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October 25, 2014

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TehamaCountyCattle- Women was represented at Alternatives to Violence Trivia Night held Satur- day night at the Commu- nity Center. Thanks again to Linda Walker, Cathy To- bin, Joyce Bundy, Tammy Chrisler, Linda Borror, Barbara Secor, Irene Fuller for joining in this adven- ture. What an eye opener; a huge crowd who filled ta- bles of eight, folks dressed in a theme of their choos- ing. We saw Egyptians, California Chrome fans dressed for the Kentucky Derby with their jockey, la- dies in huge hats and tons of fresh red roses. There were the characters from cereal boxes (theme prize winner) hobgoblins, a ta- ble of cowboys and cow- girls, you name it. Each table brought their own food. CattleWomen were there with "Beef, a Tehama County Tradition" and our table featured red and black huge bandan- nas with "Silver Buckle" printed on them, ban- danna print table ware, napkins and red plastic utensils. We flew a large balloon of two great look- ing cowgirl boots. We were very visible and we con- sumed beef tri-tip sand- wiches from 2 Buds. We had munchies and Joyce provided dessert; Irene brought mints. Now for the trivia part. Has anyone read Harry Potter series? We could have used your trivia knowledge. If I gave you the name of action heroes, could you tell me if they were from D.C. comics or Marvel comics. By the way, are you good at the sci- entific names of animals? How about quotes from animated movies? We Cat- tleWomen excelled in one category — key word one category — trouble was there were 10 categories. We had a great time, lots of laughs at our ta- ble. Oh by the way, we did win a prize, "The Biggest Loser" as Tammy Chrisler named it. They gave all of us a "crying towel", pur- ple with "Trivia Night Los- ers" on it. CattleWomen received much recogni- tion and cheers from the crowd. As Joyce said "It was fun being so dumb." Dis- appointed in some of the categories as no current events or history or maybe WWII or regional stuff. But those question mak- ers' main job is to make everyone think outside their box, And our box wasn't very big — i.e., give a 5 letter word, take away the first middle and last letter and you have the same word, Duh. Empty becomes mt. That was al- most a trick question. We all had laughs at one another and Irene fi- nally came up with the first name "Ray" of the guy who sang "The Streaker," Ray Stevens. OrchardFestival Another group of Cattle- Women were busy at the Dairyville Orchard Fes- tival, and another great crowd of people enjoying a fall day; learning about and tasting the products grown in Tehama County. The large tent in the center of the grounds was busy with people buying and sampling the nuts, dried plums, olive oil and olives. While others were at the California Women for Ag booth that fea- tured the mechanical cow that produced milk if you worked your fingers, and the chocolate milk. Many vendors with fas- cinating items for sale, as well as the delicious food booths. Linda Johnson had beef information and recipes in the booth, while Kelly Mouton was cattlewoman representative with the Beef Ambassadors, Kegan Richards, Emlyi Palmer, Kayla McGiffin, and Dan- ielle Mueller teaching dummy roping. Ginger Rogers bio Enjoyed "Backwards in High Heels," a bio-musical about the life and career of Ginger Rogers from her start in vaudeville to 1940 when she won the Oscar for Kitty Foyle. I recognized the classic Gershwin and Irving Ber- lin songs like Fascinating Rhythm, A Fine Romance, I Got Rhythm, Shall We Dance and several oth- ers. The three women and three men could tap dance and sing. The dancer who portrayed Ginger Rog- ers made many costume changes. We had taken Mt. Las- sen Motor Transit to Ash- land, Oregon for the per- formance in the Oregon Cabaret Theatre. We were told the theatre used to be a church, but it made a wonderful theatre with the stage close by. The colors of the ma- ple trees were an incredi- ble red in downtown Ash- land. I loved seeing the brilliant green grass north of Weed, thanks to a rain- storm or two they had re- ceived this fall. The grass wasn't as bright green near Yreka, but still had a green tint. The metal sculpture cow and calf on the hill- side south of Yreka were wearing pink blankets in recognition of breast can- cer awareness. Film Festival The public is invited by the Resource Conservation District of Tehama County and the Sacramento River Discovery Center to the Wild & Scenic Film Festi- val Saturday, Nov. 1 at the State Theatre in Red Bluff. The first portion of the evening will feature award winning short films about nature, adventure, agricul- ture conservation, water, our changing world and wildlife with run times ranging from 7 to 20 min- utes. The list of shorts is posted on the Wild & Sce- nic Film Festival — Red Bluff site — wildandsceni- credbluff.weebly.com. The feature film is "Running Wild; The Life of Dayton O. Hyde," a self- told journey of a cowboy, the good 'ole Wild West and a greater awareness in protecting our natural resources in order to con- tinue to run wild. The evening of insight- ful films should shed new perspectives on the natu- ral resources around us, and the importance of conserving them for the enrichment and livelihood of future generations. Fashion show There is still time to buy your tickets from Shel- ley Macdonald, 529-9679 or rsjwmac@sbcglobal. net for $28, and enjoy the Tehama County Cattle- Women Roaring '20s fash- ion show and luncheon at Rolling Hills Casino at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. The Cowboy Pantry will feature homemade candies and sweets, jams and