LAKEPORT
Annual Thanksgiving Dinner, Saturday.
The Lake County Historical Society and Ely Stage Stop & Country Museum is hosting their annual Thanksgiving Dinner Meeting Saturday, November 17 at 1:30 pm at the Lakeport Senior Center at 527 Konocti Ave, Lakeport, CA. Special guest speaker is Clark McAbee, the Curator of the three Lake County Museums. The full Thanksgiving Dinner for LCHS/ELY members is only $15, non members, $18, three of which can be applied to the $20 LCHS/ ELY 2019 membership. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
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MIDDLETOWN
Meals on Wheels donation program
When residents purchase or lease a new Subaru now through January 2, 2019 they can select Meals on Wheels as the recipient of a $250 donation, which will directly benefit Middletown, Cobb and Hidden Valley lake Meals on Wheels programs. The Middletown Senior Center will be holding a Stuff the Subaru event on December 20, 2018, at the Middletown Senior Center. The community can help by donating shelf stable items for their emergency bags for homebound seniors.Needed are items that don’t need to be heated or refrigerated such as fruit cups, peanut butter, Ensure, chicken or tuna lunch kits etc. Middletown Senior Center Executive Director Lori Tourville noted that “It takes an entire community and help from companies like Subaru of America, Inc. to help raise critical funds needed to support local seniors.”
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WASHINGTON
Land line legislation introduced
Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05), Co-Chair of the Natural Disaster Caucus, and Rep. Francis Rooney (FL-19) announced Thursday that they have introduced H.R. 7131, the PHONE Act, a bipartisan bill to allow survivors of natural disasters who have lost their homes to keep their land line phone numbers at no cost while they rebuild. Thompson’s district was impacted by the Atlas and Tubbs fires in Oct. 2017 and the Mendocino Complex fires in August 2018. Rooney’s district was impacted by Hurricane Irma in Sept. 2017.
“Survivors of natural disasters who have lost their homes deserve peace of mind knowing their phone number will be preserved and that they can easily transition back to that piece of normalcy once they have rebuilt,” said Thompson. “After the Oct. 2017 wildfires, several constituents who had their homes destroyed came to me asking if there was anything I could to do restore the landlines they had for decades and today I am glad we have a legislative solution for them and other survivors like them.”
“The PHONE Act is common sense bipartisan legislation and will ensure that as victims of natural disasters go through the painful process of rebuilding following loss of property, they will have one less burden to bear,” said Rooney. “The recent devastation in Florida caused by Hurricane Michael is a stark reminder of the need to find every way possible to assist these victims.”
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