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SHOOTINGS: A DEEP DIVE DRAMA INTO AN UNEASY DISCUSSION
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‘IF I DON’T MAKE IT, I LOVE YOU’ PREMIERES ON RAVEN STAGE By Christian Kallen
Photos courtesy of Northern Sonoma County Fire District
The latest production of the Raven Players is not from the established canon of small-town theater sources. It has not one playwright but several— nine to be exact—and it’s presented not on one night but over two, with each one-act play a little over an hour long. But that’s only unusual until one finds out why. If I Don’t Make It, I Love You is based on a 2019 book of the same name whose meaning becomes all too apparent by its subtitle: “Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings.” And as one might expect, the experience of sitting in a dark theater, on stage with the actors, listening to their first-person accounts of a school shooting that they somehow survived, can be emotionally draining. “It’s devastating,” admits Steven David Martin, the artistic director of the Raven Players and the director of this production. “It crosses a line many times into being uncomfortable. But that, I think, is the point of this.”
CLEAN-UP TIME CalTrans crews used backhoes and street sweepers to clear Highway 101 Northbound at Geyserville,
and reopened the right lane to traffic by 7pm.
Dry Spill on 101 at Geyserville 10K BOTTLES OF WINE ON THE ROAD AS TRAILER OVERTURNS By Christian Kallen
Photo courtesy of R. Mabry Photography
Steven David Martin If I Don’t Make It, I Love You created its own stir when it was published, but it was Martin’s idea to ➝ Shooting Drama, 5
A semi truck loaded with wine bottles overturned on northbound Highway 101 at about 12:50pm on Monday, and what could have become a tragedy turned out to be a viral story on Facebook. The initial reports to 911 were of an overturned big rig with the driver trapped in the cab, but when first responders arrived on the scene, they found the driver had safely exited the truck and was unhurt. Not so much the cargo. Although it was a straight
section of road northbound on Highway 101, just before the Highway 128 exit (to Alexander Valley), the yellow truck had rolled over onto its side, pulling the long trailer with it and spilling the contents of the load onto the right shoulder. The result was what the California Highway Patrol said was “approximately 10,000 empty wine bottles” that tumbled out, a number that could have been catastrophic loss if they had been full of wine on its way to market. However, since they were empty, the bottles were destined for a bottling facility in Hopland, according to Joe Stewart, captain with Northern Sonoma County Fire Department. Officer David deRutte,
DRY SPILL Ten thousand empty wine bottles were spilled in a semi-truck rollover on Highway
101 on Monday, March 20. No one was injured. public information officer for the CHP Santa Rosa, said the driver “made an unsafe turning movement to the right and collided with a guardrail on the east shoulder and then overturned.” Eventually a large tow truck arrived, and
CalTrans was able to upright the truck, said Stewart. “All the bottles spilled on the ground— there was really nothing anyone could do about that,” he continued. Many though not all of the bottles were broken, and many more were damaged
in the clean-up procedure, when a street sweeper was used to clean up the glass. “CalTrans had a crew out there; they did an amazing job,” said Stewart. The northbound lane and Highway 128 exit were reopened at 7pm.
WINE AND SWINE MAKE FOR A FINE TIME PIGS & PINOT THE EVENT OF THE SEASON By Daedalus Howell
Photo by Damion Hamilton
COMEDIAN CHEF Food-loving actor and comedian Mario Cantone at the annual Pigs & Pinot event at Hotel Healdsburg.
The essential Healdsburg event to see and be seen at this season was undoubtedly the 16th annual celebration of Pigs & Pinot, which feted hundreds with its unique porcine pairings. Hosted by chef and Healdsburg local Charlie Palmer at the Hotel Healdsburg and Dry Creek ➝ Pigs & Pinot, 4