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LAKEPORT, Calif. – This Saturday the city of Lakeport will be bustling with several annual events.
The Konocti Challenge, Oktoberfest and Sponsoring Survivorship will all be taking place during the day.
The Lakeport Police Department said there will be large volumes of foot and bicycle traffic, and motorists are asked to maintain awareness and drive with extra caution on streets and roadways.
Konocti Challenge
The Rotary Club of Lakeport Konocti Challenge bicycle event featuring 20-, 40-, 65- and 100-mile rides on the streets and roads of Lake County will be based out of the Skylark Shores Resort at 1120 N. Main St. in Lakeport.
Expect to see bicycles on the streets leaving the city at various times in the morning starting at 7 a.m. and returning as late as 6 p.m. Please drive safe and watch for the bicycles on the city streets and county roads, including parts of State Routes 20, 29, 53 and 175 throughout the day.
Approximately 650 riders are expected to be in attendance.
For more information on the event visit www.konoctichallenge.com or https://www.facebook.com/KonoctiChallengeLC.
Sponsoring Survivorship
Sponsoring Survivorship will hold two-, five- and 10-kilometer walks and runs starting from Main Street at Bank of America to the Pit Stop in the 3775 block of Lakeshore Boulevard north of the city of Lakeport.
Event set up will start at 6 a.m with the walk/runs starting at 8:30 a.m. and ending by 11:30 a.m.
The routes will include Main Street, Clearlake Avenue, N. High Street, Lakeshore Boulevard and 16th Street.
Approximately 300 persons are expected to be in attendance. Lakeport Police units will be in the area to provide for traffic safety.
For more information on the event go to: https://www.facebook.com/sponsoringsurvivorship or www.sponsoringsurvivorship.com.
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest will take place on Main Street between First and Fourth streets in downtown Lakeport between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Police said approximately 2,000 people are expected to be in attendance.
Street closures will be in effect starting at 6:30 a.m. and continuing until approximately 9 p.m., and will include Main Street between First and Fifth streets and Third Street between Forbes and Main streets.
For more information on the event go to www.oktoberfest-lakeport.com or https://www.facebook.com/oktoberfest.lakeport.
The Konocti Challenge, Oktoberfest and Sponsoring Survivorship will all be taking place during the day.
The Lakeport Police Department said there will be large volumes of foot and bicycle traffic, and motorists are asked to maintain awareness and drive with extra caution on streets and roadways.
Konocti Challenge
The Rotary Club of Lakeport Konocti Challenge bicycle event featuring 20-, 40-, 65- and 100-mile rides on the streets and roads of Lake County will be based out of the Skylark Shores Resort at 1120 N. Main St. in Lakeport.
Expect to see bicycles on the streets leaving the city at various times in the morning starting at 7 a.m. and returning as late as 6 p.m. Please drive safe and watch for the bicycles on the city streets and county roads, including parts of State Routes 20, 29, 53 and 175 throughout the day.
Approximately 650 riders are expected to be in attendance.
For more information on the event visit www.konoctichallenge.com or https://www.facebook.com/KonoctiChallengeLC.
Sponsoring Survivorship
Sponsoring Survivorship will hold two-, five- and 10-kilometer walks and runs starting from Main Street at Bank of America to the Pit Stop in the 3775 block of Lakeshore Boulevard north of the city of Lakeport.
Event set up will start at 6 a.m with the walk/runs starting at 8:30 a.m. and ending by 11:30 a.m.
The routes will include Main Street, Clearlake Avenue, N. High Street, Lakeshore Boulevard and 16th Street.
Approximately 300 persons are expected to be in attendance. Lakeport Police units will be in the area to provide for traffic safety.
For more information on the event go to: https://www.facebook.com/sponsoringsurvivorship or www.sponsoringsurvivorship.com.
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest will take place on Main Street between First and Fourth streets in downtown Lakeport between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Police said approximately 2,000 people are expected to be in attendance.
Street closures will be in effect starting at 6:30 a.m. and continuing until approximately 9 p.m., and will include Main Street between First and Fifth streets and Third Street between Forbes and Main streets.
For more information on the event go to www.oktoberfest-lakeport.com or https://www.facebook.com/oktoberfest.lakeport.
