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- Written by: Stephanie Green
On Friday, Feb. 19, Team DUI presented two presentations at the Clear Lake High School for juniors and seniors.
The presentations were heartfelt and you could have heard a pin drop as each presenter shared their personal stories. The students were memorized as tears dropped from students' eyes and others with a blank face in shock at the stories shared.
The personal stories shared included that of a loved one lost due to a DUI driver, or another left in a wheelchair due to the decision he made as a DUI driver, others as a first responder and the lives which are taken with one fatal decision to drink and drive or the use of other drugs to impair oneself and the people who are affected in our lives.
The presentation is about choice and consequences – the choice one makes sometimes is a split-second decision and the consequences that can affect us for the rest of our lives and those around us.
Team DUI knows not everyone will listen and not everyone will even take what they do seriously but they feel if only one student stops and thinks twice it means the world to a lot of people and saves a life.
Among those who were present: Judy Thein (mayor, City of Clearlake), Officer Steve Tanguay (California Highway Patrol), Leslie Thomas, Shane Idland and Karen Petz.
Thank you for taking your time out of your busy days and spending it on our campus.
We probably will never know those who will be saved but the feeling of being able to have a wonderful program and great people who are willing to take the time just shows how great our community is and how it responds collaboratively.
Lakeport Police Officer Stephanie Green is the school resource officer for the Lakeport Unified School District.
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- Written by: Tanya Striedieck
On behalf of the Middletown Area Business Association I want to say thank you to all the wonderful people who participated in our soggy Christmas in Middletown event of Dec. 12.
Next year will be even better thanks to the generous gift of $500 worth of Christmas lights donated by Hardester's Market of Middletown/Cobb/HVL.
Grant, you always come through for us and I hope everyone appreciates what your local businesses donate to all the community fundraisers and events.
Tanya Striedieck is merchant secretary for the Middletown Area Business Association, writing on behalf of the group.
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- Written by: Anita McKee
When my dog, Genghis, passed away just a few weeks ago I cannot begin to describe how devastated I was. He was my companion for 14 years and when I returned to the US he flew over on the plane with me from Australia. He traveled with me everywhere and I always knew that he loved me unconditionally. He was my family and my friend and I cannot begin to think what I would have felt if someone had picked him up and not called me. Dogs are not personal property that can be easily replaced like a bicycle or any inanimate object. They are flesh and blood animals that love and are loved by their owners.
So, I’m wondering, what makes a person think that they can pick up an obviously well-cared-for dog, wearing his tags, and take him home?
If it was to call the owner or take him to Animal Control then that is one thing, but in this instance, that didn’t happen.
My business partner Kathy and her son have been frantically looking for Bogey, their bulldog pup, who wandered from their home in Baylis Cove early Friday morning.
With Bogie’s short little legs he couldn’t have wandered far from his home on a deadend street in the few minutes that he was missed.
He was obviously picked up by someone.
The majority of caring dog owners do keep their dogs safely in their home or in a fenced yard, but there are occasions when there can be a slip up. But the penalty for that slip up should not be “lose your dog.”
I would ask anyone who has seen Bogey, or has seen someone who has recently acquired a beautiful tan and white bulldog pup (7 and a half months old), please give us a call. It might just be Bogey.
There is a $500 reward for any information leading to the return of Bogey with no questions asked.
Please call 707-295-7000 or 707-277-7776. Any one of us will be happy to pick him up with money in hand because we know Bogey wants to come home!
Anita McKee lives in Kelseyville.
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- Written by: Michelle Villines
I would like to inquire how it is that yet another Indian casino is allowed to be put in less than a block from a public school! It also sits adjoining to our only local county park, and less 100 feet from a residence! How is it that the state allows for this to go on?
California is in such a bad situation at the moment and yet you (California) continue to run hard-working, tax-paying families out of this state with these poor decisions!
I used to be proud to raise my child in this small town where I grew up, but now I am ashamed! Between the pot dispensary on Main Street and now this casino I plan on leaving this area that my family has called home for over 35 years!
So think about it ... you are not getting taxes paid on the dope or the money people make from growing it or the gambling! So maybe you should consider the fact that you're running this community into the ground! Also in a recent article in the Press Democrat it stated that Lake County ranked 13th out of the nation for poverty, so do people really have the money to support another casino?
Perhaps this editor can figure out how it is the cash kick backs out weighs the serenity of the community!
Michelle Villines lives in Upper Lake.