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In what was likely her last presentation to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors before decamping for a new job with the City of Arcata, Tabatha Miller, the assistant county administrative officer and chief financial officer, delivered sobering financial news during Tuesday’s mid-year budget review. 

Sales tax revenues have dropped, cutting millions of dollars from the county’s projected income. Planning and Building Department revenues are also down, thanks largely to the collapse of the cannabis industry. And cannabis cultivation tax revenues have stopped coming in altogether due to the board’s two-year suspension of Measure S, eliminating another $3.8 million from the county budget.

With costs simultaneously rising due to inflation, higher employee salaries and more expensive benefits, the county is looking at a $12.29 million budget shortfall next year, Miller said.

As a result, county departments will be asked to pinch pennies, and on Tuesday a pair of department heads urged the board to take the situation seriously.

“I know you all have good poker faces, but I don’t feel the desperation that you all should be displaying here,” Sheriff Billy Honsal told the supervisors. He said his department has federal funds coming in this year to offset a 10 percent budget vacancy, but without that his department would have been down 42 positions last calendar year, not counting 23 un-budgeted positions from the last budget shortfall. 

Meanwhile, his department’s liability, risk management and workers’ compensation expenses have all gone up, with increases super-charged by inflation.

“And so I’m sounding the alarm today for us to take this very, very seriously,” Honsal said. He suggested that the board delay allocating revenues from transient occupancy taxes (TOT) and Measure Z until they have a clearer financial picture.

Miller and County Administrative Officer Elishia Hayes said the county needs to reduce the number of trust funds held by individual departments, separate from the general fund. The existence of these funds has been a consistent “finding” from outside auditors — that is, something that should be remedied — and former Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez often called for these accounts to be reduced.

But Honsal said that most of the $40 million that his own department holds in trust accounts was allocated for specific purposes, including $20 million in public safety realignment money controlled by the local Community Corrections Partnership and another $5 million set aside to offset the cost of new jail facilities. 

“And so I’m just here just to remind the board, you have a very difficult job ahead of you,” Honsal said. “We all do.”

Public Works Director Tom Mattson agreed.

“It’s not time to panic, [but] it is time to rein things in,” he said, adding that his own department’s trust funds are similarly encumbered and unavailable for redirection into the general fund.

”It is time to be very, very concerned,” Mattson said. “Focus on our core services [and] be very cautious about expenditures. 

County staff recommended that the board assign two of its members to serve on a budget ad hoc committee. Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell and Fourth District Supervisor Natalie Arroyo promptly volunteered. The committee will attend departmental budget meetings and participate in the County Administrative Office’s budget compilation.

But the forecast wasn’t entirely doom-and-gloom. “There are some good things happening here,” Miller said. Specifically, she noted that $5 million has been moved into the general fund reserves, which operate as “rainy day” reserves.

Economic Development Director Scott Adair said that the county government’s fiscal downturn is reflected among county residents, too. Last year the county engaged with more than 400 county residents as part of its economic development process and found that people are very concerned about betting their basic needs met, including proper housing, childcare, medical care, education and employment.

The countywide decline in sales tax revenue is likely a reflection of the resulting decline in spending on non-essentials, Adair said. 

He noted that there are great opportunities on the horizon, including the development of offshore wind energy, larger state investment in Cal Poly Humboldt and major investments on the Samoa Peninsula, such as Nordic Aquafarms’ recirculating aquaculture system fish farm.

But Adair said those projects, and employers countywide, are facing a labor shortage. The county’s labor workforce participation rate has already declined since before the pandemic, and 3,000 more workers are expected to age out of the workforce over the next decade. 

Meanwhile, new employment opportunities are expected to generate 3,000-4,000 new jobs over that same timeframe, meaning Humboldt County may soon have a labor shortage of 6,000 to 7,000, Adair said. 

Ultimately, the board unanimously approved staff recommendations, directing Hayes to prepare the budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year while employing a number of belt-tightening measures, including reducing trust and reserve fund balances and limiting requests for general fund money to only those that prevent layoffs while allowing departments to recommend furloughs, hiring freezes and/or staffing reductions.

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On Feb. 8, 2023, at about 12:24 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol in the Trinidad area conducted an investigation into an occupied vehicle parked in a no parking zone at Houda Point.

