Drumroll please!!! Announcing the District 1 winner of the snowplow naming contest: THE BIG LePLOWSKI.
We received more than 3,000 creative submissions across the state, and one winner was chosen from each district. Winning names with multiple submissions used a random drawing to determine the winner. (We think District 1 has the best name by far. But you know, that’s just, like, our opinion.)
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Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal has proclaimed a Local Emergency as a result of the significant impact of the Fleener Creek/Centerville landslide located west of Ferndale.
This is a clear threat to the safety of Humboldt County residents and will require immediate protective actions to ensure safe routes of travel are retained, and access to hazard areas are limited; these impacts are exhausting and exceeding available county resources.
The Humboldt County Department of Public Works and Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services are actively engaged in exploring options for alternative routes.
A local emergency proclamation is a prerequisite to request state or federal assistance for landslide related response and recovery efforts.
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Dermatologist Dr. Margaret Parsons at her practice, Dermatology Consultants of Sacramento on March 18, 2024. The billing service used by the practice experienced a cyber attack in early February. Five weeks later, they are still having issues with their network. Photo by José Luis Villegas for CalMatters
For a month now Sacramento dermatologist Dr. Margaret Parsons has been unable to submit insurance claims to get paid for services provided.
All of her private practice’s claims go through Change Healthcare, the country’s largest network for insurance billing and the subject of a Feb. 21 cyberattack that has yet to be fully resolved.
Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, processes roughly half of all medical claims nationwide. Four weeks since the cyberattack, some providers in California and elsewhere are still waiting to file claims and get reimbursed. In the meantime, they’re scrambling to pay bills and order medical supplies.
The cybersecurity breach interrupted payments and prescription drugs processing for tens of thousands of hospitals, physician groups, dentists and pharmacies. The American Hospital Association called it “the most significant cyberattack on the U.S. health care system in American history.”
The precise entry point for attackers is unknown but typically ransomware attacks involve someone clicking a malicious link in an email. It showed the vulnerability of the financial infrastructure underpinning the health care system. And, providers are learning, the fallout can be long-lasting.
Parsons’ four-doctor private practice sees about 100 to 125 patients a day. It’s a healthy business, but cash flow is drying up, she said. With electronic billing, she files her claims and is typically reimbursed within two weeks. Her office ran the numbers recently, and she expects her practice will be OK for at least a couple of weeks.
But it’s been a stressful month, she said. Until recently she was considering filing insurance claims the old-school way, through paper. She opted to wait that out because paper claims take twice as long and are more prone to data entry errors, she said. At one point she also questioned whether she’d need to borrow money to pay rent and her staff.
“You calculate the bank balance, the weekly bills, the payroll, and you start counting hard. You look at your line of credit and you decide if you’re calling your bank,” she said.
She said she recently got some peace of mind after her office contracted with an alternate insurance claims system, which she expects to be up soon. She also has applied to access advanced payments from Medicare via a temporary program set up to grant providers some relief. Medicare is the federal public insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities. That option gives her some breathing room and she’s optimistic that she will soon be able to submit claims again.
“At this point we’re hopeful for next week,” she said.
“You calculate the bank balance, the weekly bills, the payroll, and you start counting hard. You look at your line of credit and you decide if you’re calling your bank.” — Dr. Margaret Parsons, dermatologist, Dermatology Consultants of Sacramento
Change Healthcare carries out more than 100 health care system operations functions including payments and prescription drug processing.
On Monday, Change Healthcare said it plans to restore claims processing for thousands of physicians in the coming days, but like Parsons, some were still unable to process claims as of Tuesday.
“On March 15, the company restored Change Healthcare’s electronic payments platform and is proceeding with payer implementations,” the company said in an update shared with CalMatters. “On March 7, the company restored 99% of Change Healthcare pharmacy network services, and continues to work on remaining issues.”
Lingering cyberattack fallout
Dr. Abid Mogannam, a vascular surgeon who serves patients in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, said about 30% of his claims go through Change Healthcare. Mogannam said that means 30% of his practice’s pay will be delayed.
