LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Parish of St. Mary Immaculate in Lakeport will hold a crab feed fundraiser on Saturday, March 1.

The event will be held at the church, located at 801 N. Main St.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the dinner beginning at 6 p.m.

There will be a no host bar, silent auction and dessert auction.

Tickets are $45 per person.

The crab feed will raise funds for the church's youth programs, specifically, religious education.

For tickets call Pat Lambert at 707-245-7280 or come by the Farmers Insurance office in the Bruno's Shopping Center on Lakeport Boulevard.

LOWER LAKE, Calif. – The Lake County Democratic Central Committee regular monthly meeting is being pushed back one week due to the many committee members attending the California State Democratic Party Convention being held in Los Angeles March 7-9.

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Lower Lake Methodist Church at 16255 Second St. A map is available here: http://goo.gl/maps/A8oiW .
 
Guest speakers for the March 13 meeting will be Herb Gura, candidate for the Lake County Board of Supervisors District 3 seat, Dan Rush of United Food and Commercial Workers International and Victoria Brandon of the Lake County Sierra Club.

Brandon will address Measure L, the proposed Lake County Watershed Protection Authority Transactions and Use Tax ordinance. The measure will appear on the June ballot in Lake County.
 
The agenda for the March 13 meeting also includes reports from representatives for Congressmen Mike Thompson and John Garamendi, Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada and state Sen. Noreen Evans, as well as reports from Stonewall Democratic Club Chair Essie Coons and representative from the Lake County Democratic Club, Paula Mune.
 
Meetings are open to the public and committee membership is open to all registered Democrats.
 
The Lake County Democratic Central Committee is the official governing body of the Democratic Party in Lake County.
 
For more information about the Democratic party in Lake County visit www.lakecountydemocrats.org and check out the group's Facebook page, www.facebook.com/LakeCountyDemocrats .
 
Contact the Democratic Party of Lake County at 707-533-4885 or by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Napa County Supervisor and Fourth Assembly District candidate Bill Dodd will host a meet-and-greet to discuss his candidacy and the challenges facing Lake County and the state of California on Thursday, Feb. 27.

The event will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Kelsey Creek Brewing Co., 3945 Main Street, Kelseyville.

Complimentary food and beverages will be served.

Dodd is a Democrat from Napa County. After a successful 25-year business career, he has served four terms on the Napa County Board of Supervisors.

Now, he's seeking to represent the 4th Assembly District, which includes all of Napa and Lake Counties, and portions of Colusa, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo counties.

Community leaders who have endorsed Dodd include Supervisor Anthony Farrington, District Attorney Don Anderson, Dr. David Browning, former Supervisor Ed Robey, Clearlake City Council member Gina Fortino Dickson, Supervisor Jeff Smith, Supervisor Jim Comstock, Clearlake City Council member Joyce Overton, Walt and Madelene Lyon, Lakeport Mayor Kenny Parlet, Dr. Mark Cooper, Lakeport Mayor Pro Tem Martin Scheel, Peter Windrem, and Lakeport City Council members Stacey Mattina and Tom Engstrom.

For more information, visit Dodd's Web site at http://www.billdodd.com/ or his Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/DoddforAssembly2014 .

UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The Redwood Empire Civil War Roundtable will have its next presentation on Monday, March 3, at the Tallman Hotel in Upper Lake, starting at 6:15 p.m.

Roundtable co-founders Zane Jensen and Phil Smoley will each being doing a presentation dealing with events that occurred 150 years ago in March.

Jensen will focus on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who was appointed supreme commander of all Union armies in March 1864.

Jensen will review Grant's biography and his planned strategies for the coming spring campaign.

Smoley will address all the other happenings going in the country during March 1864, including the Red River Campaign in Louisiana, the Dahlgren Raid on Richmond and the political situation at the time.

The Civil War Roundtable meets once a month to discuss topics related to that war, and is attempting to review the war month by month. The group was founded to coincide with the Sesquicentennial of the conflict.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

For more information, contact Phil Smoley, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 707-264-4905, or Zane Jensen, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 707-349-6390.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – Jack in the Box and Kelseyville Elementary School are partnering for a benefit on Tuesday, March 4.

The benefit will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. at the restaurant, 41 Soda Bay Road, Lakeport.

Mention Kelseyville Elementary School to the cashier or present one of the fliers for the event and Jack in the Box will donate 50 percent of the purchase to the school.

Principal Gleason, Mrs. Grock, Mr. Ferrel and Mr. Gutierrez also will be on hand to take your order.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A group of local college students is planning a bake sale to benefit the Lower Lake High School Dance Team.

The fundraiser will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at Foods Etc., 15290 Lakeshore Drive, Clearlake.

Stop by and support the effort to keep Lake Lake High students dancing.