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2A Daily News ��� Thursday, April 11, 2013 Community people&events K-9 handler receives medal Getting down and dirty By MILLIE ZINK Special to the DN Vigilant Canine Services International LLC, one of the K-9 handlers from the VCSi Kandahar detachment, recently received a great honor from the Slovakian Army. This honor came in the form of a "Commemorative Medal for participation in the military Operation Afghanistan.��� The medal was presented on a farewell parade for the Slovakian detachment recently in Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. The medal was awarded to the VCSi K-9 handler for his outstanding contribution to security operations whilst working with the Slovakian soldiers as part of ISAF. The handler said he was very proud to receive the medal from the Slovakian contingent, on behalf of all the VCSi K9 handlers he works with here on KAF. VCSi is very proud of this handler as well. The company appreciates the contribution and sacrifice of all of its K-9 handlers supporting operations in forward locations like Iraq and Afghanistan. VCSi handlers and their dogs work to protect the lives of military personnel and promote the work of freedom around the world. For more information about VCSi, call Shaun Hoover at (530) 517-1771 or send an email to shoover@vcsik9.com. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 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. DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY If you haven���t stood grumbling in front of the sink while you try to get the dirt out from under your fingernails you are not a down-to earth gardener. Sure, we all start out with gloves on, especially when we���re pruning roses. Much good they do ��� half an hour later and you have little rivers of blood running down your arms. And about ten minutes after you start either potting or repotting the gloves are gone they���re just not thin enough for the more delicate trimming of dead leaves, etc. When it comes to soil almost everyone I know has a tale of woe and tribulation. When anyone asks me what type of soil I have I tell them ���red clay with rocks���, which is the literal truth. Now that red clay is fertile, sure, but if you can���t get it loosened up a lot you���re going to have a struggle, particularly with your veggie garden. Everybody has their favorite remedy for their soil problem and I say whatever works, do it. I can���t tell you how many bags of soil amendment and fertilizer I have put in my veggie garden over the years, and they have done a fairly good job. I do love a home grown tomato and the other salad ingredients like radishes, lettuce, green peppers. Speaking of salad components, a couple of years ago I got into the idea of raised beds, which would warm up sooner in the Spring. So I had a raised bed put together and at first used it only for lettuces and mesclun. If you���re not familiar with it, it is a great mixture for salads of many miniature lettuces and I don���t know what else. They will stay Courtesy photo Sophia was being choked by Sensei Jeremy Rowley so she has learned to use several techniques, including this wrist turning technique, at the Police Activities League Martial Arts Center for Excellence, located at 1005 Vista Way, Suite C, next to the airport. Classes are held every Wednesday 5:30-6:30 p.m. and have been on-going since January. The classes are always free to anyone who feels threatened or vulnerable to violence. The PAL Youth Martial Arts program was created in 1998 and has always been about self defense against violence, including against bullies. The program also includes how to use "verbal judo." For information either call the instructor at 840-0345 or visit www.end-bully.com. PAL's phone number is 529-7950 and website is www.tehamaso.org. PAL provides service for free and as a public service. Worker stressed about frat house office Dear Annie: I work for a employees refuse to lift a small family-owned compa- finger because they feel the ny, and there are fewer than person being paid to do the HOW TO REACH US cleaning is solely 10 employees. responsible. There is no office On the Web: I understand both cleaning service. www.redbluffdailynews.com sides, but at the end For years, one of of the day, nothing is the employees has MAIN OFFICE: NEWS being done. I get Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. News Tip Hotline: 527-2153 been compensated mad at myself and at for cleaning the Main Phone (530) 527-2151 FAX: (530) 527-9251 the person responsibuilding after Outside area (800) 479-6397 E-mail: clerk@redbluffdailynews.com hours. This person ble every time I give 545 Diamond Ave. Daytime: (530) 527-2151 was recently pro- Annie���s in and