HIGHWAY 128 WAS CLOSED for a couple of hours early Sunday morning. It reopened at 9:49 am
SOUP MAKING WITH LAUREN KEATING
Sunday, January 21, 3 to 4:30 PM
Anderson Valley Senior Center
Refreshments served
A cooking demo with Lauren Keating, who will share her favorite soup making secrets and techniques.
AV Village gatherings are open to Everyone, but we recommend staying current on your vaccinations. Thank you!
More info & to RSVP:
Anderson Valley Village: (707) 684-9829,
andersonvalleyvillage@gmail.com
www.andersonvalleyvillage.org
HEDGEHOG BOOKS UPDATE Hello Hedgehog supporters. I wanted to give you a short update about the status of Hedgehog Books. It was a tough year, 2023, and I'm glad it's over and hoping for a better 2024 for us all! The physical bookshop is closed, which was a difficult but necessary change, given my current mobility and healing issues. I'm hopeful that someday I can re-open, but the jury is still out on that. In the meantime, Hedgehog Books lives on and is evolving in some as-yet-to-be-determined ways. I am still fulfilling book orders, new or used. I have moved back into the shop space, which looks bare without all the shelves and books. That, too, is a work in progress, but moving back there makes it easier for folks to come by to pick up their orders. I prefer that orders are made via email, but if you need to come in to guide a search, please contact me for an appointment. My hours are still wonky with medical and physical therapy appointments, and with outside jobs. My passion continues to be getting books into the hands of budding readers, of all ages. I am grateful that I was able to donate over a thousand books to schools in Oakland which are trying to build their libraries. Almost a thousand more went to the Friends of the Santa Rosa Library to help support their efforts. I am committed to getting great, affordable books into the hands of individuals, as well as teachers, schools, non-profits… Let me know what you need, and I will try to make it happen. Thank you, again, for your support over the five years of the Hedgehog Book shop. I admit to having a hedgehog-sized hole in my heart, but I'm hoping to fill some of it by buying books for you! So stay in touch and let me know what you need or want.
All the best to you.
Dawn Emery Ballantine Hedgehog Books
hedgehogboonville@gmail.com
707-621-3227 (textable)
STEP INTO THE LIGHT
Craft Beer flavor in a light beer, that's Black Light Step Into the Light Introducing the Black Light Ale, a magical unicorn of a beer: a low calorie beer with the full flavor of a craft ale. No, really. Our brewers/alchemists cracked the code and created a dark and delicious craft beer with only 95 calories and just 7 carbs. The multiverse will never be the same. How did we do this? Who cares? The important thing is that light beer can actually (finally!) taste awesome, so we're not asking any questions. We aren't the only ones dancing in the dark, either. Black Light just won a silver medal at the 2023 Brussels Beer Challenge. That's some heavy metal for a light beer! On shelves at select California retailers in January. Available nationwide in February. AVBC Beer Finder (https://avbc.com/find-our-beer) Learn more (https://avbc.com/blacklight-beer
MARY O'BRIEN COMMENTS ON BOONVILLE BUMMER HOUSE: When I went into Boont Berry Farm a couple days ago, there was a young, skinny guy in the yard futzing around with stakes. Behind him was a flock of chickens in the far corner. The guy stopped what he was doing long enough to give me the evil eye. Some kinda crazy illegal set-up that doesn’t square with the neighborhood!
CHRIS NELSON:
My dad (TJ Nelson) bought me my first piece of beef jerky from Marguerite at THE Floodgate. I was about ten years old (63 now) and will always remember her sweet smile and friendly, neighborly demeanor as she handed the jerky to me across the bar. Chomp! Mmmm! Delicious! I still love beef jerky because of that experience. Then, afterwards, TJ introduced me to a Pardini who was operating heavy equipment on the highway crew out in front of the entrance to The Holmes Ranch before the subdivision began. It was a great day! Thanks Dad!
PICTURED is California State Route 253 between Ukiah and Boonville as it was featured in the July/August 1966 California Highways & Public Works. The subject of California State Route 253 on Boonville-Ukiah Road is addressed in said volume.
The history of Boonville-Ukiah Road is stated in the article to have begun in 1851 when it was known as the Anderson Valley Trail. In 1868 John Gschwend successfully petitioned the State Legislature to upgrade the existing Anderson Valley Trail to a franchise toll road. The Gschwend Toll Road was primarily used to transport lumber and eventually was incorporated into Mendocino County’s public road system no later than 1896. The Gschwend Toll Road became Boonville-Ukiah Road and was upgraded to a 10 foot width during 1896. Boonville-Ukiah Road was further modernized beginning in 1952 under the Federal Aid Secondary program. The Boonville-Ukiah Road formally became California State Route 253 upon the completion of the final improvement contract during March 1963.
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