WHOLESOMENESS COUNTERATTACKS!
Anderson Valley Girl Scouts is getting started again! Art, STEM, outdoors, leadership, and more. Come learn more!
Registration and Parent Information Meeting
Wednesday, September 26
Between 4:30 to 5:30 pm in room 10 at the Elementary
At least one parent must attend with girls. We are seeking parent leaders and volunteers for Brownies and Daisies age groups (k-3).
Email jennmayne@yahoo.com with questions or for more info.
FIRST FRIDAY MARKET! Boonville will be a lively, happening place this Friday late afternoon/early evening, October 6th! As a part of the AV Foodshed celebration of C’mon Home to Eat month several of the downtown businesses will be staying open late to accompany a one-time Friday Night Farmers’ Market in the Boonville Hotel parking lot from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. In addition to vendors at the Farmers’ Market selling a variety of produce, meat, olive oil, chocolate, medicinals, soaps and shampoos, AV Foodshed will be selling this year’s Goat Fest t-shirts which feature a print of an Antoinette von Grone original painting. If you missed getting one of these shirts at Goat Fest in April, this is your chance. Alicia will be at the Farmers’ Market with tacos made with local ingredients. Paysanne will be open for ice cream and hot cider. Aquarelle will open its doors with a wine bar and tapas; and the Mercantile, Seebass, and Farm Chicks will stay open as well. A variety of local musicians will play throughout the evening at the market as well as elsewhere in town. Don’t miss Boonville’s First Friday this week!
ALL IN BOONVILLE! October is here and the cavalcade of events to celebrate AV Foodshed's C’mon Home To Eat month are rolling out. There is something for everyone. If you can’t catch today’s local soup special at Mosswood for lunch today, Pilar will create a special soup on each of the Wednesdays in October. On Thursday the 4th is the Boonville Hotel/Table 128’s community night dinner—check their website for the menu—you’ll need a reservation. Friday the 5th claims a premier event, the First Friday Farmers’ Market in the Boonville Hotel parking lot, replete with fresh produce, crafts, the apple press, music, and food. The lights will be on and the doors open at many of the surrounding local businesses. Saturday features 20% off all plants and seed packets at the Anderson Valley Farm Supply and an evening community dinner at Lauren’s. Monday the 8th Gowan, from Fortunate Farm on the coast, will be the host on the Farm & Garden Show from 11-12 on KZYX and the monthly meeting of AV Foodshed is at the Boonville General Store from 11:30-1. The Senior Center dinner on the 9th at 6:00 will feature local vegetables, mushrooms, and fruits and welcomes all ages—the dessert is apple cobbler! And don’t forget that all throughout October the Boonville General Store has local specials; Burt at Boont Berry will be creating apple desserts with local fruit and flour; in tune with the season Paysanne will proffer hot apple cider; and for lunch at the high school the local salad bar is available.
When you make a purchase at each of the local farm stands or for one of the C’mon events during October you can fill out a raffle ticket and deposit it in the accompanying can or envelope. The prizes include dinners at the Boonville Hotel and Bewildered Pig, plus gift certificates to AV farm stands.
If you would like to peek ahead at the rest of October’s events, please go to www.avfoodshed.com for the calendar. Not only is it possible to procure all your food locally, but the nutrition will be intact, there will be less packaging, and your food won’t have travelled through so many machines, so many hands, and so many miles.
SPORTS TALK comes to KZYX with Jim and Jerry Young beginning Wednesday, October 3rd, 3-4pm, and every Wednesday thereafter. Hum baby! I say fire Bochy, move the 49ers back to Frisco, bulldoze the new Warrior's complex south of Market and keep the Warriors in Oakland, combine Covelo, Laytonville and South Fork into one football team; ditto for Boonville and Point Arena. Why does the Press Democrat ignore SRJC football and barely does local sports when the great Herb Dower, back in the day, covered high school sports from Leggett to Santa Rosa for the Rose City Daily? Why do the tv sports announcers yell so much? Exaggerated masculinity? Closet cases? Does anyone really miss Gary Radnich? Which local newsman once pitched a 13-inning shutout when he was in high school? Should competitive high school boxing be revived?
ATTENTION BOOK DINOSAURS. The Unity Club’s A.V. Community Library reopens Tuesday, October 9th, at 1:00. We have changed our hours. We will be open Tuesday from 1:00 - 4:00 and Saturday our hours will be 12:30 - 2:30. We hope that people will find the new hours more accommodating. So bring back your books and check out the new books we have acquired over the summer.
