Volume XVI Issue 130

Friday, February 2nd, 2024

You don’t really have to sing or dance, and no special talent is required, just your energy, enthusiasm, and the desire to have fun!

The low-cost event, held at the Lassen County Fairgrounds, is a favorite among local families, with a host of groups and organizations participating to make the fun-filled day a success.

Many parents who visited the fair as children return to treat their own children to the experience.

If you want to be a part of the Lip Sync Battle click here and follow the link to the sign-up form. The lip sync competition is brought to you by the Tobacco-Use Prevention Education program.

Children’s Fair Coordinator James Hall explains that the purpose of the fair is, “to provide an opportunity for families to spend a pleasant day together that will hopefully reduce tobacco, substance, and child abuse within Lassen County.”

This year the fair will feature a big selection of community organization booths providing resource information and activities for students along with a vehicle display and face painting.

Would your group or organization like to have a booth at the fair? The last day to register is April 24th and you can click here to fill out a booth application form.

For more information you can call the Lassen County Office of Education at 1.530.251.8711.

The open house will be held from 4:00 to 6:00p.m., on Wednesday, February 7th, at the Lassen County Fairgrounds.

This project will include intermittent closures of Highway 139 in Spring of 2025, in addition to one-way traffic control for the duration of the project.

Along with drainage improvements and improved maintenance vehicle safety features, the project will bring guardrail, concrete barriers and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) elements up to current standards.

For more information visit the Caltrans District 2 website or call 1.530.225.3426.

For those who cannot attend, please send comments and questions to d2pio@dot.ca.gov

DWR’s electronic readings from 130 stations placed throughout the state indicate that the statewide snowpack’s snow water equivalent is 8.4 inches, or 52 percent of average for this date, an improvement from just 28 percent of average on January 1st. One year ago, the snowpack statewide was 214 percent of average on February 1st.

“This year’s El Niño has delivered below average precipitation and an even smaller snowpack,” said DWR Director Karla Nemeth. “Californians must prepare for all possible conditions during the remaining months of the rainy season.”

Despite additional precipitation in January, many storms so far this year have been warmer than average, producing rain rather than snow at higher elevations. Overall statewide precipitation is 82 percent of average for this date.

DWR staff conduct the snow survey at Phillips Station on January 30th – DWR photo

Last year’s snowpack was aided by both above average precipitation and below average temperatures, which created a historic snowpack and improved reservoir storage statewide, which is still above average.

Lake Oroville, the State Water Project’s largest reservoir, is currently 76 percent of average.

“Despite strong El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean, a high-pressure system and several other climate factors have led to below average conditions so far and most storm impacts have been focused along the coastal regions,” said Dr. Michael Anderson, State Climatologist with DWR.

“Many of these storms have also been warmer than average and produced more rain and less snow, a far cry from last year’s near-record snowpack and once again demonstrating how California can swing from one extreme to another.”

On average, the Sierra snowpack supplies about 30 percent of California’s water needs. Its natural ability to store water is why the Sierra snowpack is often referred to as California’s “frozen reservoir.” Data from these snow surveys and forecasts produced by DWR’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit are important factors in determining how DWR manages the state’s water resources.

DWR conducts five media-oriented snow surveys at Phillips Station each winter near the first of each month, January through April and, if necessary, May. The next survey is tentatively scheduled for March 1st.

The Lassen County Courthouse in the late 1930’s from an Eastman Studios postcard

Susanville Judge Believes in Justice Without Favor

February 2, 1948

Harold Bradford, the new city judge, administers justice without favor.

He levied fines totaling $12.50 for the third and fourth parking violations by the same motorist – then dug down and paid them himself because he was the violator.

He announced he would assess himself $20 for his next infraction of parking rules and would keep boosting the rate himself, “until I learn not to leave my car too long on Main Street.”