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2A Daily News – Friday, May 24, 2013 Community people&events Tri-County Sams travel to Aurora RV Park in Nice The Tri-County Sams Chapter of the Good Sam Club held their May Campout at the Aurora RV Park in Nice with eight rigs in attendance. The Shasta Cascaders and our State Assistant Director, Cary and Virginia Freeman were also camped at the RV Park. On Thursday everyone went on their own to the RV Park; with several of them driving around enjoying the sights. Thursday night Retta and Ed Pereira had guests from McKinleyville for a barbecue. Saturday Pearl and Bob Divine visited a relative in Lakeport and Barbara Huggins granddaughter and great grandchildren visited with her and Hank at the Park. Friday night most of the group went to the casino for dinner. Saturday morning the group had its Meet and Greet with the Shasta Cascaders and had a good time visiting and getting to know their members. Saturday evening the group had its hamburger and hot dog barbecue and potluck with Ward Campbell of Red Bluff as our Trail Boss. Ward decorated the tables with red table clothes, baskets of spring flowers and cups of candy. After our Potluck, Ward also presented each woman with two long stem roses for Mother's Day. Cary and Virginia Freeman, State Assistant Director, attended our meeting and explained the changes Good Sam has made since they joined with Camping World. After the meeting, Lisa and Richard Sol served Ice Cream Sundaes to everyone. Our June 6-8 campout will be held at Hat Creek Rancheria with Ed and Joyce Barnes as Trail Bosses. It will be our Chicken Barbecue Potluck. Some of the group will meet for breakfast on Thursday morning at the Cozy Diner in Red Bluff and travel together to the campground. Anyone owning a self-contained RV that would like to go on monthly campouts with a great small group of campers is encouraged to call Wagon Master Lisa Sol at 385-1344 or President Richard Sol at 200-7403. How to submit items Community news may be submitted to the Daily News at clerk@redbluffdailynews.com. 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. Is it really that bad? Spoiler alert: This seemingly negative rant has an upbeat ending. Don't think I've driven off the grumpy cliff until you reach the conclusion. Having stated that, I am so very sick of fog, grey skies, cold wind, and dampness. Last week, I was speaking in Eastern Washington. One evening, my lovely wife and I walked to a restaurant. You know what? We didn't have to wear a jacket, and no, we weren't shivering, not a twitch! Nope, just a nice leisurely stroll; holding hands, wearing shorts and donned in short sleeves no less. The temperature was 75, the sky was postcard blue, a light breeze caressed our skin and in the distance, the setting sun was beginning to cast the most beautiful bloodorange red pattern behind marshmallow clouds. Where I live, even in the spring, so much of the time you cannot go outside at night (let alone during the day) unless you're wearing a parka, gloves, wool cap, and scarf. (Okay, that's a slight exaggeration – but not much.) It would be so wonderfully enjoyable to relax on our deck during the evening and not shiver. Like I said, I grow weary of dreary. And now that I've got my cranky pants yanked snug, I've also grown tired of people throwing garbage on my property during the wee hours. Many mornings I come outside for the first time (wearing parka, glove, day, you're going about your business and – BAM! – Mother and wool cap) and find Nature flicks her tiny finger discarded on my lawn is and everything you know is someone else's trash. It literally up-ended, could be a fast-food bag destroyed, wiped out, gone. or a soda bottle. Once I I observe, mouth agape, found soiled diapers. Are as folks just like me pick you kidding me? I don't through the ruins of what get such self-centered was once their house, mentality. Are there expressions zombie-like, herds of self-absorbed unable to accept the peroblivious garbage sonal horror now conautomatons who amble fronting them. I desperatethe dark hours randomly tossing crap on other Scott Q. ly want to help, yet except for prayer, good thoughts, people's property? I and a measly donation to mean, how hard is it to the Red Cross, I am powerwalk the extra five feet less to assist them. and put it in our garbage There, but for the grace of God, can? I give you my permission. I want my yard to look nice; this isn't go I. In moments like these, I am helping – and I get grumpy about it. What can I say? I get irritable. It reminded of what really matters. I comes at me out of nowhere and I am very thankful to throw away indulge my inner curmudgeon; as garbage from the lawn in front of do my friends (which is probably my still-erect house, take my wife's why we're friends). We get into the hand, bundle up in a jacket, and most delicious "ain't it awful" ses- walk shivering into the fog. sions, lamenting about how differScott "Q" Marcus is the CRP ent the world would be if we ran it. (Chief Recovering Perfectionist) But we don't. 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