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Friday, December 27, 2013 – Daily News 3A Community people&events Elks honor Red Ribbon Week poster, essay winners Courtesy photo Pictured are the Red Bluff Elks Red Ribbon Week poster and essay contest winners. Essay winners are Ashton Walton, Richfield Elementary, Lauren Price, Maywood Middle School, Nathon Fletcher, Maywood Middle School and Angel Finefrock, Richfield Elementary. Poster contest winners are Stevie Taylor, Woodson Elementary, Jasmin Ruiz, Los Molinos Elementary, Ryan Coleman, Woodson Elementary and Anabel Gonzalez, Antelope Elementary. Honorable mention poster, Laney Sulzer, Reeds Creek School. Students are pictured with Red Bluff Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler Barry LaVette. Here come the fitness ads As much as I appreciate the the Holidays, one has to admit it possess a downside: the relentless, unceasing, non-stop drone of promotions, commercials, and ads; loosely wrapped in pseudo-emotion by manipulative agencies pretending to appear as caring; with a primary objective being no more than inflating their coffers at our expense. I do not consider all shopkeepers as greedy and soulless. Most are you and I, working their day-to-day, attempting to keep their heads above water. I also take no issue with profitability; we each must pay our bills. I am self-employed and therefore extremely aware of what it's like to stare at the ceiling all night concerned how to pay my vendors, keep the government satisfied; and still claim some folding money for my family. But can we be honest? After 132 renditions of the "Night Before Christmas" re-written into unusual off-tone radio commercials, can we unite hand-in-hand and admit that it wears down the psyche? Deepak Chopra, lecturer and author, once stated, "We are spending money we don't have to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like." Ouch. That kind of hurts; but "why?" Statements containing some inner truth are the only ones that wound us. As example, should someone tell you "you're a lousy golfer," and you've never walked a course, nor do you know a divot from a dogleg; you would take no Intuitively, logically, we know offense, your emotional well-being it's a set up. But it remaining fully intact. Yet, appeals to our inner should your child shout, sense of "wrongness" "you're a horrible mother;" because we already feel that might inflict some bad about ourselves. In pain. Although we know that emotional Achilles' she is acting out, if we posheel, deliverance is at sess any insecurity about hand, in the form of an the subject — no matter no 800 number. Redempminute — and someone tion lies in the phone casts light upon it, we canoperators who are standnot help but flinch. Inner ing by for the next 22 doubts multiply rapidly. minutes; for only with So as we again slog Scott Q. their assistance (and through the silly season of $24.95 in shipping and resolutions, it's time to take handling) can we coninner stock. vert our ugly ducklingOne cannot toss a weekold fruitcake three feet without hit- ness to swans. Due to this primal ting an advertisement proclaiming knee-jerk reaction to be "fixed," "flatter abs" or "30 pound weight there are millions of treadmills loss." Every jolly, chubby, singing serving as no more than expensive elf TV advertisement has been dis- coat hangers. This column is not a thesis for placed with ads portraying an eyepoppingly gorgeous bikini-clad stasis, rather a call to rational longwoman possessing a figure-not- term thinking. Change or die is realfound-in-nature, emerging from a ity. However, change approached swimming pool (in January, real- from a place of inner strength yields ly?). As the water slithers from her vastly improved, longer-lasting tanned lean limbs, she pauses and results. It's okay to be proud of who proclaims, "With my new miracle you are — while still on the road to ab-dissolver, I've lost 83 pounds getting better. and turned my life around — in the Scott "Q" Marcus is the CRP last 30 days. My children now behave. My husband can't keep his (Chief Recovering Perfectionist) of hands off me — and we even won www.ThisTimeIMeanIt.com. He is the lottery." Standing by her side is conducting a playful motivational masculine tanned, eye candy with a session to make 2014 your best sculpted jaw, and a stomach so year ever (at least until 2015) in taunt one could cut diamonds on it. 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The man was later seen carrying the beer walking southbound on Chicago Avenue. An officer made contact with the man who explained he had no association with the vehicle. He simply was attempting to help remove it from the tracks. Keepers • A 56-year-old man reported that on Dec. 16 he found cash blowing in the wind on Cone Grove Road. Since there is no way to identify the possible owner, the man will be keeping the money. Theft • A wheelchair ramp, Tehama District Jr. Livestock American & International Food DINNER BUFFET Fri-Sat 5pm-8pm BREAKFAST BUFFET Free Coffee and Cinnamon Rolls Starting Fri., Dec. 20 Biscuits & Gravy, Meatloaf, Salad Bar, Sushi, Gumbo, Cajun Shrimp, Sandwiches, Fruit Salad and more Wine & Beer - Catering available th 723 Walnut St. Red Bluff • 528-9670 Annual Meeting Thurs., Jan 16th 6pm held in the Tehama Ro @ Tehama Districom t Fairgrounds website for detailed flyer. Pre-registration is required. Please register online, call or stop by, NEC Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Butte College, 2480 Notre Dame Blvd., Chico, 530-895-9017, www.bcsbdc.org to register and for information. travel trailer hook ups and a sway bar were reported stolen from in front of a residence on Donna Avenue around 7 p.m. Christmas Day. • Tools and other items were reported stolen from property on the 8000 block of State Route 99E. • A man reported his locked vehicle on Yolo Street was ransacked Tuesday. The only item missing was a 12-inch machete. • Someone at Travel Centers of America reported receiving a counterfeit bill. • A red Mongoose bicycle with black pegs and black rims was reported stolen on Colusa Street Tuesday. • A gray Toyota Tacoma was reported stolen on Toomes Avenue Tuesday night. • A red Ford Escape hybrid was reported stolen on Yolo Street Wednesday. Trespass • Someone reported seeing the doors to Los Montes on Solano Street wide open around noon Tuesday, but the lights were off and the business appeared closed. Officers found a person locked inside a restroom. The business owner did not want to pursue trespassing charges. Vandalism • A pair of fence posts were damaged on Paskenta road. The damage was estimated at $200.