wide music pro-gram as our music teacher, Mr. Cox, will be back again on Tuesdays this year. We have adopted

modern curriculum and the teachers have attended professional development sessions over the summer to prepare us to move forward with the Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Stan-dards instruction. We have also worked to further increase arts in the classroom as well as technology access for all students. We have very talented and dedicated teachers and staff here at Bridgeville School who put the focus on student success and offer so much to our students. We will again have three classrooms (K-2nd, 3rd-5th and 6th-8th), reading and library support, and continue to offer breakfast and lunch each day. Our after school program will be open from the end of the school until 6:00pm daily with activities and homework help for students of all ages.

If you are interested in enrolling your child here at Bridgeville School please call the office at 777-3311 or stop for a school tour and to pick up enrollment forms. We are looking forward to an educationally productive school year with an estimated enrollment of 25 students. I, along with the rest of the staff at Bridgeville School, would love to have the opportu-nity to provide a positive learning environment and productive experience for all of the children residing in our district. We truly appreciate the support of our community members here at Bridgeville School. If you are interested in volunteering at school, being on our Site Council, or being a member of the Booster Club please call the office or stop by school. Thank you so much to our community and families for continuing to make Bridgeville School a wonder-ful place to learn and grow.

Beth Anderson, Principal

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“Dear MFP” (Master Food Preserver)

By Dottie Simmons

BRIDGEVILLE Volunteer FIRE Department

by Lauri Barnwell

Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Department would like to thank the Community for their generous support during BridgeFest 2016. The Volunteers enjoyed meeting and speaking with members of the Commu-nity throughout the day. BVFD is pleased to report that we sold out of food and raffle tickets this year. Proceeds support the Department in purchas-ing supplies and equipment necessary for the volun-teer firefighters to provide emergency response ser-vices to the Bridgeville Community and mutual aid areas. BVFD also extends their thanks to the raffle donors; RMI Outdoors, Furniture Design, Benbow Inn, and Barnwell Firewood.

Bridgeville VFD wants to remind you that with the hot and dry season upon us, the risk of wildfires is all around. When preparing your family's emergency evacuation plan and kit be sure to include something for your pets as well. To ensure the safety of your pets take a few minutes to prepare an emergency pet kit, a getaway plan, and always have a way to stay informed and updated on the current emer-gency situation. Emergency pet kits should include food and water, medicines if necessary, first aid sup-plies, collar with ID tag and leash, and items to make them feel safe such as a toy or blanket. It is advis-able to have a crate/carrier to avoid the risk of sepa-ration should they become frightened and photos of them, should you be separated. Keep in mind that what is best for you is probably best for your pet.

Again thank you for the wonderful support pro-vided by the Community, it is greatly appreciated.

Call Log: 8/5 Smoke Check MM 26 8/11 Smoke Check MM 30 8/14 Public Assist China Mine Rd 8/18 Medical Hwy 36 8/18 Fire MM 37 8/18 Medical Grizzly Creek Park 8/21 Traffic Collision MM 29

Apples are abundant this year! If you don’t have your own, chances are you have a friend or neighbor who is happy to share. Try to choose the use and pres-ervation method that is best for your apple variety. Here are some suggestions: • All apples can be dried. Dried apples are good snacks or can be used in breads, cookies or cakes. • Most or a blend of apple varieties make great cider or juice. Cider is made by pressing and best preserved by freezing. Juice is extracted by heating and pre-served by pasteurizing. • Varieties acceptable for freezing: Golden Delicious, Rome Beauty, Jonathan and Granny Smith. Consider freezing sugared spiced slices for pie filling, or you can prepare a pie, crusts and all, and freeze to bake later! • For canned pie filling Stayman, Golden Delicious, Rome, and varieties of similar quality are suitable. • For fresh pies and baking: Granny Smith, Bellflower, Rome Beauty, Jonagold, Braeburn, Honeycrisp, Cort-land, Pink Lady. • Varieties best for applesauce and apple butter: Golden Delicious, Rome Beauty, Stayman, Jonathan, Gravenstein and McIntosh. Preserve sauce and spreads by canning. • Most apples are good for making jelly, make sure about 1/3 of the apples are underripe, to get the most pectin. Jelly is a good use for crabapples and mis-shapen apples • There are many ways to preserve apples blended with other ingredients in preserves, chutneys and other condiments. Find links for recipes on-line or check the Ball Blue Book or Complete Book of Home Preserving or So Easy to Preserve. • Red Delicious, Fuji, and Gala apples are best eaten fresh. They do not freeze or cook well. • Fresh storage: Arkansas Black, Waltana, Rome Beauty, Mutsu, Fuji, Granny Smith, Winesap. These keep 4 to 5 months or longer. Examine apples care-fully, only perfect apples should be considered for long term storage. Here are some apple storage tips:

