Friday, July 10, 2020

The Gift: Film Trailer

The Gift ~ Filmed At Daniels School!!!


A girl with uncommonly large ears is bullied at school, but finds solace in her friendship with a crow in the woods. She feeds the bird everyday and in exchange it presents her with gifts, until a violent encounter at school causes their ritual to take an unsettling turn.


Director Biography - Jacintha Charles


Jacintha Charles is a Singaporean Filmmaker and Actress based in San Francisco, California.

Her move to the United States in 2004 broadened her opportunities as an Actress and rejuvenated her love for Writing and subsequently Directing. She loves telling stories that deal with the complexities of human drama in different styles and context, particularly of the everyday people from diverse backgrounds.

Her goal is to continue to tell stories that can make a difference, create topics of discussion or perhaps just have you sit down with a cup of coffee in hand and think about what you just saw.

She is currently working on one of her feature scripts entitled, SINGAPURA (an old name for the country of SINGAPORE where she is from). The story is inspired by the race riots that occured in Singapore in 1964 that tells the story of a friendship between a Malay girl and a Chinese boy during the most violent racial times in Singaporean history.

Over the past few years, she was fortunate enough to have two of her films awarded grants by the Singapore Film Commission which have gone on to play at film festivals including the Singapore Film Festival (in conjunction with Singapore International Film Fest), Women and Minorities in Media Festival and Best Shorts Film Festival where she picked up an Award of Merit for Women Filmmakers for her short film entitled, The Dance.


Director Statement

We wanted to deal with the subject of bullying and mental health that has been a stigma in society partiularly with children at an impressionable age. Everyone in their lives, be it young or old, have gone through some form of bullying or a challenging mental state. We were particularly interested in the mind of a child. Loneliness and isolation can wreak havoc on an adults' mind let alone a childs'. In our film, our protagonist, Iris, has allowed herself an escape to which only she can take solace and comfort in.


With The Gift, we wanted to highlight important topics whilst entertaining and informing the audience. We had purposefully limited our dialogue in the film to let the story, the action, the beautiful visuals (the majestic redwoods of Northern California) and haunting melodies do the work. We didn't want to draw conclusions with the film. Rather, we hope it would spark a conversation and encourage people to have honest discussions about the subjects at hand. Be it between a parent and child, teacher and student, sibling and sibling, friends and friends etc. Our question to people would be - What and how do we teach our children about acceptance of different individuals and their uniqueness?


This project has been a labour of love together with my Co-Creators/Writers, Emma Scully and Kendra Goff. We are proud of the fact that we are women filmmakers who come from three very different places in the world (England, U.S.A. and myself, Singapore respectively) to head this project. Diversity and inclusion is also strongly represented throughout the rest of our team - South East Asians, the LGBTQ community, Latinas, Europeans - we truly are a melting pot of a team as we all came together to share the same vision and goal.


We are committed to supporting our fellow filmmakers of all genders and all races, and telling stories of all kinds from our unique points of view.

The Gift: Behind The Scenes

Video Update 1 - The Gift from Jacintha Charles on Vimeo.

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Daniels School Restoration Open House Celebration: Memorable Moments ~ September 17th, 2016

The tireless efforts to restore Daniels School - A 120 year old one room school located at: 8162 Mill Creek Road in Healdsburg, California have finally come to fruition!!! The County Landmarks Commission of Sonoma County has clamied Daniels School the 186th Historic Landmark on 09/18/2001!

These photos capture the Open House Celebration Honoring Former Students!!! The majority of rebuilding, furnishing, and maintenance of the structure is finally done. Now our dream of providing educational experiences for local school children and residents alike is a reality. It was a joyous occasion with lots of food, warm company, and many happy memories were shared and made that day! The best part was meeting and mingling with the former students...hearing their nostalgic times spent at The Daniels School and honoring their presence!

Our sincerest thanks to the SONOMA COUNTY LANDMARKS COMMISSION for a 2nd grant of $15,100, and to all the individuals and businesses for their donations to the project.

