As a business owner, have you ever wondered what you would do if a natural disaster happened during business hours? What do you do with your staff? With your customers? What about the damage to your business? Your merchandise? 

This is your chance to gain useful useful information to ensure that your business will be able to function afterward ! Join us on Saturday, January 12 from 10am to Noon at the Dow's Prairie Grange, 3995 Dow's Prairie Road for a presentation by Angelina Gregorio. Angelina is a retired National Park Service Ranger who has worked in all aspects of Public Safety and Emergency Response. Since moving to Humboldt County in 2012, she has used her Park Service experience and training in her current position as Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for Mad River Community Hospital and as a Community Disaster planning Educator. Two hours jam packed with valuable information, free to attend!

Items that will be discussed: 

*The local emergency  preparedness landscape 

Click HERE to register to attend. Seminar sponsored by Humboldt County Sheriff's Department, McK Chamber and Dow's Prairie Grange.

Community Pop-Up Museum

(Submitted by Kelley Garrett)

 

A $1000 Humboldt Area Foundation Grassroots Grant has been awarded to the McKinleyville Organizing Committee (MOC), a group of volunteer McKinleyville citizens, to create a pop-up (limited-run) McKinleyville museum event. The event's aims to enliven and strengthen our community through a showcasing of the town's past influences, and by providing current citizenry with an opportunity to envision and engage around the town's future. The museum will highlight our town's unique story through the display of to-be-loaned historical photos, objects and local art. The pop-up event is anticipated to generate considerable buzz and community pride. With an opening date targeting May 2019, the event will be timed to coincide with the run-up to this years' Pony Express Days.

 

The MOC is now seeking the loan of your McKinleyville items of historical interest, business related and/or personal--to include photos, artifacts, local art and other interesting objects for temporary public exhibition. The MOC also has a wish list of items for which we are seeking local Business sponsorship. Sponsors will be gratefully acknowledged both on-site at the museum, as well as in the local media.