Bear Gulch Bridge Naming Proposals

Two recent guest speakers at our lunch meetings have proposed names for the Bear Gulch Bridge.

The first was September Gray who proposes Wailaki Pass Bridge as the new name. At some future date, more plaques or other items may be added honoring local Indians. For more information contact September at 707 223-4256.

The second speaker was Hawk Rosales of the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a nonprofit consortium of ten federally recognized Indian Tribes from the region. The Council proposes 1) To formally recognize “Bear Gulch Bridge” as the official name of the bridge, and 2) To permanently memorialize the bridge with a plaque listing the words for “Bear Creek” in the Native languages of the region’s Tribal groups that historically lived, traveled through, or traded in the bridge’s vicinity. Hawk can be reached at the InterTribal office at 707 463-6745.

As a club, we do not endorse any side in a political debate. However, if you, as a member of this community, would like to support either naming proposal, the address to send your letter of support is listed below.

Donald C Tuttle
Special Projects Coordinator
Humboldt County Department of Public Works
1106 Second Street
Eureka CA 95501-0579

Garberville Rotary charter member dies.

Monroe “Toby” Tobin died at 9:30 Tuesday morning, 01-08-2008.

Toby was a life-long member of the Garberville community and was much loved by his family and friends. He was a charter member, and past president of the Garberville Rotary club that was formed in 1938. He was too young to join the club at the time, but they needed one more member to form the club, so they put his name on the roster anyway with the hopes that by the time anyone found out that he was too young that he would be old enough. It worked, to all of our benefit.

Another Past President Bob Fraser also recently passed away, as did Vern Bonham.

Great men all. We wanted to get these announcements on this site, and we will fill in more details later.