Volume XVII Issue 160

Friday, March 21st, 2025

Seventeen Susanville Future Farmers Receive State FFA Degree

Seventeen of Susanville’s top Future Farmers of America students received their State FFA Degree Wednesday at the Anderson High School Performing Arts Center.

According to Advisor Elizaebeth Ammon, to earn the degree each of the FFA’ers is required to have five-hundred hours on their Supervised Agricultural Experience project, have earned at least $1,000 on their SAE, have attended five above chapter level activities and perform a minimum of twenty-five hours of community service.

State finals for the FFA competitors begin April 1st.

Samantha Medvin and Kenni Howe will be competing in Impromptu Public Speaking and Aurea Webb in Extemporaneous public speaking.

Susanville’s novice and advanced parliamentary procedure teams will compete April 2nd and 3rd, followed by 29 kids attending the convention in Sacramento from April 3rd through the 6th.

Here are the State FFA Degree recipients:

Arwen Adams

Aspen Borba

Julia Bruce

Peighten Butterbach

Brynn Ewing

Lexi Forrester

Abbie Hemphill

Charliza Lewis

Brad Mallery

Christopher Mallery

Curtis Mallery

Danielle Murphy

Aidan Skillingstad

Kinley Somerville

Tyler Swayze

Laura Beth Trisler

Aurea Webb

The starting bid is $50, with bid increments of $10 and the auction closes Tuesday, March 25th, at 5:00p.m.

Click here and head over to Facebook to bid on the item.

How to Bid: Place your bid in the designated comment section on the auction post.

Participants can also submit a maximum bid via direct message, allowing event organizers to bid on their behalf. The highest bid at closing will win, and the winner will be contacted for payment and pickup coordination.

All proceeds from this auction directly support Sober Graduation, a long-standing tradition dedicated to providing a safe, fun, and alcohol-free celebration for graduating seniors.

This year’s event will take place on Friday, June 6th, from 9:30 to 2:00 at Lassen High School. Throughout the night, graduates will enjoy games, food, dancing, activities, and prize giveaways, culminating in the highly anticipated Wheels West Grand Prize Car Giveaway.

Community support is crucial in making Sober Graduation a success, and events like this silent auction help ensure that the celebration remains free for all seniors.

For questions about the auction or upcoming fundraising events, please call 1.530.251.1607 or email KMidgley@lcoe.org.

In addition to the chili competition, the Lassen County Baggers will be hosting a Cornhole Tournament.

Canna Junction is the event sponsor, making the free entry fee for chili competitors possible. Interested in showcasing your chili prowess? Pick up an application at the Chamber of Commerce Office or click here for the online entry form.

For more information, please call 1.530.257.4323.

The crash victim unfortunately was unable to provide his exact location but believed he was on Highway 139, near Hagata Road. The reporting party stated the victim was likely traveling north bound from Susanville to his residence at Eagle Lake.

Numerous agencies including Cal-FIRE, Cal-Trans, Spaulding Fire Department, SEMSA, California Highway Patrol and the LCSO canvassed the area extensively without results.

“The search area was expanded from the Susanville City limits north to County Road A1. Personnel also canvassed the entirety of County Road A1 for safe measure,” explains LCSO Sergeant Bryan Sullivan.

Attempts were made to electronically ping the victim’s cell phone for a location to no avail.

“Search personnel continued diligent and methodical searching of the area. Road conditions were icy and visibility was very limited due to the heavy snowstorm.”

At about 12:30a.m., a Deputy located the vehicle about fifteen miles north of the reported crash location.

“The vehicle was located on the east side of Highway 139, down an embankment, near Eagle Lake. Deputies got down the steep embankment where the vehicle was sitting on the passenger side and resting against a tree.”

The victim was accessed by climbing on top of the vehicle and breaking windows.

According to Sullivan, the driver was hypothermic and non-responsive, but breathing. The victim was cut from the seat belt and positioned so that when fire and medical personnel arrived they could extricated him from the vehicle.

The unidentified man was subsequently transported to a medical facility.

“The Lassen County Sheriff’s Office would like to thank all first responders for their dedicated efforts locating the victim and providing medical care. We wish the victim a full and speedy recovery.”

