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The Tehama County Young Marines, in furthering their purpose of drug demand reduction and education, have planned a conference to be held this month at the State Capitol. This conference is made possible through coopera- tion from the office of Assemblyman Jim Nielsen. The DDR Conference, which will include Senior Young Marines throughout California, Oregon and Washington, will be held in the Capitol building, with participants housed at the Marine Corps Reserve facil- ity in Sacramento. The conference provides presentations by experts in their field, break-out workshops and brain-storming sessions to equip those attending to develop DDR pro- grams to take back to their individual units. In 2009, the Tehama County Young Marines received the United States Department of Defense's Fulcrum Shield Award for military-based youth orga- nizations. This effort was spear-headed by Gysgt Car- lin Bowles with the aid of Sgt Debbie Ortiz and SgtMaj Annie Bennett. It was out of these activities that Bowles developed the idea for the conference. Shortly after the conference, Ssgt Mary Hurton and PFC Sierra Bledsoe will be heading to New York and the UN to participate as delegates at the NGO Confer- ence On The Status Of Women. They will meet women leaders from all over world to discuss issues such as violence against women. The Young Marines is the only youth organization invited to participate in the conference. Annie Bennett will be leaving shortly after the con- ference to Iwo Jima, where she and seven other Young Marines from around the country will accompany a group of veterans, including WWII veterans who fought on Iwo Jima, on a hike up Mt. Suribachi. Ben- nett and the others will assist the veterans who need extra help in making the trip. For more information, call 527-5325 or visit the Web site: www.tehamacountyyoungmarines.com. 2A – Daily News – Monday, February 15, 2010 THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 Editor: Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com Sports Editor: Rich Greene sports@redbluffdailynews.com Circulation Manager: Kathy Hogan khogan@redbluffdailynews.com Production Manager: Sandy Valdivia sandy@redbluffdailynews.com On the Web: www.redbluffdailynews.com MAIN OFFICE: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Main Phone (530) 527-2151 Outside area 800-479-6397 545 Diamond Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. 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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. Dealing with stress Sometimes, I tend to be an eensy-weensy bit resistant to changing how I act. The bottom line is that I, like most folks, really do like my habits. I complain about them and tell others I'll change (more to get them off my back than for anything else). I do recognize that they might not always be the healthiest patterns, but — you know — they're warm and cozy and make it so I don't have to think so much, which takes loads of energy. Therefore, it's easier to pour a glass of wine, put on reality TV, and turn away from my thoughts than it is to anxiously ruminate on every- thing requiring adjusting. Besides, I rationalize, there's always tomorrow, isn't there? Yet, once in a while, something crashes through that dense wall of denial and I can no longer avoid looking. Today, at a very powerful, pre- sentation, I learned that the three leading causes of death in the U.S. in 1900 (Pneumonia, Influenza, and Tuberculosis) are not even in the top five 100 years later (heart dis- ease, Cancer, and stroke). In effect, over the span of an extended lifetime, our biggest health concerns have shifted from being "attacked from the outside" to being "attacked from the inside." That's a powerful bit of data. Part of the reason is that we are now under constant, unending, on- going, chronic stress. Sure, we're not fighting off saber-tooth tigers any- more; but we pay too many bills with too few dollars, or we attempt too many things with too little time, or both, or more. Our body can't per- ceive the difference between "saber-tooth tiger stress" and the "IRS is on the phone for you" stress. All it understands is that something is a kilter; we are under pressure. Whether the stress is caused by actual or perceived events makes no difference; we respond the same. Couple that fact with the detail that our modern diet is so out of whack that nutritionists refer to it as "hyper inflammatory." That means that when threatened, our body throws the preverbal kitchen sink at almost any problem. Instead of marshalling a couple of "antibiotic soldiers" to quell a minor disturbance, it delivers an entire, heavily-armed, fully equipped battalion. Once the threat has been eliminated, those extra soldiers hang around with nothing to do — except leave waste prod- ucts. Blend that with our constant stress-level, and well, we've got bunkers of waste-producing sol- diers camped out all over our insides, lining our cells with all sorts of unnecessary non-dispos- able nasties. Since stress is beyond our con- trol, we cannot dispel it and send the soldiers on leave. Rather, we can only disarm the situation by thinking differently, moving more, and changing how we eat. Here's where today's talk made its impact on me. Eric, the presenter, offered clear, easy-to- implement ideas to begin to reverse the course. Take some Fish Oil, increase Vitamin D, drink Green Tea now and then. He was honest; it's not a panacea; it's merely a few doable actions that can improve one's heath. They are things I can do right now — and I did. Not only are simple ideas usual- ly the best, but, now knowing what I've learned, they don't stress me out as much as doing nothing. Scott "Q" Marcus is a THINspirational speaker and author. Since losing 70 pounds over 15 years ago, he conducts speeches, workshops, and presentations throughout the country. Join him on a nationally broadcast teleconference about weight loss on March 7, 2010. Find out more at http://www.ThisTimeIMeanIt.com Book Sale adds cart Scott Q. Marcus Young Marines to hold state conference Courtesy photo Young Marines Sgt. Major Annie Bennett, center, surrounded by Sgt. Debbie Ortiz, bottom left, and GySgt. Carlin Bowles, top right, who accompanied her to the Pentagon in 2009 to receive the Fulcrum Shield Award for their unit. Also pictured are Young Marines who will be attending the United Nations later this month: PFC Sierra Bledsoe, top left, and SSgt. Mary Hurton, bottom right. A third book cart has been added to the Tehama County Friends of the Library ongoing Book Sale at the Red Bluff branch of the Library. The Three carts are filled each morning with a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction hardcover, for 50 cents, and paperback, for a quarter, books for children, teens and adults. The music CDs, books on tape and movies are 50 cents each. Books are donated from the community to the library, where they are considered for inclusion into the library system. Those not chosen are then turned over to the Friends of the Library to be included in both the ongoing Book Cart Sale and the semi-annual Book Sale in March. Money raised from the book sales is used to purchase new books and other related items for the library. The Friends of the Library welcomes new members to monthly meetings in the Library's Conference Room on the fourth Monday of the month. For more information on how to donate books or become a member, call 527-0604.