Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Vesta Copestakes on Retiring from Sonoma County Gazette, has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM on Monday 12/7/2020 at 11 AM, repeats at 11 PM on KBBF, and then repeat broadcasts in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on the following Wednesday 12/9/2020 at 11 AM.
Read description of the show and bios of the guests, see links referenced on the show and the playlist, on its archive page at:
http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA201207.html
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Founder Vesta Copestakes on Retiring
from the Sonoma County Gazette
New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com
Featuring Guest
1. Vesta Copestakes, Founder, Former Publisher, Sonoma County Gazette
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Discussion with Featured Guest:
1. Vesta Copestakes recalls how she started from publishing an elementary school newsletter to transforming the Forestville Chamber of Commerce newsletter into the Sonoma County Gazette in 2001. She learned from her marketing background the value of building relationships, and for the first years of the Gazette she herself promoted and delivered the monthly Gazette. The Gazette was founded just before the terror attack on 9/11/2001 and Vesta immediately set the format as a reader contributed news format, since so many opinions were being expressed about the event and its relation to the County of Sonoma. Vesta saw the value of constructive criticism and informed opinion which were solution-minded. Vesta believed in citizen journalism and selected volunteers of different communities in Sonoma County as regular contributors to keep the readers informed on each part of our county for a sense of unity in living and working together. Vesta helped with the choice of the new publisher, Amie Windsor, when Sonoma Media Investment took over the Gazette in January 2020, whom we interviewed on Women’s Spaces on November 16, 2020. Since Covid-19 pandemic struck our county in March 2020, the ad revenue plummeted, so it was fortunate that Sonoma Media Investment bought the Gazette, as it is large enough financially to carry the Gazette through these trying months for small businesses. Vesta followed her passion and with the Gazette her feet felt like they were finally on her Path. And this is Vesta’s advice to aspiring writers and publishers, “Follow your passion!” Vesta is now on to further her dreams with Vesta Publishing.
About our Guest: Vesta Copestakes is the former publisher of the Sonoma County Gazette, a community-building publication both in print at local newstands and online at SonomaCountyGazette.com. Her mission was to connect people to share knowledge, experiences, and love of our home. In 2020 Vesta realized her retirement dream to sell the Gazette so she can head into her next adventure, exploring creative pursuits. Sonoma Media Investments purchased the Gazette and by 2021 will be carrying on the tradition of citizen journalism the gives readers a vehicle to share their ideas, opinions, and passions.
Guest Links:
Gazette Article Link: VESTA: Intelligence, Charm, Laughter, & Undying Commitment to Equity and Community By Ceylan Karasapan Crow (and their are other tributes to Vesta presented in the December Issue of the Gazette, available at local newstands for free)
Vesta Copestakes fb page: https://www.facebook.com/vesta.copestakes
Vesta Publishing LLC
@VestaPublishing · Media/News Company https://www.facebook.com/VestaPublishing
Vesta Copestakes Email Vesta@sonic.net
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Herstory
Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance
Herstory Events: December 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person; her arrest sparks the modern civil rights movement in the US.
December 5, 1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National Council of Negro Women.
December 7, 1941 – Capt. Annie Fox receives the first Purple Heart awarded to a woman for her service while under attack at Pearl Harbor.
December 9, 2002 – Award-winning ABC News journalist, Michele Norris, becomes the first African American female regular co-host of National Public Radio’s news magazine, All Things Considered, she stepped down in 2012.
Herstory Birthdays:
December 6, 1815 (1884) – Jane Swiss helm, suffragist, wrote articles for local papers against slavery, for women’s rights, and against legal inequities, led to close friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln.
December 6, 1927 (2002) – Patsy Mink, first Japanese-American Congresswoman (D-HI), wrote the Women’s Educational Equity Act, played a key role in the enactment of Title IX, which was renamed posthumously as the “Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act”.
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Annnouncements
Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:
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Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/
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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ
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The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States. www.2020centennial.org/.
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August 26 – November 8, 2020 online video available, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit
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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021, From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County. Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/
Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar
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Music Selections
The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com
She Rises Like the Dolphin, sung by Kate Wolf from the album Live in Mendocino (2018 Owl Records).
It’s A Good Day, sung by Anna Marie Kaufmanfrom the album It’s A Good Day (2012 Anna Marie Kaufman).
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For music purchasing opportunity:
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