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2A Daily News ��� Friday, March 1, 2013 Community people&events Tri-County Sams monthly report Due to the normally inclement weather in February, the Tri-County Sams Chapter of the Good Sam Club canceled its February Campout and held a Luncheon and Meeting at the Iron Skillet Restaurant in Corning. Representatives of eight member rigs, three guest rigs and one other guest was in attendance. After an enjoyable lunch, members held a meeting and had a Moment of Silence for beloved member Jack Love who passed away in January. He will long be remembered by all members. Guests introduced were potential member Don Gerfen of Chico, Joyce and Clyde Burt and Joe and Sabra Marano of Klamath Falls, Ore., who are Good Sam members in Oregon, and Nancy Mattos of Orland, who was a guest of member Wayne Barry. The Good Sam Members from Oregon were staying in the Red Bluff RV Park and read the last news item in the newspaper and called the president to see if they could attend our luncheon and meeting to get to know us. It was reported that the flag pole holder has been repaired so that members can now display the California flag along with our other flags at outings. Wayne Barry was appointed as new Historian to replace Bonnie Love and Pearl Divine will now take over as Sunshine Chairwoman and Birthdays and Anniversaries. The March 8-10, 2013 Campout will be held at the Gridley Inn & RV Park, with Bob and Pearl Divine as Trail Bosses. Some of the members will be meeting at the Black Bear Diner in Willows at 9 a.m. for breakfast and then travel together to the RV Park. Sharon Furia, the 2012 Chapter Sweetheart, selected Pearl Divine as 2013 Chapter Sweetheart, presented her with a box of Chocolates and crowned her for the year. Anyone owning a self-contained RV that would like to go on monthly campouts with a great small group of campers are encouraged to call Wagon Master Lisa Sol at 385-1344 or President Richard Sol at 200-7403. Members are really encouraging interested RVers to contact them as they are still trying to increase membership and have recently lost two member rigs due to deaths. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 One telephone pole at a time It was painful to watch her try to walk; albeit not as painful for me as it was for her. ���Sit down,��� I suggested, pulling up a chair, wanting to relieve her of her burden. She stared at it, shakily supporting herself with her metal cane, the type with four rubber-capped legs that stands on its own. ���Do you have a chair without arms?��� She asked, referencing her size with a flick of her bulky arm. ���It���s hard for me to fit in this type of chair.��� I scurried away and returned with the requested model, placing it behind her. She sluggishly lowered her heaviness on to the seat, all the while leaning weightily on the cane for support. After placing herself, she exhaled a strained sigh of exhaustion, took a moment to regain her composure, and said, ���Hi, I���m Sheila. I need to lose weight. I can���t live like this anymore.��� I���m always interested in what triggers us to finally take action. After all, weight doesn���t come on overnight. We fight it for years, constructing excuses, living in denial; until eventually we cross a line that drives us from needing to do something to actually doing it. It���s at that nexus where I enter the scene. ���What brought you here today?��� I asked. ���I can���t get my mail.��� ���Tell me more,��� I said, looking for clarification. She exhaled again, attempting to catch her breath. ���My mailbox is at the end of the driveway, which is ���In the beginning, it was embarup a hill.��� She rested. ���Well, it���s not really a hill, it���s more of an rassingly difficult ��� but I got there, huffing and puffing. incline, but I can���t walk Then, one day, while at the that far anymore. I needmailbox, I wanted to go ed someone to bring me farther. I was afraid to venthe mail yesterday.��� ture too far down the road Another deep exhalation ��� you know, in case I escaped her lips as she couldn���t get back. There���s steadied herself on her a telephone pole about a cane, relying on it to hundred yards down my steady herself while sitstreet. That became my ting. ���That���s no way to goal.��� live. I have to do some���After I felt comfortthing.��� able with that distance, I That was how we Scott Q. added another, and anothmet. Unfortunately, after er, and another. Soon I a few months, she got a looked down the road to new job and moved the next telephone pole, away. We lost contact. Not long ago, she resurfaced, then the next. After awhile, it visiting family in town. I did not became a symbol. I wanted to see how many I could go.