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BAMM Releases 2014 #Petaluma Rivertown Revival Video
The Friends of Petaluma each year host and event called the Rivertown Revival. This video does a good job of capturing the festivities and Congressman Jared Huffman also says some nice things about our city.
UPDATE KTVU VIDEO: Petaluma’s New Native Kitchen Kambucha Bar
Update 10-06-2014: We tried it and we liked it and posted what we found on Yelp giving it 5 stars. Click here to link to our review.
Ken Wayne interviews Jasmine Dravis chef and owner of our new downtown Native Kitchen Kambucha bar & restaurant introduces a ‘guilt-free cocktail’ that may have some positive health qualities.
Adam Babendir LoveMyLife Interviews ‘The Random Artist’ George Utrilla
Positively Petaluma is always looking for positive things going on in our town. Today we ran into an interview by Adam Babendir who has a presence on Facebook LoveMyLife.info . It’s his mission to inspire and motivate as many people, on a daily basis, to take action on ALL the things that make them LOVE life! Well I can’t think of anything more positive than that. But what does that have to do with Petaluma? Adam interviewed someone that has been on our radar for some time. George Utrilla The Random Artist. I met George at Zodiacs during the Taste of Petaluma. George was wearing a shirt sporting the 707. I told him he should reproduce and sell them.
Originally from Lima, Peru, George came to the U.S. at the age of 12 and graduated from Terra Linda High School. He eventually moved to Petaluma which he now calls home for his family. He has been passionate about art work for most of his life. It’s his desire to have his own Gallery in Petaluma which he calls his “home base”.
Little Hurricane Couch Trippin’ “Hold Me Back” Live at Lagunitas
What The Heck Is An 0+ Festival? Get In The Know Because It’s Comin’ To #Petaluma
O+ Festival is a three day festival where participating artists and musicians receive free medical and wellness care in a pop-up clinic in exchange for their work and performances. Wristband buyers are supporting the delivery of these services and are strengthening the fabric of their community.
O+ Festival Petaluma is where our community comes together as a cooperative on November 7-9, 2014 at the historic downtown Odd Fellows Hall building 111 Petaluma Boulevard North.
It’s success is completely dependent on volunteers, sponsors,
and art-music loving health care professionals
ANOTHER IMPORTANT DATE AND FUN WAY TO PARTICIPATE
Lagunitas Brewing Company will be hosting a fundraiser to support our 0+ Festival. Here are the details:
- What? O+ Petaluma 2014 Fundraiser.
- When? Monday, September 29th @ 5:30 – 8:30pm.
- Where? Petaluma’s Lagunitas TapRoom and Beer Sanctuary.
- Playing? Brother Grand and The Highway Poets
- Food? Delicious foods from Lydia’s Organics
- Cost? $30 and can be purchased here.
VIDEO: “The Hole In The Head” by #Petaluma’s Elder Environmentalist Bill Kortum
Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection, Bill Kortum, Petaluma, CA 1955
UPDATE: History lesson accompanies Coastal Cleanup Day September 20, 2014, BY GUY KOVNER THE PRESS DEMOCRAT – Bill is also featured in this recent article.
Petaluma Community Access released this May 2011 video on YouTube yesterday that chronicles Bill Kortum’s successfull campaign to stop the PG&E nuclear power plant at Bodega Bay. Bill is a retired veterinarian, former Sonoma County Supervisor and leader of the County’s environmental movement for more than 40 years. He currently serves as a Board of Director for Sonoma County Conservation Action. In this video he tells how different parties including local scientists and Petaluma Argus Courier played a role in the campaign.
In my other searches I found this other short video on the Forces Of Nature website, Environmental Elders Speak.
May 8, 2015 UPDATE: We lost Bill this year to a long battle to cancer. The Petaluma Community Access did a video of his service, a celebration and tribute to his life’s work.
Click on Page 2 below to view the Bill Kortum Memorial that took place on January 24, 2015.
