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May 29 ~ - Guerneville Town Clean- up with Clean River Alliance - Help cleanup Russian Riverkeeper Park, The Plaza, The Footbridge and Downtown Guerneville. Gloves, trash pickers, brooms, dust pans and trash buckets provided. The Plaza in Downtown Guerneville, 707-322-8304, Chris Brokate, cleanriveralliance.org/, chris@ cleanriveralliance.org
Jun 22 ~ Ceres Project Volunteer Orientation - Registration Required, 6:00p - 7:00p, Ceres Santa Rosa Kitchen, 2447 Summerfield Rd., Santa Rosa, 707- 829-5833, connect.ceresproject.org/ sonoma-events/?EventId=31183&event scheduleid=228009, info@ceresproject. org
Jun 24 ~ Mobile Marine Van/Steward Ship Volunteer Training - Learn to staff the “Steward Ship,” --Mobile Marine Education Van at schools, special events. 1- 4p, Armstong Redwoods Volunteer Center 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707-869-9177, stewardscr. org/
thru June 30 ~ Forest to the Sea Nature Store needs Volunteers - Stewards of the Coast - opening Store in downtown Guerneville May 26th! Volunteer shifts are9:30am-1:30pmand1:30pm-6:00 pm. Sarah Angulo at sarah@stewardscr. org to get involved today! 707-869- 9177, Sarah Angulo, stewardscr.org/ cms/pages/contact_us.html, sarah@ stewardscr.org
Provide more intensive support to seniors with a history of mental health issues. one-hour weekly visits, volunteers help seniors engage more fully in their communities. No previous experience just an open mind and heart! Training and ongoing support will be provided. Contact Barbara at 707-303- 1510; BarbaraT@jfcs.org.
thru June 30 ~ The Cotati Chamber of Commerce is responsible for many of the large community events throughout the year, such as: Jazz Fest, Oktoberfest, Shop and Stroll We always need people to help with the planning and production of these events. 707-795-5508, cotati.org/ events/volunteer/, chamber@cotati.org
thru - Jun 30 ~ Pegasus Theater Needs Volunteers - An all-volunteer theater co., pegasustheater.com/html/volunteer. php for the volunteer form. 707-583-2343,
thru June 30 ~ Sonoma Agricultural Preservation and Open Space DistrictLend, preserving and stewarding the open space lands in Sonoma County, 707-565-7366, Receptionist, sonomaopenspace.org/get-involved/ volunteer/
thru June 30 ~ Volunteer for Healdsburg Center for the Arts - 707-431- 1970, healdsburgcenterforthearts. org/volunteer/, info@ healdsburgcenterforthearts.org
thru Jun 30 ~ Looking for Volunteer Architects, Drafters, Renderers! goal to build 600 house in the next ten years and we need your help reaching that goal. 707-578-7707, Tamara Stanley, habitatsoco.org/, t.stanley@habitatsoco. org
thru June 30 ~ Sonoma Coast Surfrider Offers Marine Debris Training. Learn about tracking, removing debris and safety protocols for the Sonoma Coast. Cea Higgens at cea@sonomacoast. surfrider.org. You can make a difference!
thru - Jun 30 ~ Forestville Historical Society - for the board and to help out collecting, writing and producing stories, photos and videos on the history of town (see its great website, FHS. webvanta.com). Ron Davis, President, at 707-823-2921.
thru - Jun 30 ~ Share your Favorite Memory of your Hippie Days, West County Museum is creating a library of oral histories of Hippie days in West Sonoma County contact Sue Pekarsky Gary 808-333-1113. wschsgrf.org/west- county-museum, spgyyy@gmail.com
thru - Jun 30 ~ Catholic Charities, Family Support Center - in need of volunteers to work at their front desk. 707-528- 8712, Noreen Mendoza, srcharities.org nmendoza@srcharities.org
Nutty words and images collaborate inside my head increasing the confusion: there’s a log-roller whose feet cannot keep up; a game of Pin-the-Tail but the donkey is a jackass that keeps moving; a Diva in mid aria suddenly voiceless; a woman’s nimble fingers frantically trying to stitch the flag whole again; the country tricked onto quicksand... Fragments converge, and expect me to sort thru them, make some sense and figure it out.
thru Jun 30~ JFCS’ Seniors At Home
More troubling, in the same three days, Russian media was admitted to the Oval Office for a meeting between the chief executive and Russian dignitaries -- while our US media/press core was excluded! What? That awesome transgression and insult was closely followed by a new, bizarre and arrogant threat to possibly cancel the White House press briefings! (So he can operate entirely underground?)
