A drizzly day isn’t great for fair attendance but it does lend itself to sampling steaming cups of chili. Five competing teams that had been cooking under tents by the grandstands ladled out their wares to hardy chili fans who, like the judges gathered behind the Humboldt County Fair offices (myself among them), tasted, compared […]
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Fortuna CCC Crews Heading Home From Florida
Fortuna crew members of the California Conservation Corps are scheduled to head home today after helping out with damage caused by Hurricane Michael in Florida. According to a release, the corps members mainly worked in Bay and Gulf counties, two of the hardest hit by the massive storm that killed at least 60 and wiped […]
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Humboldt’s Dancing CCC Supervisor’s Binge-worthy Show
If you’re looking for something to binge watch that might restore your faith in humankind (no small thing these days), you may want to hit up Wild Jobs, an online series from Animal Planet that’s streaming now. Recognize host John Griffith? Yup, Humboldt’s own dancing California Conservation Corps guy took his moves on the road […]
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Local Conservationists Ask FLOTUS to Dance
Hey, Michelle Obama, have any plans for May 20 and 21? That’s when three members of our local Fortuna California Conservation Corps will be in Washington, D.C. to help celebrate the National Parks Service centennial with a nature-inspired dance. And, yeah, they want you to join in. The BioBlitz Dance came about as part of […]
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Big Turnout for Tiny Homes
The parking lot of the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bayside was full within an an hour of the Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives (AHHA) Tiny House Expo, held Saturday. Cars parked on the narrow shoulder of Jacoby Creek Road as people walked onto the church grounds to take in music, eat a free meal, attend […]
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Photography On the Fireline: Professionals and Amateurs
As a record number of wildfires roar through the American West, at least one nationally famous photographer paid a visit to our corner of the world to document this unique moment in national history, and the men and women who work to put out the flames. Mark Thiessen, a photographer with National Geographic, embedded with […]