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LAKEPORT – The next HazMobile event will be held on Friday, June 18, and Saturday, June 19, at Kmart, 2019 S. Main St., in Lakeport.
Hours will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Events may be canceled due to rain.
Households can bring up to fifteen gallons of toxic items free of charge. A charge will be made for amounts above 15 gallons.
Items that are accepted include paint, solvents, fuels, 5-gallon propane tanks, pool chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, dry cell batteries, fluorescent light tubes (up to 60 feet for free) and other toxins that cannot be put in the trash.
Excluded items that cannot be accepted are televisions, computer monitors, ammunition, explosives, radioactive materials or infectious wastes.
To learn how and where to properly dispose these items, please contact the Public Services office at
707-263-1980.
This is a residential service. Charges apply to businesses; phone 707-468-9786 for more information and business appointments.
Free recycled paint is available at Lake County Waste Solution Transfer Station at 230 Soda Bay Road in Lakeport on a first-come, first-serve basis in 5-gallon containers of tan, brown, gray and pink.
Used oil can be recycled year round at a number of sites in the county.
The HazMobile program is subsidized by the Lake County Public Services Department Solid Waste Division.
If you have any questions regarding this or any of Lake County’s Solid Waste programs, please call 707-262-1760 or the Hot Line number at 707-263-1980.
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LAKE COUNTY – Lake County Fair’s contest program is now open for entry, with a number of new contests offered for 2010.
The contests offer local residents the chance to show off their skills in their hobbies and professions, have their work compared to the work of their friends and neighbors, and win cash prizes for the results.
New contests in 2010 include an open rabbit show, a variety of baking contests using recipes published by the Fair, a contest for “recycled” art made from discarded goods, contests for honey, and an olive oil competition with variety of different olive oil classes.
In addition, the clothing and textiles competitions, which expanded in 2009 to their own building, also have a variety of new categories.
Fair industry professionals often talk about how special the contest programs at county fairs are. Many of the other activities at a fair can be found other places. Amusement parks and family fun centers offer rides, games, and food. Zoos, aquariums, and wild animal parks offer a glimpse at many exotic creatures.
Specialty festivals offer contests that are focused on one product or industry. Live music can be found in many places. But only the county fair offers such a huge diversity of contests that just about everyone can participate in something.
Lake County Fair offered contests in 2,265 classes in 2009, a number which has grown slightly in 2010.
More than $40,000 in prize monies are offered each year, with around 40 percent of that amount actually being won in any given year.
Prize winners took home $16,800.70 in total cash prizes in 2009, an increase of more than 6.5 percent over 2008.
Contests are divided into various categories depending upon the types of items to be exhibited, starting with departments, then divisions, and then classes of goods.
Departments include flowers and plants, fine arts and photography, home arts, agriculture and horticulture, livestock, and horses.
As an example, the agriculture department has a division for vine crops, which further breaks down into twenty classes for different types of cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, and squash. Every class represents a unique contest.
Lake County Fair prints a contest handbook, with details of all departments, divisions and classes, along with all of the rules for entering and the prizes available.
The contest handbook is available from more than twenty outlets around Lake County, and also is available on the fair’s Web site at www.lakecountyfair.com.
Actual entry forms must be filled out online, with the information deposited directly into the contest database. The forms must then be printed and signed. The signed entry forms and payment of entry fees will be accepted anytime in June or July, but must be received before Aug. 13 at 6 p.m.
Contestants can access the entry forms from any computer with Internet access at the fair's Web site, www.lakecountyfair.com. A high speed Internet connection is required.
Computers are available in a variety of places, including schools, libraries, and the fairgrounds office. Fairgrounds staff will be happy to assist contestants who visit the fairgrounds office during regular business hours. Contestants are well advised to avoid the last minute rush and get their entries completed early.
Most classes at the Lake County Fair require an entry fee, usually from $1 to $3, although some classes are free to enter and others cost a bit more, usually in classes where the prize monies are greater as well.
Contestants paid a total of $10,773 in entry fees in 2009. Obviously, these fees don’t cover the costs of the cash prizes, never mind the costs of judges, clerks, ribbons, trophies, and all the other things that go into putting on the contests. But hopefully, the contestants bring their families and friends to visit the Lake County Fair to see if they’ve won a prize, and help to offset all those other costs when they buy admission tickets.
Judges for contests at the Lake County Fair are chosen for their expertise in a given subject, and come from outside of Lake County to provide impartiality.
There are no guidelines for how often a judge may return to the fair, but Lake County Fair tries to follow a policy of a maximum of two years in a row for any given judge. County fairs work together, circulating their lists of judges and giving each other feedback about any given judge.
The Lake County Fair also accepts recommendations from exhibitors, other judges, and the public in order to find and secure judges for all the classes at the fair.
The Lake County Fair Board has chosen "Fun for the Whole Herd!" for the theme of the 2010 Fair. The Lake County Fair traditionally occurs Labor Day weekend each year at the fairgrounds in Lakeport.
The 2010 fair dates are Sept. 2 through Sept. 5. More than 37,000 people visit the Lake County Fair each year. For more information please call the fair office at 263-6181, or visit the Fair on the Internet at www.lakecountyfair.com.
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LAKEPORT – If you want to learn more about the equestrian art and sport of dressage, then come hear USDF Gold Medalist Sharon Marshall talk about how to be your own dressage trainer at her free lecture.
Marshall will speak at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 18, at the Lakeport English Inn, 675 N. Main St.
Then, join the group on Saturday, June 19, for Marshall's dressage clinic in Scotts Valley.
The cost is $50 per rider with free auditing.
Marshall is an outstanding teacher who you don't want to miss.
For more information, call Winnie at 707-994-3756, or email
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SACRAMENTO – The State Assembly has approved a bill jointly authored by Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro (D-North Coast) and Assemblyman Ira Ruskin (D-Redwood City) that will ensure California is prepared to cope with climate change in the coming decades.
“A new report this month by a panel of respected marine scientists warns that over the next half century climate change will have a severe impact on California’s coastline,” Chesbro said. “In addition to rising sea levels, warmer ocean waters will generate more intense storms, the report forecasts. Mendocino County could lose more than eight square miles of cliffs and dunes to erosion, according to the report, and warming rivers could threaten the survival of Coho salmon and steelhead.”
AB 2329, which received strong support in the Assembly, will codify Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2005 Executive Order (S-3-05), which created California’s Climate Action Team.
Sponsored by the Audubon California, Defenders of Wildlife and the Nature Conservancy, AB 2329 ensures the Climate Action Team will continue to meet and deliver on its mission of coordinating climate-change policy activities across state agencies. Specifically, the multiagency group is coordinating California’s efforts to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals and adapt to a changing climate.
“We thank Assemblymembers Chesbro and Ruskin for their leadership and commitment to the environment in guiding AB 2329 successfully through the Assembly,” said Louis Blumberg, director of the Nature Conservancy's climate-change work in California. “AB 2329 will ensure that the state’s actions to address climate change are coordinated, and that its scarce resources are efficiently and effectively used to tackle this major environmental problem.”