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- Written by: Elizabeth Larson
The Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce and Adventist Health Clear Lake have partnered to sponsor the competition that urges businesses to light up for the holidays.
The contest covers the south county towns of Middletown, Hidden Valley Lake, Lower Lake, Clearlake, Spring Valley and Clearlake Oaks/Glenhaven.
Judging will take place on Monday, Dec. 19.
The first place prize is $1,000, second place is $500 and third place is $250.
To enter your business with the Clear lake Chamber of Commerce call 707-994-3600 or email
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“The management of scarcity is failing,” Johansson told the gathering. “It’s time now to reimplement the management of bounty, which made California great.”
California’s nearly 70,000 farms and ranches produce more than 400 commodities as the nation’s leading food producer. But a recent University of California, Merced, study estimates that an additional 750,000 acres of farmland in the state were fallowed this year due a third year of drought and cuts in state and federal water deliveries to agriculture.
Johansson stressed that such an outcome may have been avoided had California delivered on the $7.1 billion water infrastructure bond approved by state voters in 2014. He said the state has failed to update its water system to meet the needs of California farms and communities as well as the challenges of a drier climate.
The consequences for agriculture are aggravated, Johansson said, by policies that stem from a mindset of working within the limits of scarcity — of adapting to a changing environment by paring down California’s agricultural potential.
Instead, Johansson said, new water storage and groundwater recharge projects can capture and store water in wet years for dry years and help protect and grow California’s food production.
“Change is inevitable,” Johansson said. “We understand change in agriculture. But what we struggle with is a state that doesn’t have a plan of how we make those changes based on principles.”
Johansson said, “We can continue in agriculture to make a difference, feed the world and more importantly prosper our communities.”
The California Farm Bureau works to protect family farms and ranches on behalf of nearly 29,000 members statewide and as part of a nationwide network of 5.3 million Farm Bureau members.
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Lake County Blue Zones Project held a ribbon cutting ceremony and cooking demonstration in honor of the designation on Nov. 3 at the store.
Foods Etc. is located at 15290 Lakeshore Drive in Clearlake.
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- Written by: California Department of Food and Agriculture
The workshop is being offered by the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Partnerships & Public Engagement in partnership with the Fresno State University Jordan College of Agriculture and Division of Research and Graduate Studies.
Workshop topics include:
• How to register on www.grants.gov;
• Proposal development process;
• Submission requirements;
• Workplan;
• Partnerships;
• Grant writing tips.
Click here to register for the workshop.
For more information, please contact