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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County’s Public Health officer said there have been two more deaths related to COVID-19 in the county this week, both in a Lakeport skilled nursing facility.
Dr. Gary Pace said Friday that the latest deaths were the county’s 16th and 17th.
The 16th death, reported early this week, was in a person over age 65 who lived in a senior residential facility and had chronic medical issues, he said.
On Thursday, Public Health was informed of the 17th COVID-19-related death. Pace said the individual was over 60, had chronic medical issues and was living at the same senior residential facility as the person who died earlier in the week.
Both deaths reported this week were connected to Lake County’s second outbreak at a residential facility, Pace said.
Pace noted that the outbreak has now “started to stabilize.”
He did not name the facility. However, the first local outbreak was at Lakeport Post Acute, the second was at Rocky Point Care Center, also in Lakeport, according to the California Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Lakeport Post Acute has had 37 residents and 22 health care workers test positive for COVID-19, while Rocky Point has had 49 confirmed cases in residents and 17 in its health care staff, the state reported.
The state’s dashboard did not give the specific numbers of deaths at each facility, only saying each had less than 11.
The California Department of Public Health said that there have been 27,411 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the 1,223 skilled nursing facilities across the state, with 21,006 health care workers also contracting the virus. Altogether, 4,705 residents and 153 health care workers associated with those facilities have died, the state said.
“Each time we receive a report of a COVID-connected death in Lake County, it is a stark and painful reminder of just how destructive this virus can be, not only to the individuals that pass away but to all of those connected to them,” said Pace.
Overall, Lake County has had well over 700 confirmed cases, although the case numbers posted by the county on Friday were not current due to technical issues.
Statewide, as of Friday night, there had been more than 928,800 confirmed cases and 17,632 deaths, according to reports posted online by the Public Health departments of California’s 58 counties.
“COVID-19 is prevalent in our communities,” said Pace. “Think about the people you know. If you are closely associated with someone working in a job that requires a lot of public contact, or direct interaction with vulnerable individuals, for example, please be vigilant in taking precautions at all times. Simple precautions can be life-saving.”
Dr. Pace is scheduled to give the Board of Supervisors an update on the local situation with the virus at 9:35 a.m. Tuesday.
Email Elizabeth Larson atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Follow her on Twitter, @ERLarson, or Lake County News, @LakeCoNews.
Dr. Gary Pace said Friday that the latest deaths were the county’s 16th and 17th.
The 16th death, reported early this week, was in a person over age 65 who lived in a senior residential facility and had chronic medical issues, he said.
On Thursday, Public Health was informed of the 17th COVID-19-related death. Pace said the individual was over 60, had chronic medical issues and was living at the same senior residential facility as the person who died earlier in the week.
Both deaths reported this week were connected to Lake County’s second outbreak at a residential facility, Pace said.
Pace noted that the outbreak has now “started to stabilize.”
He did not name the facility. However, the first local outbreak was at Lakeport Post Acute, the second was at Rocky Point Care Center, also in Lakeport, according to the California Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Lakeport Post Acute has had 37 residents and 22 health care workers test positive for COVID-19, while Rocky Point has had 49 confirmed cases in residents and 17 in its health care staff, the state reported.
The state’s dashboard did not give the specific numbers of deaths at each facility, only saying each had less than 11.
The California Department of Public Health said that there have been 27,411 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the 1,223 skilled nursing facilities across the state, with 21,006 health care workers also contracting the virus. Altogether, 4,705 residents and 153 health care workers associated with those facilities have died, the state said.
“Each time we receive a report of a COVID-connected death in Lake County, it is a stark and painful reminder of just how destructive this virus can be, not only to the individuals that pass away but to all of those connected to them,” said Pace.
Overall, Lake County has had well over 700 confirmed cases, although the case numbers posted by the county on Friday were not current due to technical issues.
Statewide, as of Friday night, there had been more than 928,800 confirmed cases and 17,632 deaths, according to reports posted online by the Public Health departments of California’s 58 counties.
“COVID-19 is prevalent in our communities,” said Pace. “Think about the people you know. If you are closely associated with someone working in a job that requires a lot of public contact, or direct interaction with vulnerable individuals, for example, please be vigilant in taking precautions at all times. Simple precautions can be life-saving.”