“It’s significant for us. If you happen to be the unlucky practice that contracts exclusively with payers that are affected by this, you may be having to make difficult decisions like closure, bankruptcy, closing offices temporarily and limiting access to patients,” he said.
This new financial pressure, he said, came on top of rising costs due to inflation and just as small practices are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s been a trying couple of years,” Mogannam said. Now with the Change Healthcare situation, “We won’t be made whole for months,” he said.
Last week, the California Department of Managed Health Care urged health insurance plans to accept paper claims and remove or relax claim filing timeline requirements. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance that Medicare providers should relax or remove claim filing requirements and encouraged state Medicaid providers to do the same, then the agency started extending loans to Medicare providers.
“The disruption caused by this unprecedented cyber assault jeopardizes the very existence of many practices, especially smaller ones and those serving rural and underserved communities,” said California Medical Association president Tanya Spirtos in a blog post. “This is an urgent crisis that requires immediate action.”
Payment to hacker group
As health care providers scramble to pay salary and order medical supplies, the perpetrators of the attack remain at large. Following a Bitcoin payment worth an estimated $22 million, the ALPHV/Blackcat hacker group that claimed responsibility for the attack cheated co-conspirators and allegedly disbanded days later.
ALPHV/Blackcat is a multinational gang that emerged in 2021 and is maker of the second most prolific strain of ransomware-as-a-service in the world. Since 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes more than 1,000 entities in the U.S. from municipal governments and critical infrastructure providers have fallen victim to ransomware attacks.
A vulnerability that emerged in late 2023 is disproportionately impacting the health care industry, according to a cybersecurity advisory released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services. An investigation is underway and more specifics about the vulnerability have not been revealed.
Law enforcement agencies from the U.S. as well as Australia, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom took part in a joint campaign to disrupt ALPHV/Blackcat activity in December 2023.
In an advisory issued less than a week before the Change Healthcare attack, the U.S. government promised rewards up to $15 million for information leading to conviction of members of the ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware gang.
“The disruption caused by this unprecedented cyber assault jeopardizes the very existence of many practices, especially smaller ones and those serving rural and underserved communities.” — Tanya Spirtos, president, California Medical Association
The attack on Change Healthcare has hit home especially hard for Riaz Lakhani. Lakhani runs cybersecurity for the Campbell-based firm Barracuda Networks said his wife has a dentistry practice. He said they have considered dipping into personal savings to keep her dentistry practice solvent.
Riaz says the attack demonstrates that a single point of failure or large billing company like Change Healthcare is an attractive incentive for attackers interested in getting their hands on a massive amount of data.
He said the incident brings to question whether Change Healthcare had an adequate disaster recovery program and whether hackers will attempt to sell data obtained during the attack on the dark web where health care data, where “health care data is just worth more.”
It’s also unclear if the 2022 acquisition of Change Healthcare by UnitedHealth Group introduced vulnerabilities, or whether hackers will attempt to sell data obtained from the attack, Riaz said. Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into whether a breach of protected health information occurred or violation of federal health care privacy law.
Cyber attacks on hospitals, schools
When the attack is over, there’s going to be a lot of retrospective thinking about how the largest cyber attack on the health care system in U.S. history could have been prevented, said Amy Chang, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute and former head of cybersecurity operations at JP Morgan based in San Francisco. The attack illustrates the appeal of targeting public-facing institutions like schools, local governments, and hospitals: They make prime targets because they tend to have relatively limited cybersecurity budgets and they provide essential services. Cybersecurity experts refer to them as target rich, resource poor.
The Change Healthcare attack also shows the consequences of consolidating key technologies with a handful of corporations. The attack is similar to the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack of 2021, which shut down multiple gas pipelines and triggered fuel shortages along the east coast of the United States.
“You’re seeing the same kind of cascading effects, if not even more due to this entity that you probably had never even heard of before it actually occurred having these far-reaching ramifications that especially in the healthcare setting end up truly putting lives at risk,” Chang said.
Parsons, the Sacramento dermatologist, says that while her practice will have to run a tight budget until she can start billing again, she worries more for colleagues that practice a more expensive type of medicine, like oncology.
