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6A Daily News – Friday, August 30, 2013 Opinion 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. Floral design luncheons Editor: For as long as I can remember Red Bluff Garden Club has hosted a Floral Design Luncheon. Admittedly, I have only been in Garden Club 16 years; Mary Carmichael, Joie Raymond and Fran Galantine can tell you older stories. Admittedly, our Design Luncheons have changed over the years — from spring to fall and from the Elks Lodge, the Community Center, the Fairgrounds, back to the Elks Lodge and for the last 6-7 years at Rolling Hills Casino in Coming. Our Designers have changed, we've had the talented creative Kate Gleim of House of Design for the past 3-4 years, in 2002 we had the quirky and crazy team of Shane Looper and Mary Crowell from the South Bay Area, 2010 we had the exotic mysterious Josifa Casey, the earthy Denis Kelley Plant Barn owner, and many others. Kate Gleim we've enjoyed and learned from year after year. Our themes have changed: 2002 Lunch In The Vineyard, 2010 Masquerade, last year's Bewitching Affair and this year our An Elegant Garden Party — I hope you are wearing your hat. Our fundraisers within this fundraiser have evolved. Today's vendors, raffles and silent auction are a far-cry from past years. Our vendors are more diverse than ever — we have the Plant Barn from Chico, Sterling Silver Jewelry, Natural Soy Candles, Red Bluff Flower Boutique, Sassy, Classy Boutique, Everything Nostalgic, Sparkle Plenty, Tangled Topiary, Martin's Gardens, Elder Creek Painted Rocks and, of course, Kate Gleim's House of Design. Our food has changed—from potluck food and salad recipes from our "Tastefully Done" Cookbook, cooked up by our multi-talented members to the know how to spell my name gourmet fare prepared by the correctly. It has been in this Rolling Hills Casino Chef paper enough times. Hobart. As far as driving under the Through all these years our influence of pot, alcohol or anypurpose has never changed — thing else, sure they lead to to raise funds so the Red Bluff accidents but the pot smokers I Garden Club can conknew had enough tinue to serve Red sense to stay off the Your Bluff, Los Molinos, road while or after Tehama and Coming. having a joint. We must thank our And as far as the members for their wounds inflicted by dedication to the garden club, automatic weapons, our brain our designers for adding their dead politicians are as much at talents to our luncheon pro- fault with that as the pot itself. grams and to our guests for Alcohol prohibition caused a spending their time and money lot of deaths from too much lead with us. in the system back in the roaring Thank you all. Tickets for the twenties. the 2013 gala are available at As demonstrated by Jack the House of Design, Plant Barn Lalanne's example, when you in Chico or call 527-9403. eat right and get the right kind Kathy Bramhall, Red Bluff of exercise your dependency on the medical profession drops tremendously. I say again, unadulterated Editor: cannabis has never caused one First of all I would imagine single death or injury. someone as brilliant as Mr. Neff Orval Strong, Gerber purports himself to be, would Turn Safety of pot 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. Mission Statement We believe that a strong community newspaper is essential to a strong community, creating citizens who are better informed and more involved. 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Box 220 Red Bluff, CA 96080 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 The laws delay J. Harrop is correct when he addresses the City Council on their shortcomings. The idea of setting matters of water quality aside while awaiting a quorum is absurd. The council is made up of 5 members. This is designed to break a tie when voting. However, there are remedies for not having all 5 together at voting time. One would be for a member, who was going to be out of town, to give his proxy vote to a trusted colleague. The other would be the City Attorney to cast a deciding vote. A third possibility would be to call me for my vote. It is true I do not live within the city limits, but that is just a technicality. Delays, regarding matters of importance, are intolerable. Remember W. Shakespeare's remark on the subject? "The laws delay, the insult of office ..."