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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Mary Nell Flanders, 83, fell peacefully into the loving arms of God while in her home the morning of March 8, 2017.
Mary was born March 1, 1934, in Irvington, Texas to John C. & Ina Ivy.
Mary is survived by her three children, including sons, Michael Flanders and wife Kathi, Chris Flanders and wife Laura; and daughter, Carrie Baker and husband Chuck; grandchildren, Michele, Stephanie, Marissa, Jeremy, Zack and Ashley; and great-grandchildren, Dustie, Willow, Matthew, Paul, Isabelle, Jake, Cadence, Mason and Hadley.
Mary also has a surviving younger brother, John Ivy and wife Dayle. Her older brother, Wayne Ivy, passed away several years past and is survived by his wife, Linda.
A longtime resident of Clearlake Oaks, Calif., she leaves behind an amazing host of beloved friends, a wonderful and amazing group of folks that care for and watch after one another.
Before losing her friend and love, Max Lay, four years prior to her passing Mary, Max and “The Crew” cruised, boated, wined and traveled together extensively.
Mary’s father was involved in several large construction projects keeping the family on the move. Eventually they landed in San Diego.
Not long after high school Mary married Francis “Bud” Flanders and started their family settling in El Cajon, near San Diego.
After divorcing in 1967, Mary and the kids moved to Northern California to live and work on her father and mother’s ranch near Chico. She worked for several years in banking, loans and collections.
Mary semi-retired to Clearlake Oaks to care for her mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, following her father’s passing in 1992. After her mother’s passing Mary worked for a local publishing company, finally fully retiring around 2002.
She loved time with “The Crew” and her family. Mary spent hours creating amazing patchwork quilts, blankets and needlepoint quilts. She probably created hundreds of baby blankets, individual to each child, over the years. She was also an avid reader of mysteries, who done its, action and romance novels.
Mary also had infinity for collecting pets. As her 5-year-old great grandson, Matthew, said, “I’m really going to miss GG Mom, especially her wiener dogs and 500 cats.”
Well said, Matthew. So shall we. We love you.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that you consider making a donation to your local Meals on Wheels, PO Box 180, Clearlake, CA 95422.
Arrangements under the care of Jones & Lewis Clear Lake Memorial Chapel, Lower Lake.
Please share your loving memories of Mary by signing her online guest book at www.jonesandlewis.com and www.legacy.com .
SACRAMENTO – The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, with support from the Foundation for California Community Colleges, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation and College Futures Foundation, is soliciting input from the public through a virtual town hall as part of an effort to develop a long-term, ambitious vision for the California Community Colleges.
“The virtual town hall allows us to hear from all Californians to ensure our colleges serve the needs of our communities as well as respond to the challenges and opportunities facing our state now and in the future,” said Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
This effort will inform a strategic vision for the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the nation.
The strategic vision will articulate clear goals for the system and provide recommendations for how to accomplish those goals over the next five years. The resulting document will be presented to the Chancellor and Board of Governors in July of 2017.
The Success Center for California Community Colleges is facilitating this strategic vision process for the Chancellor.
Housed at the Foundation for California Community Colleges, the Success Center was launched in 2014 in an effort to advance the 2012 Student Success Initiative and significantly improve student outcomes by serving as a hub that promotes the sharing, adoption, and implementation of effective practices and policies across the Community College system.
“The Success Center is excited to engage the public to develop a strategic vision for the system that builds upon existing effective practices and opportunities,” said Sandra Fried, executive director of the Success Center for California Community Colleges. “Our goal is to support efforts to improve student success and ensure our system is prepared to meet the state’s needs.”
Support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation and College Futures Foundation will help to ensure that improving student success will be integrated into the overall work and direction of the California Community Colleges.
“We are proud to support the efforts of the Chancellor to shape the vision of the California Community Colleges,” said Keetha Mills, president and CEO of the Foundation for California Community Colleges. “The virtual town hall will help to ensure that all Californians have the opportunity to contribute to the future vision for the community colleges.”
All Californians – including current students, alumni and community members – are invited to share their thoughts to improve the ways the California Community Colleges serve the state by visiting https://foundationccc.org/Strategic-Vision-2017 .