Judith Lowry in a Nevada Museum of Art photo

The Art of Judith Lowry: Nevada Museum of Art Retrospective Opens Today

One of the most successful and prolific artists to ever call Susanville home will be featured in a spectacular retrospective of her work at the Nevada Museum of Art beginning with a special opening celebration at the museum today, March 21st.

Visitors to the show can explore Native American creation stories and the legends, traditions and the complexities of Indigenous ancestry through the eyes of renowned painter Judith Lowry.

Lowry, whose ancestors are from the Mountain Maidu, Pit River and Washoe tribes, is widely-renowned for her enormous and colorful storytelling paintings, with her work hanging in museums around the world.

The official information from the museum says that, “Her vivid narrative works draw on family stories and communal Indigenous histories to explore themes of identity, resilience, and spirituality,” but that doesn’t quite capture the true uniqueness of Lowry’s paintings.

There are just no other paintings like them. Stunningly unique and beautiful while telling poignant stories set here in Lowry’s ancestral homelands – Greenville, Susanville and the Honey Lake Valley.

Lowry says that she considers her paintings a modern extension of storytelling and a way of recording the oral histories of her family and community.

Complementing her retrospective exhibition is the debut of the Lowry & Croul Collection of Contemporary Native American Art, which includes 125 artworks assembled by Lowry and her husband Brad Croul, which are a major gift to the Museum.

The collection features artworks by some of the West Coast’s most notable Native American artists including Harry Fonseca, Frank LaPena, Frank Day, Dalbert Castro, Jean LaMarr and Lowry’s cousin Dugan Agular.

Together, these exhibitions create a dialogue between past, present, and future Indigenous perspectives.

Lowry said she selected the art in the Lowry & Croul Collection based on personal stories that reflect contemporary Native experiences, “I like to be inspired, and I marvel sometimes at art and artists. Sometimes I can’t imagine myself doing it, but say, ‘wow,’ that’s something.”

The donated collection is a celebration of the stories that matter most to Lowry – those that come from her cultural heritage and reflective of the present-day experiences of Native communities.

Through her donation to the Museum, Lowry hopes to share these important works with a wider audience, particularly in an art museum located near her ancestral homelands.

The Lowry & Croul Collection stands as a testament to the strength and creativity of Indigenous artists and serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving and honoring these stories.

Lowry’s own paintings are included in major museum collections across the United States, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, the Denver Art Museum, and the Nevada Museum of Art.

For more information about Judith Lowry’s retrospective click here and head over to the Nevada Museum of Art website.

High Rollers: Eye in the Sky, Judith Lowry 1999

Hoopa All Stars Winners of Indian Hoop

March 21, 1973

The Hoopa All Stars were the championship team in the third annual All Indian basketball tournament which ended on Sunday, March 25, at the Lassen College gym. They defeated the Reno IAA team 97-55.

The 10 all tournament players chosen were Dennis Hobbs, Hoopa, Mike Dunsing, Hoopa, Randy Melendez, RIAA, Ike Steel, Carson City, Satch Miller, Warm Springs, Butch Crume, Fort Hall, Idaho, Richard Happy, Reno ITC, Steve Sam, Carson City, Paul Dressler, RIAA and Len Wilder, University of Oregon.

The Johnny Evans Memorial trophy for the most valuable player went to Mike Dunsing of Hoopa. The Schurz team from Nevada was awarded the sportsmanship trophy.

Irene Smith Crowned Queen of Basketball Tourney

Tournament Queen – Pictured in front from left is Princess Christi Choo, Queen Irene Smith and Princess Andrea Perez. Standing on left is Sheriff Ben Yeakey and on the right Leonard Lowry, chairman of the Lassen County American Indian Organization. During ceremonies Saturday night Sheriff Ben Yeakey had the honor of crowning the queen, who will reign the rest of the year and until next year’s annual tournament.

Robert (Bob) Warren Russell – February 27, 2025

Robert Charles Ellis – March 4, 2025

Virginia Jane Weaver – January 28, 2025

Bill Andrew Bouyear – February 11, 2025

Steven Edward Cardona – January 15, 2025

John Albert Schaap – January 25, 2025

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