NORTH COAST, Calif. – On Wednesday, Cal Fire law enforcement officers arrested a Piercy man for setting fires in Mendocino County.
Charles Levi Kirk, 18, was arrested for arson, Cal Fire said.
Cal Fire alleges that Kirk started several fires in the Willits, Laytonville, Leggett, and Piercy areas.
The fires in the Leggett and Piercy areas began a month-long cooperative investigation led by Cal Fire officers with the assistance of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office, Cal Fire said.
On Sept. 26, a search warrant was served at Kirk’s property, resulting in the seizure of evidence, officials reported.
Cal Fire said Kirk was taken into custody and transported to the Mendocino County Jail where he will await trial. Bail is set at $150,000.
“I am very proud of our law enforcement officers, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department and the District Attorney's Office for working together on this case,” said Cal Fire MEU Unit Chief George Gonzalez. “Our communities are much safer after this arrest.”
As fire danger remains high across California, wildfires pose a major threat to life, property and California’s natural resources. Cal Fire urges the public to be vigilant in their preparedness and aware of suspicious activity when a fire does start.
If you witness suspicious activity, do not approach the individual or individuals engaging in the suspicious behavior.
If safe to do so, note the description of the individual or individuals, including location, gender, height, weight, clothing description, hair color and any distinguishing characteristics such as tattoos.
If a vehicle is involved in the suspicious activity, the following information can be helpful to investigators: Make and model of vehicle, color of vehicle, location and direction of travel, license plate number – even a partial number can be useful, bumper stickers or other markings, number of occupants, including their descriptions.
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Note the time the suspicious individual and/or vehicle were observed. This can be one of the most important pieces of information for investigators.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – With expectations of more rain in the next 24 hours, including a possible thunderstorm on Wednesday, the National Weather Service has issued both a flash flood watch and a flash flood warning for the areas impacted by the Mendocino Complex.
The National Weather Service issued the flash flood watch for portions of Lake and Mendocino counties until 7 p.m. Wednesday.
A flash flood watch means that conditions may develop that lead to flash flooding, officials said.
The agency said scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms may produce intense rainfall that may cause debris flows and flash flooding in these areas. Areas of particular concern are Bartlett Creek, Soap Creek, the north fork of Cache Creek and Scotts Creek.
The forecast says the highest rainfall may occur in Lake County, resulting in isolated debris flows and flooding in the vast burn area.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office had reported early Wednesday afternoon that, if it appeared as though the storm system may produce flash flooding or debris flows, the National Weather Service would upgrade the flash flood watch to a flash flood warning and issue alerts via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert.
That’s what happened just after 1 p.m., when a flash flood warning was issued until 4 p.m. for northwestern Colusa, northern Lake County and southwestern Glenn County, all areas hit by the Mendocino Complex.
Officials said a flash flood warning means that a flash flood is imminent or occurring and that the public in the warning area should take immediate action.
The National Weather Service said that, at approximately 12:58 p.m., Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms with heavy rain across portions of the Mendocino Complex burn scar.
As a result, “Flash flooding with debris flows are likely in the next few hours,” the National Weather Service said in its flash flood warning.
Slides are expected particularly in the steep terrain where the fire burned, removing vegetation for hundreds of thousands of acres.
Forecasters said that in hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are potentially dangerous in heavy rain. The public is warned not to attempt to cross flooded roads, and to seek higher ground.
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The National Weather Service issued the flash flood watch for portions of Lake and Mendocino counties until 7 p.m. Wednesday.
A flash flood watch means that conditions may develop that lead to flash flooding, officials said.
The agency said scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms may produce intense rainfall that may cause debris flows and flash flooding in these areas. Areas of particular concern are Bartlett Creek, Soap Creek, the north fork of Cache Creek and Scotts Creek.
The forecast says the highest rainfall may occur in Lake County, resulting in isolated debris flows and flooding in the vast burn area.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office had reported early Wednesday afternoon that, if it appeared as though the storm system may produce flash flooding or debris flows, the National Weather Service would upgrade the flash flood watch to a flash flood warning and issue alerts via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert.
