Inside the Burn Trailer: Slideshow and Essay
Fire has to move. The hot gases created by combustion are hotter and less dense than normal air, so the fire moves upward in the direction of lower pressure. When it reaches the ceiling, it spreads sideways, again seeking cooler air.
As omicron sweeps Windsor schools, mitigation policy shifts towards ‘endemic’ phase
Over winter break, Pete Sullivan, the Windsor Unified School District’s director of COVID mitigation, was looking at nearly as many active cases in Windsor High School students as he’d seen the entire fall semester. Twenty-eight high schoolers had confirmed, positive cases in the last week of 2021, compared to a total of 31 cases between September and December, with the high being a week with 16 active cases at once last fall.
Children’s book author visits St. John’s School
Children’s book author and illustrator Teri Sloat visited St. John School last week and shared with her young audience how she crafts her stories and illustrations and the importance of living a creative life. In a presentation titled “Falling in Love With Words and Books” Sloat walked the audience through her own creative process, including her origins as a teacher, falling in love with the books she read to her students.
County affirms school statuses won’t change with new orders
In a statement released Dec. 8, the county of Sonoma and the Sonoma County Office of Education confirmed that if/when the county goes into a mandatory stay-at-home order when ICU available beds drop below 15%, the status of schools won’t change.
Healdsburg fair a multi-generational event
With the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair less than two
Public meeting on ADA compliance for Healdsburg parks and town, Nov. 8
On Wednesday, Nov. 8, the Healdsburg Parks and Recreation Commission and Senior Citizens Advisory Commission will meet jointly in a work session format to receive a presentation evaluating Healdsburg’s Community Services/Parks and Recreation Facilities for accessibility required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The primary work up to this point has been to evaluate physical barriers to participation in programs and services (e.g. handicapped parking, pathway and sidewalk construction, restrooms, etc.). Future work will review readiness to serve people with disabilities from a program and service perspective. The work session begins at 6 p.m. at Healdsburg City Hall, 401 Grove Street. The work session agenda, staff report and draft accessibility evaluation report is available on the city’s web site at www.cityofhealdsburg.org.
New Girl Scout troop focused on hard work, fun and ice cream
“It starts out tasting like vanilla ice cream and then when you taste a Thin Mint, it’s so good.”
