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"content": "\u003cp>Heavy snowfall in winter and spring in the Sierra Nevada, followed by relatively cool then rising temperatures in June, has led to an ongoing risk of avalanches into the summer — posing a threat to long-distance hikers on the famed Pacific Crest Trail, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jack Haskel, Pacific Crest Trail Association']'This year is different because of how much snow there is. And that means that there's continued avalanche danger.'[/pullquote]Thousands of people attempt to hike what’s known as the PCT every year, more than 2,600 miles through California, Oregon and Washington. And as the weather warms up, hikers hit the trail. But snow is still on the ground — and above normal for this time of year in some areas, said Emily Heller, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Temperatures are definitely increasing but they haven't got baking hot up high yet,” SP Parker, owner of the Bishop-based Sierra Mountain Center who has about 40 years of mountain guiding experience, said Thursday. What that means for conditions: “It's going to keep on avalanching for a little while yet,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker said he saw a “wet slab” avalanche — where the top surface was coming off as one cohesive layer — last week near the Sierra Crest ridgeline in Rock Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally we don't get those in June,” Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSHanford/status/1142161072461234176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3APCTAssociation%7Ctwcon%5Etimelinechrome&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcta.org%2F2019%2Favalanche-conditions-sierra-june-65895%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year things (avalanche danger) are persisting longer than usual and we've got different problems than usual,\" he said. \"I have lived in this area since 1980 and I can't remember seeing quite such a prevalent and pervasive wet slab cycle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center and the Sierra Avalanche Center have closed for the season, but people continue to post their observations to their websites. Some people reported avalanches in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/observations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late May\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.esavalanche.org/ObservationsPage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early June\u003c/a>, although those reports are unverified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='SP Parker, Sierra Mountain Center']'The key to success in the mountains is not necessarily rolling the dice when you don't have to.'[/pullquote]Increasing numbers of people are hiking the trail, about 5,000 last year, according to the Pacific Crest Trail Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year is different because of how much snow there is,” said Jack Haskel, the association’s trail information manager. “And that means that there's continued avalanche danger and ... all that snow melting in the stream crossings can be pretty dangerous out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's too early for most people to head out to the high peaks,” he said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people are out on the trail — it’s “prime time” — and you don’t have to be up on the peaks to encounter danger, Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='hiking' label='Related Coverage']“It's also what happens up above you. And there's certainly areas where the PCT and the JMT (\u003ca href=\"https://www.pcta.org/discover-the-trail/john-muir-trail/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Muir Trail\u003c/a>) cross through what we would call avalanche terrain, which is where you're exposed to a threat maybe from above,” he said. “There's also the high passes ... where you are actually up high in those conditions. Right now, people are beating out a trail through there, which can help. It can also give people a false sense of security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker said conditions are moving into a \"wet loose\" avalanche activity, which is “the classic idea of a snowball rolling down slope, gathering up more and more snow around it, and eventually becoming sort of a large wet mass that flows downhill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was out recently and looking up at the mountains and I'm seeing more of that type of activity,\" he said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though conditions were moving toward more stability, Parker, a former president of the American Mountain Guides Association, said he \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcta.org/2019/avalanche-conditions-sierra-june-65895/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was advising hikers\u003c/a> to be cautious and even wait to embark upon their PCT adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's some years, such as this year, where maybe it's just not a good idea to do the PCT,\" he said. \"Be prepared to come back and do it when things are in your favor. 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"content": "\u003cp>After weeks of adjustment and growth, four 6-week-old gray wolf pups at the Oakland Zoo have left the den and started exploring their enclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've become much more independent,\" said Alicia Powers, the senior zookeeper. \"They are roaming away from the den a lot more, and at this point they've explored pretty much all of their two-acre habitat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zoo acquired the mother and father — Siskiyou and Sequoia — in April 2018 as part of their partnership with the California Wolf Center, an organization dedicated to increasing the state's wild wolf population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757257\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Zoo's new gray wolf pups with their mother, Siskiyou.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1362\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups-1200x851.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Zoo's new gray wolf pups with their mother, Siskiyou. \u003ccite>(Steven Gotz/Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The parents were both born in captivity, then relocated to a two-acre enclosure in the zoo's California Trail exhibit, a habitat for species native to California. The two are referred to as \"ambassador animals\" — tamer wolves meant to be good representatives of their species for visitor education.[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"wolves\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pair arrived, zoo officials were hopeful the two wolves would bond and mate, forming a pack of their own, which according to the zoo, is \"important to the emotional health of the wolves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Siskiyou was a first-time mother and is considered an older wolf, the zoo planned for potential complications. However, with careful monitoring, the pack has done well and is currently \"thriving,\" according to zoo staff. None of the pups have yet been named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of the animals is part of a larger, controversial effort to bring wild wolves back to California, where they once were plentiful. Zoo staff hope that visitors learn more about the wolves and help foster goodwill toward animals that humans have long had a conflicted feelings about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757256\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland.jpg\" alt=\"Two of the Oakland Zoo's gray wolf pups undergo vaccinations and exams.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1338\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland-1200x836.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of the Oakland Zoo's gray wolf pups undergo vaccinations and exams. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1924, the last wild gray wolf in California was killed. There were no known wolves in California until 2011, when a lone wolf from Oregon entered Siskiyou County in search of new territory. According to Amaroq Weiss, a wolf specialist with the Center for Biological Diversity, there are only 10 to 12 wild wolves currently in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main enemy for wolves is really misinformation and fear,\" said Weiss. \"And so the best way to overcome that is education and firsthand exposure to wolves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a pack of ambassador wolves in the zoo is important for spreading knowledge and understanding, according to Powers, the zookeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public makes a more personal connection with animals when they do get the opportunity to see them,\" she said. \"What we at the Oakland Zoo, the Conservation Society of California, are really trying to do is educate guests on how to live with wildlife instead of this constant conflict, which is just going to continue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757254\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Zoo's four new gray wolf pups recently emerged from their den.