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A Colorado river guide is on a quest to set a new women’s record for rowing from California to Hawaii

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

BUENA VISTA — Imagine embarking on a road trip from Baltimore to San Francisco — 2,800 rolling miles of American highway ahead, with plentiful stops for sustenance and respite.Now take away the land and the air-conditioned SUV. Replace it with endless miles of ocean and a 28-foot boat powered only by human stamina. Rest comes in the form of a seemingly endless string of two-hour catnaps, wedged between backbreaking shifts pulling oars.No snooze button, no days off, no excuses — just open water from the California coast to Hawaii. Two thousand eight hundred miles.Daunting? Sure. But Buena Vista resident Kelsey Pfendler says she wouldn’t want it any other way. The 29-year-old is a modern-day vagabond who runs rivers as a raft guide, patrols ski slopes when the snow flies and lives out of a revamped 1984 VW Vanagon with 310,000 miles on the odometer.“My whole life has been trying to figure out how to be in the middle of nowhere in a boat,” said Pfend...

East Colfax motel owner gives up license amid police investigations

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

The previous owner of an East Colfax Avenue motel has surrendered his lodging license a month after Denver officials suspended it amid rampant criminal activity at the establishment.Denver’s Department of Excise and Licenses on Monday accepted owner Daniel Kim’s request to surrender his license to operate the Regis Motel at 8282 E. Colfax Ave., according to city documents.Kim told The Denver Post last month that he sold the motel earlier this year but forgot to surrender his license. The new owner, Geradette Borrego, never applied for a new license, city officials said. She received a summons from the Denver City Attorney’s Office for operating without a license.The city took the unusual step in September of suspending the Regis Motel’s license, saying it had become a den for prostitution, drug sales, illegal weapons and burglaries, and was the site of a fatal shooting.Police said last month that they were continuing to investigate crimes that occurred at the...

Maria Esquivel Fatally Struck in DUI Collision on Highway 99 [Selma, CA]

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

Chui Kyu Shin Arrested after Fatal Two-Vehicle Crash near Mountain View AvenueSELMA, CA (October 19, 2023) – Monday evening, Maria Esquivel lost her life in a collision involving a driver under the influence on Highway 99.Around 9:15 p.m., emergency personnel arrived at the scene on the northbound lanes of the freeway just north of Mountain View Avenue.According to reports, a Chevrolet van collided with the rear of a slowly moving Ford Explorer. This impact caused the Ford to veer off the road and collide with a concrete barrier.Medics arrived and declared the back seat passenger, Maria Esquivel, a 71-year-old resident of Clovis, deceased. The 76-year-old male driver of the Ford and his two female passengers, aged 72 and 26, sustained minor injuries.All three injured individuals were transported to Community Regional Medical Center for medical care.Meanwhile, California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers apprehended the van’s driver for driving under the influence and placed ...

Russell Hawk Dies after Car Crash on Carolina Street [Vallejo, CA]

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

Elderly Vallejo Man Killed after Pursuit Ends in Crash near Sonoma BoulevardVALLEJO, CA (October 19, 2023) – A car crash involving a runaway driver on Carolina Street Tuesday afternoon claimed the life of Russell Hawk.Initially, an officer attempted to pull over a reckless driver of a red Ford Fusion around 2:30 p.m. near Sonoma Boulevard and Carolina Street.However, the Ford driver failed to stop and fled west on Carolina Street at a high rate of speed, passing two stop signs.Eventually, the car came to a stop after hitting multiple parked vehicles on the south curb of the roadway. An elderly man standing between two parked cars was crushed from the impact, according to the police.The first responders rushed the man to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Later, the Solano County Coroner’s Office identified the deceased male victim as 76-year-old Russell Hawk.After the crash, witnesses reported that the suspect fled the scene on foot. It remains unclear whether auth...

