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Set at Jellystone Park, 14117 Bottle Rock Road, gates open at 11 a.m., with music from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The cost is $20 at the gate, with children under age 12 attending for free if accompanied by an adult.
Presented by Yard Dog Productions, Cobbstock will feature standing favorites The Prather Brothers, Travis Rinker, CAM, Austin and Owens, Off the Hook, Rukkus and Blind Monkey.
Joining the line up this year are 12-year-old Connor Gill and the Gill Brothers Band, Dennis Purcell, Joan Moss, the Psychedellos and other special guests.
Last year’s event drew a crowd of more than 700 music lovers.
In addition to music, the festivities will include food, beer, wine and craft vendors.
The event will feature professional sound by City of Light and lighting by Star Lights Productions.
Sponsors include Kelseyville Lumber, Fossa’s Backhoe, Bottle Rock Power Corp., Seigler Mountain Forest Products, Turner Insulation, Wharf’s Yarns Plus, Calpine Corp., Moore Family Winery, Theresa P. Foster and Victor Vigis of Lakeport Express Lube and Big O Tires, Twin Pine Casino and Stephanie Wetch.
For more information, visit www.cobbstock.com or call 707-928-9878.
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observed the flare's peak at 1:41a.m. ET (0641 UT). SDO recorded these images (above) in extreme ultraviolet light that show a very large eruption of cool gas. It is somewhat unique because at many places in the eruption there seems to be even cooler material -- at temperatures less than 80,000 K.
When viewed in Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's (SOHO) coronagraphs (top right), the event shows bright plasma and high-energy particles roaring from the Sun.
Also to the right are links to the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Ahead and Behind coronograph videos showing the CME expansion as viewed from each side of the sun. The STEREO Ahead satellite precedes the Earth as it circles the Sun. The STEREO Behind satellite follows behind the Earth in it's orbit of the Sun. (NOTE: Both STEREO videos will be replaced by better quality version when they become available in 48 hours.)
This not-squarely Earth-directed CME is moving at 1400 km/s according to NASA models. The CME was expected to deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of June 8 or June 9. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the CME arrives.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – On an afternoon blessed by an abundance of late spring sunshine, community members got a chance to walk the the 31-acre property on Parallel Drive that will be home to the Mendocino College Lake Center.
The site, located at 2565 Parallel Drive, now looks like an unused pasture, with the grass having recently been mowed.
However, college officials are hoping to break ground on the new campus site this September, once Division of the State Architect approves the building plans.
Ruzicka Associates, located next door to the property, hosted a Tuesday afternoon reception for local dignitaries and college staff and leadership, who took a closeup look at the site in its still-pristine form.
“This is really an exciting project going on here,” said Channing Cornell, president of the Mendocino College Foundation Board of Directors.
The total project cost is $13.5 million, with construction estimated to cost around $8 million, according to Mendocino College Facilities Services Director Mike Adams.
The first phase of building will include 14,000 square feet of space, Adams said.
Adams said there will be classrooms for topics including art, science and music, a community room and a computer lab. A preliminary site plan showed a large parking area set back off of Parallel Drive, which leads into an entry plaza, central plaza, art patio, garden area and a nature trail loop. Future plans include a large community garden just off of Parallel Drive.
He said that once the project is awarded to a contractor, he expects it to move quickly. “It will be a fast track project.”
Mark Rawitsch, dean of the Lake Center as well as the college center in Willits, said the goal is to open the campus to students in 2013. To help make it happen, “We need a group finger cross,” he joked.
At the afternoon gathering officials also announced the formation of the Lake County Friends of Mendocino College, an affiliate of the Mendocino College Foundation. The group's purpose is to organize and conduct local activities to promote and assist the college's educational and service programs, according to member Wilda Shock.
Shock said Lake County students account for 25 percent of Mendocino College's total enrollment, with almost 23 percent of the 2010 graduates coming from lake County.
She said the 2006 passage of the Measure W bond made funding for the new Lake Center project possible.
Shock added that the foundation's board of directors has committed itself to long-term growth, establishing and funding a new executive director position, which Katie Wojcieszak was hired to fill.
Wojcieszak awarded Shock with a plaque for helping with the foundation's efforts.
