Fall 2010 - Penngrove Proud

Volume 4 Third Anniversary/Fall 2010 Edition Issue 1
Highlights:
Your Community Magazine
Penngrove Panthers
Inside Penngrove
Sips, Savors & Sounds
In Her Own Words
Penngrove Map & Directory
Cotati - In The Neighborhood
Event Listings
Pg. 5
Pg. 6
Pg. 7
Pg. 8
Pgs. 10/11
Pg. 18
Pg. 19
Give Bees a Chance
A beehive in every garden - Page 4
Parade in Pictures
Memories of July 4th, 2010 - Page 15
Penngrove Park Playground Drive
Hawaiian Luau, fundraiser for new playgroud equipment - Page 16
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Music by Charlie Baker
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Third Anniversary/Fall 2010
It’s hard to believe that Welcome from the
this issue commemorates
Publisher
the 3rd anniversary of the
Penngrove Proud. We are
of course very proud of
what we have accomplished and grateful to everyone for
their wonderful support, positive feedback and giving us a
very real sense of representing our beloved community and
all the great folks who call Penngrove home.
Index
Give Bees a Chance — Page 4
Penngrove Elementary School News — Page 5
Reader’s Comments — Page 5
Inside Penngrove — Page 6
In the last three years, we’ve covered three parades, including a short pictorial of this year’s festivities in this issue, a
new-look Main Street, a number of local parks and farms
with many more to go, a few slices of local history, and profiles of a number of interesting Penngrove people with fascinating stories to tell. If you know of anyone with a story
worth sharing, please let us know. We plan to keep on covering more of you and the places around us that make our
town such a wonderful place to live.
PAGE
Sips, Savors & Sounds — Page 7
In Her Own Words, Jan Shaw — Page 8
Locals of Note, Beekeeper Paul Cowley - Page 9
More and more people locally have taken to the
ancient art of bee-keeping, and it’s a good thing too
as you will read in this issue’s in-depth look at the
history of the bee, our dependence on it, the bleak
outlook for its future and what this world might be
like without them. It’s pretty scary.
Penngrove Map — Page 10 & 11
Service Directory — Page 10 & 11
Cotati - In the Neighborhood — Page 12
We are also very excited with this issue’s cover shot
of a truly bodacious beehive in a Penngrove neighborhood garden. Local beekeeper Paul Cowley is also profiled while Jan Shaw remembers ‘in her own words’ what life
was like in her school days when Penngrove was even more
bucolic than it is now.
Big Play for Big Kids - Page 14
4th of July, Penngrove Style - Page 15
Oh, the life of a kitty!
Penngrove School Halloween Carnival - Page 17
Mother Knows Best — Page 18
As the autumn leaves begin to turn and the countryside
around us takes on a glorious burnished hue, we are once
again reminded how lucky we are to live in such beautiful
surroundings, and thank our lucky stars for our little piece
of heaven.
Penngrove Pantry — Page 18
Community Switchboard — Page 19
Lynda Sutton-Smith
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Hometown Events — Page 19
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All We Are Saying Is
Give Bees a Chance
By Chuck Lucas
Honey, I’m Home–
Harvesting wild honey has been
around for at least 13,000 years as
indicated by rock paintings dating back to the pre-agricultural
Upper Paleolithic, or as it is also
commonly called, the Late Stone
Age. It was among the first and
most highly prized foods of our
hunter-gatherer ancestors. Bees
have been found in amber that
date back 50 million years ago the same time that primates began to appear on the continents
of Africa and South America. In
her book, “The History of Food”
Maruelonne
Toussaint-Samat
says that the Cheyenne creation
myth tells us “the first men lived
on honey and wild nuts and were
never hungry.” Sounds like the
invention of beer nuts to me but
it is at odds with what historians
who say that the honeybee was
brought over by early English settlers at Jamestown, VA. in 1621.
Local Penngrove beehive
Cover Photo: Local beehive on Adobe Road. Courtesy of Cheryl Witte.
I’ll never forget that moment when I saw a swarm of bees fly by
my house for the first time. I heard the sound of a faint, distant
high-pitched buzz that turned into a roar like an approaching
freight train bearing down the tracks, (thank you Mr. Dopler). It
was sixty feet in length and thirty feet high. They swirled like a
twister in Texas. Then they were gone as quickly as they arrived.
When bees swarm they are reproducing their colonies. In the
early spring, bees lay their eggs and the nests get overcrowded.
A new queen is born and the old queen flies off taking half of
the bees with her. The swarm will nest upon a tree limb or overhang while scout bees head off looking for a proper location for
a new hive inside a hollow tree or a beekeeper’s hive. When bees
swarm and leave the old hive empty, overcrowding of the hive
or poor living conditions are usually the cause. If we are lucky
the swarm lands in a beekeepers hive, which is called an apiary.
In the hive the bees make honey from nectar that they have
gathered and that along with the protein from the pollen will
provide a food source for the larvae and humans as well.
