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  • Monday, Sep 26, 2016
    Posted in: Drought, Featured News, Water, Water Supply and Drought

    RCAC helps homeowners replace dry wells

    California’s severe drought continues with no end in sight and families across the state face life without water—something most of us can only imagine—as wells run dry. Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) has been helping homeowners through the California household/small water system drought assistance (HSWSDA) loan/grant program.

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  • Posted in: Network News

    Network News Sept. 2016

    All children get stomachaches, Melanie Whelchel thought when her 3-year-old son Jessen suffered yet another one in 2013. At the time, she blamed a virus, although Jessen had been vomiting. Even an X-ray of a lump on Jessen’s abdomen indicated harmless constipation. But during one feverish middle-of-the-night attack, with Jessen curled up in agony, a frantic Whelchel rushed him to an emergency room in Chico, where they live.

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  • Tuesday, Sep 20, 2016
    Posted in: Self-Help Builder News

    Self-Help Builder Sept. 2016 Volume 9, Issue #4

    As we have reported, Rural Development (RD) has announced a pilot to use the “banded” method to determine low- and very low income status in 23 states and territories across the country. Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington are the six western states where this pilot will be tested for the next two years.

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