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6A Daily News – Friday, June 28, 2013 Opinion Fireworks DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Greg Stevens, Publisher gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Chip Thompson, Editor editor@redbluffdailynews.com Editorial policy The Daily News opinion is expressed in the editorial. The opinions expressed in columns, letters and cartoons are those of the authors and artists. Letter policy The Daily News welcomes letters from its readers on timely topics of public interest. All letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and cannot exceed two double-spaced pages or 500 words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section of those submitted will be considered for publication. Letters will be edited. Letters are published at the discretion of the editor. 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Presently, The Tehama County Fireworks Committee, which is comprised of a handful of volunteers and spearheaded by Founder Shannon Nason, has raised enough funds to put on a 10-minute show this year, since being organized last October and sponsored as a non-profit committee under the American Legion Raisner Post No. 45, out of Corning, after Shannon decided to do whatever needed to be done to save the local fireworks show and bring back the community's celebration of being free, American, and proud of our heritage, for the Veterans, elderly, families, and young people to again appreciate and enjoy, without having to leave the county. Thanks to the hard (and hot!) work of the volun- teers and to the community members who have donated their time to help raise funds and for donating money and raffle items, this year's show will be displayed from the Elks Lodge side of the Sacramento River, starting around 9:30 p.m. on July 4. A strong effort is being made in the brief time remaining to lengthen this year's display by at least another five minutes. Past shows have run 20 to 25 minutes, but due to the high cost of liability insurance to protect the community from lawsuit opportunists, after setup expenses, it costs $1,000 per minute for the fireworks. Fireworks Committee Members are also selling 70/30 Golden Raffle Tickets, with the drawing to be held at 8:30 p.m. on July 4 at the Red Bluff River Park. There will be three Grand Prize winners of 10 percent each of the total money donated from the sale of these raffle tickets and the winners need not be present to receive their prizes. Since every penny and dol- blue paper flag to be flown in lar is greatly welcomed and the breeze and hearing the used towards the Tehama comments of local and out-ofCounty Fourth of July Fire- town folks that they are donating even through they works display, may not be able to efforts will continue Your see this year's show year 'round to collect so that it can be more community saved, has been very support and funds for heart warming and the annual shows. wet with tear welling. While it is realized that we are all recovering So, please participate in some from the latest major reces- good feelings and wonderful sion and that our community times by joining in on the firestill has services and pro- works fundraising events grams, such as the Red Bluff throughout the year, taking City Pool, the county fair- your recyclables to the Big grounds, the local police and Foot Recycling centers to fire departments, mental donate the proceeds to the health care, and the schools, fireworks account there, and that need our support and by checking out the Facebook at funding, it is only through the Page efforts of our community that facebook.com/Tehamafirethe finer enjoyments and cele- works to find out more about bratory memories will be how you can help save the available for us and our fellow Tehama County Fourth of July mankind. Seeing the young Fireworks display this year children going to their adult to and, hopefully for many more ask for a dollar to donate to years to come! D J Gordy, Red Bluff the fireworks fundraising so that they can put their name or message on a red, white, or Turn Your officials STATE ASSEMBLYMAN — Dan Logue, 1550 Humboldt Road, Ste. 4, Chico, CA 95928, 530-895-4217 STATE SENATOR — Jim Nielsen, 2635 Forest Ave., Ste. 110, Chico, CA 95928, (530) 879-7424, senator.nielsen@senate.ca.gov GOVERNOR — Jerry Brown, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2841; Fax (916) 5583160; E-mail: governor@governor.ca.gov. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE — Doug LaMalfa 506 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, 202-2253076. U.S. SENATORS — Dianne Feinstein (D), One Post Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 393-0707. Fax (415) 3930710. Barbara Boxer (D), 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94111; (510) 286-8537. Fax (202) 224-0454. Commentary Dog gone it! We had, in the pet vernacular, an "accident" sometime early Monday last. We had turned off the telly for the evening and Murray Clyde had been roused from his dog bed in the front room. He was ushered out the front door to his dogaloo only to remain slouched against the narrow vertical window next to the front door. This is his signal that he is not ready for bed...or that he has heard the rumble of distant thunder. Despite his size, he is afraid of thunder, and so, as is our custom, we let him back in to spend the night. If he has a call of nature, he puts a mighty paw against our bedroom door and scratches it a couple of times. We then put him out for the rest of the night. Sunday night however, with noise from the wind outside, we thought we might have heard him but checked, and, as he was not in the hall, we assumed it was a false alarm. Unfortunately his pawing went unanswered and, in desperation, he "went" on the floor in a guest bedroom. As he is a very big dog, he went very big in several locations. I discovered this Monday morning and spent a half an hour cleaning up the remains of his day. Then we had a talk. "You made quite a mess." "I scratched on the door," he replied. "Apparently you've become hard of hearing in your old age." "That may be, but next time can't you knock louder?" "One cannot 'knock' with a paw." "Can you not 'paw' louder then?" "I will do my best. However, I am sorry for the mess." "The big mess, you mean." "Whatever, a mess is a mess...Gertrude Stein?" "Actually this was the first time in 8 years you can be forgiven. But promise that if we leave you in at night, this will not happen again." "Very well, but next time I want to go out I will force the door open and put my hot breath in your face." "No...just a firm pawing on the door should do the trick." A clean up after a big dog accident is the only downside to having a large pet. That and his placing the blame on his hapless owner. *** The tip off when someone sends you an e mail notifying you that you have won money or some such scam…is that they address themselves as "Mr." or "Mrs.". You would think they would wise up by now that Americans seldom if ever refer to one another as "Mr." or "Mrs." But you know that. *** A downer for baseball filberts is watching the Giants bull pen take over from the starting pitcher in a close game…and then give away the farm via home runs by the visiting team. I guess we believe everything we hear in the pre-season hype of how our rotation is the same as last year when we won the World Series. Uh huh. *** Last week's quiz was once again apparently too easy. R. Ramsey came in first followed by the usual suspects who all knew that the names Einstein and Feinstein are in violation of the "i" before "e" rule, that of the written numbers one through twelve, only "ten" makes a word, "net" in reverse, and "four" represents the number of letters equal to its value...and "eleven" is the only word that is the longest with alternating vowels and consonants. This week's harder quiz: If you start counting "one, two, three, four and so on, what vowel will you not use until you get to what number? everything possible for him" or words to that effect. Of course they *** There were few "people of are. This goes without saying, of course. But color" in Tehama have you ever County in the old heard it othdays, and yet local erwise? "His author Grace Alice doctors have Brambley Jackson given up has just published a hope, feel book titled "Black that prolongPioneers in Tehama ing his life is County History" a waste of that is quite an eye time and opener indicating, money...and for one thing, the Robert have decided existence of the to play a African Methodist round of golf Episcopal Church in his on Crittenden dedihonor?" Not cated in 1877. If you likely. desire a copy, you *** might contact her at A boy of seven spent a lot of the Tehama County Library where she is a volunteer in the Depository. time cursing. He looked at his breakfast and called it "crap." His *** The search for the remains of mother told him to do a chore and Jimmy Hoffa has become farci- he said, "That's just a pain in the cal…and can't you see some of the ass!" With that his mother explodmafia types sitting on bar stools ed, handed him a suitcase and told discussing the latest dig by the him to leave the house...and she didn't care where. The kid packed feds? "Whata you been doing his bag and headed out the door. After an hour or two his mother Louie?" "Nuttin'much. Sent the feds on became concerned and decided to another wild goose chase. Those go looking for him only to find him guys never seem to learn that on the front porch. Startled she nobody is gonna rat on Jimmy, yelled, "I thought I told you to go because of your constant cursing." dead or alive." The kid answered, "Well, "Yeah, I hear he's had a face lift, change of identity…and is gonna yeah...but where the hell can I go?" run for congress." "Good for Jimmy. If he can get those boys on the hill in line like he Robert Minch is a lifelong did the Teamsters Union, they might get something done for a resident of Red Bluff, former columnist for the Corning Daily change." Observer and Meat Industry *** As of this writing, the much magazine and author of the "The admired Nelson Mandela is still Knocking Pen." He can be reached t alive but in critical condition. It is a reported that "his doctors are doing rminchandmurray@hotmail.com. Minch I Say