Conceptual rendering of the Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal. | Photo: Harbor District.
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Private energy company Crowley Wind Services’s exclusive right to negotiate [ERTN] with the Port of Humboldt Bay – a partnership announced with great fanfare 16 months ago – will expire at the end of the month without the anticipated agreement enlisting Crowley to develop and operate a heavy-lift marine terminal on the Samoa Peninsula, the Outpost has learned.
Representatives for both Crowley and the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District say they remain confident about the future of the port development project, especially given the $426 million Department of Transportation grant announced in January, but the dissolution of a formal agreement between the two parties makes it unclear what level of involvement, if any, Crowley will have in that project.
“Crowley continues to support the Harbor District’s goal of an offshore wind terminal at Humboldt Bay that is sustainable for the long-term,” the company’s corporate communications director, David DeCamp, said in an emailed statement. “While the exclusive right to negotiate an agreement will expire in March, the evaluation and due diligence produced valuable planning insight into the next steps of a terminal project.”
The proposed Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal project aims to convert the Harbor District’s 86-acre Marine Terminal II property —formerly home to the Samoa pulp mill — into a state-of-the-art industrial site for manufacturing, assembling and exporting the massive blades, towers, rotors and other components of offshore wind farms along the West Coast. With a tentative completion date currently scheduled for 2030, the facility would be the second-largest wind terminal in the United States, according to the Harbor District. Now, however, it’s not clear who will build it.
Rob Holmlund, the Harbor District’s director of development, said there’s always a degree of uncertainty in negotiations of this magnitude, and he’s not concerned about the ERTN with Crowley expiring.
“It could ultimately end up being good for everyone, including Crowley,” he said. “They’ve been really valuable to the project. … It’s just, multi-hundred-million-dollar projects are complicated, and sometimes things don’t end up exactly the way you envisioned. But it doesn’t mean that it’s a bad thing. So our relationship is evolving into a different thing, likely, but that’s not bad.”
Holmlund said the Harbor District may wind up issuing a new request for qualifications (RFQ) in the coming months in hopes of recruiting another company capable of building and operating the marine terminal.
“With that federal grant and the progress that we’ve made and all of the hard work we’ve put into it with stakeholders and Tribes, I think we feel very confident that we would get additional proposals and find a different operator partner, maybe somebody to join with Crowley,” Holmlund said.
Crowley Wind Services’ tenure on the North Coast hasn’t gone entirely smoothly. Late last summer the company abruptly parted ways with Vice President Jeff Andreini amid allegations that executives never directly addressed. Parent company Crowley Maritime, meanwhile, got embroiled in controversy over allegations of sexual assault and sex trafficking elsewhere in the corporation, and executives did discuss those matters in a sit-down conversation with the Outpost’s Izzy Vanderheiden.
In an opinion piece published by the Times-Standard, Yurok Tribal Chairman Joe James said the allegations pointed to “a rotten company culture” at Crowley, and he urged the Harbor District to reconsider its partnership given the ongoing Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) crisis.
In the near term, Crowley plans to retain the satellite office it opened in Eureka’s Carson Block building last year, with DeCamp explaining, “It serves as our office to support the future development of wind services in the region, state and the U.S. West Coast.”
Among the challenges now facing the Harbor District is the task of securing more than $400 million in private sector funds to match the massive federal grant announced six weeks ago. Per the terms of that grant, the Harbor District has roughly two and a half years — until September 2026 — to cobble together those funds.
Crowley previously agreed to help the Harbor District in that endeavor, but even if they depart from the project entirely, Holmlund said he’s confident that the district can secure the necessary matching funds from other sources, including private investors, another corporate operator and potentially the State of California, where legislators have proposed a $1 billion bond act to help pay for port expansions to support the nascent offshore wind industry.
“Our project is critical to the state and federal governments reaching renewable energy goals, so we’re confident that we’re going to find a way to get the match one way or the other,” Holmlund said, adding that the district has until 2029 to obligate the funds from the $426 million federal grant.
In the meantime, the Harbor District is using a $10.45 million grant from the California Energy Commission and an $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Marine Administration (MARAD) to complete technical studies, preliminary design and pre-permitting work.
“We’re making really good progress with special studies, design and permitting,” Holmlund said. He also noted that the district continues to hold regular meetings with the seven local Tribal governments, neighborhood groups and environmental organizations.
