Sonoma County’s longtime newspaper columnist and regional historian Gaye LeBaron and co-author, writer Bart Casey, have announced the publication of a new history book entitled The Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove.
Gaye LeBaron is a native Californian and a 68-year resident of Sonoma County. She wrote her first column for The Press Democrat, after several years as a reporter, in 1959 and was the daily columnist until her retirement in 2001. She continues to contribute a "historical perspective" column twice monthly. She is the author, with three other researchers, of a two-volume local history - "Santa Rosa, a 19th Century Town," and Santa Rosa a 20th Century Town.' and, with Vermont author Bart Casey, "The Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove," a history of Santa Rosa's 19th century Utopia.
She lectured for 35 years on Sonoma County history in SRJC's Community Education program and has taught several courses for Sonoma State University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Her husband of 56 years, photographer and SRJC art faculty member John LeBaron, died in 2014.
Born in Humboldt County, she moved with her family to the Sonoma Valley in 1950 and graduated from Sonoma Valley High School in 1953. She received an AA "degree from SRJC in 1955 and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957.
Jeff provided the history on the winery and the Kunde Family grape growing. Their wines are only made from grapes grown by Kunde 60% of their grapes are sold to other wineries.
Jeff has been a SRJC Trustee since 2006. He shared his notable experiences in that capacity.
The JC is the County's fifth largest employer and they had 1775 graduates in 2018.
The current issue is declining enrollment and the Administration and Board are looking into potential re-sizing to address that issue!
On a regular basis, our resident photo pro Warren Smith, as well as Club Public Relations-Image Director Jack Strange, submit pictures of what is going on at the weekly meetings. You can always find the most recent pictures at the websites photo journal called "Meeting Sighting" Please note that all the meeting photos for the entire Rotary year are at this location with the most recent on the last page.
Thanks for all the great pictures Warren!Link to Meeting Sightings. The most recent are on the last page!
Posted by Rich Randolph , Jennifer Adams on Feb 24, 2019
Vicki's Garden Emerges From Winter
160 fingers, 32 hands, 16 strong backs and willing hearts weathered the chilly Saturday morning air and began to prepare Vicki's Garden for her Spring 2019 harvest.
Sunrise stalwarts Del Raby, Peter Banks and son Mark, Leroy "Golden Hammer" Carlenzoli, Project Director Jen Adams and even Prez Rich managed to make roll call. Jim Gray's trusty GMC half-ton did yeoman's duty hauling 300 pounds of weeds and trimmings to their new home far away. New Garden Coordinator Sandy Sontag, a retired Fifth Grade teacher, brought both refreshments and her trusty Tacoma to carry no less obsolete materials away.
Max and Cassidy present their dilapidated donation for the dump!
Leroy is no stranger to the Garden, or school. Another volume can be dedicated to the effort and resources Carlenzoli and Associates directed into the expansive turfed field adjacent Steele Lane School.
Jen, left, and Sandy pose with noted sculpture by whimsical Sebastopol artist Patrick Amiot.
Previous Sunrise-Steele Lane liaison Max Childs and his daughter Cassidy on loan from Cal moved mounds into proper places. Jen Adams impressed the more senior stewards with her weeding persistence: Watch out crab grass! Jen's got your roots! Leroy organized new planter frames and Steve Zwick did heavy lifting to relocate established ones. Rich drove Jim's truck on a dump run without incident to man or machine. A school student and his father also participated, and has inquired into engaging his associates with a local Machinist group.
Del, Leroy and Sandy plan the work.
Vicki Lockner, Sunrise namesake for Vicki's Garden, retired as Principal at Steele Lane School in 2003 following 26 years educating, inspiring and building community spirit.
Your turn will come: Before June, prepare to get in, get down, weed and seed!!
Pictured above, sitting left to right, Naomi Sultana Young, Director of Philanthropy for ACR, Audobon Canyon Ranch, District 5130 Governor Barbara Spangler, Jennifer Potts, standing, Randy Seelye, Rich Randolph, Marty Behr, Jim Moir, Kathleen Bunte, Jose Guillen and David Byers.
