Free Public WiFi on the Clarke Plaza in Old Town Eureka

Press release from Next Generation Eureka:

Eureka is one step closer to being a 21st-century city! The Clarke Museum, Next Generation Eureka, and Eureka Main Street are partnering to offer free public Wi-Fi in the Clarke Plaza in Old Town Eureka. An anonymous donor has also generously provided funding on behalf of the Humboldt County Library. Next Generation Eureka will have a free photo booth available to celebrate the official opening of the Wi-Fi on January 5th during Arts Alive. Come take fun pictures with props at The Madrone Taphouse and post them to our Facebook event page to be entered into a drawing to win a prize. The prize includes gift cards from places like Old Town Coffee and Chocolates and the Madrone Taphouse.

The Clarke Plaza Wi-Fi service will be available all hours except between midnight and five am, so there’s no longer any need to rush through those important online tasks before the library or coffee shop closes.

Free public Wi-Fi has become a standard offering in major cities and small towns alike across the country – even our neighbors in Arcata have free Wi-Fi on the Plaza. And there’s proof aplenty that providing this amenity brings significant benefits for the cities and their residents:

  • San Leandro offers free Wi-Fi along an eighteen-mile fiber optic loop to promote economic development as well as drawing the community to previously unused outdoor space. Businesses and their customers benefit from easy access to high-speed internet service.
  • San Francisco has offered a free Wi-Fi service on Market Street, the city’s busiest and most economically diverse corridor, since 2013. As a result, street merchants can take online payments, event organizers can broadcast live on social media, and tourists, attendees at city parades, users of ride-sharing apps, and struggling populations can all access services more easily.

Similar positive outcomes are expected here in Eureka. “Tourists have a limited number of places where they can connect to Wi-Fi at no cost, and offering this service gives them an additional reason to spend time and money in Old Town,” says Aubrey Richeson from Next Generation Eureka. “Just having this amenity identifies Eureka as a forward-thinking city with a vibrant downtown, helping to improve visitor and resident retention alike.”

Students are likely to be significant beneficiaries of the service, as are event organizers and attendees. Next Generation Eureka, for example, is planning to partner with other organizations to create special events with Wi-Fi at their center, and having free Wi-Fi available will add a whole new dimension to next year’s Friday Night markets for both vendors and attendees.

More information about the Wi-Fi service is available from Next Generation Eureka on Facebook or at www.nextgeneureka.org.


Next Generation Eureka (Next Gen)
 is a youth-driven civic group that represents Millenials in the pursuit of growth and development for Eureka. Next Generation Eureka works to ensure that young adult perspectives are heard and collaborates with other community organizations to improve various aspects of Eureka, including professional opportunities and entertainment. Next Generation Eureka is a Dream Maker project throughThe Ink People Center for the Arts.

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Greg
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Greg
5 years ago

There is free WiFi also at the park in Fortuna 2 or 3 years they have it now

Kris Pringle
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Kris Pringle
5 years ago

Hilarious. Homeless street junkies live in that “square.” Gentrification will only make them squirmy. Do not poke the bear! There are no tourists there and never will be.

Unbelievable there are still people who believe technology is the answer to everything. Apparently they live in a virtual reality where cell phones and cell towers emit no radiation. And sugar plum fairies deliver new Ipads to all the children for Xmas.

Junkie Delight
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Junkie Delight
5 years ago
Reply to  Kris Pringle

They have free cellphones provided to them. Now they will have free wifi. I guess the hookers can do business much more efficiently? And the druggies can surf on…whatever porno or drug supply info or whatever junkies surf. yes- this is some great “progress” ha ha ha! Only time I have seen normal citizens on that plaza is Arts Alive, otherwise it is a stay-away spot, very unsavory characters. This is some serious case of cart-before-the-horse thinking!

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  Junkie Delight

can they at least get the free wifi in the new bathroom? so we dont have to see them while they are “surfing”

Guest
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Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Kris Pringle

Light bulbs emit far more powerful radiation than wifi. Ban light bulbs.

Guest
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Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

People seldom sit for hours with a light bulb pressed to their ear.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Light bulbs were banned – the incandescent ones.

Jaekelopterus
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Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

“There is no such thing as an incandescent light bulb ban in the United States.
So what is actually happening on January 1st (2014)? The cost of an ordinary light bulb will drastically rise — and hopefully your electricity bill will fall. The so-called bulb ban is simply a government-mandated energy efficiency standard at work.”

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Sparkelmahn

The prices are still very reasonable, although now I only use them for heat lamps. LESs just blow them out of the water in terms of waste heat, lumens and power consumption.

Puffy Muffinstuff
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5 years ago

Wonderful! A bunch of tweekers watching porn hub and selling stolen shot. With free food free needles. free blankets, and wi fi old town is now the junkie atlantis

Divide by Zero
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Divide by Zero
5 years ago

Bingo, and you only need to watch the “activities” at the Covelo public library with the free WiFi for an example. Meet you at the library for your $20.00 bag, yowzer yowzer, get it here while the supply lasts. Oh wait how insensitive of me, they’re probably doing their homework for the spherical trig. class.

Y Knot?
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Y Knot?
5 years ago

They can use it to purchase Omaha Steaks online, steaks that porch pirates give two thumbs up.

Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Y Knot?

Only peabrains eat Omaha Steaks full of chemical death. You should try some.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Sparkelmahn

Humboldt has the best beef, bud and brew. Buy local!

Guest
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Guest
5 years ago

Serving what youth wants is a losing proposition. They keep aging out and their replacements not only want something else but believe that they are also the first people on earth to know what the world needs. Thus it always was and will be.

