Healdsburg Tribune April 25 2024

OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS GRAB SHARE OF CHAMBER’S HTID GRANTS

By Christian Kallen

The latest round of grants from the Healdsburg Tourism Improvement District (HTID) was announced earlier this month, the most recent installment in a program begun in 2020 and approved to last for 10 years. The latest distribution, of over $100,000, went to 11 organizations for their ability to put “heads in beds,” per the requirements of the HTID.

A Tourism Improvement District is described in their management plan as “an evolution of the traditional Business Improvement District,” focused on getting results for a tourism economy. The 30 lodging businesses in the district, roughly contiguous with city limits, pay an extra 2% assessment into the district, on top of the 12% Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) the city requires.

What the subscribers get out of the deal is focused marketing that directly benefits the lodging businesses, in the form of “destination marketing intended to provide benefits and services directly to those businesses paying the assessment.”

Heads in Beds Jessica Bohan, the director of tourism and marketing for Stay Healdsburg (the hospitality arm of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce), presented an annual report on the HTID to the City Council on April 15.

Healdsburg’s Heart Is in the Right Place for Earth Day

2ND ANNUAL CLIMATE FEST BRINGS INNOVATION AND OPTIMISM TO THE PLAZA

By Christian Kallen

It was a hopeful spring Sunday in Healdsburg. No better weather, location or company could be asked for to celebrate the Earth at the second annual Climate Fest on April 21, produced by Climate Action Healdsburg citizen’s group and the City of Healdsburg. More than 70 booths, tables, food stands and exhibits radiated down the octopus arms of the Plaza, providing insight

and inspiration aplenty. They included an illuminating breakaway diagram showing what happens to mattresses when they are properly recycled, from Recology; a surprisingly humbling “How Much Do We Know About Climate Change” questionnaire; the chance to join crowdsourced Air Quality Index (AQI) monitoring with a sensor in the nearest backyard, and much more.

Elsewhere, high school techies from an AAUW program extolled the value of piezoelectricity to unsuspecting passersby, and food vendors gave away as much product as they sold (if in smaller measures). While major sponsor Enso Village

offered handmade seed bombs, Move! Healdsburg encouraged kids to pedalblend their own smoothies, and HHS art teacher Linus Lancaster showed off a beaver house designed to provide live video streams of the Russian River, both above and below the surface, as it wends through Healdsburg. It wasn’t Lancaster’s only job that afternoon. About 1:30pm, he fired up an electric blower to inflate a 50-by-14-foot “aerocene,” an art project by Jessica Martin. Associated with the international Aerocene movement, the inflatable sack is an “airborne, lighter-than-air form made solely from reused plastic bags,” an aerial

solar-powered sculpture to ride the global breeze.

While not designed to float (in some circumstances solar heat can provide lift) this aerocene was elevating all the same: to merely walk inside the space with fellow aeronauts of all ages and stripes, cohabitating an interior world surrounded by a thin transparent film of plastic … the metaphor was painfully beautiful.

Though not one of Martin’s own creative works, it bears her imprint. Martin and Lancaster built this one long so people could walk inside, but she hopes to change its shape and allow it to float for a West Side School open house next month. “I have

a feeling it will be making appearances at more events, and we may even make it bigger each year— at least until we can get plastic bags banned,” Martin said.

“I am not sure of the numbers, but it seemed to me like it was twice the size of last year!” enthused Ty Benoit, the director of egalitarian Climate Action Healdsburg who largely organized the event, corralling participants and supporters with enthusiasm and hard work.

“The theme for this international Earth Day is focused on ending plastic pollution,” Benoit said. “The aerocene balloon definitely helped us to understand the challenge …”

Climate Fest, 6 ➝ Tourism, 3

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Juveniles Stabbed, 7

Photo by Rick Tang

HEALDSBURG HAPPENINGS

GOINGS ON AROUND TOWN THIS WEEK & NEXT

Passport Weekend

The annual Passport to Dry Creek is upon us, starting at 11am on Friday, April 26, and continuing until 3pm on Sunday, April 28. More than 30 wineries participate in the 33rd annual taste-around, from DryCreekValley.org. Tickets all-day $125, allweekend $250. “Please drive responsibly.”

