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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club is once again offering the $1,000 Elizabeth Whitehead Memorial Scholarship.
Applicants should be seniors in high school or students who have graduated from a Lake County high school and are continuing their education.
The scholarship is open to students majoring in botany, conservation, entomology, floriculture, forestry, horticulture, landscape architecture/design, biology or plant genetics, urban planning, agriculture, environmental science or related fields.
To be eligible, students must plan to enter the work force in one of these fields of study. Past recipients may apply.
Students must have a 2.75 GPA or better to apply, and may be attending or planning to attend an academic or vocational school as a full-time student in the 2012-13 school year.
Applicants must submit two letters of recommendation, a recent photograph that is suitable for duplication, and a transcript with SAT or ACT tests if these tests have been taken.
Applications are available from counselors or scholarship coordinators at Clear Lake High, Kelseyville High, Upper Lake High, Middletown and Lower Lake High School, as well as at Mendocino and Yuba Colleges.
Scholarship applications and supporting materials must be received by April 15, 2013, to be considered.
Please call club President Leanne Harvey at 707-263-0850 for more information or if you are unable to locate an application.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – At its Jan. 10 meeting the Yuba Community College District governing board approved a project to retrofit antiquated parking lot lighting that will save the district a total of $3,213,425 over a 25-year period.
The project, funded in part by California Energy Commission (CEC) low interest loan will improve lighting efficiency on the Yuba College, Woodland Community College and Clearlake campuses.
In addition, the district entered into a partnership with PG&E to receive $132,000 in incentives through the California Community Colleges and Investor-Owned Utility Energy Efficiency Partnership Rebate Program.
Exterior lights, including pathway, flood and canopy lights, as well as parking lot lights will be upgraded to Light Emitting Diode (LED) Technology at the three campuses and will reduce energy consumption by 63 percent saving the District an estimated $76,242 in the first year alone.
“This is a fiscally positive project,” said YCCD Director of Facilities Planning George Parker.
The new LED Lighting System has a lifecycle of 25 years which consume 50 percent to 75 percent less energy, require less maintenance and have extended hours of operation.
The technologically advanced LED lighting system delivers a clean, white light that is closer to daylight, at improved light levels and will enhance campus safety.
Yuba Community College District has 1,747 interior and exterior lighting fixtures which produce a baseline usage of 881,000 kilowatt hours.
“This is a sound decision that more than pays for itself between the energy savings and the avoided costs to continue to replace the expensive old style lights. The district will redirect the annual and overall cost savings into academic program support,” said YCCD Chancellor Dr. Douglas Houston.
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U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Thursday introduced new legislation to strengthen safety at schools and ensure that state and local officials are able to secure their campuses and protect students.
“We owe it to our children and our grandchildren to ensure that they are safe when they are at school,” Boxer said. “This legislation would give local communities and schools that want to strengthen security the opportunity for new resources and tools to help keep students safe.”
Boxer’s first bill – the School Safety Enhancements Act – would strengthen and expand the Justice Department’s existing COPS Secure Our Schools grants program to provide schools with more resources to install tip lines, surveillance equipment, secured entrances and other important safety measures.
Currently, the COPS Secure Our Schools program requires a 50 percent local match. Boxer’s bill would allow the Justice Department to reduce the local share to 20 percent for schools with limited resources.
The bill also creates a joint task force between the Justice Department and the Department of Education to develop new school safety guidelines, and would increase the Secure Our Schools authorization from $30 million to $100 million.
Boxer’s second bill – the School Resource and Safety Officer Act – would help safeguard America’s schools by using community policing strategies to prevent violence and improve student safety.
The bill would make grants available to local governments to place trained and sworn career law enforcement officials at schools in their jurisdiction.
Cities and school districts that meet the requirements could receive grants of up to $200,000 for each “School Resource and Safety Officer.”
Boxer’s third bill – the Save Our Students (SOS) Act – would allow the federal government to reimburse Governors who want to use National Guard troops to help ensure that our nation’s schools are safe.
This legislation is modeled after a successful National Guard program – in place since 1989 – that allows Governors to use the Guard to assist with law enforcement efforts related to drug interdiction activities.
Under the program, Guard troops could support local law enforcement efforts to keep schools safe, including assisting with security upgrades and relieving local police so officers are able to do more patrols at schools.
The National Guard has said it is “particularly well suited for domestic law enforcement support missions” because it is “located in over 3,000 local communities throughout the nation, readily accessible, routinely exercised with local first responders, and experienced in supporting neighboring communities.”
Boxer has said Congress should enact school safety legislation as part of a comprehensive response to gun violence in America, which would include enacting sensible gun measures – such as expanded background checks, a ban on high-capacity clips and an assault weapons ban – and ensuring that the mentally ill and criminals are not able to purchase guns.
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STEPHENVILLE, Texas – Chanel Reese of Witter Springs, Calif., recently was named to Tarleton State University's Distinguished Students List for the fall 2012 semester.
Reese is enrolled at the university's Stephenville campus, and is majoring in interdisciplinary business.
Students on the list include freshman and sophomore students who have a minimum 3.25 grade point ratio (GPR) and no grade lower than a “C,” nd juniors and seniors who have a minimum 3.5 GPR with no grade lower than a “C.”
All must be in good standing with the university.