A Quarterly Newspaper for The Sea Ranch Association Members No. 72 Spring, 2002 Inside This Issue: Pete Mattson. landscape is designed to burn. Until we manage it, we will continue to lose LEVEL OF RISK · Fuel Management Plan structures and perhaps lives. Fuel types UNACCEPTABLE · Sea Ranchers of Year: Halprin, affect the speed with which fire moves Sylvia Levin said, “The wildland interface and the intensity of the burn. Light · Unit 24 Party – May 18 issue is not isolated to Sea Ranch, it is fuels like grass burn faster than heavy · CEP to Be Updated a nationwide problem as people move fuels like wood. Dense fuels burn · Lines From the Library away from the city and into the hotter but slower than sparse · Fire Department Picnics a country. We live by a philosophy which vegetation. For example, a fire will Tradition by definition requires balancing burn fast but not very hot on a hillside · New Engine Arrives competing ideas. What is acceptable that has been grazed and the fuel is · Gualala River Water Export on risk? I would argue that the level of sparse, so it’s easy to intercept. risk we live under is unacceptable. We Tap? The continuity of fuels determines the need to understand the nature of the · 2000 Census Describes Sea rate of spread. All fuel management wildfire threat, the scope of the fuel Ranchers plans intend to break up the continuity issue, and what to expect from the Fire · Restaurants: Sizzling Tandoor of fuels so that there is not vegetation Department. You need to know what · Elaine Jacob Gives to Community transmission capability, not solid you can do to protect your home.” · TSR Archives Get Home canopy, nor solid grasslands that carry · Flora in the Forest FIRE VARIABLES the fire from one point to another. · Soroptimist Tour and Tasting CLIMATE Levin said, “A fire burns twice: once · New Owners: Save the Date! on the ground and once in the air. The spread of wildfire is influenced by When the fire is on the ground there is Fuel Management Plan three things: weather, fuel, and terrain. a good chance of stopping it. If it gets The most important variable is “The greatest fire threat we have into the air, there’s no stopping it until weather. In this coastal climate, is not structure fire, it is wildfire ,” the weather changes.” prevailing winds drive fires to the said Chief Dan Levin of The Sea southeast but unstable conditions yield TERRAIN Ranch Fire Department. He was part erratic fire behavior. Wind direction of a panel at the Midwinter Meeting on The steeper the slope, the more the directly affects humidity – wind coming February 16, 2002, as they informed fuels above the fire are preheated, so out of the northwest raises humidity members about The Sea Ranch Fuel terrain is an important determinative of while wind from the northeast brings Management Plan. Along with Levin, fire behavior. The direction a slope very, very dry air. When that happens the panel included Carol Rice, Fire faces determines how much moisture on Sea Ranch, humidity has been Ecologist and consultant for Leonard there is in a fuel: a north-facing slope is reported as low as nine percent and the Charles and Associates; Bill much wetter than a south-facing slope. firefighters instinctively keep their Wiemeyer, TSRA Director of Design Geographical features such as boots on, ready to roll. Review and Environmental chimneys, draws and box canyons act Management; Bill Chapman, TSRA FUEL as flues drawing fire upward. Director of Facilities and Resources; “Some people call it vegetation, others There is rapid transition of wildland and members of the Board of call it biomass, firefighters call it fuel,” fires in meadows because there are Directors, Roy Austin, Alex Long and said Levin. California’s unmanaged heavy, decadent fuels; fire will move

1 ————————–— The Sea Ranch Soundings — Spring, 2002 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS faster on grassy hillsides; slower but protected. “That’s it,” warned Levin, PLAN AVAILABLE hotter in the forested hillsides; and “If the fire threatens more than 10 in Carol Rice presented the elements of when it gets up on the mixed ridges and the first hour, we’re going to lose the the Plan (see SOUNDINGS, Winter ridgetops, it will tend to slow down and rest of them. We have to choose which 2001) with slide illustrations of areas of still look for a place to burn. It may structures we can save, and our the Ranch where the Plan will be burn back down the hill if the wind primary criterion is the likelihood of applied. She displayed a map of Sea changes or over on the other side if the success. That has to do with clearance Ranch delineating grazing areas, wind stays the same. The deep- around the structures both on the roadside fuelbreaks, reduced fuel forested hillsides are actually pretty property and on Commons, and the zones, downslope calming zones, safe as long as the wind does not come likelihood we’re going to be able to put riparian planting zones, and drainage out of the northeast as it did in 1946 firefighters in there safely and they will way conifer removal areas. A when a wildfire burned from Point be able to divert the fire around that summary of the Plan is being prepared Arena to Gualala. building. If we think there is a risk for every member of TSRA. The full because it’s too overgrown, we’re not LIMITED FIRE RESOURCES Plan will be available to read at the going in there. There’s no house that’s Association office. The Fire Department has four fire worth the loss of anybody’s life.” engines, and – assuming they are all IMPACTS available – they all will respond to any REGULATIONS Bill Weimeyer stated, “The Fuel reported fire on Sea Ranch during fire State law PRC 4291 requires a Management Plan is not without season. That constitutes 25, maybe 27 minimum 30-foot clearance to create impacts.” Emphasis will be on work on or 28 firefighters. “That’s all we’ve defensible space around a structure so private lots vs. work on Commons got.” In the first hour of a fire, the that firefighters can make a stand where the current Plan was focused. community can expect four fire engines safely. The regulations allow 100 feet. There will be changes in landscape within 10 minutes, mutual aid will bring Members can expect stricter character: forest, grassland and coastal two more engines and a water tender enforcement of state regulations, more scrub. Grazing will change the within 15 minutes, the first helicopter or restrictive fire-safe standards on new character of existing meadows. air tanker within 20 minutes, and up to construction. “Until the fire loss starts Weimeyer said there will be an attempt five air tankers and two helicopters – to go down, the regulations are going to to avoid critical habitat and to protect depending on whether there are other increase. I think we’re going to see a habitat values and natural resources. fires outside the area – within 20 sprinkler requirement within the year For example, scrub management will minutes. Assuming they are all on all new construction and more take place after the nesting season for available. After the first hour, the regulations on building materials and birds, which is mostly between March secondary engines start coming in from distances from structures.” and the end of July. Some privacy out of the area, dozers are about an Levin spoke to people in the meadows screening will be lost. Debris removal hour-and-a-half away, and the first who might be reluctant to pay for the will involve smoke management and gang crews are about two hours away. Fire Management Plan. “There’s a few noise. “So we have about an hour to work people down on Yardarm Drive who with six fire engines and two THE PROCESS can tell you what happens when a fire helicopters.” burns on the hillside, because it burns The staff will prepare individual STRUCTURE PROTECTION right back to the meadow. Meadows neighborhood plans and notify are not immune from wildland fires.” neighbors through the Bulletin, giving In a wildland fire, the first thing Levin is particularly concerned about them an opportunity to meet with staff. firefighters do is save lives and protect fuel density on major ingress and Where the plans affect common areas, structures. But it must be understood egress roads. “If we have a wildfire neighbors within 300 feet will receive a that protecting structures diverts this summer anything like the Yardarm mailer with a map. Showcase areas resources from fighting fires so the fire fire, we will lose houses and I hope we will be developed on a few private lots is going to grow. Each fire engine can won’t lose lives. But people will be to demonstrate what kind of work will protect two houses. With maybe five trapped – I can guarantee it.” be done in various landscape types. fire engines, only 10 houses can be Neighborhood workshops will be held

