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Saturday, September 21, 2013 – Daily News 5A Agriculture farm & ranch Beef 'N Brew is here Today is the 4th annual Beef 'N Brew in downtown Red Bluff and Cone Kimball Plaza, starting at 4p.m. with street artisian vendors. Your ticket must be turned in for a wristband inorder to enjoy the tasting of beef appetizers and 66 craft beers between 5 and 8 p.m. Locations will be at Re/Max Top Properties, Knick's Family Fun Zone, Bob's Tires, and Cone Kimball Plaza. The wristband also entitles you to enjoy Chad Bushnell music at the Plaza from 6 to 7 p.m., a Vic Woolery tritip wrap, a cup of Sierra Nevada beer and dancing to Cottonwood Band from 7 to 10 p.m. There is bottled water at the Plaza, with your wristband for those that don't want beer. The event is sponsored by Downtown Red Bluff Business Assn. and Tehama County CattleWomen. Courtesy photos *** Among the local buyPit River Bridge, and the Shasta Dam, in ers at the 39th annual April 1942, taken by Anne Willard McNabb. Tehama Angus Bull Sale Gateway School tions. Because of the were: Curtis & Sue Knox, Vina. From Red began with the opening conditions, people lived Bluff :Antelope Creek of both Toyon and Pro- in tents and bathed in showers. Cattle Co; Hays Ranch, ject City schools for the makeshift Bert Owens, Walt "Dam Kids" and their Crude shanties or leantos were sometimes Brown, White and Son, families. "Did you know Dam built." Quoted from Doug White, Corning; Steve & Peggy Zane, construction was a 24- Shasta Dam Construcoperation tion, 75th Anniversary Paynes Creek; Darrell hour-a-day and Ramsey Wood, where 4700 workers in a special edition. Before we took the seven-year Vina. period worked tour we viewed the Huel A week ear"California from 1938 to Houser lier, local buy1945? Shasta Gold" video when he ers at the 13th Dam and visited the Shasta Dam annual Byrd Hoover dam years ago. Very informaCattle Co. Sale changed the tive and it looked the included: Tyler Western United same today. Martinez, Hays Although I doubt he States. CaliforRanch, Charlie nia, after Shas- had to take off his watch, Ohm of Red ta Dam started empty his pockets, turn Bluff; Tom controlling the on his camera to go Hill, Vina; river flooding, through the security Dave Lester, Jean became the before boarding the large Corning. Both breadbasket for 40 passenger elevator and were excellent the country going 12 stories down to sales. largely because the base of the dam. *** We could keep our of the water Shasta Dam 75th anniversary cele- storage of Shasta Dam. cell phones and digital bration, Sept. 14-21, The official date of the cameras, but no video, 2013, honored the Dam start of construction was flashlight, purses, back packs. workers and the begin- September 21, 1938. We walked through a "Shasta Dam is 883 ning of construction of feet thick at its base and tunnel to get outside and Shasta Dam. I had the opportunity as tall as a 60-story sky- walk over to the powerto accompany Irene scraper. It weighs 30 bil- plant. 5 huge penstocks delivered the water to Fuller, Carol Enos, Gin- lion pounds. "The Dam provides the five generators, 60 ger Hobel, Patti Tompkins, Rosemarie Ham- flood control, water sup- feet tall. They didn't mons to tour Shasta Dam ply for the world's fifth look so large since we on Monday while "The largest economy, creates only saw the top of the Big Idea" Science Fair a massive recreational generator in the seven reservoir and generates story building that runs was being judged. 16 Gateway Unified power to light 700,000 the length of a city School students had dis- dwellings. The Dam is block. Then we had the plays about electricity designed to withstand an generation, water con- 8.5 magnitude earth- opportunity to walk into the diversion tunnel that servation and irrigation, quake. "Living conditions for was used for the train how the dam was built, and the wild life includ- dam workers many times and river. It is 1821 feet ing fish, etc. The City of meant no electricity and long and just west of the Shasta Lake awarded no plumbing. Water powerplant. "Sept. 18, 2013 savings bonds to the came from wells or filled Searchlight, water cans at gas sta- Record winners. Today in History. In Barton All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened Members Welcome 30K, 60K, 90K Stromer Realty SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES Smog Check $ starting at + 25958 $ 25 Specializing in Residential to Ranches certificate (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. 