Bellyfull’s CEO Kelly O’Grady Is Her First Best Customer
The word entrepreneur means a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. Kelly O’Grady was an entrepreneur way before she cooked up the idea of Bellyfull Dinners. This young self-starter learned the art of feeding many mouths in her youth when her parents would entertain guests. The food however was not her mainstay it was watching her father start new ventures and grow businesses. She credits her father with teaching her business and while growing up Kelly learned how to create a business instead of work for one. She started working at the age of 14 and as a young adult eventually evolved her career into sales. So she not only learned how to get around in the kitchen, but she developed serious business skills.
Bellyfull Dinners was created in October last year and they launched their website in February 2014. Last month Bellyfull delivered their 1000th meal to customers. In this interview you will learn more about this rising star in our community.
Wayne: It seems entrepreneurship is in your fabric. How early did you know that you were an entrepreneur?
Kelly: I think I always knew that’s what I was meant to be. I started young. When I was 5, at Christmas time I’d go and pick Mistletoe from my uncle’s farm and sell it out in front of Safeway. As I got more creative I started making up fake catalogs for my mom that had choices like different purses and shirts she could buy. She would order them and then I would actually sew them for her. I got my first real job when I was 14 at Cardoza’s pumpkin patch as the chainsaw man in the haunted house and I haven’t stopped working since. Even in high school as a senior I worked 30 or more hours a week at Petaluma Coffee and Tea Co. and went to school graduating in the top 10% of my class. Although I was more than qualified, I didn’t go to college mainly because I wanted to pay for it on my own (without my parents, or debt) and eventually I got so good at my sales career it just didn’t make sense. I know everything I’ve done has given me the skills and abilities I need to bring this business to life. I’m very driven and learn quickly. I started my career in sales when I was 17 at Petaluma Wireless selling cell phones. I loved sales. From there I went on to be a new business specialist and sales account managers for a few different companies in Sonoma County.
#Petaluma’s Grammy Nominated Hollis Wong-Wear Slams Her Way Into Mainstream Music
NBC News this morning released an article Hollis Wong-Wear Slams Her Way into Mainstream Music by Ruby Veridiano about the Petaluma native . She made her way from Petaluma to Seattle on an academic scholarship. There she has become part of the local poetry slam scene as a performer-to-watch and youth poet mentor through YouthSpeaks Seattle.
Here is the NBC Interview
The article goes on to say…The eldest daughter of a Chinese immigrant mother and an American father, Wong-Wear credits her mother — an entrepreneur who moved alone from Hong Kong to the U.S. — for her vision and drive. “I inherited my hustle from her,” she said.
She has worked as a tour manager in the hip-hop scene and appeared in videos like “White Walls” that has had over a million views and appeared in national morning and late night talk shows. She is now touring the U.S. with The Flavr Blue. Click here to get more information about Hollis on her website.
UPDATE: Frances Rivetti Announces Her Soon To Be Released Book “Fog Valley Crush”
Update October 6, 2014 – Video Excerpts from Fog Valley Crush by Frances Rivetti and Southern Sonoma Country Life post Two Days to Go on My Fog Valley Crush Pre-Order Kickstarter Campaign — And a NEW, Self-Narrated Video to Share!
UPDATE: September 10, 2014. Kickstarter Fog Valley Crush – Limited “First Vintage” Edition – Get and early copy on Kickstarter.
One of Positively Petaluma’s favorite blogs is Frances Rivetti‘s Southern Sonoma Country Life. She always has good news to share not only for #Petaluma but also our great Sonoma County. Yesterday she announced on her blog that she will be soon releasing her book “Fog Valley Crush”.
In her blog she states that her book is her “love-letter to this micro-region of farmers, food innovators, artists and dreamers in which I live and work.” She also indicates that her book will be a celebration and a sharing of Petaluma and surrounding countryside, an extraordinary place that is the last secret-corner of wine country. She credits her design team of Petalumans Elaine Silver (Petaluma Readers Theater), Nicky Ovitt and Lorna Johnson‘s as awesome, amazing and meticulous talents.
Here is her teaser video for the book that was shot by camera man Gilles O’Kane and produced by her son, Rocco Rivetti (Red 14 Films).