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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – On March 10, Second Sunday Cinema will screen “Forks Over Knives,” a well-made and well-respected film on the healthy benefits of a plant-based diet.
The free film will be shown at Clearlake United Methodist Church at 14521 Pearl Ave., Clearlake. Doors at 5:30 p.m., with the film beginning at 6 p.m.
We’re all paying through the nose for health care, yet we keep getting sicker. Diabetes, heart disease and cancer are rampant, affecting millions of us every year and costing billions.
“Forks Over Knives” shows us how we may prevent, control, and even reverse these serious “lifestyle” diseases without taking toxic chemical “medicines” for which we dearly pay.
The film has been lauded by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Dr. Mehmet Oz, film critic Roger Ebert and filmmaker James Cameron.
Dr. Will Tuttle, a warm and inviting speaker, will introduce the film and will share information in question and answer session afterwards.
Vegan chef extraordinaire Lori Patotzka will bring scrumptious vegan snacks to share.
For more information call 707-889-7355.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The local exhibition of talent known as Lake County Live! Returned to the Soper-Reese Community Theatre in Lakeport on Sunday, Feb. 24, with the usual cast of players and three musical acts.
Fresh off the heels of the Winter Music Festival, the Mendo-Lake Singers performed for the live audience in the theater and those listening at home on KPFZ, Lake County Community Radio at 88.1 FM or listening on the Internet via www.kpfz.org .
This group of women, a part of the organization known as the Sweet Adelines, performed four-part harmonies while presenting a visually entertaining set.
Also on the program was In Voice, a quartet featuring Bill Bordisso, Keith Larson, Libby Larson and Doug Harris. They performed several wonderful songs in the folk and traditional manner, much to the delight of the audience.
Rounding out the show was a presentation by the child cast members of the local production of “The Sound of Music” featuring kids from the Lakeport schools.
Lake County Live’s very own Pamela Bradley, also known as Rhoda during the “Ladies of the Lake” section of each show, produced the performance by the young players.
The show also revisited the other “Ladies of the Lake” including Vicky Parish Smith, Kris Andre and Suna Flores, as well as featuring the talents of Richard Smith and Nick Reid.
Show creator and producer Doug Rhoades, who also hosts the program, said “I think this was one of the most entertaining shows we’ve done thus far, although it gets easier to say that as the talent keeps getting better and better. But it’s only entertaining through the efforts of our regular voice performers, and the great musical acts who come on the show.”
Rhoades added, “Without them, we wouldn’t be here at all.”
Lake County Live! is presented at 6 p.m. on the last Sunday of each month at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre in Lakeport. The show is broadcast live and streamed on the Internet at KPFZ 88.1 FM and www.kpfz.org .
The next show is March 31.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Bob Culbertson will celebrate the release of his latest CD “Celtic Waters” with guest artists percussionist Rick Alegria and cellist Clovice Lewis during a performance at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre on Saturday, March 16.
The show will take place beginning at 7 p.m. at the theater, located at 275 S. Main St.
Culbertson is a virtuoso who has spent 30 years cultivating his unique sound on the 10 or 12 string Chapman Stick.
He’s hailed as one of the world’s finest one touch guitarists.
Tickets cost $18 per person and are available online at www.soperreesetheatre.com ; at the box office on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; at the door the night of the show; and at The Travel Center in Lakeport, 1265 S. Main St., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
When spring finally arrives, it can be fun to see what winter left behind, and Jeffrey Harrison of Massachusetts is doing just that in this amusing poem.
Mailboxes in Late Winter
It’s a motley lot. A few still stand
at attention like sentries at the ends
of their driveways, but more lean
askance as if they’d just received a blow
to the head, and in fact they’ve received
many, all winter, from jets of wet snow
shooting off the curved, tapered blade
of the plow. Some look wobbly, cocked
at oddball angles or slumping forlornly
on precariously listing posts. One box
bows steeply forward, as if in disgrace, its door
lolling sideways, unhinged. Others are dented,
battered, streaked with rust, bandaged in duct tape,
crisscrossed with clothesline or bungee cords.
A few lie abashed in remnants of the very snow
that knocked them from their perches.
Another is wedged in the crook of a tree
like a birdhouse, its post shattered nearby.
I almost feel sorry for them, worn out
by the long winter, off-kilter, not knowing
what hit them, trying to hold themselves
together, as they wait for news from spring.
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 Jeffrey Harrison, whose most recent book of poems is Incomplete Knowledge, Four Way Books, 2006. Poem reprinted from Southwest Review, Vol. 97, no. 1, 2012, by permission of Jeffrey Harrison 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. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.