Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
On Aug. 3, 2023, at about 1:56 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Garberville Town Square for the report of an assault.
Bogosian
Upon arrival, deputies contacted two men, one with moderate facial injuries. During their investigation, deputies learned that the two had been hanging out together at the Town Square when an argument occurred between them. At some point during this argument, one of the men, 50-year-old Paul Bogosian, reportedly began to physically assault the other, causing injury.
Bogosian was arrested without incident and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of assault likely to produce great bodily injury (PC 245(a)(4)) and battery (PC 242).
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.
Earl Eliot Eddy (75) of Blue Lake, CA, passed away on June 1, 2023 at the VA Memorial Hospital of Long Beach, CA from a terminal lung disease.
He was a very boisterous and fun-loving person, with a booming voice. Earl made a friend wherever he went. He was the social glue of the Eddy family, always keeping up with his siblings, cousins, and his many step-mothers. He loved to tell embellished stories of his life and the shenanigans of his children’s lives.
He led an active lifestyle. His favorite physical activity was golfing; he regularly played softball; and he attended spin cycling class multiple times per week. Additionally, he participated in armchair sports, watching his favorite movies and shows with a large bowl of buttery popcorn.
Earl enjoyed a 45-year career in construction management after obtaining his bachelor’s degree from Cal State Long Beach. His career took him all over California until he opened his own company, Milestone Builders, in Anaheim, CA in 1986. Milestone Builders closed in 1993 due to a recession, and he and his family moved to Grand Rapids, MI. He lived there for 20 years and retired in 2014, then moved to Northern California to be near his children in Humboldt County. In retirement, he worked periodically as a Consultant/Owner’s Representative.
Earl was always involved in his community, serving on multiple committees and projects. He most recently served on the Blue Lake Planning Commission, the Blue Lake Community Emergency Response Team, the Blue Lake Old Crows, and the Humboldt Housing Project.
He is survived by his wife, Lynette Eddy; his children Matthew Eddy (Amy Aiello), Nicholas Eddy, and Aluka Eddy; and his grandchildren Raven Eddy, Savannah Aiello, Luella Eddy, Marlon Eddy, Anna Franklin, Preston Franklin, and Molly Franklin.
If you were acquainted with Earl, please join us for a small, casual Celebration of Life in his honor on Saturday August 19, 2023, from 2 – 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, at the Mad River Grange (110 Hatchery Road) in Blue Lake, CA.
We are so very glad he joined us, just wish he could have stayed longer.
Andy was born in Fortuna, California. He graduated from Fortuna High in 2005. He played soccer, basketball and Little League in Fortuna. He was never a great student but was smart, had a great memory and was so incredibly funny.
No one was more kind-hearted than Andy. He was a complicated young man but loved simple pleasures. He loved his family, movies, books and critters. An avid reader, most of his favorite authors were introduced to him by his father. They passed books back and forth his whole adult life. They also shared a love of the Lonesome Dove series, trading quotes often. He was also a fan of the San Francisco Giants and the Chicago Bears. He enjoyed fishing at Ruth Lake with his buddies and bottom fishing off the Oregon Coast with his Dad. Andy was a named member of the Grouse Mountain Hunting club and was a long-time blood donor.
Andy grew up with shelter pets. The two summers before he was old enough to drive he volunteered at Miranda’s Rescue. His beloved grandmother helped get him to his little job there, cleaning out cages and walking dogs. Once he bought his own home he had fur friends Murray and then Mabel. His first real job was working as the kennel attendant for the Fortuna Police Department.
Andy then worked at the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department as a Correctional Deputy from 2006 until his death. He was known there for his kindness and calm demeanor. We thank the Sheriff’s Department for their nice press release and are strengthened by all the kind comments that followed. He was loved and respected by so many more people than he realized.
Andy married the love of his life, Samantha, in 2016. Even though the marriage didn’t last, we are so grateful for the joy that relationship brought to his life.
Andy suffered from complications of Type I Diabetes and depression but it was an undiagnosed intestinal bleed that took his life. Thank you to Dr. Nathan Brinckhaus for trying to get Andy to follow through with testing that might have detected it.
Andy Kitna is survived by parents Kris and Edna and sister Emily. He also leaves behind Aunt Betty Rowell and cousins Kelli and Kurt in Santa Rosa. He is predeceased by his grandparents Jim and Trudy Kitna, grandmother Lillian Rowell, and uncles Marvin and Roger Rowell.
