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Put down your turkey and head outside. This weekend will be a busy and festive kick-off to the holidays in Healdsburg and surrounding areas. You can stay close to home and take a carriage ride, see a tractor parade, visit with Santa (more than once) see the Chanukah lighting and much more.

The Healdsburg Unified School District and the City of Healdsburg move forward with the city’s plan to purchase HUSD’s Foss Creek Campus, which has become surplus property for HUSD. The Foss Creek School was vacated seven years ago due to declining student population and has been leased to the city for six years since then.

This is Thanksgiving week and along with the turkey, cranberries and other fixings, usually comes another tradition — a Thanksgiving message written in this space for our local readers. The editorial always urges everyone to not only count their own blessings but to reach out to those who have unmet needs for food, shelter or personal security.

My Indiana friend sent a photo of her dazzling ruby-colored backyard. For your fall fix, she wrote. A California friend visiting Maine posted golden leaves on Facebook and happily reported it blustery enough for gloves and scarves.

I do not intend the following to be mere nostalgia, but rather a description of a safer world in which a teenaged boy would not likely be shot by a police officer.

On a day dialed up by the Point Arena Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, came, saw and listened. I attended Friday’s environmental love fest on behalf of Sonoma County Supervisor Mike McGuire who is running for the 2nd District Senate seat in which the beautiful 1,664 acre Stornetta Public Lands is being considered for a land inclusion into the California Coastal National Monument.  McGuire’s time is now limited as he is speaking to the Kiwanis, Rotarians and special interest groups times the seven counties in the district.

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Safe School Ambassadors trains junior high students for peer intervention