KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The first-ever Ely Stage Stop Marketplace promises to add even more fun to April’s Fiddlers’ Jam.

Both events take place at the Ely Stage Stop & Country Museum on the second Sunday, April 12, as the museum will be closed the first Sunday in observance of Easter.

This free, family friendly, fun-packed day can be enjoyed by all, young and old alike.

The marketplace, just outside the Ely barn, will feature local handcrafted goods and Ely surplus items for sale and will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

As usual, musicians will jam from noon to 2 p.m. inside the barn.

Items available at the marketplace will include wine racks, birdhouses and furniture crafted from old barn wood.

Wine barrel furniture and other natural wood tables and crafts will be represented as will various styles of handcrafted jewelry, including pieces of French beading/bead weaving.

Other offerings include stuffed elephants, crocheted baby blankets, various sized afghans, and scarves and cowls. And Ely surplus items are still being identified. Many surprises await. So see you there!

Make it a day. Bring a lunch and maybe some wine and picnic in the Oak Grove. View the stagecoach, chuck wagon, buckboard and other large display items on the grounds around the barn.

Celebrate local musicians and the American music heritage from the Ely Stage Stop Victorian Era. Take a ride up to the house on the hay wagon where you can enjoy the newest display and learn about the history of the Dairy Industry in Lake County.

Beverages and tasty treats will be provided by the docents in the barn. Donations made during the fiddling benefit both the Ely Stage Stop, helping to fund a blacksmith shop on which volunteers are about to start work, and the Old Time Fiddlers Association, District 10, who uses it to partially fund their scholarship programs.

Home to the Lake County Historical Society, the stage stop is located at 9921 State Hwy 281 (Soda Bay Road) in Kelseyville, near Clearlake Riviera, just north of Highway 29-Kit's Corner.

Current hours of operation are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday. Fiddlers’ Jams occur the first Sunday of every month (except in April when it moves to the second Sunday due to the Easter holiday) from noon until 2 p.m.

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.

HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE, Calif. – The Hidden Valley Lake Community Services District Board will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, March 17.

The board will meet at 7 p.m. at the Hidden Valley Lake CSD Administration Office boardroom, 19400 Hartmann Road.

The board will discuss and consider possible action on the status of the new water hook up moratorium and the district's compliance with new hexavalent drinking water standard.

Other agenda items include authorization for board member attendance at the Spring ACWA Conference in Sacramento May 5 to 8, board committee and staff reports, board member attendance at other meetings and designation of district representatives to HVLCSD/HVLA Lake Committee for 2015 calendar year.

The board also will hold a closed session for consultation and advice from legal counsel regarding pending litigation.

Board packets are posted at www.hiddenvalleylakecsd.com . Click on the “Board Packet” link on the Agenda tab.

In compliance to the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special accommodations to participate in or attend the meeting please contact the District Office at 987-9201 at least 48 hours prior to the scheduled meeting.

NORTH COAST, Calif. – Caltrans reports that the following road projects will be taking place around the North Coast during the coming week.

Included are Mendocino County projects that may impact Lake County commuters.

LAKE COUNTY

Highway 20

– Caltrans will perform routine maintenance from Witter Springs Road to the junction of Routes 20/29 through Friday, March 13. One-way traffic control will be in effect from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays. Motorists should anticipate 15-minute delays.
 
– Caltrans will perform routine maintenance from the junction of Routes 20/53 to New Long Valley Road through Friday, March 13. One-way traffic control will be in effect from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays. Motorists should anticipate five-minute delays.
 
Highway 175

– Caltrans will perform routine maintenance near the Lake/Mendocino County line through Friday, March 13. One-way traffic control will be in effect from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., weekdays. Motorists should anticipate five-minute delays. 
 
MENDOCINO COUNTY
 
Highway 1

– PG&E has been issued a Caltrans encroachment permit for utility repairs 0.5 mile south of Happy Lane on Friday, March 13. One-way traffic control will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Motorists should anticipate five-minute delays.
 
– Electrical work from Blue Side Gulch to Abalone Street will begin Monday, March 16. One-way traffic control will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays. Motorists should anticipate 10-minute delays.
 
Highway 101

– Caltrans will perform slide repairs near the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge (near Frog Woman Rock). Northbound traffic will be restricted to one lane 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Motorists may experience minor traffic slowdowns.
 
