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By Christian Kallen Joe Rochioli was one of those people whose cho sen trade had an impact far beyond his friends, his family or the town in which he grew up—Healdsburg. He helped start the Future Farmers Fair (still held on Memorial Day week end), hit home runs for the Prune Packers in the 1950s and worked with his dad to run the family hops, bean and grape farm on West sideButRoad.he will always be known as the man who brought pinot noir to the Russian River. And today, Rochioli vineyard-des ignate pinots are widely recognized as among the world’s best expressions of the fickle varietal. Joe Rochioli Jr. suf fered a stroke in 2020 and had dealt with a series of health problems since that time. He died at home on Aug. 18, at the age of 88, with family at his side. “It was the right way to go,” said his son Tom, who now runs the family farm and business.Thelate Rochioli had himself taken over his father’s farm in 1966, when Joe Sr. passed away. At the time, the 130-acre farm was like many in the area, cultivating a diver sity of crops including string beans, hops and grapes, with success but not much vision. Joe Jr. talked his dad into plant ing sauvignon blanc, still a productive varietal in the region, but he could never convince him to try pinot noir.“I’d been trying to get him to put some varietals in because I had been read ing books when I got out of college," Rochioli told the Wine Spectator in 2017. "I was really interested in grapes. They intrigued me. I read about French Bur gundies. I couldn't find any [pinot noir] budwood, and a friend told me about a guy south of St. Helena who had French clones. So, I started planting in 1968."

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By the end of the year, or early next, every car, truck or motorcycle enter ing Healdsburg will have its license plate and other vehicle-specific information photographed and stored for up to a year. The plate is read by a sophisticated optical-digital Automated License Plate Reader, which then checks that informa tion against an active “hot list” of vehicles suspected of crimes, from vehicle thefts to terrorism.Ifthere’s a hit, the Healdsburg Police will know.“Yes, the system will automatically compare the license plate to plates on a hot list (stolen vehi cles, amber alerts, etc.) and immediately notify dis patch and officers in the field,” said Police Chief Matt Jenkins about the Auto mated License Plate Reader (ALPR) technology. Ten cameras fixed at five ingress/egress locations will be only part of the city’s ALPR system, which the Healdsburg City Council green-lighted at its Aug. 15 meeting. Parking enforce ment vehicles too will con tinue to use ALPR cameras to track how long a tourist or a local has been docked in a time-limited spot. The proposed initiative has been on the civic docket since Jenkins requested funding for the program in February; he formally pro posed the system to the council in May and suc cessfully lobbied to get it included in the 2022-23 cityThebudget.technology has gen erated controversy else where. Last year, Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle was sued for illegally providing motorists’ license plate and vehicle loca tion information to out-ofstate and federal agencies, ➝ License Plates, 3 ➝ Man in Black, 4

the prime Burgundy vari etal would be well-suited to the cool climate of the Russian River Valley, and time has proven him right. Though not the first vint ner to plant the grape— the Bacigalupi family and Rodney Strong had already done so—but with the Rochioli commitment, the local future of the vari etal was assured. The grape is a corner stone of the Russian River Valley appellation (des ignated in 1983) and is now virtually synonymous with fine Sonoma County wine—only some of it from the so-called “Sideways Effect,” when the 2002 movie of the same name elevated pinots into a spir itual class of quality (and relegated merlot to the darkWithside).

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It’s been five years since Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley last took the stage in Healdsburg. That changes this Satur day, Aug. 27, when Ste ven Kent brings them back to town with his Cash & King show on the RavenOkay,stage.soit’s not really Johnny Cash, and it’s not really Elvis— that proba bly goes without saying. Cash died in 2003, and Elvis in 1977, but Ste ven Kent Barker is still going strong, and he’s not yet another Elvis imper sonator. The Healds burg-based performer has had a lifelong enthu siasm for these two pil lars of American music, and proudly lays claim to meeting them both. Using the shortened name Steven Kent, the 61-year-old singer/song writer has worked for years as a country musi cian, many of them in the Phoenix area at a West ern theme park and event center called Rawhide.

