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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Lake Family Resource Center is commemorating Domestic Violence Awareness Month throughout October.
The first event will be a Clothesline Event from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4.
Lake Family Resource Center’s Kelseyville office at 5350 Main St. in Kelseyville will be the site of the Domestic Violence Clothesline Workshop and T-Shirt Display on that day.
The workshop will be available for those who wish to honor a loved one, a domestic violence survivor or victim.
The resulting display of the art t-shirts bearing witness to violence against women, men and children will be hung for public viewing until Friday, Oct. 5.
Shirts created that day will be hung again next year as part of the continuing display of art honoring domestic violence survivors and victims. Shirts and pants are being provided for the art. Don’t miss the opportunity to make a statement.
Lake Family Resource Center is determined to call awareness to the tragedy of domestic violence in the hope of ending it in Lake County.
Lake Family Resource Center provides a multitude of services to build family stability and strength. The agency supports Lake County residents in achieving stable, self-sufficient, and healthy families and communities.
Call 707-279-0563 for more information.
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – With California entering what is traditionally one of its worst fire months, state fire officials said a burn permit suspension remains in effect for Lake and neighboring counties, with residents urged to be cautious as the fire season continues.
The 2012 fire season has so far been particularly active. Cal Fire reported that the season to date has shown a 20-percent increase in fire activity compared to the five-year average, with 150 new fires burning nearly 3,000 acres during the past week alone.
Dry weather conditions are continuing to cause high fire danger, with the fire season far from over, according to fire officials.
“October is often the time when the state experiences the largest, most devastating wildfires,” Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said in the agency’s weekly “Fire Situation Report” on Monday.
As if to illustrate the point, on Monday afternoon, the Flynn Fire near Comptche in Mendocino County was sparked, burning 200 acres and five structures by nightfall, as Lake County News has reported. As of Monday night the fire was only 5 percent contained.
Due to the continuing fire concerns, the Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit reported that residents in its coverage area – including Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Colusa and Yolo counties – must continue to abide by the burn permit suspension the agency issued on Aug. 15 due to concerns for increased fire activity.
At the same time, a burn ban remains in effect in Lake County.
Although the fire season’s activity has been reduced, Cal Fire said the wildland fuels are still at record levels of dryness, with the Energy Release Component, or ERC – which is a measure of the intensity with which a wildland fire will burn – at a critical level.
As the ERC is a good measure of seasonal drought, it will not become less critical until the first significant rain, Cal Fire said.
Cal Fire said its permit suspension affects all burning on lands within the State Responsibility Area as well as those lands protected by Cal Fire by contract.
The suspension includes all burning requiring permits, including dooryard, agricultural, forest management, hazard abatement, fire training and industrial burning. Cal Fire said campfires within organized campgrounds or on private property are allowed in designated sites which prevent the fire from spreading.
In addition to keeping the burn ban suspension in place, Cal Fire asks area residents to use caution when using power equipment such as mowers, weed eaters, tractors, chainsaws or ATVs in the wildland.
Suspicious activity can be reported to the Cal Fire Arson Hotline at 1-800-468-4408.
For more fire safety tips visit www.readyForWildfire.org or the Cal Fire Web site at www.fire.ca.gov .
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The winner of a $14 million lottery ticket purchased last week in Clearlake Oaks is set to be announced on Tuesday afternoon.
The California State Lottery will hold a Tuesday news conference in Sacramento during which the lucky ticket holder, so far not named publicly, will be introduced.
The individual purchased the SuperLotto Plus ticket at the Red and White Store, located at 12580 Highway 20 in Clearlake Oaks, as Lake County News has reported.
During the Saturday night SuperLotto Plus drawing, only two tickets matched all five numbers – 3, 4, 27, 30, 39 – plus the Mega number of 3.
The Clearlake Oaks ticket and a second purchased in Milpitas are splitting the $28 million jackpot. The second ticket holder has so far not come forward.
Lottery officials said each ticket is worth an estimated cash option amount of $10.3 million.
Thanks to selling the lucky ticket, the Red and White Store will receive $70,000.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A stabbing was reported to have occurred Monday night at Austin Park in Clearlake.
The incident was first reported just after 10 p.m., when firefighters were dispatched to the lake side of the park, which is located at 14077 Lakeshore Drive.
There were no details immediately available about the identity of the stabbing victim, who had been wounded in the chest, according to reports from the scene.
Several Lake County Fire Protection District units responded to the scene, with an air ambulance being requested to respond to transport the victim, radio reports indicated.
A landing zone was set up at Austin Park, across from the Clearlake Police Department, with REACH 1 landing at about 10:45 p.m., according to radio reports.
REACH 1 reported lifting off at approximately 11:07 p.m., en route to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
Five minutes after REACH had departed, firefighters were dispatched back to Austin Park, to the same location where the stabbing victim had been located, on the report of a person having an asthma attack.
Paramedics reported leaving the scene shortly before 11:40 p.m., with the patient being released to the Clearlake Police Department.
Additional details about the incident will be published as they become available.
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