Summer tutoring doesn’t have to be a chore. At Petaluma’s independently owned and operated Grade A Tutoring Center at the Marina, individual tutoring and a wide range of group workshops encourage creativity, fun, and skill-building in the learning process.

Check out the Grade A website’s workshop page for summer programs for students K-6 and 7-12. 

Every second Saturday each year in May letter carriers here in Petaluma and in 10,000 other cities and towns across America deliver much more than mail when they walk and drive along their postal routes.

They also collect the goodness and compassion of their postal customers who participate in the NALC Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive – the largest one-day food drive in the nation and probably the world.

The annual drive has resulted in delivery of more than one billion pounds of donations to community food banks and pantries over the past 20 years.

Carriers collect non-perishable food donations left by mailboxes and in post offices and deliver them to local community food banks, pantries and shelters. Here in Petaluma the food haul of non-perishables is delivered for sorting, storage and distribution at the Salvation Army, on South McDowell Blvd. It is a sight to behold and a lifeline to hundreds of local families.

All you need do is to place a box or can of non-perishable food next to your mailbox before your neighborhood letter carrier delivers mail on Saturday May 11th, 2013. The carrier will do all the rest. The food is taken to the post office, sorted, and then delivered to the Salvation Army food bank.

With more than 50 million people facing hunger every day in America, including nearly 17 million children, this drive is one you can help people who need help in Petaluma.