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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The long Independence Day weekend will once again bring with it celebrations including parades and fireworks.
The following is a list of major community events planned for the weekend.
SATURDAY, JULY 1
Clearlake
The Lakeshore Lions Club of Clearlake will sponsor the 65th annual Redbud Parade and Festival, beginning at 11 a.m. with the parade starting at Redbud Park.
At Austin Park, the Lakeshore Lions and Lakeshore Lioness will feature an assortment of food, cold drinks and beer. Arts and craft vendors, games and entertainment for all will be offered, and the Clearlake Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the International Worm Races.
The city of Clearlake will host a free concert showcasing Def Leppard Revisited and Journey Revisited at 7 p.m.
The Midway of Fun Carnival presale tickets are available at Clearlake Automotive, Bob’s Vacuum and A+B Collision. For ticket information call 707-350-7100.
The Lakeshore Lions Club also will sponsor the firework display at dark off of Austin Beach.
Lakeport
The Lakeport Speedway will hold its annual fireworks display after the evening’s races.
The grandstands open at 5 p.m., racing action begins at 7 p.m. and fireworks will follow.
There will be modifieds, bombers, legends and West Coast mini modifieds.
General admission is $15 per person, with seniors 55 and over and members of the military paying $12 each. Children ages 4 to 12 are $12, children age 3 and under are admitted for free.
The speedway is located at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 401 Martin St.
SUNDAY, JULY 2
Clearlake Oaks
The Maxine Sherman Memorial annual fireworks display will take place beginning at 9 p.m.
Fireworks will be launched from the lake at the Clearlake Oaks public launch ramp.
For more information, contact the Clearlake Oaks-Glenhaven Business Association,
Lakeport
Konocti Vista Casino Resort will hold a free community fireworks show.
A party with vendors, a DJ, food for purchase and a bar begins at 6 p.m., with the Fun Zone Arcade open indoors.
The fireworks will start at dusk, at approximately 9:30 p.m., and will be viewable from the marina and parking lot.
Konocti Vista is located at 2755 Mission Rancheria Road, Lakeport.
TUESDAY, JULY 4
Lakeport
Lakeport’s July 4 celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
At Library Park, there will be a street fair, craft vendors, food trucks, and a beer and wine booth.
There will be fireworks over the lake beginning at dusk.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. — The Clearlake Police Department said it has located a teenage boy reported missing earlier this week.
On Saturday morning, police said Ismael Orozco, 13, was found.
Ismael had been reported missing on Thursday.
On Saturday morning, police said Ismael Orozco, 13, was found.
Ismael had been reported missing on Thursday.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. — Clearlake Animal Control has many dogs waiting to begin their summer in new homes.
There are 35 dogs listed this week on the Clearlake Animal Control website.
This week’s dogs include “Tink,” a female Doberman pinscher mix with a short red coat.
Another adoptable dog is “Emma,” a female Rottweiler mix with a short black coat.
Also waiting for a new home is “Dennis,” a male Rottweiler mix with a short black coat.
The shelter is located at 6820 Old Highway 53. It’s open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
For more information, call the shelter at 707-762-6227, email
This week’s adoptable dogs are featured below.
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A new space telescope named Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important contributions from NASA, is set to launch in July to explore why the universe’s expansion is speeding up.
Scientists call the unknown cause of this cosmic acceleration “dark energy.” By May 2027, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will join Euclid to explore this puzzle in ways that have never been possible before.
“Twenty-five years after its discovery, the universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the most pressing mysteries in astrophysics,” said Jason Rhodes, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Rhodes is a deputy project scientist for Roman and the U.S. science lead for Euclid. “With these upcoming telescopes, we will measure dark energy in different ways and with far more precision than previously achievable, opening up a new era of exploration into this mystery.”
Scientists are unsure whether the universe’s accelerated expansion is caused by an additional energy component, or whether it signals that our understanding of gravity needs to be changed in some way.
Astronomers will use Roman and Euclid to test both theories at the same time, and scientists expect both missions to uncover important information about the underlying workings of the universe.
Euclid and Roman are both designed to study cosmic acceleration, but using different and complementary strategies. Both missions will make 3D maps of the universe to answer fundamental questions about the history and structure of the universe. Together, they will be much more powerful than either individually.
Euclid will observe a far larger area of the sky – approximately 15,000 square degrees, or about a third of the sky – in both infrared and optical wavelengths of light, but with less detail than Roman. It will peer back 10 billion years to when the universe was about 3 billion years old.
