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FOUR-MEMBER CITY COUNCIL RECONVENES AFTER HIATUS

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FOLLOWING JULY HOLIDAY, PUBLIC BUSINESS RESUMES By Christian Kallen

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July is frequently a summer holiday month for civic workers, and Healdsburg has been no exception. But Monday, Aug. 1 will see the Healdsburg City Council return to city business as the four remaining members hold their first public meeting since June 21. Although the final Aug. 1 meeting agenda had not been released by press time, City Manager Jeff Kay teased the meeting as including “an update from our DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) consultant, a recap from the organizers of the Healdsburg Food and Wine Experience and a discussion of our park naming policy (this was on a previous item, but continued because the meeting was running late).” The City Council currently has only four members, not its usual five, including Mayor Ozzy Jimenez, Vice-Mayor Ariel Kelley and Councilmembers Evelyn Mitchell and David Hegele. There are three seats on the November ballot, including fouryear terms currently held by Jimenez and Mitchell, and the remaining two years of Skylaer Palacios’ term. The meetings are held at 6pm at the City Hall Council Chambers, 401 Grove St., Healdsburg. Consistent with state government health code, the City Council members will be participating either via Zoom webinar or in person, socially distanced, in the Council Chambers. Since Palacious’ resignation, all four council members have been meeting in public. Members of the public are invited to watch and participate in the meeting live in person at the Council Chambers. Citizens in attendance, or

SMOOTH SOUNDS Alto saxophonist Bobby Watson and his quartet played Sunday, July 24 at The 222.

Sax and the Burg THE LITTLE PERFORMANCE VENUE THAT COULD STARTS ROBUST SECOND SEASON By Christian Kallen

Saxophone sounds filled the spacious twin Quonset hut space at 222 Healdsburg Ave. last weekend, while an audience of just under 100 listened to the jazz music from cloth-draped café tables decorated with lowlights and small bowls of chocolates, perhaps sipping a local varietal from Grapeseed Winery.

This is how we do it in Healdsburg. Bobby Watson Quartet played for two nights for audiences in the Paul Mahder Gallery, leading bassist Essiet Essiet, pianist Edward Simon and drummer Akira Tana in the soaring set. It technically marked the end of the first year of performances at The 222—a non-profit entertainment venue housed within the for-profit gallery business that Paul Mahder has run since 2014. In some way it also marked the launch of the first complete season of

programming at The 222, complete with a full-color 40-page program describing the wide variety of arts events coming to town in the next nine months, from August through May, 2023. Not just jazz—a staple in Healdsburg since Jessica Felix started the Healdsburg Jazz Festival in 1998—but choral performances, literary readings, string quartets and other classical ensembles, to say nothing of obscure yet significant movies all to be brought to the stage. The stage itself makes a statement: Behind it is a huge, dramatic, densely

decorated canvas called The Greatest Days of The World, by Nikolai Atanassov, one of about 45 artists represented at Paul Mahder Gallery— sculptors, metalworkers, even a couple bone assemblages. Clearly this space is about more than music, and even more than art— it’s about performance. “I think we have a lot of venues in Sonoma County for an audience to sit and be the recipient of someone’s brilliance, but we rarely have the opportunity to engage,” said writer and poet Laurie Glover, who will curate three

literary events in the coming months. “With the small venue that The 222 offers, it’s really perfect.” For instance, Glover looks forward to Kim Stanley Robinson’s reading on Feb. 11. Even though Robinson is best known as a science fiction writer, “his whole way of being is formed around him being a backpacker in the Sierra,” said Glover. He will read from his memoir, The High Sierra, which he calls a love story, though Glover recognized that there will be people in the audience who will want to ➝ Sax and the Burg, 2

The Packers Score Three Wins BASEBALL TEAM COULD SECURE CONSECUTIVE CHAMPIONSHIP By Christian Kallen

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NICE HIT Prune Packers manager Joey Gomes, at right, exchanges words with baserunner

Zac Vooletich (12) during the July 23 game with the Sonoma Stompers. Healdsburg won, 7-2.

With only a little over a week left in the 2022 California Collegiate League (CCL) baseball season, the Healdsburg Prune Packers are poised to repeat their 2021 state championship—if they can survive the playoff rounds, set to begin in just over a week. Last weekend they were back in town, delighting hometown fans with three straight wins against North CCL rivals, including a 15-0 shellacking of the West Coast Kings on July 22. That was followed by a 7-2 win over the Sonoma Stompers the next day and a tighter 8-7 victory over the Walnut Creek Crawdads on July 24.

That one went 10 innings, as the Packers scraped together two runs in the top of the tenth and the Crawdads could only come up with a single run to fall short. Over the course of the season, it has become clear that the Packers are not to be counted out. In every inning of the July 23 game they threatened, accumulating a run or two at a time until they were up 6-0 at the end of four. Despite the Stompers getting a handful of runners on base via one hit and two walks from starter Sam Stoutenborough (of Texas Christian), the Packers fielding skills kept the Stompers shut down— until the starter made way for reliever Grant Cherry (University of Tennessee). Cherry was unable to keep the lid on the Sonoma team, giving up four walks, two hits and two earned runs in the ➝ Packers, 4


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