Sounded good on paper
Personalities clash at council workshop
Nov. 9, 2013
CLEARLAKE >> The only real consensus reached at the Clearlake City Council meeting Thursday night was from audience members who agreed the council was acting like high school children.
About two dozen Clearlake residents showed up to the meeting. Some said if they were their parents they”d take their cellphones, TV and computer privileges away. One woman said she”d put all five of them in the time-out chair.
The single item on the agenda for the meeting was a workshop on council consensus building.
Konocti Harbor Closes
Nov. 11, 2009
KELSEYVILLE >> The doors are shut to a rock ”n” roll institution in Lake County.
Konocti Harbor Resort & Spa is officially closed.
“There”s a finality about today,” Greg Bennett, general manager and CEO said. “There”s no epilogue, no encore. It”s a very sad and difficult day to go through.
“It”s way more than a job to our staff, it”s a family.” Bennett says the employees treated the place as though they were part of it, like owners. Right up to the end, everyone showed up for their shifts, he said. “They showed up, just like in the heyday with the same hopeful pride.”
The count goes on
Nov. 11, 2004
LAKEPORT >> The outcome for the district 1 supervisorial race may soon be decided.
After more than a week of counting, Deputy Registrar of Voters Maria Valadez reported Wednesday that there”s more counting yet to be done.
“We”re still working on provisional and absentees,” Valadez said.
However, she did update the count for the supervisorial race between Ed Robey and Don Dornbush.
As of Wednesday, Robey led with 2,595 votes, or 51.4 percent of the vote, to 2,453 votes (or 48.6%) for Dornbush; that”s a difference of 142 votes.
East Germans cross freely at borders
Nov. 10, 1989
BERLIN (AP) >> East Germany opened the Berlin Wall and its other borders Thursday, and its cheering citizens crossed freely to the West for the first time since 1961.
Late Thursday and early Friday, exultant East Germans coursed through Berlin Wall checkpoints and others entered West Germany at other border crossings. Jubilant people pranced and danced atop the Berlin Wall, a sight unthinkable only hours earlier.
Near Brandenburg Gate, East Germans raced through streams of police water cannon and were pulled up the wall by the young West Germans atop it. Some Germans used hammers to chip away at the barrier for keepsakes or in their own small way try to destroy the infamous symbol of East-West division.
Auditor Told To Get Out By Irate Supervisor ”S”
Nov 12, 1964
LAKEPORT >> Supervisor A. D. Shipley, in a fit of temper, ordered Auditor Carlton Phillips to “get the he—out of here” during discussion before the board of supervisors Monday of payment of welfare claims to the supervisor”s Lower Lake Pharmacy.
Payment of claims to the pharmacy by the California Physician”s Service will be made upon authorization by the proper authorities, the supervisors were notified by letter Monday.
A motion by Supervisor A. D. Shipley authorizing the CPS to pay the claims, amounting to some $1500, died for want of a second.
Payment of the claims, for drugs for welfare patients, was ordered stopped by Auditor Carlton Phillips several weeks ago due to the fact that the pharmacy is owned and operated by Supervisor Shipley.
Last week the board received two conflicting opinions concerning legality of the claims. Lake county”s district attorney ruled they were not legal and the attorney general”s office ruled they were legal.
A heated discussion on the subject arose between Auditor Phillips and Supervisor Shipley.
When Mr. Phillips began to explain his position to the board the supervisor shouted “Get the he—out of here, Carlton.”
Manakee Park Is Being Improved
Nov. 15, 1939
MANAKEE >> Manakee Park, a privately owned lake front property set aside for the use of all Manakee property owners, is under intensive improvement under join auspices of the residents. T. H. Easterly is supervising the work, which is financed by a “pool.”
Tules have been cut along the big stretch of beach and while the water remains low, will be ploughed out. The beach is then to be scraped so that sands will gather during later storms. Trees and grounds are being made “presentable.” The park is expected to be a lure for many guests of Manakee residents next season.
LAKE FOR WALNUTS
Luther Burbank Says Situation is Favorable.
Nov. 15, 1905
Luther Burbank paid Lakeport a brief visit last week — a very brief visit. He landed at the Giselman, made a bee line for the Lake and was not seen again until supper time. Afterwards, he said that he had been trying for two years to visit Lake and procure some plants that grow on the lake shore. He declined an invitation to make a tour of the lake and the next day he took the first stage home.
Mr. Burbank says Lake county is one of the best regions for walnuts in the state. He recommends planting and grafting the black walnut.
Walnuts have been planted, experimentally, in many parts of the county and seem to thrive in every locality.
Euvelle Howard took a trip down the lake last week and brought home a lot that were grown on the McDonough place on the east slope of Konockti. No finer nuts were ever grown, in Los Angeles or anywhere else. They were soft shell, full of finely flavored meat and exceedingly large. Most of them would measure 5×6 inches in circumference.
