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When you have questions relating to COVID-19, name the County Public Well being Workplace at 707-472-2759. To contact the Metropolis of Fort Bragg, name 707-961-2823. All Fort Bragg residents could contact the Fort Bragg Police Division at 707-964-0200 and employees will direct you to the suitable company.
Medicare HICAP in March
March appointment dates for The Medicare Well being Insurance coverage Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) can be found on March 11 and 25. HICAP will present free and unbiased counseling, training and advocacy to all Medicare beneficiaries through a cellphone counseling session. all 1-800-434-0222 (Senior Advocacy Providers) to arrange an appointment.
Coast Girls in Enterprise
Coast Girls in Enterprise presents “How one can Use Podcasting to Market Your Enterprise, Inventive Work, or a Good Trigger” on Thursday, March 11, 8 to 9:30 a.m. Free through Zoom – register at https://bit.ly/3jYnIeu. Dialogue subjects embody how podcasting advantages a small to mid-sized enterprise, affiliation, and/or nonprofit, the best way to podcast and what gear to make use of or purchase, the best way to market your podcast and get listeners, and the best way to do efficient podcast interviews. Presenters embody Steve Lubetkin (State Broadcast Information), Debbie Weil (The Hole 12 months podcast), Vicki Hammarstedt (Berkeley Superior Media Institute, UC Berkeley), and Doug Nunn (SnapSessions! podcast). Extra data.: go to https://coastwomeninbusiness.com/.
Corned Beef Dinner
St. Patrick’s day is coming and Our Girl of Good Counsel in Fort Bragg has a Corned Beef dinner for you. Place your order and drive as much as get corned beef with roasted greens and mustard sauce on the aspect and a Guinness brownie for dessert, prompt worth per dinner, $25. To order your dinner, name Julia at 707-357-1287 or the Parish workplace at 707-964-0229,or e mail to olgcinfb@gmail.com. Orders could also be picked up on the parish corridor on Saturday, March 13 from 1 pm to 4 p.m.
Pupil Historical past Slam
Calling all center and highschool college students to the Mendocino County Museum’s First Annual Pupil Historical past Slam! Create a brief movie, preform a play, make a presentation, or write an essay on a Mendocino County Historical past subject. Proposal submissions are due by Monday, March 15. For extra particulars and sources that can assist you get began go to History Slam.
Digital Environmental Companions Award Ceremony
The Digital Mendocino Environmental Companions Award Ceremony might be held Monday, March 15, from 7 to eight p.m. Particular visitor might be Terra Fuller, Senior Specialist Environmental Scientist, California State Parks Sonoma-Mendocino District. Assist have fun the tenth annual Matt Coleman Environmental Service Award recipients: Katherine Gabrielson, Steve Jahelka and Nicholle Kohls. To register and for extra info, e mail elizabeth@mendoparks.org.
Finish-of-Life Documentation and Making Issues Simpler to your Trustee
Fiduciary, Maggie Watson, is providing a web-based zoom presentation via Redwood Coast Senior Heart on Tuesday, March 16 at 1 p.m. Few of us need to take into account end-of-life issues – in any case, we’re too busy dwelling. Gathering, organizing and speaking about your plans for the longer term now’s a present to your family members in addition to providing you peace of thoughts.
The presentation is concerning the significance of gathering crucial info from our lives that our trustee or executor might want to know. Methods to make it simpler for these folks might be addressed. Maggie has administered over 15 estates and brings this expertise into this seminar.
Please contact Redwood Coast Senior Heart to register at 707-961-4310 or e mail eldercare@rcscenter.org. It is a free occasion.
Spring Cleansing Clothes Giveaway
Secure Passage Household Useful resource Heart is holding a Spring Cleansing Clothes Giveaway on Tuesday, March 16, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., on the car parking zone behind Secure Passage, 325 E. Redwood Ave., Fort Bragg. They’ve loads of clothes of many alternative sizes, in addition to child garments and provides, together with many different nice gadgets. For extra info, name Secure Passage at 707-961-1100.