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den-1200x845.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Zoo's four new gray wolf pups recently emerged from their den. \u003ccite>(Steven Gotz/Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the California Fish and Game Commission granted the gray wolf protection under the state's Endangered Species Act, an action quickly challenged in court by the Pacific Legal Foundation, the California Farm Bureau Federation and the California Cattlemen's Association. 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In a statement last March, the American Farm Bureau Federation said delisting the wolf from the endangered species list is \"a triumph of common sense we all should herald as a conservation success story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757255\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Mama-Wolf-With-Pups-Oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Mama-Wolf-With-Pups-Oakland.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Zoo's new gray wolf pups with their mother, Siskiyou.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1409\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Mama-Wolf-With-Pups-Oakland.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Mama-Wolf-With-Pups-Oakland-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Mama-Wolf-With-Pups-Oakland-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Mama-Wolf-With-Pups-Oakland-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Mama-Wolf-With-Pups-Oakland-1200x881.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Zoo's new gray wolf pups with their mother, Siskiyou. \u003ccite>(Steven Gotz/Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After weeks of adjustment and growth, four 6-week-old gray wolf pups at the Oakland Zoo have left the den and started exploring their enclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've become much more independent,\" said Alicia Powers, the senior zookeeper. \"They are roaming away from the den a lot more, and at this point they've explored pretty much all of their two-acre habitat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zoo acquired the mother and father — Siskiyou and Sequoia — in April 2018 as part of their partnership with the California Wolf Center, an organization dedicated to increasing the state's wild wolf population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757257\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Zoo's new gray wolf pups with their mother, Siskiyou.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1362\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Mom-With-Pups-1200x851.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Zoo's new gray wolf pups with their mother, Siskiyou. \u003ccite>(Steven Gotz/Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The parents were both born in captivity, then relocated to a two-acre enclosure in the zoo's California Trail exhibit, a habitat for species native to California. The two are referred to as \"ambassador animals\" — tamer wolves meant to be good representatives of their species for visitor education.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pair arrived, zoo officials were hopeful the two wolves would bond and mate, forming a pack of their own, which according to the zoo, is \"important to the emotional health of the wolves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Siskiyou was a first-time mother and is considered an older wolf, the zoo planned for potential complications. However, with careful monitoring, the pack has done well and is currently \"thriving,\" according to zoo staff. None of the pups have yet been named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of the animals is part of a larger, controversial effort to bring wild wolves back to California, where they once were plentiful. Zoo staff hope that visitors learn more about the wolves and help foster goodwill toward animals that humans have long had a conflicted feelings about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757256\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757256\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland.jpg\" alt=\"Two of the Oakland Zoo's gray wolf pups undergo vaccinations and exams.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1338\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Wolf-Vaccinations-Oakland-1200x836.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of the Oakland Zoo's gray wolf pups undergo vaccinations and exams. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1924, the last wild gray wolf in California was killed. There were no known wolves in California until 2011, when a lone wolf from Oregon entered Siskiyou County in search of new territory. According to Amaroq Weiss, a wolf specialist with the Center for Biological Diversity, there are only 10 to 12 wild wolves currently in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main enemy for wolves is really misinformation and fear,\" said Weiss. \"And so the best way to overcome that is education and firsthand exposure to wolves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a pack of ambassador wolves in the zoo is important for spreading knowledge and understanding, according to Powers, the zookeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public makes a more personal connection with animals when they do get the opportunity to see them,\" she said. \"What we at the Oakland Zoo, the Conservation Society of California, are really trying to do is educate guests on how to live with wildlife instead of this constant conflict, which is just going to continue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757254\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11757254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Zoo's four new gray wolf pups recently emerged from their den.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Playful-Wolf-Pups-Den-1200x845.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Zoo's four new gray wolf pups recently emerged from their den. \u003ccite>(Steven Gotz/Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the California Fish and Game Commission granted the gray wolf protection under the state's Endangered Species Act, an action quickly challenged in court by the Pacific Legal Foundation, the California Farm Bureau Federation and the California Cattlemen's Association. 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"content": "\u003cp>A committee of PG&E bondholders has put forward a $30 billion plan to accelerate the company's exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and settle the utility's legal liabilities arising from the catastrophic wildfires of 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6169237/PG-E-Creditors-Bankruptcy-Reorganization-Plan.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The proposal\u003c/a>, filed Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco, would set aside between $16 billion and $18.4 billion to pay the claims of wildfire victims, insurance companies and others. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan also includes a provision for the reconstituted PG&E -- which the bondholders suggested could be renamed the \"Golden State Power, Light & Gas Co.