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The following dogs are ready for adoption or foster.
‘Dorito’
“Dorito” is a male American Staffordshire Terrier mix with a short white and gray coat.
He has been neutered.
He is dog No. 4576.
‘Hector’
“Hector” is a male American Pit Bull Terrier mix with a short brindle coat.
He is dog No. 4697.
‘Inky’
“Inky” is a male German Shepherd mix with a long black coat.
He has been neutered.
He is dog No. 4324.
Jerry
“Jerry” is a male pit bull terrier mix with a short brindle coat.
He has been neutered.
He is dog No. 4455.
‘Ranger’
“Ranger” is a male husky mix with a long red and white coat.
He has been neutered.
Ranger is dog No. 4443.
‘Sarah’
“Sarah” is a female terrier mix with a short tan coat.
She is dog No. 4712.
‘Tia’
“Tia” is a female American Bully with a short black with white markings.
She is dog No. 4602.
‘Toby’
“Toby” is a friendly senior male boxer mix.
He has a short tan and white coat.
He is dog No. 4389.
Call the Clearlake Animal Control shelter at 707-273-9440, or email
Visit Clearlake Animal Control on Facebook or on the city’s website.
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The bipartisan group of representatives consisted of House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), John Garamendi (D-CA), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Garret Graves (R-LA), Rodney Davis (R-IL), John Katko (R-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).
Garamendi, a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee who represents a portion of Lake County in the House, led a discussion at the meeting on the need to advance “Buy American” policies in any forthcoming infrastructure bill.
He has championed Buy American legislation through his “Make it in America” agenda in Congress over the past 10 years.
Garamendi emphasized the importance of modernizing our nation’s outdated infrastructure and advancing the Biden Administration’s “Build Back Better” plan with American products made by American workers.
“It was an honor to join President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary Buttigieg, and this bipartisan group of Congressional leaders to discuss the ways we can pass much-needed infrastructure legislation to create American jobs and help our economy build back better,” Garamendi said.
“I am looking forward to working with the White House in the months ahead to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure with American workers and materials. As American businesses close due to the compounding COVID-19 crisis, the federal government must take every action it can to support American manufacturing and workers.” Garamendi continued.
“President Biden has a bold plan to modernize our nation’s outdated infrastructure that will create hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs in the process. I look forward to working tirelessly in Congress to ensure that his plan is realized,” Garamendi said, offering his thanks to the president and vice president, the secretary and his colleagues in Congress.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – State officials said Wednesday night that they are taking a new approach to vaccinating the state’s residents against COVID-19, placing focus on low income areas that could include Lake County.
Officials with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration said they are unveiling a vaccination plan focusing on equity, specifically, addressing the state’s lowest-income communities.
The state now intends to focus 40 percent of the vaccine supply in lower income and lower quartile communities, which include 400 zip codes where an estimated eight million Californians live.
That’s because state health officials have found that more than 40 percent of California’s disease burden – cases and deaths – have been shouldered by those living in the lowest quartiles in the California Healthy Places Index.
The index considers 25 community characteristics – among them, housing, education, economics and social factors – and creates a single score to help assess the health and well-being of each neighborhood in California, with the lowest scores in dark blue and the highest in dark green.
This new change in vaccination focus could prove particularly important to Lake County, a large portion of which the California Healthy Places Index shows is in the bottom quartile and among the lowest-ranked areas of the state.
The areas of Lake County ranked in the lowest quartile and marked out in dark blue stretch from the top of the county, north of Upper Lake, to west of Lakeport and east along the Northshore, including the communities of Nice, Lucerne and Clearlake Oaks, and down to the Clearlake area.
Lake County Public Health’s demographics breakdown shows that District 2, which includes most of the city of Clearlake and areas east, has consistently had the most cases, but it’s also a major population center in the county.
It’s followed by areas that rank higher in the Healthy Places Index: District 4, which includes Lakeport, and District 5, which includes the greater Kelseyville and Cobb areas.
District 3, which includes the Northshore communities that also have a low index ranking, is ranked fourth for case numbers and District 1, which includes portions of Clear Lake, Lower Lake, Anderson Springs, Hidden Valley Lake and Middletown, has the county’s lowest case numbers and the county’s best index ranking.
As of Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health said that 13,845 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Lake County, which has more than 64,000 residents and to date has had more than 3,100 cases and 41 deaths.
Focused vaccinations to be followed by tier adjustments
Over the next few weeks, the state will be focused on distributing the vaccines to two million residents in the 400 zip codes identified as being the state’s lowest-income communities. As of Wednesday night, those specific zip codes had not yet been released to the public.
Once they hit that threshold, the state will adjust the case rate threshold upward for the red tier on the Blueprint for a Safer Economy from seven to 10 cases per 100,000 people, which is expected to allow areas to drop out of the purple tier, which is the most restrictive on the blueprint.
Lake County remained in the purple tier this week, with its daily case rate at 11 per 100,000, down from 15 per 100,000 last week, according to the county’s epidemiologist, Sarah Marikos.
When the state hits the four million dose threshold, the numbers for the orange and yellow tiers also will be adjusted, officials said.
Additional information on the plan is expected over the next few days.
Administration officials also emphasized that they are in no way planning to abandon safety measures implemented in California during the pandemic, and are in fact doubling down and continuing with them.
On Thursday clearer guidance will be released on the critical role masks play in curbing COVID-19 transmission. Testing capacity also will remain a focus.
Even with proposed changes coming for the state’s tiers, officials said California will still maintain some of the strongest public health protections in the nation through its Blueprint for a Safer Economy.
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The National Weather Service said a cold front moving over the North Coast beginning on Thursday will bring gusty winds from the south southeast and “light but consistent rain” over the region Friday morning through Friday evening.
There’s also the potential for more bouts of rain and mountain snow into early next week, the National Weather Service said.
On Thursday, winds are expected to be about 10 to 20 miles per hour with gusts of up to 25 miles per hour in Lake County, with increasing winds forecast through Friday morning.
As for rainfall, on Friday Lake County should expect to see between a half an inch to an inch with snow levels in the region’s mountains down to the 4,000 foot elevation mark, the forecast said.
On Saturday, forecasters said there could be some rain but conditions should be drier, with weather models so far showing the potential for another weather system to arrive on Sunday and for more wet weather.
The Lake County forecast shows the potential for rain from Friday through Saturday, with conditions clearing on Saturday night and into Sunday. Chances of rain are again in the forecast from Sunday night through Monday.
Rain is likely on Tuesday, the forecast said, and possible on Wednesday.
Cooler conditions are expected over the coming week, with temperatures dropping as low as the 40s during the day and the 30s at night, the National Weather Service said.
Rain is needed to bring Clear Lake’s level up to a more normal winter level.
Lake County Water Resources said Wednesday that the lake was at 1.03 feet Rumsey, the special measure used for the lake.
That’s compared to 4.59 feet Rumsey last March 3 and 9.90 feet Rumsey – which is into flood stage – on March 3, 2019.
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