Founder of the Rohnert Park Historical Society, Danesi will address local history and the process of documenting it for the nationwide Arcadia Publishing Images of America series.

Free. 6250 Lynn Conde Way, Rohnert Park, 584-5477.

Hall oversees 220 head of Angus mother cows on more than 3,000 leased acres in Marin County. She raises and sells about 30 breeding bulls a year.

Hall is also a past Sonoma-Marin Cattleman of the Year and a member of the Sonoma-Marin Cattlemen’s Association. She formerly served as a director of the Marin County Farm Bureau.

A third-generation North Bay farmer, Hall, like her father, the late Louis Bloom, has worked as a regional brand inspector. Her husband, Tom, and adult son, Jimmy, help her continue the family ranching tradition.

She will receive the J.W. Jamison Perpetual Trophy on Farmer’s Day at the Sonoma County Fair, Sunday, August 5.

Nunn’s “Sometimes I See You in My Dream” (10′ x 32′ x 11′) is a site-specific paean to the memory of Voigt, co-founder of the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation, who died in 2011.

The show is centered on three genres: modern abstract; contemporary post modern; and work created for Black Rock City in the Nevada desert. Many new pieces were created specifically for this exhibition.

The year-long show will include both educational and festival events scheduled around solstices, equinoxes and eclipses, all incorporating a message about the value of publicly accessible art. Paradise Ridge Winery, 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Drive, Santa Rosa, 528-9463, www.voigtfoundation.com.

Enjoy champagne, eggs Benedict, carved baron of beef, pastas, salads, side dishes and dessert buffet for $21.95 (kids $12.50).

It’s a little off the beaten path: take Petaluma Hill Road to Valley House Drive. Inside the Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center, Building 1100, Rohnert Park, 665-0260, www.sallytomatoes.com.

Catch the Sonoma State graduation webcast at www.sonoma.edu, 9 a.m. for the Schools of Science & Technology and Social Sciences, and 3 p.m. for the Schools of Education, Arts & Humanities, and Business & Economics. Ceremonies last approximately 2 ½ to 3 hours.

Send Towns your favorite personal pictures of the day for an online gallery.

This year’s fair theme is “Cruise on In”, and exhibitors, adults and children alike, will find a variety of nautical-themed opportunities among the hundreds of categories. For example, you might enter the table-setting competition or cruise-ship photo contest.

Fair entry fees are nominal, and all exhibitors who deliver their exhibits receive a complimentary single day pass to the fair.

Two new classes in the floriculture department are Terrariums and Gift Planters. Also rules, divisions and classes have been changed in the Beadwork & Jewelry and Crocheting & Fiberwork departments.

The 2012 fair guidebooks are free and contain instructions and forms are free. They are available at local chambers of commerce, Sonoma County Library branches and at the Fair Entry Office, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa. Paper entry forms must be postmarked no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, June 8.

Entrants can also register at www.sonomacountyfair.com/fair/competitive-exhibits.php through June 22.

Most items must be delivered to the fairgrounds in early to mid-July.

The program is one of 100 good causes competing for a $25,000 grant from State Farm Insurance. Voting continues through May 17.

The top 40 vote-getters at “Cause An Effect” and the winner of the prize will be announced on May 22. Look for the red button at www.facebook.com/#!/statefarm or go directly to www.facebook.com/statefarm/app_376288832400015?app_data=Safe-Swimming-Saves-Lives.

The Red Cross is a charitable organization, not a government agency, and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to teach lifesaving skills; shelter, feed and provide emotional support to victims of disasters; help supply the nation’s blood-transfusion needs; provide international humanitarian aid; and support military members and their families. For more information, visit www.redcross.org.

Enjoy live music and a selection of wines from D’Argenzio Winery plus food truck noshing. One ticket, $15 in advance (www.shop.dargenziowine.com) and $20 at the door, gets you three vouchers, good for a wine tasting flight, one glass of wine, or food items at the food trucks. Additional vouchers, $5. 1301 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa. Call 664-2377 for more info.

Credo High students (from left) Grace McNamara, Kendra Mills and Elias Torres manage Club Credo. (Jeff Kan Lee / PD)

By MARIE THOMAS McNAUGHTON / Rohnert Park Correspondent

The first school year for Credo High School and its first 45 freshman concludes this month with the launch of a nightclub.

