The San Francisco of past decades can still be seen in rare archival film footage, but it’s left up to the audience to identify and comment on what they are seeing, in a featured program making a return appearance at this weekend’s Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Bruce Robinson offers a preview.

Some scenes that film archivist Rick Prelinger has found show locations that have long since been swallowed by progress. He cites one memorable example, shot in a now-vanished San Francisco cemetery.

The Lost Landscapes of San Francisco  will be shown at  2 pm on Saturday , March 28, at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Ticket information can be found here, and a full schedule for the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is online here.

  Along the entire west coast of the United States, this is Tsunami Preparedness Week, a time each year to highlight emergency planning efforts for both the general public, and coastal infrastructure, such as ports and harbors. Today’s Exchange takes a closer look at that process.

The  California Office of Emergency Services has prepared interactive maps of the potential tsunami inundation areas for Sonoma, Marin and Napa and all other coastal counties. Residents and visitors in those zones are urged to know where to go to find safe higher ground, if a tsunami alarm should sound. Learn more about these dangerous waves in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxItCVRd02k

(July 23, 2015)

Dyslexia is more common and more complicated than is usually acknowledged. But there are upsides to the condition, too.

  In the classroom, says Susan Barton, founder of Bright Solutions for Dyslexia, teachers should not press students to do things that expose them to embarrassment or ridicule because of their limitations. Instead she offers a series of modest accommodations that can enable those same students to succeed.

Susan Barton will present a free seminar, “Dyslexia:  Symptoms and Solutions,”  on Thursday evening, March 27 at 6 pm at Sonoma Country Day School. Find out more about the event here.

The SAY Dream Center, a new housing and service center for homeless youth in Santa Rosa’s Bennett Valley, has been controversial in the neighborhood around the former Warrack Hospital site. But it received unanimous support from the city’s Planning Commission two months ago, and further undivided backing from the Santa Rosa City Council last night.  To find out what happens next, KRCB’s Bruce Robinson spoke with the man behind the project.