Hayley Yount-Severe associate publisher of 101 Things to Do in Wine Country was a guest on KSRO Radio. They condensed the 101 things to do in the wine county down to the three best. Two of the three that she recommends are in Petaluma. In this interview she mentions the Holiday Lighted Boat Parade (which is this evening) and the other is our City of Lights Driving Tour. She says that Petaluma does parades right!
The Casa Grande High School fish hatchery program is so successful that it has been highlighted in Japanese environmental science text books.
The Casa Grande students raise the fish from eggs to adolescence and 40,000 each year are released.
Kerrianne McCarthy, a student in the program, says “It’s a really good feeling, it makes you feel good because you kinda created life”
The Casa Grande hatchery is not the biggest in California, however it is the biggest fish hatchery in the nation entirely run by students.
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This video was narrated by Mark Jaramillo and Tina Jones and they announce each entry. It is more than one hour and a half of coverage of the 2014 Butter & Egg Days Parade in Petaluma. While every minute is worth it, the nice thing about video is you can pause, skip ahead, fast forward and rewind.
You will learn how this Petaluma mother of three grew her Pilates business from her front living room to a larger Washington street location at 353 E. Washington Street. She is inviting you to check out her new studio at the Grand Opening on December 12, 2014 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
In our interview with the owner of the new LifeStyle Pilates, Gretchen said “I found Pilates in 2005 and have been hooked ever since.” That was the year she took her first Pilates class. However she was no stranger to health and fitness after working in that business now for over 12 years. She is a certified Personal Trainer through the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFFA), a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), and a fully certified Holistic Health Coach.
Petaluma has become a popular place for the sport of racing. For some Petalumans it is a family tradition. This year we interviewed Chase Johnson who is a 4th generation race car driver in Johnson Chases For Checkered Flag: An interview with Petaluma’s Chase Johnson. 16 year-old Zack Anderson recently won the San Francisco Regional Super Touring U Championship (see Press Democrat article, Petaluma teen racer fast, calm on track) just last month. Whether you prefer two or four wheels our city is a playground for those who desire to go really fast for fun, as an amateur racer, or even go pro with Motopia motocross park, Petaluma Speedway, and Sonoma Raceway in our territory. For others it can be a major step into the business of racing like TGR – Aston Martin Racing.
When you think of racing you also think that it’s a sport dominated by men. However you may remember our interview with Shelina Moreda, Herding cows on motorcycles to pro racing internationally: An interview with Shelina Moreda which led the televised interview by KTVU’s Ken Wayne in their report Petaluma Bay Area Woman Set to Make Racing History.
He woke up one morning with a vision of a sea of plastic bottles between here and Hawaii, and he thought to himself “I don’t want to look back in 15 years that a brand I created contributed to that sea mess”
Sean Lovett, car enthusiast-environmentalist-brew master and founder of Revive Brands, is the maker of a popular kombucha drink in Windsor. What does this have anything to do with Petaluma? This fast growing company that is tripling in size and moving their facility to Petaluma in 2015. Better yet, no new building will be required to accommodate them. They will occupy a 50,000 sq. ft. vacant production bakery in Petaluma.
In a North Bay Business Journal article posted just yesterday by Jeff Quakenbush, Kombucha maker, bakery plan big Petaluma expansion, tells about the 90 jobs that will be bound for our city and expansion of the specialty-food industry.
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Marine Times, Courtesy of 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.
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!