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characteristic modesty of a farmer, how ever, Joe Jr. took the suc cess of his Russian River pinot all in stride. “He was very proud of it, but I don't think it ever went to his head,” said his son. “He was a hard-work ing, down-to-earth guy,” said Tom Rochioli. “He was classic farmer, I mean, he never called a mechanic to fix anything, he did it himself. If something’d break, he’d weld it him self… he built all the pick ing bins out of metal—he was really a talented guy.” Over time, the rep utation of the Westside Road farm grew, and as Rochioli began break ing out several vineyard blocks and bottling them separately—East Block, West Block, Three Cor ners, River Block, Little Hill and Sweetwater—the quality rose. The reputa tionTheirfollowed.first estate wine, the 1985 Rochioli Pinot Noir, was named “The Best Pinot Noir in America” by Wine Spectator. Joe Rochi oli was awarded the presti gious Copia Wine Grower of the Year Award in 2003. Their estate and vine yard-dignate bottlings are available only by a mail ing list (and there’s a fouryear wait just to get on that mailing list)—though they are sometimes avail able at the time of a byappointment-only tasting at 6192 Westside Rd. in Healdsburg.Rochioli followed his own success by turning to chardonnay, another grape that loves a slightly cooler climate and similar soils. Both varietals, pinot noir and chardonnay, are the cornerstones of cham pagne, and there’s hardly a vineyard in the appella tion that doesn’t bottle a top-quality sparkling wine, and that includes Rochioli.

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By Harry Duke Fall is usually marked by the local theater com munity with a series of ambitious announce ments heralding the shows each company plans to produce for their newCOVIDseason.continues to be a factor as compa nies optimistically make plans while struggling to fill casts and schedule rehearsals. Some compa nies have reacted to the continued uncertainty surrounding the pan demic by reducing the number of productions in their season. Others continue full-force on the trek to “normalcy” by planning for complete seasons with shows that often require large casts. We shall COVIDsee. protocols vary from company to company. In their desire to attract still-wary audiences, many compa nies tout that they are “fully vaccinated,” mean ing that to step foot in the building in any capacity—employee, vol unteer, actor, musician— requires complete vacci nation. As far as audience members, some compa nies still require proof of vaccination and masking to attend, while others simply make a “recom mendation.” Most com panies list their protocols on their websites but, in many cases, they’ve been moved from a prominent position on the compa nies’ homepages to other, less immediately visible areas.So the shows go on in the North Bay, with com panies bringing the usual mix of familiar musi cals, drama and come dies to their stages—with an occasional step out of theThisnorm.season, Healds burg’s Raven Play ers venture north to the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center for a reprise of their production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) for a twoweekend run beginning Sept. 17. ( formingarts.comcloverdaleper )

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North Bay theater patrons will certainly have plenty of options in the fall, but it might behoove the local pro ducing organizations to look at simultane ous runs as a possible impediment to rebuild ing their audiences—let alone getting critics to their openings.

Monte Rio’s Cur tain Call Theatre keeps things small with A. R. Gurney’s two-hander Love Letters. This sim ply staged exploration of a couple’s relationship, as recounted through their writings to each other, opens Sept. 2. (russian riverhall.com)

Left Edge Theatre will present Fun Home, the musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic novel, which was a big hit, both off- and on-Broadway, and will be the inaugural production at The California, a new downtown-Santa Rosa entertainment venue. The show opens Sept. 3. (leftedgetheatre.com)

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Main Stage West follows last season’s closing produc tion of Jen Silverman’s Wink with a late-Sep tember productionseason-openingofSilverman’s The Moors. Expect a little weirdness and some very dark humor in this one. (mainstagewest.com) Santa Rosa Junior College’s Theatre Arts Department will pres ent the theatrical adapta tion of the film Stand by Me in the renovated Bur bank Auditorium’s Stu dio Theater at the end of September. ( santarosa.edutheatrearts. )

Some theater companies have reacted to the continued pandemic uncertainty by reducing the number of productions in their season—others not so much. COVID continues to be a factor as companies optimistically make plans while struggling to fill casts and schedule rehearsals.

