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- Written by: James Henderson
Other than the bulk of my Marine Corps experience, dealing with Lake County government hiding malfeasance most definitely is one of those experiences to be missed.
Reality can be a disturbing prospect coming to the terms that all you believed about your government would be only rhetoric, a system serving their ends. There would be no grievance process in place, and using it's a " personnel matter" and can't talk about it so to give credence to justify all actions on their part. Sending complaints back to the same ones you are complaining about. The oath taken is only a procedure for employment and little heed is paid to it past that point.
I had faith but was unaware those I would meet would allow things to get out of hand. So my oddity would begin.
James Henderson lives in Lakeport.
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- Written by: Tami Ipsen
Over 70 volunteers and players came to support the Toys For Kids benefit providing toys at Christmas for unfortunate families in Lake County.
A tri-tip barbecue, donated by Congressman Mike Thompson, followed with a silent auction and raffle prizes. Congressman Mike Thompson’s wife Jan Thompson, thanked the volunteers and golfers for supporting the Toys For Kids. Jan recognized Tami Ipsen, on behalf of Congressman Mike Thompson and herself, for organizing the event with a beautiful hand-painted plate depicting Congressman Mike Thompson’s district.
Many local merchants and key sponsors supported this event and the Toys for Kids board members would like to thank, Crave, Hardester’s Market, Rahoutdoors, Twin Pines Casino, Wildhurst Vineyard, Steele Winery, Winzler and Kelly, Wagner and Bonsignore, CRWA, Gonsalves Family, Bob and Adele Curtain, Coyote Valley Construction, Mel and Connie Aust, Redwood Plumbing, Saw Shop Restaurant, Safeway and Ray's Food Place.
Over $6,000 was raised during this event! Thank you again to all who participated and volunteered!
Tami Ipsen is the administrative assistant at Hidden Valley Lake Community Services District.
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- Written by: Gloria Hovde
Job hunting these days means sitting in front of your computer for endless hours and uploading resumés and filling out job applications … online. Even the well-intentioned folks at the Employment Development Department will advise you to “go to indeed.com or edjoin.com or caljobs.com or ___.com” No people are involved. All job vacancies lead to a Web page.
These are job sites that take their listings from other job listings like Monster.com or Hotjobs.com that take their listings from … well, you get the idea. Often the job you’re interested in no longer exists. If the job does exist, you are told to “Apply Now.” That usually means you have to upload your resumé to their Web site. Your resumé is then added to a giant database of resumés that include thousands of job applicants from all over the nation if not all over the world.
Once in a while, a job listing will actually take you to a company’s Web site. That just happened to me. I found out Oracle Corp. has job openings at their facility near Ukiah, not too far from Lake County. Hallelujah! Progress at last!
So I clicked on the “Apply Now” button. Once at the Oracle iRecruitment Web site, I uploaded my resumé, then was asked to copy and paste potions of the resumé to their own application. Except that once finished, the job matches included positions all over the world, including Bangalore, India. Mmmm … too far away from Lake County.
Five minutes later, I received an email from Oracle iRecruitment asking me to click on a link to verify my registration on their Web site or my registration would be deleted. Except that the link didn’t work. So I emailed my ISP. Tech support said it wasn’t at their end and to contact Oracle informing them that the link didn’t work. So I did. And the next dsay received a response in German.
I long for the days when you could walk into a company or employment agency not far from where you lived and hand them your resumé. It was nice to be acknowledged, to be able to look into the eyes of another human being and discuss the possibilities.
Gloria Hovde lives in Lower Lake.
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- Written by: Aqeela El-Amin Bakheit and Rick Mayo
Chief Alan McClain was on hand to draw the winning ticket which went to local supporter, Kevin Ness of Clearlake.
We appreciate the overwhelming support from local community patrons and the business community.
Thank you again for making this fundraiser a success.
Aqeela El-Amin Bakheit is president of the local NAACP branch and Rick Mayo is first vice president. They both live in Clearlake.
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