Continued on page 13~
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Editor’s note: Blue recycling cans were set up
around the area, we are told, but may have
been misused by folks, thus making it hard to tell
where to recycle correctly, An erxtra effort will
be made to label the cans better in the future.
Dear Proud,
Thank you so much for your wonderful magazine! Although I live in Southern California, I
visit the Sonoma region quite often and have
always loved to stop by Penngrove whenever
I can. To think that such a small town boasts
its own magazine is remarkable and adds so
much to the Penngrove experience for outof-towners! More communities should follow
your example.
Gratefully yours,
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The new school year is well underway and there was a good turnout for the first
Skate Night - check out more Skate Night dates in the event listings on page
19. The Back-to-School Potluck that was held on August 5th in Penngrove Park
was also well-attended and offered a lot of different dishes to try. Don’t forget
the Halloween carnival which will be held on October 30th this year (see story
on page 8). The school website has recently been updated by two Penngrove parents, Charles Baumler and Connie Kane, thank you. On the home page you now
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Bookmark the page and you’ll get current news on events, daily school schedules,
and even lunch menus! The Innisbrook Gift Wrap fundraiser is in full swing.
This is the single most important fundraiser that the PTA has each year, so when
you’re asked if you would like to buy some
Innisbrook gift wrap, we hope you can.
Morgan and Jack Hartman, Penngrove
students and 4-H-ers, spent this summer
showing off their rabbits at four local
fairs, including the Sonoma County Fair
where they won First Place in Class and
Second in Showmanship awards. Other
Penngrove 4-H-ers include Jaycee and
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Isetta. The week of September 20th,
Penngrove will be hosting the Scholastic
Book Fair in the library, and on Thursday,
September 23rd, skip cooking and come Jack & Morgan Hartman with their prized rabbits
to Penngrove School. The 6th Grade is putting on a PastaFeed by Pasta King
from 5:30-7:00pm. The book fair will be open for extended browsing between
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I am a 55 year resident of Penngrove and I
attended the parade and BBQ on the 4th of
July. I enjoyed it all. But I was quite amazed
that there was a lack of recycling. The containers that the food was served in were
recyclable, and I did not notice any cans to
recycle them. They were thrown in the trash.
Also there were no recycle containers for
soda cans. This should be a priority next year
and years to follow. The amount of waste
generated by the BBQ I am sure was quite a
lot. If the containers and cans were recycled,
the waste would have been much less. There
should be someone designated to be the
recycle monitor! Penngrove should set a
green example for other towns.
Thank you for your time.
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it meant a lot. After inspecting the playground equipment that was installed in
the 1950’s (top photo) and realizing that it
desperately needed replacing they decided
that their major fundraising efforts this
year would be for new equipment. The
first event will be an authentic Hawaiian
Luau held at the park October 2nd with
Kailua Pork, music, dancers and a Tiki bar.
Come join your neighbors and friends for
a fun-filled evening to support Penngrove.
More comings and going on Main Street;
we are sad to see the inimitable Black
Cat Bar leaving (middle photo). After eight
exciting years, Robin has decided to spend
more time with her young son and family. Enjoy, Robin, and thanks for the
memories. Moving into that space will be
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old wooden floors and putting in a new
bar, welcome. Don’t worry though about
the adjoining Humble Pie restaurant; it
isn’t going anywhere. Unfortunately the
Penngrove Hay & Grain has been closed
due to the owners having health problems.
We wish them the best and hope to see
it open again soon. The Penngrove-based
Balloon Creations, run by Dana is celebrating its 20th anniversary. They are well
known for their amazing balloon sculptures.
Baking up Italian bakery products that are
organic, gluten-free and allergy friendly is
Mama Baretta, who is local Penngrovian
Debra Baretta. Check out her delicious
treats that everyone can eat. As Fall
approaches, don’t miss all the events happening at Penngrove Elementary School,
especially the Halloween Carnival, with its
fun parade and booths, which never fails to
please – a wonderful neighborhood event.
Yanni’s Sausage Grill has opened to rave
reviews (bottom photo), go check them out!
Downtown is certainly becoming quite the
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Enjoy a tasty lunch or dinner with a choice of indoor
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Humble Pie has become a favorite for its innovative
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History of Penngrove
“In Her Own Words”
Childhood in
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Penngrove
Jan Shaw – Jan comes from a Penngrove
family whose history goes back more than
150 years. Her family has lived on the
same piece of land on Petaluma Hill Road
above Adobe Road for several generations.
She kindly sat down and told us some of her
own memories of Penngrove and its history.
It was so much fun. There wasn’t the neighbors that we
have now. I didn’t have any friends close, so the horses, the
cows, the cats, all the farm animals, they were my friends.
We worked the land; I milked cows; it was a working farm.
In fact, I have the papers here showing that Klaus, my greatgrandfather sold eggs to San Francisco. I’ve got the receipts
from Haight, and I wonder if it was the Haight Ashbury connection… it’s on Front Street. I know my grandfather sold
grain to G.P. McNear in Petaluma, so we had big corn deals.
