KGGV - the Early Years

Three Years before the Antenna

        Year One                   February 2006   –  May 2007

                  or                         The Rise of a Community

**                 The Closet Studio                                     The Shed

                      Cynthia & Masada                                    Psych You

                      Stephen & Robert                                     Bulwarks of the station

                      OT Radio, Healthwise                              Old Radio, Storytime, Cooking

                      Kit Mariah                                                   Local Groups

                      Pat Nolan                                                     Jazz

                      Ari Hermann                                               The High Five

                      Sharon Wikoff                                            Parenting

                      Guy & GAX                                                   Contemporary Music

                      Strawberry Festival

                      Noel Yates                                                   Reading Books

                      Pat & Mike                                                  Live Music

                      Janie & Dave Roberts                               South Sea Islands

        Year Two                   June 2007      –     September 2008

                     or                            Establishing Watermarks

                      Owen & Ferd                                       Quiet & Steady

                      Sophie & Kirsten                                Interns

                      River Home Companion

                      Valerie Hausmann                             Community Calendar

                      Hayley Severe                                     Guerneville Performance Center

                      Plays                                                       Big Reads & Mystery Dinners

                      Suki Akers                                             Voice of Youth

                      Pam Tinnin                                           Churchy Stuff

**                 Bob Linden                                          Air America’s “Go Vegan”

                      Jim & Nancy Fullmer                         Alternative Genres

                      Jeffy’s Sisters                                       Bad Habits

                      Hunter                                                   Thriving

        Year Three               October 2008  –  January 2010

                or                     Balloons Being Popped

                      Adaria                                                    DubFunkShun

                      Beth Hearn

                      Mark Gregory                                      Mr. Classical

**                 Christine Lowry                                  Christine’s Church Garden

                      Guerneville Community Church

                      John DeSalvio                                     Ed. Local paper & big supporter

                      Damien Olsen & Susy                       Moon Over Bohemia

**                 Anne, Helena, & Maria                   Food Shows

                      Timothy Dixon                                    Ka-Uapo

                      Laura Mueller                                     Anecdotal Evidence

                      Greg & Natasha                                  Ethnic Miasma

                      Peter Andrews                                    The Bridge Mix

                      Bruce Robinson                                  Weekend Gardner

High Noon - My Coming of Age

“Movie Night” has been running for three years now.

Tuesday nights at 6 pm at Peter’s house in Monte Rio 20367 Hwy 116

It started as an adjunct to a Senior Center Book Club, open to the public,

   why not watch the movie that was all about the book?

But we’ve grown to support all Senior’s interest in appreciating

   the award-winning, classical movie productions, of classical books.

Last week we watched "Naughty Marietta" with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.  It was the first of their series, so they did only one duet  and that at the end.

The production was dated 1935, but it was clearly at the end of an era - the Silents.

The acting, directing, was 1925-35 era: Gowns by Adrian, long shots of Jeanette's face frozen by emotion, or better yet slowly evolving from one emotion to another, complete disregard for continuity, or language switches.

It was a treasure; because of its simplicity and naivete.

It is an opera, and the mob scenes are great historical treats, a cast of hundreds, many vocals.

Next week is a favorite of mine, a coming of age film for me.

What movie to watch next Tuesday?  My new thing is watching old, classic movies in the apartment downstairs with a projector, very large screen, and surround sound.  I take the time to watch all the special bonus features in these remastered DVDs; usually interviews with the directors or writers.

Next Tuesday it is Gary Cooper’s “High Noon” released in 1952.

This was an anecdotal milestone for me, my “bar mitzvah”.  Bruce Rancadore and I decided we wanted to camp out for a week at my parent’s property up behind the planned Lexington Dam in the Santa Cruz mountains.  It was July, I had just turned 14.  We brought a lot of things, unfortunately not much of what we needed.  We had guns, .22’s, and explored what is still probably a wilderness area.  I had previously hunted up there with my father and his friends for deer and quail.

Parenting has changed since then.  There were no cell phones.  There was a family with a telephone four miles away.  We were on our own, a pair of kids for a week in the hills.

After three days of boredom, and a craving for junk food, we decided one morning to walk into town, Los Gatos.  As the road goes, we figured 10-11 miles.  But cross-country, we could halve that.

The planned dam had used imminent domain to clear every legally, habitable domicile or structure that would eventually be under water.  We took a bee-line through underbrush, there being no path or road to follow.  It took us a few hours, but we arrived in Los Gatos, just in time for the first showing of “High Noon”.  Full of popcorn and Coca Cola, we wandered around for a while and then decided to see it again at 3 pm.

