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Friday, December 20, 2013 – Daily News 3A Community people&events Worst day ever Children's Christmas Party The Red Bluff Moose Lodge, 11745 State Route 99W, will hold its Children's Christmas Party noon to 2 p.m. Saturday. Santa Claus and miniature donkeys will be there for photos with the kids. Free lunch for children to age 12, and all will receive a gift. Contact the Moose Lodge at 529-6666 for more information. DUI checkpoint on Antelope The California Highway Patrol will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint 6 p.m. to midnight tonight on Antelope Boulevard near Trinity Avenue. Discovery Center holidays The Sacramento River Discovery Center has announced special hours for the holiday period. The center, at 1000 Sale Lane within the Mendocino National Forest's Red Bluff Recreation Area, will have the garden area available to the public during Recreation Area hours from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The center itself containing numerous displays and information on RBRA recreation and recreational opportunities in the area, will be closed Dec. 22-25t. It will be open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 26-28. The center will be open Dec. 30-31 during the usual hours and then will be closed from Jan 1-6. Regular hours of operation will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 7. The monthly guided Bird Walk will take place at 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11. The SRDC Board of Directors urges all area residents to become members of the SRDC and participate in the educational opportunities offered to people of all ages. Membership applications can be found online at www.srdc.tehama.k12.ca.us or by calling 527-1196 or stopping by the center — they are on the bulletin board by the east door or inside. There is a variety of volunteer opportunities. If you have questions, call or send an e-mail to bhughe1@tehamaed.org. 90 years Saturday sucked. Our airport is to travelers what tar pits were to wooly mammoths. Everything is Jim Dandy until you unsuspectingly enter it and find yourself condemned to spend eternity held in place in its "your-flighthas-been-canceled; please-see-theattendant" inextricable goo. I was to conduct a communication workshop for a Seattle agency on Monday, having reserved a flight for the previous Saturday, allowing me to attend a concert when I arrived. Sunday's itinerary would consist of roaming the Emerald City and I would return home Monday evening, after leading the seminar. It was going to be a good trip. The operative word is "was." Two hours before take-off, a text message informed me that my flight was canceled due to our oft-times, unrelenting fog. Rebooked for a later flight, I was ominously primed, "There's no guarantee it will go either. Hope for the best." I am not a travel agent but I bet they agree that's never a wise travel strategy. After doing my part — hoping — and impatiently waiting through three more hours of delays, only to be canceled again, rebooked again was I for an evening flight, with arrival in the wee hours of the next morning. I'd obviously miss the concert but could still salvage my Sunday; this of course contingent on this latest itinerary actually falling into place, unlikely since the obstinate grey murkiness that blanketed the runway seemed fused to the blacktop. Angry, frustrated, and now wor- ried that I would lose my speaking climbed into a bright red 2013 Impala to begin the sixfee and damage my reputahour trek. tion, I needed options. We began with awkRenting a car and driving ward silences and small to San Francisco, to catch a talk; lots of conversation flight the next morning about fog, bad weather, seemed a solution — and other horrible travel except for one catch — the delays. However, by the attendant at the rental time we arrived at our counter informed me, "We hotels and wished each just rented the last car — to other, "Safe travels," I her," referencing a woman would classify us as walking heading for the "friends." Will we stay in exit. Racing up to her and Scott Q. touch? Unlikely. However, I disembarked in placing myself in her path, Seattle early Sunday I did a data dump, "Hi, I'm morning (after a first Scott. I know you don't class bump for my trouknow me but I really need to get to San Francisco. I promise bles); tired and sleepy, yet strangely I'm a nice guy, I've got a warped thankful for the events of the previsense of humor, I'm a good story- ous day. It's odd, isn't it? 