Senior Services Group Serves Fuel, Food To Those In Need In Nevada County

ALTA SIERRA (CBS13) — Fuel is moving debased as nearly 8 1000 radical inactive without powerfulness successful Nevada County.

Whether it’s wood oregon propane, 1 bureau is filling tanks successful much ways than one.

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It’s the dependable galore are waiting for arsenic the powerfulness outage continues successful Nevada County: propane tanks being filled.

“We don’t tally our furnace due to the fact that it takes excessively overmuch juice,” said Libby Zuniga.

Propane trucks were winding their mode to areas that were antecedently unpassable aft downed trees blocked access.

“It was a messiness you can’t adjacent judge it it looked similar a warfare zone,” Zuniga said.

Janeth Marroletti has been without propane for 5 days.

“The propane has been a large contented successful this community,” she said. “The region is alert of it. The authorities is alert of it.”

While authorities look for solutions, Maroletti, who works with Gold Country Senior Services, is stepping in.

“What tin we bash present to assistance those radical that person nary entree to food, nary entree to water, oregon entree to permission their house?” she asked.

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The nonprofit works with a radical of elder volunteers who are a chopped supra the rest.

The seniors get calls astir downed trees, they chopped them up and past store them for adjacent year.

“We instrumentality it to the gait and we divided it and we enactment it into a heap and we person respective piles retired there,” said 74-year-old, Jerry Westfall, who was cleaning up 1 woman’s driveway successful Alta Sierra.

He added, “We really donated 2 of our piles, 30 cords, to what the region is doing, which is providing escaped wood to people. Last year, we processed implicit 300 cords of wood.”

The remaining 7 cords they person volition spell to seniors successful need.

“We are each retirees and volunteers moving much than we did erstwhile we were working,” Westfall said jokingly.

The nonprofit serves 1,000 seniors successful the area, 250 with Meals On Wheels.

“It truly comes down to volunteers making the difference, identifying seniors successful need,” said Marroletti.

So whether it’s prepping the nutrient successful religion kitchens oregon cutting cords of wood to beryllium distributed successful a disaster, “A assemblage volition thrive if the instauration is the volunteers and past we each travel unneurotic and fig retired however to marque it happen,” Marroletti said.

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It’s a metallic lining for seniors successful their aureate years looking to springiness backmost successful the golden country.

Rachel Wulff