2 ——————–——— The Sea Ranch Soundings — Spring, 2002 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS to discuss the kinds of things the riparian zone planting and drainage way remarkably fitting choice for this year’s Association will be doing in that conifer removal will be done. Also, in SEA RANCH AWARD. TSRA neighborhood. the fourth year, the ongoing recognizes two of the giants whose maintenance of the Plan will work profoundly influenced this IMPLEMENTATION commence with reentry into the areas community over the last half-century. Bill Chapman explained what was done in the first years of the Plan. The First, is a wonderful man, now going to be done in each of the years of contractor will finish all of the shrub deceased, whom Ned Westover, the Plan. In the first year, staff will do removal on the west side of the Oceanic’s project manager in the early down-slope calming zones from the highway and meadows. Chapman ‘60s, found in Los Angeles. This man, south end of the Ranch to explained that the areas of highest risk a contractor, was the only one who Longmeadow. A contractor will be were chosen for the first work. could actually construct the designs of cutting roadside fuelbreaks and the famous architect Richard Neutra. removing shrubs from the grasslands in COST He had very, very special skills. reduced fuel zones. Also, reduced fuel The Plan will involve at least 40,000 zones will be treated east of Highway hours of TSRA staff labor in the next The challenge given to him was to One between Moonraker and four years compared with 10,000 hours move to a barren, overgrazed 5,200- Longmeadow. A grazing contractor of labor in the last 10 years, estimated acre coastal ranch in Sonoma County, will do initial preparation for grazing. Chapman. An additional 25,000 hours and then to try to build the unusual of labor will involve contractors. Labor structures that a bunch of architects In the second year, staff will finish all estimates are based on production rates and designers had been working on for the roadside fuelbreaks in the forested of the last 10 years. The total cost of years that were utterly unique in area south of Annapolis Road. They implementing the Plan is $1.9 million community design. will begin the annual mowing of all the minus the moneys existing in the roadside areas that are grassy and will The late Matt Sylvia came to Sea current budget for fuel management. do rototilling of wider areas along Ranch and has been a remarkable The net cost will be $1.2 million in new Highway One on the east side. The influence ever since. Whatever ideas dollars. The TSRA budget, set for the contractor will work on the reduced the architects came up with, Matt first three years of the four-year cycle, fuel zones on the west side of Highway found ways to not only build – when anticipates a per unit cost of $12.79 per One. others thought they could hardly be month in 2002-’03, $12.68 per month in built – but to improve upon. Many The third year, the Association will ‘03-’04, and $14.15 per month in ‘04- architects found him the ideal partner. continue roadside fuelbreaks in ’05, with the final year anticipated to Our own home on the ridge was forested areas from Annapolis Road to cost between $12 and $15. designed by Al Boeke and built by Matt Unit 19. They will also treat downslope Sylvia to suit us perfectly for a quarter calming zones from Longmeadow Sea Ranchers of Year: of a century. Road to the Chapel area. In the Halprin, Sylvia forested areas east of the highway, Matt built Condominium One, the Ed Note: Jer Skibbins’ introduction they will be working between Esherick demonstration houses, the of the Sea Ranchers of the Year was Longmeadow and Unit 20A. The Lodge, Moonraker Recreation Center, so perfect that we persuaded him to contractor will be removing brush, North Rec, some 19 Binker Barns, contribute his notes to the possibly with machinery, in all of the private homes all over the Ranch – as SOUNDINGS for all to read. He meadow areas east of Highway One. many as 200 structures that constitute prefaced his remarks by a major part of our built environment. In the fourth year, the roadside complimenting the Board of fuelbreaks will be completed from Unit Directors for “One of the most A contractor friend told me that Matt 29A to the north end of the Ranch in remarkably intelligent selections for was unique in his sense of structural the forested areas. Also, the downslope recipients of The Sea Ranch of the mechanics – especially in how houses calming zones in the north end of the Year award since my wife and I were would actually work when we lived in Ranch will be finished. The Highway selected.” We agree. them. Matt was also honest, generous One firebreak improvements will be to all, ready at all times to provide help Our current Board of Directors made a done throughout the Ranch. The and usually at no cost. He was truly a

3 ——————–——— The Sea Ranch Soundings — Spring, 2002 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS professional builder. He avoided Larry tries to make many parts of the with this award for outstanding competitive bidding, but if you picked world beautiful so that people will stay community service. him for a job you always got more than away from Sea Ranch. you paid for. Unit 24 Party – May 18 Few Sea Ranchers realize that we live I remember Matt at the Lodge bar, in a work of art. The way our roads lie All Unit 24 home and lot owners are sitting with a bunch of friends, shoes in the curves of the land, the slopes of urged to attend the Eighth Annual Unit untied, red-and-black wool shirt, blue our roofs, the meaning of our CC&Rs, 24 party to be held on Saturday, May jeans, hairy, scruffy, laughing, and the look of the built as well as the 18, 2002, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m., at giving joy to a lot of people. And he is growing environment, the health of our One-Eyed Jack's picnic area. The Unit not yet gone. Jack Richardson still buys entire ecosystem was materially 24 committee will provide beverages pool tickets on sports events in Matt’s assisted by our original designers – as and picnic supplies, but requests memory. He’s still in the pool. Matt well as by our decisions today. partic ipants to bring finger foods to Sylvia loved The Sea Ranch. share with 10-12 people. Many unique talents were attracted to LAWRENCE HALPRIN Sea Ranch: Matt Sylvia for buildings, Last year almost 70 people attended Slim Maxim who was magical in this annual gathering, which provides a When Al Boeke first saw the Ohlson designing trails and landscapes, many great opportunity to greet old friends Ranch lying like a beautiful jewel along great architects, and certainly Larry and meet new ones. Houseguests will the Sonoma coastline, the idea of The Halprin. In recent years, because he also be welcome. Sea Ranch was born. Al assembled a was aware that economics, sales star-studded group of designers and A $3.00 donation per person will be pressures, nature, and state and county land planners to create a new kind of accepted at the gathering to help governments placing heavy pressures environment. Shining brightly in this defray expenses. A flyer will be mailed on Sea Ranch and changing who and constellation of experts was Lawrence within the next few weeks. In the what we are, Larry gave us two Sea Halprin, this year’s Sea Ranch Award meantime, if you would like more Ranch Workshops. I attended both. recipient. information, please call Warren or They were held to give Sea Ranchers Georgia Radford at (707) 785-2450. All In the early 1960s, this group took the opportunity to learn to see the of us in Unit 24 look forward to years to study the land, measure its landscape we live in, to see what we meeting and talking with our neighbors. potential, and hammer out the plan for were building and the meaning of the its future. Halprin calls it a score; in structures we were building, and to CEP to Be Updated fact, he wrote a book