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Who Are The Canidites Running For Community Services District Director Humboldt Co Calif Candidates

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The Lake County Democratic Political party has endorsed six candidates running for local offices: Jessica Pyska for Board of Supervisors in Commune 5, David Claffey for Clearlake City Council, Michael Green for Lakeport City Council, Natalie Higley and Gilbert Rangel for Kelseyville Unified School District Board, and Zabdy Neria for Konocti Unified School District Board.

The endorsement process is a rigorous one, co-ordinate to the political party's Elections Chair Sissa Harris. Information technology involves each prospective candidate completing a questionnaire that asks how they would arroyo solving issues critical to our community. It as well involves interviews conducted (via Zoom, this year) by the entire Elections Committee with each candidate. "I am grateful for the patience and hard work of everyone involved," said Harris.

Board of Supervisors candidate for Commune v Jessica Pyska was endorsed by the Lake County Democratic Party before her master in March, where she attained the majority of votes cast, but not enough to win outright and therefore is now in a runoff on the November ballot.

Ms. Pyska has deep feel in two areas of priority for Lake County – fire resilience and economic development. She is a founding member of the Cobb Area Council and recently received a $200,000 economical development grant that is beingness strategically invested.

She serves on several canton-level committees and attends every meeting of the Board of Supervisors. To assist feed the community during the current crisis, she raised nigh $eight,000 and iii tons of food. She started two garden giveaway programs and continues to support local businesses during the Covid crunch.

Ms. Pyska has as well been endorsed by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry as well as State Senator Mike McGuire.

Clearlake Urban center Council candidate David Claffey is a member of the Clearlake Marketing Committee and serves on the lath of directors for the Highlands Senior Middle. He is currently a business content strategist for ServiceNow. He brings youth, creativity and enthusiasm to the part that urban center authorities can play in improving housing, tourism and business in the metropolis of Clearlake.

Lakeport City Council candidate Michael Light-green has served the city of Lakeport on the Planning Commission for three years. Planning and zoning issues have given him a expert understanding of the many and complex issues facing the city. Twenty years of Mr. Green's career was spent in journalism writing about local news. He also ran two businesses.

Mr. Green brings a balanced approach to urban center government, agreement the needs of residents and the business community. He appreciates that Lakeport has many strengths, from the not bad people who live in the city to the many recreational things to do in the surface area, and a city staff that has very good working relationships. Mr. Greenish seeks to improve the city's stock of affordable housing and looks for ways to safely increase jobs in the COVID-19 era.

Kelseyville Unified Schoolhouse District Lath candidate Natalie Higley is new to running for office, but is not new to politics, serving as an AD4 delegate to the California Democratic Political party. Ms. Higley is running for the school board because of her involvement in delivering a quality pedagogy safely to schoolhouse children. As a single parent, she believes that she understands how challenging educational commitment can be for both schoolhouse districts and parents in these challenging times.

Ms. Higley is herself a product of the Kelseyville Unified School Commune, and is grateful to the many teachers and classified staff who supported her educational journeying. Ms. Higley has been active in the revitalization of the school garden projection, an example of a successful school and community partnership, and ane manner parents can engage with their children'south learning. Ms. Higley is currently the political director for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 551.

Kelseyville Unified School Commune Lath candidate Gilbert Rangel has 20 years of feel working in the government and nonprofit sectors, focused on programming in the areas of youth development, education and migrant communities. Currently, Mr. Rangel serves every bit the director for the Lake County AmeriCorps program which is focused on empowering youth to become successful in their didactics. Mr. Rangel'due south vision for the Kelseyville Unified School Commune is for all stakeholders to work "Together Towards Progress" so that every student has equal access and opportunity to a meaningful didactics.

Konocti Unified Schoolhouse District school board candidate Zabdy Neria is an alumni of Lower Lake High School, and is now acquiring her master's in social piece of work. She is a children'southward mental health specialist, provides therapy, and advocates for the youth of this county. Ms. Neria has dedicated her life to serving the virtually vulnerable populations in a variety of roles. She believes in the ability of customs and that "together we tin can achieve anything."

