She was born just one day before
Published: Monday, April 18, 2011 at 7:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 18, 2011 at 7:39 p.m.
Carmina Salcido is back home from Petaluma Valley Hospital with a new reason to celebrate being alive.
Carmina gave birth on April 13 to Zoe — official name, Zophia Angela Salcido. Carmina selected Petaluma Valley for the birth because it was that hospital’s staff that helped save her life and showered her with love following her father’s killing spree 22 years ago.
One PVH nurse told Carmina last week, “I held you when you were here.”
In April of 1989, Ramon Salcido murdered Carmina’s mother, Angela, and slashed nearly 3-year-old Carmina’s throat and those of her sisters, Sofia, 4, and Teresa, 22 months, both of whom died. The winery worker also killed four others.
Carmina, now 25, admits she was made a bit anxious by the prospect her child might be born on the April 14 anniversary of the nightmare wrought by her father, who’s now on Death Row.
But Zophia (6 pounds, 6 ounces and 20 inches tall) arrived one day earlier. “Before the tragedy, a new beginning,” said Carmina.
THE CROSS WALK is what two Santa Rosa churches are calling the Good Friday pilgrimage through town that will involve stops at a number of places frequented by people seeking hope.
The pastors of First United Methodist and Christ United Methodist will launch their mobile interpretation of the Stations of the Cross at noon beneath the Press Democrat building’s mural of major contributors to Sonoma County.
Stopping points will include the FISH food pantry, Burbank School, Family Support Center homeless shelter and the unemployment office.
THEY LOVE DOGS at Healdsburg’s Empire Boat & RV Storage. So at quitting time Thursday they’re putting on a winetasting for Creating Wellness, which treats local hospital and nursing-homes patients to bedside visits by dogs.
Canine friends are invited to the boatyard party, thus it’s name: Yappy Hour.
OH, SISTERS! It’s hard to imagine that anybody had much more fun in Santa Rosa on Saturday night than the dauber-stained gang of 300 that hooted, howled and laughed like crazy at an historic bingo game.
It was a united effort of the Russian River Sisters, the 10-year-old charitable group whose membership boasts men who dress in face paint, jeweled gowns and headdresses that touch the ceiling, and Santa Rosa’s 155-year-old Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Its members believe in a supreme being, temperance of desire and “purity in heart and mind.”
The Sisters and the Odd Fellows got on famously.
“They’re just as odd as we are, which is good,” said the IOOF Noble Grand, Ron Mills. Together the new partners raised a pile of money for four local non-profit service agencies.
Mills can’t wait for them to work together again to raise money for groups struggling to meet human needs in the county. He imagines their next bingo game filling the vets’ building.
The Noble Grand does admit, “The Sisters wore me out!”
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