The Ernest L. and Ruth W. Finley Foundation is awarding a $500,000 grant to Santa Rosa Symphony in support of the "For the Love of Music" Transformation Campaign. The grant is in memory of Evert B. Person, the late publisher of the Press Democrat, and a prominent philantropist who died in 2011 at age 96. The Finleys were founders of the newspaper, Person was their son-in-law.