After more than four hours of deliberation, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved the county’s long-anticipated Short-Term Rental (STR) Ordinance.
The ordinance establishes a permitting process for individuals and entities operating STRs (dwelling units that are rented to guests for 30 consecutive days or less, through services such as Airbnb or Vrbo) within unincorporated areas of the county. The new rules put a cap on the total number of STRs in unincorporated Humboldt and impose additional restrictions on STRs located in more populous areas where housing availability is limited.
Once the ordinance takes effect at the beginning of April, existing STR operators can send in their permit applications for consideration. However, STR operators in the coastal zone will have to wait until the ordinance is certified by the California Coastal Commission, likely in the next month or so. Existing operators without unresolved property violations will be given first priority.
The main point of contention during Tuesday’s meeting revolved around how many STRs should be allowed to operate in a given area to balance the needs of property owners, tenants and neighbors.
The Humboldt County Planning Commission encountered the same issue during its deliberations on the subject and agreed to a two percent cap on the total number of STR units in the “Greater Humboldt Bay Area” – including the Community Plan Areas (CPA) for Arcata, Blue Lake, Carlotta, Eureka, Fieldbrook, Fortuna, Freshwater, Glendale, Hydesville, Jacoby Creek, McKinleyville, Rio Dell, Trinidad and Westhaven – where housing is already scarce. The commission also set a five percent cap on STRs in all other CPAs, with the exception of the inland portion of Shelter Cove “where the standard does not apply” due to specific zoning rules.
During the board’s last discussion on the matter, Fifth District Supervisor Steve Madrone advocated for both Big Lagoon and Willow Creek to be included in the two percent cap.
Speaking during public comment, Shannon Hughes, a member of the Willow Creek Community Services District (CSD) board of directors, urged the board to look into the matter further to get “a full scope of the opinion out in Willow Creek.”
“[W]hat we lack in Willow Creek is the affordable housing,” she said. “The [STR] houses that would become vacant are probably not going to be the types of rentals that people in Willow Creek – with an average income of around $50,000 [per year] – would be able to afford. We do lack affordable housing, and I will definitely repeat that, but we also lack lodging.”
Willow Creek resident Riley Morrison felt similarly, noting that many of the STRs in the area are second homes and wouldn’t be available for rent otherwise. “The problem exists not because of the shortage of available housing, but because of the shortage of available, affordable housing,” he said. “The wage gap and socioeconomic divide in our community is truly at the forefront.”
Following public comment, Madrone spoke in favor of moving forward with the two percent cap on STRs in Willow Creek but acknowledged that it was a divided issue.
“I suspect if we polled the whole community we probably see a similar split,” he said. “There’s not going to be a consensus on one side or the other. I mean, my preference would actually be to apply this cap to every CSD area, as I stated earlier, but that may be a heavy lift for this board to consider. At this point, I’m willing to go ahead and let the Willow Creek thing pan out into the future.”
The board nixed the Willow Creek alternative but agreed to include the Big Lagoon Park Subdivision and the Big Lagoon Estates Subdivision, along Roundhouse Creek Road, in the Trinidad CPA.
Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson said he would be willing to support the cap in Willow Creek, noting, “I don’t know what the future is going to bring.”
“We could do five percent caps in those various zones, just as a holding spot so we [can] have somebody come back and evaluate,” he said. “Right now it’s no cap, and I think … that’s a weird precedent for us to have countywide. Maybe everything outside these zones … we could just do countywide a two percent cap and then let the concentrations happen where the concentrations happen.”
Wilson went on to say that not having a cap in certain communities implies that the county has “absolutely no concern that there’s going to be any sort of impacts in relation to housing” in the future and suggested that the board implement a five or ten percent countywide cap. “Even if we had a liberal cap, that would be better than no cap at all.”
Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell argued that a cap – especially one as low as two or five percent – was not necessary in some of the county’s more rural communities.
“If you had [gone] to the community meetings in the other areas, Supervisor Wilson, you may know why the [cap] adjustment came [about],” she said. “Two percent is not ‘liberal’ by any means. In your space maybe, not in mine. … [T]hose areas outside are barely hanging on by a thread right now.”
