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HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE, Calif. – The Hidden Valley Lake Ladies 40-9ers Golf Club played nine holes on Thursday, June 23.
The results are as follows:
– Flight one: first place, Joy Ryan, net 32; second place, Mariana Bendinelli, 34.
– Flight two: first place, Liz Cummesky, 32; second place, Marla Peterson, 43; third place, Elaine Fauser, 44.
– Flight three: first place, Barbara Carver, 35; second place, Denyse McCracken, 37; third place, Linda Millard, 40.
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has announced the availability of $2,180,870 for organic certification assistance to organic operations in California.
Funds from the National Organic Certification Cost Share Program (NOCCSP) are available through CDFA’s State Organic Program (SOP) to help more organic operations succeed and take advantage of economic opportunities in this growing market.
Cost share helps farmers and processors afford the expense of organic certification by refunding up to 75 percent or $750 of their certification fees.
Cost Share funds are available to any eligible organic operation in California that has received or renewed organic certification between Oct. 1, 2015, and Sept. 30, 2016.
The SOP administers the Cost Share program in California, and is responsible for reviewing and approving cost share applications.
The SOP then works with the State Controller’s Office to process funds for the issuance of reimbursement checks to the organic operations.
In addition, the SOP collaborates with accredited certifying agents to ensure that cost share resources are available to their clients and information is posted on their respective certifier websites.
The deadline for submitting Cost Share applications to CDFA is Oct. 31, 2016. Applications must be postmarked by this date.
The following are needed to complete a Cost Share application:
• A copy of an organic certification document.
• Copies of all associated organic certification and inspection expense receipts.
- Please contact a certifier if you do not have the above documents.
• Completed and signed CDFA Cost Share Application. The applications can be mailed, emailed, or faxed to CDFA.
• Completed Payee Data Record (STD. 204) form. (Name on this form must match the name on the Cost Share application).
To apply, go to the CDFA Web site, http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/i_&_c/organic.html and download the Cost Share application packet/documents. Send the completed, signed application to CDFA with all supporting documentation listed above.
Applications are approved on a “first received, first approved” basis. Incomplete applications will be returned and the application process will need to be started again.
Applications must be sent to CDFA. Do not send the application to your certifier. Mail applications to California Department of Food and Agriculture, State Organic Program, Cost Share Reimbursement,
ATTN: Sharon Parsons, 1220 N St., Sacramento, CA 95814.
Please allow six to eight weeks for the completion of the Cost Share process. For additional information or assistance, please contact Sharon Parsons at 916-900-5202 or by email at
LUCERNE, Calif. – The Northshore Community Center will host its Open Mic Lucerne event from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday, July 16.
There is no charge for attending or performing.
Performers are on stage with house band FOGG starting the evening at 6 p.m. with classic, heavy metal rock and roll with original numbers and covers of your favorites. FOGG and other entertainers will wrap up the evening by 11 p.m. Assistance is available with amplification.
Band are urged to call 707-274-8779 for your reserved time or come and sign-up beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Don’t miss this chance to showcase your talent. Being in the audience is great fun and free too. Music, comedy, mime, readings, and any other activity that is family-oriented is appreciated.
Room also is available for dancing and relaxing.
A spaghetti feed also is offered with traditional and vegetarian full meals available for $5.
Bring the whole family. All proceeds benefit Northshore Community Center, a not-for-profit serving the Northshore's families and senior populations with on-site lunches, Meals on Wheels, personal advocacy, activities, food pantry and other services.
For more information about events, call Northshore Community Center at 707-274-8779 or stop by at 3985 Country Club Drive, Lucerne.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has completed its annual survey of waterfowl breeding pairs. Biologists found that after a three-year decline in mallards and total duck species (meaning all species combined), both categories have increased this year.
The breeding population of mallards increased from 173,865 to 263,774 (an increase of 52 percent) and total ducks increased from 315,577 to 417,791 (an increase of 32 percent).
"The late, abundant spring rains were a real boost to the habitat this year," noted Melanie Weaver, a CDFW waterfowl biologist who participated in the survey. "We expect good production and a larger fall flight this year because of it."
CDFW biologists and warden pilots have conducted this annual survey using fixed-wing aircraft since 1948.
The population estimates are for the surveyed areas only, which include the majority of the suitable duck nesting habitat in the state.
Surveyed areas include wetland and agricultural areas in northeastern California, throughout the Central Valley, the Suisun Marsh and some coastal valleys.
The full Breeding Population Survey Report can be found at www.wildlife.ca.gov/conservation/birds/waterfowl .
The majority of California's wintering duck population originates from breeding areas surveyed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in Alaska and Canada.
Those survey results should be available in July. CDFW survey information, along with similar data from other Pacific Flyway states, is used by the USFWS and the Pacific Flyway Council when setting hunting regulations for the Pacific Flyway states, including California.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – A federal jury has convicted a Kelseyville man of charges including murder and robbery for the fatal January 2013 shooting of a store clerk.
On Tuesday, following three days of deliberation, a federal jury found Jonathan Antonio Mota, 34, guilty of the murder of Forrest Seagrave, 33, of Kelseyville.
The jury handed down guilty verdicts on charges of use/possession of a firearm in furtherance of the Hobbs Act robbery, use of the firearm resulting in murder, Hobbs Act robbery and felon in possession of a firearm, according to Abraham Simmons, spokesman for the US Attorney's Office Northern District of California.
United States statute explains that the Hobbs Act “prohibits actual or attempted robbery or extortion affecting interstate or foreign commerce.”
When he's sentenced, Mota could face a maximum of life imprisonment on the first two charges – use/possession of a firearm and and use of a firearm resulting in murder – as well as fines of up to $250,000, according to Simmons.
Simmons said that the use of a firearm resulting in murder charge has a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and a $250,000 fine, unless the attorney general directs the U.S. Attorney's Office to seek the death penalty.
He said the attorney general has not directed the U.S. Attorney's Office to seek the death penalty in the Mota case.
Simmons said more details on the verdict and sentencing are expected to be released later on Tuesday.
Seagrave, a well-known and well-liked young man who had worked for several years at the Mt. Konocti Gas and Mart on Main Street in Kelseyville, was at work on the night of Jan. 18, 2013, when a masked, hooded and armed Mota entered the store to rob it.
During the robbery Mota shot Seagrave and then fled the scene. Seagrave was transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital where he died later that night.
Mota originally was arrested eight days after the shooting on unrelated charges, and the following month was arrested and then indicted by the federal government while in the Lake County Jail on federal weapons charges.
He was transferred to federal custody in April 2013, where he has remained ever since.
Federal prosecutors indicted Mota in June 2013 for Seagrave's murder as well as weapons charges.
Mot has represented himself in the case with standby counsel. There were lengthy delays in the proceedings, with the trial finally beginning at the start of June.
Opening arguments took place on June 7, with closing arguments and the beginning of jury deliberations taking place on June 28, according to court records.
Mota's criminal history prior to the Seagrave shooting included the December 2006 robbery of the Bank of the West in Clearlake. He later was involved in a standoff with a SWAT team attempting to arrest him in the case.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport on Monday rounded out a three-day weekend of countywide celebrations to mark Independence Day.
The city's daylong celebration included a street fair, the popular Cardboard and Duct Tape Regatta and the nighttime fireworks display over Clear Lake.
Lakeport's celebration typically draws thousands of local residents and visitors alike who visit the downtown and the center of the celebration, Library Park.
Featured here are photographs of some of the day's highlights.
