NORTH COAST, Calif. – “Women's Voices” on KZYX will host discussions on North Coast water issues, Women's History Month and women in power on Monday, March 3.

The show will air at 7 p.m. on 90.7 FM Philo, 88.1 FM Fort Bragg, 91.5 FM Willits and streaming live at www.kzyx.org. The show also will be archived at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4206 .

Is Mendocino in a drought? Listen to Willits Mayor Holly Madrigal talk about what Willits has done and how its efforts have made a statewide splash.

March is Women's History Month. How did that all start? Listen to Molly McGregor tell about the origins of Women's History Month and how it has grown.

Why aren't there more elected women? Betsey Cotton of Close the Gap will tell of her group's effort to bring more women to the tables of power.

There also will be music and much more on the March 3 show.

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Wine Studio (LCWS) is hosting a wine release party and artist show event with Brassfield Estate Winery and painter, Tamsen Donner with her show titled “Subject to Change” from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 7, and 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 8.

March will mark the first month of 2014 that the Saturday event will include an optional progressive three-course winemaker dinner series at the Tallman Hotel following the appetizer course at the studio.

Associate winemaker Jason Moulton and director of hospitality and tasting room manager Cielo Fox will be at the studio and Tallman Hotel for the Saturday reception and special dinner event.

Featuring limited releases from the High Valley Appellation, the $12.50 ($10/per person for studio club members) wine sampler and appetizers designed by Chef Mark Linback and presented at the studio will showcase the 2012 Sauvignon Blanc with creamed Feta and baby tomatoes on crostini, the 2012 Gewürztraminer with house made hummus and pita chips, 2012 Dry Riesling with citrus marinated prawns and the 2005 Monte Sereno Syrah with Linback’s specialty lamb meatballs.

The wines and menu prepared by guest chef Mark Linback at the Tallman Hotel on March 8 will showcase the latest release of Brassfield 2012 Serenity with Dungeness Crab crepes with Basil oil and Frisee salad.

The second course will feature Pinot Noir with spice brined pork rack with cauliflower potato gratin and the dessert course will pair 2008 Late Harvest Johannisberg Riesling with an almond custard tart with apricot glaze.

Reservations for the Saturday tasting at the Studio and dinner at the Tallman are $75 plus tax and may be obtained by calling the Tallman Hotel at 707-275-2244, Extension 0.

Musical guest at during the Friday evening reception will be Bob Culbertson on the Chapman Stick, and during the Saturday reception will be Majide! with Paul Kemp on keyboard and vocals by Machiko.

Upper Lake artist Tamsen Donner grew up “in the hullabaloo of a large family,” she said, and came to art at an early age having been born to creative parents. Her father was a sculptor and a professor at Stanford where he taught radio, television and film. Her mother was a writer, gardener and a chef.

Donner's childhood was spent in the then-rural Los Altos, Calif. “Chickens, ducks, horses and dogs were part of the family,” she said, and indeed, these animals find their way into her paintings now.

She later moved to Austin, Texas, with years abroad in England and France where she attended the Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing in Aix-en-Provence. Eventually she received a humanities degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Of her art making, Donner explained, “Any array of jobs have dovetailed my painting career – from designing debutante party decorations to teaching French.  Life's little comedies continue to inspire me.”

Influenced by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Marisot, Caillebotte, Diebenkorn and Bischoff, her current body of work focuses on birds and animals in oils on small scale canvases. Her colorful subjects are wage to transmit whimsical personalities and chimerical expressions.

Brassfield Estate Winery and Vineyard is located in the High Valley AVA of Lake County with vineyard blocks ranging from 1800 feet on the valley floor to nearly 3000 feet elevation up on the surrounding volcanic ridges.

The varying microclimates, soils and temperature changes among the vineyard sites provide remarkable growing conditions for well over a dozen varietals.

In 2009, renowned winemaker David Ramey became the consulting winemaker for Brassfield Estate, working closely with Moulton and staff to take the exceptional estate-grown fruit from harvest to the best expression in wine.

Affirmation was sweetly offered earlier this month, when Brassfield Estate’s entries of Sauvignon Blanc and proprietary red blend Eruption won gold medals and their Pinot Noir, Pinot Grigio and proprietary white blend Serenity swept up silver medals at the 2014 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.

Lake County Wine Studio is a gallery for display of arts and a tasting room, wine bar and retail shop for the fine wines of Lake County.  Artist’s shows are held on a monthly basis with art and wine receptions held the first Friday and subsequent Saturday of each month.

