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The Sierra Pacific Foundation, the phil- anthropic organization founded by the Emmerson Family, recently marked its 25th year in granting scholarships to dependent children of Sierra Pacific Industries' employees. This year 203 students applied for the scholarship and $508,383 has been awarded to them as they attend colleges, universi- ties and trade schools dur- ing the 2014-2015 school year. Recipients are eligi- ble for the scholarship for four years and are some- times granted a 5th year based on their school and their degree program. "Our family is very proud of our scholarship program and we view our scholarship awards as an investment in the future," said Carolyn Emmerson Dietz, Foundation Presi- dent. "We are especially pleased to help these out- standing young people further their education beyond high school and become tomorrow's lead- ers," she added. The Sierra Pacific Foundation was founded in 1979 and to date has do- nated over $5 million dol- lars in scholarships. In ad- dition to scholarships, the Foundation contributes to youth activities and other organizations in the com- munities where Sierra Pa- cific Industries operates. SPF recently announced it will make a $1 million con- tribution over five years to Redding's One SAFE Place shelter for victims of abuse, and is also con- tributing $500,000 for construction of the Ida Emmerson Hospice House being built in Eureka. SCHOLARSHIPS SierraPacific Foundation hands out $500,000 COURTESYPHOTO Pictured, from le , are Charles Allen, Jill Dais, Karlee Garcia, Rick Crabtree. ROTARY Charles Allen and Jill Dais introduced the Red Bluff Ro- tary Club's Student of the Month and a recipient of the prestigious Eugene Penny MemorialScholarships,Kar- lee Garcia. Dais introduced Garcia as a top student who is kind, a talented student and athlete and engaged as a student can be. She is a senior at Red Bluff High who is a genuine multitasker. Garcia has been a student on the school board for the last two years, plays soccer, is an extraordinary dancer and was the homecoming queen this year. She is also active in her church youth group. Garcia will attend UC San Diego next year and study engineering. Allen presented her with a plaque and letter attest- ing to this achievement, as well a check from Rotary for $100. Red Bluff Rotary names Karlee Garcia student of the month JACKSON HEIGHTS COURTESY PHOTO Pictured is the graduating class from Jackson Height's Parent University. Twenty-five parents from Jackson Heights Ele- mentary School completed and graduated from Parent University May 15. Parents have come once a month since December to receive training and expo- sure to the Common Core Standards that their stu- dents are being taught. They have looked at cur- riculum shifts, testing modules that are computer based and skills that their students are mastering currently this school year. At the end of this year- long session parents who attended all sessions could be entered into a drawing to win a new laptop com- puter, funded by a $2,300 grant from Rolling Hills Casino in Corning. Ten winners were ran- domly chosen to receive the computers. 25 graduate May 15 f ro m Pa re nt University SRDC By Katy Waldman (c)2014,Slate. WASHINGTON There's a hunger in psychology for birth-order effects — proph- ecies about personality that originate in whether your siblings are older or younger than you. Alfred Adler, a student of Freud, pioneered the idea that firstborns seek out lead- ership roles, delight in rules and order, and value achieve- ment; that lastborns tend to be charming, popular and spoiled; that middle chil- dren — yawn, who cares?; and that onlies can be both mature and dependent. But many of the stud- ies trying to back up these truisms with evidence use shoddy methodology that ei- ther fails to control for fam- ily size, economic status or parents' educational attain- ment or extrapolates about dynamics within a family from comparisons between families (e.g., the Smiths' eldest earns higher grades than the Jones' youngest, so firstborn kids do better in school). New research from sci- entists at the University of Essex, though, uses multi- level modeling techniques to overcome these hur- dles, and the results sug- gest that birth-order effects are more than just a meth- odological illusion. At least when it comes to academic achievement, the mythi- cal yeti of family psych has been bagged and examined — call your older sister! Feifei Bu looked at more than 1,503 sibling clusters and 3,532 individuals tak- ing part in the massive Brit- ish Household Panel Sur- vey, which has been pars- ing the isle's domestic DNA since 1991, and its successor, the Great Britain Household Longitudinal Study. She finds that firstborns are more likely to be the "am- bitious" and "accomplished" ones in their families. First- born girls especially outdo their siblings in educational dreams and attainment — they are 13 percent likelier to aspire to graduate school than firstborn boys. On the other hand, the researchers write, "We see no evidence that the sex of one's siblings has any effect on educational aspiration or outcomes. Nor do we find a strong relationship between sibship size and either edu- cational aspiration or attain- ment." (So you can't blame your grades on how many sib- lings you have or what gen- der they are.) What does seem mean- ingful is the time spacing be- tween children: Eldest kids separated from their broth- ers and sisters by a signifi- cant age gap — four or more years — are likelier, at 13, to express an interest in higher education, and they go on to pursue more advanced de- grees. SIBLING PSYCHOLOGY Fi rs tb or n da ug ht er s ar e st at is ti ca ll y more likely to want to run the world COURTESY PHOTOS Ariel Lund learns the dangers of hypothermia from the Sacramento River. Sixth and seventh graders on the beach in Monterey. Students from Sacra- mento River Discovery Charter school spent last week on the school's very last annual educational field trip. Trips were to Lassen Na- tional Park and the sur- rounding area and Monterey where students learned first hand about the environment, history, and culture of the area. 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