Healdsburg Center for Animals Activity Log, Nov. 13-19
Looking for a lost pet or a new four-legged friend? See the list of incoming strays and the selection of cats and dogs available for adoption from the Healdsburg Center for Animals.
Country Roads: Grateful
Everyone I meet believes this year has flown by. True, we lost weeks immersed in a fire storm. But, even that doesn’t explain why the months seem shorter. Before the fires, the winter had morphed into summer and summer into what? Thanksgiving.
Commentary: Stewarding the electronic dinosaur
When discarded, the toxicity of electronic waste functions as an eroding agent on clean water, healthy soil and fresh air. The impacts of improperly disposed e-waste are measurable, harmful and applicable on a global scale. The general cause and consequence of its mismanagement seem to be shared equally among manufacturers and consumers alike.
But I Digress… Somewhere under the radar
Sometimes being alive isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But yes, it sure beats the alternative.
From WUSD – Class Act: School community comes together after fires
It is well known that during times of tragedy we often see the best of humanity. This is so true in Sonoma County as we continue to move forward after the firestorm. As a principal in the Windsor Unified School District at Brooks Elementary School, I am so proud and humbled to be a part of this process.
Off the Top of My Head: Giving thanks
One thing for which I always give thanks is my parents. They worked hard and raised us well. My father pushed us. My mother hugged us. It was a good combination.
A Thanksgiving Strong
As with most parts of life in Sonoma County, now removed by one month from the Oct. 8 wildfires, our 2017 Thanksgiving gatherings will be unlike any previous ones, with extra thoughts and prayers reserved for the victims and volunteers of our region’s greatest natural disaster in history. The timing to pause and give thanks could not be better.
Humanity First: Reaching for home
Right around the time on Thanksgiving morning when you pop your turkey into that fancy oven, just after you tune the television in your cozy living room to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from New York, volunteers affiliated with a Healdsburg-based nonprofit will fan out into the community and inspire gratitude of an entirely different kind.
Arts & Entertainment
Local ‘rock star’ on art tour
For Alexander Valley sculptor T Barny, it’s about more than just about the stone. “It’s a way scientists or astronomers envision the universe as being infinite, but finite,” he says. “It just keeps going, keeps going, keeps going.” The concepts of art and topology animate him.
