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Valley People (July 22, 2015)

WE’RE SORRY TO HEAR that John and Andrea LaCampagne and their son Mateo are moving to Santa Rosa. The LaCampagnes have been commuting to jobs out of county for the last couple of years and it got to be too much of a grind. Added incentive for the move is that their son Mateo, a gifted junior athlete, has become a top-notch little league pitcher, generating an impressive 10-1 strike-out to walk ratio in the Cloverdale LL. The LaCampagnes want to give Mateo a chance to develop further against tougher competition, which Mateo will get in the professionalized youth sports context of Sonoma County. (Petaluma won the little league world series last year.) The popular family plans to rent their home in Navarro but return to The Valley when Mateo’s out of high school. (And starting for the Giants?)

SPEAKING OF SPORTS, Coach Dan Kuny's 2015 football team, kicks off the Fall practice schedule with a jamboree at Tomales, this Sunday (July 26th) wherein the Panthers will meet teams from host Tomales, Calistoga and Mendocino. Boonville has almost all of last season's undefeated team back again, and that team is so highly regarded they are playing "up" a league this season, meaning their schedule is against larger schools.

THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. A group discussion of life and end of life. On Sunday, August 9 at 4:30pm the video “Being Mortal” will be presented at Lauren’s Restaurant in downtown Boonville. “Being Mortal” is based on writer/physician Atul Gawande’s best-selling book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.” Dr. Gawande is the reporter, interviewing other doctors, sitting in on their meetings with patents and telling about the death of his father, also a surgeon. Several community members who are interested in discussion about preparing for the rest of your life are inviting other interested people to join this month’s dialog, info exchange and education.

COQ AU VIN, the truly excellent French restaurant in Navarro, is relocating to Elk, just over a ridge or three to the west, while an eatery called the Bewildered Pig will open soon at the Floodgate.

JIMMY SHORT WRITES: Hello AVHS Alumni! We are now less than 2 months away from our next all-classes reunion for Anderson Valley High! The date will be Saturday, September 19, the Saturday of the Mendocino County Fair - Boonville Fair. Our reunion chairperson is Sheri Mathias Hansen, with Marti Tucker Titus and myself assisting. The reunion will be held at the Anderson Valley Senior Center, formerly the Veteran's Hall, in downtown Boonville. Due to the 2012 reunion being so successful (250+ attended), we gave everyone a full year-in-advance notice, and now we are down to less than two months. Much help will be needed so please feel free to reach out if you can assist us. Also, please help us out by forwarding this to anyone you may know who is not on this email list to ensure ALL alumni are invited. Let the good times roll!

Sheri Mathias Hansen, sheri@rancheriarealty.com

Marti Tucker Titus, marti@mctitus.com

Jimmy Short, JSAnnMargretFan@aol.com

Facebook page for all updates: https://www.facebook.com/groups/183035555097749/748998488501450/?notif_t=like

LOCALS who get outside a lot will be encouraged by the reports coming in from all over the state that point to a return of the rains. The Chron's outdoors guy, Tom Stienstra, has written that everything from jumping sharks to white pelicans, both species common in warmer seas, and both harbingers of El Nino, have lately appeared in Bay Area.

JERRY COX refers us all to the ongoing campaign to at last get a new Catholic church built in Boonville. Check out the church campaign at: www.saintelizabethsetonnewchurchfund.weebly.com

Saint Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church, PO Box 761, Boonville CA 95415. Help us realize our dream!

RARE BIT of humor on MCN ListServe. A woman demands, “I am throwing down the gauntlet and challenging anyone to name a horror in the world that did NOT originate with MEN.”

CHUCK WILCHER'S prompt reply: "Yoga pants?"

BOONVILLE AIRPORT DAY. The community is invited to the 16th Annual Boonville Aviation Knowledge And Folklore Convention (aka) Airport Day and Potluck Dinner, Saturday August 8, 2015. Festivities begin at Noon. Potluck Dinner at 5pm. Please bring your favorite potluck dish. Drinks provided. Corner of Estate Drive & Airport Road at the Boonville Airport. No RSVP necessary. For additional info contact Cindy or Kirk Wilder at (707) 895-2949. Join us for a fun day at the Airport.

THE MENDOCINO COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT and Mendocino Family and Youth Services have selected the 2015 Jim Levine Legacy Scholarship Award winners, among them Kathya Orozco-Medina of Anderson Valley High School who will receive a $500 scholarship to be paid directly to the university, college or trade school the student enters in the Fall of 2015. The annual scholarship program "keeps the spirit that Mr. Levine brought to the Youth Project." If you are interested in making a tax deductible donation to the Jim Levine Legacy Scholarship please contact MCYP at 707-463-4915 or email reception@mcyp.org

THE ANDERSON VALLEY LAND TRUST Summer fundraiser is this Saturday, July 25, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Stoney Bottom Gardens in Boonville. This will be a farm-fresh dinner featuring vegetables, fruits and meats from local producers. There will be live music by Bob Day, a tour of the gardens and a silent auction featuring a variety of art collectibles, tours, overnight accommodations and special cellar selections from local vintners. Tickets are $100 per person and include food and wine. Tickets are available at www.andersonvalleylandtrust.org/events or email avlt@mcn.org or call 895-3150.

THE ANDERSON VALLEY FOODSHED and KZYX presents The 6th annual Not-So-Simple Living Fair: Friday, July 24 through Sunday, July 26, at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville. There will be workshops, live music and speakers. Tickets are $30 per day, or $40 for the weekend in advance, $35 per day, or $50 for the weekend at the gate. Saturday night only is $15. Camping is $10 per car per night. No dogs allowed. For more information go to notsosimple.info; 901-7080.

THE ABOVE EVENT has evolved over the years to exclude the unfocused, museum-quality hippies who used to dominate it and is now a series of presentations by people who have real knowledge of the practical type to impart. Although Starhawk, the bargain table mystic, is the keynote speaker and an indication that Feebs are still influential at the annual event, given the state of things in the outside world, the more stuff you can do yourself, the better prepared you are for the coming storms, and these are just the thing to Get Ready.

A STARTLING FEATURE STORY in the Press Democrat last week was called, "Coho Return to Mendo Watershed." Written by Glenda Anderson, Ukiah-based stenographer to money and power, the gist of the propaganda piece was relayed to Glenda by the Mendocino Redwood Company. MRC says that thanks to their management of the liquid areas of their vast local holdings, and despite the drought and whatever goes on in the battered Pacific, "scores of coho salmon have made their way back to a pair of coastal waterways." Translation: There are a few juvenile salmon in Greenwood Creek and a few in a feeder stream in Valenti Gulch.

IT'S ALWAYS ENCOURAGING to see fish in local streams because they've become a rare sight for reasons more numerous than the surviving fish themselves. It's also true that MRC has done some good stream restoration work, canceling out that good work with their crazy-dangerous policy of chemically poisoning hundreds of acres of non-commercial trees, thus creating a huge fire hazard.

BUT GREENWOOD CREEK is relatively pristine, in that the straws drinking from it are far fewer than drink from the Navarro River's feeder streams, but it's wayyyyyy too optimistic to expect a grand coho revival off the evidence of a few babies. Good advertising for MRC though, and the PD has always aimed to serve.

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