Volume XVII Issue 24

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

Cancer Advocacy Group’s Fundraising Golf Tournament Big Success

A SusanvilleStuff Photofeature

by Mikalah Gray

The 12th annual Northern California Cancer Advocates golf tournament is being called a big success by organizers who held their annual fundraiser at the Diamond Mountain Golf Course August 31st, raising money for Cancer Fighters in Lassen and Plumas counties.

With 144 golfers and a whole host of folks who came out to the clubhouse for lunch and the raffle, the NCCA raised an impressive $38,800 during the one-day event.

“We have a great team of volunteers (about 20) who made this day happen by gathering donations and raffle items, grilling brats and chorizos, selling raffle tickets, brewing bloody Mary’s and mimosas, designing flags and memorial signs, advertising, accounting for our funds, and many other tasks. It’s incredible to watch it all come together,” says Shelley Bennett, one of the event organizers.

“We want to thank the Lassen College softball team for helping set up that morning. We also had help from the Lassen High School drill team, ASB student volunteers, and Miss Lassen County and court and Kolby Loflin who is our power driver on hole twelve.”

The group also thanked all the golfers and their team sponsors, the people who donated amazing prizes to the raffle and the businesses that have continued to support us over the years

The NCCA is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization operating out of Lassen and Plumas Counties with the intent to provide people suffering from cancer with support and guidance during their time of need.

Placing wreaths at last year’s ceremony.

Lassen Family Services’ Wreath Laying Ceremony Set for October 10th

October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and Lassen Family Services, the sole provider of abuse focused prevention, intervention treatment and victim support services in Lassen County, will hold a special wreath laying ceremony on the morning of October 10th to honor the memory of Deputy Larry Griffith, Officer Robert McElrath, Deputy Jack Hopkins and all law enforcement personnel who put their lives on the line to protect victims of crime and their commitment to ending domestic violence in our community.

Again this year the annual ceremony will be held at the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office on Sheriff Cady Lane beginning at 10:00a.m., and the public is welcome to attend.

The Honor Guard will present the colors and refreshments will be served following the ceremony.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

According to Lassen Family Services 40% of California women will experience physical intimate partner violence in their lifetime. In 2012 LFS provided services to 1 out of 48 residents in Lassen County, over 208 of those helped were victims of domestic violence.

Several events are held by the organization during the month of October including the annual Dancing for a Brand New Me fundraiser. Purple ribbons were displayed at local businesses and community agencies to commemorate, acknowledge and bring awareness to the problem of domestic violence.

Lassen Family Services is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1979 and relying completely on federal, state, and foundation grants and public donations to provide a lengthy list of free services to the community; domestic violence and sexual assault rape crisis counseling/intervention, emergency shelter and transitional housing, 24-Hour Crisis Line, sexual assault response team, Court Appointed Special Advocates program, Child Abuse Treatment program, legal assistance/court advocacy, parent education, prevention education, law enforcement and hospital accompaniment, emergency food and clothing, emergency and non-emergency transportation and community referrals.

The show, on the steps of the historic Lassen County Courthouse, is always awesome.

Win Tickets to the Susanville Symphony’s Concert on the Green!

The Susanville Symphony’s 21st season kicks off September 28th, with the always-awesome outdoor Concert on the Green on the lawn at the historic courthouse!

The first concert of the season is one of the most unique outdoor performances you will ever experience. Playing on the steps of Lassen County’s 105-year-old, historic Courthouse, the Concert on the Green features an eclectic mix of music – classical, pop, rock, funk, big band – in what has become the most well-attended concert of each season.

“The concert season is upon us! We are holding our membership drive at the moment, trying to get new members, and some of the previous members.,” explains Symphony Artistic Director and Conductor Ben Wade.

“The biggest advantages to having season tickets are saving money and making sure you have a reserved middle seat in the United Methodist Church.”

Or, as Wade puts it simply, “Plan ahead, get season tickets, and sit pretty.”

There will be a raffle and prizes for those who sign up for season tickets at the Concert on the Green, as well as a prize for the best “dressed” table.

Beyond the Concert on the Green, this season’s concert themes include ‘Legends of the Fall’ in October at the famous Satica Barn owned by Larry and Donna Smith, the ever-popular Christmas Concert at the United Methodist Church, the Spring Fling Big Band and the Pops Concert in May featuring the Wonderful World of Disney.

If you buy a season ticket now you will get a discounted price on the five-concert season. General admission to each concert is $35, so if you plan to see them all the $150 season ticket makes sense. Tickets at the door will be $40 each.

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 September 26th, to win a pair of tickets to the concert on the green performance. We will announce the name of our ticket winners on September 27th. Click here to head over to SusanvilleStuff for details and an entry form.

There will be a 50/50 raffle and another raffle for three cords of wood specifically to raise money for the Chimney Fund’s scholarship fund and can be pre purchased for $10 a ticket.

All the fun starts at noon this Saturday, September 14th, and anyone can compete in the chili contest. Space is limited so organizers recommend you sign up early. To register, and for official rules, email chimneyfundinc@gmail.com.

Awards will be given to Judges Choice, People’s Choice, Best Salsa and Best Decorated Booth.

For more information call Ashley at 1.530.816.0173.

The Susanville Fair on Main Street in 1922

Program Given

Three Days and Four Nights of Interesting Events Planned for Lassen County Fair

September 12, 1923

Three days of rodeo, racing and agricultural and stock exhibits and four nights of carnival, shows, rides, concessions and dancing make up the program for the second annual Lassen County Fair.

The night show will be located around the American Legion platform and that location will be a blaze of color and lights. The merry-go-round that the association has purchased has arrived and will be assembled this week. William Cain has returned from San Francisco, where he purchased several hundred dollars’ worth of concession material for the concessions.

There will be a cabaret show, with twelve singing and dancing girls. This show will be installed in a tent on the Midway. Each evening from 7:30 until 9:30 there will be a local talent show on the dance platform. W. K. Davis is in charge of this show, with Bob Williams as assistant.

The American Legion is in charge of the dance which follows the show each evening.

Several other features are now being arranged for by Ben Lyle, chairman of the night shows.

Naomi Hixie Swinney – August 18, 2024

Deborah Ann Knox – August 24, 2024

Keith Farrel Tiner – August 26, 2024

Gloria June Day – August 1st, 2024

Kenneth L. Wheeler – July 31, 2024