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The City of Healdsburg is moving forward with plans to work with equity consultant Acosta Latino Learning Partnership (ALLP) in an effort to nurture and improve diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the Healdsburg community.

At 66, Edward El has a new lease on life — literally. In two weeks, he’ll move into his own apartment in Berkeley after spending the better part of the past 16 years homeless.

Since the beginning of February, the corner of Matheson Street has been filled with flowers every other day. February is the month of love, flowers and chocolates. Therefore, Elizabeth Trinidad, 21, has been working actively to sell bouquets in that corner.

With one year under its belt, the Discovering Windsor Through Art utility box painting program, run through Windsor’s public art advisory commission and the parks and recreation department, is calling artists to beautify otherwise droll infrastructure.

The Healdsburg City Council adopted a climate emergency declaration in 2019 and has taken some isolated actions since then. However, the city lacks a comprehensive Climate Action Plan with deadlines and staff/budget allocations. Healdsburg 2040, a citizen-led grassroots organization, believes the city council must prioritize climate action in its goal-setting session on March 7, 2022.

The Town of Windsor is resuming its plans to expand the borders and facilities of Keiser Park, after a nearly eight-month pause to coordinate potential joint uses with the Windsor Unified School District (WUSD).

Earlier this month, the Sebastopol City Council unanimously approved the city’s mid-year budget adjustments for the 2021-22 fiscal year, which demonstrated a far lower shortfall in the city’s general fund than what was expected when the budget was first adopted in July 2021. In the same motion, the council also accepted the quarterly financial information report.

This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that requires large employers in California to offer workers up to 80 hours of COVID-related paid sick leave.

The oldest people in Sonoma County can remember the days of Prohibition (1920-1933) and we still have a cluster of World War II survivors who can tell stories about food and gas rationing and local coastal blackouts to hide from Japanese submarines. Our most elder Baby Boomers can recall when the county’s population almost doubled between 1950 and 1970, from 103,405 to 204,885. (Today’s population is 486,000.)

$200,000 in community response grants will be going out in varying amounts to several local nonprofits in an effort to bolster organizations’ work in responding to childcare, food, mental health and direct assistance needs.