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Entrepreneurs Unveil Plans to Convert Former Sierra Pacific Mill Into a Cannabis Compound With Eight Acres of Cultivation
Victorum Corporation executives (from left): Director of Development Acy Crawford, CEO Robert Marshall and President/VP of Operations Laurent Bensaid at the former Sierra Pacific Industries lumber mill off New Navy Base Road, just north of Manila.
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On Monday morning, three executives from an Orange County-based company called Victorum Corporation offered a tour of a former Sierra Pacific Industries lumber mill property, a triangular, 70-acre industrial parcel nestled between the Ma-le’l Dunes and the Mad River Slough.
As the executives walked across the parcel’s vast expanses of asphalt on Monday they explained how, with $10 million they hope to raise from investors, they plan to transform the property into a state-of-the-art cannabis campus with up to eight acres of indoor and greenhouse cultivation, plus facilities for distribution, manufacturing and
Warwick s Author Livestream: Carol Edgarian
Vera, in conversation with Lacy Crawford. Carol Edgarian is the author of the
New York Times bestseller
Three Stages of Amazement and the international bestseller
Rise the Euphrates, winner of the ANC Freedom Prize. Her articles and essays have appeared in
The Wall Street Journal and W, among many others. She is cofounder of the non-profit Narrative, a leading digital publisher of fiction, poetry, and art, and Narrative in the Schools, which provides reading and writing resources to teachers and students around the world. Edgarian lives with her family in San Francisco.
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9 Best Campus Novels (and One Memoir) By Emily Layden |
Emily Layden’s incisive debut novel, All Girls
, offers a composite portrait of an exclusive girls’ boarding school on the cusp of a long-overdue reckoning with a sexual abuser on the faculty. Set during the 2015-16 school year, shortly before the emergence of the #MeToo movement, the story of the predator’s unmasking is an astute snapshot of a venerable institution being pulled, however unwillingly, into its future. Here Layden picks ten of her favorite books set on-campus.
Before I’d written a page of my novel
All Girls, I’d drawn on the yellow lined paper of a legal pad a map of my book’s fictional boarding school: the round loop of its campus drive; the placement of the various dorms across a wide green; the woods that bordered the back edge of my rural enclave. This exercise had a practical purpose: I needed to understand the layout of my school to describe how my characters moved around
Sigrid Nunez what are you going through
A dying friend asks the narrator to see her through her last weeks, a request that becomes the backdrop for musings on aging, climate change and the underrated gift of attention. It could be grim, but it’s transporting.
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5. notes on a silencing
Sexually assaulted as a teen at an elite New Hampshire boarding school, the author buried the trauma and tried to live her life. Decades later other incidents at the school prompted this brave, searing and unputdownable reckoning.
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