590 Antelope Blvd Red Bluff (530) 527-3100 If you're tired of potholes and dusty roads HOW ABOUT CHIP SEAL! The Affordable Alternative to Asphalt For Private and Community Roads Hourly rates also available on: • Grader • Truck & Transfer • Loaders • Dump Trucks • Grading Tractor • Water Trucks • Backhoe • Oil Truck Family owned & operated since 1975 Lic. #911130 275-2195 1938.The 1800 –foot railroad diversion tunnel under the west abutment of the Shasta Dam had been bored a distance of 200 feet underground. Diesel trucks would give way that weekend to a narrow gauge electric train to haul out the debris, due to the fact that the bore had progressed a distance underground, which makes truck fumes dangerous." I remember the picnics my mother, sister and I would enjoy with my grandparents and the younger aunts and uncles while we watched the progress of the building of the Pit River Bridge and the building of the dam. Grandmother Stone always made chicken salad sandwiches. I don't remember what else we had to eat with those delicious homegrown chicken sandwiches. From our vantage point on the south hill, we could watch the tiny trucks along the river as they built the tall, tall Pit River bridge. There were no tall trees on the hillsides because of the mine fumes from the smelters in the pictures mother took of the huge dam and bridge being built. After our picnic lunch we drove to Digger Bay since a couple of us had never been there. What a crooked, narrow road that had switchbacks up and over the mountain. When we arrived, we saw why the sign said closed. The lake had a 44 feet red dirt ring around the marina inlet. It would have been interesting to attend a tour of the Monolith, site of the massive rock crusher and the start of the 9.6 mile long conveyor belt that carried aggregate to the dam. I always marveled as we drove past the conveyor belt and its steady stream of gravel, because it was nearly ten miles long; and how the little men, you could barely see, could build such a large dam and tall bridge. Tips for farm workers around gas, electric lines SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) urges farm workers to practice safe behavior when working and operating equipment around electric and gas lines as part of National Farm and Safety Health Week, which runs from September 15-21. Overhead power lines and underground gas and electric lines often share space with farms and orchards. Serious and even fatal accidents can occur when workers and the equipment they operate make contact with these utility lines. To help farm workers safely work around electric and gas facilities, PG&E offers six specific safety tips: LOOK UP! Always look up for overhead power lines before beginning any activity. Follow 10-foot rule. Keep everything—you, the tools and materials you are handling, and the equipment you are operating—as far away as possible from all overhead power lines and never come closer than 10 feet. Any contact with wires by branches, pipe or equipment can be fatal. Higher voltage lines require greater distances. If you are uncertain of the voltage and clearance requirement for a power line, remain at least 20 feet away or call PG&E for assistance. (Click here to watch a Currents video on PG&E's electric safety demo board.) Call 811 before you dig. Always know what's below before digging in the ground or you run the risk of breaking an underground gas or electric line. Every three minutes nationwide, an underground utility line is damaged during a digging project. For all projects big and small, call 811 at least two business days before you dig to have professional locators mark the approximate locations of underground lines with flags, chalk-based spray paint or both. In addition, landowners with easements on their property may not recall the details of their land use agreement with PG&E. Property owners can contact PG&E's Land Management Department at 877-259-8314 and also view the general location of our transmission pipelines on our online map (www.pge.com/pipelinelocations). If you make any kind of contact with electric or gas lines, always call PG&E at 1-800-743-5000, and stay away from damaged equipment until help arrives. Even if you don't bring a structure or wire down, you might have weakened the structure or created a hazardous situation. Irrigate with care. Do not spray water on overhead power lines, electrical equipment or electrical structures. Doing so can damage equipment, and a stream of water hitting a power line can create a path for electricity to travel back to you. Use caution when moving equipment. Never stand an irrigation pipe on its end near a power line. Always lower grain augers and other crop handling and tillage equipment before moving them anywhere near power lines. Never store materials directly underneath or adjacent to power lines. 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