Officers Norma Bethel and Jackie Hodges helping at the North Lake Garden Club sale in 2010. Courtesy photo.

LUCERNE, Calif. – The North Lake Garden Club meets Tuesday, May 24, at Lucerne Community Church, 5870 E. Highway 20, Lucerne.

The group gathers at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments and sharing plants. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. with speaker Dan Charvet of Heartwood Nursery of Fort Bragg.

He will be speaking on hybridizing plants and camellias.

Members always comment on how they learn something to help them with their own gardens. Last month, Jim Xerogeanes of Mendocino College shared a fantastic slide show on a beautiful Oregon garden.

The club also will hold its fifth annual plant sale on Saturday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the old Hillside Honda location on Highway 20 in Nice.

There will be a variety of perennials for sale, right on time to plant your garden.

Unfortunately, the High Tea and Garden Tour has been canceled. The club also finalized its slate of officers for next year.

North Lake Garden Club is a member of California Garden Clubs Inc., National Garden Clubs Inc. and Mendo-Lake District with meetings held on the fourth Tuesday, September through May.

Next month's meeting will be held on Saturday, June 18, in a beautiful garden at the home of Sharon Thorne and Don Smith.

The club will install its new officers and have a potluck picnic.

The club's regular meeting date will resume in September, as the club takes July and August off.

If you have a public place where a tree should be planted or need more information about our garden club please call club President Don Smith, 707-972-6023.

The Lower Lake High School Class of 1981 is planning a 30-year reunion on Saturday, July 23, 2011. Courtesy photo.

UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Lower Lake High School’s Class of 1981 is hosting a dinner to celebrate its 30-year reunion on Saturday, July 23, at The Lodge at Blue Lakes in Upper Lake.

Lower Lake High School graduates from 1978 to 1984 are invited to join in the festivities.

The event begins at 6 p.m.

There also will be a family picnic on Saturday afternoon.

Reservations are required and there is a $50 per person fee for the dinner celebration (price increases after July 5 so reserve early).

For more information about the reunion event contact Sean or Maureen Waddle at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The event will take place on June 25 at 6 p.m. at Robinson Rancheria Resort & Casino, 1545 E. Highway 20, in Nice.

Tickets are on sale now at $30 per person.

For more information regarding the reunion e-mail Amy (Goebel) Scatena, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

There will be music and a variety of other entertainments at the third annual Lake Renaissance Festival on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29, 2011, in Lower Lake, Calif. Courtesy photo.

LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Visit 16th Century Tuscany right here in Lake County, a simpler time when people made their own entertainment, a time of handmade tools and crafts, great food and drink, a time when people played games for fun, and sang and danced.

All this and more will take place in the town of Porto del Mare on the Mediterranean coast in the re-created Tuscan Village.

There’s fun for the whole family at the Tuscan Village in Lower Lake on Memorial Weekend at the third annual Lake Renaissance Festival on Main Street, next to the post office, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29.

The days will be filled with festivities, great entertainment, and great food and drink! Visit the marketplace for clothes, jewelry, crafts and goods to buy. There will be music for the soul, both the wayward and the not-so-wayward.

There also will be dancers to see, sword fighting, games to play, hilarity and mischief.

Where is the youthful Scot noble? Married just a year ago and now left alone and lonely for her new husband, his sweet bride is in tears, and turns to her family for comfort.

Finding it difficult to stay faithful, the young Scot of the Clan Fraser abandoned his fair young bride, Isabella de Medici, and to escape the wrath of her father, Cosimo I, Duke of Florence, has fled Tuscany for his home back in the Highlands. Will he be brought back to Tuscany?

Come to the Italian festival and see whether he‘s been captured and brought back to Porto del Mare by those privateers, the Brotherhood of the Black Flag.

The public is invited to the fun and interesting workshops, which are free of charge, to learn about the history of the area, the age being portrayed and to choose a character, learn how to dress, walk and talk like the people of 400 years past, or to take another one of the many workshops which are planned.

To learn more about the workshops, contact Education Director Ann White at 707-278-0312.

To find out about participating in the festival contact Lisa Brazeau at 707-295-2925 or visit the Lake Renaissance Festival Web site at www.lakerenfest.com.

Tickets are $7, Children 10 and under are free, and discount tickets are available at various businesses throughout the Clearlake area.

This event is being held to thank the native community of Lake County for their participation in the needs assessment process recently conducted by the All People Coming Together Partnership with Parents Program, a new 0-5 prevention program from the Human Services Department.

This event will feature family activities, jumping houses for children, traditional dancers and a free barbeque served from noon to 1 p.m.

Lakeside County Park is located at 1985 Park Drive, Lakeport.

For more information please contact Daphne, Partnership with Parents Program coordinator, 707-263-8382, Extension 137.