Muir Beach Neighborhood News Issue 243 October 2008
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Muir Beach Neighborhood News Issue 243 October 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR SUPPORTINGUPFRONT THE BEACHCOMBER Cover Dear Reader: Jon “Fishboy”Friends Rauh and of theDanny Beachcomber Hobson “Banducci Ranch Runners” Eight issues later—412 pages, 264 stories, and 847 photographs— Painting by Larry Yamamoto Become a Friend of the Beachcomberare delighted to announce the arrival of their daughter This community is not at a loss for words! Doug and David Canepa, Mill Valley Market Page 2 Help support the community’s newsletter Theodore R Elliott, TR Elliott Winery Table of Contents 2 The Beachcomber will be at the Muir Beach Quilters Holiday Arts AnnA IsABeL RAuh by becoming a Friend of the Beachcomber. Dave Semling, Mill Valley Services From the Editor 2 Fair (see page 27) on December 6-7. Drop by and say hello and born on mother’sDee DayTurman, - DTurmanmay 11, Illustration 2008 UpFront bring your story ideas. Consider a Beachcomber subscription as a 7 pounds, 12 ounces andThe Allen 19 Familyinches long Birth Announcements holiday gift for family and friends. And please remember Friends Yes, I want to support the Beachcomber. Enclosed is my donation Anonymous (3) Anna Isabel Rauh 3 of the Beachcomber as you determine your year-end donations. for: Asa Stephen Kaufman 3 Bruce and Pam Barlow Your support is greatly appreciated. _____$35 _____$50 _____$100 _____$200 Other: $______ Jake Story Nelder: Mystery Solved: It’s a Boy! 4 Elizabeth Benedict Beachcomber Graphic Designer Weds 4 Warmest holiday greetings from the Beachcomber. We wish you a Name:________________________________________________ Robert Bowyer and Renee Boeche Farewell to the Pinto-Cardoso de Souza Family 4 healthy, peaceful, and joyous new year. Doris Chatham Searching for Muir Beach 5 Address:_______________________________________________ Wayne Heldt: Photography Exhibition 5 Debra Farkas Next issue: March 2009 Joseph and Nikola Ferraro Letters to the Editor 6 Submissions Deadline: January 19, 2009 ______________________________________________________ New Instructor for Tuesday Yoga 6 Ralph Frey and Candice Piper Greetings to all my friends at Muir Beach! 6 See page 54 for Submissions Guidelines. Phone:_________________________Email:__________________ Stephen Gillespie and Shamini Dhana Vote YES on Prop 2! 6 Email: [email protected] You have my permission to list my name in the Beachcomber as Jack, Aneta, and Shellie Hadley Muir Beach Bonanza for Obama 7 Drop: Beachcomber mailbox, south end of Pelican Mailbox Row a Friend of the Beachcomber. Please list my name this way: Bernard J. Halliwell Time For A Change 8 Mail: Editor, Beachcomber, 19 Seacape, ______________________________________________________ Bob and Dee Hayden In Memoriam: Janet Stump 1923 – 2008 Muir Beach, CA 94965 • 415.381.2515 Leighton Hills ____Do not list my name in the Beachcomber. Show as Janet Clover Hatch Stump, by Charley Stump 9 Danny Hobson and Jon Rauh Farewell to an Early Muir Beach Settler, Support Those Who Support Us anonymous. Anne and Paul Jeschke by George Lindholt 10 Dee Turman, 305 College View Drive Signed:________________________________ Date:__________ Alex and Charlotte Johnston Mother Has Gone, by Sue Stump Cameron 11 , Rohnert Park, CA 94928 DTurman Illustration 707.843.1625 Anna Isabel Rauh at four months. Larry and Melissa Lasky Remembering Janet Stump, by Marilyn Laatsch 11 [email protected] Anna Isabel Rauh around five Graphic Designer www.dturmanillustration.com PhotographPlease make byyour Charles check payableHobson to (aka Beachcomber grandpop) and mail to Jon Rauh, Danny Hobson, and Anna Isabel Graphic Design & Illustration Services David Leivick & Linda Gibbs Golden Gate National Recreation Area of the Beachcomber Beachcomber, 19 Seacape, Muir Beach, CA 94965, orweeks. drop in the Rauh at her third Giants game. Bear Baiting at the Community Center 12 Beachcomber mailbox at southern end of Pelican MailboxPhotograph Row. by Lisa Mullerauh PhotographRichard by Lisa Levin Mullerauh (aka Aunt Hut) GMBN Response to General Management Plan 14 (aka Aunt Hut) Dave and Bonnie MacKenzie “Quimbra” 16 Dave Semling, The Beachcomber thanks you for your patronage and appreciates your Joani Marinoff Mill Valley Services, interest and support. History and Purpose of Slide Ranch 16 AsA stephen KAufmAn 1008 Taylor W. and Yvonne McGee Banducci Farm Proposals to GGNRA 18 printer of the Beachcomber. Complimentary color covers! By Tayeko Kaufman Maury Ostroff and Janice Kubota Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department Dean Pasvankias and Peggy Chiang Spotlight: Brad Eigsti 19 Doug and David Canepa, There are events in a person’s life that produce profound Laurie and David Piel MBVFD Incident Log 25 Mill Valley Market, Shop & Give Program. Give a Holiday Gift Subscription Karen Roeper and Peter Rosselli Fire Extinguisher A-B-C’s in Muir Beach 26 changes and insights, which touch you so deeply and in Shop at Mill Valley Market, give code to the Beachcomber Laurel Simes and Bill Levin Muir Beach Homeowners Apparently Unconcerned 26 #7094 to the cashier before the end of the places hidden that you are altered to the core of your Julie and Brent Smith Muir Beach Quilters transaction, and 3% of your total receipt being. These special events, for me, have a breath that will come back into our community to the Beachcomber. The Bill and Susy Stewart Muir Beach Quilters Holiday Arts Fair 27 is greater than the present.Keep That’s your family what andmakes friends them up-to-date so more we shop, the more Mill Valley Market gives. Please support Shere’ StoddardBonding with my dad. 12 profound. They connectwith you what’sto the happeningpast and propel in Muir you Beach. Muir Beach Community Services District your community magazine. Janet weeksStump old District Manager’s Report 34 into the future. Such an$30 event mailed; occurred $25 delivered for us in the Community Center Update 36 Copyright © Beachcomber. All rights reserved. Kathy and John John Sward early morning of June 3,Published 2008, and in isMarch, named May, Asa July, Stephen CSD Takes Over Volunteer Fire Department 37 The Beachcomber is a community magazine published by and Judith and Larry Yamamoto Kaufman, our only grandsonand October and first child of Eli and Cheryl Muir Beach Garden Club for the residents, friends, family, and former residents of Kaufman. We are now proud members of the grandparents Quiet after the storm. Garden Club FUNraiser 38 Muir Beach. Published since 1946. Appears four times a year June 6, three days old. in March, May, July, and October. Annual subscription rates club, and as many of you already know, it is like falling in Green Gulch Farm are $25 for local delivery, $30 mailed. love again for the very first time. Our friend David Gillespie Green Gulch Veggie Box Begets Community 40 A gift from: Phone: Beachcomber Beach Towel is fond of saying, “...what is it about grandchildren. It‘s Made of 100% Turkish terry velour, this luxurious royal blue Muir Beach Locavores Express Their Appreciation 41 Beachcomber Staff just not the same (as being parents).” towel (30” x 60”) carries the Beachcomber masthead in elegant Nature Editor Linda Gibbs Subscription for: translucent tone on tone printing. Lovely for your home and a The Critter Report: Weasel Words! 42 Graphic Design Dee Turman Over the years I have looked on with envy as our friends great holiday gift idea, too. Gardening at Nature’s Edge 44 Reporters triedAddress: to share their joy and wonderment about their Name: __________________________________________________ A Time For Action 45 Greater Muir Beach Neighbors Judith Yamamoto Neighbors Clean Up Terwilliger Butterfly Grove 46 Muir Beach Quilters Pam Barlow grandchild. I can’t remember any of their words but I Address: ________________________________________________ Travel MB Volunteer Fire Dept. & Roving Paul Jeschke remember their smiles. And as Shunryu Suzuki Roshi said: Survived the fourth trimester Phone:_______________Email: ______________________________ The Return of the Jew of Kilomeni and Other Stories 47 MB Volunteer Firemen’s Assoc. Anne Jeschke “...when words cease to correspond with facts it is time for and am ready to go!" 3 months old Thoughts from New Orleans 51 Nature Dave MacKenzie us to part with words and return to facts...” But 7 pounds, ________@ $30.00 each = $__________ Masthead Larry Yamamoto Phone: Email: Fiction 6 ounces, 19 inches, 10 fingers and 10 toes are facts which If order will be shipped to you, add: Photographer Julie Smith Photographs courtesy of The Perfection of Falling 53 Circulation Anne Jeschke areSend so checkwoefully payable inadequate to Beachcomber to describe to: Beachcomber our Asa that, we _____@ $7.00 per towel S&H = $_______Cheryl and Total Eli enclosed: who continue $_______ Community Info 54 Cover Painting by Larry Yamamoto offer19 Seacape, instead Muira glimpse Beach, of CA our 94965, smile or throughdrop in Beachcomberthe following "CanMake we check negotiate payable theto Beachcomber to. Drop do ain greatBeachcomber job as mailbox parents. “Banducci Ranch Runners” watercolor, 22” x 30” imagesmailbox of at him. the southernWe hope endthey of make Pelican you Mailbox smile Row.as well. numberat southern of baths?" end of Pelican Mailbox Row,Asa or is mail now to 24 Beachcomber inches long, and Supporting the Beachcomber 55 1008 Photograph by Larry Yamamoto 1008 8 weeks19 Seacape, old Muir Beach, CA 94965. almost 15 pounds. 2 2 553 UPFRONT UPFRONT at 7 lbs. 13 oz. Jake, Mom, Dad and Grandparents are Way, and a nice cash donation to our volunteer fire mystery solved: It’s a Boy! all doing well. The burned-out couple took up temporary searching for muir Beach department. By Brent Smith residence with Kris’ parents on Seacape Drive in May and By Walt Postle moved into their new home in Fairfax in mid September… As Paul Jeschke reported in the July 2008 Beachcomber, If you have a mild interest in what your neighbors have although Grandma Smith had become smitten with Jake For a town of only 300 souls, we certainly have a lot flying around the Net, type in “name of street” “Muir “A sealed, water-soaked envelope containing a slip of and was actively lobbying to keep him—and parents—as going on in cyberspace.