The 2021-22 State Budget included a $60 million one-time General Fund allocation for the California Arts Council to implement the California Creative Corps pilot program, a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase awareness related to issues such as public health, water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery.

Eliza Tudor, Executive Director at Nevada County Arts Council, who will be joining Lassen County Arts Council for its Listening Session, says: “Together, we will be introducing what the State sees as a new method of evaluating the relative health of communities. Using the California Healthy Places Index we are identifying issues that are specific to Lassen County, inviting input on solutions, and inviting artists to position themselves to create awareness around them.”

California Arts Council has selected fourteen organizations to administer the California Creative Corps across nine regions with a grant activity period that launched on October 1st. Nevada County Arts Council has been chosen to create a regranting program for Upstate California, putting to work $4,230,216 in workforce development funds for artists, as well as for arts and social service organizations who will employ artists between early 2023 and late 2024.

Supporting local outreach with local knowledge, as well as technical assistance for artists, and program development and evaluation, are multiple county arts agencies serving what amounts to the largest, most diverse, geographic area in California, with more counties than any other Creative Corps region.

Tudor continues, “Within the Upstate Region we are one of a network of agencies who serve as State-Local Partners with California Arts Council. While we each serve distinct communities, we are connected through a coalition that works to benchmark, consult, and gain from peer learning and support, with equity at our core. In this sense, we do not work in isolation. In applying to be an administering organization for the Upstate Region, it makes perfect sense to place our State-Local Partnership in service to the largest and most diverse geographic area within California.”

California Arts Council sees the California Creative Corps program primarily as a job creation and human infrastructure development opportunity. The hope is that, region by region, the program will increase the ways in which artists are engaged in public work, so that they can continue to build upon intersectional public interest goals beyond the program’s pilot funding timeline.

The California Creative Corps program follows an unprecedented period in which communities globally have suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these years, creative sector professionals across the United States have been proposing ways to employ and deploy artists in programs similar to the Works Project Administration and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.

The launch of a statewide Creative Corps pilot program is the result of a recommendation from the Governor’s economic and jobs recovery task force and is the first of its kind in the nation.

The concerts begin at 7:00 each night in the Veteran’s Memorial Hall on Main Street.

Tickets are available at Margie’s Book Nook, Susanville Dental Care or you can click here and purchase them online.

Would you like to win a pair of tickets? Of course you would!

You can enter once per day, per email address, from now until midnight October 27th, to win a pair of tickets to the performance. We will announce the name of our ticket winners on October 28th.

Follow this link for ticket giveaway details and a handy entry form at SusanvilleStuff.

Every Bloomin Thing and Gift Shoppe will be holding a Harvest Succulent Centerpiece Workshop, Friday, October 28th from 5:30 – 7:30p.m. Create a magical art piece for your harvest table! These stunning pumpkins are adorned with a range of colors and textures including succulents, dried/silk flowers, berries, pinecones, and moss. Grab a friend, spouse daughter or co-worker and join them for this super fun workshop! For details and registration visit, www.everybloominthing.com.

The Susanville Symphony 2022-2023 Concert Series brings to you An Evening of Jazz, Friday, October 28th, and Saturday, October 29th at 7:00p.m., at the Veteran’s Memorial Hall. Featured Guest Artist: Wayne Bergeron – Trumpet, Danny Sandoval – Tenor Sax, and Paul Lenz – Trumpet. Tickets are available at Susanville Dental Care and Margie’s Book Nook. For more information, contact 530.310.8111.

Sentimental Journey’s 2nd Annual Craft Fair in the Barn will be held Saturday, October 29th from 10:00 – 4:00p.m., and Sunday, October 30th from 10:00 – 3:00p.m., located at 465-320 Church Street in Janesville. This event will have New Vendors, one of a kind items, Halloween, Fall, Christmas, Food and Gifts.

Historic Uptown Susanville Association hosts its annual Safe and Sane Halloween, Monday, October 31st from 3:30 – 5:30p.m. Live entertainment, dance performances, pet costume contest, children’s costume contest, and loads of candy! This event is free to the community. For more information or to be a vendor, contact 530.250.7146.

Susanville Best of Broadway is holding auditions for their 2023 concert series, ‘Decades of Dreamers’. Auditions are open to all ages 6+ and all genders and skill levels; come prepared to sing a chorus of a song of your choice and allow an hour and a half for the audition process. Audition dates are October 30 from 10:00 – 2:00p.m., or November 6th from 12:00 – 4:00p.m., located at the Veteran’s Memorial Hall. For more information, visit www.susanvillebestofbroadway.org.

Susanville Sunrise Rotary presents its 19th Annual Beer and Wine Tasting at Jensen Hall, Saturday, November 19th. Tickets are $35 per person which includes delicious appetizers and a commemorative glass; also offering a silent auction, no need to be present to win. Tickets are available from Susanville Sunrise Rotarians; for more information, contact Patty Gunderson at 530.310.2016.

Lassen Senior Services will be holding its 9th Annual Turkey Trot, Thursday, November 24 at 8:30a.m., at 1700 Sunkist Drive in Susanville. The course is 3.1 miles and there will be prizes for the best costumes and the largest family group. Donations of non-perishable food or cash are appreciated, lets fill the pantry for our low-income seniors. For more information, contact 530.257.2113

Lassen Hoops will be opening registration! Online sign-ups will run from October 24 – November 18th and can be accessed at http://clubs.bluesombrero.com/lassenhoops. In-person sign-ups will be Wednesday, November 2nd, and Tuesday, November 15th from 5:30 – 7:00p.m., at Susanville Pizza Factory. 3rd thru 6th grade boys and 3rd thru 8th grade girls are eligible to register.

Don’t forget to email with any upcoming event or swing by the Chamber Office at 1516 Main Street with any event posters!

Cattle grazing in the Honey Lake Valley, 1947. An Eastman Studio photo from UC Davis.

Flux Heads Farm Bureau

October 24, 1944

Frank Flux of Doyle, Lassen County, was elected president of the Lassen County Farm Bureau for 1945 at the bureau’s annual meeting held in Susanville on Saturday, November 4. Flux is a stockman in the Bird Flat area and has served as chairman of the Doyle farm center, and has been a member of the Lassen County Farm Bureau directors for the past three years. He has also been chairman of the farm bureau wildlife committee.

Milton Mallery of Johnstonville was elected vice-chairman of the bureau. Mallery one of the younger farmers of the valley has served as farm center chairman for the Johnstonville farm center for two years and was a member of the Lassen County Board of Directors for two years.

Three directors at large were elected. They were George Randup of Doyle, Len Dozier of Standish, and Ed Albaugh of Adin.

Following the annual meeting, the new executive committee held a brief meeting and appointed Mrs. Lura Dozier of Standish secretary-treasurer for the coming year.