Cloverdale High School color blast
EDITOR: Come have fun on Saturday Sept. 15 at the Cloverdale River Walk. Cloverdale High School is sponsoring a not-to-be-missed color blast.
What is a color blast? It’s pretty much what many people know as a color run, except we’re making this family oriented, and people can run it if they want; but they can also walk it with their 2-year-old if they want.
The total distance of the course, round-trip is 2.2 miles — a fun, easy one-hour walk for most. As you run or walk the course, you will be showered with colored cornstarch.
Check in will be from 8 to 8:30 a.m., with the event starting at 9 a.m.
Support the Cloverdale High School Key Club by attending this fun event. All proceeds from this activity are being used to help build rain catchment systems in Africa, so the children will be able to go to school instead of walk for water.
What is it like to not have clean water to use for drinking, cooking, or washing? Many of us living here in Sonoma County don’t know what their lives are like and we can’t imagine not being able to use a toilet, or take a daily bath or shower.
In Africa, many children and their families don’t have clean water. It is tradition for the oldest daughter to have to walk for miles to go get water for her family. These young girls miss out on school as a result. Help us help them!
Tickets are available online at the Cloverdale High School Key Club Facebook site; or may be purchased at Mail Center, Etc. The advance purchase cost for the color blast is $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 6 to 10. Cost on-site is $15 for an adult and $7 for a child. Children under 5 are free. Parking is at the north end of the River Park Walk, where it will all begin! Hope to see everyone there!
Neidi Calvillo
Cloverdale High School
Key Club Co-President
Invitation
EDITOR: With fall in the air, it seems like a good time to reflect on the past activities of summer including, unfortunately, the terrible fire trauma that many of us, our family, friends and fellow Californians experienced.
The fires, coupled with the chaos in the world, and an increasing number of national hate-filled speeches, can make one despair. Often the best antidote to feeling hopeless is volunteering in some fashion. It helps to take action in order to move beyond the angst of it all.
Locally, one way to do so is to join the Cloverdale Indivisible group that meets monthly. We participants gather and thoughtfully share (factual) information about the environment, health issues, immigration and politics. Plans are then made in subcommittees to implement action, taken in small ways, that can positively affect the big picture for all of us while restoring our cherished traditional values of inclusion, tolerance, and compassion.
The next meeting is Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 6:30 p.m. at United Church of Cloverdale, 439 North Cloverdale Blvd. Join us. Everyone is welcome.
Sally C. Evans
Cloverdale
Food bank needs help
EDITOR: The Redwood Empire Food Bank has been responding to an increased need for food assistance as a result of the Mendocino Complex Fire. As of last week’s end, we distributed over 200,000 pounds of emergency provisions to Lake County. In order to sustain the food bank’s fire-relief efforts, alongside our regularly scheduled hunger-relief programs, financial donations and volunteer support are urgently needed. Visit refb.org to donate or volunteer.
Kevin West
Redwood Empire Food Bank
