Page 1 - Sonoma County Gazette July 2020

JULY 2020
Law Enforcement Reform & IOLERO Oversight ~ 7 & 8
How Does a Recession Effect Housing ~ 17
Inside Music in the Pandemic New Normal ~ 22
The Imaginists Re-Think Live Theater ~ 58
NOTHING
DEFEND
Stays the
Community
Same...Ever
Separators
By Vesta Copestakes
This current political and social
Will the County voters stand strong?
climate is the leading edge of great change, which is why people who find change uncomfortable are resisting it.
By Teri Shore
Sonoma County voted by 81%
What thrills me is that young people are coming out of complacency into truly CARING and ACTING.
for Measure K in 2016 to protect Community Separators, the green spaces between our towns and cities.
My generation was concerned that there was no one rising to take our place...to pass the proverbial baton into willing hands. Now young leaders are reaching for it and grabbing it from our hands and running with it. YES!
Now the community separators will be put to the test by a proposed luxury resort and event center in the voter-protected community center in the burned area on the edge of Santa Rosa’s voter-approved Urban Growth Boundary.
They are showing us that they learned from us and are living the changes implemented 50 years ago.
Speak up now!
Public Comment by July 5
Public Hearing July 9
Violates voter-protected Windsor- Larkfield-Santa Rosa Community Separator next to Cloverleaf Ranch at Buzzard’s Gulch, renamed Sonoma Solstice by the developer.
DEFEND cont’d on page 13
When I was growing up I faced limits just be being female, but as I expanded into the world, I saw that my limits were nothing compared to those placed on people who are not white, or people who love someone their own sex. The majority of people on this planet are NOT white.
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RACISM cont’d on page 10
“We face a moral crisis as a country and a people... The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are
going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.”
~ President John F. Kennedy, Report to the American People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
Home Towns: 28-43 CALENDAR of What You CAN Do!: pgs 48 - 63