Join us on Thursday, October 30th from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the Miners Foundy in downtown Nevada City for a community preparedness gathering bridging wildfire readiness and winter shelter season.

Happy October! We hope you are well and that you’ve had a chance to enjoy a bit of sunshine after the rain. As autumn unfolds, Sierra Roots is once again preparing for the Emergency Weather Shelter season. We want to sincerely thank our volunteers for the time, care and commitment they gave during last year’s operations. Because of their efforts, our community had refuge on some of the harshest nights of the year.

“We’re delighted and excited,” said Susan Rice. “This a big, proactive step for Sierra Roots.” June 30, the Upstate California Creative Corps announced a grant award of $69,696 to Sierra Roots for the Sierra Roots / No Place to Go Project. The Nevada City-based nonprofit has been feeding and clothing chronically homeless and unhoused citizens of Nevada County since 2011.

According to the National Library of Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health, the average life expectancy for a homeless woman is 52 years. Lisa lived to 55. Monday, March 27, she was found dead in front of her tent covered by a sleeping bag in bushes in Brunswick Basin. She had been dead for several days. The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Coroner Final Report of Investigation determined her death was natural.