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Somegroupcommunica- tion traditions still thrive — even when we live in a fast moving electronic communication world. The Fitzhugh literary Society formed in Red Bluff near the 1900s and its 15-20 members still enjoy gath- ering to share literature, poems and friendship. Each year, The Fitzhugh Literary Society chooses a program theme for nine members to give presenta- tions, with literature cita- tions. One year, the theme was vampires. This year the theme is "History and the Middle East." In the fall, the presen- tation about Muhammad was very informative and included the following: Muhammed ibn abdul- Muttalib ibnHashi "Mu- hammed" was born in 670 in Mecca. Orphaned shortly after birth, other family members cared for him and taught him to herd sheep and goats. He experienced his first vision at Mt. Hira while meditating. He saw a vi- sion of the angel Gabriel and became convinced that he was the Prophet of Al- lah, the true and only God. In parallel with his med- itations and visions, he saw many who worshipped pa- gan idols and was dis- gusted with their hedonis- tic lifestyles. His cousins, uncle and others began to follow him to hear more about his vi- sions. Eventually, his pil- grimage encountered peo- ple who were suffering economic loss and blamed Muhammed for it. He was concerned that he was in danger so traveled to Me- dina. This pilgrimage to Medina later became known as Hegira the start of the first holy year on the Islamic calendar. Over the winter, Hill- ary Vasey gave a presenta- tion about the Koran. Ellen Gentry served as a critic and reported that she ap- preciated the inclusion of Christian knowledge and beliefs in the summary of the Koran. In January, Mary Adams presented her report about "World War I and the Mid- dle East." Mary relayed that many people don't initially connect World War I with the Middle East. Of the 25 million people who died in the war, 5 million were in the Middle East. By the end of the First World War, four empires had fallen — German, Russian, Austro-Hungar- ian and the Ottoman. The Suez Canal was completed in 1969. This greatly shortened the distance and the time British ships had to travel to reach India, one of Brit- ain's major colonies. A four- month journey became a three-week trip. To fund the canal, the Egyptian ruler, Ismail, borrowed money from European banks then went bankrupt because of unfavorable rates. The Brit- ish bought the Egyptian shares of the canal and had become the de facto rulers of Egypt by 1882. The Romans destroyed the second temple in Jeru- salem — the Temple of Sol- omon in 70 AD. Thus be- gan the Jewish diaspora. The term comes from an- cient Greek, meaning "to scatter about." A timeline of significant events was pro- vided to the group. Pales- tine had been governed by the Ottoman sultan since 1517. When the Ottomans conquered Arabia, they took the caliphate from the last survivor of the Ab- basid line and moved that post to Constantinople then merged the positions of sul- tan and caliph. Two events, the first in- evitable, occurred early in the 20th century and changed the course of his- tory of the Middle East and the world. In 1913, Win- ston Churchill, secretary of the British Navy, switched fuel for ships from coal to oil, which created a lighter warship. This change was soon ad- opted by every major navy in the world. British geolo- gists determined that there was no oil in the Arabian Peninsula. The known oil reserves in land held by the Otto- mans were in what is now Iraq — there was a collec- tion of city-states; Mosul, Baghdad and Basra. The growing German presence and influence in the Middle East was of great concern to the British and the French. The second event, the creation of a Jewish home- land in Palestine was sanc- tioned by the British cabi- net In November 1917. At the beginning of the 20th century, Palestine was con- trolled by the Ottomans. As mentioned above, the Jew- ish diaspora began 1900 years before with the de- struction of the second tem- ple. The membership roster of the Fitzhugh Literary Society is full. Neither so- cial media nor websites are used by this group, so con- tact a member if you are in- terested in learning more or joining the group to learn more about literature. FITZHUGHLITERARYSOCIETY Groupreportsfallandwinteractivities Los Molinos FFA trav- eled to Pierce High School to compete in the Arbuckle FFA Field Day on Saturday, Feb. 4. Los Molinos was well represented with two leadership event teams, and five career develop- ment teams. Freshmen Emily Hau- gen and Gabe Harris com- peted in the FFA Creed Contest. Juniors Katie Moran and Jordyn Boyd competed in Job Inter- view, Katie earned 7th place overall. Los Molinos' Farm Power team consisted of Madi Hall, Cheyenne Pilger, Josh Kramer and Garrett Kramer and Vet Science team was Sarah Grayson, Ember Mayfield, Leah Graves and Fantasia Guevera. In the area of Plant Sci- ence, Los Molinos is rep- resented by three teams, Vegetable Crop Judging, Floral Design and Agron- omy. The Vegetable Crops team is an all freshman team composed of Yailin Madera, Jaz Mayfield and Adrian Ruvalcaba. Yailin earned 8th place and Jaz took 5th place individu- ally and the team brought home 4th place overall. Floral Design is made up of veteran competitor Heather Rodriguez along with Alyssa Mincher, Alondra Rosas, Genesis Acevedo and Sandra Car- bajal. Heather earned 2nd High Individual for the second year in a row, and as a team the girls earned 3rd place. Lastly, Los Molinos' Agronomy team reached a milestone. Amalia Nava, Caitlyn Morgan, Ulises, Graciano, Carlos Linarez and Anahis Mar- tinez brought home their first ever First Place team win. Ulises, Carlos and Anahis placed 5th, 4th and 3rd overall as indi- viduals. Arbuckle was a great way for Los Molinos to start of the field day sea- son. The next contest will be March 3-4 at UC Davis. 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Ifyourlocalorganization or government entity offers service specific to veterans, sendcontactinformationto editor@redbluffdailynews. com,faxto527-9251ordrop it off at 728 Main Street in Red Bluff during business hours to be added to this listing. RESOURCES Veterans services, advocacy groups We are happy to an- nounce that our VSO of- fice will be moving into the former Tehama County Courthouse in March or April, into the of- fice where Tehama County Elections used to reside. This is a great move for our office and allows our VSO funding to be used for staffing to bet- ter serve veterans instead of a building lease. We are grateful to Bill Good- win and Tehama County Board of Supervisors for their support with our current leased office and our new office space. Our new space is be- ing renovated a bit to al- low for veteran privacy. We will have three pri- vate VSO and VSR offices in the new office. A spe- cial thank you to Tehama County Facilities Direc- tor Russ Skelton and his awesome crew for their help with our move and renovations. More details will be announced on our move in future VSO News articles. Michele Alexander is from the Redding Vet- erans Resource Cen- ter, which assists qual- ified homeless veterans with transitional housing. Please contact the VRC directly at 223-3211. Free yearly TRAX bus passes are available for qualified veterans at the VSO offices. We will issue the bus passes at the Red Bluff office and at our sat- ellite office in Corning. This wonderful opportu- nity will be available un- til the end of June. Please see the VSO office sched- ules below. Dependent College Fee Waivers can be submit- ted to or make an ap- pointment with Beverly Holden at our office after April 15. Documentation necessary prior to the ap- pointment are the Veter- an's DD-214 and VA rating disability letter and IRS or Franchise Tax Board 2016 income verification for the dependent. The College Fee Waiver pack- ages will be reviewed by the VSO on administra- tive Fridays. Please plan ahead on these pack- ages as the VSO will not be able to approve these packages on the same day as the appointment. Thank you for your sup- port. There are many state and federal benefits and programs available to vet- erans and their depen- dents. To find out if you are eligible for any of these benefits, call the Te- hama County Veterans Service Office 529-3664. The VSO address is the Bank of America Build- ing, 955 Main St., Ste. C, in Red Bluff. Office ap- pointment hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch. The Red Bluff of- fice VSO is by appoint- ment only. 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