Volume XIV Issue 220 | Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Photofeature: ‘Riding at The Ranch’ Features Hundreds of Racers

A SusanvilleStuff Photofeature
by Marshel and Jeremy Couso

The Susanville Area Bicycle Association held its annual mountain bike race Saturday, with hundreds of bicyclists traveling to Susanville to take part in the event.

Susanville Ranch Park is a popular destination for both runners and bicyclists, with beautiful open spaces and a variety of terrain to make the course interesting.

Saturday’s race was the second in the three-race, California Dirt MTB series, the next being held June 26th in Grass Valley.
Susanville Police Holding Low-Cost Rabies License Clinic June 11th
The Susanville Police Department and the Lassen County Animal Shelter are inviting you to bring your pet to their annual low-cost Rabies and licensing clinic on Saturday, June 11th, in Memorial Park.

Thompson Peak Veterinary Clinic will be providing discounted Rabies Vaccinations for $10.

City licenses are $3.50 for altered pets, $8 for unaltered and for County licenses the cost is $5 for altered pets and $15 for unaltered.
Why does your dog need to be licensed? Animal licensing assists the police department and county animal control personnel in identifying the owner of a stray or runaway animal. A dog that is licensed and wearing their identification tags can be returned to the owner quicker and avoid being taken to the animal shelter.

Make sure when you visit the event that your dog is on a leash and cats must be in pet carriers. If you are just coming for the license you must bring a current rabies vaccination certificate.

The Clinic will be held at Memorial Park from 10a.m. to 2:00p.m.

For more information regarding the Low Cost Rabies and Licensing Clinic, please contact the Susanville Police Department at 257-5603, or the Lassen Animal Shelter at 257-9200.
Honey Lake Hospice Asking for Donations in Lieu of Annual Tea Event
Honey Lake Hospice has announced that because of the pandemic they will not be able to host their annual Hospice Tea event, and instead are inviting friends and loved ones to have tea in the comfort of their homes.

Next year’s Tea event has been scheduled for April 15th, in Jensen Hall at the Lassen County Fairgrounds.

According to organizers, the all-volunteer Hospice is in need of financial support to continue its on-going service to our community. They ask that you find it in your heart to make a donation to Honey Lake Hospice.
Donation “tickets” are available at Margie’s Book Nook and call Mary at 1.530.249.2039 or Claudia at 1.530.310.4338.
Arts Council Presenting Words
and Music June 9th at the Gallery
The Lassen County Arts Council will be presenting an evening of Words and Music June 9th, featuring Poet Lara Gularte, with readings by Dianna Henning and June Sanders. Jeremy Couso will be the featured musician.

The program will be held at the Arts Council’s Gallery on Cottage Street from 7:00 until 9:00p.m., with free admission.

There will be an open mic, and refreshments offered, along with a literary quiz where prizes are given out for correct answers.
El Dorado County Poet Laureate Lara Gularte who will read from her new book “Fourth World Woman” and from her 2018 “Kissing the Bee.”

Gularte lives and writes in the Sierra Foothills of California, and she is El Dorado County Poet Laureate 2021-2023. Her book of poetry, Fourth World Woman, was recently published by “Finishing Line Press.”

June Sanders enjoys photographing deer, birds, bears, and bobcats that come to the backyard water fountain. The Lassen County Times and Lake Tahoe Ski magazine have published her wildlife and landscape photography.

She likes reading, writing, playing piano, and camping. Her poems have been included in several small press books, including “What the Elephant Said to the Peacock” and “Poems to Keep” by Dempsey and Windle, UK; Eureka!, a tiny Poems-For-All book published by Robert Hansen, San Diego; and in several online publications including Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Your Daily Poem, Verse-Virtual, and One Sentence Poems. A micro-book published by Ethelzine is due out this summer.

Dianna Henning taught through California Poets in the Schools, received several CAC grants for teaching poetry, and taught poetry workshops through the William James Association’s Prison Arts Program, including Folsom Prison. She holds an MFA from Vermont College.

Some of her publications, in part: MacQueen’s Quinterly; Artemis Journal; The Adirondack Review; Memoir Magazine; The Plague Papers, edited by Robbi Nester; Pacific Poetry and New American Writing. 2021 Nomination by The Adirondack Review for a Pushcart Prize.

MFA in Writing ’89 from Vermont College, Montpelier. Her fourth poetry book “Camaraderie of the Marvelous” published by Kelsay Books Sept. 2021. Six-time Pushcart Nominee. Dianna was awarded a fellowship by Eastern Washington University to the Dublin Writers’ Center.

For more information, call the Lassen County Arts Council at 257-5222.
Looking towards town from Leavitt Lake in 1941 -Lassen Historical Society-
‘Work or Jail’ is Edict for Vagrants in Susanville
Shortage of Farm Labor in Lassen County Brings Order from City and County Officers
June 3, 1942

It’s either work or go to jail for vagrants in Susanville and vicinity, according to a program worked out Wednesday afternoon by city and county officials in conjunction with law enforcement agencies.

The action of the group was prompted by reports of refusals to accept employment on the part of numerous transients now frequenting Susanville’s streets.

Employment officials reported recent examples of farmers of the valley offering employment to men on the streets, only to be refused. These same men, according to employment spokesmen, later were found to be ‘mooching’ from passersby.

To combat the situation, which finds idle men refusing employment while farmers are seeking help to harvest their crops, law enforcement representatives are being urged to arrest such individuals and haul them into court.

In court, the men will be given the alternative of going to jail or work and court officials have indicated that sentences will not be light in such cases.
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