Your Tuesday paper; Come cheer on Little League! Horse story changes course, Ed Walker remembered— mom seeks justice for 5-year-old who drowned over the 4th- be careful this year!
On Tuesday, we got a report of a woman being struck by a car in front of Rite Aid. It turned out to be a medical call, not a traffic matter. We also heard about power outages in the Albion area. PGE says there was a planned outage in the area of Heritage House, to fix lines, but they didnt have any info about the others we heard about. Please contact us if you have more info.
We continue to look into the horse shooting story at a ranch along Highway 20. Our Monday news story is below.
Update on Tuesday: We talked to the MCSO and the facts are different than what is going around the Internet. Yes, one horse was shot and killed. And yes, other horses were shot, but with a pellet gun and probably not by the same party that shot the championship rodeo horse below. We need to get this story straight before reporting it fully, but we can say there is a LOT of false information out there on this. As we said below, its a situation that is terribily unfortunate but AGAIN, let’s not jump to conclusions before we get the facts.
We continue to look into the horse shooting story at a ranch along Highway 20. Our Monday news story is below.
Now for some fun and good news about kiddos!
To change gears to something GOOD about kids…
Fort Bragg Little League is growing. Come out with your red, white and blue and enjoy baseball and hot dogs!
There is a lot of very fun stuff to do this weekend, but nothing better for smiles and to hang out with friends than LIttle League Baseball.
Fort Bragg Little League had 204 kids play this year and a brand new 50/70 division, something usually seen in bigger places. The 50/70 refers to the pitching mound being 50 feet from home plate and the bases being 70 feet apart. Players step up from the traditional, smaller Little League diamond (46-foot pitching/60-foot bases) but aren’t quite ready for the full sized field used in high school (60-foot 6-inch pitching/90-foot bases). The high school field is the same as used in college, Major Leagues and so on.
There are preliminary games around the region. Fort Bragg’s top teams will play this weekend and visitors like Cloverdale will also enjoy the cool weather, parades, salmon and fireworks. Fort Bragg All Star Minors against Cloverdale Thursday and the big game, majors, Fort Bragg versus Ukiah on Friday!
Fort Bragg’s new 50/70 division team lost both their games and are out of the All-Star tournament.
“Our Junior All-Stars won two in the All-Star tournament and placed third. That was a great accomplishement, ” Jana Luzzi said.
Here is the picture of Fort Bragg Little League
5 Tball division teams- not in all stars
5 Farm division teams- not in all stars
4 Minors division teams- make one all star team
2 Majors division teams- make one all star team
1 50/70 division team- eliminated
2 Juniors division teams- placed third in the division
Fort Bragg’s teams play each other and schools in neighboring areas. Little League Baseball was created in 1939 by Carl Stortz in Williamsport, PA and is now played all over the world. While baseball is a USA invention, other places where baseball is even bigger than in the USA, like Japan, Cuba and the Dominican Republic often now beat the USA in the Little League World Series, always played where the sport was founded.
The 79th Little League Baseball World Series takes place from August 19 to August 30, 2026, at the Little League International Complex in South Williamsport. Last year, Taiwan between a USA team from Las Vegas to win the World Series. While the Little League Baseball World Series has seen 31 countries compete , MLB has only two countries for its “World Series”. Last year’s MLB World Series was more “world” than most, with the LA Dodgers beating the Toronto (Canada) Blue Jays.
Here is another fun youth event for after the Mendocino 4th of July Parade we got from friend Savannah Gilchrist.
“It has been a true blessing to volunteer with this organization to put on the inaugural Red, White and Blue race. Come volunteer, come run, come walk, come hangout and cheer on the participants! Our first responders, veterans, and military personnel have stepped up for our community. Help supportCode 3 Mind Health, Inc. to provide mental health services for these people.
Ed Walker remembered by generous community—
The community has not forgotten Ed Walker, who died less than a week ago doing a dangerous job that is very important to our community.
The community has stepped up, giving $13,525 in small gifts, many, many of them. The biggest gift was $1000- given anonymously.
Walker, a 68-year-old logging truck driver, was declared dead at the scene on Wednesday after his Frank’s Firewood logging truck rig went off Highway 128 near the Navarro Store and struck a tree. Ed is remembered as a nice guy who many people waved to as he made his regular trips through the Anderson Valley. His dog, Danny was saved. Ed was the only logging truck driver with Frank’s Firewood in Boonville. We have contacted them for remembrances. The cause of the crash is being investigated. Ed is a lifelong Californian who also lived in Napa, Ukiah, Calpella and Laytonville.
Ed had delivered a load of logs to Cloverdale and was on his way back to the yard in Fort Bragg where the truck would have been loaded for another trip tomorrow. The trailer was stacked on top of the cab he and Danny were in when the crash happened.
The following remembrance from his granddaughter is found on the GoFundMe page.
“Hi, I am Elena, Ed Walker’s granddaughter. As most of the valley has heard, my Papa unexpectedly passed away in a tragic logging truck accident this past Wednesday. Our family is at a loss for words. We are extremely heartbroken, and for those of you who knew my grandpa Ed, you knew he had a heart of gold and would give you the shirt off his back or the last dime in his pocket.
There is still time to contribute to the Go Fund Me campaign, which has a goal of $16,000..
It came with this message
“We are struggling to grieve and handle the expenses to put him to rest. If anyone would like to contribute, our family is very grateful.
If anyone would like to reach out personally please contact his daughters Sheena & Jenna Walker.”
We are also looking into a story from Jenna Sebastian, who has recently been posting all over the internet and contacting the news media from Dateline on down about the drowning death of her 5- year old daughter Quinn over the 4th of July weekend July 2023. This is not a new story, but its getting a lot of new looks and reactions.
She feels entirely ignored by the media. I told her the media no longer investigates; they go off press releases and meetings and official statements only. I had two pieces on Dateline and one on 20-20 myself. Those programs no longer do investigative work into complex stories, i can tell everyone that for sure. You all buy into endless husband-wife, wife-husband murders instead, with old cases ridiculously stretched into full episodes as if they just happened.
Here is what Sebastian has to say:
“Some of you may forget, but I will speak on this until my lips turn blue…Just like my daughter’s were when I found her unresponsive and ALONE and had to give her CPR,” Sebastian wrote on the Internet. We then talked to her a bit and determined her case is quite real, despite bizarre posts to the contrary.
Authorities, including the California Attorney General, have reviewed this case and found no reason to file charges.
“In their own words, they acknowledged that the evidence could suggest negligence. Quinn was allowed to drift out of sight down a river toward rapids while under the care of an adult. There was also evidence that he had been drinking, yet no blood alcohol testing was conducted. Still, they determined they could not prove criminal negligence beyond a reasonable doubt. …
Quinn deserved better.
If you have pertinent information about this case, send to me at frankhartzell@gmail and Ill forward. I can tell you with a cursory investigation, there is a lot more to this story and multiple perspectives on what happened. That’s why she should hire an attorney to straighten this out. There is no news media anymore and just posting on Facebook accomplishes little.
The Coastal Trail is a DANGEROUS walk with dogs on leashes. The one wheelers, electric skateboards, electric cars and all kinds of high speed gizmos come up REALLY fast and its hard for the three of us to avoid them. We HAVE now learned to all go the same direction but they still give us close calls. I try to go in the bushes instead of on the trail but there are squirrels and rabbits in the bushes.
