Forestville Town Social and Business Expo

Saturday, September 24 1-5 …
in the field downtown.

Find out about local businesses, eat some good food, chat with neighbors, listen to music, see what’s happening with the design for the new roundabout that will be built at Mirabel and 116, make new friends, check out local projects which have received Forestville Community Fund grants, discover more about what’s going on in Our Town! If you would like to have a booth at the Expo, please contact forestvillechamber.org. This event is jointly sponsored by the Forestville Planning Association and the Forestville Chamber of Commerce.

Global Village Graton Grand Opening Party

Come celebrate our new Graton clothing store (owners Jaen, Kevin and Anya are a Forestville family)! This Friday evening, September 23, from 5 PM to 7 PM at 9060 Graton Rd. in Graton. Wine and hors d’oeuvres from Graton and Forestville area wineries and gourmands, good conversation and a chance to discover the newest place to shop in west county! Enter in a drawing for $100 gift certificate! Please bring your friends.

You can RSVP on Facebook if you want to, or just come along.

Hope to see you at Global Village Graton.

Sarah's Silk: String Games and Brain Development

Sarah's Silk is a local business creating and selling clothes and toys and more out of silk. They have a great blog and its latest entry from yesterday is about String Games and Brain Development. It is nicely illustrated and researched, worth reading.

Fire Department September 2011 Board Meeting and Public Hearing

The Forestville Fire Protection District posted the agenda for the September 2011 Board Meeting and Public Hearing on Facebook to be held on September 13 6 PM.

Forestville Town Social & Business Expo

The Expo will be on September 24 between 1 and 5 PM. Here is the description from the Chamber of Commerce:

Promote your business and sell your wares to Forestville's increasing "Buy Local" crowd. Your booth space puts you in the middle of food, live music, and a fun-loving crowd.
Sign up at Forestville Pharmacy to choose and reserve your business display location. $20 for Forestville Chamber members and non-profits, $50 for non-members.
Registration Form

Forever Forestville - September 2011

The september issue of the Sonoma County Gazette is now online, including Gaylynne Swor'ds Forever Forestville column. Highlights include changes and challanges at the Forestville School, its Forestville Forward Initiative and bond money.

Bank robbery update

The Press Democrat article I linked in my previous post has been greatly expanded. It was last modified at 3.30 PM, by when the ordeal was over for most. It also includes now an image gallery with 8 often dramatic photos, one of which is copied below. The most important information at this time is

Authorities are looking for one suspect, described as a light-skinned man, either Latino or white, in his 40s wearing a mustache, a black stocking cap, a black coat and tie.

I guess they are no longer looking for a second suspect. I wonder whether that means they got him or they think now that the robbery was done by a single person.

Bank robbery

I just drove through Forestville on my way home and noticed (it was hard not to) about two dozen police cars and the downtown being blocked off. I asked the policeman directing the traffic away what's going on, but he only told me to move on. Now I am home and learned that there has been a bank robbery about 40 minutes ago. Here is the Press Democrat's reportage as of right now:

Authorities are reporting a robbery at a Forestville bank on Thursday, apparently occurring over the lunch hour on Front Street.

The victim was Bank of the West, based on an address broadcast by sheriff's radio shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday.

One suspect was described as a light-skinned Latino man in his 40s wearing a mustache, a black stocking cap, a black coat and tie. A second suspect was described as a man in his 50s or early 60s with dark brown hair, a mustache and goatee and wearing a black beanie hat.

Additional details were not immediately available

I will post more when I know more.

Windsor driver arrested after mail boxes mown down

The California Highway Patrol on Thursday arrested a Windsor man suspected of driving through a row of mail boxes on Laguna Road at Maryannis Drive near Forestville before getting stuck in a ditch.


Read the whole story at the Press Democrat.