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CITY MEETINGS TO CONTINUE ONLINE AND IN PERSON
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END OF COVID EMERGENCY BRINGS POSSIBLE CHANGES TO GOVERNMENT PROTOCOL By Christian Kallen
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Photos by Christian Kallen
On Feb. 28, less than a week from the Tribune publication date, the local public health emergency that has been in place since March 2, 2020 to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic will be lifted, as Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase announced last week. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said the state public health emergency will expire that same day, next Wednesday. And while the federal COVID-19 public health emergency is slated to expire on May 11, at least at the local level it seems the pandemic is for all practical purposes over. The expiration of emergency health rules surrounding the pandemic means that a number of adjustments that were made to conducting official business during the pandemic will no longer be necessary. City Manager Jeff Kay doesn’t see that many changes will result from the expiration of the health orders that haven’t already been implemented. “We will probably see less remote participation in City Council and commission meetings, but City operations have been close to normal for many months now,” Kay said. “So things should be mostly business as usual once the emergency declaration lapses next week.” The one item of significance was the potential reversion to pre-COVID policies about public alcohol consumption, which led the Parks and Recreation Commission to recommend new, more lenient rules for downtown city parks. That recommendation made it
MECHANICS Healdsburg High 11th graders interning at McConnell Chevrolet get a visit from school officials. From left, advisor David Hubbell,
Superintendent Chris Vanden Heuvel, students Anthony Nieto, Yanet Pacheco (looking at Principal Amy Jones, off camera) and Ricardo Ramirez.
Test-Driving the World of Work 10-YEAR-OLD PROGRAM MATCHES HHS STUDENT INTERNS WITH BUSINESS MENTORS By Christian Kallen
There’s yellow caution tape over the door and a dead body in the middle of the room. Her name is Sarah, according to the three younger-than-expected investigators, and she has been shot twice. The investigators evaluate the location of the bullet shells and the gunshot impacts, collect fingerprints on everything from window glass to coffee cups, take measurements, compare notes and come up with a possible solution to the crime—and present it to Police Chief Matt Jenkins. The body, by the way, is a dummy, and the three investigators are juniors
at Healdsburg High who have been placed with the Police Department as interns, part of a 10-yearold program that matches students with potential careers in a hands-on role. They are embedded with local businesses to help them see what their chosen career might look like from the inside. It’s part of the Career and College Readiness seminar required of all students in their junior year, 11th grade. Among other things, the course provides lessons in writing resumes and cover letters, financial literacy, sex and drug education, and research into potential colleges or work careers—preparation for entering the world after high school, down whichever path beckons. A crucial element of that course is the Academic Internship Program, which places every junior in the school with a local company or enterprise for six full days, two days a week over a
CSI HEALDSBURG Three Healdsburg High students consider the evidence, including a
Starbucks cup, in a mock crime scene at the Healdsburg Police Station. From left, Valerie Lagunas Suazo, Danya Ruiz and Cristian Dominguez. three-week period in January and February. It’s a program that started 10 years ago, making Healdsburg a pioneer in the sort of parity-building course that values every student, not just the honor roll kids or
athletes. The companies that participate reflect that broad embrace: from auto mechanics to computer repair, kitchen and bakery staff, local veterinarians to a university marine biology lab in Bodega Bay.
David Hubbell started running the internship program this year, matching students with mentors who can nurture their interests. The students introduce themselves to
DO HIGH WINDS, LOW TEMPS AND RAINFALL MEAN SNOW?
and unstable weather continued all week. Tuesday night winds measured 57 miles an hour southwest of Healdsburg, and falling trees knocked out power in the southern part of the county—canceling a Mardi Gras party in Sebastopol, among other impacts. As the Tribune goes to press, a freeze warning is in effect for the northern Sonoma County area, expected to be lifted on Thursday morning. The National Weather Service predicts rain and snow would hit the Healdsburg area on Wednesday night, continuing into Thursday morning. Falling temperatures meant snow could fall down to 700 feet, low enough to dust Fitch Mountain with the white stuff. The snow level is expected to rise to 1,200 feet on Thursday afternoon—Mt. St Helena and
WEATHER SERVICE WON’T RULE OUT A SNOWY FITCH MOUNTAIN ON THURSDAY MORNING Photo courtesy of Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society
SNOW DAY Two residents hitch up a makeshift sled and visit the Healdsburg Plaza
during a snowstorm in December 1873.
By Christian Kallen
High winds, freezing temperatures and precipitation have been the reality in Sonoma County this week, and projections that snowfall was possible at elevations down to 1,000 feet—and perhaps lower—held out the tantalizing if unlikely prospect of snow falling on the Healdsburg Plaza. A cold front blew into the Bay Area on Tuesday,
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