on scores, The contemplate our future needs as a Spend some time talking with Bill RSVP Cycles in which he scored The community. Larry always fought for Wiemeyer about the Comprehensive Sea Ranch, much like the score for a that sensitivity to what we actually had Environmental Plan (CEP) for The Sea symphony. Many other people here and the precious nature of it. Ranch, and suddenly a 200-page contributed, many added and changed This last year, Larry and Anna’s home document (which Bill admits is “dry”) it. There were great names joining at Sea Ranch burned in an awful fire. suddenly sounds a lot more interesting. Halprin in this scoring process: names Many people stepped up to help. The like Boeke, Moore, Turnbull, Whitaker, The idea for a plan originated in a 1985 pain of this loss was great; but if all Donlyn Lyndon, Esherick. report, The Sea Ranch: Process for goes well, their home will be rebuilt by the Future. This report was written by In addition to his work at Sea Ranch, this summer. early Sea Ranch designers: Al Boeke, Larry Halprin was involved in the An old saying is that a prophet is Joseph Esherick, Lawrence Halprin, Lovejoy Plaza and Cascade in without honor in his own country and I Reverdy Johnson, Donald MacDonald, Portland, Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, have noted that this is true quite often Charles W. Moore, Hideo Sasaki, and Freeway Park in Seattle, Ghirardelli but not here, Larry Halprin, not at Sea William Turnbull who assembled as Square in San Francisco, the Vietnam Ranch. The unique and marvelous The Professional Consultants Group. and the Roosevelt Memorials in dream you helped to realize at Sea The group was commissioned by the Washington D.C., and many other Ranch is still alive and well and all of TSRA Board “to examine the state of innovative projects around the world. us thank you for it and honor you today design and planning at The Sea Ranch My friend, Terry Radtkey, says that

4 ——————–——— The Sea Ranch Soundings — Spring, 2002 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS and propose how this community can The original draft of the Plan was ranging from hedgerow restoration to best nurture its special, but changing, written much like a city general plan new trails and facilities. It’s impressive environment as it moves into its second with detailed background statements, to see how much has been 20-year period.” One of the report’s analysis, and policy statements for each accomplished since the first CEP draft, recommendations was to prepare an subject area. When the Plan finally such as the completion of the Del Mar “overall plan for the landscape and reached the Board, the term “policy” Center and purchase of the Water placement of buildings in it that can be was eliminated in favor of “guidelines.” Company. the guide for all future change at The The Board felt that “policy” implied The Planning Committee will be Sea Ranch.” more commitment to certain actions updating the CEP this year and invites than it was willing to take at that time. Neither the Board nor the staff in 1985 members to learn more about the CEP really knew what an overall The CEP is a product of the concerns at a Forum on Saturday, June 1 at environmental plan should look like or of the early ‘90s – view restoration, 3:00pm. This is one opportunity for Sea how to put one together. Opinions fire management, protection of the Ranchers to review the guidelines and abounded but consensus took some natural environment and riparian comment on changes needed to keep time. In 1989, Ted Smith, then Director zones – and many of those issues still the CEP a vital and useful document to of Planning and Design, hired Bill resonate today. According to Marti, guide future TSRA staff and Board Wiemeyer from a planning firm where TSRA members wanted the CEP to decisions. he had been writing general plans to show how to protect the vision of TSR prepare an environmental plan for Sea into the future as development Lines from the Library Ranch. continued. Other concerns have faded, Three cheers for Randy Burke and his according to Bill. Privacy was much The Planning Committee (PC) worked talented colleagues in Facilities and discussed then, as the Bane Bill was with Bill on the plan, chewing over Resources! They have arranged for the still fairly new and some members drafts word by word. Section by purchase and installation of the new were unsure how much TSR should section, the Plan became more Library bookshelves. interact with the larger North Coast comprehensive, growing well beyond community or whether it should be a And another three cheers for the new its original focus on the landscape and gated community. He points out that shelves themselves! More books within environment. It ended up with 6 this was well before the Gualala Arts reach will make a visit to the Library elements: Pla nning and Design, Land Center, for instance, or the growth of easier and more pleasant. Use, Natural Resources, Cultural and RCMS. Recreational Resources, Infrastructure The volunteers have made some and Health and Safety. It became the Public hearings held by the Planning rearrangement of the collection. Comprehensive Environmental Plan Committee on each section of the CEP Library patrons will need to spend a (CEP). ensured that members’ views were little time getting reoriented because represented and incorporated prior to certain sections have been moved. All As the process got under way, Bill the Board’s approval of the CEP this is in an effort to relieve the realized that he needed someone to guidelines. The CEP is a living overcrowding that has been such a take minutes at the meetings. He document that is updated periodically. plague for the past many months. advertised in the Bulletin and Marti Because of the wealth of information Kambe answered the call; she’s been The “General Nonfiction” has grown to contained in the CEP, the original taking the Planning Committee minutes a very large size. It contains all the document, in loose-leaf format, is kept ever since. Since she’s not a voting nonfiction that has no special shelf area intact with modifications or new member of the PC, she can closely of its own, and clearly has been information contained in addenda. concentrate on what’s being said. She needing some attention when space Thus, the CEP has come to serve as an remembers the Committee spending up became available. “Essays and “institutional memory” for TSR, to a half-hour on a draft of a section, Memoirs” will return to a separate according to Bill. debating the use of a single word, such section, but the others will be lumped as “guest” vs. “invitee” or how to use Since its adoption, CEP has provided together, at least for the time being. the word “public” in consonance with background and guidance for the Board The volunteers cannot express their the CC&Rs. as it considers environmental issues gratitude enough to the Facilities and

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Resources staff, and in particular to Ranch Association staff, sets up the Three members of the Fire Department Randy Burke and John Preston. These picnic site. They also prepare the traveled back to Appleton, Wisconsin men have given cheerful and salads, fresh fruit, baked beans and for a pre-delivery inspection at Pierce competent help at every stage of the desserts; serve the picnickers; plan and Manufacturing, Inc. As a test run, they operation and were a delight to work run the games for the children; and drove the engine home, braving winter with. clean up the area after the picnic. One snows in Kansas, stopping in Salt Lake of the picnic highlights is watching City to pay homage to the Olympic Do come and enjoy the new children of all ages participate in tug- Torch, before crossing into California, arrangements. As usual, the Library, o’-wars, three-legged races, water and delivering the unit to the dealer’s located in the Ohlson Ranch house, is balloon throws, and the ever-popular Modesto facility for final outfitting. open during daylight hours, even if the bucket brigade; then seeing their faces lights are off and there is no one there. Firefighters are anxious to get trained light up when they win prizes. Over the Come in, browse, borrow, donate – and on the intricacies and capabilities of this years, the volunteers have refined the return. unique apparatus, which will boost the organization of the picnic to make it fun Department’s ability to get off road and for all, including the workers. Fire Department Picnics a attack vegetation fires during the Tradition The firefighters are responsible for the summer. The engine is expected to be purchase of all the food and drinks, delivered to The Sea Ranch in early What began as a fund-raiser for The supplying electric power to the site, March. The new truck replaces a 1975 Sea Ranch Volunteer Fire Department preparing the coffee and tea, Ford pumper which will likely see has become an institution over the last barbecuing the meats, and serving the service at a neighboring department. 