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ByKathyBramhall Whatdotableset- ting flower shows, salvias, bugs, figs, honey bees, soil surveys, fashion shows, Te- hama County wildflowers and bluegrass music have in common? They are all things 116 California Gar- den Club Members — and 3 from Nevada — learned about and saw at the Cali- fornia Garden Clubs, Inc.'s 2017 Winter Board Meet- ing at the Gaia Hotel Gaia Hotel in Anderson this past week. Members arrived at the Gaia Sunday and Mon- day driving up I-5 on clear winter days. You know how the sun shines off the snow on our mountains— they were awed. After a lit- tle geography lesson out- of-town garden clubbers settled in to their mod- ern, but cozy, rooms at the Gaia. Some walked down to the Sacramento River; some took drives to view the Sundial Bridge and Ar- boretum and Shasta Dam. Cascade District which is composed of garden clubs in Shasta, Tehama and Trinity counties, hosted a table settings flower show. In the foyer of the Gaia Hotel's ban- quet center we displayed table settings combined with floral designs — tiny designs, less than 8 inches — were displayed on glass blocks, like we do at the Tehama District Fair — coming in July, and large designs on tables. Among 2 dozen designs we were treated to a campfire set- ting design, a palm leaf dish design and a rocket ship design. Jill Cruz of Palo Cedro won the petite award for her miniature design and Michelle Way- bright of Anderson won the table artistry award for her large design. After a day of business meetings, garden clubbers were ready for some R and R. Landscape designer, nurseryman, author and avid photographer from Chico John Whittlesey spoke on the use of salvias in the landscape. There are more than 900 salvia species. Most are easy to maintain, drought toler- ant, attract pollinators — bees, birds and butterflies — and all are beautiful. Information sessions on Tuesday featured Jim Skaggs an inspector from the Department of Food and Agriculture. Jim led us in a talk on identifying garden bugs and disease. Jim's advice is to "Know your plants — know that they are supposed to look like during each season." Don't bring him just a stick and a few crumpled leaves — he needs more information than that to make a correct identifica- tion, diagnosis and solu- tion for the problem. Corning's May- wood Farms owner Bob Steinecher asked "What about figs?" Most peo- ple don't think of the fig as their favorite fruit, but they are priceless to Bob and his family. They grow, pack and ship California Certified Organic fresh figs all over the coun- try. The challenge of suc- cessfully growing figs on the infertile, shallow soils west of Corning has been a dream come to reality through perseverance and hard work. The Fig New- ton cookies were good too. Jim Jungwirth shared some of the secrets of bee- keeping up in the small mountain valley commu- nity of Hayfork. Besides the complexities of bee hive living, honey mak- ing and pollination, do you know bees make different flavors of honey? Do you know bees can identify hu- man faces? Do you know about venom therapy? Do you know bees are being trained to be like bomb sniffing dogs? They react to the smell of explosives by excitedly batting their wings. Bees are not just bugs that make honey or sting you, they are small miracles. After a delicious lunch by the chefs at Woodside Grill at Gaia, USDA Nat- ural Resource Conserva- tion Service District Con- servationist Mindy Graves shared the availability of soils information from the web-survey information site. The soils information is on a very small scale, but it can give a poten- tial landowner and idea of what to expect from their plot of land. Look to see what all they offer, log on to websoilsurvey.gov. An evening fashion show of recycled, reused and re-purposed apparel was informative and fun. Models from several lo- cal garden clubs, includ- ing yours truly, modeled thrift store- or yard sale- purchased, hand-me- down or homemade cloth- ing. We related the dif- ferent costumes back to garden club activities — Lee Ann's lifetime dream dress reminded us to pur- chase lifetime member- ships, your dollars sup- port the scholarship pro- gram; Georgia's bumble bee costume reinforced the importance of pollina- tors; Sharon's iconic '50s wrap and umbrella said learn more about your environment by attend- ing environmental stud- ies school: Carolyn's over- alls and gardening kits said "Encourage Future Gardeners" — the youth of our country must learn about how food grows; my hand-me-down flower- printed sundress stated "Flowers, and Flower Shows!" At Wednesday lunch Bureau of Land Manage- ment Wildlife Biologist Steve Laymon, whose real passion is locating, pho- tographing and catalog- ing wildflowers of Tehama County, gave us a pictorial tour of Tehama County wildflowers — from Mt. Lassen to Tedoc Gap; An- thony Peak to Hogsback Ridge. Out