Dr. Pace is scheduled to give the Board of Supervisors an update on the local situation with the virus at 9:35 a.m. Tuesday.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Office of Education announced that David Carter is the 2019-20 Drive for Perfect Attendance Main Event and recipient of the 2020 Chevy Spark offered through the event.
Carter is currently a fourth grader at Terrace Middle School but was gifted the car based on his attendance at Lakeport Elementary School in the Lakeport Unified School District.
The main event took place virtually due to the pandemic at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15.
Lake County Superintendent of Schools Brock Falkenberg conducted the event and did the drawings of all the recipients.
“The idea behind this event is to promote school attendance for all Lake County students and to help publicize the importance of regular school attendance,” Falkenberg said.
Along with the vehicle, Carter was also gifted funding to cover auto insurance for up to one year for $2,000 and 12 $100 gas cards to help pay for fuel for a year.
The other 11 finalists also received scholarships for postsecondary education that were started by the Lake County Office of Education and matched by the Redwood Credit Union. Each scholarship varied from $100 to $600.
Each month that a student has perfect attendance, their name goes into a drawing. Each district holds a drawing to select their student representative. How many representatives are chosen in a district is dependent on the student population.
“Whether you are attending school virtually or attending school physically, attendance has been shown to be the number one factor in student success,” Falkenberg said.
The Drive 4 Perfect Attendance is sponsored by the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, in partnership with Mazzei Chevrolet and the Redwood Credit Union. It was also administered by the Lake County Office of Education to help promote school attendance for students in Lake County public schools.
The contest began on Aug. 10, 2019. It was scheduled to end on June 15, 2020, at 3 p.m. However, due to COVID-19, it ran through the month of February.
To view a list of all recipients, please visit www.lakecoe.org/Drive.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – It’s once again time to turn the clocks back.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.
It began this year on March 7, a week and a half before Lake County and the rest of the state began to a shelter in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each year, daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
All but two states – Arizona and Hawaii – observe it. The US territories of American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands don’t observe it.
In California, voters originally approved daylight saving time in 1949. However, in November 2018, the state’s voters supported Proposition 7 which would end it.
Both the California Legislature and Congress must take action to finalize the change and there has been no headway on that part of the process.
Cal Fire urges Californians to use daylight saving time as a reminder to make important home safety checks, like checking smoke alarms and replacing their batteries.
The agency said that approximately two-thirds of home fire deaths occur in homes without working smoke alarms.
Most of those deadly fires occur at night, which is why Cal Fire it’s essential that every home has working smoke alarms to provide an early warning.
Working smoke alarms increase the chance of surviving a home fire by 50 percent, Cal Fire said.
For more information about smoke alarms visit Cal Fire’s website or contact your local fire department.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.
It began this year on March 7, a week and a half before Lake County and the rest of the state began to a shelter in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each year, daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
All but two states – Arizona and Hawaii – observe it. The US territories of American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands don’t observe it.
In California, voters originally approved daylight saving time in 1949. However, in November 2018, the state’s voters supported Proposition 7 which would end it.
Both the California Legislature and Congress must take action to finalize the change and there has been no headway on that part of the process.
Cal Fire urges Californians to use daylight saving time as a reminder to make important home safety checks, like checking smoke alarms and replacing their batteries.
The agency said that approximately two-thirds of home fire deaths occur in homes without working smoke alarms.
Most of those deadly fires occur at night, which is why Cal Fire it’s essential that every home has working smoke alarms to provide an early warning.
Working smoke alarms increase the chance of surviving a home fire by 50 percent, Cal Fire said.
For more information about smoke alarms visit Cal Fire’s website or contact your local fire department.
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SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and its Office of Emergency Services reported that a test of the south Lake County warning siren system will take place on Monday, Nov. 2.
The test will begin at 11 a.m.
The sirens are located in the Loch Lomond, Cobb Mountain, Anderson Springs and Middletown areas.
This test is being conducted to assure the functionality of the warning sirens. During the test, additional messaging will be sent out as a reminder.
Should there be an active response to local fires in progress, the test will be canceled and will be scheduled for the following month.
The sheriff’s office encourages community members to make sure their email addresses are entered into the LakeCoAlerts system.
Visit the website and sign into your account, or establish a new account to receive notifications.
The test will begin at 11 a.m.
The sirens are located in the Loch Lomond, Cobb Mountain, Anderson Springs and Middletown areas.
