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Pride in Public Service

Thank you SPD

The grape harvest is underway, so drive carefully – you’ll be sharing the roads with trucks, tractors and harvesters, busy traveling from one dirt driveway to another. The harvest always seems to me to be an extraordinary time. When you ponder it, the bounty that comes from soil, water and sun is sort of miraculous. Grapes are the marquee crop around here, but the abundance of fruit, vegetables and flowers is gratifying and humbling.

Community theater

Among the scads of poll reports I have heard recently one especially confounded me.  The question was “Are you going to vote in the coming election?” and according to the poll a large number of respondents said “No” Next Question. “If you did vote who would you vote for?”  Answer. “Probably Obama.”

Fundraiser meal

Enlighten me

Moral theology

Olivia was scratching. The dog was miserable. She was so consumed by itching that it interfered with barking which is one of her joys in life. We knew it was bad when in the middle of the night two utility guys did an emergency fix on a power pole in the street, which was the perfect occasion for a righteous, indignant round of barking. And she just crawled under the bed and scratched.

Healdsburg Animal Shelter is looking for volunteers to work during the Sunset Magazine Breezehouse tours. Home tours are Fridays-Sundays starting August 3 and ending September 9. Volunteer shifts are 4 hours long (9:30 – 1:30 and 1:30 – 5:30) and HAS will receive a...