Tsewenaldin Allen Vanpelt.

Upon deputy contact, the driver, 48-year-old Tsewenaldin Allen Vanpelt, reversed his vehicle colliding with the patrol car, then fled at a high rate of speed. Deputies pursued the vehicle through Trinidad, onto Highway 101 and eventually onto Highway 299. During this pursuit, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) was requested to assist. The pursuit lasted approximately 85 minutes, with Vanpelt’s vehicle reaching speeds in excess of 120 miles per hour. During the pursuit, Vanpelt brandished a firearm from the vehicle multiple times.

Vanpelt yielded the vehicle to law enforcement at a CHP road block in the area of Bair Road, Mile Marker 14.5, where he was taken into custody. No one was injured as a result of this incident.

Vanpelt was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility by the CHP on charges of evading a peace officer (VC 2800.2), exhibiting a firearm in the presence of law enforcement (PC 417(c)), carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle (PC 25400(a)(1)), carrying a loaded firearm in a public place (PC 25850(a)), driving under the influence of alcohol (VC 23152(a) &  23152(b)) and resisting a peace officer (PC 148(a)). 

Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.

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• In a Surprise Move, Cal Poly Humboldt Tells Returning Students They Will be Ineligible for On-Campus Housing Next Semester

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Hundreds of students and community members gathered at the Cal Poly Humboldt quad today to protest the University’s recent announcement that on campus housing may not be available for second year students starting next semester.

“When I came here to Cal Poly Humboldt, I was super, super excited to join a core community,” Rubyana Ashman, a CPH freshman said to the crowd from a mic set up in front of the depot. “And honestly, I’m very disappointed that we came here … It’s ridiculous for the university to think they can promise us an education if they’re not going to give us housing.”

Freshman Ena C., one of the students who helped organize today’s rally, said that she fears that with the lack of housing on campus and in Arcata,  she might not have anywhere to live next semester.

“A lot of people — we don’t have a home to go to next year,” she told the Outpost. “So that would potentially mean dropping out or taking a semester off.”

Nat Cruz, a sophomore, told the Outpost that he is one of many students who doesn’t have a vehicle and that living off campus would make life much more difficult.

“I’m here because I’m really angry right now,” he said. “A lot of us are, because we don’t have anyplace else to live. A lot of us don’t have any mode of transportation. So if we’re living off campus, how are we going to get to and from [school]?”

More photos below. The rally is scheduled to run until 4 p.m. this afternoon.

California sends mixed messages when it comes to serving dyslexic students.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is the most famous dyslexic political official in the country, even authoring a children’s book to raise awareness about the learning disability. And yet, California is one of 10 states that doesn’t require dyslexia screening for all children.

Education experts agree that early screening and intervention is critical for making sure students can read at grade level. But so far, state officials have done almost everything to combat dyslexia except mandate assessments for all students.

“It needs to happen,” said Lillian Duran, an education professor at the University of Oregon who has helped develop screening tools for dyslexia. “It seems so basic to me.”

Since 2015, legislators have funded dyslexia research, teacher training and the hiring of literacy coaches across California. But lawmakers failed to mandate universal dyslexia screening, running smack into opposition from the California Teachers Association.

The union argued that since teachers would do the screening, a universal mandate would take time away from the classroom. It also said universal screening may overly identify English learners, mistakenly placing them in special education.

“We know how to screen students. We know how to get early intervention. This to me is a solvable issue.”
— Rachel Levy, Bay Area parent

The California Teachers Association did not respond to requests for comment for this story. In a letter of opposition to a bill in 2021, the union wrote that the bill “is unnecessary, leads to over identifying dyslexia in young students, mandates more testing, and jeopardizes the limited instructional time for students.”

In response, dyslexia experts double down on well-established rexsearch. Early detection actually prevents English learners — and really, all students — from ending up in special education when they don’t belong there.

While California lawmakers didn’t vote to buck the teachers union, they haven’t been afraid to spend taxpayer money on dyslexia screening. In the past two years, the state budget allocated $30 million to UC San Francisco’s Dyslexia Center, largely for the development of a new screening tool. Newsom began championing the center and served as its honorary chair in 2016 when he was still lieutenant governor.

