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Thursday REDBLUFF California HEAT Chorus - Sweet Adelines:7p.m., Meteer School Room 26, 695Kimball Road, 895- 0139 Childbirth Class: 6:30p.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Columba room, Anita 529-8377 Fun Senior Aerobics: 8-9 a.m., $1per class, Commu- nity Center, 1500S. Jackson St. 527-8177 Good Morning Red Bluff: 7:50a.m., Gold Exchange Imagination Train sto- ryhour: 4p.m., Tehama County Library Kelly-Griggs House Museum: 1-3p.m., 311 Washington St., group tours by appointment, 527-1129 Live country music, din- ner: 5-7p.m., Veterans Hall Painting session, Red Bluff Art Association: 10 a.m., Tehama District Fair- ground, 529-1603 PAL Martial Arts: 3-5p.m., ages 5-18, 1005Vista Way, Ste. C, free, 529-7950 Penny Bingo: 9:30a.m., Community Center, 1500S. Jackson St. Phoenix Community Support Group for those getting over chemical dependency: 11:30a.m., Presbyterian Church, 838 Jefferson St., 945-2349 Pinochle for Seniors: 12:30-3:30p.m., 1500S. Jackson St., free, 527-8177 Red Bluff Exchange Club: noon, M&M Ranch House, 645Antelope Blvd. #1 Rock Choir: 4p.m., 601 Monroe St., free, all wel- come Senior Chair Volleyball: 1p.m. Community Center, 1500S. Jackson St. Sunrise Speakers Toast- masters: noon, 220Syca- more St. Swinging Squares Square Dance Club: 7p.m., Com- munity Center, 1500S. Jackson St., for beginner or review classes, call 529- 1615 Widowed Persons Dinner: 5p.m., call 384-2471for location CORNING Cal-Fresh and Healthy Family Appointments: 1-3p.m., Family Resource Center, 1488South St., 824-7670 Dance with Juana: noon to 1p.m., Family Resource Center, 1488South St., 824-7670 Degree of Pocahontas Sil- ver Cloud Council # 168: 7p.m. Independent Grange 470, 20945Corning Road, Bernie 824-1114or Kathy 586-1065 Dual Diagnosis Group: 1:30-3p.m., 1600Solano St., 527-8491, Ext. 3309 Soccer training: 4-6p.m., except for holidays and rain, Woodson School Soccer Field, 150N Toomes, 824- 7680 Women's Support Group: 6p.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Friday RED BLUFF Celebrate Recovery: 7 p.m., Bethel Assembly of God, 625Luther Road, 527- 0445or 366-6298 Polymer Clay Workshop: 6-8p.m., The Green Room, 331Oak St., bring your own supplies Red Bluff Rotary Club Sunrise: 7a.m., M&M Ranch CORNING Car Show: 5-9p.m., Bar- tel's Giant Burger, 22355 Corning Road, local car clubs welcome, 824-2788 Nutrition Classes: 11:30 a.m. to 1p.m., 175Solano St., 824-7670 COTTONWOOD Singles Friendship Social: 7-8:30p.m., at a church we rent, Assembly of God Church, 20404Gas Point Road, for unmarried adults ages late 30s to mid 60s, 347-3770 Saturday RED BLUFF Frontier Village Farmers Market: 8a.m. to 1p.m., 645Antelope Blvd. EBT accepted Tehama County Young Marine Drills: 9a.m. to 3 p.m., 1005Vista Way, Ste. C. 366-0813 TEHAMA Tehama County Museum: 1-4p.m., 275C St., groups by appointment, 384-2595 Sunday RED BLUFF AA Live and Let Live: noon and 8p.m., 785Musick St., meets seven days a week Al-Anon New Comers At Heart: 7-8p.m., North Valley Baptist Church, 345 David Ave., 690-2034 Kelly-Griggs House Museum: 1-3p.m., 311 Washington St., group tours by appointment, 527-1129 TEHAMA Tehama County Museum: 1-4p.m., 275C St., groups by appointment, 384-2595 Monday RED BLUFF Community Band rehears- al: 7-9p.m., Presbyterian Church on Jefferson Street, 527-3486 English as a Second Lan- guage class: 5:30-8:30 p.m., Red Bluff High School Adult Ed building, 1295Red Bud, 736-3308, same time Tuesday and Wednesday and 9a.m. to 12:20p.m. Thursdays, free childcare from 9a.m. to 12:20p.m. classes in Richlieu Hall, 900 Johnson St. Head Injury Recreational Entity: 10a.m., St. Eliza- beth Community Hospital, Coyne Center, Rusty, 529- 2059 Key to Life: 6p.m., Fam- ily Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-8066 Nutrition classes: 10:30 a.m. to noon, 220Sycamore St. #101 PAL Martial Arts: 3-5p.m., ages 5-18, 1005Vista Way, Ste. C, free, 529-7950 Red Bluff Senior Writ- ing Class: 10: a.m.- noon,,Executive Room at Sycamore Center, 220 Sycamore St., 527-5762 Salvation Army Writing Class: 9:30-11:30a.m., 940 Walnut St., 527-8530 Sun Country Quilters Community Service Group: 9a.m. to noon, Fam- ily Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-1126 Sun Country Quilters Guild Meeting: 7p.m., Westside Room, Community Center, 1500S. Jackson St. 528-1126 TeenScreen Mental Health Appointments: 10a.m. to 2p.m., free, by appoint- ment, Youth Empowerment Services, 1900Walnut St., 527-8491, Ext. 3012 TOPS Club (take off pounds Sensibly): 8:30 a.m., First Christian Church, 926Madison Ave., 527-7541 or 347-6120, visit www. tops.org US citizenship prepara- tion class: 5:30-8:30 p.m., Red Bluff High School Adult Ed building, 1295Red Bud, 736-3308, same time Tuesday and Wednesday Calendar DearMary: Thanks so much for including the San Francisco Ex- ploratorium in a re- cent column! We have changed our schedule of free days and are no lon- ger free to the public on the first Wednesday of ev- ery month. However, the Exploratorium is free to everyone five days ev- ery year. Our Free Access Program includes these upcoming free days: Engineering Day (Sep- tember 28, 2014) Founder's Day (October 12, 2014) Groundhog Day (Febru- ary 2, 2015) Pi Day (March 14, 2015) Thanks! -- Jenny Slafkosky, Communica- tions Manager Dear Jenny: Thanks for the update. You had me going there for a few minutes with "Pi Day." I was kinda hop- ing for cherry or apple, but then con- nected the date 3.14 with the mathematical pi. Now that is clever and a new bit of trivia I'm going to file away. As for "Founder's Day," should we assume