Thanks, Elizabeth Dusenberry
ADD LOOK ALIKES:
AV FOOTBALL, 1935, Norm Clow writes: “In view of the loss of football at AV and around the county as you wrote in last week’s Valley People, for historical perspective here’s a yearbook photo of the first AVUHS football team, in the Fall of 1935. Oddly enough, that seems to have been a one-time event for several years, as there’s no further yearbook record of football until the 1947-48 school year, from whence it lumbered on for seventy years. And, yes, it’s a shame folks otherwise won’t get to see Round Valley in the autumn. You and I made the trip together more than once, and it was well worth the long drive.”
COME ONE, COME ALL. AV Foodshed’s 13th annual C’mon Home To Eat in October 2018 is about to be in full swing. While the harvest is at its height, C’mon is a month-long celebration centered on eating local food at home and in town. For a preview, there will be a First Friday Farmers’ Market event (10/5/18) at the Boonville Hotel parking lot from 4-7 p.m. replete with music, local food/craft vendors, the apple press and fresh cider, food, and local businesses staying open (including wine tasting). All during October our local eateries will be highlighted, creating a myriad of community celebrations and serving especially local food. At each C’mon event there will be raffle tickets available (when you purchase an item or a meal) for a drawing at the Grange Holiday Dinner. You can also enter a raffle ticket each time you shop at a local farm stand during the month. Raffle prizes will be dinners at the Bewildered Pig and the Boonville Hotel/Table 128 plus gift certificates to local farm stands. There will be “shelf talkers” at the grocery stores—little signs that indicate locally sourced food. And there will be two opportunities to go gleaning for your own consumption or to donate to the Food Bank. If there is time left after the gleaning, the fruit, veggies, nuts, olives, etc. gleaners will preserve it too. AV Feed and Grain will be giving a 20% discount on plants and packaged seeds on Saturdays during October. Our local grain purveyor, Mendocino Grain Project will be featured all month and you will also be able to purchase MGP flour from heritage grains at Boont Berry Store. The real challenge is How Local Can You Go?
For the 1st week in October C’mon Home To Eat features the KZYX Farm & Garden Show on October 1st with Ruthie; Mosswood a special local soup special on October 3rd; October 4th the Boonville Hotel/Table 128 community night (please make a reservation); on October 5th the First Friday Farmers’ Market; on October 6th Lauren’s community night, on October 8th the KZYX Farm & Garden Show with Gowan; and on the 9th the Senior Center dinner with pineapple pepper chicken (local peppers and mushrooms), local squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, and local apple cobbler for dessert. The Boonville General Store will have daily and weekly local specials all month. On Wednesdays Mosswood will have a special. Throughout October Boont Berry will feature local apple desserts, Paysanne hot apple cider, and the high school cafeteria will have its local salad bar. You can find the whole calendar and more information at http://www.avfoodshed.com
Boonville Hotel Parking Lot 4:00-7:00ish. As part of C’mon Home to Eat this October, the AV Foodshed is organizing a First Friday Night Farmers’ Market on Friday October 5, from 4:00-7:00ish. The Boonville Hotel has graciously offered the use of their parking lot for this one-time market event, where you can come buy fresh produce, processed foods, and crafts from our local farmers and artisans, while enjoying live music and yummy bites from local food vendors. To make for an even more festive evening, some downtown businesses plan to stay open later. We will have the Apple Press at the market as well for anyone wanting to bring fruit for pressing (please be sure to bring your own jars for the juice, and a container for the refuse).
FIRST FRIDAY EVENING MARKET October 5th. Boonville Hotel Parking Lot
4:00-7:00-ish. As part of C’mon Home to Eat this October, AV Foodshed is organizing a First Friday Night Farmers’ Market on Friday October 5, 4:00-7:00ish. The Boonville Hotel has graciously offered the use of their parking lot for this one-time evening market.
We're a week out from the market, but here's what we've heard so far from our vendors:
Renee Wilson - garlic, kale, cabbage, maybe tomatoes, maybe cukes, maybe some summer squash, and possibly leeks, if they don't bolt between now and then
AV Community Farm - meat (lamb, goat, beef), olive oil, veggies (butternut squash, onions, possibly others) and soap products The Forest People - some other produce along with our mushrooms
Angel's Innovations - soaps, shampoos, lotions and more
Wildeacre Medicinals - herbal tinctures and elderberry syrup
Joel Kies - soaps and shampoos
Chloe Stemler - chocolates
AV Foodshed will be selling Goat Fest t-shirts (if you missed getting one of this year's Antoinette von Grone original shirts at Goat Fest, this is your chance). We'll also be selling Boonville Farmers' Market products.