20 years. Ranchers, their families, drinks. Firefighters proudly display all guests, and friends from neighboring the shiny engines and trucks (as well as Gualala River Water Export communities look forward to getting make sure Smokey the Bear makes an On Tap? together at One-Eyed Jack’s picnic appearance). grounds for each of two events: the The specter of tugboats dragging first on the Sunday of Memorial Day New Engine Arrives gigantic bladders of Gualala River weekend in May, and the second on water to San Diego alarmed Sea Labor Day weekend in September. The Sea Ranch Fire Department is Ranchers when Julie Verran, reporter Don’t miss the next one on the May taking delivery of a new fire engine. for the Gualala Independent Coast 26! Newcomers have made many a Dubbed Engine 4471, the new vehicle Observer broke the news. If the new friend at their first Fire is a high performance fire engine built proposal by an Alaskan firm seemed Department Picnic. to fight both structure and wildland ludicrous at first, staff at the State fires. Water Resources Control Board The picnics, sponsored by the (SWRCB) indicated that notices of the Volunteer Fire Department and aided The rig is based on a prototypical applications were going out to the by the VFD Auxiliary, are the main engine designed by the California public shortly. fundraisers held by the Department, Department of Forestry and Fire along with Christmas Tree sales in Protection. It has all of the capabilities THE PROPOSAL December. Profits go to the purchase of a traditional structural fire engine Alaska Water Exports, part of an of items and fund activities not covered such as ladders, la rge volume pumps international consortium called World in the county budget. Also, the Fire and heavy tools, as well as the ability to Water SA, has applied for rights to Department has become a supporter of travel off road, to pump water while winter flows in the Gualala and Albion an Explorer Scout Troop specializing in rolling, and to access remote vegetation rivers on the North Coast, intending to fire suppression training, and is funding fires. The truck also has a pump as much as 30,000 acre-feet post-high school scholarships in this computerized foam system capable of (nearly 10 billion gallons of water) into field. delivering foam suppressant for wildland fuels as well as flammable huge floating bladders, each about the Each year the VFD Auxiliary recruits a liquids. It carries a crew of up to five size of six football fields, moored chair and a vice chair for each picnic. firefighters inside the safety of a fully offshore. (For comparison, The Sea The Auxiliary, with the help of The Sea enclosed and conditioned cab. Ranch Water Company Reservoir has

6 ——————–——— The Sea Ranch Soundings — Spring, 2002 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS a storage capacity of 300 acre-feet or adversely impact steelhead runs or any is requested, notice goes out to 97,784,000 gallons.) Several times a other river-related fish or wildlife. interested parties. If protests are filed, week, tugboats would drag the floating the Board will try to resolve them. The PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE bags south along the coast so that proposed project is also reviewed for Alaska Water could sell the water to The people of California own the water effects on the environment, and if there San Diego, which imports 90 percent of in California’s rivers under the doctrine are adverse impacts the board can its water and is constantly looking for of public trust, which says that some suggest changes to the project to more to accommodate its growth. resources are so important that the prevent or mitigate the impacts. If the Should the city of San Diego and the state must hold them in “trust” for proposed use of water is in the public applicant be able to agree on a price future generations. The Public Trust interest, in accord with the California for the water, the scheme would supply Doctrine has generally applied only to Environmental Quality Act and would about 40,000 homes. “navigable water,” a broadly defined not impair an existing right, the Board term that includes any body of water may issue a permit. When water is not THE APPLICANTS navigable at any point in the year by available in sufficient quantities to fulfill Representing the applicant is Ric any “small pleasure craft.” Modern the permit, the “first in time, first in Davidge, an advocate for privatizing courts have expanded public trust right” principle requires the permitee to water utilities and creating a “free protection to include the right to swim, reduce a diversion to respect market” for water. He is President of hunt, and preserve water bodies in their preexisting rights. By the same token, World Water SA, a consortium of natural state. those with prior permits must defend international companies engaged in WATER RIGHTS their rights to available supplies. buying and selling bulk quantities of Hearings before the SWRCB are water around the world. World A water right is a le gal entitlement, adjudicatory proceedings in which rules Water’s board of directors includes a which authorizes diversion of water of evidence are applied. The notice of Saudi Arabian financier, a Japanese from a particular source for beneficial hearing may require the submission of shipping executive, and a Norwegian use. There are two major kinds of written testimony at a specific time, venture capitalist. surface water rights: riparian rights, which come with land bordering a usually 10 days, prior to the hearing. It “HARVESTING” WATER water source; and appropriative rights is the policy of the Board that “surprise Davidge said, “We’re harvesting fresh that are granted by the SWRCB. The testimony and exhibits at hearings be water that would otherwise flow Sea Ranch Water Company has an discouraged.” (Title 23, Chapter 3, untapped into the ocean during peak appropriative right to divert 613 acre- Article 2, ¤648.2(a).) Oral and written river flows. All we’re doing is feet or 200 million gallons of water per testimony is under oath and each capturing a natural resource that would year from the Gualala River. The person has the right to call and examine otherwise be lost.” Specifically, a Company may only pump water when witnesses, to introduce exhibits, to cistern-like device would be buried flows in the river are above certain cross-examine opposing witnesses and under the river, more than a quarter- levels: 5 cubic feet per second (cfs) to rebut evidence. Questions from mile from the highest saltwater from June 1 to November 30, 25 cfs Board members, staff or legal counsel intrusion point, and it would suck the from December 1 to March 31, and 10 are in order at any time. water through a pipeline into 50,000 cfs from April 1 to May 31. Any communication should be sent to cubic -meter plastic bags to be hauled Unappropriated water is any available Kathryn Gaffney at the State Water south by tugboats. Option A would run water flowing in a river or stream that Resources Control Board, Division of a 24-inch pipeline under Gualala Point is not claimed under riparian or other Water Rights, and refer to Application Park, and Option B would run the prior rights. Numbers 31194 and 31195. The pipeline from its intake the length of the STATE WATER RESOURCES address is P.O. Box 2000, Sacramento, river bed. Davidge declared, “There CONTROL BOARD CA 95810. will be no loss of water table in the river or in its associated groundwater The State Water Resources Control 2000 Census Describes Sea systems. He also promised: “Our water Board has the responsibility for Ranchers harvest technology will not in any way allocating water rights. When a permit Information from the 2000 U.S.

