May 2009 96 B Main Street, Tiburon, CA 94920 415/435-5633

Wednesday, May 68 a.m.

Board of Directors MeetingServino’s

Wednesday, May 66 to 8 p.m.

Tiburon Heritage & Arts Commissionwill honor

Hillary Don with its

Historic Preservation Award

Wednesday, , May 6 7:30 p.m.

Tiburon Town CouncilTiburon Town Hall

Sunday, May 10Belvedere Lagoon Opening Day

Monday, May 11 7:30 p.m.

Belvedere City Council Belvedere City Hall

Wednesday, May 13 8 a.m.

Ecomomic Development CommitteeServino’s

Saturday, May 161 to 4 p.m.

26th Annual Tiburon Wine FestivalPoint Tiburon Plaza

Saturday, May 233rd Annual Salmon Release

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Blackie’s Pasture

Thursday, May 285:30 -7 p.m.

Monthly MixerHosted by Tiburon Mail Service

On The Boardwalk$10 members/$15 non-members

Brand new location forTiburon Mail Service

Fax: 435-1132 Web: www.tiburonchamber.org E-mail: tibcc@SBCGlobal.net

CALENDAR Tiburon PeninsulaChamber of Commerce

Hosts the 26th Annual Wine Festival

onSaturday, May 16, 2009

1 to 4 p.m.Point Tiburon Plaza

The Tiburon Peninsula Chamber of Commerce will host its 26th Wine Festival on Saturday, May 16, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Point Tiburon Plaza, adjacent to the Tiburon waterfront.

This year’s wine festival will feature wines from 61 California wineries along with 22 food booths. In addition to a silent auction of art and library edition wines, live jazz entertainment will be by Cedricke Dennis on guitar, Tommie Bradford on drums, Wil Blades on organ and Dave Ellis on sax.

Every year, this festival becomes more and more popular and sells out quickly. This year, the 1,400 available tickets were sold out two months ahead of time, although a block of tickets were held for locals to buy until one month before the date.

Among the food booths participating are popular Tiburon restaurants: The Caprice, Cottage Eatery, Milano’s, Sam’s, Guaymas, Servino’s, Tiburon Grill (formerly Three Degrees), Foodniks, Strawberry Gourmet Deli and Ginza Sushi. Others are The Buckeye, Bungalow 44, Il Fornio, Il Davide, Pizza Antica, Pasta Pomodoro, Marin Steak & Spirit, Asqew Grill and PF Chang’s.

A few of the many wineries pouring wine this year are Wente Family Estates, Martin Ray, Rodney Strong, St. Francis and The Hess Collection plus Bialla, DeLoach, J.Lohr, Landmark and Windsor Vineyards.

The Tiburon Wine Festival is not only the first important wine tasting event in the San Francisco Bay Area, but it takes place at one of the most beautiful locations on the bay.

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Wine Festival Chair Steve Sears and Chong Cook,

owner of Pt. Tiburon Plaza where the event has taken

place for the past 17 years.

Business of the Month John William Bryant, Attorney-at-Law

John William Bryant is an Estate and Trust attorney with a ten year law practice here on The Boardwalk and in Stinson Beach.

John was raised in Tiburon, attending the local Reed Union School District schools and graduating from Redwood High School. He holds a B.A. degree in quantitative economics, decision sciences, political science and Latin literature from U.C. San Diego. He attended Golden Gate University where he earned his law degree in 1996.

He studied for the California Bar exam in Bolinas where he currently lives. John is a volunteer with the Bolinas Fire Department and is active in the West Marin Community.

Prior to moving to The Boardwalk Courtyard, John worked at Moerschbaecher & Dryburgh, LLP advising individuals, families and non profits in charitable gift planning and estate planning. After ten years of estate planning on The Boardwalk, he recently relocated to Lower Ark Row at 118B

Main Street which was previously occupied by attorneys Joe Giacomini and, before him, Jim Murray.

Because of his long association with this area, John brings awareness of the special needs of his clients in Tiburon and Belvedere.

His primary practice focuses on advising families and individuals on estate planning and estate tax savings techniques. He enjoys helping individuals work with their families to develop business succession plans, wealth transfer strategies and family preservation of unique assets, including real estate.

John can be found in his Ark Row office every weekday except Wednesdays. For more information, call 435-4444 or visit www.belvederelaw.com, or contact him by email at jwb@belvederelaw.com.