Apple Pressing for anyone wanting to bring fruit for pressing (please be sure to bring your own jars for the juice, and a container for the refuse).
We hope to have a food vendor at market. In addition, several downtown businesses will stay open for shopping, which includes places to eat out locally that night. Paysanne will be open for ice cream!
We will also have a variety of local musical talent throughout the evening and a kids' area.
Stay tuned - more info next Thursday.
BARBARA GOODELL AND CINDY WILDER have teamed up to produce an interesting chronology of local food production and related events called “A Foodshed: Like a Watershed,” which can be found on the Boonville weekly’s ultra-groovy website at www.theava.com
EXPECTED RAIN won’t raise the river much. Will the "Sacred Cow Sandbar" at the mouth of the Navarro River cause Highway 128 flooding & closures again this Fall? Probably. No measures have been taken to breach it, which was customary "back in the day." But the expected rain coming won't do much to raise the river level - according to the latest reading of the (upstream) USGS Navarro River gauge (9:15 am) found the river level at 0.98' - and the rate of flow past the gauge was 2.36 cubic feet per second - or in understandable terms - 17.6 gallons per second. NOAA predicts the river rise from the anticipated rainfall this weekend is only 1.8' at 1:00 am on Wednesday, October 3rd. The "discharge" rate - the amount of water headed towards the sandbar from the rain - is expected to peak at 37 cubic feet per second or 277 gallons per second from 1:00 to 8:00 am on October 3rd. (Via MendocinoSportsPlus)
ALMOST HALF an inch of rain in Boonville on Saturday into Sunday, the first of the season, and enough to damp down the dust and sweeten the air, as the poplars turn their annual gold emphasis to the changing of the seasons. A real rain was falling as we went to press this week with temps in the 60’s. Back to warm and fire danger at the end of the week.
DARN! Missed our very own artist, Stan Peskett at the Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics in Fort Bragg last week where Stan, a colleague of the famous Basquiat, discussed Basquiat’s work.
TRANSITIONS. Barry Vogel, the prominent Ukiah attorney, has retired, but continues to produce his vital, mostly Mendo-specific, radio interview show on KZYX, while Gregory Sims has left The Valley for his full-time visiting scholar position at Stanford, and Jerry Karp has sold his Ukiah book store, sparing him the commute over the hill and back. Dr. Sims assures us he’ll be visiting The Valley on a regular basis; Mr. K lives here and can be heard on his KZYX music show if you don’t happen to run into him at local spas. And the absolutely all-round fixit man for the Anderson Valley schools, Mike Foucault, has retired. A certified water guy, and the water at both school campuses requiring constant attention from someone who not only knows what he’s doing but has the credentials to do it, Mike is going to be a hard guy to replace.
SPEAKING of Mendo Public Radio, there seems to be something of an encouraging thaw at the decision levels at the station’s Philo headquarters, with an unfettered open lines hour every week, which has simply been unthinkably dangerous over the long years KZYX has been its own little rural autarky.
THE SCHOOL BOARD meets next Tuesday (October 9) at the high school cafeteria, 7pm. From all reports, the interim superintendent, Michael Warych, has so far soothed the district’s savage breasts whose heaving discontent last school year caused so much unhappiness. The school board still has an open position, incidentally, and you, too, Mr. or Ms. Unwitting can play “Closed Session” a non-violent but heavy psychic contact sport.
ATTENTION LOCAL HISTORY PARTISANS.
Valerie Hanelt of Yorkville writes:
“Just a couple of weeks to go before we climb Ward Mountain and look out over our Yorkville territory. We hope you will have some local lore or family history to share. We are meeting at 10 am at the Ingram Cemetery (Hill Ranch) on Sat, Oct 6th. The Mile Marker is 44.14 which is about 200 yards east of the Hill Ranch driveway which is 43700 Hwy 128. We will reorganize into 4 wheel drive vehicles. Hopefully there will be enough seats for everyone. There will be no "facilities" - so be prepared to water bushes. Bring your own folding chairs, lunch, and drinks and maybe some cookies to share. Dogs are welcome if they are completely under control at all times. RSVP's are unnecessary as this is a low organizational event. Just show up!”
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