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Census. HOUSES During the 1990s, the full-time population grew 82 percent from 637 to The 1990s were a boom time for Sea Table 1 summarizes housing data from 1,157 people while at the same time the Ranch according to data from the 2000 the 1990 and 2000 censuses. This table number of houses increased by 51 U.S. Census. In 1990, Sea Ranch had tells a story about what has happened percent. Table 2 also shows that the slightly more than 1,000 houses. By at Sea Ranch over the past decade. permanent Sea Ranch community is 2000, the number of houses had grown First, although the total number of white although less so in 2000 than in to over 1,500 – more than a 50 percent houses increased more than 50 percent, 1990. In 1990, 97 percent of the increase. Or looked at another way, the number of occupied houses residents were white; by 2000, only 82 over one-third of the houses on Sea increased by more than 75 percent. In percent were white. The biggest Ranch in April 2000 were built during 1990, 31 percent of the houses were change was growth in the Latino the 1990s. Nearly every aspect of life occupied by full-time residents; in 2000, population from less than 1.5 percent in at Sea Ranch has been affected by the 37 percent of the houses were 1990 to over 12 percent in 2000. The influx of new houses and new people. occupied by full-time residents. Sea completion of the Burbank housing in Are we becoming a different kind of Ranch is still predominately a second- 1997 undoubtedly contributed to this community? More permanent home community, but the proportion of increase. residents? Older? Younger? The permanent residents is increasing and Census yields some answers. Sea Ranch starts the 2000s as a hybrid DISTRIBUTION OF with the task of meeting the sometimes The U.S. Census, taken every 10 POPULATION divergent needs of both residents and years, is a count of every household in Where are these full-time people at occasional users. the nation. The number of people, Sea Ranch? Do most live on the east housing units and households are The Census reports that over 90 side of Highway One or at the south counted and information is collected on percent, or 887 of the 975 vacant end? The map above shows Sea Ranch the ages and relationships of people in houses, are held “for seasonal, divided into 19 Census blocks or groups each household and whether they are recreational or occasional use.” These of Census blocks. A tag shows the homeowners or renters. Additional data houses form the pool from which the population, number of houses and on education, employment, income, and rental agencies draw. According to number and percent of occupied other characteristics of both people and Ramshead Realty’s Judy Berry, at the houses for each of the 19 areas. Data housing units are collected on a sample February 2, 2002 Forum on from the map are summarized in Table basis (not yet available). The Commercialization, about 450 Sea 3. information is then compiled for Ranch houses are now on rental All parts of Sea Ranch contain geographic areas ranging in size from programs. That leaves about 437 significant numbers of full-time states to individual blocks. vacant houses that are used residents. However, slightly more than occasionally by owners and guests or The only way to extract Census 56 percent of full-time Sea Ranchers rented by owners for vacation use. information for Sea Ranch is block by live east of Highway One, although Some are also vacant because they are block – 34 of them. The block only 42 percent of the houses are for sale or rent or for other reasons. boundaries do not conform exactly to there. Forty-eight percent of the houses Sea Ranch boundaries. On the eastern Table 1 also shows that few of the east of Highway One are occupied by edge of Sea Ranch, blocks that contain occupied houses are rented full-time; full-timers as opposed to 29 percent Sea Ranch parcels also extend into their owners live in most of them. west of the highway – home to many Gualala Redwoods land (Blocks 1 and Although the percentage of full-time of the vacation rentals. 18) and, to the south, a block containing rentals has gone down a little from The distribution north and south of the condo and Yardarm areas also 1990 to 2000, the split remains Annapolis Road is virtually even. includes a strip of the Richardson essentially the same. Eighty percent of permanent residents meadow west of Highway One (Block POPULATION and 80 percent of the houses are north 19). Few, if any, people live in these of Annapolis Road, and 20 percent of areas, so The Sea Ranch totals are not Who lives in all these occupied houses? both people and houses are south of significantly affected. One answer is 520 more people than Annapolis Road. lived at Sea Ranch full-time in 1990.

