Village Creek, maintained by Friends of Five Creeks

 • ... that Joe Heitz of California wine producer Heitz Wine Cellars is considered the first in the U.S. to champion single vineyard designated wine?
 • ... that a critic said that landscapes by Rinaldo Cuneo (painting of the Embarcadero pictured, right) "are the very soul and essence of California materialized in line and color"?
 • ... that the Friends of Five Creeks helps restore creeks in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay including daylighting Marin Creek? (Village Creek pictured, left)
 • ... that California '49er Stephen William Shaw helped discover Humboldt Bay, painted over 200 portraits of San Francisco notables, and started growing grapes in Sonoma County?

January/February 2011