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Hello Sonoma!
by Francisco
Airing first on KSVY 91.3 in Sonoma, Hello Sonoma! is my way of paying tribute to the amazing people living in our valley. Each week I’ll be interviewing intriguing characters from Sonoma and beyond searching for fascinating stories in pursuit of my belief that everyone is interesting if you ask the right questions.
Episodes
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Photographing community & local service, global thinking with Mayolo Lopez Gutierrez and Karen Collins
Frequent guest DJ Camilla joins us with her guest Rebecca for a short musical interlude to begin the last of the live radio programming. The songs could not be played in their entirely here in their podcast form, but KSVY listeners got to listen to DJ Camilla’s skills on the turn tables. From...
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Covering Education, The Central Valley, and New York City
In this episode, we talk to Wellington Suares, an education reporter for Chalkbeat, Anna Oakes, a freelance journalist and audio producer in New York City, and Edward Lopez reporting from Stockton, California to dive into the process of learning about the space around you – and how journalists…
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Live: Journalists Across the Country & Around the World
Welcome back, Sonoma! After a year-long hiatus, we talk to journalists from across the country and around the world about recent stories they've covered, the process behind reporting on them, and a big story where they are. Our guests this week (in order of appearance): Gillian Goodman is a...
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Representing your Community with Rebecca Hermosillo.
Rebecca Hermosillo takes community seriously. As the ED of the Teen Center, she took it upon herself to make dinner every night with the teens as a way to make them feel part of something bigger. Growing up on a farm in Sonoma, she saw how her big family brought people together for tamales, and...
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Behind the Scenes of Congress with Congressman Mike Thompson
What is Washington D.C. like as a Congressman? How does a member of Congress balance living in Washington and their district? What should community members know about the type of partnerships necessary for an idea to become a law? How do members of Congress spend their free (if they have any)…
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Marriage and Moving with Rev. Peadar Dalton
Rev. Dalton brings people together. Literally. He has conducted hundreds of marriages over the course of his life as a catholic priest, and even now as a reverend at St. Leo's and through his own private business. He attended seminary in Ireland, following a path he felt called to, and for 18...
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Teaching and Learning with Morgan Momsen
At first, Morgan Momsen didn't want to follow in the family footsteps. Both her mother and her grandmother are local teachers, so Morgan chose to blaze her own trail in the photography world. But when the idea of teaching came knocking again, she went for it, and has since found an incredible...
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Love & Food with Dan Kahn
Over the past three years, Dan Kahn has helped serve over 150,000 free meals to the most vulnerable in our community. His work as the food program manager for Sonoma Overnight Support shaped the vision, and his role as head chef shaped the menu. But above either of these, his attitude as a…
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Education & Impact with Gina Cuclis
Gina Cuclis' journey as an administrator was as winding as the rivers she once defended and rafted down. Though parenthood brought education to the fore of her attention, her own teachers, parents and classmates shaped the way she sees the field of education from a public administration level and...
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BONUS episode: 4th of July in Sonoma!
Sonoma's 4th of July parade is one of our town's gems. Of course there are the trucks, the tractors, the floats, but then there are the thousands of locals who line the streets to clap, cheer, and sometimes get sprayed by the firefighters. This bonus episode takes a peek behind the curtain at…
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The Man of Many Hats, George Webber
George Webber is a dedicated Sonoma Historian. He has spent the last 20 years bringing our history to life through animated portrayals of Sonoma icons like General Vallejo and Agostin Haraszthy, and the inimitable Mark Twain. Though it's George doing the talking, he completely embodies these...
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Learning and Guiding with Meg Beeler
Meg Beeler's journey as a teacher taught her how to learn. How to listen to her students as much as they listened to her. So when, many decades later, she met a new teacher, she was ready to listen in a new way. What followed was an unexpected journey to reconnect with nature through traditional...
