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2B Daily News – Wednesday, November 20, 2013 FEATURES November update from the Tehama County Library Halloween at the library was need for finding perfect holiday fun. On Wednesday before the recipes or building the best Christhallowed eve, children at the Red mas displays or even planning the Bluff branch who attended story perfect vacation for after the holiday season. Check out hour were arrayed in all the new travel books colorful costumes that in our Red Bluff referranged from lovely ence section. (fairies and princesses) Things happening to fantastic (a snow right now and in the white unicorn) with all very near future in Red kinds of sweetness in Bluff are promising. between. The little piece First 5, in partnership of walking candy corn with the Tehama Councomes to mind. The ty Friends of the small ones heard HalLibrary, have each loween stories, played helped with the cost of spooky bingo, created providing books and creepy crafts, paraded in Sally bags for every child their finery through the who attends the stacks accompanied by Wednesday morning every percussion instrument imaginable, and topped off story hour. Each time a child the morning with cookies. On the attends, his or her card will be actual day of Halloween in the big punched and after 10 punches the library and in the branches, the little one will receive a free book librarians and volunteers were to take home. What a wonderful costumed as were many of the gift for the very young ones to patrons and everybody got their build pride and confidence in their choices and accomplishments. share of candy. You'll want to get your children Now cold November winds have blown away the heat of the in grades 1 through 4 on board the valley's summer but they herald Imagination Train running every the start of the joyous and warm Thursday afternoon from 4-5 p.m. holiday season to come. Before in the library conference room. It long, Thanksgiving and Christmas started October 31 but there's decorations will be on display plenty of time because the Imagialong with all the books you'll nation Train will run through the Ainsworth Hemorhoid relief from simple strategies and eat it at DEAR DOCbreakfast or TOR K: What are lunch. This some self-help allows stool to strategies to treat slide by more eashemorrhoids? ily. DEAR READ— Strain less. ER: Hemorrhoids Don't sit or strain are a common but on the toilet for painful and uncomfortable Dr. K long periods of time. This can problem. Fortuby Anthony L. nately, simple Komaroff, M.D. cause more hemorrhoids and measures can ease most hemorrhoid discom- worsen symptoms. Don't delay bowel fort and help them heal. Hemorrhoids are movements during flareswollen veins. Veins ups. Putting off bowel carry blood back to the movements can worsen heart. Hemorrhoids can constipation, aggravating Elevate develop in the anus and hemorrhoids. the rectum, just inside the your feet with a step-stool anus. Many people have as you sit on the toilet. both. These swollen Doing so changes the blood vessels can bleed. position of the rectum, When they get inflamed, making stools easier to they can make bowel pass. — Consider off-themovements intensely painful. (I've put an illus- shelf remedies. Many tration of hemorrhoids on over-the-counter prodmy website, AskDoc- ucts, such as witch hazelinfused pads and soothing torK.com.) I spoke with my long- creams, are effective. time colleague Dr. Your doctor can also preJacqueline Wolf, a gas- scribe stronger preparatroenterologist and asso- tions if needed. — Don't forget sitz ciate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical baths. Simply soaking the School. She offered this inflamed area in warm advice to care for hemor- water can help reduce inflammation and disrhoids: — Step up the fiber. comfort. The easiest way Start by adding fiber to to do this is to sit in a filled with your diet. Fiber makes bathtub stools softer and easier to enough water to soak pass. It also reduces your behind. Some peobleeding. Aim for 25 to ple alternate hot and cold water baths; some add 30 grams a day. The best food sources vinegar, salt or baking of fiber include beans, soda to the water. I'm not broccoli, carrots, bran, sure any of this adds whole grains and fresh value. If, despite these meafruits. You can also take a fiber supplement. Try an sures, symptoms worsen over-the-counter powder or don't improve, you such as psyllium (Meta- may need to talk to your mucil) or methylcellulose doctor about various procedures. (Citrucel). Some of my medical patients prefer the newer Some can be done in the soluble fiber prepara- office; some involve tions, such as dextrin. minor surgery. But the (There are several brand self-help strategies outnames, but you can find lined above give relief to dextrin in the "ingredi- most people with hemorents" list on the bottle.) rhoids. To avoid bloating and Dr. Komaroff is a gas, add fiber to your diet physician and professor at gradually over several Harvard Medical School. days. Dr. Wolf also recom- To send questions, go to mends the following dur- AskDoctorK.com, or write: ing flare-ups: Mix a Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck tablespoon of mineral oil St., Second