UPDATE: The Hoopa Office of Emergency Services planned to hand out food boxes from three locations yesterday from noon to 4 p.m. to launch a three-day distribution event. It ran out of supplies in 45 minutes, having given out more than 200 boxes. The event will continue today at a single location — the Hoopa […]
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Signs to Mark Health Order Compliant Restaurants
While on your essential outings, you may start seeing green signs that read, “This facility is compliant,” in the windows of open restaurants around the county. The signs, introduced April 27, list four main practices to slow the spread of COVID-19 — wearing facial coverings, practicing social distancing and hand washing, and offering only takeout/curbside […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week: We’re talking about a photographer taking portraits of people from outside their homes during shelter in place in Blue Lake and the new mask ordinance in Humboldt County. Also, Instacart is gaining popularity under quarantine but it’s lagging on getting protective gear to its workers. We’ll tell you how one gig worker is […]
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Recreational Salmon Season to Open May 1, State Announces
After a brief pandemic-triggered delay, opening dates have been set for the local recreational salmon fishing season, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Waters south of Horse Mountain will open to sport anglers May 1, with the season slated to run through Nov. 8, with a minimum size limit of 20 inches […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt: A Little Good News
This week: Some much-needed good news. We’re looking at how local nonprofits Cooperation Humboldt and Food for People, as well as a tiny school district, are turning their talents and volunteers to help those in need amid COVID-19 and sheltering in place. We’re also talking about the meditative benefits of making pasta by hand. Hit subscribe […]
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Farmers Forced to Let Crops Rot and Throw Away Milk While Food Bank Demand Soars
Last week, Isabel Solorio turned away five families from the Lanare food bank serving farmworkers in rural Fresno County. There just wasn’t enough food to feed the 215 families who showed up. It was twice the number of families that needed food a week earlier, she said. But that same week, on a farm just […]
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‘A Real Surge:’ Food Insecurity Intensifies as COVID-19 Job Losses Increase
It was an unprecedented task. Food for People had received more than 1,161 food boxes from the California Association of Food Banks thanks to a $600 million allocation aimed at feeding households during the COVID-19 outbreak. Food for People Executive Director Anne Holcomb said the food bank elected to distribute more than 500 of the […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week: We’ve got COVID-19 updates for Humboldt County, how Rio Dell and its mayor are stepping up to help seniors and people with disabilities get supplies, and how restaurants are trying to minimize contact with customers and between staff as they pivot to takeout. Hit subscribe for weekly updates from our YouTube channel.
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Sara Bareilles and Guy Fieri are Taking COVID-19 Seriously and So Should You
Yesterday People reported that Eureka’s singer-songwriter and person who’s made me cry with songs about pie Sara Bareilles announced on an Instagram story that she contracted but fully recovered from COVID-19. “I had it, just so you know. I’m fully recovered, just so you know,” she says in the video as she takes what appears […]
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‘Warm Hearted City’ Lends a Hand
A volunteer group in Rio Dell is living up to the riverside hamlet’s motto of “Warm Hearted City” by putting out word that support for residents is available during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, as well as making home deliveries — with precautions, of course. When it became clear a few weeks ago that some of […]
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Blue Lake Rancheria Delivers Meals to Tribal Elders During COVID-19 Pandemic
The Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe’s Elder Nutrition Program is delivering three weeks’ worth of meals to the 70 tribe elders enrolled in the meal program amid the COVID-19 outbreak. “We know coronavirus poses a greater threat to the elderly,” Jason Ramos, Blue Lake Rancheria tribal council member, said in a press release. “So we are […]
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Food for People Asking Community for a Helping Hand
Food for People announced today it is looking for a financial helping hand from the community after facing devastating damage to its main building, as well as food losses amid a higher demand for services in the wake of the coronavirus. The nonprofit is “struggling to find solutions” after its Eureka headquarters sustained $80,000 in […]