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- Written by: Barbara Ringenberg
Thanks to our vendors, local papers, businesses and individuals throughout the county for their kind and generous support.
A special note of thanks to CM Braito Marina for a significant donation; to Roni England and Shore Line Realty Inc. for coordinating a toy drive, providing toys to youngsters and teens that would not have had gifts for the holiday season.
Your continued contributions provide food, holiday baskets, hot meals, utility assistance, back to school programs, summer camp and many other social services during the holidays and the coming year!
We sincerely appreciate each and every one of you!
Barbara Ringenberg is coordinator for the Salvation Army's Lake County Service Center in Clearlake.
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- Written by: Tammi Silva
Siri Nelson, Tammi Silva, Dr. Mark Buehnerkemper, Bill and Dana Kearney, Dr. Elyse Donald, Charlie Mello, Dr. Martin Brotman, Grant Davies, Nancy Gregovich, Brad Oronato, Dr. Karen Tait, Henry “Andy” Anderson, the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Auxiliary, Bill and Patti Brunetti, Mike Lunas, John Tomkins, Tom Lincoln, Mary Ann McQueen, Bill Knoll, Kenny Parlet, Pat Lambert, Dr. Diane Pege, Angela Lagle, Beth Havrilla and the Lake Event Design staff, Brian Bentz and Victor Vega, Kelseyville Lumber, Roger Wheeler and the crew from Wheeler Landscaping, Ruzicka Associates, Area Agency on Aging, Lakeport Chamber of Commerce, Jack Buell, Bill Ringer, Jim Hickson, Joe Prisco, Ehren Hawkins, Carrie McClure, Mark Morehouse and Tom Gayner, Jamie Huston, Jose Beltran, Rebecca Loftis, Mike Pena, Jackie Rad, Mike Wilkenson, Tyler Bellah, David Neft, Doni Wahl of Doni’s Occasion Station, all of our gracious donors and the Sutter Lakeside Hospital staff.
The people of our community were the most important ingredient of our successful fundraising campaign. It was the generosity of individuals, businesses and agencies, and their unwavering commitment to make a difference that will change lives today and forever. You believed. We believed. People believed in all of us. Thank you to all of you for making this dream a reality.
We would also like to acknowledge the following agencies and businesses that sent representatives to help us celebrate the MHSU Launch: Congressman Mike Thompson’s office; County of Lake – Administrator, Health Department, Board of Supervisors and Public Health; Lake County District Attorney’s office; Hospice Services of Lake County; Area Agency on Aging of Lake & Mendocino Counties; Live Oak Senior Center; Community Care Management Corporation; Orchard Park; First Five of Lake County; Lake County Sheriff’s Department; Lake County Community Action Agency; Lake County Office of Education; Lakeport Main Street Association; Clearlake City Council; Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce; Lake County Television; Lake Family Resource Center; Lake County Record Bee; Lakeconews.com; The Tallman Hotel; Polestar Computers; Dennis Fordham; Limousine Connection.
Tammi Silva is director of the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Foundation.
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- Written by: Lake County News Reports
The plan is simple: Use local taxpayer money to provide soil, sewer, water and utilities to lure big out-of-town corporations to the undeveloped areas of Clearlake, thus putting existing local services out of business!
Many of these big businesses are chains and will bring in their own employees and management teams, so the underemployed and fresh-out-of-school youth will be encouraged to leave the county for better opportunities.
Although local officials could enact zoning that ensures new businesses could not open within a set distance from an already established business (of the same type), this might not be as advantageous to the interloper. For instance, when Starbucks and Barnes & Noble expanded their outlets, they often made sure to land right on top of a neighborhood store expressly to steal their business.
The new store should be located very close to the old store, within shouting distance if possible. Natural selection will pressure existing businesses to fold, in many cases directing profits away from the community to the larger chain. To establish the new corporate pattern quickly, the first targets should be stores that have reliably provided goods and services to the community for years – like introducing a Super Wal-Mart to compete with Rays and IGA for food; or Lowe's competing with Mendo Mill and Four Corners for hardware supplies.
The clever part is getting local taxpayers to pay for upgrading systems like water and sewer for the new business, even if this is done at a loss to the community. (Pure genius, getting the locals to pay for the store’s cost of doing business!) And if the new giant construction kills wildlife or leaks a bit of poison into the soil … well, the county can clean it up later.
If you like the idea of abandoning Lakeshore Boulevard and shopping at cookie-cutter national chains, be sure to attend the public hearing on the proposed Lowe's hardware store in Clearlake, to be held on Thursday, Jan. 7, at 6 p.m. at the Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive (corner of Lakeshore and Olympic).
Express your support for destroying local business by calling Clearlake City Council members at 707-994-8201: Curt Giambruno (Extension 151), Chuck Leonard (Extension 152), Joyce Overton (Extension 153), Roy Simons (Extension 154) and Judy Thein (Extension 155).
Janis Paris lives in Clearlake Oaks.
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- Written by: Claire Grieve
A total of 186 wreaths were made in our three day workshop with 151 of those ordered from the community.
It is no wonder that this project was so successful as 35 members worked on it.
A big thank you goes to all those who donated greenery and to those that picked it up and delivered it. Members snipped, bundled, wired, created and tied bows, took orders and then delivered them. All this effort was enjoyed by the visiting and tasting soups and goodies during the workshop.
The profits from this fundraiser enables our garden club to present two $1,000 scholarships to our local High School students. Watch for the publicity for the 2009-10 scholarships that will be available at the end of this school year; each of the high schools will have the application forms also.
For information about our garden club, visit www.clttgc.org.
The club meets at noon on the third Tuesday of the month at the Scotts Valley Women's Club House, 2298 Hendricks Road, Lakeport.
Members, guests, and all interested are most welcome. President Jo Jameson, 707-263-4039, invites interested gardeners to join us.
Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club is a member of Mendo-Lake District, Calif. Garden Club Inc., Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs Inc.
Claire Grieve is publicity chair for the Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club.