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  The supervisors received no answer when they sent a letter to the state, and aren’t hopeful that their resolution will fare any better, but they want the $1.2 million in CalFire fees collected from local property owners returned to the county.

  “We never got a response,” said Jerry Sipe, the county’s office of emergency services director, of the letter that the Plumas Board of Supervisors sent in October 2012.

  Hoping to bring more awareness to the problem of child abuse and neglect in Plumas County, the Plumas Board of Supervisors took a test.

  It was a test similar to one that they had taken before as part of declaring April Child Abuse Prevention and Family Strengthening Month.

Calpine’s Treasure Mountain 4-H kids and parents are hard at work raking leaves at the Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds in Quincy on April 6. The “mother of all workdays” was attended by a couple hundred volunteers who raked, cleaned, scraped, painted, pruned, bulldozed, hammered, reroofed and performed dozens of other tasks to clean up the county fairgrounds. They were rewarded for their efforts with a tasty lunch.Photos by Laura Beaton

  The Friends of Portola Railroad Days Citizen Interest Group is teaming with the Eastern Plumas Chamber of Commerce its first 2013 fundraiser: “Shiver at the River,” featuring a yo-yo challenge, Taste of Portola and a Rock Bottom Band concert on Saturday, April 20, at the Portola Veterans’ Memorial Hall.