Presently donating labor with a deadline!:

Dan Harbin - Midstate Construction
Mark Rogers - Mark A. Rogers Construction
Richard Colombini - Colombini Construction

We still continue to work on the schoolhouse going forward making more improvements, so if you find it in your heart to donate, you can make it happen here at our online blog:


The Venado Historical Society has its own address now and even a mailbox. So if you prefer to mail in your donations, you can do so here:

Venado Historical Society
8000 Mill Creek Road
Healdsburg, CA 95448

Please email Bonnie Cussins-Pitkin:
parbmp21@gmail.com
Phone: 707.433.3301 with any questions, comments, or thoughts.




















Daniels School Restoration Open House Celebration: Slideshow ~ September 17th, 2016


Friday, July 15, 2016

Mark Your Calendars For The Daniels School Open House Celebration!!!

DANIELS SCHOOL UPDATE

Great News!

Phase 2 of the restoration is underway!

Our sincerest thanks to the SONOMA COUNTY LANDMARKS COMMISSION for a 2nd grant of $15,100, and to all the individuals and businesses for their donations to the  project.

 Presently donating labor with a deadline!:


Dan Harbin- (Midstate Construction)
Mark  Rogers  -Mark  A Rogers Construction
Richard Colombini - Colombini Construction


OPEN HOUSE  CELEBRATION  HONORING FORMER STUDENTS
Saturday September 17, 2016
1:30pm - 4:00pm

 Meet former student -Stewart Wade of Hawaii- age 101


WE NEED YOUR HELP TO FINISH ON TIME!!!

Call Bonnie (707)-433-3301
Visit our blog:  danielsschool.blogspot.com
Donations: Venado Historical Society - 8000 Mill Creek Road,  Healdsburg, CA  95448

PLEASE CALL BONNIE - 433-3301
or  EMAIL  GlORIA -  eggerpropmgnt@hotmail.com
If you WILL OR MAY BE attending the Open House

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

1:30pm - 4:30pm

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE !

Restoration celebration nears for one-room school near Healdsburg!

Stewart Wade, who will turn 102 in a few months, was born before commercial airline travel existed, but in September he’ll board a jet for a trip back into his past.

Wade plans to fly from his home in Hawaii to Sonoma County to mark the planned completion of a restoration effort for a one-room schoolhouse in the hills west of Healdsburg that he attended in the 1920s.

“It’s a big thing for me to think my school is still there,” Wade said last week by telephone from Kailua, Oahu.

The 133-year-old Daniels School on Mill Creek Road has slowly been restored over the past 15 years with the help of volunteers and donations, although there is still plenty of work to be done prior to the Sept. 17 dedication.

But the end is in sight.

“At last we can see the end to this restoration project and we are really looking forward to a big celebration and this open house to honor former students and people who were so generous with donations and their time,” said Bonnie Cussins Pitkin, 72, an alumna who spearheaded the restoration.

One-room schoolhouses once were common in rural areas across the country, including Sonoma County, where a survey a century ago counted 120 of them. Today only a handful survive.
At Daniels School, which was built in 1883, one teacher taught academic basics to boys and girls in grades one through eight, the typical arrangement.

Children came from miles around on foot or horseback, from surrounding countryside that was successively logged for giant redwoods and mined for magnesite before a tanbark industry took hold, along with vineyards, and prune and apple orchards.

Former students remember the pot belly stove they used for warmth on rainy days and the water bucket filled from a nearby stream they all shared because there was no running water.
They staged plays in a meadow, and their playground was in the road, because there were so few vehicles.

Wade, a sharp-minded centenarian who still works part time as a real estate agent and swims three times a week in the ocean, recalls how he and other boys trapped raccoons near the school and sold them for $3 per pelt.

Sometimes they caught skunks and “the school stunk from that,” he said. “Kids would take guns to school,” part of a hunting culture when it wasn’t out of the ordinary to carry a .22 rifle in the woods. Wade went through all eight grades, from 1921 to 1929, and later graduated from Healdsburg High in 1933.

He credits his longevity to “exercise and attitude.”

“He doesn’t let anything bother him. He’s not a Type A person,” said his wife, Ceci, who also will attend the rededication of the school.

Pitkin attended Daniels School as a first-grader just before it closed in 1951.
She wants local schoolchildren to take field trips to Daniels School and learn what it was like to attend there, with refurbished desks, a piano, even the school’s 45-star American flag which has been housed at the Healdsburg Museum.

Pikin’s family owned the school until donating the 16-by-26-foot building and a half-acre around it to the Venado Historical Society, which draws its name from the surrounding community established in the early 1900s.

