🌱 Second Coming Of SHED + HHS Dress Code Drama + Soapy Fountain

Hello, my people! Simone here with your weekend edition of the Healdsburg Daily, full of hella festive local events and everything else you need to know about what's happening in town. Enjoy...

First, your weekend weather:

• Friday: A brief shower or two. High: 60 Low: 42.
• Saturday: Partly sunny. High: 67 Low: 40.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny. High: 68 Low: 41.
• Monday: Intervals of clouds and sun. High: 65 Low: 44.

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Here are the top 5 stories today in Healdsburg:

1. After months of hype, Healdsburg restaurant Little Saint — a "new food, arts, music and community space at the former Healdsburg SHED" space on North Street — finally has an opening date. According to Sonoma Mag, "The owners of the 10,000-square-foot multi-purpose building in downtown Healdsburg announced in a press release Wednesday that they anticipate opening Little Saint in February 2022. (It was previously slated to open this fall, but the pandemic and subsequent supply chain disruptions delayed the opening.)" Click through for all the big names just announced in the kitchen and more on the owners' grand vision. (Sonoma Magazine)
2. CBS News published a play-by-play this week of the tense vaccination debate that went down at Monday's Healdsburg City Council meeting. Basically, public commenters called in to support unvaccinated councilmember Skylaer Palacios, who herself had to call in remotely, and argued that the new vaccination mandate for city meetings is fundamentally racist. Palacios, the youngest and only Black councilmember, compared the mandate to "Jim Crow-era laws." Her fellow city leaders pushed back, calling the narrative "disturbing" and pointing out that "our African American residents are the highest-vaccinated population demographic in Sonoma County.” Councilman David Hagele added: “Councilmember Palacios, I see you right in front of me. People at home can see you and hear you, and so you are part of this meeting, you are part of this City Council.” (CBS San Francisco)
3. The first of the fancy homes in the unfolding Mill District development on Healdsburg Avenue just south of the roundabout apparently just hit the market. Within the past week, a "garden home" condo was listed on Redfin for around $6 million and a "penthouse" apartment was listed for around $7 million. The three-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot penthouse has "dramatic glass walls" that "unite towering redwoods w/panorama of Fitch Mtn. & downtown," the listing says. And the garden home, also three bedrooms, is described as a "luxurious city residence" featuring two "elegant" levels, including a "garden terrace and water feature" on the ground floor. Both are situated on the elaborate Mill District campus, so they also have access to all of its "walking gardens, wellness center & pool, concierge services," etc. (Redfin & Redfin & Mill District)
4. A local winery building called "House of Flowers" just won a big architecture award. It's located on the 13-acre Flowers Vineyards & Winery estate out Westside Road, and it has been named one of "the best buildings by American architects" at the 2021 American Architecture Awards — reportedly "the nation’s highest public award for new architecture and urban planning." The folks who created it say it's "an experience that reveals itself slowly" — the idea being to "always to make people feel comfortable, as if they were visiting a friend’s home in the countryside.” (Archinect & Walker Warner Architects)
5. Here are the Healdsburg police logs for the month of November so far. They include reports of a "transient possibly living in the bathroom" of a building on Healdsburg Avenue; a drunk guy seen "hitting people with his elbows," also on Healdsburg Avenue; a "red Dodge doing donuts" near Grove and Chiquita; a dental patient who allegedly "walked out in the middle of getting a gold crown and did not pay"; "five to six electric bikes" on Healdsburg Avenue that "did not stop at the stop sign and almost hit" a pedestrian; someone who took advantage of "a bad card reader" at a Dry Creek Road gas station that "makes it so you can get gas without paying"; apparent water theft from a locked Grant Street backyard; a resident who rented a chainsaw from a Grove Street business and didn't return it for two months; "two alleged gang members... tagging concrete walls and slabs" on Ward Street; and more. (SoCoNews Healdsburg & SoCoNews Healdsburg)

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This weekend in Healdsburg:

