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Layout 1 Copy ON THE COVER: Providing a loving home for pets during a fire, page 3 INSIDE: The museum is gone, but not to be forgotten The real reason for the Labor Day holiday I Local cyclist wins national race Continuing the tradition of honoring Old Timers of the Year Trio of women prove to be a Triple Threat Herbs — from the culinary to the artistic Visit Peter Lassen’s grave — one of the most beautiful spots Sierra Army Depot welcomes first female commander Published locally by Feather Publishing Co., Inc. ON THE COVER: Providing a loving home for pets during a fire, page 3 INSIDE: The museum is gone, but not to be forgotten The real reason for the Labor Day holiday I Local cyclist wins national race Continuing the tradition of honoring Old Timers of the Year Trio of women prove to be a Triple Threat Herbs — from the culinary to the artistic Visit Peter Lassen’s grave — one of the most beautiful spots Sierra Army Depot welcomes first female commander Published locally by Feather Publishing Co., Inc. CONTENTS Hosting fire evacuees Hosting canine evacuees . .3 of the canine persuasion In remembrance of a house past . .9 Celebrating Lassen County’s Old Timers of the Year . .12 Smiling Luna gives big grins despite the oddity of her situation. Photos by Lauren The museum is gone, but not Westmoreland to be forgotten . .17 Labor Day celebrates the By Lauren Westmoreland [email protected] working class . .19 Camp Fleischmann, a premiere youth camp . .22 t the beginning of this summer, I was hopeful and yet nervous about Funny how one Sierra Army Depot’s first female the predicted fire season to come, commander . .26 especially after the dry winter we experienced here in the Lost statement led to the Local cyclist wins national race . .30 Sierra,A yet again. Just last August my family went through the Loyalton fire, which The origin of the banana split and burned a little over 47,000 acres, many of ‘Hotel Hoffmann other frosty facts . .34 those acres leading up to and around our home (even down to scorching our wooden High Country Real Estate . .35 address sign at the end of the driveway.) for Dogs’ Trio of women prove to be a I had never seen a wildfire before at such close range, and the experience of coming Triple Threat . .38 face to face with such enormous amounts of destructive force really left an impression 2021 fire season and I jumped in at Plumas Gardening by forest fire smoke . .40 that I will never forget — the feeling of News to try and help disseminate updates to Visit Peter Lassen’s grave . .44 being powerless against something so huge the community as the tension filled the air, that could take away everything we owned in fire becoming the main topic of discussion Baked sweet potato fries . .50 mere moments. We got lucky. for many. The days that followed that particular fire Not long after the Beckwourth Complex Herbs — from culinary to artistic .52 were strange, impressions blurred by the finally reached a 98 percent level of constant layers of drifting ash and sand, the containment, the Dixie Fire exploded at the Make camper travel comfortable . .54 sun filtered into a strange russet hue. With other end of Plumas County, sending the advent of the Beckwourth Complex at hundreds of residents scrambling as one File photo the tail end of June, we officially entered the evacuation order after another pinged High Country Life • September 2021 3 High Country Life September 2021 Sadie enjoys a moment of semi-clean air on a walk during her stay with us. Photos by Lauren Westmoreland through on my cell phone, affecting a wide an anxious cocker spaniel, when my husband swathe of forest and the communities that cut me loose. “We have four acres,” he said. Clematis. we so love nestled in the trees. “These animals need somewhere to go, so if Photo by Joaquin Mann I was constantly scrolling on Facebook in anyone needs it, they can stay here.” That’s between watching fire updates, looking for all I needed. I immediately made a post on ways to connect people to resources from my multiple community assistance boards phone, and generally pacing the house like online, offering to shelter any animals we A free regional monthly magazine about the people, places and events in Lassen, Plumas and Sierra Counties. Published locally by: Feather Publishing Co. Inc. and the Lassen County Times Main office: P.O. Box B, Quincy, CA 95971 530-283-0800 or 530-257-5321 Local people and local products Cobey Brown, publisher supporting our community. Debra Moore, Plumas editor Sam Williams & RESIDENTIAL Makenzie Freedman, & COMMERCIAL An abundance of crates, a small dog