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If I was a cocktail, I would be a St. Germain Spritz.

It’s called a Hugo Spritz, but the core of it is St. Germain, Prosecco and club soda, and on a summer day with mint and lemon … It’s so yummy.

In his Feb. 13 article, BBC technology journalist Thomas Germain offers another way of looking at the service’s worldwide ubiquity.

The issue, as just about anyone in Dunsmuir can explain, is that the land on the east side of the river, where the waterfall spills down from the cliffs, is owned by the Saint Germain Foundation, a religious group that considers the waterfall and Mount Shasta sacred and doesn’t take kindly to the public wandering through.

Also known as the “I AM” movement, the group was formed in the 1930s, after a mining engineer, Guy Ballard, reported that while hiking on Mount Shasta he had encountered Saint Germain, a spiritual guide who Ballard said had ascended to a higher state of being.