Page 58 - Sonoma County Gazette December 2017

Nov 30 ~ FREE 45 Minute Life Coaching Session for People Affected by the Fires. Dermot Butterly ~ The Celtic Life Coach 0-5p, 707-494-0638, thecelticcoach.com
Nov 30 ~ Learn How El Molino High School Prepares Students for Success Food and performances by student ensembles along with a scavenger hunt and prizes. 6p El Molino High School Library, 7050 Covey Rd, Forestville, 707-824-6550, elmolino. org/, info.ehs@wscuhsd.k12.ca.us
Dec 13 ~ Foster Parent Orientation and Information Meeting - Sonoma County Human Services for Sonoma Foster Care 6pm Registration required one week in advance, Family, Youth and Children’s Services, 1202 Apollo Way, Santa Rosa, 707-565-4274, sonomafostercare.org
Dec 16 ~ Bicycle Coalition of Sonoma County and Biker Chicks Ride wth nationally certified instructors. $20 for General, registration required, 6- 8:30p, Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition, 750 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707-545-0153, bikesonoma. org/, skills@BikeSonoma.org
Dec 16 ~ Exploring the Depths of our Winter Sky past the constellations to a space not visible to the naked eye. SRJC Planetarium. Call for times. $8 General; $5 Seniors, Students, Children ages 5-12, SRJC Planetarium, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, planetarium. santarosa.edu/public-shows
Dec 18 ~ Spanish Conversation Class - Sebastopol Library - Practice speaking Spanish and learn from each other and instructor, Amalia. Pre-registration required. Sign up online. Free, pre- registration required, 4:00p - 5:00p, Sebastopol Regional Library, 7140 Bodega Ave, 707-823-7691, sonomacounty. libcal.com/event/3439316
In the Midst of a Certain Madness...
Outspoken, enraged Congresswoman Frederica Wilson reminds me of another tough old bird named Bela Abzug, who also wore big hats! It was
one of the things we did in the Women’s Movement in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Some of us did it to emphasize our femininity back when “feminist” was a dirty word! I note, with disappointment, that some of the young women today also reject the term as “offensive” – believing it implies women who hate men! (Maybe they are just too young – or perhaps not readers of their own history. Wake up, girls...you take for granted things we fought hard for!)
Bela, like Frederica, was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives (for Manhattan New York’s Upper West Side).
She was a loud and feisty voice for women’s issues. She became known
for her rallying cry: “This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives!” If she were alive, she would, I know, be outraged at how
our misfit president and his cohorts have maligned Frederica and many of our significant women in elected government service. She would grab hold of this situation like a dog on a rampage and unmercifully shake the devil out of it! (She would love to have known all our women in today’s politics, like Elizabeth Warren and Susan Collins, as well as Frederica!)
Knowing there are women working at the heart of this chaos – and fighting in old familiar trenches – is heartening, to say the least. I am somewhat saddened that my trench days are pretty limited as I approach 83! But it takes more than physical limitations to shut down those of us who carried the standards, and waved our banners (with our babies in our back slings) in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s! It is regrettable that my granddaughter’s generation has to fight some of the same battles, again, faced with Neanderthals in the White House, trying to turn back the clock on women’s issues.
It is no laughing matter that our nation and our children are at new and high risk as we all watch Trump’s concerted efforts to erase the lines between our three, separate but equal aspects of government. To listen to Trump expressing his outrage at not being “allowed” to cross those lines, is a dark and menacing reality that we all must notice! Too many of our Senators and Representatives have been too slow in awakening to the reality that they were bamboozled. It’s like: “Who? Me?” Yes. You.
As anyone knows, Governments are better when it’s a mixed bag – of philosophies, colors, persuasions, idiosyncrasies, ethnicities and even personal baggage! (That’s just the partial list.) In the USA, come hell or high water, the mixed bag usually works; that is, until and unless it winds up in the hands of an extremely dangerous partisan opportunist.
