Committed Santa Rosa advisory board member helps raise over $1.5m

Wendell Nordby is honored with The Salvation Army’s William Booth Award at the 35th Annual Nordby Invitational.

When Western Territorial Commander Commissioner Douglas Riley visited the shelter where The Salvation Army’s Emergency/Disaster Services team was serving meals to survivors of the Camp Fire, which ravaged Paradise, California, in 2018, Wendell Nordby was in the kitchen, cooking and dishing out food.

In their conversation, Riley asked him where he was staying. The answer? The floor of The Salvation Army Chico (California) Corps…

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