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Insurance Ho!

Some get ecstatic about dance, I am enraptured today about insurance. For the first time in 5 years, I was…

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New Vision for Jackson State Forest

Cal Fire hopes a “New Vision” for Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) can break a literal log jam and win…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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