How to resolve AdBlock issue? 
News
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Scotts Valley Grange No. 725 has a potluck and meeting at 6 p.m. the first Thursday of each month.
The next meeting will be on July 7.
All are welcome.
The grange hall is located at 7003 Scotts Valley Road, Lakeport.
For further information call Lisa at 707-275-0847.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The University of California Master Gardener Program of Lake County is hosting a summer fruit tree pruning workshop in Clearlake on Tuesday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to noon.
There is a materials fee of $5.
For the location and to RSVP, call the Lake County Agricultural Center at 707-263-6838, e-mail
Visit the program online at http://celake.ucdavis.edu/Master_Gardener/ or
www.facebook.com/UCCELakeCountyMasterGardeners .
Johnna Schrader
1942-2016
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Johnna Schrader, 73, of Lakeport died, surrounded by her family, on Saturday, June 18, 2016, at Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa.
She was born Sept. 24, 1942, in Wheatland, Wyo., to John and Dorothe Chiamulon.
She is survived by her children, Jacki Monpas and Jeri Pauli, both of Casper, Wyo., Wendy Porter of Columbia, South Carolina, and Bob Schrader (Pam) of Avondale, Ariz.; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters, Cheryl Brown (Gary) of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Janis Chiamulon (Diane) of Kelseyville, Calif.
She was preceded in death by her son, Robert, and her parents.
A celebration of life will be held at the Lakeport Lagoon Clubhouse on Saturday, July 9, at 2 p.m.
Interment will take place in Hartville, Wyo.
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Tulane University awarded degrees to nearly 3,000 graduates on May 14 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
Priscilla Boyd of Lakeport, Calif., graduated from the Tulane Law School with a Juris Doctor degree.
The ceremony's keynote speaker was Hoda Kotb, co-host of NBC’s “Today” show who also received a Tulane President’s Medal.
Honorary degrees were given to renowned artist Lynda Benglis and Christopher Paola, a world leader in the study of earth surface processes, particularly in river and delta regions.
Boyd and fellow class members were honored at the ceremony, which included all the pomp and circumstance of a traditional commencement but with a New Orleans twist, including herald trumpets, and a second-line jazz procession.
Music was provided by Dr. Michael White’s Original Liberty Jazz Band, jazz singer Topsy Chapman and Tulane a capella group Green Envy.
Tulane University is one of the nation’s leading educational and research institutions. Founded in 1834 in New Orleans, Tulane has 10 schools and colleges offering degrees in architecture, business, law, liberal arts, medicine, public health and tropical medicine, the sciences and engineering, and social work.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Since 1997, Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s Family Birth Center has welcomed an average of 300 babies per year into the world.
For Laura Beckley-Boone, RN, the opportunity to deliver babies fulfills a lifelong dream.
“When a mama is in labor and it’s time for her to push, and the doctor is there with everything ready to go, waiting for the last few pushes feels like Christmas morning,” said Beckley-Boone.
An ideal delivery involves a laboring mother getting settled, comfortable and briefly hooked up to the monitors that track contractions and heart rate patterns, according to Beckley-Boone. The care team looks for normalcy to ensure the safety of both mother and baby.
“Women’s bodies are amazing. If a mother doesn’t feel comfortable or safe, she won’t deliver,” said Beckley-Boone. “I have a fairly midwife-y style. If everything is normal, minimal monitoring is OK. I serve as a voice for the women who want to labor standing up or in the bathtub, or who don’t want pain medication. We advocate to let our patients labor the way they want to.”
While an OB/GYN usually “catches” the baby, occasionally the deliver happens so quickly that Beckley-Boone has had the honor.
“I have a jar that I keep with all the names of the babies I’ve delivered myself,” she said. “Every time I add a name, I dump it out and go through all of the names before putting them back. Each one taught me a lesson; I love living in a small town because I’ll run into families at the grocery store whose child I helped deliver.”
Beckley-Boone also channels her passion into teaching birthing classes for child birth preparation classes at SLH. Mothers usually attend the weekly four-part series of classes during the last trimester.
“Most participants want more knowledge about what they’re getting into,” said Beckley-Boone. “I cover everything from the physiology of changes during pregnancy to who to invite during birth. Talking about birth and making a plan allays the fear that we will do something the patient hasn’t approved of beforehand. We also talk about ways to manage pain, breastfeeding, and what to expect immediately afterwards.”
While childbirth is painful, Beckley-Boone offers the same advice to every patient she counsels.
“I heard a wise little boy talking to his step-mother as she was getting ready to have her first baby. He said ‘You just gotta let it hurt,’” said Beckley-Boone. “That’s what I tell my patients. The mothers who struggle the most are the ones who are the most afraid, because stress hormones impact pain and can inhibit the hormones responsible for controlling labor. I’ve had patients tell me they feel less pain when I’m able to stay in the room with them versus when they’re alone. Fear links directly with pain and can definitely slow a labor’s progress.”
While the job can sometimes present challenges, Beckley-Boone wouldn’t want to do anything else.
“Every day that I work, I’m reminded why I do what I do. It feels like I am where I belong and I am so grateful.”
The Family Birth Center at Sutter Lakeside Hospital recognizes and honors the uniqueness of every birth and supports each family in creating an environment that best meets their personal, physical, emotional and technological needs.
Family-centered care is provided by a team of highly experienced and compassionate nurses. Each shift an individual nurse is assigned to each family unit, which reduces the institutional need to separate mothers’/families from their babies at this critical bonding time in life.
Accommodations include private and spacious labor and delivery rooms, in-room sleeping accommodations for family members, private bathrooms with shower or shower-tub accommodations, and “At Your Request” room dining service that provides patients the freedom to choose meal options from an in-room menu at his or her preferred meal times.
Call the Family Birth Center at 707-262-5085 for more information or to schedule a private tour.
Morgen Wells is Community Relations & Fund Development coordinator at Sutter Lakeside Hospital in Lakeport.
We hope that you will visit, from time to time, our archived columns at www.americanlifeinpoetry.org , where you may find other poems by the poets we feature.
Today's is the third we've published by Sharon Chmielarz. a Minnesota poet with several fine books in print, including “The Widow's House,” just released by Brighthorse books.
Fisher's Club
A roadside inn. Lakeside dive. Spiffed up.
End of a summer day. And I suppose
I should be smiling beneficently
at the families playing near the shore,
their plastic balls and splashes and chatter.
But my eye pivots left to a couple;
he is carrying her into the water.
He's strong enough, and she is light
enough to be carried. I see
how she holds her own, hugging
his neck, his chest steady as his arms.
I have never seen such a careful dunk,
half-dunk, as he gives her. That beautiful
play he makes lifting her from the water.
And I suppose I should be admiring
the sunset, all purple and orange and rose now.
Nice porch here, too. Yeah, great view.
But I have never seen such a loving
carrying as he gives her. Imagine
being so light as to float
above water in love.
American Life in Poetry 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. They do not accept unsolicited submissions. Poem copyright ©2015 by Sharon Chmielarz, “Fisher's Club,” from The Widow's House (Brighthorse Books, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Sharon Chmielarz 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.