Sonoma County is planning road work this week that will close Adobe Road at one stretch and cause traffic delays at another.
From 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, construction crews will be repaving Adobe Road from Old Redwood Highway to Corona Road, and the road is expected to be closed to all traffic except for local residents.
From 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. tonight through Wednesday, crews will be repaving and doing traffic signal work at the intersection of Adobe and Petaluma Hill roads. Traffic delays are expected there, according to the Sonoma County Transportation and Public Works Department.
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Bill Thompson
My name is Bill and I have worked for Traverso’s for almost 10 years. As you have heard the Traversos have sold their business and that will be the end of their nearly 90 year run. And a good run it was. I feel truly blessed to have been in their employ. They are a warm, caring family and have made us all part of their family.
George and Michael always bent over backwards to accommodate our schedule requests. Michael and his wife Elizabeth invited us all to their wedding. Michael’s sister Andrea and her husband Dan invited us to THEIR wedding. We all attended George’s mother’s funeral several years ago, a truly wonderful woman.
If a customer was a little “short” on the money George would tell them to just catch him the next time they came in.
I watched as George waited on some of the most powerful, wealthy and influential people in this town as well as some of the homeless people who gathered a few bucks for a loaf of bread. He treated each with the same warmth, caring and respect that every person deserves. He is the first to offer help to anyone who needs it. Local school benefits and charity events could always count on the Traversos for support, putting signs in their windows to donating money or food baskets. If I am to have a male role model, this is the man.
Speaking of food baskets, what is Santa Rosa going to do this Christmas without Traverso’s wonderful Christmas baskets? George’s wife Sandra would always come in during the holidays with her dear friends in tow to make these beautiful baskets for our customers. Her friends Linda Sue and Donette would be in the back room “discussing the days events” while working. Their pay – lunch. They did it out of love.
That’s what this family is about – love. They love what they do, they love the people that work for/with them, and most of all they love the people that come in and make their store what it is. They aren’t just customers, they’re friends.
We in the deli, Debbie, Miguel, Claudio, Elena and myself will miss our regulars. Ed and Gloria, Big Mike, Joe Cleveland, Steve and Janet, Richard, Cousin Jimmy, Nikki, The “Lofties”,
too many to mention. We will miss you all terribly. We will. You are what made this job such a pleasure.
We will all land in other jobs around Santa Rosa and continue doing what we love, but as good as it might be it can never compare to working for this family. To George I say happy retirement! And to Michael I know you will do well in whatever you choose. Thank you both for the last 10 years and may God bless you.
Love to the family,
Bill Thompson
October 9th, 2011 2:39 pm