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A READER’S MONTHLY
© 2002 MICHAEL COY “UMBER ROCKS, GOLDEN SKY” NEAR GOAT ROCK
VOL. XV • OCTOBER 2002 • NO. 192
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Wristwrestling
Dave Devoto carrying the ball as Number 83 for the College of the Pacific in 1951.
Dave Devoto Brings Internet
Armwrestling To Millions
BY BILL SOBERANES
D
AVE
CAME
DEVOTO
A
BE-
FOOTBALL
16.
Years later he became a
pioneer in a new sport called
Wristwrestling/Armwrestling.
Today, Devoto is the President
of the World’s Wristwrestling
Championship, Inc., United
States ArmSports, and Vice
President of the World Armwrestling Federation. The events
he supports and nourishes have
brought him in contact with a
new breed of athletes.
At age 16, Dave was the
captain and All-League end on
the Santa Rosa High School
football team and captain of
the track team. The next year he
was All-Conference end at Santa
Rosa Junior College. At 18, he
was again All-Conference end
and was selected for the Little
All American Team.
Devoto played for what
many say was the greatest Santa
Rosa Junior College team of all
time and helped the team to
achieve many records. During
his first year at SRJC he scored
four touchdowns against Marin
Junior College, their major rival in the game for the League
Championship. Dave held the
scoring record for an offensive
end during the past 50 years
which was finally broken in
2001. He was recently installed
into the SRJC Football Hall of
Fame.
HERO
AT
AGE
Dick Blewett was the athletic director at the college for
more than thirty years and selected Devoto for his All-Time
Great Team. It was while playing
for the College of the Pacific
(now University of the Pacific)
that Look Magazine selected
Devoto to be on their All-Coast
Team. The coach at that time
was Ernie George and his advisor was the immortal Amos
Alonzo Stagg.
In his adult life Dave received commendations from
the Attorney General of the
State of California and the City
of Petaluma for heroic action in
pursuing an individual who had
Co-founders of Petaluma’s
World’s Wristwrestling Championship, Dave Devoto (on left)
with Bill Soberanes in 1996.
stolen a car and crashed through
a police car barricade. As the city
of Petaluma police chief wrote,
“The suspect fled on foot with
the officers, who were slightly injured in the crash, giving chase.
Officer Boon has informed me
that at this point the individual
was well in front of him and that
he observed Mr. Devoto in his
front yard and called for him to
stop the individual who was running. Mr. Devoto responded by
giving chase and actually tackling the suspect and subduing
him until such time as the officer
got to the location.”
Dave grew an athletic mind
from his football experiences as
a young man and developed an
unusual interest in armwrestling. His contribution to the sport
of armwrestling and the World’s
Wristwrestling Championship
Tournament in Petaluma every
October for 41 years has been
remarkable.
It was Devoto who negotiated the famous contract that
brought ABC’s Wide World of
Sports to Petaluma where they
televised the event for sixteen
years and helped put Petaluma
on the map. Hundreds of millions of viewers have witnessed
the World’s Wristwrestling
Championship tournament on
the ABC network.
Dave also led a wristwrestling tour of New Zealand years
ago. The tour took in most major
cities in that faraway land and
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the sport caught on with the
locals. The wristwrestling safari
was covered by New Zealand
television and radio networks as
well as by all the major newspapers. That trip did much to help
promote the sport down under.
Dave established a relationship in 1990 with Igor Akhmedshin and the Russian Armwrestling
Federation, then took Team USA
to Moscow from 1990 through
1998. If you were fortunate to
have made the journey with either
of those teams you have memories
you will never forget.
In the process of helping
make Petaluma the “Wristwrestling Capital of the World,”
Devoto appeared on the Johnny
Carson Show with Dona Meyers
who at the time held a title as
current World Champion. On the
broadcast, Dona wristwrestled
and beat Johnny Carson twice
while Dave refereed the event.
It’s unbelievable, but Devoto
still receives residual checks
from the Carson show due to
the many times that particular
favorite show had been shown
in reruns and is available in The
Best Of Carson Videos.
It was Devoto who was instrumental in setting up the major wristwrestling/armwrestling
tournaments at the MGM Grand
Hotel in Las Vegas. He also laid
the groundwork for tournaments
in Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City,
Utah; Houston, Texas; and dozens of other cities and states.
One of Dave’s favorite stories is about former President
Ronald Reagan and myself. I’ve
been Dave’s partner over the
years in promoting the sport
and was always up for a photo
opportunity. Reagan was set to
pose for a wristwrestling photo
and I was to be his opponent.
Dave was the referee and Reagan insisted on taking me on
instead of merely posing for the
photograph. When Dave set up
the match and Reagan asked
what the “Go” signal was, Devoto promptly replied, “Ready
Go.” At that instant Reagan
slammed me down and Devoto
declared the President to be the
winner. It was unforgettable for
me how quick Reagan’s mind
worked. He had instantly driven
my arm into my side, cracking
two ribs on Dave’s “Go!” But I
liked him anyway.
That day President Ronald
Reagan declared Petaluma to be
the “Wristwrestling Capital of the
World.” The outcome of the Soberanes vs. Reagan contest created a great deal of publicity for
the sport and Petaluma throughout the country.
Devoto is a member of a
pioneer Sonoma County family. His great grandfather was
the first of the Dave Devotos’ to
settle in the county followed by
six generations all of whom had
one sibling named Dave.
During his reign as International Vice President of Active
20/30, he spent a month as a
guest lecturer in Australia and
later spoke in Canada and Mex-
“
It was Devoto who
negotiated the famous
contract that brought
ABC’s Wide World of
Sports
to Petaluma...
”
ico as well as countless states in
America.
For the past 12 years Dave
has been the sole owner of
Petaluma’s radio station, KTOB.
In February of this year he sold
the station.
Dave Devoto is known as the
“Father of Armwrestling” on the internet in the same way that James
Brown is known as the “Godfather
of Soul.” Since he began United
States Armsports in 1995, and has
had the www.armwrestling.com
website online since April 1996,
it has been the highest rated
armwrestling website of all time.
Many millions have visited the site
and Dave has kept it free of all advertising subsidizing his expenses
from his own finances.
Should you have the opportunity to meet Dave Devoto at
this year’s Main Event, ask him to
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Wristwrestling
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Armwrestling’s
Greatest Honor: 2001
John Miazdzyk Award
T
HIS MOST PRESTIGIOUS
AWARD IS PRESENTED
EACH
Wristwrestling at its best when ABC Wide World of Sports televised the event.
2002
WORLD’S
WRISTWRESTLING
CHAMPIONSHIP
Celebrating 51 Years of
ArmSports in Petaluma, CA
Saturday October 12, 2002
Petaluma Veterans Memorial Auditorium
1094 Petaluma Blvd. South, Petaluma, CA.
Over $5,000 Awarded In Cash & Prizes
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8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Tournament begins at 1 p.m. with 36 different
divisions for weight, sex, right or left, age, etc.
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YEAR
AT
THE
WAF WORLD’S ARMWRESTLING
CHAMPIONSHIP to a deserving
individual who has shown
greatness in the sport of
armwrestling either through
organizing competitions or
volunteerism.
The 2001 recipient has
given many years of dedication and support to ArmSports.
This recipient has also been a
leader of our sport for longer
than any other human being
on the face of the earth. He
has spent 30 to 40 hours every
week for many years on armwrestling and receives no pay
for his dedication. His wisdom
and leadership on the internet
has furthered our sport more
than anyone else. With that last
statement you now know who
is this year’s winner.
The 2001 John Miazdzyk
Award winner is Dave Devoto! I’m proud to say that
Dave is this year’s winner and
I cannot think of a single person who deserves this award
more than him.
Dave participated in the
world’s first organized tournaments and the coverage
of that event by ABC’s Wide
World of Sports brought the
sport of armwrestling to the
attention of millions.
Dave was the first in
ArmSports to recognize the
importance of the internet.
Dave first brought up the idea
of the internet in 1994 and told
us it would change the world. I
will admit that I did not believe
him, but he knew what was
going to happen and he was
right.
In closing, I salute Dave
Devoto and congratulate
him on being the recipient
of our sports most prestigious
award.
—Leonard Harkless
President USAA/USWA
Deputy Head Referee WAF
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The first match held in 1952 at Gilardi’s Bar was between Oliver Kulberg (on left) and Jack Homel. In
the background from the left is Bill Soberanes, Scoop Seidell and “Diamond Mike” Gilardi.
Wristwrestling History: 1952-2002
T
HE
MATCHES
BEGAN
IN
GILARDI’S
SALOON
IN
PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA IN
1952. Bill Soberanes, a young
journalist was the founder of
the organized sport. He was the
inspiration for the Annual
Petaluma, then Northern California, and then the California
Armwrestling Championship.
In 1962 Bill and Dave got
together to form the World’s
Wristwrestling
Championship, Inc. and take it to one of
Petaluma’s largest auditoriums.
The event was tremendously successful and exciting things began
to happen.
In 1968 Charles Schultz did
11 comic strips where Snoopy
was coming to Petaluma to
win the World’s Wristwrestling
Championship. Unfortunately in
the final strip he was eliminated
because the official armwrest-
ling rules stated you must lock
your thumbs with the opposing competitor. Snoopy had no
thumb. Drats! These comic strips
were done in dozens of different languages and distributed
throughout the world.
“
In 1968 Charles Schultz
did 11 comic strips
where Snoopy was
coming to Petaluma to
win the World’s Wristwrestling Championship.
”
In 1969 Dave contracted
with the American Broadcasting Corporation and the World’s
began a wonderful 16-year
relationship with ABC’s Wide
World of Sports. Armwrestling
had finally come of age.
A story in Playboy magazine substantiated the fact that
our televised event was the
highest rated show in the young
history of Wide World of Sports.
Most of the competitors in the
sport today first became aware
of armwrestling through ABC’s
productions of the Wide World
of Sports World’s Wristwrestling
Championship. The televised
championships ran from 1969
through 1984. We love Wide
World of Sports.
In October 1995 the
event was filmed by the Learning Channel and shown four
times throughout the world.
The World’s Wristwrestling/
Armwrestling Championship is
always held the second Saturday in October in Petaluma,
California.
On October 12, 1996 the
event was filmed by NBC’s
Bill Soberanes and Dave Devoto (on right) pose with bronze
wristwrestling statue located at the corner of Washington St. and
Petaluma Blvd. No.
World News Today and
shown throughout the world
on October 13, 1996. On
October 14, 2000 the event
was filmed by CBS and
shown on October 16th on
the Bryant Gumbel show. Part
of the event was also shown
on Evening Magazine weeks
later.
ArmSports, Armwrestling
and Wristwrestling are all the
same sport using the same
type table with pegs. We have
been consultants on movies
and television videos regarding
ArmSports, Armwrestling and
Wristwrestling and are making
our facilities available to all
ArmSports competitors and organizers. Our goal is to provide
information and organization to
all who have an interest in the
sport.
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Wristwrestling
Championships
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Wonder Woman Barb
Zalepa
I
T WAS THE SUMMER OF
WHEN
THE
WORLD
OF
1992
ARM-
WRESTLING HAD THE FIRST CHANCE
BARB SCHLEGEL. There
was a charity armwrestling tournament in West Lorne, Ontario,
Canada. Barb, who grew up in
the area, decided to participate
in the tournament. She was always good at armwrestling and
thought that she would give it a
try on a professional table. She
had excelled at any sport that she
competed in and thought that
TO SEE THEN
“
She had little trouble
beating the defending
champion at that
tournament and
thought armwrestling
would be a sport she
would enjoy.
”
this would be an exciting new
challenge.
Barb had gone undefeated as
a amateur boxer going 13-0 (no
one got past the first round), she
had won a body building contest, and still held multiple high
school track records in Ontario.
She had little trouble beating the defending champion at
that tournament and thought
armwrestling would be a sport
she would enjoy. The referee
told her that she had more natural talent then any other woman
he had ever seen and that she
should try the next tournament
which was 2 weeks away. There
would be more competition
there because it was a money
tournament. That referee was
Mark Zalepa.
Barb participated at the
next tournament and defeated
all again, including the Ontario
champion. Still not understanding the magnitude of what she
just did, she walked back to her
seat and never thought anything
of it. After the tournament she
was approached by the same
referee and told about the Canadian championships in Ottawa and that she would have a
good chance at doing well. She
would have a much stronger
class of competition because the
many time Canadian and World
champion, Nancy Locke, would
be there. She decided that was
the next tournament she would
attend.
She was very interested in
finding out more about the sport
because with her background in
competing at a high level she
knew that nothing came easy.
She also knew she would have
to practice to become better if
she planned on competing professionally.
The weekend of the Canadians had arrived. She had not
had a chance to practice. It was
a huge tournament and to make
it more interesting, it was being covered by TSN (The Sports
Network). Barb placed second
to Nancy but not before beating
three other Provincial champions. Nancy had way too much
speed and experience to have
Barb give her a challenge. The
fire was sparked in her heart to
become the best at the sport.
Barb trained hard for the next
year hoping to get the chance
to beat Nancy at the 1993 Canadian championships which
were going to be held in Regina,
Sasketchawan. She lost to Nancy
again at the Ontario championships and was more determined
then ever to be on top.
There was a twist to the story
Barb Zalepa wowing the crowd once again in competition.
that helped Barb out. Shirley
Issac, another multiple Canadian
and World Champion was going
to be in the same class. Everyone
thought that Nancy and Shirley
would be the ones to watch.