of 2,500 wild- flower species in Califor- nia, did you know that we have wildflowers unique to just Tehama County? In el- evations 300 feet to more 10,000 feet and almost no soil on alp-like peaks to fertile river bottom loam Tehama County grows more than 900 species of wildflowers. How do you give a power point presentation without electricity? Dr. Laymon handled it with professional grace, while our own Vanna showed style by walking around the room with her battery powered laptop open for our viewing. Hey, the show must go on. Have you heard Mat- thew Songmaker play and sing? If you haven't, you are missing one of Red Bluff's truly talented mu- sicians. Matthew is a 17-year-old multi-talented Native Alaskan. Song- maker composes some of his own music, plays sev- eral instruments and sings. He and bass-player Eric Hall entertained us for two hours Wednesday evening with bluegrass, American folk and country music. We reveled, danc- ing and singing along. Matthew said we weren't like any garden club peo- ple he expected and play- ing for us was "better than biology class." We ob- served Matthew wasn't like any 17-year-old we ex- pected either. For more in- formation check out Mat- thew Songmaker music on Facebook. The community is in- vited to join the Garden Club for both work and fun. TheRedBluffGardenClub is a member of Cascade District, California Garden Clubs, Inc. and Pacific Region, National Garden Clubs, Inc. RED BLUFF GARDEN CLUB GardenersgatherinAnderson CONTRIBUTEDPHOTOS Models from the recycle, re-purpose, reuse fashion show at the California Garden Clubs, Inc. 2017Winter Board Meeting at the Gaia Hotel in Anderson. Front row, from le , are Lee Ann Shnayer, Georgia Dickson, Geenie Seely and Donna Sills. Back row, from le , are Carolyn Hoyum, Diana Gifford-Tuggle, Kathy Bramhall, Sharon Wilkes and Jill Cruz. The following informa- tion is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Red Bluff Fire, Tehama County Sheriff's Depart- ment, Corning Police De- partment, Corning Fire, Cal Fire and California Highway Patrol logs. Arrests DawsonRandallSpen- cer: 18, of Los Molinos was arrested Tuesday at Los Molinos High School and booked into Tehama County Jail on the charge of receiving stolen prop- erty. Blanca L. Servin: 19, of Corning was arrested Wednesday in the 3000 block of Marguerite Av- enue and booked into jail on the charge of disor- derly conduct: alcohol. Bail was $500. Break-in Marguerite Avenue: A burglary was reported with minor damage done to the side of the build- ing at Ranchers Deli and Meats. A check showed nothing had been taken. South Main Street: A burglary took place at the Chevron station where the front door was broken open and cigarettes were stolen. Disturbance Washington Street: An abandoned 911 call was initially reported Tuesday evening as a child playing with the phone when dis- patch called the number back. A few minutes later the person called back stating they had been in a disturbance and the other party involved had threatened to harm them if they didn't say it was a child playing with the phone. Fire 25000block South Avenue: The cause of a structure fire reported at 8:25p.m. Tuesday is under investigation. No injuries were reported and the fire was contained at 9:13p.m. Prowler Walton Drive: A Red Bluff resident reported hear- ing someone outside their residence about 10:45p.m. Tuesday. Police Logs The Sacramento River Discovery Center's Thurs- day Evening program on groundwater has been postponed until 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16 due to excessive amounts of water. The program had been scheduled for Feb. 9 and will be held at the Farm Bureau building, 275 Sale Lane in Red Bluff. Orga- nizers are hoping for dryer and warmer weather next week and refreshments will be served during the question and answer por- tion of the evening. The center's website has been compromised and is under reconstruction. Those able to assist in this process are asked to call the center at 527-1196. The center is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at 1000 Sale Lane in Red Bluff. DISCOVERY CENTER Groundwater to be topic of talk The Hulseman Broth- ers, well known dairy- men residing west of Red Bluff, have just purchased a registered Holstein bull from the famous Stan- ford ranch herd. The ani- mal is known as Geneseo Paul Colantha, and is one of the finest of this breed of cattle. Hulseman Brothers have begun a systematic cam- paign to raise the standard of their stock and the pur- chase of this bull is a step in that direction. — Feb. 9, 1917 100 YEARS AGO... Hulseman Brothers make purchase of registered bull Matthew Songmaker and Eric Hall playing at the California Garden Clubs, Inc. Winter Board Meeting at the Gaia Hotel in Anderson. An evening fashion show of recycled, reused and re-purposed apparel was informative and fun. 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