“There’s an inadequate involvement of the health system in the way we support children with learning disabilities,” said Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, co-director of UCSF’s Dyslexia Center. “This is one of the first attempts at bridging science and education in a way that’s open sourced and open to all fields.”

Parents and advocates say funding dyslexia research and developing a new screener can all be good things, but without mandated universal screening more students will fall through the cracks and need more help with reading as they get older.

Omar Rodriguez, a spokesperson for the governor did not respond to questions about whether Newsom would support a mandate for universal screening. Instead, he listed more than $300 million in state investments made in the past two years to fund more reading coaches, new teacher credentialing requirements and teacher training.

The screening struggle

Rachel Levy, a Bay Area parent, fought for three years to get her son Dominic screened for dyslexia. He finally got the screening in third grade, which experts say could be too late to prevent long-term struggles with reading.

“We know how to screen students. We know how to get early intervention,” Levy said. “This to me is a solvable issue.”

Levy’s son Dominic, 16, still remembers what it felt like trying to read in first grade.

“It was like I was trying to memorize the shape of the word,” he said. “Even if I could read all the words, I just wouldn’t understand them.”

Dyslexia is a neurological condition that can make it hard for students to read and process information. But teachers can mitigate and even prevent the illiteracy stemming from dyslexia if they catch the signs early.

Levy, who also has dyslexia, said there’s much more research today on dyslexia than there was 30 years ago when she was first diagnosed. She said she was disappointed to find that California’s policies don’t align with the research around early screening.

“Unfortunately, most kids who are dyslexic end up in the special education system,” Levy said. “It’s because of a lack of screening.”

Soon after his screening in third grade, Dominic started receiving extra help for his dyslexia. He still works with an educational therapist on his reading, and he’s just about caught up to grade level in math. The biggest misconception about dyslexia, Dominic said, is that it makes you less intelligent or capable.

“Dyslexics are just as smart as other people,” he said. “They just learn in different ways.”

The first step to helping them learn is screening them in kindergarten or first grade.

“The goal is to find risk factors early,” said Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, a speech-language pathologist and a professor at the University of Houston. “When you find them, the data you collect can really inform instruction.”

Cárdenas-Hagan’s home state of Texas passed a law in 1995 requiring universal screening. But she said it took several more years for teachers to be trained to use the tool. Her word of caution to California: Make sure teachers are not only comfortable with the tool but know how to use the results of the assessment to shape the way they teach individual students.

A homegrown screener

UC San Francisco’s screener, called Multitudes, will be available in English, Spanish and Mandarin. It’ll be free for all school districts.

Multitudes won’t be released to all districts at once. UCSF scientists launched a pilot at a dozen school districts last year, and they plan to expand to more districts this fall.

But experts and advocates say there’s no need to wait for it to mandate universal screenings. Educators can use a variety of already available screening tools in California, like they do in 40 other states. Texas and other states that have high percentages of English learners have Spanish screeners for dyslexia.

For English learners, the need for screening is especially urgent. Maria Ortiz is a Los Angeles parent of a dyslexic teenager who was also an English learner. She said she had to sue the Los Angeles Unified School District twice: once in 2016 to get extra help for her dyslexic daughter when she was in fourth grade and again in 2018 when those services were taken away. Ortiz said the district stopped giving her daughter additional help because her reading started improving.

“In the beginning they told me that my daughter was exaggerating,” Ortiz said.

“They said everything would be normal later.”

Experts say dyslexia presents a double threat to English learners: It stalls them from reading in their native language and impedes their ability to learn English.

California currently serves about 1.1 million English learners, just under a fifth of all public school students. For English learners, dyslexia can be confused with a lack of English proficiency. Opponents of universal screening, including the teachers association, argue that English learners will be misidentified as dyslexic simply because they can’t understand the language.

“Even the specialists were afraid that the problem might be because of the language barrier,” Ortiz said about her daughter’s case.

But experts say dyslexia presents a double threat to English learners: It stalls them from reading in their native language and impedes their ability to learn English. And while there are some Spanish-language screeners, experts from Texas and California say there’s room for improvement. Current Spanish screeners penalize students who mix Spanish and English, they say.

Duran, who helped develop the Spanish version of Multitudes, said the new screener will be a better fit for how young bilingual students actually talk.

“Spanglish becomes its own communication that’s just as legitimate as Spanish on its own or English on its own,” Duran said. “It’s about the totality of languages a child might bring.”

