🌱 Healdsburg's Latina B-Ball Team + Cool Program For Winery Workers

Hello, friends and neighbors! It's a wet hot Wednesday in Healdsburg and I'm back in your inbox with everything you need to know about what's happening locally. Here we gooo...

First, your daily weather:

• Wednesday: Some possible rain in the morning (!), turning to sun. High: 94 Low: 58.
• Thursday: Mostly sunny. High: 92 Low: 56.

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Air over Healdsburg:

Here are the top 3 stories today in Healdsburg:

1. Elsa Cavazos, a local journalist who focused on Hispanic happenings for the Healdsburg Tribune when it was operated by SoCoNews, is back with an awesome article in the Bohemian this week on a group of Healdsburg Latinas who created their own basketball team a few years ago. The 14-player team is called "Chicas Healdsburg," and they've got cute uniforms and everything. Elsa writes that "their origin story is simple: Maria Garcia, who loves basketball, wanted to start a team with her sister-in-law, Otilia Lopez. They began to play in Giorgi Park in the afternoons, and little by little, more women joined them. 'One day, we both said, let’s create a basketball women’s team. I played it for a long time in Mexico, in Oaxaca since I was 11. But the idea of a team began four years ago,' Garcia said, speaking in Spanish, as did the rest of her teammates interviewed for this article. Teammate Martha Brito saw Garcia and Lopez play one day and joined right then and there. 'God gave us the opportunity for us to join forces, and God put them on my path because, personally, it was the right moment for me to meet them. It helped me get out of a strong depression I had for months,' Brito said." Then a bunch more friends and friends-0f-friends joined — and the rest is history. Now they're pushing the city to help spiff up their court at Giorgi Park. Read the full story here. (North Bay Bohemian)
2. A cool new nonprofit program that trains farm and vineyard workers for management roles, so they can move up the chain, just graduated its very first class of 14 men — some of whom work for Healdsburg wineries like Medlock Ames, Vino Farms and Seghesio Family Vineyard. The four-month program, called the Richard and Saralee Kunde Leadership Academy and run by the Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation, held "classes on topics such as effective communications, conflict resolution techniques, financial literacy and wine production," according to the Business Journal. The first class of graduates were nominated by their employers to participate, in order to "provide them with the skill set to help them become leaders in our community and in our industry," a foundation rep says. One of the 2022 graduates, Fabian Garcia, "began to work in the fields" twelve years ago, the Journal reports — "the last four with Vino Farms in Healdsburg where he is now an assistant vineyard manager. Ask him about his future and he says, 'The sky’s the limit.'" And he says that has a lot to do with all the stuff he just learned in the program. The foundation, which operates on donations, hopes future classes will include more around 20 students each, and ideally more women. (North Bay Business Journal; paywall)
3. Here are some notable moments from the past three weeks' worth of Healdsburg police logs, covering July 11 through August 1. Reported incidents during that period included some "additional gang graffiti popping up across the street from the homicide scene" where a Windsor man was shot dead on the Fourth of July; more graffiti inside the port-a-potties at Healdsburg Elementary, on the "Smart Train box" and in the yard of Seghesio Family Vineyards on Grove Street; a woman who allegedly used a fake identity to bring her dog into the Animal Medical Center on Healdsburg Avenue for an "emergency C-section," then grabbed the mom and two puppies while the vet was out of the room and fled; a shirtless man in camo pants arrested at the plaza for public intoxication; another man in what looked to be a Led Zeppelin shirt arrested for a DUI near Big John's after he was seen hitting a woman and "throwing a laundry basket at her while she was carrying a baby" at Powell Avenue Laundry; two guys who got into a fist fight outside John and Zeke's; another big fight on Foss Creek Court involving "6 to 10 people"; a domestic fight between an apparent transient couple at the "native plant garden" outside Little Saint, plus a bunch of other reports from people across town about unruly or unwanted transients near their homes or businesses; a "memory care" patient at the Pacifica Senior Living Community on Grove Street who reportedly "got aggressive" and tried to leave the facility, saying "he's going to kill everyone"; a streak of registration stickers and side mirrors stolen from cars in the Parkland Farms area; a woman who crashed her car into a fire hydrant, also in Parkland Farms; a big car accident last week outside Healdsburg Giant Muffler involving a "vehicle with a trailer" that blocked both southbound lanes of Healdsburg Ave; and many more. (Healdsburg Police Department)

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Today and tomorrow in Healdsburg:

Wednesday, August 3

• Farm to Pantry Apple Glean at Oliver Farm (9AM-12PM)
• Farm to Pantry Pear & Plum Glean at Dragonfly Farm (9AM-12PM)
• Corazón Healdsburg Hosts Spanish & English Conversation Group / Conversación Intercambio (Weekly, 6-7:30PM)
• "Knits N Knots" at the Healdsburg Library: Learn How to Knit/Crochet & Create Summer Reading Bookmarks With Experts From Healdsburg's Purls of Joy Co-Op (6-8PM)
• Tai Chi Lessons at Giorgi Park (Weekly, Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:30PM)
• Trivia Night at Coyote Sonoma, With "Friends" Theme (7-9PM)

Thursday, August 4

• Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce Presents "Good Morning, Healdsburg!" With the City's New Emergency Response Coordinator, Kelsey Carreiro (8AM)
• Farm to Pantry Veggie Glean at Single Thread Farm (9AM-12PM)
• Virtual Drought Town Hall With Sonoma County Agencies (4PM)
• Tom Relling Live at Little Saint (5:45-8PM)
• Healdsburg Running Company Geyserville Run at Corner Project (6PM)
• Raven Players Perform "Twelfth Night (With A Twist)" in the Plaza (Aug. 4-5, 7:30PM)
• Karaoke Night at Coyote Sonoma (7:30-11PM)

From my notebook:

• Two fire engines from the Northern Sonoma County Fire District, in charge of protecting the Healdsburg countryside, were just transferred from the Oak Fire down in central California to the raging McKinney Fire up near the Oregon border — part of a larger strike team from various Sonoma County agencies sent up to help. "Today the engines are working to keep one of the many fires cause by lightning in check," district officials say. "These firefighters, many who are veterans of hard fought battles to save Sonoma County... know all too well the importance of helping those in need throughout the State of California." (Northern Sonoma County Fire District via Facebook & Press Democrat; paywall)
• Sonoma Mag has some more details — and pics! — of the newly opened upstairs lounge at the Little Saint food and event space on North Street. (Sonoma Magazine)
• The 36th annual "Russian River watershed cleanup day" will be held Sept. 17. You can sign up to "remove the trash and plastic pollution that has been accumulating over the last year" on one of 10 routes, including one through Healdsburg. (RussianRiverkeeper.org & Russian Riverkeeper via Facebook)

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