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AGE consisting of a married couple with or How did an Indian restaurant come to without children, or single parent be in Jenner? Having driven by The Census shows that the median age households; and 2) nonfamily hundreds of times, my curiosity was of full-time Sea Ranchers actually fell households consisting of one person, or piqued by Sizzling Tandoor’s idyllic from about 63 in 1990 to about 57 in unrelated or unmarried individuals living setting overlooking the Russian River 2000. Table 4 shows that, while the together. Sea Ranch is a community of and the rolling hills. Good comments numbers of people in each major age predominately married couples without and reviews about their North Indian group increased during the decade, the children. Table 5 describes the food led me to finally try it. percentage of people from 18 to 64 households in 1990 and 2000. years old remained the same at 57.5 Up until now my only brush with Indian percent. However, the percentage Table 5 indicates that although most food was my Midwestern mother’s under 18 increased, and the percentage full-time Sea Ranchers are married annual culinary flight of fancy made of those 65 years and older decreased couples, a growing number are in with the scraps and remnants of our slightly during the ‘90s. Most of the nonfamily households. Over 75 percent holiday roasted bird. She called it children under 18 are in the block of the nonfamily households consist of “turkey curry.” It was a bilious bright containing Burbank housing, and the people living alone. In 2000, 62 men yellow. Consistency of wallpaper completion of this project in 1997 is a and 92 women lived alone; almost half paste. Had shriveled raisins sprinkled major factor in the more than twofold of them were 65 years and older. Men on top. I hated it. Forever since I have increase in the number of children at were “head of household” in 25 of the unreasonably viewed all Indian food Sea Ranch. 43 other nonfamily households; women with fear and suspicion. in 18. The “Age-Sex Pyramid” pictures in Seeking adventure and armed with a detail the age distribution of Sea Ranch Does any of this matter? It does to glossary of terms and a sporting frie nd residents in 2000. This diagram displays those trying to anticipate current and knowledgeable in Indian cuisine, off we the number of people in each 10-year future needs at Sea Ranch. The went to this plain looking little gray age group with men on the left and Pla nning Committee is using this data in restaurant. women on the right. As you can see, a project to update the Comprehensive We arrived about 12:30 on a Friday this is a top-heavy “pyramid.” The bulk Environmental Plan. The information is afternoon. Frankly, the exterior looks of the people, both men and women, useful to those planning for emergency uninviting but the inside is bright, clean are in their 50s and 60s. Men and and disaster response; and future needs and cheerful with wall-to-wall windows women make up about equal parts of for social services, facilities, with incredible river and hillside views. the population in each age group except infrastructure and other capital There is a patio for outside dining that the 50s. Here, women comprise a projects. Perhaps most importantly, must be divine on warm days but we disproportionate share. No explanation demographic information paints a were content inside with our window for this anomaly is found in the data. picture of a community, its people and table. East Indian decorations and houses at a moment in time. Combined Another interesting fact is that, touches are here and there – an with data from prior years, the contrary to national statistics, men are intricately embroidered tablecloth under information clarifies trends. A living as long as women. In 2000, Sea our glass tabletop, a wall hanging community that knows where it is Ranch full-timers included 30 men and depicting a golden goddess, a heading has some choice about the 30 women age 80 and older. And, there cardboard advertisement for Taj Mahal future. A community that doesn’t know are slightly more men than women in beer. The pressed-back oak chairs loses its options. their 60s and 70s. Perhaps life at Sea must have been from a previous Ranch contains just the right Restaurants: Sizzling incarnation of the restaurant but combination of stress relief and activity Tandoor curiously seemed to fit in. The waiter, for men to stay healthy into their later the chef (complete with turban), and an years. The Sizzling Tandoor older aproned gentleman greeted us. 9960 Hwy One, Jenner, 707-865-0625 They all looked to be family. We had HOUSEHOLDS Lunch: 11: 30-2:30 Dinner: 5:00-10:00 lots of attention; there was only one The Census counts two types of Closed Tuesdays. other couple dining. households: 1) family households

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The number of items offered on the hot pepper and those amazing Indian are included. The luncheon specials menu was staggering! We wanted to spices. We had ordered it “medium seem to be well priced at $5.95 and try a broad sampling, prepared to take hot” and at first bite thought it was $6.95 inclusive of nan, rice, vegetables home extras, and I was at the mercy of very mild, but a second or two later the and soup. There is also a selection of my learned companion to help with the peppers kicked in. I was glad that my “Western” food: steaks, chops, selection. We started with an appetizer friend had suggested we order mango hamburgers, and fish and chips from of vegetable samosas. These crispy, lassis. This lovely orange-colored $5.95 to $15.95. Beer and wine are fried, light pastry pockets were stuffed mango flavored yogurt drink (think also served, although the choice is with a delicately flavored mixture of “smoothy”) was perfect to put out the limited. potatoes and onions and peas. They fire. Oh, and how did The Sizzling Tandoor were accompanied by three sauces – There are several vegetarian dishes on come to be in Jenner? The two one a clean-tasting fresh coriander the menu and we tried the baigan partners, cousins Bobby Beasla and sauce hinting of spices and garlic, one a bharta, a tandoor-roasted eggplant Jay Singh, were driving by one day and tamarind sauce tasting at the same time dish fragrant with herbs and spices and saw the restaurant site for lease. sweet and tangy, and lastly a thin simmered with tomatoes, peas and Already owning a restaurant in Santa yellow curry sauce that was zesty and onions. It was very good also and the Rosa they decided to give it a try for a complex and not at all like Mom’s, sauce was just what we needed to try few months. That was in 1993. Why thank goodness. All so different from the nan, the traditional Indian bread, Jenner? It seems that before coming to each other, these sauces were also baked in the tandoor. This the U.S. they owned a restaurant in a completely harmonious and were delicious light, leavened bread is shaped village on the Scottish coast, and the perfect with the samosas. in large flat ovals and served in a little town of Jenner and its setting Next we tried the chicken tandoori. I basket. We broke off pieces and reminds them of that special spot in learned that the tandoor is the clay sopped away. Scotland. oven in which many of the foods are While our friendly and attentive waiter cooked over mesquite charcoal. The Elaine Jacob Gives to prepared our “take-away” boxes of temperature inside can reach as hot as Community leftovers, we sipped the traditional chai 900 degrees. The chicken was first tea, here called Indian masala tea. In an unprecedented show of support marinated in yogurt and a spice-blend Warm and milky and faintly hinting of and generosity, longtime Sea Ranch called garam masala, which consists cardamom, it was soothing and resident Elaine Jacob has donated the of coriander seeds, turmeric, cloves, pleasing. But we couldn’t even think of Gallery Center building and property on peppercorns, cardamom, fenugreek dessert. I’ll have to go back for the Highway One in Gualala to Redwood seeds and more. It was then cooked in kheer, their rice pudding-like specialty. Coast Medical Services. Escrow the tandoor. The meat was moist and closed on December 31, 2001. very tender, an interesting reddish color Yes, I’ll definitely go back. The spell of Announcement of the donation at the on the edges, sprinkled with chopped Mom’s dreaded curry has been broken. December RCMS meeting brought an fresh coriander and delicious. Served