🌱 Salon In Trouble + Guide To Restaurant Week + COVID Latest

Simone Wilson
·6 min read

Yo, Healdsburg! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening in town on this balmy winter Wednesday.

First, today's weather:

Lots of sun. High: 70 Low: 39.

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Air over Healdsburg:

This is what the air over Healdsburg looked like earlier this morning. (Photo courtesy of Holly Wilson)
This is what the air over Healdsburg looked like earlier this morning. (Photo courtesy of Holly Wilson)

Here are the top 3 stories in Healdsburg today:

  1. Vanity the Salon, a longtime Healdsburg beauty business, has barely managed to keep its doors open and during the pandemic, according to a new Tribune article chronicling the salon's uphill battle over the past couple years. Owner Jennifer Cadd had to get rid of some of the beauty services she offered, downsize from 13 employees to six and, eventually, move from her prime spot in the Safeway shopping center to a smaller location at Healdsburg Avenue and Sherman Street. She tells the Trib that the negotiations with her former landlord "were very difficult, very soul sucking. I feel like I lost part of myself. I have done everything I can to stay afloat this year, and I am just so done. I’m so tired. I’m so sad that I worked this hard and put so much into a business [location] that I had to walk away from." You can visit the salon at 810 Healdsburg Ave. to help support them as they try to make a post-COVID comeback. (SoCoNews Healdsburg & Google Maps)

  2. As of today in Sonoma County and much of California, if you're vaccinated, you're now allowed to walk around without a mask inside most public retail locations such as grocery stores, restaurants, etc. There are still certain places where you have to wear a mask inside, though — including the airport, public transit, schools, childcarefacilities, shelters, healthcare settings and detention centers. The county's COVID case rate is now back down to where it was around Christmastime, before the big Omicron spike. But officials are still advising unvaccinated residents — as well as "seniors, essential workers and people with underlying health conditions... and the people who care for and about them" — to continue wearing masks indoors and being as cautious as possible. (Facebook & Facebook & Sonoma County Government)

  3. Next week is Sonoma County Restaurant Week! Of around 70 or 80 restaurants participating, seven of them are in Healdsburg: Costeaux, Dry Creek Kitchen, PizZando, spoonbar!, The Rooftop at Harmon Guest House, Taste of Tea and Vallete. You don't need a ticket to participate — basically you just stop by any of the spots on the list to try "unique, prix-fixe menus" and other special stuff that local chefs prepare for Restaurant Week. A writer for the Bohemian has a preview on some of them, including our very own Costeaux bakery. He says he tried "the downtown landmark’s classic croissant and cafe Americano combo, which was, to quote Cole Porter, 'C’est Magnifique!'" (North Bay Bohemian & SonomaCounty.com & SoCo Restaurant Week)

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Healdsburg pic of the day:

Healdsburg resident Holly Wilson (of "Air over Healdsburg" fame), who also happens to my my mom, spotted a red-tailed hawk in the hills out West Dry Creek this week.
Healdsburg resident Holly Wilson (of "Air over Healdsburg" fame), who also happens to my my mom, spotted a red-tailed hawk in the hills out West Dry Creek this week.

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Today and tomorrow in Healdsburg:

Wednesday, February 16

  • African and African-American Folktales With Kirk Waller at Sonoma County Library (10:30-11:30AM)

  • Senior Strength Training at Rec Park (1:15-2PM)

  • Opening Night: Interactive Light Display at Healdsburg Plaza (6PM)

  • Healdsburg Unified School District Board Meeting (6PM)

  • Virtual Climate Circles Book Club at Sonoma County Library: "All We Can Save" (6-7PM)

  • City of Healdsburg Bilingual Virtual Visioning Public Workshop: Transportation Improvements on Grove Street Between Grant Street and Dry Creek Road (6-7:30PM)

  • Healdsburg Running Company Full Moon Run On Fitch Mountain, With Dogs Welcome (7PM)

  • Trivia Night at Coyote Sonoma (7-9PM)

  • Zumba With Chuy at TCElite Gym (7:15-8:15PM)

Thursday, February 17

  • Senior Chair Dancing at Rec Park (10-11AM)

  • Healdsburg American Association of University Women (AAUW) Forum: "Interpreting Works of Art - Your GPS for Visual Literacy" (10-11:45AM)

  • AARP Tax Help at Healdsburg Library (10AM-3PM)

  • Senior Bingo at Healdsburg Senior Center (1:30-3:45PM)

  • Corazón Healdsburg Conversación Comunitaria: Ingresos Garantizados / Community Conversation: Guaranteed Basic Income (6PM)

  • Healdsburg Running Company Traditional Trailhouse Santa Rosa Run, Ending in "Run the Alps" Movie Night (6PM)

  • Fran Lebowitz at the Luther Burbank Center (7-8PM)

  • The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) at the Raven Theater (7:30-9:30PM)

From my notebook:

  • Update from the Northern Sonoma County Fire District on the prescribed burn in Dry Creek Valley yesterday: They said it went "great," but that by late afternoon vegetation was "continuing to burn and produce smoke." So they planned to continue to "monitor the burn as needed based on conditions." (Facebook & Facebook)

  • The agenda for the Healdsburg school board meeting tonight includes the review of a new COVID prevention program; school initiatives that should receive state grant money; and some "revised course outlines for four new high school courses, AVID 9/Ethnic studies, advanced culinary and English Language Arts 9." (SoCoNews Healdsburg)

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Alrighty, you're all caught up for today! See you tomorrow for another update.

— Simone Wilson

About me: I was born and raised in Healdsburg, CA, where I was the editor of the Healdsburg High School Hound's Bark. I have since worked as a local journalist for publications in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City and the Middle East. I'm currently a senior product manager for Patch.

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