Build your 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.
All you can eat pizza fundraiser
All you can eat pizza for $8 each on Wednesday, June 28. That’s tomorrow, and the event includes a 50/50 drawing.
The pizza party takes place at D.J.s Pizza in Lower Lake. This fundraiser will benefit Elder Day Care Services in Clearlake. EDC specializes in helping adults with memory and cognitive impairments.
The group meets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Clearlake from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Participants are given a light breakfast and lunch and enjoy activities during the program consisting of games, exercise, crafts, and music. This allows the caregiver six hours of time to attend to other responsibilities while their loved one is cared for at the center.
For information call Jenny 707-350-3030.
Seats still available for the Friday night anti-trafficking event.
A few seats are still available for the Human Trafficking Awareness event featuring Elle Snow, trafficking survivor and founder of GAME OVER, a nonprofit anti-trafficking organization. The event is on Friday, June 30, 6 p.m. at The Lodge at Blue Lakes, 5135 State Hwy 20, in Upper Lake.
Rural communities are prime targets for trafficking, the reason Soroptimist International of Clear Lake joined forces with Redwood Community Services Inc. and Superintendent of Schools, Brock Faulkenberg, to bring this first time presentation to Lake County.
In a recent radio interview Elle Snow, a Humboldt County resident, shared how she was lured and held captive by her trafficker, running twice before finally escaping. Snow decided to testify against him in court — something trafficking victims rarely do.
“Once I realized nothing could match what I endured under the control of my trafficker, I knew I could get through anything,” Snow said. After a very long process involving multiple victims, mistrials and many hours of grueling testimony, Snow’s trafficker was finally convicted.
In her presentation this Friday night, Snow will share more details of her story and discuss the nature of trafficking and how rural towns are fast becoming targets for predators who seek out the most vulnerable in our communities: homeless children, run-aways and children in foster care.
Community leaders attending include: Sheriff Brian Martin, District Attorney Don Anderson, County Supervisors Tina Scott and Jim Steele, Robinson Rancheria Tribal Chair E.J. Crandell, Acting Clearlake Police Chief Tim Celli, Lakeport Mayor Pro Tem Mireya Turner and Lake Family Resource Center Executive Director Jennifer Dodd.
Owners of The Lodge at Blue Lakes, Peter and Maryann Schmid, are major sponsors of the event along with the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, R Vineyards, and County Supervisors Tina Scott and Jim Steele.
Appetizers by Fresh & Bangin’ Eatery, wines by R Vineyards and desserts by Soroptimist Club members will be served. There is no charge to attend.
To reserve a seat or for more information call 707-998-1302.
