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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Peter Shandera was the recent winner of the People's Choice Award for the Main Street Gallery's first theme show of the year, “Winter in Lake County.”
In March the Linda Carpenter Gallery section of the Main Street Gallery is featuring photos of winter in the county.
The public is invited to view and vote for favorite photos for the People's Choice Award.
The winner will be premiered this Friday at the First Friday Fling and throughout the month of March.
Come see all this new show has to offer. Among this month's art they have some distinguished paintings and very reasonably priced pieces that are a part of the Thompson and Sietz estates.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Second Sunday Cinema's March film will be “Inequality for All.”
The film will be shown on Sunday, March 9, at Clearlake United Methodist Church, 14521 Pearl Ave, Clearlake.
The free showing will begin at 5:45 p.m.
A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, this documentary film features Robert Reich – diminutive professor, best-selling author, and President Clinton’s secretary of labor – as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the US economy as a whole and the middle class in particular.
Through his singular perspective, Reich explains how the massive consolidation of wealth by a few threatens the viability of the US workforce and the foundation of democracy itself.
Out of 141 countries, the US has the fourth-highest degree of wealth inequality in the entire world, trailing only Russia, Ukraine and Lebanon.
The greater the wealth gap, the less happy the nation as a whole. And Reich has solutions in addition to a warm wit.
For more information call 707-889-7355.
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- Written by: Monica Rosenthal
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Around the world, millions of girls face barriers to education that boys do not. And yet, when you educate a girl, you can break cycles of poverty in just one generation.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, March 23, the Lake County Girls Circle will host a special showing of “Girl Rising” at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.
This is a groundbreaking film that has already been seen by millions around the world.
“'Girl Rising’ will stir your heart,” said Marie Giovanna, a founding mentor of Girls Circle. “In our Circle meetings, we are learning about the immense oppression facing young women in far off regions of the world. By bringing this film to the Soper Reese Theatre, we hope to inspire the girls here in Lake County, as well as help guide their focus to appreciating education as a privilege that opens a world of possibilities to them.”
Everyone is welcome to attend this “must see” epic film; it truly is a documentary every mother, sister and daughter should see as well as the men who love and support the women in their lives.
The film is 101 minutes long and is guaranteed to be the most inspirational 101 minutes of your weekend.
To preview the movie, “Girl Rising,” go to www.girlrising.com .
Tickets are available at the Soper Reese Theatre, located at 275 S. Main Street in Lakeport, or online at www.soperreesetheatre.com .
Price is $10 for adults and admission is free for anyone under the age of 16.
All proceeds benefit the Girls Circle, a volunteer based affiliate program of Lake Family Resource Center (LFRC).
Girls Circle is run by LFRC volunteers and seeks to serve the youth of the Lake County community by giving them the experience of belonging to something that is whole and healthy while they make their natural and challenging passage from puberty to adulthood.
For information about the film “Girl Rising” or the group Girls Circle contact Marie Giovanna at 707-508-7556 or
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Li-Young Lee is an important American poet of Chinese parentage who lives in Chicago. Much of his poetry is marked by unabashed tenderness, and this poem is a good example of that.
I Ask My Mother to Sing
She begins, and my grandmother joins her.
Mother and daughter sing like young girls.
If my father were alive, he would play
his accordion and sway like a boat.
I’ve never been in Peking, or the Summer Palace,
nor stood on the great Stone Boat to watch
the rain begin on Kuen Ming Lake, the picnickers
running away in the grass.
But I love to hear it sung;
how the waterlilies fill with rain until
they overturn, spilling water into water,
then rock back, and fill with more.
Both women have begun to cry.
But neither stops her song.
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. Poem copyright 1986 by Li-Young Lee, whose most recent book of poems is Behind My Eyes, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009. Poem reprinted by permission of Li-Young Lee and the publisher. Introduction copyright 2014 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. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.