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California’s Still Battling Its Worst Wildfire Ever. Here’s How to Help

Oregon fire crews now working on the blaze near Chico
Chris Miller

At last estimate, the three wildfires burning in California had killed 42 people, with 200 still missing. Fires have burned nearly 200,000 acres and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Paradise, Calif. and Chico, and also around Malibu. Last Sunday, the Oregon Department of Forestry deployed two strike teams to help battle the Camp […]

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TRACEs Central Oregon

Nonprofit partners with organizations to help Central Oregonians thrive
Chris Miller

TRACEs (trauma, resiliency and adverse childhood experiences) Central Oregon partners with other nonprofits to help adults and children in the area thrive. According to Katie McClure, director of TRACEs, in the fall of 2016 a group of organizations commissioned a review of what other communities were doing to address adverse childhood experiences. What they found […]

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By the Books

Social worker connects library patrons with resources
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

Libraries have always been home to me. The fact that a giant building filled with stories, fictional and otherwise, is there, ready to be taken home at zero cost, has always struck me as something downright beautiful. Because libraries are also comfortable and warm places, they can also bring folks who have nowhere else to […]

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