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How to Recycle Unusual Stuff in Sonoma County

  January as the month to lighten up and unload, whether it is to lose pounds, a bad habit or stuff cluttering up your home or garage. Most people now have curbside recycling, but it has its limits. There are a lot of other places to offload stuff either for recycling, upcycling or for use by someone who needs it. The Sonoma County Waste Management Agency puts together a comprehensive Recycle Guide that goes far beyond the do’s and don’ts for curbside recycling and where and what you can bring to the county’s Central Disposal Site at 500 Mecham Road […]

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Santa Rosa Blood Banks Cheer FDA Decision on Gay Donors

Officials at Santa Rosa’s two blood banks welcomed Tuesday’s FDA decision to lift the lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, saying it was a move based on science as well as a policy change that many have been advocating. “We’re pleased that the FDA is going in this direction and it is certainly consistent with our position all along,” said Kent Corley, spokesman for the Blood Centers of the Pacific, which serves 50 hospitals from Silicon Valley to the Oregon border and operates a facility in Santa Rosa. “I do believe it is very much predicated in […]

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Santa Rosa Bishop Not Interested in Catholic Church Acceptance of LGBT Folks

Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa was not among Catholic leaders gathered this week at the Vatican to discuss the church’s stance on a range of hot-button topics including marriage, divorce, homosexuality and birth control. But Vasa said that if he had participated in the widely reported gathering, he would not have endorsed a preliminary document that signaled a shift in tone about the church’s accepting gay people, unmarried couples and the divorced. Vasa, who defends the church’s traditional doctrines, on Tuesday downplayed the significance of the interim report. It thrilled progressives and gay rights groups, who have been encouraged by […]

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“Dream Property” in Santa Rosa Will House Homeless Youth

Sutter Health last week transferred ownership of the former Warrack Hospital in east Santa Rosa to an organization with plans to convert it into transitional housing for disadvantaged young adults. Sutter, which closed the Summerfield Road hospital in 2008, completed the donation of the property, valued at $9.5 million, at no cost to Social Advocates for Youth. The social service organization plans to convert the building into up to 63 units of affordable housing and other services for 18- to 24-year-olds who are former foster children or at risk of homelessness. The project, dubbed the Dream Center, sparked fierce opposition […]

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Christian Group at Sonoma State Runs Afoul of Anti-discrimination Policy

A newly enforced anti-discrimination policy at Sonoma State University has caused a Christian organization to lose its campus recognition and potentially thousands of dollars that come with being an officially sanctioned club. The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a national student organization that has operated at SSU since 1962, was stripped of its campus recognition at the beginning of this school year as the California State University system began enforcing a three-year-old policy that prevents clubs from discriminating on the basis of race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, color, age, gender, marital status, citizenship, sexual orientation or disability. InterVarsity accepts all members, but […]

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Documentary About Local Gay Singer-Songwriter to Premiere at Wine Country Film Festival

The new documentary film “BOBBY JO: JOURNEY OF A SINGER-SONGWRITER” will premiere on closing night at the Wine Country Film Festival in Kenwood. The September 22 film premiere will also include a Q & A with director Ron Rogers and Sonoma County singer-songwriter and film subject Bobby Jo Valentine and a live performance on the main stage by Mr. Valentine. The 22 minute film, recently chosen as an official selection at the Wine Country Film Festival, tells the compelling story of the journey of a unique Sonoma county artist: Young Petaluma singer-songwriter Bobby Jo Valentine is at a crossroads. Having […]

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New LGBTQI Task Force Formed In Sonoma County

The Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights has approved the creation of a Task Force of the Commission to focus on the state of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and interest (“LGBTQI”) community in Sonoma County. The LGBTQI Task Force consists of three sitting Commissioners – Kevin Jones (2nd District), Christopher Mahurin (3rd District), and Ramon Meraz (5th District) – and Commission Chair Judy Rice (5th District) as an ex officio member. Over the coming nine months, the LGBTQI Task Force will undertake to collect information from all parts of the County in order to develop recommendations that the […]

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Burlesque Birthday Party Invades Buck’s Rivermill Theater

Cabaret de Caliente and Pinch Of GlitterProductions celebrate Eva D’Luscious’ Pretty Pretty Princess Birthday Party with Twice Upon a Tassel, A Royal Rambling Revue at Buck’s Rivermill Dinner Theater Saturday, September 6. The Burlesque and variety show features tales of princesses, traveling rogues and minstrels and Eva’s very own Fairy Drag Mother! Guests are invited to wear their own princess gowns to compete in a costume contestwith prizes from local businesses, and as always the show includes a fundraising raffle benefitting The Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Buck’s Rivermill Dinner Theater Street, Guerneville Doors 8:30pm; Show 9:30-11:30pm GA Standing […]

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CALABASH – A Festival of Gourds, Art and the Garden Happens Sunday, October 5

Food For Thought, Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank, in collaboration with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, will host the 14th annual CALABASH – A Celebration of Gourds, Art and the Garden on Sunday, October 5, 2014. Sonoma County’s unique and inspiring harvest event, Calabash was voted Best Fundraiser by the North Bay Bohemian in 2013 and 2014, and features a silent auction of fine gourd art along with tours of Food For Thought’s beautiful, organic garden Guests at Calabash enjoy a sumptuous array of fine food and wine from the county’s bountiful harvest, a chance to buy gourd art […]

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Registration Opens for Wildwood’s Fall Men’s Festival

  The Wildwood Conservation Foundation & Retreat Center will be hosting its 9th Annual Fall Men’s Festival Thursday, September 18 through Sunday, September 21, 2014. Wildwood, located in the hills above Guerneville, California, is a non-profit sanctuary created and sustained by gay men for healing, transformation and spiritual growth. “The intention of the Fall Men’s Festival is, first and foremost, to build community,” says Darrel Richey, Chairman of the board for the Wildwood Conservation Foundation. “It’s also a sampling of the type of men’s workshops we have throughout the year like yoga, massage, and erotic work.” This year’s activities include […]

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