Responses will be collected until May 31, 2017.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 113 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year.
For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/ .
LAKEPORT, Calif. – United Christian Parish of Lakeport invites the community to join them for upcoming Easter Week services.
A service will be held at 7 p.m. on Maundy Thursday, April 13. It will be a service of foot and hand washing in commemoration of the night that Jesus and the disciples gathered together in the Upper Room for their last meal together.
At 7 p.m. on Good Friday, April 14, the church will hold a service to recall the seven last words of Christ and the day Jesus willingly suffered and died by crucifixion as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.
On Easter Sunday, April 15, there will be a sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. at the Gazebo in Library Park. Celebrate the joyous news of Jesus' resurrection. Following the service please come to UCP for breakfast provided by the Men's Bible study group.
The traditional Easter service will take place at 10 a.m. at the church. Explore what it means for us that Christ has risen, and what it means for our everyday lives. The chancel choir will provide the music.
The church is located at 745 Brush St. in Lakeport.
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Kelseyville United Methodist Church will hold a Maundy Thursday service at 6 p.m. April 13.
Join them as they remember the Passover with Communion Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño.
The church is located at 3810 Main St.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lila J. Dowell, a former resident of Kelseyville and Potter Valley, passed on April 9, 2017 at the age of 86.
Her husband of 58 years, Robert S. Dowell, passed in 2007. Lila is survived by a son, Robin, and a daughter, Bobbette; five grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, April 14 at the Hartley Cemetery.
Memorial services will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at the Potter’s House Christian Church in Santa Rosa at 475A Tesconi Circle.
For further information call Chapel of the Lakes at 707-263-0357 or 707-994-5611, or www.chapelofthelakes.com .
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Two young gymnasts from Lake County brought home medals for top finishes in a four-state regional championship held last weekend.
Catch Devore, 14, and Tanner Broyles, 13, traveled to Reno on April 9 for the Men’s Region 1 Championships after qualifying at the state meet in Oroville in March.
Region 1 includes all of California, Arizona, Hawaii and Nevada.
The boys train together at Skycatch Gymnastics in Lakeport. The gym is owned by Catch’s parents, Roger and Jerae Devore.
Catch has been training since he was 3 years old, Tanner since he was 6, the boys said.
This was the second year that Catch competed at regionals and the first for Tanner.
Catch had the No. 2 all-around finish. He had first-place performances in the floor exercise, vault and high bar, placed second in the pommel horse, 11th in the rings and 16th in the parallel bars.
Tanner earned a No. 9 finish in the all-around. His placements in the individual events included a fourth place in the vault, a tie for sixth in the pommel horse, seventh place on the high bar, a tie for seventh place on the parallel bars, 11th place on the floor and 14th place on the rings.
Skycatch was among a total of three gyms that had more than one athlete in the top 16 finishers.
This ends this year’s competitive season for the young athletes, whose level six status means that they will not participate in a national competition.
Even so, there is plenty to do back at the gym.
On Wednesday evening, the boys already were back in training, and stopping to look at videos of their performances in Reno.
Tanner waited until the regionals championship to perform his first “giant” – the skill that involves rotating 360 degrees on the high bar – in competition. He had managed his first giant only a few days before the event.
Recalling his experience at the championships, Catch said, “It was just fun.”
He added, “There’s definitely some level of excitement, and really maintaining and mitigating that excitement and adrenaline and focusing it into something beautiful and artistic is a skill in itself.”
Catch said that he felt he had his best performance on the vault, one of his first-place finishes.
Tanner said it felt like just another meet.
Making his giants for the first time was his best moment of the competition, he said.
Now, he’s looking forward to getting bigger skills, such as giants and a double backflip off the high bar.
Roger Devore said the boys are known for their clean, strong skills, which are the result of patience, hard work and dedicated skill development.
As a result, Catch and Tanner are in the top 10th of the competitive gymnasts in Region 1, which Devore called the “most packed and stacked” region in the country.
Now, they’re going to begin training in new skills, including multiple flipping and twisting, Devore said.
“We’re going to train all summer,” said Devore.
Devore said the young athletes are having run reaching for the bigger skills, which they already were learning on Wednesday.
“We’re growing the body, mind and spirit,” Devore said.
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