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LUCERNE, Calif. – The family of a Lucerne teenager is asking for information about his whereabouts after he disappeared on Saturday.
Wroehnyn – pronounced “Ronin” – Milks, 15, was last seen at about noon on Saturday in Lucerne, according to his father, Ramsey Milks.
“He took off with the clothes on his back and no one has seen him since,” according to Ramsey Milks.
He said his son has never left like this before.
Wroehnyn just got a report card with As and Bs, and is a member of the Upper Lake High School Academic Decathlon Team. “He's a good kid, never been in trouble,” his father said.
He said his son's friends also haven't reported hearing from Wroehnyn.
Late on Saturday afternoon the sheriff's office met with the Milks family and took a missing person's report, according to Ramsey Milks.
He said he spoke to the sheriff's office Sunday evening. “They don't have anything new, either.”
Wroehnyn Milks is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and has black hair. When he was last seen, he was wearing black jeans and a dark, sleeveless T-shirt, his father said.
Anyone with information about Wroehnyn Milks' whereabouts is asked to call Ramsey Milks at 707-350-4253 or the Lake County Sheriff's Office at 707-263-2690.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Middletown's Trailside Park is 107 acres of beauty at Middletown's west end.
The park has something for everyone with gracious grasslands, forested woodlands and seasonal wetlands, and also holds vernal pools.
The Lake County EcoArts' annual sculpture walk is held here each June through October.
There are restrooms, benches and picnic areas scattered throughout the park. The hike is flat and easy, with a 1.5-mile loop. As though that weren't enough, it's a bird watcher's paradise.
Among the many striking plants in the park is manzanita. Manzanita, or Arctostaphylos manzanita, is easily recognized by its beautiful, burnished mahogany trunk and limbs.
There are more than 100 species of manzanita, which thrive from British Colombia to Mexico.
Manzanita is often found in the chaparral biome, and is an evergreen tree, or shrub. Its wild branches and thick trunk are sometimes swathed in cinnamon-stick curls of bark, which aid in protecting the tree from insect damage.
Manzanita is also characterized by its thick olive-colored, oval leaves, and, in late winter, its white-to-pink clusters of flowers.
Honeybees thrive on these bell-shaped beauties. Hummingbirds can also be seen frequenting its flowers and quail love to hide out in secluded, shady spots.
The park's manzanita stands are quite thick and look to be impenetrable to large animals. However, according to V.K. Chesnut, in summer and fall, deer, coyote and bear browse on the manzanita's prolific berries.
The Spanish meaning for manzanita is “little apple.” This moniker refers to its small, apple-shaped fruit, which begins as a green color, then turns red.
American Indians traditionally prepared a cider from the treated berries and a tea from its leaves. The berries could be dried and stored for future use as well.
Other American Indian uses for manzanita were as a frame for a sturdy wood-carrying pack and children loved to place the blooms on their tongues for a sweet nectar treat.
A word to the wise: These wild foods, if not properly prepared, cause distress or illness.
Kathleen Scavone, M.A., is an educator, potter, writer and author of “Anderson Marsh State Historic Park: A Walking History, Prehistory, Flora, and Fauna Tour of a California State Park” and “Native Americans of Lake County.” She also writes for NASA and JPL as one of their “Solar System Ambassadors.” She was selected “Lake County Teacher of the Year, 1998-99” by the Lake County Office of Education, and chosen as one of 10 state finalists the same year by the California Department of Education.
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Middletown will host its "Revisit the '30s" gala the weekend of Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4, to celebrate the opening of the Gibson Museum & Cultural Center.
That same small historic building was dedicated as the Gibson Library on the weekend of May 3-4, 1930.
Fun and games and laughter are not the first things that generally come to mind when the 1930s are mentioned. But those were hallmarks of the decade, along with a surprising degree of invention and enterprise during a period known as the Great Depression.
Talking movies and radio were new, and their stars became as well known as the neighbors. Music was available to everyone, and just about everybody danced. Radio meant everyone could enjoy major league sports. And share the same jokes.
Women gave up the rebellion of the 1920s and fashions went feminine again. Family games were the order of the day. Monopoly and Scrabble met instant success.
There's a lot to learn about our forebears. Chocolate chip cookies, Twinkies and Spam were introduced in the 1930s, along with frozen foods, instant mixes and a host of still familiar products. International flights and jet engines were new. So was Scotch Tape.
The lighter highlights of the 1930s will be featured in "Revisit the '30s" weekend.
Store windows and walls throughout Middletown will be filled during the celebratory weekend with posters of 1930s advertising, news events and personalities. A nod to the grimmer aspects of the news will be seen on a few of the posters, but for the most part it's a healthy dose of history as fun.
Most windows will be decorated or painted to resemble the market places of the time. Music and radio shows of the period will be playing all about. Visitors will be welcomed at events including a kids' carnival, a swing and jitterbug dance, a double feature with cartoon and newsreel, and random skits.
Vintage autos will cruise the streets, the drive-in will have carhops, and with a bit of luck you'll find a service station attendant to pump your gas and wash your windshield.
Middletown's pizza place will become a speakeasy (although prohibition ended in 1933, legal liquor was in scarce supply so moonshine and corn likker prevailed for several years).
Residents and guests are invited to don costumes and join a look-alike contest. Potential choices seem almost endless. There are movie stars, radio personalities, singers, dancers, jazz musicians, sports heroes, cartoon characters, newsmakers too many to name: Greta Garbo, Mae West, the Shadow, the Lone Ranger, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, Babe Ruth, Jesse Owens, Wizard of Oz, Snow White, Mickey Mouse, Gone With the Wind.
A lengthy list is offered on Gibson Museum's spinoff Web site, www.revisitthe1930s.com .
