I want to take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge and thank Rick Coel, Director of Community Development, his staff and Chernoh Excavation for the recent demolition of the “Red Monster” which was an old blighted and dilapidated structure that was located on Soda Bay Road near the Edgewater Resort, and the Soda Bay Market.

This structure was a magnet for transients and the buying and selling of illegal narcotics.

By removing this structure, the community will be free of this health and safety hazard; and the potential for crime in this neighborhood will be dramatically reduced.

Of course, the removal of this structure would not have been possible without the support of my fellow colleagues on the Lake County Board of Supervisors.

With the recent redistricting of our county’s supervisorial districts, the communities of Soda Bay and the Riviera Heights are now part of my supervisorial district – District Four.

To date, we have had our road crew doing street sweeping and cleaning out drainage culverts. In addition, our director of the Department of Public Works Scott De Leon and his staff are currently working with the board members of the Riviera Heights to complete some of the road improvements that Supervisor Brown championed.

I look forward to working hard for my new constituents in Soda Bay and the Riviera Heights just as I have done over the years for my entire district.

So that I continue to remain accessible and available to my constituents, I also want to take this opportunity to provide my new county email address and phone number. My personal cell number is 707-349-1698; and my email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Once again, I want thank my staff and my colleagues for all of their support during this transition!

Anthony Farrington lives in Lakeport, Calif.