The series will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the second Friday of each month with the exception of January, when the event will be held on the third Friday.

The per person cost is $15 and reservations are recommended.

Nov. 12 will showcase a mushroom walnut Wellington appetizer made with Mendocino Shitake mushrooms and walnuts from the Dancing Tree People Organic Orchard in Upper Lake paired with Lake County Pinot Noirs.

For more information, or to make a reservation, contact Susan Feiler at 707-293-8752.

The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, at the Middletown Fire Station on Highway 175.

Twenty-five local crafters and vendors will have a variety of gift items for sale.

The Fire Sirens will host a food and bake sale all day, as well as a raffle with more than 15 terrific prizes donated by local merchants and businesses.

The tickets will be available that day for six for $5 or $1 each.

All money raised goes to purchase emergency equipment for the South Lake County Fire Protection District.

Bring your children, too. Santa will be visiting from the North Pole.

The group invites the community to come out and support this annual Fire Siren Event and do some holiday shopping.

Garden Club Member Thelma Dangel helps Ollie with her wreath table decoration. Photo taken by Mary Beth Ingvoldstad.

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Each month Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club Chairman Jo Jameson presents a garden therapy program for the clients at the Adult Respite Program at St. John's Lutheran church in Clearlake and also at the First Lutheran Church in Lucerne.

Jameson gathers containers, flowers, greenery and decorations for the clients, with the help of the volunteer workers, to create a flower arrangement for them to take home.

The clients enjoy this activity. And this is one of the ways that the garden club shares with our community.

Garden Club members Jo Douville and Claire Grieve helped gather dried plant materials and pines cones to make small wreaths for a table decoration.

The North Lake Garden Club meets at noon on the third Tuesday of the month, September through May, at the Scotts Valley Women's Club House, 2298 Hendricks Road, Lakeport.

Members, guests and all interested are most welcome. President Linda Waterstraat, 707-245-4731, invites interested gardeners to join the group.

Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club is a member of Mendo-Lake District, California Garden Club Inc., Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs Inc.

For more information see www.clttgc.org .

Sally Carlson was the original organizer of the annual Christmas Festival of Music in Lakeport, Calif. Courtesy photo.

The event will begin at 7 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 600 16th St., Lakeport.

Each year choirs, instrumentalists and vocalists from the local community present a free evening of holiday music to get the season started off right.

In addition to the featured performers, the audience will be invited to sing Christmas carols. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.

Christmas always seems to come earlier every year – Christmas decorations were seen in stores before Halloween this year.

However, the annual Christmas Festival of Music is giving its performers an extra day to get ready – it will break with tradition and be held on the first Saturday in December. This change was made to avoid a conflict with Kelseyville’s parade and tree lighting on Friday.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Christmas Festival of Music. Sally Carlson is being honored posthumously as the original organizer of this event. Her vision to bring the community together in a celebration of music has been carried on long after her passing.

An interfaith and community gathering, the festival will feature some returning favorites this year. In fact, Merry Lloyd who plays the handbells and performed for years with Bells of the Lake is flying in from Oregon to help celebrate the 25th anniversary.

In addition to the featured performers, the audience will be invited to sing Christmas carols.

Admission is free and refreshments will be provided.

The meeting will begin at 12:15 p.m. in conference room C on the third floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Lakeport Yacht Club, 15 Fifth St. in Lakeport,

Parker will give a presentation on “12,000 years of Clear Lake Prehistory,” using pictures and artifacts to conduct a 12,000-year ride with the first people to make Clear Lake their home.

His talk, based on 20 years of research, will cover the timing and means of their arrival, explore environmental changes, and discuss the ways these changes affected the culture, technology and population of the native peoples of the Clear Lake basin.

A graduate of Sonoma State University with advanced degrees from UC Davis and UCLA, Dr. Parker played an instrumental role in the establishment of Anderson Marsh State Historic Park, taught archaeology at Mendocino and Yuba Community Colleges, and served as a Clearlake Planning Commissioner.

More recently, he took the lead in establishing the eligibility of Rattlesnake Island for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

Dr. Parker's presentations are always both informative and engaging. His last appearance at a Lake Group meeting drew a standing room only crowd, so it would be a good idea to arrive early to get a good seat.

The meeting is free and the public is invited.

For more information contact Juliana Vidich at 707-279-1903 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .