Smith: Bill would name Annadel State Park after Henry Trione

The California Legislature now has before it a proposal to add the late Henry Trione’s name to that of the hallowed park that wouldn’t exist were it not for him

Tuesday, state Sen. Mike McGuire of Healdsburg took to a Senate committee a resolution to ask State Parks to change the name of Annadel State Park to Trione Annadel.

The Natural Resources Committee gave resolution No. 79 the nod. It goes now to the Senate Appropriations Committee, then to the Senate floor.

Trione, it’s well known, often deflected accolades. But the entrepreneur and loyal friend of Sonoma County remarked not long before his death in February at 94 that he’d be honored to have his name attached to that of the park he loved.

Trione Annadel. It’s got a nice sound to it.

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WHICH WOMAN should appear on a new $10 bill?

Penngrove’s Kathleen Haynie figures that if the bill will be issued in 2020 and honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, one candidate for the monetary tribute rises above all others.

Haynie, a retired nurse and social worker, has gone onto MoveOn.org with a petition to adorn the new bill with the likeness of Alice Stokes Paul.

The suffragist is already on a half-ounce 2012 gold coin. Whether or not she joins Alexander Hamilton on the new tenner, she’s someone well worth revisiting.

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THE KUT-UPS is a stage phenomenon that must be experienced if you live within 30 or 40 minutes of Rohnert Park and aspire to make your life complete.

This is a troupe of seniors whose avocation is rehearsing seriously for the annual variety show that comes to Spreckels Performing Arts Center at 1 p.m. today and Saturday and at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

“It’s so much fun,” marvels Phyllis Imand, who’s 83 and a dancer in the show.

In this, the 43rd year of the Kut-Ups, Phyllis and the other cast members are especially jazzed see some of themselves for the first time on the big, electronic advertising billboard alongside Highway 101 in Rohnert Park.

Notes Phyllis, “I’m the third from the left!”

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THOSE 12 DOORS: If you make it to the second season of Shakespeare in the Cannery, and you’ll be happy if you do, treat yourself to a detailed perusal of the set.

For the production of “Twelfth Night,” director David Lear envisioned 12 doors that members of the cast could enter and exit with comedic aplomb. Lear found the ideal artists for the task: Megan Ramirez, Zoey Gassner and Sophie VanDyke, all students in Santa Rosa High’s ArtQuest program.

The dozen-doored set they painted is stunning in the daylight. And when the sun recedes and the theatrical lights flash onto the stage there within the ruins of the cannery on Third Street in Railroad Square, the set takes on a mystical hue.

Prominent among the actors who duck in and out of the doors are Carmen Mitchell and Kot Takahashi, who starred as Romeo and Juliet in the premiere season at the open-air cannery.

In “Twelfth Night,” they’re twin siblings who were separated in a shipwreck and whose capers will make your sides ache and your head swim.

Chris Smith is at 521-5211 and chris.smith@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @CJSPD.