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Responsibility to Remember Roseland
Know Your Rights
KBBF hosted a “Know Your Rights Immigration Forum” on Saturday, March 18, that included a presentation by the Mexican Consul, DACA renewal by Rafael Vasquez, and information rights for immigrants by attorney Berenice Espinoza. The 4-hour event included great questions and comments from the audience, was broadcast live on KBBF, and will be rebroadcast several times.
New Volunteers
Thank you to the 14 new volunteers that joined us last month and have already become involved in tasks such as recording PSA’s, translating, creating iers and brochures, categorizing 100’s of recently donated record albums, and helping to put on the immigration event on March 18. If you too would like the excitement, satisfaction and learning experience of volunteering at KBBF, call us at (707) 545- 8833 or email at info@KBBF-fm.org attention Judy.
A new program as of February 7 is Invitame a Tu Tierra, on Tuesday 5 – 6:00 PM, with Juan Ignacio and Julian Lucas. The focus is a nostalgic journey of food and musical traditions from di erent regions of Mexico. Nora Villanueva has joined programmers Lorenzo Oropeza and Alfredo Sanchez on Caminos Indigeneas, which airs live every Sunday from 2 – 4 PM. They discuss global topics such as worker’s rights, immigration, taxes, and family issues.
As promised, KBBF is now streaming online. Historically, its signal reached 18 Northern California counties, but now can be heard worldwide. We are now redesigning the website to include extensive information and be more user- friendly. Our present website is kbbf-fm.org.
New Antennae
KBBF’s antennae blew o the tower on the top of Mt. St. Helena in a severe storm this winter, but has been replaced and we are again broadcasting at full power throughout Northern California. The original KBBF tower and antennae were installed in 1973 by helicopter, funded by the Robert Kennedy Foundation, but this time the antennae was replaced by two brave technicians climbing the 84 foot tower.
KBBF Board Meeting
The Board of Directors of the Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation and KBBF meet the last Saturday of the month, and the public is always welcome to attend. This is a good way to find out more about KBBF and give your input. The next meeting is April 29 at 10 AM at KBBF o ces located at 1700 Corby Ave., Suite B, Santa Rosa.
Women in Politics
On March 22nd, KBBF in collaboration with National Organization of Women (NOW) Sonoma County chapter presented a panel of “Women in Politics” with supervisors Shirley Zane, Susan Gorin and Lynda Hopkins. They spoke to an audience of over 100 people about the challenge of being a woman in o ce and providing suggestions for women who want to run. Elaine B. Holt, host and producer of Women Spaces facilitated the event and says, “The most important things need when they run for o ce is lots of support, money and above all self-confidence”.
KBBF Monthly Events
We are bringing back KBBF monthly community events, beginning with a movie night in April, showing A Day Without a Mexican. The following event will be a dance featuring the well-known Sonoma County band, Los Ritmicos. It will be on Saturday, May 20th from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at KBBF 89.1 FM, located 1700 Corby Ave. Santa Rosa. Like us on Facebook or check our website kbbf- fm.org for more information.
An “Earth Day Adventure” is in store for Roseland residents and friends of Roseland on Saturday April 22, 2017. Volunteers from the Community Action Partnership will link with local residents to “Beautify Roseland.” The event is from 10 am in the morning when EVERYONE is welcome to choose where they would like to help beautify Roseland. Vince Harper from the Community Action Partnership will be hosting a quick “Hello” for the beginning of the events at the Roseland Village Neighborhood Center at 779 Sebastopol Rd. There is plenty of parking there and the focus for people there will be the West Ave. to Sunset Ave. area. Volunteers will also be going over to McMinn Ave. to do neighborhood cleanup and gra ti removal.
There will also be volunteers from the Friends of Roseland Creek meeting at the Roseland Creek Elementary School parking lot on Burbank Ave. across from the Roseland Creek Nature Preserve. Nice new signs have been installed there by the Sonoma County Agriculture Preservation and Open Space District (SCAPOSD) to signify this land has been preserved by taxpayer money. Local volunteers will lead e orts to “beautify” and clean up the Roseland Neighbor Wood as locals call this already beautiful oak woodland and meadow area. There will be tools and refreshments for those joining the “Friends of Roseland Creek” on this e ort to “Spruce up” this natural jewel in a bit of spring cleaning. This will be happening rain or shine so please come out and see our local nature at its best.
New Program and Programmers
There is a responsibility to “Remember Roseland” as it was before the onslaught of urban sprawl reached into the formerly pristine areas inhabited by the indigenous peoples of the Pomo Indian and Coast Miwok Indian tribes locally. At least a decade ago Roseland residents close to the Neighbor Wood site worked with each other, and then highly paid consultants paid by Santa Rosa taxpayers, to plan for a “Pomo Interpretive Village” on the southern bank of Roseland Creek near McMinn Ave. This is on a six acre parcel of land eventually purchased outright by the (SCAPOSD) and later deeded over to the city of Santa Rosa though it is still located in the unincorporated county jurisdiction. Now the city of Santa Rosa has denied that it ever adopted the formalized plan from 2010 when hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent for many meetings with the community to plan for Roseland Creek Park
and Trail. On Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 at the Santa Rosa City Council meeting another consultant was hired for a new plan e ort.
Streaming and New Website
The city sta stated, “The services will build upon planning for the park that has been underway since 2009 and facilitate the continuation of public input received thus far from the processes for the Roseland Specific Area Plan, Roseland Annexation, and specific park-site conversations.” This new e ort leaves many Roseland residents who participated in past e orts to be apprehensive the city Recreation and Parks Department sta are seeking
to override the desires of local residents and NOT do a Pomo Interpretive Village as promised long ago. A Professional Services Agreement with Design Workshop, Inc., of Stateline, Nevada to, “Provide a master plan, 30% and 100% design and engineering plans for Roseland Creek Community Park in the amount of $187,794.00” was approved. In addition, “David J. Powers & Associates, Inc., of San Jose, CA” was hired to “Provide environmental review and declaration services for Roseland Creek Community Park in the amount of $146,960.00”
This is $334,754.00 more money to redo a plan citizens of Roseland thought was completed over seven years ago. But the city sta claim the first plan
was never adopted, even though there had been applications for state grants in the past stating the plans were finalized. With the new controversy of the Paulin Creek Preserve land being possibly sold to a developer by the county of Sonoma, and the (SCAPOSD), many Roseland residents are concerned for the future of the Roseland Neighbor Wood. Roseland Public Schools o cials have stated they want to now build a new Middle School on the small green space at the Roseland Creek Elementary School. This leads some locals who have talked with Roseland Review to believe the school district will try to force playing fields over onto the Roseland Creek lands previously thought
to be protect in perpetuity from development. Roseland Review will research these matters further for future news reports.
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