Get Ready for May – A Busy Month Coming Up

May 2014
CALENDAR
The Landmarks Society’s
three landmarks are now open for
the season. See page 4 for details.
Tuesday, May 6
Servino Ristorante
56th Opera Night
Wednesday, May 14
Board of Directors Meeting
8 a.m.
Servino Ristorante
Wednesday, May 7
7:30 p.m.
Tiburon Town Council
Tiburon Town Hall
Sunday, May 11
Mother’s Day
Monday, May 12
7:30 p.m.
Belvedere City Council
Belvedere City Hall
Saturday, May 17
Tiburon Wine Festival
1 to 4 p.m.
Point Tiburon Plaza
Wednesday, May 21
3 to 4 p,.m.
Library tea with Spring theme
Wednesday, May 21
7:30 p.m.
Tiburon Town Council
Tiburon Town Hall
Wednesday, May 28
5:30-7 p.m.
Chamber Mixer
Cindy’s Hair Studio
1640 Tiburon Boulevard
Friday, May 30
TiburonTurns 50
6 to 11 p.m.
Ark Row to Elephant Rock
Fax: 435-1132
96 B Main Street, Tiburon, CA 94920
415/435-5633
Get Ready for May – A Busy Month Coming Up
This May promises to be busy. In addition to all the regular
springtime happenings, there’s the Tiburon Wine Festival on
May 17 and a big outdoor event at Shoreline Park and Main
Street on May 30 to celebrate Tiburon’s 50th anniversary of
incorporation as a town.
The 31st annual Tiburon Wine Festival will be held on
Saturday, May 17, 1 to 4 p.m. at Point Tiburon Plaza. This is one
of the Bay Area’s premier wine events, with nearly 60 wineries
offering samples of their fares. Dance to music by Henry James Band’s “Hands
on Fire” and bid on trips, art and unique experiences, plus magnums of wine and
library wines at the silent auction. Tickets are $75 for unlimited wine and food
tasting. For more information, go to <tiburonwinefetival.org> or call the chamber
Friday Night on Main Street
will be held on May 30 in conjunction with a celebration for
Tiburon’s 50th anniversary of the town’s incorporation. This
giant street party will run from 6 to 11 p.m. from Ark Row to
Elephant Rock.
On Main Street local restaurants will offer street-side dining
and dancing to the smooth sounds of Bautista, a samba rock
fusion band that will have you up and dancing to a perfect mix of their original
music and your favorite dance songs. Shoreline Park will have a dozen food
trucks reaching across a range of palates. Three jumpies will be waiting for
kids, plus a few other surprises as well. The band “Wonder Bread 5,” will be at
the far end of Shoreline Park, and the “Redwood High School Jazz Band” and
“Overbite” (a local dads band) will take turns playing near the anchor circle. At
music and dancing until 11 p.m.
Party goers are encouraged to bike, walk or carpool. For safe bike parking, there
will be a free, secure bike corral at Point Tiburon Plaza, manned by members of
the Marin County Bicycle Coalition. No pets, please. For more information, call
town hall, 435-7373, or go to www.telli.com/tiburonturns50.
Business of the Month: MyMapbooks
Bernard Catalinotto
As a kid, Bernard Catalinotto enjoyed nothing better than jumping on
his bike and exploring his Queens, New York neighborhood. When he
returned home, he would hole himself up in his room and draw maps of
where he had been. These days, the senior vice president of MyMapbook,
LLC still loves to make maps. Now it’s not only fun, it’s his real job.
After graduation from Columbia College with a math major, Bernard
earned his masters degree in regional planning from Cornell University
and then spent 1971 in Rome, Italy on a Fulbright fellowship. Since
then, he has worked for a variety of companies, most notably Bechtel
Corporation and Thomas Brothers Maps.
Married in 1979, Bernard and his wife, Roberta, moved to Mill Valley in
1987 and now have two grown sons, Dan and Dave.
While at Thomas Brothers, Bernard met Glen Jansma, and the two immediately
Bernard Catalinotto with
some MyMapbooks.
founded MyMapbook, LLC in 2009. Although many people may believe paper
maps are obsolete, they are an absolute necessity at times. One of these times was during the 2010 earthquake
victims during recovery. Under contract to a medical relief organization, Bernard and Glen processed open
source map data, custom-made a map book and sent 100 copies to the relief workers, pro bono.
community. From the beginning, the team not only designed the books with painstaking efforts, they also
there now are separate books for Southern and Central Marin. The company recently added a separate book
for San Ramon Valley in the East Bay.
hikers and drivers – Google does nothing about trails – and the third is for disaster preparation. We give our
maps to all emergency people in Marin,” Bernard says. “A major goal, which supports community identity, is
for our maps to be beautiful.”
And the maps are very nice. The paper is glossy and thick, so it not only says “quality,” but it does not tear
easily like most maps. Each book has myriad details about the area it depicts with high-resolution photos. It
includes maps of each municipality, downtown streets of each town, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of
public entities, highways, both paved and unpaved streets, paths and hiking trails, public stairs and streams.
