Wear a mask and enter the contest at the annual event, held in the tasting room of Rosa D’Oro Vineyards in downtown Kelseyville from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Guests will enjoy food, wine tasting and fun.

Prizes will be awarded for masks.

Admission is $15.

Rosa D’Oro Vineyards is located at 3915 Main St., telephone 707-279-0483, www.rosadorowine.com.

It will take place from noon to 4 p.m. at Mt. Konocti Growers, 2550 Big Valley Road, Kelseyville.

There will be an extensive offering of ultra-premium Lake County wines and for the first time this year, local beer brewers.

All wines will be masterfully paired with luscious chocolates and other tasty food bites by Sommelier Stephanie Green, owner of Focused on Wine in Kelseyville.

Green will lead workshops on wine sensory and pairing food with wines and a variety of other classes and demonstrations will be held, such as olive oil sensory, chocolate demonstrations and biodynamic vineyards.

Support Lake Family Resource Center programs and services while enjoying wine, beer, chocolate, food, music, wine- and olive oil-related workshops, wine store and silent auction.

The cost is $35 per person in advance; $40 at the door.

For more information contact Lake Family Resource Center, 707-279-0563 or 888-775-8336, or visit the nonprofit online at www.lakefrc.org.

The screensaver contains more than 150 scenes of Keas' Lake County photography, with transition effects and background music.

The link to the screensaver is http://www.3dviewmax.com/lakecounty.scr.

Here are the instructions for download and use. The instructions are for PCs only.

• Click on the link and select “save.” Save it to desktop.

• After it is fully downloaded you will see a small icon on your desktop shaped like a little blue monitor, titled lakecounty. To play the slideshow simply double left mouse click on the icon. The slideshow will play in a loop. To stop the slideshow just move your mouse.

• If you want to install it as a screensaver, right mouse click and select “install.”

Instructions and download link also are on Keas' Web site at http://www.3dviewmax.com.

Merry Christmas!

The event will take place at Chasewater Wine Co. & Olive Mill, 5625 Gaddy Lane, Kelseyville, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

This celebration of locally grown olives will introduce guests to the olive oil and olive products produced from Lake County olives.

It's presented by Rosa D’Oro Vineyards and the Chasewater Wine Company & Olive Mill, which is located on a 10-acre olive orchard – formerly the St. Gregory Olive Farm – with 3,000 olive trees.

This family-friendly event also features an olive pit spitting contest, as well as olive oil tasting workshops by a certified olive oil taster, food demonstrations, local wine and beer tasting, hula hoop contest, arts and crafts booths, and silent auction.

Admission is free; there is a fee for wine tasting.

For more information, call 707-279-0483 or visit www.kelseyvilleolivefestival.com.

The landfill will re-open Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, and the Public Services Office will open Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012.

Normal operating hours at the landfill are 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

The Public Services office is normally open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

If you have any questions regarding this subject or any of the solid waste issues in Lake County, please call 707-262-1760.