Classical Keys

On Friday, April 26, Ilya Yakushev returns to Healdsburg (he performed on the same 222 stage in 2022) to demonstrate his world-renown genius on the piano. It’s a birthday party, too: Rachmaninoff’s 150th; the 100th of “Rhapsody in Blue.” Arrive early for a pre-concert discussion at 6:45pm, the performance starts at 7:30pm. 222 Healdsburg Ave. Tickets $35 and $75, at the222.org.

Farmers’ Market

The Healdsburg Certified Farmers’ Market continues on April 27 and every Saturday until December. Fruits and vegetables,

flowers, cheeses, honey, olive oil, bread, wild fish, pasture-finished meat and fresh eggs from local vendors. From 8:30am to noon in the West Plaza Parking Lot.

Community Chorus

“What the world needs now is love,” says Healdsburg Community Chorus director David Martin. He will lead the chorus in an afternoon of love songs, from the local to the global, at the Raven Theater at 3pm on both Saturday and Sunday, April 2728. Tickets $20 at www. healdsburgchorus.com/ concerts-tickets.

Vocal Jazz Singer Elaine Jennings shows up at Furthermore Wines on Saturday, April 27. Her music selection covers Nora Jones and Adele to classics from the Great American Songbook. From 5-8pm, no cover. 354-A Healdsburg Ave.

Brazilian Jazz Hotel Healdsburg’s Spirit

Bar presents the Harvey Wainapel Quartet on Saturday night, April 27, from 6-9pm. The saxophonist is joined by Matt Clark on piano, Doug Miller on bass and Bryan Bowman playing drums for some quality Brazilian jazz in the hotel’s lobby, at 25 Matheson St.

Something

Different

AZ/DZ, an all-star metal tribute band with musicians from the Illeagals, Petty Theft and the Mother Truckers, kicks out the jams at Coyote Sonoma on Saturday, April 27. $20 in advance, show starts at 8:30pm, 44-F Mill St.

Palates and the Planet

Celebrate the book launch of The Good Eater by Nina Guilbeault at Little Saint on Sunday, April 28. She’s a Harvard-educated sociologist who studied the vegan lifestyle and became a passionate advocate. Guilbeault will speak with William Rosenzweig and sign copies of her new book. 11am-noon, 25 North St.

Dark Lives Matter

An improvisational hiphop configuration with Kinglung and LCom will manifest at Elephant in the Room, Sunday, April 29, at 9pm. Only $5, 177-a Healdsburg Ave.

‘The Husbands’

Copperfields presents author Holly Gramazio, whose new book asks the provocative question: “If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path?” Held at Thumbprint Cellars, 102 Matheson St., on Thursday, May 2, at 6:30pm.

Barrel Room

The band Used Goods play the barrel room at Hudson St. Wineries on Thursday, May 2. From 5-8pm, $5 cover; food from Fogbelt

and from SoCo Paella available. 428 Hudson St., at Front.

Fitch and Fido

Join Mike McGuire and the City of Healdsburg in celebrating the completion of the public access improvement project of Fitch Mountain, and the Villa Dog Park renovation, on Saturday, May 4. The 10am-to-1pm event will include an opening ceremony, guided hikes of Fitch Mountain Park and Open Space Preserve, kids activities, live music and a lot of tail wagging.

May Day

Only

five days late, Geyserville holds a May Day celebration on Sunday, May 5. Rib cook-off, beer and wine, plus a May Day queen, May Pole dancers and Ballet Folklórico. From 11am to 4pm at Geyserville Winery, 19410 Geyserville Ave.

