Position Description
The Media Producer & Youth Media Mentor supports youth development through hands-on media creation and instruction. This role combines content production with mentoring and teaching youth participants skills in video, audio, and digital editing across multiple media formats.
Send resumes to Executive Director Heather Polen at heather.p.kfug@gmail.com.
Continue reading Job Listing: Redwood Voice ProducerThumbnail photo: One of the hog exhibits youth raised to show to judges at the 2025 Del Norte County Fair. | Photo by Heather Polen
At least one person says she wants her money back after she and her husband purchased a steer from the Del Norte County Fair’s Junior Livestock Auction in August only to be told not to eat the meat when she received it two months later.
Patty and Harry Adams successfully bid on a steer a local Future Farmers of America youth raised, paying $17,665 for the animal. They sent it to Bussmann Mobile Ranch Butchering in Bandon, one of two butchers the fairgrounds offered to auction participants for processing.
“You bid, you buy, you pay and then the fair makes the arrangements as far as transportation with each butcher. We just walked away knowing our animal was going up to the butcher and was going to be processed,” Patty Adams told Redwood Voice Community News of the livestock auction which was held on Aug. 2 this year. “But usually you’re communicated with from the butcher or the processor within that month. I thought it was weird that I hadn’t heard from someone by the end of August.”
Continue reading Junior Livestock Auction Purchasers Say Bandon-Based Butcher Let Their Meat Spoil; State Officials Say They’re Working To ‘Make Buyers Whole’Thumbnail image courtesy of DNACA.net
If you have Arts Notes that you would like featured, contact DNACA at DNACA_CC@CLOUD.COM. We would love to spread the word about your events. You can also send the info to our Facebook Group, as well.
• Beginning January 8, 2026 we will be displaying at the Del Norte Regional Airport on the 2nd Floor Mezzanine, Tolowa Dee-Ni’ Nation posters. Come see the beautiful artwork.
• Beginning January 9, 2026, the Nat Soules Art Collection will be displayed in the main building hallway at College of the Redwoods’ Del Norte campus. Please come during regular business hours to see the beautiful artwork.
Continue reading Art Notes: Rikuzentakata Taiko Performers, New Public Art, Celtic Music ConcertThumbnail photo: Del Norters participated in the People’s March on Jan. 18, two days before Donald Trump was inaugurated to his second term as president. | Photo by Jessica Andrews
Two weeks after the calendar ticked over to 2025, more than 100 Del Norte residents gathered at the Cultural Center in Crescent City.
Waving signs preaching “love not hate” and “united we stand,” they vowed to safeguard the rights of the vulnerable ahead of what they believed to be a dangerous presidential administration.
“Let us be on the right side of history,” Troy Lea said in a statement read aloud during the People’s March on Jan. 18, the first of several demonstrations Del Norters would take part in during 2025. “For our people, our nation and future generations whose lives will be shaped by the work we do here today.”
Continue reading Tsunamis, Marches, Government Shutdowns, or 2025 in Del Norte CountyEditor’s Note: KFUG 101.1 FM is Redwood Voice Community News’s parent organization.
Have you ever wondered what’s lurking around Orick after dark?
Aisling Bludworth has and at 3 a.m. Sunday, she and Bryce Evans are going to regale KFUG 101.1 FM’s loyal listeners with a tale that turns on the roll of the dice.
“I have a real fascination with Orick,” Bludworth said of the former lumber community about 42 miles south of Crescent City. “It’s a tiny little town that I’ve passed through a few times. There are old buildings that are shuttered and quiet. Something about Orick calls to me — that’s the perfect setting for hunting monsters.”
Continue reading Annual Fugathon Will Be KFUG’s Official RelaunchThumbnail image courtesy of the Del Norte Senior Center
With its 2026 LIHEAP contract in hand, the Del Norte Senior Center is accepting applications from residents seeking energy assistance.