The whole back we ploughed by horse. I used to follow my
Dad on the horse, we’d plough the back field, then we’d harvest the crop, bale it or haul it in. We had a big horse barn,
and we had a big cow barn, which now is under the school
soccer field. The school probably would have taken the property if Mom hadn’t agreed to sell it, but the big cow barn was
on that piece and now it’s buried under the soccer field at
Penngrove School. That’s the way it goes; they wanted more
land. That was maybe the ‘60’s but don’t quote me on that;
we’d have to look that up.
We had lots of chickens back then… in fact I found a letter from this Mr. Haight in San Francisco, asking my family
if they couldn’t send more eggs. We sold them directly. You
know I don’t have any idea how our eggs got to San Francisco. I don’t think grandpa took them, but I don’t know. It
would have to have been the ferry, because the bridge only
opened in ’36.
Grandpa sold the church up on Oak Street in ’01 for $50 and
I think my cousin said that the Eagle School made two purchases that she has records of and one was in 1/15 of ‘25 and
one was in 1/29 of ’25. Eagle School moved from Oak Street,
but this Penngrove school we have now was Eagle School
district when I graduated from there, so I would think the
original purchase would have been in ’25, but they took two
acres from my aunt, which is this property here where the
parking lot is now, down at the corner. They bought that;
they kind of said they needed that, from my aunt and from my
mom, because that’s the way it goes.
By that time the real farming part of the ranch was over anyway. They were such lovely old buildings and they were just
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Working the fields in the early 1920’s, behind where Penngrove School is now
buried under the school. They actually brought dirt in,
because that whole school was just rolling hills. I remember going there as a kid and it was just leveled; if a ball
went down there and went across the road, we weren’t
allowed to go get it. So when they made this last change,
they brought dirt in and leveled everything. There’s still
steps from the parking lot up to the school, but that all
used to be rolling hills. I went there, but it was only first
through sixth and then I went to Junior High in Petaluma
and graduated from Petaluma High.
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None
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Your
Beeswax
and mask, gloves, a hive tool and a smoker (the smoke calms
the bees and reduces the chances of being stung). When
I asked him how long it took after he set up his apiary he
could begin to harvest the honey, Paul said you can “usually harvest the honey in the second year depending on the
weather and how active your bees are because some bees are
more active than others”. In a few weeks Paul will be able to
harvest this season’s honey but the wind, not his bees, pollinate his prize-winning back yard vineyard. He produced a
gold medal winning Sauvignon Blanc Syrah at the Marin/
Sonoma County fair last year.
No one should tell Penngrove resident, Paul Cowley, that
“it’s none of your beeswax” because it just may be in fact,
his beeswax. Paul and his wife, Leslie, raise bees that pollinate Paul’s garden but not his grapes for his Harvest Fair
award-winning wines that he produces on his plot of land
in Penngrove. Grapes are pollinated by the wind, but Paul
and Leslie are among a new wave of hobbyist apiculturists
found in rural, suburban and urban landscapes that have
discovered beekeeping will give you hives, as well as honey
and also a fascinating hobby.
“They are
totally wild
and only stay
if you provide
them a good
place to live”.
Paul first became interested in bees while visiting his uncle’s
farm in his native England. The connection is interesting
because it was the English settlers in Jamestown that imported the first hive of bees in 1621.
Paul, 53, owns a software company called Advoco that provides software for manufacturing processes for NASA and
Pepsico, and as busy as he is, loves spending his spare time
with his apiary. He’s been working with bees for five years
now and is encouraging friends to join him by helping them
set up hives in their own yards. As he says, “It is a fascinating hobby. They are totally wild and only stay if you provide
them a good place to live. If not, they are off swarming to
somewhere else. I can watch them for hours”.
For anyone wishing to start a hive, www.beekind.com, a retail store has everything needed for the novice apiarist. It is
a one-stop shop for all things bee-related. They carry a wide
variety of local honeys that they claim is the best in the
world. Another good source for information on beekeeping
is www.sonomabees.org. They have a wealth of knowledge
and will hook up beginners with an experienced mentor.
Members of the organization are free to use their library of
resources. Membership is $25 a year. Their monthly meetings
provide a great place to learn from experienced beekeepers
and share their knowledge with other local beekeepers.
Paul was given a nuc (a queen, a few frames with honey)
and he says most beekeepers are usually happy and willing
to share their knowledge. “All you need is a beekeepers hat
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4 - BUILDING BLOCKS PRE-SCHOOL
5 - CA AUDIO/VIDEO
14 - PENNGROVE GROWERS NURSERY
6 - CAPRARA’S PIZZERIA
15 - PENNGROVE HAIR CO.
7 - DOUBLE K DESIGNS
16 - PENNGROVE PETS
8 - FULL CIRCLE BAKING CO.