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BONUS - New Adobe Drugs Store Opening
Hello Sonoma! This is a bonus episode – a break from regular programming – and an on-the-ground reporting of Adobe Drugs' new opening in June of 2023. This 10 minute segment originally aired on the Thursday morning show at KSVY, but I thought you all might enjoy hearing it as well as a tribute to...
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Seeing Sonoma Through Art with Pat Meier-Johnson
As a painter and a photographer, Pat Meier-Johnson sees Sonoma through a unique lens. Her artwork conveys an understanding of her surroundings beyond day-to-day observations, capturing everything from road-side barns on sunny afternoons to golden hills with grazing cows. As Sonoma's 2022 Treasure...
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Stories and the Land with Arthur Dawson
Arthur Dawson is as much detective as he is an historian, as much a naturalist as he is a storyteller. His life and work has given him a deep knowledge and appreciation for our local land, the people who currently care for it, and their ancestors have been doing so for millennia. As a historical...
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Navigating The River of Life with Roy Tennant
Roy Tennant has written many exciting chapters in his life book. As a renown librarian educator, a white water river raft guide, and a pioneer in the early internet age, he has been able to teach and learn both indoors and outside. He is just as familiar with the south rim of the Grand Canyon as…
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Finding Your Way On Broadway and Beyond with Eric Jackson
Long before his Broadway debut, Eric Jackson was drawn to the theater. Whether it was the grandeur of the stage, or the songs of Sondheim, Eric knew that was where he was meant to be. After playing on broadway and on tours across the country, he has since moved backstage, helping weave…
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Journey through Technology and Accessibility with Daniel Sonnenfeld
Daniel Sonnenfeld connects people through his values. By believing in integrity, transparency, and getting things done, he brings together the deaf & hearing communities, the LGBTQ+ & straight communities, and the tech & luddite communities, with a kindness that everyone remembers and an emphasis...
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Extremely Kate Bruno
Kate Bruno is extreme. Whether it is behind the counter at her family's local restaurant, or behind the drums of her punk rock band, Kate takes her craft to the extreme, doing everything possible to ensure customers are well fed and happy, and shredding the cymbals to give her fans have something...
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Youth Entrepreneurship & Podcasting with Rajae Sahouri
Rajae Sahouri (رجائي ساحوري) is a young entrepreneur who strives to bring the best to his audience. His podcast, The Straight Up Start Up, interviews guests from all over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, acting as a repository of knowledge for those looking to get started in...
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Kathy Witkowicki, Someone to Look Up To
Kathy Witkowicki is someone to look up to. When she founded the Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance, she couldn't have imagined the depth of the organization's impact. What she helped create has set the tone for what is possible in her community and beyond, not only influencing hundreds of young...
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Collage, Colors and Community History with Mike Acker
Mike Acker's collages create stunning and surprising new perspectives on the world around us. In a society that so often values far-off travels and worldly issues, Mike's art draws us in to our own backyards, fostering wonder for our communities and local environments. Beyond physical sculptures,...
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Protocol and Possibilities with Sherri Ferris
Sherri Ferris connects cities, companies, nations, and people . She develops platforms for all kinds of connections that help facilitate friendships, business relationships, and ultimately peace. In her role as protocol professional, she has acted as the City of San Francisco's Deputy Chief of...
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Leaps of Faith and Community Bouquets with Molly Spencer
Molly Spencer made a career out of creating flower arrangements; organizing nature's beauty into organic attractive compositions. Since then she's been a dance teacher, a mother, and a friend to so many – but through her role as engagement director at the Sonoma Community Center, she goes back to...