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Jul 22 ~ Gourmet Walk in the Woods
A wise historian (whose name escapes me) pointed out that “take-overs” begin with audacities like silencing the free press. Unfortunately, we must own this whole mess; it’s ours. It’s one huge, glaring, disgusting, opportunity laid on us to test and challenge what it means to each of us, each in our own ways and from our personal perspectives. The lines are already blurred. We can no longer afford (during this national crisis) to stubbornly separate ourselves by rigid party habit patterns. It seems to me it’s a point in history where a dangerous following sea is looming, and we better decide where we stand.
Volunteers Needed – Stewards of the Coast: 707-869-9177, Sara Angulo, signupgenius.com/ go/20f054ba9ae2ba4fb6-gourmet, sarah@stewardscr.org
thur - Jul 31 ~ United Way - Days of Caring
- allows each organization or volunteer group to choose a day(s) for volunteering which works best for them. Submit Your Volunteer Project. kelly.musca@ unitedwaywinecountry.org or 707-528- 4485 xt. 115.unitedwaywinecountry.org/ our-work/day-of-caring/,
People I have known for years, not usually political junkies, are suddenly questioning, worrying, noticing. Who is this man and his friends; and how did they get into our House? I’m not asking anyone to answer questions for me.
I just think it’s important to know that you are definitely not alone if you are asking them, too!
thru - Jul 31 ~ Summer Lunch Program -
Big Mama Day
Help serve meals! An hour or 2 of your time is all it takes. Pledge to volunteer with the Redwood Empire Food Bank today. 3990 Brickway Blvd.,, Santa Rosa, 707-523-7903, refb.org
Quicksand & Treachery...
For murky, elusive reasons, I feel mentally pushed around and pulled apart by an angry alter ego that keeps arguing for points-of-order where it seems there are none.
Am I really seeing red or has the rainbow also changed? Do I now doubt even the true colors of my roses or the difference between stratus, cumulus, nimbus? It’s not funny anymore – it’s not just a weird happening on a flaky political front. Vital things – democratic concepts, philosophies and “national truths” -- are tumbling and thrashing around in a grand confusion and frantic dialogs.
Actually, I had great intentions! I had outlines drafted from which to choose and build June’s column, and I planned to get it done well ahead of deadline, too. But – damn! The minute-by-minute news has been enough to make me crazy, and I just couldn’t pull other themes together. So, here I am, writing about that, and having that conversation instead.
I’ve always enjoyed reading history, knowing that even the least of us is history as we pass through. The history we are making now makes blood run cold. In so many people, I have noticed that anger builds quickly, recedes slowly and returns again, too fast. What comes to mind is the increasing importance of one person, one voice, one vote, and the need to act and stem this dark tide.
In the space of three days in May, several states’ Attorney Generals spoke out – on behalf of their citizens – expressing outrage about a chief executive “... who places himself above the law!” From Hawaii to DC, they characterized this executive as “overreaching” into the other branches of our government – as if there is no separation, as if he can do so with impunity! (Remember? “Question authority” ?)
thru - Aug 27 ~ Bodega Seafood Art & Wine Festival Volunteers Needed. Stewards of the Coast - 4 hour shifts that include free food and a cool t-shirt or wine/beer glass. 707-869- 9177, Sara Angulo, signupgenius.com/ g o/2 0 f 0 5 4 b a 9 a e 2 b a 4 f b 6 - 2 3 r d , s a r a h @ stewardscr.org
A Celebration of World Environment Day Heritage Salvage in Petaluma
Sunday, June 4 at 12 AM - 6 PM VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
707-762-6277 office@heritagesalvage.com