First, I must point out that I was as bemused and disappointed as many of you apparently were when my column did not appear last week. Nothing was said to me. The AVA’s Powers-that-Be made this decision in their infinite wisdom and yet, in the days since, many local folks have expressed the opinion that what replaced it was just not as interesting or informative to Valley dwellers… Oh, well…
Onward… Coming up next week is the AV Jr/Sr High School ‘Winter Student Expo’ next Tuesday, January 30 from 3.30-5.30pm in the AV Jr./Sr. High School Industrial Arts Building and the Media Lab behind the cafeteria. The student projects will include a slide show about Overpopulation and Techniques for estimating population size, Paper Skeletons, Sustainable Agriculture, Demonstration of Floral Designs, Morse Code and a Potato Battery, Interactive Wood Working, and more! Student Victor Martinez will serve a traditional Birria stew with rice and beans for his senior project for free, thanks to the AV Education Foundation’s generous support of student grants! This is a wonderful event and well worth visiting for everyone. Hope to see you there.
Public Service Announcements:
#540. Steve Sparks, informs me that he is about to launch a new version of the very popular and useful AV Grange Newsletter, the Valley info sheet that stopped publication a few years ago. Steve will start with the February 2018 issue and hopes to produce the ‘Anderson Valley Community Bulletin’ (AVCB) every month of the year (rather than the Newsletter’s quarterly appearance), and to include even more useful details about the Valley’s social events, organizations, meetings, services, eateries, and general information. It will be a free, four-page handout, 600 copies will distributed throughout the Valley each month at many locations. Steve hopes to have this first issue throughout the Valley on Friday, January 26. Anyone interested in making sure information appears for their organization/meeting/event/etc, or wishing to be one of local businesses who will get a business card-sized advertising spot in this new publication, can call Steve at the Bulletin’s number, 353-0369, or email him at avcbulletin@gmail.com. Please do so on or before February 20 to be in time for the next, March, issue.
#541. One down, one to go. Crab Feeds, that is. The next one, the Gloria Ross Original Crab Feed at the Apple Hall in the Fairgrounds is Saturday, February 3. But it is sold out.
#542. The Vets from the Mendocino Animal Hospital visit the Valley tomorrow, January 25 at the AV Farm Supply north of Philo on Highway 128 from 2-4pm. And again on February 8 and 22. New customers and their pets are always welcome. Previous visitors can call 462-8833 and the vets will bring your pet’s charts with!
#543. The AV Museum remains closed, reopening next month, or so.
#544. The Unity Club’s AV Lending Library at The Fairgrounds is open Tuesday 1.30-4.30pm and Saturday 2-4pm.
Community lunches in the Senior Center at the Veterans’ Building in Boonville: $6 donation from seniors and $7 for Non-seniors. Tomorrow, Thursday, January 25, the lunch, served by Marti Titus and her crew at Noon, will be Moroccan Chicken/Monkey Tail Banana Cake. Next Tuesday, January 30, the lunch will feature some wonderful stuff that I have not been informed of yet!? All meals include vegetables, salad bar, and fruit, plus milk, coffee, tea, and lemonade. What a deal! The ongoing Diabetes Workshops, in both English and Spanish are hosted by the AV Health Center and to register please call 895-3477… Meanwhile, on Tuesday and Thursday at 9am the Center offers ‘Young at Heart Exercise’ with Linda Boudoures. On Wednesdays and Fridays at 9am it’s a new Tai Chi class with Karen DiFalco. Water Color Painting Group is Thursdays at 9.30am. Kathy’s Easy-stretch Yoga class at 11am. Thursday’s Active Life Club runs 10am-2pm. The Center’s Community Bus goes to Santa Rosa first Wednesdays. Sign up early at 489-1175. All ages welcome at the lunches and dinners!
This week at the Three-Dot Lounge – “Moans, Groans, Good Thoughts, and Rampant (yet surprisingly reliable) Rumors” from my favorite gathering place in the Valley.
…So somebody in their infinite wisdom decided to change the name of the Alsace Wine Festival to the ‘Anderson Valley Aromatic White Wine Festival’! It’s a splendid festival now with a silly name.
…What’s with the unmarked 'cop cars' around the Valley? Well, they are not actual cop cars anymore. It’s just a couple of local fellas who have a penchant for buying used police vehicles, the classic Ford Crown Vic with its unmistakable shape, and driving them around the Valley. Meanwhile, many Valley folks are suffering from raised heart rates and palpitations whenever these vehicles, one of which still has the white roof, are seen at the side of the road, which one of the guys seems to like to do! Am I sounding guilty of something?
…So last week a little bird I know, who works at the local Fire Department in Boonville, parked in the small lot in front of that fine establishment as she does many times a week. As she got out of her car a pedestrian passer-by remarked in a sharp tone that she should not park there, it was for volunteers and staff only. My acquaintance was quite taken aback that somebody would be that ignorant and bold, never a good combo, and informed this rude person that she actually did work there and had done so for four years. Needless to say the passer-by was firmly put in her place and sheepishly walked on. Some people!
I’m outtahere, gotta see a man about a sheep. Show love to your pets, they’ll be faithful and true in return. And, “Let us prey.” Humbly yours, Turkey Vulture. Ccontact me through the Letters Page or at turkeyvulture9@gmail.com
PS. Skylark, read any good books lately? Hi, Silver Swan, behaving yourself? Hopefully not! Everything cool with you, O.J.? Of course it is.
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