Friday, November 19

• Spirit Friday at West Side Elementary School: "Time Travel" (All Day)
• Meet Botanical Artist Victoria Kochergin at Upstairs Art Gallery: (11AM-6PM)
• Duo Art Exhibit: “The Points That Connect” at Legion Projects on Healdsburg Ave (12-4PM)
• Food Truck Friday at Bacchus Landing (4-7PM)
• Friday Evening Wine & Song at Hudson Street Wineries, Feat. The Musers (5-8PM)
• "Books and Roots" Bilingual Reading at Healdsburg Community Center (6PM)
• James Patrick Regan Live at Coyote Sonoma (7-10PM)
• Healdsburg Running Company Full Moon Run at Lake Sonoma, Feat. Camping at Lower Lone Rock (8PM)

Saturday, November 20

• Healdsburg Running Company Saturday Morning Run at Lake Sonoma, Feat. Breakfast Tacos (7AM)
• Healdsburg Saturday Farmers Market, Feat. Holiday Craft Market (8:30AM-12PM)
• Walk & Lunch at Bishop's Ranch: "Rambling Through an Autumn Landscape" (8:30AM-1PM)
• Healdsburg Garden Club Pop Up Plant Sale (9AM)
• Yard Sale on Piper Street, Feat. Jewelry, Vintage Christmas Decorations & More (Nov. 20-21, 10AM)
• 2-Day Watercolor Workshop at Healdsburg Center for the Arts (Nov. 20-21, 10AM-2:30PM)
• Landscape Painting Outdoors in "Gouache" at Riverfront Regional Park (10AM-2PM)
• Women's Holiday Boutique at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (10AM-2PM)
• Read to a Dog at Healdsburg Library (11AM-12PM)
• Fall Makers Market at Rodney Strong Vineyards (12-4PM)
• Botanical Bus Farmworker Health Clinic at Corazón Healdsburg (1-3PM)
• Opening Reception: New Art Moura Exhibit at Hammerfriar Gallery (3-6PM)
• Pop-Up Pouring From Ullage Wines at Wildhaven Sonoma (4-6PM)
• Live Jazz at Hotel Healdsburg Fireplace Lobby Lounge: Ken Cook Trio (6:30-9:30PM)
• Paul McCandless & Art Lande Duo at THE 222 (7PM)
• The Pulsators Live at Coyote Sonoma (7-10PM)

Sunday, November 21

• Celebration of Life Service for HHS Teacher & Coach Pat McDowell at Rec Park (2PM)
• Paul McCandless & Art Lande Duo at THE 222 (7PM)

Monday, November 22

• Drive-Through Thanksgiving Senior Luncheon (12:15PM)

Healdsburg Patch Notebook

• After a couple weeks of kitchen construction, The Parish Cafe by the roundabout is back open. "Come check out what we've been working on and get your shrimp & grits!" the owners say.(Facebook)
• Looks like someone put soap in the plaza fountain again. (Facebook)
• The Tribune ran an interesting op-ed on the Healdsburg High School dress code last week, written by the paper's intern, high school junior and Hounds Bark co-editor Elise Thompson. She argues that the rules are unclear and subjective — and describes a demonstration in August where students showed up to school in shorts and crop tops and the word "distraction" written in Sharpie across their midriffs. (SoCoNews Healdsburg)
• As of yesterday, the much-anticipated holiday gift market at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts is open for business. You can stop by any day of the week, beginning at 11 a.m. (Facebook)
• Healdsburg's school board just got a new student trustee: Annie Petersen. She's currently senior at the high school and president of Healdsburg's FFA chapter. (Facebook & Facebook)
• Have thoughts on what the Healdsburg Library should look like in 10 years? County library officials are asking residents to take this online survey about "the future of library buildings in Sonoma County." (Facebook)
• Meanwhile, local nonprofit Corazón Healdsburg wants to know what you thought about the Día de Muertos event in the plaza last month. (Facebook)
• Classes at the junior high have been competing in a canned food drive for the Healdsburg food pantry. "It’s a super close competition," school officials say, but Doherty's class is winning. (Facebook)
• Yoga on Center is still looking for a new place to land, after learning a couple weeks ago that their lease is ending on Dec. 31. (SoCoNews Healdsburg)

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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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