2 • December 2015 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. INSIDE:


Pax et Jubilate


et Spero page 5


Consider the Garden...


DECEMBER page 5


HOLIDAY Guide 2015


page 9-24


Musical Notes in Sonoma County


page 27


Affordable Housing page 29


Horoscopes page 31 Four


page 31


On the Cover: Garth Gordon of Sebastopol as Santa Claus!


SIGMOND


HEY SIGMOND, WHAT DID YOU GET LILLY FOR CHRISTMAS?


PHIL!


OHH, A LITTLE SOMETHING TO SHOW MY LOVE


DID YOU GET ME


SOMETHING TOO?


OF COURSE I DID PHIL! BUT, I FORGOT WHERE I PUT IT. BUT SANTA WILL COME, DON'T WORRY!


DID YOU FORGET WHERE YOU PUT MINE?


Staff members from Vanguard Properties at the Santa Rosa Golf Classic 2015 taking a moment to hang with the Upbeat Times! They served awesome coffee and and were a very Upbeat Group!


Near Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, CA. Paul A. Doyle


NOT AT ALL LILLY... IT'S RIGHT HERE WHERE IT


ALWAYS IS... IN MY HEART


Secrets to a


Happy Belly


Ari Walker & Forest Tardibuono of Sun Pacific Mortgage & Real Estate, at the Santa Rosa Golf Classic (they arranged the entire tournament), held at Oakmont Golf Club by the North


Bay Association of Realtors to raise money for the Boys & girls Clubs and Schools Plus. They raised over $15,000 from this one day event held on October 9th! More on page 25!


Upbeat in Santa Rosa!


Manual Florez, a great friend of the Upbeat family in Las Vegas taking a break to check out the November 2015 issue!


Upbeat in Santa Rosa! The Upbeat Photo Album


www.upbeattimes.com


Upbeat in Los Vegas, Nevada!


First Fun Facts


In about 1305, Edward I of England decreed that one inch should be the measure of three barleycorns, and English shoe sizing began; thus a child’s shoe that measured 13 barleycorns became a size 13.


The world’s oldest known shoe was found under a layer of sheep dung in an Armenian cave. Buried in a pot 5,500 years ago as part of some ritual, the leather shoe was tied with laces and filled with grass that probably helped keep its shape. The same shoe design would go on to be used across Europe for thousands of years.


Snails belong to a large group of shelled Gastropod mollusks. There are land varieties of snails as well as both fresh water and marine snails. Helix pomatia is the land snail familiar in French cooking. Abalone, Periwinkles and Conch are edible marine snails.


The French consume at least 40,000 metric tons of snails each year.


The Punitentiary #1


(One in ten puns are located there...some escape!)


In a Scandinavian race the last Lapp crossed the Finnish line.


I’d tell you a chemistry joke but I know I wouldn’t get a reaction.


The other day I held the door open for a clown. I thought it was a nice jester.


If towels could tell jokes they would probably have a dry sense of humor.


2 • December 2015 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. Be sincere; be brief; be seated. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speechmaking


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