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Connections to Sonoma and Beyond with Elliott Burdin
Elliott Burdin is a connecter. Whether it be through the stories he tells with his videography, the people he's met both in town and on his travels, or his cultural connections to Paris and Sonoma, Elliott helps connect people to new ideas, friends, and opportunities. His postive early…
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Styling Your Life with Amy Chernikova
Growing up in rural Montana, Amy's dream was to move to glamorous city life in California. Little did she know the twisting path she would take to get here. In this episode we talk about the challenges of being a young person in a small town, the confidence required for effective costume design…
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A Love for Fun and Olives with Don Landis the Olive Guy
Don Landis the Olive Guy is doing all this just for fun. For the past 40 years he has dived deep into a passion for olives, learning all their varieties, experimenting with both ancient and modern ways to make them edible at least 4 different ways, and all while educating people about it. While…
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Serving Your Community with Karina Garcia
Karina Garcia strives to represent her community in various ways. First as a Television executive for TV Azteca, she traveled the Bay Area finding and highlighting local stories. Now as the community liaison for Sonoma County's district supervisor and as a part of the Springs Municipal Advisory...
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Highlights from 2022
What a year! ✅ - 43 episodes ✅ - 70 interviews ✅ - 8 Countries and 3 Sister Cities In this episode, we relive some of those moments with my incredible guests from Sonoma and beyond, with highlights from 23 episodes and music, as always, by @SharingSkies. I hope each guest's story will inspire you...
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Beer, Community and Opportunity with Dean Biersch
Dean Biersch has a passion for creating environments that bring people together to enjoy themselves. First as co-founder of Gordon-Biersch, now as head of Sonoma and Marin County's Hopmonk Taverns, Dean has tapped into the spirit of beer to create fun, relaxing, and unpretentious communities. He...
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Saying "Yes and" from New York to Sonoma, with Martín Gobbée
Martín Gobbée's restaurant experience has taught him that a good venue breeds community. At his new post as Taub Family Outpost's general manager, he is using all his skills from New York City's restaurant industry, Chicago's improv scene, and his acting acumen to create a new community space on...
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Bridging Communities with Gerardo Diaz
Gerardo Diaz is a bridge-builder. As the bi-lingual engagement coordinator for the Sonoma Community Center, he aims to bring Sonoma's community closer together through valley-wide outreach. Known for his generosity and kindness, he has had a circuitous journey to this role that seems meant for…
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Revisiting Sonoma 13 years later with Bruno Freijanes
Bruno Freijanes is now a civil engineer, strategic planning strategist, and world traveller. But in 2009, he was a Brazilian exchange student at Sonoma Valley High school. He came back in 2022 to visit our town with new experiences having lived in Australia, and traveled throughout Europe and…
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Compassionate Conversations with Dr. Nancy Dome
Dr. Nancy Dome leads with compassion, whether as CEO and co-founder of Epoch Eduction, or as a longtime educator, she strives to see beyond what people present to reveal who they are. Throughout her own journey first in non-profits and public education, then into the private sector with her...
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Hello Sonoma! Trailer
Everyone has a story. Your neighbors, your colleagues, your parents, your friends. They all have a story worth telling. I believe it’s worth hearing them, being inspired by them, and learning from them. Though this journey starts locally with those around you, with empathy and curiosity, the…
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Community Leadership and Education with Maite Iturri
Maite Iturri is a community leader. What started out as an serendipitous turn into the education field, has since become a stage for leading communities through tough times and seeing far into the future. As a teacher, Maite led with love, always seeing her students not only for the kids they…
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A Lifetime of Music from England to Africa, and California with Alan Early
Alan Early is a musician, a computer scientist, and a world traveler. His journey has taken him throughout Europe, South Africa, and eventually into the early years of Silicon Valley where he was a programmer – a far cry from his first early years playing in post-WWII bomb-craters in London. In...
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Italian-American History, Accordion, and Tradition in the San Francisco Bay with Sheri Mignano
Sheri Mignano is an historian, an accordionist, and a keeper of tradition. She has delved into the annals of Italian-American history in the Bay Area and beyond to uncover the connections between the accordion and the mandolin, the stories of countless immigrants who shared their spark, and the...
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Valley of the Moon Vintage Fest - Interviewing the Artisans
In this episode, I wandered the paths of Sonoma's historic plaza to interview several of the artisans that help make the Valley of the Moon Vintage Fest so special. I speak with jewelers, woodworkers, photographers and more about their art and why they do what they do. Later on, I made a stop at...