? Tsk, tsk. *** In last Saturday's column by C. Barber, she mentioned the staff of the Red Bluff High School newspaper, "The Bluffer." This brought back many fond memories of the paper of the late 1940s and of teacher Mary Brooks who encouraged many of us to write for that venue. Carolyn did have one typo regarding the staff. One such was Delores "Soares" whose name came out as "Scares." Delores, who had the endearing nickname of "Dodo" was a member of the group with whom we hung out during those halcyon years. Her father was Joe Soares, manager of the Blue Ribbon Café and bar. And what do I remember of Dodo? Well, she was full of fun, a good dancer, married football star Mel Silva (who was nicknamed "Flypaper"), and solemnly advised me that a person should always get their new shoes shined by a bootblack, which would protect them from the elements. I asked her who told her that and she said it was, indeed, a bootblack. I thought this self serving of the fellow, but she saw it as gospel. Funny how one remembers such trivia after 70 years. *** "Media" is plural, right? And yet this line from TIME appears awkward at best: "Media consumption habits evolve much faster than old media do." *** K. Bonner phoned to comment on the larger than Mourning Dove called the Eurasian Collared Dove. I said, yes, aren't they charming? I hear them out in Antelope cooing their little heads off. She says no, vice (AMS) needs to implement a number they are a pest and they litter the area out of actions to ensure the accuracy and precinear Bidwell School and something should sion of electronic grading instruments used in the application of official beef grades." be done about them. When we had the meat I called Tehama County plant in the old days, the Biologist, S. Gill with the USDA supplied a Federal Dept. of Fish and Game for Meat Grader to grade beef the lowdown on these carcass. Employing such a birds. He says they were fellow on a morning that imported into Florida many he got up on the wrong years ago as a caged bird, side of the bed could make but eventually escaped, the difference in profit on migrated to California and any particular day. If he are now working their way was feeling out of sorts, we into Oregon. He said they could call in his supervisor are now recognized as a Robert to get him back on track, game bird and can be huntBut either way it could be ed during the Mourning a costly situation. But now, Dove season, but, as far as with "electronic grading," he knew, there was no limit the packers will have one on the number of Eurasian less problem to deal with. Collards that can be shot. *** Not much of a story... but what I learn, I Last week's quiz was first answered by share. L. Lazar who knew that the only two Presi*** D. Polson, in a thousand words or so this dents whose last name begin and end with Tuesday, made quite clear his opposition to the same letter would be Nixon and Taft, same sex marriage. He is vexed that even and that the four Presidents whose first and though voters in California, by a 3 to 1 mar- last names were alliterative were Ronald gin, voted in favor of Proposition 8, which Reagan, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover forbade same sex marriage, the Supreme and Calvin Coolidge...and that the color of Court's recent decision, in effect, sanc- the shirt I was wearing last Friday was pink tioned it. However, as he often points out, it because I hinted that I would be feeling is his "God given right" to voice his opin- resilient, even rugged. This she deduced ion, I suspect that if he had a child who, from the popular expression "Tough enough later in life, demonstrated a same sex pro- to wear pink." This week's quiz: Name three pairs of clivity, it might influence his stance on the matter. With that in mind, Don, please write Presidents who share their first and last inia column relating to this possibility and tials, and four Presidents whose last names would you continue to love and support become common words when un-capitalyour offspring. Should make for good read- ized. *** ing. The ship was sinking. The captain called *** A heartfelt letter to the editor in the DN the passengers and crew together and asked, from T. Vallier attributing his rehab and "Is there anyone here who can pray?" One recovery to the work of the Lord, was some- passenger replied, "I pray all the time". what negated by his last sentences reading "That's terrific", said the captain, "because "Ask God for it. He'll answer. And prey for we're short one life preserver." me." Perhaps "pray" would get better Robert Minch is a lifelong resident of results. Red Bluff, former columnist for the *** From a Meat Industry Newsletter: Corning Daily Observer and Meat "According to a recently released audit Industry magazine and author of the report from the USDA's Office of Inspector "The Knocking Pen." He can be reached General, the Agricultural Marketing Ser- at rminchandmurray@hotmail.com. Minch I Say