MISE 店 Opens In Little Tokyo and Daring Delights At Tuk Tuk Thai – Here’s What’s Popping Up

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

MISE 店, a culinary and home store dedicated to Japanese cooking, opens on Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center and will be open from Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., during all special events at the JACCC, and also by appointment. The sleek storefront in the museum lobby arrives on the heels of the JACCC’s new culinary program, which has hosted fine dining concepts Niki Nakayama’s n/soto and currently houses Hansei by Chris Ono.Opening weekend will feature a full weekend of tastings, workshops, and activities led by Japanese artisans from the city of Tsubame Sanjo in the Niigata prefecture, legendary for metal works, to share their craft exclusively at MISE. Highlights include: Knife Sharpening with Tsukasa Hinoura, one of Japan’s most recognized knife makers, will lead a workshop to sharpen and finish Santoku-style Hinoura knives, which have a years-long waitlist. The workshop includes a knife forged by Master Tsu...

Flo Milli at the Novo

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

Flo Milli at the Novo: Alabama-born rapper Flo Milli is something of a regular in our “In Rotation” column, due to the fact that she insists on releasing great tracks and great videos. Back in July, she released a self-titled track as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The song is a reimagining of Lil’ Wayne’s “A Milli,” and it kicks off with the no-nonsense lines, “Motherfucker I kill, copyright my shit ‘cos weird b**ches like to steal.” YES! It’ll be great to hear that, and more, at Novo. Maiya the Don, another awesome female rapper, is also on the bill. “With over half a billion streams to date, 23-year-old, Alabama born rapper, Flo Milli has taken the world by storm in her short ascent,” reads her bio. “Releasing her first official track ‘Beef FloMix’ on her SoundCloud in late 2018, she had gone viral by early 2019 on TikTok, marking her breakout success and she hasn’t let up since. Releasing tracks and visuals throughout 2019, she followed up with ‘In T...

California weighs ending climate credits for cow poop

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

By Alejandro Lazo | CalMattersAs California seeks to lead the nation on battling climate change, perhaps no debate is more fraught than the one over climate credits for cow poop.More than a decade ago, California helped spark a boom in biofuels — produced from plants or animal waste — with its first-of-its-kind Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The program forces carbon-intensive fuel companies to pay for cleaner burning transportation fuels.But as the state eyes an electric future, winding down support for some of the fuels the standard helped proliferate is proving highly contentious. The case of biofuel made from dairy farm manure is perhaps Exhibit A of those tensions.The California Air Resources Board is planning to overhaul its fuel standard, including consideration of a 2040 phaseout of credits that put a premium on using methane emitted by cows to produce natural gas. About half of the state’s methane emissions come from dairy and livestock, so collecting the gases wafting off of ma...

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Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

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Californians rattled awake by early-morning ShakeAlert messages

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

Californians and others across the West Coast were rattled awake early Thursday morning when a planned test of the ShakeAlert earthquake warning system misfired seven hours ahead of time.The messages — each reading “TEST of the earthquake warning system” — blared on phones at 3:19 a.m. Thursday, startling awake users of the MyShake app across California, Oregon and Washington, according to system administrators and numerous people who received the messages. The alert came ahead of the planned Great ShakeOut earthquake drill, which is scheduled to take place at 10:19 a.m. Thursday. as a means to prepare the California and other areas of the nation for a large-scale earthquake.State officials say the goal of the Shake Out is to encourage people to practice earthquake safety, and remind residents to keep their emergency earthquake kits well-stocked. About 10 million people are expected to participate throughout the state, including school children and many office workers.A ...

The Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill set for today

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:10 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The Great California ShakeOut drill is set for 10:19 a.m. this morning. Millions of people worldwide are expected to participate in earthquake drills at work, school and home, according to the Great ShakeOut website.This year's annual earthquake preparedness drill comes one day after a 4.1 magnitude quake shook parts of Northern California and just two days after the 34th anniversary of the devastating 1989 Loma Prieta quake. Record-breaking temps possible in Bay Area Thursday Those participating in today's drill will get an alert on their phone at 10:19 a.m. today and are instructed to "Drop!," Cover!," and "Hold On!," which are the currently recommend actions in the event of an earthquake. Some 9.5 million people participated in last year's Great California ShakeOut, including around 1.4 million in the Bay Area. If you'd like more information, or to sign up to participate, visit: The Great California ShakeOut - Get Ready to ShakeOut!At 10:19, BART will au...