Kim Sallaway: I walked the ridgeline camp after camp of stuff. It is kind of disturbing everything including toilets. Brand new plywood boards and pallets. Theres axes and hatchets. 

The fire itself had a dugout in the ground the size of firewood. What the crew said we’re a skeleton crew vertical terrain.

The security Todd McClure jim’s brother. He’s in escrow on the piece of land next to it. This fire is on county land. he wants to get ahold of a rehabilitate. Because there was a fire he decided to go and look.  Nobody there but the fire people. 

get hold of Todd McClure(?) or someone frustrated with the homeless community to talk to the other side.

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Bambi Lemon. I was born in Arkansas. We came out here a little over a year in May. I came out here with my finance. My mom had just died. Right off the bat we got offers to trim weed. I worked at the Humboldt House for a year. Frank my fiance worked at Cecils. Anywhere we park at night we’re getting hasseled.  We get people doing donuts around our car. One night I was by myself with my daughter.  WE were in a cul de sac they whipped donuts and smoked out our car. A couple times we relocated for the night. We don’t sit on the wall by Rays we associate with some of the homeless but we don’t do the things they get yelled at for. I looked into the shelter they don’t allow dogs I have two dogs that are like my children and a cat. I would have to split my family apart. We’re not married. Even if we were married we might not be allowed.

Two apartments coming up but the waiting list is so long

I love this area and I love this community. Somewhere out where even my friends would have to make an effort to come see.

9 year girl and 14 year old son. 

My son has a couple friends that have apartments he spends the night with or he has a tent that he camps. Sometimes he’ll sleep in the cars with me

I’ve had a roof over my head over my whole life until I came here. I had a camping trailer too old to legally park it. I didn’t want to look like a bum. I couldn’t park no where. Every day we have enough to eat. Me and my fiance hasn’t been getting along because of the stress of living here.  

He’s being classified as a bum. 

Paycheck jobs. It is an easy lifestyle to live and I think thats the problem. Any money you come across is for what you want to do with it. If they go and get a job and get a house then it sucks up all the money. Restful night sleep or a restless night sleep. It is a worrisome life for us now. We got threatened by a sheriff if he found my daughter sleeping in my car again he would take her. My case worker knows I’m homeless. I’m trying

Having to eat the way we have to eat. Premade cant things cool. It is hard to try and save the money we need to get out of this. It is like a black hole that sucks you in. I love the people that I’ve come to know. I love several street people I love the locals.

Going out to Eel River or get food from work. We’re sick of sandwiches. We can’t cook. We have a propane stove. We were by the cemetery and sheriff ran us out of there. I don’t want my animals and my kids taken away from me. Quick and easy meals. It is sad to see how some of the people in town get treated. I don’t know what I do about it. 

Cadilac wok work roughly 20 sometimes a few more sometimes a few less. Welfare to work. They want me to work 30 hours. I asked my boss if I could get 30 hours but apparently she can’t .  I need to get another part time.  30 hours at one job. I never heard back from her. 

I make $8 an hour plus tips I have to split them. I came with $7 today. It was a slow day. I have worked by myself and brought home 35 40 dollars.

He works at Benbow he takes care of the mowing and gardens.

He has only been at his job for only a week. He will be working 40 or more. They give me cash aid and food stamps and the kids have medical. (She does too) 

From what I see they are doing alright. I dont’ see anything that bad. I seen a local screaming back and forth with a homeless on the wall at Ray’s. I don’t understand why they got to scream at each other and cause a big seen. Fire at one of the campsites. It could have been bad. It could be the negligance of some person that just wasn’t thinking. 

I get smiles from everybody. I’m not a problem maker I’m not a trouble maker. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t like me. It is how I present myself. I have some sort of self control. 

I don’t want to live in the street no more. I want to have a shower when I want one. I have a friend that lets us come over showers. We do our laundry regularly.—————————

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