Month: November 2014

Second Look Sunday: A Positively Petaluma Weeks In Review

There are lots of great things going on in #Petaluma, you just have to dig for them.  Positively Petaluma searches for and collects the positive information about our great city in one place: The Petaluma Magazine.  The Second Look is a reflection of some of the posts from the previous weeks.

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Did You Know #Petaluma Has a Famous Military Comic, Maximilian Uriarte?

                      Marine Times, Courtesy of Maximilian Uriarte
Men's Journal, Courtesy Maximilian Uriarte
Men’s Journal, Courtesy Maximilian Uriarte

You may not know him if you saw him sitting at a Petaluma sidewalk cafe near his home. That’s because he is more well known specifically to the military community. Maximilian Uriarte was recently featured in an article by Saul Elbein in the Men’s Journal, “The Marine Corp’s Graphic Novel Hero”.  His creation ‘Terminal Lance’ has become a (an adult-audience) comic book hero and a Marine Corps institution.

Terminal Lance is a slang term for a Marine who won’t advance beyond the lowest rank of lance corporal.  When Max served his two tours in Iraq in the Marine Infantry, he was expecting action and firefights.  However he found just the opposite.  It was mostly trying to overcome the boredom.  So he leveraged this into a satirical comic of US Marine Corp life that he would launch in 2010 while on base in Hawaii.

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#Petaluma Community Foundation Releases New Video!

Petaluma Community Foundation Stronger Petaluma

The YouTube description provided with this video gives:  Petaluma Community Foundation has strategically aligned and coordinated collaborative programming of 8 local youth-serving organizations to maximize resources for our vulnerable children and teens.

Positively Petaluma recently shared the PCF’s “Spreading Happiness” video that got a lot of attention.  Yesterday the produced a more polished version of it. Enjoy and share the happiness!

Videos: Chelsea Carl and Maxfield Bala Create 0+ (Positive) Festival Videos

Prior to the 0+ event on September 21, 2014 Positively Petaluma reported on the very first 0+ Festival in the article “What The Heck Is An 0+ Festival? Get In The Know Because It’s Comin’ To #Petaluma”.

Chelsea Carl did a great job in producing the below short video covering the 2014 0+ Festival in Petaluma.

Maxfield Bala's Mural, Photo By Positively Petaluma
Maxfield Bala’s Mural, Photo By Positively Petaluma

Maxfield Bala has become an iconic Petaluma artist with his recent mural painting. Positively Petaluma covered this mural in an article on July 14, 2014 called Video of the Making of the #Petaluma Mural by Maxfield Bala.  Following the completion of the mural he showed his art work in the new Prince Art Gallery located in the alley way just off of Putnam Plaza.

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Video: Want to see 11 Miles of the Petaluma River in a canoe in just 4+ Minutes?

ps_PetalumaRiver_largeThe Petaluma River is not only a popular water way for sports and fun, it also shaped our city’s history and heritage.  This week I found some interesting information about our River I thought was worth sharing. Jaringan Tokek recently blogged on our river in an article called Petaluma River – Petaluma River California on Friday, October 24, 2014 which covers the habitat, ecology and history of our river.  Petaluma also has a non-profit organization called the Friends of the Petaluma River whose goal is to celebrate and conserve the Petaluma River, its wetlands, and wildlife.  They support education and activities around our river and created several annual events around our river including the Petaluma Watershed Celebration, Petaluma River Clean-Up, Winter Fandango Gala, River Heritage Days, and let’s not forget the popular Rivertown Revival.

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YouTube Adds “Petaluma” Song as part of Norman Greenbaum Collection

2014-11-23_17-56-44As YouTube is moving fast into the music industry, today YouTube’s Discovery System added Norman Greenbaum‘s song “Petaluma” to the collection on the Norman Greenbaum YouTube page.

Here is a complete Playlist for you to enjoy starting with his song “Petaluma”.  We let this playlist run while going through our news searches and enjoyed the light hearted and upbeat tunes.  Share this post with friends so they can enjoy it as well.

Norman Greenbaum’s Top Tracks


Second Look Sunday: A Positively Petaluma Weeks In Review

There are lots of great things going on in #Petaluma, you just have to dig for them.  Positively Petaluma searches for and collects the positive information about our great city in one place: The Petaluma Magazine.  The Second Look will be a reflection of some of the posts from the previous weeks.

1000’s are enjoying their free subscription with thousands of positive articles including these most recent posts from previous weeks:

Other posts can be found on our home page.  Thanks also for “Like”ing us on Facebook and following us on Twitter.

Thanks for following, recommending and sharing this website.

VIDEO: Surfin’ Santa Is Coming To Town With H2O Entrance

In anticipation of Santa’s Arrival, The Petaluma Downtown Association has landed an exclusive interview with the Big Man in Red, Santa Claus. For more information on Petaluma’s Holiday events visit their calendar.  Better than a surfboard, Santa will be coming in by Riverboat Saturday, Nov. 29.

In another article today in the NBC Bay Area ‘Worth The Trip’ Santa Makes His Big, California-Style Water Arrivals says to watch for Kris Kringle’s H2O hello.

 

2 Elderly Ladies Save 87 y.o. Wheelchair Bound Woman From Fire

                    Photo by Scott Manchester/Argus-Courier Staff

Yesterday evening Petaluma360.com YouTube Channel published this video and related article“Fire causes extensive damage to Petaluma home [on Melvin Street] w/video”. In this video Petaluma Fire Department Battalion Chief tells what happened.

In the article one of the victims said, “We all fell to the floor trying to move her, but we did it,” who added that they were surprised at how fast the fire started.

Fortunately the Fire Dept. was just a few blocks away when the fire started and were there almost immediately, and all parties were not hurt.  Unfortunately the house has major damage.

What a courageous effort by the two ladies to act quickly enough and together to drug the 87 y.o. woman out of the house, and the third acting quickly to run out of the home to call 911.

Fortunately they were no injuries to people or the fireman.  Kudos for our Petaluma Fire Department for responding quickly to extinguish this fire before causing any more damage to neighboring homes and people.

 

The Best Video Compilation Of #Petaluma Little League World Series

                             Photo by Argus Courier

We often run into Petaluma Little League World Series videos. Over the last year we noticed that a great many of the videos covering our hometown team are very bad in quality. We compiled what we think are the best quality videos available on the internet and put them right here in one place. Our Petaluma National team was the first to ever be in a Little League World series according to Little Leagues article Petaluma (Calif.) National Little League Earns First Berth in Little League Baseball World Series as West Region Champions.

Little League has sectioned off Petaluma into three leagues or zones: Petaluma American (northeast); Petaluma Valley (southeast); and Petaluma National (west of highway 101).  Petaluma National only represents about 1/3 of our city’s very finest baseball players.  We wonder what could happen if we were able to combine talent from each of these leagues to make one All-star team to have a true representation of the baseball talent our city produces.  We can only guess Japan would have their work cut out to beat a team like that. In 2012 under great odds our small Petaluma all-star team made it to the Little League World Series finishing #1 in the state, #2 in the country, and #3 in the WORLD.

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CLICK ON THE PAGE NUMBERS BELOW TO SEE THIS COLLECTION OF VIDEOS NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE

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