As Humboldt County school districts stepped up to continue feeding their students amid the COVID-19 shutdown, one of its smallest districts in one of its poorest areas decided it needed to do much more. Peninsula Union School District has one small school house that sits tucked between dunes in Samoa, serving 45 students, 95 percent […]
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Saving Each Other
It’s no stretch to say that we in Humboldt County — and the rest of the country — stand on the precipice, facing the very real threat of widespread death and suffering. New York City is already there. But it’s also no stretch to say — at this moment in Humboldt County, anyway — we […]
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‘Trying to Lead’
The April 2 letter was addressed to “My fellow Rio Dellights,” and had all the warmth and reassurance of a fireside chat. It acknowledged the gravity of the situation, noting that none among us — not even our oldest neighbors — has experienced something like this before. “The stress is greater, the fear is greater […]
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DIY Face Mask Template
Adapted by the Journal’s art director Jonathan Webster from instructions by Sue Giboney of Providence St. Joseph Health. Go to www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks for more detailed instuctions plus a video tutorial. Here it is in living color and also in ink-saving black-and-white. Get craftin’ Humboldt!
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Into an Unknown Wilderness
This morning, like many of you reading this, I woke hoping it had passed. That we could proceed with our lives as we lived them prior to COVID-19. But alas, we are living this new reality of “social distancing” and “shelter-in-place.” Cable news networks are committed to ongoing analysis and release of information, and social […]
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Coping with COVID-19
The novel coronavirus has had a sudden and dramatic impact on our public and private lives, and we are entering a period of real uncertainty about what the future holds. The statewide shelter-in-place order we’ve been given is unprecedented but it is a necessary response to an emergency situation. Still, it can be disorienting to […]
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Getting Help and Helping the Helpers
Across Humboldt County, nonprofits and other organizations are providing a life-line to community members in need, a group that is steadily growing as the impacts of COVID-19 and the county’s shelter-in-place order reverberate. Here are a few ways to help those who are helping others access some of the services available. Access Humboldt: The nonprofit […]
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‘You May be the World’
We are living in uncertain times and with uncertainty can come anxiety, which can affect the way we interact with and parent young children. Consider how your child or the young children in your life will look back at this moment in time five years from now. Will they remember long walks and snuggling with […]
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Town Hall Aims to Bridge ‘Empathy Gap’ on Transitional Housing
True North Organizing Network will host a town hall meeting tomorrow afternoon on the need for transitional housing locally. The meeting — scheduled from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church at 625 15th St. in Eureka — is intended to bridge the “empathy gap” organizers feel exists in conversations about finding shelter for […]
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Gun Forum Shows Left and Right Can Talk Peacefully
When the young female gun control activist started talking earnestly with the burly firearms pro — a man who had earlier proclaimed that many gun laws don’t make sense — I knew that we had succeeded in creating a respectful, constructive dialogue about this intensely polarizing topic. Around the room at Eureka’s Wharfinger Building, a […]
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Why I’m Pulling My Support from KHSU After 25 Years
I first heard of Katie Whiteside’s firing from my dear old Mom and thought to myself, “You must have heard it wrong. No, that just can’t be.” After a few phone calls, I felt that I had to repeat that sentence in a more imperative way: No. That just can’t be. After (in order of […]
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My Hometown Has Changed. Or Maybe I have.
Maybe it’s because I had just finished re-reading a news story about a family member’s murder. Maybe it’s because I had just written up a press release about a homicide investigation. Maybe it’s just the road — it’s such a terrible, long, pock-marked, winding, bone-jarring road. Whatever the reason, I did not want to drive […]