Strictly Business: Businesses get COVID-creative and generous

Sonoma Valley small businesses that are offering unusual specials and generosity to the community.|

Home hair color: Cheveux Hair Salon at 156 E. Napa St. in Sonoma is putting professional hair color kits together for clients. They will even porch deliver to the Sonoma area. Message Sheana Haver or the salon on Facebook.

Sonoma Fit: Sonoma Fit quickly launched a YouTube channel (now with 1,000 followers) with live workouts open to all, and the club has lent dozens of its bikes and rowers to its members for home use. Find the YouTube channel at sonomafitness.com.

Kivelstadt Cellars: While it waits to open its new wine garden eatery at the former Schellville Grill site, Kivelstadt Cellars is keeping its team busy by offering a Family Dinner club. The community can buy dinners paired with a bottle of wine, and Kivelstadt provides service-industry workers who find themselves out of a job with a free meal. Email at tastingroom@kivelstadtcellars.com to suggest someone in need of a free meal.

Broadway Cleaners: Is offering free cleaning of all local police, fire and military uniforms. Its cleaning and pressing process sanitizes garments. The company hopes this will help protect them and their families. The company will be doing this until April 30 or longer depending on future developments.

Visitors Bureau: Eager to keep the Sonoma Valley brand alive and vital, the Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau has created Valley 'Zoom backgrounds' since everyone is using conference calls to work. Download them at sonomavalley.com/sonoma-backgrounds/

Beer: Sonoma Springs had to close the doors to its public taproom at 19449 Riverside Drive but it ramped up its canning production and added online ordering for its new to-go business as well as home delivery for select zip codes in Sonoma and Napa counties. sonomaspringsbrewing.com/store.

Sonoma County wineries: Dozens of Sonoma wineries are running home delivery specials. See the complete list compiled by Sonoma County Vintners at sonomawine.com/sip-from-home.

Sonoma Valley wineries: Dozens of Sonoma Valley wineries are running home delivery specials and virtual tastings. Visit sonomavalleywine.com/sonoma-valley-virtual-tastings and sonomavalleywine.com/sonoma-at-home/.

KSVY: Sonoma's local radio station has found a way to get listeners to tune in while bringing the community together via its Sonoma Sings Together events. Every evening at 7 p.m. KSVY 91.3 FM plays an uplifting popular song, and encourages the community to step outside and sing along. The song lyrics are posted on ksvy.org.

G3: G3 has created a virtual training/class/gathering for companies and organizations adjusting to embracing their teams and members working virtually. 'We want it to be an opportunity for you and your team members/employees to be honest about the enormity of it all and face/embrace the emerging 'new norm,' says co-founder Michelle Dale Jernigan. The G3 team can be reached at 888-7627 and g3sonoma.com.

Tiddle E Winks: While its doors are closed, Tiddle E Winks at 115 E. Napa St. is offering to create and deliver gift baskets of toys, Sonoma wear and candy. tiddleewinks.com.

B&V: Before it stopped doing takeout, B&V Whiskey Bar and Grill at 400 First St. E. was offering customers who bought a bottle of local wine with their takeout a free roll of toilet paper with each order.

Free dinners: Sonoma's Best Hospitality Group is offering free dinners for any member of the Sonoma community in need. Ramekins Catering Kitchen has pre-packaged meals available for pickup at the General's Daughter, 400 W. Spain St., weekdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Remain in your vehicles and enter the Spain driveway nearest Fourth Street West. First-come, first-served.

Pivoting: Both Prohibition Spirits and Sonoma Botanicals have quickly jumped into the home sanitizer market. Louise Hassen's Sonoma Botanicals is offering delivery in Sonoma. Call or text 415-302-8379 to order.

Sebastiani: Roger Rhoten will soon begin offering a 'Behind the Scenes at the Sebastiani Theatre' online video that focuses on its history, operations, backstage and projection room. He might even throw in a little magic, too. The Magic Man, Witchie Poo, Sarah Summers, Bob Gosset and other favorite talents from the theater are also preparing a show, available soon at SebastianiTheatre.com.

Winery helping restaurants: If you order six bottles from Pangloss Cellars, you'll receive a $25 gift card from a Sonoma restaurant of your choosing. Email wine@panglosscellars.com or 933-8565 to order.

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