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They are still missing input from a number of residents of the following areas:
Zenia Bluff Road
Rancho Sequoia Road
Red Rock Road
Blue Rock Road
Willow Road
If you have not yet returned your census data, please contact Trudy at (541) 787-1269. The data is used for a number of purposes, including priorities for services funding. Plus, the Census Workers live out of the area, and they want to go home. They’re stuck here until you respond.
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June 24, 2010 at 12:38 pm
ED Denson
Why do they live out of the area? Was no one local willing to do the work?
June 24, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Eric Kirk
Good question.
June 24, 2010 at 12:52 pm
the reasonable anonymous
That was my thought, too. Local folks are more likely to understand the local rural culture (inlcuding the ganja economy) and would likely be much more successful contacting rural residents.
I don’t think its an intentional snub. I’m guessing it’s probably just an issue of scale — not enough population in SoHum for the Census Bureau to justify setting up a recruiting and training effort specific to SoHum.
June 24, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Eric Kirk
Or maybe they just couldn’t find enough local people willing to do the job.
June 24, 2010 at 1:13 pm
the reasonable anonymous
Maybe. But first you’d have to present some evidence that they even tried. The big Census Bureau office is in Eureka, nothing in SoHum. As I stated above, I don’t think its an intentional snub, just a question of scale. Probably unavoidable.
June 24, 2010 at 4:25 pm
sageplant
Do they really need to come to our house at 7 to 8 o’clock at night? even after i sent the forms in when they were first left on my gate? Do they have to come on fathers day also? As they did to a friend.
It seems like a very outdated way to “count” people.Between property ,schools,dmv,voting,births and deaths, there should be a pretty accurate number.
June 24, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Not A Native
Yeah RA, tell us more about the “ganga economy” that you so often remind us not to forget about. Maybe you’ll relate to us how you personally participate and have gained your deep knowledge.
June 24, 2010 at 6:19 pm
the reasonable anonymous
NAN, your bitterness/hatred is showing. As I’ve told you on numerous occassions, I’m not a grower.
How ’bout you? You’re always spouting off about the issue, so where does YOUR “deep knowledge” come from?
If you want to complain about local 215 growers, take your complaints to Humboldt Watershed Council / Healthy Humboldt’s Dr. Ken Miller. How many thousands of 215s did he hand out before he retired?
June 25, 2010 at 3:48 pm
whyMe
i AGREE!! “It seems like a very outdated way to “count” people.Between property …ETC there should be a pretty accurate number!!” 4 REAL. What an intrusion.
..& to RA “I’m not a grower. ” what? R U 2 stoopid to put a seed in the ground?
June 25, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Anonymous
gee whiz, I wonder why folks in Rancho or Zenia don’t want one of them tar pexky census workers hanging around??
June 29, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Anonymous
They seem to need more help than just counting people in rual areas. I turnd in the paperwork on time, then had a visit form a worker a month later, and now just got off the phone with the census worker asking the same questions. Three time counted?? Is this as backwards as you can get or is it just me?
June 29, 2010 at 6:40 pm
fustilarian
It is far more bass-akward than you know.
Twice this year I encountered very nice people cluelessly lost working from a map that had the nearest paved road and a maze of lines that represented real roads and, my guess, logging roads from the 60′s-70′s, many of which, needless to say, are overgrown and not in use. The last census worker was attempting to drive from Salmon Creek to Elk Ridge. Though that road was on his map, it has been locked and gated and thus Closed since before the 80′s, as I have been told. He was going to walk in.
My neighborhood went through a dance of getting our censuses, putting a sign up when we all complied because that way, as we were Census(lessly) told, the May and summer follow-ups wouldn’t come our way. One neighbor wanted to lock a gate because even though they had filled in their 2000 census in a timely fashion, they had a follow-up summer visit at their front door. We over-voted them to keep the gate open based upon what a census coordinator told me.
In the May return round, a census supervisor said that if people didn’t comply, the Census workers could come in with Sherriff support.
Now, in June, the last lost census puppy to come around said that many people were reporting that they had sent their censuses in early and were still getting visits. He suggested that the censuses just hadn’t been recorded yet…ie. the left hand and right hand of this bureaucracy aren’t talking.