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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Burns Valley School Red Ribbon Week took place Oct. 21-25.
The National Campaign chose this years theme as “A Healthy Me is Drug Free.”
Burns Valley students commemorated this theme with a door decorating contest, dress-up days, lunchtime learning and presentations.
The week began with the students receiving bracelets reminding them to be drug free.
A “smoothie bike,” on loan from North Coast Opportunities, helped students to get activity while choosing healthy snacks.
Lake County Public Health Department hosted a booth on campus to show students the dangers of smoking.
Burns Valley seventh and eight graders also participated in a Team DUI presentation where they learned how their choices about drinking and driving can make a difference and save lives.
The students culminated the week with hula hoop and basketball hoop contests.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport Christian Center Preschool students were excited to show off their new playground at their Harvest Party on Friday, Oct 25.
The preschool thanked Chris Landrum of Landrum Construction and Julie Landrum as well as Mike Overson for all the hard work they did installing the playground.
Lakeport Christian Center Preschool still has a couple of spots available in their preschool/pre-k/daycare programs and enrollment is always open. The preschool is NCO-approved.
Visit the school at 175 C St. or call 707-262-5520.
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UKIAH, Calif. – On Saturday, Oct. 26, students in the Sustainable Technology program at Mendocino College will be replacing approximately 20 windows at Project Sanctuary’s transition house in Ukiah.
Lia Patterson, local Realtor from Re/Max Full Spectrum and recent graduate of Leadership Mendocino, has organized the “Adopt a Window” campaign which has raised money to replace the building’s old single pane windows.
The new dual pane windows will increase energy efficiency, reduce heating costs, and improve comfort in the building.
Orion Walker, coordinator of the Sustainable Tech program at Mendocino College and Leadership Mendocino alum, first heard about the effort when a fellow Leadership Mendocino graduate contacted him with the idea that the Sustainable Tech program could provide Project Sanctuary with skilled volunteers to install the windows.
“I immediately thought this would be a great opportunity,” said Walker. “It will give students in our Construction Fundamentals class an opportunity to apply the skills they are learning in a real world setting, while assisting an important local nonprofit.”
The construction students, who are currently building a fully contained tiny mobile house on wheels, will take a class day to complete the window installation work under the guidance of course instructor Jen Riddell, as well as additional local contractors who have agreed to volunteer their assistance.
Patterson, who has spent the last eight months soliciting donations and making arrangements for the window installation, says she got the idea for this Leadership Mendocino project when she read Dina Polkinghorne, executive director of Project Sanctuary’s 2013 New Years wish: “To have no repairs or problems with either of our shelters this year.”
“I immediately wanted to do something to help make that a reality,” said Patterson.
Project Sanctuary is thrilled to see this project coming together as it will greatly improve the comfort of the house and help on heating costs.
This is especially important for its residents, as the 100-year-old building is used for displaced families to live in for up to one year, rent free, so that they are able to get back on their feet by securing a job and saving money to move out on their own.
A fundraising tri-tip dinner is also scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 16, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at 300 W. Smith St in Ukiah.
Tickets are $25 for one or two for $40. Dinner will be provided as well as live music and a silent auction.
Tickets can be purchased at the Mendocino Book Co. or Project Sanctuary.
All proceeds will go toward Project Sanctuary’s window project including other necessary repairs to the transitional house.
Project Sanctuary is a domestic violence and sexual assault agency serving the entire County. The organization provides emergency response, 24-hour, seven-day-a-week counseling, legal advocacy, and long term individual and group counseling to more than 2,000 survivors.
For more information on Leadership Mendocino contact Kimberly Smith at 707-467-3230 or go to www.leadershipmendocino.org .
For more information on Project Sanctuary contact Dina Polkinghorne at 707-462-9196 or www.projectsanctuary.org .
For more information on the Sustainable Technology Program at Mendocino College contact Orion Walker,
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Big Read, a National Endowment for the Arts Program, in partnership with Arts Midwest, proceeds into another programming week with the final weekend program featuring local authors and young talent.
Prior to the weekend, young adults can participate in a book discussion and activity on Tuesday afternoon at the Harbor on Main in Lower Lake.
The Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum will feature its final film screening by showing the acclaimed Chinese language movie (with subtitles), “Raise the Red Lantern,” on Thursday at 6 p.m. Admission is free. Lower Lake and Carlé High School students may receive extra credit for their attendance.
This Saturday, local author Alethea Eason will facilitate a free writing workshop at the Middletown library, beginning at 10 a.m. Participants will emerge from the session with a fiction piece that explores a “ghost” from their past, opening the door to a tale that is waiting to be told.
For information, contact Eason, author of "Heron’s Path" and "Hungry" at
On Sunday, the Friends of Mendocino College will host local author and past Lake County poet laureate Carolyn Wing Greelee at 3 p.m. in the campus Round Room on the Lake Campus. Greenlee will discuss the power of books to change lives in her presentation, “Lalu, Joy Luck, and Growing up Chinese in America – making peace with who you are, the power of story.”
The Big Read is designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
Lake County is one of 77 communities across the country to receive a 2013-14 Big Read grant award.
For more information, visit the www.NEABigRead.org Web site or contact program director for the Lake County Big Read, Robin Fogel-Shrive, at