\" -- to contribute $4 billion to a new utility wildfire fund contemplated under legislation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11756347/newsom-proposes-huge-wildfire-insurance-fund-for-states-big-power-companies\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposed last week\u003c/a> by Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of responding to \"the obvious urgency,\" the bondholders said, PG&E has \"wasted crucial time needlessly overhauling its board of directors to protect and entrench the parochial interests of an aggressive new subset of equity holders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing says the plan would restore PG&E to financial health and help restore both its credit rating and those of the state's two other major utilities -- Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan also emphasizes that it will be \"rate neutral\" for PG&E ratepayers, meaning customers will not be required to pay the cost of the reorganization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As spelled out for Judge Montali in a 23-page term sheet, the bondholders proposed several different funds for paying those with wildfire-related legal claims against PG&E. The \"capped amount\" for each category:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>General wildfire claims: $5.45 billion\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>General insurance company claims: $6.82 billion\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tubbs Fire (Santa Rosa) claims: $570 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tubbs Fire insurance company claims: $975 million\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attorneys' fees and costs: $1.15 billion\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The bondholders' filing calls the payments a \"fair\" resolution to PG&E's current wildfire liabilities -- an opinion not shared by attorneys for the thousands of people who suffered losses in the historic blazes that have swept Northern California in the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those include last November's Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in and around the Butte County town of Paradise, and the October 2017 fires that killed 44 people in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and Yuba counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Campora, a Sacramento attorney who is representing many wildfire plaintiffs, said the suggested balance between payments to victims and their insurance companies \"made no sense.\" Under the plan, insurers stand to get $7.8 billion compared to about $6 billion for homeowners and other plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campora said that \"if history is any guide,\" victims ought to recover about triple the amount insurers receive in a settlement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These people didn't just lose property -- their homes, their tools, all the rest,\" he said. \"They suffered other damages. They had to run for their lives. They lost loved ones. Some of them were burned.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pg-e-float-31-billion-170229276.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported last week\u003c/a> that PG&E has begun circulating a reorganization plan that would include a $14 billion fund for past wildfire victims. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bondholders cautioned in their Tuesday filing that their plan will require California regulators and lawmakers to take a series of steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the plan depends on the Legislature passing some for of wildfire insurance plan and other relief as outlined by Gov. Newsom last week. And funding for the proposal hinges on a \"satisfactory conclusion\" to a pending PG&E rate request before the California Public Utilities Commission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement circulated to several media organizations, PG&E said it is \"committed to working together with our stakeholders through the Chapter 11 process to fairly and expeditiously resolve our liabilities resulting from the 2017 and 2018 Northern California wildfires, develop a more sustainable business model, and continue delivering safe and reliable service.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Benicia officials are set to consider a plan designed to keep the city and its residents better informed when the town's largest employer, the Valero refinery, has problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council on Tuesday plans to vote on an \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/383071/Staff_Report_-_Valero_Update_June_25_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement\u003c/a> with the company aimed at establishing a stronger air monitoring network, improving communication and giving the public more access to information about the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes three months after a series of serious refinery malfunctions and in the wake of a battle over operations at the facility that spilled over into the Solano County city's last council election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March the refinery sustained its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735870/two-parts-of-valeros-benicia-refinery-under-scrutiny-in-probe-of-pollution-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second major accident\u003c/a> in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The malfunction led to a significant release of soot and smoke that prompted a brief health advisory and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11745576/valero-restarts-benicia-refinery-helping-to-slow-statewide-gas-price-hike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 40-day shutdown\u003c/a> of the facility -- a closure that contributed to last spring's increase in gasoline prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/383072/1._Resolution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new proposal\u003c/a> up for a vote on Tuesday, Valero would pay $278,000 a year to fund a division chief position at the Benicia Fire Department. The person who holds that job would work as a public liaison and be the point of contact for residents who have concerns or complaints about releases from the refinery. Valero would respond to the division chief's \"reasonable requests for information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also calls for Valero to give risk management and safety plans to the city, provide the Fire Department with incident reports 72 hours after significant refinery malfunctions and hand over investigative reports to city officials. The city would also work to create a \"single, easy\" place where residents can find such reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also promises improved air monitoring by Valero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November, the company completed installation of a set of air monitors along parts of the fence line of its refinery. But after the releases in March, the site that publishes the fence line data included a warning that all of its measurements should be considered \"questionable until further notice\" because several of its parts required adjustments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staff say Valero plans to build, install and maintain more air monitors along its northwest boundary at a cost of $1.5 million. The company is also expected to spend $460,000 on adding \"community\" air monitors that would be located in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure has drawn mixed reaction from members of the City Council, which in the past has considered an industrial safety ordinance, or ISO, to give local officials more oversight of the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benicia Mayor Elizabeth Patterson called the proposal a \"good first step\" but wanted assurances the new air monitors would be effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We clearly need to improve our air quality and acknowledge all the sources of air pollution,\" Patterson said in an email Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This looks like a decent attempt to deal with all the issues that have been presented regarding air monitors and ISOs,\" said Councilman Tom Campbell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Campbell pointed out that there's no timetable for the proposed actions. He said if the Fire Department's new division chief who worked as a public liaison is aggressive, the agreement would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The division chief is in our seat at the table,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Steve Young called the proposal \"an improvement\" over current practices, but said it should be stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There should also be warnings to the public prior to any planned instances of increased flaring, as happens during turnarounds or other major maintenance activities,\" Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Christina Strawbridge, the town's vice mayor, called the agreement \"well thought out and void of politics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Valero declined to comment on the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The March problems were the latest in a series of incidents in which the city and company have sometimes been at odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2016, the Benicia