Providing Multitudes free of cost is important to schools with large numbers of low-income students. Dyslexia screeners cost about $10 per student, so $30 million might actually be cost-effective considering California currently serves 1.3 million students in kindergarten through second grade. The tool could pay for itself in a few years. Although there are plenty of screeners already available, they can stretch the budgets of high-poverty schools and districts.

“The least funded schools can’t access them because of the cost,” Duran said.

In addition to the governor, another powerful state lawmaker, Glendale Democratic state Sen. Anthony Portantino, is dyslexic. While chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, he has repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, authored legislation to require public schools to screen all students between kindergarten and second grade.

The bill received unanimous support in the Senate Education and Appropriations committees, but the bill died in the Assembly Education Committee. Portantino authored the same bill in 2020, but it never made it out of the state Senate.

“We should be leading the nation and not lagging behind,” Portantino said.

Portantino blamed the failure of his most recent bill on former Democratic Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, who chaired the Assembly Education Committee, for refusing to hear the bill.

“It’s no secret, Patrick O’Donnell was against teacher training,” Portantino said. “He thought our school districts and our educators didn’t have the capacity.”

O’Donnell did not respond to requests for comment. Since O’Donnell didn’t schedule a hearing on the bill, there is no record of him commenting about it at the time.

Portantino plans to author a nearly identical bill this year. He said he’s more hopeful because the Assembly Education Committee is now under the leadership of Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, a Democrat from Torrance. Muratsuchi would not comment on the potential fate of a dyslexia screening bill this year.

Levy now works as a professional advocate for parents of students with disabilities. She said without mandatory dyslexia screening, only parents who can afford to hire someone like her will be able to get the services they need for their children.

“A lot of high school kids are reading below third-grade level,” she said. “To me, that’s just heartbreaking.”

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CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

Gas prices have spiked in California.

That may sound like old news after months of high prices at the pump, but this time another kind of gas is running up the tab: natural gas, which fuels stoves and heats water and homes.

Average bills for PG&E residential customers in Northern California shot up to an estimated $195 in January, compared to $151 the year before; SoCalGas customers got hit with $300 on average, compared to $123 last year, according to data shared by Jean Spencer, supervisor of the energy division of California’s public utility commission, at a recent hearing. Meanwhile, across the country, wholesale natural gas prices have fallen an average of 50% since October, according to reporting in Bloomberg.

What gives? California’s Public Utilities Commission held a hearing Tuesday attended by different state energy agencies and industry representatives to look into the question and discussed strategies to mitigate high prices. While the commission can’t directly set prices, attendees raised different long-term options that might keep the cost of gas down for consumers.

The meeting followed a decision by the commission last week to speed up a climate credit for consumers that should reduce gas bills. That move will translate to roughly $50 off customer’s bills — but, said commission president Alice Busching Reynolds, it “was a short-term Band-Aid and this is a longer-term problem.”

At least one California gas company expects bills to go down in February.

Why are prices so high?

California pipes in 90% of the natural gas it uses from elsewhere, making the state vulnerable to issues outside its borders.

Several factors conspired to send natural gas prices soaring in the West, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency: below-normal temperatures; high gas use; lower imports of natural gas from Canada; gas pipeline constraints, including maintenance issues in West Texas; and lower gas storage levels in the Pacific region.

On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom made clear he isn’t satisfied we have the whole story, writing in a letter to federal regulators that “those known factors cannot explain the extent and longevity of the price spike.” He asked federal energy regulators to investigate “whether market manipulation, anticompetitive behavior, or other anomalous activities are driving these ongoing elevated prices in the western gas markets.”

What, if anything, can be done?

The price of natural gas is set by regional and national markets. But the utilities commission and industry representatives raised short- and longer-term changes that could insulate California customers from wildly fluctuating bills.

In addition to accelerating the climate credit, the Public Advocate’s Office at the utilities commission has proposed spreading the increased cost over three to six months, to make each individual bill more affordable and mitigate the risk of disconnections.

Industry representatives raised gas storage capacity and regulations as topics the commission should consider.

Storing gas can help protect California customers from shocking bills because, if a utility has ample gas in storage when prices are spiking, “you can run down your (current supply) for a while and not have to buy quite so much at the super expensive time,” said Borenstein in an interview.

