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As people in New Jersey and New York continue to recover from Hurricane Sandy, the American Red Cross will be handing out thousands of boxes of food before Thanksgiving and also providing about 35,000 hot Thanksgiving meals to people in need.
“As families across America sit down to share a Thanksgiving meal, it’s important to remember that many people in New Jersey and New York are still struggling,” said Jennifer Jones, Disaster Services Director for the California Northwest Region. “Red Cross volunteers will be working throughout the holiday weekend to make sure residents aren’t going hungry.”
So far, 46 trained Red Crossers from the California Northwest region (Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake, Napa, Humboldt and Del Norte counties) have traveled east to help the residents.
Some local volunteers have returned already; others are extending their volunteering past their original deployment; still others are leaving now or in the near future.
Recent deployments have included Regional Red Cross CEO Tim Miller, and three Red Cross volunteers who also are firefighters from the Valley Ford Fire Department.
The Red Cross will deliver about 20,000 boxes of food in New York during Thanksgiving week. These boxes contain enough non-perishable food to feed a family of four for several days; items such as canned sweet potatoes, green beans and corn, and packages of mashed potatoes and rice.
Thousands of boxes were packed by Red Cross volunteers last weekend in Richmond, Va., and additional boxes are being provided through a partnership with Feeding America and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
On Thursday, the Red Cross will serve Thanksgiving lunches – including turkey, mashed potatoes and apple pie – from fixed feeding sites in New Jersey and New York. Red Cross response vehicles will also travel through affected neighborhoods to provide these meals.
This is a continuation of the extensive Red Cross feeding operation that has been underway for weeks, carried out in partnership with the Southern Baptist Convention.
Thanks to the generosity of the American public, the Red Cross has been helping people since before Sandy made landfall, and will continue to help for weeks to come as families get back on their feet.
This is likely to be the largest Red Cross response in the U.S. in the past five years. Nearly 5,100 Red Cross workers are supporting shelters and providing meals and supplies at fixed sites and driving through neighborhoods.
Since Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the Red Cross has:
- Served 6.6 million meals and snacks;
- Distributed 3.9 million relief items, such as hygiene items, cleaning supplies, flashlights, rakes, shovels, tarps, dust masks, work gloves and cold weather items;
- Provided more than 77,000 overnight shelter stays;
- Made more than 77,000 health services and emotional support contacts; and
- Mobilized more than 10,500 trained workers from all 50 states; about 90 percent of these workers are volunteers.
For more information, visit www.redcross.org .
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CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – Three people were seriously hurt in a head-on collision near Clearlake Oaks Tuesday afternoon.
Leslie Uboldi Jr., 52, of Eureka, and Clearlake Oaks residents Robert Roberts, 80, and 64-year-old Mary Reaume were injured in the wreck, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office.
The crash occurred shortly after 2 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 20 and Highway 53, known as the “Y,” the CHP said.
The report from CHP Officer Josh Dye explained that when the crash occurred Uboldi was driving a 2002 Oldsmobile Alero eastbound on Highway 20 approaching Highway 53 in the No. 2 lane at approximately 60 miles per hour.
Roberts, driving a 2002 Chevrolet S-10 pickup with Reaume as his passenger in the front seat, was in the left turn lane of westbound Highway 20 waiting to turn onto southbound Highway 53, Dye said.
Dye’s report said Roberts began to turn left across the intersection while Uboldi failed to slow or stop for the stop sign at the intersection.
The intersection has stop signs at two of its three arms, one for eastbound traffic on Highway 20 and one for traffic turning from Highway 53 onto Highway 20. The westbound lane of Highway 20 and its turn lane do not have stop signs.
Uboldi’s and Roberts’ vehicles hit head-on, with Roberts’ pickup rotating counter clockwise, ejecting Reaume – who was not wearing her seat belt – onto Highway 20, Dye said.
Uboldi’s vehicle rolled off the southeast edge of Highway 53, south of Highway 20, according to Dye.
Dye said all three crash victims were transported to St. Helena Hospital Clear Lake for treatment of major injuries.
He said alcohol use was not suspected as a cause of the crash.
While Reaume was not belted, both Uboldi and Roberts were using their seat belts, Dye said.
The cause of the collision still remains under investigation, Dye reported.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A local man has claimed the prize he won last week in the California Lottery.