How can a president be allowed to prevail in the USA when he demeans our law enforcement and our justice system, insults and name calls our elected leaders – like a boy on the playground – and continually indulges
in self-aggrandizement? In my opinion, he prevails, so far, because he can. Through arrogance, mental deficiency and ignorance he seems to believe he has been elevated to Emperor, King or Dictator! The egotistical comments and declarations that he is “the only one who matters” would be hilarious if it wasn’t so downright scary.
We truly are in the midst of very certain madness. It is not a movie. It is not a joke. At his side is a woman who routinely wears large dark glasses, often shakes away his hand and glances at him at odd moments with a strange expression. I can’t help wondering what she is thinking...
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Dec 2 ~ Rain Barrels Installation Workshop
- Windsor - location shared with registration. FREE dailyacts.org/events
Dec 6 ~ Hopmonk Abbey ~ Science Buzz Café ~ Kathy Claypole Biggs, Author #429 Dragonflies & Damselflies $5; 7p, The Abbey / Hopmonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol, Daniel Osmer, sciencebuzzcafe. org/, daniel@sciencebuzzcafe.org
Dec 6 & 20 ~ Cloverdale Arts Alliance Announces Fall/Winter Lineup for Discovering Art Series - James McNeil Whistler, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr; and photographer Pedro Guerrero. 7-9p. $7 non-members , The Cloverdale Arts Alliance, 204 N. Cloverdale Boulevard, Cloverdale, 707-894-8500, Mark Tharrington, cloverdaleartsalliance. org/, mark@cloverdaleartsalliance.org
Dec 8 ~ Forestville FFA Holiday Wreath Class $50/person, includes all wreath supplies and a complimentary beverage. 6:30p. Sebastopol Masonic Lodge, 373 N Main St,, Sebastopol,, ticketbud.com/events/e449302c- c 2 6 a - 1 1 e 7 - 9 d 9 3 - e b e a 0 7 a c 3 9 a 6
Dec 9 ~ Reading the Rain - Designing a Stormwater Friendly Landscape. Talk/Mini Tour and Landscape Reading Exercise. Petaluma - location shared with registration. Free! dailyacts.org/events, 707-789-9664,
Dec 9 ~ Summerfield Waldorf High School Open House Rescheduled due to Fires. College prep curriculum overview. Meet the students, faculty, and alumni. FREE, 10-1p, Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm, 655 Willowside Road, Santa Rosa, 707-575- 7194, Tracy Saucier, summerfieldws.org/
Dec 9 ~ Basketball league for boys and girls! Two leagues, one for grades K-1st and one for 2nd-3rd. Learn and build upon the fundamentals of basketball through lessons, drills and games. . Instructional games will be played Saturdays at the Sheppard (RAMS) Gym, 1777 West Avenue. The first Saturday of games is December 16th, 2017. Youth Baskteball707-543-4317sports@srcity.org
Sewing Machine Basics - Sebastopol Library - Danielle from Little Four will teach you how to operate a sewing machine and some basic sewing skills. All material and machines are provided. 13 years or older. FREE, with registration space is limited, 6-8p, Sebastopol Regional Library, 7140 Bodega Ave, 707-823-7691, sonomacounty.libcal.com/calendar
Dec 18 ~ Learn a Non English Language
Third Monday of each month. Free 6:30- 8p, Aqus Cafe, 189 H St., Petaluma, 707- 778-6060, aqus.com/event/language- groups/2017-04-17/, info@aquscafe.com
Dec 18 ~ Food As Medicine Wellness Monthy series of Wellness - Community Market, Community Heals & Sonoma West Medical Foundation 6:30-8p, Sonoma County Healing Academy, 6741 Sebastopol Ave., Sonoma County Healing Academy, Sebastopol, 707-407-4020, srcommunitymarket.com
Dec 21 ~ Science Buzz Café Science Buzz Cafe - World History Through Economics: The Evolution of Economic Life $5, Graventstein Grill “Top of the Hill”, 8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol, Daniel Osmer, sciencebuzzcafe. org/, daniel@sciencebuzzcafe.org
Jan 6 ~ Learn to produce an abundance of organic food using up to 98% less water, while producing up to ten times more food in the same amount of area! Solar Living Institute 13771 Hwy 1, Hopland, . 6-7p 707-472-2460 solarliving.org
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Introduction to Aquaponics.