The following snippets of history are drawn from the pages of the Healdsburg Tribune, the Healdsburg Enterprise and the Sotoyome Scimitar. The photos are from the archives of the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society.
FEBRUARY 2, 1917
Fans Talking of Baseball Plans
The fans have already got their heads together and begun to talk baseball for the coming season. The matter of grounds is not worrying Healdsburg as they are the baseball team of Santa Rosa, for although the baseball grounds at Luce’s park have been turned into a grain field, the grounds at University and Piper streets will be much better and the expense will not be great in moving the grandstand and bleachers. It is proposed that the team this year again belong to the Sonoma County League. Word from Petaluma and Santa Rosa is to the effect that Manager Frank Avilla of Petaluma and Manager Hawkes of Santa Rosa are enthusiastic for the league and it is believed that Sebastopol will be ready with a team before the league games will be begun.
FEBRUARY 2, 1967
Century of City Government Commemorated at City Hall
“Now, let’s start on the second hundred years!” With that smiling comment by City Councilman Felix Lafon, the city fathers turned Monday night from ceremonies which marked the beginning of Healdsburg’s Centennial Year to the regular business at hand. A series of proclamations, resolutions and statements made by a number of dignitaries – including State Senator Randolph Collier – had officially taken note of the fact that 100 years ago to the day, Healdsburg had become an incorporated city. Mayor Douglas Badger noted that the observance was “only the start” of Centennial Year activities. And he urged local residents to watch for – and participate in – other activities which will be planned. City Clerk Ed Langhart, who had been seen only two hours before on a Channel Five news broadcast marking the anniversary, opened the ceremonies by reading the petition for incorporation which became effective in February 1867.
FEBRUARY 2, 1992
Spanish Language Programs to Merge
A recommendation to merge the existing Spanish language Immersion and bilingual education programs at Healdsburg elementary schools will be presented to school trustees at their March 4 meeting. The program change will aim to strengthen the Spanish component at the primary grade levels and the English component at the upper grade levels, in an attempt to combine the best of both existing programs, according to Loretta Strong, director of personnel. The two programs are being merged primarily because of the effects on class size, as well as financial constraints. Maintaining two programs in the elementary school has resulted in some Immersion classes having less students than other bilingual or regular classrooms. Strong said the two programs were becoming “competitive” among school faculty and added that merging the two could unite the faculty behind one basic language acquisition program. The Immersion and bilingual programs differ in that Immersion offers primary instruction in 90 percent Spanish, beginning at the kindergarten level, and leveling off to about equal instruction in both English and Spanish in the upper grades. In the bilingual classroom, there is a closer balance between Spanish and English instruction.
