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CITY COUNCIL RETURNS TO WORK WITH TRIBUTES, CAMERAS
August 8, 2024
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OLYMPIANS RECOGNIZED, SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS GIVEN THE GO-AHEAD By Christian Kallen
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Photo courtesy of David Hagele
T h e He a l d s b u r g C i ty Council got back to work Monday evening, racing efficiently through an agenda of proclamations, pro forma approvals and a longer review of two separate issues, on law enforcement and politics. The proclamations featured recognition to two former Olympic-level athletes who live in Healdsburg. Gail Roper, dapper in her red cap, was on the U.S. Olympics swim team in 1952. Inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1997, her lengthy career included 18 years as a local regular at the “short course” 25-meter pool at Healdsburg High. In a separate proclamation, Hanna Scramaglia was honored. She competed with Sweden in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and at UC Berkeley she was a three-time All American. She and her family have lived in Healdsburg for 20 years, and she too was celebrated “as an inspiration to all who value dedication, excellence, and sportsmanship.” The pair rose to the front of the room to pose for friends and family, Roper dapper in her red cap and Scramaglia still in racing shape, and a multitude of cell phones snapped photos. “It is pretty exciting,” Mayor David Hagele said. “It’s such an honor to be able to celebrate our hometown Olympians here in Healdsburg.”
‘4-PEAT’ Prune Packers surround Healdsburg Mayor David Hagele, at center in dark shirt, at the presentation of the PEL championship award
on Friday night, Aug. 2. To Hagele’s right is head coach Joey Gomes, to his left is associate coach Matt Shupe.
Packers Bring 4th Title to Town 16TH TIME SCORING 10-PLUS RUNS THIS SUMMER SEALS THE PRUNE PACKERS’ SEASON By Christian Kallen
T h e Pa c i f i c E m p i r e League’s first year ended with an exciting threegame series between the first-place Healdsburg Prune Packers and the second-place Lincoln Potters, and in many ways it met expectations—including that the heavily favored 39-7 Packers ended up with the championship trophy. But getting there was more than half the fun. After the Potters stunned the Packers in Lincoln on Tuesday with an eight-run ninth inning for the comefrom-behind upset, 13-12,
Game Three
Game Two of the series saw both teams play fairly cautiously, but the Potters still managed to build a 3-0 lead into the sixth inning. Then a hit batter, and a single and a misplayed infield scratch hit the bases loaded for a twoout off-the-fence double by Eamonn Lance to tie the game. The Potters, wearing yellow “Clay City” jerseys (their host town in Yuba County is the home of Gladding McBean Ceramics), seemed to crack under pressure. In the seventh inning Jack Tatom singled, then Robbie Hamchuk doubled to score him for the go-ahead run in the seventh inning. In the next frame, Connor Charpiot lifted a Ryan Baker pitch over the 410-foot center field ivy for an insurance run. Final score was 5-3, and the Packers were back in the hunt.
Tension was high, and the grandstands were filling to capacity for the third game in the series, Friday Aug. 2. Game Three got off to a rough start for the Packers defense, as Lincoln’s Luke Mansy took a walk off starting pitcher Elliot Joslin then made it all the way home on a pass ball, then a wild pitch. In the confusion following a presumed strike three that was called a walk, Mansy came home to give the visiting Potters a 1-0 lead—without a hit. Then the spirit of Rec Park rose up. The Packers’ starting lineup scored five runs in the bottom of the second inning to set the tone for the rest of the evening, and the assembled fans began to hope again. Catcher Eamonn Lance, making up for his misjudgment in the first inning, opened the second with a double, Luke Mistone doubled him home
FARMWORKER RIGHTS ON PARADE INTERVIEW WITH MARCY FLORES OF CORAZÓN HEALDSBURG By Cincinnatus Hibbard
Photo by Charlotte Mandrier Photography
MAESTRA Last year, Corazón Healdsburg promoted educator Marcy Flores internally to the directorship of 10 staff and 100 volunteers.
The July 28 march in Healdsburg, organized by North Bay Jobs With Justice, rallied 600 farmworkers and their supporters around demands for hazard pay, disaster wage insurance and a base wage of $250 per ton of grapes harvested. Jobs With Justice promises additional protests and strikes as the fall grape harvest looms. Separate from and kindred to Jobs With
through the diving third baseman Hasani Johnson to tie the game. Soon Lincoln starter Adan Perez loaded the bases with one out on a hit and two walks, then he walked in the go-ahead run. Alex Leopard hit a long fly to right that bounced over the low fence for a ground rule double to score two more. A fifth run was added on a sacrifice fly by Joey Kramer to score Maddox Molony to make it 5-1. Robbie Hamchuk continued his hot hitting with a ground rule double into the center field ivy, but he soon came around on a sacrifice fly by Molony for another run in the fifth inning. The Packers scored again in the sixth as Jake Tatom reached first on a high throw from third baseman Luke Mansy that pulled first baseman Zach Chamizo off the bag. Tatom scored when Hamchuk hit
Justice, its partner, Corazón Healdsburg, exists to protect the basic rights of farm workers and uplift their families with wraparound work, housing, food, health, legal and education services. I spoke recently with Marcy Flores, director of Corazón Healdsburg. CH: Marcy, tell us about the people that you serve. MF: We support communities that live and work in the areas of Windsor, Healdsburg, Geyserville and Cloverdale. Predominantly monolingual Spanish speakers. Farmworkers, restaurant workers, hotel workers, stay-at-home mothers and children in our public schools. CH: That sounds like the very economic basis of the tourist wine industry centered in Healdsburg. I understand that these families are typically of mixed legal status—some are citizens, some DACA recipients,
his second double, this one down the third base line, making it 7-1. When the Packers had a comfortable lead, coach Joey Gomes elected to put Mason Lerma on the mound following an exceptional showing by winning pitcher Joslin, who did not allow a hit over his five innings, striking out seven but walking five. In the seventh, Lerma gave up the Potters’ first hit of the day, a home run by Chamizo that took only a small bite out of the Packers’ lead.
Sealing the Victory
With the Potters’ eight-run comeback from Tuesday night still front-of-mind for both players and fans, the Packers finally seemed to drive the nail in that anxiety with their second fiverun inning of the night. In the bottom of the seventh. ➝ Baseball, 5
some undocumented. My understanding is that Corazon largely operates as a trusted confidential middleman for people uncertain of their rights or unable to protect them for fear of retribution. Is that correct? MF: Yes, definitely. And fear plays a big role. Whether it is in seeking safe employment conditions or owed wages, renter’s rights or food assistance, people are afraid to ask for what they deserve. There was a lot of fear during disasters like the fires and Covid, when families badly needed help and were afraid to ask for it. CH: I understand that to provide holistic care, you enlist or refer to a great many organizational partners. MF: Yes, too many to count! Last year, just in our academic services department, we had over 60 partners. At the end of the day, it’s all about the community we make.