Mike Hiles, Special to Valley NewsAn approved grant application, submitted to the Northern California Indian Development Council, has provided funding for the Soboba Public Works Department to take care of much-needed cleanup and repair from federally declared disasters at the Soboba Indian Reservation.Kenneth McLaughlin, director of the Soboba Public Works Department, was the initial point of contact with NCIDC for disaster assessments within Soboba.“This resulted in including Soboba as a potential worksite for the cleanup and repair of declared disaster damage in two different NDWG (National Dislocated Worker Grant) proposals, one for response to the storm disaster and the second for the response to COVID-19,” McLaughlin said. “Both these proposals were funded.”Gr
