With recovery efforts continuing in the Eel River Valley following Tuesday’s magnitude 6.4 earthquake that left dozens of homes red-tagged and Rio Dell’s water infrastructure badly damaged, the Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services has put together a list of available services for those affected. The list, copied in its entirety below, includes everything from […]
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Six Rivers Lightning Complex: Where to Get Help and How to Help the Helpers
UPDATE: The free food distribution scheduled for tomorrow by Food for People in collaboration with Pay it Forward Humboldt and the American Red Cross has been moved to Dream Quest, 100 Country Club Drive, and we’ve updated this story accordingly. PREVIOUSLY: In the face of tremendous need, with hundreds of residents displaced by a series […]
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Food for People Launches Series of Free Drive-Through Produce Distributions
Food for People will launch a series of free produce distributions that will continue through October in an effort to help expand access to healthy foods during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has cost scores of jobs and had reverberating economic impacts. The drive-through produce distributions will start this week and are available in Eureka, Fortuna, […]
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Each Other
“Honestly, that’s what we’ve got. We’ve got each other.” David Cobb was talking to the Journal about Cooperation Humboldt, the nonprofit he co-founded, and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s true of all of us. In ways that have never been so plain, community resilience is vital. And it will likely be further […]
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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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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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Hooters and Computers
Hey McGuinty! My husband recently moved out of the area for work, leaving me and our 1-year-old here for a few months until we find housing. I work full time and when I’m home I’m a full time mom, waking up at night to a crying baby, cooking, changing diapers and so on. I don’t even remember […]
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Everybody Relax
Hey McGuinty! I have several friends I’d like to have over for dinner to celebrate a big group achievement. One is vegetarian, one is gluten free due to celiac, one will eat anything and one is following the paleo diet. I’m completely lost as to what to serve. I want to accommodate everybody but can’t […]
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Worst Facebook Share Ever?
Hey McGuinty! My 26-year-old son is handsome, brilliant, funny and soon to be a doctoral in clinical psychology. He has a great relationship with his ex, who is Cuban. They dog sit for each other, have lots of common friends, and when he’s sick she drops off Sprite and chicken soup. His current girlfriend says […]
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Love, Cell Phones and Facebook
Dear Jess, I fell in love with someone, and he’s now falling in love with someone else. It’s killing me. We dated for a couple years, casually at first, then by the second year pretty seriously. But we have different ideas of what we want for the future when it comes to kids and where […]