This photo is a portrait of our consolidated DNA of Service Above Self: Evidence of the vast potential results behind our Third Object of Rotary: The application of the ideal of service for every Rotarian to his/her personal, business, and community life.
The combined advocacy, generosity and stewardship inspired by Rotary Fire Relief ~ which had origin following the Valley Fire in Lake County in 2015, have developed and evolved into a regional model of community engagement, international cooperation and goodwill and immense personal recovery and hope.
These fortunate eleven represent thousands who participated in thousands of ways to reach out and serve overwhelming responses to overwhelming needs. The $50,000 grant presented to Bouverie's parent organization, Audobon Canyon Ranch ACR will allow them to rebuild trails destroyed, restoring safe access for their acclaimed Outdoor Education Program, inspiring stewardship in countless Sonoma County youth for decades.
ACR's Executive Director John Petersen's letter of thanks follows, echoing the depth and width of gratitude and impact you all have made possible.
Eleven is an odd number. There is room for one more, even two, thousand: Find Your Passion, Be the Inspiration, Do What Matters.
Minimizing Occurrences of Violence in Everyday Society minimizingviolence.org
MOVES initiated a public awareness campaign to make non violence the norm throughout Sonoma County.
The message is summed up in a 5 inch diameter, round sticker displaying a young person in a pose that mimics the peace sign, with the words “No Violence” boldly displayed on the bottom and the organization’s web address printed, in a smaller font, on the top.
MOVES Board President, Rob Sanville, made a presentation for this at a local Rotary Club, where the stickers were well received, and people donated $1 each for stickers, to MOVES.
MOVES Secretary, Greg Spaulding, and board member, Gig Hitao met with Assembly Member Marc Levine’s staff person and presented these stickers and MOVES brochures for their public outreach.
You are most welcome to pick up some stickers for your use and to distribute where permission is granted. Contact info is on our website.
Also, if you want to leave stickers in a place for the public to pick some up, add a hand-written card to where you leave the stickers, that says “Please use where permission is granted.”
You may also use the attached jpg file photo of the sticker for whatever you deem appropriate.
David Ives was a 16-year-old in rural Ohio in 1967 when he embarked on a trip that changed his life. With his parents, Ives visited church missions in South America, where he saw people living in shelters made of corn stalks or tin cans, and in homes with no furniture other than a mattress on the floor. He saw rivers that were used as both sewers and sources of drinking water. “That’s the touchstone I can never get rid of,” he says, “the feeling that I had when I saw poverty for the first time.”
David Ives
Photo by Peter Ross
Ives turned that experience into a career dedicated to peace and the eradication of poverty. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, he was a nutrition educator, helping people plant gardens to feed themselves during difficult economic times. While there, he tried unsuccessfully to save the life of a child whose lungs were filled with worms as a result of drinking dirty water. “She’s on my mind a lot,” he says.
Ives is a former Rotary Peace Forum coordinator, an adviser to the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, and the executive director emeritus of Quinnipiac University’s Albert Schweitzer Institute, which conducts programs based on Schweitzer’s philosophy of reverence for life to bring about a more civil and ethical society characterized by respect, responsibility, compassion, and service. He has organized Rotary peace conferences around the globe which feature world leaders such as former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias Sánchez. At one of those peace conferences, in Côte d’Ivoire, Ives — himself a polio survivor — helped administer the polio vaccine to children in local communities.
With his fellow Rhinebeck Rotarians, Ives helps raise money for U.S. high school students to visit Costa Rica and carry out humanitarian projects in conjunction with Earth University, which teaches students from Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America how to work for socioeconomic and environmental change.
Though now living with Parkinson’s disease, Ives, who turns 68 this month, shows no signs of slowing down his peace efforts — particularly where Rotary is concerned. “I’ve been extremely impressed with the power of Rotarians to be a force for peace,” he says. “We have great potential to do even more.”
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