Two years ago, a ballot measure that would have required labeling of foods with genetically modified ingredients was narrowly defeated by California voters. Now that same issue is being debated by the state legislature, in the form of a bill authored by a local legislator.

Sen. Evans has prepared a fact sheet on her bill that outline its provisions, and differences from Proposition 37 on the November 2012 ballot. She also discusses her SB 1381 in this video. (begins at 7:20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O54CMslTH6s

  Since 2001, the Graton Day Labor Center has been working to improve the lives of immigrant workers and their families in western Sonoma County. Tonight they celebrate their 13th anniversary, and what they’ve accomplished through those years.

The Graton Day Labor Center's anniversary celebration begins at 7 tonight at the Sebastopol Cultural Community Center on Morris Street. See below for details.

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