run, dog food, and blankets poured in from the community when we put out the call for help as the Lassen editors Dixie Fire caused mass evacuations. Cindie Williams, Call us for a Robert Mahenski, FREE ESTIMATE could for the evacuees fleeing the erratic but acquire rooms in Reno, with nearly all area with gratitude at the immediacy of the graphics, layout and design ever-encroaching and aggressive blaze. hotel rooms already at capacity due to the response from so many who wanted to help Within minutes, I received multiple heavy firefighter presence. Thus, we became in some way - we had families from the Cold For advertising information or messages and phone calls from people we Hotel Hoffmann for dogs for the next week. Springs community drive out to our place in (530) 258-3306 had never met. We weren’t sure if we could We quickly pulled all of the boxes in our Chilcoot and drop off a total of nine crates of story ideas, call or email: Serving Plumas and be accommodating a wide variety of animals, back-storage room out and assessed how varying sizes, a small dog run for outdoors, [email protected] www.digitconst.com Lassen Counties but we were ready for anything. It quickly many crates we had available. Not enough. I dog food, and clean dog blankets by that or for over 24 years became evident that in our case, multiple threw another post up online, this time very evening, so we were able to welcome the CA Lic #747715 • LTO #A11254 [email protected] dogs needed somewhere to evacuate to as requesting the loan or donation of dog crates evacuees with clean kennels and blankets, as families made quick decisions and tried to for the furry evacuees. My heart overflows well as treats of course. My husband, Ian, like 4 High Country Life • September 2021 High Country Life • September 2021 5 century-old children’s book collection in my study. Finally, on July 26, we received one more message urgently requesting help, this time for a group of three dogs from Quincy- one sweet, timid terrier named Bernice, aka Burney, a friendly poodle mix named Humphrey, and a large, good-natured epileptic German Shephard named Goose. This brought us to a total of 12 dogs in the house, counting our ragtag pack of six rescue dogs, who were understandably confused and concerned about whether these new dogs would be staying with us for the long term or “Did someone say, ‘Walk?”“ asks Scout, preparing for a nice outing around the property, not. Seeing as how we have six dogs, this is seeing as how he is not at all interested in books. actually a semi-valid concern for our pack to have. in cats, snakes, cattle, chickens, sheep, you are taken care of and regard for life, whether We popped up multiple baby gates and name it during this summer of fire, on top of animal or human. divided up the dogs to two different sides of the many that have gone above and beyond in Note: There are many excellent avenues to the house, scattered around three different other ways to lend a helping hand. follow if you should want to be involved in rooms. Half the dogs came with bowls and Without fail, we must always look for the future efforts to assist animals in the food, the other half benefitted from the helpers when the world seems chaotic and community if affected by crisis. One such generous dog food donations from Denise dark. When you are having trouble seeing group I have seen shine through these Lauret of Cold Springs, Nevada during their through the darkness, be the helper. I think summer fires is Cowboy 911, a nonprofit visit. We got out the extra bowls, and between one of the biggest takeaways from this worldwide network that is comprised of many Ian and I, developed a round-the-clock experience, for me at least, is that you find “regular people” doing amazing things routine of feeding, watering, walking, and what you look for in the world. There are together, rushing to help ranchers and animal playing with each set of dogs in turn. terrible things that have occurred and can owners get their animals evacuated or Of course, the first few days were anxiety happen into the future, but there are so many providing other assistance from housing to Sweet, timid Bernice, aka Burney, finally Handsome Goose goes about his Humphrey enjoys meeting chickens and inducing for the pups — they had been ways that I have witnessed people be kind to feed and beyond when the call is put out. feeling frisky around her furry friends business. ducks while taking the air. dropped off in a tense situation to a house one another in this time of crisis, without Those interested in learning more can find during her stay.
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