20 • UPBEAT TIMES • August 2015


Summer GUIDE #2


Trails for Taylor Campaign to Expand Trail Network


Weird Facts & Fun Trivia -5


It would take 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Great Wall of China.


The Queen of England has two birthdays.


On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.


The sun shrinks five feet every hour.


The U.S. has a $10,000 bill with the head of Salomon Chase, a U.S. Senator on the front.


Volunteers with the Sonoma County Trails Council help extend the impact of donations raised for trail building through the Trails for Taylor Campaign.


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ The So- noma County Regional Parks Foundation and Sonoma Coun- ty Trails Council have launched their second “Trails for Taylor” Campaign. Donors contribute $10 to sponsor two feet of trail at Taylor Mountain Regional Park. For each $10 donation, a donor gets one opportunity to win a tent and two sleeping bags donated by Marmot. Contributions can be made online at http://sonomacoun- typarksfoundation.org/trails-


for-taylor/; by mail at Sonoma County Regional Parks Foun- dation, 2300 County Center Dr., #120A, Santa Rosa, CA 95403; or by phone at (707)


565-1830. “Taylor Mountain Regional Park


currently has


five miles of trails,” explained Melissa Kelley, executive di- rector of the Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation. “Ultimately, the park master plan calls for about 15 miles of trails.


Campaigns like this one are critical to raising the funds that make more trail construction possible.” “Sonoma County Regional Parks, the Parks Foundation


and the Trails


Council have developed an ex- ceptional collaboration around these trail-building efforts,” added Ken Wells, director of


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It is illegal of tourists to enter Mexico with more than 2 CD’s.


August Gold ... continued from page 5


Prop.” in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2006, Keillor wrote a poem: “A bookstore is for people who love books and need/ To touch them, open them, browse for a while, / And find some common good— that’s why we read/ Readers and writers are two sides of the same gold coin./You write and I read and in that moment I find/A union more perfect than any club I could join:/the simple in- timacy of being one mind./Here in a book-filled room on a busy street,/Strangers—living and dead—are hoping to meet.” Storytelling remains a magi-


cal experience for both the teller and listener.


If the old saying


“imitation is a sincere form of flattery” holds true, 42 year old Hindi Neelesh Misra can prove he is the much beloved Garrison Keillor of India. Using radio to revive vanishing storytelling in India, he maintains his daily show, “The Idiot Box of Mem- ories.” An extremely popular Bollywood songwriter and edi- tor of a newspaper, he invented Yaad Sheher, which translates to “Memory Town,” to tell real sto- ries of ordinary people, reviving a long, Hindi language tradition. Misra’s show began in 2010 with 33,000 listeners but now reaches


... continued on page 31 20 • August 2015 • UPBEAT TIMES Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros


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