LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Law Library Board of Directors will hold a regular meeting on on Thursday, March 17.

The board will meet at noon at the Law Library, 175 Third St. in Lakeport.

Agenda items include approval and ratification of the Feb. 18 meeting minutes, the financial report ending Feb. 29, the law librarian's report, additions to the collection, worker's compensation and liability insurance.

Board trustees include President Mike Ewing, Secretary Dennis Fordham, Judge Andrew Blum, Judge Michael S. Lunas, Shanda Harry and Mary Heare Amodio.

The Law Library Board's next meeting is April 21.

Visit the Law Library online at www.lakecountyca.gov/law .

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Ely Stage Stop & Country Museum, operated by the Lake County Historical Society, will be closed Saturday, March 26, and Sunday, March 27, in observance of the Easter weekend.

The museum will reopen Saturday, April 2.

Due to the closure, the March Living History Day, usually held the fourth Saturday of each month, will be canceled. Watch for its return on April 23.

The museum is located at 9921 Soda Bay Road (Highway 281) in Kelseyville (near Clear Lake Riviera). Normal hours of operation are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday.

Fiddlers’ Jams occur the first Sunday of every month from noon until 2 p.m. Living History events featuring local historians are held on the fourth Saturday of every month, again, from noon to 2 p.m.

The contact number for questions about volunteer work, donations of old wood for barn construction, or docent applications is 707-533-9990.

Come join the Lake County Historical Society and become a volunteer at Ely or our sister museum, the Gibson Museum & Cultural Center in Middletown. Applications are always available.

Visit www.elystagestop.org or www.lakecountyhistory.org , check out the stage stop on Facebook at www.facebook.com/elystagestop or call the museum at 707-533-9990.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – The historic Harbin Hot Springs Resort, first developed in the 1860s, burned in the Valley fire.

Only the resort’s pool complex survived the fire. Efforts are now under way to clean up the property and rebuild the resort.

The Lake County Historical Society’s (LCHS) meeting on Sunday, March 20, will feature Whitney Petrey speaking about the historical monitoring of the clean-up at Harbin Springs.

Petrey, recently hired as the assistant curator of the Lake County Museums, will speak at the Courthouse Museum located at 255 N. Main St. in Lakeport. The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m.

The LCHS invites the public to this free program.

For more information about the meeting or the Lake County Historical Society contact Bonnie Skee at 707-262-1432 or Jackie Ridgel, 707-279-4062. The LCHS Web site, www.lakecountyhistory.org , displays details about the society’s programs and projects around Lake County.

The historical society operates two museums in Lake County: the Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum at 9921 Soda Bay Road in Kelseyville and the Gibson Museum and Cultural Center at 21267 Calistoga Road in Middletown.

Three times a year the LCHS publishes the Pomo Bulletin, a magazine devoted to any and all aspects of Lake County history. The society’s extensive collection of historical photographs can be viewed on the LCHS Web site.

The California Department of Education is looking for sites, sponsors, and students to sign up for this year's USDA Summer Food Service Program.

This federally-funded program reimburses sponsor organizations for administrative and operational costs for providing meals to children aged 18 years old or younger, during times when they are out of school for more than fifteen consecutive days.

Many children in rural California participate in Free and Reduced Price Lunch when they are in school – but when school is not in session, they do not receive adequate nutrition.

Summer Meal Service Sites and Sponsors help to provide food to kids in need during that time.

You can help by becoming a sponsor organization or by identifying a new meal site for an existing sponsor in your area. You can also connect kids to existing sites this summer.

Applications to be a sponsor are due June 1, 2016.

Eligible sponsor organizations include both private and public nonprofits. Meal Sites can be open to any child, open only to enrolled children, or operated only for day and residential camps. 

Visit http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sh/sn/summersites15.asp for a list of existing Summer Meal Service Sites and Sponsors.

For more information about the Summer Food Service Program, visit their California Department of Education Web site.

If you are interested in sponsorship, please contact Larry Frakes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 916-322-8323 for a 10-minute pre-screening. You may also email the Summer Food Service Program team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clear Lake/Callayomi Masonic Lodge No. 183, Free and Accepted Masons, will host the “best breakfast in Lake County” on Sunday, March 20.

The lodge serves a full, sit-down breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. on the third Sunday of each month at the Masonic Center, located at 7100 South Center Drive in Clearlake.

Choose your breakfast from a large menu including eggs (any style), omelets, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, hot cakes, breakfast meat, toast, juice and coffee.

The cost is $8 for adults, $4 for children ages 6 to 12. Children under age 6 may eat for free and are served a special “kids” breakfast.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – Imagine that you are a teenaged girl, just won a Miss America preliminary pageant, and you have money to purchase a stunning formal dress.

The only questions is, do you go shopping right now or right now?

Hanna Scully is extraordinary. She won the Miss Lake County Outstanding Teen title and with the title came with an award check for a new dress to wear to the Miss California Pageant.

Instead of going dress shopping, Hanna has chosen to wear a dress she already has in her closet and help homeless dogs at the Orphan Dog Ranch with her dress money.

When asked why she chose to give her money to the dogs, she answered, “I love dogs. Ever since I was little, our family has had dogs. I just want to help other dogs that don’t have families.”

“Orphan Dog Ranch is honored to be chosen to receive this donation of $450. Each and every penny will go toward care of the puppies and dogs,” said Karen Schaver, executive director. “Hanna’s generosity is refreshing.”

Orphan Dog, an all-volunteer non-profit, homes 250 to 300 dogs a year while traveling an average of 900 miles per month to the North Bay Area.

They participate in weekly adoption events at the Pet Food Express Stores and in 2016, Orphan Dog will home its 3,000th dog.

Scully will be participating in the Miss California Pageant which starts the week of June 28, 2016. Please feel free to support her in Fresno and send your well wishes for her success.