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“When asked about the ideal location for the Healdsburg Multicultural Center, participants overwhelmingly favored integrating it into the existing Healdsburg Community Center at 1557 Healdsburg Ave.”
Healdsburg comes full circle for Abel De Luna ● 1st Latino mayor to be honored Sunday By Christian Kallen This coming Sunday, May 18, will mark a significant milestone in Healdsburg history. Abel De Luna, the city’s first Hispanic
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mayor during his city council term 49 years ago, will return to town, along with farmworkers rights legend Dolores Huerta. The purpose is the renaming of the former Fitch Mountain Elementary school, which has been serving as Healdsburg’s community center for 15 years, as the Abel De Luna Community Center. The timing is perfect. Just weeks ago, the city approved plans to turn the north Healdsburg location into more than just the edge-of-town head office for the city’s Community Services department. Already it’s the location of Corazon Healdsburg, an Alliance Medical Clinic, and a YWCA pre-school, and recently it
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served as the temporary Healdsburg library. The new Abel De Luna Community Center will also be upgraded to a much-anticipated “Multicultural Center,” fulfilling the goal of a year-long exploration by the city in ways to meet diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) priorities for the diverse populations of Healdsburg. Abel De Luna was a respected and influential business, community and civic leader in Healdsburg during the 1970s and 80s. He and his wife Emilia, a beautician, moved to Healdsburg after they were married in — More on page 4
Announcing Tuesdays in the Plaza ● Cloverdale, Windsor also offer free music all summer long Staff Report All the venues for free summer music in the sun (or on the grass, or at the park, or in the plaza) have been announced, so music-lovers can begin making their summer plans. The Ranch at Lake Sonoma, the Windsor Town Square, the Cloverdale Plaza and of course Healdsburg’s Tuesday in the Plaza each have a variety of bands – heavy on the tribute bands – to entertain over these summer eves. First to announce was the Ranch at Lake Sonoma, overlooking the placid waters of the reservoir and steep wooded canyons of Skaggs Springs. In fact their first such was the last Sunday of April, the 27th, when Solo Rio opened the summer series. Upcoming last-Sunday shows
are Mr. December (May 25), the John Courage Trio (June 29), Pazifico (July 27), Spike Sikes (Aug. 31) and Derek Irving (Sept. 28). Tuesdays in the Plaza are the days to watch for Healdsburg locals. The popular city-sponsored summer series begins, as it usually does, in the last week of May, which places the opener on May 27 with Norteño music from Los Cadetes de Memo Cavada. June brings “Bolly wood blues” from Aki Kumar (June 3), Celtic rockers Tempest (June 10), big band jazz from Melba’s Kitchen (June 17), and rock from Dirty Cello (June 24). July brings country and cumbia back to town with Victoria Geore and the High Lonesome (July 1), followed by La Luz Roja — More on page 3