The Blue Lake Rancheria stepped up to help a neighbor in need this week, delivering more than 10,000 pounds of food to the Karuk Tribe to help its tribal members who have been impacted by the Slater Fire. “Our office of emergency services delivered the USDA food boxes this week to help alleviate needed resources […]
Blue Lake Rancheria
Posted inNews
Blue Lake Rancheria’s Microgrid Efforts Make HuffPost
A HuffPost story published today on the role microgrids play in keeping the lights on during natural disasters — focusing mainly on a community located on the Bay of Bengal in the wake of a cyclone — gives a cameo appearance to the Blue Lake Rancheria’s efforts. The story describes the Rancheria’s microgrid system — […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inNews
UPDATE: Blue Lake, Bear River Casinos to Close
UPDATE: The Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria has decided to suspend operations at its Bear River Casino and Hotel, Thirsty Bear Lounge, River’s Edge Restaurant, Express Café, Tish Non Community Center, Bear River Recreation Center and Family Fun Center in the face of the COVID-19 health emergency. The suspensions in operations begin at […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
The End of the Intertribal Gathering is the End of an Era
Many people were recently left without what has become their fall tradition. For 38 years the Northern California Indian Development Council (NCIDC) has put on the Intertribal Gathering and Elders Dinner around Veterans Day. This year there was no reveling in the reunion of friends and family, no basking in the glow of honor placed […]
Posted inNews
BLACKOUT
It was 5:22 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, when Dorie Lanni’s cell phone rang. It had already been a hectic 36 hours for Lanni, the county’s emergency services manager tasked with running the three-person office that coordinates major emergency responses in Humboldt County. The prior Sunday, she’d joined a 6 p.m. conference call hastily assembled […]
Posted inNews
Mainstay Unraveled
One morning in April, nine employees of Mainstay Business Solutions arrived at the company’s corporate headquarters, a modern, glassy building not far from Kikkoman Foods Inc.’s soy sauce factory in Folsom, Calif. The doors were locked, and their keys no longer worked. There was no sign on the door. They waited outside for a couple […]