We’d like to thank the law enforcement community for all the kindness and offers.
We are a little family in shreds so services will be private.
UVA UVAM VIVENDO VARIA FIT Safe journey Sonny Boy.
On August 2, 2023, at about 6:37 p.m., Officers with the Eureka Police Department
responded to the 100 block of W Sonoma Street in response to a 911 call of a physical
altercation between an adult female and an adult male friend of her roommate.
Upon arrival, officers located the female and male and determined both had sustained
wounds consistent with stab wounds.
Humboldt Bay Fire and City Ambulance arrived
and transported both to a local hospital, where the female was ultimately pronounced
deceased. The male was treated at the hospital for his injuries and released.
The exact
details of the incident remain under investigation by the Eureka Police Department
Criminal Investigation Unit. The female has been identified; however, her identity will
not be released at this time, pending notification of next of kin.
This is a complex and active investigation and no arrests have been made. Anyone with
information regarding this incident is asked to contact Detective Nunez at
rnunez@eurekaca.gov or (707) 441-4109.
Folks on the Facebook page Fortuna Happenings have posted photos of the threatening messages allegedly posted to the windows of Aunna Bollmann’s home. Below are a couple of them, from Kristin Agajanian Ambrosini, republished with permission.
While the images are a bit blurry, some of the messages remain legible, including one addressed to the Fortuna police chief saying, “Casey Day I’m going to kill you.”
—Ryan Burns
###
Original post:
Press release from the Fortuna Police Department:
On Thursday, August 3rd 2023, at about 2:30 PM, Fortuna Police served a search warrant at the home of Aunna Sophia Bollmann in the 40 block of 11’ Street, Fortuna, California.
Aunna Bollmann, a 41-year old resident of Fortuna, had an active arrest warrant stemming from weeks of
threatening and harassing phone calls to government officials. Aunna Bollmann had been threatening to kill
elected County Officials, Elected City Officials, and City/County staff members via telephone, voicemail, and text message, and had posted similar threats on paper, which she posted in the windows of her home.
Over the past week, the threats became more direct and egregious prompting concern for the safety of community members and those she was threatening. The threats were not isolated to Fortuna Officials and were made to
several officials in several jurisdictions throughout the Humboldt County region including Humboldt County and the City of Eureka. Section 422 of the California Penal Code makes it a felony for one to criminally threaten another. Additionally, section 76 of the California Penal Code also prohibits criminally threatening an elected official.
Bollmann wasbooked on her outstanding arrest warrant and additional charges will be submitted to the Humboldt County District Attorney for consideration and potential prosecution. As a result of the search warrant, documentation and digital evidence was recovered. The majority of written documents seized were specifically
threatening to City and County Officials. As a result of this incident, Aunna Bollmann was transported and booked into the Humboldt County Jail.
The Eureka Police Department has been busy this Thursday attending to separate crime scenes a mere block from each other.
Wabash Avenue has been closed to through traffic between A and B streets after officers responded to reports of gunfire in the area.
Eureka Police officers responded to the scene and blocked the road with crime tape. A police services vehicle is also blocking the intersection of Wabash and B in front of the Stop and Shop convenience store.
“Officers located shell casings but have not identified a suspect or [determined] if there are any victims,” EPD Public Information Officer Brittany Powell said. “The area is being searched for evidence and surveillance.”
Officers initially appeared to be focusing their attention on a two-story, seafoam green building at the southeast corner of Wabash and A streets, according to the Outpost’s Andrew Goff, who is on the scene. The officers are telling pedestrians that this is an active crime scene.
As if that weren’t enough, around 3:40 p.m., a white Mercedes sedan sped past the crime scene and turned east onto Del Norte Street, where it promptly ran into a parked vehicle, Goff reports.
“Lots of neighbors came out of their homes and confronted the man, who used a racial epithet towards one of the bystanders,” he tells us. Residents surrounded the man, pulling him to the ground. One woman informed him that this was a citizen’s arrest.
It’s unclear, at this point, if the crash-and-flee incident is related in any way to the police response on Wabash. (UPDATE: EPD tells us the individual involved in the collision is 21-year-old Miles Armstrong.)
Warning: The video below contains racial epithets and partial nudity.