We weren’t anxious to go back to our camp site, and we toyed with the idea of calling home and admitting defeat.  But we gained courage from the movie plot line of, “a man has got to do what he’s got to do”, so we stuck it out and watched it a third time, letting out about 7 pm.

We started back in twilight, but the dam-site was low and surrounded by mountains.  It quickly became very dark.  Traversing underbrush in pitch blackness means lots of falls, mis-steps, and wrong ways.  We navigated by the sun in the morning.  By night fall, we were lost.  Our campsite was 3-4 miles up there in the hills somewhere.

The sounds of the night, dogs howling – “how far away?”  We became very scared, jumping at every sound.  We veered over to what we thought was the road, and we were right.  It took longer bur we knew we’d eventually get there.  It was past eleven, when we found our camp.  Crashed in our clothes.

Awoke the next morning, from head-to-toe itching from poison oak.

The poison oak got worse [In the next sixty years, I never got another case of Poison Oak, even though exposed many times].

We walked the four miles to the telephone and called home.  My parents would come the next day, Sunday, in the morning.

I was 14, developing my thoughts on maturity, roles I should play.  That movie helped to set me on some pathways I have followed - like a respect for the law and governance.  Rebellious and leftist as I was in college, I became a Pershing’s Rifle guy in ROTC and loved it.  I enlisted in the Army, where others complained of toe-bone spurs.  Maybe I liked IBM and the Grand Jury so much because of these morals.  I feel it is right to serve one’s community.

Spring is Busting Out All Over

I'll take a camera with me tomorrow to catch some of the local vineyard color.

For today, I've attached a picture from each end of the narrow strip,

between Mike & Holly's house [closer to the Rio Theater].

We both improved this area after the flood, and the co-joined

  effort to make it look "nice" worked this Spring.

No more weeds, dead patches, or invasive morning glory vine.

This is the first year my Clematis vine has had such profuse flowers.

The other vines [Jasmine] will come with summer heat.

I can only hope that my two baby lemon trees [1-2 years],

   only a few feet apart from my neighbor's  [5-6 year] trees,

     [now in full fruit], will soon be bringing the wafting

      aroma of citrus bloom.

And of course, this always reminds me of landing at

   Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv in late Spring,

    and rather than the fetid stench one might expect,

     the passenger, leaving the terminal, nay, almost departing the plane, is treated to the most aromatic, sugary, scent of orange groves, surrounding the airport.  This had to be on purpose, to put one in a positive mood for adventures in Israel.

One of which, is still a predilection of mine,

   starting the day with sucking the juice of a fresh lemon.

A local Sabra bestowed this quirk of mine on me.

Big Brother is Coming

The Census Bureau welcomed me to the world of BIG BROTHER today.

It is an insidious place.

Proof of address, proof of birth, proof of SSN, Proof of Medicare; Proof of ties between mail address (PO Box), and street address.  Source documents for it all, with photos if possible.

Is this why the “ B O O M E R S “ say, “it was a nice place when we grew up, but now it’s a 3^rd world country”.

Hello, the whole earth is a 3^rd world country; there is no other.

It started with my “acceptance” note from the Census bureau.  Three pages of bureaucratize [attached], not so cleverly assuring a fealty usually only accorded to a despot.  They only just stopped short of a blood test, checking DNA for “background”.

I was volunteering for this, as my civic duty.  I believe in the census, as a way of moderating our political environment.

I am now scared that the, probably last decade of my life, will see these strictures slowly eroding our Democracy:

         First with Medicare entitlements

                  [abortion rights -> silence the women]

         Voting rights will linked to “ID”

                  [photo IDs -> silence the minorities]

         Then free movement within & out of the States

                  [right of assembly] -> silence the opposition]

         And finally

                     I won’t be there:  no SS check, no HMO, no vote-no voice

February 6, 2020

Dear Peter Andrews, 4541173,

We are pleased to confirm your acceptance of a temporary position with the US Census Bureau as a Enumerator. Your employment is dependent upon successfully clearing a background investigation. After clearing the background investigation, you will be contacted regarding job specific training depending on the availability of work.

You are required to do the following:

Schedule a Fingerprint Day appointment to be fingerprinted within 7 days of this letter. See

SECTION 1 for the Fingerprint Day location.

Please note: The action item above is time sensitive. Failure to comply may result in rescinding your Census Job Offer. If this should happen, you will be placed back in the applicant pool for future consideration.

