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2A – Daily News – Thursday, February 17, 2011 Community people&events Military — Williams Quince for flowers or fruit By SHARON KESSEY Second Lt. Emma Thurmond Courtesy photo Williams graduated from the U.S.Army Officer Candidate School on Feb. 10, 2011, at Fort Benning, Ga. She graduated from Red Bluff Union High School in 2006 and ITT School of Criminal Justice, Denver, Colo. in 2010. Williams is the daughter of Cindi and John Kennon of Red Bluff and Jesse and Cheryl Thurmond of Marysville, Ore.; granddaughter of Paulette Minges of Red Bluff,Voda and Lou Thibideau of Ada, Okla. and Jerry and Robin Skellenger of Arizona. Attending the graduation were grandmother Paula Minges of Red Bluff and great-aunt Wanda Watson of Ione. Williams will be stationed at Ft. Still, Okla. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. 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He will have his stand at the People’s Cafe, phone 253. Mith is one of the best known and one of the most careful and experienced drivers in the country. — Daily News, Feb. 17, 1921 Left: More than 80 Corning seniors enjoyed a Valentine's Day celebration where they listened to music by the Tehama Jammers, exchanged valentines and enjoyed a ham dinner donated by the Corning Volunteer Fire Department. The event was sponsored by the Corning Senior Center Board of Directors as a fundrasier.The center is open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday with lunch served daily by Senior Nutrition with a suggested donation of $2.75 per meal. A reservation is required by 8 a.m. Call 824-4727 in Corning. Right: Corning seniors raise their auction paddles high during a Chinese Auction as a fundraiser for the center. More than $500 was raised with donations from Safeway, Sav Mor, Corning Volunteer Fire Department and the membership of the center. Director Linda Lima thanked her staff of volunteers for helping to plan, coordinate and clean-up after the event. COMMUNITY CLIPS Military — Botts Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Ben- ning, Columbus, Ga. Army Pvt. Austen D. Botts has graduated from the The training consists of Basic Infantry Training and Advanced Individual Training. During the nine weeks of basic combat training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons employment, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid skills, and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics, and experienced use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman. The Advanced Individual Training course is designed to train infantry soldiers to perform recon- naissance operations; employ, fire and recover anti-per- sonnel and anti-tank mines; locate and neutralize land mines and operate target and sight equipment; operate and maintain communications equipment and radio networks; construct field firing aids for infantry weapons; and perform infantry combat exercises and dismounted battle drills, which includes survival proce- dures in a nuclear, biological or chemical contaminated area. Botts is the son of Kyla Zubia of Red Bluff. He is a 2007 graduate of Paradise High School. Medical education loans Ivy Buchler Horr was a resident of Glenburn near Fall River Mills from 1930 to her death in 1982 of cancer, but her legacy remains through the Ivy B. Horr Medical Education Fund. Horr created a trust before she passed through which low interest loans are awarded to students from Shasta, Lassen, Trinity, Tehama, Modoc and Siskiyou counties pursuing an education in medi- cine. The trust, which had been held at Shasta College, was transferred to the Community Foundation for permanent administration. To date more than 150 people have benefited from the generosity of Horr, with many more to benefit in the future. The fund is accepting applications for 2011. Loans up to $10,000 are available to students who attended high school in Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Modoc, Trinity, or Siskiyou counties. The deadline is March 30. To be eligible for this scholarship the student must be engaged in the study of medicine or in medical training at a college or university. For more information including loan application and eligibility requirements, visit www.shastarcf.org or call Kerry Caranci at 244- 1219. BOOK BARN Used Books Tues-Fri 10-5 Sat 10-2 Serving Tehama County since 1994 619 Oak St., Red Bluff (530) 528-2665 K W I K K U T S Family Hair Salon $200 REGULAR HAIRCUT off with coupon Not good with other offers 1064 South Main St., Red Bluff • 529-3540 Reg. $13.95 Expires 2/28/11 One of the earliest spring bloomers is the flowering quince, genus Chaenomeles. Its twenty- plus varieties vary in color and size, ranging from four to ten feet in height, with blossom col- ors usually in shades from pink to coral to red. The two-inch blossoms cover each (usually thorny) branch of its multi- stemmed clump of tall straight branches, provid- ing large clumps of color all around town. The flowers attract humming- birds, and the branches are often used in floral arrangements. They can be cut before the buds open; the flowers will gradually open indoors. The shrub reproduces mainly by forming new clumps from underground runners, though a few of the flowers also produce small hard leathery fruits. Ours is one of the ten-foot tall varieties, with coral- colored blossoms and a tendency to extend itself in every direction by sending out runners that start new clumps. Our fruiting quince, Cydonia oblonga, on the other hand, is one of half a dozen varieties that are more treelike. Most pro- duce a two-to-four-inch round fruit that is some- times pineapple-flavored. Ours is probably the vari- ety ‘Cooke’s Jumbo,’ however, since its flowers and fruit are much larger. It’s a fifteen-foot tree with a four-to-six-inch trunk and several hefty curving branches with large heart- shaped leaves. It blooms somewhat later than the flowering quince and pro- duces large white five- inch blooms that go on to produce similarly large somewhat rumpled pear- shaped fruits that ripen in late fall. The flavor of the grainy flesh is rather lemony, and the fruit can be cut up into apple pie, or used to make jelly. Before the leaves fall in December, they turn a brilliant yellow that con- trasts beautifully with the nearby dark evergreens and the mid-winter grey. Both quinces are mem- bers of the rose family, Rosaceae, and have five- petal flowers. Beyond that, however, they are markedly different in their growth form (tree vs. multi-stemmed clump), time of bloom (early spring vs. late spring), flower color (pinks and reds vs. white), plant size (8–10 feet vs. 15), flower and fruit size (two-inch vs. five-inch), and use (decoration vs. fruit). Because of those differ- ences, however, they make a good combination for providing year-round interest – from the color- ful early spring bloom of the flowering quince, to the somewhat later big white blossoms of the fruiting quince, to the light and dark summer greenery of both plants, to the green and then yellow ripening Cydonia fruit, to its brilliant yellow fall leaves, to the wintertime bare curving branches of the tree and the vertical straight branches of the Chaenomeles clump. To hear programs on various gardening topics, or meet others interested in gardening, come to a meeting of the Red Bluff Garden Club, held the last Tuesday of each month at 1 p.m. at 12889 Baker Road. Everyone is wel- come. The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with National Garden Clubs Inc., California Garden Clubs Inc., Pacific Region and Cascade District. Corning seniors celebrate with fundraiser