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Volume XVII Issue 56
Monday, October 28th, 2024
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Adopt A Pet from the Lassen
County Animal Shelter – Skittles
The Lassen County Animal Shelter is calling on shepherd lovers to spread the word for our dear girl, Skittles. She’s in search of a new home and family to shower her with all the love she deserves.
Her journey to our facility was a rough one, however she’s now settling in, gaining weight, and participating in play groups. When it comes to the public stopping into the shelter to view adoptable dogs, first impressions are hard for Skittles. She has a loud and intimidating bark, which could stem from her possibly being kept as a strictly backyard dog prior to her arriving at the shelter.
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Yet, once she gets out into the play yard and is given some love and attention, she just melts in all the affection. Skittles knows ‘sit’ and ‘down’. She’s attentive, treat motivated, and eager to please her handler. Truly, Skittles has so much potential and she’s waiting patiently for the right person to come along and take her home.
Skittles is about 5 years old, UTD on her vaccinations, heartworm negative, and microchipped. If interested in meeting with Skittles, or other adoptable animals at the shelter, please call staff at (530) 257-9200. Should there be other dogs in a potential new home, staff recommends bringing them along for a meet and greet to ensure a good fit.
Featured animals at the Lassen County Animal Shelter are available for adoption on a first-come-first-serve basis. According to California law, all adoptable dogs and cats must be spayed and neutered before leaving our facility. If interested in adopting an animal, please contact the shelter directly.
Current shelter hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00a.m. to 3:00p.m. Closed Saturday and Sunday. You can contact the shelter at 530.257.9200.
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Monticola Club Wants Your
Footwear for Shoe Drive Fundraiser
The Susanville Monticola Club wants your shoes! The club’s Shoe Drive Fundraiser has started, and members are looking for gently used and new shoes.
All types, styles and sizes of men’s, women’s and children’s shoes are needed and donations don’t just benefit the club – your sneakers, flip-flops, sandals, loafers, cleats, dance shoes, sleepers, boots etc., will get a second life in countries where people are in need.
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How does it work? Place your gently used and new shoes in a plastic bag and call 1.530.310.3496. Naomi will come pick up your shoes for you. | |
Looking down Main from above the Elks Lodge
Susanville Solstice Provides Unique Photo Opportunity Tuesday Morning
Susanville’s annual Fall Solstice happens tomorrow, October 29th, at precisely 7:30a.m., when sunrise aligns with Susanville’s Main Street and for just a few minutes following sunrise, buildings on both sides of the street are illuminated equally, with odd shadows that parallel the street from the Elks Lodge all the way down to the big bend at Mesa Street.
It’s a unique event that happens twice a year just by natural coincidence – depending on the year it occurs on October 29th or 30th and then again on February 10th or 11th.
“But the Winter Solstice isn’t until December,” some people feel the need to point out. But this is not that, this is the Susanville Solstice. Relax. It’s completely made up. But we love it.
When you think back over time, the hardest, worst winter storms always seem to happen between the end of October and the middle of February, so these two solstices are actually a pretty good bookend for our Susanville winters.
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So, what do you do on a Susanville Solstice morning? Well, lots of us meet uptown to take pictures. The show only lasts a few minutes and there are so many unique things to photograph during the alignment.
In past years photographers, including world-famous-outdoor-adventure-photographer Randy Robbins, show up with their cameras to shoot the unique scene about ten minutes before sunrise. It’s like a fun, very short, party to celebrate the occasion.
Remember to dress warmly, because it gets pretty cold standing around on Main Street waiting for the sun to come up.
The weather experts at the National Weather Service office in Reno are saying we should have mostly clear skies Tuesday, and with those high clouds we might get a beautiful sunrise to take pictures of, so grab your cameras and come join us on Main Street. See you there!
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Prescribed Fire Project Fall
Line-up on Lassen National Forest
The arrival of autumn brings cooler temps, shorter days, and preparation for prescribed burning on the Lassen National Forest. LNF’s fire specialists have begun preparing for prescribed burn projects across all three districts, while waiting for favorable conditions to begin operations.
Burning operations will continue through the fall and winter as weather and conditions allow.
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“The Lassen National Forest land management strategy is centered on long-term forest health,” explains Forest spokesperson Amber Marshall. “This strategy includes reducing forest fuels and using prescribed burning on the landscape. Implementation of the following projects will be dependent on if adequate burn windows arise.”
