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LAKEPORT, Calif. – A dozen competitors are ready for one of the hottest contests this summer, and the public is invited to help choose the winners.
Barbecue amateurs and experts will pit their skills against one another Saturday, Aug. 5, at the eighth annual “Grillin’ on the Green” at Westside Community Park, 1401 Westside Park Road, Lakeport.
The event, which takes place from 5 to 8 p.m., will feature the popular barbecue competition with plenty of food, drinks and entertainment for all ages.
Grillin’ on the Green is an annual fundraiser for development of the park.
Local organizations, individuals and professionals go head-to-head in the cook-off, preparing their best barbecue recipes for attendees who then cast People’s Choice votes for their favorites.
A group of celebrity judges will select their favorite as well. This year’s celebrity judges are Record-Bee Editor Dave Faries, Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin and Mendocino College instructor Christine DePasquale.
Event attendees will enjoy a variety of barbecued dishes, accompanied by side dishes and beverages, and three hours of entertainment including live music by the LC Diamonds, children’s water activities, a car show featuring vintage vehicles from local car clubs, and horse-drawn wagon rides sponsored and presented by the LC Horse Council. Snow cones from Marta and Domingo Avillea will be available.
Ticket prices for the event are $25 per adult, $10 per child between the ages of 5 and 12, and no charge for children 4 years old or younger.
Tickets are available in advance and will be sold at the function.
All proceeds benefit the Westside Community Park development.
Advance tickets for Grillin’ on the Green may be purchased at the Lake County Chamber of Commerce and The Travel Centers in Lakeport and at Polestar Computers in Kelseyville.
“Come join us to enjoy some terrific food and entertainment,” said Westside Park Committee Chair Dennis Rollins. “Each year Grillin’ attendees call the fare the best barbecue around. We hope to see you there.”
This year’s grill competitors include teams from the city of Lakeport, the Lakeport Kiwanis, the Early Lake Lions, and the Delta Iota Tau Sorority.
Also signed up to vie for bragging rights are Team Smokin’ Aces (Adam Bruch), Beef Cakes (Jessie Richardson), JQ’s (Jason Stricker and Dave Hansen), Team Lakeside (Dennis Rasner - Nurses Association for Sutter Health), Just the Tri Tip (Tim Biasotti), Livin’ Made E.Z. (Adam Newell), Happy Papa BBQ (Robert Norton), and Aaron and Rob’s BBQ (Aaron Vandewarker).
Information about the event can be found on the park’s Web site, www.westsidecommunitypark.org or on Westside Community Park’s Facebook page.
Sponsors of the fundraiser will be recognized at the Grillin’ on the Green event. Levels of sponsor recognition are $100, $300, $500 to $1,000. Contributions of any amount may be sent to 1350 Berry St., Lakeport, and made payable to Westside Community Park Committee.
The Keeling-Barnes Family Foundation is for the seventh year offering a sponsorship match. The Foundation will match up to $3,000. Sutter Lakeside Hospital has pledged a sponsorship of $2,500. Representatives of the foundation and the hospital challenge the community to match and exceed the combined $5,500 amount.
Additional sponsors include the Ustrud-Rollins Family, Rotary Club of Lakeport, Kiwanis Club of Lakeport, Kelseyville Lumber & Supply Company, Alexander McGeoch, DDS, Brian L. Grey, DDS, Lake County News, Lincoln Leavitt Insurance Agency Inc., Matt Mazzei Auto Dealership, Mendo Lake Credit Union and Clear Lake Redi Mix Inc.
Westside Community Park is a regional recreational facility that is operated by the City of Lakeport and the Westside Community Park Committee. It has been in development for 18 years.
The nonprofit Park Committee is developing the park in conjunction with the City of Lakeport, volunteers, and numerous contributions by individuals and businesses dedicated to constructing a recreational facility for the youth and adults of Lake County.
For more information about Grillin’ on the Green, call Cindy Ustrud, 707-263-7091, or Dennis Rollins, 707-349-0969.
The public will have an opportunity to participate in a nationwide science experiment by collecting cloud and temperature data from their phones.
NASA’s Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, or GLOBE, Program Observer, also known as NASA GO, is a citizen science project that allows users to record observations with a free app.
On Aug. 21, NASA GO will feature a special eclipse experiment. With the app and a thermometer, citizen scientists can help observe how the eclipse changes atmospheric conditions near them, and contribute to a database used by students and scientists worldwide in order to study the effects of the eclipse on the atmosphere.
