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4A Daily News – Saturday, January 18, 2014 Agriculture & Thresher, Kluger promoted RICHVALE — Lundberg Family Farms, a leading producer of organic rice and rice products, names Renee Thresher its new Vice President of Manufacturing. She was promoted to the Vice President's role after serving as Corporate Quality Systems Manager since joining the company in August 2010. In her new role, the veteran food scientist and qualitycontrol professional will continue to provide strategic leadership and direction of all technical, quality, food safety and regulatory programs, and will add oversight responsibility for all manufacturing and production functions for the family-owned company. Before joining Lundberg Family Farms, Thresher served for six years as plant manager and director of technical services for Treetop/Sabroso. She earlier served for nine years at General Mills, where she was QRO Product Manager, Quality Manager, Senior Quality Engineer, Quality Engineer, and Sensory Technical Specialist. "I am delighted to have the opportunity to collaborate with the talented leadership and manufacturing teams at Lundberg Family Farms as we continue to strive to deliver high quality products to our consumers," said Thresher. "Our employees are passionate about our consumers, our products and our mission and I look forward to working with them in this new role." Thresher holds an M.S. degree in Food/Sensory Science from Oregon State University, and a B.S. in Food Science from Cornell University. Lundberg also announced Wednesday the newly created position of Vice President of Sales and Marketing, expanding the management role played by Todd Kluger, who has served as Vice President of Marketing since April 2009. Since joining Lundberg, Kluger has overseen rebranding and product line expansion initiatives that introduced new packaging across the company's leading rice product and snack lines, and has collaborated on the introduction of several popular new product lines and line extensions. In his new role, Kluger will be responsible for managing the company's national sales network and building relationships with distributors across North America. "Todd's brand management expertise and his commitment to the organics movement combine both the skills and values we seek in our leaders," said Grant Lundberg, CEO. farm ranch Elements of a dream library Tuesday evening I was at the Community Center with about 100 other interested county residents when the new Tehama County Library was discussed. If money were no problem, we were urged to dream big in order to share our ideas. "But be willing to help set priorities." My group envisioned a beautiful library like the one that has been built in Redding for Shasta County. In fact I think they would like a copy of that library, two stories and all. It would be spacious, with beauty inside and out. There would be comfortable chairs to sit in Courtesy photo and read a book, while glancing out the window The Job Training Center sent a youth crew to clear the knee tall to a beautiful garden weeds and grasses from the vegetable garden. As you can see where weddings could be Brandon, Thomas, Molly, Teddie with supervisors Geoff Will and held. Jimmy Burgess had done a good job. Not pictured was supervisor Ed Lots of natural lighting. Gonzales. The new library would tomorrow, where the rain had run off be open more hours, tioned how they want a Library including weekends for place to preserve Tehama because the estimated the pavement. I hate North Wind but County History through timeline is March 2014 those who work. There would be a quiet books, maps, brochures, for site selection; Spring at least we can see the 2015 award construction Coast Range and the Casroom for research and for etc. Tehama County Cattle- contract, with building cades, including Mt. people who don't want Women would like to completed in winter 2016. Shasta while Kern County noise. While there would be a donate their 50-plus years Finally moving in the had limited visibility. The family is hauling room for comfortable vis- of scrapbooks, so they spring of 2017. the spring calving cows *** iting, reading, and sipping would have a safe place In 2013 I did not use up to the range where they a cup of coffee from the and available for research coffee bar like at the book when we want to look up the Roundup as often as I will be fed hay and water stores. Comfortable furni- a date or person. Current- should have in the garden will be pumped and ture was mentioned sever- ly they are in a storage and yard. The result was hauled since the creeks container that is hot in weeds up to your knees in are dry, with little dry al times. summer, and the vegetable garden, and feed and no green grass. A place where Calving on the range cold in winter. the shrubs needed cutting you could meet will give the calves a betIn the present back. to hear speakers, Job Training Center in ter chance of not developlibrary there is or a writers Red Bluff has a youth ing scours (diarrhea). The no room. workshop for There would crew where they learn cows have been on paspeople who need be art work on vocational skills such as ture, eating hay the last help in writing the walls in a building, construction, few months, and there is a their family hisr e v o l v i n g maintenance and land- greater chance of germs tory. infecting the newborn scaping. exhibit. Young chilI was delighted to learn calves in the smaller Someone dren would have m e n t i o n e d that the youth crew was space. a special room of If we don't get a monmore books, available for a weeding – their own with Jean both hard cover pruning job in my yard. soon of rain during Red their books, and and electronic, Molly, Teddie, Brandon, Bluff Bull and Gelding where they could and staff for the Garrett and Thomas were Sale, then there is little enjoy a weekly e x p a n d e d available with their super- hope of rain this spring. It story hour. Sally hours. Also visors Geoff Will, Jimmy seems to always rain or Ainsworth, our snow during the bull sale Burgess, Ed Gonzales. librarian received loud more parking. The youth crew raked, week. The site I hope they applause when her story *** chose is 1015 Kimball, pulled weeds, pruned hours were mentioned. This weekend is the Another room would adjacent to the west side roses and trimmed the have computers, and of the Community Center. shrubs in my garden area. 4th District 1 California places to use laptops. A The total parcel size is Yard looks great now and High School Rodeo at place where the comput- 31.92 acres. It is city I have started irrigating, Bobby Jones Arena in Cottonwood. The Saturers were adequate in num- owned property, and like it was summertime. day rodeo will start after *** zoned Public Agency. ber. Have you noticed all the mandatory meeting at There is the ability to A book store where the donated books could be share the existing parking the orchards and grain 9 a.m., and so the parents sold, would be another lot, and space to develop fields being irrigated? It is don't have to drive home really getting serious in the dark the Sunday more parking. room like in Redding. The Community Cen- when the weatherman performance will start at 9 Many people menter and the Library could says no rain clouds for a.m. Cutting will be on Saturday at 7 a.m. at Dave share space and resources, another two weeks. When we drove on I-5 & Kathie Ferguson ranch. and support each other's Next Friday and Saturprogramming and events. to and from the Rose Don't hold your breath Parade, we really noticed day is the Jim Owens expecting to see the New the drought below Santa Memorial Ranch Rodeo Nella. Coming off the at the Tehama District Grapevine, we encoun- Fairgrounds, starting at 4 tered a world of brown. p.m. on Friday with all 26 The ground and the smog teams doing the ranch were the same color, and counting of over 100 head 545 Adobe Rd. there wasn't even a hint of of cattle. All makes and models. 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