This test is being conducted to assure the functionality of the warning sirens. During the test, additional messaging will be sent out as a reminder.
Should there be an active response to local fires in progress, the test will be canceled and will be scheduled for the following month.
The sheriff’s office encourages community members to make sure their email addresses are entered into the LakeCoAlerts system.
Visit the website and sign into your account, or establish a new account to receive notifications.
Sorry, Charlie Brown, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is taking a peek at what might best be described as the "Greater Pumpkin," that looks like a Halloween decoration tucked away in a patch of sky cluttered with stars.
What looks like two glowing eyes and a crooked carved smile is a snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies.
The entire view is nearly 109,000 light-years across, approximately the diameter of our Milky Way.
The overall pumpkin-ish color corresponds to the glow of aging red stars in two galaxies, cataloged as NGC 2292 and NGC 2293, which only have a hint of spiral structure.
Yet the smile is bluish due to newborn star clusters, spread out like pearls on a necklace, along a newly forming dusty arm. The glowing eyes are concentrations of stars around a pair of supermassive black holes.
The scattering of blue foreground stars makes the "pumpkin" look like it got all glittery for a Halloween party.
What's going on in this pumpkin-like pair?
If you mix two fried eggs together, you get something resembling scrambled eggs. The same goes for galaxy collisions throughout the universe. They lose their flattened spiral disk and the stars are scrambled into a football-shaped volume of space, forming an elliptical galaxy.
But this interacting pair is a very rare example of what may turn out to result in a bigger fried egg – the construction of a giant spiral galaxy. It may depend on the specific trajectory the colliding galaxy pair is following. The encounter scenario must be rare because there's only a handful of other examples in the universe, say astronomers.
The ghostly arm making the "smile" may be just the beginning of the process of rebuilding a spiral galaxy, say researchers. The arm embraces both galaxies. It most likely formed when interstellar gas was compressed as the two galaxies began to merge. The higher density precipitates new star formation.
The dynamic duo hides out 120 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major, so it is seen far behind the star-filled foreground plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Therefore, it's a difficult area to pinpoint far-flung distant background galaxies from the plethora of stars seen in the field.
The galaxy pair was similar to objects tagged by the citizen-science project Galaxy Zoo, where volunteers go hunting for oddball-looking galaxies.
Astronomer William Keel, of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, included several of these in the "Gems of the Galaxy Zoos" Hubble program, which is observing several kinds of rare galaxies during short gaps between other scheduled Hubble observations. The Hubble image brought out new details of the close encounter.
Keel speculates that the ultimate destiny for this pair will be to merge into a giant luminous spiral galaxy like UGC 2885, Rubin's Galaxy, which is over twice the diameter of our Milky Way. Hubble has caught a snapshot of the groundbreaking early stages of a galactic makeover.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.
LUCERNE, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said a Lucerne man reported missing earlier this week has been located.
Lt. Corey Paulich said Timothy Michael Monte Jr., 32, was located on Friday and is safe.
His family had told Lake County News that Monte did not return home on Monday, Oct. 19, following a trip to the Clearlake Walmart.
Two days later, the gray Lexus that belongs to his girlfriend, which he had driven to Clearlake, was returned to the Lucerne home he shares with his girlfriend and grandmother.
Paulich said he was reported missing to the sheriff’s office this past Monday.
Monte’s family members were in Lake County on Friday to post fliers about his disappearance.
Paulich told Lake County News he did not have further details about how and where Monte was located, and as of Friday evening family members also didn’t have additional information.
Email Elizabeth Larson atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Follow her on Twitter, @ERLarson, or Lake County News, @LakeCoNews.
Lt. Corey Paulich said Timothy Michael Monte Jr., 32, was located on Friday and is safe.
His family had told Lake County News that Monte did not return home on Monday, Oct. 19, following a trip to the Clearlake Walmart.
Two days later, the gray Lexus that belongs to his girlfriend, which he had driven to Clearlake, was returned to the Lucerne home he shares with his girlfriend and grandmother.
Paulich said he was reported missing to the sheriff’s office this past Monday.
Monte’s family members were in Lake County on Friday to post fliers about his disappearance.
Paulich told Lake County News he did not have further details about how and where Monte was located, and as of Friday evening family members also didn’t have additional information.
Email Elizabeth Larson at