The Stone House Museum in Hidden Valley Lake, Calif., will be open for tours on Saturday, November 12, 2011. Courtesy photo.

HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE, Calif. – The public is invited to tour the Stone House Museum on Saturday, Nov. 12.

The museum will be open for tours from 10 a.m. to noon.

Located at 18174 Hidden Valley Road in Hidden Valley Lake, the house is a California State Historical Monument.

The house was restored and is maintained by the Stone House Historical Society, http://www.lakecountystonehouse.com/.

For entrance to Hidden Valley Lake’s gated community, visitors enter at Hartmann Road gate and mention they’re attending Stone House open house.

The meeting, which begins at 6 p.m., will be held in the Lakeport City Hall Council Chambers, 225 Park St.

The commission will discuss the Neighborhood Improvement Study, and also consider responses to the survey the city received.

The commission also will discuss and set its next meeting date for Wednesday, Dec. 14.

LUCERNE, Calif. – The Lake County Democratic Club will hold its regular meeting on Saturday, Nov. 12, at noon in the Rose Room of the Lucerne Alpine Senior Center.

The special guest speaker at this meeting will be Carolyn Ruttan, Lake County's invasive species program coordinator.

Ruttan will give a informative talk about the situation in Clear Lake and the situation around the country.

There also will be the election of club officers for the 2012 year.

Lake County Democratic Club meetings are held on the second Saturday of the month at noon in the Rose Room of the Lucerne Alpine Senior Center.

The public is always welcome at the Democratic Club meetings.

The Lucerne Alpine Senior Center is located at 3985 Country Club Drive, corner of 10th and Country Club Drive, in Lucerne.

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Christmas in the Country Merchant Open House & Parade of Lights will be celebrated from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2.

Mike Linnell at Linnell Printing is accepting applications for the Parade of Lights and can send out a fax or mail a registration. There is no cost to enter the parade.

Last year was the biggest and best parade ever and the group is looking forward to this year being just as exciting.

Participants are encouraged to enter decorated cars, trucks, boats floats, horses and wagons.

Line up for the parade starts at 5:30 p.m. at Gard Street school and the parade begins at 6:30 p.m.

Call Mike Linnell at 707-279-4506 or 707-355-0272, or Mary at 707-279-8559 for more info.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Calpine's Cartwright Geothermal Visitors Center, 15500 Central Park Road.

On the agenda under unfinished business is the Middletown Square Park design and development and the establishment of street side beautification and enhancements committee.

In new business, the group will discuss the resignation and replacement of Board Member Phyllis Kelsey, call for nominations to the MATH Board, a letter to Granite Construction and MATH projects for 2012.

MATH meetings are subject to videotaping. Meeting proceedings may be available for viewing on public access television and/or the Internet.

MATH – established by resolution of the Lake County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 12, 2006 – is a municipal advisory council serving the residents of Anderson Springs, Cobb, Coyote Valley (includes Hidden Valley Lake), Long Valley and Middletown.