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Sonoma Arts Live goes a bit off their beaten path with Ain’t Misbe havin’. Director Aja Gianola-Norris brings artists of color together on the Rotary Stage at Andrews Hall in this tribute to the music of “Fats” Waller and the jazz and swing eras. The show opens Sept. 9. (sonomartslive.com) If adults acting like children is your thing, then Petaluma’s Cin nabar Theater has the show for you. It’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and it goes down—and up— on Sept. 9. (cinnabarthe ater.orgSanta) Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse brings the latest iteration of the Kander-and-Ebb musi cal Cabaret to their GK Hardt Theatre on Sept. 15. Jared Sakren directs what 6th Street describes as a “daring and pro vocative” production with “lavish music, erotic dancing and an alarming finale.” (6thstreetplay house.comSebastopol’s)

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For folks seeking a more-traditional musi cal, Rohnert Park’s Spreckels Performing Arts Center will pres ent Meredith Willson’s The Music Man on their expansive Codding The atre stage beginning Sept. 9. This show has one of the largest casts in the area, but it remains to be seen if there will actually be 76 trombones leading the big parade. (spreckelsonline.com)

➝ 1 including U.S. Immi gration and Customs Enforcement. The sheriff entered into a settlement agreement with the ACLU and local privacy activists in May.Part of the council’s approval was contin gent on public outreach, but a community meet ing called in July to dis cuss the ALRP proposal met with a disappointing response, as Jenkins’ pre sentation to the council noted. “The Facebook post announcing the meeting reached 7,395 people and had 555 engagements. Three members of the community attended the meeting, and one member continued to engage with Police Department staff regarding the draft policy.” Nonetheless, and with input from the council itself, Jenkins revised the draft ALPR policy he had first presented to address privacy issues, adding a second step of confir mation of a license ID and including protection against use for immigra tion enforcement (e.g., by ICE or any other agency “conducting an inves tigation for purposes of immigration”).Theproposal is now prefaced, “The policy of the Healdsburg Police Department is to uti lize ALPR technology to capture and store digi tal license plate data and images while recognizing the established privacy rights of the public. All data and images gathered by the ALPR are for the public official use of this department. Because such data may contain confi dential information, it is not open to review.”

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The proposed ASLR project in Healdsburg would include the train ing of personnel in the use of the system and the appointment of an “administrator” by the police chief—in addition to the cost of leasing and operation of the cameras themselves, which would be under the operation of the selected heforwardtion,lookingqualityprovidesthetwothreesolicitedThoughlikelyenforcementonefixedthetimetheandageresponsiblecontractornewAccordingcontractor.tothecity’sASLRpolicy,itisthewhowouldbeforthestoroftheinformationdatabaseandpurgeinformationaftertheperiodspecifiedbycity—90daysfortheALPRsystemandyearfortheparkingsystem.ThatcontractoristobeFlockSafety.thepolicechiefquotesfromcompanies,onlyresponded.“Flockislowerofthetwoandtheservicesandofproductwearefor,”Jenkinssaid.“WithCouncil’sdirecwearesettomovewiththeproject,”toldthe

Five intersections Here’s how it works: The small cameras, mounted either on a police vehicle in the case of park ing enforcement or at selected intersections for more comprehensive vehi cle identification, capture a steady stream of images of vehicles, focusing on the area of the rear license plate. The license plate number is read, along with information of vehicle type, color and character istics such as the presence of a roof rack or bumper stickers.The system is con nected to a regional infor mation network such as the National Crime Infor mation Center (NCIC) to see if a license plate pro duces a “hit” with the law enforcement database, as well as to alerts pushed out by neighboring agencies.