“We will be OK,” she said. “But when you think about the other types of practices that are being affected, it’s very real.”
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Celina Chapin, associate director of policy and activism at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, answers questions from people attending a clinic on how to clear their criminal records at the New Beginnings Fellowship in South Sacramento on March 9, 2024. Photo by José Luis Villegas for CalMatters.
It has been 13 years since Nick C. sat in an Alameda County jail at the age of 24, facing decades in prison and the prospect of never seeing his kids again.
He looks back on it as a turning point: Years in juvenile detention and a young adulthood spent dealing drugs culminated in a “bar fight gone sideways.” Charged with attempted murder, he pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon, according to court records.
In the following years, he took anger management classes, earned a GED and worked as a dishwasher after a higher-paying maintenance job offer fell through when his background check turned up with a violent felony, he said. Then an electricians’ union gave him an apprenticeship without caring about his record. Now he works nights, has his kids back and recently bought a house with his wife.
The final step Nick wants to take is to clear his record, the 37-year-old said on a recent Saturday morning, standing in line inside a south Sacramento church with nearly 200 fellow Californians with felony convictions.
He was waiting for a notary to scan his fingerprints, which would generate a record of his California arrests and convictions for a nonprofit attorney to review. He said he’s stayed out of trouble since the assault, which would likely make him eligible under a recent law to ask a judge to dismiss the case and seal it from public view. His record blocks him from certain job sites, such as government construction projects, he said, so he hopes an expungement would open more professional doors.
“It’s to show my kids that my past is my past, and that’s where it’s going to stay,” said Nick, who wanted to be identified only by his first name to avoid jeopardizing job opportunities if the expungement is successful.
Volunteer Andrea Bernal helps Nick C. with paperwork at an expungement clinic at the New Beginnings Fellowship in South Sacramento on March 9, 2024. Photo by José Luis Villegas for CalMatters
California has allowed expungements of misdemeanors and some lower-level felonies, but not crimes that would be serious enough to send the offender to prison.
That’s no longer the case: Under Senate Bill 731, which went into effect in mid-2023, Californians with most kinds of felony convictions, including violent crimes, can ask for their records to be cleared. Sex offenses are the primary exception. To be eligible, applicants must have fully served their sentences, including probation, and gone two years without being re-arrested.
Passed in 2022 mostly along party lines, the law came after years of efforts to reduce the burdens that a criminal record still places on Californians’ job and housing opportunities. It was among the broadest expungement laws in the nation, including about one million residents with felony convictions, said Californians for Safety and Justice, the advocacy group that sponsored the bill.
The law goes even further, directing the state Department of Justice to automatically seal from public view non-serious, nonviolent and non-sexual felony convictions when the defendant has completed their sentence and not been convicted of another crime in four years. That provision was supposed to begin last year, but lawmakers agreed to delay it until this July.
In the meantime, those hoping to get their convictions cleared are turning to the courts, just as the public and some Democratic leaders have taken a tougher stance on crime. Applicants have since last year filed a trickle of expungement requests with the help of legal aid attorneys, public defenders and nonprofits such as the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which provides prison re-entry services and offered the free fingerprinting in Sacramento this month.
“They served their time, and they’ve done their own internal work and diligence to come out the other side,” Elizabeth Tüzer, the coalition’s expungement legal project manager, said of her clients. “It doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a job, or be able to survive or have housing.”
For these requests, judges have the ultimate say, and can consider evidence of rehabilitation as well as any opposition from prosecutors.
It’s not clear how many of these felony expungements have been granted. The state Judicial Council isn’t specifically tracking it, and most of the superior courts in the state’s largest dozen counties could not immediately distinguish them from other cleared cases. Since mid-2023, there have been 26 felony expungements in Sacramento County, 72 in Kern County and 48 in Riverside County, according to court spokespersons.
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition has helped clients file nearly 200 requests statewide, Tüzer said, with about half granted so far.
Lisa Duffy scans fingerprints at an expungement clinic at the New Beginnings Fellowship in South Sacramento on March 9, 2024. Photo by José Luis Villegas for CalMatters
The expungements, which state law calls “records relief,” don’t erase the cases entirely.
