More than 30 teams took part in the Out of the Darkness community walk, raising funds for the non-profit organization that invests in new research, creates educational programs, advocates for public policy and supports survivors of suicide loss.

According to organizers these community walks, held in hundreds of cities across the country, give people the courage to open up about their own struggle or loss, and provide a platform to change our culture’s approach to mental health.

The event in Memorial Park included a Bead Ceremony with different colored beads that represent how suicide has affected a person’s life.

Speakers shared their personal stories of loss and hope and afterward the participants walked a course up to Weatherlow Street, down Main Street, back across Grand Avenue and to North Street and the park.

Lassen County’s Chief Probation Officer Jennifer Branning was honored by event organizers for all of the effort put into the walk by volunteers from her staff at the Probation Department.

Agencies and organizations like the Salvation Army, Lassen County Foster Youth Services and the Lassen County Sheriff’s office all set up informational booths to help disseminate resources.

That year, 36,036 speed-related crashes killed 335 people and injured 53,060 others.

“Reckless driving behaviors are a significant threat to all who use California’s roadways,” said CHP Commissioner Amanda Ray. “The RADARS grant will provide for a focused education and enforcement campaign targeting speeding motorists and aggressive driving behaviors, including street racing and sideshow activities, to help prevent crashes resulting in death or injury.”

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, CHP has noted a significant increase in incidents of unsafe driving behaviors: motorists exceeding 100 miles per hour on state highways, illicit street racing and sideshow activities, and speed-related crashes.

Between April 1, 2020, and September 30, 2021, the CHP issued more than 44,500 citations to motorists traveling in excess of 100 MPH. To address the issue, the CHP used federal grant funding to conduct enhanced speed enforcement operations on state routes with a history of speed-related incidents, collaborated with local law enforcement agencies to create street racing and sideshow task forces, and conducted social media campaigns to educate the public about the dangers of speeding, aggressive driving, and street racing.

The RADARS grant will allow the CHP to conduct a comparable campaign from October l, 2021, through September 30, 2022.

Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

“Out of an abundance of caution, we are closing the corrals until further notice,” said Emily Ryan, manager of the BLM Eagle Lake Field Office, which oversees the corrals. “We do not want people to inadvertently spread any type of infection to their own horses or burros after visiting the corrals.”

The affected horses are isolated in a large holding area at the corrals. The BLM staff continues to work closely with a veterinarian to determine how long the corrals will be closed to the public. No horses or burros will be shipped from the facility while the quarantine is in place, and public adoptions and sales will be temporarily suspended.

The affected horses were gathered from northwest Nevada public lands in the Surprise Complex wild horse and burro gather. Wild horses are being removed from the range to bring populations down to the appropriate management levels confirmed in the BLM’s Resource Management Plan for the region.

Policeman Remembers Where the Bear Hid When He Drove the Stage

Frank Rockwell, stage driver, Wells-Fargo shotgun messenger and lastly of the eagle eye of the Reno police force, took a vacation yesterday, the first, according to his best memory, in five years of police duty.

Patrolman Rockwell is not going to take a vacation by sitting around and observing the conduct of the citizens of Reno. That would be too much like work. Besides he is a weary of the noise and bustle of the metropolis of Nevada, and his heart hungers for the wild, free life in the mountains which he saw years and years ago, when he was a gamesome youth. For days he has heard the call of the wild, and he purposes to go back to nature and hunt b’ar in the woody purlieus of Susanville.

When the overeland stage used to meander on it toilsome journey over the Sierras, Rockwell sat daily on the seat with a rifle in one hand and a Colt pistol in the other, and drove with his teeth, but in moments when the Indians and stage robbers were not bothering, he observed the caves and shelters where the bear habitually curled themselves up for a winter’s hibernation.

The policeman now says that he remembers distinctly where several prominent bears reside, some having bad records, and he will go down and practice making peek-a-boo waists for them with a rifle.