that our buddy Christo- pher Columbus has been demoted to anonymous founder? Dear Mary: I'm sure you must have an easy way to clean the soleplate of my iron. I ironed a dark-colored article of clothing with too hot of an iron, I guess, and the soleplate now has dark sticky junk stuck on tight. I tried cleaning it with white vinegar and that didn't help at all. I also tried rub- bing it with a damp cloth and baking powder. Didn't do it either. Please help! Thanks much. -- Kathy M. Dear Kathy: It sounds to me as if you may have ironed a synthetic fab- ric such as polyester that turned into molten plas- tic upon contact with that way-too-hot iron! To re- move it you're going to need some kind of abra- sive. Try this: Dampen a towel you don't mind sac- rificing for the job. Now sprinkle a good bit of ta- ble salt on that damp cloth. Turn the iron up to the highest temperature (no steam) and go to work "ironing" the salted towel. That should loosen the gunk without damaging the soleplate so that you can wipe it off and then buff the soleplate with a clean cloth. If that doesn't work, don't despair. You'll need to purchase a com- mercial iron cleaner such as Faultless Hot Iron Cleaner. It's a miraculous cleaner for more challeng- ing situations like you de- scribe, but I also use it to maintain the smooth glide of my iron. If you don't want to get it online, you should be able to find it in larger fabric stores. WritetoEverydayCheap- skate, P.O. Box 2099, Cy- press, CA 90630. EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE Tragically, not every day is pi day Mary Hunt FAMILIES By Leanne Italie The Associated Press NEW YORK The rising cost of child care is among likely reasons for a rise in the number of women staying home full-time with their children, according to a new Pew Research Center report released April 15. Other factors cited by Pew to explain the in- crease include more immi- grant mothers who tend to stay home with children in greater numbers than U.S.- born moms; more women unable to find work; and ambivalence about the im- pact of working mothers on young children. The share of mothers who do not work outside the home rose to 29 percent in 2012, the study found. That's up from 23 percent at the turn of the century, according to the report. At the height of the recession in 2008, Pew estimated 26 per- cent of mothers were home with children. The at-home moms in- clude women who are mar- ried, single, disabled, en- rolled in school or unable to find work. Pew cited a 2010 U.S. cen- sus report that singled out the expense of child care as a factor. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the average weekly child care expense for fam- ilies with working moth- ers who paid for child care rose more than 70 percent, from $87 in 1985 to $148 in 2011, according to govern- ment estimates. That rep- resented 7.2 percent of the income for such families. Tricia Williamson, 30, in Liberty, N.C., quit her job as an editor and producer at a TV station after crunching the numbers and realizing her salary after the birth of her son a year ago would go primarily to commuting and child care expenses. Her husband earns about $44,000 a year as an elec- tronics technician. "We're not rich by any means. We live paycheck to paycheck, but it's com- pletely worth it," she said. The largest share of at- home mothers — roughly two-thirds of 10.4 million — had working husbands. A growing share — 6 percent in 2012, up from 1 percent in 2000 — said they could not find a job, according to Pew, which relied on U.S. Census and other government data. No matter what their marital status, mothers at home are younger and less educated than work- ing counterparts, the re- port said. Most married moms said they were home specifically to care for the kids, while single mothers were more likely to say they couldn't find a job, were ill or disabled, or were in school. Among all at-home moth- ers in 2012, 51 percent had at least one child 5 or younger, compared with 41 percent of working mothers. The researchers said one of the most striking de- mographic differences be- tween at-home mothers and working mothers is their economic well-being, with about 34 percent of at- home mothers living in pov- erty, compared with 12 per- cent of working mothers. Relatively few married at-home mothers with work- ing husbands qualify as "af- fluent," at nearly 370,000 with at least a master's de- gree and a median fam- ily income of over $75,000 a year in 2012. That num- ber amounts to 5 percent of married at-home moth- ers with working husbands. The "elite" marrieds stand out from other at- home mothers as dispro- portionately white or Asian. About 69 percent are white and 19 percent are Asian. Only 7 percent are Hispanic and 3 percent are black. Mothers more likely to stay home are among demo- graphic groups on the rise in the U.S. For example, 40 percent of immigrant moth- ers were at home with their children, compared with about a quarter of U.S.-born mothers. Among at-home mothers living in poverty in 2012, 36 percent were immi- grants, the report said. The report points to stag- nant incomes for all but the college-educated as a possi- ble factor for less-educated workers in particular who might be weighing the cost of child care against wages and deciding it makes more economic sense to stay home. While attitudes over the decades toward working mothers have improved, "most Americans continue to believe that it's best for children to have a parent at home," said D'Vera Cohn, a senior writer at Pew who worked on the report. 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