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The City of Clearlake Animal Association also is seeking fosters for the animals waiting to be adopted.
Call the Clearlake Animal Control shelter at 707-273-9440, or email
Visit Clearlake Animal Control on Facebook or on the city’s website.
The following dogs are available for adoption.
‘Bear’
“Bear” is a male Labrador retriever-American pit bull mix with a short charcoal and fawn coat.
He has been neutered.
‘Terry’
“Terry” is a handsome male shepherd mix with a short brindle coat.
He gets along with other dogs, including small ones, and enjoys toys. He also likes water, playing fetch and keep away.
Staff said he is now getting some training to help him build confidence.
He is dog No. 48443693.
‘Andy’
“Andy” is a male American pit bull mix with a short gray and white coat.
He is dog No. 48995415.
‘Big Phil’
“Big Phil” is a 13-year-old male American pit bull terrier mix with a blue coat.
He is dog No. 49951647.
‘Bro’
“Bro” is a male terrier mix with a short tan coat.
He has been neutered.
Bro is dog No. 50262527.
‘Colt’
“Colt” is a male Rhodesian Ridgeback mix with a short rust and black coat.
He has been neutered.
He is dog No. 49812106.
“Hondo.” Photo courtesy of Clearlake Animal Control.
‘Hondo’
“Hondo” is a male Alaskan husky mix with a buff coat.
He has been neutered.
He’s dog No. 50227693.
‘Kubota’
“Kubota” is a male German shepherd mix with a short tan and black coat.
He has been neutered.
Kubota is dog No. 50184421.
‘Matata’
“Matata” is male shepherd mix with a tan coat.
He has been neutered.
He is dog No. 50176912.
‘Newman’
“Newman” is a 1-year-old male American pit bull terrier mix with a black and white coat.
He has been neutered.
Newman is dog No. 49057809.
‘Sister’
“Sister” is a female terrier mix with a short tan coat.
She has been spayed.
She is dog No. 50262516.
‘Snowball’
“Snowball” is a male American Staffordshire mix terrier with a white coat.
He has been neutered.
He is dog No. 49159168.
‘Ziggy’
“Ziggy” is a male American pit bull terrier mix with a short gray and white coat.
He has been neutered.
Ziggy is dog No. 50146247
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. — A new exhibit of contemporary Native American art curated by acclaimed Pomo basket weaver and cultural educator Corine Pearce will open at the Middletown Art Center this weekend.
The public is invited to the opening reception of “Earth Sky and Everything in Between,” which opens at Middletown Art Center from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 9. An introduction and blessing will take place around 6:30 p.m.
This is the first exhibit of its kind in Lake County.
The exhibit includes baskets, paintings, photos, digital media and installations.
Artwork on display celebrates traditional cultural arts and resilience while highlighting current, and longtime challenges and issues including ongoing colonialism, land access and place-based land management — also known as traditional ecological knowledge or TEK — along with intergenerational trauma, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, identity and blood quantum.
“The Earth Sky and Everything in Between exhibit is a very exciting event for the small town of Middletown and Lake County,” said Millie Simon, Middletown Rancheria tribal elder. “Indian people honor the artwork of our Ancestors. Our past, present, and future connect through the arts of basket and regalia making. Art is education, and cultural education is very important among the tribes.”
The exhibit is part of MAC's yearlong project, “Weaving Baskets Weaving Bridges,” codesigned by Corine Pearce together with Millie Simon, Elem Cultural Educator Rose Steele, adult education specialist at the Lake Campus of Woodland Community College and MAC Board Member Mary Wilson, and MAC Executive and Artistic Director Lisa Kaplan.
“Weaving” uses the art of basketry as a vessel for cross-cultural healing and understanding through cultural exposure and the holistic practice of weaving — from native plant cultivation and preparation to weaving in community.
The county of Lake's historical museums will concurrently exhibit Pomo baskets that are normally kept in storage. Learn more about the project at www.middletownartcenter.org/weaving.
“It is an honor to have the opportunity to create an Indigenous space at the MAC that includes native artists from this region and from all over (the country). It’s been my pleasure to weave together artists and include family, friends, and colleagues,” said Pearce, an enrolled member of the Redwood Valley Rancheria with ancestry from both Lake and Mendocino County tribes. “Sharing subject matter that is culturally significant with a larger audience is beneficial for everyone. My hope is that this show is just the beginning of growing understanding and communication across diverse cultural communities.”
Learn more about Corine Pearce, her weaving practice, and work in communities to revitalize, sustain and share cultural traditions at www.corinepearce.com.
The Weaving project and the exhibit Earth, Sky, and Everything in Between are funded in part by Middletown Rancheria, Robinson Rancheria, Charlotte Griswold and the California Arts Council, a state agency.
The MAC is located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29 in Middletown.
To find out more about Earth Sky and Everything in Between or other events, programs, opportunities, and ways to support the MAC’s efforts to weave the arts and culture into the fabric of life in Lake County, visit www.middletownartcenter.org or call 707-809-8118.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. — A Millbrae man was arrested on July 4 after police said he fired off illegal fireworks that seriously burned a child.
Ellery Penas, 46, was arrested following the incident, which occurred Monday night, the Lakeport Police Department reported.
