Volume XVI Issue 168

Wednesday, March 27th, 2024

Jennie helps be a voice for the voiceless, working at Lassen Family Services, specifically with their Court Appointed Special Advocates program.

This program stands out because it brings together community volunteers who stand up for kids who’ve been through abuse or neglect.

These volunteers are more than just helpers; they’re trained to be the court’s eyes and ears, making sure that every child’s needs and well-being are front and center, even when legal matters get complicated.

While I don’t remember meeting Jennie, I can tell you that as far back as my memory goes – as long as I have known her – I have loved her.

She just has this soothing nature about her. I can tell you that she is really using her God-given gifts to help children. After all, if she has that effect on adults, can you imagine the stability, protection, and comfort she provides to little kiddos in trauma?

But Jennie’s talents and contributions don’t end there. She is also an exceptional singer, gracing local stages with her voice. Her passion for music and helping people shines through as she volunteers her time and talents to our very own Best of Broadway.

Jennie wasn’t even a performer this year and she still made it a point to volunteer, which is a testament to her dedication to her community.

In addition to her professional work and artistic endeavors, Jennie is just an all-around great mother. I don’t think that role gets as much credit as it deserves, so I want to make sure she knows how evident it is.

And, if you have met her wonderful daughters, you would see what happens when you instill confidence and love in your kids.

Her role as a mother is perhaps her most cherished, as she raises her children to be as kind-hearted and generous as she is.

She embodies the very essence of why we love this place – because of the incredible people like her who call it home.

The Easter Bunny will be at the fairgrounds so bring your cameras for a photo opportunity.

Each age group has a chance to find the ‘gold egg’ to be turned in for an Easter basket filled with assorted goodies and prizes. Don’t forget to bring your Easter baskets!

The egg hunt will feature a special session for Children with Special Capabilities. This session will be held inside in a calmer environment. There will be sensory bins, balloons on eggs, toys and candy in eggs, safe spaces for wheelchairs and walkers to maneuver. For more information contact Ronda Hall 1.530.260.0646.

Admission to the event is free.

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The low-cost event, held at the Lassen County Fairgrounds, is a favorite among local families, with a host of groups and organizations participating to make the fun-filled day a success.

Taken in July of 1864, this iconic photo is one of the oldest pictures of Susanville still in existence.

Dispatch from the Land of the Neversweats

March 27, 1864

The inhabitants claim that this is the original Garden of Eden, and some even go so far as to show the very canon through which Adam and Eve were expelled, and point to a footprint in the solid rock as evidence of the fact. Whether such be the case or not, it is certainly the most beautiful valley of its size that our State can boast of.

To a person lately from the parched plains of Sacramento valley the contrast is great, riding along for seventy-odd miles through clover, Peavine and red top grass from three to five feet high, while on one side are the lakes with their mirrored surfaces, and on the other the lofty peaks of the Sierra Nevadas with their tops covered with snow, and as you ride path is crossed every mile or two by the clear crystal brooks formed by springs high up the mountains, and now swollen by the melting of the snow.

Although ice is generally considered a luxury, here it would be useless as regards the water, for it is uncomfortably cold already.

There are about seven hundred ranches located, and plenty of good land for as many more. We counted one hundred and forty-seven log cabins finished and in course of construction, and upon nearly all of these ranches were fine fields of grain and vegetables.

Near the head of the valley, Ruble and Peterson have five acres in potatoes which look very fine.

At the ranch of Clark and Boyde we were regaled with fresh vegetables in the shape of green peas, turnips and radishes, and at the milk ranch of Dickerson and Farmer we partook of the first new potatoes raised in the valley.

There is already here two saloons, one store, one blacksmith shop, one butcher shop and while on our way in we passed a sawmill going up.

Thayer and Loring are running a weekly express from Susanville to the valley, and keep them supplied with the latest papers.