Willie caos- mayhem
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5 years ago

The idea is good the location not so much.

LostCoastEMP
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LostCoastEMP
5 years ago

The beginning of a socialist state. Free sh!t to anyone who doesn’t want to work for it. Free goverment handouts to theives,junkies,and other social parasites, provided by working taxpaying citizens!

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

Social Security was the beginning of the socialist state. Or maybe the creation of a standing professional army after the war of 1812 was the beginning of the socialist state. Or the creation of government maintained roads in the 1700’s.

This is a wifi router. The county has tens of thousands of them.

lostcoastEMP
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lostcoastEMP
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

social security is for those who worked for it . a military is provided by tax paying americans. government maintained roads is not socialism. people who leech of others hard work and expect to live of government handouts is socialism. depending on others to protect you because you voted out the second amendment right to protect yourself is socialism. have the government fix your driveway funded by your neighbor who actually has a job and pays his taxes to fix your driveway because your to lazy and/or have a self induced drug problem is socialism. when the people expect everything to be free,no one will want to work.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  lostcoastEMP

Arbeiten macht frei, basically?

THC
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THC
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

I thought Social Security came out of my paycheck every month?

LostCoastEMP
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LostCoastEMP
5 years ago
Reply to  THC

It does. Because you actually have a job! Bravo. Having the “rich” (people who work) to help and feed the “poor” ( people who don’t have a job or contribute to society) is BS

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  THC

Yeah, along with the rest of your taxes. That’s a distinction without a difference.

Guest
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Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

It’s getting there. The distinction between those who work receiving a benefit from their labor and those who don’t work receiving a benefit from other’s labor is fast disappearing. It is called not being judgemental. And seems to be the operating principle of many.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

We all pay taxes to provide for the common good. The alternative, that everybody must pay a fee to access the commons, is impossible without concentration camps to put the poor into. Where would they live, the woods? No, those are mostly privately owned.

Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

Heard a huge peabrain right wing bass turd say “kill all the mentally ill”. They would have to kill themselves, then!

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

The reason there are no radiation antenna/towers on fire stations is because the firemen are smarter than the average bear.

Ice
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Ice
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Wtf? Al.ost every fire station has antennas. Look at dispatch centers like CalFire in Fortuna. Huge antennas right beside the buildings..

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Firestations don’t have radio antennas? Congratulations HumCo, this is a new level of talking out of your ass.

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Anti troll league
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Anti troll league
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

The Chihuahua sees its opening and is dancing on its toes with the excitement of getting even with the world for being the smallest dog in the fight.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago

You’re the anti-troll league, rushing to the defence of a proven troll. Or do you believe him, that firefighters don’t use radios?

Anti troll league
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Anti troll league
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

I believe that those who think that every comment needs to include a personal insult are responding at a very low level. A Chihuahua level. Disagreement of even far fetched posts is not being a troll. Personal insults are.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago

Where did I insult HumCo? I said he was talking out of his ass, which he was. Now you’re doing it, too. What a coincidence.

Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

Somebody insulted him (?) when they thought he was HoneydewChump!

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Sparkelmahn

Man, he’s making HBC look like an intellectual giant. Is this what hypernormalization feels like?

Jp
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Jp
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Well I am a ham radio operator. Can you explain how they communicate on a 900mhz frequency without an antennae? Can you find me a tri band radio that dosent need an antennae?

Ice
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Ice
5 years ago

Wtf? Almost every fire station has antennas. Look at dispatch centers like CalFire in Fortuna. Huge antennas right beside the buildings..

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Ice

hmmm Wtf, i’ll have to do more homework on this. A meter that measures radiation would be good to have.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Please start doing your homework. You post so much on this site and its mostly gibberish. You could have just googled a picture of any fucking fire station in the US. Even the Alderpoint fire station has a huge anntena.

Jp
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Jp
5 years ago
Reply to  Ice

Almost. I challenge you to find one that dosent

THC
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THC
5 years ago

California is actually trying to pass a law to tax peoples text messages to provide poor people with phones.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7.com/amp/technology/california-wants-to-tax-your-text-messages/4885660/

Antichrist
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Antichrist
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

the federal goverment already taxes cell service to provied low income with free cell phones. the proposed tax would have been in addition to a already in place federal program. dont believe me ? check your phone bill and look up what the fees and taxes are for .

Guest
Guest
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5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Any large pool of money taken without much oversight is always a source of fraud and misuse. The government has become very fond of using third parties to put a firewall between the government and its responsibility. Oversite is minimal when the government saddles a third party with the cost of administration.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
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This router will be using less electricity than an incandescent lightbulb. Maybe it will even keep some vaunerable people occupied and out of trouble, saving the taxpayer money.

LostCoastEMP
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LostCoastEMP
5 years ago

Next. Free housing. Free food. Free phones. Free drugs. Free fuel. Free toilet paper. All provided by people who work there ass off and pay taxes. Sound fair? PS. Please wipe my butt and piss me while your at it….

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

Free roads, free police, free food inspection, free schools, ect… Yeah, that stuff is called civilization.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

It’s only free to those not paying taxes to cover the costs of what they get.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

So how do you propose we pool out resources to build a common infrastructure? Toll booths on every street? The government isn’t perfect at maintaining the commons, but they sure do a better job than private industry.

Hmmmmm!
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Hmmmmm!
5 years ago

Wow, what a sad state of affairs that so many people have such completely sour attitudes. Everything sure sucks, eh? Everything!

Rare to find an article that isn’t polluted with the same vitriolic spewers of negativism.

It must really get to a person to look at everything through that lens.

Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Hmmmmm!

Most likely a congenital defect suffered primarily by Conservatives.