🌱 Fancy New Chateau + Dry Creek Restoration + Basic Income Program

Hello again! It's me, Simone, your host of the Healdsburg Daily — back in your inbox with all the local news you need to know right now. Today we'll cover these stories and more:

• The latest on Healdsburg's pilot program for universal basic income
• An eerily authentic French chateau out Chalk Hill Road
• A cool new display at the Healdsburg Museum

But first, your daily weather:

• Thursday: Fog in the morning, turning to sun. High: 88 Low: 52.
• Friday: Mostly sunny and windy. High: 90 Low: 52.

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Air over Healdsburg:

Here are the top 3 stories in Healdsburg today:

1. Only a few weeks before the City of Healdsburg starts accepting applications for its "universal basic income" pilot program. The program will reportedly provide 50 local families $500 a month for two years, in order to "help make up the gap that often occurs during early childhood when mothers need help to pay for childcare or to make up the income deficit if they decide to stay home." If the pilot goes well, the hope is that it could inform future programs here and/or in other communities. Anyway — the city just announced that the application window starts Sept. 1. In order to qualify, applicants must be either pregnant or raising a child under 6 years old; have an income of "less than 185% of the federal poverty level ($42,606 for 3 people)"; and have experienced impacts from the COVID pandemic such as "loss of income" or "housing instability." Here's some more info on where and how to apply! (City of Healdsburg via Facebook)
2. A long-awaited project to "restore habitat for threatened and endangered salmon along 2.5 miles of Dry Creek," including through some property owned by Gallo and Foley Family Wines, is about to get underway. The project is being managed by the Sonoma Water agency and the Bay Area branch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. They'll be holding a kickoff ceremony next Tuesday, Aug. 16 near 9045 Dry Creek Rd. on the way out to Lake Sonoma. This will just be the latest stretch of a much larger Dry Creek restoration project. Here's some more background from the U.S. Army Corps: "The total Dry Creek project is a joint partnership... to restore approximately 46 acres of habitat along six miles of Dry Creek for coho salmon and steelhead trout. The habitat restoration features planned for the project include construction of stream side channels, riffles, backwaters and alcoves to slow the speed of the water and create refuge for young fish. The features will be constructed using natural materials such as logs and rocks. Bank stabilization measures will prevent or reduce erosion and provide vegetation cover and shade. Phase I will restore over 10 acres of habitat during the summers of 2022 and 2023. Previous work on the 14-mile Dry Creek includes a smaller pilot restoration project completed by USACE under the Continuing Authorities Program and one mile of ecosystem restoration completed by Sonoma Water. Phases II and III will be constructed in future years." (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
3. Healdsburg's Vérité Winery just caught the eye of the San Francisco Chronicle for their new winery building out Chalk Hill Road, a "fancy French chateau" that "recently opened to visitors after nearly four years of construction." The building kind of "looks out of place," the Chronicle writes — "but also like it has been there for centuries." More from the story: "A pair of wine visionaries — one from Sonoma County, one from France — founded Vérité in 1998, and now the chateau is a physical embodiment of the winery’s blending of the Old World with the new. The limestone, red-roofed chateau also serves as a statement: Sonoma can produce premium Bordeaux-style wines. Maybe even better than Napa, depending on whom you ask. Vérité was born out of a serendipitous friendship between two idealistic wine virtuosos: Kendall-Jackson founder Jess Jackson, who is often credited with popularizing Chardonnay in America, and Pierre Seillan, who has decades of experience managing chateaux in Bordeaux, France, and beyond. The two met in the mid-1990s at a wine trade show in Bordeaux and, after becoming fast friends, Jackson brought Seillan to California. Their partnership infused the storied conventions of Bordeaux into the nascent and open-minded Sonoma County, which was only beginning its rise to global notoriety." Read the full story here. (SF Chronicle; paywall)

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Today and tomorrow in Healdsburg:

Thursday, August 11

• Back to School Paperwork Help for Healdsburg Unified School District Families at the HHS Cafeteria (3:30-7PM)
• Jenny O Live at Little Saint (5:45-8PM)
• City of Healdsburg & Corazón Healdsburg Host Interactive Conversation in Spanish About Diversity, Equity & Inclusion / Conversación Interactiva en Español Sobre Diversidad, Equidad e Inclusión (6-8PM)
• Healdsburg Running Company Full Moon Run at Lake Sonoma, Ending With BBQ & Dance Party (7PM)
• Karaoke Night at Coyote Sonoma (7:30-11PM)
• AVFilm Summer Movie Series: Drive-In Screening of "The Goonies" at Cloverdale Citrus Fairgrounds (8:25PM)

Friday, August 12

• Field Day for Wine Grape Growers to Review "Innovative Technologies for Pierce's Disease" Out West Dry Creek (10AM-12PM)
• Final Weekend of "Emerging Artist" Show at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts (Aug. 12-14, 11AM-6PM)
• Summer Concert Series at The Drink (5PM)
• Breathless Bubbly Hour: Nate Lopez Live at Breathless Wines (5:30PM)
• Wilson Artisan Wines Summer Music Series at deLorimier Winery, Featuring Live Music by Tribute Band Petty Rocks & Food by F.A. Nino's (6-8:30PM)
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo Live at the Raven Theater (7PM)
• Kingsborough Live at Coyote Sonoma (8-11PM)
• Volker Strifler Live at the Elephant in the Room (8-11PM)

From my notebook:

• The first day of school is next Wednesday! Get your kicks while you still can, kids... (Healdsburg Patch)
• There's a new "display of local Native baskets" at the Healdsburg Museum, thanks to the museum's "wonderful friend Silver Galleto of the Pomo Weavers Society" up in Cloverdale. (Healdsburg Museum via Facebook)
• The annual summer sidewalk sale at businesses surrounding the plaza is scheduled for the weekend after next, from Aug. 19-21. (Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce via Facebook)
• This event isn't in Healdsburg, but it looks so fun: The Monte Rio Theater is hosting a good-old-fashioned square dance on their lawn tomorrow night, led by "Oakland based caller Erik Hoffman and his band Erik Thor and the Hands Four." (5PM)

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That's all for today, folks. Have a wonderful Thursday, and I'll see you right back here tomorrow...

— Simone Wilson

About me: I was born and raised in Healdsburg, CA, where I was the editor of the Healdsburg High School Hound's Bark. I have since worked as a local journalist for publications in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City and the Middle East. I'm currently a senior product manager for Patch.

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