17 - REDWOOD MONTESSORI SCHOOL
9 - JAVAMORÉ CAFÉ
18 - ROCA CONSTRUCTION
10 - LASLEY MECHANICAL
19 - SOPHIE MAKES IT SIMPLE
11 - MAVERICK LEATHER
12 - PASSANISI’S HOME & GARDEN 20 - STATE FARM - TONY MAESTRI
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Arch’s Glass, 8079 La Plaza, Cotati, 795-6976
Artful Arrangements - 205 Orchard Lane, Penngrove, 664-8656
Avon - Elaine Muller, Penngrove, 364-8724
Azevedo Antiques - 10010 Main St., Penngrove, 792-2733
Barbara & Joseph Perry Real Estate, Penngrove, 477-9101
Bauman College - The Grove, 10151 Main St., Penngrove, 794-1284
Baxman Trailers, 610 Pepper Rd., Petaluma, 795-4392
Beyond the Glory Sports Bar, 1371 N. McDowell Blvd., #130, Petaluma, 775-3775
Brander Veterinary Hospital - 347 Lakeville St., Petaluma, 762-3549
Brodie’s Tire - 1276 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, 778-7808
Bud’s Custom Meats - 7750 Petaluma Hill Road, 795-8402
Building Blocks Pre-School - 228 Adobe Rd., Penngrove, 792-2280
CA Audio/Video - The Grove, 10101 Main St., Penngrove - 792-2209
Caprara’s Pizzeria - The Grove, 10101 Main St., Penngrove, 664-1515
Century 21 Bundesen - Martha Cooper, 612 Petaluma Blvd., S. Petaluma, 769-7176
Century 21 Bundesen - Georgia Marino, 612 Petaluma Blvd., S. Petaluma, 769-7171
Clover-Stornetta Dairy - www.cloverstornetta.com
Cotati Chamber, 216 East School Street, Cotati, 795-5508
Cotati Corner, 1818 La Plaza, Cotati, 793-9357
Deborah Morris, LCSW, 315 E. Cotati Ave., Suite G, Cotati, 415-383-3469
Double K Designs - 5701 Old Redwood Hwy. Suite A, Penngrove, 792-2673
Ferina Trucking - Penngrove, 696-5826
Friedman’s Home Improvement - 4055 Santa Rosa Ave. Santa Rosa, 588-7632
Fringe Beauty Salon - The Grove, Main St., Ste C, Penngrove - 792-2444
Full Circle Baking Co. - The Grove, Main St., Ste 120, Penngrove, 794-9445
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Glenn’s Auto - 1309 Ross St. Petaluma, 762-4360
Humble Pie Restaurant - 10056 Main St., Penngrove, 664-8779
San Francisco JavAmoré Café, The Grove - 10101 Main St., Penngrove, 794-1516
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Ken Giorgi General Home Repair - 765-9788
Lasley Mechanical - 9555 Main St, Penngrove, 795-5232
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Maverick Leather Company - 9550 Main St., Penngrove - 792-2208
More Unlimited, 8282 Old Redwood Hwy. Cotati, 285-3400
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Oliver’s Market - 545 East Cotati Ave. Cotati, 795-9501
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Palace of Fruit - 8 N. Ely Rd., Penngrove, 795-5311.
Passanisi Nursery - 8270 Petaluma Hill Rd. Penngrove, 792-2674
Passanisi‘s Home & Garden Store - 10070 Main St., Penngrove, 793-0100
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Denman Rd. Pecoraro’s Academy of Martial Arts - www. rpdojo.com, 795-3135
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Penngrove Community Club House - 397 Oak St. Penngrove, 795-5958
Penngrove Community Church - 9970 Oak St., Penngrove, 795-5919
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Penngrove Elementary School - 365 Adobe Rd., Penngrove, 778-4755
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Penngrove Growers Nursery - 9740 Old Redwood Hwy. Penngrove, 795-4043
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Penngrove Market - 230 Main St., Penngrove, 795-3232
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Penngrove Motorcycle Co. Shop & Clothing Store - 10035 Main St, Penngrove, 795-7993
Penngrove Pet’s - 10035 Main St., Penngrove, 795-2275
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Penngrove Pub - 10005 Main St., Penngrove, 664-8018
BUSINESSES
Penngrove Station Mini Storage - 110 Woodward Ave., Penngrove, 664-9200
Peter’s Nursery - 10330 Old Redwood Hwy., Penngrove, 795-5959
1 - ARCH’S GLASS, COTATI
Quality Inn - 5100 Montero Way, Petaluma, 664-1155
2 - BAXMAN TRAILER’S, PETALUMA
Rafy’s Pizzeria, 1390 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma, 793-9900
Redwood Empire Gymnastics - 434 Payran St., Petaluma, 763-5010
3 - BRODIE TIRES, PETALUMA
Redwood Montessori School - 11201 Main St., Penngrove, 665-9830
4 - COTATI CHAMBER, COTATI
Roca Construction, Penngrove, 664-8502
5 - COTATI CORNER, COTATI
Sasee Hair, 70 West Cotati Avenue, Cotati, 793-0811
S.C. Phillips Enterprises - Penngrove, 795-7425
6 - FRIEDMAN'S HOME IMPROVEMENT, SANTA ROSA
Sevalli, Thwaites & Soper Insurance, 1345 Redwood Way, Petaluma, 794-9950
7 - GLENN’S AUTO, PETALUMA
Softshell Massage & Spa - 10 Kentucky St., Petaluma, 773-4950
8 - MORE UNLIMITED, COTATI
Sophie Makes It Simple - www.sophiemakesitsimple.com, 503-289-7524
Starlight Developing - Penngrove, 479-4544
9 - OLIVER’S MARKET, COTATI
STS Transportation - Penngrove, 795-761
10 - SEVALLI, THWAITES & SOPER INSURANCE, PETALUMA
