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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club has awarded former Middletown High School student Lindee Jones a second $1000 scholarship
Last year the club also awarded Jones its annual $1000 scholarship for a student who desires to further their education in the horticultural or agricultural fields.
Jones, who graduated from Middletown High School in 2012, attended Shasta Community College this past year.
During her high school years she was very active in Lake County FFA, 4-H, and High School Rodeo, as well as putting more than 100 hours of her time into community service activities.
She intends to complete her AA degree in environmental horticulture at Shasta Community College and is also taking classes to prepare her for the pest control advisor exam.
As part of Jones’ scholarship application to the CLT&TGC, Leimone Waite, a horticultural instructor at Shasta Community College, wrote, “Lindee lives in our farm dorms and is assigned as the student worker to our Horticulture Program’s five greenhouses. She is responsible for the watering and care of the greenhouse plants. Lindee … is always willing to pitch in and participate in the many activities we hold on our college farm. She is a welcome addition to our Horticulture Department and I recommend her highly.”
The CLT&TGC members raise funds for their yearly $1000 scholarship award by making beautiful holiday wreaths out of local, fresh foliage.
“We are thrilled to again award this scholarship to such a hard working and competent young leader,” said club President Carol Dobusch.
The Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club welcomes new members and more information can be found on their website, www.clttgc.org .
The club meets on the third Tuesday of every month (except July and August) for a lunch and garden-based program at noon at the Scott’s Valley Women’s Clubhouse, 2298 Hendricks Road, Lakeport.
CLT&TGC is a member of Mendo-Lake District, California Garden Club Inc., Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs Inc.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Chapter of California Women for Agriculture (LCCWA) is offering Lake County classrooms the opportunity to apply for mini-grants to fund agriculture-related educational projects.
All Lake County classrooms from kindergarten through eighth grade are eligible to apply; projects must have an agriculture-focus.
“Our chapter is very excited to be in a position to offer these mini-grants to our community’s classrooms,” LCCWA President Annette Hopkins said. “Kids often have no idea where their food or clothing comes from. We hope that these grants will provide the spark that will enable our community’s classrooms to show local kids how important agriculture is in their daily life.”
LCCWA incoming president, Sharron Zoller, added, “So far this year, we’ve awarded mini-grants to the Kelseyville Kids Garden Club, the Mt. Vista Middle School Garden Project and the Cobb Mountain Elementary School Garden Club. We want to get the word out about this opportunity for the 2013-14 school year.”
The mini-grant application can be found at the chapter's Web site, www.lakecountycwa.org , under the “scholarship” tab.
To learn more about the Lake County Chapter of California Women for Agriculture, visit www.lakecountycwa.org .
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Nura Brown, a recent graduate of Carlé High School in Lower Lake, was the recipient of the 2013 Frank Meisenbach Scholarship.
Brown received the scholarship award last week and will use the funds to further her education at Yuba College this fall.
She plans to pursue a course of study with an emphasis on water resources.
The scholarship presentation was made by Charlotte Griswold, president of the board of directors of the East Lake Resource Conservation District (ELRCD), Board member Victoria Brandon and Lois Meisenbach.
The East Lake RCD established the scholarship in 2012 in memory of Frank Meisenbach, a long-term Board member in the district, community leader and farmer.
Meisenbach had a special interest and passion for educating youth about the natural resources of Lake County. This scholarship will continue that legacy.
Community members from throughout the county have stepped forward to fund the scholarship that will be awarded each year to deserving students who have an interest in natural resources, agriculture, environmental sciences or a related field.
Meisenbach had made a commitment to educate the community about the importance of agriculture and natural resources within the county, and he believed the best way to educate the community was to start with children and young adults.
The East Lake RCD hopes to continue Meisenbach's vision and mission through this scholarship. He was a true believer in the power of education to create local heroes who will sustain a healthy environment for all citizens. Nura Brown is one of those heroes.
Individuals and organizations wishing to contribute to the Frank Meisenbach Scholarship Fund can contact the East Lake RCD at 707-263-4180.
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Lake County International Charter School (LCICS) in Middletown is proud to announce the reinstatement of the eighth grade for the upcoming 2013-14 school year, their ninth year of operations, as well as the continuation of small class sizes and a free and reduced lunch program.
“Three years ago we made the decision to reduce from a K-8 to a K-6 to consolidate our classes on one site,” said LCICS Director Gwendolyn Maupin-Ahern stated. “We did this because of the state budget cuts and the need to keep our school fiscally strong, and it worked. Last year we added back in the seventh grade, and this year several of our students who started kindergarten in LCICS's very first year expressed a desire to remaining at LCICS through their eighth grade year. It was important to us to find a way to make that happen, and fiscally it makes our school even stronger.”
LCICS has always had multi-age classrooms, much like St. Helena Unified’s excellent Multi-Age Program (MAP), allowing for increased flexibility for grade configurations as well as for the students within each class.
“We can shift our grade combinations each year based on the classroom populations, and within each classroom we can group students by abilities rather than just by age,” Maupin-Ahern said. “This creates a learning environment based on the individual strengths and weaknesses of each student rather than just on their age and grade.”
She added, "This coming year we will have four classrooms – a kindergarten/first, a second/third, a fourth/fifth/sixth and a sixth/seventh/eighth. We will continue to have our small classroom environment with a maximum of 24 students for the K/first and 25 for the older classes."
To add the 4th classroom, LCICS will move the sixth/seventh/eighth class to a property across the street from the main campus.
The building, formerly used as a Judo dojo, is being renovated to create one large classroom and the outdoor area will provide additional room for exercise and the gardening program.
“We have also hired an additional teacher, Karlene Barnes, who will join our three current, long-time teachers, Pamela Kirkpatrick, Sheamus Kennedy and Andrew Vance,” Maupin-Ahern said.
LCICS will continue to provide a daily lunch program in cooperation with the Middletown Unified School District (MUSD), supplementing with vegetables from the student-grown garden whenever possible Based on family income, students are able to receive a hot lunch for free or a very small fee.
“We started the program in the spring of 2012, and it has been well received by the kids and their families,” Maupin-Ahern said. “We’re so pleased to be able to offer this to our students, and thank MUSD for helping us make it happen.”
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