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Maybe you've driven by the "10th Mountain Division Memorial Highway" signs on your way to the mountain resorts along state Route 89. And maybe you've wondered, why here? There's no official connection to the 10th at all here, really. But in f
In this first episode of our new four-part miniseries on the experience of World War II in Placer County, Placer Museums Administrator Ralph Gibson explains what life looked like before and during the war, and the enduring consequences of the w
Foster youth are less likely to graduate from high school than their peers; less likely to enroll in college; more likely to be unemployed; more likely to experience mental health and substance use challenges; and more likely to become homeless
One morning in February, Oleysa awoke to the sound of bombing. What followed was a harrowing months-long journey that brought her to a new life in Placer County, which is home to a growing number of refugees from Ukraine. In this episode, hear
Futures don’t come much brighter than Zach Didier’s. At 17, Zach was a standout student at Rocklin’s Whitney High School. A star athlete and actor. A self-taught musician. He could’ve done anything. Everyone thought so. He died at Christmas - a
The Placer Dead has returned! Would you stay the night in a house you knew to be haunted? Lois Larimore did exactly that and lived to tell the tale. She shares her experience and other creepy happenings from her youth while working at the old
In this Halloween episode of "The Placer Life," we bring you tales of first-hand encounters with the supernatural in Placer County - at our Historic Courthouse and the Bernhard Museum. Hear how these ghost stories bring Placer's history to life
Welcome back to The Placer Life as we continue our look at the Whole Person Care program, focused on moving people out of chronic homelessness. In the last two episodes we introduced you to three members of the program whose paths had been diff
Learn how Whole Person Care came to be in Placer County, and meet two members whose different paths led them to homelessness.TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/2HbtKbU
In the final episode of our miniseries, we explore housing and the creative ways the Whole Person Care program, and its partners, are finding solutions even when every sign in Placer County seems to say ‘no vacancy.’TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly
Welcome back to The Placer Life as we continue our look at Whole Person Care, the county’s innovative pilot program to help chronically homeless people get back on their feet and off the street. This episode looks at how the program tackles med
Placer County’s Whole Person Care program launched in 2017 with a lofty goal of helping homeless people with the most severe needs. Since then it has connected the dots for those who had once fallen through the cracks. In a four-part miniseries
When faced with a serious cancer diagnosis and a series of setbacks, Justin Wages, a land manager with the Placer Land Trust, found a unique connection with nature that helped him not only heal but thrive.A transcript of this episode is avail
When Grace — a pseudonym — was at her lowest point, her 3-week-old son was taken away because she was breastfeeding him while using heroin and meth, in a household riddled with substance abuse and domestic violence. But that wasn’t where her st
Before setting up shop in Auburn, artist Frank Ordaz helped create the iconic worlds of “Star Wars, “E.T.” and “Indiana Jones.” Hear what it was like to work on those groundbreaking movies and how living in Placer County informs his art today i
It was supposed to be just a quick overnight hike for Cody Michael and his dog, Bauer. But, losing his trail in the snow, Cody found himself lost in one of the most rugged areas of Placer County for four days and, he thought, possibly forever.
Living near Auburn is an original Rosie the Riveter, 91-year old Betty Samson. Here, Betty talks about working as a plane engine mechanic in support of the war effort in the 1940s, what life was like during that time and what Veterans Day means
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