Anne Schrager May 27, 2021
July Fourth firework light up the Marin County Fair in San Rafael in 2004. The fair plans to go mostly virtual this year. Photo: Craig Lee / The Chronicle 2004
Summer is around the corner, and with it comes a hopeful start to festival season in the Bay Area. Though growing pains are apparent, local guidelines for large gatherings continue to ease, and some of the popular county fairs and festivals have started unveiling plans for their in-person, virtual and hybrid offerings. After last summer saw the cancellation of most traditional summer outings, it’s about time to get footloose and fancy free.
“If you guys hadn’t been there, we would’ve gassed them all.”
Cottonwood militia leader Woody Clendenen claims those words were spoken by some Redding Police officers regarding actions RPD would have taken against June 2 protesters who’d marched for racial equality in Redding; if not for the militia-groups’ assistance that night.
It’s been nine months since protesters gathered in front of the Shasta County Courthouse in response to the death of George Floyd, who died while in police custody.
Woody Clendenen, Cottonwood militia leader, speaks at the Church of Glad Tidings in Live Oak Friday.
Clendenen, who was at the Freedom Coalition Meeting as a California State Militia representative, shared this piece of previously undisclosed information Friday at Church of Glad Tidings in Live Oak, Calif., where the militia leader/barber was a guest speaker. The meeting covered myriad topics, such as praise for Constitutional sheriffs who assertively ban federal agencies from