Snoopy gets his Hollywood star in big week for 'Peanuts'

When “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in 1996, maybe 20 people gathered for the sidewalk dedication.

But a friendly mob converged Monday on Hollywood Boulevard for the unveiling of a star for Schulz’s most adored character, Snoopy.

“There easily were a couple hundred people,” Santa Rosa’s Jeannie Schulz said from L.A. The cartoonist’s widow figures that social media were mostly to credit for the turnout, but she wondered if Snoopy just might be more popular than Sparky.

“He very well could be,” she said.

While in Tinseltown, Jeannie also attended the premiere of “The Peanuts Movie.” Recurring laughter at the Regency Village Theatre took her back to when she and Sparky caught the stage premiere of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and how tickled he was to have people laugh at his lines.

Jeannie said, “He would have felt the same way today.”

CHECK IT OUT! Sonoma County people rallied in a big way to create a public library in Roseland, and it’s opening Tuesday at 10 a.m.

The Roseland Community Library at 779 Sebastopol Road will be open until 2 p.m. You might mark your calendar for the celebration with music, dance and refreshments that’s coming on Nov. 14.

TED TALKS are hot, for good reason. Fascinating people speak for 18 minutes or less on technology, entertainment or design and their listeners are enriched.

At TEDxSonomaCounty on Saturday, the 13 speakers include Petaluma’s acclaimed 20-year-old playwright and actor, Dezi Gallegos; Elizabeth Gore of Healdsburg, Dell Computer’s entrepreneur-in-residence, and composer, pianist and musicologist Nolan Gasser of Petaluma.

TEDx happens at Sonoma Country Day School. For more, see tedxsonomacounty.com.

DAD DUMPED WHAT? It was closing time at the garbage drop-off station near Healdsburg. As cashier Stephen Campbell headed out he encountered at the locked gate a woman and a girl of perhaps 7 or 8.

The child wept. Her mother told Campbell that earlier that day her husband, the girl’s dad, had made a dump run and mistakenly threw away a small bicycle.

That bike, the woman said, was very dear to their daughter.

Campbell returned to the transfer station and scanned the refuse for a pink bike. He spotted part of it in the heap and pulled it out.

The bicycle seemed too small for the girl, Campbell thought. He’d learn from her mom that it was her first big-girl bike and that she’d remained attached to it despite having outgrown it.

The cashier never before saw a kid hug a bicycle.

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