Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Eric Skeans
By Terra Avilla
If you've been around Susanville for a while, you probably remember Eric Skeans from his absolute bomb burrito shop on Main Street. Back when I was working graveyard shifts, that place was literally my light at the end of the tunnel....
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: The Old Mill
By Terra Avilla
I had lived in Susanville for over eight years before I actually stopped at the mill. You drive past it, you see it sitting there along Riverside Drive… massive, weathered, impossible to miss and yet somehow I had totally taken it...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Cassie West (aka Cassie Dunn)
By Terra Avilla
Some people come into your life on purpose. And then some people come into your life because your daughter adopted their daughter as a best friend, you somehow ended up moving right next to her parents, and then because apparently that...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Correctional Officer Core Academy
By Terra Avilla
One of my favorite parts about working at Lassen College is being part of our Correctional Officer Core Academy… the unsung hero of law enforcement training.
This isn’t the big state academy that trains officers for the prison; this one’s all...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Layla Jacome
By Terra Avilla
I am officially in my era where writing about the youth in our community brings me the absolute most joy. There is just something so special about watching the next generation step up, and today’s spotlight belongs to the incredible Layla...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Rudy Valentine
By Terra Avilla
For this week's Why We Love This Place Wednesday, we are talking about a true Susanville legacy, Rudy Valentine.
If you have spent any time around the local martial arts scene, you already know the man who has kept a martial...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Aubrey, Amayah and Alliyah Yerington.
By Terra Avilla
Aubrey. Amayah. Alliyah. Yerington.
Whether it be college, high school, work, are just some of the places these young women should be. However, as I write this, all three of them are somewhere they never ever asked to be or deserved to...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Melissa Eid
By Terra Avilla
Oh, my sweet, sweet Melissa. You know those people you’ve technically known of forever, but never actually gotten to know? That was me and Melissa Eid.
Now I’ve been a big fan of the entire Eid family at its core for...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Stephen Lawton
By Terra Avilla
This week for Why We Love This Place Wednesday, I want to take a minute to recognize Deputy Stephen Lawton with the Lassen County Sheriff’s Department.
Fun fact-Stephen and I actually started in law enforcement within about 6 months of each other,...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: John Deal
By Terra Avilla
There are certain people who make Lassen County what it is - that small town magic that can’t be found anywhere else. For us, one of those people is John Deal
Now, everybody knows him as “JD.” Around here, you don’t even...
Why We Love This Place Wednesday: Laura Sevy
By Terra Avilla
"Don’t give up, Peach! You got this!"That’s the voice I heard. Strong, loving and impossible to miss echoing through the auditorium during Anna’s last jiu-jitsu match.
Some little kid out there was trying every sneaky move in the book, but Laura’s...
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