Nancy Reynolds, left, talks to Jane Bermudez at the Covid Response Network’s free mask event last Sunday at the CV Starr Community. Reynolds took home a free educational yard sign. (Frank Hartzell via Bay City News)

FORT BRAGG, 12/1/20 — To fight a new virus that has held the community hostage for most of 2020, a “new normal” style non-profit is taking the lead on the Mendocino Coast: the Covid Response Network.

It has no fixed office, no annual fundraising event or any of the other trappings of an old style non-profit so far, but plenty of prominent Coast residents have gotten involved. Led by contributions from noted psychologist and author Dr. Richard Miller, Thanksgiving Coffee co-founder Paul Katzeff and Dr. Michael St. John, the CRN has put all of its efforts into linking related agencies and organizing people to conduct a different kind of fight against COVID-19.

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Frank Hartzell is a freelancer reporter and an occasional correspondent for The Mendocino Voice. He has published more than 10,000 news articles since his first job in Houston in 1986. He is the recipient...