Boating at the Barn – Sundays, 10am-1pm: Pick a rowboat, canoe, kayak or sailboat. River Heritage Center in Steamer Landing Park. 769-0910
East-Side Farmers’ Market – Tuesdays, 10am-1:30pm: Year-round, rain or shine! In the Petaluma Community Center Parking Lot, 320 N. McDowell Blvd. 415-999-5635
“The Children’s Hours” – Wednesday, March 11: Pre-film lecture at 6pm; Films at 7pm: Presented by the Petaluma Film Alliance at the Carole L. Ellis Auditorium, SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy.
Wine+Words at McEvoy Ranch – Saturday, March 14, Noon: Pre-lunch tastes of library wines, enjoy the music of Mark Clifford with your meal. 778-69-4138
A Celebration of our Diverse Heritage – Sat. Mar. 14, noon: Music, dancing, food, poetry readings and more from the various cultural and ethnic groups of Petaluma. Petaluma Historical Library & Museum, 20 Fourth St. 778-4398.
CamelBak Trudeau Cool Off 24-Ounce Hydration Bottle
SF GATE (San Francisco Chronicle) has a segment in their business column each Monday called Office Space which gives readers a glimpse inside a Bay Area company. This week they featured Petaluma’s Camelbak. The following content was contributed by their staff writer Julie Balise, a San Francisco Chronicle Staff writer. Also if you missed a previous interview of CamelBak’s CEO on Behind The Brand I have been waiting to post this as well, because we have seen it come up in our searches again this morning. On November 14, 2014 we reported on CamelBak was recognized by GreatLists at one of the healthiest companies to work for in American. In 2013 Outside Magazine listed them in the 100 Best Places To Work.
As suggested by the headline, CamelBak is obsessed with hydration. So much so that their office is laced with water molecules. Their environment also includes “clouds” or sound panels to absorb noise from their open office space. The company also made their office green friendly and by doing so it became a certified Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) building.
CamelBak’s Cafeteria, Photo by Terray Sylvester / The Chronicle
Their hallways are like shopping displays showcasing their their best selling products with meeting rooms and retractable walls to create even more open space when needed. Their cafeteria has a wall of windows giving it natural light with views of Shollenberger Park. The cafeteria also offers the employees healthy snacks, and yes, you guessed it, water coolers for them to refill their CamelBak water bottles.
While their products are manufacturer in Mexico, the design and test them in Petaluma. They have an open lab space so the other employees can see how their how their products work. In the testing area they also have temperature chambers to determine how long water would freeze in their bottles and effects also from heat and pressure.
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The 24th Annual Rock n’ Bowl is March 27th. Still time to get your lane, come dance, sing, get a little silly and support PPSC. Check out the video below from last year. Also get your team registration and sponsorship forms below and sign up today.
You can’t participate and don’t have a team to sponsor but still wish to show your support? No Problem!
Positively Petaluma will be there playing. Simply sponsor us by sending your check made payable to Petaluma People Services Center (or PPSC) with your email address written in the memo section of your check and mail it Positively Petaluma, c/o PPSC, 159 Kentucky St., Suite #2, Petaluma, CA 94952 before March 23, 2015.
You too can contribute to this event to help make it a win-win for the community. PPSC provides these core services:
Senior Services: Meals on Wheels, Adult Day Care, Case Management, Nutrition Site-Senior Cafe, Counseling
Homeless Prevention and Fair Housing
Employment Training: Adult and Youth
Counseling: For Individuals, Couples & Families, Drug & Alcohol, Youth Intervention & Prevention
Petaluma Bounty: Creating a sustainable food system with healthy food for everyone, regardless of income level.
We previously interviewed Petaluman David Best who is the architect, artist and builder of the Temple of Grace for the 2014 Burning Man on July 12, 2014 called #Petaluma’s David Best Builds 2014 Burning Man Temple In Petaluma. In that article we later added a video that we included below that shows the construction in Petaluma.
It was not until recently that we found some qualify photos in our Social Media searches by a photographer named Jeff Perkins. We would like to thank him for agreeing to let us use his photos so we could share them with you. So we would like to thank him for sharing his work.
Because they built the structure in pieces in Petaluma, and then shipped and assembled them at the venue, not many were able to see the finished product unless you attended the event. So here is a small picture gallery for you.
