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- Written by: Shannon Tolson
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – “The End of the Line,” Second Sunday Cinema’s free film for Sept. 9, is a compelling documentary on the scary results of over-fishing by factory fishing boats all over the planet’s oceans.
If things continue as they are now, many experts predict that the oceans will be fished out by 2048.
Considering that fish are the major source of protein for over a billion of the world’s inhabitants, this is something that needs our urgent attention and action.
Some might ask, well, if we just stop industrialized fishing operations, won’t the fish quickly rebound?
Not necessarily.
Within the last quarter century, there were vast schools of cod off the Newfoundland coast. Due to plummeting numbers, fishing for cod was made illegal there a few years ago.
But this has has proved to be too little to late. Cod have not rebounded. There are too few at this point to reliably find each other to reproduce, and drag-trawling in many places scrapes the sea floor clean, destroying fish nurseries.
But on a positive note, this film tells us how we each, as individuals, can make a positive difference in the fate of many edible fish species.
As always, Second Sunday Cinema’s venue is the Clearlake United Methodist Church at 14521 Pearl Ave, in Clearlake.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.; the film will start at 6 p.m.
The film is completely free.
For more information, call Shannon Tolson at 707-889-7355.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Arts Council will host its next First Friday Fling on Sept. 7.
The fling will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Main Street Gallery, 325 N. Main St., Lakeport.
The First Friday Fling will introduce the work of Carmon Brittain, Judy Cardinale, John Hart, Karon Thomas and Terri Pyle.
Currently showing at the gallery are Bruce Vandraiss, Lois Freon, Linda Becker, Carol Yanagitsubo, Leonora McKenzie, George Waterstaat and Heidi Thomason.
Cathy Hall will provide music and Moore Family Winery will pour its vintages. Finger food also will be offered.
This month the Linda Carpenter Gallery again will feature an exhibition of “Summer of Peace” art.
For more information contact the Lake County Arts Council, 707-263-6658.
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- Written by: Marg Brooks
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Theater Co. is continuing rehearsals for “The Cemetery Club,” a comedy by Ivan Menchell.
The production is a benefit for the Lakeport Senior Activity Center “Meals-On-Wheels” program, which provides food to home bound seniors throughout Lake County.
With more than 60,000 meals being provided each year, the expenses are huge, and cuts in funding have made it necessary to do fundraisers to supplement the costs. Seeing a great show is a fun way to help out.
There is nothing more satisfying for a director than to have a strong cast a well as a competent crew when putting on a play.
The cast consists of Cindy Strong (Lucille), Kathleen Escude (Doris) and Cathy O’Connell (Ida). They portray three Jewish widows who have been friends for years.
After the respective deaths of their husbands, they get together once a month for tea and to go clean up their husband’s cemetery plots.
Their interaction with each other as they go about their daily lives is the stuff that makes life interesting with many quirky and humorous scenes.
Doug Burns (Sam the Butcher) brings a sense of adventure and maybe romance to the story and Michele Chapman (Mildred), surprises everyone when she arrives on the scene.
These five performers make a perfect ensemble for this funny and poignant play.
Marg Brooks is the director, with Maheanani Phillips as her able assistant director. Cindy Strong is producer and Wink Winkler does his magic with the sets, lights and sound. Winkler will be assisted in painting the sets by Mike Ernst, a very talented artist. Josh Blair is stage manager.
Performances will take place at the Lakeport Senior Activity Center with a dinner show opening night.
Production dates are Friday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m.); Saturday, Sept. 22, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Friday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m.; and Saturday, September 29, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Tickets for the dinner show are $20 and all other performances are $12, and can be purchased at the Lakeport Senior activity Center, 527 Konocti Ave. from 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, telephone 707-263-4218; The Salon at High Street Village, 1847 North High St., Lakeport, telephone 707-413-7250; and Cheese’s Main Street Pizza, 145 N. Main St., Lakeport, telephone 707-263-0777.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
Perhaps by the time this column appears, our economy will have improved and people who want to work can find good work.
Minnie Bruce Pratt, who lives in Syracuse, N.Y., has a new book, mentioned below, in which there are a number of poems about the difficulties of finding work and holding on to it. Here’s an example:
Temporary Job
Leaving again. If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t be
grieving. The particulars of place lodged in me,
like this room I lived in for eleven days,
how I learned the way the sun laid its palm
over the side window in the morning, heavy
light, how I’ll never be held in that hand again.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2011 by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her most recent book of poems, Inside the Money Machine, Carolina Wren Press, 2011. Reprinted by permission of Minnie Bruce Pratt and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2012 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.