clean up, but Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Sports: Ext. 111 moted, but continotherwise, the office is unpleasant and Ext. 101 ues to be in charge Mail: Red Bluff Daily News Obituaries: of the cleaning. by Kathy Mitchell looks unprofessionP.O. Box 220 After hours: (530) 527-2153 Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ That���s the problem. and Marcy Sugar al. We have clients in daily, and some For months now, Fax: (530) 527-5774 ______________________ ADVERTISING DEPT. the office has looked like a have commented on the Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. CUSTOMER SERVICE Display: (530) 527-2151 fraternity house. The trash is condition of the office. This overflowing, dust is piling has caused me undue stress, DEPARTMENT: Ext. 122 up, and dishes are left in the but it doesn���t seem to bothSubscription & delivery Online (530) 527-2151 sink for a week or more. er the other employees, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Ext. 133 The rumor mill has it that especially not the one who (530) 527-2151, Ext. 126 FAX: (530) 527-5774 the promotion didn���t come is supposedly cleaning. Home delivery We don���t have a human E-mail: advertise@redbluffdailynews.com with a large enough raise, so subscription rates this person is now doing the resources department, and I (All prices include all applicable taxes) bare minimum of cleaning definitely can���t go to the CLASSIFIED: Tuesday through Saturday $3.02 per week 1-855-667-2255 out of spite. The other person who is supposed to VOLUME 128, NUMBER 98 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. 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 The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with the Cascade District Garden Club, California Garden Clubs, Inc., Pacific Region Garden Club and National Garden Clubs, Inc. Women's self defense training offered THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 Business & professional rate $2.19 four weeks, Tuesday-Friday small. You can take your knife or scissors and just walk out to your raised bed to whack off enough for a dinner salad. It will promptly grow back. The lettuces and the mesclun do very nicely in the raised bed. I did have one lettuce last year that didn���t bolt but I don���t know which it was of the four I planted in the raised bed. After that first year I started experimenting to see what would do well in the raised bed and found that a lot of veggies like it: kale, radishes, swiss chard among them. So if you feel like experimenting it can be exciting. Whatever you do, get out there and get some dirt under your fingernails. 90 years clean, because he is now my supervisor. Help! ��� Dirty Mess in South Carolina Dear Dirty Mess: Surely your supervisor has a boss. That is the person you need to speak to. You don���t have to speculate on the reasons why the cleaning is not being done. Simply say the office is getting messy, clients have noticed, and you think the company might need additional help to clean up after hours. If they do nothing, your decision then is whether to let it pile up, continue picking up after everyone else or find another job. Dear Annie: I believe it is cruel and unusual punishment for department stores, groceries, etc. to force their employees to stand up at all times. These employees are often elderly and need to work due to their financial situation. What is wrong with placing a hip-high stool at each cash register where employees can at least park their rear ends while not busy? I believe employees would be more productive and lose less work due to backaches and sore feet. If managers were forced to stand on their feet for eight hours a day, I believe stools would be brought in by the thousands. ��� Germantown, Tenn. Dear Germantown: We agree that standing on one���s feet all day can be debilitating, even with occasional breaks. We hope managers are reading this and paying attention. Thanks for your concern. SCHOOL PHYSICALS ARE YOUR CHILD���S IMMUNIZATIONS UP-TO-DATE? ago... Two Arrested For Alleged Violations Of The Dry Laws The local police last night arrested Nels Stewart and M. Stofer of Cottonwood for alleged violation of prohibition laws. The officers said the two men drove up in front of a local store and appeared to be in an intoxicated condition. They were warned, the police declared, not to be disorderly but paid no heed to the warning. ��� April 11, 1923 Lassen Medical Is Offering Saturday Walk In Clinics For School and/or Sport Physicals Saturday th April 13 July 20th May 4th August 10th June 29th 9AM-1PM DON���T FORGET PHYSICAL FORMS AND IMMUNIZATIONS RECORD. Accepting Most Insurances Including M-Cal & CHDP www.lassenmedical.com 2450 Sister Mary Columba Drive (530) 527-0414