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2A Daily News – Saturday, January 26, 2013 Community people&events Senior menu The Senior Nutrition Program serves meals Monday through Friday at the Red Bluff Community-Senior Center, the Corning Senior Center and the Los Molinos Veterans Hall. The suggested donation for seniors 60 and older is $2.75. For those guests under the age of 60, the guest charge is $7. A donation is not a requirement for you to receive a meal if you qualify for the program. Reservations must be made a minimum of one day in advance by calling 527-2414. Two percent milk is served with each meal. Menu is subject to change. Week of Jan. 28 through Feb. 1 Monday Chicken Tettrazini, Brussels Sprouts, Pears, Pumpkin Cake Tuesday VEGETARIAN MENU Broccoli Cheese Soup, French Bread, Beet Mandarin Salad, Tropical Fruit Cup Wednesday Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Potatoes, Capri Vegetables, Orange Pineapple Juice, Wheat Roll, Applesauce Thursday ETHNIC MENU Chili Verde, Steamed Rice, Parsley Carrots, Mango Medley, Flan Friday Split Pea Soup, Cornbread, Strawberries, Tapioca Pudding Scouts to conduct paper drive Corning Boy Scout Troop 5 will hold a newspaper drive on Saturday, Feb. 2, or, in case of rain, Saturday, Feb. 9. Please put your newspapers on the curb by 9 a.m. that morning. Anyone living outside the city must bring the papers to Specialized Fibers on South Avenue, just west of the railroad tracks. The troop will use the money for a snow trip and summer camp in Chester in July. For more information call 824-3240. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight Thursday's front page story "Drumming up health" was written by Abbie Ehorn. The Daily News regrets the error. –––––––– 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. DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 128, NUMBER 47 Remembering times gone by The neighborhood where my grandparents lived on "Walnut Ave.," now renamed, "Round-Up Avenue," it was our extended family custom to visit Grandma and Granddad's house nearly every evening. Our mother and father would take us to the Grandparents house nearly every spring and summer evening. It was our extended family custom to visit Grandma and Granddad's nearly every evening. Summer and spring evenings were outdoor and exiting. Winter evenings were those where the adults played cards inside while children read books and teased each other. Cousins by the dozens. Aunts, Uncles and friends during the spring and summers, sat around in the yard and the house chit chatting, eating various foods. The kids ran around the yard playing tag or Olli, Olli, Oxen free. I often ventured next door to visit with the Cheatham family who lived next door to our Grandparents, the Hackers. I remember walking through their gate, up the walk in the dark, no porch light guiding my way. I was guided by the sound of the adult's rocking chairs creaking as they moved back and forth, back and forth. There were no streetlights or automatic motion lights in those days. Flashlights were not all that plentiful either. I would ask if their children were there and the kids would emerge out of the dark. Many people left their lights off both to save on utility bills and to cut down on the bugs gravitating to the lights. The dark- if we again had those evening visits of long ago, back on schedness was fear producing ule. A children's book by but also it was a chalCynthia Rylant, "The Relalenge to us kids in playtives Came," brings back ing tag. It was a simple those nostalgic times when entertainment, much our houses were filled with more engaging than relatives who came for a today's readily available visit. Rylant describes the TV. scene of a whole lot of hugThe evenings at ging, eating, talking and Grandma's Garnet's playing, going on The Relhouse was filled with atives slept four to a bed, interpersonal communication, and social interCarolyn on the floor with a whole lot ot snoring going on. action. I suspect that the Sharing food made by benefits of therapy were the women from "scratch," present as family memplaying horseshoe games, bers and neighbors talked out their troubles and their blind man's bluff and just plain visjoys with each other. I visited with a iting. The families, joyful greetings friend I hadn't seen for more than and their tearful good byes pepTwenty-five years, we picked up pered by invitations to come back where we left off and reminisced again. The second best thing to about the attributes of the "old being at Grandma and Granddad's days." My friend said, "Those were house may be hearing the crickets good times." When I think of our sing again, bringing back a vicarievening gatherings at the Hacker ous visit to their house on a hot house I too believed that they were summer evening. No it is not a summer evening good times. Too often in this day and age, we put family interaction this month. Future day may be the on Too often in this day and age, we perfect times to visit friends and put family interaction on hold. We relatives during fall and winter say, "We have to get together and times as well as Summer times. Perjust talk," we pull out our electron- haps cutting back some on our ic calendars, punch away to find a many hours watching TV would be date to schedule an old fashioned more rewarding. Yes, I believe havget together. Many times we com- ing an old fashioned gathering with ment that our life is just too busy. relatives and friends would be a The things we leave out of our wonderful idea. schedules are those times of meetCarolyn Barber has been writing ing with our families and friends. Perhaps we would not need so her column in the Daily News since many classes and seminars in Inter- 1992. It appears on Saturdays. She personal Communication, Anger can be contacted by e-mail at Management, Personal Interaction, hurcar@yahoo.com. Barber COMMUNITY CLIPS Book Sale to be held at Cottonwood Library The Cottonwood Community Library empties out the overflow of duplicated and donated books once each quarter, and makes those good books available to the public. Some books are old-time favorites that will bring back fond memories, and some books are the latest best sellers that are duplicated in the library. The book sale will be held from 10 a.m.