Barb shocked the armwrestling
world by becoming the champion in the 60kg. class with both
left and right arms.
Next was the WAF World
Championships in Edmonton,
Alberta. The World Championships went the same way as the
Canadians. Barb was not the
favorite and was overlooked.
She walked away with the 1993
World Armwrestling Champion
in the women’s 60kg. class. It
was all the drive she needed to
train harder and become a top
name in the sport.
In 1994 Barb thought that
she would not compete at the
WAF World Championships in
Sweden, but would rather try
the biggest tournament at the
time which was the Yukon Jack.
Barb has stated since the day
she started the sport that she
wanted the challenge of beating
the best.
Seeing that the Yukon Jack
was an open weight class she
thought it would be more exciting to try. She placed third
behind Dot Jones and Liane
Desfrene. She beat many
women bigger than her and became determined to accomplish
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The Band
Wristwrestling
something no other woman ever
has.
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(continued from page 6)
Win the World Championships
in 4 different weight classes!
The next year would turn out
to be the most rewarding year of
her life. She achieved the greatest
title on earth, Mom. On October
2, 1995 an 8lb. 2 1/2 ounce baby
boy arrived. Chase Alexander
Zalepa was born and thankfully
he has Barb’s huge hands. Maybe
a third World Champion in the
family? Only time will tell.
With a year off from the
sport Barb knew that she’d have
a lot of catching up to do, so
she trained harder then ever on
her way to winning her 5th and
6th Canadian titles. She focused
on the Yukon Jack in Orlando,
Florida. She lost again to Dot
and Liane but it only intensified
her drive to prove that she could
compete with bigger women.
She vowed to beat at least one
of the women who had been her
only obstacles over the last two
years. She accomplished that
feat in the summer of 1997 beating Liane in Ottawa.
During the winter of 1998
Barb was waiting for a tournament to start in Huntsville,
Ontario when she was coaxed
into pulling the men’s 135lb.
class. The class had the reigning
Ontario champion plus 2 time
Canadian champion for the men
in the same class. She thought
for training reasons she would
try it to see how she would fair
against the men.
It was not a good day for
the men in Huntsville. Barb won
both women’s classes as well as
the men’s with the Ontario and
the Canadian Champion placing 3rd and 2nd behind her respectively. This was just another
example why many competitors
consider Barb pound for pound
one of the best armwrestlers in
the world.
Barb has many titles to her
credit such as 10 time Canadian
and 6 time World Armwrestling
“
It was not a good day for
the men in Huntsville.
Barb won both women’s
classes as well as the
men’s with the Ontario
and the Canadian Champion placing 3rd and 2nd
behind her respectively.
This was just another
example why many competitors consider Barb
pound for pound one
of the best armwrestlers
in the world.
”
Champion but there’s still one
title she would love to obtain—
Olympic Gold Medalist. Barb,
as every other professional armwrestler, is dreaming of the day
that this great sport will get the
chance to show the world what
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great athletes it has on the Olympic stage. With hard work and
a lot of cooperation Barb hopes
that this dream will become a
reality. There is no greater feeling
in sports then to represent your
country at the greatest sporting
event on the planet. We all hope
it can happen.
With the future of the sport
looking brighter than ever now
Barb has plans to train relentlessly to obtain the goal of a
World title in 4 different weight
classes. She now has 3 with the
most recent one coming in the
70kg. class at the 1998 World
Armwrestling Championships in
Thunder Bay, Ontario.
All this from a woman that
weighs 134lbs. (61kg.). If there
is any woman in the sport that
can accomplish this feat, it is
Barb Zalepa.
UPDATE: Wonder Woman Barb
Zalepa is back. In early spring
of this year at the 4th Annual
Central Ontario Armwrestling
Championships Barb won the
Ladies Right 0-135lb. Plus the
Ladies Right Super Match Open!
She’s baaack!
In September she won the Canadian Nationals in her weight division. For more information on
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Eric Wolfe honing his pulling skill in practice with the Phoenix
Interview with
Arizona’s Eric Wolfe
BY DAVE DEVOTO
How long have you been armwrestling?
10 years, 20 to go!
How did you get started?
The late great Fred Piazza from
Tampa, Florida was refereeing
a tournament at MacDill Air
Force Base in 1991. I entered
and won my class. Fred started
training me and introduced me
to various techniques and other
armwrestlers in the Florida area.
Shortly after being introduced
to the sport, the Yukon Jack Final
was held in Tampa. I was amazed
by all the great pullers and have
been “hooked” ever since.
What have you done since
then?
I moved to Phoenix in 1997 and
continued to armwrestle and recruit practice partners. Phoenix
is now the home of Phoenix
Arms, one of the finest armwrestling clubs around. Check
us out at www.azarmwrestling.
com, we continue to motivate
and develop top notch armwrestlers. Well, at least we have
fun anyway, and look good in
our team shirts. Sorry, we don’t
sell Juice Plus or tell you how to
use your computer. We just armwrestle—go figure.
Well, what exactly have you
won all over the world?
I haven’t traveled too much
internationally, but have won
many state titles and even the
USAA Nationals in 2001.
What about armwrestling
workouts and practice?
Phoenix Arms trains every week.
We have developed some very
unique methods of improving
tendon strength and raw power.
There are many training pictures
on our web site. If you are ever
in the Phoenix area, please look
us up by calling 602-463-5220
or email us at azarmwrestling@
cox.net.
Do you have any recommendations for new armwrestlers?
Armwrestle...and don’t forget to
have fun doing it. Read everything (even the AAA message
board) and listen to advice from
others.
Wristwrestling
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lnterview with Multiple
Champion Steve Phipps
BY DAVE DEVOTO
How long have you been
armwrestling?
I’ve been tournament armwrestling for 32+ years. I’m 45 and
now compete in the Masters
Division as well as the Open Left
Division at most tournaments. I
broke my right elbow and arm
in 1996 and again in 1997, so
it’s not as good as it once was.
Two right-handed classes on the
same day is too much stress, so
I’ve learned my limits.
How did you get started?
I grew up on a farm in Eastern
Washington. I would armwrestle my friends at school and my
cousins and uncles at family reunions. When I was 13 my Dad
had me doing the undesirable
jobs on the farm, while the hired
help were busy with the more
desirable jobs. I went to my Dad
and told him I didn’t think it was
fair. He said “Let’s armwrestle
and if you win we’ll see about
a change.” We armwrestled, he
won and said “OK, get back to
the field.”
I set a goal to beat my Dad
at armwrestling, so in addition
to the ditch digging, bucking
hay bales, sprinkler pipe changing and picking up rocks I began
Lifting weights. Later that year I
saw an ad in the local newspaper for an armwrestling tournament. I entered the Junior High
School Division in the Heavyweight class.
What happened?
I won that first tournament.
Fran Ayers who was a Women’s
World’s Wristwrestling Champion put on that tournament
with her husband George. I
had seen her on TV and was
quite impressed that I had met a
World Champion. I don’t think
they even noticed me.
“
I set a goal to beat my
Dad at armwrestling,
so in addition to the
ditch digging, bucking
hay bales, sprinkler
pipe changing and
picking
up rocks I began lifting
weights.
”
But three years later I entered the Pacific Northwest
Championship that was held in
Kennewick, Washington. The
tournament was run by Doyle
Clapper and sanctioned by the
World’s Wristwrestling Championship, Inc., which I had
watched on “ABC Wide World
of Sports.” For me, this was my
first shot at big time wristwrestling. They only had adult divisions, so I had to convince my
parents that I wouldn’t get hurt. I
had finally beat my Dad at armwrestling earlier that year and
as he was the best armwrestler I
knew I felt I would have a good
chance of at least winning a few
matches.
I caught the Ayer’s attention
at this tournament after about 6
wins. People began asking who
I was, and did I know whom it
was that I just beat? Apparently
I was doing great, because I had
beat the local champ.
I didn’t know enough to be
afraid of losing. I was just taking
each match one at a time and
trying to do my best. I ended
up wristwrestling the defending
PNW Champion in the quarter finals. We locked up and armwrestled for almost 5 minutes. He beat
me, I was exhausted, but I had
given it my best effort. The Ayers
invited me to their armwrestling
practices and told me I needed to
learn some technique to go with
my natural strength.
What have you done since
then?
I didn’t get too serious about armwrestling until I graduated from
college and missed competitive
sports. During high school and
college I would armwrestle during the summers at local tournaments in the PNW. I was busy
with football, wrestling and track
in high school so I stayed in good
shape. I wanted to play pro football until I seriously injured my
shoulder in a motorcycle wreck.
The doctor put me in a traction
device for 6 weeks and told me
football was not going to work
out for me.
Steve Phipps, multiple armwrestling champion, shows off some
of his medals and awards.
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Well what exactly have you
won all over the world?
TITLES
11 World Championships
5 right/6 left (including a rare
“Double- Double” winning
World Titles in Wristwrestling
and Armwrestling with both
arms, the same year)
31 National Championships
Yukon Jack Regional Champion
Western U.S.A. Champion
PNW Champion
STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
& Hawaii.
AWARDS
1983 Sportsmanship of the Year
1992 Armwrestler of the Year
1997 Most Dedicated Armwrestler of the Year
Team USA To Russia, 1995-1996
Team USA To Japan, 1999
Team USA To Finland, 2000
Team USA To Italy 2001
What about armwrestling workouts and practice?
I host armwrestling practice at
my home most Tuesday nights
from 7-9 p.m. We have a number of World and/or National
Champs from Washington State
that practice together, including Jacob Abbott, Alan Bown,
Wayne Fredrickson, Tim Storey,
Lance Whitehill, Mitch Cady,
Andy Medak and Lance Kent.
Most practices we have 5-20
armwrestlers.
I have found that “table
time” is the key to being a good
armwrestler and “table time”
with other good armwrestlers is
the key to becoming your best.
Steve Phipps working out his wrists and forearms in his home
I also know that without them I
would not have accomplished
what I have in armwrestling.
Sometimes practice ends
up being harder than the tournaments, if you train correctly
with a group of guys like this
and end up being lucky at the
tournament. We make each
other better. I am happy to train
armwrestlers and I feel that I am
returning the favor for those
armwrestlers that took the time
to teach me.
I lift weights 2 to 3 times
a week and try to get in 2 to
3 cardiovascular workouts on
the treadmill per week. I focus
on upper body weight lifting,
with even more focus on arms
and forearms. I’ve developed a
number of different exercises
and types of equipment for arm
workouts out of necessity. One
of the simplest solutions came
about because I began injuring my wrists, when I got to the
point I was wrist curling 225lbs.
with the straight bench press
bar. I was strong enough to do
sets of wrist curls but as my arms
fatigued I would lose balance of
the weight and the weight would
twist my wrist sideways causing
injury to the small muscles and
connective tissue on the side of
the wrist.
I went to the farm and cut up
a PTO shaft, which was just small
enough to fit the Olympic sized
plates yet strong enough to hold
a number of 45lb. plates. I was
then able to center the weight
and have progressed over the
years to the point where I now
do wrist curls with 360lbs. I also
squeeze a gripper during the day,
as I drive from one sales call to
the next.
Do you have any recommendations for new armwrestlers?
Find a group of armwrestlers
to practice with. It will greatly
improve your progress. Don’t
expect to be a great armwrestler over night, very few are,
most will have to pay their dues
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Letter from Shailender Kadian:
Vice President of WAF India,
President of Association of Indian
Armwrestling Federations,
and Asian Representative
I
JANUARY 24,
1972 AT ROHTAK (HARYANA) INDIA INTO A JAT FAMILY. My father
is an Advocate and my mother a
housekeeper. I did my schooling
in Model School Rohtak affiliated to Central Board of School
Education. Graduated from
University College, Rohtak and
did my law from University of
Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
I started participating in
sports in year 1987. I participated and stood first in Hammer Throw, Discus Throw and
Shot Put in University four years
in row. I was also selected to
represent Haryana State in the
National Weight Lifting Championship in Udaipur in 1994. I
was awarded Best Body Builder
of the Year in 1994, stood three
times Mr. University in Body
Building and was awarded College Color also.
I achieved six times National Gold Medallist in various
martial arts forms: Karate, Taekwondo and Wushu.
I started armwrestling in
1990 by participating in National Championship in Cuttack
(Orissa) and stood second in my
weight group of -90kg. I took
first place in Haryana State Armwrestling Championships from
1990-1999.
I opened the Supreme
Armwrestling Club in 1998 in
Rohtak, Haryana.
I participated with team in
various international armwrestling competitions under the
auspices of Mr. Willy Deneumostier, General Secretary,
World Armwrestling Federation
starting with Belgium—Rochefort Open, Switzerland—9th
WAS BORN ON
Shailender Kadian: Vice President of WAF India, President
of Association of Indian Armwrestling Federations, & Asian
Representative.
Swiss
Open,
Poland—
XXII World Armwrestling Championship, Finland—Powerbull
Competition, Finland—Proarm
Open Competition.
I was honored by WAF by
accepting my recognition as
President of Association of Indian Armwrestling Federation(s)
and Asian Representative of
World Armwrestling Federation
in XXII World Armwrestling
Championship in Gdynia, Poland in December 2001.
