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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 ��� Daily News Local Calendar Submit calendar items to P Box 220, Red Bluff, 96080 .O. or clerk@redbluffdailynews.com. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Red Bluff Adult Carving Class, 10 a.m. to noon, Red Bluff Veterans Memorial Hall, Corner of Jackson and Oak streets, 527-0768 Al-Anon, noon to 1 p.m., Presbyterian Church, Jefferson and Hickory Alcohol, Anger and Abuse Group, Call for group time and location, 528-0226 BMX practice races, 5:30 p.m., Red Rock BMX Track, Tehama District Fairground, $3 Community Good News Club, 6-8 p.m., North Valley Baptist Church, 345 David Ave., $10, 527-0543 Dance with Juana, noon to 1 p.m., Family Resource Center, 1488 South St., 824-7670 Elks duplicate bridge, noon, Elks Lodge, 355 Gilmore Road, 275-4311 Nurturing Parenting Dads Program, 10 a.m. to noon, 1860 Walnut St. #D, Shasta Room, call Keith at 527-8491, ext. 3012 Nurturing Skills for Teen Parents, 9 to 10 a.m., 1900 Walnut St., 527-8491, ext. 3012 Red Bluff Derby Girls open tryouts and practice, 6:30 p.m., Tyler Jelly building at Tehama District Fairground Red Bluff Kiwanis, noon, Elks Lodge Senior Dance, 7 p.m., Westside Grange, Walnut Street Soroptimist International of Red Bluff, 5:30 p.m., Community and Senior Center, 1500 S. Jackson St., siredbluffclub@yahoo.com Team Kid, 5:30 p.m., First Southern Baptist Church, 585 Kimball Road, 527-5083 TeenScreen Mental Health Appointments, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., free by appointment only, Youth Empowerment Services, 1900 Walnut St., 527-8491, Ext. 3012 Tehama Coffee Party Loyalists, 6 p.m., Cozy Diner 259 Main St. Widowed persons breakfast, 8 a.m., Tremont Cafe & Creamery, 731 Main St., men and women welcome, 384-2471 Corning Corning Rotary, noon, Rolling Hills Casino, Timbers Steak House, 2655 Barham Ave., corningrotary.org Exchange Club membership meeting, 7 p.m., Iron Skillet Latina Leadership Group, 9 a.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 School Readiness Play Group, 10-11:30 a.m., up to 5 years, free, Family Resource Center, 1480 South St., 824-4111 Spanish Adult Education, 5 p.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Strategies for Success, Life Skill classes, 1:30 p.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 VFW Charity Bingo, 6 p.m., Veterans Memorial Hall, 1620 Solano St., 824-5957 Los Molinos Chamber of Commerce, 6:30 p.m., 7904 Highway 99E Take Off Pounds Sensibly ��� TOPS, 8:30 a.m., 25160 Josephine St., 385-1068 Cottonwood Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group, educational stakeholders meeting, 6:30 p.m., Community Center, 347-6637 Cottonwood Library Story Time, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., Cottonwood Library,3427 Main St., 3474818 Paynes Creek Plum Valley School Board meeting, 6 p.m. in the school library, 29950 Plum Creek Road THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Red Bluff California HEAT Chorus - Sweet Adelines, 7 p.m., Meteer School Room 26, 695 Kimball Road, 8950139 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, Community Center, 1500 S. Jackson St. 5278177 Good Morning Red Bluff, 7:50 a.m., Sacred Heart School, 2355 Monroe St. Kelly-Griggs House Museum, 1-3 p.m., 311 Washington St., group tours by appointment, 527-1129 Live country music, with dinner at the Veterans Hall, 5-7 p.m. Phoenix Comunity Support Group for those getting over chemical dependency, 11:30 a.m., Presbyterian Church, 838 Jefferson St., 945-2349 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. Suite 101, 5288066 Red Bluff Exchange Club, noon, M&M Ranch House, 645 Antelope Blvd. #1 Senior Chair Volleyball, 1 p.m. Community Center, 1500 S. Jackson St. Whittenberg Country School public informational meeting, 5-7 p.m., Sacramento River Discovery Center, 1000 Sale Lane, 526-7649 3A Everyday item offers winter protection I don't live in a place where I need to protect my car or home from the damage of snow or cold, but we have thousands of EC readers that do. Send your tips and suggestions to Mary@EverydayCheapskate.com