– Highway construction from Casteel Lane to the north Willits railroad crossing will continue through Friday, March 13. One-way traffic control will be in effect from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays. Motorists should anticipate 10-minute delays.
 
– Pavement repairs near Piercy will continue. Southbound traffic will be restricted to one lane from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays. Motorists may experience minor traffic slowdowns.
 
Highway 162

– PG&E has been issued a Caltrans encroachment permit for utility repairs just north of Pookiny beginning Thursday, March 19. One-way traffic control will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays. Motorists should anticipate five-minute delays.
 
Caltrans advises motorists to drive with caution when approaching work areas and to be prepared to stop at traffic control stations.
 
The Caltrans Traffic Operations Office has reviewed each project and determined that individual project delays are expected to be less than the statewide policy maximum of 30 minutes, unless noted otherwise above.

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Redbud Audubon Society March field trip will be to the Moore Family Winery on Mt. Hannah at 11990 Bottle Rock Road, Kelseyville.

This is a beautiful setting so bring a lunch to enjoy after the walk.

Pat Harmon and Jeannette Knight will lead the hike.

The group will meet at the winery at 9 a.m., Saturday, March 21.

They will bird the grounds of the winery and may walk to the Harrington Flat Road area.

A wide variety of songbirds should be seen, including robins, Western bluebirds, white-breasted nuthatches, oak titmouse, tree swallows and woodpeckers.

This should be a pleasant day at one of the county’s loveliest winery facilities.

As with all Redbud Audubon events, the walk is free and open to the public.

UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Lake County Wine Studio and artist Diana Liebe are presenting monthly sip and paint classes at the Wine Studio in 2015.

The March wine and watercolor class will be held on the Saturday, March 14, from 1:30 to 4 p.m.
 
The class fee of $40 covers all of the painting supplies needed along with Leibe’s step by step guidance and a glass of fine Lake County wine.

Reservations are required for each month’s class as participation is limited to 12 people.

A schedule of class dates and time is available at the Lake County Wine Studio or by contacting Susan at 707-293-8752.
 
Liebe is a former art teacher at both the high school and college levels.

She has been very involved in the Lake County Arts Community since moving here from Mendocino County 11 years ago, and actively teaches art workshops around the county.
 
The Lake County Wine Studio is located at 9505 Main St. in Upper Lake and is open Monday 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Saturday and Sunday form 1 to 7 p.m., and Friday for 1 to 8 p.m.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Historical Society will meet at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 22, in the Historic Courthouse Museum, located at 255 N. Main St. in Lakeport.

The program will feature archaeologist Dr. John Parker’s presentation on an historic painting with Lake County roots and historian Kevin Engle’s presentation on historic preservation in Lake County.

Dr. Parker’s presentation explains how an 1878 painting ties Lake County’s American Indian culture to San Francisco high society and the Baron de Rothschild. Parker will talk about the strange sequence of events that led our knowledge of the painting.

In 1878, noted French artist Jules Tavernier was commissioned by Tiburcio Parrott, owner of Lake County’s Sulphur Bank Mine, to do a painting in Lake County.

This long-lost painting, once part of the Rothschild collection, recently turned up at an auction house and was purchased by the Wildenstein Gallery in New York. The gallery contacted Dr. Parker to authenticate the subject matter of the painting.

The painting can be seen online at http://www.wolfcreekarcheology.com/TavernierPainting.html .

Dr. Parker is a Registered Professional Archaeologist with a Ph.D. in archaeology from UCLA and more than 40 years of field, lab and research experience in all areas of California.

He has developed and run cultural and archaeological programs at all educational levels, for the general public and for federal, state and local agency officials.

Engle’s presentation will focus on historic preservation in Lake County, specifically, its history, past challenges and current nominees proposed for designation.

Engle, a freelance columnist, researcher and author, moved to Lake County from the Bay Area in 1998. He became interested in Lake County history while researching pioneer families buried in Lower Lake’s Herndon Pioneer cemetery.

Engle says he “became involved in historic preservation issues due to the obvious need to promote the designation of prehistoric sites and historic buildings in the county.”

He has served in several capacities with the Lake County Historical Society, and on the Cultural Resources Committee and the Lake County Heritage Commission.

The Lake County Historical Society invites the public to this free program and to learn more about the society which turns sixty in 2015.

For more information about the meeting or the society contact Voris Brumfield at 707-295-7174.

The group's Web site, www.lakecountyhistory.org , displays details about the society’s programs and projects around Lake County.