The records will still be kept by the state justice department, which will share them with other government agencies, police and prosecutors if an ex-offender is arrested again, or with the state Department of Education if the ex-offender applies for a school job. Under the law, expungements also don’t allow someone to own firearms again, or avoid disclosing a conviction if they run for public office or apply for a job with law enforcement.
But they do mean local courts are required to block cleared cases from public searches and from the background check companies commonly used by private-sector employers and landlords.
Saun Hough, a manager at Californians for Safety and Justice, said the benefits extend beyond those with a job application on the line. Old criminal records hinder Californians from fully participating in society in a variety of ways, he said, from chaperoning their children’s field trips to holding positions in a homeowners’ association.
“Peace of mind, that’s the biggest of all the new doors that are open,” he said.
For Alexis Pacheco, a friend of Nick’s in San Francisco who told him he may be eligible, expungement provided psychological relief.
Pacheco, 39, recently won a judge’s order to seal an old felony that she said stemmed from a fight with an ex-husband. The conviction hung over her head in subsequent child custody disputes, she said, and for years after her release from jail, she worked at a storage facility in a job a relative helped her get. Her career was stagnating, she said, but she was “scared to go for more, scared they’ll run a background check.”
Alexis Pacheco at her home in downtown San Francisco, on March 13, 2024. Photo by Laure Andrillon for CalMatters
She now works at a nonprofit and attends college, hoping to one day enroll in law school. To ask for her record to be sealed, she said an attorney directed her to write a letter detailing how she’s turned her life around. A San Mateo County judge granted an expungement in December, according to a court order she shared with CalMatters.
“If people don’t know your story you’re just this person on paper,” she said. “When I got the letter, I cried. It’s no longer, you’re just this person.”
When the automatic felony expungement begins in July, about 225,000 Californians will qualify, said Californians for Safety and Justice, with more becoming eligible in the future as more time passes after their convictions.
Automatic expungement eliminates the need for defendants with lower-level convictions to find an attorney, pay filing fees or go before a judge. Criminal justice reform proponents have pushed for these “clean slate” bills across the country. They’ve cited a 2020 Harvard Law Review study that found few eligible ex-offenders apply for expungement, and argued it’s fairer to instead grant relief to everyone who qualifies.
California began automatically sealing old misdemeanors in 2022, in response to a prior law. In the first six months, state records show the Department of Justice directed county courts to shield 11 million cases from public view, helping six million defendants. The agency called it the “the largest record relief carried out over such a short time period in U.S. history.”
“Automatic record relief is ultimately about equity,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement emailed by his office Wednesday. “Individuals who have served their debt to society deserve a second chance, and they should not have to hire an attorney to get that second chance.”
As a state Assemblymember in 2018, Bonta authored a law to automatically clear cannabis convictions. He also supported the automatic misdemeanor sealing law.
To carry it out, his department booted up a computer program that every month scans through every criminal record in the state to identify those that have become eligible to be expunged. Then it sends a list of the cases to be sealed each month to the county courts where the charges were brought. The department also does this for some arrest records.
Starting in July, that program will begin to flag newly eligible felony convictions.
Christopher Hodgson, a community organizer and policy manager at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, speaks at an expungement clinic at the New Beginnings Fellowship in South Sacramento on March 9, 2024. Photo by José Luis Villegas for CalMatters
Prosecutors and police associations have been vocally opposed, saying in 2022 that it would pose public safety risks.
Jonathan Raven, assistant CEO of the California District Attorneys Association, said prosecutors’ offices have complained they sometimes aren’t given information about automatically expunged misdemeanors when looking up someone’s record. He did not cite specific examples, but said district attorneys don’t always have the resources to double-check the list of automatically sealed cases each month to ensure those defendants are not facing current charges.
“It’s a challenge to have to go through the list and review cases after the fact,” he said.
A spokesperson said the justice department hasn’t received reports from law enforcement agencies unable to view expunged records.
Hough said administrative problems remain for defendants. Some aren’t getting notified their old cases were sealed, he said, while some cases identified by the state haven’t been fully sealed by county courts.
