LAKEPORT – The city of Lakeport Planning Commission will meet this Wednesday, June 9, at 6 p.m.

The meeting will take place in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

Agenda items will include a public hearing on Savings Bank of Mendocino County's application for a new 3,036-square-foot, single-story bank building at 290 S. Main St.

The commission also will discuss and set the next meeting date for July 14.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the city of Lakeport will make available to members of the public any reasonable assistance necessary to participate in this meeting.

Contact the Community Development Department at 707-263-5613 to make such a request.

Notification 72 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.

LAKE COUNTY – In August a new public program makes its debut in Lake County – “AgVenture,” an innovative concept in agricultural education designed for nonfarming community leaders who wish to understand more fully the workings of our local agricultural industry.

The program is modeled on longstanding, successful programs in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.

The Lake County Chapter of California Women for Agriculture (CWA) is providing the coordinating leadership to launch such a program here.

The AgVenture program will consist of once-a-month, day-long seminars held over a period of three months.

The meeting dates are Aug. 13, Sept. 10 and Oct. 8, all Fridays.

Each day's seminar will focus on a different commercial crop and will include both speakers and farm tours. Class members will gain a broad knowledge of the heritage, culture and business of local agriculture.

The sessions will cover such topics as economics, labor, history, marketing, water and land use, challenges of farming, ag tourism and sustainability. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with and learn from farmers and other local agriculture leaders.

The 12 participants who will be selected for the program this first year will be community leaders from a wide range of areas who not only have an interest in agriculture, but who are in a position to help maintain a viable agricultural industry in Lake County.

The AgVenture program coordinator is Annette Hopkins, who graduated from the Santa Cruz “Focus Agriculture” program and found it both fascinating and highly beneficial.

The members of her steering committee are Toni Scully, president of the Lake County Chapter of CWA; Wilda Shock; Paula Bryant; Janine Grothe; Michelle Scully; and Diane Henderson.

Applications for the program are available by e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or by mail, CWA AgVenture, P.O. Box 279, Finley, CA 95435.

MIDDLETOWN – The Middletown Area Town Hall (MATH) will meet this Thursday, June 10.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Loconoma Valley High School on Washington Street.

Agenda items will include procedures for notifying the Department of Fish and Game of a streambed alteration project; status reports on streetlights, street signs and a promotional banner; and MATH goals for the year.

They also will set agenda items for the July 8 meeting.

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

A municipal advisory council, MATH serves the residents of Anderson Springs, Cobb, Coyote Valley (includes HVL), Long Valley and Middletown.

CLEARLAKE OAKS – Friends of Jodie Eyerly are requesting the community's help in supporting the Eyerly family by attending a benefit on Saturday, June 26, at the Clearlake Oaks Moose Lodge.

A spaghetti dinner will be served from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

There will be a variety of delicious desserts, cocktails, raffle prizes and a wine toss.

The requested donation is $8.

Jodie and Dave Eyerly are longtime residents of Lake County.

Dave Eyerly was a volunteer firefighter in Clearlake Oaks for 22 years. Jodie Eyerly has been employed by Westamerica Bank and Adventist Health. She is currently fighting cancer and is unable to work.

Come join in raising funds for travel to treatment and medical expenses.

Monetary donations may be made at any Westamerica Bank for the benefit of the”Jodie Eyerly Medical Fund.”

EDITOR'S NOTE: THE LIBRARY HOURS HAVE BEEN UPDATED.

UPPER LAKE – Upper Lake Library will present story times for children on Wednesday afternoons beginning June 16, and running through the summer.

The story times begin at 2 p.m. and end about 2:45 p.m.

Linda Bushta will read stories and provide activities for the children. Contact the library for more information.

Upper Lake Library, 310 Second St., is open Tuesday through Friday, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The phone number is 707-275-2049.

Visit the Lake County Library Web site at http://library.co.lake.ca.us or on Facebook. With a library card, patrons have access to the collections of all three counties, amounting to more than one million books.

From the library’s online catalog http://ipac.sonoma.lib.ca.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=laco#focus or

from an in-library catalog computer, a patron can request books from anywhere in the system and have them delivered to any library branch.

Toni Stewart, Diana Liebe and Lynn Hughes present to Lee Tyree of the Lucerne Alpine Senior Center a check for $1,70 on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Courtesy photo.

LUCERNE – A benefit event last month helped raised much-needed funds for a local senior center.

On Thursday members of the Harbor Village Artists presented Lucerne Alpine Senior Center Executive Director Lee Tyree with a check for $1,700.

The funds were from the “Fashions in Bloom” fashion show, which grew from an idea by Lynn Hughes to highlight art and fashion.

Toni Stewart and Diana Liebe took the idea and produced an amazing show.

Stewart said that the success of the show was due to the efforts of all of the artists at the galleries.

The Harbor Village Artists will produce an annual Fashions in Bloom show again next year to showcase art with the latest in fashion.