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Cross-cultural friendships, swimming, and art with Kaeti Bailie
Kaitie Bailie is an artist, an open water swimmer, and a bridge builder. Since she moved to Sonoma, she's done all three, forging a connection to Sonoma's sister city in what was then the USSR (now Ukraine), Kaniv; opening an art studio and exhibiting paintings throughout the Valley; and swimming...
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Adventure, Rodeo, and Cleaning Carpets with Rick Schopf and Bee Kilgore
The world around us is full of surprises where we might not typically look. Early one morning in Milwaukee, I cleaned carpets with my friend Rick, and was reminded once again of just how true that is. In this episode, we talk to Rick about his experience in the carpet cleaning business, but also...
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Building Community through Food and Art with Sandro Melaranci
Sandro Melaranci is many things: painter, makeup artist, musician, producer, restauranteur. But most of all he is a connector and a community builder. His restaurant Manuia, founded with his brother Tony, became one of Rome's most successful spots not only because of its good food, wine, and…
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Sonoma Sister City: Stories from Tokaj, Hungary with Hajni Prácser and Kathryn Arontsohn
Last episode set the scene for our journey to Tokaj with perspectives from various people of all ages and occupations. In this episode, we speak with Hajni Prácser about the history of our Hungarian sister city, and her role in it, her thoughts on wine-tasting, and the chances of meeting your...
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Sister City: Tokaj, Hungary #1
Tokaj, Hungary, is a world-famous wine region, known for its aged special sweet wine known as Aszu. In this episode, we talk to some of the people who make this Hungarian delicacy, as well as many other characters from around town. I speak with a local teacher and a few of her students,...
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Sonoma Sister City - Greve in Chianti, Italy
Greve-In-Chianti is has been Sonoma's Sister City since 1983, and over the years various students, adults, and groups have visited to learn more about wine-making, to practice their Italian, and to see what this beautiful city has to offer. During my three days there, I had the chance to talk…
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Sonoma Sister City - Chambolle-Musigny, France
Chambolle-Musigny has been a sister city of Sonoma since 1959, and this visit to speak with Chambolle's citizens highlighted the strength of those long-time connections. In this episode, I got the chance to speak with three statesmen of the sister city organization Lucien (former president of the...
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France Dispatch #2: Agriculturists, Escargot Farmers, Horse Specialists, and Graffiti Artists
The North of France is known for its corn and dairy farms, for its old coal mines, and for the horses and cows that dot the landscape. In this episode, I interviewed some of the people behind each of these staple cultural phenomena, hearing about how they got interested in each of them and what...
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India Dispatch 2: the Golden Triangle
The Golden Triangle is one of India’s most famous road trips. From New Delhi, to Agra, to Jaipur, the voyage includes stops at the center of Jaipur’s walled city, old monuments in Delhi city center, and, of course, the glorious Taj Mahal. In this episode, we visit these sites, hearing what it...
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India Dispatch: Foothills of the Himalayas and Stories of Coming Home
Hello Sonoma! Is on a journey! This episode comes to us from New Delhi, India. The history of India spans over 5 millenia, with thousands of different communities and hundreds of languages, it is a vastly diverse place – plus India is massive. Not only is it in the top 10 largest countries by…
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France Dispatch: Stories from the Mountains
Broadcasting from the French Pyrenees, in this episode I interview local journalists, bakers, fishers, and hoteliers. All of them have one thing in common: human stories. This is the second episode as part of the Hello Sonoma Global series in which I am traveling to 3 of Sonoma's sister cities to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Airing first on KSVY 91.3 in Sonoma, Hello Sonoma! is my way of paying tribute to the amazing people living in our valley. Each week I’ll be interviewing intriguing characters from Sonoma and beyond searching for fascinating stories in pursuit of my belief that everyone is interesting if you ask the right questions.
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