Store individually wrapped in paper, keeping them separate. Box with a loose-fitting lid. Store in cool, dark, well-ventilated spot, such as a root cellar, unheated basement, enclosed porch, garage, or refrig-erator. Apples cannot withstand freezing temperatures, but store best below 40ºf. They will keep at higher tem-peratures, just not as long. It‘s NOT recommended to store apples next to potatoes or onions. Ripening pota-toes release a gas that speeds the ripening of apples.

Questions about food preservation? Send them to: bridgevillenews@yahoo.com. Questions about the Master Food Preserver Program? Contact the Humboldt County Cooperative Extension Office at: 5630 S. Broadway, Eureka, CA 95503, Phone: 707-445-7351, or: http://cehumboldt.ucdavis.edu

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Goodbye Aliens! and the Outhouse - Part 68

The wild, wonderful, hilarious, nerve-racking but never boring volunteer and participant time of Bridge-ville’s 20th BridgeFest is over. The Aliens have gone back home with their various prizes from the Human and Alien Games, the old historic bridge has been cleaned up of event litter, the tall event flags taken down and the flying saucers that didn’t hit the mark in the flying saucer trials are shoveled up and put into a special shed for the Aliens to work on when they come next year.

We want to tell you that the BridgeFest Committee did an absolute stellar job! Besides being involved in months of committee meetings, organization and pur-chasing actions, we thank: Roger Schellhous of the Saucer Trials; Kay Brown of the Food Booth; Rachel Goldberg of the Kidz Zone; Ken Stanley of the Music; Kate McCay coordinator & of the Alien Costume Con-test; Kathy Wolff of the Baking Pies and Muffins; Brooke Entsminger of the Raffle Booth & Dutch Raffle; Mr.BridgeFest Randy Krahn for his Donors; Lyn Javier for her Donors (& the Dump - Rachel helped too!); Chad Holub of Grounds, Signs & Flags; Kelly Fraser & David (Dirt) Gray of the Dirt Bag Muster; Chantal Campbell of the BCC Center and Jim Hanson of the Bridgeville Fire Department BBQ. Thank you too, to the Fire Department for donating 10 free meals for vol-unteers. And we can’t forget Elsie Iloff, who donated 30 lunch bags of grinder sandwiches, chips, water and hostess twinkies for a lot of the volunteers that day. Don’t forget…there are 40 or so more volunteers that gave of their time to help! Thank You! We all made new friends and moolah for the Community Center!

Now that’s done, what are we going to do? Oh, that’s right: The Outhouse. As most of you know, last winter the gales knocked it down once more so this time we have designed it to be attached to the guest studio. The studio was built with an angled floor plan so when you look at it outside from the northeast you feel dizzy. The attached outhouse will have that same drunken feeling; angled and just big enough for a 36” wide window slanted to look out at hills and grasslands while you are sitting on the orange enameled custom built box over the sawdust bucket. If you are staying in the studio and need to go, you will open the front and only studio door, step out and go to the left to the end of a narrow space between it and a storage shed, then reach around the corner with your left hand and turn a knob that will open the outhouse; twist your body around the corner, step in, close the door and you are in a teeny but decorative space to do your business. Can’t Wait!