The Temple of Grace 2014 Was Build By David Best In Petaluma California, Photo By Jeff PerkinsThe Temple of Grace 2014 Was Build By David Best In Petaluma California, Photo By Jeff PerkinsThe Temple of Grace 2014 Was Build By David Best In Petaluma California, Photo By Jeff Perkins
In case you missed it, here is a video we posted before showing the construction project in Petaluma.
Minna Stess Petaluma Skateboarder Photo From Minna’s Facebook Page
UPDATE The Argus Courier, Petaluma360.com just released an article on Minna, Young wizard on four wheels, By William Rohrs.
Our original article from March 5th.
From and article in the East Bay Express this morning: In 2013, Minna Stess became the first girl to win the California Amateur Skateboard League (CASL) series in its thirty-plus-year history. She has also won first place in the NorCal competition for street skateboarding, and second place in CASL’s State Championships.
In 2014, Stess made history again at the national King of the Groms contest in Minneapolis by becoming the first girl to win an event (beginner mini ramp), to win an ATV award (all terrain vehicle/best all around), to make the finals in three events (street, mini ramp, bowl), and to make the top five in street skating. And this year, she placed third in the Vans Girls Combi Pool Classic (a World Cup Skateboarding event). She has multiple sponsors — including BrokinBonz Clothing, Lakai Limited Footwear, Theeve Trucks, Silly Girl Skateboards, Sonoma Old School SkateShop, and Girl Is Not A 4 Letter Word, a brand by one of the original pro girl skaters, Cindy Whitehead — plus thousands of Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook fans.
Minna Stess is eight years old.
Minna Stess Petaluma Skateboarder Photo From Minna’s Facebook Page
And she is one of the many impressive young (and less young) women in the Bay Area who are changing the sport of skateboarding for the better, and inspiring countless others along the way.
Armed security guards at Arizona at PhoenixNAP Data Center where aftertec,Inc servers are located
In a press release sent out this month, aftertec, Inc. launched its new webhosting platform offering a local Petaluma provider for website hosting services. Chad Dunbar, CEO of aftertec, Inc., says “Instead of calling 800-GUESS-WHO you can call our local number and actually reach someone who can help you, or if you want you can drop by our office in the center of downtown Petaluma.” Having actual tech support is definitely in the top ten items you should consider when choosing a webhosting service. When your site for any reason goes down, can you call and get a real live person? Or do you have to search a website only to find they don’t have a phone number to call? A lot of webhosting companies don’t even tell you what kind of servers they are using. Dunbar also states “Our servers are located in an area with the least chance of environmental disruptions”. The servers are powered by Dell Enterprise technology and sits behind state-of-the-art security with armed guards to ensure your critical information remains safeguarded at all times. aftertec provides affordable home and business computer and laptop solutions as a Dell Partner.
When choosing a webhosting company jumping to the cheapest offer you see isn’t necessarily the best idea. You need to look into the company’s specialty or area of expertise before you buy. You also have to consider the technical specification limitations. If you host a blog or an ecommerce site with rich content and video, then you shouldn’t go for the cheapest hosting package you can find. You should also consider what email features you will get – Can you get [email protected]? Also you need to consider what kind of control panel you can use. C-Panel makes it easy to update and modify instead of some clunky interface that no one can figure out.
For as little as $19.99/month you get local and reliable support that is affordable for both home and small businesses. Included in the service is C-Panel technology, 5 Gigs of disk space, 100GB of bandwidth transfer, 1 Database (MySQL), and 10 email accounts (POP3, IMAP), unlimited subdomains, and daily backups are included. To enroll simply go to the aftertec website.
aftertec, Inc. Headquarters in the historic Herold Building
aftertec. Inc. is located in the heart of historic downtown Petaluma in the historic Herold building and iconic round window office. They focus on and support your technology needs for home and business. No job is too big or small whether it is installing network servers and workstations for your business or cleaning a virus off your personal laptop. aftertec was founded in 2012 by owner Chad Dunbar, a local computer entrepreneur from Petaluma known publicly for his computerized Christmas light shows and innovating web gaming technology. aftetec, Inc. is a member of the Petaluma Chamber of Commerce and Petaluma Downtown Association. aftertec, Inc. is locate at 159 Kentucky St., Suite #2 in downtown Petaluma. Their phone number is (707) 773-6000.
Local Vibe Music announced yesterday that Petaluma-based band Saffel released it’s new record The Devil’s On The Radio hit the airwaves and can be played on virtually any device. Several launch parties have been held to celebrate the new record. Don’t miss their release performance on Saturday, April 4 starting at 2PM at the Last Record Store located at 1899 Mendocino Ave. in Santa Rosa.