Roman’s largest core survey will be capable of probing the universe to a much greater depth and precision, but over a smaller area – about 2,000 square degrees, or one-twentieth of the sky. Its infrared vision will unveil the cosmos when it was 2 billion years old, revealing a larger number of fainter galaxies.
While Euclid will focus on cosmology exclusively, Roman will also survey nearby galaxies, find and investigate planets throughout our galaxy, study objects in the outskirts of our solar system, and much more.
The dark energy hunt
The universe has been expanding ever since its birth – a fact discovered by Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître in 1927 and Edwin Hubble in 1929. But scientists expected the gravity of the universe’s matter to gradually slow that expansion.
In the 1990s, by looking at a particular kind of supernova, scientists discovered that about 6 billion years ago, dark energy began ramping up its influence on the universe, and no one knows how or why. The fact that it’s speeding up means that our picture of the cosmos is missing something fundamental.
Roman and Euclid will provide separate streams of compelling new data to fill in gaps in our understanding. They’ll attempt to pin down cosmic acceleration’s cause in a few different ways.
First, both Roman and Euclid will study the accumulation of matter using a technique called weak gravitational lensing. This light-bending phenomenon occurs because anything with mass warps the fabric of space-time; the bigger the mass, the greater the warp. Images of a distant source produced by light moving through these warps look distorted, too. When those nearer “lensing” objects are massive galaxies or galaxy clusters, background sources can appear smeared or form multiple images.
Less concentrated mass, like clumps of dark matter, can create more subtle effects. By studying these smaller distortions, Roman and Euclid will each create a 3D dark matter map.
That will offer clues about cosmic acceleration because the gravitational attraction of dark matter, acting like a cosmic glue that holds together galaxies and galaxy clusters, counters the universe’s expansion.
Tallying up the universe’s dark matter across cosmic time will help scientists better understand the push-and-pull feeding into cosmic acceleration.
The two missions will also study the way galaxies clustered together in different cosmic eras. Scientists have detected a pattern in the way galaxies congregate from measurements of the nearby universe. For any galaxy today, we are about twice as likely to find another galaxy about 500 million light-years away than a little nearer or farther.
This distance has grown over time due to the expansion of space. By looking farther out into the universe, to earlier cosmic times, astronomers can study the preferred distance between galaxies in different eras.
Seeing how it has changed will reveal the expansion history of the universe. Seeing how galaxy clustering varies over time will also enable an accurate test of gravity. This will help astronomers differentiate between an unknown energy component and various modified gravity theories as explanations for cosmic acceleration.
Roman will conduct an additional survey to discover many distant type Ia supernovae – a special type of exploding star. These explosions peak at a similar intrinsic brightness. Because of this, astronomers can determine how far away the supernovae are by simply measuring how bright they appear.
Astronomers will use Roman to study the light of these supernovae to find out how quickly they appear to be moving away from us. By comparing how fast they’re receding at different distances, scientists will trace cosmic expansion over time. This will help us better understand whether and how dark energy has changed throughout the history of the universe.
A powerful pair
The two missions’ surveys will overlap, with Euclid likely observing the whole area Roman will scan. That means scientists will be able to use Roman’s more sensitive and precise data to apply corrections to Euclid’s, and extend the corrections over Euclid’s much larger area.
“Euclid’s first look at the broad region of sky it will survey will inform the science, analysis, and survey approach for Roman’s deeper dive,” said Mike Seiffert, project scientist for the NASA contribution to Euclid at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“Together, Euclid and Roman will add up to much more than the sum of their parts,” said Yun Wang, a senior research scientist at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California, who has led galaxy clustering science groups for both Euclid and Roman. “Combining their observations will give astronomers a better sense of what’s actually going on in the universe.”
Three NASA-supported science groups are contributing to the Euclid mission. In addition to designing and fabricating Euclid's Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument sensor-chip electronics, JPL led the procurement and delivery of the NISP detectors. Those detectors were tested at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI), at Caltech, will support U.S.-based investigations using Euclid data.
For more information about Euclid go to: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is managed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, with participation by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech/IPAC in Southern California, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and a science team comprising scientists from various research institutions. The primary industrial partners are Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado; L3Harris Technologies in Melbourne, Florida; and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging in Thousand Oaks, California.
Ashley Balzer works for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
LAKEPORT, Calif. — Work is continuing to advance on the renovation of the former Kmart shopping center in order to welcome new tenants.
Kmart closed its doors at the end of 2019, and after several years of effort that involved the city of Lakeport’s retail consultant, The Retail Coach, a new plan for it emerged last fall.
