By Letters To The Editor | PUBLISHED: November 16, 2018 at 8:21 am | UPDATED: November 16, 2018 at 8:22 am A sober driver must drive drinkers home Jail isn’t jolly. It’s holiday party time! Despite numerous driving distractions, like cell phone usage, I must remind people to not drive drunk. My life changed after a drunken driver hit me when I was 16 in 1992. I had a 100-day coma with several severe injuries. For seven months, I stayed in hospitals in Stockton and San Ramon and then had 17 months of therapy. My life is difficult daily. My speech is not clear and my gait is abnormal. I also cannot drive and my hearing is damaged. An open bar is often a big perk of a holiday bash. If drinking, please read my words. Few know just exactly how many drinks equal “one too many.” Therefore, a sober driver must give drinkers a ride. Driving drunk on roads like State Route 61 (which runs along the Oakland International Airport and through Alameda), can lead to an … [Read more...] about Letter: A sober driver must drive drinkers home
Camp Fire evacuees asked to leave Chico Walmart tent city
Luigi Balsamo, an organizer for the donation hub in the Walmart parking lot, shares news he just received on Thursday that the operation outside the Chico Walmart must shut down on Sunday. (Carin Dorghalli — Enterprise-Record) CHICO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 13: Camp Fire victim Kika Powers wakes up Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in the parking lot of a Chico, Calif. Walmart where he works in the bicycle department. Powers lived in the community of Magalia above Paradise. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Ron Irick, of Magalia, is unsure if his house survived the Camp Fire as he seeks refuge in the Chico Walmart parking lot. (Carin Dorghalli — Enterprise-Record) CHICO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 13: Volunteers wear masks while setting up clothes racks, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Chico, Calif., Walmart where a tent city for people displaced by the devastating Camp Fire continues to grow. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) … [Read more...] about Camp Fire evacuees asked to leave Chico Walmart tent city
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I did not know’ about discrediting efforts
By Rex Crum | [email protected] | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: November 16, 2018 at 7:43 am | UPDATED: November 16, 2018 at 8:52 am The drama and fallout over this week’s New York Times investigation into Facebook continued Friday as Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg defended herself against allegations she knew about company efforts to discredit critics of the social networking giant. On Thursday, Facebook said it had severed ties with Definers. “We’re no longer working with them but at the time, they were trying to show that some of the activity against us that appeared to be grassroots also had major organizations behind them,” Sandberg said in her Facebook post. “I did not know we hired them or about the work they were doing, but I should have. I have great respect for George Soros – and the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories against him are abhorrent.” Sandberg also took umbrage at an accusation in the Times that she, … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I did not know’ about discrediting efforts
Photos: Logos of the fire engines from all over the country fighting the Camp Fire
There are more than 5,000 firefighters assigned to the Camp Fire, with 630 fire engines, from more than a dozen states. That’s a lot of “thank-yous” owed to people from near and far. Here are just a few of the door markings on engines parked off-shift at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico. (Steve Schoonover […] There are more than 5,000 firefighters assigned to the Camp Fire, with 630 fire engines, from more than a dozen states. That’s a lot of “thank-yous” owed to people from near and far. Here are just a few of the door markings on engines parked off-shift at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico. (Steve Schoonover […] Sound The gallery will resume inseconds There are more than 5,000 firefighters assigned to the Camp Fire, with 630 fire engines, from more than a dozen states. That’s a lot of “thank-yous” owed to people from near and far. Here are just a few of the door markings on engines parked … [Read more...] about Photos: Logos of the fire engines from all over the country fighting the Camp Fire
Camp Fire photos, Day 8: Flying over the destruction
PARADISE, CA - NOVEMBER 15: Aerial footage shows homes destroyed by the Camp Fire near the Paradise Plaza off Clark Road in Paradise, California, on Thursday, November 15, 2018. (LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group) PARADISE, CA - NOVEMBER 15: Aerial footage shows a home destroyed by the Camp Fire near the Paradise Plaza off Clark Road in Paradise, California, on Thursday, November 15, 2018. (LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Cal Fire-Butte County Capt. John Gaddie surveys a former home in the aftermath of the Camp Fire in Concow, California, on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. (Dan Reidel -- Enterprise-Record) A street sign destroyed in the Camp Fire is photographed in Magalia, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. Magalia is one of the small towns struggling to pick up the pieces after the devastating wildland fire swept through. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) A home destroyed in the Camp Fire is photographed in Magalia, Calif., on … [Read more...] about Camp Fire photos, Day 8: Flying over the destruction