Fourth District Supervisor Natalie Arroyo said she could understand where Wilson was coming from “in theory,” but said she could also understand Bushnell’s point that STRs provide critical income for some rural property owners. “I’d love for us to find a way that that works for all our communities.”
After a bit of tense back and forth between board members, the board agreed to implement a five percent countywide cap on STRs with a provision that would allow residents outside of CPAs to apply for a special permit even if the cap was exceeded.
Earlier in the meeting, the board explored the possibility of allowing permit transfers but ultimately decided to go with the Planning Commission’s original recommendation to not allow transfers.
The board also agreed to add language to accommodate units that are rented out for a portion of the year. Under the ordinance, properties “rented on a short-term basis for 60 consecutive days or fewer” are considered part-time and are not subject to the cap.
The board unanimously approved the ordinance 5-0.
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Other notable bits from the meeting:
The board selected McKinleyville resident Lorna McFarlane to fill the at-large vacancy on the Humboldt County Planning Commission, which was recently vacated by Commissioner Brian Mitchell. McFarlane currently works as a senior environmental scientist with Caltrans’ Climate Change Adaptation Branch and has extensive experience in environmental management and climate change science. Her two-year appointment was unanimously approved by the board.
The board received a presentation from Humboldt County Public Health Officer Dr. Candy Stockton on the last two years of local drug poisoning and fentanyl-related deaths. Accidental overdose deaths went down slightly between 2022 and 2023, from 83 to 79, according to Stockton.
Representatives of the Health and Social Policy Institute (HASPI) presented the Board of Supervisors with the California Public Health Leadership Award in recognition of the board’s leadership in adopting a Comprehensive Tobacco Retailer License Ordinance in July of 2023. The award is the first of its kind to be given to a northern California government entity.
On Wednesday, March 6 at 2:49 a.m., the Arcata Fire District
was dispatched to a residential structure fire on Murray Road.
Multiple reports came in that a 2-story residential structure was well-involved in fire. The
first engine arrived and found a two-story structure 75% involved.
Due to the volume of fire and partial collapse of the compromised structure, firefighters
engaged in exterior operations utilizing large hose streams of water and the deck gun.
Fuel loading contributed to the long burn time of the fire.
The building was vacant and boarded-up prior to the fire. No civilians or firefighters were
injured during this incident, but the structure was a complete loss. The cause of the fire
is under investigation.
The Arcata Fire District would like to thank Fieldbrook Volunteer Fire, Westhaven
Volunteer Fire, Blue Lake Volunteer Fire, Humboldt Bay Fire and Calfire for responding,
and Samoa Fire District for covering our stations during our involvement in this incident.
On March 5, 2024, at approximately 1951 hours [7:51 p.m.], CHP Humboldt Communications Center (HCC) received a report of a car fire, with subjects trapped in the vehicle, at the intersection of Singley Road and Singley Hill Road.
Emergency personnel responded to the scene and determined a 2001 Nissan Frontier and a 2017 Freightliner semi-truck towing unloaded double flatbed trailers had collided. The crash caused the Nissan to catch fire with two occupants trapped within the vehicle.
The driver of the Freightliner, 20-year-old Logan Morais of McKinleyville, was uninjured, and with the help of a bystander, removed 65-year-old Guadalupe Ramirez of Fortuna from the burning Nissan. Mr. Ramirez suffered major injuries as a result of this crash and was transported to St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka. Sadly, 16-year-old Daniel Ramirez of Fortuna remained trapped inside the Nissan where he succumbed to his injuries.
Drug and alcohol impairment of Mr. Morais was ruled out on scene. The seating positions and whether impairment was a factor for the occupants of the Nissan remains under investigation.
The CHP Humboldt Area office would like to thank the personnel of Loleta Fire Department, City Ambulance of Eureka, Cal Trans, Bear River Band Police Department, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, Fortuna Police Department, Ferndale Police Department, and all other agencies that assisted with the on scene investigation of this matter.
Our heartfelt condolences are extended to everyone affected by this crash. As we continue our investigation, anyone with information is asked to contact the California Highway Patrol at (707) 822-5981.
