Friends of Rio Nido Meeting this Saturday

Come join the Friends of Rio Nido this Saturday at 11am in the Rio Nido Home Owners Association park. We’ll keep you up date on what’s going on around our neighborhood and help plan our community activities for the next few months. Need more information? Check us out online here.

Calling all Russian River Artists

Reserve your table for the Rio Nido Arts and Crafts Festival August 7 from 10am-3pm. All arts and crafts welcome–including literary arts and music. If you’d like to participate email a aquila@aquilaink.com or bvdrio@sonic.net or you can call 869-8284. And don’t miss the Rio Nido Homeowners Association breakfast from 9am-12pm.

Local Residents Eligible for Free Chipper Service

Fire Safe Sonoma’s Chippers Ahoy! Project provides free chipper service to Sonoma County residents engaged in making their property more wildfire safe. In the event of a wildfire, having 100 feet or more of defensible space has been clearly demonstrated to help save homes. Likewise, thinning vegetation on access roads can make it safer for residents and firefighters. We hope that having free chipper service to help you dispose of woody debris may inspire you to create beautiful, healthy and firewise landscapes around your homes and on roadsides.

Who is Eligible?

Sonoma County residents who are thinning vegetation to take care of defensible space requirements are eligible. Defensible Space is a 100+ foot radius around structures and along access roads. Please see Living with Fire in Sonoma County to learn more about Defensible Space and how to create it.

For more information including how to participate and how long the process will take, go to Fire Safe Sonoma’s website.

Want to pass a flyer around in your neighborhood? Use this printable version.

June Art at the Source Open Studio Tour Includes Local Artists

Bald Eagle by Beverly Bird (acrylic on panel)

June 4-5 and 11-12 brings Sebastopol Center for the Arts and Art at the Source to western Sonoma County for their annual open studio tour. Rio Nido artists include painters Beverly & Patty Bird, printmaker Caren Caterall, and glass artist Rebecca Lichau showing at 16369 Main St., Guerneville 95446.

The 17th annual tour features 153 artists in 84 studio locations around west county, and the diversity includes painters, sculptors, potters, jewelers, photographers, glass, wood and fiber artists. For a complete list of artists, descriptions, locations, and maps, go to the Art at the Source website.

 

Get Ready for Memorial Day Weekend

Start off your summer by enjoying a great weekend in Rio Nido. There’s so much to do! First off, the Rio Nido Road House will be showing off their newly renovated pool this Friday from 11:30-5:30 pm. Purchase pool passes by the day, week, month, or season–just grab an application next time you stop by.

Saturday, May 28 brings perennial favorites, the Unauthorized Rolling Stones, back to the Roadhouse starting at 6pm ($12 adults and $6 for kids).

On Sunday, May 29 it’s time for the Annual Rio Nido Homeowner’s Association Memorial Day weekend Chicken Barbecue where Food (4:00-9:00pm), dancing (5pm-9:00pm), and fun are a family tradition. Everyone is welcome–you don’t even have to live here to attend ($8.00 adult, $5.00 child).

 

Over the River and Through the Woods at Pegasus Theater through May 22

 

Over the River and Through the Woods–written by Joe DiPietro and directed by Diana Grogg–runs through May 22. Friday and Saturday evening performances are at 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. General admission is $20, except all Fridays starting with April 29 are pay-what-you-can.
Every Sunday, 33-year old Nick Cristano, a NYC marketing executive, dutifully takes the bus through the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River and into (the not very woodsy) Hoboken, New Jersey, to eat dinner with his two sets of grandparents. So when he announces that he’s been offered a big promotion that requires him to move to Seattle, his grandparents are stunned he’d even consider moving so far away. But they quickly concoct a match-making scheme to keep him close. If only Nicky were married — had children! – then he too would embrace the values they most cherish: family, faith and food. For ticket and reservations, go to the Pegasus Theater website.

Annual Rio Nido Roadhouse Easter Egg Hunt April 24

 

The Rio Nido Roadhouse is hosting their annual Easter Egg Hunt for kids of all ages. There’ll be a marshmallow roast and hot chocolate plus a new event this year: the Peeps Diorama Contest. The Egg Hunt begins at 1:00 p.m., and the Diorama Contest judging will be at 2:30 p.m. Call 869-0821 for more information. (Photo Credit “Peeps in the Wild” by Nate Steiner)

Give Back Tuesday for Pegasus Theater on March 29


Join Pegasus Theater Company for their fundraiser “Give Back Tuesday” on March 29 at the Rainbow Cattle Company, 16220 Main Street in Guerneville, CA. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Menu includes:Turkey chili, Vegetarian black bean chili, Mac and cheese, Southern corn bread, Roasted veggies, Sweet and sour coleslaw, Brownies, and blondies.
Suggested donation $5

Raffle prizes include:
Two tickets to Over the River and Through the Woods at Pegasus, two tickets to Cabaret at 6th Street Playhouse, fine wines, spa treatment at Osmosis, and more.
Special preview of Over the River and through the Woods.

Yield/Sign Proposals for Rio Nido

Attached are 10 traffic intersection control measures proposed by public works after its tour of Rio Nido with some members of the infrastructure committee. The intersection control measures are for the locations 1 through 10 are shown on the map as red dots.  The YIELD situations are shown with the line of upside down triangles; the STOP locations have a solid line; and, except where noted, a sign and post would be installed as well.  Parallel red lines denote the areas that could be striped with a centerline.

“Fix” Your Cat for Free on March 31 at Safeway

Have your cat fixed for free at the Guerneville Safeway on March 31.
Call 800-427-7973 to make appointment.
Includes Vet exam, rabies & FVRCP vaccination, microchip voucher, spay or neuter, and tote bag.
(Each cat spayed or neutered is an entry into the raffle.) Must have an appointment to qualify and space is limited.

No transportation? The county will be providing it for us. It’s simple:

  1. Make an appointment 800-427-7973.
  2. Drop off your cats to the Mobile Adoption Vehicle which will be in the Guerneville Safeway Parking lot.
  3. Pick up your cats later that day in same place.
  4. The county can also provide carriers for that day, if they know ahead of time.

Sponsored by Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County, VIP Petcare Services, Sonoma County Animal Care and Control, and Sonoma Humane Society.