The club will meet at the Scotts Valley Women's Club House, 2298 Hendricks Road, Lakeport.

The meeting will include a workshop at 10:30 a.m. on decorating mini pumpkins using natural materials for fall decorations. Betty Atwood-Reyna will lead the workshop.

Social time starts at noon, with a flower roll call at 12:30 p.m. and the meeting at 1 p.m.

Members, guests and anyone interested in attending all are most welcome.

Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club is a member of Mendo-Lake District, Calif. Garden Club Inc., Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs Inc.

The club meets at noon on the third Tuesday of the month.

Please phone Jo Douville, 707-263-8549, for information about the mini pumpkin decorating workshop.

For more information about the club visit www.clttgc.org .

“Why a trust and not a will?” will be presented at 10 a.m. at Galilee Lutheran Church Community Room, 8860 Soda Bay Road, Kelseyville.

Dennis A. Fordham, a certified specialist in estate planning, will make the presentation. A question and answer session will follow.

Refreshments will be provided.

To reserve a space call Fordham's office at 707-263-3235.

The senior center is located at 3985 Country Club Drive (corner of 10^th and Country Club) in Lucerne. Breakfast is served from 9 a.m. to noon.

The public is invited.

Membership in the Lake County Democratic Club is open to registered members of the Democratic Party.

For more information contact the club at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 707-277-0713.

The meeting will be held at the Kelseyville Senior Center, 5245 3rd St. at 2 p.m. Lake County Historical Society members and guests are welcome.

Light refreshments will be available.

The guest speaker will be Dr. John Parker, who will discuss 20,000 years of Lake County prehistory.

Dr. Parker will use artifacts and a PowerPoint presentation to take you through the cultural, environmental and technological changes that occurred in Lake County during the past 20,000 years.

The information presented is based on 20 years of research that culminated in his 315-page doctoral dissertation.

We all know that Lake County was home to many American Indian communities. Parker will help answer the following questions:

• Where did they come from?

• What was the Lake Basin like during the last ice age?

• What was their culture like?

• What did they eat?

• Where did they live?

• How did their lives change over the past 20,000 years?

Dr. Parker will answer these questions and more as he takes you on a journey through the past.

In 1973, Dr. Parker began a 20-year study of Lake County prehistory. For 15 of those years, he lived in Clearlake, taught at Mendocino and Yuba Community College, gave educational programs to civic clubs and community groups, conducted archaeological studies for landowners, and served as a planning commissioner for the city of Clearlake. He organized public and political support for the purchase of the Anderson Marsh State Historic Park.

He is a registered professional archaeologist, a life member of the Society for California Archaeology, a life member of the Lake County Historical Society and volunteered many hours helping Henry Mauldin update the card catalog for the County Historical Notes.

His work has been seen on PBS, CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, CNN, FOX, in newspapers and in magazines such as People, Newsweek, Archaeology, Omni, Westways, American Film, Instructor, Sunset, California and Preservation News.

To learn more and see some of his work turn on your computer and go to

www.wolfcreekarcheology.com .

For more information about the historical society, call Randy Ridgel at 707-279-4062 or Mike Anderson at 707-277-2075, or visit the group online at www.lakecountyhistoricalsociety.net .

The meeting will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

The meeting's location has been changed to Zino's Ristorante, 6330 Soda Bay Road, Kelseyville.

Items on the agenda will include the upcoming “Tie Out,” being held Oct. 9 to 11. The schedule for this three day event will be finalized.

Flotilla 88 encourages anyone interested in joining this active group to attend, meet your Lake County neighbors and become one of America's Volunteer Life Savers.

For additional information regarding the Flotilla, please call the information line at 707-513-5122.