The Low Income Energy Assistance Program is open to all low-income households, not just senior citizens, Executive Director Charlaine Mazzei said. But with funding more limited than in previous years, applications will be prioritized on need, she told Redwood Voice Community News via email on Tuesday.
“We are starting 2026 with about $253,000 available to help with electricity, wood, propane and other heating fuels,” Mazzei said. “VERY roughly, that’s enough to help about 350 households based on our average benefits amount from 2025. But that can vary a lot depending on the circumstances of the households that apply.”
Continue reading Heating Assistance Is Available For Low-Income HouseholdsThumbnail photo: Rx Safe Del Norte and the Department of Health and Human Services celebrate those recovering from addiction during an Addiction Recovery Awareness Walk in September. | Photo courtesy of Jermaine Brubaker
Patient Navigator Melissa Nelson described a tree in the lobby of Aegis Treatment Center’s Eureka clinic to illustrate an important facet of the care it provides.
Every patient that celebrates a milestone on their journey to be free of opioid addiction adds a leaf. It’s a reminder that someone cares about them, is available and will show up, Nelson said. That can mean a lot to someone in the throes of addiction.
“When you’re in the lobby, if you’re just waiting, you can look over and see what different patients have to say in that process of being celebrated,” Nelson told Redwood Voice Community News. “Maybe we’ll have a whale or something in Crescent City.”
Continue reading Aegis’s New Crescent City MAT Unit Will Save A Daily Humboldt Trip For Del Norters Battling Opioid AddictionThumbnail photo by Paul Critz
Projects to reconstruct Citizens Dock and replace an adjacent seawall have cleared environmental hurdles and are on track to begin in May, according to the Crescent City Harbor District’s grants consultant.
At a special meeting Friday, Community System Solutions CEO Mike Bahr told the Harbor Board that they can expect to see a contract from the U.S. Maritime Administration on their Wednesday agenda. This contract is associated with the 2022 Port Infrastructure Development Program grant that’s paying for the seawall replacement project.
It will be about 30 more days before the Harbor District Board sees the contract for the 2024 PIDP grant that’s paying for the Citizens Dock reconstruction, Bahr said. The Board of Commissioners has to officially commit to meeting match requirements for both grant programs in order for MARAD to release those funds, he said.
Continue reading Citizens Dock, Sea Wall Projects Clear Environmental Hurdle, Harbor District On Track For May 2026 ConstructionThumbnail photo: A local disability rights advocate Crescent City is violating the Americans With Disabilities Act by locking its wheelchair swing and requiring users to get a key. | Photo courtesy of Crescent City
Steven Jackson isn’t looking to sue Crescent City, but, he says, a lawsuit could happen if a lock and chain aren’t removed from a swing designed for wheelchairs at Beachfront Park.
Jackson, who has worked with adults with developmental disabilities in Del Norte County for about 20 years, warned the City Council on Monday that requiring people to get a key to be able to use the swing violates the Americans With Disabilities Act.
“I’m not here to propose a lawsuit on you guys,” he said. “But I’m letting you know that the city is really looking at a lawsuit for anybody who tries to go down and access that equipment when it’s not available. What’s that showing to people who come into our community that think we are an inclusive community?”
Continue reading Beachfront Park’s Wheelchair Swing May Be An ADA Violation, Disability Rights Advocate Warns
City Manager Eric Wier said plans to demolish the old Daly’s building and replace it with a development that includes affordable housing could be the key to revitalizing Crescent City’s downtown.
Councilors were enthusiastic about the proposal, especially when the developer, Community System Solutions CEO Mike Bahr assured them that the city would be protected should it not materialize and the state asks for its grant dollars back.
Bahr said construction would start on The Redwood Downtown development at 3rd and J streets in March or April 2027. His goal is to have a ribbon cutting about a year later. Bahr also assured councilors that the complex would align with its downtown masterplan.
Continue reading Crescent City Council Loans State Grant Dollars To Downtown Housing Project; Developer Plans To Demolish Old Daly’s Building