Paul Reed of Cobb hit it big playing the California Lottery’s Fantasy 5 game in the Nov. 15 draw.
Reed’s was one of two lucky tickets that matched all five winning numbers – 11, 3, 37, 2 and 7.
He and the second ticket holder – David Gillette, who purchased his ticket in Sacramento and claimed his prize last Friday – each won $179,745.
Reed bought his ticket at Cobb Texaco, 16390 Highway 175.
Reed said he’s been using these numbers for years, believing that they would eventually pay off.
“I got them off of a mailbox. They were an address,” said Reed.
He began putting the numbers in different combinations, until he landed on a grouping that felt right.
Reed has used the numbers in other draw games, but said the real mojo came about when he began giving Fantasy 5 a shot a few months ago.
“I hit three numbers a couple of times,” he said.
That was enough to convince him that he was onto something good.
Reed said the lucky vibe he had in playing last week was so strong that he intentionally waited until after the weekend to check his numbers, hoping to extend the moment.
His feelings were verified when he checked the Lottery’s Web site, but his wife Susan said reality didn’t hit them until they went back to the retailer and saw the winner announcement sign.
“There it was on the door. We jumped up and down. It’s real,” said Susan Reed.
Reed is the second Lake County lottery winner in the past two months.
In early October, Antonio Velasquez, a retired postmaster living in Clearlake Oaks, claimed his $14 million SuperLotto Plus jackpot that he won on a ticket he purchased at the town’s Red and White Store, as Lake County News has reported.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Ten individuals representing Lake County’s professional vineyard work force received accolades Thursday, Nov. 15, when the Lake County Winegrape Commission presented its first graduating class of the Commission’s Master Vigneron Academy.
The graduation and celebration took place in the Lakeport Yacht Club.
The 2012 graduates of the yearlong course are Felix Aguilar and Gabriel Martinez of Bella Vista Farming; Antonio Batres and Alonso Raygoza, Beckstoffer-Red Hills; Tarcisio Corona, Stokes Vineyards; Federico Gonzalez, L & L Vineyards; Gerardo Mendoza, Red Hills Vineyard; Jeronimo Rico, Dorn Vineyards; Jaime Rosas, Lyon Vineyards; and Amador Villalobos, Nissen Vineyard Services.
“You guys are tops,” said Randy Krag to the group of vineyard foremen and supervisors.
Offering congratulations to the class, Krag said the men had each earned the title of “Master Vigneron” by completing the course and pursuing a career path.
In a video presented prior to the introduction of the graduates, Krag said, “It’s the people who make our business work.”
While praising the class’ work over the past year, he reiterated the comment to the approximately 50 people attending the graduation Thursday.
“People are the strength of what we do. (Lake County) is in good shape if our industry is in such capable hands,” Krag said.
Krag, research/education chair for the Lake County Winegrape Commission, has been credited with the concept of the Master Vigneron program.
He explained Thursday that he proposed a program to help develop the professional workforce of vineyard managers.
The experience workers and managers involved in the industry are at the core of the program goals, he said.
Krag and Paul Zellman, director of the Master Vigneron Program, presented each of the graduates with certificates of completion in English and Spanish and a hat sporting the “MV” logo on its band.
Zellman coordinated the monthly meetings of the Master Vigneron Academy and led the group on its visits to wineries and vineyards in Lake County and outlying counties.
Commission Chair Peter Molnar acknowledged the group, noting that the first year of any type of program is usually the hardest but that from what he observed “there is every indication that it was successful.”
Molnar said the Master Vigneron Program is “very important” to the commission, and he thanked Krag for the idea.
The program contributes to professional development and recognition of the workforce leaders while allowing the individuals to stay in Lake County, have their families with them and build their careers, Molnar said.
The graduates were congratulated by Molnar and commission President Shannon Gunier who called the completion of the yearlong program “an amazing accomplishment.” Gunier said the individuals’ recognition was well-deserved.
Honorees, their families and guests of the commission enjoyed lunch and dessert prepared by Chic Le Chef. A selection of Lake County wines was served with lunch.
For information about the Lake County Winegrape Commission and its Master Vigneron Program, visit the commission’s Web site at www.lakecountywinegrape.org .
