The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

The main item on the meeting's agenda will be consideration of a general plan conformity report regarding the potential sale of a city-owned parcel at 902 Bevins Court.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the city of Lakeport will make available to members of the public any reasonable assistance necessary to participate in this meeting. Contact the Community Development Department at 263-5613, Extension 25, to make such a request.

Notification 72 hours prior to the meeting will enable the city to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.

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The host of the show, Harold Riley, admits that he has wanted to play the role of “Big Daddy” for many years, one of the the characters in the scene. His alcoholic son, whom he attempts to rescue from his addiction, will be played by Joey Luiz, who has acted in several local productions.

The show will be broadcast from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, then rebroadcast the following day from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

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The event will feature wine, food, and entertainment set amid the winery’s gardens that bloom each year with more than 30,000 tulips imported from Holland.

Admission to the Festival of Tulips includes a Tulip Hill wine glass for unlimited tastings, sumptuous hors d’oeuvres from the Blue Wing Saloon & Café paired with red and white wines, desserts from

Angelina’s Bakery paired with dessert wines, live blues music provided by Bill Noteman and the Rockets, winery tours, barrel tasting and more.

During the event, tours of the winery will include the crush pad, the cellar, the bottling room, and everywhere in between. Special deals on wine and wine-related products will be offered during the festival.

Tulip Hill Winery opened in 2004 on the site where the Bartlett Springs Water Bottling Plant once operated. The first owners of Bartlett Springs began bottling mineral water as early as the 1870s, claiming the water cured many ailments.

Revered in Europe as well as the United States, the famous plant, which drew thousands of tourists to Lake County in the 1800s, had changed hands over the years, and closed down in the late 20th century. It wasn’t until the Brown family arrived that the historic site would once again have a purpose – this time for the production of wine.

In addition to its winery and tasting room in Nice, Tulip Hill Winery operates a second tasting room in Rancho Mirage, near Palm Springs in Southern California.

Tickets to the Festival of Tulips are $25 per person per day in advance and may be purchased online; or $30 at the door. Tulip Hill Winery is located at 4900 Bartlett Springs Road, Nice.

For more information, call 274-9373 or visit www.tuliphillwinery.com.

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The hotline is the first of its kind to emerge in response to the foreclosure crisis. Tenants Together announced the hotline to address a growing problem – the harassment and displacement of tenants who are innocent victims of the mortgage crisis.

California tenants can reach the Tenant Foreclosure Hotline at 415-495-8012.

California is seeing a steep rise in foreclosures. In 2008, nearly a quarter of a million properties were sold in foreclosure in California. This is more than double the number in 2007.

Approximately 25 percent of buildings in foreclosure in 2008 were renter-occupied, including more than 9,000 multi-family buildings.

A single foreclosure filing on a rental building can affect dozens or hundreds of tenants. According to a recent study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, an estimated 40 percent of the people in foreclosed properties are renters.

Innocent tenants are paying a steep price for the mortgage mess. Tenants face evictions and poor housing conditions across the state as a result of foreclosures.

Tenants have the right to habitable homes at all stages of the foreclosure process, but many tenants are experiencing nightmare situations – being locked out of their homes, having utilities shut off because the defaulting landlord or the bank fails to pay the bills, being displaced without getting their security deposits back and other related problems.

While foreclosures extinguish most leases, tenants in California are generally entitled to a 60-day notice to vacate in foreclosure situations. The 60-day notice requirement became law in July 2008, but many owners still do not comply with it.

In cities with local “just cause” eviction protections, such as Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Oakland and San Francisco, most tenants are not legally required to move as a result of a foreclosure, but many owners ignore this limitation and seek to evict anyway.

Too often, tenants in these situations are unaware of their rights. They are misled into believing that they must vacate immediately upon foreclosure or that because of the foreclosure the landlord has no responsibility to continue providing heat, water and other services to the tenants.

To make matters worse, tenants are often the last to know about the foreclosure. While defaulting homeowners know about the possibility of foreclosure for many months, tenants have little time to adjust to the situation and seek assistance. Most tenants don’t know where to turn for help.

To address this urgent situation, Tenants Together is launching its new statewide hotline. The hotline will provide information and referrals to tenants whose landlords are at some stage of the foreclosure process. The hotline is staffed by specially-trained volunteers, including a team of law students from University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Heather Freinkel, one of the hotline volunteers, commented: “The stories we hear are heartbreaking – tenants denied the most basic services like water and heat, and forced out of their homes for no good reason. We will do everything we can to arm tenants with the knowledge and tools to stand up to abusive conduct by defaulting landlords and foreclosing banks.”

Hotline volunteers will assist in many ways, including helping tenants:

• Find out if a particular rental property is in foreclosure;

• Identify the new owner after a foreclosure sale;

• Learn about what to expect as the property goes through foreclosure;

• Connect with local activists engaged in anti-eviction organizing;

• Locate organizations that provide legal representation for tenants in foreclosures;

• Keep utilities on and get repairs done in all stages of the foreclosure process;

• Protect and recover security deposits;

• Share tenant foreclosure stories with media, policymakers and the public;

• Report illegal conduct to local law enforcement agencies and officials;

• Stand up to abusive and unfair conduct during the foreclosure process.

Tenants Together encourages California tenants in foreclosure situations to call the Tenant Foreclosure Hotline at 415-495-8012.

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The talk will take place from 10 a.m. to noon.

Ransley will show off her seasonal crops already in the ground and will discuss topics such as soil types, amendments, which crops are generally good in this climate, and issues like microclimates created by hills, buildings, etc.

She also will cover the virtues of raised beds versus growing in the ground and how to live with sometimes losing significant amounts of plants to gophers, voles and other unidentified underground critters and deer.

This is a great no-cost opportunity to become more knowledgeable on how to grow your own garden that provides for a more productive local and sustainable harvest.

The public is welcome. Carpooling is available by meeting at the regular co-op location at 14773 Lakeshore Drive at 9:30 a.m.

For more information, contact Lori Patotzka at 994-1618.

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