In the late 1990s, efforts were launched to rehabilitate the old schoolhouse.
The foundation, porch and awning were rebuilt, but things stalled when one of the main organizers, the late Flora May Cootes-Caletti, began to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.

Last year, restoration efforts regained momentum with a $14,500 grant from the Sonoma County Landmarks Commission, coupled with donations and volunteer work.

A new roof and windows were installed. Now cedar siding donated by Healdsburg Lumber Co. is being put up.

Mark Rogers, a Santa Rosa contractor who is donating his time on the project, said he can use help. Skilled or semi-skilled help would be great, but he is willing to train anyone who wants to assist.
“If they can hold the end of a board or tape measure, or they have skills with painting — any level of knowledge — if they want to learn, come out and do that,” he said.

He said the building still needs to be weather-proofed, along with electrical work, insulation and dry wall.

Regardless of whether all the work gets completed by then, Pitkin vowed the Sept. 17 celebration will go on.

“We will have the opening, whether it’s finished or not,” she said.

More information on how to volunteer or donate to the project is available at danielsschool.blogspot.com.

Link to original article in the Press Democrat:

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5800198-181/restoration-celebration-nears-for-one-room?artslide=0

CLARK MASON

Monday, July 13, 2015

Restoration effort resumed for 132-year-old Daniels School in Venado!!!

June 29, 2015, 2:27PM
It’s been 78 years since Florence Nylander Bates attended a one-room schoolhouse in the hills west of Healdsburg, but the memories are still vivid — the white dresses the girls wore on graduation day, the play they staged in a meadow, the potbelly stove they warmed themselves with on rainy days, and the 12-mile, daily round-trip journey she made on her horse to get to school.

Bates, 90, sat outside the 132-year-old Daniels School on Mill Creek Road last week recalling those halcyon days.

“It was almost idyllic. You felt protected and everybody was nice to you,” said Bates, who graduated from the school’s eighth-grade class in 1938.

Florence Bates attended R.A. Daniels School off Mill Creek Road near Venado, west of Healdsburg, in 1938.  The school had been in disrepair for years, but in the past few years, restoration has begin to preserve the old school, 
Monday June 22, 2015. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2015

She is part of a handful of alumni working to restore the schoolhouse, an effort that has regained momentum thanks to a $14,500 grant from the Sonoma County Landmarks Commission, coupled with donations and volunteer work.

A new roof and windows were installed this spring on the schoolhouse, which was built from old-growth redwood but exposed to the elements following its closure in 1951. Next comes siding and interior work, including a renewed electricity supply, something the old structure only had after World War II, when its kerosene lanterns were replaced.

“I’m making real progress,” said Bonnie Cussins Pitkin, 71, who is spearheading the $40,000 restoration effort for the cherished school, which she attended one year prior to its closure, when she was in first grade.

New Windows at the R.A. Daniels School off Mill Creek Road west of Healdsburg frames school alumnus Bonnie Pitkin, Monday June 22, 2015. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2015

Pitkin’s vision is to provide an opportunity for local schoolchildren to take field trips to Daniels School and learn what it was like to go to a one-room school, which were common in rural areas across the country. At Daniels School, one teacher taught academic basics to boys and girls in grades one through eight, the typical arrangement.

In 1916, there were 120 one-room schoolhouses in Sonoma County — including Daniels School — according to a thesis written then by Stanford University student Tillman Elliott Baker, who proposed reorganizing the school system.

Today, only a handful of the one-room schoolhouses survive.

Daniels School sits on a slope up winding, redwood-lined Mill Creek Road, seven miles from the intersection with Westside Road and a little more than eight miles from Healdsburg.

Pitkin’s family owned it until they donated the 16-by-26-foot building and a half-acre around it to the Venado Historical Society, which draws its name from the surrounding community established in the early 1900s.

These days, about the only time Venado gets mentioned is when a meteorologist calls out the impressive rainfall totals it can reap in winter storms. Located in a step of the steep hills on the edge of the Cazadero “rainforest,” one TV weatherman dubbed it “the rain capital of the Bay Area.”

Venado, Spanish for “deer,” was named by mining engineer Stillman Batchellor, the first postmaster in 1921. By then, earlier generations that came to log the giant redwoods and work a magnesite mine had departed.