Thrift shops are setting aside 1930s-type clothing and artifacts, and antique dealers from far and wide are invited to bring 1930s memorabilia, to loan or to sell. A local merchant will convert a window to a milliner's shop early in April, to offer period hats for women.
There's more. Check it out at www.cgibsonmuseum.com or www.revisitthe30s.com .
This celebration may not feature a Salvation Army Band, as the long-ago library's opening did. But it's going to be a good party.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Animal Care and Control has four dogs cleared for adoption this week.
The dogs, two males and two females, range in age from 2 to 4 years of age, and include mixes of Rottweiler, pit bull and Labrador Retriever mix.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets hoping you'll choose them.
In addition to the animals featured here, all adoptable animals in Lake County can be seen here: http://bit.ly/Z6xHMb .
The following dogs at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (additional dogs on the animal control Web site not listed are still “on hold”).
'Duke'
“Duke” is a 2-year-old Labrador Retriever-pit bull terrier mix.
He has a short tan coat, is of medium size and has not been neutered.
Find him in kennel No. 9, ID No. 39266.
Rottweiler mix
This female Rottweiler mix is 2 years old.
She has a short black and brown coat, is large in size and has not been spayed.
She's in kennel No. 11, ID No. 39225.
'Chica'
“Chica” is a 2-year-old pit bull terrier mix.
She weighs 55 pounds, has a short blue brindle and white coat, and has not yet been spayed.
She's in kennel No. 13, ID No. 39248.
'Duke'
This male Rottweiler mix, also named “Duke,” is 4 years old.
He weighs 122 pounds, has a docked tail and has been neutered.
He's in kennel No. 33, ID No. 39158.
To fill out an adoption application online visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Dog___Cat_Adoption_Application.htm .
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
LAKEPORT, Calif. – “Lake County Live!,” the monthly showcase of talent and humor at the Soper Reese Theatre and on the air on KPFZ 88.1, Lake County Community Radio, will not air or be performed on March 30 as previously scheduled.
A number of logistical issues have occurred which required the cancellation of this month's performance.
It’s the first cancellation in the history of the show, which has so far had 27 monthly performances.
The show will return to the theater and on the air live on April 27 as previously announced.
If tickets were purchased in advance for this month's show, they will be honored for the April performance.
Lake County Live! regrets any inconvenience this may cause, and looks forward to seeing our devoted audience members again in April.
Visit the show’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLive for updates.
Using more than two million images collected by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360 degree portrait of the Milky Way, providing new details of our galaxy's structure and contents.
The new composite picture ( viewable at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360 ), using infrared images gathered over the last decade, was unveiled today (March 20, 2014) at a TED conference in Vancouver.
The galactic portrait provides an unprecedented look at the plane of our galaxy, using the infrared imagers aboard Spitzer to cut through the interstellar dust that obscures the view in visible light.
“For the first time, we can actually measure the large-scale structure of the galaxy using stars rather than gas,” explains Edward Churchwell, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of astronomy whose group compiled the new picture, which looks at a thin slice of the galactic plane. “We've established beyond the shadow of a doubt that our galaxy has a large bar structure that extends halfway out to the sun's orbit. We know more about where the Milky Way's spiral arms are.”
Lofted into space in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has far exceeded its planned two-and-a-half-year lifespan.
Although limited by the depletion of the liquid helium used to cool its cameras, the telescope remains in heliocentric orbit, gathering a trove of astrophysical data that promises to occupy a new generation of astronomers.
In addition to providing new revelations about galactic structure, the telescope and the images processed by the Wisconsin team have made possible the addition of more than 200 million new objects to the catalog of the Milky Way.
“This gives us some idea about the general distribution of stars in our galaxy, and stars, of course, make up a major component of the baryonic mass of the Milky Way,” noted Churchwell, whose group has been collecting and analyzing Spitzer data for more than a decade in a project known as GLIMPSE (Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire). “That's where the ballgame is.”
The new infrared picture, known as GLIMPSE360, was compiled by a team led by UW-Madison astronomer Barb Whitney. It is interactive and zoomable, giving users the ability to look through the plane of the galaxy and zero in on a variety of objects, including nebulae, bubbles, jets, bow shocks, the center of the galaxy and other exotic phenomena.
The survey conducted by the Wisconsin group has also helped astronomers understand the distribution of the Milky Way's stellar nurseries, regions where massive stars and proto-stars are churned out.
“We can see every star-forming region in the plane of the galaxy,” says Robert Benjamin, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a member of the GLIMPSE team.
“This gives us some idea of the metabolic rate of our galaxy,” explains Whitney. “It tells us how many stars are forming each year.”
Churchwell notes, too, that while Spitzer is helping astronomers resolve some of the mysteries of the Milky Way, it is adding new cosmological puzzles for scientists to ponder.
For example, the infrared data gathered by the GLIMPSE team has revealed that interstellar space is filled with diffuse polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon gas.
“These are hydrocarbons – very complicated, very heavy molecules with fifty or more carbon atoms,” Churchwell said. “They are brightest around regions of star formation but detectable throughout the disk of the Milky Way. They're floating out in the middle of interstellar space where they have no business being. It raises the question of how they were formed. It also tells us carbon may be more abundant than we thought.”
The new GLIMPSE composite image will be made widely available to astronomers and planetaria. The data is also the basis for a “citizen science” project, known as the Milky Way Project, where anyone can help scour GLIMPSE images to help identify and map the objects that populate our galaxy.
The data from the survey, Churchwell argues, will keep astronomers busy for many years: “It's still up there. It's still taking data. It's done what we wanted it to do, which is to provide a legacy of data for the astronomical community.”