CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – Join Transition Lake County and the East Lake Grange this Saturday, March 5, for a fun-filled day of events in building resilient community.

The event will be held at the East Lake Grange Hall No. 727, 12982 Highway 20, Clearlake Oaks.

From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. a re-skilling workshop will take place.

Re-skilling is the process of sharing skills that will improve our lives – particularly those skills that build community resilience, our ability to meet our needs here locally now and into the future.

Join in one of several re-skilling classes planned for this event – or teach your own. Workshops currently planned include:

• Energy efficiency and affordable weatherization with Trina Johnson: Participate in weatherizing the grange hall, and learn about insulation and energy efficiency. They also will build window-box solar collectors, a fun hands-on project.

• Beginning a community garden with Lindsay Dailey: Join them behind the grange's back parking lot (weather permitting) to begin a small community garden patch. Help sheet-mulch the space, and learn about what it takes to start your own garden.

• Holistic health: There will be two workshops. Catherine Hammond will teach about local medicinal herbs and share her vision for a community herb garden space in Lower Lake. Nils Palsson will share and demonstrate self-healing strategies, including Reiki (hands-on healing with intention), the Fluid Body Model and Language of Healing (because your body believes every word you say), and a short presentation on how to make your own colloidal silver at home.

Want to teach a class? There will be plenty of future re-skilling events, and they would love for you to participate (or create your own).

If you'd like to get involved, write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., visit the re-skilling working group page at www.transitionlakecounty.org, or call 707-928-0159.

From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Dailey will offer an introduction to permaculture talk with a question and answer session.

Learn about the basics of permaculture (or share what you know) in this accessible and free talk, open to the public, introducing the topic of permaculture and discussing some of its core principles and key applications.

This talk also will include information about the upcoming permaculture design course, coming to Lake County this spring.

From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. (or later) there will be live music performances, a potluck and community jamboree.

Enjoy live performances by local singer/songwriter Allen Markowski, Idaho songwriters and performers Mitch and Will Sevy, and Lee Penn Sky, followed by a community musical jam. Bring your instruments, your voice, and your dancing shoes.

Also feel free to bring a healthy dish to share – as well as your own re-usable plate, cup, silverware and napkin.

For more information contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 707-928-0159.

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Kelseyville High School Football Boosters group is hosting an “all you can eat” crab feed fundraiser.

The event will be held at the Finley Grange, just outside of beautiful downtown Finley, on Saturday, March 12.

The event begins at 5:30 p.m. and continues on until 9 p.m.

The cost is $40 per person, with children under 10 eating for free.

The proceeds will go to help support the Kelseyville High football program.

“Budget cuts have pretty much dried up any funding from the school,” according to varsity Head Coach Rob Ishihara. “We are surviving largely on the gracious support of our community.”

The price includes fresh Dungeness grab, pasta, salad and garlic bread.

Nova Vineyards is providing organic white wine for attendees over 21.

Tickets can be obtained at the CPS Country Air office in Lakeport, 901 S. Main St., or by calling Rob Ishihara at 707-972-3845.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A forum on SmartMeters will be held on Friday, March 4.

It will take place beginning at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

Clearlake resident Leslie Sheridan, a health consultant in the area of protection from “electro-pollution,” and editor and publisher of the online publication The Carpe Diem Voice will facilitate the meeting.

Guest speakers will include Lloyd Morgan, an internationally-recognized expert in the electromagnetic frequencies/radiation (EMF/EMR,) and electronic engineer with 38 years of industrial experience, and William Stranger, Lake County resident and program director of the Calistoga Institute, a Napa-based policy institute dedicated to developing effective and sustainable community-based health care systems.

They will tell the untold story of why the public is or should be concerned about these meters, share information about alleged health dangers surrounding this technology, discuss what different legislators and counties/cities are doing to protect citizens and share how to stop the meters' installation.

The event is free, and in the spirit of an inclusive discussion, will provide an opportunity for public comment as well as a question and answer period.

NAPA COUNTY, Calif. – The Napa Valley Horsemen’s Association and the Bureau of Land Management will present a wild horse and burro adoption information night and handling clinic in April.

The clinic will take place on Friday, April 15, and Saturday, April 16, at the Where: Napa Valley Horsemen’s Association, 1200 Foster Road, Napa.

An information night will begin at 7 p.m. on April 15.

Information night includes everything you want to know about wild horse or burro adoption and training: how, when and where to adopt; housing and fencing; feed and health care; gentling and training; what to expect of your new wild horse or burro; meet past adopters, hear their stories and talk with them.

The Handling Clinic, at 9 a.m. April 16, features live demonstrations of gentling and training methods.

Meet gentled and trained formerly wild horses and burros; learn safe handling skills and grooming health care, ideal for anyone thinking of getting into horses (or getting back into them after a long time away) regardless of breed preference.

Both events are free, but voluntary contributions are welcome. There will be plenty of free parking.

For more information call 707-226-9193 or visit www.napamustangdays.com .