Job: Backyard in Forestville is now hiring

We are now hiring for the following positions:

Server
*Must have 4 years of experience, fine dining a plus
*Able to handle a high stress, fast paced environment
*Punctuality is essential 
*Local food/wine/beer/cider knowledge
*Self motivator, team player
*California Food Handler's Card/Certificate

Busser
*Must have 2 years experience, fine dining a plus
*Able to handle a high stress, fast aced environment
*Punctuality is essential
*Self motivator and team player
*California Food Handler's Card/Certificate

Dishwasher
*Must have 2 years experience
*Self motivator and team player

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Job: candle-labeller... customer service associate @Lucky Mojo

West Sonoma County home-based online occult and magic shop needs an energetic and self-motivated candle-labeller, product-maker, order fulfillment, order taker, and customer service associate.

This position is for full-time employment, 5 days (40 hours) per week which includes 1 weekend day (Saturday or Sunday).

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We serve spiritual practitioners, clients, and students of magic around the world, from virtually every religious, magical, and cultural tradition, so an open mind will be rewarded by many interesting experiences. Most of our customers are African American practitioners of Southern-style hoodoo rootwork. Familiarity with this form of practice is a plus; we will train you and teach you if this tradition is new to you. We also serve local Neopagan, Buddhist, Catholic, Lukumi, Witchcraft, Palo, Hindu, Jewish, and Ceremonial Magick customers...

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Forestville service dog group wins recycling prize

A Forestville service dog group won top honors in a national recycling contest in which they prevented 21,412 plastic cups from entering the landfill.

Paws as Loving Support collected the cups from local businesses, including the Airport Health Club, between May and September, said Cheryl Collins, the group's fundraising director...

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Horse heaven

Volunteer Karen McDonald of Forestville applies accu-pressure to Artemis at Sadie's Haven, Tuesday Sept. 10, 2013. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat)

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Wild chase ends in suicide of Santa Rosa man

A Santa Rosa man who broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment and held her at gunpoint before she fought her way free late Thursday night took his own life after a wild chase and a slow-speed law enforcement pursuit on the outskirts of Windsor and Forestville, police said.

Jordan Hector, 34, shot himself in his disabled pickup early Friday morning after Sonoma County sheriff's deputies flattened his tires with a spike strip, Santa Rosa police said...

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Job: P/T Retail Deli Clerk Needed - Berry's Market

Berry's Market, a busy market and deli in Forestville, is looking for an enthusiastic customer oriented person with experience in deli and grocery. The shift available is 6:30am - 2:30pm, part time 32 hours per week. Weekends are required, and flexible availability is a plus. Over 21 please. Apply in person M - F between the hours of 7am and 3pm. Please do not send resumes via email, they will not be read.

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Decorative eggs are not just for Easter.

Barbara Friedman will teach classes on the ancient art of making washi egg ornaments on Dec. 4 and 7 in Sebastopol and Forestville.

Friedman will show how to decorate real eggs using Japanese washi, a fine decorative paper. They can be used as tree ornaments or New Year's gifts....

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Motorcyclist Injured in Forestville Crash Dies at Hospital

A motorcycle rider who was injured Sunday morning in a collision with a car in Forestville died Tuesday at Stanford Hospital, a California Highway Patrol officer said.

Gregory Dahl, 60, was riding a blue 1998 Harley Davidson motorcycle south on Mirabel Road when the crash happened around 11:10 a.m., CHP Officer Kerri Post said...

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Celebrating America's cornucopia of wine

Up and down the West Coast, there is quality as never before in iterations both old and new: wines like the [Forestville's] Lost & Found Pinot Noir from Russian River Valley, which taps the old Jackson clone for a very new wine; or Analemma's Gewurztraminer from the Columbia Gorge, through which Steven Thompson reinterprets that grape in one of Washington state's oldest vineyards, located in a long-forgotten notch of the Cascades.

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(Via Farmhouse Inn)

Russian River fire chief reinstated after furor

With two of its members facing a recall, the embattled board of the Russian River Fire Protection District on Friday reinstated the chief it summarily fired in August.

It was the latest turn in a drama that has roiled the district for months, since the board unexpectedly and without explanation dismissed popular 29-year fire services veteran Max Ming.

Board Chairman Kevin O'Shea, who with board member Linda Payne is the target of the recall effort, announced the decision with the board's attorney at his side Friday, saying Ming would return under an amended agreement with the Forestville Fire Protection District.

The two districts share a chief and Ming, since being fired from Russian River, has remained at the helm in Forestville, which had protested his firing and pushed for mediation to resolve the issue...

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Loss of Jenner driftwood sculptures decried

“Besides the fact that they were charming and whimsical, to me they represented a certain remnant of Sonoma County cultural history, and there’s not many of those left,” said her friend, Forestville musician Brian Whistler, 61. “Plus, they were an attraction, not just to locals but to people from out of town.”
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Job: Wine Country Restaurant & Vineyard seeks line cook @ Corks

Looking for strong hotline cook with sound skills and great demeanor. Please attach resume to body of reply or drop off resume at:

Corks Restaurant
5700 Hwy 116 N.
Forestville, CA 95436

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Donate to Forestville Elementary School and Forestville Youth Park

The Farmhouse Inn has always prided itself on providing guests a true experience of the California wine country lifestyle, and now the Inn's guests are showing how strongly connected they feel to the community by donating funds to the local elementary school and youth park. "This year we joined an exciting micro-philanthropy program called the Good Night Foundation (www.goodnightfoundation.org). The foundation organizes financial support for community non-profits selected by inns like ours. My brother and I both have young children and we support our kid's schools and the education community very heavily. Now our guests are enthusiastically pitching in as well," says Farmhouse Inn owner Catherine Bartolomei.

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Touch of tango

Anyone who has ever seen the movie “Cabaret” knows the words: “What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play.”

But some people, including the members of the new SoCo Tango Club, have acted on that advice. They come out to exercise, socialize and even fraternize, but mostly just to dance.

Their style varies from ballroom and West Coast Swing to salsa and tango, but the appeal is the same. It's fun.

“You form a community with the people who do the dance you do. The people who do salsa have a salsa community. The people who do ballroom have a ballroom community,” said Dyana Foldvary, who founded the SoCo Tango Club earlier this year.

“All dance is social, but tango is on a whole different level of social, going toward almost intimate,” said Foldvary, a Forestville graphic artist and dance teacher. “In the tango community, because of the nature of the dance, you learn more about other people's lives.”...

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