State Farm Insurance, Tony Maestri, Penngrove, 585-9931
11- SASEE SALON, COTATI
Stay in Touch Massage, 11790 Main St., Penngrove, 527-7829
SuperBurger - 10070 Main St., Penngrove, 665-9790
Tailwagger Inn - 9239 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 729-6791
The Grove Plaza - 10101 Main St., Penngrove, 479-4544
Twin Oaks Garage - 5745 Old Redwood Hwy. Penngrove, 795-4803
Twin Oaks Tavern - 5745 Old Redwood Hwy. Penngrove, 795-5118
Valkyrie Tattoo - 10002 Main St., Penngrove, 794-9390
Willow Farms - Roberts Road, Penngrove, 793-1003
Yanni’s Sausage Grill, 10007 Main St., Penngrove, 795-7088
PASSANISI NURSERY, INC
Passanisi In Downtown Penngrove
Treasures for your Home &
Garden at affordable prices
Family Owned & Operated for 38 Years
Huge selection of Indoor Houseplants, Cactus & Succulents,
Perennials, Annuals, Roses, Orchids, Soil and Statuary.
Consignment now located in our greenhouses, with a new small gift shop.
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Modern Cotati reflects a rich and varied
history back to the pre-Columbian era.
The strong Indian influence is proudly
represented in the statue of the mythical Chief Kotate, while the unique
six-sided central plaza harks back to the
early Spanish days, and many of the
street names recall the pioneering Page
family. Most buildings in town reflect
their origins as farmhouses, general
stores or service firms. And the many
arts and music festivals, unique restaurants and entertainment establishments
in the charming downtown continue
to make Cotati a colorful and pleasant
place to live.
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A Queen bee, being attended to by her workers
It took 225 years
for bees to cross
the Rocky Mountains when immigrants carried
their
precious
hives with them
along the Oregon
Trail. Feeding on
the plants, grains,
flowers and clover that the pioneers
brought
with them, the
bees thrived and
in doing so provided the basis
for our American
food system and
changed North
America forever.
Bees are flying insects that are related to ants and wasps but bees
will generally not ruin your picnic like their often-uncooperative
relatives. There are over 20,000 species of bees in the world and
they are found on every continent except Antarctica. Bees feed on
pollen and nectar that they find in our garden flowers, farms and
flowering trees. They use the nectar as carbohydrates for energy
and making honey and the pollen contains protein both of which
go to feeding the larvae. Most bees in the U.S. are the European
honeybees (Apis Mellifera). They are very peaceful critters unless
startled or if they feel like an intruder is going to harm the colony.
I’m A Queen Bee, Baby–
A hive contains three types of bee castes; a single queen who is
a specialized egg-laying machine, the workers, a group of females
of 2000 to 60,000 who do all the work (sound familiar) and the
drones, males that can number from few to 500 per colony. If a
queen dies a young worker larvae is chosen and fed a special substance called “royal jelly” that will change the larva of a female
worker bee into a queen. Drones fly from the hive and will mate
in air with queens from other hives. The queen lays her eggs in
the hexagonal cell made by the secretion of wax that the workers
have made for her. There are four stages of bee development: the
egg, the larvae, the inactive pupa stage and the young adults. The
eggs, larvae and young bees are called a brood.
The newly minted worker bees go to work immediately (unlike
Jerry Seinfeld’s character, Barry B. Benson in the “Bee Movie”
who went to college). Among the tasks they provide are cleaning
up the cells, air conditioning for the hive by rapidly flapping their
wings and childcare by feeding the larvae. Other jobs include
shipping and receiving pollen and nectar by cleaning the nectar
and pollen off the returning foraging bees before dispatching them
back to their airborne work. They also provide security by guarding the hive from intruders and in their off hours they practice
their flying techniques. Each worker bee goes through each of
these steps much like one would go through an apprenticeship.
Buzzin’ Around Your Hive–
When the workers get their “wings” they are sent out in the field
where they gather nectar and pollen and in the process pollinate
flowers, food crops and trees. Pollination transfers the pollen to
the plants reproductive organs enabling the plants to reproduce.
Only 10% of the flowering plants are not aided by animal (biotic)
pollination. A quick look at my old slide rule (Google it kids)
shows 90% of the flowering plants ARE pollinated by animals
and most of those animals are bees, which account for 70% of
the pollination in our whole ecosystem. Wind and water carry the
remaining pollination workload.
