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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Hatchery fish are key to salmon survival
Kori Roberts has a seasonal job that might sound like a horror movie script. She collects heads in Noyo Harbor…
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Lions, pets a bad mix in Inglenook
Dave Paoli hopes the mountain lion that attacked family dogs twice recently on his Inglenook place never comes back. But…
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Crash trial delayed
An infant injured in a bizarre tourist homicide case in Fort Bragg last year appears to still be suffering from…
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Another whale stranded; search for causes of death continues
The bad news literally continues to pile up about marine mammals in 2015. More than a dozen whales have washed…
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Salmon season: next year’s options revealed
Seasons aren’t final yet but Fort Bragg fishermen should have lots of chances to catch salmon this summer and fall,…
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Hearts and hands needed to save Salmon BBQ
Help! We need volunteers for the World’s Largest Salmon Barbecue to survive. This is now and for real. Funny story.…
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Charges dropped against shooter
Jesse Van Wormer’s beloved hunting dog, a Queensland heeler cross, will no longer sleep in her large doghouse. She sleeps…
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Food Bank full of breathing reasons to give
Driving into my parking lot, I waved at Yuki Holand from the Food Bank. I thought “she was a great…
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