The cost is $6 per person and includes a trip to the taco bar, rice, beans and and a drink.
Dinner will be served from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Lions Club bar will be open with beer, wine and well drinks for those over the age of 21.
The Kelseyville Lions Club is located at 4335 Sylar Lane.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Transition Lake County will host a talk on local resilience on Wednesday, Dec. 1.
The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the talk starting at 7 p.m. at Clearlake City Hall, located at 14050 Olympic Drive.
The talk will be entitled, “Building Local Resilience: an Intro to the Transition Model,” featuring Transition US trainer and Transition Sebastopol founding member Scott McKeown,.
The event will consist of a 60-minute presentation on the basics of the Transition model, plus a question and answer with the audience.
The discussion will introduce the audience to the challenges society faces – from peak oil and climate change, to the unstable global economy – and also some of the amazing organic solutions that are available as communities relocalize lives and economies, and build inner and outer resilience.
There will also be plenty of information about TLC and how to get involved, as well as a chance to sign up for TLC’s upcoming Training 4 Transition workshop the first weekend in December.
Scott McKeown, a T4T instructor and the presenter at the Wednesday evening talk, is the initiator and current chairperson of Transition Sebastopol – the eighth official Transition Town in the US – as well as a trainer, instructional designer and event producer who has worked over seven years delivering training courses in corporate environments including for Advanced Fibre Communications and the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
McKeown has been a community organizer for more than 30 years, a marketing director of three high tech companies, and from 2003 to 2007 was the executive director of the 30,000-person attended Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa.
For more information, e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 707-928-0159.
UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Shannon Michele of Cache Creek Catering and Lake County Wine Studio are presenting a monthly food and wine series featuring locally produced foods paired with select Lake County Wines.
The series is held from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the second Friday of each month with the exception of January, when the event will be held on the third Friday. The per person cost is $15 and reservations are recommended.
November’s event featured a mushroom walnut Wellington appetizer made with Mendocino Chanterelle mushrooms and walnuts from Dancing Tree People Organic Orchard in Upper Lake paired with Brassfield Estate Pinot Noir, and a Shitake Mushroom delicacy paired with Pinot Noir from Robledo Family Winery (see photo).
Dec. 10 will showcase Thompson Valley Ranch Grass Fed Angus paired with Cabernet Sauvignon from High Valley Winery and Noggle Vineyards & Winery.
For additional event information contact Lake County Wine Studio at 707-275-8030, e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Cache Creek Catering at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
The dinner will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Burns Valley Elementary School multipurpose room, located on Pine Street in Clearlake.
The meal will include ham and all the trimmings.
Santa also will be on hand to visit with the children. Each child will receive a gift and souvenir photo.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Konocti Lioness Club is selling raffle tickets for a huge Christmas gift basket as a fundraiser for their projects for needy children and families.
The basket contains numerous gifts, including a gemstone bracelet, handmade ornaments, wine, warm and cozy fleece items, and, of course, chocolate.
The Christmas basket is on display at “Home for the Holidays” gift store in the Riviera Shopping Center and tickets may be purchased there.
Raffle tickets are a $1 each or 6 for $5. Also, a ticket table will be set up at the shopping center on Dec. 5 and Dec. 11.
The drawing for the winning ticket will be on Thursday, Dec. 16, at the Konocti Lioness luncheon meeting.
The ceremony will be held at Zino's Ristorante on Soda Bay Road in Kelseyville beginning at 11:30 a.m. Lunch will be served at noon.
This special meeting and ceremony is held each December to install the new commander and staff officers for the coming year of 2011.
Reservations are required for lunch.
For additional information, please call the Flotilla information line at 707-513-5122.
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