Community Band

The Healdsburg Community Band will present another of their popular, and free, brass band concerts on Sunday, May 5, at 3pm. The program will include military band classics from Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst, and a tribute to the Gershwin songbook and Henry Mancini. Donations are encouraged. Venue is Healdsburg Community Church, 1100 University Ave.

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HTID’s success is clear everywhere you look in today’s Healdsburg: a destination city filled with sommeliers and sous chefs, and three- and four-star hotels to provide comfortable stays.

Hosting the “18 journalists and influencers” who published, podcasted and tik-talked about Healdsburg in the last year has resulted in 264 total online media placements and 41 in print (according to Bohan). These results show that the HTID’s purpose, of promoting Healdsburg as a desirable place for overnight visitors, is fulfilled.

The industry shorthand for this purpose is “heads in beds,” a phrase often repeated in the City Council meeting.

Out of an annual HTID budget of over a million dollars, with most revenue derived from the 2% assessment, 15% is allocated for District Development (or DD) grants. Last year, in 2023, that resulted in over $285,000 awarded to 23 recipients. The awards have steadily increased since 2020, and are projected to continue doing so through the end of the decade.

‘Big Shift’

However, when Bohan and Hart introduced the spring DD grants for 2024 at the April 15 meeting, several recipients signaled what Councilmember Chris Herrod called “a pretty big shift” from previous award patterns: More out-oftown entities received the awards, and several previously awarded local organizations were excluded.

The Spring 2024 District Development grants listed over $109,000 to 11 organizations for upcoming events. The largest such grants, of $30,000 each, went to SD Media Productions LLC, which will bring the third Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience to town in May; and to Healdsburg Jazz for the upcoming 26th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival in June.

Additional grants of $10,000 each went to two other non-local business enterprises, Songwriters in Paradise LLC or Healdsburg SIP, scheduled for July; and the Adventureland Institute Inc., for the Edge Village project planned at various locations in Healdsburg for June. Herrod expressed his

concerns that “we’re seeing a lot of money going to … some for-profit entities and some businesses that are outside of the town.”

In this “big shift,” not only were awards totaling $50,000 made to these out-of-town corporations, but local entities, including the Raven Theater, Corazon Healdsburg and the city’s own Community Services Department—for the summer Tuesdays in the Plaza—were squeezed to smaller amounts on the awards list.

To be sure, most of the awards still went to local organizations, both forprofit and nonprofit, such as Bloodroot Wines for their Ramble, the Boys & Girls Clubs for the Healdsburg Crush event in the Plaza, and the 4th of July Parade and Fireworks, supported by two grants to the American Legion and Rotary Club.

Healdsburg Jazz, which has received over $100,000 in DD grants since the program was initiated in 2020, was again a recipient this year.

But the move to support outside entities over local ones has only grown since 2022, when the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience received $10,000.

Its awards have grown: It was a repeat recipient the next year, with $24,500, and again in 2024 with a still-larger $30,000 grant, for a total of $64,500 over the past two years.

Councilmember Ron Edwards also found fault with the awards allocations, saying they could be used to attract “a broader spectrum of people,” more out-of-country Spanish speakers or AfricanAmericans from Atlanta or Houston than just the wine-and-cheese crowd. “One of my thoughts was

that the Wine & Food Experience is building on its own, but they’re getting more grant money and we’ve lost a little bit on Dia de los Muertos,”

70 FILMS, FINE DINING, WINE AND POPCORN IN 10TH YEAR LINEUP

By Christian Kallen

Lights, camera, action: the 10th annual local film festival now known as AVFest opens Friday, April 26, and continues with screenings and events through Sunday, May 5. While many of the showings take place in a Healdsburg barrel room, a number of special events spread the glamor out across Wine Country to Alexander Valley Hall, the Geyserville Firehouse, Petaluma’s Carole L. Ellis Auditorium and the Raven Theater on North Street. “We have so much excitement packed into 10 days—incredible independent films from all over the world, our signature dinners and events, and more than 70 filmmakers coming to visit Sonoma County and meet our community,” said AVFest executive director Kathryn Hecht. “It is shaping up to be a perfect milestone anniversary party.” Opening day, Friday, is entirely in Cloverdale, the birthplace of what was formerly known as the Alexander Valley Film Festival. The city’s