for using everyday items in the winter -- or spring or summer! -- and I'll include them right here in this column. WINTER WINDSHIELD PROTECTION. Use the same sunshield that you use to keep your car cool in the summer to protect your windshield from snow in the winter. Put the sunshield on the outside of your windshield, and use your wipers to hold it in place. Now you won't have to worry about brushing snow and ice off your front windshield on a snowy day! -Rita, email YOU CAN HAVE A V8. I make my own V8-type vegetable juice by putting a 48-ounce can of plain tomato juice in a pitcher and adding 1 teaspoon of Old Bay Seasoning. Stir thoroughly. -- Beth, New York SHAKE UP THE NUTS. I love Blue Diamond nuts, although I find that the salt sometimes overwhelms the nuts. To get rid of some of the salt, I rub five or six nuts between my clean sheet works beautifully for removing hands for a few seconds. After crayon from most flat surfaces. -- Bob, doing this a few times, I get rid Nevada WRINKLE-FREE PLASTIC. of a lot of the salt. I then add plain roasted or smokehouse When packing for a trip, place garbage bags or old dry cleaning bags nuts to the flavored between your clothes. Doing nuts and shake the this prevents the clothing can to mix the nuts. from getting wrinkled. If any - Bobbi, Texas wrinkles do appear, they will ICE TEA FREEZERbe minimal and can easily be CLOSE. Heat 2 cups of removed by the steam from a water in the microwave shower. -- Evelyn, Minnesota and pour into a pint-size FANCY TOOTHPICK freezer container or freezer HOLDER. I needed somejar. Add enough tea bags to thing to hold toothpicks, so I make either half a gallon or cleaned out a short votive a gallon of tea. Let steep Mary candleholder. It is just the and remove the bags. Add right size and looks good, sugar and/or lemon if too. -- Tara, email desired, and mix well. SNAPPY BOOKMARK. Seal, label, and freeze. Metal-snap hair clips make When you want iced tea, great, inexpensive booktake the container from marks. You can snap the freezer, put the frozen tea point of the clip so it points concentrate in the pitcher, directly to the place on the and add water. This method is especially good if you need page where you stopped reading, and to transport tea. Take it frozen, and add the clips hold onto the pages without water on arrival -- no messy spills. -- ripping them. You can buy a sheet of them at the dollar store. -- Raquel, Lydia, email CRAYON ERASER. A used dryer Florida Hunt Everyday Cheapskate Tree crop conference scheduled in Chico Prune Bargaining Association will celebrate a milestone anniversary Thursday, Feb. 28, by hosting its 45th Annual Meeting in conjunction with a regional conference on marketing opportunities, strategies, and outlook for tree crop producers. The annual meeting and conference begins at 9 a.m. at Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave., Chico. Centered around the theme The New California Gold Rush: Agriculture, presentations will focus on the outlook for specialty crops, how biotechnology will impact California tree 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 ��� A Corning woman reported about 7:45 a.m. Monday on South Street that Jeremy Mendez was out of control and threatening to kill people. Mendez, 21, of Corning was arrested and booked into Tehama County Jail for two CHP Warrants. ��� Michael David Harrington, 36, was arrested Sunday evening in the area of Wiltsey Road at Antelope Boulevard in Red Bluff. Harrington, a transient of the Red Bluff area, was booked into jail on the charges of possession of a concealed dirk or dagger and two outstanding misdemeanor warrants. Bail was $15,000. Deputies made contact with Harrington at 7:38 p.m. after he was seen littering on Antelope Boulevard. A pat-down search for weapons turned up a concealed 4.5 inch fixed blade knife inside his waist band, hidden from view by his jacket. Drugs ��� A case number was issued to the Red Bluff Police School Resource Officer assigned to Red Bluff High School for a 14-year-old boy cited for possession of marijuana. The case has been forwarded to juvenile probation for review. ��� Someone in