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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Six dogs, ranging from little lap dogs to big working dogs, are waiting for new homes at Lake County Animal Care and Control.
This week’s dogs include mixes of Chihuahua, German Shepherd, Great Pyrenees and pit bull.
Lake County Animal Care and Control is adopting out dogs this week with a $50 discount – waiving the county adoption fee portion and costs for microchipping. There will will be costs for spaying and neutering dogs.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets hoping you'll choose them.
In addition to the animals featured here, all adoptable animals in Lake County can be seen here: http://bit.ly/Z6xHMb .
The following dogs at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (additional dogs on the animal control Web site not listed are still “on hold”).
‘Honey’
“Honey” is a female Chihuahua mix.
She has a long gold-colored coat, brown eyes and floppy ears.
Shelter staff said she is good with other dogs.
Honey is in kennel No. 2, ID No. 7602.
Female Chihuahua
This female Chihuahua has a medium-length brown coat.
She’s in kennel No. 3, ID No. 7624.
Male pit bull terrier
This male pit bull terrier has a short fawn and white coat.
Shelter staff said he is good with other dogs and not aggressive. He needs to learn how to play and is timid with loud noises.
He’s in kennel No. 18, ID No. 7639.
Great Pyrenees
This male Great Pyrenees is a great big fluffy and friendly guy.
He has a long white coat and floppy ears. He’s already been neutered.
He’s in kennel No. 19, ID No. 7655.
‘Charley’
“Charley” is a female German Shepherd.
She has a classic medium-length black and tan coat.
Charley already has been spayed.
She’s in kennel No. 26, ID No. 7605.
Female pit bull
This female pit bull terrier has a short brown coat with white markings.
Shelter staff said she is great with other dogs, listens well and knows basic commands, and showed no interest in cats. She would be good with children and make a great family dog.
She is in kennel No. 27, ID No. 7601.
To fill out an adoption application online visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Dog___Cat_Adoption_Application.htm .
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
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With temperatures around the world climbing, melt waters from the continental ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are raising sea levels.
Those ice sheets are melting from both above and below. Much of the ice lost from ice sheets comes from a process called calving where ice erodes, breaks off, and flows rapidly into the ocean. A large volume of ice is also lost from ice sheets melting on their surfaces.
To determine to what extent Greenland’s glaciers are being melted from underneath, NASA recently began a five-year airborne and ship-based mission called Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG).
Previous research has shown that Greenland's glaciers, which flow like rivers of ice into the ocean, sit on the ground deeper below sea level than had been thought. Warm ocean currents sweep across and erode the hidden glacier faces. As a result, they’re melting faster – a few feet a day in summer – than anyone suspected.
Oceanographer Josh Willis is the Principal Investigator for the OMG mission. “We’re investigating how the ice interacts with the ocean, and how much the oceans are melting away the glaciers from the edges of the ice sheet,” he said.
For this study, a NASA aircraft is flying the Glacier and Ice Surface Topography Interferometer (GLISTIN) instrument around Greenland for a few weeks each year.
Willis said, “GLISTIN is making very high resolution maps of the ice, showing us how fast the glaciers are thinning and retreating right at the edge.”
The aircraft will also continue dropping more than 200 ocean probes each year through 2020 to measure how temperature and salinity change between the ocean surface and the sea floor – from the cold meltwater at the surface down to the warmer, heavier saltwater below. This will help determine how changes in the ocean affect the ice.
In addition, OMG has completed surveys using a ship equipped with sonar to measure the seafloor shape and depth, which affect where and how much the warm water from the Atlantic eats away at the coastal glaciers.
The mission also conducted airborne measurements of gravity off the coast of Greenland, giving the team more information about the depth of water in those locations.
While OMG is looking at the effects on ice sheets from below, NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission is surveying polar ice from above.
The overlap of OMG and IceBridge is providing the most accurate measurements to date of changes in Greenland’s ice sheet mass.
Glaciologist Ala Khazendar, a member of the OMG science team said, “IceBridge's highly-accurate Airborne Topographic Mapper is the gold standard of measuring the surface elevation changes of the ice sheet. With OMG uncovering how much ice is being lost at the periphery of the ice sheet, and IceBridge telling us how the thickness of the glaciers is changing further upstream, we can better attribute Greenland’s ice loss either to changes in the ocean or warming of the atmosphere, which directly melts the ice from above.”
“Greenland contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 20 feet (6 meters) if it all melted,” noted Willis. “Right now we think this will take at least several hundred years, but data from OMG are helping scientists better understand how much the oceans are melting Greenland’s ice. From now through 2020, OMG will be making annual visits to measure the oceans and ice together, helping scientists study changes to Greenland’s ice sheet and how those changes may impact Earth’s environment.”
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Old bottles hold more than their intended contents.
Collectors, who enjoy bottles' unique artisanship, understand that historic bottles have personality and secrets galore if you know how to find them.
Believe it or not, some of the very first bottles in the world were created in Asia, in approximately 100 BC, and here in the United States glass bottles and jars were produced in the 1600s with the creation of the Jamestown glass liquefying process in their early furnaces.
The making of glass bottles became even more prevalent when the glass bottle-blowing industry began in the 1880s.
The oldest of the old bottles were formed by melting glass, and then dunking a clay structure or mold, and, finally, when cool, breaking out the fragments of clay for the end product – a hollow vessel.
