MIDDLETOWN – A luau dinner with music featuring IZ will be held Saturday, Sept. 26, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Middletown Community United Methodist Church Social Hall.

James Thompson of Middletown is a double lung transplant recipient and will receive the proceeds of a live auction and direct donations at the luau dinner.

The Community Life team is the outreach arm of the church and has set tickets at $5 for those 12 years and over and $2 for children ages 4 to 11.

Dinner includes pork loin and fixings, refreshments and dessert.

Purchase tickets at Neft & Neft Realtors, D’s Coffee Shop on Calistoga Street in Middletown, at the church office on Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to Noon, and from Community Life members.

Additionally, tickets sold at the door will be $8 with $3 per ticket donated to Thompson.

The Community Life team is hosting an Oct. 24 Harvest Event at the church where an auction also will be held to benefit Thompson.

For more information contact Community Life Chair Peggy Kimple at 707-928-5692 or 707-987-3379.

The sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

All proceeds go toward children's ministries programs like Caravan (Christian Scouting) and Bible Quizzing.

The community is welcome to set up their own booth for a donation.

The church is located at 15917 Olympic Drive in Clearlake.

For more information contact the church office, 707-994-4008.

KELSEYVILLE – A symposium to help Lake County residents respond to global issues such as climate change, poverty and economic crisis will take place at the Kelseyville Senior Center on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Community of Lake County, the symposium is an opportunity for people to understand how everyone can play a part in addressing these global issues and create a world that is sustainable for this and future generations.

Participants will explore topics of importance, using video, up-to-the-minute facts and figures, and dynamic group interaction. Some of the world’s leading experts on topics as diverse as the current state of the Earth’s biodiversity and the reality of the socio-economic disparity throughout the world will be heard.

In this symposium, each individual will discover the unique stand they wish to take for a more just, sustainable and fulfilling world. After the symposium, the facilitators expect that participants will leave empowered to take clear steps to embody their vision for a better world, having established new connections to work with others on common issues.

The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is an initiative of The Pachamama Alliance, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization. The alliance’s mission is to preserve the Earth’s tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous peoples who are its natural custodians, and to contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.

The vision of the initiative is to generate widespread awakening at the grassroots level that leads to a transformation of peoples’ worldview, such that humanity becomes committed to restoring and protecting the environment and moves towards social justice and spiritual fulfillment.

For more information, call Sue Herrmann at 707-279-2257 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The fun starts at 7 p.m. at the church, located at 745 N. Brush St.

“Mousetrap Mania” is more than just another youth event – it is a real life look at the traps we experience in life and hard core lessons in how to avoid them.

For those who think they know how to avoid the pitfalls of common traps in life consider potential attitude traps as well. How can selfishness, greed, pride, jealousy or even being unforgiving become a trap that can hurt you?

School is about to start and every party and sporting event seems to offer the potential traps of drugs and alcohol.

Many youth are poised to start dating – what traps may be there?

Perhaps you really have figured out how to avoid these many traps in life, but what about your friends? What can you say to a friend who you can see is blindly walking into a trap?

Start the school year right: Learn how to avoid the traps – and have fun doing it!

Warning: They will be walking through an obstacle course with real traps – just like life.

For more information contact Pastor Shannon Kimbell-Auth at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 707-263-4788.