Since the human food chain is based on plant life, the alfalfa that
farm animals consume would cease to exist, the corn we eat and
feed to many livestock and poultry would not exist without the aid
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BIG PLAY FOR BIG KIDS BENEFIT
Hawaiian Luau Fundraiser for New Penngrove Playground!
An Hawaiian Luau dinner and dance will raise important
funds to modernize the playground area and equipment at
the back of Penngrove Park. BIG PLAY FOR BIG KIDS is the
Penngrove Social Firemen’s worthy effort to purchase and
install a safe playground for children. The benefit cook-out,
with authentic Hawaiian dancers, music by Charlie Baker,
and a Tiki Bar takes place in the park on Saturday, October
2th , 2010, starting with social time at 5:00 p.m. and dinner at 7:00 p.m. The menu features Penngrove Social Firemen’s talented volunteer chefs, making Kalua pork, Hawaiian chicken, yams with coconut, Hawaiian Style fried rice,
Asian salad, and tropical cupcakes from The Sweet Factor.
Head chef is Stan “King Penngrovehala” Pronzini, with Dean
“Hang Ten” DeGraffenreid, and Kathryn “Kula” Wickstrom.
The evening also includes both silent and live auctions.
A drawing will be held for a six-day trip for two at Westin
Ka’anapali Ocean Resorts on Maui. Air and car are included.
“We started out with what we could do with a raffle,” said
the Social Firemen’s Ray Soper, “and we talked to Marilyn
Herzog who has put travel packages together for other nonprofits in the area, and she put together a package for six
days, five nights to Maui. Including a flight over and back
and a rental car while you’re there, and we thought if we’re
going to do that then let’s put a luau together and keep it
focused on Hawaii, and as we did that, other things moved
into place.”
Proceeds from the event will replace the aging playground
equipment inside the Penngrove Park. The 1952-era swings,
jungle gym and slide installed by Penngrove Social Firemen
need to be replaced for the safety of the kids. They’ve selected a play unit to suit ages 5 – 12 years, with all the latest bells and whistles, including elevated play areas, a tree
house, climbing bars, slide and a whole lot more. “Kim Hanson spearheads the fund drive” Soper told us, “and a few
other ladies from Penngrove whose children had gone down
there and played on that stuff, thought it would be nice to
put in some more modern equipment for the kids today. So
the board of directors decided about last April that we’d like
to do something like this, “but we knew we’d have to raise
$40 to $50,000 to do it right.” Live auction items feature
Lee Fishman’s plane ride to Half Moon Bay for lunch; a two-
Live Music Every Friday Night
Open: Monday-Saturday 8am-2am
night stay in a suite at the Peppermill Reno with gambling
money; golf for four at Indian Valley with breakfast and
lunch followed by dinner at the home of Ray and Patty Soper;
a dinner for 100 cooked by Penngrove Social Firemen, plus
bar; and dinner for ten hosted by Audrey Wheeler.
The park is used not only by local kids, but also by kids
who come for private celebrations, or community events
such as our Fourth of July BBQ, Sons of Italy BBQs, Swiss
American Picnic, and more. The park is owned privately by
Penngrove Social Firemen, who take pride in keeping it in
good repair without burdening county agencies.
Come on down for the festivities and roasted pig and help
build a new playground for Penngrove Park! Aloha!
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Artists’ rendition
of the playgroud
equipment structure.
There will also be
a new climbing
apparatus and swings.
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The only thing that was missing was the honorary Grand Marshal, long-time Penngrove resident,
87-year-old Thelma Donovan who had to bow out at
the last minute due to her health, but a large contingent of her family represented her on the lead
engines. Thelma raised nine children in Penngrove,
all of whom attended Penngrove School. Thelma still
made it for a large family barbecue at her house
after the parade, and 150 people showed up for it,
including all nine of her children.
Fourth of July
The 35th Penngrove parade was full of traditional
fanfare and color, flags, fire engines and a traditional feast in the park, courtesy as always of the
Social Firemen. The 4th of July sky was unseasonably cloudy, which made for a cool and comfortable
experience for the crowds lining Main Street as the
line of vintage cars, painted horses, and the Gone To
Glory Brass Band, intermingled with moving tributes
from the Mothers of Military Service Members and
our local Shriners.
After the parade, folks congregated for the Social
Fireman’s annual barbeque in the park, enjoying music from The Rolling Blackouts and sampling everything from tri-tip to ribs and oysters. There was also
a slide and face painting for the kids in the front area
of the park along with booths from local businesses.
The brave of stomach sampled an extraordinary array of pies at The Humble Pie’s First Annual Weird Pie
Challenge, with the honor of weirdest pie in the Savory category going to the Club Sandwich with Fries
Please! it included everything in a club sandwich,
even the mayo, and was topped with french fries.