Always available for helping in
any manner in armwrestling in
Asia and India. I can be contacted at:
308 Housing Board Colony
Rohtak 124001
Haryana State, India
PHONE: 0091-1262-59039
FAX: 0091-1262-70419
MOBILE: 0091-9813085308,
0091-9896059309
EMAIL: armwrestlingindia@
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Promoter Dave Devoto is pictured celebrating another great
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and Runner-up George Krotter on his right and three time Champ
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rendering the fleeting effects of
light upon the naturally chiseled
surfaces of stone.
Complimenting this series
of large canvases will be several
small works depicting dramatic
skies illuminated by the extraordinary light of California.
The gallery also features
the paintings of Denise Champion, Marylu Downing, Mylette
Welch, Patrick Fanning, Susan
R. Ball as well as the unique creations of several local Sonoma
County artisans.
An opening reception with
the artist will be held on Saturday, October 5th at Graton
Gallery, 9048 Graton Road,
Graton, CA, from 4-8 p.m. The
reception will feature the fine
wines of Davis Family Vineyards.
10% of Michael’s sales from this
show will be donated to the Oak
Grove Education Partners, an
education foundation benefiting the art, music and Spanish
programs at Oak Grove and Willowside Schools in Graton.
The Arts
“Umber Rocks, Golden Sky” (near Goat Rock), 36” x 48”, © 2002 Michael Coy. (Also appears on
Graton Gallery: Transitory Permanence by
Michael Coy Now Showing through Nov. 4th
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ING A SERIES OF NEW WORKS
at Graton Gallery
October 2nd through November 4th.
In this show, Michael departs from the more traditional
landscapes he has shown
throughout Sonoma County
since 1999. With these paintings of local rock formations,
he explores themes of relative
time and our perception of it,
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“
I find the idea of the light changing by the second upon
these forms that have taken eons to produce as interesting
and beautiful as the visual results this interplay creates.
I’m trying to capture one moment of this intersection of
relative time, the play of ephemeral transitory Light upon
these perceived icons of permanence. Of course, these
rocks, these icons are ever changing as well, and I find
in this interplay metaphors that relate to the lifespans of
societies, species, and individuals.
”
For more information about the
show contact Graton Gallery at
707-829-8912.
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The Arts
Barry Singer Gallery Presents Two:
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera and
Lou Stoumen’s, Paper Movies
P
FRIDA
KAHLO & DIEGO RIVERA
AND LOU STOUMEN, PAPER
MOVIES will be two concurrent
exhibitions at the Barry Singer
Gallery. The Opening Reception will be Saturday, September
28th, from 5-7 p.m., and the
exhibition continues through
Saturday, November 23rd.
As a dynamic pair of artists, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were themselves subjects
HOTOGRAPHS
OF
of innumerable photographs.
Their colorful personalities are
revealed through images of
them in all aspects of their lives;
Kahlo with her dramatic countenance and costumes, and Rivera
with his bulk and bearing. This
exhibition includes vintage photographs along with recent color
images of the “Blue House,” the
home they shared.
New York City’s Time Square
area in the 1940’s was a symbol
of rapid change and “progress,”
embodying new technology
and social interaction—much
of which looks intriguingly oldfashioned today. Lou Stoumen’s
photographs remind us of the
dynamism which was, and still
is, New York. These photographs
were the earliest of a career
which spanned four decades, and
resulted in ten books and also included garnering two Oscars for
documentary film-making.
Autumn Exhibition
of Landscapes and
Seascapes By Local Artists At
Tomales Gallery
October 26th
T
HE
TOMALES GALLERY
The gallery is located at
7 Western Avenue, Petaluma,
CA. Gallery hours are Tuesday
through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6
p.m. and by appointment. The
gallery is 45 minutes north of
San Francisco, at the entry to the
Sonoma/Napa wine country.
In addition to these exhibi-
tions, Barry Singer Gallery continues to offer masterworks of
vintage photography, as well as
a growing selection of outstanding international and local contemporary photographs.
Visit www.singergallery.com to
view the exhibition.
IS
PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS
Aut umn Exhibit ion which
commences on Saturday, October 26th with a reception at the
gallery from 1-5 p.m. The show
continues through December.
The exhibition will include
Northern California landscape
and seascape paintings by nationally acclaimed artists Dana
Hooper, Denise Champion,
Clark Mitchell, Randall Sexton,
“Sunstreak” 40” x 60” by Clark G. Mitchell.
Timothy Dixon and Michelle
Thomison.
The Tomales Gallery also
features pottery, handturned
wood and unique gift items from
around the world.
The Tomales Gallery is located
at 3985 Tomales/Petaluma Road
at Highway One (Shoreline
Highway). Gallery Hours are
Friday-Sunday, 12:30-5p.m. Call
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Music
Santa Rosa Symphony
Opens 75th Anniversary
Season
T
HE
SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY
ITS
2002-2002
OPENS
75TH
ANNIVERSARY SEASON
OCTOBER 12TH-14TH, at the
Luther Burbank Center for the
Arts, with a spectacular program
highlighting the talents of both
John Adams and Jeffrey Kahane.
John Adams, one of
America’s most admired and
frequently performed composers, will make a special guest
appearance to conduct his Century Rolls for piano and orchestra, with Music Director Jeffrey
Kahane at the piano.
Adams was inspired to write
Century Rolls after spending a
late night listening to a recording of old piano roll music from
the 1920’s. Adams describes the
piece as, “That of an orchestra
and solo piano tightly but happily aligned amongst the cogs
and wheels of a bustling rhythON
John Adams composed and
conducts the popular piece,
Century Rolls.
mic machine.”
Recently, Adam Baer of the
New York Sun called Adams,
“The best kind of creative intellectual-one whose art is at once
graspable, deep, fun, moving,
and smart.”
The opening weekend program will also include festive
flourishes of Americana with
Copland’s Party Scene from his
opera The Tender Land and the
massive chords and brooding
melodies of Rachmaninoff’s
Third Symphony. At the conclusion of the performance, 75th
Anniversary celebration activities, including a champagne
toast, will be held in the Luther
Burbank Center lobby.
Symphony performances are
Saturday and Monday at 8 p.m.
and Sunday at 3 p.m. Free, preconcert lectures by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane will begin one
hour prior to each concert in the
main theater. An open rehearsal
performance begins at 2 p.m. on
Saturday, October 12th.
Tickets are available at the Symphony Box Office at the Luther
Burbank Center daily, from 9
a.m.-6 p.m., at the door 1 1/2
hours before each performance
or by calling 54-MUSIC (707546-8742). Single tickets are
$24-45 and senior discounts are
available. Seven dollar Student
Rush tickets, to students with
school I.D., are available one half hour prior to curtain.
Jackson Chamber Series Perform OcSchool.
phony, and Barbara Banke and
tober 11th
The Jackson Chamber Series Jess Jackson, owners of KendallJackson Winery. It showcases top
at Sonoma
Symphony musicians in an exThe Jackson Chamber
ceptional performance hall and
Series is a continued
Country Day
provides audiences with music
collaboration between
performed at the highest profesSonoma Country Day
School
sional level.
O
N THE HEELS OF A SUCCESSFUL
FIRST
SEASON,
MUSIC DIRECTOR JEFFREY
KAHANE AND THE SANTA ROSA
SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS WILL
OPEN THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF THREE
CHAMBER CONCERTS. The series be-
gins with a program of Mozart,
Epstein and Dvorak on Friday,
October 11 th, in the Jackson
Theater at Sonoma Country Day
“
School, the Santa Rosa
Symphony, and Barbara
Banke and Jess Jackson,
owners of KendallJackson Winery.
”
is a continued collaboration
between Sonoma Country Day
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The opening concert will
begin with Mozart’s Quintet for
Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn
and Bassoon, highlighting the
talents of Jeffrey Kahane on
piano and principal Santa Rosa
Symphony wind players.
The second piece, Paul
Epstein’s Echo Park, will feature Kahane and flutist Kathleen
Lane Reynolds. Epstein described the work as “signifying
a magical, interior place made
from a brightly hued yet dreamy
nostalgic fabric of images and
feelings.” Dvorak’s dramatic and
powerful Piano Quartet in E-flat
will close the program and will
once again feature Kahane and
Santa Rosa Symphony Principal
string players.
The performance will begin at 8
p.m. Tickets are available at the
Symphony Box Office at the Luther Burbank Center daily, from
Calling the Jacques Thibaud String Trio’s playing “spontaneous
and commanding,” the New York Times said, “this could be the
first string trio in some time to have a major career.”
9 a.m.-6 p.m, at the door 1 1/2 hours before each performance or by
calling 54-MUSIC (707-546-8742). Single tickets are $22-$30.
Jacques
Thibaud
String Trio
at Spreckels
November
1st
T
and graceful ... exalted expertise
... a triumph.”
The trio pays homage with
its name to the great French violinist Jacques Thibaud. Born in
1880, Thibaud devoted himself
to playing trios with his partners
Casals and Cortot, in addition to
his activities as soloist. Many of
Jacques
Thibaud
St r ing Tr io WAS FOUNDED
AT THE BERLIN SCHOOL OF
ART IN 1994. Nearly unique
among today’s chamber ensembles, these three young musicians play by heart. Calling their
playing “spontaneous and commanding,” the New York Times
said, “this could be the first string
trio in some time to have a major
career.”
With their charm, youthful
exuberance, and astounding
virtuosity, Burkhard Maiss and
Philip Douvier on violin and
Uwe Hirth-Schmidt on cello
have delighted audiences of all
ages in large and small venues.
The Los Angeles Times praised
them in this way, “Their playing
had authority as well as heat; indeed, it proved both compelling
HE
“
With their charm,
youthful exuberance,
and astounding virtuosity, Burkhard Maiss and
Philip Douvier on violin
and Uwe Hirth-Schmidt
on cello have delighted
audiences of all ages
in large and small
venues.
”
the great musicians of his time,
including Kreisler, Fournier and
Ysaÿe, also found their way to
his Paris apartment to play with
him. At 73, while still performing all over the world, he lost his
life in a plane crash.
The Jacques Thibaud Trio
will appear in Spreckels Performing Arts Center’s Nellie W. Codding Theatre for one performance
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Theatre
Historic Cinnabar Theater
Announces Its 29th Season
P
ETALUMA’S
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HISTORIC
THEATER
CIN-
ANNOUNCES
THE OPENING OF ITS
29TH
SEASON, commencing with Chek-
ov’s Uncle Vanya. Quicksilver
II Theater Company presents
this poignant comedy by Anton
Chekov, with English adaptation
by David Mamet, September
20th through October 12th.
Opening night festivities,
Friday, September 20th, include
a pre-performance hour of Russian sweets and savories, accompanied by select Sonoma County
wines, and a post-performance
opportunity to sip champagne
and talk with cast and director.
October 25th through-November 2nd brings the outrageous
Fred Curchack back to Cinnabar
with his newest one man show,
Dionysos Does Dallas: A Geek
Tragedy. This is an outrageous,
hilarious and utterly unpredictable revision of Euripides’ mythic
Greek drama, Bacchai.
The rest of November and
December are given over to the
festive productions of the Cinnabar Young Repertory Theater,
now in its 20th year. Two specially
commissioned productions provide an opportunity for talented
young actors and singers to grace
Cinnabar’s main stage. Christmas Comes to Cherrywood runs
November I 5th through 24th,
and an original musical version
of the perennial, favorite It’s A
Wonderful Life plays December
6th through 22nd.
Petaluma Sings! Holiday
Concerts continue the winter season’s offerings, with a
matin6e and an evening performance on December 14th.
The Youth Choruses, directed
by Barbara Rosen, perform at 2
p.m. at Cinnabar Theater, and
the Women’s Chorus and the
Cinnabar Chamber Singers, directed by Nina Shuman, perform
at 8 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul
Church, 25 Liberty, in Petaluma.
New Year’s Eve brings a real
treat! The Spanish Hour, Ravel’s
sparkling bedroom farce, set in a
clock shop, will be presented by
the Cinnabar Opera Theater,
along with delightful French
and Spanish songs as a curtain
raiser. The December 31st evening includes a Spanish dinner
and champagne. Closing night,
January 12th, features a delicious pre-performance sampling
of Sonoma County dessert wines
and gourmet chocolates.
The third year of collaboration between Cinnabar Theater
and renowned playwright John
O’Keefe continues with a World
Premiere opening January 24th.
Göring and the Texan, produced by Quicksilver II Theater
Company. This play explores
the relationship between Hitler’s
brilliant Head of the Gestapo and
his American prison guard during
the Nuremberg Trials. As part of
his Cinnabar residency, O’Keefe
will perform two of his internationally acclaimed monologues:
Shimmer, on January 30th, and
Vid, on February 6th. O’Keefe
will also offer a special workshop
on Naturalism on the American
Stage, date to be announced.
Cinnabar Young Repertory
Theater returns with its 20th
Anniversary Spring Festival. The
Teen Acting Ensemble, directed
by Deborah Eubanks, will present Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, from February 28th through March 9th,
followed by the Musical Theater
Ensemble production of Gilbert
and Sullivan’s The Pirates of
Penzance, directed by Eileen
Morris, March 2 1st through
30th.
Cinnabar Opera Theater
presents its Spring opera, the
tender tragedy Madama Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini,
with new English translation by
Pocket Opera’s Donald Pippin.
This gorgeous intimate opera
runs April 4th-27th.
A World Premiere by
Fred Curchack arrives in May.