April Mixer on Lower Ark Row

News About Town Tiburon PeninsulaChamber of Commerce

2008 Board of Directors

Michael Gornet Larry Hadley Dave Bennett President Vice President Treasurer

Jim BryantZelinsky Properties

Chong CookPoint Tiburon Plaza

Peggy CurranEx-officio

Kelly KruegerCitrus

Maggie McDonoghAngel Island-Tiburon Ferry

Preston PettyBlinds & Designs

Jon P. RankinAttorney-at-Law

George RodericksEx-officio

Bruce SamsBelvedere Representative

Brooke TognazziniPrima Palat

Michaela WinnThe Lodge at Tiburon

Eric SchoenbergSchoenberg Guitars

Steve SearsSam’s Anchor Café

Angelo ServinoServino Ristorante

Connie WileyInterior Designer

Jackie WilliamsBank of Marin

Laleh ZelinskyZelinsky Properties LLC

Stephanie ZieglerPilates Studio of Tiburon

A White Elephant Flea Market will be held every weekend starting May 2nd and will run until December at The Boardwalk Shopping Center in the space where Custom House was. Clean out your garage, closets and attic and come out and make some cash, meet your neighbors and spend locally. Make a reservation for space (52-square feet with one eight-foot table). Cost is $50 for the weekend. Runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 328-2963 or E-mail <white.elephant@comcast.net>. This should be a lot of fun.

John Mini, M.S.C.M., LAC (acupuncturist) will open his new office at 108 Main Street on May 1st. His phone number is 415-686-4693.

The Reed Regatta, “Carnivale,” will be held Saturday evening, May 16, in a huge tent at Blackie’s Pasture. This is the major fund-raising event for the Reed Union School District. Festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $140 per person with proceeds going to fund art, music, Spanish, physical education and technology in the three district schools. The event is sponsored by the Reed Schools Foundation. For more information, e-mail Patti and David Stadlin, Foundation Co-presidents, at <stadlin@comcast.net>.

“Ko’ze Beginnings” has opened at 18 Main Street. It will feature children’s clothing, gifts and accessories. Darla Fisher is the owner of both the original “Ko’ze” and “Ko’ze Beginnings.” Phone number is 431-1910. Stop by and check it out.

Elaine Petrocelli will speak at a luncheon at the San Francisco Yacht Club on Tuesday, June 9. This is the 19th year that the Book Passage owner has donated her time and energy to help fund-raise for the Belvedere-Tiburon Library. For more information, call 789-2665. Ticket price is $50. The time is 12 noon to 2 p.m.

Opening Day on the Belvedere Lagoon will be celebrated the afternoon of Sunday, May 10. Watch for the decorations and parade around the various fingers of the lagoon.

Don’t forget the Letter Carrier’s Food Drive on Saturday, May 9. Drop your donations off at your mailbox or at the post office.

The Third Annual Salmon Release held by the Tiburon Salmon Institute, is scheduled for Saturday, May 23 at Blackie’s Pasture. Several thousand Chinook (baby) salmon will be released. Members of the Tiburon Volunteer Fire Department will be cooking, live music will be by the “Beautiful Losers and Tommy Rox.” The Coastal Miwoks will bless the fish with an Earth Prayer in their native tongue. National Marine Fisheries will make fish prints, the Girl Scouts will offer Beach Bingo, the California Department of Fish and Game will show youngsters how to cast a fishing rod, Trout Unlimited will help children with simulated fly fishing, and everyone will have a blast releasing the small salmon smolts into San Francisco Bay. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Volunteers are still needed. Please call Brooke Halsey, 608-6386. Come Save the Salmon!

Georgia KirchmaierC of C Executive Manager

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Friday Nights on Main Street will start on Friday, June 5th, and run every Friday Night through Friday, August 14th. The Chamber is looking for help this year in putting on these community gatherings – donations of $100 or more would be tremendously helpful. Please call (435-5633) or e-mail us at tibcc@sbcglobal.net.

Our Sixth Annual Oktoberfest will take place on Friday, September 25, on Main Street. Always great fun and wonderful beer, plus German food.

The Tiburon Classic Car Show will be held on Saturday, June 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Shoreline Park in Tiburon. Proceeds from this event will support local charities. The Tiburon-Belvedere Rotary Club is helping with this presentation along with Mini of San Francisco. For more information, please check www.tiburonclassiccarshow.org.

The Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society is always in need of new docents. If your passion is local history and you’d like to share that passion

with others, THIS is your big break! Docents have the opportunity to work on Saturdays and Sundays at two of four historic spots. These two sites are: 1) Railroad Ferry Museum (for the model railroad yard or at the upstairs stationmaster’s family’s living quarters), 2) SS China Cabin. Docents also are needed on Sundays at two other historic sites: The Art & Garden Center and at Old St. Hilary’s. In addition, we need to help staff the Tiburon Thrift Shop (LMS receives a percent of the income).

There’s nothing more exciting than sharing history with kids, adults and tourists – all of whom are there because they want to hear the history of the place. So, come out, volunteer and help others learn about our history. Call the LMS office, 435-1853, or go to www.landmarks-society.org.

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