City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/21/benicia-valero-crude-oil-by-rail-facility-rejected-by-city-council/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected Valero's plan\u003c/a> to build a railroad terminal that would allow trains to deliver crude petroleum to the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2017, the refinery suffered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11685464/state-decides-not-to-penalize-pge-for-major-valero-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a power outage\u003c/a> that triggered the release of more than 80,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 2017 episode led to an effort by some on the council to consider an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11675407/in-wake-of-valero-refinery-incident-benicia-weighs-whether-to-pursue-safety-ordinance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">industrial safety ordinance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Patterson, who complained that Valero and agencies that have oversight of its refinery have failed to provide the city \"a seat at the table\" when it comes to information about the facility's problems, championed the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11675407/in-wake-of-valero-refinery-incident-benicia-weighs-whether-to-pursue-safety-ordinance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected the ordinance\u003c/a> a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But debate over the regulations set the stage for last November's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704576/valero-backed-candidates-win-benicia-city-council-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hard-fought election\u003c/a> in which Strawbridge and another council candidate, both backed by a political action committee funded by Valero and its workers' unions, beat an environmentalist candidate backed by Patterson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge, who voted against Valero's bid to build a crude-by-rail terminal, acknowledged in an email Sunday that \"tension had escalated with the refinery since the city went through that process. 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The agency data included spills from 2016 through 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/ventura/2018/12/22/crimson-pipeline-oil-spill-ventura-spurs-homeowner-lawsuits/2318377002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Crimson line ruptured\u003c/a>, spilling 45,000 gallons of crude in Ventura. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-live-updates-oil-spill-ventura-crimson-pipeline-has-history-of-spills-1466709978-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> reported the company had recorded 10 spills in the previous decade, totaling 313,000 gallons and causing close to $6 million in property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weimer said the CPUC should require Crimson to explain its record of spills. He added that regulators should consider how the Shell pipeline system works when assessing Crimson’s purchase proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shell pipeline carries crude that’s heated and pushed through at different pressures, two factors that raise safety challenges, according to Weimer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell’s pipeline problems arose “because of those two exact things,” Weimer said. “They need to make sure that Crimson has the ability to deal with those types of issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Crimson did not respond to a request for comment on industry and safety concerns tied to the proposed sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sale Raises Industry Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell and Crimson announced the pipeline deal in January. Crimson, which owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.crimsonmidstream.com/pipeline-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several other lines\u003c/a> in California and Louisiana, \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M281/K395/281395615.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed paperwork\u003c/a> in April asking the CPUC to approve the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That centerpiece of the deal is the San Pablo Bay Pipeline, a 177-mile system that runs up the west side of the San Joaquin Valley from Coalinga, across the southwestern edge of the Delta, and through the hills of eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties to the Shell and Marathon refineries in Martinez and Valero in Benicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Pablo Bay system is one of three pipelines that bring crude oil to Bay Area refineries. Crimson already owns a line known as the KLM pipeline, and Phillips 66 runs a pipeline that brings crude from Kern County to its refinery in Rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crimson says in its CPUC filing its plan to buy the Shell line is in the public interest, would benefit producers and refineries, and would not harm competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell says it wants to sell its pipelines in California because they “are not a strategic fit in its portfolio,” company spokesman Ray Fisher said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month Shell \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11754005/shell-to-sell-martinez-refinery-for-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to sell its Martinez refinery\u003c/a> to PBF Energy, a large independent refining company, for up to $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oil Giants That Run Bay Area Refineries Want Assurances\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valero Energy Co., which has a major refinery in Benicia, and Marathon Petroleum, which owns the old Tesoro refinery (formerly known as the Golden Eagle refinery) in Martinez, have filed \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M294/K815/294815760.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official protests\u003c/a> with the CPUC over the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major oil companies, referred to as “joint shippers” in their CPUC filing, say they fear Crimson will charge them more than Shell currently does to transport crude to their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joint shippers respectfully urge the commission to direct Crimson to provide, and to carefully review, Crimson’s financial books and records to properly assess whether Crimson is economically equipped to acquire yet another large pipeline infrastructure,” the companies wrote to the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero and Marathon say they want assurances that Crimson will continue to provide heated crude to Bay Area refineries, as Shell has been doing. The also want to know whether the company plans to consolidate what would be its two lines between the Central Valley and Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero and Marathon declined comment beyond the public filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Independent Producers Protest Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trade association representing 500 independent crude oil and natural gas producers and other companies \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M290/K324/290324430.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has also filed a protest\u003c/a> with the CPUC over the proposed sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By any measure, Crimson will have substantial market power over a critical pipeline for California petroleum resources,” said the filing from the California Independent Petroleum Association. The group said it represents about 70% of the state’s oil producers and 90% of its natural gas producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association wants to be assured that if the sale goes through, its members rates won’t change for at least five years. It expressed worries that if Crimson were to shut down one of the two main pipelines, some of its members would be forced to truck their product to Bay Area refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns may be tied to a change in oil production in the last couple of decades: Oil producers are pumping out less oil, and both the Shell and KLM lines are carrying less crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Much of the active pipeline capacity out of the San Joaquin Valley is unfilled,” Crimson said in its filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can have a negative effect on line performance. If a pipeline has too little oil, the fuel can solidify and damage the line. 