Mendocino Coast Clinic Crab Cook dinner-Alongside on March 20
Lastly! It’s time for the Mendocino Coast Clinic Crab Cook dinner-Alongside on Saturday, March 20 streaming Dwell from the Little River Inn. To affix within the enjoyable, buy your bundle constructed for 2 to Cook dinner-Together with profitable cooks. You’ll get a hyperlink to hitch the present and a field of made in Mendocino goodies, together with Dungeness Crab, A Candy Affair macarons, Herman’s Hemp chocolate, Thanksgiving Espresso, Crab Cake recipe playing cards and your personal Crab Apron. On-line gross sales are open till Wednesday, March 10. To order your bundle, buy Crab gear or donate to MCC, go to mccinc.ejoinme.org/supportmcc. Your Crab Bundle will ship on Monday, March 15 ~ to reach in time so that you can take part on Saturday, March 20.
Scavenger Hunt
Please be part of the Noyo Heart for Marine Science for a Scavenger Hunt alongside the Mendocino Coast via March 21. This occasion might be completed at your leisure and can get everybody outdoors to numerous parks alongside the Mendocino Coast and study extra about our pure world, with a concentrate on whales. Prizes obtainable! Sport packet might be emailed to you after registration at wwwnoyocenter.org.
Stroll the Self-Guided Whale Path Saturdays
The most effective whale-watching spots on the Mendocino Coast is the Level Cabrillo Mild Station State Historic Park. Each Saturday from March 20 via April 24, Level Cabrillo Mild Station docents might be stationed alongside the bluffs, mentioning the grey whales that cross our shoreline, and answering questions from their guests. These volunteers might be outdoors the lighthouse from 11 a.m. to three p.m. on the times talked about above. They are going to be socially distanced, and naturally sporting a masks. They ask the identical of their guests! Masks are required at any time you can not preserve a six-foot distance from others, and any time you communicate with a docent. For extra info, name 707-937-6123 or go to pointcabrillo.org.
Secure Passage presents Optimistic Parenting Program
Secure Passage Household Useful resource Heart might be providing a Triple P: Optimistic Parenting Program on Mondays via April 19, 4:30-6:30 p.m., through Zoom. The trainer is Cecilia Roy. Be part of different mother and father and caregivers to find optimistic options to frequent and never so frequent, little one habits issues. Secure Passage’s instructors are there to information and help these fighting little one habits and on the lookout for methods to ease parenting stress. For extra info, contact Secure Passage at 707-961-1100 or e mail elena@safepassagefb.org.
Housing Motion Staff (HAT)
Assist is out there for folks struggling to pay their lease or mortgage. The Housing Motion Staff – North Mendocino Coast (HAT) has created an inventory in English and Spanish of presidency and neighborhood applications that may complement misplaced pay, assist with utility payments, present safety from eviction and liberate earnings to spend on housing by saving on meals and diet. HAT is distributing small playing cards and utilizing social media to let the general public know they will view or obtain the record of applications and sources by going to HAT’S web site www.HATMendoCoast.org. HAT might be updating the data when applications change. HAT is asking individuals who use the record to e mail their suggestions and ideas to HATMendoCoast@gmail.com.
HAT is aware of that the shortage of inexpensive housing, coupled with the COVID pandemic, is affecting a good portion of our neighborhood. Many are discovering they need assistance for the primary time of their lives. And it’s difficult to study what’s obtainable, should you qualify and the best way to apply. Their objective is to assist households preserve a roof over their heads throughout these attempting instances.
HAT is a neighborhood group that works to realize a simple-to-understand however hard-to-realize objective: guarantee first rate housing is out there to each north coast resident. HAT’s ongoing work is with native organizations and metropolis/county representatives to deal with the intense and power challenges going through the area’s renters by including extra completely inexpensive properties. If you’re considering becoming a member of, please contact them at HATMendoCoast@gmail.com.