Rawitsch said local enrollments totaled 1,821 in the spring semester, up 9 percent. The fall enrollment was 1,600. He said the county enrollment resulted in $1.4 million in state reimbursements.
Adams said the architectural firm TLCD Architecture of Santa Rosa is designing the site. He said the firm also agreed to do the design work for Lakeport's Soper-Reese Community Theatre courtyard for free.
He thanked the city of Lakeport for helping move the project forward.
“I don't think we can thank the city of Lakeport enough for their cooperation,” Adams said.
He said the city has been “amazing” in its assistance in helping secure the property – which a bank repossessed – and splitting the cost of a water main extension. Adams singled out Community Development Director/Redevelopment Director Richard Knoll for special recognition.
There are four wells on the site, all of which are active but with low water volume, Adams said.
He said there is no solar installation in the initial plan. Adams said for it to pencil out the installation would need to be larger, and therefore the college is talking with the city about power needs for its sewer treatment plant.
Adams had noted the site's beauty before the tour started. Walking the acreage and pausing in the area where the main quad will be, the property's picturesque qualities shined through, with prominent views of Mt. Konocti and the mountains to the west.
College officials said they want the campus design to incorporate the landscape to create a beautiful and peaceful setting for education.
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Maricruz Alvarez-Carrillo, 21, faces felony assault with a deadly weapon charges, and felony battery with serious injury for her role in an incident Jan. 28 in outside the C.V. Starr recreational center, according to a Tuesday report from Mendocino County District Attorney C. David Eyster's office.
Alvarez-Carillo is accused of taking the ax to Alissa Colberg, 19 at the time of the attack, who suffered chest and facial wounds, and a male juvenile from Fort Bragg.
Judge Clay Brennan found the ax attack was gang-related after hearing testimony from 13 witnesses following a two-day preliminary hearing last week, Eyster's office said.
Colberg was the main witness for prosecutors. She testified that around 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 28 she was walking to the dog park next to the Starr center when she saw Alvarez-Carillo chasing the male juvenile around a vehicle.
At first she thought the woman was attacking the male victim with a hammer, but she soon learned it was a hatchet. Colberg testified that she swung at Alvarez-Carillo with a dog chain in a bid to aid the boy, but she instead became the target of the ax attack.
Colberg ended up suffering a deep wound to her chest, and cuts on her face. All left disfiguring scars, Colberg testified.
Fort Bragg Police Officer Brian Clark testified that Alvarez-Carillo later claimed that “Northeners” gang members had surrounded her car with her baby in it and then smashed the windows.
Clark testified that the defendant said she got out of the car to confront Colberg “who had a chain.”
Tammie Lynn Garner, a neighbor who witnessed the incident, said she saw two females fighting and “one female had an ax and the other female had a belt or chain.” The hatchet was later found in the parking lot in front of the Starr center.
Alvarez-Carillo and defense witnesses contended that Colberg was the aggressor in the fight because she allegedly belongs to rival gang that has terrorized the Minnesota Avenue apartment complex where the father of Alvarez-Carillo’s child lives.
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Lake County Special Districts Deputy Administrator Pete Preciado said Monday that the agency believes as many as 8,000 gallons of sewage was spilled as a result of the crash, which damaged a lift station on the lake between Nice and Lucerne.
California Highway Patrol Officer Steve Tanguay said the crash occurred at 6:45 p.m. Sunday.
He said Nneka Michelle Bonney, 17, of Clearlake Oaks was driving a 1998 Ford Explorer westbound on Highway 20 a miles east of Bartlett Springs Road at an unknown speed she drifted off the side of the road, overcorrected and lost control.
Tanguay said Bonney's vehicle crossed the other lane of traffic and hit the lift station, located on the lake side.
He said Bonney was alone and wasn't injured by the crash, which is being investigated by Officer Josh Dye.
Preciado said CHP reported the crash to the Lake County Office of Emergency Services, which in turn contacted Lake County Environmental Health and Special Districts.
He said Special Districts was notified at approximately 7:16 p.m. Sunday, and was on scene a half-hour later. Environmental Health responded along with Special Districts.
Pumper trucks arrived at the scene and contained the spill, vacuuming up the sewage they encountered. Preciado said he didn't yet have information on how much wastewater they hauled away, although Special Districts staff had estimated that 8,000 gallons were spilled before the containment occurred.