In December, the Lakeport Planning Commission gave the go-ahead for an application from Upward Architects, a Tempe, Arizona-based commercial architecture firm, for a use permit and an architectural and design review for a new commercial project at the building, which sits on eight and a half acres at 2019 South Main St.
The plan calls for the 90,852-square-foot building to be renovated and subdivided into three tenant spaces.
So far, two tenants are confirmed: The department store Marshalls and Tractor Supply Co., which sells farm, ranch and garden supplies and tools. This will be Lake County’s second Tractor Supply store; the other is in Clearlake, in the former Ray’s Foods supermarket building.
Lakeport Associate Planner Victor Fernandez told Lake County News this week that, so far, the third tenant — which would take the center space in the renovated building — hasn’t been determined.
Renovations began this spring as workers began to revamp the facade, removing the well-known big red Kmart sign and the Spanish-themed roof tiles, as Lake County News has reported.
The project was back at the Lakeport Planning Commission on June 14, when the commission unanimously approved Upward Architects’ application for the adoption of a master sign program review and categorical exemption.
The application is to allow the construction of a free-standing 35-foot-tall sign as well as a 6-foot monument sign for the shopping center.
Fernandez told the commission that the signs will comply with the city’s sign ordinance, and will include 150 square feet of signage on each side.
Commissioner Nathan Maxman noted that in its comments on the project, the Lakeport Fire Protection District requested that the signs for each store have separate addresses.
While the city has no official requirement for distinct addresses for tenants, Fernandez said the request was forwarded to the applicant, and a company representative told the commission the owner had no objections to doing it.
In two separate 4-0 votes for the adoption of a categorical environmental exemption and a master sign program that conforms with the city’s zoning ordinance, the commission approved the project application. Commissioner Mark Mitchell recused himself from the matter due to his connection to the project.
What’s next for the project?
“The next step is that they will need to submit building permits for the construction of the signs,” Fernandez told Lake County News this week.
In addition, Fernandez said that the city’s Building Division has issued the building permits for the facade and interior building division in order to create the three tenant spaces.
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Kmart closed its doors at the end of 2019, and after several years of effort that involved the city of Lakeport’s retail consultant, The Retail Coach, a new plan for it emerged last fall.
In December, the Lakeport Planning Commission gave the go-ahead for an application from Upward Architects, a Tempe, Arizona-based commercial architecture firm, for a use permit and an architectural and design review for a new commercial project at the building, which sits on eight and a half acres at 2019 South Main St.
The plan calls for the 90,852-square-foot building to be renovated and subdivided into three tenant spaces.
So far, two tenants are confirmed: The department store Marshalls and Tractor Supply Co., which sells farm, ranch and garden supplies and tools. This will be Lake County’s second Tractor Supply store; the other is in Clearlake, in the former Ray’s Foods supermarket building.
Lakeport Associate Planner Victor Fernandez told Lake County News this week that, so far, the third tenant — which would take the center space in the renovated building — hasn’t been determined.
Renovations began this spring as workers began to revamp the facade, removing the well-known big red Kmart sign and the Spanish-themed roof tiles, as Lake County News has reported.
The project was back at the Lakeport Planning Commission on June 14, when the commission unanimously approved Upward Architects’ application for the adoption of a master sign program review and categorical exemption.
The application is to allow the construction of a free-standing 35-foot-tall sign as well as a 6-foot monument sign for the shopping center.
Fernandez told the commission that the signs will comply with the city’s sign ordinance, and will include 150 square feet of signage on each side.
Commissioner Nathan Maxman noted that in its comments on the project, the Lakeport Fire Protection District requested that the signs for each store have separate addresses.
While the city has no official requirement for distinct addresses for tenants, Fernandez said the request was forwarded to the applicant, and a company representative told the commission the owner had no objections to doing it.
In two separate 4-0 votes for the adoption of a categorical environmental exemption and a master sign program that conforms with the city’s zoning ordinance, the commission approved the project application. Commissioner Mark Mitchell recused himself from the matter due to his connection to the project.
What’s next for the project?
“The next step is that they will need to submit building permits for the construction of the signs,” Fernandez told Lake County News this week.
In addition, Fernandez said that the city’s Building Division has issued the building permits for the facade and interior building division in order to create the three tenant spaces.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
CLEARLAKE, Calif. — The Clearlake Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing teenage boy.
Police are looking for 13-year-old Ismael Orozco.
He is described as a Hispanic male juvenile, with long brown, red and yellow hair, and brown eyes.
Ismael is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds.
Police said he was last seen in Clearlake.
If you have any information regarding his whereabouts, please contact the Clearlake Police Department at 707-994-8251, Extension 1.