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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Upper Lake's “A Country Christmas” will take place on Saturday, Dec. 3.
The event starts at 6 p.m. on Main Street.
The holiday light parade takes place at 6:30 p.m., with Santa set to arrive on his sleigh.
Children will have a chance to visit with Santa during the event.
Come light up the Christmas tree and enjoy hot food and drinks.
For information or parade entries contact Sara at 707-900-8585 or
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Come sell your recyclables (glass, aluminum and plastics) on the last Friday of every month in front of Konocti Vista Casino, 2755 Mission Rancheria Road, Lakeport, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The buyback events are operated by Robinson Rancheria’s state certified CRV buy back mobile operations.
Receive a $10 match play for Konocti Vista Casino if you bring in a value of $10 or more recycling.
MENDOCINO NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. – The Grindstone Ranger District is extending customer service hours at the Stonyford Work Center for the public to purchase Christmas tree permits.
The Stonyford Work Center will be open on the following Saturdays from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., with a half-hour closure from noon to 12:30 p.m.: Nov. 26, Dec. 3, Dec. 10 and Dec. 17.
Permits sell for $10 each with a limit of one permit per household. The number of permits is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Permits are good for this year only and trees can be cut and removed any day of the week through Dec. 24. All Mendocino National Forest offices will be closed on Thanksgiving Day Nov. 24, but will be open on Friday, Nov. 25.
As part of the Every Kid in a Park initiative, all fourth graders are eligible for a free Christmas tree permit upon presenting a valid fourth grade pass.
To obtain a free Christmas tree permit, the fourth grader must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and present their fourth grade pass or paper voucher.
For more information about this initiative and how to obtain a fourth grade pass, please visit www.everykidinapark.gov .
Christmas tree cutting in the National Forest is managed as a recreational experience. It is a chance to take the family out into the woods and cut a tree the old-fashioned way.
For more information, including tree cutting tips, please see the forest Web site http://tinyurl.com/h5o8h3h or call 530-934-3316.
We've been selecting poems for this column for more than ten years and I can't remember ever publishing a poem about a cat. But here at last is a cat, a lovely old cat. Ron Koertge lives in California, and his most recent book of poems is Vampire Planet: New & Selected Poems, from Red Hen Press.
Lily
No one would take her when Ruth passed.
As the survivors assessed some antiques,
I kept hearing, "She's old. Somebody
should put her down."
I picked her up instead. Every night I tell her
about the fish who died for her, the ones
in the cheerful aluminum cans.
She lies on my chest to sleep, rising
and falling, rising and falling like a rowboat
fastened to a battered dock by a string.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited submissions. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2016 by Ron Koertge, “Lily,” from Vampire Planet: New & Selected Poems, (Red Hen Press, 2016). Poem reprinted by permission of Ron Koertge and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2016 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Police Department is looking for a male subject who attempted to rob a city grocery store at gunpoint Sunday afternoon.
The agency said the incident occurred at Bruno's Shop Smart on Lakeport Boulevard.
Police officers responded to the store at 12:45 p.m. on the report of the attempted robbery, the agency said.
Before the officers arrived, the male subject had fled the scene in an unknown direction of travel, according to police.
During the investigation officers learned that the male subject approached the customer service counter, displayed a black-colored handgun and demanded cash. He then fled the scene before getting money and his whereabouts are unknown, police reported.
Police said the man responsible for the attempted robbery was described by witnesses as a white male adult with a brown mustache, standing approximately 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing approximately 220 to 240 pounds
He was wearing a blue beanie style cap with yellow lettering, black mirror sunglasses, a black canvas jacket, brown button up collared shirt, blue utility jeans and brown work boots, police said.
The police department is encouraging citizens not to approach the suspect if seen and to call 911 as he is considered armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Lakeport Police Department at 707-263-5491.
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Kelseyville Presbyterian Church Food Pantry is in need of paper grocery bags for its twice-monthly food giveaways.
The church uses brown paper bags, with handles, to distribute food to hundreds of area residents.
Donations of bags can be dropped at the church, 5430 Third St.
The Kelseyville Presbyterian Church Food Pantry has giveaways on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The distributions take place in the Fellowship Hall, next to the main church.
For more information, call the church office at 707-279-1104.