Performing Arts Center will screen Green Border about the refugee crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border. It unspools at 1:30 on Friday afternoon. Then the cine-fun spills out onto the boulevard with Friday night’s Cloverdale Block Party, which follows the 5pm showing of Humanist Vampire . Described as a “genre mash-up,” it’s a French comedy by firsttime director Ariane Louis-Seize. The horroraccented rom-com is fully titled Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, which suggests the twisted plotline. Movie and block party admission is $100, with added drink and food tickets available for purchase. The party includes live music, food and wine vendors, and the chance to grab a selfie with some of the creators taking part in AVFest. A set of eight edgy “Late Night Shorts” at 8:30pm concludes the opening night occasion.

The rest of the festival takes place largely in Healdsburg, with screenings on weekends at Longboard Vineyards (5 Fitch St.) in their barrel room. With some 70 films overall, both features and

shorts, it would be impossible to list them all—for that, bookmark avfilmpresents.org/film-festival/ for best access.

Special Events

That said, the schedule includes a number of special events, which may be of particular interest. Of special local interest is The Grab , a documentary of investigative journalism, produced by Little Saint owners Laurie and Jeff Ubben. The AVFest crew said they have been “chasing the film” since it screened at Telluride two years ago. It’s the story of “a global land-grab game where the stakes are literally life and death.” Director Gabrila Cowperthwaite (who directed Blackfish , about captive orcas) will be on hand, with Jeff Ubben, to speak at the screening on Monday, April 29. The film and reception take place at Longboard, starting at 5:30pm, but the ticket price includes one drink at the after-party—at Little Saint, of course.

Foodies will focus on The Art of Eating, a documentary on celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher, who lived in Glen Ellen

for the last 20 years of her illustrious life, and in St. Helena before that. The director, Gregory Bezat, as well as chef Kyle Connaughton and food writer Michele Anna Jordan, will be in attendance for the accompanying threecourse dinner, with local wines included in the $125 ticket price (film only $15). The food and reception will be held at Lo & Behold (214 Healdsburg Ave.) Food and wine make another appearance during AVFest on Thursday, May 2. After an Italian dinner at Geyserville’s Catelli’s (21047 Geyserville Ave.) at 6pm, $150 ticket-holders (or festival pass holders) can head over to the firehouse for a screening of Thelma , “Best of Fest” at this year’s Sundance. It stars June Squibb, who won a supporting actress award in Nebraska , as a senior on a mission to avenge telephone scams on the elderly.

Sound Tribute AVFest’s centerpiece, falling on May 1, is a tribute to Ben Burtt, an Oscarwinning sound designer and director of the animated WALL-E . An often overlooked calling in film,

sound design (or sound editing as it was formerly known) has played an integral role in movies since talkies emerged. One way to measure the quality of sound design is to “watch” a movie with one’s eyes closed. In addition to modern action movies like Star Wars and the Indiana Jones films—where Burtt holds the credits— more subtle dramas benefit from attentive sound design, too. Burtt will hold court this Wednesday night at a VIP reception at 5pm, an onstage interview at 6pm, then a presentation of his much-awarded, prescient WALL-E (for which he also supplied a major voice) at 7pm with a Q&A to follow. It’s all at Ellis Auditorium, on SRJC’s Petaluma campus. Other special events include a Friday, May 5, student film competition screened at the Raven at 5pm, followed by a Healdsburg Block Party on Center Street with live music and food from local vendors (funded in part by a $2,500 HTID award), ending up with an 8pm screening of Blue Giant —an animated feature from Japan about jazz obsession.