That’s what happened just after 1 p.m., when a flash flood warning was issued until 4 p.m. for northwestern Colusa, northern Lake County and southwestern Glenn County, all areas hit by the Mendocino Complex.
Officials said a flash flood warning means that a flash flood is imminent or occurring and that the public in the warning area should take immediate action.
The National Weather Service said that, at approximately 12:58 p.m., Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms with heavy rain across portions of the Mendocino Complex burn scar.
As a result, “Flash flooding with debris flows are likely in the next few hours,” the National Weather Service said in its flash flood warning.
Slides are expected particularly in the steep terrain where the fire burned, removing vegetation for hundreds of thousands of acres.
Forecasters said that in hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are potentially dangerous in heavy rain. The public is warned not to attempt to cross flooded roads, and to seek higher ground.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
LAKEPORT, Calif. – A Lakeport woman arrested earlier this year in a human trafficking case reached a plea agreement with the Lake County District Attorney’s Office.
On Tuesday, Krystina Marie Pickersgill, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of human trafficking, according to District Attorney Don Anderson.
She was arrested along with her husband, Sam Lindsey Massette, 37, on June 5 in a case in which authorities said the couple had sold teen girls into prostitution, transporting them from Lake County to the Bay Area, as Lake County News has reported.
Under an agreement with Anderson, Pickersgill will receive three years of probation, credit for the four months previously served and strict mental health treatment.
Pickersgill faces up to 12 years in prison if she does not complete the terms of her probation, Anderson said.
Anderson explained to the court that at the time Pickersgill met Massette she was on medication for mental health issues. It was the position of the District Attorney that Massette took her off her medication then coerced her into prostituting for him.
It’s Anderson’s belief that Pickersgill initially was a victim of human trafficking and later became a willing participant.
“I hope Krystina can receive the necessary treatment and help to restore her life to normalcy and she can leave her past life behind,” he said.
The investigation into the case started after the play “Jane Doe in Wonderland” was performed at the Soper-Reese Theatre in Lakeport in April.
“Jane Doe in Wonderland” is a play about human trafficking, the way traffickers work and the effects on the victims.
After the play, a victim of Massette and Pickersgill approached Anderson, who was a speaker at the play, and told him she was a victim of human trafficking.
The investigation led to the service of a search warrant at Massette and Pickersgill’s Lakeport home, Anderson said. There, they were taken into custody for human trafficking for the purposes of prostitution.
Anderson said initial investigations revealed Massette and Pickersgill ran a high class human trafficking ring, using Lake County girls, and working primarily out of San Francisco.
Subsequent investigations and the service of 26 search warrants by the District Attorney’s Office human trafficking investigators have discovered at least five victims of human trafficking for prostitution, pimping and pandering, Anderson said.
Anderson alleges that Massette and Pickersgill recruited the girls at an early age while they were still in high school. He also alleged that in 2006 Massette trafficked two minors ages 16 and 17 for prostitution. Some of the victims were coerced and threatened to perform acts of prostitution.
Massette, who rejected a plea agreement for 20 years in prison offered by Anderson, is awaiting a preliminary hearing set for Oct. 17.
He is facing 10 counts of human trafficking, pimping, pandering and conspiracy. Anderson said Massette is facing a maximum sentence of approximately 37 years to life.
In addition to her sentence, Pickersgill has waived all her interest in property seized by the District Attorney’s Office pursuant to the Profits Organized Crime Act. Seized by the District Attorney’s Office was $14,530 cash and four vehicles valued at more than $300,000.
Anderson said his office considers human trafficking cases to be extremely serious.
“We will make every effort to free these victims from those who force them into prostitution against their will and help give them a new start in life,” he said. “We are requesting any information the public may have regarding human trafficking or if you suspect any child is being recruited for trafficking.”
The District Attorney’s Office can be reached at 707-263-2251.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – At the request of the Lake County Health Department, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday continued proclamations of local health emergencies for the Pawnee fire and Mendocino Complex, and heard an update from staff about the cleanup phase for the incidents.
Dr. Erin Gustafson, Lake County’s deputy health officer, went before the board to make the requests, noting that the debris cleanups for the Pawnee and Mendocino Complex fires haven’t been completed so health risks continue to exist for the community.
