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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – As one of its community services, the Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club offers a scholarship program for qualified students who have graduated from a Lake County high school.
Applications are available from counselors and scholarship coordinators at all Lake County high schools and community colleges.
Students must attend an academic or vocational school as a full-time student during the 2015-16 school year and major in horticultural or environmental sciences, or a related field.
Two $500 scholarships will be awarded this year.
Scholarship applications and supporting materials must be received by April 15 to be considered.
For more information call Leanne Harvey at 707-263-0850.
In the past, scholarship funding has been provided by the sale of Christmas wreaths, which were handmade by garden club members from fresh stock.
Since three years of drought have significantly diminished the quality of wreath-making materials, it was decided to curtail wreath making for Christmas 2014.
Instead, proceeds from a garden tour event this spring will be used to fund the scholarship program.
Anyone who loves to garden is invited to attend the club's meetings, which are held on the third Tuesday of each month – except July and August – at noon at the Scotts Valley Womens Club house, 2298 Hendricks Road. A light lunch is served.
Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club is a member of Mendo-Lake District, Pacific Region, California Garden clubs Inc. and National Garden Clubs Inc.
For more information call Marva Brandt at 707-279-1625 or visit www.clttgc.org .
Jerry Shaul is a member of the Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County has many great attributes, one being generosity and willingness to support programs to better the community.
Due to the outpouring of kindness and generosity, the Imagination Library will continue to succeed and write the Book of Literacy for Lake County’s youngest residents.
Contributions to the book of Literacy have been made by HJ and DK Strickler, Anthony and Linda DeBolt, Clifford and Lois Morgan, S. Gatton, Mike Bielenberg, and in Memory of Lynn Fegan, Mark Lockhart and Barbara Toy.
In memory of Lynn Fegan – a Lake County resident, reader and philanthropist who died in November – 84 books will be delivered to the homes of children registered in the program.
The Book of Literacy campaign also has written a lasting story in the Book of Literacy, providing 336 books delivered to the homes of children registered in the Imagination Library over the course of 2015.
The Imagination Library provides books year-round for families registered in Lake County.
To learn more about the program or to make a donation, please contact Stephanie Wayment at 707-262-4163.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Chapter of California Women for Agriculture (CWA) is accepting scholarships applications from male and female graduating high school seniors and college or vocational students who are pursuing an agriculture or agribusiness program and are attending a two or four year program as a full-time student.
These scholarships are valued up to $1,000.
A few past CWA scholarship recipients include Lake County residents Jennifer Keithly and Lindee Jones.
Keithly, a second-year recipient of the CWA scholarship, continues to excel academically and is midway through her second year at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
Specializing in large animals and food animals, Keithly will graduate in 2017.
Lindee Jones, a third-year recipient of the CWA scholarship, is pursuing a career as a pest control advisor.
She received her associate’s degree from Shasta College and is currently enrolled at Chico State in plant science with an emphasis in crop management.
The Lake County Chapter of CWA is committed to promoting agriculture at both the county and the state levels.
The organization is particularly interested in supporting students from Lake County who desire a career in agriculture in an effort to maintain a healthy and vibrant agricultural industry.
Lake County graduating high school seniors and college or vocational students who have a grade point average of 3.0 or above are eligible to apply.
Application materials must be received by CWA on or before April 1, 2015.
The application and criteria are available at www.lakecountycwa.org .
For questions concerning the scholarship program, please contact Sausha Racine at 707-245-4787.
The Lake County Chapter of CWA actively educates their members and the public about matters concerning agriculture at both the County and State levels.
The group awards scholarships to students pursuing agricultural-related education and provides mini-grants to teachers in local schools who are educating their students about agriculture and food.
In addition, the chapter sponsors AgVenture, an educational program for community leaders who wish to learn more about agriculture.
To learn more about the organization, visit www.lakecountycwa.org .
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Do you feel left behind by the computer revolution?
Is email the only way your grandkids communicate? Do you wish you could operate that new computer your kids bought you?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then your chance has come to learn the basics of a personal computer.
The Mendocino College Lake Center will offer a Beginning Computer Skills class, CSC 20, starting on March 5, and running through May 21.
It will be held on Thursdays from 9 to 11:50 a.m.
This class is intended for community members who don’t know where the “on” switch is.
Students will learn the names of the basic parts of the computer, Windows 7 basics, an introduction to word processing and Internet use, including email.
The instructor of the class is Elaine Bishop, a long-time familiar face to students at the Lake Center.
No textbook is required, but students should have a USB flash drive for storing files.
This is a 1.5 unit (college credit) class. Low income students may qualify for a fee waiver.
For more information, contact the Lake Center at 707-263-4944.
The Mendocino College Lake Center is located at 2565 Parallel Drive in Lakeport.