Floor, Boston, with applesauce or yogurt MA 02115. Need a Physician? Doctors who listen ... Doctors who care. A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE Call toll free 888.628.1948 www.redbluff.mercy.org The entire school year. It's a free program conducted by 5 young women who are dedicated to teaching children about cultures of other children in the world. Kids will learn through stories, crafts, music, clothing and sometimes food of other countries. It seems like a winning course on the bumpy path of learning and growing up. In learning more about others, perhaps we can know ourselves better. Have you heard about The Big Read? Only 77 counties in the nation are involved and Tehama County is one of them. Melissa Mendonza of the TC Department of Education through a grant has purchased 150 copies of Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. This writer's first novel tells the problematic story of two Ojibwe families. The program is designed to get people to read the novel, which is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and then get together for a discussion of the book. This situation could possibly lead to other discussions and to sharpen communication among folks. Group discussions will be held at various times throughout the branches. Tell your local librarian that you're interested. Why not be a small part of a small Dear Had Enough: Dear Annie: When I That's up to you. You are married my husband, he the only parent Connie has, was divorced with a coland you've stayed relatively lege-aged daughter. For close to her through the some reason or other, she years. Some parents would did not complete her sacrifice their personal hapdegree. After college, piness to care for a child, ''Connie'' got a job and her but others reach the point own apartment. She became pregnant by a co- Annie's where they become resentful and feel taken advantage worker and had a son. Her of. Can Connie manage dad and I were very disappointed. Later, Connie by Kathy Mitchell without you? Could you into available moved to another state and and Marcy Sugar look resources in her area for had two more children with the same man, but no marriage. Her home health care, housekeeping dad and I supported her and paid and cooking, and perhaps conher rent whenever she needed it. He tribute to the cost? Her children are advised her on the difficulties and adults now. It's time they took over disadvantages of raising children the responsibilities you've been without marriage, but she didn't handling. Talk to them. Dear Annie: I have been going listen. She moved back home three years before her father died. Her to the same hairdresser for the past 12 years. Lately, I have received mother died two years later. My 57-year-old stepdaughter some pretty bad haircuts, and I've now lives in her mother's house. noticed that the salon is not as Connie is on dialysis and lives on clean as it used to be. There is her disability income. I cook, clean often hair from previous customers and take her to the doctor. I also on the chair and the floor. I feel a strong connection to my help with the bills. The problem is, I am now 70 hairdresser, and we've developed a and ready to retire and return to my friendship over the years, but I just hometown to spend time with my can't take another bad hairdo. I'm immediate family. My widowed thinking of going somewhere else, sister has invited me to live with but I don't know how to do it. her. How long am I obligated to Should I just stop calling for support Connie physically and appointments, or must I ''break financially? Should I remain here up'' with her directly? — Can and put my life on hold? — Had Hairy Leave Sally? Dear Hairy: After 12 years, Enough Mailbox Popular customer request Serving Butte, Glenn & Tehama Counties Tues-Sat 9am-5pm • Closed Sun & Mon 22825 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff 530-528-2221 • Fax 530-528-2229 www.thestovejunction.com Sally Ainsworth is the Tehama County Librarian. your hairdresser deserves to know why you aren't returning. Is it possible the salon is having financial difficulties? Might she be ill and unable to do the work she used to? Inquire about her well-being, and then tell her what's been bothering you. Give her the opportunity to improve the situation before telling her you feel it is necessary to take your business elsewhere. Dear Annie: I read the letter from ''Dog-Free Wedding,'' whose relative wants to bring her selftrained, poorly behaved ''service'' dog to the wedding. I have had a seeing-eye dog for 30 years. My dogs are trained at The Seeing Eye in Morristown, N.J. Those of us who use legitimate service dogs, guide dogs, hearing or other therapy dogs are confronting a huge issue: people who train their own dogs and those who get service dog equipment off of the Internet. They dress up their pets as service dogs and bring them into public places. ''Dog-Free'' has every right to refuse this person and her illbehaved dog who was not professionally trained. If this relative has a legitimate disability and needs a dog, she should investigate the proper channels. Otherwise, she is jeopardizing the rights and privileges for which those of us with legitimately trained dogs have fought for