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- Written by: Ana Santana
The Upper Lake High School Boosters Club would like to thank the people of Lake County who made our fourth annual Lights of Love fundraiser a successful evening.
Although we will have to continue working towards establishing stadium lights for several more years this year’s event has helped us get a third of the way to our goal!
Thank you to our many contributors to our silent auction and poker run. They deserve the respect and financial support of our community: LakeCoNews.com, The Record Bee, Tallman Hotel, Featherbed Railroad, Robinson Rancheria Resort and Casino, Konocti Vista Resort and Casino, Park Place, Sons of Italy, Lakeport Grocery Outlet, The Woodpecker, Judy’s Junction Restaurant, Pivniska Trucking, Bob and Leslie Rumsfeld, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Dr. David Browning-Eye Care Optometric, Coca Cola, Bill Binns, Sierra Nevada Ale, Lucerne Pharmacy and Alpine Cafe, Steele Winery, Sutter Lakeside Hospital, Hillside Honda, Pet Acres, Sharon Coburn, Seely’s Farm Stand, Nor Cal Moto Sports, Campos Casuals, ULHS Class of 1981 Alumni, Lakeside Family Fun Center, Payton Gudmundson massage therapist, Bruno’s Shop Smart, Napa Auto Parts, Quail Run Fitness Center, Village Auto Detailing, One Stop Party Shop, Lakeview Supermarket and Deli, Raul’s Garage, DBI Distributing, Vintage Antiques, Sentry Market, Reimers family, Clarke’s Collectibles, ULHS Booster’s Club, Joanne Breton, Gretchen McDonald, Brassfield Winery, Rose and Company, The Boathouse, Alvarez Car Wash, Treasure Cove Pizza, The Marina Grill, Joe Fernandez, Hi-Way Grocery, ULTA, Lake County Correctional Officers and Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake.
I’d like to further express gratitude and a very special thank you to Ron and Patty Raetz; Angie Sarandi and Corrin Johns; Stacy Sarandi and her son; Katherine Perry; ULHS FFA; Elizabeth Martinez; Kathleen Hankins; Brad and Marylou Floyd; Rich Swaney; Jaliece Simons; Jose Luis Alfaro; and Gilbert and Debbie Clarke for the countless hours of preparation, cooking and cleanup.
Finally, thanks to our community for their commitment to the ULHS Booster’s Club and the students at Upper Lake High School!
Ana Santana is president of the Upper Lake High School Booster Club in Upper Lake, Calif.
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- Written by: Dana Thoman
Lakeport Enhanced Education Foundation (L.E.E.F.) would like to thank just a few of the many businesses who supported the group in 2011.
Antoinette’s School of Dance
Brassfield Winery
Ciao Thyme Catering
Cinemeade Engineering
DeLeon Engineering
Disney Water Sports
Dr. Keith and Dr. Elise Donald
Dr. Brien Grey
Economy Propane
Focused on Wine
Jazz Factory
Kelseyville Unified Food Services
Lake County Palms
Lake Event Design
Lakeport Disposal
Lakeport Grocery Outlet
Lakeport Rotary Club
LakeWind Skincare
Linda’s Hallmark
LC Diamonds
Mackey Tire
Main Street Bicycles
Mendo Lake Credit Union
Mendo Mill
Moore Family Winery
North Lake Pharmacy
Pieces Boutique
Paul Vartabedian, D.D.S.
Plaza Paints
Quail Run Fitness Center
Seely Farm Stand
Sky Catch Gymnastics
Snow’s Lake Vineyard
Steele Wines
Strong Financial
Tallman Hotel/Blue Wing Saloon
The Bastian Family
The Consignment Shop
The Gabehart Family
T.J.’s Bar and Grill
UCC Rents
Umpqua Bank
Wildhurst Winery
Please join us March 3 for the 15th annual Big Band Dance and Auction. Tickets are available on the Lakeport Terrace School Office or Linda’s Hallmark.
Dana Thoman is a LEEF Board member. She lives in Lakeport, Calif.
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- Written by: Shirley Perea
A letter of thanks to the two Gentlemen, who paid for our meals at El Grande Inn at the Best Western Hotel, on Sunday, Feb. 12.
My friends Donna, Gladys, Michelle, Marian and I would like to thank you very much.
Your random act of kindness made our day.
Shirley Perea lives in Clearlake, Calif.
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- Written by: Randy Ridgel
After I wrote that our constitution promoted a meritocracy, Dennis Rollins wrote to say he couldn’t find that in the U.S. Constitution. It isn’t written there; the Constitution restricts government, not people.
Under our Constitution we can fly as high as our wings will take us. That has produced a meritocracy, the greatest country in the history of the world.
Nevertheless, Obama is slick in gaining control of our lives. For example, this week he practically outfoxed the Catholic Church, an organization devoted to goodness, mercy and kindness began by Peter for Jesus 2,000 years ago.
Catholic hospitals refused to perform abortions – murder, to them – even abortions with a pill. Obama’s regime announced that they would, too, give abortion pills, by God. (Uh, not by God but by Obama)
He then outsmarted the Catholics by “accommodating” them: Those abortions and birth control will be diverted to insurance companies. That means Catholics will still help perform abortions since they pay insurance, too.
Obama’s Jack Lew, who sounded like a Capone consigliore on Sunday television, slickly glided “abortion” to “women’s health” and “contraception.” He argued that these procedures won’t cost insurance companies more money but doggedly avoided answering why: Dead babies require no insurance expenses; live ones do. Obamacare is the gift that keeps on giving.
This is just part of the total power grab by Obama, this “prince of fools” about whom we really know little. If we let him get away with it, we deserve this comment by a Pole:
“The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
“The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
Randy Ridgel lives in Kelseyville, Calif.