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Why We Love This Place Wednesdays: Carla Dollar


By Terra Avilla

I’m really lucky that there is no limit on the age you can be, when you stop being able to get new lifelong friends. Living in Susanville has blessed me with the opportunity to pick up numerous, new best friends along this journey I call my life.

Through my wandering in this community, I was lucky enough to stumble across a woman who instantaneously became one of my very good friends, Carla Dollar.

I met Carla through her work at Lassen Family Services. However, to the majority of our community she is known and loved as one of the driving forces behind Susanville’s Best of Broadway.

You would be hard pressed to find anyone in the arts community who does not know Ms. Carla. You would be harder pressed to find anyone that knows her, that doesn’t have only nice things to say about her.

Carla has one of those souls that just make you feel comfortable. You feel like you have known her way longer than you have, and you feel like you could tell her anything.

Carla dedicates so much of her time to this community. With her kind spirit, she sure is a busy little firecracker. Carla spends the first half of the year planning Best of Broadway and the second half of the year planning Dancing for a Brand New Me. Moreover, she recently joined the Holiday with a Hero Board, as I joke with her, ‘because it appeared where there was a small window in the year where she did not have one million things to do or a break.’ (Yet she never complains)

All of these organizations are lucky to have her. Besides being so easy to get along with, Carla is smart and dedicated, and a great planner. I can say without any hesitation that watching her plan Dancing for a Brand New Me was nothing short of true talent.

Coordinating between all of the dancers, community stars and sponsors is no easy feat. We are a lovable crew, but we are a hectic group. Yet Carla somehow magically was able to get everyone on the team in sync which created a wonderful show resulting in lots of money raised for an even better cause.

I sincerely enjoyed working with her, because her sense of humor and good nature just made me (and everyone else) want to be around her. To her character, I know for a fact Carla worked hundreds of hours on that event that she did not get paid for. Just like she does for Best of Broadway and just like she does for Holiday with a Hero. Carla just does these sorts of things, because she is good at them and wants to help.

Carla is a great mother and a phenomenal friend. She is such an asset to our community, however she constantly thanks others for their role in her successes. Never once asking for any sort of recognition.

Well, I thought this week was a good week to highlight this little ‘hot lava’ queen for all that she does. I am so thankful I can call her my friend as she is one of the reasons I love the place we live.

Jeremy Couso
Jeremy Couso
SusanvilleStuff.com Publisher/Editor
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