Simone’s Healdsburg Event Log: May 19-27, including FFA parade and fair
Monday, May 19
Healdsburg Garden Club hosts fourth annual “Rose Show & Rose Arrangements Competition” at the Villa Chanticleer (1-3pm)“Jumpstart Your Art” working session for artists and creatives at The 222 (weekly, 1-4pm)“Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Club” for kids aged 8-18 at Heartizens (3:30-8:30pm)Healdsburg City Council hosts closed...
More local headlines: AmeriCorps cuts, immigrant fears, airline protests
One of Corazón Healdsburg’s AmeriCorps staffers, 18-year-old Agustin Hernandez — who was reportedly doing work to help local immigrant families “understand their rights and navigate intimidating legal systems” — saw his position terminated a few weeks ago when the Trump administration made $400 million in AmeriCorps cuts, according to...
More Local Headlines: Fundraiser for Local Carpenter, Dog Rescue, Live Music Lineup
Community members have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help well-known Healdsburg carpenter Tracy DeuFriend make ends meet as he recovers from shoulder surgery. “Let’s rally around this long-time Healdsburg friend and help him make it through healing and recovery without the stress of how he’ll support himself and his...
Farmworkers celebrate ‘huge victory’ for labor rights in Healdsburg plaza
One of the North Bay’s largest vineyard management companies, Geyserville-based Redwood Empire, has been forced to shell out $33,548 in lost wages to seven farmworkers after state ag regulators found evidence that Redwood bosses “manipulated internal hiring procedures to exclude workers who participated” in a giant rally and...
Healdsburg Pics of the Week: Group Baby Shower, Kayak Love Note, Garden ‘Empowerment Plot’
Pictured above and below: Local nonprofit Corazón Healdsburg hosted a sweet “baby shower” last Tuesday for the largest class to graduate yet from its “Mi Bebé y Yo” prenatal workshop series. Twenty-one families just completed the program, according to Corazón spokesperson Holly Fox — and “for...
Simone’s Healdsburg Event Log: May 12-18, Including Seasonal Returns
Monday, May 12 🌝
“Jumpstart Your Art” working session for artists and creatives at The 222 (weekly, 1-4pm)“Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Club” for kids aged 8-18 at Heartizens (weekly through May 19, 3:30-8:30pm)Info night for fifth grade parents at Healdsburg Junior High (5:30pm)SOLD OUT: Perfume Genius, popular indie-rock musician...
Mini late-spring heat wave hits Healdsburg
Let me just step in here and preach to the choir about how insanely hot it was over the weekend. Almost record-settingly so, according to Press Democrat reporter Alana Minkler, who reports that “by midafternoon Friday, temperatures in Cloverdale and Healdsburg hovered around 100 degrees” and “at the...
Sports
The view from the pressbox
The week just passed encapsulated the great baseball program built by coach Joey Gomes with the Healdsburg Prune Packers. Tons of powerful offense paired with fantastic pitching and defensive web gems, on a team built with rising stars from across the country. It is frankly surprising to see the determination and great chemistry within a team like the Packers after only a month of playing together.