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He added that regulators should consider how the Shell pipeline system works when assessing Crimson’s purchase proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shell pipeline carries crude that’s heated and pushed through at different pressures, two factors that raise safety challenges, according to Weimer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell’s pipeline problems arose “because of those two exact things,” Weimer said. “They need to make sure that Crimson has the ability to deal with those types of issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Crimson did not respond to a request for comment on industry and safety concerns tied to the proposed sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sale Raises Industry Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell and Crimson announced the pipeline deal in January. Crimson, which owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.crimsonmidstream.com/pipeline-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several other lines\u003c/a> in California and Louisiana, \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M281/K395/281395615.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed paperwork\u003c/a> in April asking the CPUC to approve the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That centerpiece of the deal is the San Pablo Bay Pipeline, a 177-mile system that runs up the west side of the San Joaquin Valley from Coalinga, across the southwestern edge of the Delta, and through the hills of eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties to the Shell and Marathon refineries in Martinez and Valero in Benicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Pablo Bay system is one of three pipelines that bring crude oil to Bay Area refineries. Crimson already owns a line known as the KLM pipeline, and Phillips 66 runs a pipeline that brings crude from Kern County to its refinery in Rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crimson says in its CPUC filing its plan to buy the Shell line is in the public interest, would benefit producers and refineries, and would not harm competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell says it wants to sell its pipelines in California because they “are not a strategic fit in its portfolio,” company spokesman Ray Fisher said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month Shell \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11754005/shell-to-sell-martinez-refinery-for-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to sell its Martinez refinery\u003c/a> to PBF Energy, a large independent refining company, for up to $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oil Giants That Run Bay Area Refineries Want Assurances\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valero Energy Co., which has a major refinery in Benicia, and Marathon Petroleum, which owns the old Tesoro refinery (formerly known as the Golden Eagle refinery) in Martinez, have filed \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M294/K815/294815760.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official protests\u003c/a> with the CPUC over the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major oil companies, referred to as “joint shippers” in their CPUC filing, say they fear Crimson will charge them more than Shell currently does to transport crude to their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joint shippers respectfully urge the commission to direct Crimson to provide, and to carefully review, Crimson’s financial books and records to properly assess whether Crimson is economically equipped to acquire yet another large pipeline infrastructure,” the companies wrote to the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero and Marathon say they want assurances that Crimson will continue to provide heated crude to Bay Area refineries, as Shell has been doing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Every morning, sisters Julie Malik and Nell Cox stand at a counter preparing hamburger patties. They are the co-owners of Damburger, a Redding burger joint that their parents bought in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malik grabs freshly ground hamburger meat with an ice cream scoop to make meatballs. Down the line, Cox smashes the meatballs in a tortilla press, making 300 patties a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The super-thin patty is a Damburger original. It’s so thin, it gets crispy on the edges and it’s never served with a tomato — it’s a signature item that Damburger has been making since the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People come in that haven’t been here for 20 years and they say, ‘It tastes just the same,’ \" Cox says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This simple burger has helped fuel one of the most impactful engineering feats in the state’s history — the Shasta Dam — by nourishing the workers who came to build it. And Damburger would eventually help shape the community of Redding, where many of the workers and their families settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11755943\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nell Cox prepares Damburger's super-thin patties, first making meatballs with an ice cream scoop, then smashing them in a tortilla press. Her parents bought Damburger in 1979. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The Best Hamburger By A Dam Site'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like during the Gold Rush — where some of the most successful people were those who sold picks and shovels instead of mining for gold — some of the people who profited from the Shasta Dam project never poured concrete or welded a frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they built businesses that sold things the workers wanted. In the case of Damburger, whose restaurant motto is, “The best hamburger by a dam site,” the business grew from sustaining workers as they worked on the Shasta Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bud Pennington created the Damburger when he came down from Oregon in 1938, the same year construction began. He set up what today we’d call a pop-up shop right next to the place he knew a bunch of hungry guys would be: the hiring hall for the Shasta Dam. People say that he used tree stumps for seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11756076\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damburger's signature burger, with its super-thin patty. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, Damburger got a permanent location. Pennington married Babe, the daughter of his meat supplier, and they hired one employee, a feisty woman named Marge Thayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three of them were characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lots of jokes, lots of teasing,\" Cox says. \"You could come in and get a good ribbing with your lunch, and maybe enjoy a drink or two with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sister confirms stories that Pennington was happy to add a little whiskey to customers' coffee. \"We have a couple photos and you can see a flask on the counter,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thayer, who wasn’t great with names, knew customers by their orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Here comes a double with onions!'\" Malik recalls Thayer saying. Or sometimes she’s just call customers \"Curly\" regardless of their real names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thayer worked at the restaurant for 44 years, and it’s rumored that when she died, she was buried in her Damburger T-shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Shasta Dam Shaped California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta Dam is just 15 miles from the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheri Harral with the Bureau of Reclamation says it releases 40,000 cubic feet of water per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call this our Little Niagara Falls,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11756069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shasta Dam, spring 2019. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dam is taller and wider than the Washington Monument. It was built to prevent flooding and to provide power to Bay Area factories manufacturing planes and ships. The federal government submerged former mining towns, flooded Native American village sites and interrupted the flow of the Sacramento River and its salmon run to build the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, water from the Shasta Dam irrigates over a million acres of Central Valley farmland, and its power plant generates enough electricity for every home in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s the major source of water for the Central Valley Project\" Harral says. \"It goes 500 miles all the way down to Bakersfield.