jel- lies, and nuts for your hol- iday baking. Perhaps there will also be pomegranates and persimmons. Boutique vendors will have items ranging from leather goods to jewelry. Local businesses will have models wearing their fashions in the show and the MC will be retired Judge Richard Schueler. JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@ gmail.com. JEANBARTON CattleWomen are stumped at trivia challenge COURTESYPHOTO The winners of the "Biggest Loser" crying towels at "Alternatives to Violence" Trivia Night were the Tehama County CattleWomen. Thanks again to Irene Fuller, Linda Walker, Cathy Tobin and Joyce Bundy in front row, and.Linda Borror, Barbara Secor and Tammy Chrisler for representing TCCW. By Frederic J. Frommer The Associated Press WASHINGTON Two years after the Obama admin- istration backed off a rule that would have banned children from dangerous agriculture jobs, public health advocates and law- makers are trying anew to get kids off tobacco farms. The new efforts were jumpstarted by a Human Rights Watch report in May that said nearly three- quarters of the children interviewed by the group reported vomiting, nau- sea and headaches while working on tobacco farms. Those symptoms are con- sistent with nicotine poi- soning, often called Green Tobacco Sickness, which occurs when workers ab- sorb nicotine through their skin while handling tobacco plants. "I think that many mem- bers of Congress have been shocked that children are suffering nicotine poison- ing from working in U.S. to- bacco fields," said Jo Becker, Human Rights Watch's chil- dren's rights advocacy di- rector. "In response, they are pushing tobacco com- panies to adopt stronger child labor policies, intro- ducing legislation and urg- ing the Department of La- bor to take action." The approach includes legislation to ban kids un- der 18 from working on such farms, pursuit of a narrower federal rule than the one that was scuttled and public pressure on to- bacco companies from law- makers and health groups. There has been some movement within the in- dustry. This month, the To- bacco Growers Association of North Carolina said it "does not condone the use of child labor" and said to- bacco growers and farm la- bor contractors should not employ workers under 16 years old. Philip Morris Interna- tional, which limits the type of work children can do on tobacco farms, says it would like to see stron- ger U.S. regulations in this area. And the Labor Depart- ment said in a statement that its Occupational Safety and Health Admin- istration is working to de- termine best practices to reduce worker exposure to nicotine during tobacco harvests. In 2011, the Labor De- partment proposed pre- venting some children from working in dangerous farm jobs, including culti- vation, harvesting and cur- ing of tobacco. The depart- ment tried to pre-empt a backlash from small farm- ers by excluding from the rule children who worked on their parents' farms. Nevertheless, the pro- posal became a political punching bag for Republi- cans, who called it an im- practical, heavy-handed regulation that ignored the reality of small farms. In an election-year de- cision, the Labor Depart- ment withdrew the pro- posed rule in 2012. In do- ing so, officials appeared to close the door on any ac- tion even after the pres- idential election: "To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the du- ration of the Obama ad- ministration," the Labor Department said in with- drawing the rule in April 2012. But the release of the Human Rights Watch re- port, based on interviews with more than 140 chil- dren working on tobacco farms in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, sparked new in- terest in the issue. Last month, 35 House Democrats wrote to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, calling for a new rule fo- cused solely on banning children from working in the cultivation or curing of tobacco. The department hasn't yet responded to the lawmakers' letter. Reid Maki, coordinator of the Child Labor Coali- tion, a Washington-based advocacy group, called the prospect of action by the Obama administration a long shot, given the Labor Department's 2012 state- ment. "When it comes to the health and safety of chil- dren, the administration should not worry about promises it made in the middle of an election, es- pecially when that promise concerned a refusal to pro- tect children from known safety hazards in the work- place," he said. Rep. David Cicilline, D- R.I., who signed the letter to Perez, has sponsored a bill to amend the Fair La- bor Standards Act of 1938 to ban children under 18 from jobs where they have direct contact with tobacco plants or leaves. There's no companion bill in the Sen- ate, but Sen. Tom Har- kin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said in a statement that he's work- ing with other lawmakers and the administration to find common ground. WASHINGTON, D.C. Ne w eff or ts t o pr oh ib it tobacco farm child labor The Associated Press SOMERSWORTH, N.H. A pilfered pumpkin caper in New Hampshire was just a misunderstanding that put some pounds on a passel of pigs. Foster's Daily Democrat reports hundreds of pump- kins were reported sto- len earlier this week after a festival in Somersworth, in southeast New Hamp- shire on the Maine border. The pumpkins had been set aside behind a school to be sold this weekend at a craft fair. But a farmer, who po- lice didn't identify, saw the bins of pumpkins and asked a school employee if he could take them for his pigs. Police Capt. Russ Tim- mons says the employee didn't know the pump- kins were being saved and gave the farmer the go-ahead. 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