Gauguin’s Shadow, which runs
May 9th-1 7th, reveals the artistic genius and outrageous life
of Paul Gauguin, through live
performance, puppetry, video
projection of his art, shadow
magic, music, dance, and text
taken from his writings.
Petaluma Sings! Choruses
will return for springtime concerts, dates to be announced.
The 29th Season finishes
with Quicksilver II Theater
Quicksilver II Theater Company Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya, a
this poignant comedy with English adaptation by David Mamet,
September 20th through October 12th.
Company’s production of the
hilarious play We Wont Pay! We
Won’t Pay! by 1997 Nobel Prize
winner Dario Fo. When grocery
prices rise sky high, what’s a
poor girl to do but stuff bags of
food in her sweater and pretend
to be pregnant? When her “term”
is up, what happens is too funny
for words. This play runs May
30th through June 21st.
Season
subscriptions
are available by calling 707763-8920 or by email to info@
cinnabartheater.org. Subscriptions save 20%, off the individual ticket prices for Cinnabar
Opera Theater, Quicksilver II
Theater Company, and Cinnabar
Young Repertory Theater.
Individual ticket prices are
as follows:
Cinnabar Opera Theater
$25 General
$22 Senior & Student
Quicksilver II Theater Company
$17 General
Fred Curchack
$15 General
Young Repertory Theater
$10 General
$6 Youth 12 and under
For more info. visit the website
at www.cinnabartheater.org. or
call 707-763-8920.
P E TA L U M A
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STUDENTS: $23
ADULTS:
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HOURS:
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Fri-Sun 8-5 p.m.
• Newer, well maintained facility
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• Launch ramp for trailerable boats
• Easy freeway access
• Ample parking near berths
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• Fuel dock and pumpout on site
(101 North or South, take Hwy. 116 East exit)
• City provided security
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Epicurean Episodes
Brasserie de la Mer
Classic Country French Cuisine At
The Vineyard Creek Hotel & Spa
T
HE
DINING
HEADED
DETECTIVES
NORTH
DESSERTS
Pastry Chef Michael Barkley
has created desserts worth saving room for. Try the Chocolate
Mousse which includes a fabulous Cacao Bean Nougatine,
Zinfandel marinated Black Mission Figs and Zinfandel reduction. This was the best Mousse
we’ve had in years. We recommend eating the Nougatine with
your fingers and dipping it in the
Mousse! Also try the Strawberry
Soup which is served with vanilla whipped cream and citrus
granite. This was as unique presentation and was also a fabulous treat.
FROM
PETALUMA ON AN EASY RIDE
ALONG HIGHWAY 101 TO DOWNTOWN SANTA ROSA’S RAILROAD
SQUARE. We had heard through
the grapevine that there was a
new French restaurant, Brasserie de la Mer, with Executive
Chef Liz Ozanich preparing tasty
cuisine using local and organic
ingredients primarily from the
Pacific Coast. The restaurant
is located adjacent to the new
Vineyard Creek Hotel, Spa &
Conference Center. The Brasserie style menu was designed by
Philippe Boulot who is a James
Beard Award Winner.
The dining room was designed with high ceilings and
an exhibition kitchen. There was
dining on two levels with the upper level opening to a lovely outdoor patio. The flow of the dining room was very comfortable
with sufficient room between
tables. Our server, Deble, was
soon at our table and told us
about the specials. We ordered
a bottle of White Oak Chardonnay and were about to see what
Brasserie de la Mer had to offer.
De la Mer means “of the sea” but
the menu featured a variety of
dishes that we had to try.
Here are some of those that
we highly recommend:
APPETIZERS
Sonoma Foie Gras pan-seared
medium-rare with Rhubarb
Relish, Brioche Crostini and
Balsamic Syrup
We must admit that if Foie Gras
is on the menu we have to have
it. Much is said about how the
Hudson Valley Foie Gras, with
its ability to be prepared rare,
is superior but this Sonoma Foie
Gras was prepared perfectlymediumrare which is more to
our liking and was sweet and
delicious!
Dungeness Crab, Mango and
Avocado Salad with Blood
Orange Vinaigrette, Micro
Greens & Chive Oil
This salad is fabulous with lovely
presentation and fantastic taste.
SOUPS
Yellow Split Pea Soup with
Sonoma Smoked Duck Breast
Pea soup is a great test of how all
Our server, Deble, advised us
about the cuisine, wine and
helped to pace our meal perfectly.
soups at a restaurant will be. We
found this to have a great consistency and delicious especially
because of the duck.
ENTREES
Oven Braised C.X Leg
of Sonoma Lamb
Slow cooked for seven hours and
served with Yukon Gold potato
gnocchi and Cipollini onions,
baby carrots and baby summer
squashes. The lamb melted in
your mouth, fell off the bone
and was as hearty as an autumn
dish could be. We also loved the
crisp vegetables that were a perfect accompaniment.
Liberty Farms Duck—Grilled
Breast& Confit of Hindquarter
with Fricassee of Haricot Vert,
Russian Banana Fingerling Potatoes with Sable &
Orange Demi-Glace
Bravo!! This was the best
tasting and most tender duckling
we had eaten all year. It was just
crispy enough for our taste.
Monterey Swordfish—Grilled
with Braised Serrano Ham
Wrapped Belgian Endive,
Grilled
Market Asparagus and Green
Peppercorn Sauce
This fish was what makes “de
la Mer” outstanding as it was
fresh, prepared with a great peppercorn sauce and arrived at the
table piping hot.
THE
DINING
DETECTIVES
BY CAROL & JOE DAVIS
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Sonoma Foie Gras pan-seared medium-rare with
Rhubarb Relish, Brioche Crostini and Balsamic Syrup.
WINE LIST
The Wine list is well balanced
with both local Napa and
Sonoma offerings and many
French wines as well. We
opted for a bottle of White Oak,
Sonoma County Sauvignon
Blanc 2001 and found it to be an
excellent choice which paired
well with all our menu choices.
We really enjoyed our dining experience at Brasserie de
la Mer especially because of the
excellent cuisine and our knowledgeable, friendly and professional server Deble. She advised
us about the cuisine, wine and
helped to pace our meal perfectly. Santa Rosa is in the center
of the Wine Country and already
has some excellent fine dining.
Brasserie de la Mer with its classic country French influences is
a welcome addition to the North
Bay’s dining scene. We had a
great time and look forward to
dining there again soon.
Dungeness Crab, Mango and Avocado Salad with Blood
Orange Vinaigrette, Micro Greens & Chive Oil.
Oven Braised C. K. Leg of Sonoma Lamb—The lamb melted in
your mouth, fell off the bone and was as hearty as an autumn dish
could be.
BRASSERIE DE LA MER VINEYARD CREEK HOTEL & SPA
170 Railroad Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Phone: 707-636-7388 • Fax: 707-636-7380
www.vineyardcreek.com
The Chocolate Mousse above
includes a fabulous Cacao
Bean Nougatine, Zinfandel
Marinated Black Mission Figs
and Zinfandel reduction. This
was the best mousse we’ve
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in Sonoma County, including the Young Rep program at Cinnabar Theater.
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Following your drive to the coast, enjoy
dinner with us. Our dinners are always
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Booknotes
Monte Rio’s Pink Elephant, c.1951, began as a grocery and evolved into a bar and cafe after the repeal
of prohibition. During the flood of 1940, patrons rowed their boats through the front door and demanded
one last round before evacuating. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Charles McCabe, a great fan of
the Pink, wrote, “When they ask you if you want a glass, instead of insisting that you use one, you are
in the country of free men.” The Haas family bought it in the 1990s, and its neon elephant remains one
of Monte Rio’s enduring landmarks. To its right was a laundry and ice cream parlor. (Courtesy of John
A Pomo dancer with typical ceremonial headgear poses, c.1900.
The first people to arrive in the north coast region, at least 5,000
years ago, were the Southern Pomo and the Kashaya Pomo. The
Kashaya called themselves “The People from the Top of the Land.”
Both groups preferred the sunny oak woodlands; neither inhabited
the dark woods along the Russian River, although the Southern
Pomo had a temporary camp called ciyole (“shady place”) near
present-day Guerneville. The Kashaya population is now centered at Stewart’s Point near the coast. (Courtesy of the Hearst
Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.)
Starting in 1902, Bohemians staged an annual summer play on a grand scale that incorporated
the forest setting. Club members (doctors, financiers, etc.) are expected to join the cast. The Club,
founded in 1872, held summer campouts at Elim Grove from 1887 to 1891; it bought the redwoodstudded Grove property in 1900. Members belong to one of 122 camps, each with its own clubhouse.
Mandalay members include Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger; George Bush Sr. is a member of Hill
Billies. All Grove activities are off-limits to the general public, but the Club also performs an annual
public benefit for the Monte Rio community. (Courtesy of John Schubert.)
Images of America: The Russian River
by Simone Wilson Published by Arcadia
T
he Russian River , by
Simone Wil son, IS THE
LATEST CALIFORNIA TITLE IN
ARCADIA PUBLISHING’S “IMAGES OF
AMERICA” SERIES. This new book
is a photographic history of the
Russian River area, known for
its beautiful settings and recreational opportunities.
The Russian River begins
in the hills north of Mendocino
Co. and was populated 5,000
years ago by Native Americans
who camped and fished along
its banks. Later, Russian settlers
established farms in the area, but
the timber boom was the catalyst
for growth. After the trees were
cleared and the railroads came
through in the late 1800s, resorts
and businesses sprang up to cater
to summer visitors. The Russian River captures images of
these early settlers, businesses,
resorts, parks, schools, and historic events that make up the
history of the area.
Simone Wilson, a California
native, has traveled around the
world and moved to Sonoma
County to work as a reporter
and freelance journalist. She
lived in Forestville for ten years
and worked at several newspapers in the River area. Wilson is
the author of another Arcadia
photographic history, Petaluma,
as well as Sonoma County:
The River of Time, a history of
Sonoma County.
The Russian River is available
at the following outlets: Hand
Goods in Occidental; Treehorn
Books in Santa Rosa; The River
Reader in Guerneville; Levin &
Co. in Healdsburg; Weavers and
Dreamers in Duncans Mills; and
all local Copperfield’s, Borders,
Barnes & Noble, and Waldenbooks stores. It can also be
purchased
online
at:
barnesandnoble.com
or
amazon.com or directly from
the publisher at: www.arcadi
apublishing.com or by calling
888-313-2665.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Photographic
use of images for this article are
courtesy of Arcadia Publishing and
caption text was written by Simone
J.B. Rhea shot this photo of his own Monte Rio studio, where he
offered photo developing and printing for tourists, c.1912. Note the
people on the veranda of a guesthouse at upper right. Rhea took
photos of vacationers and made customized postcards for them.
Many of the images we now have of people boating and sunbathing at the River early in the century are Rhea photos. Some businessmen, like Guerneville druggist Newton Lark and his uncle
Fred Warne, also did photography as a sideline. Lark was a busy
man, he also served as Guerneville’s fire chief in the late 1910s.
(Courtesy of the Monte Rio Historical Society.)
Autumn Adventures
29th Annual Sonoma County Farm Trails
Fall
& Winter Map
Now Available
Everythe rural lifestyle that defines
make welcome gifts. Many
where!
T
SONOMA COUNTY FARM
TRAILS FALL/WINTER MAP
AND GUIDE 2002 HAS JUST
ARRIVED. This popular map of
family-friendly farms is more
colorful, and easier to read
than ever. A pull-out map of the
county gets you on the road.
Now in it’s 29th year, Farm
Trails pioneered the concept of
banding small, privately owned
farms together and marketing
them as a group to the public.
Exploring the bounty in
beautiful Sonoma County, is exciting, educational and sustains
HE
the area. When you shop at the
source, you get more than just
groceries, you get a priceless experience and the gratification that
comes from preserving the agriculture in this beautiful region.
It’s a great time to enjoy the
famous pumpkin patches, with
hayrides and farm animals, fresh
produce from the local harvest
and the crushing of varietal
grapes for another vintage year
in wine country.
Gourmet
foods
from
Sonoma County will certainly
impress your guests and always
Peterson’s
Farm
Pumpkins & Dried Flowers
October 8th through Halloween
See and Pet Farm Animals
707-765-4582
636 Gossage Ave., Petaluma, CA
holiday choose-and-cut tree
farms prepare for another festive
winter. Homegrown and handmade crafts spread the joy of the
season and demonstrate the
remarkable and diverse talents
of Farm Trails members.
Year-round visits feature specialty nurseries, cheese factories,
wineries, breweries and more.
There’s a reason every season to
visit Sonoma County Farm Trails.
For more info. and how to get
your FREE map, call Farm Trails
at 800-207-9464, or visit the
Local Honey
BRAKE FOR AUTUMN
Andersen’s
You’re sure to find the pumpkin that’s right
for you with 12 acres to choose from!
OPEN DAILY
10a.m.-Dark
Oct. 1st-31st
Giant Pumpkins $35.00
Indian Corn, Gourds &
Organic Vegetables too!
4588 Bodega Ave., Petaluma, CA
4 Miles West of Petaluma
Before Aguis Grocery
707-763-3852
707-763-9018
Autumn Adventures
Picking the
Best Pumpkin
“
In Sonoma County the
popular Farm Trails Map
& Guide makes it easy
to get out in the fresh air
and find the best places
to take the family for
hayrides, hay mazes,
farm animal encounters,
even explore a haunted
graveyard!