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For good and for bad, California wouldn’t be what it is today without the Shasta Dam. The same could be said about Redding, where Damburger is located. Resorts and marinas line the shores of Lake Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighty years ago, the dam’s construction changed the area's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harral says construction on the dam, which went 24 hours a day from 1938 into World War II, began just after the Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People came from everywhere, once the word got out that there was going to be a dam project here, in hopes of getting one of the 4,700 jobs that this project provided,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11755940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1-800x556.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1-1200x833.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two transport trucks used to convey workers to and from the job site. Dec. 20, 1941 \u003ccite>(Bureau of Reclamation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Full Circle’ for the Family of One Shasta Dam Worker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the people who sought work at the dam was Sharon Thon’s father. Her family lived on a farm about 70 miles away, but moved to the dam site when she was in third grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just meant security for Daddy and for the family, he was always happy he did it,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worked as a welder on the project for a year, but the dam would continue to benefit Thon’s family in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1652px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11755899\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1652\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut.jpg 1652w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-160x198.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-800x992.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-1020x1264.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-968x1200.jpg 968w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-1920x2380.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1652px) 100vw, 1652px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">K-6849-CV Kennett Division. Shasta Dam. Concrete placing crew of Pacific Constructors Inc. grouped around the last bucket of concrete for Shasta Dam. \u003ccite>(Bureau of Reclamation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When her parents decided to move back to their farm, they bought a house in a mining town so they could salvage the parts. The town was in the path of the water that would flow from the dam once it was complete, and some of the abandoned houses were going for $50 and the hotel for $100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We completely dismantled it,\" she remembers. \"Every weekend we worked on the house, taking down the boards, the lathe, the bricks, the works.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family took all of these materials and used them to add onto their farmhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Sharon Thon married her husband, Iver, and moved to Redding, where they rented a modest home. She was surprised to find out later that it had once been a house provided to a dam worker that had been moved into town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found out they were called 'dam houses,' that it had been moved from the dam,\" she says. \"It’s just crazy to think that we actually moved into a dam house. Another one. It really was a circle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loyal Customers Get 'Tags'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thons are longtime Damburger customers. Iver Thon guesses they first started dining there back in the 1950s, before you could order french fries or get cheese with your hamburger, when Damburger had only a row of stools, not the handful of tables and patio seating it has today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Malik takes the Thons' order, she doesn’t need to ask what they want. They order the same thing every time: a hamburger for him, cheeseburger for her, and fries to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thons live around the corner from a Carl’s Jr., but they drive 15 minutes to come to Damburger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think we eat hamburgers anyplace else,\" says Sharon Thon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11755937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon and Iver Thon have been Damburger regulars since the 1950s. Her father worked on the Shasta Dam for one year, when she was in the third grade. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chet Sunde, another regular, admits he comes to Damburger at least three times a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes five or six,\" he says. “Obviously, it has a history going back to the dam, but I remember coming here with my dad when I was probably 10, so I’ve been coming here 40 years. It’s just part of the town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He just tells Damburger employees that he wants his usual and they know exactly what to make for him: a Double Dam cheeseburger, fries and an iced tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of regulars, Sunde has a \"tag\" — meaning his usual order is in a file folder at Damburger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels good that they recognize who you are. You feel you’re part of the family,\" says Sunde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11756066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damburger regulars who always eat the same things earn what’s called a tag. Their order is permanently on file here. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cox and Malik say those tags are convenient, but they also have a lot of meaning, especially when a longtime customer dies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will lose customers. We’ll have to take their tag out of the box. It’s sad,\" Nell says, adding that sometimes their family members will come in and get their tag, as a memento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malik remembers one longtime customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We actually had a family come in and ask if they could sprinkle some of his ashes in our flower beds because this was his favorite place,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People have held high school reunions at Damburger. One man rented it out for a big anniversary for his wife. Malik and Cox's dad put out a tablecloth and candles, and the cook wore a tuxedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox says she was just 6 years old when her family bought Damburger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve moved homes, but this has always been in my life as far as I can remember,\" Cox says. \"And I think it’s like that for a lot of customers, too. It’s personal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every morning, sisters Julie Malik and Nell Cox stand at a counter preparing hamburger patties. They are the co-owners of Damburger, a Redding burger joint that their parents bought in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malik grabs freshly ground hamburger meat with an ice cream scoop to make meatballs. Down the line, Cox smashes the meatballs in a tortilla press, making 300 patties a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The super-thin patty is a Damburger original. It’s so thin, it gets crispy on the edges and it’s never served with a tomato — it’s a signature item that Damburger has been making since the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People come in that haven’t been here for 20 years and they say, ‘It tastes just the same,’ \" Cox says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This simple burger has helped fuel one of the most impactful engineering feats in the state’s history — the Shasta Dam — by nourishing the workers who came to build it. And Damburger would eventually help shape the community of Redding, where many of the workers and their families settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11755943\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37343_IMG_1452-qut-e1561050787909-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nell Cox prepares Damburger's super-thin patties, first making meatballs with an ice cream scoop, then smashing them in a tortilla press. Her parents bought Damburger in 1979. