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The council will meet Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 5 p.m. in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
The agenda can be found here.
If you cannot attend in person, and would like to speak on an agenda item, you can access the Zoom meeting remotely at this link or join by phone by calling toll-free 669-900-9128 or 346-248-7799.
The webinar ID is 973 6820 1787, access code is 477973; the audio pin will be shown after joining the webinar. Those phoning in without using the web link will be in “listen mode” only and will not be able to participate or comment.
Comments can be submitted by email to
On the agenda are appointments for the Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee, or LEDAC; the Lakeport Planning Commission; and the Measure Z Advisory Committee, or MZAC.
Applicants for the committees and commission are as follows:
• LEDAC: Denise Combs, Bonnie Darling, Lissette Hayes, Laura Sammel, Marie Schrader and Wilda Shock.
• Lakeport Planning Commission: Mary Claybon, Fred Christensen, Alex Spillman and Danny Wind.
• MZAC: Meg Harper, Carl Porter and Dennis Rollins.
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The kittens and cats at the shelter that are shown on this page have been cleared for adoption.
Call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278 or visit the shelter online for information on visiting or adopting.
The shelter is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Redbud Audubon Society will conduct its 50th annual Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Dec. 14.
The Christmas Bird Count, or CBC, is a traditional project of Audubon societies around the country.
Previous participants have been sent information about meeting times and places by the count organizers, Brad and Kathy Barnwell, but new participants are welcome.
They can meet at either Anderson Marsh State Historic Park or Clear Lake State Park at 8 a.m. or may participate in smaller individual groups. Email Brad and Kathy at
You can also call Redbud Audubon at 707-805-9410 and leave a message. Someone will return your call.
Newcomers are highly urged to join this effort. If you are new to Lake County and would like to meet people with similar interests, join the count day.
Previous to the bird count, on Thursday, Dec. 12, starting at 7 p.m. Donna Mackiewicz will host a Zoom Bird Identification program. To register, go to www.redbudaudubon.org and click the “register” option on the home page. The link to join the program will be sent to you the day of the program.
National Audubon has been holding a Christmas Bird Count for 125 years.
The official count period starts Dec. 14 and ends Jan. 5. Local Audubon societies can decide what day they conduct their counts within this time frame.
Every individual bird and species encountered during the day is recorded. Each count group has a designated circle of 15 miles in diameter and tries to cover as much ground as possible within a certain period of time.
Count volunteers follow specified routes through the designated 15-mile (24-km) diameter circle, counting every bird they see or hear all day. It's not just a species tally — all birds are counted all day, giving an indication of the total number of birds in the circle that day.
The data collected by each count group are then sent to the National Audubon Headquarters in New York and is made available online.
The Christmas Bird Count began more than a century ago when 27 conservationists in 25 localities, led by scientist and writer Frank Chapman, changed the course of ornithological history.
On Christmas Day in 1900, the small group posed an alternative to the “side hunt,” a Christmas day activity in which teams competed to see who could shoot the most birds and small mammals.
Instead, Chapman proposed to identify, count, and record all the birds they saw, founding what is now considered to be the world’s most significant citizen-based conservation effort — and century-old institution.
Scientists rely on the remarkable trend data of Audubon’s CBC to better understand how birds and the environment are faring throughout North America — and what needs to be done to protect them.
Data from Audubon’s signature Citizen Science program are at the heart of numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies.
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The dogs available for adoption this week include mixes of Anatolian shepherd, boxer, bull terrier, cattle dog, Doberman pinscher, German shepherd, German shorthaired pointer, husky, Labrador Retriever, pit bull terrier and terrier.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
Those dogs and the others shown on this page at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption.
Call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278 or visit the shelter online for information on visiting or adopting.
The shelter is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
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