NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Coronavirus dampens St. Patrick’s celebrations in Fort Bragg
The town was quiet on what is usually a big party night. The post Coronavirus dampens St. Patrick’s celebrations in Fort Bragg appeared first on The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA.
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Paul Bunyan Days celebrates 80 years in Fort Bragg (photos)
Photos from the Labor Day Parade. The post Paul Bunyan Days celebrates 80 years in Fort Bragg (photos) appeared first on The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA.
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Fireworks and parades: Independence Day around Mendocino County
Photos and videos from Willits, Mendocino, and Point Arena. The post Fireworks and parades: Independence Day around Mendocino County appeared first on The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA.
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Coastal Commission sets stage for redevelopment of Georgia Pacific mill site
The City of Fort Bragg has a plan, and the Skunk Train has made an offer. The post Coastal Commission sets stage for redevelopment of Georgia Pacific mill site appeared first on The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA.
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Paul Bunyan Days and more happening in Fort Bragg this weekend (photos)
Check out some of the fun things going on this weekend. The post Paul Bunyan Days and more happening in Fort Bragg this weekend (photos) appeared first on The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA.
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Food bank community is family
Many tourists dream of moving to the Mendocino Coast. Only a few are willing to put in the effort it takes to move to a place with spectacular natural beauty and no real economic base. Phil McLaren was one of those willing to do the work needed to make the big move. I met him…
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Food Bank upgrades diet rather than tech
As we count the hours to Christmas, Food Bank clients are gathering the biggest meal of the year at the North Franklin nonprofit. A joint goal of Season of Sharing and the Food Bank is that everyone can enjoy the great American Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. The staff is enjoying the gift of giving away…
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Volunteering is a many-faceted benefit
I arrived at the Fort Bragg Food Bank seeking a volunteer willing to lend his or her name to Season of Sharing. Lots of people still don’t want their name used in the paper as needing food. We have used the Season of Sharing over the past few years to try to dispel such misconceptions…
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Born with a desire to help, and cook
As a frightened high school girl in wartime Japan, Yukie Holland developed a talent for rescuing food. “When I would go to school, on the way back home I would be passing by the farm houses. I would ask, ‘can I have a few potatoes’? Sometimes they would just give some food to me or…
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Reaching out is part of Food Bank’s role
On this Thanksgiving in the Season of Sharing we will meet some of the very inspiring senior citizens and disabled people I met while going along on the food deliveries for shut-ins provided by the Fort Bragg Food Bank. They all found something to be thankful for, despite having very, very little. They all gave…
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Food Bank empowers working poor
When I am in my 70s, I hope I don’t have to go to work at 4:30 a.m. like Dora Ohlson. Ohlson is one of Noyo Harbor’s most veteran sea urchin processors. She gives me a big smile and a nice greeting every time I see her, about once a week at the Fort Bragg…
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Food Bank credo: nothing gets wasted
Saying that nothing gets wasted at the Fort Bragg Food Bank is an understatement. The Food Bank has become a hub of reuse and freecycling of just about everything. There have been giveaways of beds, Christmas trees and furniture. Cardboard is recycled. Empty boxes are protected and given back to the shipper. Every day, free…
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Food Bank looks for ways to spread people’s generosity past the holidays
For some, the Fort Bragg Food Bank helps people along their way to the American Dream. It’s a different American Dream than we see on television or the one that still seemed within reach when I was a kid in the 1970s. Marianna Sallinen, a student in the Certified Nursing Assistant training program working at…
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Pets are often a doorway to friendship
Thanks to society and its silly stigmas, I face resistance getting people to give their names for my articles on the Fort Bragg Food Bank. But I do have a trick that so far has worked every time: “Can I take a photo of your dog for my Season of Sharing Series?” “Yes!” Then, I…
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From okra to turkey, holidays hopping at FB
Isabella Camacho screamed and hid behind her mom when she first saw me. This fright made sense. Anybody who has seen me knows I’m two to three times the size of an average person and about a hundred times bigger than two-year-old Camacho. I’m gigantic and rumpled. She is tiny and neat. Yikes! After about…
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Food Bank finds ways to pinch pennies
Jim Shipp was just the kind of guy I was looking for to inform my story on how the Fort Bragg Food Bank spends its money. In the years since I met Shipp while I was working at Parents and Friends, I’ve known him to be able to take as objective a view as possible…
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Food Bank counters fear with giving
Among holiday clichés, a reporter asking the question “what are you thankful for?” is as classic as a retread can be. I used it anyway on Terri Lee Gentry, who smiled and laughed at my quintessential question. Gentry arrived that day at the Fort Bragg Food Bank frowning in a melancholy funk but left laughing.…
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Stories of giving and how it spreads joy
Every year for nearly a decade, I have written seven or eight articles profiling the food, the people and the spending of the Fort Bragg Food Bank as part of our newspaper’s annual Season of Sharing effort. We always find a lot of interesting tales, from generous volunteers to inspiring clients to the sad death…
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Rainforest Alliance
Locals questioned The Rain Forest Alliance at a Aug. 25 Caspar public meeting about whether the non-profit was part of “self certifying greenwashing.” The RFA was in town as part of its process of a green recertification to Mendocino Redwood Company. Audits happen every year. MRC has passed the last 14 audits. Every five years,…
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Dredging OKd, contractor needed
The Noyo Harbor District, with the help of their SHN Consulting Engineers and Geologists, has finally navigated the regulatory maze needed to get permission to dredge its mooring basin this fall. District Manager Jere Kleinbach told commissioners last week that was the good news. The bad news is that bidding closed last week with only…
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