As a Census Selectee you are subject to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fingerprint-based Criminal History Record Check for the purpose of making a security determination. If you have a criminal history record, you will be afforded an opportunity to complete or challenge the accuracy of the information in the record, or decline to do so. You

will also be advised of the procedures to obtain a change, correction or update of your record prior to a security determination. Completing or challenging the accuracy of the information in the record does not guarantee a 'Favorable'

security determination.

Time spent at Fingerprint Day (including travel) and completing documents on-line is preemployment and is NOT reimbursable.

SECTION 1 – FINGERPRINT DAY LOCATION AND CONTACT:

Click here to schedule an appointment.

Alternatively, you may schedule an appointment by calling the fingerprint appointment help desk at 1-877-850-4002.

SECTION 2 - DOCUMENTS TO BRING TO FINGERPRINT DAY:

You must bring ALL of the listed documents to your scheduled appointment, or you will not be fingerprinted.

Employment Confirmation E-mail attachment with barcode - Display this attachment via an electronic device OR print a hard copy of the attachment. Present the electronic or paper version of the attachment to the operator assisting you during your scheduled appointment.

Identity Proofing Documents - You are required to provide two forms of original identity proofing documents that must be current (not expired nor cancelled) and bear the same name. One must contain a photo. Please see below for a list of approved identity proofing documents

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Privacy Act Requesters are required to provide photocopies of two (2) forms of identity

source documents (ID). One form of identification must contain a photo. All Identity

source documents provided by a requester must be the individual’s own, shall be in the

original form and must be current (not expired nor cancelled). The two identity source

documents must bear the same name. If any of the identity source documents presented for identity proofing bear different name, evidence of a formal name change must be provided linking the names. All linking documents must include both the former and current legal names (See below for linking document examples.)

U.S. Social Security Card that is unrestricted

A card that includes any of the following restrictive wording is NOT

ACCEPTABLE:

NOT VALID FOR EMPLOYMENT

VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH INS AUTHORIZATION

VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION

U.S. Passport or a U.S. Passport Card

Driver’s license or an ID card issued by a state or possession of the United States

provided it contains a photograph (Student ID Cards are not acceptable)

U.S. Military ID Card or CAC Card

U.S. Military dependent’s ID Card

PIV Card

Copy of a birth certificate issued by a state, county, municipal authority, possession, or

outlying possession of the United States bearing an official seal

Certification of Birth Abroad or Certification of Report of Birth issued by the Department

of State (Form FS-545 or Form DS-1350)

Voter registration card form the U.S.

Certificate of U.S. Citizenship (Form N-560 or N-561)

Certificate of Naturalization (Form N-550 or N-570)

U.S. Citizen ID Card (Form I-197 or Form I-179)

**Native American Tribal ID Card is also an acceptable form of ID**

Approved linking documents: (must include both the former and current legal

names)

Marriage Certificate

Divorce Decree

Court record linking the two names

Badge Photograph:

As part of appointment, your photo may be taken so that a badge may be created if you

successfully complete the background check process and are hired.

Pose and expression:

Have a neutral facial expression or a natural smile, with both eyes open.

Face the camera directly with full face in view.

Attire:

*You cannot wear glasses.

You should wear clothing normally worn on a daily basis.

*You cannot wear a hat or head covering.

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Your full face must be visible and no items should obscure your hairline or cast shadows

on your face.

You cannot wear headphones or wireless hands-free devices.

You can wear jewelry and keep your facial piercings as long as they do not hide your

face.

*If you are unable to remove your glasses or hat or head covering for medical reasons,

please bring a signed doctors statement to your visit. Please note that the Census Bureau will retain the statement and keep it on record during your employment with us.

SECTION 3 – AFTER CLEARING THE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION:

You are required to complete the following forms in the Applicant Portal:

CD-415, Emergency Contact Information

D-999, Overtime Policy Agreement

D-168, New Employee Data

D-1199, Payment Authorization

D-186F, Census Employment Agreement

D-1129, Personal Telephone Reimbursement Policy Agreement

After completing the forms, you must click on the Submit Onboarding Forms button to submit the

forms.

THE APPLICANT PORTAL:

The Applicant Portal provides documents, instructions and statuses throughout the entire process of Census employment, beginning with the application and assessments. Users will receive an e-mail instructing them to log into the Applicant Portal whenever there is a status update or new documents to complete. Users MUST complete documents in the Applicant Portal by clicking on this link

https://recruitment.2020census.gov/ats/careersite/census.aspx?site=1&c=census to move forward in the employment process.

If you have questions about this email please contact your servicing office at 1-855-562-2020, press option 3 for all other calls and then enter your Zip Code.

Sincerely,

Regional Director

US Census Bureau