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Thursday, January 3, 2013 ��� Daily News Local Calendar Submit calendar items to P Box 220, Red Bluff, 96080 .O. or clerk@redbluffdailynews.com. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3 Red Bluff California HEAT Chorus - Sweet Adelines, 7 p.m., Meteer School Room 26, 695 Kimball Road, 89501396 Childbirth Class, 6:30 p.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Columba room, Anita 529-8377 Fun Senior Aerobics with Linda, 8-9 a.m., $1 per class, Red Bluff Community Center, 1500 South Jackson Street 527-8177 Grief Support Group, 3 p.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Coyne Center, Kristin, 528-4207 Kelly-Griggs House Museum, 1-3 p.m., Thursdays and Sundays, 311 Washington St., tours by appointment,527-1129 or 527-5895 Latino Outreach, noon., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste. 101, 528-8066 Live country music, 5-7 p.m., dinner, Veterans Hall National Alliance on Mental Illness, Tehama County Chapter Meeting, 6 p.m., County Department of Education, 1135 Lincoln St.., 515-0151 Painting session, Red Bluff Art Association, 10 a.m., Snug Harbor recreation room, 600 Rio Vista Ave., 527-4810 Pinochle for Seniors, 12:30-3:30 p.m., 1500 S. Jackson St., free, 527-8177 Playtime Pals Playgroup, 10 a.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste. 101, 5288066 Phoenix Comunity Support Group for those getting over chemical dependency, 11:30 a.m., Presbyterian Church, 838 Jefferson St., 945-2349 Red Bluff Exchange Club, noon, M&M Ranch House, 645 Antelope Blvd. #1 Red Bluff Lions Club, 6 p.m., Veterans Memorial, 527-8452 Senior Chair Volleyball, 1 p.m. Community Center, 1500 S. Jackson St. Sunrise Speakers Toastmasters, noon, Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste.101, 5291841 Swinging Squares Square Dance Club, 7 p.m., Community Center, 1500 S. Jackson St., beginner or review classes, 529-1615 Tehama County Public Health Advisory Board, noon-3:15 p.m., 1860 Walnut St., Shasta Conference Room, 527-6824 Widowed Persons Dinner, 5 p.m., call 384-2471 for location Women���s Domestic Violence Information and Support Group, Call for group time and location, 5280226 Corning Am-vets, 4 p.m., Corning Veteran���s Memorial Hall, 1620 Solano St. Cal-Fresh and Healthy Family Appointments, 13 p.m., Family Resource Center, 1488 South St., 8247670 Corning Patriots, 6 p.m., Senior Center, 824-2332 Dance with Juana, noon to 1 p.m., Family Resource Center, 1488 South St., 824-7670 Domestic Violence Information and Support Group, Call for group time and location, 528-0226 Dual Diagnosis Group, 1:30, 1600 Solano St., 527-8491, Ext. 3309 Improved Order of Redmen # 203, 7 p.m. Independent Grange 470, 20945 Corning Road, 824-1114 Soccer training, 4-6 p.m., except for holidays and rain, Woodson School soccer field, 150 N. Toomes, 824-7680 Sewing group, 9 a.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Women���s Support Group, 6 p.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 Red Bluff Al-Anon, 6 to 7 p.m., Presbyterian Church, Jefferson and Hickory Bingo, doors at 5 p.m., early birds at 6 p.m. Community and Senior Center, food available Celebrate Recovery, 7 p.m., Bethel Assembly of God, 625 Luther Road, 527-0445 or 366-6298 Tehama County Education Foundation, board meeting, 7:30 a.m., County Department of Education, 1135 Lincoln St. Corning Car Show, 5-9 p.m., Bartels Giant Burger, 22355 Corning Road, local car clubs welcome, 824-2788 Los Molinos Los Molinos Grange, 7 p.m., Grange Hall, 68th and Singer avenues, 529-0930 SATURDAY, JANUARY 5 Red Bluff Red Bluff Outlaws Points Race 9, gates open at 10 a.m., trophy dashes start at 6 p.m., Tehama District Fairgrounds Lotto numbers SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night in the California Lottery���s ������SuperLotto Plus������ game were: 4-6-22-24-29. Meganumber: 18. 3A Don't let kids' activities break the bank Dear Mary: My biggest budgetbusters are enrichment activities for my four children. I want to spark their joy for living, providing opportunities to sample different sports and hobbies. Currently, they attend a private school that is academically aggressive. Each takes piano lessons, and the boys take karate and the girls, ballet. They are also involved in sports, as well as theater productions at school -- none of which is free. We are a one-income family, and I stay home with the children. Our finances are very tight, and we end up using credit to make it through the month. It sounds simple enough to just put my children in public school and drop all the extras, but my mommyguilt says NO. I want the best for my kids. Any advice? -- Tricia, email Dear Tricia: The definition of "guilt" is "remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense." You have not committed any offense, so I don't think this is about guilt. You are most likely fearing that by not providing experiences and opportunities to your kids, you are failing as a parent. Experts tell us it is not good for kids to be overstimulated by things or activities. You can push kids to ents. My daughter pays all of their the brink of despair by over- dating expenses, her car payment and involving them in sports, insurance. He sleeps until noon, plays music, karate, dance and computer games all day and then academia all at the same waits for her to pick him up. She is expecting me to pay for their time. That you are wedding. I say I'm not going into debt to putting one solitary dime enable all of this is into a wedding to a man who even more troubling. won't work. What do you Twenty years from think? -- Kendra, Illinois now, your worth as a parDear Kendra: Hold your ent will not be measured ground, and tell your by the number of their daughter all the reasons activities, their SAT you cannot support this scores or their trophies. marriage. Is there a theraIt will be measured by pist or family counselor the depth of their characMary she would speak with? ter and the way they live There's some reason she is their lives. As for school, willing to settle for so little don't ever assume a in a husband and father for teacher -- public or priher children. I hope she figvate, secular or Christian ures it out before she -- can take your place makes the biggest mistake when it comes to passing of her life. values to your children. I suggest you allow each child to Do you have a question for Mary? pick one activity and then make her at sure they have plenty of free time to Email just be kids. As for school, I am a mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or huge proponent of public schools write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. and