The food was well prepared and enthusiastic round of applause from the with rice, it was a unique taste, not at delicious. No, I have nothing to Board. all hot or pungent but very flavorful. compare it with in the Epicurean world My companion agreed it was a well- of Indian cuisine, but my gourmet The building currently houses, in prepared tandoori dish. companion thinks it is very good and addition to several private businesses, ranks it with the best that she has eaten mental health counseling services for I had to order the lamb vindaloo. I just in Berkeley. I like her idea of ordering individuals, couples, and children; a love that word “vindaloo.” It sings. meals by phone, and picking it up on drug and alcohol counseling office; a And I can tell you the dish did too. Of the way home to Sea Ranch (or having bilingual Medi-Cal eligibility worker; the all I tried, this was my favorite: spicy guests stop for it on their way north). Shamli Hospice office and resource succulent pieces of lamb, not at all library; the Community Resource “lamby” tasting, in a sauce with onions, Appetizers range from $ 3.50 to $6.50. Connection office; and a new tomatoes and potatoes. The sauce was Entrées range from $8.95 to $19.50 community education program. “RCMS rich and flavorful redolent of garlic and with most around $13.00. Rice and nan is one of the best and most important

10 ——————–——— The Sea Ranch Soundings — Spring, 2002 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS services in our community,” says eventually became responsible for the whole process with the design and Elaine. “Besides, it is more fun to give redesign and printing of all of Wayne construction of the new Arts Center. while you can enjoy the giving than State’s publications. “During the initial design process, I was after you are gone!” In the mid-fifties, an opportunity to join amazed that there seemed to be very Born in 1921 in Detroit, Michigan, the family business landed Ela ine on little opinion offered on how people Elaine Jacob has lived a richly textured the ground floor of a new technology wanted the interior of the building to and productive life, punctuated by that initiated her 30-year career in look,” she says, “so I took it upon forays into such diverse areas as industrial design. Her father and myself to offer some suggestions, most jewelry design, technical illustration, uncles’ glass container business, of which were picked up.” Her elegant animation, business systems, publishing, founded by her grandfather in 1885, sense of design is evident in the slate college teaching, and industrial design. was expanding into plastic s – the floor of the foyer, the board-and-batten Owens Illinois Glass Company had wall beside the staircase (which echoes After graduating from Wayne State asked them to design a line of plastic the finish on the exterior of the University with a B.F.A. in Industrial bottles. She not only helped them building), and the interior signage, Design, she went to work for the Signal reengineer their business and marketing which she designed and had made. As Corps during World War II. There, she systems (“When I started, my uncles she puts it, she “conned” stained glass drafted illustrations of military vehicles were still handwriting the ledgers!” she artists Little and Raidl of Cazadero into for Army and Navy training manuals, says), but she also designed a huge designing and donating the sidelights for and did animation for training films. variety of plastic containers for the entrance. After the war, she and another artist everything from windshield wiper fluid opened Creative Design Studios, a Two years ago, she decided to turn her to cosmetics. Her career spanned the je welry and silk screen textiles studio attention and energy to fund-raising for early history of plastics development – and gallery, housed in a garage. RCMS, helping to put together the “I learned my way through a lot of group that offered the initial Challenge “After about three years, my mother things!” she says – and her success led Grant. She is now in her second year started asking me when I was going to to her becoming the first woman on the Board. This time around, her get a real job,” she says, laughing. president of the National Association of design talents are being put to use for Container Distributors. She decided it was time to move on, the remodel and interior finishes of the and applied for a teaching position at It was in the mid-seventies that Elaine clinic on Ocean Drive. Wayne State. Because of her first visited The Sea Ranch. She was in Whatever Elaine does, we can be sure experience with Creative Design, she the area on a Wine Country Tour, and it is with zest, style, grace – and a was hired by the School of Business had admired the development in whole lot of class. Administration for a special course to Architectural Digest. It was love at teach young women how to run a small first sight. “Stop the car!” she said, and TSR Archives Get Home business. When the grant for that decided immediately to purchase a lot. program ran out, she moved on to She returned many times on vacation, Thanks to the Board of Directors, the publishing. and retired to fulltime residency here in Archives Committee moved its files 1983. into Room 3 at the Del Mar Center. Never one to keep quiet if she saw an For security, TSRA provided a lock on area for improvement, Elaine had been As with many “retirees” on the coast, the door and soon will install Lexan openly critical of the quality of the she went straight to work as a panels in the door and windows, university’s publications. When the volunteer on a variety of community making illegal entry difficult – if not head of that department retired, Elaine projects. Early in life, she discovered impossible. was offered the opportunity to see if that “going through life making things she could make things better. “I didn’t beautiful” is what brings her joy. Once the archives had a home, I found know a thing about printing,” she says, “Because I’m a designer, I decided two used two-drawer fireproof file “but I’ve always believed that what that my volunteer work would be in the cabinets in Santa Rosa at about one- you don’t know you can learn. I said, ‘I realm of creative things,” she says. As fifth the cost of new ones. (Wells can do this.’ “She tackled the job with a member of the board of Gualala Arts, Fargo Bank was the previous owner!) her usual spirit and optimism, and she was intimately involved through the The file cabinets weigh about 400

11 ——————–——— The Sea Ranch Soundings — Spring, 2002 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS pounds apiece and no delivery parking area on the left. Walk around when I smear this sap on their small company would deliver them to Sea the gate and head north on the fire cuts or scrapes and call it “nature’s Ranch. road. At this point you will be Band-Aid.” It’s pretty sticky, so their surrounded by Redwood trees, Sword parents are a little less enthusiastic, but The committee owes eternal gratitude Fern, and Redwood Sorrel. By late it really does feel good! to Phil Simon who volunteered pick up spring, the bank on your left will be and deliver the files to Room 3 – no As the road curves left and goes uphill, covered with Sugar Scoop, a member easy task! The Committee now has the look for wide-leaved Vanilla Grass, a of the Saxifrage family with tiny white tremendous job of sorting through native grass found only in Redwood flowers, maple -shaped leaves, and existing material using advice on forests, and lots of Douglas Iris. Pass seedpods that do look like old-fashioned methods and techniques of archiving. an unnumbered trail on the left, and sugar scoops; and Fairy Bells, a lily Further needs are for storage boxes then a pile of huge abandoned pipes. with a pair of dangling bell-shaped (banker boxes), acid-free filing folders Across the road is a weird collection of flowers and alternate leaves with and labels, shelving, etc. Among escaped exotics, including Foxgloves parallel veins. Take a 20foot detour material the Committee has received and Pride of Madeira (blooming in down Trail # 104 to see a small are historical items, TSRA scrapbooks summer). About 100 yards farther on, Nutmeg tree on the right side of the covering events from 1965 to 1970, old after a slight dip in the road, look for trail. The long needles have very sharp Sea Ranch promotional calendars with Spreading Wood Fern on the left – the points. This is a California native great photographs, and a number