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Right smack in the middle of the campus of Chico State University a Victorian mansion sets among decades old camellias in full bloom.

Fall weather and the crush can only mean one thing: it’s almost pumpkin time! Email your autumnal news to IDlewood 3…” at [email protected]. “Hedda Healdsburg” wants to know all.

If you drive on Arata, you’ve probably noticed the field full of chickens. They are in a smaller, fenced pen that is rotated to different spots, and when they are near the road you can see them up close, wandering around, pecking at food and doing other chicken things. I always look for the big off-white dog that guards them—sometimes while dozing in the sun or in the shade, depending on the time of year—and it makes me happy to live in a place where we can enjoy such bucolic scenes.

Guiding believers toward discipleship and a closer relationship with Jesus is the mission of the Journey Church of Windsor, located at 332 Windsor Road, one block from the train station. Pastor Shawn Marshall says for each of us, loving people is at the heart of this personal journey that can change the world and everyone around us.

Finally, a common sense answer to gun violence and the seemingly weekly school massacres.

Traditions

Is America headed to a “worst-case” scenario on its way to attempting to hold a free and fair election? According to several nonpartisan and bipartisan studies, commissions and government watchdogs, the answer is a scary and sobering “yes.” The only wavering in these opinions is over which of several imagined worst-case scenarios will prevail over all others.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution spells out five rights of every American against which the government may not construct any laws to restrict, alter or eliminate. These are the freedom of speech, of religion, a free press and the right to assembly and to petition the government with grievances. None of these are guaranteed. These rights and freedoms are only in place so long as enough citizens demand them, a free press protects them and supportive legal arguments win their day in court. These freedoms and other parts of our Bill of Rights have come under continuous legal and governmental attack during the long history of our nation. We believe this is so today.

California may no longer be in a drought (for now), but we still have three primary goals to make water conservation a way of life:

Looking for a lost pet or a new four-legged friend? See the list of incoming strays and the slideshow (above) of cats and dogs available for adoption from the Sonoma Humane Society, Healdsburg Center.