Among the winning floats this year were the Cotati
Accordion group who won the Best of the Best award
and were presented with the Walt Goldbeck Sweepstake Trophy and Jacqueline Simon in the Mounted
Novelty category who won the Best of the Best Junior award and received the Honorable Alexander
McMahan Trophy. Congratulations to all the participants, but on July 4th on Main Street in Penngrove,
everybody was a winner!
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of bee pollination, and most land-based plant food sources would picking up diseases increases proportionately. It is this 5% of the
not exist without the assistance of honeybees. Where would we be beekeeper population that has been hit hardest by CCD but that
without bees in this world?
5% accounts for 90% of the bee population in America. Houston,
we have a problem.
Colony Collapse Disorder (Not Jamestown)–
In 2007 scientists and apiarists (beekeepers) became concerned
that up to 50% of the colonies died off over the winter. The usual
natural rate of mortality of the hive is about 25% so the increase
was alarming. Many of the hives had 100% mortality. This event
has been chronicled as Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD. The
cause of CCD had not been identified but researchers believe it
is possibly a “Perfect Storm” of natural phenomenon such as the
world-wide drought, searing heat, attacks by various viruses, stress,
Varroa mites and fungi as well as the proliferation of pesticides and
GMO’s (genetically modified organisms). Estimates are that 2.4
million beehives have been lost in 35 states in the US. The UK
Guardian reports the bees have been lost in frightening numbers in
Canada, Europe, Brazil and India. Commercial pollinating alone
accounts for an estimated $15 to $20 billion a year in agricultural
products according to the Congressional Research Service.
90% of the bees used in factory farming come from only a few
commercial sources. Kim Flottum, in his blog “The Beekeeper” estimates that there are approximately 1000 commercial beekeepers
in the US. These
professional itinerant
beekeepers
often haul their
hives by semi-trailers across country
going where the
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than anything else in my garden; and 2) Diversity. Like an investment portfolio, diversity can be the key to success. Or to mangle
a metaphor, don’t put all your bees in one bonnet. The more beehives we have, the less the chance of them contracting CCD. If
you are interested it might be fun for the family to raise your own
bees in a hive in the back yard and for many reasons it would be
wise to stop using pesticides in the home as well as the garden.
A Taste Of Honey–
Before we began to be concerned about the demise of the honeybee population the first thing usually thought of in regards to
bees are their amazing ability to produce honey from the nectar
of flowers. The sweet, golden brown elixir that we stir in our tea
or use for baking and cooking has a lot of hidden benefits to our
health and well-being.
As a child, I would watch in amazement as my grandmother used
to take a teaspoon of honey in a glass of apple cider vinegar every day. She swore by it for her arthritis. Medical research is now
finding amazing health benefits in eating honey. A recent study
indicates that raw honey, (as opposed to processed honey), is very
effective for treating burns and wounds. It is useful both internally
and externally for a myriad of ailments. It helps with calcium absorption so it’s good for osteoporosis and arthritis. It contains a
long list of vitamins and minerals and provides energy without the
insulin spike of other sweeteners. People find it a good alternative
to over the counter medications for allergies and hay fever. It also
works as a natural antibiotic when applied to wounds or burns.
Used for medicinal purposes since ancient times, it contains some
vitamins and a good smattering of minerals, (selenium, magnesium, chromium, iron, copper, phosphorus, manganese and potassium), that aid in the healing of wounds and decreases scarring.
Biochemist Dr. Peter Molan says that “randomized trials have
shown that honey is more effective in controlling infection in
burn wounds than silver sulfadiazine, a sulfa derivative, the antibacterial ointment most widely used on burns in hospitals”.
Honey applied to burns and wounds and covered in gauze will
heal faster than traditional medical applications. Enzymes attack
the sucrose in the honey and convert it into glucinic acid and
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Authors, Alison Benjamin and Brian McCullum in their book,
“A World Without Bees”, say that, “If the bee disappeared off the
surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life
left. No bee, no more pollination, no more plants, no more man”.
(Urban legend often attributes this quote to Albert Einstein but,
like most urban legends, it isn’t true.) The loss of the bee population is stark and frightening to comprehend but it’s time to start
thinking about the possible repercussions to the society of man
and how we deal with the very realistic threats to our very existence. It is time to re-evaluate our relationship to this vital link
and it would be advisable to do everything we can to see that this
sinister scenario of losing our bee population does not come to pass.
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Penngrove School holds its annual
Halloween Carnival
Penngrove Elementary’s Halloween carnival will be held on
Saturday, October 30th, from 11am to 3pm and the whole
community is invited. Students, parents and the PTA will
transform the campus into the spooky Halloween Carnival
that has been a town tradition for over 15 years.
Jesinia, Sophie, Emily and Lindy at last years Halloween carnival
“The Halloween Carnival provides an opportunity for our
community to come together and spend an afternoon with
food, fun and friends,” notes Kathleen Larsen, Penngrove
school Principal, “How can it not be a success?”