”
VISITING LO CAL FARMS
Pick up your FREE FARM TRAILS MAP and explore
Sonoma County farms just like visitors and locals have
been doing for over 25 years. Fruits and vegetables are
available direct from the farmer. Experience life on the
farm with sheep, llamas, honey bees, butterflies and birds!
Seasonal adventures include summertime berry picking,
pumpkins and gourds in the fall, Christmas trees in winter
and baby animals and fields of flowers in the spring! Enjoy
delightful wineries, breweries and cheese factories yearround. When you buy on the farm, you get more than just
groceries, you get an experience to last a lifetime.
FARM TRAILS • 800-207-9464
www.farmtrails.org.
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Farms
Organic Produce
U-Pick
Pumpkins
Hay Rides
Hay Pile
Corn Maze
Indian Corn
Gourds
Picnic Area
6652 Petaluma Hill Road
(Across from SSU)
DAILY 9-5 • PHONE: 707-664-1602
Autumn Adventures
Building Bridges Across Ethnic Communities With El Dia de los Muertos Celebraone. This celebration offers an
with children, and serve to intions
L
ATE
LAST
FALL,
PEOPLE
OF ALL AGES AND ETHNIC
BACKGROUNDS WAITED PA-
TIENTLY IN LONG LINES OUTSIDE
THE
PETALUMA REGIONAL LIBRARY
IN ORDER TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE
HUMAN SKULLS OUT OF SUGAR.
This is just one of the traditional
activities surroundIng El Dia de
los Muertos (Day of the Dead),
and one of the first events in
Petaluma’s 2001 celebration of
this Latino festival.
This fall, Petaluma plans to
build on the enormous success
of last year’s El Dia de los Muertos celebration. From October
20th to November 3rd, the city
will again be alive with an entire
range of events, including the
traditional ofrendas (altars) in
many locations. There will also
be a performance of folkloric
dance, an evening of bilingual
storytelling, instruction in traditional paper flower making, a
fine arts exhibit, a choral group
concert, a poetry and music
celebration and much, much
more.
El Dia de los Muertos
embodies not only a unique
partnership of Latino and nonLatino communities, it also
brings people together over an
all too common human need:
dealing with the loss of a loved
opportunity for healing that has
no direct equivalent in Anglo
culture.
Having recently lost her
very young son in a tragic accident, recognition of this cultural insight gave Margie Helm,
chair of the crosscultural El Dia
de los Muertos Committee, the
idea to bring the celebration to
Petaluma in 2001. Response by
the community has been overwhelmingly supportive.
The celebration reflects the
profound cultural belief that
death is a part of life. While
its origin lies in ancient Indian
rituals, El Dia de los Muertos is
celebrated at the same time as
Halloween and the Christian
All Saints and All Souls Days.
On these occasions the spirits
of dead loved ones are invited
to visit the living as honored
guests. Rather than being a time
for grief, however, it is a time
for remembering and rejoicing.
Families often set up ofrendas
bearing pictures of lost loved
ones, along with marigolds,
bread, fruit, favorite foods of the
deceased and lighted candles.
Traditional symbols of
death like skulls and skeletons
are fearsome objects in Anglo
culture. Yet on El Dia de los
Muertos, sugar skulls and dancing skeletons are great favorites
troduce them to cultural beliefs
surrounding death.
Participating in organizing
this year’s activities along with
the Petaluma Arts Council are
representatives from St. Vincent
De Paul Hispanic Pastoral Outreach, The Hispanic Cultural
Development Corporation, the
Petaluma Regional Library, Santa
Rosa Junior College, The Friday
Night Film Series, HC2: Healthy
Community Consortium, Heebe
Jeebe retail store, and other interested community members.
• Presentations of the film, La
Ofrenda, by The Friday Night
Film Series.
• An afternoon of bilingual storytelling for preschoolers and
an evening of bilingual story
telling for adults.
• An Art Walk & Procession
along downtown sidewalks
culminating at St. Vincent’s
Plaza for a performance
by Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl.
All of the following activities
are FREE. (See page 25 for the
schedule):
• Altars and artifacts in a variety
of locations, Including City
Hall and Heebe Jeebe.
• Paper flower making instructions,.
• Community participation in a
traditional Sugar Skulls Workshop.
• Fine Arts exhibits at many locations, including Zebulon’s
Lounge & Copperfield’s.
The Petaluma Arts Council has
issued a Call For Entries to the
Fine Arts exhibits. The theme, in
keeping with this age-old cultural tradition, is honoring the
dead. Those interested in submitting artwork should contact
them at 707-766-5200.
Anyone interested in helping
to organize the Petaluma El
Dia de los Muertos celebration
event should call Margie Helm
at 707-321-3192. Full details of
all activities are available at the
www.petalumaartscouncil.org.
• A performance of traditional Mexican music by
La Rondalla Men’s Choral
Group.
• An evening of poetry and music at the Petaluma campus of
Santa Rosa Junior College.
Join the Petaluma Area
Chamber of Commerce &
Our Corporate Sponsors For The
13th Annual Business Exposition
“Focus on Business”
Petaluma Community Center
320 North McDowell Blvd.
Thursday, October 10th, 2002
4:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The Petaluma Business Expo provides the Business Community the opportunity and marketplace
to exhibit and showcase a diversity of goods and
services.
Over 100 Exhibitors • Free To the Public
Free Parking • Promotional Handouts
Food Samples from Petaluma Restaurants
We Salute The
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Autumn Adventures
Day of the Dead Schedule:
Events and Locations
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH,
3 PM. OPENING DAY!
Gather at Petaluma City Hall at
3 p.m. for the Altar Walk. Walk
with your community through
downtown Petaluma to admire
the beautiful El Dia cle los Muertos altars built throughout town
honoring deceased loved ones.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18TH
THROUGH NOVEMBER 3RD
ART: The Dia de los Muertos Art
Show Enjoy art featured at various venues throughout Petaluma
inspired by the tradition of the
Day of the Dead. Multiple venues
include Copperfields Books, Zebulon’s Lounge, Sharpe’s Gallery
and the Petaluma City Hall.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
23RD, 7-9 P.M. AT HOSPICE
OF PETALUMA 416 PAYRAN
ST.
STORYTELLING: An Evening of
Bilingual Storytelling: When Life
and Death Walk Together with
storyteller Christel Lukoff and
Connie Peabody. Cross-cultural
stories for adults will be told in
Spanish and in English.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 7:30
PM.
AT PETALUMA
COFFEE CAFE
2ND AND H STREET
FILM: La 0frenda: The Days
of the Dead by Lourdes PortiIlo
and Susana Munoz with special
guest speaker. Presented by the
Friday Night Film Series and the
Petaluma Arts Council.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER
26TH,
2 PM. AT PETALUMA
REGIONAL LIBRARY
WORKSHOP: An Introduction
to and Preparation for Day of the
Dead: Making
Sugar Skulls presented by
Abraham Solar, Hispanic
Pastoral Director for St. Vincent
DePaul Church.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
30TH, 6:30 PM. AT HEROLD
MAHONEY LIBRARY, SANTA
ROSA JC, PETALUMA
POETRY AND MUSIC: Celebrating the Day of the Dead I Poets
John Oliver Simon and Peggy
Shumaker with a musical introduction by Cuyuy, Music of
the Andes. Special poetry will
be read in remembrance of Fernando Nugent.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 ST,
10:00 A.M. AT PETALUMA
REGIONAL LIBRARY
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STORYTELLING: Bilingual Storytime for Preschoolers Stories,
songs and poetry in Spanish and
English will be presented for
preschoolers (ages 2-5) accompanied by an adult.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
2ND, 2:30 PM. AT PETALUMA
REGIONAL LIBRARY
MUSIC: La Rondalla (Men”s
Choral Group) This traditional
romantic music from Mexico
began around the 1930’s and
was practiced in Guanajuanto,
Michoacan, Jalisco and Central
Mexico. Many members of this
Petaluma-based group learned
the tradition while living in one
of these areas.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
2ND, 6:00 P.M., CLOSING
PROCESSION AT HELEN
PUTNAM PLAZA
Day of the Dead Procession.
Join giant puppets, people in
costume, and musicians in a
very special procession through
town. Meet at Helen Putnam
Plaza downtown to begin the
procession to the Saint Vincent’s
Catholic Church Plaza, where
music, tamales and Mexican
hot chocolate await. Procession
theatrics and puppets created
by the Giddy Multitude, a local
performing arts group.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
2ND, 7:00 PM. CLOSING
NIGHT AT ST. VINCENT’S
CHURCH PLAZA
MUSIC & DANCE: Performance
by the Folklorical Ballet Netzahualcoyotl featuring lively Mexican music, dance and, of course,
beautiful costumes. Homemade
Tamales and Mexican Hot Chocolate will be available for purchase.
SPONSORS INCLUDE: The
Petaluma Arts Council, The
Hispanic Cultural Development
Corporation, Santa Rosa junior
college, St. Vincent De Paul
Church Hispanic Pastoral Outreach, The Friday Night Film Series, HC2: Healthy Community
Consortium and the Petaluma
Regional Library.
This event is underwritten by
the City of Petaluma Transient
Occupancy Tax Fund and the
Petaluma Health Care District.
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Autumn Adventures
Belly Dancers Galore at the
9th Annual Festival Fantasia
J
OC12TH-13TH FROM 11
A.M.-7 P.M. AS ROSE PRODUCTIONS AND THE SEBASTOPOL COMMUNITY CENTER PRESENT THE 9t h
Annual Fest ival Fant asia. This
fabulous event will be at the
Sebastopol Community Center
located at 390 Morris Street in
Sebastopol.
Featuring dance workshops,
performances by over one hundred belly dancers, live music,
open dance floor, vendors, ethnic foods, great wine, massage,
henna body arts, and Zardoa the
tarot reader. This weekend will
be one not to miss.
The Festival will be presentIng six guest teachers offering
a wide array of expertise in the
belly dance genre. Susu Pampanin of San Francisco will teach
two classes in Arabic drumming.
One for beginners and one for
OIN THE CELEBRATION ON
TOBER
Re-elect
intermediate and advanced
drummers. Terry Del Giorno of
Marin will teach a class entitled
Terry’s Signature Technique &
Movement. Saideh of Benicia
will teach a class entitled Dancing from Head to Toe. Shoshanna
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Featuring dance workshops, performances by
over one hundred belly
dancers, live music,
open dance floor, vendors,
ethnic foods, great wine,
massage, henna body
arts, and Zardoa the
tarot reader. This weekend will be one not to
miss.
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of Arcata will instruct on dance
combinations and technique.
Bonney Grey of Sebastopol will
be teaching two classes in Sacred
Temple Dance and Terri Anne of
Mike
Healdsburg will be teaching
Egyptian Cabaret Dance.
Entertainers at this year’s
Festival Fantasia include: Gypsy
Circle, Samah, Mayette, Chellach, Luna, Good Vibrations,
Desert Heat, Zilly Girls, Raqs al
Tasneem, Grande Divas, Eowyn,
Genie Dreams, Zuhur-al-Sdhara, La Linda, Dhyanis, Rising
Stars, Troupe A La Nar, Mystic
East Dancers, Near Eastern
Dance Company, Lailaa Chandaani, Sirens Rising, Troupe
Kashaj, Rosa Mandala, Troupe
Taban, Kekuja, Collage, Kajira,
Theresa, Dance Journey, Tabu,
Jawahare, Terry Del Giorno,
Joweh, Yosifah, Heather &
Lorien, Haruspicy Bellydance,
Jalayla, La Fibi, Susunana, Maja,
Latifa, Debra Guisti Rose, Dancers of the Four Winds, Hasnaa,
Zelina, Habibiyyat Al Jabal,
Dancers of the Desert, Deborah,
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Ellen Cruz of Rose Productions will be performing at
Festival Fantasia in Sebastopol, October 12th-13th.
temporary Tribal Belly Dance,
Beth, Kasia, United We Dance,
Hanaan, Christina Sophia, Jewels of Cairo, Samra El Helwa,
Saba Banat, Jewels of the Delta,
Dancers of the Mystic Sun, Bonney Grey, Saideh and Yasmine,
Shoshanna, Raks Sahibat, Tanjora, Yana, and Troupe Benazir.
Tickets are $12 in advance
and $14 at the door, under 12
free. Weekend passes are $20
and can be purchased at the
door on Saturday. Advance tickets are available by contacting
Ellen Cruz at Rose Productions
and are at the Sebastopol Community Center office.
For complete details on classes
and workshop teacher biographies please check our website
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and to purchase tickets contact
Ellen Cruz, 707-824-0533.
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Remembering the
The Dawes Severalty Act of
1887
I
T HAS ALWAYS BEEN AMAZING
TO ME TO READ OF THE CONTINUAL
PERSECUTION
OF
THE
NATIVE AMERICANS BY THE NEW
AMERICANS FOR OVER A HUNDRED
YEARS. Time and time again, the
Indian would get the short end
of the stick in treaty after treaty
and raid after raid. If they taught
you in grade school that General
George Custer was a hero, then
you should reassess that illusion.
He was an egotistical murderer.
In 1887, President Grover
Cleveland, in a well-meaning
effort, supported Congressman
Henry Dawes in an Act to allot
Indian Reservation Lands to individual Indian ownership. This
was an effort to bring the Indian
into “civilized America.”