"We have truly outstanding candidates," said Lake County Democratic Political party chair Deb Baumann. "Lake Canton is fortunate that such thoughtful, committed people are stepping up to the plate to run for office."

For more data about the Democratic Party in Lake County visit www.lakecountydemocrats.org or www.facebook.com/LakeCountyDemocrats.

Contact the Democratic Party of Lake County at 707-533-4885 or by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. Yous need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The members of the Lake County Autonomous Party Central Committee of Lake County, California, are Deb Baumann, Larry Bean, Mary Borjon, Susan Cameron, Virginia Cerenio, Doug Harris, Sissa Harris, Ceva Giumelli, Tom Jordan, Chloe Karl, Ellen Karnowski, Cathy McCarthy, John Sheehy, Stephanie Pahwa, Dave Rogers, Justine Schneider and Trish VanDenBerghe.

At that place is a silent killer stalking the National Forests and Bureau of State Management lands of California. It cares naught for the fish and wildlife that telephone call information technology home. It poisons wildlife on a landscape scale, contaminates public h2o supplies, and if you lot are non conscientious, volition poison y'all besides.

Cartel-operated trespass cannabis grows are toxic dumps in remote, pristine habitats. They divert streams to the point of depletion, use EPA-banned pesticides that poison wildlife, water, and soil, and leave tons of trash in sensitive ecosystems. They contain plastic irrigation lines, strewn trash, makeshift water reservoirs, propane tanks, primitive camps, and planted cannabis, particularly in burn down scars or other exposed habitats.

The issue of trespass grows has flown under the radar for years. Hidden away, illicit growers use banned pesticides to protect their plants, poisoning wild fauna and users alike.

The northern population of Pacific fishers, a candidate species for the Endangered Species Act, or ESA, now tests over lxxx percentage positive for rodenticides (rat poisons) – a poison in heavy use at trespass grows.

Northern Spotted Owls – an ESA-listed species – test 70 per centum positive for the aforementioned poisons. Even game species have tested positive, including mule deer. Incredibly, trespass growers will even bait line-fishing hooks with poisoned meat to kill foraging wildlife.

The amount of wild animals poisoned past pesticides shows how it has bioaccumulated through the nutrient web, leading to major ecosystem implications. Furthermore, those toxics are sometimes weaponized by growers to target police force enforcement, and can readily poison unsuspecting hikers. Until recently, information technology was "out of sight, out of mind." That is now over.

Federal appropriations requests for reclamation and prevention championed by Congressmen Huffman (CD-two) and LaMalfa (CD-1) are now under review in Congress, and will hopefully be approved in the coming months. The requests could hateful as much equally $25 million a year to address this seemingly intractable problem.

A further request was submitted nether the COVID-19 stimulus program for "shovel gear up" projects, which includes reclamation. If approved, the reclamation funding would: (1) provide economic opportunity for Northern California'due south rural, economically disadvantaged communities, keeping the funding and jobs local; (2) increment USFS constabulary enforcement on California's federal lands to forbid new grows from existence established, and (three) prioritize tribal reclamation partners, furthering their participation in the management and cleanup of their ancestral territory and protection of cultural resources.

The Cannabis Removal On Public Lands, or Ingather Project, working to address this issue since 2017, significantly raised the profile of this outcome through national printing in 2019 and has been integral to congressional activeness.

True to its bipartisan nature, Crop is a wide-based coalition of scientists, elected county officials, conservation interests, country and federal agencies, tribes, the legal cannabis industry, and USFS law enforcement.

Now, CROP's mission to remove and prevent trespass grows is bearing fruit and presenting an opportunity for regional collaboration between various, and sometimes polarized, interests to reclaim public lands.

The Ingather Project, now expanding out of the Emerald Triangle into Siskiyou, Shasta and Lassen counties, looks frontward to working with interests to solve this problem.