– 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, in the meeting room of the Cottonwood Community Library, located at 3427 Main Street. Prices start at 25 cents, so come early for the best selection. On Feb. 2, the entire meeting room of the Cottonwood Library will be filled to overflowing with all types of books for all types of readers. Hardcover books, paperbacks, children's books, DVDs and VHS was 14, my grandDear Annie: I daughter wrote me would like to reply a nice letter. I was to ''Arizona ecstatic! I wrote Grandparents,'' www.redbluffdailynews.com her back, but heard whose daughter MAIN OFFICE: NEWS nothing. won't allow them Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. News Tip Hotline: 527-2153 to see their grandI had no money Main Phone (530) 527-2151 FAX: (530) 527-9251 for a lawyer and child. They asked Outside area (800) 479-6397 didn't want to do E-mail: clerk@redbluffdailynews.com whether it will ever 545 Diamond Ave. that Annie's anything Daytime: (530) 527-2151 get better. Red Bluff, CA 96080 would put me My grand______________________ Sports: Ext. 111 daughter was 6 completely out of Ext. 103 when my son and Mail: Red Bluff Daily News Obituaries: by Kathy Mitchell contact. My son P.O. Box 220 After hours: (530) 527-2153 his wife divorced and Marcy Sugar lived halfway Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ and I was no across the country. Fax: (530) 527-5774 longer allowed to see her. I When my granddaughter ______________________ ADVERTISING DEPT. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. continued to send her a was 17, my son found her CUSTOMER SERVICE Display: (530) 527-2151 card and money on every Facebook page. After her DEPARTMENT: birthday and at Christmas. 18th birthday, I called her, Ext. 122 Subscription & delivery Online (530) 527-2151 I never heard back and had and she was happy to hear no idea whether she from me. She lived only Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Ext. 133 received them. Her other two hours away. We met at (530) 527-2151, Ext. 126 FAX: (530) 527-5774 grandmother kept me a central location and had a Home delivery E-mail: advertise@redbluffdailynews.com informed from time to time wonderful reunion. Since subscription rates and even sent me her 5th then, we've been in regular (All prices include all applicable taxes) CLASSIFIED: Tuesday through Saturday grade picture. When she contact. She is now 23, $3.02 per week 1-855-667-2255 Mailbox By mail: In Tehama County $12.17 four weeks All others $16.09 four weeks (USPS 458-200) Published Tuesday through Saturday except Sunday & Monday, by California Newspaper Partnership. 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Include a name and phone number. Digital pictures should be attached as .jpg files. Photos from a film camera can be brought in to the Daily News as original prints or negatives. No photos from a home printer are acceptable. Readers'advice for estranged grandparents HOW TO REACH US On the Web: Business & professional rate $2.19 four weeks, Tuesday-Friday movies, and books on tape or CD will be for sale. For more information call the library at 347-4818. 90 years ago... Lincoln Grammar School Building Is Condemned By Board Red Bluff grammar school trustees, consisting of Mrs. Olive L. Bagley, W. A. Armstrong and J. G. Beard, have condemned the Lincoln street school building as unsafe, illegal and inadequate for educational purposes after the expiration of the present term. The board particularly condemned the roof, upper floors, ceilings, stairways and heating system of the structure. — Jan. 26, 1923 married and expecting her first child. So, Arizona Grandma, don't give up. Just do what you can, and hopefully your story will end as happily as mine. — A Happy Grandma Dear Grandma: We heard from many grandparents, most of whom had happy endings. Read on: From Indiana: For two years, I did not get to see my grandson. During that time, I did a lot of praying and crying. For his birthday and Christmas, I would leave his presents on his front porch. One day I got a phone call, and my son invited me to come over, saying, ''It's time you got to know your grandson.'' Our first visit lasted three hours. On the way home, I did a lot of praising God and crying. I now get to see him a couple of times a week. He calls me Grandma. I have him in my life now, and we will continue to move forward and not dwell on the past. Florida: We have not seen our granddaughter in three years. My husband and I live 10 minutes away, but aren't allowed to visit. At one point, my son wished me dead. I send cards and presents, but I don't know whether they give these things to her or tell her they are from us. My friends say to wait until she is older. But she's only 10 now, so I may not be around when she's older. This is all over a stupid disagreement (with his brother) that we are paying for. I have three other grandchildren who miss their cousin. I have apologized and am willing to see her on their terms if only they would communicate with me. Maybe they'll read this. Illinois: Nine years ago, my oldest grandson called and told me not to contact him again. I could tell he was being coached by his mother, my son's ex-wife. One winter day early last year, my grandson and his mother stopped by my house unannounced. I was surprised and happy. It turns out my grandson had contacted my son (his father). Now he calls me Grandma, and we see him every once in a while. He'll be 22 this week, and I hope to celebrate with him. Miracles do happen. Indiana: Your response to ''Arizona Grandparents'' was right on. My husband and I have had to deal with the same type of mean-spirited behavior from our eldest daughter. Tell them to keep in touch with their 7-year-old granddaughter with cards for her birthday, Christmas gifts and acknowledgments of the important times in her life. Our grandson is now 22 and in the Navy, and we get to chat and see him when he comes home. It does hurt when you are cut off, but in time, it can turn out OK. Please tell them there is always hope. They are not alone.