��� recognize her. She paused, not to catch her ���You look fantastic!��� I exclaimed, upon realizing who she breath; instead to smile. ���Yesterday, it was 167. By the time I reach was. ���I���m down 163 pounds - and I my right weight, it will be 200.��� ���How far is that?��� I asked. walk every day.��� ���I don���t know,��� she answered, I realized the familiar aluminum ���but it���s a heck of a lot farther than cane was missing. it was when I began, isn���t it?��� ���That���s great. How far?��� She chuckled. ���Over 160 teleScott ���Q��� Marcus is the CRP phone poles.��� ���Telephone poles?��� I asked. (Chief Recovering Perfectionist) of ���That���s an odd way to measure dis- www.ThisTimeIMeanIt.com. He is available for coaching an speaking tance.��� 707.442.6243 or via ���I didn���t start out that way. You at scottq@scottqmarcus.com. Sign see, once I started to lose weight, I decided I needed to set some activ- up for his free newsletter at the site at ity goals. My first one was to get or my own mail. Anyone else would facebook.com/thistimeimeanit. have thought that was no big deal. Enjoy and share his playful TEDx However, to me, it really meant talk, ���Finding Happiness as an Being��� at something. I really wanted to be Imperfect http://bit.ly/ScottsTEDx independent again.��� Marcus Cattlewomen select Beef Ambassadors A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight ������������������������ 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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On the left is Senior Ambassador Taylor Collins. Danielle Mueller, Junior Beef Ambassador is on the right. Taylor Collins and Danielle Mueller will represent the Tehama County beef industry as the Beef Ambassadors for 2013. Collins won the Senior Beef Ambassador title and Mueller will serve as Junior Beef Ambassador The duo won their titles at a contest held by the Tehama County Cattlewomen on Feb. 23 at the Tehama County Farm Bureau Office. 90 years Taylor Collins will be a Beef Ambassador for the second year, this time as a Senior Beef Ambassador; she was the Junior Ambassador in 2012. Sixteen year old Collins is a junior at Red Bluff High School. She entered the contest because she wants to continue to educate the younger generation and to continue to promote beef. She has held numerous offices in 4-H, ago... Fine Improvements Made By Stoll On Main Street Block Paul Stoll, pioneer business man of Red Bluff, is having extensive imiprovements made in his brick block on the west side of Main street, between Pine and Oak streets. Both the first and second floors are being completely renovated. ��� March 1, 1923 is a member of FFA and is a chairperson of Ride for Life. Her parents are Jenifer and Bryon Waelty. Junior Ambassador Danielle Mueller entered the contest because she wanted to learn more about the beef industry. The fifteen year old is the daughter of Lori and Charlie Mueller and is a sophomore at Red Bluff High School. Her family has a small ranch and runs cattle. She is a 4-H and FFA member and has raised steers for four years. Judges for the contest were John Martinson, Farm Credit; Regina Byrd, a member of the agriculture community and Susan Taylor, manager of the Glenn County Fair. The judges looked for knowledge, strength in speaking and the desire to learn. They were impressed by the confidence and poise demonstrated by all the contestants. Also participating in the contest were Katie Mura from Corning and Natalie Renfroe of Red Bluff. During the public portion of the contest, the contestants were questioned by retiring Beef Ambassador Bailey Brownfield and Cattlewomen member Kari Dodd who played the role of grocery shoppers. The contestants skillfully answered questions about the production of beef, safety tips for cooking beef, nutritional content of beef and told about their favorite beef recipes. The ambassadors for 2012 gave a farewell presentation about the places and events where they talked about beef and the beef industry. Following their presentation, Beef Ambassador Chairman Carrie Rohr presented each retiring ambassador with scholarship rewards. Brownfield received $1,000.00 and Collins earned $500.00. The contestants will be studying about the beef industry and practicing their speaking skills for the California Beef Ambassador contest which will be April 27 in Chico. Winners of the California Beef Ambassador contest will compete at the national contest.