Host Taylor Wolfe leads our exploration of the life and times of Kim Blix, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator in Nevada County’s Department of Public Health, and Operations Co-chief of the County’s Emergency Operations Center. She’s also a volunteer with Nevada County Search and Rescue. Kim’s parents brought their family to Nevada County when she was a “wee bairn,” and she attended school at Deer Creek, Seven Hills, and Nevada Union. Off to UC Davis for education, to live a couple of years in Colorado, and extensive travel to fulfill a desire to understand other cultures that took her to England, Spain, Nepal, and to Uganda as a volunteer with Dr. Scott Kellerman’s clinic. In 2013 she closed the circle and returned to Nevada County. Her fresh adult perspective on her childhood home caused her to fall in love with the beauty, culture, dynamism and compassion of our community. From positions with FREED and the County Department of Social Services, Kim joined the Department of Public Health in late 2019 and has experienced pretty much nonstop emergency conditions, first from PSPS power outages, followed almost immediately by the Covid pandemic. She looks forward to emerging from crisis conditions so she can work with the County’s agencies and nonprofit service organizations to take all they’ve learned and experienced and together plan ways to build a  better community for all of us.