LAKEPORT
The Rotary Club of Lakeport announces 99th annual Easter Egg Hunt
The Rotary Club of Lakeport is thrilled to continue a cherished community tradition with its 99th Annual Easter Egg Hunt! Since 1926, this beloved event has brought joy to generations of local families, and the tradition remains stronger than ever.
This year’s hunt will take place on Easter Sunday, April 20, at the Lake County Fairgrounds. A total of 2,880 eggs will be hidden, including 300 special “Pay” eggs with exciting surprises inside.
Children ages 1 month to 12 years are invited to participate and will be divided into three age groups:
0-3 years
4-8 years
9-12 years
Gates open at 1:15 p.m., and the hunt begins promptly at 1:30 p.m..
This FREE event is open to all, and we encourage families to arrive early for the best experience. For the latest updates, visit the Lakeport Rotary Facebook Page or the Rotary Club of Lakeport website at www.LakeportRotary.org.
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WASHINGTON
Thompson announces IRS tax relief guidance for qualified wildfire survivors
Today, Representative Mike Thompson (CA-04) announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released guidance for qualified wildfire survivors applying for tax relief under Thompson’s bipartisan Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2023. The guidance can be found online at https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/
“Federally declared wildfires in 2015, 2017, and 2018 devastated entire communities across our district and across the state of California. Entire towns were destroyed. Thousands of people lost homes, and dozens of people lost their lives.
“My work to deliver tax relief to these survivors didn’t end when President Biden signed my bill into law in December. I worked with my colleagues to urge the IRS to issue guidance to those applying for relief and today is another step in ensuring survivors get the relief they need and deserve.”
BACKGROUND
The Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act supports the nearly 70,000 qualified survivors who suffered significant losses during three major federally declared California fires in 2015, 2017, and 2018 who have received related settlement payments.
Many California wildfire survivors have already been taxed on their settlement payments, with some even losing access to certain federal benefits as a result of their compensation wrongly being considered income.
Rep. Thompson introduced the original legislation to provide tax relief to qualified wildfire victims in the 117th Congress and worked to advance the legislation ever since.
Last Spring, Rep. Thompson and Rep. Greg Steube (FL-17) led a bipartisan group of 218 Members of Congress to successfully advance a discharge petition which forced House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act to the House floor for a vote. The historic advancement of Rep Thompson and Rep. Steube’s petition marked only the third time a House discharge petition had succeeded in the 21st Century. Their efforts succeeded as the Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act passed the Senate and was signed by President Biden at the end of 2024.
The Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act excludes from taxpayer gross income, for income tax purposes, any amount received by an individual taxpayer as compensation for expenses or losses incurred due to a qualified wildfire disaster (a federally declared disaster declared after 2014 as a result of a forest or range fire). It also excludes relief payments for losses resulting from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment on Feb. 3, 2023 and designates Hurricane Ian, among other federally declared disasters, as a qualified disaster for the purposes of determining the tax treatment of certain disaster-related personal casualty losses.
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CLEARLAKE
Recent health and safety measures for you and your family
To ensure improvements in public health and safety results in Clearlake, the City has adopted several new ordinances including:
- Utility Construction & Maintenance in Public Right-Of-Way
- Fire Hydrant Inspection, Testing & Maintenance Requirement Ordinance
- Tobacco Retailer Licensing Ordinance
For further details, please visit https://www.clearlake.ca.us/.
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