A gift that gives
This year will be blessed after the Upper Lake High School Canned Food Donation was delivered to help the Upper Lake Community Food Project continue to outreach to those in need on the North Shore.
Under the dedicated and mentoring leadership of Erica Boomer the High School students had a competition between classes to collect the most cans! The FFA and ASEA students collected over 700 cans of nonperishable items and were just delivered to my storage garage! Thanks is never enough. This gift of canned food will see us through this year of 2016! Giving is something that makes the heart smile!
Giving is a wonderful part of Living!
Claudine Pedroncelli, Upper Lake Community Food Project
Scotts Creek Dam
I was reading in the Press Democrat that our State of California was all worried about water storage regarding all the rains we have coming. Well, I have been preaching for a long time that we need to build a Scotts Creek Dam. It was already to go with the core samples completed by the Army Corps of Engineers for at least 25-30 years. All the state and federal government has to do is acquire the property and pay the people a fair market price and build the dam. We could have fresh water running from the Scotts Creek Dam down Scotts Creek and Middle Creek into Clear Lake, along with Kelseyville Creek and many other creeks coming out of Cache Creek outlet, which would take it right on through to Kapay Valley right on down the Sacramento River through the Delta and on its way to LA.
The concrete tunnels that the State wants to build on the way to LA for the water to get to LA in a year round volume, we could have fresh water running 24 hours a day 365 days a year. This would help all our creeks for water recharge and the well basins to recharge the wells. It would be a win-win for all of Northern, Central and Southern California. We have the availability at this time to get the water down South in the facilities that we already have. We would just need to acquire the property. We would have a great recreation dam facility in Scotts Valley, as any one that knows anything about Lake County knows that Cow Mountain is a major rain source. That’s why Scotts Creek always carries so much water and this would eliminate the flood problems.
This is a no brainer and has been for years it is time for all our politicians to think about common sense. This would help the whole State of California all in one for everybody.
Ron Rose, Lakeport