Observers in areas with a partial eclipse or outside the path of totality are encouraged to participate alongside those within totality.
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, or GLOBE, Program is a NASA-supported research and education program that encourages students and citizen scientists to collect and analyze environmental observations. GLOBE Observer is a free, easy-to-use app that guides citizen scientists through data collection.
On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will occur across the entire continental United States. Crossing the country from Oregon to South Carolina over the course of an hour and a half, 14 states will experience night-like darkness for approximately two minutes in the middle of the day. The eclipse enters the U.S. at 10:15 a.m. PDT off the coast of Oregon and leaves U.S. shores at approximately 2:50 p.m. EDT in South Carolina.
All of North America will experience at least a partial eclipse.
“No matter where you are in North America, whether it’s cloudy, clear or rainy, NASA wants as many people as possible to help with this citizen science project,” said Kristen Weaver, deputy coordinator for the project. “We want to inspire a million eclipse viewers to become eclipse scientists.”
In order to participate, first download the GLOBE Observer app and register to become a citizen scientist. The app will instruct you on how to make the observations. Second, you will need to obtain a thermometer to measure air temperature.
Observations will be recorded on an interactive map.
To join in the fun, download the GLOBE Observer app. After you log in, the app explains how to make eclipse observations.
To learn more about how NASA researchers will be studying the Earth during the eclipse visit https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-looks-to-the-solar-eclipse-to-help-understand-the-earth-s-energy-system.
Rani Gran and Kelsey Wright work for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Firefighters are working at the scene of a fire burning structures and vegetation in the city of Clearlake.
The fire, first reported at about 3 p.m. Friday, is located in the area of Snook and Davis avenues behind Foods, Etc., according to radio reports and the Clearlake Police Department.
Units on scene reported over the air that one structure was on fire, with many others threatened as the fire began moving into the wildland.
A short time later, a second structure was reported to be involved, according to radio reports.
Lake County Fire and Cal Fire were first on scene, and have requested a strike team of engines from other Lake County fire districts, with some of those units reported to be arriving just after 3:30 p.m.
Cal Fire also was asked to send air resources on the incident, which firefighters on scene reported is pushing to the north.
Responding units are being advised that power lines are down in the area.
Evacuations of residences were reported to be taking place in the area around the fire, with a medical clinic on Lakeshore also evacuated on precaution, based on reports from the scene.
The Clearlake Police Department is asking people to avoid the area of Davis and West 40th, and the areas behind Foods, Etc. and Westamerica Bank due to the fire.
At about 3:45 p.m., Cal Fire reported that the forward spread of the wildland fire was stopped, with its size estimated at about three acres. Two hours of mop up on that part of the fire is anticipated.
Firefighters at that point were continuing to work on the structure fire portion of the incident.
Later in the afternoon, Lake County Fire Battalion Chief Charlie Diener confirmed to Lake County News that the fire was contained, with two structures burned, and mop up continuing.
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The fire in the 4200 block of Foothill Drive in Lucerne was first dispatched at about 5:30 p.m., as Lake County News has reported.
Northshore Fire, Cal Fire, the US Forest Service from the Mendocino National Forest and a strike team of engines from fire departments around the county responded to the incident, according to Northshore Fire Chief Jay Beristianos.
For close to two hours Cal Fire air attack circled overhead as two Cal Fire helicopters made drops on the fire, flying back and forth between Clear Lake to fill their buckets.
Cal Fire tankers also dropped retardant on the hillside to keep the fire from getting to more of the many homes lining Foothill Drive.
Pacific Gas and Electric sent a crew to the scene, as it had been reported that lines were down.
Incident command reported forward progress was stopped at around 7 p.m., with line placed all around the fire at that time.
Beristianos said a barbecue started the fire, which then burned two homes to the ground and did major damage to a third.
He said three outbuildings and two vehicles also were destroyed, and three and a half acres of vegetation burned.
Beristianos said Red Cross had been called to help the families displaced by the fire.
He said there were a couple of reports of minor injuries but nobody had been transported to the hospital.
He said a firefighter rescued a dog from one of the homes. The small pit bull ran back inside of the house and jumped on the bed, but the firefighter was able to wrap the dog up in a blanket and bring it out safely.
All evacuations were lifted at around 7:45 p.m. Thursday, but the roadway remained closed for several hours as firefighters continued mop up and overhaul late into the night.