In the meantime, hikers and recreational users of California's public lands need to exercise extreme caution should they come beyond a trespass grow. Public country users that stumble upon a trespass grow should immediately and discretely get out the scene, preferably going out the same way you came in (virtually growers are armed).

Think the location of the site, and immediately report it to one-888-334-CALTIP (888-334-2258), the anonymous environmental crime tip-line for CDFW.

To learn more virtually Ingather, or how to back up us, please visit www.cropproject.org .

Jackee Riccio is the regional field manager for the Crop Project, and resides in Humboldt County, California.

For years I have watched some Americans turn a deafened ear to other Americans.

The results are demonstrations in our streets and some cities on burn, as people protest racial inequality, police brutality, depression wages, lack of economical opportunities and reduced funding for instruction.

As most Americans, I watched the video of George Floyd dying on the street in Minneapolis, handcuffed, with four police officers holding him downwardly. I cried considering of the racial injustice of it. But this went across a white police officer killing a black human. The scene reminded me of Nazi Deutschland, where soldiers without a conscience casually snuffed out the lives of millions of Jews, Catholics, blacks and homosexuals.

Regardless of race, the murder in Minneapolis was the brazen lack of compassion past one homo being for another.

So where does America go from here? What would compassion in our country look similar?

When a police officeholder takes a knee in unity with peace protesters, they are showing compassion, because they are listening. And those officers have my respect.

When our elected federal officials raise taxes on wealthy Americans to provide a living wage for underpaid government workers; to support our education system and gainsay pollution … they will finally be listening.

When our local government promotes economic development to provide proficient paying jobs and opportunities for our young people ... they will finally be listening.

When we care enough near wellness intendance for others, as we do about such care for ourselves…. we will finally be listening.

When immature people, who anxiously discover, how nosotros are "trashing" our oceans, with no programme to accost it ... They know nosotros are not listening. Because in society to survive and provide a living planet for their children, they must clean up what irresponsible older generations, so nonchalantly discard.

Every bit young people inherit a warming planet complete with dying animals, they are aroused and crying out for action … and who is listening?

When local education officials (school superintendents and school boards), teachers and classified staff enquire for more funding for underpaid workers; when schoolhouse districts ask to hire more teachers, counselors and schoolhouse nurses to address the hurting of schoolhouse children who cannot learn due to hunger, medical problems and turmoil at domicile … we need to heed.

When high school students who want to get to college or a vocational school, to farther their education and become responsible, financially secure adults, nosotros need to help them attain their dreams with generous grants and low interest loans. Therefore, we demand to heed.

When our local regime finally makes it a priority to increase taxes a little, to help others obtain a living wage; and be responsible for public services they have not fully provided … Nosotros need to listen and engage to support those priorities.

When corporations and small businesses take pride in providing a living wage to their employees (fifty-fifty if it means increasing their prices to exercise and then) then they will finally be listening.

Asking for a living wage is not socialism. It is not a threat to capitalism. It is simply a request for people to be able to pay their bills and raise their families without living in poverty. And if y'all cannot hear that message past at present … so you are non listening.

My heart is breaking for the many years of pain, racial, economic and educational inequality in America that has brought united states of america to … today.

As Americans, we are faced with a choice. Do nosotros care more than about helping other Americans out of poverty, or practise nosotros care more nearly saving coin?

Do nosotros continue to turn a blind middle and deny the racial and gender hardships that be? Or do we engage in the difficult conversations needed to overcome it.

Information technology is not a weakness to communicate with compassion. And we have a growing list of police officers taking a genu, to prove us the mode.

Anna Rose Ravenwoode is a life-long educator who lives in Kelseyville, California.

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Courtesy photo.

Each year, more than 250,000 women in the United States learn that they take breast cancer, and more than 20,000 find out they have ovarian cancer.