The agency said its officers were dispatched to a North High Street location to investigate the report of a juvenile being struck and burned by a firework at 9:30 p.m. Monday.
When officers arrived, Lakeport Fire Protection District personnel were already on scene attending to the victim, police said.
The investigation revealed that Penas lit a multi-round firework launcher loaded with flaming ball charges.
After the system began to fire, a charge launched toward a group of people and struck a 4-year-old child in the torso area, burning through the clothing. A later medical examination at a hospital determined the child had received second-degree burns.
Officers placed Penas under arrest for felony child endangerment causing injury, launching a dangerous firework likely to injure and for possession of illegal fireworks. Penas was booked into the Lake County Correctional Facility.
The Lakeport Police Department said it has zero tolerance for illegal fireworks, and will be aggressive in efforts to seize them and prosecute offenders.
“These fireworks are dangerous and have the potential to cause very serious or fatal injuries as well as destructive fires. We are lucky that this child’s injuries were not more severe than they were,” the agency said in a Wednesday statement.
In addition to this incident, the agency said it had several other fireworks related incidents and arrests, including a grass fire started by a shooting firework. Police also seized more than 380 illegal fireworks.
Between July 1 and 4 there were hundreds of illegal fireworks being shot off in the city and many complaints from citizens regarding these incidents, police said.
This investigation remains ongoing and anyone with information regarding the case is asked to contact Investigating Officer Juan Altamirano at
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — On June 24, Mendocino Land Trust completed its largest conservation easement to date which it said will preserve thousands of acres in the Eel River watershed, including the land around Lake Pillsbury.
The group said the agreement will forever protect 5,620 acres from further development and habitat degradation.
With the addition of these lands, the total acreage the Mendocino Land Trust, or MLT, has helped protect since 1976 is nearly 25,000 acres.
The land remains privately owned but the completion of the conservation easement means that MLT can ensure the perpetual protection of this rich wildlife area that is home to a great diversity of species even if ownership changes.
The Eel River supports Chinook salmon and steelhead. Bald eagles and osprey are frequently seen around Lake Pillsbury — as well as a magnificent herd of wild tule elk at the northern end of the lake.
“One of the exciting aspects of this conservation easement is that it protects public access too,” said Conrad Kramer, Mendocino Land Trust’s executive director. “Most conservation easements protect habitat on privately owned land. This is the case here, too, but protecting public access to Lake Pillsbury and the Eel River is also an important part of this conservation easement.”
However, there are unknowns when it comes to the possibility that the Scott Dam, which impounds water on the Eel River creating Lake Pillsbury, could be removed, as is the goal of a group of organizations known as the Two-Basin Solution Partnership, which has excluded Lake County from its membership.
“Regarding potential changes to the dams and watershed, it is certainly unclear what will happen in the next few years,” Amy Wolitzer, the Mendocino Land Trust’s outreach and development coordinator, told Lake County News.
“The Land Trust's influence on what happens outside of bounds of the conservation easement is limited. The beauty of the conservation easement is that whatever the future may bring, MLT will work to protect the area from misuse and development and ensure future property owners adhere to the legal agreements set forth in the conservation easement,” Wolitzer said.
The Eel River area is a hugely important watershed in Northern California. “This conservation easement covers the mainstem of the wild and scenic Eel River,” explained Nicolet Houtz, MLT’s director of stewardship. “This area is particularly important because it is largely undeveloped and adjacent to National Forest and US Forest Service lands. This ensures permanent protection of a connector of these lands.”
The conservation easement will prevent these large contiguous parcels from being divided into small parcels and sold. If this were to happen it might open the door to a multitude of development and construction projects in a very wild area, MLT said.
The building of roads to access these parcels would have detrimental effects on the landscape and river health, and construction of homes and structures would introduce pollution sources and all the unfortunate consequences that come along with human habitation.
Annual monitoring of the conservation easement by MLT staff will make certain that present and future landowners honor the commitments made to protect this important property.
The two large parcels now protected by a conservation easement are owned by Pacific Gas and Electric. As part of its 2003 bankruptcy settlement, PG&E was required to ensure conservation of all of its “nonessential lands.”
MLT said this larger project to conserve PG&E lands was overseen by the Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council.The Stewardship Council is a private, nonprofit foundation that is responsible for developing and implementing a land conservation plan for approximately 140,000 acres of PG&E-owned watershed lands.
It requires that the lands be preserved and enhanced for protection of the natural habitat of fish, wildlife and plants; sustainable forestry including fuel and fire management; outdoor recreation by the general public; preservation of open space; and historic and cultural values.
This conservation easement has been in the works years. Mendocino Land Trust staff and others have spent many hours documenting baseline conditions and natural resources within the easement area.
Houtz has enjoyed her time here, participating in many surveys over the past decade. She said one of her favorite things about the area is that “the Eel River canyon is steep and still mostly wild and natural.”
On Aug. 16, 2021, the California Public Utilities Commission approved the designation of PG&E's approximately 5,620 acre Eel River property with a Conservation Easement held by Mendocino Land Trust. The conservation easement closed on June 24 – Houtz’s birthday, which gave her extra cause to celebrate this year.
