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2A Daily News ��� Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Community people&events Job fair in Redding The California Employment Development Department in partnership with the Smart Center in Redding will be holding a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. The event will be at the Mt. Shasta Mall, 900 Dana Dr. in Redding, 96003, and is open to all job seekers. Be sure to dress for success and bring your resume. For more information call 246-7911. Parkinson���s Conference The annual Parkinson���s Conference presented by Mountain Caregiver Resource Center of Passages will be 12:30-4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, at the Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade, in Chico. Topics include: Innovative Exercises for Parkinson���s by Claire McLean, PT, DPT, NCS and Nutrition for the Parkinson���s Patient by Michelle Neyman Morris, PhD, RD. 3.5 CE hours will be available for $30 (non-refundable) Course meets the qualifications for 3.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFT/LCSWs and RNs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and Board of Registered Nursing. (CE Provider PCE1957, CEP13003) To register visit http://ChicoParkinsons.eventbrite.com. For more information visit www.MountainCRC.org, call Kelsi Halvarson at Mountain Caregiver Resource Center of Passages at (530) 229-0878 or send an email to khalvarson@csuchico.edu. Boy Scot newspaper drive Corning Boy Scout Troop 5 will hold a newspaper drive Saturday, April 6, starting at 9 a.m. Please put your papers on the curb that morning. Anyone living outside the city must take the papers to Specialized Fibers on South Avenue, just west of the railroad tracks. Money from the paper drive will be used for the Troop���s outing at Woodson Bridge State Park. For more information call 824-3240. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Being bullied at 43 I am sitting here writing next weeks column on Thursday March 27. On Tuesday a remarkable thing happened to me. I was bullied. It is not the first time, in fact, the same person has been sending hateful mail, emails and unwarranted hate to not only myself but people I am associated with, my place of business and even my friends, for about three years now. Before the Daily News changed their policies about anonymity on the web, they often posed as multiple people placing negative comments on my columns calling me out and trying to engage in a hate fest. I actually stopped writing for a while out of fear. The monomaniacal message is I am a scam, a pathetic loser who uses my column as a platform to pontificate my brand of crap and if you all only knew how sick I was, you would stone me on the corner of Main and Walnut under the clock tower. On Tuesday, I received an anonymous three page hate letter spelling out for me in the most sarcastic of ways how fat I am and that I wear spandex, that I can't spell, that my family is a disgrace, that I am trying to get rich and famous by convincing people I am something I am not and a few other not so fluffy descriptions of my character, my personality and my past. On the same day, I got a thank you text from a community member for a letter of recommendation I had written telling me how positive I am and that I make a difference. I was in a unique position to decide what I was going to believe. There was a time in my life, maybe not that long ago where I would have died inside at the hate that I got. I know this, because I have been bullied by this person for a long time. It used to consume me in self pity and a sense of Youtube. We will not eradicate bullying, but why is this happening to me? The fact we can find ways to infuse is that every column I have love and acceptance into othwritten, every experience I ers so when the bullying haphave had becoming a better pens, people are impervious me and every letter, email to it. It is because I know who and hello in the grocery I am in God, what I mean to store telling me how much my family and my accepmy column matters has tance of my own wonderful changed me. I am not insenature and flaws combined cure, I am not self conthat the bully has no power. I scious and I am not willing am stable at my core and to allow hate to define me. therefor when the attacks Bullying is a real problem, we sometimes think it Faydra come, I can bear the blow. Love one another wholly is only between children Rector and completely and when who haven't developed the conscience or social skills You Matter someone attacks, they will have the inner strength to not sets to realize what they are believe the lies and hate. Tell doing. Well, I am 43 and I am being bullied. I am me, doing what your child they are accepted for who I do, whether you like me or not and I they are and they may be resilient am being harassed, hurt and demeaned enough to not be affected by bullies. by an adult. Someone who goes to Tell your spouse, your sister and your work every day and interacts with the brother to embrace their brand of community, parents their children and weirdness so the pain of someone's is loved by other people is targeting hate bounces off of them. They tell me my video went viral. I me at my home, my work and among my friends. Somehow they believe that never expected that to happen. My they have the right to come at me bro' purpose was to talk to the anonymous and I have to take it. All done anony- person and that was the only way I mously to boot. They feel they are could think of. Our town has dealt with entitled to try to get me fired, lose my a lot of pain this past few months. We friends and perhaps make me feel so can overcome if we all refuse to hate. hopeless I would end my life and never let me know who they are. Faydra Rector, MA is a mental So, after I received the letter, I did something I have never done. I health administrator, author, public responded. Usually, I wouldn't. Usual- speaker, educator and life coach who ly I would just keep it between me and lives in Red Bluff. She can be reached my family. I made a video where I at lifecoach@shasta.com or view her at expected to say what I had to say and blogs http://faydraandcompany.blogspot.co be over it, but apparently I struck a and cord. 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Speaker's Chairman Bucky Bowen introduced the speaker by filling Club members in on Judge Skillman's professional background. Judge Skillman began working in the Tehama County District Attorney's office as a law clerk in 1991. In 1995 he became a Deputy District Attorney following his graduation from the Northern School of Law in Chico. He worked for four District Attorneys; and at one point was also associated with the Law Firm of McGlynn and McGlynn. In 1999 he was appointed as Tehama County Assistant District Attorney and served in that position for ten years. He prosecuted many high profile cases including the DNA cold case murder and torture of Heidi Fredette. Heidi was abducted from Plumas County in 1984 and was found near Paynes Creek. At the time he prosecuted the case, Jonathan indicated "it was a painful process but it felt good to help give closure to a family who had been grieving for nearly 20 years over the loss of their 90 years Courtesy photo Superior Court Judge Jonathan Skillman speaks at the Corning Exchange Club. young girl." Judge Skillman gave a detailed report to Exchange Club members regarding the status of the court system in Tehama County and throughout California due to budgetary shortfalls, and especially the problems rising from the requirement to now keep more criminals in the local jail system instead of sending them to State prison. Interestingly in larger counties Judges tend to specialize and in their formative years on the bench only handle misde- ago... Mrs. Minch Passes Away Unexpectedly Mrs. B. F. Minch, wife of a well known Red Bluff business man, passed away Saturday evening. The end came suddenly on a southbound Southern Pacific passenger train while Mrs. Minch, her son, David F. Minch and a nurse were en route to Oakland where they were going to consult a specialist. The body was taken off the train at Chico and brought back to this city. ��� April 2, 1923 meanors, probate and similar cases; and only after many years on the bench begin hearing felony cases. Tehama County judges are required to handle all manner of cases including felonies from day one on the bench. Locally the Corning Court is scheduled to close its doors for good in June and will be consolidated with the other three Courts already located in Red Bluff. From that point on Corning and South County residents will have to drive to Red Bluff whenever they have any business before the Courts. In spite of State budget shortfalls, that the State's stand alone construction budget will shortly fund the construction of a new court complex in Red Bluff on a site on Walnut Street. 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