The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s Volunteer Kick Off will be held on Tuesday, March 24 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the College of the Redwoods Foundation office at 527 D St., Eureka. Whether you have one hour a month or five, the Alzheimer’s Association will have something that will fit your schedule. The […]
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Wanted: Alternates for Humboldt’s Civil Grand Jury
The Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury is still searching for alternates who can serve on this year’s panel, if needed, to carry on a civil oversight tradition that dates back to the Magna Carta. According to a news release from the Humboldt County Superior Court, which appoints a group of residents each year to act […]
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Councilmember, Firefighter, Volunteer Mel Berti dies at 84
Mel Berti, a born and raised Fortunan who dedicated much of his life to the betterment of the Friendly City, compiling a decades-long record of public service in the process, died July 22. He was 84. Known equally as the longtime and beloved butcher at Hoby’s Market in Scotia, the 28-year Fortuna council member, the […]
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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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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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‘Move the Decimal Point’
It was the day after Christmas in 2008 and Robert Lohn was headed to Gottschalks at the Bayshore Mall to return his grandsons’ presents, a pair of remote control helicopters he’d bought for $130. “I wanted to play with them, that’s why I bought them. They didn’t have toys like that when I was growing […]
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Pay it Forward
Like most of Humboldt County and much of the nation, we witnessed with a growing sense of dread last weekend as the story of two young sisters missing from Benbow stretched on, hour by hour. We at the Journal witnessed as a hastily assembled press conference at 10:30 a.m. on March 2 was delayed due […]
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Localize Your Impact
Forty years ago, a young couple lobbed a rock of altruism and hope into the middle of the pond that is Humboldt County. Decades later, the ripples from Joe Abbott and Ann Morrissey’s actions in 1977 continue to reverberate, having grown into something beyond their wildest youthful imaginations. They started small. In this week’s cover […]
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A Country to Call Home
It’s 8 a.m. in Ioannina, (pronounced Ee-Yah-neena) a college town of about 100,000 people that dates back to the 6th century in the Epirus region of Northwestern Greece. The town is situated next to picturesque Lake Pamvotis with the snowcapped Pindhos mountains as its backdrop and a centuries-old Byzantine Castle perched on its western shore. Ioannina […]
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Still Itching to Clean Some Place Up?
Maybe you didn’t get your fill of trash at this past Saturday’s coastal cleanup. Or maybe you missed out — sad! Never despair, because here is yet another opportunity to be part of the September Good Crew: Volunteer to help clean up Horse Mountain Botanical Area on the Six Rivers National Forest. It’s for National […]
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Gettin’ All the Trash Out
September is when our good citizens’ tidy-cat impulses really kick in and hundreds voluntarily patrol the shores of our rivers, bay, sloughs, marshes and ocean to clean up after those sloppy, ill-behaved “others.” You know, the ones who think it’s perfectly fine to drop their cigarette butts anywherever (if only we could divert street-drain flows […]