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2A Daily News – Friday, March 9, 2012 Community people&events Birth — Nooner Hanna Lynn Simon and Shawn David Nooner, a boy, Carter David McQuade Nooner, 9 pounds, 4 ounces, 20 inches, born 2:32 p.m. Feb. 20, 2012 at St. Eliza- beth Hospital. Welcoming baby are sister Liliana Simon, 5; grandparents Barbara Ashe of Red Bluff, Troy Nooner and Randy Simon of Red Bluff and Debbie Dial; great-grandparents Geneva and Dan Hansen and Ruth and Corbin Ashe of Red Bluff. Outing postponed The Shasta Group, Sierra Club ski outing planned for Saturday, March 10, has been postponing due to current dry conditions at Lassen. For more information call Marti Wei- dert at 474-4300. Foreclosure clinic A foreclosure alternatives and prevention clinic is being held by Legal Services of Northern California, 541 Normal Ave., in Chico at 10 a.m. today. Preregistration required. For more information or to preregister call 345-9491. Gleaners Gleaners will distribute food as follows in March: • Rancho Tehama, noon-2 p.m., Monday, March 12, Recreation Center • Los Molinos, 9 a.m. to noon, Tues- day, March 13, Masonic Hall, 25020 Tehama Vina Road. • Corning, 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, March 14, Corning Senior Center, 1015 Fourth Ave. • Red Bluff, 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, March 14, Food Bank, 20699 Walnut St. All other sites in the county will be at the usual times and places. Applications for food bank cards may be on the day of giveaway. Bring large paper or plastic bags if possible. All income must be reported. Income is gross monthly per household not net. Only one card per household. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. From the Firehouse: Spring ahead By MICHAEL BACHMEYER Red Bluff Fire Chief As you replace the stress of your work week with weekend retreats, remember that there are two impor- tant things that must be done: turn your clock ahead one hour to avoid being late for work on Monday, and change the battery in your smoke detector. The Red Bluff Fire Department recommends that you change the batteries in your smoke detectors at least twice a year. The fire service generally uses the semi-annual Day Light Savings Time change to remind the public: "When you Fall Back or Spring Forward change the battery in your smoke detectors." Most smoke detectors are pow- ered by a standard 9-volt battery that can be purchased at any of our local hardware stores. Smoke detectors in newer homes are also required by California Building Code to be hardwired into the main power source of the structure with a 9 volt battery back-up, which should also be changed every six months. Placement and operability of smoke detectors is probably your most crucial link to survival of a fire in the home. According to the National Fire Protection Associa- tion (NFPA), nearly half of the nation's fire deaths occur in the four per- cent of homes that do not have smoke alarms, and in one out of five homes that have smoke alarms, none of the units work, mainly due to dead, missing or discon- nected batteries. It is crucial that you evaluate placement, condi- tion, or lack of smoke detectors. Smoke detectors should be placed on every level of your resi- dence if there is more than one story, in every sleeping area, and in the adjoining hallway of every sleeping area. Most manufacturers also recom- mend the replacement of smoke detectors after about 10 years of service. Make sure that any replacement detectors that you buy are listed by the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) or Factory Mutual (FM), and approved for use by the California State Fire Marshal‚s Office. This is also a great time to devel- op and practice a home fire evacuation plan, or Exit Drills in the Home (EDITH), with your family. Make sure your family knows what to do and where to go if there is an emer- gency in the home. Practice staying low and checking the door for heat with the back of your hand; where the meet- ing place is once they are outside of the house; have a contingency plan if a door is hot or the primary exit route is cut off: where the second exit point is. Remind children to never hide under the bed, in closets, or go back into a house that is on fire once they have exited. From the Firehouse runs on Fridays. Michael Bachmeyer is the Red Bluff Fire Department Chief. He can be contacted at mbachmeyer@rbfd.org or by calling the station at 527-1126. If I were king of the world… Should I be anointed Grand Poobah of all things earthly, I would make significant changes. As a benevolent leader, I wouldn't be "mean;" but be confident I'd wield my power to appropriately mete out consequences to society's ne'er-do-wells. My first task would be to create a "discomfort pistol." D NEWSAILY HOW TO REACH US RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 127, NUMBER 85 On the Web: www.redbluffdailynews.com MAIN OFFICE: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Main Phone (530) 527-2151 Outside area (800) 479-6397 545 Diamond Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Fax: (530) 527-5774 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. 