Though it doesn’t appear on the Special Events list, Saturday, May 4, sees the premiere of Werewolf Serenade, a horror comedy from Daedalus Howell (a name familiar to readers of this and other regional weeklies).

It’s actually his second film—his earlier Pill Head has been called “possibly the most bizarre film ever made in Petaluma”—and this one concerns an academic who turns into a werewolf. It screens Saturday night at 9pm at Longboard. Like most programs at AVFest, individual tickets are $15.

The festival concludes the next night, Sunday, May 5, with a 5pm showing of Ghostlight, a comedy-drama about the healing power of theater. Co-directors Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan will attend as well. Afterward, at 7:30pm, the group is invited to the Awards After-party at The Matheson (104 Matheson St.) where results from both judge and audience voting will be announced. Complete AVFest information and ticket links at avfilmpresents. org/film-festival.

Photo courtesy AVFest

PUZZLING EVIDENCE A robot investigates a past civilization in the animated classic ‘WALL-E,’ to be screened at AVFest on May 1 with director/sound designer Ben Burtt in attendance.

By Caleb Knudsen

One of the largest track meets in the area took place last weekend at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa. Known as the Viking Track Classic, the 33rd year of the meet saw more than 60 high school teams show up for the day-long competition on Saturday, April 20. Competitors crowded the turf field while their coaches, assistants, friends and parents circled around the track or found a place to sit in the bleachers located on both sides of the field. Kate Guthrie, a former University of Oregon athlete and current administrator at The Healdsburg School, coaches the Healdsburg team. Several members of this year’s Healdsburg High track and field team attended the Viking Track Classic, and while there were no medal winners the competitors did their school proud. For the third year,

distance runner Kaeden Anderson performed well in the Viking. He finished fifth in the 3200-meter race, the longest footrace in the program, with a time of 10.06.86. Though a respectable clocking, it was off his season’s best time of 9.52.19, set at the Big Cat Invitational on March 2. His personal best of 9.43 was set last year in the Redwood Empire NCS Championship, when he finished fifth.

Teammate Jake McWilliams ran in both the 800m and 1600m races. He set a personal record of 2.03.8 in the 800m, finishing seventh, and another personal best of 4.41.12 in the 1600m. Lukas Brennan also ran in the 1600m, finishing at 4.56.54. Areum Romero Bennerson competed in the sprints, with 11.9 in the 100m and 24.39 in the 200m. Milo TimmsenMiller ran a 13.61 100m race, and Cole Pastene ran the 200m in 24.86. Vadim Mielock ran the 400m lap in 107.52. These times were all personal records for the Greyhound runners.

Boys track competitors included Timmsen-Miller and Kai Ostrom in the discus (with distances of 78’ 11” and 69’ 3.5” respectively). Cole Pastene also competed in two field events, with a long jump of 19’ 4.25” and a triple jump of 36’ 5.25”.

Girls on the Field

Several “Lady Greyhounds” also made the trek to Montgomery last weekend. Junior Madeleine Munselle ran a 13.6 100m dash and a 27.85 200m. Melissa Casas Gatica also ran in the 200m, finishing with a 34.57 time. Sierra Anderson, like her brother a competitive distance runner, logged a 2.58.36 time in the 800m race and a 6.25.55 in the 1600m. Alisa Strykowski ran a 1.04.04 time in the 300m hurdles.

One notable story is that of Melissa Casas Gatica, who also competed in the girls long jump. On March 16 she leapt 9’ 11” at the Santa Rosa Field Jamboree. Less than a month later she took a big leap forward with a personal best of 15’ 3.25”, coming in second at the April 13 Santa Rosa Twilight Invitational.

