The following snippets of history are drawn from the pages of the Healdsburg Tribune, the Healdsburg Enterprise and the Sotoyome Scimitar, and are prepared by the volunteers at the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society. The photo is from the museum’s archives.
JANUARY 19, 1917
Will Attend Press Meeting
Alfred Parker and Marden G. Cooke will attend the High School Press Association’s semi-annual convention in Oakland as representatives of the journalist department of the local high school. Mayor John L. Davis will give the address of welcome. A splendid program on high school journalism will be presented by the leading journalist-students about the bay, and State Treasurer Friend W. Richardson, president of the California Press Association for many years, will address the convention. The young men will be given an auto ride about the city, a reception and entertainment at the Oakland Technical High School, a banquet in the evening at the Fremont High School with a theater party to close the day’s pleasure. The convention will be held in Hotel Oakland.
JANUARY 19, 1967
AV Suspending Kindergarten in Order to Emphasize Other Grades
The Alexander Valley School Board of Trustees voted at its January 3 meeting not to hold kindergarten for the remaining semester of the school year. A lack of available money was the reason for the decision. It was felt that hiring a fifth teacher, keeping the classes small and giving the children of the six grades more special attention and a better education were more important than a kindergarten.
JANUARY 19, 1992
Pantry Serves Record Number of Hungry
It was a busy year for many people in 1991, but especially those who gave out food to the hungry. Food was distributed to needy people in record numbers last year at the Healdsburg Shared Ministries Food Pantry. Volunteers said on Friday that food for over 20,000 people was given out – four times the 5,000 people served the previous year. But that’s not necessarily good news, the volunteers said. “It shows that there is a definite need,” said pantry director Mitzi App. She said that a December 1990 freeze caused farmworkers to flee the Central Valley and come up to Healdsburg like never before, which accounted for most of the increase in demand. “In most organizations where the numbers go up it’s considered good news,” said Canon Marvin Bowers of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and director of Healdsburg Shared Ministries. “But in this case it’s tragic to see that many people who find it necessary to come.” The food pantry program started at the Federated Church and moved to its present location in 1990.