The gallery is located at 9505 Main St. in Upper Lake. It is open Mondays, 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; 1 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays; and 1 to 8 p.m. Fridays.

The Donner art show will be on display for the full month of March.

For more information call Lake County Wine Studio at 707-275-8030 or 707-293-8752.

For further information about the dinner check www.TallmanHotel.com or call 707-275-2244.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Parish of St. Mary Immaculate in Lakeport will hold a crab feed fundraiser on Saturday, March 1.

The event will be held at the church, located at 801 N. Main St.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the dinner beginning at 6 p.m.

There will be a no host bar, silent auction and dessert auction.

Tickets are $45 per person.

The crab feed will raise funds for the church's youth programs, specifically, religious education.

For tickets call Pat Lambert at 707-245-7280 or come by the Farmers Insurance office in the Bruno's Shopping Center on Lakeport Boulevard.

LOWER LAKE, Calif. – The Lake County Democratic Central Committee regular monthly meeting is being pushed back one week due to the many committee members attending the California State Democratic Party Convention being held in Los Angeles March 7-9.

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Lower Lake Methodist Church at 16255 Second St. A map is available here: http://goo.gl/maps/A8oiW .
 
Guest speakers for the March 13 meeting will be Herb Gura, candidate for the Lake County Board of Supervisors District 3 seat, Dan Rush of United Food and Commercial Workers International and Victoria Brandon of the Lake County Sierra Club.

Brandon will address Measure L, the proposed Lake County Watershed Protection Authority Transactions and Use Tax ordinance. The measure will appear on the June ballot in Lake County.
 
The agenda for the March 13 meeting also includes reports from representatives for Congressmen Mike Thompson and John Garamendi, Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada and state Sen. Noreen Evans, as well as reports from Stonewall Democratic Club Chair Essie Coons and representative from the Lake County Democratic Club, Paula Mune.
 
Meetings are open to the public and committee membership is open to all registered Democrats.
 
The Lake County Democratic Central Committee is the official governing body of the Democratic Party in Lake County.
 
For more information about the Democratic party in Lake County visit www.lakecountydemocrats.org and check out the group's Facebook page, www.facebook.com/LakeCountyDemocrats .
 
Contact the Democratic Party of Lake County at 707-533-4885 or by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Napa County Supervisor and Fourth Assembly District candidate Bill Dodd will host a meet-and-greet to discuss his candidacy and the challenges facing Lake County and the state of California on Thursday, Feb. 27.

The event will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Kelsey Creek Brewing Co., 3945 Main Street, Kelseyville.

Complimentary food and beverages will be served.

Dodd is a Democrat from Napa County. After a successful 25-year business career, he has served four terms on the Napa County Board of Supervisors.

Now, he's seeking to represent the 4th Assembly District, which includes all of Napa and Lake Counties, and portions of Colusa, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo counties.

Community leaders who have endorsed Dodd include Supervisor Anthony Farrington, District Attorney Don Anderson, Dr. David Browning, former Supervisor Ed Robey, Clearlake City Council member Gina Fortino Dickson, Supervisor Jeff Smith, Supervisor Jim Comstock, Clearlake City Council member Joyce Overton, Walt and Madelene Lyon, Lakeport Mayor Kenny Parlet, Dr. Mark Cooper, Lakeport Mayor Pro Tem Martin Scheel, Peter Windrem, and Lakeport City Council members Stacey Mattina and Tom Engstrom.

For more information, visit Dodd's Web site at http://www.billdodd.com/ or his Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/DoddforAssembly2014 .

UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The Redwood Empire Civil War Roundtable will have its next presentation on Monday, March 3, at the Tallman Hotel in Upper Lake, starting at 6:15 p.m.

Roundtable co-founders Zane Jensen and Phil Smoley will each being doing a presentation dealing with events that occurred 150 years ago in March.

Jensen will focus on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who was appointed supreme commander of all Union armies in March 1864.

Jensen will review Grant's biography and his planned strategies for the coming spring campaign.

Smoley will address all the other happenings going in the country during March 1864, including the Red River Campaign in Louisiana, the Dahlgren Raid on Richmond and the political situation at the time.

The Civil War Roundtable meets once a month to discuss topics related to that war, and is attempting to review the war month by month. The group was founded to coincide with the Sesquicentennial of the conflict.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

For more information, contact Phil Smoley, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 707-264-4905, or Zane Jensen, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 707-349-6390.