NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Honking good holiday season for Food Bank
When the arrival of 100 frozen geese surprised the Fort Bragg Food Bank just before Christmas, Executive Director Nancy Severy wasn”t sure how well they would be received for the traditional Christmas dinner. Odd items that end up as leftovers in the larder are some of the concerns the Food Bank deals with. The Food…
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Coast rich in food aid, but programs are underutilized
Four-year-old Lilly Simili smiled widely when she heard her picture might get into the newspaper while partaking of Coast Christian Center”s bag lunch in the park program. Her mom wasn”t keen on the idea, but gave permission when Lilly made it clear that she really wanted her picture taken for possible publication for the first…
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2005 saw first national decline in hunger” since 1990s
Although hunger had been a steadily worsening problem in America in the 21st century, there was some good statistical news released in late 2006 about last year. In each of the first five years of the Bush Administration, the number of “hungry” Americans surged, a record-setting run for number of years and total hungry people…
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37-year-old Food Bank needs more storage space
Santa may need a bigger sled to bring the Food Bank the item at the top of their holiday donation list — a sled big enough for a storage shed. Food Bank CEO Nancy Severy hopes a local builder or handyperson will catch the holiday spirit and step forward to help with this request to…
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Large donation will greatly benefit Food Bank
Harvest Market owner Tom Honer has a great lead on the identity of Santa, but he isn”t telling. Last week, a man walked into Harvest and gave Honer a check for $10,000. The philanthropist asked that the money be used at Harvest Market by the Fort Bragg Food Bank. He came to Honer because he…
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Democrats honor Sen. Wes Chesbro
In the 1970s, a young bicyclist named Wes Chesbro paused to look over a spectacular bluff where Highway 1 descends to the Navarro River. Chesbro was riding from the Oregon border to the Golden Gate Bridge as part of a coastal preservation initiative of the time and he never forgot that spot. Last Thursday, State…
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New face leads Food Bank effort this holiday season
New Fort Bragg Food Bank Executive Director Nancy Severy has high praise for the other staff members who put the flavor into the Food Bank. The staff includes Jean Jones (volunteer/client coordinator), Richard Moore (warehouseman), James Masterson (driver) and Bob Beck (warehouseman). “Jean Jones is the friendly face of the Food Bank. She greets and…
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Crowd celebrates Dialysis Clinic opening
After 16 years of making the grueling drive between Fort Bragg and a Ukiah dialysis clinic, Don Myers can finally put away his chainsaw. “It was like the Postal Service, rain or shine, landslide or no, we had to go,” said Myers, after the exuberant grand opening ceremonies for the Fort Bragg Dialysis Clinic on…
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Volunteers get it done at the Food Bank
Food Bank volunteer Nancy Milano sees the free food program as an important security net for the many Mendocino Coast residents living on the edge. The number of hungry people seeking help this holiday season is up 17 percent, according to Executive Director Nancy Severy. “The veneer in this society that separates the haves” from…
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Season of Sharing picks up pace in donations, assistance
As the loaves of French bread, the frosted bakery cinnamon rolls and the boxes of bright red tomatoes were set up at the Fort Bragg Food Bank Monday, many stomachs were growling at the feast. And the program”s clients hadn”t even arrived yet. Volunteers were proud and tempted by the quality of the donated food…
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Democracy Now”s” Amy Goodman speaks at Cotton
Amy Goodman doesn”t often praise corporate news media for “doing the right thing,” but those were the words of the prominent progressive during a Saturday night visit to Cotton Auditorium while describing coverage of the Katrina disaster. Goodman, host of the syndicated radio and television news program “Democracy Now!,” first told how President Bush and…
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Noyo Food Forest breaks ground at high school
In the ruins of Fort Bragg High”s once proud agriculture program, an enthusiastic new group put down roots on Sunday, or at least they planted some garlic and a green delicious apple tree. Noyo Food Forest, a group started by five young women who love to garden and want to share their enthusiasm for spray-free,…
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Speakers explain anti-Iraq war Measure Y
A crowd of less than 25 people came Friday night to a Fort Bragg Town Hall forum on Mendocino County”s Measure Y, which would call for an immediate return of troops from Iraq. By the time a five-person panel took the stage just a dozen people remained. Those involved gave a variety of suggestions as…
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Clothesline project displays emotion
Project Sanctuary aired the coast”s dirty laundry on its front lawn on Franklin Street in Fort Bragg earlier this month, an act intended to both awaken the community and celebrate victims” ability to finally speak out. Clotheslines jammed full of colorful T-shirts with provocative messages covered the front landscaping and the inside of the office…
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Habitat homeowners attend fund-raiser dinner
Irene Graeta had to search for just the right word in English to describe the thrill of getting a Habitat for Humanity home. “I feel very good about Habitat. It is too much. I like it too much. Muy Bueno,” she said as she labored over a hot stove at the Oct. 7 Habitat for…
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Love Canal activist speaks in Caspar
Lois Gibbs, the suburban housewife who turned activist in the 1970s over Love Canal wastes that poisoned her family”s home in New York, told a Caspar Community Center crowd on Sunday that she was amazed that areas of the Georgia Pacific mill site found to contain dioxin are not covered. “It is just unbelievable that…
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Abundance Fest feeds hundreds in Caspar
Hundreds feasted and took workshops on cooking and local food all day Saturday at the Local Abundance Festival in Caspar. But for Marty Johnson, one of the organizers of the “C”mon Home to Eat” event for Coast Economic Localization Link (CELL), the highlight of the day wasn”t the silky Sea Palm Struedel from Ravens Restaurant…
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City Council candidates square off
Although Judy Williams said she voted for City Councilman Dan Gjerde in his first council race, any common ground was long gone Friday night at a Fort Bragg City Council candidates forum at Town Hall. Exchanges between Gjerde and Williams brought out strikingly different views among five candidates on hand about issues ranging from corporate…
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Fans toast Tallman and his favorite mollusk
To the average Mendocino Coast diver, a 10-inch abalone can be the find of a lifetime. But at Saturday”s Mendocino Area Parks Association cook-off in Caspar, seemingly every cook and even the Department of Fish and Game had the shell of at least one such monstrous mollusk on display. Some cooks were willing to share…
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Seniors give their views at AAA meeting
Wilma Gromer, like hundreds of local senior citizens, relishes the meals at the Redwood Coast Senior Center in Fort Bragg. She told a special gathering of the Lake and Mendocino Area Agency on Aging (AAA) last Wednesday in the lunchroom, that the regular and varied meals and the advance availability of what is on the…
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