Hours after the fire was out, firefighters continued to wet down the burned structures and the surrounding vegetation, with fire hoses lining the roadway.
Beristianos said crews would remain on scene “well into the night” to continue monitoring and overhauling the site.
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Kacy J. Perry, 42, of San Diego was arrested at the entrance of Hopland Sho-Kah-Wah Casino, according to a report from the Clear Lake Area office of the California Highway Patrol.
Just after 8 a.m. Thursday, the Lakeport Police Department initiated a pursuit in the city of Lakeport involving a silver Ford Fusion whose driver – later identified as Perry – was driving erratically, the CHP reported.
At approximately 8:06 a.m. Lakeport Police asked CHP to take over the pursuit at Highway 29 at Highland Springs Road, according to the report.
CHP Officers Kory Reynolds and Nick Powell assumed the pursuit on southbound Highway 29 at Cole Creek Road at 8:12 a.m. At 8:24 a.m., upon confirming Perry’s identity, CHP Officer in Charge Rob Hearn directed CHP units to terminate the pursuit, which they did, the CHP said.
Just after 8:30 a.m., the CHP’s Ukiah Communications Center received calls from citizens that a vehicle matching the description of the pursuit vehicle was driving recklessly on northbound Highway 29 near Soda Bay Road, the CHP said.
The CHP said the vehicle was seen driving through the intersection against a red traffic light and continued northbound, passing vehicles over the double yellow lines and in blind curves.
The CHP’s on-call supervisor, Sgt. Nenad Gorenec, was notified of the initial pursuit by Hearn at his residence, with Hearn later advising Sgt. Gorenec of the additional reckless driving, the agency reported.
Shortly after 9 a.m. Lakeport Police units located Perry’s Ford Fusion traveling southbound at Highway 29 at Lakeport Boulevard. The CHP said Perry backed into a Lakeport Police patrol vehicle and fled southbound, with Lakeport Police units initiating a second pursuit.
At 9:14 a.m. CHP Officers Cortez and Bews assumed the pursuit, based on Perry’s continued threat to public safety, the CHP said.
At the same time, Clear Lake Area CHP Commander Lt. Hector Paredes and Officer Reynolds responded and ultimately became the supervisory unit, the report explained.
The CHP said its units pursued Perry westbound from Highway 29 onto Highway 175, traveling over the Hopland Grade and into Mendocino County at speeds of 25 to 60 miles per hour.
Shortly after 9:30 a.m., Sgt. Gorenec successfully spiked Perry’s vehicle tires, but he continued westbound at 30 to 40 miles per hour, the CHP said.
The report said CHP units were approved to use legal intervention before Perry entered the populated community of Hopland, and just after 9:40 a.m. they were able to stop the vehicle and take Perry into custody.
Perry was booked into Lake County Jail for felony evading, driving under the influence of drugs, being under the influence of a controlled substance, and resisting or delaying a peace officer, the CHP said.
There were no injuries and only moderate damage to CHP vehicles, while the CHP said Perry’s vehicle sustained major damage.
The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Clearlake's Austin Park, 14077 Lakeshore Drive.
Admission to the event is free so bring the whole family.
The Lake Community Pride Foundation is a nonprofit group that maintains and supports a teen shelter, Safe House of Lake County, supports the youth performing arts and organizes youth events for the community.
Power to the Youth offers physical activities, youth entertainment, music and community education.
This year's event will feature a basketball tournament for different age groups and a skate park competition for varying skill levels in scooters, BMX, scooters, and skateboarding with prizes for the winners.
It is free to enter these activities and all participants must register and be prepared to play at 10 a.m. on the day of the event.
Glory Day's Flag Football League will have their annual Power to the Youth flag football event.
A stage in the front of the park will feature this year's musical lineup: Fetti Rich, The Lyricist and As All Else Fails.
Multiple bouncy houses, water slides, mechanical bull, free horse rides, as well as local agency booths offering activities and information about their services will be available throughout the park.
Ranging from education to politics to health care and local businesses, many booths will be featured at this year's event.
There also will be food available for purchase from Cactus Grill near the gazebo.
Come down, have some fun, bring unity to the community, and empower our youth for a brighter and better future for Clearlake and Lake County.
If you're interested in holding a booth for the event, volunteering or donating toward the cause of the event, contact Bruno Sabatier at 707-695-0834 or at