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The Best Hamburger By A Dam Site'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like during the Gold Rush — where some of the most successful people were those who sold picks and shovels instead of mining for gold — some of the people who profited from the Shasta Dam project never poured concrete or welded a frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they built businesses that sold things the workers wanted. In the case of Damburger, whose restaurant motto is, “The best hamburger by a dam site,” the business grew from sustaining workers as they worked on the Shasta Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bud Pennington created the Damburger when he came down from Oregon in 1938, the same year construction began. He set up what today we’d call a pop-up shop right next to the place he knew a bunch of hungry guys would be: the hiring hall for the Shasta Dam. People say that he used tree stumps for seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11756076\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37342_IMG_1473-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damburger's signature burger, with its super-thin patty. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, Damburger got a permanent location. Pennington married Babe, the daughter of his meat supplier, and they hired one employee, a feisty woman named Marge Thayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three of them were characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lots of jokes, lots of teasing,\" Cox says. \"You could come in and get a good ribbing with your lunch, and maybe enjoy a drink or two with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sister confirms stories that Pennington was happy to add a little whiskey to customers' coffee. \"We have a couple photos and you can see a flask on the counter,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thayer, who wasn’t great with names, knew customers by their orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Here comes a double with onions!'\" Malik recalls Thayer saying. Or sometimes she’s just call customers \"Curly\" regardless of their real names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thayer worked at the restaurant for 44 years, and it’s rumored that when she died, she was buried in her Damburger T-shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Shasta Dam Shaped California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta Dam is just 15 miles from the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheri Harral with the Bureau of Reclamation says it releases 40,000 cubic feet of water per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call this our Little Niagara Falls,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11756069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37339_IMG_1436-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shasta Dam, spring 2019. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dam is taller and wider than the Washington Monument. It was built to prevent flooding and to provide power to Bay Area factories manufacturing planes and ships. The federal government submerged former mining towns, flooded Native American village sites and interrupted the flow of the Sacramento River and its salmon run to build the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, water from the Shasta Dam irrigates over a million acres of Central Valley farmland, and its power plant generates enough electricity for every home in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s the major source of water for the Central Valley Project\" Harral says. \"It goes 500 miles all the way down to Bakersfield.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For good and for bad, California wouldn’t be what it is today without the Shasta Dam. The same could be said about Redding, where Damburger is located. Resorts and marinas line the shores of Lake Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighty years ago, the dam’s construction changed the area's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harral says construction on the dam, which went 24 hours a day from 1938 into World War II, began just after the Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People came from everywhere, once the word got out that there was going to be a dam project here, in hopes of getting one of the 4,700 jobs that this project provided,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11755940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1-800x556.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37337_k-3442-cv-qut-1-1200x833.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two transport trucks used to convey workers to and from the job site. Dec. 20, 1941 \u003ccite>(Bureau of Reclamation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Full Circle’ for the Family of One Shasta Dam Worker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the people who sought work at the dam was Sharon Thon’s father. Her family lived on a farm about 70 miles away, but moved to the dam site when she was in third grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just meant security for Daddy and for the family, he was always happy he did it,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worked as a welder on the project for a year, but the dam would continue to benefit Thon’s family in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1652px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11755899\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1652\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut.jpg 1652w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-160x198.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-800x992.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-1020x1264.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-968x1200.jpg 968w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37338_K-6849-CV-Shasta-Dam-2-qut-1920x2380.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1652px) 100vw, 1652px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">K-6849-CV Kennett Division. Shasta Dam. Concrete placing crew of Pacific Constructors Inc. grouped around the last bucket of concrete for Shasta Dam. \u003ccite>(Bureau of Reclamation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When her parents decided to move back to their farm, they bought a house in a mining town so they could salvage the parts. The town was in the path of the water that would flow from the dam once it was complete, and some of the abandoned houses were going for $50 and the hotel for $100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We completely dismantled it,\" she remembers. \"Every weekend we worked on the house, taking down the boards, the lathe, the bricks, the works.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family took all of these materials and used them to add onto their farmhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Sharon Thon married her husband, Iver, and moved to Redding, where they rented a modest home. She was surprised to find out later that it had once been a house provided to a dam worker that had been moved into town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found out they were called 'dam houses,' that it had been moved from the dam,\" she says. \"It’s just crazy to think that we actually moved into a dam house. Another one. It really was a circle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loyal Customers Get 'Tags'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thons are longtime Damburger customers. Iver Thon guesses they first started dining there back in the 1950s, before you could order french fries or get cheese with your hamburger, when Damburger had only a row of stools, not the handful of tables and patio seating it has today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Malik takes the Thons' order, she doesn’t need to ask what they want. They order the same thing every time: a hamburger for him, cheeseburger for her, and fries to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thons live around the corner from a Carl’s Jr., but they drive 15 minutes to come to Damburger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think we eat hamburgers anyplace else,\" says Sharon Thon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11755937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37341_IMG_1466-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon and Iver Thon have been Damburger regulars since the 1950s. Her father worked on the Shasta Dam for one year, when she was in the third grade. