Editing Willits, California (section)

==Notable people==
Some notable names from Willits include [[Judi Bari]], labor leader and environmental activist, who fought to save the redwoods. Over 1,000 people attended her Willits funeral in 1997. [[Tré Cool]], drummer for [[Green Day]], lived in Willits during his teen years in the 1980s. Mona Gnader, the bass player for [[Sammy Hagar]], also resided in Willits. Stagecoach bandit Charles Bolles (a.k.a. [[Black Bart (outlaw)|Black Bart]]) stole multiple Wells Fargo boxes and mail from stagecoaches traveling through Willits.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackbart.com/robberies.html |title= Robberies - Dates and Places|website=www.blackbart.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607220024/http://www.blackbart.com/robberies.html |archive-date=June 7, 2007}}</ref>

[[Phil Jordon]], the first National Basketball Association player ever to have played prep basketball in the Redwood Empire area (coastal Northern California & coastal Southern Oregon), did so while at Willits High School.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barber |first=Phil |date=August 14, 2013 |title=Redwood Empire's forgotten NBA big man |url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2213479-181/redwood-empires-forgotten-nba-big |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220322/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2213479-181/redwood-empires-forgotten-nba-big |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |website=Santa Rosa Press Democrat |language=en}}</ref>

[[Edith Ceccarelli]], once the oldest person in the United States, was born in Willits.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 21, 2021 |title=At 113, she's California's oldest native. She got through a tough 2020 and is still going strong |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-21/californias-oldest-native-still-going-strong |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>