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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The California Highway Patrol is continuing its efforts to ensure drivers, passengers and children are properly restrained while traveling California’s roadways.
The CHP has partnered with the California Office of Traffic Safety on a new traffic safety campaign entitled, “California Occupant Restraint Education,” or CORE.
The CORE campaign will continue for one year and focus on reducing the number of unrestrained and improperly restrained drivers, passengers, and children killed in traffic collisions throughout California.
To accomplish this goal, the CHP will host educational training, provide public information, and conduct child safety seat inspections.
These efforts will highlight the importance of seat belt and child passenger restraint usage and provide education related to the proper installation of child passenger safety seats.
Effective Jan. 1, 2017, California law will require all children under two years of age to ride in a rearfacing child safety seat.
Additionally, California law will continue to require a child be properly restrained in an appropriate child safety seat in the rear seat of a vehicle until they are at least 8 years of age.
Children age 8 and older, who are at least 4 feet, 9 inches tall, should continue to ride in the rear seat of a vehicle in a properly fitted seat belt.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, child passenger safety seats reduce the risk of fatal injury by 72 percent for infants and by 63 percent for toddlers in passenger cars.
“The CHP is committed to educating drivers and passengers about the benefits of seat belts and child passenger safety seats,” said CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow. “Buckling up and securing children in an appropriate child passenger safety seat goes a long way toward keeping you and your loved ones safe in the event of a traffic collision.”
In addition to educational efforts, the CHP will continue to conduct enforcement operations focused on occupant restraint violations throughout the year with a special emphasis during the national “Click It or Ticket” campaign and national Child Passenger Safety Week.
For more information regarding seat belts, seat belt regulations, child passenger safety or child safety seats, please contact your local CHP Area office. The Clear Lake Area office in Kelseyville can be reached at 279-0103.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Have you tried to read the 33 pages of fine print in your official Voter Information Guide that aims to legalize recreational marijuana (RMJ) in California? Too much to digest? Are you going to rely on the half sheet Quick Reference Guide to get your facts?
Buried within the proposed RMJ law are provisions governing RMJ growing that should concern all homeowners, parents and landlords that are not mentioned in the Quick Reference Guide.
The proposed law states that six RMJ plants, with no size restriction, may be grown at a private residence. Private residence is defined to include a house, apartment or mobile home.
This new “right” was featured in the Oct. 16 Press Democrat with pictures of marijuana plants that appear to be over 6 feet high and at least 4 or 5 feet wide.
This new right is supposedly tempered by provisions which gave cities and counties the power to enact and enforce reasonable regulations to prohibit outdoor RMJ growing on the grounds of a private residence, but in the next paragraph forbids the city or county to prohibit indoor growing in a fully enclosed and secure residence or accessory structure.
The Trojan horse is buried on page 181 of the Voter Information Guide but is never mentioned anywhere else.
Subparagraph (4) of Section 11362.2 gives the California Attorney General the authority to nullify and repeal all city and county zoning ordinances to regulate outdoor growing at a private residence upon a determination by the attorney general that nonmedical use of the RMJ is lawful in the state of California under federal law.
To give a state politician the unilateral power to gut all local residential zoning ordinances is horrible policy and frightening.
Any homeowner or parent who has had to endure the skunk-like stench of marijuana for weeks at a time knows how terrible this could be. Valuable homes become unsellable.
As a person who has studied and practiced law for over 35 years, I have noticed that it is not unusual for a politician to suddenly announce that a long-accepted and established principle of law is incorrect. It is not hard to imagine this happening in our state capital. Why else would this be buried in the fine print?
Protect our children and residential neighborhoods and vote no on Proposition 64.
Bob Bridges lives in Lakeport, Calif.
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Redbud Audubon Society will welcome speaker Floyd E. Hayes, Ph.D. who will be presenting his program “Adventures Along the Amazon on Thursday, Oct. 20.
Refreshments will be offered at 7 p.m. and the program at 7:15 p.m. in the Glebe Social Hall, St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 4085 Main St., Kelseyville.
Hayes’ presentation will include short videos of plants and animals, landscapes and people, from four trips with students from Pacific Union College to Amazonian Brazil during each spring break from 2013 to 2016.
During each trip, Hayes is accompanied by four to five students who take courses from him in tropical biology.
Each day they search for plants and animals to learn as much as possible about the creatures of the Amazon.
The group also is part of a larger group of students participating in a mission trip in which they help build health care facilities and provide water filters for rural communities.
Hayes is a zoologist specializing in the ecology, behavior and biogeography of birds, and has studied other organisms including anemones, crustaceans, sea urchins, frogs, turtles, snakes and bats.
Since 2003 Dr. Hayes has worked as a professor of biology at Pacific Union College.
He has published the results of field research in 14 countries in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and was the editor in chief of Journal of Caribbean Ornithology from 2005 to 2013.
In his spare time he enjoys birding, rock climbing, mountaineering, snorkeling, scuba diving, and documenting his adventures with photos and videos.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Sutter Lakeside Hospital will host its monthly Wellness & Stroke Recovery support group on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the hospital conference room.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Frank Nelson of the Health Insurance Counseling & Advocacy Program, or HICAP, will educate attendees on Medicare, including how to enroll and the program’s benefits.
He will answer questions from the audience, as well as talk about available insurance options.
Medicare open enrollment began on Oct. 15 and ends Dec. 7. During open enrollment, qualified persons can sign up for coverage, or make changes to existing plans.
Those already covered by Medicare do not need to sign up each year, however, open enrollment allows patients to review or change coverage.
“Navigating Medicare can be daunting,” said Nikki Bullock, LCSW, Sutter Lakeside Hospital. “This open forum allows participants to learn more about their Medicare options, as well as get their questions answered in a face-to-face setting. We believe the public should be educated about their insurance so they can make the choice that best fits individual needs.”
The group is free and open to the public. For questions or for more information, contact Nikki Bullock, LCSW, by phone at 707-262-5015 or by email at
Morgen Wells is Community Relations and Fund Development coordinator.
COBB, Calif. – The Lake County Public Works Department said road work will take place on Gifford Springs Road on Wednesday, Oct. 19.
Gifford Springs Road will be subject to single-lane control traffic from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in order to perform asphalt repairs to the roadway.
Up to 15-minute delays may be expected.
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The topic at the Sunday service of the Unitarian Universalist Community of Lake County for Oct. 23 is, “Mindfully Creating Inspired and Uplifted Community.”
The service begins at 11 a.m. at the church, located at 3810 Main St. in Kelseyville. Guests are welcome.
Guest speaker JoAnn Saccato will lead the congregation through a series of guided inquiries to help determine what inspired and thriving community looks like.
She will discuss how community may be created, and lead a guided intention-setting meditation for individuals and for the community.
Saccato, a native of Lake County, is a mindfulness teacher, life-coach, author and consultant living in Cobb. She is the author of “Companioning the Sacred Journey: A Guide to Creating a Compassionate Container for Your Spiritual Practice,” and the forthcoming “Compassion-based Mindfulness for Peace, Clarity and Freedom.”
For more information, call 707-587-4243.