Forty-year rural Nevada County resident John LeLange looks out over his 11-acre property Wednesday off Dixon Road that was recently masticated and abated of fire prone vegetation. LeLange’s property sits within the Ponderosa West Grass Valley Defense Zone shaded fuel break.
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The Ponderosa West Grass Valley Defense Zone project is close to wrapping up, with about 907 acres of land having been cleared of potential wildfire fuel out of a target of 1,200 acres.
An additional 60 acres are expected to be cleared by the end of April, with homeowners in these parcels having agreed to have their properties abated, said Jamie Jones, executive director of the Nevada County Fire Safe Council. The remaining 200-250 acres in the defense zone are owned by homeowners who have not yet responded to the county’s request to treat their properties for fuel abatement.
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Grass Valley’s Deborah Hassfeld watches nurse Joey Chandler administer her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine Thursday morning at the Whispering Pines vaccination clinic in Grass Valley. Nevada County Public Health recently announced that those 16 and over will now be available to make appointments for the inoculation through the MyTurn app.
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Dave Kecy chooses not to look as he receives his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Nalini Wilzbach Thursday morning at the Whispering Pines vaccine clinic.
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Whispering Pines Physician’s Assistant Donna Tully shows a representation of the vaccine’s antibodies attaching to the COVID-19 virus.