Archived Radio Show

June 27, 2022

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA220620

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Duration 57 minutes

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Featuring

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces

2. Deva Marie Proto, Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar-of-Voters, , Sonoma County

3a. Jill Plamann, Gardener, Ally of Pollinators, Member of the Windsor Garden Club

3b. Cindy Fenton, Gardener, Ally of Pollinators, Member of the Windsor Garden Club

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz on the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe V. Wade after nearly 50 years as precedent  for Women's Choice, including some personal experiences in her family.

Lyrics to Sandy Rapp's song

Remember Rose: Song for Choice
© Sandy Rapp 1989

Rosie Jimenez finally turned up dead
So the paper said in Texas.
Finally turned up dead, after Medicaid
Restrictions took her choice away.

Televangelists and their politics
Made Jenny Jimenez an orphan.
Praying in the light, bombing in the night,
They wave their roses red but Rose is dead.

Chorus
Get your laws off me I'm not your property.
Don't plan my family I'll plan my own.
I don't want to be, In your theocracy
Remember liberty, Remember Rose.

Many more will go by the way of Rose
And the ones that went before her.
Unless a course is set, present and direct,
Because ""a chill wind blows""
And Rose is dead.

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2.  Our guest Deva Marie Proto, the Registrar of Voters of Sonoma County, gives us an update on the final tallies of the state primary election of June 7, 2022. She said it takes some weeks to finish counting the mail-in ballots received by election day. This year all California registered voters receive Mail-in ballots.

About our Guest: Deva Marie Proto has been employed with the County since 2007, and in the Clerk-Recorder-Assessor department since 2009. She grew up in Sonoma County, has a bachelor’s degree and a Master’s in Public Administration from Sonoma State University. Deva won the 2018 primary election, against two opponents, with over 64% of the vote and took office in January 2019. Since then, she has had to deal with a flood, a fire, and a pandemic.

Guest Link:

https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/clerk-recorder-assessor-registrar-of-voters/registrar-of-voters

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3. Our guests Jill Plamann and Cindy Fenton share their passion for the environment, especially the pollinators among our birds and insects. including bees and butterflies.  Both are members of the Windsor Garden Club. They explain what sheet mulching is and how it helps transforms weedy fields into ones of plants native to Sonoma County and favored by the pollinators. Jill and Cindy were most impressed by the book Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy,who envisions pollinator gardens across the nation, as if it was one national park. They encourage halting the use of pesticides and herbicides and rather use only OMRI products, which are safe for the environment and used in organic farming. They mentioned that the oak tree is haven for over 200 species. Birds benefit from eating the caterpillars from pollinators. There is much concern over the dwindling population of Monarch Butterflies, which can be helped by creating a Monarch Butterfly Haven in your yard, which includes a special milkweed, the only plant in which they lay their eggs. Contact Cindy through the Windsor Garden Club, if you would like to set up a Monarch Butterfly Waystation in your yard. 

Note: Honey Bee on Lavender Photo and Monarch Butterfly on Zinnia Photo by Ken Norton from our backyard garden.

About our Guest: Jill Plamann owned and operated the Hammerfrian Gallery in Healdsburg for thirteen years retiring four years ago and turned towards her passion of gardening and concern for the planet’s environment. She has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Throughout Jill’s life she has been an avid gardener and environmentalist. In 1979-1988 had a 38- acre wooded passive solar home in Northern Wisconsin while I created a ¼ acre garden which provided both her husband and her with 75% of their food. This was during the “Back to Land” movement. After reading the book, Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy. she became extremely inspired to create a pollinator garden in Windsor.

About our Guest: Cindy Fenton is a native of Minot, North Dakota and moved to Lompoc Ca in 1960 where nature lived outside their back door and getting dirty was not discouraged. She moved to Santa Rosa, CA in 1978 where she attended SRJC and SSU where she earned a degree in Kinesiology, got married in 1983 and is the proud mother of four children. While she attended SSU she was captain of the SSU women's volleyball team that took 3rd in the nation in division 3. Cindy is a member of the Windsor Garden Club since 2009 and active in the Community Garden Project. In 2020 she began the One Hundred Monarch Waystation Project.

Guest Links:

Windsor Garden Club:  www.windsorgardenclub.org

Book review of Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy by the National Wildlife Federation: www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/About/Resources/Natures-Best-Hope

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 Herstory

Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

Herstory Birthdays:

June 27, 1880 (1968) – Helen Keller, advocate for the disabled, writer and lecturer. Helen Keller Day is on June 27, and it celebrates the life and achievements of Helen Keller, a woman who overcame blindness and deafness through her teacher Anne Sullivan and became the first deaf and blind student to earn a college bachelor's degree.

June 29, 1858 (1932) – Julia Lathrop, social reformer in education, social policy, and children’s welfare. The first woman ever to head a United States federal bureau when she served as director of the United States Children’s Bureau (1912-1922).

June 29, 1897 (1992) – Kazue Togasaki, physician who pioneered a place in medicine for women of Japanese ancestry and was one of the few physicians allowed to practice medicine in the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II.

June 30, 2022 NOW celebrates her 56th birthday.

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Announcements   

Monday, July 4, 11am # repeats 11pm, the show will be  featuring guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade.  Radio KBBF 89.1 FM, North SF Bay or live streaming at https://kbbf.org/live

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Wednesday July 4, 11am, repeat of Monday's show, will will be featuring  guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade. Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA. https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca 

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Saturday July 23, 2022, Keeping Hope Alive -Athena House Fundraiser Gala, RSVP at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/keeping-hope-alive-athena-house-fundraiser-gala-tickets-363451401927

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Ongoing Events:

June 2022, In recognition of Juneteenth, Sonoma County Library is highlighting resources and events celebrating the holiday. This year we are specially featuring recommended readings and websites about some traditions (cooking, art, and storytelling) associated with Juneteenth. Our resources also include current reflections and conversations about Emancipation and what it means with respect to Black farming, land tenure and contemporary concerns about reparations.  https://sonomalibrary.org/blogs/news/juneteenth

Music Selections

The Opening and Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021) Alix Dobkin death was just announced - Thank you for all you did for Lesbians to be recognized and Women to be honored. May you rest in peace. See our Interview with Alix Dobkin on 12/1/2014 and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 5/24/2021 .

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For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show