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The fact that such information is being gath ered and retained at all has caused some alarm in civil liberties circles, and in 2013 the Ameri can Civil Liberties Union published a white paper, “You Are Being Tracked: How license plate readers are being used to record Americans’ data.sharingwaslectionACLUofalsmovementslionsvehicle,pictures“Becausemovements.”theysnapofeverypassingtheygeneratemilofdatapointsontheofindividuwhomnoonesuspectsviolatinganylaw,”thenoted.ComplicatingthecolofthedataitselftheretentionandofthecollectedWhiletherewerea handful of jurisdictions where millions of records were held indefinitely, most had retention caps ranging from 30 days to a year.“All the pieces are lin ing up for widespread sharing of license plate reader data,” the ACLU warned in the 2013 report. “Law enforcement agen cies must not store data about innocent people for any lengthy period. Unless plate data has been flagged, retention peri ods should be measured in days or weeks, not months, and certainly not years.”

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Another concern was the sharing of col lected ASLR informa tion between agencies, or its accumulation into larger regional data bases, in which case the local agency (the Healds burg Police Department and City) loses control over how the data is used, stored or shared. In a follow-up report just published in March, “Fast-Growing Company Flock is Building a New AI-Driven Mass-Sur veillance System,” ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley turned his atten tion to one company in particular. “A new and rap idly growing surveillance company called Flock Safety is building a form of mass surveillance unlike any seen before in Ameri canAccordinglife.” to flock safety.com, their “patented Vehicle and urging that signage be posted telling drivers the system is in place. They voted to approve the pro gram by a 4-0 vote.

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Jenkins listed several reasons a license plate would be in a law enforce ment database, including being reported as a sto len car, associated with a wanted or missing person, related to a domestic vio lation protective order or even to terrorist-related activity.The police department has identified five inter sections where two fixed ALPR cameras each can be installed to best cap ture the traffic entering the city: Healdsburg Ave nue and Old Redwood Highway (south city lim its); Healdsburg Avenue at Exchange Avenue; West side Road at U.S. 101; Dry Creek Road at U.S. 101; and North Healdsburg Avenue at Passalacqua Road (north city limits). The images and infor mation from fixed ALPR cameras would be retained for 90 days, then purged. A parallel ALPR program would capture plate imag ery from a drive-by park ing enforcement vehicle, as a potential source of parking tickets for scoff laws. Those records would be kept for a year, to allow plenty of time for cited drivers to ask for proof of their violation if they chal lenge the ticket.

WHEELS Joe Rochioli Jr., on quality control duty in April 2014 at the Russian River vineyards, next to a reconditioned 1931 Chevy Independence Sedan.

OBITUARY

Freddie was born and raised in The Hague, Netherlands. He lost his father at seven and this had a profound impact on his life. His brave and beautiful mother, Henny, was devoted to Freddie and his little brother, Rob. Freddie liked to tell stories of the three spending vacations camping at Lake Garda, Italy and once traveling on an extended trip to Canada to visit relatives where he and Rob became little cowboys.Always a rebellious adventurer, Freddie left Holland for the United States, sailing aboard the yacht, Courageous, which belonged to Ted Turner. He was just 20 years old. Sailing became an integral part of his life. He not only was a champion racing sailor, but also commanded the foredeck of several racing yachts. Freddie was a sailmaker as well and all of his abilities made him a desirable crewmember when he sailed around the world. He visited the pyramids at Giza, went ashore to commission rudder repair in Yemen and his boat was shot up in the Indian Ocean. Later on, the crew became extras in a movie filming in Singapore, where they were surrounded by beautiful women as usual. Freddie was a man of many talents; his lean 6’6” stature demanded respect. Once in Sonoma County he began a business called Stone Age Foods, which created healthy salads and such and did remarkably well. When that business went out of fashion, he took over the daily running of Sonoma Sausage Co. After the sausage company, Freddie became the brand manager for the Dutch chocolate liqueur, Vermeer. Tired of the commute to San Francisco, he managed the Ace Cider Pub and then a Petaluma bar. Freddie found his niche working as a lead driver at Pure Luxury Transportation and was there for years meeting myriad interesting people; both world famous entertainers and captains of industry. Freddie found common ground with everyone and could chat about anything to anyone.