The “30,000 Salmon” Art Installation at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka | Photos: Stephanie McGeary
###
After nearly two decades sitting in boxes in an attic, “30,000 Salmon” — a huge, collaborative art installation — is again seeing the light of day and has been reinstalled at Morris Graves Museum in celebration of the removal of the dams on the Klamath River.
Congressman Jared Huffman, who has helped support the dam removal efforts, came to an advanced look at the installation on Thursday morning, joined by artists, teachers and community members who contributed to the project.
Huffman has been working to support Klamath River restoration efforts since he was elected to Congress 11 years ago, he said. Though there is still a lot of work to be done and the reemergence of this installation comes at a time when the Klamath’s salmon population is among the lowest on record and salmon fishing season has been officially canceled, he is happy to see the dam removal process finally moving forward after decades of the process struggling through political red tape.
“I think there’s a powerful message here,” Huffman told the Outpost while gazing at the piece, which hangs from the ceiling in the middle of the museum. “We’ve kind of come full circle, but in a better way because this year we’re celebrating the removal of the Klamath dams. And we still haven’t fixed all the problems on the Klamath River, but getting these dams out is the biggest piece of bringing these rivers back to life.”
Rep. Jared Huffman and artist Becky Evans
The installation was first put together in 2002 by local artist Becky Evans as a response to the devastating Klamath River fish kill that left more than 30,000 salmon dead (around 30,000 was the initial number reported, but later counts estimated that upward of 70,000 salmon died) as a result of water diversion to the Klamath Basin during a drought year.
To bring attention to the ecological disaster, Evans reached out to artists, teachers and students around Humboldt to help contribute to the art project. The result was 30,000 individual pieces, including drawings, cutouts, papier-mâché and ceramics suspended in the shape of a fish, with objects below. Originally, the art exhibit was installed at the now-closed First Street Gallery in Old Town Eureka
At the time of the original installation, Evans told the Outpost, former North Coast Rep. Mike Thompson extended an invitation to take the installation to be displayed in D.C. But after Evans and her assistants boxed up the entire piece, it turned out that there was not enough space or money to transport the piece to the capitol. So, Evans put the deconstructed sculpture pieces in her attic, where they sat for 19 years.
“My idea was to save it all until the dams come down, if I live that long,” Evans told the Outpost at the Morris Graves on Thursday. “And I’m happy to have lived that long.”
Several of the teachers whose students had contributed to the original project were present to view the sculpture, including Moureen McGarry, who taught art at Sunset Elementary at the time of the original installation. McGarry’s kindergarten, first grade and second grade classes created ceramic pieces, which are scattered in a fish shape on the gallery floor. Students in her after-school art program also painted salmon designs on swaths of silk that are hanging among the thousands pieces of fish art.
“It was a really important educational moment for [the students] to recognize that there is an impact in what we do as humans to this planet and that it affects all of us,” McGarry told the Outpost, recalling what the process was like for her students so many years ago.
Lee Roscoe-Bragg, who taught at Zane Middle School, had her seventh-graders create a series of fish kites for the project back in 2002 and said that she is thrilled to see the pieces displayed again, adding that she remembers how much the students enjoyed viewing the installation the first time it went up. She hopes that some of those students, who are now full-grown adults, will be able to come see the piece again at the Morris Graves.
“The students were very enthusiastic,” Roscoe-Bragg said. “While they didn’t understand exactly how it was all going to come together, they were really excited to be part of such a huge contribution.”
The installation is also accompanied by a short documentary film created by married couple Ken Magnuson and Barbara Morrison that highlights the original project and the catastrophic event that inspired it. Magnuson and Morrison edited the full 25-minute film down to a 10-minute feature that plays on a loop next to the exhibit.
If you would like to view “30,000 Salmon,” the exhibit officially opens to the public this Saturday, Aug. 5 and will be on display at the Morris Graves Museum of Art — 636 F Street, Eureka — through Sep. 19. Evans hopes that those who help contribute to the piece and other members of the community will come to experience this impressive work that both illustrates the devastation that occurred on the Klamath River and celebrates the progress that has been made since.
“It’s about all the people who contributed and all the people in the tribes, in the agencies – the individuals who have not given it up and worked so hard for so many years,” Evans said. “It just brings tears to my eyes that this has happened and I’m considering this a celebration.”
###
NOTE: This article has been changed to reflect that 30,000 was the initial number of salmon reported dead on the Klamath in 2002, and this is why Evans’ project focused on that number. Other counts estimated that upwards of 70,000 salmon died.