Also marked are public buildings and parking areas, plus the elevation and dates of upcoming community
events for the year.
“We printed 25,000 Southern Marin books this year and mailed 20,000 of them to local residents,” Bernard
said. Giving them away is possible because of the numerous ads in each book, all tastefully designed and
placed. Each book is meticulously updated every year. “We work each year to make the next issue even better,”
Bernard says. “Since Marin often works as one community, we plan to combine the two books and expand
north and west. We’ll issue a Marin Community Mapbook for the entire county, print 40,000 copies and
distribute them next spring.”
The goal is to eventually have MyMapbooks that cover all of California and then the entire country. For more
information, go to MyMapbook.com. To contact Bernard, go to bernard@mymapbook.com. To advertise in
MyMapbook, call Pam Grossman at 415-578-0742 or e-mail Pam at pam@mymapbook.com.
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News About Town
Tiburon Tavern at The Lodge at Tiburon:
- Happy Hour: every day from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
- Monday: Family Night, bring your kids & receive
Check out what Guaymas is offering...
25% off food. Excludes happy hour & alcohol.
- Happy Hour Monday through Friday from
- Tuesday
4 to 7 p.m. plus daily specials.
Craft Bottles. Beer tastings on select dates – see
- Margarita Monday – $4 house margaritas & $5
Facebook. Cannot be combined with Happy Hour.
premium margaritas
- Wednesday: Wine Night, 30% off all bottles all night.
- Monday through Friday, $2 gourmet tacos, $2
Complimentary wine tasting, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
oysters on the half-shell & $5 premium margaritas
- Thursday: Ladies’ Night, Happy Hour extended
all night for ladies, plus live music at 6 p.m.
- Friday and Saturday: 6 p.m., live music with
An exhibit of photographs by Kathleen Buckstaff
various bands.
will be at the library from now through Friday, May 9.
- Sunday brunch: 10 a.m., with music
Call 789-2665 for more information.
- Last Wednesday of the Month: “YAPPY HOUR”
5 to 7 p.m., dog focused Happy Hour on the
patio, complimentary wine tasting and dog treats.
A woodblock and silk screen exhibit, titled “Our
Town,” by talented Del Mar students will be on view * Specials cannot be combined with other promotions
in the upstairs Community Room at Tiburon Town
For more information, call 435-5996 or go to
Hall from now through Wednesday, May 28. For more
www.lodgeattiburon.com.
information, call town hall at 435-7373.
Servino Ristorante’s 56th Opera Night will be held
on Tuesday, May 6, with tenor David Gustafson and
soprano Elizabeth Gentner. These evenings include
appetizers, a sit-down, four-course dinner with a
patio or join the fun at the bar. Hours are 3 to 8 p.m.
different wine with each course, plus live opera
Wednesday and Thursday and 12 noon to 8 p.m.
entertainment. The all-inclusive price is $85. Call 435Friday through Sunday. Closed Monday and Tuesday. 2676 for more information or for reservations.
Owner and wine maker is Jon Grant. Phone, 415-9375698 or go to www.couloirwines.com.
The Tiburon-Angel Island Ferry’s Sunset Cruises
will begin on May 16, and continue each Friday and
The Caprice Restaurant’s Prime Rib Mondays are
Saturday evening, 6:30 to 8 p.m., through October 11.
back! Prime rib dinner on Mondays for $19.95 per
Adults, $20; 6 to 12 years, $10; 3 to 5 years, $5. For more
person, plus a Locals Special Tuesdays through
information, call 435-2131.
Couloir Wines|Straight Line Wine Winery at 72
Main Street features small production, handcrafted
$29.95 per person. The Caprice is open seven nights
a week and for brunch on Sundays. Call 435-3400 for
reservations or more information.
Sonoma painter Sharon Sittloh has an exhibit,
“Ripped Reality,” on view at Tiburon Town Hall’s
lobby and council chambers from Tuesday, May 26,
through Friday, June 27. For more information, call
town hall at 435-7373. There is no artist’s reception.
An exhibit highlighting work by Del Mar Middle
School art students will be on view at the BelvedereTiburon Library’s Founders Room from May 13
through May 23. A reception will be held on May 13,
from 6 to 8 p.m. Call 789-2665 for more information.
Coming soon to downtown Tiburon: vineyard vines,
a company best known for its whimsical neckties
and smiling pink whale logo will open a store at 20
Main Street (the former Harbor Lights Building) in
early June. The store carries a variety of clothing and
accessories for men, women and children. This is the
A new shop, Fetish, is now open at 34 Main Street.
This is a Boho, chic women’s clothing store that also
carries gifts and handmade jewelry designed by the
owner, Sarah Shaw. Go to <sarah@sarahshaw.com> or
phone 595-5594. The shop manager is Danielle Beer.
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Sports fans: Spend an Evening with Keoki Flagg,
internationally acclaimed and award-winning
extreme sport photographer. This event, sponsored
by Alain Pinel Realtors, will be held on Wednesday,
May 7, from 6 to 8 p.m., in Kimball Hall at Saint
Stephen’s Church, 3 Bayview Avenue, Belvedere.
