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NOVEMBER 2019
Voting for FIRE Your 2019 HOLIDAY Guide How Do We
Services is Not an Option~ 16-17
Parades & Festivals - Craft Fairs - Tree Lightings Performances - Community Dinners ~ 68 - 71
Define Conscious Cannabis? ~ 19
After
Unique & @ Risk
should participate in the process now underway to update the Local Coastal Plan let me offer my take on the core reason. The continuation of sound public policy protecting the coast from excessive development while ensuring access to the beach and care of the environment requires commitment. That commitment comes in the form of work...that’s right, work. Doing the work of learning the issues and the process and then showing up.
the Fires TIME to Recover
By Eric Koenigshoffer
If you are wondering why you
By Debbie Mason, Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County As we reach the second anniversary
of the 2017 wildfires, the triggers for those impacted have become more visible: reconstruction challenges, the Camp Fires in Butte County, our recent Kincade Fire, or just a windy night are a few examples. Mental health recovery and resiliency are more important than ever.
Our community is really starting to see the long-term effects of wildfire trauma and PTSD on the mental health of our employees, neighbors, and customers. Prolonged stress takes its toll on physical and emotional well-being.
Sonoma County Permit & Resource Management Department (Permit Sonoma) recently released the Draft Update of the Local Coastal Plan (LCP). Meetings seeking community input are now underway. The draft document is available on- line at the PRMD website. Hard copies are available for review in public libraries around the county. There will be public hearings as the process unfolds.
Some residents sought immediate help after the fires from stress, anxiety or depression with mental health professionals. Other residents are just now realizing that stress, anxiety or depression are setting in and that they might need help.
The Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County, through the Wildfire Mental Health Collaborative, offers free help for those recovering from the 2017 fires of 2017 and beyond.
The current LCP is 270 pages.
The draft update LCP is 424 pages. In addition to the main body of the
RECOVER cont’d on page 14
Yo u r H o m e To w n : 2 8 - 4 3
COAST cont’d on page 8
E E v v e e r r y y t t h h i i n n g g T To o D D o o C C A A L L E E N N D D A A R R : : p g s 4 8 - 7 1
document there is also an appendix of a few hundred pages.