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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Rotary Club of Kelseyville Sunrise recently conducted its annual visit to third grade classrooms in the Kelseyville Unified School District to distribute dictionaries to all students.
Interact Club members from Kelseyville High School also participated in the event.
The Dictionary Project is just one way Kelseyville’s Rotary Club supports literacy.
The club also purchases books for its guest speakers to autograph and then donates them to the school libraries.
Club members and Interact Club members read to elementary school students each month and the club is a sponsor of “The Big Read” kickoff event at Moore Family Winery on Saturday, Jan. 8.
The Big Read is a project of the Lake County Office of Education; sponsorship of this project is another way the Rotary Club of Kelseyville Sunrise supports the countywide Literacy Task Force.
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The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Lakeport Fire Station at 445 N. Main St.
All donors will receive a free barbecue lunch and an event T-shirt.
To sign up, please visit the fire station or call 707-545-1222.
The event is sponsored by Blood Bank of the Redwoods, www.bbr.org .
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – For the fourth time in the last six years, the county of Lake Human Resources Department provided the largest per capita donation to the Realtor CanTree food drive.
With seven employees, Human Resources donated an average can equivalent of 73 per staff member, while the Elections Department came in second with an average can equivalent of 56 for their three employees.
“These two departments have been battling it out every year since 2004,” according to CanTree Coordinator Phil Smoley. “They have been in the top three every year since then.”
Overall, county employees donated 1,963 cans and $1,332. Since a dollar donation is given a two-can equivalent, the total can equivalent came to 4,627.
Since 1986, county employees have donated an equivalent of more than 100,000 cans.
“I’ve helped cart off tons of food from the courthouse over the years,” Smoley said. “The county folks have been very gracious to this food drive.”
To encourage participation, Smoley instituted a friendly competition between the departments in the 1980s.
Kicking off the drive the week after Thanksgiving, volunteers arrive with fresh donuts and wrapped barrels for each department, announcing the start of the drive. Employees bring in cans to fill up the barrel and/or make cash contributions.
A week before Christmas, the volunteers return to add up what each department was able to donate, and the department that gives the highest amount per capita wins a pizza party and the right to have the CanTree Plaque displayed for the coming year.
“We base it on the average donation per employee so that smaller departments can compete against the bigger ones,” Smoley explained. “Over the years we have had big departments such as Community Development win, and small ones, such as Elections, win.”
Several departments have laid claim to being the “winner.”
“But the real winner is the local food cupboard and the needy of our community,” Smoley said. “This year with donations and funding down and demand way up, they needed this boost. It came at the right time, right before Christmas.”
Besides Human Resources, many other departments have won more than once. “When we first started this, Building and Grounds were the guys to beat,” Smoley said. “Then it was the tax collector. the auditor-controller had some great runs, as did the farm advisor. Whenever the contributions from one department drop off, another seems to pick up the pace. This year an employee in the Community Development Department donated $400. A few years ago, another employee in Community Development donated $500. Every year I am amazed at the generosity of the county employees. I used to work there, so I know they don’t get paid a whole lot.”