The schoolhouse was built over eight days in the spring of 1883, following a bitter fight over where it should be located. The land was donated by Daniel Davis, a sea captain from Maine whose wide interests landed him in Sonoma County, according to Holly Hoods, curator for the Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society, who wrote the grant proposal to help restore the school.

Daniels School Students From A Bygone Era

By 1903, the resident population dwindled and the school shut down for lack of pupils. But it reopened four years later and was rechristened in honor of Ray A. Daniels, a primary mover and shaker in re-establishing the school.

Fruit ranching and the tanbark industry brought new purpose, people and prosperity to upper Mill Creek, according to Hoods.

“The land that has been cleared has proved fine fruit land, and vineyards and prune orchards are taking the place of the redwood groves,” is how the Healdsburg Tribune described Venado in 1925.

One of those who attended the school at the time, from 1921 to 1929, was centenarian Stewart Wade, whose father was a contractor and road builder who helped complete Mill Creek Road.

“We had very good teachers; I thought they were quite dedicated,” Wade said of the female instructors who came for two-year stints and were put up in the homes of area families.

Wade, who will turn 101 in November and still works part time as a real estate agent, spoke by phone from his Honolulu home this week.

He remembers there was no running water at the school.

“We had to carry a bucket from the spring down the road,” he said, adding that all the children used the same dipper to drink from. If one caught a cold, he said, they would all get it.

The oldest boys in the school got the job of janitor and were paid a few dollars a month for sweeping the floors with redwood sawdust soaked in oil.

“The only playground we had was a road where we played most of the time,” he said. “It was very safe in those days. Cars didn’t travel very fast, and the wagons, we could hear them coming from a long way.”

One wagon in particular, Wade said, came from a Santa Rosa candy store, but it wasn’t there to satisfy the children’s sweet tooth. It was during the Prohibition era and the sugar hidden under a canvas in the back of the wagon went to a nearby still where it was used to make booze, he said.

Wade also recalled the “fruit tramps” who came to work the summer harvests. They hailed from the Midwest and typically had one big car with all their possessions and family inside. They were on a circuit that included the raisin harvest in Fresno, with a swing through Sonoma County before heading to Oregon for the pears and apples.

Usually, they had two or three kids with them, who would end up for a short time at Daniels School.
When Bates graduated in 1938, a decade after Wade, Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, Babe Ruth was coaching the Brooklyn Dodgers, a gallon of gas was 10 cents, and the average price of a new car was $763.

But her family was poor and she was still riding to school on her horse named Lady, sometimes having to navigate the rain-swollen East Austin Creek with the help of her father and sometimes getting home after dark.

“My sister would ride double with me to the top of the ‘ladder,’” she said of the steep grade at the top of Mill Creek Road where her older sister would get off the horse and walk back home while Bates headed for the schoolhouse.

On the way to school, she said, “you would talk to yourself, which I still do,” and look out for bird nests to see if the eggs were hatching. “If I saw a rattlesnake, I killed it. That’s what you did in those days,” she said.

Bates relishes those bygone school days.

“I remember the teacher taking us to the creek and reading out loud to us. I loved that,” she said.
She also lifted her forearm to show the scar she has from when she fell onto a broken windshield near the school and needed stitches to close the cut.

There hasn’t been a lesson taught in the little schoolhouse since 1951, when unification brought five small schools (Felta, West Side, Mill Creek, Junction and Daniels) together in the Westside Union District.

Efforts began in the late 1990s to rehabilitate the old schoolhouse. The foundation, porch and awning were rebuilt, but renovations were delayed when the leader in the effort, Flora May Cootes-Caletti, became ill.

In 2010, a fundraising drive was renewed, with local contractors, including Mike Flower, donating time to the rebuilding, ZFA Associates doing the structural engineering and local businesses like Healdsburg Lumber Co. donating materials.

Contributions are still being solicited to complete the interior work. And Pitkin is still looking to hear from former Daniels School pupils.

Contributions can be made at danielsschool.blogspot.com, or sent to the Venado Historical Society, 8000 Mill Creek Road, Healdsburg 95448.

You can reach Staff Writer Clark Mason at 521-5214 or clark.mason@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter@clarkmas.

Monday, June 8, 2015

Daniels School In The Healdsburg Tribune!

