PG&E Redwood Logging + Spiritual Senior Housing + Weekend Events

Hey there! Simone here with your weekend edition of the Healdsburg Daily. Distract yourself from the already oppressive heat this morning by catching up on everything you need to know about what's happening locally.

First, today's weather:

We're riding the peak of this heat wave. Excessive heat advisory still very much in effect. High: 107 Low: 55.

Here are the top 5 stories today in Healdsburg:

1. Residents affected by the Walbridge Fire out Mill Creek Road say they — and local redwoods — are reportedly being terrorized by PG&E maintenance and logging crews. (NPR)
2. Healdsburg resident Stephen Lewis Cotler, 77, a children's book writer and father of "Bridgerton" author Julia Quinn, died in a car crash last month "because a catering company did not secure their load and canvas bags spilled onto the highway." His other daughter Violet was killed in the crash as well. (Mercury News)
3. A new tasting room for Marine Layer Wines is set to open in August right next to the Downtown Bakery on the plaza. Their wines reportedly "highlight the flavors that come with grapes that are grown on the rugged and foggy Sonoma Coast." (SoCoNews Healdsburg)
4. It hasn't even opened yet, but Healdsburg's mysterious Zen-meets-Quaker spiritual senior housing experiment Enso Village has been named "Best Senior Housing Community" by Builder Magazine. Judges note the project's "quiet, unapologetic Northern California brand of intentionality in function and form." The center is set to open in late 2022 on Allan Court. (PRNewswire)
5. Another big-city travel blogger passed through Healdsburg recently — this time, to take a 45-minute hike at 110-year-old Warnecke Ranch on Chalk Hill Road that ends with a wine tasting (of course). Featuring yellow grasses, rock doves, Russian River vistas and plenty of rosé. (SF Gate)

This weekend in Healdsburg:

Saturday, July 10

• Sonoma Women’s Triathlon at Veteran's Memorial Beach (7-10AM)
• Taste Destination 128 BBQ Open House at Alexander Valley Vineyards (8AM-5PM)
• Saturday Healdsburg Farmers Market (8:30AM-12PM)
• Hike at Riverfront Park (9AM)
• Free Summer Wrestling Camp at Healdsburg High School (9AM-12PM)
• Summer Yard Sale on Fitch Street (9AM-2PM)
• UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County Virtual Workshop: Building a Native Habitat Garden (10:30AM-12PM)
• Emergency Preparedness: Sonoma Ready Series at Sonoma County Library (11AM-12PM)
• Brian Francis Baudoin Live at River's Edge Kayak (12-3PM)
• Adam Lieb Live at Spicy Vines (3-6PM)
• Live Jazz at Hotel Healdsburg: Susan Sutton Trio (5-8PM)
• Rootstocks Band Live at Coyote Sonoma (6-8:30PM)
• Rudy Colombini & The Unauthorized Rolling Stones Live at River's Edge Kayak (6-10PM)
• Mamma Mia! at the Raven Theater (8-9:30PM)

Sunday, July 11

• Live Music: Lara Louise at Duke's Spirited Cocktails (4:30-7:30PM)
• Mamma Mia! at the Raven Theater (8-9:30PM)
• Summer Sunday Music: Jason Bodlovich at VML Winery (11AM-4PM)
• Two Lions Band & David Luning Live at Flowers Winery (11AM-1PM, 2-4PM)
• Nicole Marden Live at Truett Hurst (11AM-4PM)

Healdsburg Patch Notebook

• The Santa Rosa airport is a chaotic construction site right now. As it scrambles to meet rapidly growing travel demand, it's adding new lobbies, baggage areas and 30,000 more square feet of tarmac. (News of the North Bay)
• Remember that new river shuttle we told you about? It starts today. (Patch Press Release Desk)
• This is pretty awesome: Santa Rosa is installing backup traffic-light batteries at 170 intersections, so that if/when the power gets shut off during wildfire season, the traffic sitch at least will be less of a mess. (SFBay.ca)
• Contradicting federal guidance issued just a few hours before, California school officials announced yesterday that K-12 kids will be required to wear masks when they return to school this fall. But no distancing. (Patch)
• Lost dog of the day. A female terrier mix was found near Healdsburg Avenue and Sunnyvale Drive, with no collar or microchip. Recognize her? (Nextdoor)
• The PD has a great little guide this week on how to support hummingbirds in your yard. (Press Democrat; paywall)
• In the Sonoma County version of the kitten in the tree, firefighters rescued a deer tangled in a hammock down in Santa Rosa yesterday. (Facebook)
• Even "Old Faithful" is being impacted by the drought. (ABC10)
• El Molino grad and former Healdsburg Prune Packers pitcher Dallas Packard is getting a lot of love for casually catching a foul ball in the stands of a recent Diamondbacks game — all while holding his small daughter in one arm and a beer in the other. (Facebook)

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— 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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