The Lassen has numerous projects ready to go for burning to capitalize on ideal burn conditions, which are different for each project. Not all projects listed will be completed this fall and winter.
Almanor Ranger District
Various pile burning fuels projects totaling approx. 1100 acres across Almanor Ranger District.
Eagle Lake Ranger District
- Bailey Underburn: 1760 acres located four miles southeast of Bogard Rest Area; on the southeast side of Pine Creek Valley, along Lassen County Road 105.
- Bull Underburn: 1016 acres located four miles north of Poison Lake, along Forest Service Road 33N08 in The Blacks Experimental Forest.
- Ebey Underburn: 1141 acres located three miles north of Poison Lake. Situated in between the Pittville Highway (Lassen County Road 111) and Forest Road 33N08.
- Signal Underburn: 1670 acres located four miles north-northwest of Spaulding. Units are on the south side of Lassen County Road 105, in the Houseman Reservoir area.
- Various pile burning fuels projects totaling approx. 478 acres across Eagle Lake Ranger District.
Hat Creek Ranger District
- Eastside Underburn: 900 acres located approx. five miles southeast of Fall River Mills.
- Panner Underburn: 450 acres located in the area of Ashpan Snowmobile Park approx. eight miles southwest of Old Station.
- Shooter Underburn: 320 acres located in the area of Forest Road 17 approx. three miles west of Manzanita Lake.
- Various pile burning fuels projects totaling approx. 1000 acres across Hat Creek Ranger District.
Prescribed burns are conducted within a “prescription” that is determined by appropriate fuel moisture, temperature, humidity, wind, and ventilation. Experienced fire and fuels specialists on the Lassen National Forest build prescribed burn plans using the most up-to-date science and modeling along with their combined on the ground fire and fuels experience.
Fire personnel implement, evaluate, check, and patrol each burn to ensure it meets the goals and objectives outlined in the prescribed fire plans.
Prescribed fire helps LNF protect people’s livelihoods, property, and critical infrastructure, such as powerlines, and telecommunication links, thus reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire impacting our local communities.
Prescribed fires reduce hazardous fuels, minimizes the spread of pest insects and disease, provides forage for game, improves habitat, recycles nutrients back to the soil, and promotes the growth of trees, wildflowers, and other plants, contributing to overall forest health.
The Forest Service will post signs on roads likely to be affected by operations as work begins in each of the project areas this season. Seasonal weather is expected to be slightly warmer and dryer into fall, transitioning to average temperatures with average precipitation through winter.
Fire activity is expected to be low to moderate during the initial burn periods. Fire specialists anticipate daytime smoke impacts during these times, and in the early morning and late evening as smoke settles into valleys and low-lying areas. Please use caution while driving through these areas and slow down for the safety of firefighters and the public. Check for smoke impacts in your area at www.airnow.gov.
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Football Fun on the Menu at Tonight’s Elks Touchdown Throwdown
The Susanville Elks Lodge BPOE #1487 will be holding their weekly Monday night Touchdown Throwdown football party tonight beginning at 5:00.
The Elks will be airing the Giants and Steelers game on the two big screens in the bar and another in the dining room.
They will have $4 drink specials and an $8 chili dog meal featuring Jim Uruburu’s award winning chili for chili dogs or Frito boats or nachos with just chili and cheese.
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Pulled pork sandwiches, a fan favorite, are on tonight’s menu.
Bring your friends, organizers promise it will be a great time! The Susanville Elks Lodge is located at the top of Main Street.
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Lassen Advocate Publisher Ted Friend and Sheriff Olin S. Johnson
in front of the Susanville post office ~ LIFE Magazine, 1944.
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Susanville Officers Arrest Theft Suspects
October 28, 1943
Sheriff Olin S. Johnson has arrested Floyd Jackson Hudson, 39, an alleged inmate of Folsom prison as one of the alleged night prowlers who broke into several Susanville homes on Tuesday, October 19, stole a number of valuables and terrorized the victims. Also jailed is Robert B. Wilson, 34, another alleged Folsom prison inmate, held as a suspect of complicity.
The prison convicts held here are part of a group of forty-seven prisoners from Folsom prison camped at Coppervale ranger station on road work. At the request of Sheriff Johnson the Coppervale station and the prisoners returned to Folsom.
Hudson and Wilson are confined to the Lassen county jail pending charges of grand theft.
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