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Last Friday, Fitch Mountain Elementary School held a special assembly for its fifth grade students, where they welcomed the College Tee Project: a Santa Rosa based organization whose mission is to, “create a college-going culture for all students.”

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At its meeting on Tuesday, May 18, the Sebastopol City Council will be holding a public hearing about a program meant to outline the inspection and repair of sewer laterals and will be viewing a handful of presentations ranging in topic from the Russian River Watershed Association to PG&E’s community wildfire program to the city’s own fire department. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. and to view the council agenda and corresponding meeting Zoom link, click here.

The Sebastopol Planning Commission is facing a different question of design — itself.

Sebastopol will be home to a handful of activities celebrating the United Nation’s International Peace Day this Sunday and Monday, Sept. 20 and 21.

A new band called Almost Angels has a local hit with a song they wrote during the Kincade Fire called “In God We Trust.”

OVER THE TOP — Reach For Home, the homeless advocacy and community services nonprofit serving northern Sonoma County, held a successful fundraiser last weekend at the Alexander Valley Community Hall. The Dinner in the Vineyard event was attended by more than 100 people, and a live auction and paddle raise netted over $150,000. Local firefighters donated $10,000 from the Wine Country to the rescue fund and the Rotary clubs of Cloverdale, Windsor and Healdsburg donated a combined $20,000. On top of that generosity, the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Sonoma County awarded a $123,250 grant to Reach For Home to support a new approach to mental health stabilization of the homeless population. "Reach for Home is very grateful to the Healthcare Foundation for their grant to support our Street Medicine Program. Together we believe providing mental health services to the most vulnerable in our community, by treating them where they live, is a critical component to improving the overall health of this underserved population,” said Colleen Carmichael, Reach For Home's executive director.

Healdsburg residents Christopher Palacios and Dennis Agnos have an emergency foster home. Chicago-born Agnos is development director for Face to Face Sonoma County AIDS Network. His partner (Palacios) is from Concord. Palacios stays at home with their two daughters, Navella (8) and Ruby (6). “We currently do not have any foster children living with us, just our two daughters,” said Agnos. “We built our family through foster care, however.”