Halloween costume can even participate in the Best Costume
contest! If you need a snack, you’ll find a volunteer-run concession stand serving hot dogs, hamburgers and grilled chicken sandwiches.
Volunteers create all the games and events that are a trademark of this family-friendly event. The playground is a midway of booths, and the multi-use room becomes the Cakewalk. (Winning requires no skill, so if you land on the right
square at the right time, you really do take the cake!) The
6th grade converts their classrooms to a Haunted House
with some black lights, make-up and magic — there is a
non-scary version for little ones so they can have the thrill
without the chill. There are games for every age and interest, and contests of unique skill (last year there was a bubble-gum blowing contest). Ghouls and Ghosts wearing their
Penngrove’s carnival is unique because it isn’t a major fundraiser for the school. “We want to give back to our Penngrove
community, and this is the perfect venue for it,” notes Larisa
Mar, Penngrove PTA President. “The heart of the carnival is
the parent volunteers who make it happen, and the businesses
who contribute items for prizes and food sales. We like to keep
the entry cost low so that everyone can afford to bring their
family and enjoy a day’s worth of old-fashioned fun.” Adults,
children under 2, and Penngrove PTA member families get in
free. Kids 2 and up are $3 each, for which they can stay and
play all day.
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Mother Know’s Best
For Virginia Drury
By A.R. Amis
In keeping with the Hawaiian theme for the Penngrove Park
Playground fundraiser. I thought I would share these two
delicious Hawaiian style receipes.
When you’re a child
she walks before you,
To set an example.
When you’re a teenager
she walks behind you
To be there should you need her.
When you’re an adult
she walks beside you
So that as two friends
you can enjoy life together.
Chicken Kabobs Hawaiian Style
3 tablespoons soy sauce
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons sherry
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
8 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves cut into 2 inch pieces
1/2 fresh pineapple or 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple
chunks, drained
(1 red onion, cut in chunks, cherry tomatoes) optional
skewers
In a shallow glass dish, mix the soy sauce, brown sugar,
sherry, sesame oil, ginger, and garlic powder. Stir the chicken and pineapple (plus options if used) into the marinade
until well coated. Cover, and marinate in fridge for 2 hours.
Preheat grill to medium-high heat. Lightly oil the grate.
Thread chicken and pineapple (plus options if used)
alternately onto skewers. Grill 15 to 20 minutes, turning
occasionally, or until chicken juices run clear. Serves 8.
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hydrogen peroxide. This makes the honey an acid medium with
a low pH that makes it an unfriendly environment for bacteria,
mold, fungi and other microbes.
Interestingly, honey has been found to be part of the diet for
most of the world’s longest living humans. Researchers are also
looking at why beekeepers have fewer instances of arthritis and
cancer than the general population. Honey is good for what ails
you as my grandmother would say. It helps cure insomnia when
taken in a glass of milk at bedtime and Bulgarian researchers have found it to be very effective when used to improve
chronic bronchitis, asthmatic bronchitis and nose and throat
infections. It also boosts immune systems and helps fight colds
and flu. Darker honey contains more minerals and is useful in
battling anemia by raising the red blood cell levels in the body.
If you suffer from migraines, a small teaspoon in half a glass of
water at the onset will often ward off the symptoms. It is important to note that honey should not be given to children under
one year of age because it may contain Clostridium botulinum
spores, which can grow in an infant’s colon that could result in
infant botulism.
Hawaiian Iced Tea
1 quart boiling hot water
4 orange pekoe tea bags
1 quart ice cold water
1 (16 ounce) can pineapple juice
1 fresh pineapple - peeled, cored, and cut into spears
Pour the boiling hot water into a large pitcher, and add
the tea bags. Steep the tea 3 minutes. Remove the tea
bags, and pour in the ice water. Pour in the pineapple
juice. Refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, about 1-1/2
hours. Pour the tea over ice, garnish with pineapple
spears, and serve.
Bee Kind To One Another–
There are many reasons why people enjoy raising bees. The
honey can be used for cooking and baking. The wax makes the
best candles you can burn and the home garden will thrive from
the activity of the bees. It is a great project for children and
many young apiarists begin with 4H projects. The local honey
will help guard against local allergies and provide additional
health benefits. And one of the nicest paybacks of beekeeping is
giving a jar of homemade honey to your friends and family; and
as a bonus, the diversity provided by an increase of hobby apiaries guards against the possibility that CCD could wipe out the
entire bee population of the world, and us, and that would be a
very, very good thing to avoid. Bee kind to one another and as
Red Green reminds us, “We’re all in this together”.
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~ Household Tips ~
Keeping Food Fresh:
Brown Sugar: Store in a plastic bag in the
refrigerator in a can with a snap-on lid.
Cheese: Wrap cheese in a vinegar-dampened
cloth to keep it from drying out.
Ice Cream: Lay a piece of waxed paper
directly over the top of the ice cream before
resealing the carton.
If you would like to share any of your own family recipes, tips or hints, please send
them to [email protected] or P.O. Box 553, Penngrove, CA 94951.
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Penngrove
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