Saffell Sproul, the multi-faceted singer and pianist whose band takes on his name is the writer and lyricist on the record, leads the indie rock band. His piano is a Korg SV-1, with a sound that models classic rock keyboards.
Although this three member band has already released a few singles, this is their debut of the full-length album. Produced by David Rubinstein, popular songs on the record include, American Piano, We the Blind, and Back Home. Devil’s On The Radio. These songs were tracked at Prarie Sun Studios in Cotati and engineered by Matt Wright. They were mixed by Andy Zenczak at Gadgetbox Studios in Santa Cruz and mastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Studios in Phoenix.
Other band members are Bill O’Donnell of Cloverdale on drums and Matt Pasquale on bass from Santa Rosa. The group has performed its soulful indie music at night clubs and festivals all over the Bay Area including the Petaluma Music Festival, Zodiacs and at Lagunitas Taproom.
The band is represented by Petaluma’s Second Octave Talent who recently launched their new website SaffelMusic.com. You can purchase their songs on Amazon by clicking on the album titles or individual song titles above.
Moresco Distributing Company is purchasing a 123,600 sq. ft. facility located at 1450 Technology Lane, Petaluma, CA. Moresco was operating out of two facilities, a building it owned and a second building it was leasing. The company will consolidate both locations in the new building, which includes 39,500 sq. ft. of Class A office space for lease plus nearly 200 parking spaces.
“The new facility puts us under one roof,” said Ron Moresco, President & Owner, Moresco Distributing Company. “The building has 39,500 square feet of office space we can rent out, which gives us a real estate investment and additional cash flow. The facility is ideal as a headquarters or satellite office for a growing business.”
Founded in 1994, Moresco is a full-service packaging and distribution company specializing in biodegradable and compostable products for regional food distributors, independent grocers, food processors, specialty retail foodservice operators and wineries in the Greater San Francisco Bay, Sacramento, and Portland, Oregon regions including our local Petaluma Market.
They accomplished this purchase using U.S. Small Business Administration 504 loans through Capital Access Group. The total financing amounts to $10.65 million. The company accessed 504 financing through Capital Access Group for the purchase of its first building, which it sold and reinvested the proceeds in the new building through a 1031 exchange. “Without the 504 program, we wouldn’t have been able to parlay up to buy this building,” said Ron Moresco, President & Owner, Moresco Distributing Company. “The SBA loan was the difference, and Jacklyn Jordan and Dave Simmons from Capital Access showed us the path to justify this move.
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Laurie Figone grew up on her familys ranch and always enjoys coming back
Growing up on a ranch and having large weekly family dinners with at least 30 people gave Figone a passion for cooking and food. Figone speaks fondly about these dinners saying, “My grandmother loved doing all the cooking … I, growing up, wanted to be down at the barn feeding calves but my mother kept me in the house. I hated it at the time but now I have to say I thank her because … I’ve just won another World Championship with my cooking and I never imagined any of this, truthfully.”
Taste of Home 2010 is the first cookbook in which one of Laurie Figones recipe’s was published
Figone’s professional cooking started five years ago when a neighbor helped her realize her talent. Figone was baking focaccia bread for one of her neighbors to take to work and soon her neighbor’s coworkers were requesting and buying Figone’s focaccia. Figone then secretly submitted her focaccia recipe to Taste of Home’s recipe contest and won. It was her first published recipe and the start of her cooking career.
The next step for Figone was participating in her first live cooking competition at the Gilroy Garlic Festival where she, again, won. From there things took off and she went on the NBC TODAY Show for their burger battle and to the Annual Bob’s Red Mill Spar for the Spurtle where she won and was sent to Scotland for the Annual World Porridge Making Championship. In the last year Figone was on TNT’s reality show On the Menu with Emeril Lagasse and Ty Pennington.
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East-Side Farmers’ Market – Tuesdays, 10am-1:30pm: Year-round, rain or shine! In the Petaluma Community Center Parking Lot, 320 N. McDowell Blvd. 415-999-5635
“Romeo & Juliet” – Friday & Saturday, March 13 & 14, 7:30pm: Cinnabar Theater’s Young Rep performs. $15 adult/ $10 youth. 3333 Petaluma Blvd. North. 763-8920
with meeting rooms and retractable walls to create even more open space when needed. Their cafeteria has a wall of windows giving it natural light with views of 