At the recent Viking Track Classic, however, her best jump was just 10’ 10”. Perhaps next year, as a senior, she’ll hit her

Greyhound Tennis Boys Finish One-up

LATE-SEASON LOSSES DON’T OVERWHELM WINNING SEASON

By Caleb Knudsen

After beginning the spring season with a series of wins and high hopes, the Healdsburg High boys tennis team ended the season with several disappointing losses in league play. However they remained on the winning side of the equation, with a 5-4 season record. The ball bounced their way in the first three league matches, with team victories over Rancho Cotate (6 matches to 1), Windsor (5 to 2) and St. Vincent (4 to 3). But momentum shifted on March 38 with a 4-3 loss to Analy, traditionally a strong team in the North Bay region. They recovered with a 6-1 win over Santa Rosa on April 2, and a 5-2 match victory against Montgomery a week later. At that point their league record was 5-1, with three matches remaining, guaranteeing them a winning season under coach Joshua Cavanagh.

Unfortunately the tide turned, and they lost successive matches by shutout 7-0 scores to Maria Carrillo and Cardinal Newman. And on April 16 their last league match found them in Ukiah, where they lost 6-1.

Their final league record was 5-4, on the positive side of .500. Joshua Cavanagh, who doubles as the school’s athletic director, served as the team coach. Tennis is played at Healdsburg High during two different seasons, with girls playing in the fall and boys in the spring. The girls tennis play resumes in September, and the boys in March, 2025. Photos

UTR Matchplay at HHS

The Easter Bunny brought

incredible experience

the Healdsburg High School tennis courts. On Easter Sunday, March 31, a verified UTR (Universal Tennis Rating) singles tennis competition took place, organized by former Airport Club tennis director Greg Weksel. I had a ball, along with 12 other players, ranging in age from 12 to 18. The event was open to players of all ages and all levels. According to utrsports. net, “UTR Rating is a system that promotes fair and competitive play across the

tennis world. All players, regardless of age, gender, geography, or skill level, are rated on the same scale between 1.00 and 16.50 based on actual match results.”

Typically, when a person who hails from Sonoma County wants to play in UTR matches, the player must travel a significant distance, such as to the East Bay. Each competitor relished the opportunity for competitive matches right here in beautiful Healdsburg. The Easter event consisted entirely of match play, and a match was won after besting the opponent in two out of three sets. Each player was guaranteed two matches against

similarly rated players, and all scores counted toward each player’s Verified UTR.

The ratings of the players going into the event ranged from 1-4.07. Novak Djokovic, arguably the top player in the world, has a UTR rating that is a towering 16. Unfortunately, he did not make it to this event.

A similar UTR event will happen again this month, on Sunday, April 28, at the high school. Registration information is at app.utrsports.net/ events/232251. Children and adults of all skill levels are welcome.

The writer is a 7th grader at The Healdsburg School.

by Michael Lucid

NUMBER TWO Healdsburg High’s second-ranked tennis player, Eamonn Scott, had a strong 2024 season and contributed to the team’s winning record for the year.

Photo by Christian Kallen

WARMUP Three local tennis players prepare for the April 28 UTR match. From left, Nolan Brenner of THS (UTR 2.77), Meher Dhiman of HHS (UTR unknown) and Nina Jayaraman of SCDS (4.15).

Visits Increase at Local Library

2nd Day for the Planet

➝ Climate Fest, 1

For those who attended as much as those who volunteered, it paid off. “We distributed over 700 free tamales, burritos, dim sum, ceviche, 400 small 4-ounce drinks, 700 Earth Cookies and 400 popsicles”—berry, mango or horchata, Benoit said.

“We want to inspire people to make personal changes, not through fear, but because we can all play a part,” Benoit said.

“We had over 70 vendors/booths, and they all explained in their application how they could help reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.”

As the Earth Day cookies ran out and the horchata disappeared, Rocio La Dama de La Cumbia took the stage for her third energetic salsa show in Healdsburg, this time wearing a spangled, clinging pink dress and a matching cowboy hat. Take that, Beyoncé!

SPRING BRINGS EVENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE HEALDSBURG REGIONAL BRANCH

By Jon Haupt

The

Healdsburg

Library has been very busy so far in 2024. Our in-person visits continue to rise as we see people of all ages coming to study alone or in groups, play games, attend a musical event or get help accessing a digital audiobook. The library and the staff look forward to helping you when you visit for these activities and more.

