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SEN. MCGUIRE PRESENTS CENTENNIAL PROCLAMATION TO HEALDSBURG KIWANIS
August 17, 2023 Date, Date, 20202020
LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZES ‘POSITIVE IMPACT’ IN COMMUNITY By Christian Kallen
Healdsburg Kiwanis
Photo by Kim Carroll
Between sets of Americana rock from Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs at the Healdsburg Plaza last Tuesday, Aug. 8, State Sen. Mike McGuire took over the stage and, in his inimical manner, drew attention to a very special birthday. One of Healdsburg’s most influential, impactful and certainly longestliving service organizations celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, and McGuire presented a proclamation from the California Legislature to Denny Stead, this year’s president of the Healdsburg Kiwanis. A chapter of the global Kiwanis International, Healdsburg Kiwanis was chartered in 1923. The proclamation read in part, “it is appropriate at this time to highlight its many achievements and underscore the positive impact it has made in the local community.” The proclamation was passed as a Joint Members Resolution and dated Aug. 8, co-signed by McGuire, a Healdsburg native and perhaps the second most powerful member of the State Senate, and Assemblymember Jim Wood, whose district also includes Healdsburg. “Having our senator come by and personally present the proclamation was a very nice thing for him to do,” said Stead. “I’m sure as Senate majority leader, Mike has a busy schedule, but he found time for his hometown. Thank you, Sen. McGuire!” Stead, a 23-year resident of Healdsburg, has been working with the local Kiwanis chapter
OPEN SPACE TRAIL Two hikers and their leashed dog head up the trail toward the 994-foot summit of Fitch Mountain.
Fitch Mountain Projects Underway TRAILS, BRIDGE, CREEK REPAIR, PUBLIC ART IN FUTURE OF THE LANDMARK Staff Report
Day hikers, fitness buffs and dog walkers may find one of their most challenging walks off limits for the next two or three months, as long-awaited public access improvements for Fitch Mountain Park and Open Space Preserve got underway this week. With construction activities that include the use of heavy equipment and hauling of materials, the City of Healdsburg announced they “are required to close all trail access from the Villa Chanticleer lower and upper parking lots,
along with trail access from North Fitch Mountain Road. The main trail and all connection trails will be inaccessible during construction.” Newly-installed temporary construction fencing prevents access to the trailhead from the Villa Chanticleer lower lot, where the dog park is. At just shy of 1,000 feet in elevation, Fitch Mountain is perhaps Healdsburg’s most prominent physical landmark, aside from the Russian River itself. The mountain is surrounded on three sides by the City of Healdsburg, hosts the unincorporated Fitch Mountain residential community and provides a scenic backdrop for the city. The public access improvements project
takes place in two stages. First is Phase 1, which lasts into October and involves trail improvement, bridge installation and creek restoration. Phase 2 is expected to begin in November and run through the winter, bringing improvements to the dog park and the parking lots. Public restrooms are also planned for a nearfuture date. The Healdsburg City Council allocated $2.77 million for the public access improvements in the 2022-23 budget. While all that is going on, the City Council recently adopted a resolution to approve the installation of a public artwork project, “Summit Variations,” by artist Johanna Grawunder. The serial art project will be installed on
Fitch Mountain Park and Open Space Preserve in the coming months, following the other public access improvements. “Fitch Mountain, this natural, cultural, historical resource that stands guard over Healdsburg, the Russian River, and the surrounding valleys, demands a very special sort of consideration,” wrote artist Grawunder in her proposal. “As an artist and designer, my approach to Fitch Mountain has been to try to understand what the mountain wants and what it can sustain,” she said. Her proposal, “Summit Variations,” consists of a series of simple sculptures of tubular steel with a green powder-coated finish. Most of the five pieces can double as rest
benches for hikers to contemplate nature, meditate or catch their breath. Grawunder, a California native and lifelong designer-artist, currently has a home on Fitch Mountain. Her proposal won out over 20 submissions and two other finalists. The total budget estimate for the project, including fabrication, installation, studio expenses and artist fees, is $96,000. The money for the arts grant is funded by a $1,650,000 grant from the California Coastal Conservancy.
full-length studio albums and five EPs, while guesting on a variety of releases by other artists over the past dozen years. But the sisters say they were able to be more authentic than ever on their current album, Blood Harmony. Ironically, they achieved this clearer representation of themselves by making an album in a very different way from how their other Larkin Poe albums were brought to life in the studio. In the past, making albums has pretty much been a sister show. Aside from their 2014 full-length debut, Kin, Rebecca and Megan Lovell had self produced their albums and recorded virtually all the instruments themselves, pairing guitars, keyboards and other instruments with
programmed beats to create a marriage of organic and synthetic sounds. But for Blood Harmony, they went old school, using live drums, bringing in members of their touring band and playing live in the studio. “I do think we’ve been incredibly fortunate to be a band that continues to burn slowly,” Rebecca Lovell said in a recent phone interview. “I think over the years we’ve been allowed the time and space to really spread out and learn the details of how my sister and I work together as a team, what stories we want to tell, how we want to embrace the many different angles of musical interest that we have… “And I think the years that we’ve spent together working through the
For updated information on the Fitch Mountain Public Access Improvement Project, visit healdsburg.gov/ fitchmountain.
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SISTERS’ HARMONY ON WINERY STAGE LARKIN POE CONCLUDES RODNEY STRONG SUMMER SERIES By Alan Sculley Photo by Jason Stoltzfus
PREACHIN’ BLUES The singing duo Larkin Poe is sisters
Rebecca Lovell (left) and Megan Lovell.
The sister duo of Rebecca and Megan Lovell, who make up the band Larkin Poe, have been nothing if not prolific during their career, releasing six
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