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Feast for the intellect and  the Senses: The Italian odyssey in Sonoma County

Squirrels are chirruping and elbowing each other out of the way to grab loose acorns. Send your autumnal items to “IDlewood 3…” - your “who, what, where” column. “Hedda Healdsburg” wants to know all!      

I have 178 connections on LinkedIn. I have no idea if that’s a lot or a little, since I didn’t initiate any of them and I never use it. LinkedIn is an online social networking site, where professionals go to, well ... network, I guess. A fellow writer talked me into signing up a couple of years ago, telling me it would be good for business. I filled in a few innocuous facts about myself and immediately began to get requests from other LinkedIn people who wanted to “connect” with me.

Friends of the Healdsburg Library are always seeking book donations for the three book sales they hold yearly. Books, videos, CDs can be left at the library.

You can smell it in the air, feel it in your bones, see it in the beginnings of color change — summer is ending and with it the tremendous energy force of Mother Nature’s race to produce food. The food’s consumers are more than just human. They include the animals that share our planet. Hence, the seeds of weeds and trees feed the birds. Melons, winter squash, and tree fruit fill beaks and stomachs of hundreds of creatures hiding in nests, burrows, blackberry brambles.

She wore sensible shoes, a nice white blazer and a smile that said, “Sit up, you in the back row. I’m talking to you.”  It was Sister Simone Campbell, one of the famed “Nuns on the Bus,” stopping by in Charlotte last week. The only nun to address the Democratic convention but far from the only sister in the room.

Friends of the Healdsburg Library are always seeking book donations for the three book sales they hold yearly. Books, videos, CDs can be left at the library. Public School Success Team (PSST) is looking for tutors and volunteers. Please contact them at 707-473-0902 or email...

Mr. Healdsburg, Chris Herrod, and Supervisor Mike McGuire were with us at the Zucchini Festival, welcoming everyone and reminded us that, although the kids may be back in school, and summer may seem to be winding down, we still have Indian Summer to enjoy, and the market is at its peak now and for the next month. The farmers are busy harvesting, and the Wednesday Market continues through October, and the Saturday Market continues through November.

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