“That's just a preliminary estimate,” he said, noting that they didn't actually see the wastewater going into the lake.
The crash took out a bollard and damaged an 8-inch pipe and valve, which was the source of the lost wastewater, Preciado said.
“Fortunately, they missed the electronic control panel, which is good,” he said.
A contractor responded at about 10 p.m. Sunday and made repairs, which Preciado said were complete by 1:45 a.m. Monday.
He said that by that time everything had been repaired, cleaned and disinfected.
Preciado said Special Districts notified state health officials about the spill.
He added, “Everyone that draws water from the lake in that area was notified.”
That included Nice Mutual Water Co. and California Water Service Co., he said.
Cal Water District Manager Gay Guidotti said the company's water quality department was notified, and it in turn notified the California Department of Public Health.
At the time of the spill, Cal Water's water treatment plant was off, she said.
Now, they're taking two water samples daily, which will continue every day this week, Guidotti said.
The plant also increased its levels of disinfection, turning up the chlorine, “just to be safe.” An ultraviolet system is in constant operation, she added.
“Those were the recommendations made by our water quality department,” and the state Department of Public Health approved, she said.
Preciado said Special Districts also collected samples and took them to a local laboratory for analysis. He said it will take a few days to get the test results.
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The EcoArts Sculpture Walk is having a rough start to its ninth year.
The annual summertime arts installation at Middletown Trailside Nature Preserve County Park, set to mark its grand opening in a free event from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 12, was damaged late last week by suspects who went about destroying art installations, according to Karen Turcotte, the exhibition's founder.
The exhibit has suffered vandalism in past years, she said.
“Vandalism has happened, but nothing that was ever completely destroyed,” she said.
Destroying art work wasn't enough for the suspects, who also allegedly stole three hand-crafted wine barrel benches made by Shawn Harrington of Kelseyville, which Turcotte called “a stupid act.”
The benches were to be used for visitors at Kelseyville resident Tim Salisbury's installation – the last on the route – in honor of Lake County's 150th anniversary, Turcotte said.
“You were supposed to be able to sit and ponder the past,” Salisbury said Monday evening.
Salisbury, who said this is his first year taking part in the exhibit, didn't notice any damage to his exhibit outside of the theft of the benches.
Turcotte believes the vandalism and theft took place Thursday night, as she had last been there that afternoon and everything was OK.
The next morning when she arrived to work on the exhibit she discovered the damage, and found one of the artists trying to fix her own broken exhibit.
The art eggs made by the students of Lake County International Charter School in Middletown were used to break other art work, she said. Some of the exhibit's signs also were disturbed.
Sustaining more damage was the work of another first-time exhibitor in the sculpture walk, 8-year-old Julianne Carter of Hidden Valley Lake.
She created “Gimme Shelter,” which includes 31 small pots she made and painted.
“They have little drawings on them, like birds, trees, mountains, clouds, all kinds of things,” she said.
When the pots are picked up, clay bugs can be seen underneath them. The idea, she said, was to explore the idea of habitat creation. She was inspired after finding bugs under pots she had put in her play yard.
“The bugs,” she warned of her clay creations, “are kind of scary.”
Several of the pots she had created on her mother's dining room table over the course of several weeks were destroyed in the vandalism, which she said she found discouraging.
Turcotte called the Lake County Sheriff's Office to report the incident. She subsequently spoke to a deputy who told her he had some ideas on who might be responsible and would investigate.
“We haven't heard anything yet,” she said.
Capt. James Bauman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the agency had responded and that a deputy was writing a report on the incident.
With preparations still under way for the grand opening this Sunday, Turcotte said they're dealing both with the damage and trying to get seven more pieces installed.
Julianne Carter said she hopes everyone keeps an eye out for the thieves and vandals. “We hope that they can catch them.”
Anyone with information about the vandalism and theft is asked to call the Lake County Sheriff's Office at 707-262-4200 or Turcotte at 707-928-0323.
The exhibit will run through October. Middletown Trailside Nature Preserve County Park is located at 21435 Dry Creek Cutoff, Middletown. The park is open daily from dawn until dusk.
For more information about the sculpture walk visit www.ecoartsoflakecounty.org.
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