My husband and I are thinking of going to Humboldt University for grad school, besides the awful state of California’s economy, what are the pros/cons? What’s it like there?

Community Foundation distributes 0,000 in grants to 20 nonprofits
The great people at the Reno-based Community Foundation of Western Nevada recently announced their charitable gifts for the region.
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Holiday weekend is looking great for lake getaways
It’s a rare Fourth of July weekend with this kind of symmetry: Full lakes, hot weather and three days off – and space available at the major recreation lakes in Northern California. Usually one of these is fouled up….
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More Northern California hotels earning LEED certification
Does anybody really know how green their hotel is? Does anybody really care?
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Holiday weekend is looking great for lake getaways
It’s a rare Fourth of July weekend with this kind of symmetry: Full lakes, hot weather and three days off – and space available at the major recreation lakes in Northern California. Usually one of these is fouled up….
Read more on San Francisco Chronicle

More Northern California hotels earning LEED certification
Does anybody really know how green their hotel is? Does anybody really care?
Read more on The Sacramento Bee

Church News
1. St. Francis’ Episcopal Church By Ellie Mahouski Fortuna’s St. Francis’ Episcopal Church will have a pie booth at 13th and Main Street on July 23, the Saturday of Fortuna’s AutoXpo.
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Canyon briefs
The American Canyon Community Church annual rummage sale is June 10-11, 7:00 a.m.-12 p.m., 2 Andrew Road, American Canyon. The sale raises money for upcoming Vacation Bible School, a free ministry to our community.
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Belmont setting new wages for firefighters
Belmont officials are set to establish a new salary and benefits plan for a stand-alone fire department come October that includes a 10 percent reduction in wages from what firefighters currently make with the Belmont-San Carlos Fire Department.
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Roaming Through Redwoods: Prairie Creek A Destination, Not A Detour
SAN JOSE, Calif. —Two jovial women bounded down a soggy trail with a question: “Where’s the Big Tree?”
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Town Park closed July 3
Town Park in Corte Madera will be closed to the public on Sun., July 3, to ready the space for Fourth of July parade and picnic festivities.
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Best of the West: 10 top monuments
Build a great vacation around a spectacular island, forest, cliff dwelling, canyon, fossil bed, tower or volcano.
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Cargo containers create an ultra-modern cabin
share: digg facebook twitter Before dinner, fewer than eight hours after the containers arrived, workers from NorCal Construction in Santa Cruz, Calif., had ground the final bits of rust off the boxes and welded them together to create DeWitt’s two-story mountain retreat. Homes built from used cargo containers are a growing trend, but the Zayante cabin was a first for nearly everyone involved in …
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9 fun and funky vacation hotel stays
Tired of the usual chain hotels? You’ll be way off the beaten path in these lodgings.
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It’s worth stopping along California 99
Taking the highway south from Sacramento to Bakersfield leads to museums of bugs, military aircraft and farm equipment; tasty tri-tip and Mexican food; and farms you can visit.
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MOVIES: ‘Cars 2,’ ‘Bad Teacher,’ & ‘The Trip’
Following are Susan Granger ‘s latest reviews of movies playing in area theaters. Perhaps the “Cars” franchise is so inexorably tied to Paul Newman that it should have been part of Newman’s Own.
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Mountain Meadows now a national historic landmark
Mountain Meadows now a national historic landmark By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jul 1, 2011 09:24AM MDT Patty Norris, whose great-great-great grandfather and seven other relatives were murdered at Mountain Meadows more than 150 years ago, was overcome with emotion at Thursday’s news that the southwestern Utah site has been designated a national historic landmark. “I’m …
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im taking a vacation and my boyfriend and i always wanted to do a mud bath but could only find them in california. i have search and only could find them in most of the northern parts. anyone know of any near orange county??

Me and my fiance are going ot get married at his church in Redwood City. We are looking for a small affordable, but nice looking reception hall for the after party. We will have at most 40 people at the party. This is my firsttime looking into this kind of stuff, so if someone has prior experiance then I would love some helpfull advice.

i have an assignment to find a place to go for 5 days for 200 per person. my school is in northern california and i have no idea what to do.,
i have to have 3 educational days, 2 fun days,
i have to find transportation, food, gas, lodging, and activities.
and it all has to be 200 per person for 25 people PLUS 3 chaperones

i am so stuck
any suggestions?