It was thought that owning land and working it, living
in a house, having a horse and
buggy, sending the children to
school and becoming Christians
was what civilization was all
about in those days.
And so, in signing this Act
into law, the President thought
he was extending the protection
of the United States to the Native American. Each head of the
family was to receive a quarter
section (160 acres) of the reservation. In turn, each member of
that family became a subject to
the laws of the state in which his
allotment existed and also they
would become a citizen of the
United States entitled to all rights.
It sounded good on the surface.
The Dawes Act was one of
“
Sadly overlooked was
the fact that the Indian,
by heredity, training
and choice was a hunter
and not a cultivator.
The last thing the Indian
wanted was to become
a homesteader.
”
the highlights of Cleveland’s domestic policy. He felt that Native
Americans, at last, could be assimilated into “White Society” by
means of not only land grants but
also education. It was actually
a noble effort, but it didn’t work.
In fact, its failure was a tragedy.
Cleveland genuinely believed in helping the Native
Americans. Previous to 1887, he
had nullified hundreds of illegal
leases that cattlemen had made
Chief Chukchansi Yokuts, Pomo Tribe, California.
(1924 Edward Curtis photograph)
on Indian Territory. The Dawes
Act was an extension of those
efforts. “It would not only give
the Indian the ownership of real
estate, it would foster industry
as well.
Sadly overlooked was the
fact that the Indian, by heredity, training and choice was a
hunter and not a cultivator. The
last thing the Indian wanted
was to become a homesteader.
They were nomadic by birth and
custom and they simply did not
know how to handle a farm.
So once again the Indian
was pushed around by the white
man’s culture. In 1891, Congress
passed an addendum to the
Dawes Act allowing the Indian
to lease out their new lands.
Unfamiliar with the cost of living, they leased their land for
less than eight cents an acre. By
1898 there were 112,000 acres
of homesteaded land under
lease to white men and the lessors were living in squalor.
White speculators that year
had reduced Indian lands from
138 million acres to 48 million
acres. Ironically, the real “bad
guy” was the government appointed Indian Agent. These men
had complete control over the
reservations and most of them
were corrupt and exploitive.
Many Indian Agents became
“squaw men,” marrying Indians
just to get their lands.
To place this frontier tragedy
into perspective, let’s look at what
was happening at the same time
in Petaluma, a small town in the
West. While the Indian lived in
shacks and mud huts in the sand
with little to eat, the streets of
Petaluma were being paved with
basalt blocks and were “liberally
lighted with gas.” Our new City
Hall (since torn down) was nearing completion that year.
Robinson & Farrell were
selling Studebaker buggies, Dr.
Thomas Maclay had just started
his veterinary practice at the
Washington Street Stables and
John Cavanagh was selling milled
lumber to build fine homes from
the Cavanagh Lumber Company.
E.S. Lippitt had begun a law practice in the newly built three story
Mutual Relief Building on Western and Kentucky Street. In the
building was the Petaluma Commercial College with 64 students
in attendance. If you wanted a
good beer, then the Relief Saloon
was where you could buy Felsen
bottled beer at $1.50 per dozen
OLD
PETALUMA
Hist or y & St or ies
Eastern Pomo Woman, Pomo Tribe, California.
(1924 Edward Curtis photograph)
quarts.
The few remaining Petaluma Pomo Indians had been
“relocated” to Covelo in 1875
as a means of segregation so that
white settlers could acquire their
lands. Also, the Pomos received
land allotments in 1887. I have
been unable to find records on
how they fared under the program. At least in Northern California there was game to hunt,
fish in the rivers and timber to
sell.
The awful result of the
Dawes Act was that most Indian land went into non-Indian
ownership. Sadly, that remains
the case today. There was much
tribal land labeled as “surplus
land” in 1887 which was appropriated by the federal government. Many poor and poverty
stricken Indians sold their allotted lands for a pittance to nonIndians. Severalty was a boon for
the greedy white settlers. Meanwhile, an important way of life
had been decimated. The Dawes
Act was a complete failure.
Finally, it was President
Franklin Roosevelt who extended a genuine helping hand
to the Indian Nation with the Indian Representation Act of 1934.
Roosevelt’s idea was to help the
Indian “stay Indian” and yet, still
receive help from the federal
government. Tribal governments
and laws were strengthened
while arts and crafts were fostered. The Native American Nation was seen as a culture worth
preserving. It had been 47 years
since the Dawes Act and 1934
was only 68 years ago.
Roosevelt’s Act repealed the
Dawes Act and returned much
reservation Land back to the
tribes. Today, the Native Americans are finally taking advantage
of some of their freedoms. The
next time you visit an Indian Casino, think about the long trail of
tears the Indian pursued in getting something back.
We just got our first Indian
Casino in Sonoma County this
month. It was that event that
triggered my look back at the
Dawes Severalty Act. It took
about 105 years for Grover
Cleveland’s ideas to work. It’s
my impression that our nation
should be ashamed about this
record.
A Rolling Stone
Gathers No
Moss
Travel
BY JEAN COOKE
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The demanding Alpine Loop leaves pavement, crossing the remote, rugged and spectacular heart of
the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado.
Bagging Colorado Mountain
Passes
I
LEARNED
THE
MEANING
OF
ROCK LEDGES ONLY ONE JEEP
WIDE,
with 600-foot drops
and sheer rock walls to the sky,
as our jeep navigated hairpin
turns.
From our Silverton, Colorado base, blankets tucked tight
while riding shotgun in a rented
jeep with no side windows to
filter dirt, we headed onto the
Colorado Alpine Loop outside
These buildings are at a scenic setting on the edge of a large
meadow with a dark background of thick evergreens.
of Ouray. Nineteenth century
miners, who carted their ore off
to Silverton, Ouray, and Lake
City in mule-drawn wagons,
first used these rocky roads that
aren’t much improved today.
The demanding Alpine Loop
leaves pavement, crossing the
remote, rugged and spectacular
heart of the San Juan Mountains
in Southwest Colorado. Rated
9.5 out of 10 for breathtaking
scenery, 14,000 foot mountain
peaks, glacial cirques, alpine
lakes, forests and abandoned
mining towns abound on the
traiI.
Up and down, over and
through woods of lush spruce,
fir and aspen we relish the purple
flowers, gentians, columbines,
and yellow composites. In meadow streams, beavers hide in
lodges as tall as a man. Plenty of
playful two-striped squirrels (looking like chipmunks), marmots and
picas boldly squeaked at our jeep
while defending their turf.
Thinking this far-flung wilderness would be ours alone
proved way wrong even on
Monday as 40-50 jeeps vied to
complete the famous 31-mile
loop. The entire loop is best
done in 2-3 days to enjoy the
scenery, otherwise the ride is
long and bone jarring. Considered a real accomplishment, tee
shirts are sold locally naming
passes with boxes to check off
your conquests.
ENGINEER PASS—12,900 FT.
At 12,900 feet, altitude sickness
(nausea, headache, lightheadedness) is a real possibility. With
Engineer Pass’ cold howling
winds, I made a fast trip out of
the jeep to view rocky peaks
lined up like tin soldiers. I was
reminded of Mt. Everest climber’s resolve, hunkered down in
flimsy tents coughing and freezing, driven only by their need to
be on top of the world.
Whitmore Falls shoots spectacularly through a narrow crack
down a cliff. Climbing down
a steep hill past the observation platform brought us to the
Whitmore’s pool for a refreshing
icy dip.
OPHIR PASS—11,750 FT.
Ophir Pass road is a major off
road route connecting Silverton
with Telluride and still heavily
used today for its scenic value.
Old Ophir and New Ophir are
contained in the Howard Fork
valley of the San Miguel River.
The shelf road descending the
west side of the pass cuts across
vivid yellow, orange and red
slide rock that fills the northeastern rim of the valley.
CINNAMON PASS-12,640 FT.
Cinnamon Pass road has some
rough going and a few ledges
but for the most part is easy. At
Cinnamon Pass, I scrambled up
loose cinnamon colored scree
tinkling like glass to find quartz
crystals in small dykes. Rocks
warmed by the sun radiated
blessed heat while tourists in the
open pullout suffer wind chill.
Winter snow in these hills can
get up to 30 feet deep. Coming
off the Pass the trail finished in
the interesting ghost town of
Animas Forks.
RED MOUNTAIN
GHOST TOWN
Red Mountain is nestled among
meadows and incredible red,
yellow and orange ridges due
to abundant iron oxides. Severe
winters and avalanches delayed
Whitmore Falls shoots spectacularly through a narrow crack down
a cliff. Climbing down a steep hill past the observation platform
brought us to the Whitmore’s pool for a refreshing icy dip.
Travel
RE-ELECT
CLARK THOMPSON
Mayor of Petaluma
CLARK THOMPSON is the
one candidate for Mayor
who has extensive experience
in a broad range of City and
Community activities.
He also has the strong
leadership skills necessary
to get our city moving again.
VOTE FOR LEADERSHIP!
The residents of Animas Forks regarded their community as permanent so they built houses with
shingled roofs and gables. This magnificent two-story Duncan house with bay windows is an exthe mining stampede where only
the hardiest stayed the winter.
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A storied pioneer woman
opened her window, scraped a
pot full of snow to boil water. I
can’t imagine being trapped inside any house all winter.
Vertical chimneys of ore
contained an unbelievable
1,000 ounces of silver per ton.
An estimated 30 million dollars in gold, silver, lead, zinc
and copper was taken from
the mines. Some old buildings
remain but without roofs, everything returns to the ground.
Even the jails solid 2x6s laid flat
for strength are crumbling.
MINERAL POINT GHOST
TOWN
To attract interested parties,
1870 brochures depicted steam
ships plying the Animas River
between Mineral Point and
Animas Forks. I know what a
“challenge” that would be even
for inner tubes in this seasonal
creek and swampy meadow!
Remnants of a 15 stamp mill and
wood slat barrels silently await
ore slurry mixed with mercury
to separate out silver. Sitting on
an old wooden platform next to
a ramshackle cabin, Jim found
an 1890’s hobnailed leather
boot sole with square-nail heads
sticking out for traction.
ANIMAS FORKS GHOST
TOWN
The residents of Animas Forks
regarded their community as
permanent so they built houses
with shingled roofs and gables.
The magnificent two-story Duncan house with bay windows
above is an example. Two houses
even have indoor pit-toilets, one
accommodating up to 5 people.
All these houses are open to the
public although vandals long ago
stole artifacts of value. Animas
Forks is well preserved thanks
to volunteers from the Colorado
Historical Society doing roofing
and structural repairs.
We ate lunch by Animas
Creek watching squirrels cautiously jerking from rock to rock
before dashing for our pretzels
and ham, leaving lettuce behind.
I thought they were vegetarians.
Because of the smooth
Lace
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Wine & Food Tasting at Tomales
T
HE TOMALES
REGIONAL HISCENTER IS HOLDING A
Wine and Food Tast ing
on Saturday, October 19th, from
2-5 p.m., at the 128-year-old
Tomales Town Hall. Representatives from Northern California
wineries will pour tastes of
favorite vintages, and local
purveyors of specialty foods
(including Hog Island Oysters,
TORY
and cheeses from Bellwether,
Pt. Reyes Farmstead Cheese and
Straus Family Creamery) will
offer tastes. A silent auction will
accompany the tasting event.
The TRHC is located in the
town of Tomales, known for its
wonderful collection of intact
19th and early 20th century
buildings, and is an all volunteer
organization dedicated to the
conservation of the region’s history. Proceeds from the event will
go toward educational programs,
exhibits and the continued preservation of the center’s archive and
recently restored 1921 building.
Sponsors of the Wine and
Food Tasting include Clover
Stornetta Farms, AmericanAg.
Credit, Marie and Don Russell
and Nancy’s Nails of Petaluma.
Tickets are $25.
For more information, or to reserve tickets, call 415-663-1217
(Mary), 707-878-2820 (Ginny)
or 707-763-1066 (Kathleen).
Friendship Circle Announces Program for the
New
Year
R
EGULAR
EVENTS
FOR
THE
JEWISH SENIOR PROGRAM
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE RESUME
IN OCTOBER and will be ongoing
throughout the year. Programs
offer an opportunity to come
together, learn, study and socialize. Everyone is welcome.
Luncheons are scheduled
for Mondays at noon in the Social Hall of Congregation Beth
Ami starting October 7th, October 21st, November 4th and
November 18th.
Matinee showings of the
Jewish Film Festival at the Rialto
Theatre are scheduled on October 10th, October 24th, and
November 14th. After the showings, there will be a discussion
of the film and refreshments.
Please call for reservations.
A trip to the Osher Marin
Jewish Community Center on
November 8th for a special
Shabbat Luncheon program
featuring author Rose Fox sharing the compelling story of her
childhood as the daughter of
Jewish immigrants.
Please visit the Friendship
Circle information table at Simcha Sunday, October 20th at the
Sebastopol Community Center11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Friendship Circle, a volunteer based program of the Jewish
Community Agency of Sonoma
County, serves more than 400
active Sonoma County Jewish
seniors annually with field trips,
luncheons with guest speakers,
and classes. In addition, Friendship Circle brings the warmth of
Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah and
Passover to residents of local retirement homes.
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Home & Garden
News from
Haverfield
Park
life was more primitive, craftsmen used whatever materials
were at hand, especially for
patching.
