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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Jeanne Landon-Myers of the Konocti Art Society presented two local beneficiaries with raffle proceeds from saw blade art created by local artists society.
Three hundred dollars was presented to Connel Murray, representing Clear Lake Performing Arts and Lake County Symphony for the Student Education Music Program, and to Barbara Funke representing the Lake County Arts Council for the Summer Youth Art Camp.
These funds help with the arts council's summer art classes and music classes at the Lake County Symphony, both serving local youth.
Each year the Konocti Art Society donates the raffle money earned from its art show in the WestAmerica Bank at the Kelseyville Pear Festival to local organizations.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Friday, Nov. 8, the Old World Tavern in Lakeport presents the Dorian May Piano Trio with special guests vocalist Reni Simon and Lake County tenor sax-man Jim Leonardis, performing an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, swing and Latin tunes.
Dorian May, premier local bandleader, teacher and keyboard artist, his wife Dorothea May on upright bass and Tom Rickard on drums form the area’s top up and coming Jazz trio.
Playing in a classic jazz piano trio style reminiscent of Oscar Peterson, the trio can be heard performing throughout Mendocino and Sonoma County.
Renowned vocalist and recording artist Reni Simon is joining the trio for this performance.
Having performed and recorded with some of the best in the business, including the Elvin Bishop Band and Roy Orbison, Simon’s bluesy and expressive vocal styling is sure to captivate the audience.
Local tenor artist Jim Leonardis who has over 50 years of experience on his sax completes the lineup for this evening.
Seating is limited so come early and stay late.
There is no cover charge. The music begins at 8 p.m.
The Old World Tavern is located at 175 N. Main St. in Lakeport, telephone 707-263-7777.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce will hold its 70th Birthday Party Celebration and Fundraiser beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1.
The event will take place at the Clearlake Community/Senior Center, 3245 Bowers Ave.
The highlight of the event will be a performance by comedian Joe Klocek.
Klocek's crowd involving hilarious storytelling has earned him a great list of comedic accomplishments including appearing on Comedy Central’s, “Live at Gotham” NBC's “Last Comic Standing,” commentator for the Emmy Award-winning documentary “A Bridge so Far” and co-creator of the critically acclaimed storytelling show, “Previously Secret Information.”
He also has been a runner-up in the “San Francisco International Comedy Competition” and the “Seattle Comedy Competition,” and voted “Best Comic” in the 2011 SF Weekly Readers Poll.
The night also will feature a special presentation honoring the past CLCC presidents and officers.
Dance music and other entertainment will be provided by Tony Barthel of the Featherbed Railroad.
The no-host bar will include local wines from Steele Wines, Moore Family Winery, Six Sigma Ranch and Winery, Casey Flat Ranch, Cougar’s Leap Winery, Laujor Estate Winery and Brassfield Estates.
Tickets are $30 per person and include a gourmet steak and chicken dinner with dessert. Tickets can be purchased by calling 707-994-3600, going to www.facebook.com/ClearLakeChamber or emailing www.clcccontactgmail.com . A limited number of tickets will be available at the door.
The Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce is a membership organization dedicated to developing, promoting, and serving your business and community.
Its goal is to sustain a unique and high quality of life by achieving economic vitality, with sensitivity and respect for the environment as we foster economic opportunity and a favorable business climate within the region.
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I open every spring with a garden more precisely laid out and cared for than the year before, and by the end of summer it’s collapsed into a tangle of weeds, bugs and disorder.
Here’s Gabriel Welsch, a poet from Pennsylvania, carrying a similar experience right into winter.
A Garden’s End
Forsythia, scaled and bud-bangled,
I pruned to a thatch of leaves
for the curb, by the squirrel-gnawed
corn, silk strewn, kernels tooth carved
and husks shorn over the ground
pocked with paw prints.
The borers mashed the squash vine,
the drought tugged the roots of sage,
catmint languished by the sidewalk,
tools grew flowers of rust.
That winter we left our hope
beneath the snow, loved through the last
of the onions, watched the late leeks freeze
to crystal, bent like sedges, their shadows
on the snow. That winter we left
our hope beneath the snow.
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 2012 by Gabriel Welsch from his most recent book of poems, The Death of Flying Things, WordTech Editions, 2012. Poem reprinted by permission of Gabriel Welsch and the publisher. Introduction copyright 2013 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. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.