Gustafson was accompanied by Environmental Health staff, including Director Jesse Kang, who explained that the county received 12 rights of entry, or ROEs, to allow for the state cleanup program in the Pawnee fire area, with all of those ROEs processed and ready to go.
Kang said CalRecycle started the Pawnee fire property assessment process on Monday. It’s expected to be finished Friday with debris removal process to start this coming Monday.
The board approved continuing the Pawnee fire health emergency proclamation 4-0, with Board Chair Jim Steele absent.
Gustafson then asked for the board to continue the proclamation of local health emergency for the Mendocino Complex.
Kang said the county has received 122 ROEs for the Mendocino Complex, two of which are pending, with four private cleanups and 12 modified ROEs, which he said relate to instances such as where there is a small building that doesn’t qualify for cleanup.
He said the California Office of Emergency Services’ Debris Removal Operations Center has five teams deployed in the field working on the debris removal process.
The board also approved continuing the proclamation of a health emergency for the Mendocino Complex unanimously.
Nathan Spangler, the county’s Mendocino Complex recovery coordinator, told the board that ROEs for that incident were due this past Friday, but the county will continue to accept them through Wednesday.
He said the county also is preparing to issue abatement notices to individuals who haven’t signed ROEs for the state cleanup or taken steps for private cleanup.
The Lake County Water Resources Department is monitoring and working with the National Weather Service to track the current storm system as well as potential for runoff and debris flows, although there are none currently expected, he said.
Spangler said the California Geological Society is coming to Lake County on Oct. 9 to inspect the Cache Creek landslide – located near the Spring Valley Lakes subdivision, east of Clearlake Oaks – to see if it has moved any further following the fires.
Undersheriff Chris Macedo told the board that the property where the slide is located in an area where the property is owned either by the Bureau of Land Management or the conservation organization, Tuleyome; he was not sure of where the property lines are or which organization owns it.
He said he’s been involved with keeping track of the slide since 2001 when the sheriff’s office was first advised of it due to having the Lake County Office of Emergency Services under its auspices. Macedo said the county needs to let BLM and Tuleyome know that they probably need to be the lead agencies to mitigate it.
Macedo added that it may take letters from the board to the property owners to get them to look at mitigation measures before it closes roads or damages county infrastructure. He suggested that contact take place as soon as the county gets a report back from the California Geological Survey.
During the discussion, Macedo said the slide is in a difficult to access area where the BLM has cut a fire-type road.
“It was a big issues years ago,” he said, noting that banks stopped lending on properties there for a time until they were able to determine the stability of the slide.
Macedo said that with the Pawnee and Ranch fires having burned over the area, the stabilizing vegetation is no longer there.
Supervisor Jeff Smith said he has a contact in the Department of the Interior who he planned to call after the meeting to begin the process of determining the property owner and responsibility for the slide.
Retiring deputy honored
In other business on Tuesday, Supervisor Rob Brown presented a proclamation to Deputy Cynthia Radoumis on her retirement.
Radoumis began her law enforcement career in 1981 as a correctional officer for the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, where she later worked as a community service officer. She also worked for the Fresno Police Department as a reserve police officer and community service officer.
She joined the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on May 29, 2007. In February 2013, she accepted an assignment as the Kelseyville Unified School District school resource officer, an assignment for which she was grateful, she said Tuesday.
Radoumis retired effective Sept. 4.
“Sometimes you don’t want this moment to arrive because you enjoy your job so much and most particularly the people that you work with,” she said.
Radoumis thanked her brothers and sisters in law enforcement for their support, kind words and for teaching her things – including things she didn’t want to learn.
“This job is about people. To me it’s always been about people. The way we treat people has a profound effect on them,” she said, thanking everyone from the bottom of her heart.
Macedo, who said he sat in on her hiring interview, said she is a people person who has a calming influence on others.
“It was evident that she had that rare ability to get to the bottom of things, get to know people, and not just rush through things,” he said.
He said she adopted Kelseyville and it adopted her, and she has volunteered her own time while off-duty to support the Junior Giants, the Sheriff’s Activity League, and Kelseyville’s Christmas and Pear Festival events.
