125 years ago – January 10, 1901
Library trustees pass resolutions of thanks to Improvement Club
At the regular meeting of the Healdsburg Public Library Trustees Thursday evening the following resolutions were adopted; To the Ladies’ Improvement Club of Healdsburg: Ladies, it affords us great pleasure to inform you that at a meeting of the Trustees of the Healdsburg Public Library, held on the second day of January, A. D. 1901, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, The Ladies’ Improvement Club of the City of Healdsburg, has, at great expense and labor to said club, employed persons to thoroughly clean and renovate the library rooms, and has had placed on the floor of the library a new carpet; therefore Resolved that the thanks of the Trustees of said Library, and of the citizens of Healdsburg, are due, and are hereby gratefully tendered to the Ladies’ Improvement Club of Healdsburg for their thoughtfulness in placing said new carpet, and in renovating said rooms.
75 years ago – January 4, 1951
Practice alert will be held Saturday
It was announced today by the Civilian Defense Council that a practice alert will be held in Healdsburg on Saturday morning, January 6, 11:00 a.m. Effective at once, the two-stage public warning code will be used to announce imminent attack and the subsequent “all clear”. The “Red Alert” public warning signal will be of three minutes duration. It will consist of fluctuating or warbling signals of varying pitch by sirens. The “all clear” signal will be a series of three steady one-minute blasts by sirens, interrupted by silent periods of two minutes each.
50 years ago – January 8, 1976
Frosh hot as they start league
The Healdsburg FrosHounds, owners of a 6-2 pre-league record, opened their SCL season yesterday against Casa Grande with a good chance to take it all. Coach Bill Tearney has a team that plays a tight man-to-man defense, forces turnovers, steals passes and is good on rebounds, he reports. He uses starters Rich Passalacqua, his best defensive player, Lonnie Calvert, who can force turnovers, Allan Beer, who at 6-3 dominates the boards and the game and Paul Deas and John Barber, both good shooters. As relievers he has talent in Dave Ramirez and Gene Whitehall.
Tearney’s squad opened the season with a 42-40 loss to Santa Rosa Junior High, and then ran through Ukiah and Slater Junior High before disposing of SRJH, 59-31, and beat them again, 39-23. Rincon Valley smudged their season with a 31-29 victory, and then the Frosh beat Marin Catholic last Friday, 51-43, and Ft. Bragg on Saturday, 63-44. In those last two games, Deas had 18 points on both nights. Barber had 14 against Marin and 16 against Ft. Bragg, and Beer had 18 against Ft. Bragg.