It’s also not yet clear what effect automatic expungement will have on ex-offenders’ employment rates.
Shawn Bushway, an economist and criminologist at RAND Corp. who has studied the issue, is skeptical. He said while there’s no doubt qualified job applicants face discrimination for having prior convictions, requiring a judge’s approval for an expungement sends employers a “reliable signal” that someone has proven their rehabilitation.
He pointed to research conducted after some states passed “Ban the Box” laws blocking employers from asking applicants upfront whether they have criminal convictions, that showed businesses instead discriminated on the basis of race.
With default expungements, “employers will start to realize that there’s a lot of people in their pool with no records that actually have records,” Bushway said. “They could potentially start to discriminate on other grounds.”
The same studies also showed those laws increased the chances that applicants with records get called back for interviews. California has had such a law since 2018. And a recent tight labor market has made some employers more open to hiring ex-offenders.
Employers’ groups such as the California Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses have in recent years steered clear of debating expungements. Neither took a position on the new law before it was passed. The federation declined to comment for this story.
Ashley Hoffman, the chamber’s senior policy advocate, said businesses are more concerned about a 2021 California appellate court decision that limits the ways private background check companies can search court records. But some employers under state or federal regulations on who can be hired, including those in the financial and healthcare sectors, are concerned about increasing expungements, Hoffman said.
“We have concerns about some of the movement that is really trying to get to a world where background checks for employees don’t exist or can’t exist,” she said.
People ask questions during a clinic on how to get their records expunged at the New Beginnings Fellowship in South Sacramento on March 9, 2024. Photo by José Luis Villegas for CalMatters
At the Sacramento expungement event, Tüzer fielded a series of “what if” questions from a crowd of hopeful potential applicants.
No, the law wouldn’t seal convictions in other states. Yes, it could help them get security clearances to visit family members in state prisons.
Some occupational licensing boards may still be able to see the convictions, Tüzer said, but she advised the crowd to request expungement anyway, reasoning it would look favorable on future applications.
She encouraged them to gather documents for a judge: their own letter outlining how they’ve changed since their crimes; supporting testimony from family, community members and employers; and evidence they’d worked, taken classes or earned degrees since going to prison.
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition said it hasn’t yet had an expungement request be denied, but they have taken anywhere from three months to more than a year to be granted. For violent convictions, judges usually require a hearing or take longer to make a decision, she said.
“I think there is a public hesitancy to see these types of crimes expunged,” Tüzer said. “I think there’s not a whole lot of understanding of what it truly takes for a person who was convicted of a life sentence to come out and reintegrate and how difficult that is.”
Prosecutors have opposed some petitions, but Tüzer said that’s been rare so far. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office told CalMatters it doesn’t have a policy on when to oppose petitions, and doesn’t track how many its prosecutors have filed.
For cases where judges hesitate, the coalition returns to a second hearing with further evidence of rehabilitation. That’s what they did for Anthony R., who was granted a felony expungement by a Los Angeles County judge last week, according to a court order he shared with CalMatters.
Anthony, who asked to be identified by his first name to protect his future job prospects, said after coming home from prison in 2016 he struggled to find an apartment and could no longer land the computer programming jobs he used to work. Though he found jobs in homeless services or counseling other ex-offenders, the pay is much lower.
“Anything white collar, I wasn’t going to get,” he said.
After a judge was hesitant to grant an expungement earlier this year, he said he supplied more documentation of ways he’s tried to improve his life, including a coding course he had recently taken. He hopes to work in his former field one day.
Getting the case sealed, he said, made him feel like a different person.
“I feel like I’m a part of society again,” he said.
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A true legend passed away March 5, 2024. Douglas Ray Moore was born in Atoka, Oklahoma on January 13, 1931.
Doug — also best known as “Uncle Doug” to hundreds — was well known as a true houndsman, horseman and friend. He loved to hunt varmits and would always show up at least 30 minutes or more before he was supposed to be there. He hunted with friends young and old, making sure he had a hunter’s cocktail in the bed of his truck at all times. Thank you to the three guys that he really enjoyed hunting with — William Sutherland, Dave Anderson and Kyle McWhorter.
