Last week Gov. Newsom announced that eligible seniors throughout California could immediately get three free restaurant meals per day delivered to their door. Yet a week later, not a single meal has been delivered, and tens of thousands of Californians who have tried to sign up have been left disappointed, confused and maybe even hungry. […]
Food insecurity
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UPDATE: Hoopa OES Food Distribution Sees Incredible Demand
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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The COVID Conjuncture
Do you know what a historic conjuncture is, David Cobb asks. Told no, the already quick cadence of his voice quickens over the phone. The term, the 2004 Green Party presidential nominee excitedly explains, was coined by Antonio Francesco Gramsci while the philosopher was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime and describes a moment when […]
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The Little School that Could
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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Eureka City Schools Offers Meal Service for Children Amid Shutdown
Eureka City Schools is offering to feed local children ages 18 and under while schools are shut down during this “unprecedented public health crisis.” The district sent a letter to parents and guardians today saying it will provide a pickup meal service at Alice Birney, Grant, Lafayette, Washington and Eureka High schools from 11 a.m. […]
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Windfall Apples
When life hands the farmers and home gardeners of Humboldt too many apples, many hand the excess to Food for People. Last year they donated some 57,000 pounds of excess produce and meat to the organization’s gleaning program, according to Food for People, which redistributed the food to people in need. Some of that was […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt: Video
This week: We’re talking about recruiting and keeping police in Humboldt County, and how Food for People and Humboldt Cider Co. teamed up to fight food insecurity and food waste. With Host David Frank in the Access Humboldt studio. Also streaming on KZZH.
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Hoopa’s Long Wait for a Grocery Store is Over
On Monday, semi-trucks lined up outside of the new Hoopa Shopping Center waiting to unload pallets of groceries. Inside, more than a dozen new employees swiftly stocked shelves, learned how to use the cash registers, practiced frying chicken and worked in their respective sections of the store. The sounds of drills and hammers echoed as […]
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Arkley vs. Bridges: Two Perspectives on How to Treat the Needy
The Bible has a lot to say about helping the needy, but we doubt that even the Holy Ghost saw this day coming. Good people of Humboldt County, we urge you to lock your doors, board up your windows and hide your canned food — because it looks like the meek got tired of waiting […]