of first one that I’ve seen on TSR. I don’t unrelated to the edible spice. taped interviews and transcripts of oral know if it’s really that rare or if it looks interviews. Back on the fire road, look for finely so much like the very common Lady cut Lady Fern and the beautiful Five- Fern that it’s easy to overlook. The The Committee is dedicated to Finger Fern on the left bank, then lush leaflets on Lady Fern are short at the receiving members’ collections and Salal bushes with wide evergreen top and base of the stalk and largest in organizing the files so that the material leaves (come back in summer for the the middle; Wood Fern leaflets are is available to researchers on an edible purple fruit), and then an longest at the base, so that the whole appointment basis. Members who have expanse of Modesty, a woody ground frond is triangular rather than elliptical. historical material they would be willing cover with tiny white flowers and Just past this fern is a large Redwood to donate to the archives may call me opposite leaves, backed by large with a small pointed stake nailed on to at 785-9608 or Martha Wohlken at Huckleberry, Coffeeberry, and Wax it about four feet up. From this post to 785- 3311. Other members of the Myrtle shrubs. Nearby is a clump of Trail # 107, the delicate blue flowers of Archives Committee are Al Boeke, the large, coarse Chain Fern. the Wood Anemone carpet the Janann Strand and Kathi Gordon. To roadside in late spring. donate to the project, make checks Just ahead on the left is a huge payable to me, mark them “TSRA Redwood snag, surrounded by Wild Stay right at this junction (you’ll see the Archives” and send them to me at P. Rose, both red and black water tank on your left). The road O. Box 387, The Sea Ranch, CA Huckleberries, and native Blackberry. curves down to the right. Look here for 95497. A few copies of the CD All of these berries, appearing in a good-sized Western Hemlock on the containing 36 photos of early Sea summer, are good to eat. The open right, with very short soft needles and a Ranch are still available. Send a check area on the right side of the road is droopy tip. The road straightens out, for $21.50 to me at the above address. covered with Rushes, with hollow then narrows and descends sharply. round stalks (remember – Sedges have Before descending, look for a clump of Flora in the Forest edges, but Rushes are round). On each small Grand Firs on the right, mixed in Spring is, of course, a wonderful time side of the road are small Tanbark with Douglas Firs, making them easy to to look for wildflowers in the central Oaks and Bishop Pines. Soon you will compare. The Grand Fir has a similar TPZ, but actually there are things to pass a small Douglas-fir on the left. grey sap-blistered trunk, but the notice here at every season. I’ll try to The narrow needles are about the needles are wide and much longer, with mention what to look for at other times same length as Redwood needles, but a notched tip (if you’re as old as I am, as we go along. Start out at the top of the pale grey bark is covered with large you’ll need a lens to see this). The road Longmeadow, where there is a small sap blisters. My grandchildren love it rises again, lined here by Hemlocks and

12 ——————–——— The Sea Ranch Soundings — Spring, 2002 THE SEA RANCH SOUNDINGS a few broad-leaved Rhododendrons. the coast’s most creative architects Americas founded in 1921 in Oakland, When you reach another unnumbered and designers, such as Obie Bowman, California. It is a nonprofit, volunteer trail sign on the left, you have quite a Howard Curtis, Dan Levin, and Steve service organization comprised of few choices. You can continue to Brodie. Their designs are especially business and professional women who follow the fire road as far as the suited to life on the beautiful and contribute time and financial support to northern section of Timber Ridge Road rugged Sonoma and Mendocino Coast. community based projects benefiting (watching for rare Coast Lilies and The tour begins at 10:30 a.m. and ends women and their families. The tour Bellflowers in the summer) and Big at 3:30 p.m. proceeds this year will go to a number Tree, looping back on Trails #123, of local community and youth projects, This year’s tour will include a stunning #120, and #118 (use a Trails Map). Or such as FAIR’s work in domestic remodel and update of a 20year-old turn left on Trail #107, watching for violence, RCMS Breast Cancer Sea Ridge residence designed by Coralroot Orchids and Trilliums, to a Awareness, South Coast Senior Citizen Howard Curtis, who acknowledges fork with another unnumbered trail sign Center meals and special events, South that, although remaking an existing and masses of the rare Fringed Corn Coast Fire Department and Coast Fire structure can be more challenging than Lily. A right turn here will bring you out Explorers, Point Arena High School starting afresh, it is often the most on Schooner Drive, which will take you students (through scholarships such as rewarding. back to Longmeadow and your car. the Youth Citizenship and Violet Check the meadows on your left just The premier wine event of the South Richardson Ward Awards). Guests are before Longmeadow for Zygadene or Coast, the Wine Tasting will be held at welcome at program meetings on the in late spring, Pink Star Tulip, Dwarf the Gualala Arts Center from 2:00 to second and third Tuesday of each Brodiaea, and Wild Onion. In summer 5:30 p.m. and will showcase over 20 month at Oceansong Restaurant in a careful search near the north end of Northern California wineries, including Gualala, from 11: 45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Schooner could reveal two orchids: Annapolis, Fellom, Husch, and The tour usually sells out, so purchasing Hooded Ladies’ Tresses and Elegant Navarro, presenting red, white, tickets in advance is highly Habenaria. sparkling varietals, and dessert wines, recommended. Tickets are available in as well as brandies and cognacs. A One more option is to take the left fork advance using a credit card by calling silent wine auction and drawing will back at the Corn Lily patch and return 707-884-3571 or 888-541-7873. A feature such vintners as Whaler, Frey, to Longmeadow through the woods. limited number of tickets may be Mendocino Hill, Elizabeth, Leveroni, You will soon pass a lovely sag pond, a available on the day of the tour at The and Greenwood Ridge. Restaurants great place to look for Slink Pod, an Sea Ranch Lodge and in Gualala at the invited to provide hors d’oeuvres during exquisite little lily, in early January, or Community Center. Tickets are $35 for the tasting include: Pangaea, Inside-out Flower in late spring. Trails both the tour and tasting, or $25 for Oceansong, The Food Company, The #108 or #106 on your left will both take each event separately. The Seniors’ Sea Ranch Lodge, and The Galley on you back to the fire road, or you can Hot Lunch may be reserved for $8 and Main. stay on this trail and emerge right by tickets will be available the day of the your car. You’ll see lots of Calypso The South Coast Seniors will present event. For more information, call Orchids toward the end of this trail in an “all-you-can-eat” hot lunch available coordinating committee members Jean early spring. at the Gualala Community Center. All Stalnaker 884-4522, or Mary Mobert monies raised by this lunch will go to 884-3368. Soroptimists Tour and support Senior Home Health Visits, the Tasting Senior Van, Meals on Wheels, and New Owners: Save the Date! their weekly lunches in Point Arena On Saturday, May 1, 2002, Soroptimist Are you a new owner at The Sea and Gualala. The Hot Lunch will International of Mendocino-Sonoma Ranch? Have you recently bought a lot, consist of a hearty, homemade soup, Coast, Inc. will hold its 18th Annual or built a home here? Did you miss the large-selection salad bar, bread and Architectural Tour and Wine Tasting. last New Owners’ Meeting? butter, and a drink. The tour will highlight innovative and If so, save this date! April 13, 2002, The local Soroptimist Club is part of dynamic concepts in architecture and 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Place: The Del Soroptimist International of the interior design conceived by some of Mar Center

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To honor and inform new owners! Our expo will feature the Web site, the many services available to you, and an opportunity to meet your Board members and other Sea Ranch owners.

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