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2A Daily News ��� Thursday, February 21, 2013 Community people&events Former intelligence counsel to speak Palo Alto author Keith Raffel, former counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, will speak at a special Writers Forum event ���Finding Mystery in History: Former Senate Intelligence Counsel Turns Thriller Writer��� at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 9, in Room 802 at Shasta College. As Senate Intelligence Counsel, Raffel held a top secret clearance to watch over CIA activities. He has also run for Congress, founded a Silicon Valley software company, taught writing to Harvard freshmen, and worked at a DNA sequencing company. These days he stays busy writing crime fiction. A Fine and Dangerous Season, a thriller set during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, is his most recent novel. For this special event, Writers Forum will meet in Room 802 of the 800 building at Shasta College. Parking is free, with the exception of staff parking lots. The south campus lot is recommended for easy access to the 800 building. The program is free to members,$10 for nonmembers and $5 for Shasta College students. Refreshments will be served. Reservations are not required. For further details or directions to the location, call 547-5303, or visit www.reddingwritersforum.com. Writers Forum, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983, is dedicated to promoting writing as an art and as a profession and to supporting and inspiring writers from all over far northern California. PATH schedule The rotating PATH shelter schedule is as follows: Feb. 8 -March 8 Abundant Life Fellowship, 21080 Luther Road March 8-April 5, Church of the Nazarene, 900 Johnson St. April 5-19, First Baptist Church, 501 Pine St. April 19-30, Presbyterian Church, 838 Jefferson St. Lawn; to have or not to have By DIANE CLELAND After completion of our new home, almost twelve years ago, we were faced with the daunting task of planning the landscaping. Having researched numerous magazines, books and anything else I could lay my hands on for inspiration and after much deliberation a perfect plan (I hoped) was concieved and roughly drawn out on paper. We started first with adding compost, fertilizer and top soil to the areas planned for the flower beds as well as the lawn. The soil here needed extra work as Thomas Creek once flowed through our property causing it to have more than our share of sand and gravel. Great for Olive trees, not so much for lawn and flower beds. Wanting to keep maintenance to a minimum the plan was to keep the flower beds to a manageable amount with lots and lots of lawn. Good idea, I thought. When completed our lawn area was a little less than 2,000 square feet. The first two or three years it was beautiful and really not too much work, twice a year fertilization, mowing, watering, an occasionally a weed or two, nothing to major. Every successive year since then new challenges have emerged to maintain that beautiful lawn, and more and more time and money is being spent on fertilizers, pesticides, weeding and of course trying to exterminate gophers and moles. Coming to the realization that I was actually spending less time and money tending to my perennial flower beds that I was on my beloved lawn, slowly and surely, step by step, my lawn area is receding and more landscaped beds are appearing. Even as I write I am plotting my next eradication of lawn and new planting of flowers, shrubs and trees. What started this love affair with our lawns? Was it perhaps our childhood memories of running barefoot through the freshly cut grass, feeling it tickle our toes. Whatever the reason we lavish affection on our lawns to the tune of 40 billion dollars a year. This money is spent on fertilizer, weed and pest control and yard-care equipment. All in hopes, perhaps of having a lawn our neighbors will be envious of. We did not always have a love affair with our lawns. In fact it was not until the industrial revolution that lawns became practical for most Americans. Lawns were seen as a luxury expense for only the wealthy who could afford grounds keepers to maintain the fine bladed plants using scythes. Others used grazing sheep or cattle to keep the green stuff at a manageable height as did Woodrow Wilson while occupying the White House. At a typical rural home the area just outside the front door was packed dirt or perhaps a cottage garden that contained a mix of flowers, herbs, and