Page 60 - Sonoma County Gazette - October 2017

Oct 7 ~ Red Barn’s Community Work Day Planned schedule is 8-12p. Adults only, (including the installation of the newly donated play structure) Thank you lunch for all helping hands. All families (including children) are welcome to join in lunch. 8a, Red Barn Montessori, 3820 Bodega Avenue, Petaluma, 707-789-9397, administrator@redbarnmontessori.
Oct 13 & 14 ~ Code Blue Bicycle Ride to help end Hunger - Volunteer support for family friendly bicycle ride. Contact Jennielynn Holmes at 707-542-5426, 465 A St, Santa Rosa.
Oct 17 ~ Food For Thought - Help feed the community. 5-6:30p, Food For Thought, 6550 Railroad Avenue, Forestville, 707- 887-1647, volunteer@fftfoodbank.org, fftfoodbank.org
Thru Oct 31 ~ Adult foster care mentors - You can make it possible for an adult with an intellectual or developmental disability to live a richer, more meaningful life. 707-544-5282, camentorfha.com/mentor
Thru Oct 31 ~ Caring Connections JFCS’ Seniors At Home expanded older adult visiting program to provide more intensive support to those seniors with a history of mental health issues. Training and ongoing support provided. Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Sonoma County Region, 1360 N. Dutton Ave. Ste. C, Santa Rosa, 707-303-1510, BarbaraT@ jfcs.org, jfcs.org
addresses issues facing seniors and helps keep elected officials informed on topics such as affordable housing and transportation. Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Sonoma County Region, 1360 N. Dutton Ave. Ste. C, Santa Rosa, 707-303-1510, dianak@jfcs.org, jfcs. org
Thru Oct 31 ~ Russian House #1 - Seeking help in restaurant and event organizing. Free Cultural Space with honor system instead of regular payment. Russian House #1, 9960 Hwy 1, Jenner, 707-865- 9456, russian-house1.com
Thru Oct 31 ~ Gualala Arts - Writer needed for artist bios and short articles on Dolphin Gallery Exhibits for publicity, media help for keeping Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts updated and energize. Volunteer instructors needed for clay studio & library. Volunteer Instructors receive free studio time. 707-884-1138 atsharonnickodem@aol.com, Gualala Arts, 46501 Old State Hwy., Gualala
Seeking positive, enthusiastic and educated adults mentor 11th grade students. Mentors act as a resource, support and educational guide for students. Time commitment is 2+ hours monthly. jillpeterson@roselandsd.org
Thru Nov 21 ~ Cloverdale Museum of History - The History Museum needs a webmaster for re-design and maintenance of the website and a bookkeeper. Flexible schedule to help paying bills, handling the mail etc. Quickbooks ability essential. 707-894- 2067, office@cloverdalehistory.org
Thru Dec 31 ~ Lizze Armstrong Jones Welcome Center - Docent Program On weekends, the volunteers will set up a display in front of the Welcome Center and help alleviate the traffic of 74,000 visitors who come the park. Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods, 1700 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707- 869-9177, sarah@stewardscr.org
Thru Dec 31 ~ Jewish Community Seeking people interested in supporting our mission of providing free health care to those in need. 4-6p, Jewish Community Free Clinc, 50 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, 707-585-7780, jewishfreeclinic.org
Ongoing
Cotati Chamber of Commerce The Cotati Chamber of Commerce is in need of people to help with the planning and production of events and opportunities in other parts of the city or county as well as new Board of Directors members nominated and selected in December. 707-795-5508, chamber@cotati.org, cotati.org
Sonoma Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District - Volunteer programs include Land Stewards, Preserve Partners, Volunteer Patrol and Volunteer Easement Monitors. Volunteers visit properties each year, hiking, monitoring, taking photos, talking with landowners, completing reports and identifying issues of concern for stewardship team. 707-565-7366, sonomaopenspace.org
Healdsburg Center for the Arts - Looking for volunteers who are art-minded & energetic for retail, show installation, special event help, publicity, strategic planning & organization, and more. Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza Street, Healdsburg, Healdsburg, 707-431- 1970, info@healdsburgcenterforthearts. org, healdsburgcenterforthearts.org
Sutter Care at Home Thrift Stores - Four stores located in Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa and Sebastopol have volunteer openings with the Sebastopol Store location experiencing the greatest need for jobs such as running the cash register, bagging, helping customers and donors, as well as stocking and merchandising the store and processing donations. 707- 535-5790, suttercareathome.org
Meals on Wheels Drivers - For Guerneville and Santa Rosa area. Shifts are usually 3 hours M-F, mornings or afternoons. Shifts can be weekly, monthly or register as a relief driver. 30 Kawana Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707-525-0143, lgalten@ councilonaging.com, councilonaging. com
on Netflix could be entitled “Breaking
Sort of Bad.” It is not as well-constructed
as “Breaking Bad,” but for those who are missing Walter White, there are some striking similarities. Marty Byrde, Jason Bateman, is a middle-aged white man, a financial advisor and from all outward appearances he is the epitome of the American Dream. He has a beautiful blond
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due to the fact that he is laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel. Walter White’s situation takes on a more mythological dimension considering that he is dealt a lethal blow by fate. Marty Byrde’s predicament is more of his own doing hence more mundane. The setup necessitates the move of the very urban Byrde family to Ozark Lake in rural Missouri.
Thru Oct 31 ~ Local Advocate For Seniors
Thru Oct 31 ~ Roseland High Schools
Oftentimes brutal and grotesque, the series is not without sparks of black humor. Supporting characters are colorful and adept. Linney is always good. There is enough going on in Ozark to keep you going back for all 10-hour-long segments.
Laura Linney and Jason Bateman
Marty’s partners have been murdered by the cartel for skimming. In order to avoid the same bad luck, he fast-talks his way into a scheme to launder great bundles of cash in a virgin market. He invests in a strip club, a lakeside resort and an evangelical church. The conceit of the red-necked hillbillies pitted against the city slickers is way too stereotypical. The Langmore
clan seems straight out of “Deliverance,” but in some ways they are more sophisticated in criminal intent than Marty. There is a subplot of a gay FBI man who is stalking the family which adds to the general unease.
The tone is very noir, very dark. Laura Linney plays Marty’s wife,
Wendy. Their relationship is volatile and their teen-age daughter is full of angst. The most adjusted character is their son, Jonah, and his past time is disemboweling dead animals. Bateman is an executive producer of the series and has also directed several episodes. I have found his delivery odd in
this and in other performances. His cadence sort of starts out normally and ends in a mumble. I can’t imagine him displaying high intensity emotion
as, for example, Al Pacino. The cinematography is muted and it seems as if sometimes we are perceiving the action through a gauze.
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