Roger Schwecke, senior vice president at Southern California Gas Co., suggested reevaluating how much gas is stored at Aliso Canyon, the largest natural gas storage facility in the state. A major leak occurred at Aliso Canyon in 2015, causing Southern California Gas to temporarily relocate thousands of households. In the aftermath, the utilities commission capped how much gas could be stored at the facility.

Mark Potca, a program manager at the utilities commission’s Public Advocates Office, also emphasized the importance of storage capacity at Aliso Canyon, mentioning a proposal to increase the cap, which would provide more storage capacity. How Aliso Canyon gets used is something “that the commission will need to consider closely moving forward,” Potca said.

Lucy Redmond, director of gas reservoir engineering and facilities at PG&E, raised the impact of regulations from California Geologic Energy M​anagement Division, which went into effect in 2018. She said the regulations have caused, on average, a 40% decline in the utility’s well capacity.

Those rules, which were much stricter than previous gas storage standards, were enacted after the Aliso Canyon leak, said Mike Florio, a senior fellow at Gridworks and a former utilities commissioner, in an interview with CalMatters. “A lot of people think it’s really excessive, that they kind of went from not paying any attention at all to being really too strict in these regulations,” Florio said. The rules require testing of gas facilities, and some of the tests can take a well out of service for as long as a year, he said.

“They’ve created a price problem,” he said.

But the utilities commission couldn’t revise the rules even if it wanted to, since a different entity, the Geologic Energy M​anagement Division of the Department of Conservation, wrote them, Florio said. “The only way this gets resolved is if it goes up their respective chains of command, maybe even as far as the governor’s office, to say, ‘Hey, let’s get these agencies on the same page.”

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CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

When the earthquakes struck late last Sunday and early Monday, I was besieged with messages from anxious family and friends back in America. “Are you OK?” they asked, the way they always do whenever anything happens in this part of the world. Fortunately, I was able to report that yes, we were fine. The massive quakes occurred in southeast Turkey near the Syria border, very far from our home here in Istanbul.

Like many others, we spent Monday glued to the news, watching with horror as CNNTurk showed images of buildings collapsing, of survivors sobbing while rescuers searched the rubble for their loved ones, of the multitudes suddenly left homeless, or else afraid to return to their homes, stranded outside shivering in the freezing weather. As of Wednesday, news reports put the death toll at 11,000 between Turkey and neighboring Syria. That number could reach 20,000, some fear.

Winter arrived very late this year — just a week or two ago, you could see people here in Istanbul walking outside in shorts. Now, as I write this, outside the early morning streets are covered in snow, a brittle Arctic wind pounds the windows. All I can say, thinking about those people down south, huddled in government buildings, sleeping on floors of municipal buildings with donated blankets, is that it feels profoundly good to have a home. The buildings we saw collapse on the TV look very similar to ours, and it’s disturbing to imagine how your whole world, everything you possess, including your life, can come crashing down in a matter of seconds.

Having lived in Northern California for many years, I am no stranger to earthquakes. In ‘95, I was rudely jolted from bed one morning when a modest but sturdy 5.0 rocked the North Coast. It slammed just hard enough to send everything sideways for a heart-stopping second, so I can just imagine how a 7.4 or 7.8 must have felt for those who experienced the two earthquakes here this past week. The first one hit about 4 in the morning, while the residents slept. Can you imagine that? For those people, Sunday evening was probably the usual Sunday, a bit of dinner and relaxing before bed to gear up for the week ahead. You go to bed assuming tomorrow is another Monday. Then as you sleep the earth opens up and swallows you whole.

Some people, perhaps blessedly, probably never even woke up. Those who did awoke to a nightmare, one that has not yet ended.

Here in Istanbul, we are anxiously looking on, but also dealing with the onset of this late winter. Schools (including my university) are closed this week because of the snow, hundreds of flights at the airports were canceled, the city pulverized by freezing rains and relentless winds, not to mention the fact that the earthquakes did some damage to the country’s power infrastructure, leading to some outages and conservation measures.

Of course, we in Istanbul and the rest of the country were lucky. We have roofs over our heads. I think of our 3-year-old son, Leo, asleep now in the other room. He’s had a bit of flu, but is feeling better. His grandparents and my wife are also still asleep, cozy and warm while temperatures outside are freezing. I shudder as I think of those people waiting in despair in the cold for rescuers to arrive, wondering if their loved ones trapped in the rubble are still alive.