Not the usual final exam or term paper, Club Credo is a student-run entertainment venue featuring comedy, music and novelty acts to be enjoyed by teens and adults together. Tickets are $20 a pair: no teen without an adult or adult without a teen.

It’s also how students in one financial literacy class at the Cotati-Rohnert Park public charter school are learning their lessons.

Ninth graders start with the basic question, “How does one support oneself in the American economy?”

“You can be independently wealthy,” joked school director Chip Romer. “You can have resources to sell. Or, in most cases, you sell your labor. This we call ‘a job.’ ”

To find out first-hand how that works, three groups of students created businesses, each section with a different economic model:

1) A nonprofit, the school yearbook.  Mentored by Credo education director Thom Schaefer and Credo mom Sharon Walter, students document the school year in photos and original artwork, design the publication and sell it to students and staff. At $30, the book price covers all expenses, does not accrue any profit. This group’s goal is to make its product affordable to all students, regardless of their ability to pay.

2) A worker-owned collective in which all students have equal authority. This year’s students developed a line of hand-carved block-print (lino-cut) greeting cards called Limited Edition Cards that were sold to individuals and shared the profits equally. They hope next year to sell the cards through local retailers. Bob Harrington, Credo art and social studies teacher, mentors this group. Financial details of this venture were not available.

3) A hierarchical for-profit capitalist enterprise, Club Credo. “We created an organizational structure and salary levels,” said Romer, mentor for this group along with social studies teacher Bob Harrington. The CEO earns six units; directors, three units; managers, two units and the rest, one unit.

Fifteen-year-old Kendra Mills, a Credo boarding student from Martha’s Vineyard, was hired as CEO. In her turn, Mills hired executives ranging in age from 14 to 16: CFO, Keanu Ramos; COO, Nadia Haugen; co-marketing directors Grace McNamara and Kaylyn Conway; and creative director, Eli Torres, who booked the talent and hosted the first night’s show.

They, in turn, hired managers; the managers selected employees, including house workers and wait staff, who transformed classroom space into a comfortable club with stage, lighting, sound, table seating, art gallery and a food prep and sales area.

Most workers, as in any real startup, fill more than one position.

With the help of Romer, they booked professional comedian Geoff Bolt for their sold-out inaugural show on May 4.

“He seemed to be the best fit for a family show,” according to Mills, and was instructed to keep it clean. He performed an appropriately edgy 30-minute set about family relations, career choices, success, failure, adults acting stupid, and vacations in Disneyland and Las Vegas.

Mills added that there was no rule about seating. Some teens and parents sat together, others grouped by age: “It’s a way for families to go out together and still be with their friends.”

The second set featured jugglers “Crystal and Priscilla,” played by experienced Italian street artists Antonio Fogetti and Alex Moore, who just happened to be parents of freshman Sol Foggetti.

Credo music director Eddie Guthman rounded out the evening with his Jazz Quartet. “It was amazing,” said Romer. “Frank Sinatra crooner Mike DiFranco offered a few guest songs, which the students seemed to love.”

Romer envisions the financial literacy class as a small-business incubator: “Some of the businesses we start will be ongoing and can generate revenue for the school and for the students. Voila! Economic sustainability.

“Everyone has the experience of writing a resume and cover letter, soliciting three references, interviewing, getting hired.”

Club Credo earned $1,530 from its first show, spent $999 producing it and netted $531. The group elected to save it as seed money for their next show, at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 25, featuring comic headliner Michael Pritchard. Petaluma acoustic rock band The Highway Poets, with lead singer Johnny Haggard and musicians Jimmy James Black, “Dead” Del Walker, and acoustic bassist Jack Ruin, will end the evening with “a raucous yet soulful foot-tapping sound.”

Tickets are $20 a pair, available in advance at Credo High School, 1290 Southwest Blvd., Rohnert Park, 664-0600, ext. 0.

At the end of the school year, the company will distribute the profits among the students, giving them a percentage of the pot based on their salary levels.

Romer said he foresees the financial fiteracy curriculum becoming more sophisticated as each class progresses.“My hope is that by 12th grade they will learn investment strategies and tax return preparation.”

Credo School of Arts, Letters & Sciences Credo is an alternative, free public high school, with a Waldorf curriculum emphasizing “sustainability in its many aspects.” For more information, visit credohigh.org.

A Rohnert Park man was shot and killed by a San Francisco police sharpshooter Wednesday night during a standoff that begun when investigators went to question him about the slaying of his mother.