Changing Handlebars

The Marin County Bicycle Coalition, whose main offices are in Fairfax, will be moving some things around in-house. Andy Peri will be taking over as the advocacy director, and he should fill the peddles quite well having been a part of the advocacy staff since 2006.  

Deb Hubsmith, who has held the director’s position for the past 13 years, will be stepping into another bike lane to work with and focus on Safe Routes to School, the organization she helped found six years ago. Hubsmith has been a part of MCBC for many years and was the coalition’s first executive director from 1998 to 2005.  

Ever wonder about all the bike lanes around Marin? You can thank a huge number of them to the coalition. Are your kids in a bike safety class this spring? It’s probably taught but folks trained at the coalition. It is a great organization and we are certainly lucky as a community that they are so very close to home.

Not Quite About Town, but Close

If you have kids, even if they are 53-years-old, and you raised them (or are raising them still!) here in Marin it is likely that you have at one point or another purchased something from Heller’s in San Rafael. It is a sad time for the family business that tried it’s darndest to make it through the recession, and with competition from online shopping and Targets not so far away and likely soon to be closer. But it is true, the baby and children’s store that has it all and then some will be closing its doors after everything is sold.  

Now would be a great time to go down and take advantage of the sale that is happening, but even more so to say hello (and goodbye) to the owner Linda Levy, who in 2006 took over the business for her parents, the Hellers, who opened up the store in 1956.

Very Proud of Our Library

San Anselmo Library and the residents of San Anselmo should be very, very proud about the passing of the library tax and all that it is already doing for our very own Carnegie library that, by the way, is going to be 100 in 2015!

Some of you may know that I am a member of the Library Tax Oversight Committee and we had our first official meeting today and allow me to share that the money is being very, very well spent. The new head librarian, Linda Meneses Kenton, has already  implemented many great changes to increase hours, hire a full time children’s librarian and other staff so as to improve on the service, increase the programs and make them even better, and the book selection and technology will only increase and improve from here on out.

Something to Think About

Three spots on the Ross Valley School District’s Board of Directors will be open in the very near future -- well, Dec. 8, but with summer upon us and fall just around the corner maybe you’ll put your thinking cap on or sharpen your pencils and consider throwing your hat in the ring. Or maybe you know someone who would be a part of an incredibly important part of our education community. Contact the district office to find out more about the process and what it would take.

Let’s Talk About This Weather

I know I have been mentioning it a fair bit recently, but, come on, this weather has definitely given us all something to talk about, and not in a good way. That was until yesterday, when the clouds parted and the weather folks say that we are looking at at least a week without rain. Now, if I could only find my sunglasses.