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Extremebargain hunters have something in common: timing. They've got it down to a science, and I'm talking about spe- cific days, or even the exact time of day, to get great bargains. AIR TRAVEL. The magic hour to shop for cheap airfare is 3 p.m. EST on a Tuesday. His- torically, major airlines announce sales on Mon- day night. This trig- gers other airlines to try to match those sales on Tuesday. It takes a few hours to get through the system, making 3 p.m. the time when the cheapest seats become available. And the cheap- est days to fly are Tues- day, Wednesday and Sat- urday. DINNER OUT. Tues- day is historically the least crowded day for restaurants, so you can expect the best deals on those days in lots of chain restaurants, such as the popular Kids Eat Free and Twofer Tuesday specials. BAKING STAPLES. The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are the best time to buy baking sta- ples. Bargains of 50 per- cent off full price are not unusual. If you can, load up with the ones you'll need for the coming months, or until they go on sale again. SNEAKERS. Here's a fun secret: April is the time to get a great sneakers bargain. Ath- letic shoe companies sponsor charity walks and races in April, and many nonserious run- ners hit the pavement to support. Great sales tend to accompany these spring races. WINTER COATS. Jan- uary and February are the two best months to find a great bargain on a winter coat. The longer you wait, the lower the prices will be. THRIFT STORES. Shopping at resale stores is becoming so popular that it's gained a slang term: "thrifting." The best time to hit the thrift store is right after the dry cleaners and cloth- ing stores make their do- nations. Get chummy with the workers so you can find out the best day to shop. AUTOMOBILES. The best time of the year to buy a new car is Septem- ber through December, when you can expect to save 10 to 20 percent on a model from the previ- ous year. If you can wait until December, you'll get an even better deal. APPLIANCES. Ma- jor items like cars are redesigned every year. But new models of ap- pliances are debuted in the summer. That makes May and June the best time to get a nice big discount on a new re- frigerator, provided you can live with last year's model. RANGES AND STOVES. The two times to bag a great new stove are holiday weekends, especially Fourth of July and Labor Day, and the months of September and October, right be- fore the new models ar- rive. Ditto for dishwash- ers. AIR CONDITION- ERS. When it's cool out- side, most people aren't thinking about air con- ditioners. This lowers the demand, increas- ing the supply. Stores that stock air condition- ers year-round are anx- ious to move merchan- dise. Expect to find the best prices during the months of December, January and February. HOUSE. The best day to buy a house, shock- ingly, is Christmas Day. Sellers are in good moods but also con- cerned they won't sell before year's end. They'll be more inclined to be generous in response to a lowball offer. The big- gest challenge is finding an agent willing to write up and present your of- fer on Christmas. Wouldyouliketosend a tip to Mary? You can email her at mary@ everydaycheapskate. com. EVERYDAYCHEAPSKATE Besttimeto bag a bargain Mary Hunt REDDING The winter con- cert of the Shasta Sym- phony Orchestra will take listeners on a musical jour- ney from the early 1700s to 2009. Get your tickets now for the one-time show, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Shasta College Theater. A small consort of play- ers will accompany Chico soprano Daun Weiss as she sings the brilliant Can- tata #51 by J.S. Bach. Sac- ramento flutist Tim Koop will then take the stage and present the raucous and joyful Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C. On the second half of the concert the full Shasta Sym- phony Orchestra will per- form the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony no. 3 "The Eroica," followed by a 2009 work inspired by Beethoven's piece: the "In- ternet Symphony," by Chi- nese composer Tan Dun. This colorful and energetic piece was the first "YouTube Symphony" that Google and the London Symphony sponsored to bring mu- sicians together from all across the globe. Finally, the flute section, named the "Amici Quartet," will play two flute quartets. Tickets are $5 for stu- dents with ID; $8 for se- niors and $10 general. For more information, visit ShastaSymphony.org. SHASTA COLLEGE Symphony to perform Baroque, Beethoven and Beyond The Bureau of Recla- mation incrementally in- creased releases below Keswick Dam from 26,000 cubic feet per second to 36,000 Monday afternoon. The increased releases are necessary to meet flood space regulatory require- ments within Shasta Res- ervoir. Depending on cur- rent conditions and inflow levels, operational adjust- ments will be made as nec- essary and may occur on short notice. Shasta Reservoir, 10 miles north of Redding, pro- vides water for people, fish and wildlife, hydropower, and environmental and sa- linity-control requirements in the Bay-Delta. People recreating in or along the Sacramento River downstream of Keswick Dam can expect river lev- els to increase and should take appropriate safety pre- cautions. Midnight reservoir ele- vation and flows from Kes- wick Dam may be found at Reclamation's Central Val- ley Operations Office web- site at https://www.usbr. gov/mp/cvo/vungvari/wtr_ rpt.pdf. River conditions may be found at the Depart- ment of Water Resources' California Data Exchange Center website at http:// cdec.water.ca.gov/river/up- sacto1Stages.html. WATER Re le as es i nt o Sa cr am en to R iv er i nc re as ed By Eric Breier Special to the Daily News CaliforniaStateUniversity San Marcos psychology pro- fessor Keith Trujillo, a 1974 graduate of Red Bluff Union High School, has been rec- ognizedwiththeprestigious 2017WangFamilyExcellence Award in the category of So- cial and Behavioral Sciences and Public Service. The California State Uni- versity's Board of Trustees honored Trujillo at its Jan. 31 meeting in Long Beach. The annual Wang Fam- ily Excellence Award recog- nizes four outstanding fac- ulty members and one out- standing staff member from the California State Univer- sity system who, through extraordinary commitment and dedication, have distin- guished themselves by ex- emplary contributions and achievements. Their activi- ties advance the CSU's mis- sion and enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Each recipient is given a $20,000 award. "It's an incredible honor," Trujillo said. "I work with some extraordinary people here at Cal State San Mar- cos and in the entire Cali- fornia State University sys- tem, and this award could have gone to any number of people who are deserving. So, I feel this is more of a recognition of the work we all do, rather than an indi- vidual award." TrujilloisthesonofVelma Trujillo of Red Bluff and the late Phil Trujillo and gradu- ated in 1979 from California State University, Chico. The Wang Family Excel- lence Award is the latest in a long list of honors for Trujillo. In 2001, he earned CSUSM's President's Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity. Among the nu- merous recognitions since then is the National Award of Excellence in Mentorship from the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse; the Award for Edu- cation in Neuroscience from the Society of Neuroscience; and the National Award for Research from the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse. Trujillo's areas of special- ization are psychopharma- cology and neuroscience, and his current research focuses on the behavioral and neurobiological effects of psychoactive drugs. Trujillohastrainedscores of first-generation college students in his psycho- pharmacology laboratory at CSUSM, with more than half of them transitioning to Ph.D. programs at some of the most prestigious univer- sities in the country. He mentors scientists from disadvantaged groups nationwide as co-director and principal investigator of a prestigious National Institute of Mental Health summer program at the Marine Biological Labora- tory in Massachusetts. And he serves as director of the CSUSM Office for Training, Research and Education in the Sciences, which has re- cruited, trained and men- tored more than 600 stu- dents in STEM fields over the past decade. 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