The dates for this year’s Friday Nights on Main
Street: May 30, June 27, July 25, August 29, September
19 (Firemen’s Ball) and September 26 (Oktoberfest).
The Romberg-Tiburon Center will hold a series of
seminars on the latest advances in science. The series
is FREE and open to the public, but reservations are
necessary. All seminars are held on Wednesdays at
3:30 p.m. in the Bay Conference Center (3152 Paradise
Drive). Call 415-297-3309 for more information.
Catered wine and hors d’oeuvres are from 6 to 7
p.m. with the slide presentation starting promptly
at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 ($5 per ticket will be
for more information, call the Alain Pinel Tiburon
Tiburon Boulevard.
You are invited to attend the Marin Economic Forum
in Guzman Hall at Dominican University (50 Acacia
Avenue, San Rafael) on Friday, May 2, from 7:30 to
10 a.m. on the topic of “Water Shortage and Small
Business: What is coming and how to plan.”
Sam’s Anchor Café offers Happy Hour Monday
through Friday, 4 to 7 p.m. For more information,
call 435-4527.
Water shortages act like a regressive tax on
businesses. Small businesses that are intensive water
users are especially vulnerable to supply changes and
how water utilities react to help conservation efforts.
This educational gathering provides perspectives
from both the water utilities in Marin County and also
a panel of businesses that see water shortages from
multiple angles. Please come to learn more about how
small businesses are preparing for the summer of 2014
and beyond.
The Tiburon Heritage & Arts Commission is
honoring its 2014 Heritage Preservation Awardee,
Phil Cassou, for his many years of volunteering
at the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society’s
Railroad & Ferry Depot (Donahue Building).
Over the years, Phil has slowly and carefully put
in a detailed operating HO-scale (1:87) model of
the former Tiburon railroad yard as it was in 1906.
In addition to the moving steam trains, there are
buildings, people, ferries, and even birds, dogs and
cats in the model. The public is welcome to visit
Wednesdays through Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m.
The Belvedere Concerts-in-the-Park committee
announced the dates for this summer’s concerts
at Belvedere Park: June 15, July 13, August 17 and
August 31. Mark your calendars!
In addition to the downstairs railroad model,
the upstairs of the building is open to the public,
showing the living quarters of the station master
and his family as it was in 1906.
The Landmarks Society has begun its season
with its three landmarks open from now through
October with docents giving tours to both groups
and individuals. The railroad museum will be open
Wednesdays through Sundays; the China Cabin will
be open Saturdays and Sundays; Old Saint Hilary’s
will be open Sundays. All open hours are 1 to 4 p.m.
Docents at both the railroad museum and the China
Cabin report they had nearly 10,000 visitors to each
landmark last year from around the world, coming
from Japan and Norway to Africa and Australia. And,
of course, Old Saint Hilary’s has been recognized as
a symbolic landmark for Tiburon for many years,
drawing visitors from near and far.
A reception for Phil will be held on Wednesday,
May 7, running from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the upstairs
Community Room. For more information, call town
hall at 435-7373.
Artist Carol Weiss will hold a FREE Art Workshop
at the Belvedere Tiburon Library on Wednesday,
May 7, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Founders
Room. All materials, pencils, paper and pastels,
will be provided. Register at the library’s reference
desk or call 789-2661.
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The Chamber
Mixer at
Luna Blu
was GREAT!!
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The Tiburon Heritage & Arts Commission and the
Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society will present
a concert at Old Saint Hilary’s with the women’s
chorus, Musae, on Friday, May 9, starting at 8
p.m. The program is titled “Women Who Changed
History,” featuring songs by women composers
and works written for elite female groups from a
variety of eras, ranging from Renaissance madrigals
ensemble to contemporary pieces.
Tickets are sold ahead at Tiburon Town Hall, the
not already sold out). Price is $20 for adults and $15
for seniors and those under 18. For more information,
call Landmarks at 435-1853. Note: There is no parking
at Old Saint Hilary’s. A free shuttle service, starting
30 minutes before the performance, will go back and
forth from the Boardwalk Shopping Center.
The crowd having fun at last year’s
Tiburon Wine Festival
“You can tell more about a person by what
he says about others than you can by what
others say about him.”
Newspaper columnist Leo Aikman
Thank You Renewing Members (partial list)
Romberg Center for Environmental Studies
Sanitary District No. 5 of Marin County
Eric Schoenberg Guitars
Strawberry Village Dental Care, Joseph L. Bauer DDS
Marin Tennis League
Tiburon Dental, Bob Nadjibi DDS
Town of Tiburon
Tiburon Peninsula Club
San Francisco Yacht Club
Waters Edge Hotel
Wells Fargo Bank
Vogue Cleaners
Zelinsky Properties
ACV Argo Tiburon
Belvedere Tiburon Recreation
Bradley Real Estate
Hazel Carter, Coldwell Banker
Guaymas Restaurant
Tiburon Peninsula
Chamber of Commerce
2014 Board of Directors
Steve Sears
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