As the reputation of Russian River wines grew, the region became a tar get for outside investors. In 2004, Rochioli’s long time next-door neighbor, Marty Griffin, sold his Hop Kiln Winery—with its distinctive hops drying elevators—to Landmark Vineyards, whose propri etors also own Pom Won derful and Fiji Water. Rochioli never even considered a buyout. Why not? “There's no price, no price,” said Tom Rochioli.

So there was a touch of irony in Kent’s meet ing with one of his idols, at Knott’s Berry Farm in Southern California of all places. “I was friends with Earl Poole Ball, the piano player in Johnny Cash’s band—and I’d been ask ing him for years for a chance to meet Cash. One day in 1990, I spied him behind a fence at Knott’s Berry Farm, and said, ‘Hey Ernie—how about meeting Johnny today?’ “He looked over at me and said, ‘Sure. Turn around.’ I did, and looked up and there’s Johnny Cash, right behind me. He and June Carter had just shown up in a golf cart. I think my knees buckled—he looked about 12 feet tall, and stuck out hisKenthand.”shies away from talking too much more about this meeting, and his similar incident of shaking hands with Elvis backstage in Las Vegas when he was a teen. But these stories are part of the “Cash & King” show, a combination of covers of the classics from each ground-breaking artist. “I tell stories about the songs, where they came from, how they almost didn’t get recorded— that’s what makes this show different than a reg ular tribute show; I have some history,” said Kent. Both Cash and Presley were recording artists for Sun Records, a groundbreaking Memphis label that also recorded Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, as well as multiple Black artists such as Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King and Ike Turner. That Million Dol lar Quartet was a chance meeting in the Sun stu dios late in 1956 when Elvis—by then already well on his way to star dom—dropped by a Carl Perkins’ recording ses sion when Cash and Lewis were in the room. The foursome gathered around a piano, and Sam Phillips—the owner of Sun Records—turned on theThoughtape. long rumored, the informal record ing wasn’t released until 1981 in Europe and in the U.S. in 1990, and it even spawned a Broad way play recreating the memorable session in 2011. By that time, Kent had already incorporated at least half of the fab ulous foursome into his ownWithperformances.hisstrong bari tone and country feel, Kent has long included not only Presley and Cash in his repertoire, but Orbison, Ray Charles, Hank Williams, George Jones and even Dean Martin, among many others. But the focus for this “Cash & King” show is on the two musi cians whose names have become synonymous with Americana of the second half of the 20th century.Kent’s connection to Presley’s music is more than a gimmick. Not long after the King died, Kent attended the annual Elvis Week festivities in Mem phis, held in the first week of August to mark the passing of Presley, at only 42 years of age on Aug. 16, 1977. Moved by the widespread tributes in the city of Graceland, the palatial house where Elvis lived and died, he wrote a song called “Would He Believe,” a country rocker that poses the questions, “Would he believe that he’d be around so long, and the whole wide world would be singing his song?” “It’s kind of like a Christmas song—it’s played every year around the time of Elvis’s birth day (Jan. 8) and Elvis Week in Memphis,” said Kent. It’s the centerpiece of the Dream and Believe album Kent recorded in 2012, and he’s amusingly proud of the “61 cents” royalty he gets when the song is Eventuallystreamed.he decided to pare down the Mil lion Dollar Quartet con cept to just Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley and pre miered it at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park, then a few months later at the Raven Theater in his adopted hometown of Healdsburg (where he’s lived since 2013). The show was on Oct. 22, 2017, just two weeks after the Tubbs Fire overran Santa Rosa. “The last time we did this show was in 2017, right after the horrible fires. It started out to be a cancer benefit… Then the fire happened, and we all agreed we should turn this around,” said Kent. It became a benefit for a PTSD survivors’ group, and they sold the place out. “It was quite a night because we invited a lot of people that had lost everything. They came up to me afterward and said, ‘I can’t tell you how much we needed this.’” For a couple years afterward, Kent and his band toured the Cash & King show around the west, and were prepared to reach a wider audi ence when, in 2020, the COVID pandemic shut everything down. Now, it’s time to dust off the arrangements: The moody, wide-ranging rep ertoire of Johnny Cash comprises the first half, and after the intermission are the Elvis rock classics. In light of the release of the Baz Luhrmann film, Elvis, last month, the King is having yet another renaissance; and of course, Cash’s legacy too has only grown with the years. Kent is ready to take the stage and bring them both back for an encore. As well as Kent’s own guitar and singing, the band includes Cindy Brillhart-True on vocals and percussion, Anthony Martinez on keyboards, Andy Bergman on bass, Robert Pina on drums and Tommy Lafferty on lead“Weguitar.have a great time playing this music, and of course the crowds just eat it up like a chocolate donut,” Kent mused. “Cash & King” will be at the Raven Theater, 115 North St., Aug. 27; showtime is 7pm. Tickets at raventheater.org.