Kate McCay and Lyn Javier

TRIBUTE TREE FOR CHRISTMAS

Two Rivers will not be celebrating with our annual gourmet spaghetti feed this year. We wish to thank everyone who has been involved with this wonderful dinner and raffle but special thanks to LaVonne War-ren, BJ Delaney and Pam Walker.

For our winter fundraiser this year we will be hosting a Tribute Tree at the Mad River Community Hall. For $5.00 you can purchase an ornament hand painted with a name and up to 15 other char-acters. Do you want to pay tribute to someone who was/is special to you? Perhaps you want to ac-knowledge someone alive or passed who taught you great life lessons or skills that have served you well. Maybe you want to congratulate someone who has done something great like graduating from high school or college. Possibly someone has done you a favor and you need a special way to say Thank-you.

You will have a choice between a wooden star, wooden angel or clear ball. We will hand paint the person’s name and a message of up to 12 charac-ters. The ornaments will hang on a Christmas Tree at the Mad River Community Hall and there will be a special tree lighting ceremony at the Christmas Crafts Fair on Nov. 5th. You will be able to pick up your ornaments anytime between Dec. 20th and January 13th to have for your own tree.

There will also be a chance at the crafts fair to make your own ornament should you chose to do that. To purchase an ornament please contact any TRCCG member or call Lauri at 777-3008.

TRCCG TRIBUTE TREE ORNAMENT

Purchase a hand painted ornament with your loved one’s name and mes-sage up to 15 characters. Cost: $5. Give tribute to someone special to you.

Proceeds help support TRCCG.

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Grant Writers Wanted- Do you possess writing skills and spare time? The BCC is looking for interested community members to join the Grant Writing Committee. The committee’s responsibilities will include searching for potential grants, and under the supervision of the board and office, writ-ing grant proposals. If interested, please contact the BCC at 707-777-1775 or email chantal.bcc@gmail.com What to be a STAR? - Southern Trinity Area Recue (STAR) is needing volunteers for the volunteer ambulance service. We need dispatchers, responders, and drivers. Please call Brooke at 707-574-6616 x209. Please help the community. WANTED: Loving, caring people to help neighbors in need. Two Rivers Community Care Group, a volunteer hospice, seeks vol-unteers to help neighbors facing life altering illnesses and end-of-life issues. Call the Bridgeville Community Center to volunteer or if you need our services. 777-1775. Volunteer Firemen Wanted– The Bridge-ville, Mad River, and Ruth Volunteer Fire Departments are looking for volunteers. The house they save may be yours or your neighbors. Contact them directly to sign up. Southern Trinity Fire: 574-6536

The Mad Group - Invites you to join us!!

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Sunday School- 9:45-10:45 am Sunday Morning Worship- 11:00-12:00

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Good Kind Bridge - AA Group, Bridgeville (Mar 15 to Oct 15) Thursdays, 5 to 6 PM

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WEEKLY:

Monday: BCC CLOSED

Tuesday: Strength & balance exercise class 10:30-11:30

Thursday: Strength & balance exercise class 10:30-11:30 Senior Lunch 11:30 – 1

SEPTEMBER 2016

Local Community Breakfasts

Every First Sunday of the Month 6 Rivers - Mad River Community Center 8–11

Every Second Sunday of the Month Breakfast at the Van Duzen Grange, Carlotta

BVFD Breakfast cancelled until further notice

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. ~ Henny Youngman

1 BCC board meeting at 3:30

2 3 Ruth Lake Festival

4 Ruth Lake Festival

5 Labor Day

6 BVFD Meeting 6pm

7 8 BES Back to School Night @ 4:30

9 10

11 12 BV Fire District Meeting, 5 pm, BCC

13 BES School Board @ 5:30

Bookmobile @ 10:30

14 BES Site Coun-cil Meeting @ 1:45

15 16 USDA Com-modities @ BCC, 10 – 4

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18 It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in crea-tive expression and knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein

19

Talk like a Pirate Day

20 21

International Day of Peace

22 Fall Equinox

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25 26 27 28 29 30 Next BCC Board meeting Thursday, October 6

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