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On Sunday, June 1, the Tallman Hotel is celebrating its second birthday.
Owners Lynn and Bernie Butcher opened the reconstructed, historic hotel on June 1, 2006.
As part of this month's celebration, the hotel is offering past guests a special room upgrade offer, which is only available by calling the Hotel at 866-708-5253 or locally at 707-275-2244.
Also this month, Blue Wing Monday Blues continues every Monday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. next door at the Butchers' Blue Wing Saloon and Cafe.
On Sundays, the Blue Wing hosts brunch in the garden with live music on the veranda by local artists.
The Blue Wing is hosting a “Meet the Winemaker Series,” with free wine tasting in the saloon and dinner paired with featured wines on the first Thursday of every month.
On Thursday, June 5, meet winemaker Greg Graziano of Graziano Wines and wwner Jim and MJ Scott of Naughty Boy Vineyards in Potter Valley.
The series will continue in July with at Tulip Hill Winery down the road in Nice.
Events will continue through the summer, with the Blue Wing Blues Festival returning Aug. 6 through 9.
Co-sponsored by Ceago Vinegarden, the festival features four evenings of wonderful blues music plus barbecue dinner in the garden of the hotel from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each evening.
Featured artists include Charlie Musselwhite, Bettie Mae Fikes, the Ford Blues Band and, on Saturday night, Maria Muldaur and the Red Hot Bluesiana Band.
For more information contact the Blue Wing Saloon and Cafe at 707-275-2233 or visit them online at www.bluewingsaloon.com/.
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Specifically, SB 1149 extends the sunset date – from Jan. 1, 2009 to Jan. 1, 2013 – for the Rural Telecommunication Infrastructure Grant Program (RTIG).
The RTIG is funded by an existing surcharge on telephone services (both residential and cellular). Without the Wiggins bill, the program will expire at the first of next year.
The RTIG was implemented in 2001 in order to ensure that all Californians – including those who are low-income and/or live in rural unserved areas – have access to telephone services. The program helps to subsidize the cost of providing telephone services to areas where none currently exist.
Many rural and low-income communities without even basic telecommunication services will continue to be deprived without an extension of the RTIG. Unserved areas on the North Coast have no access to cellular service, access to pay phones, or call boxes in populated tourist destinations such as Bodega Bay, Portuguese Beach, Sea Ranch, etc.
During peak seasons, such locations draw large crowds, and some people have drowned due to the inability of witnesses to call 911 for emergency responders. Furthermore, there are no call boxes, pay phones, or cell service coverage in many of California’s state parks and beaches.
In her testimony Tueday afternoon, Wiggins said that “this program provides a total of $10 million dollars per year, funded by the ratepayer-supported California High Cost Fund B program, to subsidize telephone service to remote, rural, and underserved communities.”
She added: “This program is particularly important in my district where many people don’t have basic telephone service, let alone cell phone service, and they need to call in an emergency situation.”
Now that SB 1149 has been approved by the Senate, the bill next heads to the Assembly for consideration.
Wiggins represents California’s 2nd Senate District, which includes portions or all of six counties: Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Sonoma.
For more information on SB 1149 or other legislation authored by Wiggins, please visit her Web site: http://dist02.casen.govoffice.com/.
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