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PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION CONSIDERS NAMES FOR NEW PARK
Healdsburg, California Healdsburg, California
September 5, 2024 Date, Date, 20202020
WAPPO, POMO CULTURAL FIGURES PROMINENT IN COMMUNITY SUGGESTIONS By Christian Kallen
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Photos by Joe Rowland
One of the largest city parks in Sonoma County, set to begin construction next year, still doesn’t have a name. That circumstance is about to change, in the wake of Healdsburg ’s Parks and Recreation Commission’s hearing of proposals from a public survey that concluded earlier this year. Currently known as Saggio Hills Park, the 38-acre plot of land adjacent to Parkland Farms development stretches to Healdsburg Avenue and Foppiano Road, the access to the Healdsburg Montage Resort. The property was negotiated as a civic benefit to the resort’s development on Healdsburg’s northern edge. The city completed the master-plan development for the new park and took ownership of the property in 2023, and the design development and construction drawings are now underway. Bidding and construction is expected to start in the fall. Details on the park development are found on the city’s website at www.healdsburg.gov/ saggionhillspark. The naming procedure was based on the City of Healdsburg’s Park Naming Policy, adopted in 2002, which asks that naming of parks or recreation facilities “enhance the value and heritage of and are compatible with community interests.” More than 30 people proposed names for the
NO GAIN Healdsburg defenders swarm Cloverdale’s Jorge Guerrero (number obscured) during the first half of the Aug. 30 game, won by the Greyhounds.
Healdsburg players include, from left, Eli Zepeda (77), Andrew Barr (7), John Wallace (44), Isaiah Robles (59), Nathanial Rowland (54), Dillan Jocius (45) and Nova Perrill II (10), as Cloverdale’s Evan Hieserich (70) looks on.
Greyhounds End the Drought VARSITY TAKES CHARGE, DOMINATES CLOVERDALE 35-21 By John Linker
It had been three years, or as the whisper throughout the crowd put it more exactly, 1,072 days, since the Healdsburg Hounds Varsity football team had won a game. But last Friday night, in front of a jam-packed home crowd, the Hounds ended that losing streak with a 35-21 win over the neighboring Cloverdale Eagles. Led by the strong and accurate arm of quarterback Nova Perrill II, the Hounds’ offense showed confidence, sharp attention to details and an unparalleled desire to keep pushing. Under the guidance of new head coach Criss Rosales, they never let up.
Game On
In the first quarter, on a no-huddle fourth down,
Alexander Harms scored the Greyhounds’ first down of the season, and the team never looked back. Though not scoring on their first drive, the Hounds controlled the clock until they had to punt with 5:57 left in the first quarter. The Hounds’ defense took over with a powerful show of focus and determination led by Nathaniel Rowland. Rowland made numerous rush tackles and his presence was felt in nearly every play. The defensive pressure of Rowlands and Harms, along with an impressive front line, forced an early fumble, setting up a thrilling fake handoff and 19-yard pass to Hayden Mariani for a touchdown. Christian Camacho Ruiz kicked his first of many successful extra points. The next Eagle drive was quickly extinguished as well, again led by the relentless Rowland, causing an Eagle mistake on a bad snap, and with 14 yards to go, Perill connected with Dillan Jocius for a touchdown. By the
end of the quarter the Hounds were up 14-0. The Eagles finally got something going on a broken play that led them to the Hounds’ 23-yard-line. Out of an I-formation, sophomore halfback Carson Brown, with 7:42 left before the half, ran from the five-yard-line for a touchdown, making the score 14-7.
The Buzz
The Eagles’ joy was shortlived. On the next play, sophomore Frank Rea, known for wearing his buttoned-down collared shirts in the classroom, ran behind a thick cordon of blockers before running ahead of the crowd and down the field for a return of 95 yards. To celebrate, he held the ball for the extra-point kicker, Camacho. Minutes later, on another potential Eagle drive, Rea intercepted with 4 minutes left to get the ball back for the Greyhounds. With 2 minutes left in the half, and after a strange string of penalties coupled
NEW PLAY ‘INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS’ ‘THE GERMANS UPSTAIRS’ A WORK OF SELF-DISCOVERY AND FAMILY HISTORY By Christian Kallen
Photos courtesy of Francine Schwartz
MEMORIES A family locket with a photograph of
Francine Schwartz’s mother and grandmother, taken not long after World War II ended.
“I’m a child of the Holocaust,” playwright Francine Schwartz begins our conversation. “It’s definitely in my DNA, there’s no doubt about it.” Schwartz wrote The Germans Upstairs, the new play premiering in Healdsburg next weekend at the Raven Performing Arts Theater. Though she now lives in Roseland, outside
with a few broken plays, the Eagles’ drive finally fizzled beneath the tenacious Hound defense. It was 21-7 at the half, leaving the crowd buzzing and full of hope that the three-year drought since the last victory was about to be broken.
Second Half
More of the same continued in the second half with Rowland, Christian Flores and Rea combining for numerous tackles to stop the Eagles and quickly give the Hounds’ offense the ball again. With completions to Harms and Mariani, and some creative catch-andruns by Areum Romero, Perrill continued to confidently move the team down the field. An eight-yard pass to Mariani, screening wide to the right, inflated the score to 28-7. Not until the fourth quarter did the Eagles break through with a solid string of running gains, followed by a fake hand-off and pass for 30 yards that led to their second touchdown. The extra point
of Sacramento, until a few months ago she lived in nearby Windsor, where she built a relationship with the Raven Players. For the Raven, she wrote the Mike Blake Mysteries, an ongoing “theater noir” radio series presented by Raven Performing Arts during the pandemic. Two other short plays by her, All About Me and The Dream, were also read or produced at the Raven. The Germans Upstairs, originally slated to open in March 2020, is Schwartz’s first full-length play to be presented locally. That earlier production was fully cast and ready to go, then canceled due to the pandemic. Next weekend’s opening marks the culmination of 10 years of research, inspiration and introspection for Schwartz, now 75, along with a lifetime of memories. That decade
missed, bouncing off the bright yellow uprights of the brand-new goal posts. With 9:35 left on the clock, the score was 28-13, Healdsburg. For the Hounds, the fourth quarter was full of pass plays, showing off the arm of Perrill, who finished the game completing 14 of 23 attempts, for 116 yards. The senior loves to throw, and first-year coach Criss Rosales is not afraid to make use of that skill. The Eagles, however, did not give up and continued to rely on their running game. With the help of a pass-interference call, and what looked like a knee injury to center Eli Zepeda, Cloverdale finally moved down the field. Brown went into the end zone for the third time, and he followed it up with a 2-point conversion to make it 28-21. With 6:32 left, coach Rosales was clearly keeping an eye on the clock. The passing offense, mixed with the frustrations of ➝ Greyhounds, 5
began in 2014 while she went through family possessions in the family home, cleaning things out because her mother had moved into assisted living. “It was full of memorabilia of all kinds, and beautiful furniture that goes back to Europe, Austria, Romania, France … And so I was separating things, some for auction and some to come back with me, when I came across all these photographs,” she said. “I was just flooded with real memories of my childhood by the photographs of my mother and grandmother during the war,” she added—memories of family stories told almost threequarters of a century ago, when she was a young girl. “I honestly don’t remember how old I was when my mother and grandmother started telling me that at the beginning of the German occupation of Paris, ➝ New Play, 3