vegetables. As our concern rise over the amount of water needed to maintain a healthy lawn and concerns over pesticide and fertilizer use and their associated health risks, more and more home owners are reducing the size of their lawns creating more flower beds filled with perennials, yard art, and water features. I know I am, and loving every minute of it. The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with Cascade District Garden Club; California Garden Clubs, Inc; Pacific Region Garden Clubs and National Garden Clubs, Inc. Served on mainland of Japan after war SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight The location of the laundromat in Wednesday���s front page article ���Man caught on video arrested in burglaries��� was incorrectly listed. Antelope Wash and Dry is at 488 Antelope Blvd. ������������������������ 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. 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FAX: (530) 527-2151 Ext. 122 (530) 527-2151 Ext. 133 (530) 527-5774 E-mail: advertise@redbluffdailynews.com CLASSIFIED: 1-855-667-2255 SPECIAL PAGES ON THE FOLLOWING DAYS Tuesdays: Kids Corner, Health Wednesdays: Business Thursdays: Entertainment Fridays: Education Saturdays: Select TV, Farm, Religion Publisher & Advertising Director: Greg Stevens gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Editor: Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com Sports Editor: Andre Byik sports@redbluffdailynews.com Circulation Manager: Kathy Hogan khogan@redbluffdailynews.com Production Manager: Sandy Valdivia sandy@redbluffdailynews.com POSTMASTER SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO: PO BOX 220, RED BLUFF CA 96080 The Red Bluff Daily News is an adjudicated daily newspaper of general circulation, County of Tehama, Superior Court Decree 9670, May 25, 1955 �� 2012 Daily News Postage Paid Periodicals Paskenta resident John Bedford, middle of the front row, is pictured here with his teammates in the 808 Aviation Engineer Battalion baseball team in Tokyo, Japan in 1946. Bedford is a life member of Veterans of Foreign Wars who joined the Army in 1943. His time in World War II included the Hawaiian Islands, Enewetak Atoll and Okinawa, Japan. When World War II ended, Bedford was in Okinawa. He was also there when the two bombs were dropped on Japan and saw both B29s as they came to Okinawa to fuel up. When the war ended, Bedford was sent to Japan���s mainland. Two months later, he was put into the 808th Aviation Engineers Battalion and worked at the airfield, making it larger. Bedford spent a year and a half in Japan where he was one of the pitchers for the 808th���s baseball team.When he returned to the United States, it took him 10 days to get to Yokohama and 12 days and nights aboard the USS Monterey before arriving in San Francisco. COMMUNITY CLIPS SRDC program tonight The Sacremento River Discovery Center���s Thursday evening program tonight at 7 will cover Aquatic Invasive Mussels ��� Don't Move A Mussel to Tehama County, with Breck McAlexander as presenter. The meeting will take place at the Farm Bureau Building, 275 Sale Lane. After the presentation there will be refreshments to accompany the question and answer period. For more information, call Bobie at 527-1196 or send an email to bhughe1@tehamaed.org. 90 years ago... Many Eagerly Contribute To Blake Fund Contributions continue to pour in from all quarters for the fund started to aid Mrs. Arthur N. Blake and her five children who were recently rendered fatherless Monday when A. N. Blake was fatally burned at his farm home in the Hunter section, a few miles west of Red Bluff. ��� Feb. 21, 1923 All Star Academic Scholarship A $300 scholarship will be awarded to one former Tehama County 4-H All Star. To be eligible for this award, the applicant must have completed their term as a Tehama County 4-H All Star, continued in 4-H throughout their high school years and have completed 30 or more college semester units or equivalents with a GPA of 3.0 or above. Completed applications are due to the Tehama County 4-H Office by 5PM on Friday, May 3. For a complete description of the scholarship, and an application, please contact the Tehama County 4-H Office at 1754 Walnut Street in Red Bluff or call 530527-3101. Nor-Cal JR Claybuster���s 2013 Sporting Birds Sign Up Boys and Girls Ages: 10 - 18 Sunday, February 24, 2013 3:00 P.M. M & M Restaurant (No Host) 645 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff For information call: Gerald Sanders 529-2343