Opinion: Rob Reiner made an enormous impact on Mendocino County’s children

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While the world remembers Rob Reiner for his iconic roles in front of and behind the camera, Mendocino County has a more personal reason to mourn his passing. Beyond the filmmaker was a visionary advocate who, from his own kitchen table in the mid-1990s, drafted with lawyers the blueprint for what would become First 5 California and a network of county commissions, including our own First 5 Mendocino. His simple, powerful conviction was that every California child deserves a strong start.