September 5, 1953 – May 31, 2022

TRUE SELF Healdsburg-based Steven Kent has had a lifelong enthusiasm for Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, and proudly lays claim to meeting them both.

Despite all of those endeavors, Freddie had one vocation he enjoyed above all others. He became a motivational speaker for a company called Sage. As such he was able to help reveal solutions to his clients by gently directing them to look within themselves for answers; they spoke and he listened. Motivating people and navigating their troubled waters along with them was Freddie’s pleasure.Freddie was about to become a licensed pilot when 9/11 derailed that ambition. He loved to fly his drone, race fifth scale remote control cars and was a devoted Formula One fan. Few know that Freddie was also an excellent drummer. Freddie died suddenly and unexpectedly leaving his loving and devoted wife, Mercedes and their kittens, Frida & Diego; his son, daughterin-law and baby granddaughter, Bo, Mallory and Avery; and his brother, Rob, who resides in Holland.Freddie’s sly smile, infectious laughter and wry wit are sorely missed. We will celebrate his life, both here in California and in Holland, on his birthday, September 5, 2022 (if you would like to join us, please contact Mercedes at mmmercy@sonic.net).

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“We're not in the market, so we don't even enter tain it. Never have to long as I'm alive, because I have the next genera tion working for us now.” Both Rachael and Ryan Rochioli are “working their way up the ranks here,” said their father, Rachael Rochioli as gen eral manager, and Ryan Rochioli as an assistant winemaker.Pointing out that there are still native hops grow ing on the property, “from the days of my grandfa ther,” said Tom Rochioli, “we had this great idea of bringing that back and using those hops.” His son, Ryan Rochioli, has been particularly inter ested in brewing. Even though the effort to brew on-site has been stymied by Permit Sonoma to this point, the Rochiolis still hold out hope. “Beer is not our future, but my kids are,” Tom RochioliDespitesaid. the high esteem the Rochioli name has in somme lier circles, the family remains as rooted to the land as the vines they grow.“There’s no royalty here; they were all immi grants,” said Tom Rochi oli, whose grandfather, Joe Rochioli Jr., immi grated to the U.S. in 1911. “They worked in the fields, no different than our men working now. That's why we have a huge amount of respect for our men now. That’s how we started.” That’s how Joe Rochi oli lived, and that’s how his legacy will live on. A service will be held Sept. 7 at St. John’s Church, with viewing at 7am, mass at 9am.

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By Pierre Ratte Out to summer din ner in Healdsburg the other night, a few of us sat around a table set on a driveway. Yeah, it’s an H’burg thing in the pan demic. Passersby walking dogs chatted, bicyclists waved. Oh my goodness, the fresh Moroccan fare from start to finish was spectacular.Petting the dog, I noticed her collar repped Old Bay. Folks from Maryland are proud of their state, dogs too.

