Press release from the Humboldt Community Organizations Active in Disaster:
The Humboldt Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) is a partnership of local organizations, government agencies, and community groups committed to disaster preparedness, education, response, and recovery. The Humboldt COAD has hired Alison Sterling Nichols as Coordinator to help establish, launch, and support the COAD network.
Sterling Nichols brings years of project management and community organizing experience to helping coordinate the multi-faceted network needed for community preparedness. “We have so many skilled and capable people in our community who train and prepare to face anything,” Sterling Nichols said. “I am honored to do what I can to help ensure our community is ready for any disaster that we may face.”
A year ago, the Especiales Meals and Catering Facebook page was flush with photos of stacked tamales and rows of enchiladas in foil trays. Co-owner Sherrie Bazan was taking business classes at College of the Redwoods, securing a business license and hunting around for a food truck and a commercial kitchen. And in the meantime, a couple times a month she was cooking up batches of Mexican food at home and selling it through Facebook. It was nothing new for the former head cook at South Bay School District. She had a food handler s certificate and had cooked for fundraisers for her son s football team for years with no problems. Around Christmas, especially, a day s tamale sales might top out around $1,600. Other days she might bring in $500 gross.
Posted By Iridian Casarez on Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 2:45 PM click to enlarge It would be an understatement to say this pandemic has changed our lives, that the Black Lives Matter movement was merely amplified after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, that California witnessed one of the worst wildfire seasons, that this past election was one of the most contested and that the dire consequences from the spread of conspiracy theories at the Capitol on Jan. 6 were shocking. These past 10 months have been extremely stressful, to say the least, and for those who have been feeling it and need someone to talk to, the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral Health Warm Line is there to help.
Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:18 PM click to enlarge Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters California Attorney General Xavier Bacerra
Four local tribes have announced they are vigorously supporting an effort by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to extend third-party monitoring and other provisions of a 2018 court ruling that found the Humboldt County Sheriff s Office and Department of Health and Human Services were not in compliance with the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.
In a joint press release, the tribes pushed back strongly against the county s statement late last month that Becerra s request to continue third-party monitoring of its agencies reflected the state s de
HACHR Executive Director Lasara Firefox Allen | Screenshot from video of Jan. 5 Eureka City Council meeting
After hours of discussion and hearing from dozens of community members during a meeting on Tuesday night, Eureka City Council unanimously adopted a resolution allowing for mobile syringe exchange programs (SEPs) to operate within city limits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The decision, which follows the council’s recent vote to temporarily ban SEPs entirely, amends the city’s local emergency declaration related to the pandemic to temporarily allow for mobile-only exchange, until the council can rewrite and adopt a more permanent syringe ordinance.
Although the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) not subject to city jurisdiction has continued to operate a SEP in Eureka, City Manager Miles Slattery said that the program is strained. “While they have increased to three days and have seen a lot more people, they don’t feel that they’re me