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Friday, October 11, 2013 – Daily News 3A Community people&events Time to take a stand Oktoberfest planned Red Bluff Emblem club will be celebrating the season with an Oktoberfest Friday, Oct. 18, at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge, 350 Gilmore Road. Festivities start at 6 p.m. Menu includes beef with a bacon, onion and wine sauce, German sausage, sauerkraut, red cabbage, creamed potatoes, roasted vegetables, apple and corn salads, along with specialty breads and apple cake. Proceeds go to the club's community charities. Winter hours at market Happy birthday Frontier Village Farmers Market. New winter hours start Nov. 2 for the first full yearround market. The market will be open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday, rain or shine. New activities include Winter Soup on Nov. 9. The market will also offer a Christmas boutique, complete with gift wrapping, hot chocolate, coffee, cider and baked goods on Dec. 7. Society to meet The Tehama County Society for Crippled Children and Adults will elect officers at its annual meeting at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge, 350 Gilmore Road. For about 60 years, the society has provided help to children needing assistance for needs not covered by government or other organizations. Typically they are emergency funds or transportation to specialized treatment. 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 to be scanned. 90 years I hope you're sitting down when you read this; it's quite alarming. Hmmm, actually, I hope you're not. Most of us have sedentary lifestyles. In many cases, rocks move more than us. I say this neither to induce shame nor guilt, but because – well, that's just the way it is. Unless you're an athlete or you have a job that's got you on your feet all day long, a 2008 report showed that the average American spends about 7.7 hours per day plopped on an ever-expanding tushie. An Australian study says, "The average adult spends 50 to 70 percent of their time sitting;" a majority of his or her life. It's not difficult to get there. Consider an office job, relaxing in front of the TV, sitting at the dinner table, reading a book, driving to work, watching DVDs, going to the movies, playing video games; the list goes on. I mean, if we used our feet half as much as we used our behinds, we'd have shapely legs and firm butts; which sure as heck wouldn't be a bad thing. With the exception of walking my dog, conducting meetings, or going to Zumba, I spend most of my day in front of a computer screen. For goodness sakes, I'm doing it right now writing this piece. You might not be a computer jockey like me but I bet your life is similar. What's alarming is that recent research is showing that type of lifestyle can be as unhealthy as smoking. Want to know the details? (Actual- ly, you don't; but I'm going to tell you dumped on the couch has the same anyway.) The first thing that happens effect physically as staring at the flatscreen. It's the lack of from sitting is that electrical movement causing the activity in our legs shuts problem. down and the caloric burn The good news is that it rate plummets to about one doesn't take a lot to miniper minute. (Putting that in mize these dangers. We perspective, someone weighdon't need to run ing 160 pounds, taking a marathons nor jog in place leisurely stroll, will burn during family dinners. three to five times that much.) Standing — just being Of course, this increases the vertical — for only five odds of weight gain. minutes an hour really Within two weeks of helps; which, when you extended sitting, we observe Scott Q. think about it, isn't diffisignificant upticks in triglyccult. erides and "bad cholesterol" When the phone rings, (LDL). Adding insult to get up. During commerinjury, insulin effectiveness decreases, upping the odds of type two cials, rise. Set a timer on your comdiabetes. After a year, the average puter to go off every hour, and during woman starts losing about one percent that time, walk around the office. of her bone mass annually, increasing There are countless small steps (pun the likelihood of fractures and breaks. intended) that we can do to be healthSurprisingly to me was that, after ier, without having to totally rearrange about a decade, the odds of breast or our lives. But the first thing is to take a stand prostrate cancer climbs by almost onefor better health. third. From sitting? Really? According to the same study, every Scott "Q" Marcus is the CRP single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces life expectancy (Chief Recovering Perfectionist) of by 21.8 minutes. (By comparison, www.ThisTimeIMeanIt.com and of according to the authors, a cigarette founder reduces life expectancy by 11 min- www.21DayHabitChange.com, guaranteed to help you change a utes.) Don't get me wrong; I'm not one of habit in just 3 weeks. He is those folks with a bumper sticker pro- available for coaching and at 707.442.6243, claiming, "Kill your TV;" I loved my speaking or Breaking Bad as much as anyone. scottq@scottqmarcus.com Besides, reading Hunger Games while facebook.com/ThisTimeIMeanIt. Marcus Center develops food share garden plot ago... Three trainmen and mail clerk instantly killed Four trainmen were killed and the baggage and express cars were wrecked in a hold up of train number 13 in Tunnell No. 13 at 12:30 this afternoon. Engineer S. L. 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"Being part of the Tehama County Food Share Project was something new for us, and we are thrilled that we have been able to provide hundreds of pounds of fresh produce to organizations that feed the hungry on a daily basis." The SRDC hopes to mation is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff's Department, Corning Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Arrests • Felix Ibarraalvarado, 46 and William Allen Rich, 63, both of Igo were arrested on southbound Interstate 5 at Riverside for felony possession of marijuana for sale and selling marijuana. Bail for each was $60,000. CLASSIFIED: 1-855-667-2255 SPECIAL PAGES ON THE FOLLOWING DAYS Tuesdays: 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 The Sacramento River Discovery Center was the recipient of financial support from a Scotts MiracleGro Grassroots Grant. The funds enabled an area to be developed to grow cherry tomatoes, melons, green beans and winter squash that were shared with organizations that feed Tehama County residents with food needs. Red Bluff residents are the primary beneficiaries of this produce. The seeds were purchased with grant funds and were grown in the SRDC greenhouse using ScottsMiracle Gro moisture control soil and Miracle Gro products. The grant funds also purchased materials needed to cultivate a new garden area and provide irrigation to water the plants. "We were very pleased to be one of 100 organizations across the US to receive these funds from GRO1000 Grassroots Grant," said Bobie Hughes, volunteer executive direc- Circulation Manager: Kathy Hogan khogan@redbluffdailynews.com Production Manager: Sandy Valdivia sandy@redbluffdailynews.com LASSEN MEDICAL FLU SHOT CLINICS Red Bluff Location October 26th • 9am-1pm November 9th • 9am-1pm 2450 Sister Mary Columba Drive Red Bluff, Ca 96080 527-0414 Lassenmedical.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 www.lassenmedial.com expand the area under cultivation for 2014, and hopes to receive additional financial support to accomplish this goal, Hughes said. To view this part of the Discovery Garden you can have a tour on the Native Plant Sale Day, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 2. To learn more about the Theft • A water heater was reportedly taken from a bank-owned property on the 15000 block of North Mendocino Drive. Vandalism • A resident on the garden in Red Bluff, visit srdc.tehama.k12.ca.us, or visit the Center, 1000 Sale Lane, within the Mendocino National Forest's Red Bluff Recreation Area, call 530-527-1196 or e-mail bhughe1@tehamaed.org. The center hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. 22000 block of Oak View Drive returned home to find a lock on their gate had been cut off and their dog was loose. The dog was later found. • Graffiti was reported at the Paskenta Neighborhood Store. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc.