​LAKEVIEW, Ore.—Oct. 31, 2016—Your free ride to creativity runs for two more months! Playa and Lake County Library District are offering Lakeview residents a free ride on the bus to Playa Presents on Saturdays November 12 and December 10 for studio tours, readings, and refreshments.
 
The next Playa Presents will be held from 2:00 to 4:00 pm on Saturday, November 12, 2016. The public is welcome to attend this free event at Playa’s facility on Summer Lake located at 47531 Hwy 31, between mileposts 81 and 82.

​Featured residents include Susan Murrell, Hyunju Kim, Elizabeth Mclagan, Gina Lacerva, Matthew Rossi, 

(Lakeview, Ore)— The Lake County Library Endowment Fund will present Dennis Jenkins, a Senior Research Archaeologist for the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon, as speaker for the 2016 Library Endowment Dinner. The dinner will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2016, with a no-host reception fundraiser at the new Main Library from 5 to 6 pm followed by dinner at 6:30 at the Elks Lodge. Jenkins talk is on archaeology and science at the Paisley Caves.
 
Dr. Luther Cressman’s 1938-1940 excavations at the Paisley Caves in Oregon discovered exciting evidence suggesting that people may have lived there as early as the Late Pleistocene, some 12,000 to 15,000 years ago.  However, it was not until recent developments in ancient DNA testing that he was proven correct. Dating of camel and horse bones, artifacts, twigs, and dried human feces containing Native American DNA between 12,900 and 14,500 years ago indicates that people lived in the caves and apparently hunted camels, horses, and other animals at the end of the Pleistocene. 

Dr. Jenkins will explain the scientific processes and results of archaeological and paleogenetic investigations at the Paisley Caves, bringing the audience the most up-to-date information about the evidence for the pre-Clovis (13,000 years ago) association of humans and Pleistocene animals in Oregon’s high desert country more than 14,000 years ago. 
 
​A native Oregonian, Jenkins was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada where he earned his BA (1977) and MA (1981) in anthropology at UNLV. He has taught and directed the UO’s annual Northern