Contacted by Marsh, the couple readily embraced the idea of dedicating 2 acres of the former golf course to the care of injured, orphaned and sick songbirds, water birds and raptors. The Jacquins intend to build a private equestrian center on part of the 18-acre property. Then they learned about the former nine-hole Washoe Creek Golf Course and its new owners, Heidi and Dave Jacquin. Rescue center leaders had looked into a number of possible sites but found none would work out. Its Chanate Road-area home of four decades sits on land the county has declared surplus and is offering for sale. “There’s still a long road ahead,” Sam Marsh, a member of the rescue center’s board, told a gathering Friday at the existing avian care facility near the county’s former Community Hospital.īut Marsh and the lease-?signing ceremony’s guests, among them county supervisors Shirlee Zane and David Rabbitt, cheered the progress the Bird Rescue Center has made. Under pressure to vacate its longtime center on land off Santa Rosa’s Chanate Road that is owned by Sonoma County, the all-volunteer Bird Rescue Center now must raise the money needed to build a new campus off West Sierra Avenue near Stony Point Road. On Friday, Bird Rescue Center leaders who’ve been searching for a new home signed a lease on land that’s part of a defunct golf course outside Cotati. The under-the-gun Bird Rescue Center in Santa Rosa suddenly feels wind beneath its wings.
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