LAKEPORT – On Tuesday April 6 the Board of Supervisors will inaugurate Russell Gonzaga, the newly selected Lake County Poet Laureate, at 9:25 a.m.

The Board of Supervisors meet at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.

During the ceremony, the board will give Gonzaga authority to represent the county at literary functions and encourage poetry and writing among county residents.

Gonzaga, one of three finalists in the poet laureate selection process, was chosen by the current and former poets laureate at the “Select and Celebrate” event on Sunday, March 14.

He facilitates a weekly writers workshop at Harbin Hot Springs near Middletown.

LAKE COUNTY – The current and previous Lake County Poets Laureate have chosen three poets to appear as finalists in the selection process for the Poet Laureate 2010-12.

Those three finalists are Russell Reza-'Khaliq Gonzaga, Michelle Berger and Elaine Watt.

The public is invited to participate in the final selection event, “Select and Celebrate,” which will take place beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 14, at the Lake County Arts Council Gallery, 325 N. Main St., Lakeport.

Following the reading, the judges will convene to evaluate each finalist’s performance and announce their choice of the poet laureate.

The event will be broadcast live on KPFZ, 88.1 FM.

Travis Rinker will provide music and refreshments will be served.

The venue is the Clearlake United Methodist Church, 14521 Pearl Ave., Clearlake.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the film starting at 6 p.m.

The film is another choice suggested by important recent news.

On Feb. 19, the US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that their eight-year investigation into the anthrax scare of 2001 was over and that scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone. Not everyone agrees.

This well-researched and jaw-dropping 2009 documentary provides ample information to show that despite past international agreements, germ warfare is now big business for murky global corporations.

Six top scientists in the field have died under suspicious circumstances, some in ways completely out of character.

One, described by a colleague as, “a lovely man, mad as a hatter” was flying around the world on regular passenger flights carrying vials of weaponized deadly organisms to private labs. Then he met a pulp fiction end.

In South Africa, research went on for years into germs that would only attack blacks. Every time you think the information in the film can’t get any worse the facts outdo themselves.

“Downright terrifying – I was so tense I literally forgot to breathe,” said Bob Masey of TV Guide Canada.

This gripping, unforgettable film will be shown for free, as always.

Next month, for April, we plan to show an uplifting, encouraging film (“Fierce Light”) as a great change of pace.

For more information call 707-279-2957 or visit www.secondsundaycinema.webs.com .

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Most Friday evenings and on weekends, Brad Terrell can be found pouring fine wines from Lake County and other Northern California appellations in the tasting room of Terrell Cellars just behind 2 Goombas.

Information about performances scheduled is available at 707-994-3354. Deli pick-up items can be ordered at the same number.

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