Free Supportive Phone Counseling
Redwood Coast Senior Heart presents Senior Peer counselors who present weekly phone counseling to different seniors. This free program makes use of the abilities and life expertise of seniors to supply emotional assist and encouragement to their friends.
Seniors can join with somebody their age who has skilled related life modifications. These modifications might be disturbing and convey emotions of melancholy, nervousness, grief and loss. Speaking to a Senior Peer Counselor can carry emotional assist and help in making targets that may higher ones life. This program might be life altering! For additional info, name the Senior Heart at 707-961-4310.
Youngsters Exercise Kits
Mendo Parks has free park exercise kits you may obtain. The Yard Jr Ranger Kits are good for youthful youngsters, full of video games and nature-based studying actions. The Park Journey Coast Kits (obtainable in English and Spanish) are nice for household actions at our 17 State Parks in Mendocino County and have a park exercise key, instructional actions and video games, well being and wellness prompts, and extra. Mendo Parks is a nonprofit group that helps State Parks in Mendocino County with instructional actions, park enhancements, and customer heart companies. Your donations and volunteer companies make a distinction for State Parks in Mendocino County. For extra info, go to mendoparks.org/education-programs.
Youngsters Luggage obtainable Monday via Friday
Fort Bragg Meals Financial institution households can get one Youngsters Bag per week, they’re obtainable Monday via Friday throughout curbside pickup, from midday to three p.m. The Fort Bragg Meals Financial institution thanks their Youngsters Bag sponsors Mendocino Coast Kids’s Fund and J. G. Cummings Basis. The Fort Bragg Meals Financial institution is positioned at 910 N. Franklin St., Fort Bragg.
Celebrating Bushes
Fort Bragg Backyard Membership celebrates Arbor Week (April), an annual appreciation of timber by asking, “Is there a tree in your neighborhood that’s notably stunning or distinctive?” Submit a photograph of that tree to data@fbgardenclub.com and so they’ll put up it on the Backyard Membership web site. Inform them what sort of tree it’s, the place it’s positioned, and what makes it particular to you. Adults, kids, teenagers, and guests are all inspired to participate. Not a photographer? Drawings or work of native timber, in addition to poetry, are additionally welcome to be part of this assortment of “Distinctive Bushes of Fort Bragg. . . and Past.”
Go browsing for MCBG tickets
Do you know that the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens is open? Get your tickets on-line at MCBG Admission. The Gardens are open each day from 10a.m. to five p.m. For membership and different info, name 707-964-4352 or go to gardenbythesea.org.
Keep apprised of the most recent info on the virus
To remain apprised of the most recent info on the virus, observe the Heart for Illness Management (CDC) pointers for stopping the unfold of the illness. Their web site is cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov. To remain knowledgeable of developments in Mendocino County, observe the updates at mendocinocounty.org.
COVID-19 Reduction Fund
For those who or somebody you already know wants meals or primary provides, native organizations are poised to assist, due to The Neighborhood Basis of Mendocino County’s new COVID-19 Reduction Fund. For extra info, go to communityfound.org.
Chamber of Commerce posts sources
The Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce posts sources to assist native companies throughout this troublesome and unprecedented disaster. For extra info, go to mendocinocoast.com. Though their workplace is closed, their employees is working from residence and obtainable through cellphone at 707-961-6300 and e mail at chamber@mcn.org. The Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce web site is: mendocinocoast.com.
Coronavirus info for colleges and households
Mendocino County training leaders are in continued shut contact with the County Division of Well being and Human Providers to acquire essentially the most present steering and knowledge associated to the COVID-19 coronavirus. For extra info, go to www.mcoe.us/.
Please observe mandated public well being precautions: Keep six-foot social distancing, put on your masks, use hand sanitizer and/or wash your arms, put on gloves when requested.
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