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PSST!... PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM ENDS
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1865 –June 30, 2022 Date, Date, 20202020
STUDENT MENTOR PROGRAM WINDS DOWN AFTER 13 YEARS By Christian Kallen
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Healdsburg’s Public School Success Team, PSST!, has called an end to its 13-year program to mentor the city’s secondary school students, from junior high through graduation. Though many things have impacted education in recent years, none has done more than COVID. “With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, PSST! was forced to curtail its contact with and services to students. Since that time, the program has suffered from a lack of available volunteers and a diminished cohort of students,” read an announcement from Cynthia Doubleday. Although the reduced organization focused on Healdsburg Junior High School, where services for struggling students were insufficient, “it soon became apparent that PSST! was no longer in a position to provide the program that it had offered students for the previous decade.” PSST! was founded in 2009 as a nonprofit by a group of Healdsburg community members who wanted to increase the graduation rate at Healdsburg High School (HHS). Beginning at the outset of middle school, PSST! program volunteers worked with select groups of students who demonstrated potential for academic success, if given specific subject-matter tutoring and mentoring attention. These groups were called “cohorts,” and they studied and grew over the years until graduation from HHS. The first cohort graduated from the
BOOM Healdsburg’s fireworks will start about 9:30pm and continue for 40 minutes.
Healdsburg Goes Big on Independence Day JULY 4 CELEBRATION FEATURES FIREWORKS DISPLAY By Christian Kallen
The nation’s Independence Day is celebrated on Monday, July 4, and like many communities, Healdsburg plans a party. A morning duck race will be held in the Plaza, with live music and other low-impact recreation. Then will come time for the sundown fireworks display, produced by the American Legion, from the Healdsburg High practice fields. This will be the first time in three years these events will be held, not surprisingly. COVID shut down the public gatherings for both events in
2020, and last year it was the severity of the drought that ultimately canceled the fireworks display, though the kids’ events at the Plaza went forward. Along with the increased fire risk and the lingering COVID uncertainty, the 2021 kaboom was kiboshed because of “the potential impact of additional spectators, since our neighboring communities had to also cancel their fireworks shows,” as the city announced at the time. A similar hesitation might apply this year, as Cloverdale called off their fireworks mid-month when the contracted pyrotechnicians pulled out, though the Lions Club managed to line up a replacement, and the July 4 show will go on. Petaluma announced
Spectator viewing will be available at Fitch Mountain Elementary just across University Avenue, and in the surrounding neighborhoods, as well as other vantage points throughout the city.
the decision to call it off on June 26, attributing the decision to cancel to drought concerns as well as scheduling difficulties that arose with their contracted fireworks operator. Windsor has traditionally held their Independence Day celebration on July 3, and they will do so again this year. As of this writing, the cities of Sonoma and Santa Rosa will move forward with
their evening fireworks events on July 4. Healdsburg’s fireworks will start about 9:30pm and continue for a strong 40 minutes until the dazzling climax. Although the city’s write-up of the event says “this year’s show is larger than in past years,” it’s hard to imagine how it can be. “In order to ensure spectator safety with the larger show, we need
to restrict access to the shooting area that encompasses the high school sports field complex,” the city states on their event calendar. Spectator viewing will be available at Fitch Mountain Elementary just across University Avenue, and in the surrounding neighborhoods, as well as other vantage points throughout the city. ➝ Independence Day, 3
HOW CLIMATE IS CHANGING PETALUMA GAP VITICULTURE DROUGHT AFFECTS LOCAL WINES By Eric Schwartzman
Photo by Eric Schwartzman
FAMILY PORTRAIT Yalie turned farmer Stewart Johnson with his dogs, Jessie and Henri,
at Kendric Vineyards on the Marin County side of the Petaluma Gap.
Petaluma Gap wines are said to have a bit more balance and refinement because the wind hardens and thickens the grape skins, producing more tannins, which render the feeling of texture in your mouth. The microclimate produces wine with a combination of freshness, refinement and elegance with more intensity from the tannins. But like the rest of the Bay Area, the Petaluma Gap climate is changing. At the Golden Gate
Bridge, sea level rose 9 inches between 1854 and 2016 as a result of melting land ice and the thermal expansion of ocean water. Over the last 100 years, Bodega Bay sea level rose 8.5 inches. And since 1961, average ocean temperature at Point Reyes has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Climate science is very complex. Stewart Johnson earned his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, his master’s degree from Yale and his J.D. from Hastings. But none of it prepared him for the challenges of growing grapes ➝ Petaluma Viticulture , 6