Fall-run chinook salmon that died after their release in the Klamath River were only months old and one or two inches in length, similar to these winter-run salmon reintroduced to the McCloud River last year. Photo by Eric Holmes, University of California
The tiny Chinook salmon turned up dead downriver just two daysafter they were released from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s brand new Fall Creek Fish Hatchery, built to supply the Klamath River as it undergoes the largest dam removal in history.
The $35 million state hatchery, on a tributary just upstream of Iron Gate dam in Siskiyou County, was constructed to help the river’s threatened coho and dwindling fall-run chinook salmon, a mainstay of commercial and recreational fishing and tribal food supplies.
The hatchery’s first release ended with an unknown number of the 830,000 young Chinook salmon found dead, their eyes bulging, in a federal sampling trap about 9 miles below the dam.
California’s fish and wildlife officials said they suspect “gas bubble disease,” a condition similar to decompression sickness in scuba divers, is to blame — likely caused when the salmon traveled through a 9-foot-wide tunnel out of Iron Gate dam to reconnect with the Klamath downriver.
Gas bubble disease in fish is caused by “environmental or physical trauma often associated with severe pressure change,” officials said.
Jason Roberts, inland fisheries program manager with the state agency, said it’s an outcome that state, federal, and tribal scientists involved in the decision didn’t anticipate.
“The basin co-managers made the best decision they could with the information that they had, and unfortunately, it did not go well,” Roberts said. “I don’t think anyone thought water going through this tunnel would cause gas bubble disease, or we obviously wouldn’t have done it.”
“You see gas bubble disease at hatcheries when there’s flood flows and there’s tons of water,” he added. “I think everyone assumed, given Iron Gate reservoir was basically drained, that there wouldn’t be a problem.”
“I don’t think anyone thought water going through this tunnel would cause gas bubble disease, or we obviously wouldn’t have done it.” — Jason Roberts, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
It was a tragic, heartbreaking event for the fish biologists and a setback for a costly and high-profile project: The state had hatched and raised the salmon, then released them into a place where they died almost immediately.
“I feel really bad for the fish. And I feel really bad for my staff that spend all their time taking care of these fish, and for all the partners and stakeholders that are counting on us,” Roberts said.
Ecologists say that taking steps to restore nature or undo environmental damage — such as constructing new wetlands to replace bulldozed ones, building passages for wildlife and providing new habitat for endangered species — can be unpredictable and have unintended consequences. Failure is always a possibility.
“While there is a level of uncertainty in anything you do, especially a massive dam removal project like this, they’ve done a really good job of predicting what’s going to happen, especially with sediment movement and transport, poor water quality,” Soto said. Despite the tragedy, he said, “I’m overall really happy with the outcome so far.”
No wild salmon were harmed. And the consequences aren’t expected to be catastrophic for the Klamath hatchery project.
“This is just a sad reminder of the harm that these dams have caused, and continue to cause.” — Robert Lusardi, UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
The hatchery is still raising 3.27 million healthy chinook salmon, more than the state’s annual goal of 3.25 million, to be released into the river. From now on, officials plan to bypass the dam and truck the remaining fish downriver.
“We believe the effects to salmon populations will therefore be minimal,” said Michael Belchik, senior water policy analyst with the Yurok Tribe, the largest tribe in California with a reservation that spans a 45-mile stretch of the lower Klamath River.
And by the end of the year, Iron Gate dam should be gone.
“Iron Gate’s killed its last salmon,” Belchik said.
The die-off came as four aging hydroelectric dams are being cleared from the Klamath River’s path, reconnecting a river that has been divided for over a century. The reservoirs have been drained, and the river is reclaiming its track. One of the dams is already gone.
California tribes and conservation groups have been fighting for dam removal for decades. Reconnecting hundreds of miles of habitat and restoring more natural flows to the river is expected to help revive the area’s salmon.
The die-off also came amidst increased scrutiny of the dam removal, which opponents in Siskiyou County have called “the largest, most devastating dam removal experiment in modern history.” They warn that it is creating a “river of death” that will unleash sediment and other materials into the river — jeopardizing the fish.
A view of Iron Gate dam, one of three hydroelectric dams being removed on the Klamath River, on July 17, 2023. Photo by Semantha Norris, CalMatters
But wildlife officials say the river’s sediment and dissolved oxygen levels were suitablefor releasing the fish and weren’t a cause of the die-off. They say it’s likely that conditions within the Iron Gate dam’s tunnel killed the salmon — reinforcing the danger of these vestigial structures.