In this case, brick appears
on the bookend chimneys,
giving the house a solid look
despite its great height, and also
on the wide porch, foundation
BY
BARBARA CASWELL
and walkways, creating a blight
colored spot for visitors to approach as they enter. Brick has
a civilized look, perfectly appropriate for a formal house built
for guests, and an antiqued brick
with some clinkers mixed in ages
the chimneys in appearance.
Although this bridge is only a year old, it could have well been here since the Civil War, just about the
time our farms were built here. To alleviate the problem of construction scarring in the landscape, I
planted some quick annual gourd seeds to cover raw edges until the more permanent plantings have
time to take hold.
Masonry: A Weighty Decision
E
I’VE LEARNED
THE AMERICAN
VEN THOUGH
TO ADMIRE
INGENUITY THAT CREATES AN
AFFORDABLE BOX TO HOUSE A FAMILY,
my job is just the opposite:
to set high quality standards for
upscale, custom homes.
In a cost-cutting subdivision, traditional masonry is one
of the first trades to get cut. We
may have developed prefab
walls, but bricks are still laid
by hand, one at a time, and the
height of a chimney means that
t he mason must transport heavy
material to the top of a towering
scaffold.
“
Petaluma’s finest
mansions have beautiful,
real masonry chimneys
and fireplaces, built by
hand, and each house
has individual touches
to its own tower of
bricks.
”
Because our goal is to create mansion quality homes in
a country setting, we allowed a
large budget for both real brick
and real stone. Certainly, the
latest synthetic stones look natural enough, but if you are truly
planning a classic home that
will withstand the test of time,
real stone and brick tend to age
differently. Fake stone veneers,
even if you manage to keep
them unchipped, often have a
sterile appearance, where the
real thing will be darkening and
growing mosses.
Petaluma’s finest mansions
have beautiful, real masonry
chimneys and fireplaces, built
by hand, and each house has
individual touches to its own
tower of bricks. The benefit, of
course, to building a “new old
house,” is that I can have the
traditional look I want with
modern engineering for earthquakes. Today’s brick chimneys
are generally built as anchored
masonry veneers over a plywood structure.
When a new house first appears in the landscape, it has an
unpleasantly raw look. Without
the foundation plantings that
blend it visually into the garden,
a tall structure just pokes out
of the ground like a submarine
periscope bursting out of water.
This is especially true for
multi-storied buildings. In the
case of Haverfield Park, I am
constructing two-story homes to
preserve as much open land as
possible, and with high ceilings
and a steep pitched roof, we
quickly reached the maximum
height limit allowed in our West
Petaluma area.
But, height is a great advantage here. To look out at a flat
garden can be pleasing, but the
same garden, spread out before
you on a grassy platter, becomes
dazzling! And I like high ceilings in my rooms, to allow room
for artwork and tall windows
that bring the sky indoors.
However, from an esthetic
point of view, a tall house could
look out of place, so my design
concept called for lots of masonry to add weight and sub
stance to the structure.
I tend to use brick where I
want something to “pop,” since
the orangey pink hues are directly opposite the green of the
lawn on the color wheel. I use
Sonoma County fieldstone in
places where I wanted an ancient look, so a structure could
look as if it had settled in its
place for centuries.
Haverfield Park’s most un-
“
Brick has a civilized
look, perfectly appropriate for a formal house built for
”
guests...
usual feature is that it incorporates wildlife zones in its design.
We have zones designed for
people, and zones designed for
nature and wildlife. I tend to use
stone for wildlife areas, since
it mellows into the landscape,
and I reserve brick, a man-made
material, for spots intended for
use by human families. I Like to
mix the two occasionally, since
many years ago when American
Most chimneys these days are just covered with siding to cut
costs, but if your goal is a truly custom home, only real masonry is
appropriate. A classic Petaluma treasure deserves the real thing,
and this one here was created by Joe Cuneo for K. G. Masonry.
Barbara Caswell, the owner of
Designs of the Times, is the
Sonoma County home and
garden designer who created
Haverfield Park. Her home is
a nostalgic country estate with
a showcase quality house in a
private natural setting. On alternate months, the Post prints her
other column: “Make Habitat a
Habit,” which discusses living
compatibly with wildlife.
Nature
A Day
At The
Park
BY
The scarce Virginia Rail is subject to cat predation at Shollenberger Park.
The Feral and Free-Roaming Cats of Petaluma—A
Challenge
PART II
“In his new book, The Future of Life, Harvard Biologist Edward O. Wilson
writes of his worry that unless we change our ways
half of all species
could disappear by the
end of the century.”
TIME, AUGUST 26,
2002
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Last month’s
Part I ran without Norris (Bob)
Dyer’s byline. We apologize for
any confusion.)
I
N
SEPTEMBER’S
ARTICLE
I
SPOKE
OF MY CONCERNS ABOUT FERAL
AND FREE-ROAMING CATS.
I’m
the senior docent at Shollenberger Park here in Petaluma,
which now includes a new onemile adjunct trail from the park
to the Sheraton Marina through
very sensitive habitat where
there is no place for a cat of any
stripe, although they continue to
be sighted there.
In Alman Marsh reside two
endangered species, the Salt
Marsh Harvest Mouse (federally
and state endangered) and the
sparrow-sized Black Rail (state
endangered). Biologists have
trapped, identified and released
some of these mice and an expert birder, Dan Nelson, has
seen the Black Rails as recently
as last May.
“Given that most remaining marshes share an
upper side with a leveed
pond,business park, or
subdivision, access to the
marshes is much easier for
feral cats, house cats and
non-native red fox. These
animals prey on the mice…”
SJSU INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE
“Black rails are omnivorous,
eating both invertebrates
and bulrush seed. Predators
include house cats…”
COACHELLA VALLEY MULTIPLE SPECIES
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLAN
I expanded the topic in
Part I to the control of all offpremises cats, meaning all
outdoors felines.
PETALUMA CITY ORDINANCES
An officer from Petaluma’s Animal Services Division provided
me with relevant sections of the
city municipal code sections on
control of pets.
9.08.120 ANIMALS AT LARGE
A. It is unlawful for any owner
and/or possessor of any
animal to suffer or permit
such animal to be at large
as defined in this section.
Violations of this section are
subject to citation and the
animal at large is subject to
impoundment as authorized
by Chapter 9.28.
B. In the case of animals
other than dogs, “at large”
means an animal that is off
the premises of its owner
and/or possessor while not
under the physical restraint
of a person capable of
controlling the animal. This
definition shall not apply to
any animal which is on the
premises of another person with the consent of the
owner or occupant thereof.
F. No person owning or otherwise having a cat over four
months of age in his/her
care, charge, control, custody or possession shall
cause, permit or allow such
cat to be unconfined in and
upon any public street,
road, alley or other public
or private place, including
the exterior yards of the
animal owner’s property, unless such cat is spayed and
neutered. An animal service
officer may seize and/or
impound every cat found in
violation of this section….
Two of the above sections refer to any animal so that includes
cats. A literal reading of the ordinances would mean one must
keep his/her cat on their property
or physically restrain it when off
the premises. Additionally, any
cat over four months old must be
spayed and neutered, even if it
never leaves the backyard!
Marin County amended
their ordinances this June with
regard to “District land” which
includes 14,000 acres in 33
open space reserves. Changes to
Section 2.05.010 include prohibitions upon any person to:
(a) allow any dog or other
domestic animal to enter
environmentally sensitive or restricted areas of
District lands;
(b) allow any dog or other
domestic animal to interfere with, bother or disturb others using District
lands;
(c) allow any dog or other
domestic animal to hunt,
pursue or harass other
animals or wildlife.”
In Somona County, such
lands would include the likes of
Shollenberger Park and Alman
Marsh. A copy of the changes
has been sent to the Sonoma
County Board of Supervisors.
NORRIS (BOB) DYER
POSITION OF ANIMAL
SERVICES ON FERAL CATS
“Petaluma Animal Services
cares about all animals in our
community, including wild, or
feral, cats. We believe that under
proper circumstances—being
altered, healthy, and maintained
by caretakers—these animals
should be able to live out their
lives in controlled environments.
However, it is recognized that
many feral cats are not welcome where they originated
and it is not in their best interest
to allow them to continue intact
and uncared for. Therefore, it is
the policy of PAS to take in feral
cats from the community and
hold them for their stray time as
required by city and state law.
During their stray time they will
be housed in a manner to minimize stress, checked for identification and/or connection to
a feral cat rescue group, and
observed for improvements in
their behavior that might make
them adoptable. If this does not
occur, they will be humanely
euthanized. It is also our policy
to anesthetize feral cats prior to
euthanasia in order to scan for
a possible microchip. If none is
found, the cat will be then humanely euthanized.”
There is a Forgotten Felines
feeding station less than 1/4 mile
from Shollenberger. I assume Animal Services would not return a
feral cat to such a sensitive spot,
even if they could somehow
identify the cat as coming from
that station. Pressure is being applied to the business where the
station is located to take it down
as soon as possible.
What If you have a neighbor’s cat that continues to plague
your backyard? You should first
ask the neighbor to control it; if
this does not happen, you can
legally trap it, and either return it
Nature
Dwayne Meredith of Petaluma Animal Services looking for cat reported seen there.
to your neighbor as proof of such
incursion or take it to Animal
Services. There the cat may be
redeemed within ten days by the
owner but an impound fee will
be charged.
If no one claims the cat, and
examination by a veterinarian
finds it adoptable, then it will be
set for adoption. I’m told many
cats are adopted. The last data I
have from June showed 22 cats
were adopted from Animal Services that month.
Many feral cats were not
feral to start with, but turned that
way after abandonment by their
owners. These cats are not “bad”
animals, but the humans who
left them could be considered
as such, or at the least, uneducated. Judy Reynolds is president of PETaluma PET pals, and
in an August 31st piece in the
Press Democrat, entitled “Cats
‘Freed’ in the Country Suffer,” wrote about the plight of a
hypothetical cat called “Spreckles” left in the countryside
because a family was moving:
“It’s a big problem for
Spreckles who, if not run
over by a car, will likely
starve to death, be savaged
by raccoons or badgers, be
poisoned, shot, or, so debilitated from her day to day
struggle to survive, finally
killed by diseases like feline
leukemia.”
stands that ‘freeing’ a cat in
the country is cruelty with a
capital “C’.”
Turning in Spreckles to Animal Services’ shelter increases
her chance for long term survival.
Before moving on, I must
compliment Animal Services’s
staff for the fine job they are
doing. They have difficult assignments. Adding to the stress
of having to assist imperiled animals is the stress from the outside
—well-meaning citizens whose
views are sometimes more laden
with emotion than real-life concerns. In the photograph at left
we see Dwayne Meredith, an
Animal Control Officer, at Shollenberger Park trying to spot a cat
reported there.
ALEXAN PARK CENTRAL
Alexan Park Central is a new
community of 240 or so upscale
town houses and apartments
(“flats”) being built close to Alman Marsh and Shollenberger
Park (in fact one of their townhouses models is called the
“Shollenberger”). We docents
at the park are concerned about
a possible influx of “new” free
roaming cats owned by renters,
augmenting cats already present.
David Lee, Vice President
SUMMARY
I’ve learned that Petaluma city
ordinances if complied with by
owners and enforced by Animal Services can help protect
Shollenberger Park and Alman
Marsh’s delicate wildlife. Alexan Park Central’s policy is
helpful, too. I’ve also learned
about the horrible fate of feral
cats, including house pets “set
free,” and hope the information
in these two articles has helped
you to learn something, too.
An area of continued concern to me as a home owner
(aside from being a docent) is
the intrusion of neighbor cats
into our yard, attacking birds
and ruining flowerbeds. While
the ordinances seem to bar such
activity, Animal Services does
not have the staff to fully address
We Love Cats
Not Rats
She provides this advice:
“What can you do? Make
sure your own cats are
spayed and neutered, the
first step to reduce homeless
pets. And then make sure
everyone you know under-
of Trammell Crow Residential
Services contacted me, and explained the position that will be
taken at Park Central regarding
cats. Only inside cats will be allowed, with a special lease addendum requiring their confinement within the unit. Polaroid’s
will be taken of any cat up front
and the owner warned to cease
and desist, if their cat is found
a-wandering. Failure to comply
could mean eviction.
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ABOUT
YOUR
MONEY
BY JIM BECKER
Here’s What To Look For
On Your 401(K) Statement
I
401(K) PLAN
WHERE YOU WORK, CONSIDER
YOURSELF FORTUNATE because
it offers you a great way to build
resources for retirement. Your
earnings grow on a tax-deferred
basis and your pre-tax contributions lower your annual tax bill.
Plus, you have a good choice of
investment options.
But keep in mind that a
401(K) is largely a self-managed
plan. You have to keep track of
what’s going on. As a 401 (K)
owner, you’re responsible for
several things. You need to decide how much to contribute
to your plan. Next, you’re in
charge of picking your own investments from those available.
Finally, you’ll need to periodically review your holdings and
make adjustments as needed in
response to changes in your life.
In short, you’ve got a lot of obligations.
Fortunately, you can get
some help through an extremely
useful tool: your 401(K) stateF YOU HAVE A
ment. Many people just look
at their statements to check on
their current balance. And it is
important to know how much
you’ve got. But don’t stop there
because your statement is full
of information that can prove
helpful to you in running your
401(K). Here are a few things to
look for:
ACCOUNT SUMMARIES show
you the beginning and ending
balance of your individual accounts over the statement cycle.
