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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Fair has agreed to provide management services to the Dixon May Fair for the period of February through May of 2012.
Dixon May Fair, which is located in the Solano County town of Dixon, is scheduled for May 10-13.
Dixon May Fair has been without a chief executive officer since September of 2011, when the previous CEO left to pursue other opportunities.
Reacting to state budget issues has caused many operational changes at fairgrounds throughout California.
The Dixon May Fair’s board of directors decided not to immediately fill the CEO position, and instead requested an agreement with the Lake County Fair for CEO Richard Persons to provide managerial leadership through Dixon's annual event, Persons reported Monday.
Persons, who has been the CEO at the Lake County Fair since November of 1996, is expected to spend two days per week in Dixon, along with the entire week of the Dixon May Fair.
The agreement specifies a maximum of forty-two days of work between February and the end of May. The total agreement has a value of $27,300 if all 42 days are used.
Dixon May Fair will reimburse the Lake County Fair for 100 percent of Persons’ salary, benefits and retirement for each day he spends in Dixon, and also will pay all travel and other costs associated with the arrangement.
If the arrangement is successful, a longer-term agreement may be possible, which would result in a cost savings to both fairgrounds.
“The timing with Dixon is perfect,” said Persons. “They are hitting the really busy time before the annual fair now, then just as they return to normal after the May Fair, we hit that really busy time in Lakeport starting in June.”
He added, “Besides the obvious financial benefits for each fair, this arrangement also allows me to see how things are done at another fairgrounds, and to help them with my knowledge of what works well here. The two operations are very similar, with nearly identical size fairgrounds and similar sized staffs. Unless the State finds a way to fund the fairground facilities it owns, I think there probably will be more cost sharing arrangements like this in the future.”
Fairgrounds throughout California have made many operational changes to deal with the loss of all state funding.
Payroll is the largest single expense at most fairgrounds, and Lake County Fair issued layoff notices to 50 percent of its full-time staff in February 2011, Persons said. The affected individuals eventually opted to retire, and the fair has left the positions vacant.
Dixon May Fair also has reduced staff at a similar rate, he said.
The Dixon May Fair board of directors approved the agreement on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and the Lake County Fair board of directors gave its approval on Monday, Feb. 13, Persons reported.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Lake County will return once more in May, with the ninth annual event offering the community the chance to take part in the fight against cancer while allowing family and friends an important venue for remembrance and healing.
Teams will gather at Clear Lake High School in Lakeport on Saturday, May 19, at 10 a.m. for the overnight relay against cancer, with walkers going around the clock.
Relay For Life is a family-oriented team event where participants walk relay-style around the track and take part in fun activities off the track.
Teams can include coworkers, club members, family and friends and have gathered donations prior to the event.
“Relay For Life is a unique opportunity for our community to come together to celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember those we’ve lost, and fight back against the disease,” said Marshele Bennett.
“Many of the participants are cancer survivors – anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer – which serves as a reminder that our community is not immune to this disease and we can actually help our friends, families and neighbors that have been touched by cancer,” she added.
The public also is invited to attend the luminaria ceremony, which will take place after sundown.
To honor the community’s cancer survivors and to remember those lost to the disease, survivors will circle the track rimmed with glowing luminaria while the names of survivors and those lost to the disease are read aloud. Luminaria can be purchased for any donation amount at the event.
Funds raised at Relay For Life will enable the American Cancer Society to support local services and resources for cancer patients and their families.
Funds also support critical cancer research and community education programs designed to teach people how to reduce their risk of developing cancer.
Relay For Life events will be held in more than 300 communities throughout California, raising $36 million for the fight against cancer.
To locate a Relay For Life event and find out how you can get involved, please call 1-800-ACS-2345 or visit www.RelayForLife.org.
The American Cancer Society is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by saving lives, diminishing suffering and preventing cancer through research, education, advocacy and service.
For more information, call 1-800-ACS-2345 or visit www.cancer.org.
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rolled through a remote area of far Northern California Monday afternoon.
The quake occurred at 1:07 p.m., with its epicenter located five miles southwest of Weitchpec and 31 miles northeast of Eureka at a depth of 17.5 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
By 9 p.m. Monday the survey had received nearly 2,900 shake reports from 140 zip codes from around California, with reports also coming from Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Shake report records showed that Kelseyville, Lakeport and Middletown residents were among those who experienced the quake.
The quake occurred the day after Lake County experienced a moderate-sized 4.3-magnitude quake near The Geysers geothermal steamfield, as Lake County News has reported.
U.S. Geological Records showed that the Weitchpec quake was the largest to hit California sine a 5.9-magnitude quake was recorded off the coast of Northern California – approximately 45 miles west southwest of Fortuna – on Feb. 4, 2010.
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COBB, Calif. – A Sunday night quake with its epicenter on Cobb Mountain received hundreds of shake reports from around Northern California.
The quake, which occurred at 8:47 p.m., initially was reported as being 4.4 in magnitude, but was later dialed back slightly to 4.3 after it was reviewed by a seismologist, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report.
Centered three miles east of The Geysers geothermal steamfield, three miles south southwest of Cobb and three miles west northwest of Anderson Springs, the earthquake occurred at a depth of two-tenths of a mile, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
By 1 a.m. Sunday the U.S. Geological Survey had received approximately 336 shake reports from 51 zip codes around California.
Reports came in from around Lake County, with many more submitted from residents in Napa and Sonoma counties, communities around the Bay Area and even from Turlock, located more than 200 miles away in the Central Valley.
A 2.6-magnitude temblor occurred eight minutes after the bigger quake, centered two miles west northwest of Anderson Springs at the depth of about a mile, the survey reported.
According to Lake County News records, the last quake measuring 4.0 or above in The Geysers area occurred a year ago this month, when a 4.5-magnitude quake was recorded one mile from The Geysers.
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