Petaluma Perspective by Houston Porter - April 2017
As of January,
Chief Savano will continue PPD’s Community Policing Initiative, a program that assigns individual to one of 15 city districts. “These are long term assignments designed to improve communication and problem solving within smaller, more manageable areas within the city.” District Town Hall Meetings are a chance for residents to meet their beat officer, as well as learn about present crime trends and statistics and share crime prevention information. Visit local.nixle.com/alert/5877199/ for info on your district and when/where your district’s Town Hall Meeting will be held. The next meetings are from April 11 – April 19.
Petaluma Salty Krakens Swim Club has scheduled an open water swim at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park on Sunday, April 9. The Salty Krakens are a new non-competitive youth and adult swim program hosted at the Petaluma Swim Center. petalumasaltykrakens.org
The Idea Lounge is part of the Petaluma Art Center’s Out of the Box series, which features “collaborative activities that take place literally and figuratively outside the walls of the Arts Center and outside the typical art exhibition.” Hosted atLagunitas Brewery, Idea Lounge invites two speakers, one from the arts and one not, to give the audience a chance to learn how art and life intertwine. The next Lounge is April 20, with socializing at 6:30pm, followed by the presentation at 7:00pm. Local authorFrances Rivetti will represent “Art.” Her recent books include Fog Valley Crush and Fog Valley Winter, both of which chronicle the North Bay’s bucolic history and modern food and farming trends. “Life” will be represented by Petaluma’s premier food event hostess Laura Sunday, whose topic is “The Passion of Roller-Dancing.” Laura is best known locally for creating the Taste of Petaluma, Great Petaluma Chili Cookoff, and Lagunitas Crab Feed. petalumaartscenter.org
Petaluma Bounty will hold its Spring Plant Sale on Sun, April 23, from 9am-3pm at the Bounty Community Farm at 55 Shasta Ave. From heirloom tomatoes to peppers to lettuce to flowers, the $3 seedlings are ready to plant. Expert gardeners will be on hand to answer questions and there will be plenty of activities for the kids. www.petalumabounty.org
Butter & Egg Days Parade and Festival kicks off at 8am on Sat, April 29 with the Petaluma Lion’s Club breakfast in the parking lot across from Putnam Plaza. At 10am, yours truly will compete once again at the Cow Chip Throwing Contest, followed by a stint as Master of Ceremonies on the announcement stand at the corner of 4th & C Streets. For those of you with little kiddos, dress them up in chick attire and enter them into the Petaluma Egg Farm’s Cutest Chick Contest (707-763-0921 to enter.) The Sonoma County Vietnamese Association Lion Dance Team kicks off the pre-parade at 11:15am, followed by the Clover’s Kids’ Parade at 11:30. The main parade starts at noon. www.petalumadowntown.com
The Petaluma Museum continues its Musical Mondays with “The Russian Spirit” (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Moussorgsky, and Stravinsky) on April 3, “The English Spirit” (Elgar, Vaughn-Williams, Quilter and Finzi) on April 10, and “The Spanish Spirit” (DeFalla, Mompou, Granados, Albeniz) on April 17. Saluting the Petaluma men and women who answered the call to serve their country 100 years ago, the museum presents “A Call To Arms; The 100th Anniversary of World War I” exhibit, a Petaluma perspective through music, letters, newspapers, and more. The Petaluma Museum will also hold its annual History Trails Walk on Sun, April 23. This walk through historic downtown is your chance to meet Petaluma’s most colorful past characters, along with stops at historic points of interest through the walk.petalumamuseum.com.
