Banished from Melissa Haney's marriage to Calvin Sanders at the Oakmont Golf Club were talk or thoughts of the burglary/arson that ravaged their Santa Rosa home a week earlier.
"The fire was the last thing from our minds," said Calvin, who'd spent many hours upgrading the house off Hopper Avenue.
The newlyweds know they won't live in that house again. Calvin said he'll restore and sell it, and he and Melissa will start over in another home.
People keen to help them have opened the Sanders Relief Fund, account 7461, at Redwood Credit Union.
GEORGE LOPEZ loves golf, and the comic-actor liked Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club enough last weekend to play two rounds.
He was good natured about allowing photos. The young woman who scoots around the course selling drinks told about his tipping her with a bill bearing two zeroes and a picture of Franklin.
PARTY UP: If Santa Rosa has ever seen a garden party to rival the elegance and intent of one coming June 10 to the McDonald Mansion, I'd venture that it's been awhile.
No more than 150 guests will sport summer hats, stroll John and Jennifer Webley's gardens, taste local wines and hors d'oeuvres and enjoy the American Philharmonic String Quartet.
All proceeds will go to The Living Room, Santa Rosa's too-busy drop-in center for women who are homeless or at risk of becoming so.
For tickets, visit brownpapertickets.com or phone (800) 838-3006, Ext. 1.
JENNA GOES NUCLEAR: It shocked Jenna Swindt to be singled out for special recognition at a graduation ceremony at the Navy's nuclear-power training center in New York state.
Jenna, 26 and a 2004 Montgomery High grad, was honored as the 50,000th sailor to complete the program at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory's Kesselring Site.
She and 245 fellow graduates will put their training to work aboard nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers. But first, Jenna has accepted an invitation to stay on for two years at the Kesselring Site as an instructor.
Beaming father Joseph, of Bodega Bay, has a murky idea what she'll be teaching and what she'll do once she's assigned to a carrier.
When he'd ask what she was learning about nuclear propulsion, Jenna would reply, "Dad, it's top secret!"
YES, SIR! Maybe you know how unusual it is for three friends from a single high school to receive appointments to three military academies.
Windsor High thinks it's a pretty big deal that senior Alexander Lee was accepted to the Naval Academy, Vince Valdez to the Air Force Academy and Shane Morgan to West Point, the United States Military Academy.
Having trained and played together on Windsor's 2012 championship football team will no doubt help prepare them for the rigors ahead.
Chris Smith is at 521-5211 and chris.smith@pressdemocrat.com.
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