When the school resource officer job came available, she took it. “It was a perfect fit,” Macedo said.
He said Radoumis will be coming back as a 900-hour employee, and will be working as a bailiff in the Lake County Superior Court.
Macedo said there is not enough time in the day to talk about Radoumis’ accolades or what she has done for the sheriff’s office. On behalf of Sheriff Brian Martin he presented her with a plaque recognizing her for her years of service.
Radoumis thanked everyone, calling it “a day I’ll never forget.”
Also on Tuesday, the board considered its response to this year’s grand jury report, the day’s most heated item, which included sharp criticism by the board of the report and “nonsense” criticisms by the grand jury of county staff. That item will be the subject of a separate article.
The board also presented a proclamation designating October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month, approved a letter of support for the county of Lake to receive the Land Use Planning Assistance to Reduce Community Wildfire Grant, approved a resolution authorizing the 2018-19 Grant Project-Lake County Victim-Witness Assistance Program and authorized the chair to sign the certification and assurance of compliance.
Email Elizabeth Larson atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Follow her on Twitter, @ERLarson, or Lake County News, @LakeCoNews.
Dr. Erin Gustafson, Lake County’s deputy health officer, went before the board to make the requests, noting that the debris cleanups for the Pawnee and Mendocino Complex fires haven’t been completed so health risks continue to exist for the community.
Gustafson was accompanied by Environmental Health staff, including Director Jesse Kang, who explained that the county received 12 rights of entry, or ROEs, to allow for the state cleanup program in the Pawnee fire area, with all of those ROEs processed and ready to go.
Kang said CalRecycle started the Pawnee fire property assessment process on Monday. It’s expected to be finished Friday with debris removal process to start this coming Monday.
The board approved continuing the Pawnee fire health emergency proclamation 4-0, with Board Chair Jim Steele absent.
Gustafson then asked for the board to continue the proclamation of local health emergency for the Mendocino Complex.
Kang said the county has received 122 ROEs for the Mendocino Complex, two of which are pending, with four private cleanups and 12 modified ROEs, which he said relate to instances such as where there is a small building that doesn’t qualify for cleanup.
He said the California Office of Emergency Services’ Debris Removal Operations Center has five teams deployed in the field working on the debris removal process.
The board also approved continuing the proclamation of a health emergency for the Mendocino Complex unanimously.
Nathan Spangler, the county’s Mendocino Complex recovery coordinator, told the board that ROEs for that incident were due this past Friday, but the county will continue to accept them through Wednesday.
He said the county also is preparing to issue abatement notices to individuals who haven’t signed ROEs for the state cleanup or taken steps for private cleanup.
The Lake County Water Resources Department is monitoring and working with the National Weather Service to track the current storm system as well as potential for runoff and debris flows, although there are none currently expected, he said.
Spangler said the California Geological Society is coming to Lake County on Oct. 9 to inspect the Cache Creek landslide – located near the Spring Valley Lakes subdivision, east of Clearlake Oaks – to see if it has moved any further following the fires.
Undersheriff Chris Macedo told the board that the property where the slide is located in an area where the property is owned either by the Bureau of Land Management or the conservation organization, Tuleyome; he was not sure of where the property lines are or which organization owns it.
He said he’s been involved with keeping track of the slide since 2001 when the sheriff’s office was first advised of it due to having the Lake County Office of Emergency Services under its auspices. Macedo said the county needs to let BLM and Tuleyome know that they probably need to be the lead agencies to mitigate it.
Macedo added that it may take letters from the board to the property owners to get them to look at mitigation measures before it closes roads or damages county infrastructure. He suggested that contact take place as soon as the county gets a report back from the California Geological Survey.
During the discussion, Macedo said the slide is in a difficult to access area where the BLM has cut a fire-type road.
“It was a big issues years ago,” he said, noting that banks stopped lending on properties there for a time until they were able to determine the stability of the slide.
Macedo said that with the Pawnee and Ranch fires having burned over the area, the stabilizing vegetation is no longer there.
Supervisor Jeff Smith said he has a contact in the Department of the Interior who he planned to call after the meeting to begin the process of determining the property owner and responsibility for the slide.
