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- Written by: Lake County News Reports
Not only will this transaction preserve our signature mountain in its pristine condition forever, it will also provide a recreational resource of inestimable value, thus adding badly needed balance to Lake County’s attraction for visitors.
Use of the lake tends to be highly seasonal, and even in the best years the lake alone cannot support a thriving recreational industry, any more than a single leg can support a stool.
The future welfare of our community requires the development of additional magnets of a sort that that don’t lose their power when the summer is over – and the proposed Konocti parkland, along with parallel conservation initiatives such as the Ridgeline Trail and Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Conservation Area, the recent explosion of first class restaurants proudly serving local food, and our coming of age as a premier wine-growing region, will offer the resources needed for a sustained – and sustainable – prosperity.
Please take a moment to call your supervisor to express your appreciation for the courage, vision and public spirit shown by their unswerving support for a transaction that will bring so many benefits to us all: for more information about Mt Konocti and the purchase, visit www.preservekonocti.org .
And don’t forget to attend the next Master Plan Workshop, which will be held at the Courthouse (255 N. Forbes in Lakeport) at 6 p.m. on Aug. 26, to share your own perspective on the future management of the mountain.
Victoria Brandon is chair of the Sierra Club Lake Group. She lives in Lower Lake.
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- Written by: Lenny Matthews
I moved to Lucerne seven years ago and, quite frankly, this place was a dump in comparison to where I had lived for the past 25 years.
Trash collected around homes, plywood siding, unpainted with windows of newspaper curtains. Individuals appeared to be living in campers next to various homes with extension cords. Illegal dumping flourished in our hillsides. Highway 20 through the town was deplorable.
Seven years later a major facelift has taken place throughout this town that appears to have had a snowball effect. The changes are significant and bright.
This only happened with county employees that did their job and cared in the process of that position and maintained a focus with goals and objectives.
Lenny Matthews lives in Lucerne.
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- Written by: Renee Griffin
I want to tell you a story about my best friend, who died May 27, 2009. I promised myself that I would tell this story over and over tell someone acknowledges my letters.
On May 27, 2009, at 8:30, I received a call from my best friend and she told me she was having problems breathing. I told her to call 911 and she told me she did not want to, but to go to her home and pick up her room mate, Mark.
I rushed over to her house and found she was not there, but was on the phone again and wanted us to meet her some where on Highway 16 (Yolo County) I must admit that I thought, well, maybe it is not really all that bad if she didn’t want to call 911.
I went home and put on clothes and shoes, combed my hair, etc. Went back to her home, picked up Mark and he said, “She wants us to meet her at Cache Creek Gas Station across from the casino on Rt. 16.” I told her room mate that it was a 50-mile drive and it would take at least an hour or more, and we were on our way.
Bonnie had went to the Bay Area to visit a friend and her daughter met them as well. She was on her way back from this visit when all this happened.
When we got to her there were firemen and police everywhere. We told the police that we were here to pick her up, but we could see she was receiving CPR. Police told us that the firemen had to break the window to her truck to get her out. I asked how was she and they said she was in critical condition. Her roommate and I went to the hospital (which took thirty minutes) and gave as much medical information as we could.
Then, just what we didn’t want to hear – “I’m sorry, but your friend Bonnie has passed away.” The doctor came out and talked to us and said they did all they could and so did the firemen, but she had probably died when they got her out of the truck, but still had some signs of life.
She was 62 years old and would have been 63 on Sept. 11. You see, she didn’t want to call 911 because she had no medical and she sought out her friends to help instead because of the expense of the emergency room. The cost could vary from $800 to $1,00 and that cost Bonnie her life. A few more years and she would have had Medicare!
These are the stories that are happening to the pre-elderly and the elderly and may others. We live in a country that people do not care about us any more, and that is more than sad.
In the real world where we (the people) live the system is just falling apart. I have Medical and I have had my check cut twice and I guess we shouldn’t have help for our eyes and teeth, they have cut that out for us too. I’m a diabetic, and where do I do?
Renee Griffin lives in Clearlake.
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- Written by: Rob Maloney
While Sen. Patricia Wiggins is supporting rural broadband access and extension of Indian Gaming Distribution Funds, she sponsors a bill that halts suction dredging.
The impact of this legislation will be devastating to Sierra County, the poorest county in the state, whose economy relies heavily on tourism, especially gold miners.
I am not a resident of Sierra County; I do not have an interest in a gold claim, or run a gold dredge. However, our family has vacationed in Sierra County on Forest Service land since 1964.
Early Californians, especially miners, committed heinous crimes against Native Americans in search of wealth and power. One must ask themselves, how “they” could have committed such atrocities.
Ironically, Sen Wiggins is perpetrating an economic crime on small business and on the poorest people in the state, the residents of Sierra County, while being praised in Lake County and other counties which have Indian Gaming.
Perhaps modern miners had it coming to them for their predecessor's deeds, or perhaps Sen. Wiggins' bill is just quid pro quo for Indian gaming campaign support.
Rob Maloney lives in Encino.