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chet Sunde, another regular, admits he comes to Damburger at least three times a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes five or six,\" he says. “Obviously, it has a history going back to the dam, but I remember coming here with my dad when I was probably 10, so I’ve been coming here 40 years. It’s just part of the town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He just tells Damburger employees that he wants his usual and they know exactly what to make for him: a Double Dam cheeseburger, fries and an iced tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of regulars, Sunde has a \"tag\" — meaning his usual order is in a file folder at Damburger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels good that they recognize who you are. You feel you’re part of the family,\" says Sunde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11756066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37345_IMG_1483-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damburger regulars who always eat the same things earn what’s called a tag. Their order is permanently on file here. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cox and Malik say those tags are convenient, but they also have a lot of meaning, especially when a longtime customer dies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will lose customers. We’ll have to take their tag out of the box. It’s sad,\" Nell says, adding that sometimes their family members will come in and get their tag, as a memento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malik remembers one longtime customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We actually had a family come in and ask if they could sprinkle some of his ashes in our flower beds because this was his favorite place,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People have held high school reunions at Damburger. One man rented it out for a big anniversary for his wife. Malik and Cox's dad put out a tablecloth and candles, and the cook wore a tuxedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox says she was just 6 years old when her family bought Damburger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve moved homes, but this has always been in my life as far as I can remember,\" Cox says. \"And I think it’s like that for a lot of customers, too. It’s personal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A humpback whale that had been circling the waters near Alameda's shoreline for more than two weeks has apparently moved on in search of more expansive (and presumably affordable) real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The adult female whale, which was affectionately named \"Allie\" by adoring onlookers who lined the shore for days to get a rare closeup glimpse of the animal breaching or spouting, was last seen on Saturday afternoon at the main opening of the breakwater closer to the open bay, said Bill Keener, a researcher with The Marine Mammal Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jpd/status/1134986570069528576\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We assume the whale is either in the bay or heading out towards the open ocean near the Golden Gate,\" Keener said. \"But the whale’s location is unknown at this time. We don't know what prompted it to leave, but it's possible that it finally oriented itself, and had rested sufficiently in the protected waters of Alameda to attempt travel out into the bay and beyond.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marin Headlands-based center had been monitoring the whale since May 27, when it was first spotted in Alameda's protected Seaplane Lagoon in the shallow waters off the former Alameda Naval Air Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753045\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Humpback-whale-Alameda-06.02.19-Photo-by-Bill-Keener-%C2%A9-The-Marine-Mammal-Center-e1559926514288.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11753045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Humpback-whale-Alameda-06.02.19-Photo-by-Bill-Keener-%C2%A9-The-Marine-Mammal-Center-e1559926514288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1349\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A female humpback whale breaches in a small lagoon in the bay near the Alameda Naval Station, where it was first spotted on May 27. \u003ccite>(Bill Keener/Marine Mammal Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The baleen whale appeared to be noticeably underweight, with unhealthy skin, said Keener, who observed the animal closely by boat in the days after it was first spotted. He estimates that it's roughly 45 feet in length. It had no visible wounds or other indications of external injury or entanglement, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although humpback whales have been spotted at this time of year near the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, where they feed on anchovies, it's highly unusual for them to swim this far into shallow waters and remain for any length of time, Keener said. He speculated that the whale was in poor health and sought shelter in a calmer area to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whale then moved to an outer break wall close to where the USS Hornet is docked. Keener said it appeared more energetic there, increasingly breaching and tail slapping, even as it had not appeared to gain substantial weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know if was able to efficiently obtain food while in Alameda, but it had not appreciably gained weight judging from the thickness of its blubber layer,\" he said. \"Its skin condition had not improved, either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the whale left the shallow waters near Alameda, Keener and his group searched the bay but found no signs of it. He's since alerted commercial vessels and the local boating community to be on the lookout. Mariners should be aware that a large whale may be moving around in the bay, and not come close to it, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753185\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Humpback-whale-Alameda-05.30.19-Photo-by-Bill-Keener-%C2%A9-The-Marine-Mammal-Center-1-e1559939629204.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11753185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Humpback-whale-Alameda-05.30.19-Photo-by-Bill-Keener-%C2%A9-The-Marine-Mammal-Center-1-e1559939629204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1469\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The humpback whale swam very close to shore in early June in Alameda's Seaplane Lagoon. \u003ccite>(Bill Keener/The Marine Mammal Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Our hope is that we will be able to find the Alameda whale out in the ocean at some point in the future,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A period of time spent in a sheltered area shouldn't compromise the whale's ability to return to the ocean, he added, as long as it's generally healthy enough to make the journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have seen other cetacean species spend a long time in the bay and successfully return to the ocean,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1985, Humphrey, another humpback whale, remained in the bay and Sacramento River system for over 3 weeks, and was later found to be healthy in the ocean. And In 2015, a bottlenose dolphin spent a month in a quiet protected area of the bay near South San Francisco and later left on its own accord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had repeated sightings of that dolphin acting normally with groups of other bottlenose dolphins,\" Keener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unlikely that the whale’s distressed physical condition had any correlation to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11751555/feds-plan-to-investigate-spike-in-gray-whale-deaths-on-west-coast-as-unusual-mortality-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slew of gray whale deaths\u003c/a> that have been reported along the West Coast this year, prompting government officials last week to declare a wildlife emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two species of whales have completely different migration patterns, Keener said. While the gray whales' summer feeding grounds are in the Arctic, humpbacks typically migrate from Mexico to California, and as far north as Alaska, where food is abundant at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is their feeding ground,\" Keener said. \"There's plenty of food here. 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