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Fisher and John Stice already have tentatively agreed to plant some of the peppers, and if the crop is successful increase the acreage largely the following year. — Dec. 20, 1923 DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 129, NUMBER 21 HOW TO REACH US On the Web: www.redbluffdailynews.com MAIN OFFICE: NEWS Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. News Tip Hotline: 527-2153 FAX: (530) 527-9251 E-mail: clerk@redbluffdailynews.com Daytime: (530) 527-2151 Sports: Ext. 111 Obituaries: Ext. 101 After hours: (530) 527-2153 ______________________ ADVERTISING DEPT. Main Phone (530) 527-2151 Outside area (800) 479-6397 545 Diamond Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. 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Arrests • Bent Kenneth Larsen, Pictured, from left, are Bucky Bowen, Gena Bowen, Robert Thayer, John Richards, Ray Rogers, Delores May and Bob Lester. tery, and for his service as the Club's host at the 2013 and upcoming 2014 Police and Fire Recognition Dinners; Gena Bowen for handling refreshments and invitations for the Baby Section's Dedication; Robert Thayer for his extensive community volunteerism efforts; John Richards and Ray Rogers for their work assisting Dave Demo "in keeping the American flags flying on Solano Street"; Delores May for her leadership roles in the Club, Senior Center Board of Directors, food giveaway programs, and blood bank; Bob Lester for everything he does for the Club, including but not limited to stor- ing the Club's trailers and equipment and for keeping it in tip top shape plus his volunteer activities with the VFW. Janet Griffin, unable to attend due to illness, was also presented with a certificate of appreciation for her leading role in the fruition of the renovation of the Baby Section's Cemetery Project. 30, Red Bluff was arrested on Gilmore Road for felony threatening a crime with the intent to terrorize and false imprisonment with violence. Bail was $65,000. Minnie Mouse graphics was stolen from a front yard on Colusa Street sometime Tuesday night. bicycle with a turquoise pinstripe and turquoise seat with a black flower design was reported stolen on McKinley Avenue. • A speaker box with two 10-inch MTX sub woofers, model TR55 was reported stolen from a locked vehicle with a partially down window on Colusa Street. Circulation Manager: Kathy Hogan khogan@redbluffdailynews.com Production Manager: Sandy Valdivia sandy@redbluffdailynews.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 Burglary • A storage shed was broken into on the 20000 block of Walnut Street. Grinch • Christmas gifts were stolen out of two vehicle on Blossom Avenue Tuesday night. • A 10-foot Christmas tree with Mickey and Publisher & Advertising Director: Greg Stevens gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Editor: Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com Sports Editor: Andre Byik sports@redbluffdailynews.com Courtesy photo Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. CUSTOMER SERVICE Display: DEPARTMENT: Subscription & delivery Online (530) 527-2151, Ext. 126 The Corning Exchange Club's Annual Christmas Party was held on Dec. 14 at the Los Molinos Masonic Family Center. Fifty members and guests enjoyed fellowship and a catered dinner, consisting of baked ham, scalloped potatoes, green beans, salad with raspberries and raspberry dressing, topped off with Black Forest Cake. New member Maria Salas, and returning member and educator Beckie Bouchard, recently returned from a two year stint in China, were welcomed and recognized. Exchangites and guests were asked to bring new unwrapped children's gifts to the dinner. Thanks to their generosity 100 gifts have been delivered to the Corning Volunteer Fire Department to pay it forward for needy deserving Corning children. Certificates of Appreciation were presented to Bucky Bowen for acting as the Master of Ceremonies for the dedication of newly renovated Baby Section's at the Sunset Hill Ceme- Saigon Bistro NEW BUFFET Lunch Express NOV. 25 THRU JAN. 5TH, 2014 American & International Food DINNER BUFFET Fri-Sat 5pm-8pm BREAKFAST BUFFET Free Coffee and Cinnamon Rolls Starting Fri., Dec. 20 Biscuits & Gravy, Meatloaf, Salad Bar, Sushi, Gumbo, Cajun Shrimp, Sandwiches, Fruit Salad and more Wine & Beer - Catering available th 723 Walnut St. Red Bluff • 528-9670 Holiday Special 2 Games Bowling or 1 Game Bowling & 1 Round Mini Golf $ 98 9 ea. before 6pm $ 1098 after 6pm Some restrictions apply Theft • Car keys and a purse were reported stolen from a car parked in a garage on Manzanillo Lane Wednesday afternoon. • A girls white Schwin Del Mar beach cruiser SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. 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