Archaeologists and bottle collectors have learned to identify how, when and where a particular bottle was produced by the bottle's identifying markings on the bottom of the vessel.
Another important means to determine that information can be found in the type of bottle closure, or cap.
The first bottles were stopped up with wax, then came corks, and finally, various kinds of lids and stoppers were put to use.
Archaeologists state that although you can determine a bottle's age within 10 to 15 years, it is often difficult to pinpoint its exact age accurately.
This could stem from the bottle having been recycled into use by different companies when the newer company may have relabeled a bottle for its new use.
There are, however many diagnostic tools to date a bottle to determine closely, its age range.
There is a "bottle dating key" developed by T. Stell Newman in 1970 that is very useful, and can be viewed as a link on the Society for Historical Archaeology's Web site.
Some bottle-age indicators that stand out to historians include mold seams, any glass that has stuck to the bottle's base, determining if the base is smooth, noting any embossing and color variations of the bottle, to name but a few methods.
During Dr. John Parker's Fireside Chat at the Gibson Museum in Middletown, he had literally unearthed many of those secrets and surprises, then shared them with the public. His bottle talk was highly engaging.
Dr. John Parker is a local archaeologist who helped preserve part of Lake County's valuable past when Anderson Marsh State Historic Park was created.
If you haven't yet viewed the movie of the making of Anderson Marsh State Historic Park, it's a must see.
It's called "A Walk Through Time," and the team who created the video recently garnered several prestigious awards, including an Emmy Award.
Kathleen Scavone, M.A., is a retired educator, potter, writer and author of “Anderson Marsh State Historic Park: A Walking History, Prehistory, Flora, and Fauna Tour of a California State Park” and “Native Americans of Lake County.” She also formerly wrote for NASA and JPL as one of their “Solar System Ambassadors.” She was selected “Lake County Teacher of the Year, 1998-99” by the Lake County Office of Education, and chosen as one of 10 state finalists the same year by the California Department of Education.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A teenage boy who went missing early Saturday morning has been located and is safe.
Just before 8:30 p.m. the Clearlake Police Department reported that 13-year-old Isaiah Blevins was found.
The boy had gone missing at around 6 a.m. in the area of Lenore and Davis avenues while walking his dog, as Lake County News has reported.
Chris Arizmendez, Isaiah’s older brother, told Lake County News that the search had continued all day, with about 100 people taking part.
Arizmendez told Lake County News that Isaiah was located in the area of 30th Avenue Saturday evening.
He confirmed that his younger brother was OK.
Additional details about what led to the boy’s disappearance were not immediately available.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A search is continuing in and around Clearlake for a 13-year-old boy who disappeared early Saturday morning.
Isaiah Blevins, a sixth grader at Pomo Elementary School, was last seen at 6 a.m. Saturday when he left home to take his dog for a walk, according to his older brother, Chris Arizmendez.
Later in the morning, the Clearlake Police Department issued an alert on the missing teen, but on Saturday evening authorities confirmed the boy was still listed as missing.
On Saturday evening, Arizmendez said he and his family, along with friends and many community members, were actively searching for Isaiah, who was last seen in the area of Lenore Avenue north of Davis Avenue.
Arizmendez estimated about 100 people had been involved with looking for the boy, with people continuing to arrive to ask where they could help search.
At around 6 a.m. Saturday Isaiah got up and asked his mother if he could take his dog out for a walk, Arizmendez said, adding that his brother never left the house without checking first with his mother.
She gave permission and he changed clothes and left. At that point, his mother was cooking breakfast and didn’t see what he was wearing when he went out, Arizmendez said.
Arizmendez said his brother usually took his female pit bull for a walk up the hill on a dead end street in the area of Lenore and Davis avenues. “He does it every day.”
A short time later, after he hadn’t returned, Isaiah’s mother went out and began calling for him. When she got no answer, she sent his grandfather out to look for him, Arizmendez said.
About 25 minutes after Isaiah had left the house, his dog came home, still wearing her leash, Arizmendez said.
Arizmendez said police were notified. That led to the alert issued by the agency and a police search earlier in the day.
The area where Isaiah is known to have walked was checked thoroughly. No one has reported seeing him or anything out of the ordinary, Arizmendez said.
They’ve also checked to see if he has contacted any of his friends. “No one has heard from him, no one has seen him,” Arizmendez said.
Arizmendez described his brother as “a good kid” who has never run away.
“We don’t know what else to do,” Arizmendez said.
Isaiah Blevins is described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall and about 90 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Arizmendez believes his brother was wearing red Chuck Taylor Converse sneakers, which are his favorite shoes.
Anyone who has information on Isaiah’s whereabout is asked to call the Clearlake Police Department at 707-994-8251.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The updated Lake County forecast calls for the possibility of more rain this weekend.
The county received some June rain on Thursday, with cloudy skies on Friday that cleared as the day wore on. Temperatures also have been far cooler than seasonal norms.
The National Weather Service’s updated Lake County forecast for the weekend calls for chances of rain both Saturday and Sunday, along with winds of up to 20 miles per hour.
On Sunday, there also are chances of thunderstorms, based on the forecast.
Daytime temperatures this weekend are expected to be in the mid 60s, with nighttime lows in the low 40s.
Forecasters said conditions should begin clearing on Sunday night, with sunny conditions to return on Monday and extend through the coming week.
Temperatures also are forecast to rise with the clearing weather, with predictions putting daytime highs near the century mark on Friday.
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