VETERANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE. Presented by The American Legion, Kirk Wilder, and Steve Sparks, with help from friends. At The Evergreen Cemetery, Anderson Valley Way, Boonville, California.…
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ELDERLY GENTLEMAN urgently seeks a ride to Ukiah this Sunday morning (October 28th). Must arrive in Ukiah by 10am to catch the southbound bus. Please…
SEEMS LIKE ONLY yesterday, as us nostalgics say, that marijuana was a furtive, often harrowing way to earn one's way, what with law enforcement's Campaign…
IN THE BEGINNING there was Sam, Sam Prather. For many years four parcels of land drew water from springs on Sam Prather's Indian Creek Road ranch property. Sam watered his sheep from the modest stream diversion, it was Lynn Archambault's sole source for her one acre; and it provided water for the Edwards family’s two acres, supplementing the Edwards’ productive well. And Sam’s water provided John and Linda Hulbert with their water, Linda being a cousin of Sam’s.
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.”
ERNIE BLATTNER. A memorial service for Ernie Blattner will be held in Ukiah on Saturday, September 29th at 11 o’clock at the First Baptist Church,…
THE 91st ANNUAL BOONVILLE FAIR, technically the Mendocino County Fair, has come and gone. The crowds seemed larger than ever in all senses including the diabetic, but also more wholesome in a child-oriented way than the drinkin' and fightin' fairs of the sixties into the early seventies when Slim Pickens, then a rodeo caller, declared Boonville "the roughest rodeo town" he'd ever worked, and he'd worked some rough ones.
ROBERT PINOLI sends the sad news, tersely ringing down the curtain on legendary years of Anderson Valley football: “I am very sorry that Anderson Valley High School has to drop our football program for this year. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause your school, coaching staff and players. If you have any questions please call me at (707) 895-3496 ext. 517.”
The non-profit alternative school, Boont Tribe Community School, for elementary and middle school aged children here in Anderson Valley is almost off and running...after a very long construction delay. I need some help with advertising/fundraising/grant writing.