While most of these cancers happen randomly, nearly five to 10 pct are hereditary, meaning they are acquired past genetic changes (chosen mutations) which are passed downwards in families.

Unfortunately, women with these inherited cancers have few treatment options.

That's why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently extended Medicare coverage to laboratory diagnostic tests using next-generation sequencing (NGS) for patients with inherited breast or ovarian cancer.

NGS testing gives a more complete profile of cancer cells than is possible with current tests and may help identify proven, targeted treatments.

NGS tests provide the most comprehensive genetic analysis of a patient's cancer because they can simultaneously discover multiple types of genetic alterations. CMS first began roofing laboratory diagnostic tests using NGS in March 2018 for Medicare patients with advanced cancer that met specific criteria. With CMS' contempo coverage decision, more than Medicare patients will have access to NGS to assist in managing other types of inherited cancers to reduce mortality and improve wellness outcomes.

Innovative technologies are transforming American medicine, and CMS is closely monitoring the rapid development of new tests and tools for diagnosing cancer. Nosotros desire to practise everything nosotros tin to back up women's wellness and help patients go the care they need.

In addition to providing admission to this testing for women, Medicare also covers testing for prostate cancer.

All men are at take chances for prostate cancer. Out of every 100 American men, about thirteen will get prostate cancer during their lifetimes, and two or three men will die from information technology.

The most common gamble gene is age. The older a human being is, the greater his take chances of getting prostate cancer.

Some men are at increased risk for prostate cancer. You're at increased take chances for getting or dying from prostate cancer if you're African-American or accept a family history of prostate cancer.

Medicare Part B covers digital rectal exams and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests one time every 12 months for men over 50 (starting time the solar day after your 50th birthday).

Beneficiaries pay 20 percentage of the Medicare-canonical amount for a yearly digital rectal exam and for medico services related to the test. The Function B deductible ($198 in 2020) applies. In a hospital outpatient setting, at that place'due south also a copayment.

Beneficiaries pay nothing for a yearly PSA claret test. If you get the test from a doctor who doesn't accept Medicare payment, yous may have to pay an additional fee for the physician'south services, but not for the examination itself.

In 2018, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force fabricated the following recommendations about prostate cancer screening:

Men who are 55 to 69 years erstwhile should brand private decisions well-nigh existence screened for prostate cancer with a PSA exam.

Before making a determination, men should talk to their doctor most the benefits and harms of screening for prostate cancer, including the benefits and harms of other tests and treatment.
Men who are lxx years old or older should not exist screened for prostate cancer routinely.

September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the many preventive screening services that Medicare offers for cancer and other diseases, at https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/preventive-screening-services.

Seema Verma is the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Kelseyville Unified School District Superintendent Dave McQueen. Courtesy photo.

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – If y'all've ever considered running for the schoolhouse board, now's your chance.

The Kelseyville Unified Schoolhouse District board has iii vacancies and we're looking for strong, qualified candidates who are passionate about education and willing to volunteer for a 4-year term to help students reach their potential. Whatsoever registered voter who lives in the district can apply.

The role of a school board member is to set up the vision for the school district too equally providing financial oversight for the use of taxpayer dollars.

The California School Lath Association names v core responsibilities: Setting management; establishing an effective and efficient structure; providing support; ensuring accountability; providing customs leadership as advocates for children, the school district and public schools.

Say-so is granted to the board as a whole, not each member individually. Therefore, board members fulfill these responsibilities past working together as a governance team with the superintendent to make decisions that volition best serve all the students in the community.

In Kelseyville, lath members run into for regular meetings in one case a month, but boosted meetings are ofttimes required equally problems arise. Truth is, this is a tough chore, but for the right person, it'due south a rewarding one.

Although board members do not bargain with the daily operations of a schoolhouse district – things similar hiring and firing personnel or creating class schedules – they do ready the policies nosotros depend on to make good operational decisions.

It really does have a special person to be a school lath member, someone who isn't afraid to stand up for what they believe and who understands they can't e'er delight everyone.

