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The Placer Life
by Placer County
The Placer Life shares gripping, touching, humorous or interesting stories of the amazing people and places of beautiful Placer County -- California’s best kept secret. From harrowing tales of wilderness survival to fascinating oral history from Placer’s greatest generation, hear from the real people of Placer why it’s the best place on earth to live, work, play and learn - and why we are proud to enjoy what we call the Placer Life. The Placer Life is a production of Placer County, California.
Episodes
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Bonus Episode: The Placer life during World War II - Inside the Lines
In this special bonus episode of our miniseries, The Placer Life during World War II, we step inside the world of Martín Ramírez, the internationally celebrated self-taught artist who created hundreds of extraordinary drawings while living at the former DeWitt State Hospital in Placer County....
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The Placer life during World War II - The Heart of Auburn
World War II was perhaps most visible to Placer County residents in the form of the Army’s DeWitt General Hospital in Auburn. Developed in 1943 to treat servicemembers injured in the Pacific Theater, it transformed the community in ways that still resonate today. In this final episode of our...
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The Placer life during World War II - Seeds of hope
Placer County is home to one of America’s oldest Japanese communities. Many Japanese immigrants built a life here in agriculture. And despite hardships and prejudice, Placer’s Japanese families and Japan towns thrived. Until World War II, when Japanese exclusion laws and internment threatened to...
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Healing beyond the battlefield
As veterans return to civilian life, many face new battles — all too commonly grappling with PTSD or confronting mental health and substance use challenges. This Veterans Day, we explore the transformative impact of Placer County’s Veterans Court through the stories of two local veterans in...
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The Placer life during World War II - Climb to Glory
Maybe you've driven by the "10th Mountain Division Memorial Highway" signs on your way to the mountain resorts along state Route 89. And maybe you've wondered, why here? There's no official connection to the 10th at all here, really. But in fact, the Tahoe we know and love today - and America's...
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Prologue: The Placer life during World War II
In this first episode of our new four-part miniseries on the experience of World War II in Placer County, Placer Museums Administrator Ralph Gibson explains what life looked like before and during the war, and the enduring consequences of the war we still experience here today. A transcript of…
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Defying the odds: Aging out of foster care in Placer County
Foster youth are less likely to graduate from high school than their peers; less likely to enroll in college; more likely to be unemployed; more likely to experience mental health and substance use challenges; and more likely to become homeless. A renewed focus on transition age youth who are…
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From Ukraine to Placer: Oleysa’s refugee story
One morning in February, Oleysa awoke to the sound of bombing. What followed was a harrowing months-long journey that brought her to a new life in Placer County, which is home to a growing number of refugees from Ukraine. In this episode, hear how they’ve adjusted to and embraced The Placer Life....
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Introducing the "One Pill Can Kill" podcast
Futures don’t come much brighter than Zach Didier’s. At 17, Zach was a standout student at Rocklin’s Whitney High School. A star athlete and actor. A self-taught musician. He could’ve done anything. Everyone thought so. He died at Christmas - after taking a pill he didn't know was fake he bought…
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The Placer Dead returns: The haunting of Butterworth's
The Placer Dead has returned! Would you stay the night in a house you knew to be haunted? Lois Larimore did exactly that and lived to tell the tale. She shares her experience and other creepy happenings from her youth while working at the old Butterworth's restaurant in Old Auburn. Lois also…
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The Placer Dead: Real-life ghost stories from Placer's museums
In this Halloween episode of "The Placer Life," we bring you tales of first-hand encounters with the supernatural in Placer County - at our Historic Courthouse and the Bernhard Museum. Hear how these ghost stories bring Placer's history to life and learn about more ways Placer County Museums can...
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Hopeless to home - Episode 3
Welcome back to The Placer Life as we continue our look at the Whole Person Care program, focused on moving people out of chronic homelessness. In the last two episodes we introduced you to three members of the program whose paths had been different but all had led them to homelessness. This...
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Hopeless to home - Episode 1
Learn how Whole Person Care came to be in Placer County, and meet two members whose different paths led them to homelessness. TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/2HbtKbU
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Hopeless to home - Episode 4
In the final episode of our miniseries, we explore housing and the creative ways the Whole Person Care program, and its partners, are finding solutions even when every sign in Placer County seems to say ‘no vacancy.’ TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/2RfUcWM
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Hopeless to home - Episode 2
Welcome back to The Placer Life as we continue our look at Whole Person Care, the county’s innovative pilot program to help chronically homeless people get back on their feet and off the street. This episode looks at how the program tackles medical services and challenges. TRANSCRIPT:...
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Hopeless to home - Prologue
Placer County’s Whole Person Care program launched in 2017 with a lofty goal of helping homeless people with the most severe needs. Since then it has connected the dots for those who had once fallen through the cracks. In a four-part miniseries of “The Placer Life,” we follow three clients of the...
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Beating Cancer: Justin Wages’ Story of the Healing Power of Nature
When faced with a serious cancer diagnosis and a series of setbacks, Justin Wages, a land manager with the Placer Land Trust, found a unique connection with nature that helped him not only heal but thrive. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://bit.ly/2N8Kd08
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A Return to Grace: A Story of Drugs, Child Abuse and the Road to Recovery
When Grace — a pseudonym — was at her lowest point, her 3-week-old son was taken away because she was breastfeeding him while using heroin and meth, in a household riddled with substance abuse and domestic violence. But that wasn’t where her story ended. A transcript of this episode is available...
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Hugging George Lucas: Placer artist Frank Ordaz’s journey from Star Wars to the Sierra
Before setting up shop in Auburn, artist Frank Ordaz helped create the iconic worlds of “Star Wars, “E.T.” and “Indiana Jones.” Hear what it was like to work on those groundbreaking movies and how living in Placer County informs his art today in our latest episode of “The Placer Life.” A…
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Lost in the Wilderness: The Story of Cody Michael
It was supposed to be just a quick overnight hike for Cody Michael and his dog, Bauer. But, losing his trail in the snow, Cody found himself lost in one of the most rugged areas of Placer County for four days and, he thought, possibly forever. Cody, his father, Howard, and Sgt. Ty Conners of the...
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Betty Samson: Placer's Original 'Rosie the Riveter'
Living near Auburn is an original Rosie the Riveter, 91-year old Betty Samson. Here, Betty talks about working as a plane engine mechanic in support of the war effort in the 1940s, what life was like during that time and what Veterans Day means to her now. A transcript of this episode is…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Placer Life shares gripping, touching, humorous or interesting stories of the amazing people and places of beautiful Placer County -- California’s best kept secret. From harrowing tales of wilderness survival to fascinating oral history from Placer’s greatest generation, hear from the real people of Placer why it’s the best place on earth to live, work, play and learn - and why we are proud to enjoy what we call the Placer Life. The Placer Life is a production of Placer County, California.
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The Placer Life shares gripping, touching, humorous or interesting stories of the amazing people and places of beautiful Placer County -- California’s best kept secret. From harrowing tales of wilderness survival to fascinating oral history from Placer’s greatest generation, hear from the real...
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