The Betty Kwan Chinn Day Center and the Eureka Rescue Mission are seeking non-contact infrared thermometers to check clients’, volunteers’ and workers’ temperatures for symptoms of the novel coronavirus to keep everyone in their facilities safe. Betty Chinn said that she has 20 open beds in the shelter she’d like to fill, but in order […]
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Homeless for Christmas
The daily trudging around town, trying to scrounge up the money to get what I need for the day, generally begins when I leave the Mission around 7 a.m., no matter the weather. Around here it can change in an instant and you’re suddenly and completely soaked to the skin, the wind whipping cruelly through […]
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Grandmother Found Dying on Eureka Street
About 7:15 a.m. Monday, a Native American woman was found unresponsive off an alleyway near the 1700 block of Fourth Street in Eureka. Though an officer administered CPR to the woman, Debra Jealous of Him, she was later pronounced dead. Jealous of Him, who most recently lived on the streets of Eureka, had earlier lived […]
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Eureka Rotary Members Donated 110 Turkeys to Rescue Mission
The Rescue Mission’s industrial freezer was too full to walk into earlier this week, thanks to the donation of 110 turkeys from the Rotary Club of Eureka. Rotary president Matthew Owen said he put the call out to Rotary members after finding that the shelter only had 10 turkeys to feed the 100-plus people expected […]