Parade needs participants
The Windsor Day Parade is coming, and they need entries.
This year’s theme is May the Fourth Be With You, and entries are open to commercial businesses, individuals, service organizations, schools and nonprofits. Entry categories include antique or classic autos, bands, color guards, drill teams, equestrian, first responders, floats and others.
The parade takes place Saturday, May 4, and starts at 10 a.m. Entry fees are $50 for commercial entities, with no fees for nonprofits. The route travels around the Town Green. The deadline to enter is Friday, April 19. For more information, contact the Windsor Kiwanis Club at http://www.kiwaniswindsor.org/parade.
SonomaFi coming to local libraries
Beginning April 8, the Sonoma County Library is lending WiFi hotspots to patrons, enabling Sonoma County Library cardholders to have free access to the internet. Five hundred WiFi hotspots will be distributed to every library branch in the county and loaned to patrons on a first-come, first-served basis.
Dubbed “SonomaFi,” the WiFi hotspot lending program is a pilot. The initial lending period will be 14 days per device, and they will be available at all library branches, but cannot be placed on hold.
Each SonomaFi device will allow the borrower to connect multiple devices, including smartphones, computers and tablets, so an entire household can use one SonomaFi hotspot at once.
The SonomaFi devices operate on a Verizon cellular signal, which has wide coverage throughout Sonoma County, but may not reach more remote areas.
For more information on SonomaFi, visit sonomalibrary.org/sonomafi or stop the local branch.
No right on red
I have reason to be frequently taking the southbound Highway 101 exit on Airport Boulevard and it has come to my attention there may a bit of a public service announcement needed. There are multiple signs at the end of the off ramp that say “No Right On Red.”
For whatever reason, in the last month there has been a strange influx of people who apparently have lost the ability to read. It’s bad enough when they go cruising through the red. It’s a whole ’nother level of bad when they pull onto the shoulder, honking and making colorful finger gestures as they creep around you, to pull in front of you in order to make a right on red while you are waiting patiently in the turn lane for the light to turn green.
Read the signs. And if that’s too challenging, then read it here, there is no right on red at the Airport Boulevard off ramp.
Heather Bailey is the editor of the Windsor Times.