This section gives you a snapshot
of how your investments performed over the cycle which is
either for a quarter or a month.
INVESTMENT SUMMARIES
will teach you how your individual holdings have done
over time. Your statement may
include annualized total returns
over various time periods such
as one, three, five or ten years.
This long-term perspective can
be valuable to you if you’re
concerned about a drop in your
balance. While this past performance does not guarantee or
predict future results, it can still
give you an idea of how your
accounts have done in various
economic environments.
ASSET ALLOCATION is the mix
of investments you’ve chosen to
fund your plan. Your statement
should have a graphic pie chart
showing you how your money is
spread among various options.
Pay close attention to this picture
because it can change. For example, if one of your stockbased
accounts has grown substantially over the years, your overall
401(K) portfolio may be more
heavily weighted toward growth
stocks than you had originally
intended. When that happens
you need to rebalance.
LOAN INFORMATION offers basic knowledge if you have taken
out a loan from your 401(K).
You’ll find out all the key data
here including how much you
borrowed, what interest rate
you’re paying and how much
you’ve paid back.
By paying close attention to
what’s on your statements, you’ll
find it easier to successfully manage your 401(K) plan. So the next
time you get a statement, take a
close look and, if you need to,
take action on what you see.
Jim Becker is the local Investment Representative with Edward
Jones Investments in the Petaluma
Plaza North Shopping Center. He
Agius Country Market Takes On New Look
A
MARKET IS AS OLD AS
MCDONALD’S AND HAS BEEN
A LANDMARK IN PETALUMA’S
NORTHWEST CORNER.
Formerly
owned and operated by Frank
and Jim Agius, its current owner
for the past ten years has given
the corner market at Bodega Ave.
and Eucalyptus a new look.
Dennis and Linda Becker,
owners of Batemon’s Meat at
3695 Petaluma Blvd. North,
have moved their operation to
Agius Country Market located at
4691 Bodega Avenue.
They moved because the
older building on Petaluma Blvd.
was no longer efficient for them
and now have a new facility with
state of the art equipment.
Having remodeled Agius
Country Market and Deli, there
is a new ramp at the entrance
and the interior is more spacious with Batemon’s Meat at
the rear of the store.
The meat market offers British
Bangers, Bockwurst, Harris ranch
beef, turkey, ham, New York steak,
GIUS
“
Having remodeled
Agius Country Market
and Deli, there is a new
ramp at the entrance
and the interior is more
spacious with Batemon’s
Meat at the rear of the
store.
”
T-Bone, Tri- Tip, Sirloin, marinated
spare ribs, baby back pork ribs,
chicken and so much more.
Dennis makes his own sausage.
Some of the favorites include Pol-
ish, chicken apple, Sicilian and
garlic sausage. Additionally, he
creates his own marinade for his
chicken and steak.
It’s certainly worth visiting
their new location because you
can find just about everything
you might need for your next
meal at home. Their staff is
friendly and you’ll be brought
back in time to the days of the
local butcher shop.
To contact Agius Country Market & Deli, call 707-765-3970.
For Batemon’s Meat, call 707762-7253.
UNION
WASHINGTON STREET UNION 76
440 E. Washington, Petaluma, CA 707-762-7676
conducts many seminars on investments in Petaluma. He can be
reached at 707-778-7780.
Applebee’s
Scores High
In Giving
Funds To
Schools
A
Is For Appl ebeeÕ
s
PROGRAM
OPEN
TO
IS A
ALL
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND
in Petaluma, Windsor,
Santa Rosa, Cotati, Rohnert Park,
Marin and Napa. This week
checks for $500 were awarded
to four schools whose students
redeemed the most certificates
awarded for high achievement
throughout the 2001-2002
school year.
Schools are given award
certificates good for a free
“Kid’s Meal” or free dessert at
Applebee’s restaurants. Teachers
TEACHERS
and schools are free to use the
certificates in any motivational
or rewards program they choose.
There is no cost to participate in
the program.
For participating schools,
Applebee’s also provides a “Student of the Year” incentive good
for a complimentary meal for up
to six people and a chance to
raise money by attending designated “Benefit Nights.”
In the 2001-2002 school
year, over eighty area schools
participated. Applebee’s has extended the program to the 20022003 school year and hopes even
more schools will take advantage
of the student recognition and
fundraising program.
The following schools were
recipients this year: St. Luke
Lutheran School in Santa Rosa,
La Fiesta School in Rohnert Park,
Old Adobe School in Petaluma
and Bayside School in Sausalito.
happiness is a warm gun
two short years ago, the economy did thrive
but many greedy corporations did contrive
an “energy crisis” to stay financially alive
and daily enron-style scandals began to arrive
so george w. bush is now trying to connive
ways in which his popularity can survive,
anything to keep his political party alive,
so raw hatred of iraq he is trying to revive
and on a tank to baghdad, he wants to drive,
to divert all eyes from the dow’s nose dive.
vote in november; we need to end this jive.
BY JOE KOHN
PHIL JOERGER
Investments
P.O. Box 105
Penngrove, CA 94951
Joseph C. Tinney
attorney at law
Lounibos, Lounibos & Tinney
10 Fourth Street • P.O. Box 589
Petaluma, CA 94953
Phone: 707-762-6631
T H E P E TA L U M A P O S T • O C T O B E R
Best of Bill
By Bill Soberanes
columnist-peopleologist
This article originally appeared in the
Petaluma Argus-Courier. Bill Soberanes’
column and “My Fascinating World of
People” appear regularly in the Argus-CouMr. Duke, straightened me out
and thanks to you I now own this
restaurant.”
Talking about Duke, Billy
Newman and Joe Herman, both
top professional boxing promoters, said that he had all the ability to be a great champ but the
years he spent in the Army during World War II cheated him
out of the opportunity.
In 1988 George Duke was
inducted into the Bay Area Box-
ing Hall of Fame and is a top
candidate for the World Boxing
Hall of Fame. I’m going along
with those who are petitioning
the World Boxing Hall of Fame
to make him a member, not only
because of his great boxing career, but for the wonderful things
he accomplished outside the
boxing ring. George Duke was
one of my teenage pals.
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Boxer George Duke Was An
Ambassador of Good Will
T
80-YEAR-OLD
GEORGE DUKE BROUGHT
HE DEATH OF
BACK MANY MEMORIES OF
BOXING.
There have been many
opinions as to who were Petaluma’s greatest football and baseball players, but George Duke
is the all-out choice for the title:
Petaluma’s Best Boxer.
Duke, before turning professional, won more amateur
titles than anyone in Northern
California. I fondly recall his
Diamond Belt and Golden
Glove that he won while
Petaluma was the boxing capital of this section of Northern
California. I also remember the
Sports page headline that read,
“George Duke, the Duke of
Petaluma, is slated to fight Earl
Turner, the Earl of Richmond.”
Duke was the first boxer to
defeat Bobo Olson. Bobo went
on to become one of the legendary middleweight champions
of the world. Besides defeating
Olson, Duke dropped a close
decision to Fred Apostoli whom
many considered the all-time
great middleweight champion.
He also fought a draw with world
middleweight champ Al Hosta.
During a career interrupted
by World War II, Duke served
as a tech sergeant on the USS
Davis in the South Pacific Campaign. If the War hadn’t interrupted his career he would have
had a chance of becoming the
middleweight champion of the
world which is a division that
produced more great fighters
than any other category.
Duke was more than a great
boxer. He was a credit to the sport
and I refer to him as Boxing’s
Good Will Ambassador. I don’t
know another who deserves that
title for the sport of boxing.
After leaving Petaluma he
was a Vacaville resident for
46 years. Duke and his wife,
Colleen, were married 56 years,
had three children, many grandchildren and even more great
grandchildren. He worked for the
Rainbow Baking Company for 30
years before retiring in 1984.
George Duke became a
civic leader in Vacaville. He and
Colleen played Mr. and Mrs.
Santa Claus and he set up a program for boys facing trouble. He
helped straighten out hundreds
of boys and today in Vacaville
there is a million dollar George
Duke Center Auditorium. He
was three months short of his
50-year pin in the Masonic
Lodge and was past patron twice
in the Order of the Eastern Star.
Here’s an example of Duke’s
good deeds. On the night the
George Duke Auditorium was
opened, he took Mr. and Mrs.
Charley Torliatt, Bill Martinez
(whose dad, Marty, started Duke
on his boxing career) and this
columnist to dinner at one of
the best restaurants. Duke asked
the waiter for the check and bill
for all of us. A few minutes later
the owner of the restaurant came
out and said, “Dinner is on me.”
He then said, “When I was a
boy, I got into trouble and you,
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BY RICHURD SOMERS
Tribal War Hilarity
O
N ONE SIDE OF THE TRIBAL
IS THE HUSSEIN
TRIBE, with Saddam
Hussein seen over eighteen million times per day on CNN firing
his rifle off a balcony with one
hand. The purpose is to demonstrate to his tribe just how super
strong he is-able to fire a military
rifle with his right arm, only.
Opposite the Hussein Tribe
is the Bush Tribe with “Dubya”
and “MasterMeister” (GHWB)
and, of course, the super-powered, ultimate game “Macrobiotic GameBoy,” which is an
unabridged military game with
weapons that can achieve collateral damage and primary
building destruction at exactly
the same time.
One of Pete’s best friends
recently said, “I really miss the
action of a TV war. It has been
WAR
over 10 years since that type
of excitement was available. I
remember how much more exciting TV war is than Reality TV.
Reality TV is so mundane versus
watching America testing its latest advancements.”
The tribal war began with
threats from both sides. “Dubya”
was quoted as saying: “There is a
proverb, or axiom, or something
like that, in Texas, or some town,
that goes like this: Fool me once,
shame on you. Fool me twice,
shame on you.”
Iraq then claimed that they
had knowledge, and maybe
even some proof, that the United
States had weapons of mass destruction and that it was the duty
of the United Nations to prevent
the USA from using WeMaD
against Guam or Iceland. They
insinuated that our country had
stockpiled Grey Poupon Mustard
Gas, which we all know could
not be true because we were
told that by cable TV While Iraq
hoped the people of America
would rise up and overthrow
the government, that scenario no
longer seemed possible.
Protesters marched and
held signs stating that war hurt
a lot of innocent people andother endangered species. But
we laughed at them because
we wanted to see “Reality War”
24-hours per day for as long as
we could do so in order to forget
our problems of unemployment,
inflation, religious (and ordinary)
child molestation, corporate
crooks, economic failure, and
political buffoons.
We were bored consuming
our primary source of protein,
the Big Mac. And, neither Oprah
nor Dr. Phil was able to calm us
down.
Polls were taken all over the
country. The results were: 49%
said, “They didn’t want war.”
51% said, “The price of a new
home was too high.” And 9% of
the respondents were unchanged
from the views they held prior to
the tribal war.
Pete wants to know why it
is that hilarity and absurdity are
both synonyms of humor?
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WE WELCOME ALL WRISTWRESTLERS!
The
Devil’s
Advocate
BY JOE TINNEY
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Declare War
On Oakland
AST WEEK
I
WAS WATCHING
TV PROGRAM,
“THE BEST DAMN SEX SHOW,
PERIOD,” and I was contemplating the many problems that
beset Petalumans in the modern
world.
For example, have you noticed that every time you get an
envelope marked “Urgent”—it
isn’t?
Or that some Sonoma
County buses are marked “Powered by clean natural gas?” And
doesn’t that imply that they have
others powered by dirty natural
gas?
But the biggest question of
all is whether the United States
should go to war with Iraq.
The President clearly thinks we
should, but this has prompted
a storm of protests from governments that hate the United
States, like Berkeley.
Because of these developments, many Petalumans are
now thinking the same thought:
Should Petaluma go to war with
Oakland? Many of the same reasons exist for going to war with
Oakland that the President cites
for military action in the Middle
East.
First, it is said that Iraq is
building weapons of mass destruction. But it is a documented
fact that Oakland has for years
been generating Weapons of
Mass Irritation, like Jerry Brown
and Al Davis.
They say that Saddam Hussein mistreats his own people.
But have you ever been to
Oakland and seen how their
citizens live? We have it on good
authority that thousands of them
are petitioning to go live in Iraq
among the Kurds, in an effort to
increase their standard of living.
Besides, they say, it’s safer.
There are many hateful
creatures in Oakland, starting
with some of my relatives and
including Oakland Raiders fans.
Things have gotten so bad that
the Sonoma County Airport has
MY FAVORITE
been declared a no-fly zone by
every airline in America. One
small airline did state that they
may start connecting flights to
Oakland from Santa Rosa next
year, at $150 a ticket.
Is that a good way to make
money? I can’t imagine that
they’ll be swamped with travelers standing in line to do that.
The smart thing to do would be
to offer to take people to Oakland
for free, and then charge them
$1500 each to take them out.
They would probably make millions.
So the signs are all there for a
war with Oakland, but peace advocates are against it. They say if
war were declared on Oakland,
the streets there would run red
with blood. Almost hourly men,
women and children would be
gunned down, or else pedestrians trying to cross the street
would be flattened by vehicles
who then speed away. No one
would be safe, and the Mayor
and the police would be powerless to stop the bloodshed.
And this, they say, is why
we should not declare war on
Oakland, Not that this is wrong,
but Oakland would never notice
the difference.
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October 2002 - Petaluma Post

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