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CITY DRAFTS NEW PLAN TO MITIGATE DISASTERS
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Healdsburg, California Healdsburg, California
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OFFICIALS CONDUCTING PUBLIC MEETING AND SURVEY By Christian Kallen
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Photo by Christian Kallen
The drought may be over, but disaster still looms. That’s the underlying presumption of the city’s Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) update, currently in process. Healdsburg is vulnerable to a wide range of natural disasters, including droughts, wildfires, flooding, landslides and earthquakes. A Local Hazard Mitigation Plan identifies risks and vulnerabilities that area-specific local natural disasters pose, serves as a long-term strategy for reducing identified risks and associated impacts to people and property, and provides a framework for future requests for federal assistance in case of an emergency or disaster. The Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 which originated this planning requires an LHMP to be updated every five years in order for an agency to continue to receive certain forms of federal disaster assistance. A community workshop will be held on June 7 from 5 to 7pm at the Healdsburg Community Center in an open-house style, with a formal 10-minute presentation at 5 and 6pm. “Community members are encouraged to attend at any time during the twohour workshop to discuss identified threats and how to reduce or prevent injury or damage and reduce risk from these hazards in the city,” said Healdsburg’s emergency manager Kelsey Carreiro. Healdsburg’s first version of an LHMP was developed in 2005 as part of a larger regional plan, and was updated in 2011. In 2018, the LHMP update process resulted
HIGH FIVE Lake Sonoma 50 winner Drew Holmen slaps hands with race director Gina Lucrezi at the finish line on Saturday, April 8.
Local Run for World Renown ‘BEAUTIFUL, BRUTAL’ LAKE SONOMA 50 PUTS ULTRA ON THE MAP By Christian Kallen
“It was really beautiful!” enthused Drew Holmen, a 30-year-old runner from Boulder, CO, and winner of this year’s 2023 Lake Sonoma 50. A few seconds later, he amended the remark: “It was so brutal!” Holmen finished the route, billed at 50.8 miles but according to many a couple miles longer, at 1:14pm, earning not only bragging rights but a
$2,000 prize for finishing first. His elapsed time of 6:44.20 put him over 10 minutes ahead of (and $1,000 richer than) second-place finisher Caleb Olson, 27, of Draper, UT, and Preston Cates, 25, of Flagstaff, AZ, who came in third. Erin Clark, 28, of Missoula, MT, was the first woman finisher, coming in over an hour later at 7:49:27. Allison Baca, 32, and Sarah Keyes, 38, followed her to the finish line. But all of the 214 men and women who finished the race were winners: Completing a run almost twice as long as the marathon of Greek history is epic, heroic.
For “ultra” runners— those who run anything longer than a marathon’s 26.2 miles—there is no real conflict between “beautiful” and “brutal.” Any 50-mile race is bound to be brutal at some point, and the uphill/downhill rhythm of the Lake Sonoma route tests the endurance of any runner. But it’s the pastoral landscape of the Lake Sonoma route that has been said to make the run one of the most enjoyable ultras in the West. After all, the Lake Sonoma run includes a gourmet athlete dinner and a lively finish-line celebration featuring healthful food, breweries and
wine from Wilson Artisan Wineries. All finishers were greeted at the finish line with a high five from race director Gina Lucrezi, and a Wilson employee asking a simple question: “Red or white?” The choice was between a 2019 Sonoma zinfandel or a 2018 Mendocino chardonnay, both with custom “LS50-Relentless” labeling. The North Face was the event’s title sponsor this year, as it was last year. Also, Wilson Artisan Wineries’ Children of Vineyard Workers Scholarship Fund directly benefits from the race. “It’s been that way since the very beginning,” said
AVFEST DELIVERS 10 DAYS OF FILMS 9TH ANNUAL FEST RETURNS TO HEALDSBURG, CLOVERDALE By Chelsea Kurnick
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WIN AVFest 2023 J.E.D.I. Award winner, ‘Our Father the Devil.’
The ninth annual AVFest will return to northern Sonoma County Friday, April 28 through Sunday, May 7, bringing 10 days of indie film screenings with wine country flavor to Cloverdale and Healdsburg, promises AVFilm. Opening in Cloverdale, AVFest kicks off with a
Skip Brand of Healdsburg Running Company (HRC). “Relentless” is the brand of the Lake Sonoma run, in all its forms, from the women’s half-marathon the previous day, April 7, to the April 8 full marathon and the celebrated 50-miler, a staple of the long distance runner’s calendar since 2006. It didn’t run only two of those years, once because of COVID (2020), and the other time because of flooding (2011). Flooding was a factor in this year’s route as well. Because of the high water levels in Lake Sonoma— which is more than 100% ➝ Sonoma 50, 4
block party on First Street and a showing of fastpaced nerd comedy Blackberry, about the early days of smartphones. Director and star Matt Johnson and executive producer and composer Jay McCarrol will be in attendance to talk about the film and to party with moviegoers. First Street will come alive with live music from Sabor de mi Cuba, food trucks and beverage vendors. This year, executive director Kathryn Hecht’s team restructured the festival to streamline the experience for attendees and visiting filmmakers. It will also ensure fuller houses at each film, Hecht said. “There will only be one screening at one venue at a time, so a patron could buy an all-access pass and go to everything,” she explained. In past years, as many ➝ Annual AVFest , 3