How to resolve AdBlock issue? 
News
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild will hold its 16th annual Falling Leaves Quilt Show on Saturday, Oct. 7, and Sunday, Oct. 8.
The show will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 401 Martin St., Lakeport.
Admission for adults is $8 presale or $10 at the door, and $2 for children under age 12.
This year’s featured quilter is Lynn Wilder; visit her Web site at http://sewnwildoaks.blogspot.com/ .
The event will include a judged, open-entry show of 200-plus quilts, plus a vendor mall, country store, opportunity quilt, challenge and round robin exhibits, door prizes, silent auction, demonstrations, food and more.
Entry deadline is Aug. 12. Quilts must be ready to hang on Thursday, Oct. 5.
Download entry forms and get entry information at www.LLQG.org , or contact show chair Linda Morrison at 707-263-4504 or
The Democrats' gnashing of teeth and renting of garments over the election is getting really tiresome.
Instead of the constant and vociferous complaining about President Donald Trump (which achieves absolutely nothing), why not do something about it?
There is plenty of time. Why not knuckle down and find a viable candidate that can win for you in 2020?
Want a woman? She's out there. I've met her. Her name is Tulsi Gabbard, and she's a congresswoman in Hawaii's Second District. She's razor sharp smart, sincere and attractive. A political trifecta.
I listened to her speak last spring when she was in Ukiah stumping for Bernie Sanders. Her sincerity is what really impressed me.
Although I didn't agree with everything she said, this was no phony politician spouting hot air just for the sake of it. She was very candid, looked me in the eye and meant what she said. Very refreshing.
She's a rising star, that much is obvious.
Michael McInerney lives in Ukiah, Calif.
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Gibson Museum and Cultural Center will hold its annual “Battles at the Mansion” fundraiser on Saturday, June 24, and Sunday, June 25.
The event is a reenactment of four Civil War battles, which members of the American Civil War Association will stage on the fields behind the Middletown Mansion Event Center on Highway 29.
Between those battles, guests may go onto the battlefield to examine the weapons and chat with the participants.
These men, old and young, and a few women, are remarkably well informed about the armaments and munitions, about the authenticity of their uniforms and equipment, and about the war itself.
Apart from the black smoke powder and tumult, there will be plenty to enjoy.
Lake County’s popular women’s a Capella group, My Divas, will open the entertainment both Saturday and Sunday. Word is that the ladies, dressed in mid-19th century outfits, may also burst into song from time to time amidst the lush greenery of the mansion grounds.
David Neft, a favorite entertainer in many Lake County venues for the past couple of decades, will play Saturday afternoon.
The engaging duo of Don Coffin on guitar and Andi Skelton with her fiddle will play Sunday afternoon, to set toes tapping as they regularly do at Ely Stage Stop’s monthly Fiddlers’ Jams.
Twice on Saturday, once on Sunday, Forest Service archaeologist Barbara White will offer her delightful characterization of a Civil War era lady struggling into proper antebellum dress with all its cumbersome underpinnings. Barbara has been performing for about twenty years, and the applause keeps escalating.
Several of the area’s favorite restaurateurs will be on hand vending assorted casual outdoor foods, and soft drinks, beer and wine will also be available.
The entire affair is a fundraiser to help support ongoing work on local history and displays at Gibson Museum & Cultural Center. Sponsorships are available to help the cause and will be rewarded with promotional displays at the event. For information, call Voris at 707-295-7174 or Davis at 707-495-4811.
Tickets are now on sale at 13 venues: all three Lake County museums, in Lakeport, Lower Lake and Middletown, and at Ely Stage Stop & Country Museum in Kelseyville; at the Chambers of Commerce in Lakeport and Clearlake; at all three Country Air Realty offices in Lakeport, Clear Lake Riviera and Cobb; at Mountain High coffee shops in Cobb and Hidden Valley Lake; at the Lower Lake Coffee Shop and at 2 Women Traders in Middletown.
Advance sales prices are $12 adult, $10 senior, $5 Youth, under 6 free.
For advanced ticket purchase and a schedule of events visit www.friendsofgibson.com .
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – On Saturday, June 24, Dr. Harry Lyons will kick off the Clear Lake State Park’s Saturday Summer Speaker Series with a talk on the Middle Creek Restoration project.
This informative and interesting program will begin at 1 p.m. at the park visitor center, 5300 Soda Bay Road, Kelseyville.
