More local headlines: AmeriCorps cuts, immigrant fears, airline protests

• One of Corazón Healdsburg’s AmeriCorps staffers, 18-year-old Agustin Hernandez — who was reportedly doing work to help local immigrant families “understand their rights and navigate intimidating legal systems” — saw his position terminated a few weeks ago when the Trump administration made $400 million in AmeriCorps cuts, according to the Press Democrat. 
• The PD also just published an in-depth analysis of the very scary, very messy immigrant roundup situation happening across California right now, and all the ways it’s being felt locally in the North Bay. One mom from Santa Rosa whose husband was deported last month summed up the general sentiment well: “We fear being here, we fear going back.”
• Related: A local (and national) protest movement is mounting against Avelo Airlines, the Sonoma County Airport’s top budget option, as Avelo begins running deportation flights for U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). A Change.org petition against flying Avelo has been circling, and a few weekends ago, a hundred-plus activists staged their first anti-Avelo rally outside our local airport in northern Santa Rosa. See footage in the PD. Now it’s a weekly thing, held each Sunday from 11am-2pm, according to the Indivisible Sonoma County group, which has been super active lately.
• In case you missed it in the last newsletter, community members launched a GoFundMe campaign to help well-known Healdsburg carpenter Tracy DeuFriend make ends meet as he recovers from shoulder surgery. “Let’s rally around this long-time Healdsburg friend and help him make it through healing and recovery without the stress of how he’ll support himself and his teen Abbey,” organizers say. They’ve raised nearly 70% of their $10,000 goal; you can chip in here.
• Another ICYMI: The increasingly popular “¡Vamos! Al Tianguis” night market is drawing big crowds again this season — taking over the Healdsburg City Hall parking lot on the second Sunday of each month. Stop by the next one on June 14 from 4-9pm.

Note from Simone: These briefs originally appeared in the weekly email newsletter I write for the Healdsburg Tribune, called Healdsburg Today. Subscribe here!