Yes, we are very far away and safe, but the earthquakes still hit home. After all, Istanbul also lies on a faultline — the 1999 ‘quake here left many thousands dead, so for us it feels like we just dodged a bullet — this time.

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James Tressler is a former Lost Coast resident and journalist. He now lives and writes in Istanbul.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Larry Robert Bollmann, 76, of Loleta and his wife Suzanne Louise Bollmann, 74, of Loleta. Larry passed away suddenly at home on Saturday, December 10, 2022, and Suzanne passed 21 days later on December 31, 2022. After 54 years of marriage, not even death could keep them apart.

Larry was the first-born child of Robert and Melba Bollmann, born on October 22, 1946, in Rhode Island. He had three younger sisters and four younger brothers. Larry grew up in Eureka and graduated from Eureka Senior High School in 1964. He then attended California State University Humboldt from Spring 1971 - Fall 1974 as an undergraduate, completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology on December 13, 1974. He also attended as a graduate student from 1975 to 1976.

Born on November 23, 1948, in Eureka, Suzanne was the youngest child of Gregory Felt Pierce and Louise Isabelle Jones Pierce. Suzanne had an older brother, Larry Gregory Pierce. Suzanne also grew up in Eureka and attended Eureka Senior High School and graduated in 1966.

Larry and Suzanne were married at St. Bernard Catholic Church in 1968 in Eureka. They celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary in September of this year. They have two sons, Timothy Robert Bollmann and Joseph Gregory Bollmann.

Larry and Suzanne opened Bollmann’s Taxidermy in 1978 where it remained open until they retired in 2014. Larry also created and sold Bollmann Tanning Cream, a product used during the taxidermy process. Larry had the honor of contributing to the book The Breakthrough Mammal Taxidermy Manual written by Brent Housekeeper and Jim Hall. Suzanne did all the bookkeeping at the taxidermy office, as well as the bookkeeping for her family’s business, E.W. Pierce Company.

Larry and Suzanne were members of the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association. They spent many years raising Thoroughbred horses and traveling all over the country for horse races. Larry spent many hours on the road with his horse trailer delivering mares to farms all over California. Larry & Suzanne were also co-owners of Oak Leaf Productions, which brought many country music concerts to the area in the mid-1990s.

Larry was preceded in death by his father Robert Bollmann, his mother Melba Bollmann, brother Mark Bollmann and sister Laura Bollmann. Suzanne was preceded in death by her husband Larry, her father Gregory Felt Pierce, mother Louise Isabelle Pierce and older brother Larry Gregory Pierce.

Larry and Suzanne were kind, genuine people who were well known and respected in their community. As parents, nothing brought them more pride than watching their sons succeed and accomplish their goals in life. Larry and Suzanne’s life together was a true partnership and their passion was working together on numerous projects, whether it was for the business, the horses, or their home.

Larry and Suzanne are survived by their oldest son, Tim (Amber) Bollmann of Redding, their youngest son, Joe (Kristina) Bollmann of Fortuna, Larry’s sisters Linda (Mike) Grundman of Eureka and Polly Fuller of Redding, and his brothers Rick (Jacque) Bollmann of Spaulding, Chris (Kate) Bollmann of Fairfield, and James (Anne) Bollmann of Texas. They are also survived by Suzanne’s two dear cousins Denise (Chuck) Worth of Chico and Kent (Alice) Pryor of Pleasanton. Because Suzanne didn’t have a very large family, her cousins were very special to her. Larry and Suzanne also have four grandsons, Lane Bollmann of Redding, Robert (Charis) Bollmann of McKinleyville, Jace Bollmann of Ontario, Oregon and Jackson Bollmann of Redding.

Larry and Suzanne were cremated by Humboldt Cremation & Funeral Services. A potluck celebration of life will be held at Larry and Suzanne’s home on Saturday, March 25, 2023 from noon to 3 p.m. 

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The obituary above was submitted on behalf of Larry and Suzanne Bollman’s loved ones. The Lost Coast Outpost runs obituaries of Humboldt County residents at no charge. See guidelines here. Email news@lostcoastoutpost.com.