Saturday, 30 November 2024

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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Local attorney Dennis Fordham will host a free educational seminar titled “Why a Trust and Not a Will?” on Thursday, April 7.


The seminar will begin at 6 p.m. at the Kelseyville Senior Center, at 5245 Third St.


Refreshments will be offered.


Fordham is a State Bar Certified Specialist on estate planning.


Please RSVP at 707-263-3235 or www.DennisFordhamLaw.com.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Lake County Rockhounds meets at 6 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month at the Redbud Library, 14785 Burns Valley Road in Clearlake.


The Lake County Rockhounds is a club for lovers of gemology, mineralogy, lapidary, rocks and fossils.


The group's monthly meetings include educational and entertaining programs, and frequent field trips to collecting locations.


Meetings are open to anyone who is interested.


Members also encourage children to join with their parents or grandparents.


Yearly dues are only $15 per adult and $8.50 per child age 15 and under.


For more questions contact Diane Debartolo at 707-701-4473 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

LAKEPORT, Calif. – There is still time to enter your short film in a festival that “stars” Clear Lake.

 

The second annual “We Love Tules” Four Minute Film Festival will be accepting filmmakers short films until the evening of Wednesday, March 30.

 

Films should be around four minutes in length and in DVD format.

 

All ages are encouraged to enter, and every imaginable genre is invited – drama to documentary; animations to sunsets.

 

Films should be delivered to Watershed Books at 305 N. Main St., Lakeport.

 

For information, feel free to contact Cheri at 707-263-5787 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

A premier gala will take place on April 7 at the Lakeport Yacht Club; reservations are required.

 

The producers of this event wish to thank the Lakeport Main Street Association and the Sierra Club Lake Group for their generous support.

MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – A glimpse into the early history of the Stone House, constructed in 1853 as headquarters for the Rancho Guenoc and the Rancho Callayomi (which became home to Middletown) will be presented at the Tuesday, April 5, meeting of the Stone House Historical Society.


The meeting opens at 10 a.m. in the activity room at the Hidden Valley Lake Association offices, and is open to all.


Non-residents of Hidden Valley Lake can simply leave their names at the Hartmann Road gate and give their destination as the Stone House.


Brief profiles of the several men who claimed the two Spanish land grants, the man credited with construction of the Stone House and a few of its subsequent owners will be highlighted.


Nina Bouska’s talk also will include bits about the village of Guenoc, which sprang up in the 1860s near Putah Creek and was essentially abandoned when most of its population moved to newly founded Middletown in the early 1870s.


The program was originally scheduled in February but had to be postponed at the last minute.


For further information, call Georgeann Tintorri, 707-987-7370, or Bonney Jorgensen, 707-987-8764.

CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – Local attorney Dennis Fordham will host a free educational seminar titled “Why a Trust and Not a Will?” on Saturday, April 9.


The seminar will begin at 1 p.m. at the Live Oaks Senior Center, 12502 Foothill Blvd., Clearlake Oaks.


Refreshments will be offered.


Fordham is a State Bar Certified Specialist on estate planning.


Please RSVP at 707-263-3235 or www.DennisFordhamLaw.com.

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President Linda Waterstraat and Tea Chairman Nora Gerrard stand next to one of the 5-foot-tall wicker basket arrangements of daffodils, forsythia and various spring greenery created by Shirley Estreem. Photo by Claire Grieve.




 


LAKEPORT, Calif. – Each year in March Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club hosts the Daffodil Tea to welcome springtime.


The purpose of this event is for members to share with new members and friends all the beautiful daffodils from their gardens and the floral arrangements made by the Kabatin Flower Arranging group.


Members host tables decorating with their china tea sets and provide wonderful tea sandwiches and desserts. Also members donate gifts for the door prizes so that each person attending has a chance at winning one of the many door prizes.


Chairman Nora Gerrard noted that 98 people attended this year’s tea party, 45 members and 53 guests which was held on March 15 at the Bachelor Valley Grange in Upper Lake.


Eighteen tables were set up and all were decorated with china and flower arrangements with clever hostesses gifts. Gerrard thanked all the hostesses and all the people who helped to make this tea a success.


There were 77 door prizes donated by members so that almost everyone received something. The rain didn’t bother the friendship and good time everyone enjoyed.


Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club meets at noon on the third Tuesday of the month at the Scotts Valley Women's Club House, 2298 Hendricks Road, Lakeport.


Members, guests and all interested are most welcome. President Linda Waterstraat, 707-245-4721, invites interested gardeners to join them.


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 .

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