WEAVING is a year-long project designed in collaboration with local and regional Pomo Culture Bearers. We are honored to offer this series of workshops and presentations to provide a forum for cross-cultural engagement, awareness-raising, acknowledgment of history, dialogue, relationship building, and opening of hearts and minds.
The WEAVING project is supported in part by a grant from the California Arts Council.
Register for upcoming WEAVING workshops and presentations at https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E354376&id=44
Reserve your spot in advance for all WEAVING events as spaces are limited and fill quickly. All fees are sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds support the WEAVING project.
Jan. 15, 11 am to 4pm: Weaving Workshop with Corine Pearce, Pomo basket weaver and cultural educator at MAC and on Zoom. Masking always required indoors at MAC.
Jan. 16, 5 to 7pm: Indigenizing 21st Century Art, an introduction to contemporary Indigenous art with Jacob Meders, Mechoopda – Maidu (Chico area) Artist and Assistant Professor, Arizona State University. On Zoom only.
Santa’s Sleigh won’t be the only blip seen on California radars this week. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) meteorologists are forecasting that a series of moderately strong storm systems that began to arrive in northern areas Tuesday will produce strong winds, steady rainfall, low elevation snow and potential widespread power outages for the next week.
In advance of the storm, PG&E is confirming the availability of crew resources during the holiday weeks, shifting planned maintenance work until after the storm window closes, and hunkering down for a long winter’s work period of holiday power restoration.
“We know how much our customers depend on us to keep the lights and the heat on, especially during the holidays. As we’ve studied this developing weather pattern over the past several days, we’ve activated our winter storm response plans so that we can be ready when our customers need us,” said Wade Smith, PG&E’s Senior Vice President, Electric Operations.
PG&E meteorologists, along with experts from the National Weather Service, are calling for light to moderate rain and breezy to gusty winds from the first weather system which arrived in the Humboldt area yesterday and began moving south last night and this morning. A second and colder weather system is expected to arrive Friday into Saturday with widespread rain, lowering snow levels and gusty winds Wind gusts of 30 to 45 mph are possible with the passage of this system with snow levels down to around 2,000 feet in some areas.
Winter storms produce wet and windy conditions that can cause trees, limbs and other debris to fall into power lines, damage equipment and interrupt electric service. In some areas, ground already saturated by previous storms, along with drought-intensified conditions that weakened vegetation, could cause more trees to fall into our equipment and cause power outages.
PG&E’s meteorology team has developed a Storm Outage Prediction Model that incorporates real-time weather forecasts, historical data and system knowledge to accurately show where and when storm impacts will be most severe. This model enables the company to pre-stage crews and equipment as storms approach to enable rapid response to outages. Those activities are taking place now.
Among other actions being taken by PG&E:
Workers are prepared to tackle restoration in challenging weather conditions and are supported by the utility’s geosciences team. Geosciences is monitoring potential post-wildfire debris flows from incoming rains which could impact PG&E’s equipment and vegetation around its equipment.
PG&E is also distributing power poles, power lines, transformers and other electric equipment from our three materials centers to yards throughout our service territory to restore power to impacted areas as quickly as possible.
We will also be activating local operations emergency centers throughout our service area in impacted regions to allocate all staff and resources to restoration efforts.
PG&E knows how important it is to keep its customers informed. Customers can view real-time outage information on its website outage center and search by a specific address, by city or by county. This site has been updated to include in-language support for 16 languages.
Additionally, customers can sign up for outage notifications by text, email or phone. PG&E will let customers know the cause of an outage, when crews are on their way, the estimated restoration time, and when power is restored.
Other tips can be found at www.pge.com/beprepared.
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