ENCUENTROCOMMUNITY

Old Bay Seasoning and Campbell’s Soup, an accoutrement and an inspiration.

The City of Healdsburg, in partnership with Acosta Latino Learning Partnership and Cora zon Healdsburg, will be hosting an event titled “Community Encuentro (Encounter).” It is part of the council’s Effec tive Governance goal to develop diversity, equi ty and inclusion recom mendations. Residents are encouraged to join the bilingual conversa tions about how the City can embrace the voices of all residents who live here.The attheonEncuentro”“CommunitywillbeheldMonday,Aug.29,atHealdsburgLibrary139PiperSt.

Chesapeake Bay, soft shell crabs, Old Bay Sea soning, apparently the logo appears on T-shirts, dog collars, even bath ingOutsuits.to another din ner, tablemates were sharing personal sto ries and someone men tioned their family asso ciation with Campbell Soup. An interesting part of the story was late in the 1800s an immigrant fam ily couldn’t afford to raise all their children. Two brothers were sent to an orphanage.After graduation, the brothers went sepa rate ways. One owned an industrial chain company, while the other brother, named Campbell, associ ated with Campbell Soup in its horse-drawn car riage days—each becom ing a Somesuccess.facts: Old Bay Seasoning was started by a Jewish spice mer chant from Wertheim, Germany. In 1938, after Kristallnacht, Gus tav Brunn was sent to Buchenwald. Brunn was released through a mon etary arrangement, com ing to the U.S. with a spice grinder.Inthe U.S., Brunn worked for McCormick Spice, but left to start his own brand. Calling it the “Baltimore Spice Com pany,” he sold “Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning.” As popularity grew, he renamed it “Old Bay” and sold it in a yel low and blue box.

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The next meeting of the Healdsburg City Council will be on Tuesday, Sept. 6, due to the closure of city offices on Monday, Labor Day. The meeting begins at 6pm at City Hall Council Chamber, 401 Grove St., and is also carried live on Zoom. The agenda has not yet been published.

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In 1990, McCor mick, Brunn’s original employer, bought Old Bay for an estimated $12 million. The recipe for Old Bay has never been published.Joseph Campbell, a fruit merchant, joined with partners in 1869 to found what would become Campbell Soup. The company’s competi tive advantage was con densing soup. The first red and white can appeared in 1898, inspired by the Cornell football team’s new uni forms. Andy Warhol made the soup can paint ings in 1961 and 1962, showing 32 flavors on 32 canvases, and helping solidify an iconic brand identity.

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The city has announced an unusually long closure of a key commercial street to vehicle traffic in down town Healdsburg for al most three full days this weekend, Aug. 26-28. The road closure of Plaza Street, from Healds burg Avenue to Center Street (the north side of Plaza Park) will begin Fri day, Aug. 26 at 9am and continue until Sunday, Aug. 28 at 8pm (or until the roadway is clear from the event) to accommo date the Healdsburg Arts Festival, announced rec reation supervisor Matt Milde on AccordingMonday.to their website, the arts festi val plans a Culinary Arts Pavilion on Plaza Street, with multiple events over the three-day festival. This 59-hour closure of Plaza Street is unusual, and Milde said he could not think of another during his tenure with the city, since 2018.

CLOSURE A ‘Road Closed’ sign can be seen at Center and Plaza streets in downtown Healdsburg. Plaza Street will be closed for 59 hours, from Aug. 26 through Aug. 28, for the Healdsburg Arts Festival, its longest closure since the COVID pandemic, when it was closed between July 2020 and January 2021.

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The filing period for three Healdsburg City Council seats—one for a two-year term and two four-year terms—ended with the following can didates qualified for the ballot.Itshows an increase in diversity, notable in the three candidates for the two-year term: a woman, a Black man and a Latino youth.There are also two measures the City Coun cil asked to put on the ballot, one for a clarifica tion of spending for the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) income, the other to establish a tax for can nabis-related businesses income.

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