“This is just a sad reminder of the harm that these dams have caused, and continue to cause,” said Robert Lusardi, assistant professor of freshwater ecology at the University of California, Davis. “It does speak to the need to immediately remove the dam infrastructure from the Klamath River.”
Mark Bransom, CEO of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, the nonprofit formed to oversee the removal effort, said it also speaks to the challenge of undoing decades of human environmental interference.
“We cannot unwind over 100 years of environmental damage overnight,” Bransom said. “We really do have to take a little bit longer view of what restoration means when we are trying to unspool a century’s-worth of impacts to the environment and to the communities who depend on a healthy river.”
From healthy hatchery newborns to dead in the river
The salmon were healthy when they left the hatchery on Feb. 26. Only months old and an inch or two long, they were released as scheduled to give the remaining fish in the hatchery ample room to grow.
The salmon fry traveled down Fall Creek and into the Klamath River as it snakes through the footprint of the now-drained Iron Gate reservoir, before swimming through the roughly 200-foot long, 9 foot-wide tunnel through Iron Gate dam and back into the Klamath River.
They began showing up dead two days later in a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sampling trap miles downstream.
Roberts said their bulging eyeballs were a telltale sign of gas bubble disease. A definitive confirmation, though, is unlikely from carcasses that traveled so far.
Much like with the bends, gas bubble disease occurs when air bubbles form in blood and tissue. In fish, it can be caused by severe pressure changes or in water containing excess levels of gases.
Bransom said pressure conditions were normal where the river flows into the tunnel, which was flowing only about half full, he said.
“There has been no definitive conclusion that this was gas bubble disease and that the tunnel was responsible,” Bransom said. “It’s possible there was some hydraulic condition inside of the tunnel that produced a high pressure zone, meaning higher than atmospheric pressure, but again we don’t have any evidence of that, and we don’t know what the level of mortality actually was.”
Roberts said it’s “near impossible” to put a number on how many fry died at this point.
“It might not ever be a firm number that anyone knows,” he said. “The majority of the fish in the trap that were fry-sized were deceased, and they had visual signs of gas bubble disease. Therefore, it’s a safe assumption to think that if those fish swam through the tunnel, other fish that swim through the tunnel likely experienced a high rate of mortality as well.”
He added, “thankfully we have an extra 850,000 fish on hand so that will help offset the loss of these fish — from a production standpoint.”
“So far, we’ve been finding normal fish, healthy fish. So that’s really good — that the wild fish are not affected by this.” — Toz Soto, Karuk Tribe Fisheries
“While the project’s going through a lot of scrutiny, this is just another thing for naysayers to pile on to,” said Curtis Knight, executive director of California Trout, a conservation organization. “But I think it’s important to note the dam is not going to be there much longer — that’s what caused these fish to die, and conditions in the river below are improving.”
The dam removal nonprofit group reported on Feb. 15 that 5 million cubic yards of sediment is expected to be released during the months-long drawdown process, and that there had been a significant die-off in the reservoirs during the drawdown. Bransom said they were non-native fish that had thrived in the warm water and that the deaths were expected during the drawdown.
But officials said sediment levels and dissolved oxygen were reading at suitable levels when the fish were released. Also, older fish that had traveled from downstream of the dam and were snagged in the same sampling trap showed no signs of the disease, which suggested that river conditions were not to blame.
And conditions are improving, even over the last month, said Soto of the Karuk Tribal Fisheries Program.
“Our crews have been out sampling the main stem below the dam because we have concerns with sediment transport and poor water quality, so we really wanted to know how wild salmon juveniles are doing,” Soto said. “And so far, we’ve been finding normal fish, healthy fish. So that’s really good — that the wild fish are not affected by this.”
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Douglas D. Wilson — “Doug” — was born May 26, 1953 and left this world to be with the Lord on Feb. 17, 2024.
Doug was born and raised in Eureka. He was active in physical sports — football, dirt bikes … loved those bikes —but at the young age is 13, he was diagnosed with Osteoarthritis and had to hang up his helmet, as the doctors told him it would increase his pain and speed up the progression of his disease. He wanted to stay healthy as long as he could.