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Sycamore Lodge Sold By Crowder To Oakland Lady Smith Crowder has sold Sycamore Lodge, one of the most attractive farms in this section, seven miles east of Red Bluff, and one of the show places of Tehama county. The property, it is reported, has been purchased by Mrs. Isabella S. Roundthwait of Oakland. — March 9, 1922 Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Michael "Blackie" Parker, 60, of Red Bluff gears up for his seventh cruise at the Kool April Nights event in Redding. Parker bought his 1959 Ford Edsel, one of only 12,814 of those models made, in 2001 and restored it piece by piece for nearly two years. Parker, who moved to Red Bluff in 1968, says he wishes he could relive those days of cruising the streets. For now, he will just take his Edsel out for a spin whenever he can includ- ing the Friday night cruise in Redding April 20. Whenever someone did something rude, total- ly self-absorbed, or incredibly inconsiderate, they would be tagged with an invisible beam by this gun. It wouldn't cause any damage — but for the next 24 hours, they wouldn't be able to get physically comfort- able, no matter what they did. A good analogy would be a stiff neck or a Charlie Horse. It's not enough to incapacitate you, certainly not enough of an issue to go to the doctor. Yet, all day, it nags at you and the ache doesn't quit until you get a night's sleep. We would use it on people who talk on cell phones or text in theaters, or aim it at the jerk tail- gating us on the freeway. It would exceptionally appropriate for ignora- muses who park in handi- capped parking spaces and don't need to. Give them — on an extremely minor level — a bit of poetic justice. Anyone shot with the beam would be all right the next day, but at least for 24 hours, there would be justice. Maybe, eventu- ally, they'd learn. Of course, since fitness is such an issue for all of us, I'd make getting fit more fun. Stationary bicy- cles would actually trans- port you to your favorite places — only as long as you were exercising. Instead of pumping away while staring at four walls, you'd be transport- ed to the warm sands of Maui or peddling along the Yamuna River to the Tajmahal. The more you rode, the more places you visit! When you stopped pedaling however, you're back in the garage staring at the water heater. If that were the case, I'd never get off my bike. Would anyone? While on the subject of health, I have to admit that I think God doesn't like dieters. I mean no disrespect to the Almighty, but why does He (or She) make it so easy to pack on a few pounds, yet seemingly impossible to lose them? Think about it. One of the main reasons we eat too much is to seek com- fort. We're stressed. We're over- loaded. We want to escape. So we pull out potato chips, ice cream or chocolate. These high-calo- rie foods add on the inches — which, when we see what happens to our weight, cause us to stress even more, dri- ving us right back to the kitchen. As Voltaire said, "God is a come- dian playing to an audi- ence that's afraid to laugh." I'll admit I'm missing the humor here. So, if I wielded unlim- ited clout, celery and spinach would be comfort foods. I mean, how healthy would that be? Picture the possibilities. At the end of a tough day (easi- ly validated to others by how much time it takes to recharge your discom- fort pistol), you would race home, hug your spouse or partner, kiss your kids, throw on your sweats and hop on your bicycle to relax by pedal- ing happily down the Champs-Elysées or in awe of the view along the Great Himalaya Trail, all the while happily munching on a soul-satisfy- ing, heart- warming bowl of kale and chard. I know Scott Q. Marcus there's a lot to do, but after I've tackled these easy issues, I'll move on to the more difficult stuff – like ban- ning 24-hour news coverage of drunken celebrities. Scott "Q" Marcus is the CRP (Chief Recovering Perfectionist) of ThisTimeIMeanIt.com, a website to support folks frustrated with making promises and ready to make a change in a supportive environment. Sign up for his free newsletter at the site or at facebook.com/thistimeim eanit. Contact him for coaching, consulting, workshops, and speaking at 707.442.6243 or scottq@scottqmarcus.co m. His first six years of these columns are now available on Amazon at http://amzn.to/StrivingBo oks. Courtesy photo Pictured are Vicki Stroud Diane Ampi, Allene Dering, Trish Jantzen, Cathy Davis. PremierWest Bank employees present PATH with a check of $1,000. PremierWest has been a sponsor of the PATH Dinner and Auction for several years. Not only does it sponsor this event at the $500 level, it has for the past several years made the additional $1,000 donation, says Allene Der- ing, President of the PATH Board. The Dinner and Auction will be March 24 in the Bethel Assembly of God Church auditorium.