Admission is free to enter the park for those attending the session, and the visitor center will be open for business.
Dr. Lyons has lived in Lake County for 40 years, for much of that time conveying scientific information on Clear Lake to two generations of college students.
If you have ever heard Dr. Lyons speak, you will be both informed and entertained.
The emeritus professor of biology/ecology from Yuba College grew up in Brooklyn, attended Rutgers College and Stanford University, and was awarded PhD in oceanography as a National Science Fellow from the Scripps Institution of the University of California.
He currently pursues his interest in water by serving as a director of the Lake County Resource Conservation District and as a founding member of the Middle Creek Restoration Coalition.
The project, proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers more than 20 years ago in response to a request by the county of Lake, would act on scientific findings in bestowing immeasurable benefits to the health of Clear Lake and to the people who live and visit here.
The project will deliberately breach failing levees on Middle Creek and restore 1,650 acres of historic wetlands at the north end of Clear Lake.
This winter, Clear Lake rose to its highest flood levels in 19 years and flood waters overtopped the levees. The uncontrolled failure of the levees is a real and present danger to lives and property.
The completed project is the single most effective action that can be taken to improve the quality of the water in Clear Lake, according to advocates.
Based on scientific research, restored historic wetlands in the project area will capture nutrient-laden sediments that currently flow into Clear Lake causing rampant growth of invasive aquatic plants and uncontrollable "blooms" of cyanobacteria, commonly called blue green algae.
The project also will restore wildlife habitat, improve breeding and rearing conditions for the threatened Clear Lake hitch, a native fish, and provide significant recreational opportunities for residents and visitors to Clear Lake.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A documentary about Anderson Marsh State Historic Park and the native peoples who called it home has been nominated for an Emmy Award.
“A Walk Through Time: The Story of Anderson Marsh” was included in the 46th annual Northern California Emmy Award nominations in the “Historic/Cultural-Program/Special” category for its presentation on KVIE 6, a Public Broadcasting System member television station in Sacramento.
The Emmy Award, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, recognizes outstanding achievement in television. The nominations announced this month are for entries aired during the 2016 calendar year.
The 28-minute film, which premiered at the Native American Day Gala in Clearlake in July 2015, was produced thanks to funds provided in a partnership with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, under the direction of archaeologist Leslie Steidl, and the Koi Nation of Northern California.
The film looks at the history of the Koi people, a Pomo tribe that first colonized the Anderson Marsh area more than 14,000 years ago, living there until it was driven out by white settlers in the 1840s.
The film’s producers include Dino, Drake and Darin Beltran of the Koi Nation, Greg White and archaeologist Dr. John Parker.
Director Daniel Bruns is a technician with the Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology at California State University, Chico, the team that filmed the documentary.
“It was a huge, two-year endeavor pulled off by an amazing group of people, dedicated to Lake County’s cultural past,” said Dr. Parker, who along with wife Cheyanne, also an archaeologist, will attend the Northern California Emmy Award presentation in San Francisco on Saturday.
Dr. Parker has studied Lake County’s native cultures for decades, and spent time early in his career at Anderson Marsh. His work there was instrumental in the creation in 1982 of the 1,300-acre Anderson Marsh State Historic Park.
“A Walk Through Time” is available to all public schools in Lake County with accompanying lesson plans developed by retired Middletown educator Kathleen Scavone, who is a columnist for Lake County News.
Also nominated in the same Emmy Award category as “A Walk Through Time” are “Emperors' Treasures: from the National Palace Museum,” KGO ABC 7; and “Jimmy Borges - A Life Story.”
This isn’t the first award for which the film has been nominated.
In 2015, it received the Governor’s Historic Preservation Award and also was selected for the 40th annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, as Lake County News has reported.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Watershed Books will host a book signing for local author Steve Bartholomew on Friday, June 2.
The event will be held at 5 p.m. at the store, located at 305 N. Main St. in Lakeport.
Featured will be Bartholomew’s book, “Finding Joaquin: A Tale of Old California.”
Bartholomew is the author of several other books, including “The Imaginary Emperor,’ “The Woodcutter,” “Tunnel 6,” “Gold: A Tale of the California Gold Rush” and “Black Bart Reborn,” among others, all of which are available on Amazon.
For more information call Watershed Books at 707-263-5787.