Doug had really great friends he roamed the neighborhood with, and he was fortunate to continue those friendships throughout his life. He still told stories and spoke fondly of them. Mike Kubala, his lifelong best friend and brother at heart, was there through thick and thin, and we all love and appreciate the friendship and love he shared with Doug. He will always be our family.
Doug worked at the mill in Eureka for years then at North Coast Exterminators, where he developed great relationships with many of his clients. He continued working until his body just couldn’t do it anymore.
Doug fell in love with and married Margaret Toroni and the two of them as a couple provided so much fun and laughter to our family. Margaret loved our family and we loved her. He was a step father to Alicia and they still had a close bond at the time of his passing. Doug lost Margaret 15 years ago and that loss stayed with him every day. He stayed by her side through cancer treatments and wrapped his arms around her until she took her final breath. They have now been reunited.
Doug was an avid ‘49ers fan and could get really passionate in his talks about the state of the world today. He had a love for his family, was protective and never separated from anyone without an “I love you” and a “drive careful.” His siblings were his friends and his brother-in-law Rodney Ward was his brother, and the friendship they had was strong and at times hilarious. They loved each other so very much. Thank you, Rodney, for all you did for Doug and for your family.
Doug suffered greatly from the arthritis he had for 57 years as it progressed he had multiple surgeries and difficulty walking and doing things we all take for granted. We had never seen someone in such pain yet continue to keep his sense of humor and make others around him laugh so much. Along with his two sisters, Doug took the best care of his mother and they had a close relationship with so many funny moments.
The faith that Doug had in God, in Jesus, was unwavering. He kept his Bible close and would talk about his faith openly and with conviction. We, as a family know he is in heaven and reunited with passed loved ones and pain free for the first time in so many years.
We love and miss him more than we can express as his passing was unexpected and hit so hard. We are comforted by the love he showed and knowing where he is today.
Doug was preceded in death by his wife Margaret and his parents Paul and Louise Wilson and brother-in-law Duane McKay, all of Eureka.
He is survived by his step-daughter Alicia Toroni, siblings Connie McKay, Kelly Ward (Rodney), Ron Wilson (Lynn) Paul Wilson (Vickie) . Nieces and nephews: Mike Marcelli (Charity), Angela Gibson, Shane DePute (Tiffany) Sasha Africa (Brett) Ryan Wilson (Estelle) Steve Wilson and LeAnne Ives.. Great Nieces and Nephews: Lacey Gibson, Kody and Katie Marcelli, Capri Curtis and Aria Africa , Maxine Wilson, Kaden, Kinsley and Carson DePute, Kayla Wilson, Rebekah, Caleb, Jeremiah and Isaiah Ives and great-great-nephew Kareem.
A heartfelt thank you to Dr Beth Ables, who took such good care of Doug and showed care, compassion and determination to help him in every way she could. We are forever grateful to you and your staff for loving Doug and he knew you had his best interest at heart.
A memorial service will be held on March 9 at 1 p.m. at the Hospice of Humboldt Conference room at 3327 Timber Fall Court (behind Timber Ridge), with a reception immediately following at the same location.
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My dad, Larry James Kight, passed away on Saturday, February 24, 2024, just seven days after his 82nd birthday.
He was born on February 17, 1942 in Coquille, Oregon, to George and Dorothy Kight.
As many of you may know he enjoyed spending his free time at his cabin in Maple Creek, chopping firewood, deer hunting and tinkering in his garage, with anything that has a motor.
He was a volunteer at the Blue Lake Fire Department in his earlier years, and he liked to catch up with the guys for coffee at Toni’s.
He will most likely be remembered for his gruff exterior, his cantankerous demeanor and his no-bullshit attitude. And of course those striking blue eyes!
He was preceded in death by his wife, Linda Kight, and brother Bernie Kight. Also his parents George Kight, and his mother Dorothy Kight (Sacchi).
He is survived by his sister, Marie Henson of McKinleyville; daughter Shara Hammond and grandson Tyson Hammond of Las Vegas; along with several nieces and nephews — Jeremy Henson, Nicole Henson, Cody Washburn, and Craig Kight.
Anyone who would like to say a final goodbye to Larry is welcome to come by the Blue Lake Fire Department, on Saturday March 9, 2024, from 1-4 p.m.
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