Sheriff’s substation grand opening
Everyone is invited to the grand opening at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department substation located at 810 Grove Street in El Verano. The new substation replaces the current sheriff’s substation on Highway 12, which the sheriff’s department says it has outgrown. The grand opening will feature appearances by county officials and a reception with refreshments.
In-town hospital plan on deck Monday
Architects from the San Francisco firm Jennings Ackerly on Monday will discuss their plans to rebuild the current Sonoma Valley Hospital into a more earthquake-safe facility – while keeping the new facility at its current site within city limits.
The architects will give their talk to the Sonoma Valley Health Care Coalition, which meets at 7 p.m. every Monday at the Vintage House senior center at 264 First St. East.
Sonoma to get Vietnamese sister city?
Sonomans Bill Boerum and Jill Hunting of Sonoma’s Sister Cities Association recently met in San Francisco’s city hall with a delegation from Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Hunting traveled to Vietnam in September with official letters of introduction from the Sonoma City Council. She met with authorities in the southern coastal city of Phan Rang, which is in Vietnam’s only commercial grapegrowing region, to discuss a possible sister-city relationship.