Retiring deputy honored
In other business on Tuesday, Supervisor Rob Brown presented a proclamation to Deputy Cynthia Radoumis on her retirement.
Radoumis began her law enforcement career in 1981 as a correctional officer for the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, where she later worked as a community service officer. She also worked for the Fresno Police Department as a reserve police officer and community service officer.
She joined the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on May 29, 2007. In February 2013, she accepted an assignment as the Kelseyville Unified School District school resource officer, an assignment for which she was grateful, she said Tuesday.
Radoumis retired effective Sept. 4.
“Sometimes you don’t want this moment to arrive because you enjoy your job so much and most particularly the people that you work with,” she said.
Radoumis thanked her brothers and sisters in law enforcement for their support, kind words and for teaching her things – including things she didn’t want to learn.
“This job is about people. To me it’s always been about people. The way we treat people has a profound effect on them,” she said, thanking everyone from the bottom of her heart.
Macedo, who said he sat in on her hiring interview, said she is a people person who has a calming influence on others.
“It was evident that she had that rare ability to get to the bottom of things, get to know people, and not just rush through things,” he said.
He said she adopted Kelseyville and it adopted her, and she has volunteered her own time while off-duty to support the Junior Giants, the Sheriff’s Activity League, and Kelseyville’s Christmas and Pear Festival events.
When the school resource officer job came available, she took it. “It was a perfect fit,” Macedo said.
He said Radoumis will be coming back as a 900-hour employee, and will be working as a bailiff in the Lake County Superior Court.
Macedo said there is not enough time in the day to talk about Radoumis’ accolades or what she has done for the sheriff’s office. On behalf of Sheriff Brian Martin he presented her with a plaque recognizing her for her years of service.
Radoumis thanked everyone, calling it “a day I’ll never forget.”
Also on Tuesday, the board considered its response to this year’s grand jury report, the day’s most heated item, which included sharp criticism by the board of the report and “nonsense” criticisms by the grand jury of county staff. That item will be the subject of a separate article.
The board also presented a proclamation designating October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month, approved a letter of support for the county of Lake to receive the Land Use Planning Assistance to Reduce Community Wildfire Grant, approved a resolution authorizing the 2018-19 Grant Project-Lake County Victim-Witness Assistance Program and authorized the chair to sign the certification and assurance of compliance.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Office of Education announced new dates for this school year’s countywide Attendance Challenge.
All Lake County schools will be competing with each other for bragging rights to who has the best attendance.
This year the Attendance Challenge will take place over two different weeks. The first Attendance Challenge week will be Oct. 15 to 19.
The second Attendance Challenge week will be March 18 to 22, 2019.
This year’s winners will be the schools with the highest combined attendance data from both of those weeks.
Awards will be given in the following six categories:
1. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County Elementary School.
2. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County Middle School.
3. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County High School.
4. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County Alternative School.
5. Highest Attendance Percentage for a Lake County Preschool School.
6. Most Improved Attendance Percentage Lake County School.
The Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe will once again donate award monies to the Lake County Office of Education to be presented to the six winning Lake County schools.
“Good school attendance is essential to academic success. When students improve their attendance rates, they improve their academic prospects and chances for graduating,” explained Lake County Superintendent of Schools Brock Falkenberg.
Rob Young, emergency services and special projects coordinator at LCOE, is organizing the project. “Last year the Attendance Challenge was very successful across all Lake County campuses. This year we’ve expanded it, and we’re looking forward to the competition,” Young said.
"Our students were excited and mobilized,” said Principal Shane Lee of Coyote Valley Elementary School in Hidden Valley Lake. “It was a wonderful environment here at CVE. When our school wide announcement proclaiming our win, reached our classrooms, the collective cheers could be heard all over campus.”
Last year’s winners were:
1. Clear Lake High School, Lakeport Unified School District.
2. Terrace Middle School, Lakeport Unified School District.
3. Coyote Valley Elementary School, Middletown Unified School District.
Lee added, “Coming to school each day is very important and the Attendance Challenge allowed our students, staff, and community to celebrate and discuss the importance of attendance."
Each school district will be sending information home to students and parents about the Attendance Challenge. More information can be found at www.lakecoe.org or on the Lake County Office of Education’s Facebook page.