more than 80 years. — New Germany, Nova Scotia Don't let Fido and Frisky bust the budget Got pets? Then you also have costs for everything from food to toys, to grooming and perhaps even daycare from time to time. But that doesn't mean your little friends need to break the bank to be happy. Today, I want to share some great tips and tricks that readers have sent in that just might get you in the groove to save some dough. Woof! NO-TIP WATER DISH. Use an old Bundt or angel food pan for your dog's water bowl. Push a wooden stick through the hole in the middle of the pan into the ground to keep the pan from turning over. The pan can be lifted off for cleaning but the dog can't tip it over. SHREDDED PILLOWS. If you love for your large dogs to sleep in comfort but do not love the cost, maintenance and smell of the doggy beds, stuff old clean pillow cases (the ones with zippers) with shredded paper from your shredder. Once a week wash the pillowcases and refill with new shreds. Now each dog has a plump and fresh pillow every week. They sleep in comfort, and there are no doggy smells or pounds, contains 3.5 cubic feet costs involved. (compressed) and is RECYCLED enough to cover the floor BUCKETS. Are of a 10 x 10 foot horse stall you sick of all the three inches deep. That half-full bags of ought to be enough to last cat litter and pet your little fur baby forever. food in the garage And the price? Around five that get wet and bucks a bag (may vary turn into soggy messfrom one area to the next). es? A terrific solution is GIVE 'EM A SIGN. If to go to your local groyour pet runs away, place a cery store and ask the yard sign in front of your bakery for their empty house with a photo of your frosting buckets with Mary missing dog or cat (bird, lids. They are often snake?) together with your happy to give them to phone number. People who you for free. Bring them find animals often will home, thoroughly clean walk or drive around the them, remove the labels area, trying to find the pet's and make new laminated owner. labels or print clearly on DIY TOYS. Toys from the bucket. This will save you from having to throw out half- the pet store are ridiculously expensive and, in all honesty, are not full bags of ruined pet supplies. CHEAPER BY THE POUND. If always made very well. Go to the you are shocked to find that a small local hardware store and buy a huge two-pound bag of pine shavings (to rope. Cut it up in manageable be used as bedding for small pets) lengths for your puppies to play costs $6, go to the local feed store with. Or go to TheBarkPost.com, and buy a bag of compressed horse where you will find 33 toys you can bedding. It is the same pine shav- make from stuff you have around ings in a bag that weighs about 40 the house. Hunt Everyday Cheapskate RUNNINGS ROOFING The North State's premier supplier of stoves Now in Stock! 19. The sale remained open and available to the public for the next work week and we raised a total of $1,250 all told. At 10 cents, 25 cents and 50 cents per book, well, you get the idea of how many books we sold and how many loyal readers there are in Tehama County. Thank you seems too small a phrase to offer for such huge and unselfish support. Now for a few statistics. November is the month the library writes and turns in yearly statistics to the State Library. This year, the library staff will be doing a little bragging as many of our stats have gone up. The following are some areas that have increased: • Children's books added are up from 1,122 in 2012 to 2,013 in 2013. • Circulation of Children's Books is up from 28,914 to 32,347 • Total Circulation is up from 133,260 to 140,655. • Books in our collection rose from 135,856 to 136,768. Who says no one is reading books anymore? Check out your library. How long must I care for stepdaughter? Over 25 years of experience STOVE JUNCTION BBQ PELLETS group reading a good book when the final outcome could be larger than anyone imagined? Mendonza's grant was also responsible for the purchase of 25 copies of children's novels aimed at middle school level students. The same goal is anticipated — better communication and increased knowledge which is pretty much the aim of all the Library's functions. If any Tehama County school is interested in borrowing the classroom set of books for reading and discussion, call Librarian Sally Ainsworth. A great big thank you to Scoops on Walnut Street for donating all the ice cream for our ice cream social fundraiser on Oct. 20. And thank you all who came to enjoy the icy treats and the silent auction. We raised $1,290 toward our new library build fund that day. Social attendees were heard to say such things as, "Yum," "So creamy and good!," "We could afford to bring the whole family to this fundraiser," "Hope they do this again" and "Yum" several more times. And speaking of fundraisers, we want to thank you all for participating in our annual fall book sale and Fall Festival on October All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened Members Welcome 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES Smog Check $ starting at 95 $ 25 + 8 certificate 25 (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 527-9841 • 195 S. 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