encourage you to get involved Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. Mary is the founder of with yours should you send your Hunt www.DebtProofLiving.com, a children there. Dear Mary: My daughter is personal finance member website engaged to a man who refuses to find and the author of "Cheaper. Better. a job. He is 23 and lives with his par- Faster.," released in January. Hunt Everyday Cheapskate Snow pack looks good, dry January is looming ECHO SUMMIT (AP) ��� A snowy December that kept Sierra ski resorts busy also had California���s water managers hopeful Wednesday at the start of a monthly snow-measuring ritual that determines everything from types of crops planted to municipal water allocations. Officials with the Department of Water Resources measured more than 4 feet of accumulation near Echo Summit in El Dorado County on Wednesday, which is about normal for this time of year, said Frank Gehrke, head of California���s cooperative snow survey program. On this date last year there was only 0.14 inches of snow. ������You can see it���s a big, big difference. It���s a good start to the year,������ Gehrke said. ������We���re keeping our fingers crossed that we keep getting storm activity into April.������ California���s Sierra Nevada snowpack provides about one-third of the water used in the state as it melts to fill Police reports The following information is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff���s Department, Corning Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Arrests ��� Paul Robert Armstrong, 26, Red Bluff was arrested for felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor reckless driving. ��� Damien Dwayne Jones, 23, Red Bluff was arrested for a felony parole violation and misdemeanors of possession of burglary tools, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance paraphernalia, appropriation of lost property and loitering. Bail was $11,000. Prowler ��� A resident at the Crystal Apartments reported someone tried to pry open their window around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday before they chased the suspect off. The suspect was described as a young man wearing a jacket that looked like a sleeping bag. ��� Two tall thin men in dark clothing were reported to have been suspiciously in the area around Jefferson Street about 4 reservoirs and rivers and replenish aquifers. The current depth is about half of what normally falls during the season, which ends April 1. Electronic readings show the water content of the snow ranging from 131 percent of average in the southern Sierra to 133 percent in the north. Based on current conditions, the DWR estimates it will deliver 40 percent of the 4 million acre-feet of water requested through the State Water Project, which supplies water to 25 million Californians and a million acres of farmland. Gehrke took measurements at several sites between 6,500 feet and 7,600 feet in elevation that drain into the American River. The snow depth ranged from 48.6 inches to 56 inches. The location has proven over time to be an accurate indicator for the region, he said. The heavy snowpack came from a series of tropical storms that flowed over the region last month, but weather forecasters warn that early January doesn���t look nearly as sodden. ������It looks like a fairly dry and mild forecast. There are a few systems on the horizon, but not a lot of moisture associated with them,������ said Drew Peterson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento. Sacramento and the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range have experienced 165 percent of the normal precipitation so far this rainy season, Peterson said. He expects the percentage will fall during the next few weeks of drier weather. The state���s snowpack was boosted in December by a series of ������atmospheric river������ storms that occur when a funnel of moisture from the tropics collides with energy heading south from the polar regions, Peterson said. ������We maybe get one of those a year, and the one we got was pretty significant,������ he said. The warmer storms meant higher snow levels, but water researchers say that because rain saturated the ground at lower elevations, there likely will be more runoff this spring. ������We���re off to a good start,������ said Randall Osterhuber, a researcher with the UC Berkeley Snow Lab near Donner Pass. Thanks to the storms, ski resorts at Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows saw their second-snowiest Christmas since record keeping began in 1970, said spokeswoman Jenny Kendrick. The two-day storm that hit on Christmas dumped 29 inches of snow at Squaw Valley and 25 inches at Alpine. For the month of December, Squaw Valley recorded 152 inches of snow for a total of 250 so far this winter, and Alpine recorded 142 to bring its total for the season to 241 inches. Kendrick said the totals are just 5 inches less than the resorts enjoyed in the recordsetting 2010-2011 snow season. ������It���s looking really good here,������ Kendrick said. a.m. Wednesday. vehicle and it was gone. ��� An alarm at 7:13 p.m. Sunday at Bob���s Tire Center on Solano Street was initially cleared as an officer checked the majority of the business through a window, but did not see anyone inside. A few minutes later at 7:26 p.m., someone from the business responded and found a ladder to the roof and a cooler pad missing from the unit. ��� Someone reported Sunday that the temporary stop sign at Donovan and 99W had been stolen. for was issued about 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Corning area for a stolen white Toyota truck with a white cab-height camper shell. Theft ��� Someone reported their purse was stolen from their vehicle. ��� An orange and black suitcase was reported stolen form the State Theatre. ��� A blue and teal darker Honda Accord was reported stolen from the Walmart parking lot between 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. ��� Red Bluff Police are seeking information on a Dec. 29 vehicle theft of a burgundy or red 1995 Honda Accord, license 5YWF324, taken from the Wal-Mart parking lot. The vehicle had peeling paint on the front bumper and the model emblem was missing from the trunk. The owner had parked her vehicle on the north side of the parking lot, near the garden center, but upon her return about 6:45 p.m., she walked to where she had parked her The Vandalism ��� A vehicle on Lay Avenue was vandalized Tuesday when someone wrote on the windows with markers and made scratches. ��� A vehicle was reported to have been vandalized on Cedar Street. 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