Corning reported Monday finding a homemade smoking device at Woodson Park INCOME TAX PREPARATION Fast, Friendly, Reasonable Fees Fee for Short or Long form includes all the tax credits and E-filing with direct Deposit. Also Bookkeeping, Payroll and Financial Services available P RALPH CAMPBELL, EA Enrolled Agent 855 Walnut St. #2 530-529-9540 crop production, farmland property values and trends, and marketing, financing and risk management strategies. The event is made possible through a cooperative partnership with the USDA Risk Management Agency. ���California agriculture is experiencing increasing demand for many of its specialty crops,��� explains Greg Thompson, General Manager of Prune Bargaining Association. ���Yet risks are escalating as global competition for resources results in increasing costs of production, and buyers attempt to pass their pressures down the supply chain to growers,��� said PBA General Manager Greg Thompson. ���There are more marketing and crop options available to growers than in the past but the pace of change is hard to keep up with. This conference brings together some top experts to answer questions that farmers have about emerging market and crop trends. Speakers include Karen Halliburton Barber, Senior Agricultural Analyst, Rabobank, N.A.; Mike Evans, Evans Appraisal Service, Inc.; John W. 'Skip' Leach, Consumer Package Goods Executive; Buzz Minson, Director International Business, California Bank & Trust; Sharon Shoemaker, Founding Executive Director, California Institute of Food and Ag Research; and keynote speaker Martina Newell--McGloughlin, Director International Biotechnology Program, UC Davis. The day will include breakfast refreshments, as well as a full tri-tip lunch. The cost is $20 per person. To register, call (530) 674-5636 or email greg@prunebargaining.co m. on South Street. jeans walking around saying he is a Macy's sales person; however, the man was asking people for money. He was last seen going into the Fast Break Inc. Corning Shell. An area check was made, but the man was gone upon officer arrival. nia Technologies on Solano Street in Corning reported Monday receiving a death threat via email. ��� Someone at Red Bluff Meadows Apartments on Kimball Road in Red Bluff reported a man threatened over the phone that he was going to kill them and said he was enroute from Fresno to do so. Hit and run ��� Someone reported a hit and run at 8:32 a.m. Monday in the area of Walnut and Jefferson streets in Red Bluff in which a white van slammed into the back of a green car. The woman in the green car got out and fled the area and the white van left the area as well. Nothing further was available. ��� A woman reported at 12:30 p.m. Monday a hit and run to her vehicle in the Walmart parking lot near the garden center. Odd ��� Someone at the Corning Garden Apartments on Divisadero Avenue in Corning reported at 10:49 p.m. that a man she has a restraining order against was just at her house and left flowers on her door step. ��� Someone at Fast Break Inc. Corning Shell on Solano Street reported about 3 p.m. Monday seeing a man in a black hat, long sleeve tan shirt and Thefts ��� Someone at Corning West Apartments on Butte Street in Corning reported Monday evening that the laundry room washer and dryers were broken into sometime between Feb. 20 and Feb. 21. Value of the loss was $6,000. ��� A woman on Marin Street in Corning reported Monday afternoon the attempted theft of rims off of a 1998 GMC pickup and that miscellaneous property was stolen from outside the residence. ��� Someone reported Monday at Meadow Vista Apartments on Vista Way having someone steal the wifi connector to an XBox. Threats ��� Someone at Califor- Vandalism ��� Someone reported Monday afternoon that the window to his vehicle had been broken earlier in the day at Red Bluff River Park. ��� Someone at Valley Terrace Apartments on Toomes Avenue in Corning reported Monday morning finding the top on her 2006 Volkswagen Beetle was slashed sometime over night. ��� A woman on Grant Avenue in Corning reported Monday that the passenger side window on her 92 Toyota 4Runner was shattered sometime over night.