Daniels School Restoration Proceeding In Rural Healdsburg

A work in progress...Bonnie Cussins-Pitkin, a former student at the Daniels School, is working to restore it and create a historical resource for the community.

The Daniels School, a one-room schoolhouse built in the 1800s, is receiving a thorough restoration by a dedicated group of former students and history buffs.


Bonnie Cussins-Pitkin is leading the current phase of the restoration, which was begun by her former third grade teacher, Flora May Caletti, a dozen years ago.


Cussins-Pitkin and other Daniels School supporters formed the Venado Historical Society and were able to set aside a half acre along Mill Creek Road as a historic district.

They are working with engineers and contractors to restore the school, and the old redwood siding is now shored up inside with new framing. New windows are coming soon.

The ultimate goal is to create a historical resource, so local students can learn about rural life a century ago. “We want students to come and visit and go see the wild flowers we used to pick and draw,” Cussins-Pitkin said.

She went on to explain that students will be able to learn about local trees, walk to the creek to see where rural students once got their drinking water, and find out about the Pomo Indians, who were in the area prior to European settlers.

Once restored, the schoolhouse will have a real slate chalkboard, an upright piano, wooden desks and photographs that illustrate local history.

Cussins-Pitkin attended Daniels School for first grade, and now lives up the hill from the old school, which was first built farther up Mill Creek Road in 1883.

It was originally called the Venado School, and was moved a few years after it was built.

“A man named Daniels sad they could move it to his property if they renamed the school after him,” Cussins-Pitkin said.

Leafing through a binder of old documents and photos, Cussins-Pitkin shows that the old wooden flagpole for the school is still there, and points out photos from “the day the goat came to school” and the shaved heads of the boys the year the students got headlice.

Holes in an outside wall show where pegs were installed for students to hang coast and hats.

Funding for the project is coming from a Sonoma County Landmarks Commission grant and local donations.

ZFA Structural Engineers and Mike Flowers of Oak Shadows Construction are donating time, and Healdsburg Lumber is providing building materials at or below cost. “We try to help nonprofits anytime we can,” said Eric Ziedrich, president of Healdsburg Lumber.

To support the Daniels School project and see photos of the restoration, visit www.danielsschool.blogspot.com.

By: Ray Holley, Managing Editor
Posted: Wednesday, June 3, 2015


Thursday, May 14, 2015

Daniels School Update: May, 2015!!!

Dear Donors and Friends of the Daniels School Restoration Project,
 

Sitting on the porch of the Daniels School, I was waiting for delivery of windows.  I glanced around to see the pastel pink buds of the old rose bush on the corner of the porch.  Then I remembered the wedding we had in a play held in the Spring of l951.  Richard Tabor was the only other 1st grader and he was the groom.  The students threw rose petals at us as we walked down the steps and walkway..
 

I cherish that joyful memory of the past, but the jubilation I feel in the present is beyond compare.  At last work has commenced on the restoration of Daniels School again.
 

Many thanks to Mike Flowers owner, Oak Shadows Construction, who has volunteered his time.  The framing inside is complete, including the "sistering in" whenever possible to preserve the old redwood, and we can look up outside at the new shake roof with pride.
   

Sincerest thanks to Eric Dietrich of the Healdsburg Lumber Company for the generous reduction on lumber costs as well as the windows from Hudson Street Design.

The flagpole, restored to white again stands amongst a patch of  yellow Diogenes Lanterns.  These and the Redwood Orchid are among the many wildflowers we collected, identified and drew.  The teacher displayed the art work above the windows and I was amazed at the fine detail, color and likeness in every petal to those we had collected.  These memories in the school and down by the creek, where the teacher read to us, come back to me as I watch the restoration unfold.
 

Most of all, we wish to thank the Sonoma County Landmarks Commission for their grant funds, as well as the many dedicated and generous donors who have continued to support this project over the years.  We will be applying again to the Landmarks Commission for Phase 2 of the project, but will move forward to continue the project as monies and volunteer time allow.

TOGETHER WITH YOU, WE ARE NOT ONLY SAVING SONOMA COUNTY  HISTORIC LANDMARK #186, WE ARE SAVING A PIECE OF HISTORY AND THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED AND WORKED IN THE TOWN OF VENADO ON MILL CREEK ROAD.


THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!

