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Here’s what’s happening at the Senior Center in July:

My beloved van is on its last legs, so Matt and I have been looking at possible replacement vehicles. We’ve narrowed it down to two makes and models, so we went down to test drive one of the contenders at Car Max in Santa Rosa. The car was nice, with many of the features we’re looking for… but it was a really, really weird dark brown. Luckily we’re in a nice position of not NEEDING a car, and we can keep looking, because I am not at ALL partial to brown, and by that I mean I hated it.

Whatever the date, summer arrives for most of us when summer fruit appears in its true ripeness. This means that apricots are soft and coral, lip-smacking in flavor. Peaches wake up your mouth and dribble down your chin. Berries are perfectly soft, chubby, deeply colored and ready to dive into a piecrust.

Mid-summer festivities abound. Send your summer news items to IDlewood 3…” at idlewood3@hbgtrib.com. “Hedda Healdsburg” wants to know all.

Six months on the Plaza

Meet candidates June 28

Make a statement

Lots of us face the economic reality of “too much week, not enough money.” Here at the newspaper it’s more like, “too much news and not enough newspaper.”

There was a packed auditorium at San Miguel School on Thursday evening, June 14. The Banke-Jackson family had invited the community to come and share their ideas on repurposing the former Wikiup Golf Course. They were certainly impressed with how many people showed up.

Here’s what’s happening at the Senior Center: