Built you boat for the Cardboard and Duct Tape Regatta
The Lakeport Yacht Club is presenting the 10th annual Cardboard and Duct Tape Regatta on July 4. It is time to start planning and crafting your entries now.
Boats may be any size but use only cardboard and duct tape. Paddles may be of any material. Cheaters will be labeled pirates and made to walk the plank! Life jackets required for all.
See Youtube for building instructions. This is a free event to start your July 4 activities.
Location is the 1st Street launch ramp. Signups start at 10 a.m. on July 4 and races start at 11 a.m. Group are: ages 6-12, 13-21 and 21 and over.
Ladies of Lake Quilt Guild
Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild will meet on Saturday, June 10 at the Lakeport Senior Center, 527 Konocti Avenue. The meeting starts at 10:00 a.m. Marcia Stein will lecture about finding photographic subjects and using them in quilts. For more information, call 707-459-3903.
Senior Center breakfast postponed
Lakeport Senior Activity Center announces some coming changes to it’s Second Sunday Breakfast this fall.
The current monthly breakfast will be postponed starting in June until its relaunch with exciting changes to the time and menu options. There will be no breakfast on Sunday.
With over 60,000 meals served and delivered each year, the center has to raise over $150,000 to cover the shortfall provided by grants in order to keep the meals going to those who have come to rely on them. This is only possible by the generous donations and volunteers in our community.
Lakeport’s center is looking for volunteers to be a part of the new Breakfast, The new Friday Bingo Night and other upcoming fundraisers including a Talent Show and Chinese New year Sweetheart Dance. Call 263-4218, visit www.facebook.com/lakeportseniors/ or stop by the senior center to get involved or find out more information.
Fiesta of the Horses
The sixth annual free family-friendly horse show extravaganza, Fiesta of the Horses, turns to Rancho de la Fuente on Sunday, June 11.
Parking begins at 9:45 a.m., and festivities begin at 10:30 a.m.
Two hours of fast-paced entertainment include exciting drill teams, exotic horse breeds, and performances by the Hooves and Wheels Quadrille and Cowboy Mounted Shooting.
The Fiesta show also includes live fiesta music, family-friendly beverage and food sales. Last year’s Califorio Days/Fiesta of the Horse drew over 500 spectators and participants. Admission is free.
Rancho de la Fuente is located at 2290 Soda Bay Road, south of Lakeport. Anyone interested in sponsoring, supporting, volunteering, participating, or contributing displays or expertise, please contact Deb Baumann at 275-9234 or email info@californio.us
AMIA to hold meeting, open house
Anderson Marsh Interpretive Association has announced it will hold its Annual Meeting and Open House at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14, in the Historic Ranch House at Anderson Marsh State Historic Park. The event is free and open to the public.
According to AMIA Treasurer, Henry Bornstein. “A lot of things are happening right now at the Park and we have big plans for the next year, including re-opening the Ranch House for tours.”
AMIA has previously announced that Ranch House tours had been temporarily suspended after the contents of the House were removed to safety as the Clayton Fire approached the Park last year.
According to Bornstein, “AMIA has reached an agreement with State Parks to refurnish the Ranch House and begin tours again. We are excited to be able to share this news and spend some time talking about our plans for the upcoming year.”
The Annual Meeting will include music and light refreshments, a slide show depicting the highlights of AMIA’s past year and a discussion of AMIA’s plans for the future. AMIA’s 2017 officers will also be introduced and there will be a presentation of AMIA’s Volunteer of the Year Award.
For information about the event, contact AMIA at either info@andersonmarsh.org or 707-995-2658.
Caregivers for the elderly support group
The support group will be meeting Wednesday, June 14 at 9:30. The meeting will be at St. John’s Lutherin Church 14310 Memory Lane in Clearlake.
The group shares ideas and encouraging help with each other as they learn to manage their lives as caregivers for their loved ones with demencia or other cognitive impairment problems.
For more information call Jenny 707-350-3030
Next hazardous waste drop off
The next free Household Hazardous Waste drop off event will be held June 16 and 17 at Lake County Waste Solutions Transfer Station and Recycling Yard, 230 Soda Bay Road, Lakeport. Hours will be from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Households can bring up to 15 gallons of toxic items per vehicle free of charge. Items that are accepted include paint, solvents, fuels, five-gallon propane tanks (empty), pool chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, batteries, fluorescent light tubes (up to 60 linear foot), and other toxic materials that cannot be put in the trash.
Items that cannot be accepted include televisions, computer monitors, ammunition, explosives, radioactive materials or infectious wastes. To learn how and where to properly dispose these items, please visit www.recycling.co.lake.ca.us or contact the Recycling Hotline at 263-1980.
Household Hazardous Waste drop off services are provided to Lake County residential households by the Integrated Waste Management Division of the Lake County Public Services Department and the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, (CalRecycle). Businesses also are welcome to use this convenient service to properly dispose of hazardous waste and protect our environment, however, businesses must pay for this county-funded service and first make an appointment. Business appointments can be made by calling Lake County Waste Solutions at 707-234-6400.
Next cell device workshop
Another free workshop for those interested in learning more about protecting one’s information will be available during a free workshop at 10 a.m. on Sunday, June 18 at 14896 Olympic Dr. Clearlake. The interactive workshop for the Clearlake community will provide attendees with information on the importance of password protection; using secure sites, passphrases and geolocation; securely placing online orders and more.
Individuals do not need to be U.S. Cellular customers to attend.
For more information on the event, please call 707-995-1263.
Lyons first in Saturday Summer Speaker Series
On Saturday, June 24, 2017, Dr. Harry Lyons who has lived in Lake County for forty years, for much of that time conveying scientific information on Clear Lake to two generations of college students, will speak in the Visitor Center, located within Clear Lake State Park regarding the Middle Creek Restoration project. This informative and interesting program will begin at 1 p.m. If you have ever heard Dr. Lyons speak, you will be both informed and entertained. Admission is free to enter the park for those attending the session, and the Visitor Center will be open for business.
The Emeritus Professor of Biology/Ecology from Yuba College grew up in Brooklyn, attended Rutgers College and Stanford University, and was awarded PhD in Oceanography as a National Science Fellow from the Scripps Institution of the University of California.
He currently pursues his interest in water by serving as a director of the Lake County Resource Conservation District and as a founding member of the Middle Creek Restoration Coalition.
The Project, proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers over twenty years ago in response to a request by the County of Lake, would act on scientific findings in bestowing immeasurable benefits to the health of Clear Lake and to the people who live and visit here.
The Project will deliberately breach failing levees on Middle Creek and restore 1650 acres of historic wetlands at the north end of Clear Lake. This winter, Clear Lake rose to its highest flood levels in 19 years and flood waters over-topped the levees. The uncontrolled failure of the levees is a real and present danger to lives and property.
The completed Project is the single most effective action that can be taken to improve the quality of the water in Clear Lake. According to scientific research, restored historic wetlands in the Project area will capture nutrient-laden sediments that currently flow into Clear Lake causing rampant growth of invasive aquatic plants and uncontrollable “blooms” of cyanobacteria, commonly called blue green algae. The Project also will restore wildlife habitat, improve breeding and rearing conditions for the threatened Clear Lake hitch, a native fish, and provide significant recreational opportunities for residents and visitors to Clear Lake.