Sincerely,

Bonnie Cussins-Pitkin, President
Gloria Egger, Treasurer


Thursday, February 12, 2015

13.68 Inches Of Rain Falls On Little-Known North Bay Town During Latest Storm!

VENADO, Sonoma County (KPIX 5) – The Bay Area received some impressive rain over the last few days. One of the wettest spots is a place many people probably haven’t heard of.


Venado, located west of Healdsburg, received 13.68 inches of rain since Thursday.


“Out Mill Creek Road about nine miles is Venado,” resident Bonnie Pitkin told KPIX 5.


Go searching for the town, you won’t find too much. The homesteaders, miners and loggers are long gone, leaving a handful of quiet neighbors living in hand-built houses.


“As you can see, there’s very little activity, very little traffic, which we appreciate a lot,” said Venado resident Bob Alpern.


But Venado does get a lot of one thing, and that is rain, which finally returned over the weekend.


“It stormed like you couldn’t imagine,” Pitkin recalled.


Alpern said about the storm, “And I mean this was rain like, I call it biblical rain. A deluge like you’ve never seen.”


And that’s exactly the way it’s supposed to be here. Venado is tucked in a set of steep hills that are perfectly positioned to the catch low-level moisture that pacific storms bring in. These mountains wring out the storms like a washcloth.


The evidence of that phenomenon literally hangs from the trees.


“We’re at the edge of what’s called the Cazadero rain forest,” Alpern said.


But even in this perfect bull’s eye for wet weather, the drought has taken its toll.


“On my mother’s ranch, there are two springs, and they both went completely dry,” Pitkin said.


When the skies finally opened, and creeks started flowing, quiet Venado just got back to normal.


“Everyone that you could talk to around here will say that it was such a welcome sight. To see the rain and to see the creek running full, it’s just exciting. The rain has made all the difference,” Pitkin said.

Friday, September 19, 2014

2014 Project Update!!!

GREAT NEWS!!!  The Venado Historical Society was awarded a grant agreement from the Sonoma County Landmarks Commission in the amount of $14,500.00!!!

This will allow us to begin Phase 1 of the project which is to secure the building.  We will restore and rebuild, (as needed) the exterior including rafters, roof, windows, and some of the siding.

Special thanks go to several professionals who donated their time and expertise to fulfill the requirements for the grant proposal:

Dennis Fagent ~ Engineer
Obie Bowman ~ Architect
Holly Hoods ~ Historian
Pete Deidrich ~ Architect
& Healdsburg Lumber

The project will begin according to our contractor's schedule.  We greatly appreciate his offer to volunteer his labor for this historic restoration project.

If you are interested in donating time or funds to help with this worthy local project, please send your donations or correspondence to:

Venado Historical Society
8000 Mill Creek Road

Healdsburg, CA 95448
707.431.3301

Sincerely,
Bonnie Cussins-Pitkin, President & Gloria Egger, Treasurer

Monday, March 11, 2013

2013 Update!



DANIELS SCHOOL RESTORATION PROJECT UPDATE


TO:                  Donors and Friends of the Daniels School Restoration Project

FROM:            Gloria Egger, Secretary/Treasurer and Bonnie Pitkin, President
                        of the Venado Historical Society

Much has happened since our last update!
  • The decision was made to acquire a grant (s) in order to obtain the $30,000 to $40,000 needed to complete the restoration of the school.
  • Gloria attended a grant writing class at SRJC and began the lengthy process of applying for the Federal and State Exemption Status, which is a requirement of foundations or corporations who award grants.
  • An attorney was secured, who reduced his fee, after seeing all the paperwork and endless forms Gloria had completed.  All request forms have been filed with the U.S. Treasury and State and now we have a waiting period of up to six (6) months.
  • In the interim, Gloria will research foundations that may be interested in the project and then grant forms will be prepared.

 Don’t give up on us.
We will preserve and complete the restoration of the Daniels School.
We look forward to conducting field trips for students in the near future.

If you know of any foundations or corporations that may be interested in preserving this California Historic Landmark, please contact the:

Venado Historic Society
7751 A Mill Creek Road,
Healdsburg, Ca. 95448

 or contact Gloria Egger directly at 707-433-7732
 or by email at: eggerpropmgnt@hotmail.com
 or contact Bonnie Pitkin at 707-431-3301.

Thank you for your continued interest and support of this project !