We continue to anticipate the upcoming improvements to our building in the coming year. Like any construction project, delays have pushed this modernization project out several times, and we will be overjoyed when it is completed.

Meanwhile, we continue to work to determine the best ways to offer services while the building is closed. The project is still a few months out from the start date, and we look forward to sharing more information about the timeline and project plans in the coming weeks. We can’t wait to enjoy

the outdoors, books, songs and dances with our local families once again. We’ve been working on sprucing up our BiblioBike for the new season and our upcoming trips to the park, the Plaza, the L&M, the Twilight Parade and more.

With the end of April at hand, we will welcome a new season of Storytimes in the Park. Miss Charity will begin making the short trek to Giorgi Park for three Fridays—April 26, May 3 and May 10— for Family Storytime at 10:30am. We will roll out our latest Summer Reading festival, kicking it off with a party on June 1, featuring a performance by the acclaimed Mexican roots band Los Cenzontles. We are working on the details of our party and can’t wait to share more with you next month.

Finally, we want to share with you another upcoming project that will take place during the 2024–2025 school year. Through an exciting and generous Library Innovation Grant, we are preparing to offer a new program called Take Time To Read, or Disfruta la Lectura, in Spanish. The two-part literacy program will offer a series

of community events each month on Saturdays featuring a celebration of reading together with our own families and sharing the joy of reading. Reading might feel like a chore when all our reading takes place around school assignments, and this program will remind us about the importance of reading for enjoyment. We will also share a meal together at each event, provided by local restaurants.

In addition to the Saturday events, Take Time To Read will feature a Book Buddies program. Teens will be paired with children to enjoy reading after school together. This program, hosted at Healdsburg Elementary School, will present another opportunity to share the joy of reading and also offer teens an opportunity to connect with younger students and their families.

As a celebration of their work in the program, teens will receive a scholarship for participating. The details of this program are still under construction as well, and we look forward to sharing more soon.

The Healdsburg Regional Library is located at 139 Piper St., at the corner of Center. It opens daily at 10am, 1pm on Sundays.

Photo by Jon Haupt SEEDS AND READS Assisted by library staff and volunteers, local school children work on a project in the Seeds and Reads program at the Healdsburg Library on April 15.

Photo by Christian Kallen

WEAR IT Climate Action Healdsburg’s Merrilyn Joyce shows off the event’s t-shirt, made of recycled content and organic cotton.

Photo by Rick Tang

Photo by Rick Tang

caps the second annual Climate Fest at Healdsburg Plaza.

Photo by Christian Kallen

PEDAL POWER Anne Arquit Niederberger at the ‘Move! Healdsburg’ table on April 21.

Photo by Christian Kallen

ROOTS & BRANCHES Brigette Mansell promotes her Street Trees program at Climate Fest 2024.

Monday, April 8

approximately $1,300. An officer responded and took a report.

1:34pm The RP requested that the police ask a person at Lola’s Market on Healdsburg Avenue to move along. The subject repeatedly asked people for money and got angry when people did not give it to him. He appeared to have been drinking. An officer responded and advised the man of the complaint. The man moved along.

Wednesday, April 10

8:55am Grand theft occurred at Dry Creek Inn on Dry Creek Rd. The RP stated her kayak containing life jackets, ropes and a permit was stolen from atop her vehicle. Straps that locked the kayak down were cut. The RP believed the replacement value was

2:20pm A man at Casa Del Mole on Center Street was asked to leave, but refused to do so. Officers responded and contacted the subject. The 39-YO man was arrested and transported to county jail for public intoxication, obstructing a business and violating probation.

3:07pm An officer made contact with a 38-YO woman near Big John’s Market on Dry Creek Road. The woman was arrested and transported to county jail for receiving stolen property,