Kelseyville is a diverse community; it's one of our greatest strengths, but information technology can also make it hard to exist an elected official.

If you're non scared away by now, you might have what information technology takes. Here are some details.

To get on the election, a candidate must submit the filing fee the following completed forms to the Lake County Registrar of Voters through Aug. 7: annunciation of candidacy, statement of economic interests and candidate's statement of qualifications.

The statement of economic Interests discloses a candidate's investments, interests in real estate and any income received in the last 12 months.

The statement of qualifications allows candidates to write up to 200 words near their qualifications (notation: it must be filed at the aforementioned time as the declaration of candidacy).

A handbook with all the details is available from the Lake County Registrar of Voters. If you lot have specific questions, their helpful clerks can be reached at 707-263-2372.

I'd love to run across with anyone thinking nearly running to answer any questions yous may have and share information about our commune. You tin schedule an appointment with me past calling the District Office at 707-279-1511.

If you'd similar to connect with current Kelseyville Unified board members, yous tin can discover their emails on our website.

Dave McQueen is the superintendent of Kelseyville Unified School District.

Seema Verma is the administrator of the U.South. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Courtesy photo.

If you take Medicare and want to exist tested for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-nineteen), the Trump Administration has skillful news.

Medicare covers tests with no out-of-pocket costs. You tin become tested in your home, physician's role, a local pharmacy or hospital, a nursing home, or a drive-through site. Medicare does not crave a doctor'south order for you to become tested.

Testing is especially important for older people and nursing home residents, who are often amid the almost vulnerable to COVID-19. Widespread access to testing is a disquisitional precursor to a safe, gradual reopening of America.

When a vaccine for COVID-nineteen is developed, Medicare will encompass that, too.

For Medicare beneficiaries who are homebound and can't travel, Medicare will pay for a trained laboratory technician to come to your home or residential nursing home to collect a exam sample. (This doesn't employ to people in a skilled nursing facility on a brusk-term stay under Medicare Part A, equally the costs for this examination, including sample collection, are already covered as part of the stay.)

If you lot receive Medicare home health services, your home health nurse can collect a sample during a visit. Nurses working for rural wellness clinics and federally qualified health clinics also can collect samples in beneficiaries' homes nether certain conditions.

Or you can go to a "parking lot" test site prepare by a chemist's shop, hospital, or other entity in your customs.

We're doing like things in the Medicaid programme, giving states flexibility to cover parking-lot tests as well equally tests in beneficiaries' homes and other community settings.

Nosotros as well implemented the Families First Medicaid eligibility pick, which allows states to embrace tests for uninsured people with no cost-sharing. Individuals should contact their state Medicaid agency to apply for this coverage.

Both Medicare and Medicaid cover serology or antibody tests for COVID-19. These tests can help place who has been exposed to the virus.

Medicare generally covers the entire cost of COVID-19 testing for beneficiaries with Original Medicare. If you're enrolled in a Medicare Advantage wellness plan, your programme generally can't charge you lot price-sharing (including deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance) for COVID-nineteen tests and the administration of such tests.

In improver, Medicare Advantage plans may not impose prior say-so or other utilization management requirements on the COVID-19 test or specified COVID-19 testing-related services for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

We have also required that individual wellness issuers and employer grouping health plans encompass COVID-19 testing, and sure related items and services, with no toll-sharing during the pandemic. This includes items and services that result in an lodge for, or administration of, a COVID-19 diagnostic test in a variety of medical settings, including urgent intendance visits, emergency room visits, and in-person or telehealth visits to the md's office.

From day i, Medicare has worked to ensure that toll is no barrier to being tested for COVID-19, and to make testing as widely and easily bachelor as possible. As a result, nosotros've seen a surge in testing among Medicare beneficiaries. Robust and widespread testing is of paramount importance every bit we begin easing dorsum into normal life.

You tin always get answers to your Medicare questions past calling 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227).

Seema Verma is the administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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