As gang-related activities increase in the Sonoma Valley, new prevention efforts are being launched to help parents redirect affected kids.

For details about the upcoming seminar series, click here . You can hear Jill Royce describe the full series in this audio clip:

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  David Sanchez, a Kindergarten teacher from Santa Maria  is president of the 340,000 member California Teachers Association.

A traveling half-scale replica of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial from

Washington D.C. is visiting Santa Rosa for a few days,

eliciting memories, mourning and emotion.

"The Wall That Heals" is a project of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

The United Veterans Council of Sonoma County took the lead inbringing the wall to Santa Rosa.

Below is an aerial view of the full size Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.

The most critical natural resource on the planet is at risk, but its not one we’re accustomed to thinking of as endangered.

Dr. Vandana Shiva is the founder of Navdanya International , an India-based science and policy research center. Its mission: "To protect nature and people's rights to knowledge, biodiversity, water and food."

Dr. Shiva notes that pesticide use contributes to the "desertification" of soils, a process that is accelerated when the soil is poor to begin with.

One little-known consequence of the widespread adoption of genetically modified cotton seed by farmers in India has been a surge in suicides by debt-ridden farmers whose crops do not earn enough to pay their seed bills. Dr. Shiva says that a generation ago, suicide was rare in India, but the numbers now suggest there is a new death approximately every 20 mintes.

On August 27^th, the Jackson Theater at Sonoma Country Day School in Santa Rosa will host an evening with Dr. Shiva, advocate and author as well as winner of the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. For more information about the speaking event, click here . KRCB will also record her presentation for later broadcast next month.