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Today we have a recording deep from the Internet Archive, a performance from Albino! - a 10-piece, award-winning Afrobeat ensemble from San Francisco, performing live at the Benbow Summer Arts and Music Festival, back on June 4, 2006.

In this week's Talk Humboldt, Cody Roggatz spoke with Keith Flamer and Tom Jackson about what he's got in the works for ACV, the airport's historical relationship.

"We've got some from Arcata High, we've got some from Fortuna High... we've got a lot of good competitors," says Marco Luna. "Those kids are chasing their dreams."

If time is a river, it makes sense that the historic Requa Inn sits at a river mouth. For over a century, guests have come and gone - but so have families, industries, and even dams. "There's six dams between here and the Klamath Falls in Oregon. And so they've taken down two dams now. And a lot of that conversation happened in that dining room," says innkeeper Cass Kuck.

Dean Hunt's great-grandfather couldn't the afford mountain acreage he hoped for, so he settled for 80 acres in the Arcata bottoms. "Little did he know, that 80 acres was more productive than 2,000 acres in the hills," Hunt says. "This country always grows grass… it may not be quality grass, but it's always growing a little bit."

In a nondescript building on the north side of Eureka, recovering addicts are reclaiming their lives from substance abuse. It takes a village to support their work: kitchen crew, medical professionals, caseworkers, intake staff, technicians - and chief operations officer Jamaica Bartz.

Fire poles and ladder trucks are quintessential to how most people think of fire stations, and Humboldt Bay Fire Station is no exception. But it turns out that Humboldt Bay Fire does much more than just firefighting. In fact, it's not even their most common service. "Our primary responses are medical, so emergency medical services are about 60% of our calls. Fires only account for about 4%," says Chief Sean Robertson.Subcribe on SpotifySubscribe on Apple PodcastsIn today's episode of Talk Humboldt with Keith & Tom, Chief Sean Robertson talks about "enhanced moments", his very first fire, and the truth about rescuing cats from trees.

Looking across a pastoral lot in McKinleyville, Mary Keehn points to a family of deer. "Wait 'til we walk a little further to the farm, then you'll be able to see why this is such a special spot." By next year, she hopes, the edges of this 17-acre lot will be an intentional community for neurodivergent people and their caregivers.

Election results. Birth certificates. Property deeds. Marriage licenses. Juan Pablo Cervantes has the kind of job that simultaneously undergirds democracy, family history, and property ownership - all through the boring-but-important power of paperwork. He's Humboldt County's Clerk, Recorder, and Registrar of Voters, "a title so long, it has punctuation in it," he says. "It's one of those offices that few people know about unless something goes wrong."Subcribe on SpotifySubscribe on Apple Podcasts

"It's really an amazing thing," says Holly MacDonell of the Eureka Symphony. "There are 45 or 60 people on stage and we're going to get all worked up and excited. I get emotional about it."Subcribe on SpotifySubscribe on Apple PodcastsThe Eureka Symphony features a cross-section of musicians from across the greater Humboldt Bay area, staging concerts for the general public as well as local schoolkids. In this episode of Talk Humboldt, MacDonell talks about the live concert experience, how the Eureka symphony is managed, and how Twitch streaming helped get her through the COVID lockdown.This episode first aired February 28th, 2024.