First off, here are Susanville’s 1951 Little League All-Stars posing for a picture after taking third in the District Championship in Reno. The players are: (back row left to right) Bill Pliler, Pete Rupert, Dino Cunial, Gilbert Pasqua, Jim Allen, Carlo Petroni and Louis Lopez. (Front row left to right) Wendel Wight, Roy Arnett, Bruce Richards, Bill Morris, George Sargent, Gerald Honea and Carol Abernathy.

Next, we have an undated photo of the Patio Basketball team. For those that are too young to remember, the Patio Store was at the intersection of Main and Ash Streets and had all manner of sporting goods and beverages and food and a whole wall full of magazines and it was the only place in town you could go to get dry ice. It was a fascinating store!

The Patio team was (back row left to right) Frank Ernaga, Carlo Petroni, a dude we don’t know, V. Porter and Larry McCutcheon. In the front row is Fred Borghi, George Sargent, another unknown guy and finally Booty Grohs.

And our final George Sargent photo is this one of the Lassen High School ‘Pool Sharks’ in the early 1950’s. Left to right that is John Cotton, George Sargent, Jim Allen, Ray Abernathy, Carlo Petroni and Roy Arnett.

Westwood Harvest Festival

Drive up the hill this afternoon and watch an awesome band! Forgery is going on the road to the Westwood Harvest Festival at the community center in Westwood from 4 to 7.

From the “People in my high school class who

have achieved far more than I ever will” Department.

Congratulations to swell human being Russell Smith, from the Class of 1988, who just retired from the U.S. Navy after 34 years of service. And he didn’t just serve, he shined, retiring as the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.

In case you don’t know what that means, let me brag for Russ just a bit. MCPON is the most senior enlisted member of the U.S. Navy and he will not say it, but I will, it’s a really big, important deal.

Fantastic job Mr. Smith, thank you for your service and thank you for being a splendid example to our local kids and LHS graduates. Enjoy your retirement!

Have a great weekend everybody!

Sally began her journey with the Round Valley 4-H Club in Covelo, CA in 1962. She remained a member from then until she graduated eighth grade and joined Covelo FFA.

While in 4-H she showed Registered Hampshire Sheep. After graduating from High School in 1972 Sally immediately enrolled as a leader in Round Valley 4-H. Sally started raising project lambs in 1973.

She relocated to Lassen County in 1985 and continued owning and operating a large club lamb operation, with great help from her daughter Jane, until 1995.

She sold several Champion lambs to the Shasta, Butte, Redwood Empire, and Lassen County Fairs. She took great pride in helping kids that were considered “underdogs” often providing financial assistance without any recognition or knowledge by the members.

Sally was a dedicated 4-H mother to all three of her children helping with the beef, sheep, and swine projects. She sewed countless outfits for the Lad and Lassie competition and had many “bonus kids” that found her house as a second home.

The kids that came and helped with chores never left with an empty stomach! She has served for the past decade as the Milford 4-H “Club Nana” often being “voluntold” to help with cooking, sewing, gardening, and any project you can think of! She has been by the side of all five grandchildren through their 4-H adventures.

Have you had the chance to see the square planter right next to the judging pavilion? It’s always in full bloom with the 4-H, FFA and California State flag flying high above during fair week. In 2005 Sally Dilts, Ron Barnes and the California Correctional Center Landscape Operations were awarded the Western Fairs Association Blue Ribbon Award for beautification of the fairgrounds after designing, creating and upkeeping this planter (it used to be a water feature until the drought years came).

Sally believes that the 4-H program instills a strong work ethic, ability to follow through with commitments and useful life skills in our youth. She has always said that you can pick a 4-H kid out of a crowd in a job interview any day!

Your service to the youth of Lassen County hasn’t gone without notice. We thank you so very much for all that you have done and continue to do! Welcome to the Lassen County 4-H Hall of Fame Mrs. Dilts!

Photos submitted by: Nickie Dilts

According to Woginrich, patrol staff must fully rely on the information provided to them by the dispatcher and incorrect or unclear information could put patrol deputies and officers in danger. This is incredibly stressful for the dispatchers.

“We greatly appreciate the effort and dedication of our deputies and dispatchers. Please join us in recognizing and thanking our deputies and dispatchers for all of their hard work!”

Lassen County Jail

In September the jail had an average daily population of 117 with 78 of those being felony inmates and 13 misdemeanor inmates. There were 93 bookings total during the month.

911 Dispatch Center

The Dispatch Center received a total of 3,758 calls, an average of 125 per day. Broken down there were 2,767 non-emergency calls and 991 calls to the 911 emergency number.

Patrol Operations

There were 359 calls for service, twelve felony arrests, thirty-one misdemeanor arrests, thirty-two citations issued and 10 Coroner’s cases.

Cindy joined 4-H in 1969 at the age of nine. She was a member of the horse and beef projects. Her first year in 4-H she participated in a Livestock Judging Contest and won first place in her age category – that’s when she remembers being hooked!

Cindy was a member until she aged out at nineteen and was a Lassen County Ambassador her junior year in high school.

Cindy’s favorite memory of 4-H as a kid was attending the County Fair. You see, social media was not a thing, and very few Lassen County 4-H’ers had a landline phone. Their social event of the year was coming to the fair!

The current Head Start Building by the Grandstands used to serve as a dormitory during fair time. If you lived outside a certain mile radius you were able to stay all week in the dorms and tend to your livestock!

Cindy also has fond memories of participating in the night horse show at the fair where she once had a Champion Pole run off until midnight and she won Champion by a three second lead.

Cindy’s true passion is for the beef projects, and she has served many local youths in this arena. Cindy very rarely talks about herself and if you didn’t know someone who knew – you’d never know that her and her husband have more National Titles than I could list in this article.

Cindy has employed and trained numerous youths throughout her cattle career in the areas of feeding, operations, fitting, etc. that have all gone on to either own cattle companies, be livestock judges, professional cattle fitters, and even successful entrepreneurs.

In 1995 Cindy became the second female EVER to show a Grand Champion on the green shavings at the North American Livestock Exposition with the National Polled Hereford Grand Champion Bull. For the non-livestock folks that’s the Olympics of livestock shows!

The list of accomplishments goes on and on from across the United States and into South America.

Cindy has been a 4-H Leader for over 25 years. She started as a leader with Lake 4-H and then moved to Standish 4-H Club. She has been the leader for the livestock judging projects, leadership, and beef cattle. Cindy enjoys nothing more than watching youth members she has coached and mentored go on and be successful in their own right.

The responsibility, sense of pride, and goal setting that 4-H teaches are things she says are invaluable. Cindy is the current 2022/2023 4-H Ambassador Advisor and 4-H Council President.

Welcome to the Lassen County 4-H Hall of Fame Mrs. Weimer! Onward and upward!

Photos submitted by: Weimer Cattle Company, Lassen County 4-H Office and Nickie Dilts

Uptown Susanville from the Air, 1944 ~LIFE Magazine/Getty Collection

Assault Charge Follows Affray

October 7, 1944

In an affray in front of the forest service office, corner Gay and Main streets, Tuesday afternoon, James Solopoff, 31, received a three-inch stab wound in his left chest, inflicted by Elmer Hunter, it is charged.

Solopoff, who recently received an honorable discharge from the service after serving two years in the South Pacific, has been working for the forest service.

According to bystanders, the argument is said to have started over the alleged theft of a hat.

Hunter is held at the Lassen County jail, while Solopoff after having several stitches taken in the wound, returned to work.

Solopoff has filed a complaint through District Attorney A. J. Anderson, charging Hunter with assault with a deadly weapon.