LAKE COUNTY
Pear Festival looking for prince and princess
The Pear Prince and Princes contest was started by Kim and Gary Olson several years after the inaugural pear festival. Kim and Gary thought it would be a great way to involve 4th and 5th grade students from the Kelseyville School District, in the festival activities.
The contest begins the first week of school, right at the height of our local pear harvest. A representative of the Kelseyville Pear Festival visits each 4th and 5th grade class at Kelseyville Elementary School and Riviera Elementary School to share entry forms for the contest and pears provided by Adobe Creek Packing Company. Students will receive a brief lesson about local pears and be read some of the past winning essays to help inspire them.
The essay contest is given in conjunction with the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom and teachers are encouraged to forward winning essays on to CFAITC.org so that students may receive additional prizes and the honor of being published in the yearly anthology of all state winners.
Our two local first-place winners will have the honor of riding in the Pear Festival parade as the Pear Prince and Princess. In addition they will each receive a check for $100 from the Kelseyville Pear Festival.
Second place winners will receive a $10 gift certificates from A & H General Store and 3rd place winners will receive a $5 gift certificate from The Scoop Ice Cream Shop.
Additionally, teachers of winning essay students have been offered the opportunity to attend the annual Agriculture in the Classroom conference as guests of the Lake County Farm Bureau.
Last year’s Pear Prince was Andon Beall from Riviera Elementary School and the Pear Princess was Laela Stewart of Kelseyville Elementary School. If you know of a 4th or 5th grader at one of these schools, encourage them! We want to see them waving in the Pear Festival Parade on Saturday, Sept. 28.
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LAKEPORT
The Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild presents Lisa McKissick as featured artist at the guild’s 18th annual Falling Leaves Quilt Show
The show will be held in two buildings, Fritch Hall and Little Theatre, at the Lake County Fairgrounds 401 Martin Street, Lakeport.
Show hours are Saturday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Lisa McKissick is an award-winning quilter, carrying on a 125-year family tradition of quilting. McKissick learned the art of quilting from her mom and sister. She is an expert in machine piecing, machine applique’ and paper piecing.
McKissick is an extraordinary quilt teacher having taught several hundred quilting classes and well over 2500 students. She is an exciting & humorous lecturer and a talented pattern designer and developer.
You will find McKissick working part-time at a quilt shop in Sonoma, California where she teaches and is a buyer of fabric, notions and quilting supplies. She regularly attends Quilt Market to find the latest and greatest quilting notions and tools.
One of her lectures is “Tool Time” featuring her favorite tools and corresponding quilts. She will have her favorite arsenal of rulers, cutters, marking devices and a number of exceptional gems for sale at her booth.
McKissick will be present Saturday and Sunday to talk with guests and present demonstrations at the quilt show.
Presale tickets are available for $8 cash at the Clearlake and Lakeport Chamber of Commerces and at Village Sewing in Ukiah. For more information, contact Barbara Haddon 415-209-3044.
More information can be found on the website at http://www.LLQG.org/quilt-show.html.
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