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2A – Daily News – Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Community people&events PATH offers thanks Michelle Dunn, You Matter Courtesy photo Pictured is Moss Lumber manager Rocky Hendrix, right, and Jim Brink, left. Thanks to Moss Lumber, Brink is given free wood to make small toys to donate to the PATH’s (Poor and the Homeless) winter shelter.The toys are given to children that come into the shelter. It is important when children come in that they have something given to them to have of their own. It can be very frightening for children so PATH likes to make them more comfortable while they are there. Since the shelter moves every two to three weeks, there is no place to store a lot of toys so the small toys are appreciated. PATH wishes to thank businesses like Moss Lumber and caring people like Jim Brink and his wife Pat for helping the children of the shelter. For more information about PATH, visit www.redbluffpath.org. 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Supervisors Set Salary Both County Nurses The supervisors have set the salaries of both nurses at the county hospital at $100 per month. In the past the head nurse received that figure and the assistant received $85. County Physician Owen states that both nurses are of equal standing at the hospital in matter of authority and pay. – Daily News, Jan. 12, 1921 Westside Grange spaghetti feed, dance Friday The Westside Grange, 20974 W. Walnut St., will be holding a spaghetti feed 4-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14. A dance will follow. The public is invited. Cost is $6 Adults; $3 child 12 and younger. For more information call 527-3747. Come and experience a taste of Korean culture as First Southern Baptist Church of Red Bluff, 585 Kimball Rd. will be hosting a youth choir from South Korea Sunday, January 16, 2011 @ 11am 40 minute performance in English and Korean. Pictured are most of the group who worked on the beginning move-in day. Fourth from the left is Sugar, a student's dog. Sugar had a hard job supervising the kids. But Sugar isn't a student. She can only watch. The Tehama County Police Activities League Martial Arts Center for Excellence began clean- ing and organizing in preparation for moving into it's new home at 1005 Alta Vista Way, Suite C, on Saturday, Jan. 8. "I'm very proud of the hard work everyone put into this today," PAL Board member and program coordinator Rachel Alwag said afterward. “Students and adult volunteer par- ents worked closely together as a team and this made the job a lot easier and a lot of fun.” Sugar, one of the stu- dent’s dog had a hard job supervising the kids. But Sugar isn't a stu- dent. She can only watch. It will take a few more Saturdays to com- plete the move in but when complete the dojo will have two, 2 inch platforms with Judo mats covering them. One set of mats will be for beginners and novices and the other for the more advanced students. The walls will have fresh paint in the fol- lowing colors: Sheriff green and gold and Police blue and yellow. Photos of students who have reached the grade of black belt and those with high school diplomas will eventual- ly be hung on the wall. But only those students with either one of these will also have to either be steadily employed or attending college. An area will be set aside for pamphlets with information on parent- ing and other resources for parents. Another area will be set aside for parents to watch their children train from a short distance away. More will be added as the year passes by but the main focus of this program has always been about self-defense and anti-bullying for our school age youth and teens. By having the stu- dents and parent volun- teers help with this they are all taking ownership in their own program. It's a sense of belonging to a healthy community with an almost family like environment. When complete the students and parents will be invited to place their hand prints and names on the wall indi- cating those who partic- ipated in the move. More plans will be announced in the com- ing weeks and months but an Open House is being planned for late February. The motto of the dojo is: "Creating a culture of claiming victory over drugs, alcohol, tobacco, abuse, bullying, gangs and violence." Training is free for school aged children and teens, 5 - completion of high school. For more information on PAL visit www.tehamaso.org. For additional information on anti-bullying also visit www.end- bully.com. Have you ever been in such dire straits that you felt at the end of the line? Have you ever been in such need that you needed a miracle or an angel to come into your life and save you? If you have survived a serious illness, a tragedy or a chron- ic situation that debilitated you, shook you to the core or otherwise shattered your world, there is no doubt someone or a group of some- ones were there in some form to bring you back from the brink. I am blessed in many ways. I have never had a child with a life threatening disease. I have never lost a loved one too soon or tragically, but I have had my own heart breaks. We all have. Life is not about ranking your tragedy against another’s. Your pain is justified, important and matters. Over the holidays I was flat on my back in pain. While you were kissing under the mistletoe and putting out cookies for Santa, I was lying helpless on the couch hoping for some form of relief. Finally, after the New Year was rung in I shuffled my way to Michelle. The thing about her wasn’t that she gave me a massage that began to heal my pain; it was so much more than that. Michelle truly cared about what I was feeling, how she could make it better and how her role as a healer played its’ part in my success. Over the years, I have had the pleasure to be a client to Michelle Dunn who is a massage therapist at Rio Skin and Body Works. I could go anywhere I want- ed for a massage, I could pay more or less, I could shop around and see if there was a better gig out there, but there is no way I would voluntarily give up what she has to offer. Wanna know why? We all know someone in the healing industry that is living the life they were meant to. We know it because we have all encountered someone who is in the industry for the wrong reasons, someone who doesn’t care, who didn’t go the extra mile or give good service. Michelle Dunn, you matter because you give excellence in all that you do. You constantly strive to be better at your craft, to improve your services and make certain that your customers feel they spent their money and time well. This isn’t about plugging your business, it is about highlight- ing that you have taken the steps to Faydra Rector You Matter be the best you can be and that your standards can be an example to others. It does not matter what industry you are in, good service is good service. Michelle could be in any line of work and succeed because she has what it takes to make people have confi- dence in her. Be like Michelle. Be the best you can be where you are. Bloom where you are planted. Pour everything into your current line of work. Your business, your service and your attitude could be the hand of hope that some- one needs in their life. You could be the one who makes the differ- ence. Faydra Rector, MA is a mental health administrator, author, public speaker, educator and life coach who lives in Red Bluff. She can be reached at lifecoach@shasta.com or view her blogs at http://faydraandcompany.blogspot. com/ and http://allaboutdivorce.blogspot.com /. PALmartial arts begins move into new Dojo