Doug sure enjoyed calf roping (earlier years when he was a rodeo champion), branding calves at friends ranches but especially team roping where he always welcomed anyone who wanted to learn to rope. Doug was so proud to have taught, hauled and supported his nephews Cameron (Camo) and Wes. To see them qualify and go to the National Finals Rodeo was a true highlight of his life.
Doug spent the last three years of his life in McKinleyville with his granddaughter Shasta and her husband Victor. He got to enjoy watching his great-grandson Ty Pimentel get married to Bridgette. Also he enjoyed when his great-granddaughter Kaylee Pimentel would drive him around, always saying what a great driver she was.
Doug is survived by his wife Deb, his daughter Carolyn Copher, his franddaughter Shasta Pimentel (Victor), his great-grandkids Ty Pimentel (Bridgette), Kaylee Pimentel, his siblings Don Moore, Dorothy Ness, Faye Condren, Jim Moore, David Moore and numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents Sarah and Edgar Moore, his son Jimmy Doug and siblings Grace Holt, Edgar Moore, Ida Jo Kellogg and Ben Moore.
Memorial services will be held at the Fortuna River Lodge on June 22, 2024 at 2 p.m.
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The obituary above was submitted on behalf of Doug Moore’s loved ones. The Lost Coast Outpost runs obituaries of Humboldt County residents at no charge. See guidelines here.
Jimmy Rogers sadly passed away Sunday, March 17, 2024 at the age of 77 years old to be with the love of his life, Judith John.
Jimmy was born August 18, 1946 to his mother Mable Cooper and father Buddy Cooper in Seattle, Washington.
Jimmy was a proud tribal member of the Quinault Tribe in Washington.
Jimmy had very many hobbies and things he loved to spend his time doing from spending quality time with the love of his life Judith and their fur-babies, children, grandchildren, and family members to watching WWE, NFL, NASCAR racing and all his other favorite shows on television every week it was on, especially the Green Bay Packers, as that was his favorite team. In
Jimmy’s young adult years he enjoyed partying it up with his family and friends and having a good time. Jimmy loved to collect many things like different types of cars, native arts/sculptures, hats, packers merchandise and many other things he liked and found interest in.
Jimmy is survived by his children Jimmy, Alan, Edward and April; daughters-in-law Krissey, Monique and Rhonda; his brothers Mike, Antonio, Dwayne and Ed; brothers-in-law Ronnie and Glenn; his sisters Teresa, Ruth and Shirley; sister-in-law Gail; his nephews George J.C, Thomas Jr, as well as his children and wife Jadene, Eugene, Mikey, Gerold, Marvin Jr, Tony Jr, Alan W, and Donnie; his nieces Jennifer, her children Henry and Julie, Rhoda and her children Delmar and Judy Faye, Elizabeth, Quina, Jolene, Amanda, her children and Sandy, her children Lucan, Alicia and Rhoda; grandchildren Karissa, Angelica, Raven, Brittany, Carole, Shawn, Billy, Grace, Treasure, Alisha, Leah, Alan-David, Jamie, Jesse and Kayla; great-grandchildren Emmett, Calliope, Alaya, Kelanah and Harmony; as well as many many more nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends.
Jimmy is preceded in death by his mother Mable; father Buddy; wife Judy; sister Dee; sons George and Raymond; daughter Candy Ann; granddaughter Emma; brothers-in-law Hank, Lornie, Jody, Sonny, and Delmar; sisters-in-law Vickie, Patty and Lorraine, Auntie Faye; nephews Kreig, Wes and Nick; nieces Yolanda, Eunice, Arlys and Alisha.
My condolences to anybody that I have forgotten to mention, my intentions were not to dis-include or upset anyone.
A celebration of life/potluck will be held at Bear River Community Center 266 Keisner, Loleta, Ca 95551 at 6 p.m. on Thursday March 21, 2024.
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The obituary above was submitted on behalf of Jimmy Rogers’ loved ones. The Lost Coast Outpost runs obituaries of Humboldt County residents at no charge. See guidelines here.
